cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
a- -ing
Language: English
Part of speech: circumfix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə- -ɪŋ/
Etymology: The a is a reduced form of the preposition on, which was used in Old English with nouns indicating actions or states (e.g. iċ wæs on huntoþe, “I was hunting”). This is the source of such words as asleep and alive, which also show reduction of on to a. In the Middle English period, the preposition came to be used with the present participles of verbs as well (formed in -ing), eventually coming to be perceived as a mere prefix.
Senses: examples: text: Bye, baby Bunting, / Father's gone a-hunting, / Mother's gone a-milking, / Sister's gone a-silking, / Brother's gone to buy a skin / To wrap the baby Bunting in.
ref: 1951, I. Opie, P. Opie, The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, published 1997, page 63:
glosses: Used to form present participles and verbal nouns; and, (dialectal) circumfixed to words which function as part of a verb phrase (e.g. “he went a-hunting”)
Related terms: em- -en
en- -en
y- -t
changeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more changeful
form: most changeful
Etymology: From change + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, presuming on their changeful potency.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv], line 99:
text: So, deprived of one leg, and the strange ship of course being altogether unsupplied with the kindly invention, Ahab now found himself abjectly reduced to a clumsy landsman again; hopelessly eyeing the uncertain changeful height he could hardly hope to attain.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Leg and Arm. The Pequod, of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London.”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 486:
synonyms: variable
fickle
glosses: Changing frequently; very susceptible to change
Derived terms: changefully
changefulness
unchangeful
Lazlow
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lazlo
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Slavic languages of modern usage.
Related terms: László
indiscipline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indisciplines
Etymology: From French indiscipline, from Middle French [Term?], from Late Latin indisciplina.
Senses: examples: text: [O]ur delay, and other things which happened, were proofs—and I was told not uncommon ones—of that carelessness, unreadiness, and general indiscipline of French arrangements, which has helped to bring about, since then, an utter ruin.
ref: 1871, Charles Kingsley, “Homeward Bound”, in At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies. […], volume II, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 313:
text: Germany feared that the fiscal indiscipline of countries like Italy and Greece could make the new euro currency unstable.
ref: 2002 February 7, Steven Erlanger, “German unemployment is growing problem for [Gerhard] Schröder”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Feb 2018:
glosses: Lack of discipline.
infamie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infamies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of infamy.
capricci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capriccio
Marsaxlokk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and local council of the Southern Region, Malta.
intonaci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intonaco
enhydros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enhydroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek.
Senses: examples: 1875: William Whitaker, B.A., F.G.S., ed, The Geological Record for 1874: An Account of Works on Geology, Minerology, and Palæontology published during the year
... the liquid obtained from the cavities of a specimen of enhydros, or "water-stone." It consists of clear water containing in solution a small proportion of certain salts, apparently the chlorides and sulphates of sodium, magnesium, and calcium.
glosses: A geode of chalcedony containing trapped water.
Almayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of the Alemanni tribe; compare French Allemagne.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Almain.
wikipedia: Alemanni
noble gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noble gas
base metals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of base metal
inert gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inert gas
divorcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of divorce
Sabbatianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabbateanism
Etymology: From Sabbatian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Sabbateanism is the matrix of every significant movement to have emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth century, from Hasidism, to Reform Judaism, to the earliest Masonic circles and revolutionary idealism.
ref: 1971, Gershom Scholem, translated by unknown, The Messianic Idea in Judaism and other Essays on Jewish Spirituality:
glosses: A Jewish messianic movement of the 17th century, centred around Sabbatai Zevi (1626–1676).
isolani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolanis
Etymology: Coined by Aron Nimzowitsch, from Italian isolano (“islander”).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A queen's pawn with no pawns of the same colour on the adjacent files.
wikipedia: Aron Nimzowitsch
Hypernyms: isolated pawn
queen pawn
isolette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolettes
form: isolet
Senses: synonyms: word: humidicrib
glosses: An incubator for a new-born baby.
diverging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of diverge
Derived terms: divergingly
undiverging
diverging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divergings
Senses: examples: text: the deeper convergings and divergings of our own natures
ref: 1998, Franklin Burroughs, Billy Watson's Croker Sack, page 61:
glosses: divergence
diverged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diverge
smithers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smither
Synonyms: smithereens
flat store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat stores
Senses: examples: text: He had told me that in the old days in Chicago he had run a flat-store with a partner who had tuberculosis and also smoked cigars.
ref: 1962: Saul Bellow & Keith Botsford, The Noble Savage, p59 (World Pub. Co)
text: In shared-memory languages for parallel programming, the model is one of a global flat store equipped with various synchronization primitives.
ref: 1998, Michael Maher, Jean-Francois Puget, Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming — CP98, Springer, →ISBN, page 1, →ISBN:
text: The PDC uses the AD but exposes the data as a flat store, as in Windows NT.
ref: 2000: Syngress Media, Inc, MCSE Windows 2000 Server Study Guide (exam 70–215), p75 (McGraw–Hill Professional; →ISBN (10) (13))
text: 2001: Elizabeth A. Wheeler, Uncontained: Urban Fiction in Postwar America, p139 (The Rutgers University Press; →ISBN (10), →ISBN (13)); quoting an unknown source
“It sat on the top of a steep, unpaved hill and commanded an uninspiring view of clean, gray concrete that was six lanes wide and an assortment of boxy, flat store buildings and spacious super gas-stations” (117).
text: These systems are often cheaper to install than conventional horizontal ducting and have the advantage over above-floor ducts that they are unlikely to be damaged by tractors unloading the flat store.
ref: 2004, Peter Golob, Crop Post-Harvest: Science and Technology Durables, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 80, →ISBN:
topics: gambling
games
glosses: A crooked gambling establishment, such as a casino running rigged or fixed (dishonest) games of chance.
examples: text: It is sometimes necessary to provide storage for grain beyond the normal capacity of an elevator facility or elsewhere. In such conditions a relatively inexpensive expedient is the flat store. This is little more than a cover for a pile of dry grain adopting its natural form as poured.
ref: 1994, Norman Leslie Kent, A. D. Evers, Technology of Cereals, →ISBN:
text: The space-saving arrangement of the stores and the controlled cooling down of coils in the flat store which led to reduced handling times and inventory volume had a very positive effect on the efficiency of the cold rolling mill and product availability for shipment.
ref: 1996, Aluminium - Volume 72, page 616:
text: In some flat stores a small trough or day silo is located on the perimeter inside the flat store which is also accessed from the outside of the flat store.
ref: 1998, Bulk Solids Handling::
glosses: A storage facility in which the material stored is simply piled on a floor (as opposed to a bin or silo).
Synonyms: sense: crooked gambling establishment
word: flat joint
deprecating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deprecate
deprecating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deprecating
form: most deprecating
Senses: examples: text: She looked at him with a deprecating smile on her face.
text: He raised his hand with a deprecating gesture.
text: Theodora, with a deprecating look at Arnold Sherman, took his arm, and Ludovic marched her across the green amid a silence which the very horses tied to the storm fence seemed to share. For Ludovic 'twas a crowded hour of glorious life.
ref: 1912, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Chronicles of Avonlea, Chapter I. The Hurrying of Ludovic, 7
text: It is now clear that the term Hobson-Jobson was originally a deprecating Anglo-Indian slang term for the Muharram used particularly in the army and merchant navy but also more widely.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 67:
glosses: In manner that deprecates; insulting; belittling.
Derived terms: deprecatingly
self-deprecating
sheathed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ʃiːðd/
/ʃiːθt/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sheath
intendant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intendants
Etymology: Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.
Senses: glosses: The administrator of an opera house or theater.
examples: text: an intendant of finance
text: By-and-by, she wandered away to an unnecessary revelation of her master's whereabouts: gone to help in the search for his landlord, the Sieur de Poissy, who lived at the château just above, and who had not returned from his chase the day before; so the intendant imagined he might have met with some accident, and had summoned the neighbours to beat the forest and the hill-side.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent.
glosses: A governor in various specific contexts, including certain South American countries, and historically in the kingdoms of Spain, Portugal, and France, and in imperial China.
Synonyms: sense: governor
word: governor
sense: governor
word: circuit intendant
Derived terms: intendancy
intendantship
intendant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intendant
form: most intendant
Etymology: Originally and usually from French intendant, but translating Spanish or Chinese equivalents in some contexts.
Senses: glosses: Attentive.
tasti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tasto
co-citation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-citations
form: cocitation
Etymology: From co- + citation.
Senses: glosses: The simultaneous linking to each of a group of webpages from each of another group of webpages, even though the members of the group do not link to each other; used by some search engines to establish a connection between related pages.
meshuga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meshugas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshugge.
diffide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Latin diffido (“I distrust”)
Senses: examples: text: Nor is it sufficient ground to diffide to the strength of this Argument...
ref: 1662, Henry More, An Antidote Against Atheism, Book I, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 22
glosses: To be distrustful
bergamottin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bergamottins
Etymology: From bergamot + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of furanocoumarins found principally in grapefruit juice, but also in bergamot oil; thought to be responsible for its effect on the metabolism of some pharmaceuticals.
globuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globulus
cotechini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotechino
K-T boundary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K/T boundary
form: KT boundary
Senses: glosses: The geological signature of the transition between the Cretaceous period and the Tertiary period 65.5 million years ago.
glosses: The geological signature of the transition between the Cretaceous period and the Tertiary period 65.5 million years ago.
This transition is marked worldwide by a layer of material that contains a high level of iridium.
This transition is marked worldwide by a layer of material that contains a high level of iridium.
Related terms: K-T extinction event
K-T extinction event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: K/T extinction event
Senses: glosses: Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event; the mass extinction marking the end of the Cretaceous period.
Hypernyms: extinction event
Related terms: K-T boundary
lash curler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lash curlers
form: lash-curler
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eyelash curler.
synonyms: word: eyelash curler
eyelash curler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyelash curlers
form: eyelash-curler
Senses: examples: text: Curling the lashes with an eyelash curler prior to mascara application will make the eyes seem more wide open and bright.
ref: 2015, Zoe Diana Draelos, Cosmetic Dermatology: Products and Procedures, Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
text: She instructs: “Then you’re going to put [the eyelash curler] down and use your phone … to search up what’s happening in China
ref: 2019 November 26, Lily Kuo, “TikTok 'makeup tutorial' goes viral with call to action on China's treatment of Uighurs”, in The Guardian:
text: I pick up my hairbrush, my eyelash curler, my mascara: my arsenal of weapons, my quiver.
ref: 2020, Lucy Foley, The Guest List, Harper Collins, →ISBN:
topics: cosmetics
lifestyle
synonyms: lash curler
glosses: A tool used to curl the eyelashes.
patri-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: father
Derived terms: patriarchy
patrimony
patripotestal
Related terms: patr-
patro-
patr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: patronym
glosses: Alternative form of patri- used before a vowel.
patriline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patrilines
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin pater (“father”) + linea (“line”). By surface analysis, patri- + line.
Senses: synonyms: fatherline
antonyms: matriline
glosses: A line of descent from a male ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are fathers.
Derived terms: patrilineal
patrilineally
patrilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patriline
matriline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matrilines
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mater (“mother”) + linea (“line”). By surface analysis, matri- + line.
Senses: synonyms: motherline
mother's line
antonyms: patriline
glosses: A line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are mothers.
Derived terms: matrilineal
matrilineally
matrilines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matriline
kingmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪŋmeɪkə/
ipa: /ˈkɪŋˌmeɪkɚ/
Forms: form: kingmakers
Etymology: From king + maker, originally used in the 16th century in “Warwick the Kingmaker”, an epithet of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), a key figure in the Wars of the Roses whose actions led to King Henry VI being deposed in 1461 and Edward IV appointed in his place, then Edward IV being replaced by Henry VI again in 1470.
Senses: examples: text: Alain, who is proud of choosing the extreme right but still didn't want his real name printed, is one of the 6.4 million [Marine] Le Pen voters who are now the kingmakers in deciding who becomes the next president of France. If the Socialist François Hollande topped the poll, beating the rightwing president, Nicolas Sarkozy, and gaining momentum for returning the left to the presidency for the first time in a generation, it is Le Pen whose high showing and third place now holds the election in the balance.
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “French election: Marine Le Pen voters grapple with their role as kingmakers”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2021:
text: However, a National-Act coalition would only have a slim majority, meaning Mr Luxon may need to secure the support of NZ First, whose leader Winston Peters has been kingmaker in previous Labour and National-led coalitions.
ref: 2023 October 14, Antoinette Radford & Graeme Baker, “New Zealand election: National party's Chris Luxon claims victory”, in BBC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2023:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: queenmaker
glosses: Someone who has strong influence over the choice of a leader.
topics: computing
engineering
game-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A player who is unable to win but powerful enough to decide which of the other viable players will eventually win.
Derived terms: kingmake
Related terms: kingmaking
éminence grise
power broker
puppet master
queenmaker
svengali
centistoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centistokes
Etymology: From centi- + stoke.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Misconstruction of centistokes, unit of kinematic viscosity.
undergirded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: 2007-05-31, Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook -- United States,
The rise in GDP in 2004-06 was undergirded by substantial gains in labor productivity.
glosses: simple past and past participle of undergird
file system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: file systems
form: filesystem
Etymology: From file + system.
Senses: glosses: A physical system for organizing documents, as in a library or office.
examples: text: Every computer system therefore needs a method of managing files. This is generally achieved through the use of a file system. File systems exist on every electronic storage device […].
ref: 2025, Fergus Toolan, File System Forensics, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 3:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method of organizing blocks of data on a storage device into files and directories.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of blocks that are organized in this way.
Derived terms: fsck
carriageway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carriageways
Etymology: From carriage + way.
Senses: glosses: The part of a road that carries traffic.
glosses: One side of a dual carriageway that carries traffic in a single direction.
Synonyms: sense: part of a road that carries traffic
word: roadway
sense: one side of a dual carriageway
word: lanes
sense: one side of a dual carriageway
word: direction
sense: one side of a dual carriageway
word: side
Derived terms: dual carriageway
contravenes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of contravene
zenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Measured with reference to the surface of the planet Jupiter.
Derived terms: zenographic coordinate
circulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circular
circulars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circular
demotes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demote
meninge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meninges
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: meninx
demoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demote
demoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demote
ASR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Air Sea Rescue.
ASR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: Initialism of automatic/automated speech recognition.
glosses: Initialism of automatic system recovery.
glosses: Initialism of antislip regulation.
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of age standardized rate.
glosses: Initialism of automotive/automobile shredder residue.
dictating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dictate
interweaves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of interweave
interweaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of interweave
interweaving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interweavings
Senses: glosses: The motion or position of things that interweave; an elaborate tangle.
nuée ardente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuées ardentes
form: nuée ardentes
Etymology: Borrowed from French nuée ardente.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A pyroclastic flow.
Synonyms: Peléan cloud
muli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mooli.
gazzette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazzetta
fioriture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fjɔːɹɪˈtʊəɹeɪ/
Etymology: From Italian, plural of fioritura (“a flowering”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: flourishes in a melody by a singer or musician.
comitati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comitatus
bothy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌhi/
ipa: /ˈbɒ.θi/
ipa: /ˈbɑθi/
rhymes: -ɒθi
Forms: form: bothies
form: boothie
form: boothy
form: bothie
Etymology: Probably from booth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: But civilization had changed that completely. Not one criminal in a thousand now fled to the Highlands or to Wales for refuge. A man demanded the means of food and shelter in his retreat nowadays, and a deserted bothy or a cave on the hillside was out of date.
ref: 1929, Josephine Tey, The Man in the Queue, The Macmillan Company:
text: Often Neil sat in their bothy on winter nights and told Calum about seas he had never seen.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 106:
text: Then, in the evening of the second day after I had climbed from the pupil of the right eye, I came upon a shepherd's bothy, a sort of beehive of stone, and found in it a cooking pot and a quantity of ground corn.
ref: 1982, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXVII, in The Sword of the Lictor (The Book of the New Sun; 3), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 200:
text: The Bog Creeper came out her wee bothy so I stood on the toilet seat and Lanna whipped her skirt down to her boots and sat.
ref: 1995, Alan Warner, Morvern Callar, Vintage, published 2015, page 12:
text: It was easy then to meet with a man
shifting himself to a safer distance
to bed in the bothies[.]
ref: 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 7:
qualifier: Northumberland
glosses: A small cottage, especially one for communal use in remote areas by labourers or farmhands, or as a mountain shelter.
Derived terms: bothy ballad
bothyman
religiosi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religioso
bothie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bothies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bothy.
misappropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪs.əˈpɹəʊ.pɹɪ.eɪt/
ipa: /ˌmɪs.əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/
Forms: form: misappropriates
form: misappropriating
form: misappropriated
form: misappropriated
Etymology: From mis- + appropriate.
Senses: glosses: To take something for wrong or illegal purposes.
examples: text: The accountant was found to have misappropriated funds over a period of three years.
glosses: To embezzle.
Synonyms: sense: take for wrong purposes
word: misuse
sense: embezzle
word: defalcate
sense: embezzle
word: embezzle
sense: embezzle
word: peculate
Derived terms: misappropriation
misappropriator
dolcetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolcetto
candlewick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candlewicks
form: candle-wick
Etymology: From Middle English candelwyk, candelwike, from Old English candelweoc, candelwēoce (“candlewick”), equivalent to candle + wick.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, the next day I came provided with six large candles of my own making (for I made very good candles now of goat’s tallow, but was hard set for candle-wick, using sometimes rags or rope-yarn, and sometimes the dried rind of a weed like nettles); and going into this low place I was obliged to creep upon all-fours as I have said, almost ten yards—which, by the way, I thought was a venture bold enough, considering that I knew not how far it might go, nor what was beyond it.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
text: The unsnuffed candlewick was crowned with a tuft of sooty ash, the fire had died down into a few dull red and white embers […]
ref: 1865, Isabella Banks, God's Providence House, volume 2, page 72:
glosses: The wick of a candle.
glosses: The thread used to make the wicks of candles.
examples: text: He sat on the candlewick bedspread and a woman came into the room and knelt on the floor in front of him.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 122:
glosses: A soft cotton yarn that gives a tufted pattern to embroidery.
tutele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtjuːtiːl/
Etymology: From Latin tutela. Compare French tutelle. See tutelage.
Senses: examples: text: There was a great difference in one of the Capitulations 'twixt the two Kings, how long the Children which should issue of this Marriage were to continue sub regimine Matris, under the tutele of the Mother
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To my Father”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: tutelage
glutei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gluteus
tortelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Italian tortelli
Senses: glosses: A kind of stuffed pasta.
valute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valuta
engraven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹeɪvən/
Etymology: From engrave + -en.
Senses: glosses: past participle of engrave
engraven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹeɪvən/
Forms: form: engravens
form: engravening
form: engravened
form: engravened
Etymology: From grave + en- -en; Alteration of engrave, influenced by verbs formed with the circumfix en- -en.
Senses: glosses: Engrave.
palsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palsy
palsies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of palsy
morbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morbus
frayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪd/
homophone: 'fraid
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more frayed
form: most frayed
Etymology: From English fray, from Old French froiier (“to rub against, scrape; thrust against”), from Latin fricare (“to rub, rub down”).
Senses: glosses: Unravelled; worn at the end or edge.
glosses: Exhausted, strained, beleaguered, or suffering from stress.
Derived terms: frayedness
unfrayed
frayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪd/
homophone: 'fraid
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From English fray, from Old French froiier (“to rub against, scrape; thrust against”), from Latin fricare (“to rub, rub down”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fray
peccavi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈkɑːviː/
ipa: /pəˈkɑːvi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peccāvī (“I have sinned”).
Senses: glosses: An expression of guilt or culpability.
Synonyms: mea culpa
my bad
peccavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɛˈkɑːviː/
ipa: /pəˈkɑːvi/
Forms: form: peccavis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peccāvī (“I have sinned”).
Senses: examples: text: He heard the little man's rapid exhausted breathing as he began with the opening flourish of his peccavi, ‘Father, I have sinned.’
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 772:
glosses: An act of saying ‘peccavi’; an admission of guilt or responsibility.
obliges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oblige
insouciantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more insouciantly
form: most insouciantly
Etymology: From insouciant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A majority of the camera and sound and makeup crew are female, but a lot of these, too, have a similar look: 30ish, makeupless, insouciantly pretty, wearing faded jeans and old running shoes and black T-shirts, and with lush well-conditioned hair tied carelessly out of the way so that strands tend to escape and trail and have to be chuffed out of the eyes periodically or brushed away with the back of a ringless hand […]
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
glosses: In an insouciant manner.
foveation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfəʊviˈeɪʃən/
Forms: form: foveations
Etymology: From foveate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: A major question that arises is why should computer vision blindly imitate biological vision? is^([sic]) it really necessary to use foveation at all? Analysing human vision, we find out that the human visual system covers more than 200 degrees field of view.
ref: 2013, Virginio Cantoni, editor, Human and Machine Vision: Analogies and Divergencies, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: The act of foveating (angling the eyes to focus on an object).
glosses: Pitting and scarring, as seen in smallpox, chickenpox, etc.
probed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of probe
verificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verificates
form: verificating
form: verificated
form: verificated
Senses: examples: text: […] to verificate the truth of my operations […]
ref: 1824, The Medical Adviser, and Guide to Health and Long Life, page 254:
text: However, as life is only the substantial union of the body and the soul, the exterior manifestations are verificated by the use of the organs which have as their functions the giving of motion.
ref: 1903, The American Law Review, volume 37, page 400:
glosses: To verify.
cringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cringe
cringing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪnd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒɪŋ
Forms: form: cringings
Senses: examples: the servile bowings and cringings of courtiers
glosses: Act of one who cringes.
tracery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹeɪsəɹi/
Forms: form: traceries
Etymology: From trace + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the flamelike undulations of its window tracery, the Norman archæologist, M. de Caumont, who had brought into use the name Romanesque, invented the equally useful term Flamboyant.
ref: 1921, Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly, How France Built Her Cathedrals, Harper & Brothers, page 140:
topics: architecture
glosses: Bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature.
examples: text: He is homesick for the hale rough weather; for the tracery of the frost upon his window-panes at morning, the reluctant descent of the first flakes, and the white roofs relieved against the sombre sky.
ref: 1874, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Ordered South”, in Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], published 1881, →OCLC:
glosses: A delicate interlacing of lines reminiscent of the architectural ornament.
Derived terms: fan tracery
stump tracery
indico
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of indigo.
indica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.dɪ.kə/
Forms: form: indicas
Etymology: From Latin indica, from being associated with the Indian Subcontinent.
Senses: examples: text: The isograms were typical of differences between two subspecies but also of those between different lines of japonicas or indicas.
ref: 1986, Rice Genetics: Proceedings of the International Rice Genetics Symposium, 27-31 May 1985, International Rice Research Institute:
glosses: Any of the indica subspecies of the rice, Oryza sativa, which (unlike the japonica or sinica subspecies) are non-sticky and long-grained.
examples: text: Most commonly grown strains of cannabis are sativa, indica, or a hybrid of the two. Sativas have long skinny leaves; indicas have short, fat, stubby leaves.
ref: 2008, J. C. Stitch, Marijuana Garden Saver: Handbook for Healthy Plants:
glosses: Marijuana of the species Cannabis indica.
Coordinate terms: sense: species
word: sativa
Derived terms: indicaine
circumfix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəːkəmfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsɚkəmfɪks/
ipa: /səːkəmˈfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsəːkəmfɪks/
ipa: /sɚkəmˈfɪks/
Forms: form: circumfixes
Etymology: From circum- + -fix.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: ambifix
confix
glosses: An affix containing both a prefixing and a suffixing element existing as a single morphological unit.
Coordinate terms: adfix
affix
disfix
duplifix
infix
interfix
libfix
postfix
prefix
prefixoid
pseudo-suffix
semi-prefix
simulfix
suffix
suffixoid
suprafix
transfix
Derived terms: word: circumfixation
word: circumfixal
word: circumfixing
circumfix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəːkəmfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsɚkəmfɪks/
ipa: /səːkəmˈfɪks/
ipa: /ˈsəːkəmfɪks/
ipa: /sɚkəmˈfɪks/
Forms: form: circumfixes
form: circumfixing
form: circumfixed
form: circumfixed
Etymology: From circum- + -fix.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Affix a circumfix to (a word).
circumfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circumfix
circumfixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circumfix
circumfixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circumfix
circumfixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circumfix
-fix
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪks/
Etymology: The common element of prefix, suffix, and affix — all ultimately from Latin figere (“to fasten”).
Senses: examples: text: infix
translation: attached within
english: attached within
text: circumfix
translation: attached around
english: attached around
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Forming nouns denoting a morpheme used in word formation joined to a word in the specified way
examples: text: suffix
translation: append
english: append
text: prefix
translation: preface
english: preface
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Forming verbs denoting fastening or attaching (something) in the specified way
Related terms: -fixation
ad modum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: Consistent with.
Derived terms: ad modum Donders
ad modum Donders
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ad modum Donders.
Senses: examples: text: Vision was normal ad modum Donders.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Of vision, by the Donders standards.
wikipedia: Donders
denaturate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: denaturates
form: denaturating
form: denaturated
form: denaturated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of denature.
Derived terms: nondenaturating
stipula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stipulas
form: stipulae
form: stipulæ
Etymology: From Latin stipula (“stalk, stem”). Doublet of stubble.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A stipule.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A newly-sprouted feather.
crassest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crass: most crass
desktop picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desktop pictures
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A picture displayed on a computer's desktop as a background behind windows and other user interface elements.
Synonyms: english: shortened form
translation: shortened form
word: desktop
word: desktop background
word: wallpaper
circumfixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəːkəmfɪˈkseɪʃən/
Etymology: From circum- + fixation.
Senses: glosses: The morphological phenomenon of circumfixing.
Related terms: affixation
infixation
prefixation
suffixation
angiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angiograms
form: angiogramme
Etymology: From angio- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray image of the blood vessels gained after the injection of a radiopaque contrast medium.
Synonyms: angiograph
Derived terms: cineangiogram
microangiogram
neuroangiogram
Related terms: angiography
streetlamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: streetlamps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of street lamp.
heart breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heart breakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of heartbreaker.
glass cleaner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass cleaners
Senses: glosses: A specific formula of cleaning fluid for glass surfaces.
school band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school bands
Senses: glosses: A musical ensemble associated with a school, not necessarily a musical school; e.g. marching band.
Related terms: band camp
skud
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌd
Forms: form: skuds
form: skudding
form: skudded
form: skudded
form: scud
Senses: glosses: To hit.
glosses: To speed.
glosses: To skim.
documentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more documentable
form: most documentable
Etymology: From document + -able.
Senses: examples: 1999 Stephen Moore and Julian L. Simon, "The Greatest Century That Ever Was," Policy Analysis, The Cato Institute, no 362 (15 Dec), p. 2.
The documentable improvement of the quality of life in this brief period has been nothing short of miraculous.
glosses: Capable of being supported by documentary evidence.
Derived terms: documentably
land mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of landmark.
land marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land mark
gun shy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gun shy
form: most gun shy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gunshy.
undocumentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + documentable.
Senses: examples: text: These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.
text: 1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674.
KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.
text: . . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.
ref: 1972 Nov, W. E. Fredeman, “Impediments and Motives: Biography as an Unfair Sport”, in Modern Philology, volume 70, number 2, page 151:
text: Real science is so damned exciting, transforming, and provable, why would anyone prefer the undocumentable nonsense of astrology, alien abductions, and so forth?
ref: 1997 January 31, Stephen Jay Gould, “Editorial: Bright Star Among Billions”, in Science, volume 275, number 5300, page 599:
text: 2002, Scott Moss, "Policy analysis from first principles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 99, no 10, sup 3 (May), p. 7265.
Apart from one undocumentable claim, the strongest responses were that, when applied to past data, some new modeling techniques look better than most previous modeling techniques.
glosses: Not supportable with documentary evidence.
implicata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of implicatum
loop the loop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loops the loop
form: looping the loop
form: looped the loop
form: looped the loop
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform any of several aerobatic manoeuvres in which the aircraft flies around a vertical circle.
Related terms: inside loop
outside loop
English bunt
loop-de-loop
macro-fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrofiction
Etymology: From macro- + fiction, by extension from micro-fiction.
Senses: glosses: Fiction that has a greater than normal length
micro-fiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micro-fictions
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of microfiction.
maniacally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnaɪəkli/
ipa: /məˈnaɪəkəli/
Forms: form: more maniacally
form: most maniacally
Etymology: From maniacal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Marquise was scissoring his arms back and forth in the air as if he were weaving on an invisible loom; he was telling them a story, maniacally.
ref: 2008, Jesmyn Ward, Where the Line Bleeds, Bloomsbury (2018), page 116:
glosses: In a maniacal manner; frantically.
manipulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪpjʊleɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: manipulators
Etymology: From manipulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of manipulate; one who manipulates.
examples: text: The power lights blinked red and the amplifier failed, but not before Kassad had seen the tapering ovoid shapes, spotted with thrusters and cockpit blisters, each trailing a tangle of six jointless manipulator arms.
ref: 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, London: Headline, published 1991, page 157:
glosses: A device which can be used to move, arrange or operate something.
glosses: A puppeteer, especially one controlling marionettes.
Derived terms: master-slave manipulator
micromanipulator
nanomanipulator
telemanipulator
manipulatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more manipulatively
form: most manipulatively
Etymology: From manipulative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manipulative manner.
manipulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈnɪpjʊləbəl/
Forms: form: more manipulable
form: most manipulable
Etymology: 1859, from manipulate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He wondered if this was how men like Jardine and Matheson saw the world – minuscule, manipulable. If people and places moved around the lines they drew. If cities shattered when they stomped.
ref: 2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 457:
text: I think we have a responsibility to emphasize to our students that law is something less: a system, manipulable like any other, for achieving political and policy ends.
ref: 2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024
synonyms: manipulatable
coordinate_terms: word: gullible
word: ;
word: influenceable
english: of objects
translation: of objects
word: configurable
glosses: Suitable for, or able to be subjected to, manipulation.
Derived terms: manipulably
micromanipulable
nonmanipulable
unmanipulable
meatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtləs/
Etymology: From Middle English meteles, from Old English metelēas (“foodless”), equivalent to meat + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A meatless day or a beerless or tealess day does not suggest moderation so much as immoderation.
ref: 1916, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
text: Are we to understand from paragraph 1 (c) that [the residents of Malta] are entirely meatless? or have they cattle they can kill, and if so how many?
ref: 1942, Winston S. Churchill, The Hinge of Fate, vol. 4 of The Second World War (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950), p. 300. [Memo from Prime Minister Churchill to General Ismay dated April 3, 1942]
text: “Eating more plants and going meatless is a good way to preserve your health,” said Dr. Robert Graham, who is board certified in both internal and integrative medicine. […] Some fun meatless recipes include jackfruit sandwiches in place of pulled pork; black bean meatless balls or eggplant and shiitake “meatballs.”
ref: 2020 May 19, Lisa Drayer, “How to eat less meat and more plants”, in CNN:
synonyms: unmeated
antonyms: meatful
glosses: Without meat.
Derived terms: meatless loaf
meatlessly
meatlessness
messily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more messily
form: most messily
Etymology: From messy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Commander's aim was off sending it messily over the back of the sensor officer's bulbous head instead.
ref: 2016, A.K. Brown, Jumpstart (Champagne Universe Series: Book 1), page 19:
glosses: In a messy manner; sloppily, shoddily.