cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nontried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tried.
Senses: examples: text: Plaintiffs with nontried cases receive their claimed amount multiplied by the ratio of awarded damages to claimed damages in the tried subset.
ref: 2002, Alexander Tabarrok, Entrepreneurial economics: bright ideas from the dismal science:
glosses: Not tried (as a legal case).
nontribally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + tribally.
Senses: examples: text: Villages are of several different kinds depending upon the prevailing pattern of occupation and whether they are tribally or nontribally organized.
ref: 1959, George Arthur Lipsky, Saudi Arabia: its people, its society, its culture, volume 4, page 61:
text: Therefore, while nontribally identified Indians represent an interesting emergent American Indian ethnicity about which I will say more in subsequent chapters, such individuals do not appear to account for much of the recent Indian population growth.
ref: 1997, Joane Nagel, American Indian ethnic renewal, page 104:
text: Unions developed out of African miners' attempts to channel their grievances through nontribally based organizations, reflecting their growing consciousness of class and recognition of the weakness of mine-imposed types of organization based on rural models.
ref: 2001, Lyn Schumaker, Africanizing anthropology, page 168:
glosses: In a manner that is not tribal.
izard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: izards
form: isard
Etymology: From French isard; further derivation uncertain.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hat threatening aspect with which they seemed to hang over the wandering traveller […] bid him to fear, lest even the light steps of the Izard (the Chamois of the Pyrenees), or the wild goats, who now and then appeared suspended amid the craggy fissures, should disunite them from the mountain itself and bury him beneath their thundering ruins.
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 474:
glosses: A Pyrenean chamois (Rupicapra pyrenaica).
izards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of izard
figureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From figure + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a figure or figures (in various senses).
Derived terms: figurelessness
sangaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sangarees
Etymology: Likely an alteration of sangria
Senses: examples: text: And who but July would know […] that she liked her sangaree, not with the juice of a lime, but embittered with the peel from a lemon.
ref: 2010, Andrea Levy, The Long Song, Tinder Press (2017), pages 71–72:
glosses: A mixed drink common in the West Indies, similar to sangria and usually featuring wine or fortified wine and spices.
sangaree
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sangarees
form: sangareeing
form: sangareed
form: sangareed
Etymology: Likely an alteration of sangria
Senses: glosses: To drink sangaree.
glosses: To prepare sangaree.
sangarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sangaree
insequent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insequent
form: most insequent
Senses: glosses: Having an almost random drainage, often forming dendritic patterns.
raw_tags: of a stream
censureless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From censure + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without censure.
suitheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suitheistic
form: most suitheistic
Senses: examples: text: His presence, after all, disturbs our arrogant pretensions and suitheistic fantasies.
ref: 2008, James Patrick Holding, Shattering the Christ Myth, page 334:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: Of or relating to suitheism.
dealbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːælˈbeɪʃən/
Etymology: From de- + Latin albus (“white”) + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process or act of becoming or being made white, most commonly by bleaching; whitening.
courseless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From course + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] we seem to be drifting courseless through cloudland, with our horizon immediately around us.
ref: 2008, Robert H. Milligan, The Jungle Folk of Africa:
glosses: Lacking a course.
rise to the occasion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rises to the occasion
form: rising to the occasion
form: rose to the occasion
form: risen to the occasion
Senses: examples: text: Gabriel, though one of the quietest and most gentle men on earth, rose to the occasion, with martial promptness and vigour. "That's my fist. . . . Now — the first man in the parish that I hear prophesying bad of our mistress, why" (here the fist was raised and let fall as Thor might have done with his hammer in assaying it) — "he'll smell and taste that."
ref: 1874, Thomas Hardy, chapter 15, in Far from the Madding Crowd:
text: As it happened, this particular ordeal was exceedingly severe, but nothing can excuse the absolute failure of the troops concerned to rise to the occasion.
ref: 1902, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 38, in The Great Boer War:
text: How many times have we heard this story? The one about people rising to the occasion, storming the cockpit of the hijacked jet, racing into the burning building, tackling the gunman, saving a life.
ref: 2011 January 10, David Von Drehle, “The Real Lesson of the Tucson Tragedy”, in Time, retrieved 09 May 2015:
synonyms: rise to the challenge
glosses: To show resolve or effectiveness in dealing with a difficulty.
examples: text: To his comic fury and shame, the traveller's 'master part' fails to rise to the occasion, and the girl's innocence is preserved.
ref: 2001, John R. Williams, The Life of Goethe: A Critical Biography:
glosses: To achieve an erection during sexual intercourse.
Related terms: answer the call
giftless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English gifteles, yifteles, yeftles, equivalent to gift + -less.
Senses: examples: text: She came giftless to the birthday party.
glosses: Without a gift.
glosses: ungifted, untalented
Derived terms: giftlessness
Cæsar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: [Casca stabs Cæsar in the Neck. Cæsar catches hold of his Arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus Brutus.] Cæsar: Et tu, Brute?—Then fall, Cæsar. [Dies. The senators and people retire in confusion.]
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Caesar.
Cæsar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cæsars
Senses: examples: text: Cæsar's dust - or is it Alexander's? - may stop a bunghole, but the functions of these dead Cæsars of the past was to light up a savage fetish dance.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Caesar.
rendzinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rendzina
solonchak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solonchaks
form: solonchaki
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian солонча́к (solončák, “salt marsh”).
Senses: glosses: A pale or grey soil found in arid to subhumid conditions with poor drainage.
solonchaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solonchak
oxisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxisol
ferralsol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferralsols
Senses: glosses: A type of soil, oxisol.
ferralsols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferralsol
hemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heme
sirohaem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirohaems
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of siroheme.
sirohaems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirohaem
siroheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirohemes
form: sirohaem
Senses: glosses: A heme-like prosthetic group used by some enzymes to accomplish the six-electron reduction of sulfur and nitrogen.
uroporphyrinogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroporphyrinogens
Etymology: From uro- + porphyrinogen.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of tetrapyrroles with four propionic acid groups and four acetic acid groups, involved in the synthesis of porphyrin.
uroporphyrinogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uroporphyrinogen
sirohemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siroheme
uropods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uropod
hitself
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: -ɛlf
Forms: form: hit
form: himself
form: herself
form: themselves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of itself.
horserider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseriders
form: horse rider
Etymology: From horse + rider.
Senses: glosses: Someone who rides a horse.
Related terms: bareback rider
circus rider
horseman
horsewoman
horseriding
horse riding
equestrian
equestrienne
horseriders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horserider
beach party
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach parties
Senses: glosses: A party on the beach.
Derived terms: beach party film
tritoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritoxides
Etymology: From trit- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: trioxide; the third of a series of oxides of a particular metal
Related terms: protoxide
deutoxide
trivalence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + valence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being trivalent
Synonyms: trivalency
tropein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropeins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several mydriatic alkaloids, esters of tropine, extracted from heliotrope
tropidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic alkaloid obtained by dehydration of atropine
trypaflavine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because of its therapeutic action in trypanosome infections.
Senses: glosses: An acridine dye thought to be identical with flavine or acriflavine.
turmerol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From turmeric + -ol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A monocyclic sesquiterpene alcohol extracted from turmeric
perceptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptivities
Etymology: From perceptive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being perceptive.
volator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of volador.
expectances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expectance
stillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stillage
sunrise periods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunrise period
end-game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end-games
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of endgame.
end-games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end-game
saw sam sai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Thai ซอสามสาย (sɔɔ-sǎam-sǎai)
Senses: glosses: A traditional bowed string instrument of Thailand. Its body is made from a special type of coconut covered on one end with animal skin, and it has three silk strings.
end game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end games
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of endgame.
end games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of end game
canticum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantica
Etymology: From Latin canticum (“chant, song”).
Senses: glosses: A canticle.
glosses: A part song in an ancient play.
suricates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suricate
ecaudate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + caudate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Tailless; without a tail or tail-like appendage.
intuitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intuitive
hornswoggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hornswogglers
Etymology: From hornswoggle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included.
ref: 1996, Stephen Marlowe, The death and life of Miguel de Cervantes: a novel, page 196:
text: All day you would be hornswoggler. You would be it in every game of tag or hide-and-seek, a spectacle of selfishness, ostracized, a dream smasher, the last to be served at supper, the last, before bed, whose prayers were heard.
ref: 1992, Deborah Digges, Fugitive Spring: A Memoir, page 109:
text: The Old Viper's an old cheater, an old hornswoggler.
ref: 1990, Terry Griggs, Quickening, page 131:
glosses: Agent noun of hornswoggle: one who hornswoggles.
hornswogglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hornswoggler
natos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nato
brown bits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Add 1/2 cup of the red wine and stir up the brown bits to deglaze the pan.
ref: 2004, Diane Rossen Worthington, Noel Barnhurst, The Taste of the Season: Inspired Recipes for Fall and Winter, page 56:
text: Pour 1 cup water into pan; scrape pan with a wooden spoon to loosen brown bits from bottom of pan.
ref: 2002, American Heart Association, American Heart Association Low-Salt Cookbook, page 121:
text: Stir vigorously and scrape all of the brown bits from the pot bottom.
ref: 1996, Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross, Desperation Dinners!, page 6:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Caramelized remnants of meat left in a pan after the cooking of the meat, which are often re-cooked in wine or other liquids and then absorbed into cut vegetable pieces in order to make sauce or gravy.
rhombomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombomeres
Etymology: From rhombo- + -mere.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
qualifier: developmental biology
glosses: A temporarily divided segment of the developing neural tube, within the hindbrain region
Derived terms: rhombomeric
pseudorhombomere
Related terms: rhombencephalon
Achaemenid Empire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Achaemenid Empire
Senses: synonyms: Persia
Persian Empire
glosses: The empire ruled by the Achaemenid dynasty from 550 BCE to 330 BCE
takes the mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take the mickey
taking the mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the mickey
took the mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the mickey
taken the mickey
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the mickey
bontebok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonteboks
Etymology: From Afrikaans bontebok, from Dutch bontebok (literally “motley goat”).
Senses: examples: text: There are hundreds of different kinds, and Terence knew them all. With his sharp eyes, he could spot them about 10 miles away. This is a bontebok, now rare.
ref: 1966, Bruce Brown, director, The Endless Summer:
glosses: A South African antelope of genus Damaliscus
copartner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copartners
Etymology: From co- + partner.
Senses: glosses: A joint partner (in a business).
Related terms: copartnership
copartner
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: copartners
form: copartnering
form: copartnered
form: copartnered
Etymology: From co- + partner.
Senses: glosses: To form a joint partnership with somebody.
copestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copestones
Senses: examples: text: The universe is finished; the copestone is on, and the chips were carted off a million years ago.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 10:
text: For small erections may be finished by their first architects ; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 32, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 159:
glosses: capstone
housefather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: housefathers
Etymology: Compound of house + father. Cognate with Dutch huisvader, German Hausvater, Swedish husfader, Icelandic húsfaðir.
Senses: glosses: The father of a family; the male head of household, or of any collection of persons living as a family or in common, as in a primitive community.
glosses: A man in charge of a residence for young people to look after them.
Derived terms: housefatherly
Related terms: housemother
houseparent
immoralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmɒɹəˌlɪzəm/
Forms: form: immoralisms
Etymology: From immoral + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A philosophy that does not accept moral principles.
Related terms: immoralist
immorality
infobahn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infobahns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Infobahn.
mainplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mainplanes
Etymology: From main + plane.
Senses: glosses: The wing of an airplane that provides most of the lift.
Coordinate terms: foreplane
tailplane
maxwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxwells
Etymology: From James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist and mathematician.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A unit of magnetic flux that produces one abvolt per turn per second.
wikipedia: James Clerk Maxwell
Synonyms: word: line
midheaven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midheavens
Etymology: From mid- + heaven.
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The intersection of the ecliptic and meridian above the horizon
perfusate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perfusates
Etymology: From perfuse + -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: The fluid used in perfusion.
Derived terms: chemoperfusate
Related terms: autolysate
condensate
diffusate
distillate
eluate
exudate
filtrand
filtrate
filtride
hemolysate
leachate
lysate
prothalamion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prothalamions
form: prothalamia
form: prothalamium
Etymology: After Prothalamion, title of a 16th-century poem by Edmund Spenser, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “for”) + thalamion, as in epithalamion.
Senses: examples: text: Zauq then wrote his own prothalamion in which the last verse (in the same vein as Ghalib's) challenged the ability of those who made a claim to be poets to equal his writing of a sehra. Zauq's prothalamion was given very wide publicity by the professional singers in the palace, and the next day it was published in the local newspaper.
ref: 2000, Pavan K. Varma, Ghalib: The Man, The Times, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: epithalamium
glosses: A song or poem in honour of a bride and bridegroom about to be married.
wikipedia: Edmund Spenser
Prothalamion
sclerotome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerotomes
Etymology: From sclero- + -tome.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A knife used in sclerotomy
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A segmented mass of mesenchymal tissue, in a somite, that develops into the ribs
Coordinate terms: sense: embryionic development
english: skin
translation: skin
word: dermatome
topics: anatomy
sense: embryionic development
word: myotome
sense: embryionic development
english: cartilage
translation: cartilage
word: syndetome
Related terms: sclerotomal
sclerotomic
supervoltage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervoltages
Etymology: From super- + voltage.
Senses: glosses: A high voltage, normally greater than 1,000 kilovolts, when used in X-ray radiotherapy
susceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more susceptive
form: most susceptive
Senses: examples: text: Both extracted if-then rules have their own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore both approaches are susceptive of modifications […].
ref: 2003, Masahiro Inuiguchi, Tetsuzo Tanino, “Two Directions toward Generalization of Rough Sets”, in Masahiro Inuiguchi, Shoji Hirano, Shusaku Tsumoto, editors, Rough Set Theory and Granular Computing, Berlin: Springer, page 56:
text: Also children who grow up in poorer households are likely to have poor health status and more susceptive to arsenic-caused illness.
ref: 2008, Mohammad Niaz Asadullah, Poisoning the Mind: Arsenic Contamination and Cognitive Achievement of Children, World Bank Publications, section 3.2, p. 10:
text: […] Northeast China is one of the most susceptive areas to climage change in the country.
ref: 2013, Sijian Zhao, Qiao Zhang, “A study on risk early warning of crops caused by floods in Northeast China based on vulnerability”, in Chongfu Huang, Cengiz Kahraman, editors, Intelligent Systems and Decision Making for Risk Analysis and Crisis Response: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Risk Analysis and Crisis Response, Istanbul, Turkey, 27-29 August 2013, London: Taylor & Francis Group, page 98:
glosses: susceptible
examples: text: 1709, Isaac Watts, Preface to Horæ Lyricæ. Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, Eighth edition, London: James Brackstone, 1743, pp. xxiv-xxv, https://books.google.ca/books?id=aRIDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Amongst the infinite Numbers of Mankind, there is not more Difference in their outward Shape and Features, than in their Temper and inward Inclination. Some are more easily susceptive of Religion in a grave Discourse and sedate Reasoning. Some are best frighted from Sin and Ruin by Terror, […] : Others can feel no Motive so powerful as that which applies itself to their Ingenuity, and their polish'd Imagination.
text: Deducting one-third for rocks, cliffs, and places not susceptive of culture,—and for houses, buildings of all sorts, streets and roads, say 5,120; there remain, fit for cultivation, 10,240 English acres.
ref: 1841, Jonathan Duncan, chapter III, in The History of Guernsey: With Occasional Notices of Jersey, Alderney, and Sark, and Biographical Sketches, London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, page 284:
glosses: receptive
undersubscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersubscribed
form: most undersubscribed
Etymology: From under- + subscribed.
Senses: glosses: Having too few subscribers or subscriptions
undersubscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From under- + subscribed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undersubscribe
undertint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertints
Etymology: From under- + tint.
Senses: glosses: A subtle or subdued tint
watchfires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watchfire
wifeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wifely + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being wifely
knockback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knockbacks
form: knock-back
Etymology: Deverbal from knock back.
Senses: examples: text: He lifted his hand in a knockback spell, which would send me sailing right into the zombie.
ref: 2006, Kelley Armstrong, Broken, unnumbered page:
glosses: A blow that causes the recipient to fall or move backwards, a knock back; a recoil.
examples: text: […]the chemo had not worked and had gone back into his brain.[…]He had knockback after knockback. It would have taken its toll on anyone.
ref: 2011, Lee Hobin, God, Why Are You Being So Cruel?, page 188:
text: Despite all the knockbacks from COVID, as an industry we are ready for the turnaround and more than ready to welcome back passengers returning from lockdown.
ref: 2021 September 22, Clive Nicholls, “National Rail Awards 2021”, in RAIL, number 940, page 35:
glosses: Something that impedes or reverses progress; a setback.
examples: text: He got a few knockbacks today when he tried to give his resume out at the local shops.
text: The only other knockback in the Port Kembla-Wollongong district was from Benny Westwood of the Advance Tyre Service. He, too, ordered us off the premises.
ref: 1987, Rupert Lockwood, War on the Waterfront: Menzies, Japan, and the Pig-Iron Dispute, page 199:
text: 1995, Heather Hogarth, Your First Job: Getting It, Keeping It, and Going Further, MacMillan Education Australia, page 82,
So you′ve had a knockback. All right, we don′t all get the first job we apply for.
text: They asked matter-of-fact questions about harrowing tales that the victims had been trying to tell other media outlets, only to receive knockback after knockback for more than a year.
ref: 2010, Chris Rau, Dealing With the Media: A Handbook for Students, Activists, Community Groups and Anyone Who Can′t Afford a Spin Doctor, page 3:
text: Nicole Kidman got a knockback because Su-Man was too busy whipping a certain Oscar-winning French actress into shape.
ref: 2010, Tony Parsons, Tony Parsons on Life, Death and Breakfast, unnumbered page:
glosses: A rejection; a refusal.
computation history
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computation histories
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: a sequence of steps taken by an abstract machine in the process of computing its result.
botts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly a modification of Scottish Gaelic boiteag 'maggot'
Senses: glosses: The disease caused by the maggots of the horse bot fly when they infect the stomach of a horse.
glosses: Infection by maggots under the skin of cows, or by sheep maggots in the frontal sinus of sheep.
Related terms: botfly
myiasis
bott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bot (the larva of the botfly).
Related terms: bott hammer
botts
swarees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swaree
swaree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swarees
Senses: glosses: Eye dialect spelling of soiree.
nonresinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + resinous.
Senses: glosses: Not resinous.
sneakin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of sneaking.
scotomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scotomization
depolarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depolarises
form: depolarising
form: depolarised
form: depolarised
Etymology: From de- + polarise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of depolarize.
Derived terms: depolariser
nondepolarising
depolarises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depolarise
depolarising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depolarise
depolarised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depolarise
micas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mica
micalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micalike
form: most micalike
Etymology: From mica + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of mica.
micaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mica + -less.
Senses: glosses: Devoid of mica.
multigluon
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gluon.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one gluon.
multigluonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + gluonic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one gluon.
neuromagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neuromagnetic
form: most neuromagnetic
Etymology: From neuro- + magnetic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or pertaining to, neuromagnetism.
ureteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ureter + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of a ureter.
Derived terms: periureteral
vesicoureteral
Related terms: urethral
derandomizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derandomize
derandomizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derandomize
derandomise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: derandomises
form: derandomising
form: derandomised
form: derandomised
Etymology: From de- + randomise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of derandomize.
derandomizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of derandomization
derandomising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of derandomise
derandomised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derandomise
derandomises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derandomise
derandomisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + randomisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of derandomization.
centrospheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrosphere
bisymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + symmetric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Symmetric about both of its main diagonals.
raw_tags: of a square matrix
Related terms: bisymmetrical
bisymmetry
bilateral symmetry
persymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From per- + symmetric.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Such that the values on each line perpendicular to the main diagonal are the same for a given line.
raw_tags: of a square matrix
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: Hankel
qualifier: now more commonly
glosses: Symmetrical about the anti-diagonal.
raw_tags: of a square matrix
Related terms: persymmetrical
persymmetrically
persymmetry
pertuisans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pertuisan
perturbates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perturbate
perturbating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perturbate
multiturbine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + turbine.
Senses: glosses: Having or pertaining to more than one turbine.
bisyllabically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bisyllabic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: One problem is that 'ue' is often pronounced bisyllabically, as in cruet, duet, fluent, suet.
ref: 2004, Richard V. Teschner, Melvin Stanley Whitley, Pronouncing English:
glosses: In two syllables.
bisymmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bisymmetries
Etymology: From bi- + symmetry.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being bisymmetric.
persymmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From per- + symmetry.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being persymmetric.
unwriggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unwriggles
form: unwriggling
form: unwriggled
form: unwriggled
Etymology: From un- + wriggle.
Senses: examples: text: WILLIAM FUDGE. Mr Moule. Us do know that playing is uncommon rough, particular in wind, and ’tis true tidden fitting. Fact, we been a-trying to unwriggle old Bill Swyer from his serpent now for many a year.
ref: a. 1979, David Edgar, Ecclesiastes: A Radio Play, Methuen Drama, published 2002, →ISBN, page 408:
text: “[…] You rip off that golden paper and unwriggle the wire. Then push up the cork with your thumbs and give it a little twist and try not to let it go off. […]”
ref: 1986, Henrietta Garnett, Family Skeletons, Knopf, published 1987, →ISBN, page 32:
text: He was actually almost unwriggled when we came to finally untie him. He was beating us up alot before this.
ref: 2001, alt.drugs.psychedelics, Counting Comets
glosses: to free something which is trapped, by wriggling.
physisorped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of physisorbed.
rejiggle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rejiggles
form: rejiggling
form: rejiggled
form: rejiggled
Etymology: From re- + jiggle.
Senses: synonyms: rejigger#Verb
glosses: To rejig: to tweak or rearrange.
jiggler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigglers
Etymology: From jiggle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that jiggles.
examples: text: This may be accomplished by means of jiggler keys used for opening door locks. Such keys are of two types: those for opening locks having two sets of tumblers, and those for opening locks having only one set.
ref: 1937, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology:
text: I knew about the whole key “jigglers.” Basically, random car keys are shaved down with a file, rounding out sharp edges.
ref: 2011, Seattle Meth and Car Theft, page 120:
synonyms: jiggle key
jiggler key
glosses: A key, now especially a car key, that has been partially ground down so that it will open many locks.
Derived terms: mouse jiggler
jigglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiggler
jigglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jigglingly
form: most jigglingly
Etymology: From jiggling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her damp hair was strewn like a cat-o'-nine-tails across her laughing face, her coral-tipped breasts jigglingly upheld by the water.
ref: 1999, Steve Stern, The wedding jester:
glosses: With a jiggling motion.
jigglings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jiggling
Ma Bell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Like Ma Bell, I've Got The Ill Communications
ref: 1994, “Get it together”, in Ill Communication, performed by Beastie Boys:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Collectively, the family of companies associated with American Telephone & Telegraph, providing telephone service in the United States for many years through 1983.
Related terms: Baby Bell
leucodelphinidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucodelphinidins
Etymology: From leuco- + delphinidin.
Senses: glosses: A colourless chemical compound related to leucoanthocyanidins and found in various plants.
leucodelphinidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucodelphinidin
dephased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dephase
delphinidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delphinidins
Senses: glosses: An anthocyanidin, primary plant pigment, and antioxidant, responsible for the blue colour in delphiniums and other flowers and fruits.
Derived terms: leucodelphinidin
prodelphinidin
delphinidins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delphinidin
dephase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dephases
form: dephasing
form: dephased
form: dephased
Etymology: From de- + phase.
Senses: glosses: To make (different parts of a circuit etc.) out of phase
gravidiamagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravi- + diamagnetic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: describing any diamagnetic effect produced by a gravitational field
neohesperidose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide present in some flavonoid glycosides
Derived terms: neohesperidoside
neohesperidosyl
dephases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dephase
rutinosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutinoside
tulipanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthocyanin, the 3-rutinoside of delphinidin.
gravogyro
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gravo- + gyro.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any effect that has both gravitational and gyroscopic components
myrtillin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthocyanin, the 3-glucoside of delphinidin.
microjet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microjets
Etymology: From micro- + jet.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic jet (of fluid)
neuromagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the study of the very small magnetic fields produced during brain activity
oligoacene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligoacenes
Etymology: From oligo- + acene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligomeric acene
relaminarizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relaminarize
transcritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + critical.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That passes through a critical state (i.e. between subcritical and supercritical states)
consistorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnsɪˈstɔːɹɪ.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cōnsistōriālis.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a consistory.
Derived terms: consistorially
nonconsistorial
elusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elusory
form: most elusory
Senses: glosses: That tends to elude
Synonyms: elusive
evasive
Derived terms: elusoriness
pharisaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɹ.ɪˌseɪ.ɪz.(ə)m/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹ.əˌseɪˌɪz.əm/
Forms: form: pharisaisms
form: Pharisaism
form: Phariseeism
Etymology: From Late Latin Pharisaismus, from Pharĭsaeus (“Pharisee”) + -ismus (“-ism”); compare French Pharisaïsme, Italian Fariseismo (archaic), farisaismo.
Senses: examples: text: Since Paul lived and worked in the greater Syrian area as a Pharisee, it is somewhat probable that Pharisaism had some influence there and that some Pharisees lived outside Jerusalem and Judea. […] Paul never says where he made contact with Pharisaism, in Tarsus, Syria, or Jerusalem. […] The evidence concerning Pharisaism is so slim that we do not know how Paul came to know about Pharisaism, why he was attracted to it, and what being a Pharisee entailed.
ref: 1988, Anthony J. Saldarini, Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach, Wilmington, Del.: M. Glazier, →ISBN, page 138:
text: Serious and substantial doubts about Paul's former life as a Pharisee, or even any contact with pharisaism on his part, have been raised.
ref: 2002, J. Andrew Overman, “Kata Nomon Pharisaios: A Short History of Paul's Pharisaism”, in Janice Capel Anderson, Philip Sellew, Claudia Setzer, editors, Pauline Conversations in Context: Essays in Honor of Calvin J. Roetzel (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series; 221), London; New York, N.Y.: Sheffield Academic Press, →ISBN, page 192:
glosses: The doctrines and practices, or the character and spirit, of the Pharisees.
examples: text: [T]he Phariſee faſted twice every weeke, and that never cenſured in him as a peice of Phariſaiſme, or hypocriſie, or fault of any kind; but as commendable, if he had not boaſted of it.
ref: 1645 [indicated as 1646], [Henry Hammond], “Of Feasting”, in A Practicall Catechisme, Oxford: [s.n.], →OCLC, book III, section III, page 303:
text: But denunciations do not go far, and the only living and effective protest would be a society itself delivered from all pharisaisms and idolatries.
ref: 1915, John Oman, “The Judgment of the Churches”, in The War and Its Issues: An Attempt at a Christian Judgment, Cambridge: At the University Press, OCLC 561696232; 2nd edition, Cambridge: At the University Press, 1916, OCLC 22245117, page 59
text: The codes of some modern pharisaism comprise mostly some virtues and moral rules selected from the codes of the Christian pharisaisms which they oppose […]
ref: 1935, Philip Leon, The Ethics of Power, or, The Problem of Evil, London: George Allen & Unwin, →OCLC, page 152:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Rigid observance of external forms of religion without genuine piety; hypocrisy in religion; a censorious, self-righteous spirit in matters of morals or manners.
Related terms: pharisaic
pharisaical
pharisaically
pharisaicalness
spence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spences
form: spense
Etymology: From Middle English spence, spense, borrowed from Middle French despense, from Medieval Latin dīspēnsa, noun use of feminine of Latin dīspēnsus, past participle of dīspendere (“weigh out”).
Senses: examples: text: 'I expect it was a dog which got into the spence and licked up the junket and ate the biscuits,' put in the old turf-cutter. 'I would lock and bar the spence-door, if I were you, the next time I put such nice things in there.'
ref: 1906, Enys Tregarthen, North Cornwall Fairies and Legends, page 77:
glosses: A buttery or pantry.
Related terms: spencer
Spencer
acrocarpous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acrocarpous
form: most acrocarpous
Etymology: From acro- + -carpous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Developing the archegonium on the summit of the primary stem; fruiting at tips, in the manner of mosses.
acrocephalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A deformity of the head in which the top is more or less pointed.
acrochordon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrochordons
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A soft, pedunculated or pensile wart, consisting of myomatous or edematous fibrous tissue, often found on the neck or eyelids of elderly persons.
Synonyms: fibroepithelial polyp
skin tag
acrochordons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrochordon
myomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more myomatous
form: most myomatous
Etymology: From myomata, plural of myoma, + -ous.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a myoma.
Derived terms: rhabdomyomatous
acrodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From acro- + -dynia or acr- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An epidemic disease of the skin characterized by increased sensibility of the soles and palms, with pricking sensations in them and rheumatoid pains in the hands and feet.
Synonyms: epidemic erythema
pedionalgia epidemica
pink disease
Derived terms: acrodynic
acromiocoracoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acromiocoracoid
form: most acromiocoracoid
Etymology: From acromio- + coracoid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the acromion and the coracoid process.
acronarcotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acronarcotic
form: most acronarcotic
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a substance, both acrid and narcotic; irritant in local effect and narcotic in action upon the nerve centers.
nerve center
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve centers
form: nerve centre
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A point at which nerves come together for the processing of signals.
glosses: A physical location in a business, organization, or agency where information procured from different sources is brought together to be considered and acted upon by decision-makers.
nerve centers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve center
incurvation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incurvations
Senses: examples: text: The incurvation or bending of a ray of light, incident on such a surface.
ref: 1831, David Brewster, Memoirs of the Life of Sir I. Newton, published 1855, I. vii. 152:
glosses: The act of acquiring or being given a curved form; an instance of curving or bending.
glosses: The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
glosses: The state of being curved or bent; any curved shape or formation; curvature; a curve; a bend.
A curving inwards; the condition of being curved inwards.
glosses: Bowing in reverence or worship.
vellet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛlɪt/
Senses: examples: text: His vellet head began to shoote out
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Maye. Ægloga Quinta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of velvet.
adherently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more adherently
form: most adherently
Etymology: From adherent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an adherent manner.
Derived terms: nonadherently
abnormalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈnɔɹ.ml̩.ɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: abnormalisms
Etymology: From abnormal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of abnormality.
synonyms: word: abnormality
Synonyms: topics: state
word: abnormality
raw_tags: of being abnormal
word: weirdness
word: strangeness
sense: something that is abnormal
word: aberrant
word: outlier
word: anomaly
acclaimable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acclaimable
form: most acclaimable
Etymology: From acclaim + -able.
Senses: glosses: Subject to acclaim; worthy of acclaim; praiseworthy.
autorepeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + repeat.
Senses: examples: text: Holding down a key on the keyboard activates autorepeat, as though the key were being pressed many times in a row.
glosses: Any feature that repeats an action automatically. (often preceded with 'on')
probabilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probabilisms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that, in the absence of certainty, probability is the best criterion.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
theology
coordinate_terms: probabiliorism
glosses: The casuistic doctrine that, in difficult matters of conscience, one may safely follow a doctrine that is probable, e.g. approved by a recognized Doctor of the Church, even if the opposite opinion is more probable.
reshapeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reshape + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reshapable.
shapeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shapable.
reshapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: reshapeable
Etymology: From reshape + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reshaped.
shapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: shapeable
Etymology: From shape + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being shaped.