cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waggishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more waggishly
form: most waggishly
Etymology: From waggish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Doctor,’ says I, looking waggishly at him, ‘do you know ever a rhyme for Aristotle?’ ‘Port, if you plaise,’ says Mr. Goldsmith, laughing. And we had six rhymes for Aristotle before we left the coffee-house that evening.
ref: 1844 January–December, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “My Pedigree and Family.—Undergo the Influence of the Tender Passion.”, in “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. [The Luck of Barry Lyndon.]”, in Miscellanies: Prose and Verse, volume III, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1856, →OCLC, page 14:
text: "Who was ahead?"
Leper smiled waggishly. "I couldn't see that...."
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: In a waggish manner.
tablatures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tablature
tabloidese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtæblɔɪˈdiːz/
Etymology: From tabloid + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Tabloids have their own language. Maybe it's because the pages are smaller than the broadsheet papers, or perhaps it's because they have to make room to fit all those pictures of Jordan in her knickers in each day, but tabloidese is a language and a skill peculiar to the red tops. Forget anything you learned in your grammar lessons at school.
ref: 2010, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: The writing style of tabloid journalism.
emisary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of emissary.
clawback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clawbacks
Etymology: Deverbal from claw back. In the financial senses, refers to something being "clawed back", or reclaimed; in the sense of a flatterer, it suggests the idea of a person's back being scratched (see scratch someone's back).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly turned over to the other party but to which the other party would not have been entitled.
raw_tags: of evidence
topics: economics
government
law
sciences
taxation
glosses: Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another tax provision.
examples: text: The airline got a clawback provision in the event of failure of the engines to meet fuel-consumption targets.
topics: business
hypernyms: takeback
glosses: Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was not genuine.
examples: text: Take hede of theſe claubackes, theſe venemous people that wil come to you, that will folowe like Gnatoes and Paraſites, if you folowe them, you are oute of your boke.
ref: 1549 March 25 (Gregorian calendar), Hughe Latymer [i.e., Hugh Latimer], Augustine Bernher, compiler, “[27 Sermons Preached by the Ryght Reuerende Father in God and Constant Matir of Iesus Christe, Maister Hugh Latimer, […].] The Second Sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer, which He Preached before King Edward [VI].”, in Certayn Godly Sermons, Made uppon the Lords Prayer, […], London: […] John Day, […], published 1562, →OCLC, folio 36, verso:
glosses: A flatterer or sycophant.
Synonyms: sense: business: recovery of performance payment
word: malus
Coordinate terms: disgorgement
clawbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clawback
ballooners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballooner
hemileptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: homoleptic
homoleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From homo- + -leptic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a coordination compound having a single type of ligand
Related terms: heteroleptic
heteroleptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -leptic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a coordination compound having two or more different types of ligand
Related terms: homoleptic
hemochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemochromes
Etymology: From hemo- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several iron–porphyrin complexes having one or two basic ligands (normally amines).
Derived terms: verdohemochrome
heterobimetallic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + bimetallic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any metal complex having two different metal atoms.
heterochain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterochains
Etymology: From hetero- + chain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used attributively to describe polymers in which the main chain consists of atoms of more than one element
Related terms: homochain
heteroconjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + conjugation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: heteroassociation (between a base and the conjugate acid of a different base through a hydrogen bond)
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: conjugation involving at least one heteroelement
heterodetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterodetic
form: most heterodetic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a cyclic peptide having at least one link between amino acids that is other than eupeptide (isopeptide, disulfide, ester etc.)
see double
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees double
form: seeing double
form: saw double
form: seen double
Senses: glosses: To experience double vision, wherein the eyes do not focus on the same point and a single object is therefore perceived as two.
cooty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cootier
form: cootiest
Etymology: From coot + -y.
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with body lice or coots.
cooty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooties
Etymology: From coot + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cootie.
sponson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponsons
form: sponsing
Etymology: Perhaps from expansion.
Senses: examples: text: He and Gerald usually challenged the rollers in a sponson canoe when Gerald was there for the weekend; or, when Lansing came down, the two took long swims seaward or cruised about in Gerald's dory, clad in their swimming-suits ; and Selwyn's youth became renewed in a manner almost ridiculous,[…].
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: A projection from the side of an aircraft, watercraft, or land vehicle.
sponson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sponsons
form: sponsoning
form: sponsoned
form: sponsoned
form: sponsing
Etymology: Perhaps from expansion.
Senses: examples: text: The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside
ref: 1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: To mount on a projection on the side of a vessel.
raw_tags: with the particle "out"
sponsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sponson
aurantiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Aurantiaceae + -ous
Senses: glosses: Relating to the former family Aurantiaceae.
glosses: Of or relating to oranges or orange trees.
heterodisperse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterodisperse
form: most heterodisperse
Etymology: From hetero- + disperse.
Senses: glosses: Describing a colloid in which the particles are of different sizes.
Related terms: monodisperse
polydisperse
heterotactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterotactic
form: most heterotactic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to heterotaxis
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having substituents arranged in a random configuration in each repeat unit
raw_tags: of a polymer
heterotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotaxes
Etymology: From hetero- + taxis.
Senses: synonyms: heterotaxia
heterotaxy
glosses: An abnormal structural arrangement.
Derived terms: heterotaxic
Related terms: situs ambiguus
heterovalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterovalent
form: most heterovalent
Etymology: From hetero- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a resonance structure that has one fewer single bond than others
topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a different valency / valence
Related terms: homovalent
sacrificial hyperconjugation
homochain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homochains
Etymology: From homo- + chain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used attributively to describe polymers in which the main chain consists of atoms a single element
Related terms: heterochain
homochiral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having the same chirality.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Enantiopure.
Related terms: homochirality
self-organization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + organization.
Senses: qualifier: cybernetics
glosses: A process of attraction and repulsion in which the internal organization of a system, normally an open system, increases in complexity without being guided or managed by an outside source.
MySpace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MySpaces
Etymology: Copying the MySpace trademark.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of myspace.
ring binder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ring binders
Senses: glosses: A folder in which punched pieces of paper may be held by means of clamps running through the holes in the paper.
binder clip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binder clips
Senses: examples: text: From binder clips and washi tape to carrying cases and desk organizers, using accessories alongside journaling is one of my favorite parts of the process.
ref: 2025 January 6, Daniel Toy, “I’ve been journaling for more than 20 years. Here are my 25 favorite journaling supplies”, in CNN:
synonyms: banker's clip
foldback clip
foldover clip
handbag clip
paper clamp
glosses: A simple device for binding several sheets of paper, leaving the sheets intact; a strip of spring steel bent into the shape of an isosceles triangle with loops at the apex.
Related terms: bulldog clip
paper clip
cut the muster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts the muster
form: cutting the muster
form: cut the muster
form: cut the muster
Etymology: A modification of cut the mustard; see muster, pass muster.
Senses: qualifier: quite rare
glosses: Alternative form of cut the mustard.
Eurasiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Attested since 1863.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical superfamily of languages proposed by Joseph Greenberg that groups together several language families of Europe, Asia, and North America, namely Etruscan, Indo-European, Uralic-Yukaghir, Altaic, Korean-Japanese-Ainu, Nivkh, Chukotian and Eskimo-Aleut.
Eurasiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Attested since 1863.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Eurasiatic group of languages.
glosses: Synonym of Eurasian.
synonyms: word: Eurasian
Eurasiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eurasiatics
Etymology: Attested since 1863.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Eurasian.
synonyms: word: Eurasian
front matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontmatter
form: front-matter
Senses: examples: Meronyms: half title, title page, table of contents, preface, foreword, introduction, prologue
synonyms: forematter
prelims
antonyms: back matter
end matter
coordinate_terms: body matter
body text
glosses: Within a book, all preliminary content preceding the main text.
Synonyms: word: front matter
word: forematter
word: prelims
Hypernyms: word: precursor
Meronyms: word: acknowledgment
word: bastard title
word: colophon
word: dedication
word: dramatis personae
word: epigraph
word: foreword
word: frontispiece
word: half title
word: table of contents
word: title page
cuts the mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cut the mustard
cutting the mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut the mustard
Eskimo-Aleut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛskɪmoʊ ˈæliˌut/
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A language family native to Greenland, the Canadian Arctic, Alaska, and parts of Siberia.
Synonyms: Eskaleut
Eskaleutian
Eskaleutic
Eskaleut
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛskˈæliuːt/
Etymology: Blend of Eskimo + Aleut
Senses: glosses: Eskimo-Aleut language family
Synonyms: Eskaleutic
Eskaleutian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Eskimo + Aleutian
Senses: glosses: Eskimo-Aleut language family
Eskaleutic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Eskimo + Aleutic
Senses: glosses: Eskimo-Aleut language family
Synonyms: Eskaleut
Chukotko-Kamchatkan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language family of northeastern Siberia.
Synonyms: Chukchian
Chukotian
Chukotan
Kamchukchee
Kamchukotic
Luorawetlan
Luoravetlan
Chukotian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chukotan
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian чукотский (čukotskij), with -ian suffix.
Senses: glosses: Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family
glosses: a northern branch of Chukotko-Kamchatkan
Chukchian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chukchi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family
glosses: a northern branch of Chukotko-Kamchatkan
Chukotan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃuˈkɒtən/
Senses: examples: text: Also in this direction, in his review (538) of Bergland's 1958 Aleut monograph D. B. Shimkin made 18 suggestive comparisons between Aleut and Chukotan (Chukchi, Kamchadal, Koryak).
ref: 1976, Thomas A. Sebeok, editor, Native languages of the Americas, volume 1, page 231:
glosses: Alternative form of Chukotian.
Kamchukchee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family
Kamchukotic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family
Luorawetlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family.
glosses: The Chukchi language, of the Chukotko-Kamchatkan family.
Luoravetlan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chukotko-Kamchatkan language family
glosses: Chukchi language of Chukotko-Kamchatkan family
prolog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prologs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prologue.
prolog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prologs
form: prologing
form: prologed
form: prologed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prologue.
hyperhidrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [haɪpəɹhaɪˈdɹoʊsɪs]
Forms: form: hyperhidroses
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, from New Latin, from hyper- + hidrosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A medical condition with the primary symptom of excessive sweating, in excess of that required for regulation of body temperature.
Synonyms: english: in its sense of excessive sweating
translation: in its sense of excessive sweating
word: diaphoresis
english: in its sense of excessive sweating
translation: in its sense of excessive sweating
word: hidrosis
Coordinate terms: english: in its sense of normal sweating
translation: in its sense of normal sweating
word: diaphoresis
english: in its sense of normal sweating
translation: in its sense of normal sweating
word: hidrosis
word: hypohidrosis
Derived terms: acrohyperhidrosis
hyperhidrotic
Salomon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jewish, German, Dutch, Danish, Polish, French, Breton, Haitian, Mauritian, and Spanish (as Salomón) surname, all a variant of Solomon.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Salomon Islands
Related terms: Salomons
Chukot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Chukchi language
Chukcha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Chukchi language.
Chukotka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Чуко́тка (Čukótka).
Senses: glosses: A peninsula in the northeastern extremity of Asia; Chukchi Peninsula
glosses: Clipping of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 2509 Chukotka, an asteroid.
Related terms: Chukchi
Chukchi Sea
Mooses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Moose
Stefani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stefanis
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Boeotia, Greece.
glosses: A village in Preveza, Greece.
glosses: A village in Trikala, Greece.
glosses: A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.
glosses: A surname from Italian.
Stefany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, of rare usage, variant of Stephanie.
Stephany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, a less common spelling of Stephanie.
Flavia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪ.vi.ə/
ipa: /ˈflɑː.vi.ə/
rhymes: -eɪviə
Etymology: Latin Flavia, feminine form of the gens name Flavius, probably from flavus (“yellow”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, quite rare in English.
neutron bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neutron bomb
jumbo jets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jumbo jet
Jewell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Medieval/Middle English form of a Breton saint's name, from Old Breton Judicaël "lord" + "generous." The second element is from hael (“generous, bountiful”) and identical to Welsh hael (“generous”) (see that entry for details).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name from the Celtic languages transferred back from the surname.
glosses: A female given name from English, of rare usage, variant of Jewel.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Marin County, California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Warren County, Georgia.
glosses: A small city in Jewell County, Kansas.
glosses: A hamlet in Oneida County, New York.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Clatsop County, Oregon.
Derived terms: Jewell County
Related terms: Joel
annotated bibliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annotated bibliographies
Senses: glosses: A bibliography in which each item has an annotation - a brief summary of how each source is useful to an author in constructing a paper or argument.
scalers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scaler
feeding bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feeding bottle
animalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animalist
black cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of black card
rock salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock salts
form: rocksalt
Etymology: From rock + salt.
Senses: examples: text: Farther to the southward, the rivers which are affluent to the Colorado, such as the Rio Virgen, and Gila river, near their mouths, are impregnated with salt by the cliffs of rock salt between which they pass.
ref: 1845, J[ohn] C[harles] Frémont, Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-’44, Washington: Gales and Seaton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 158:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral halite.
glosses: Coarsely ground common salt, often used as road salt, as feedstock, or for other applications.
Related terms: saltstone
fellators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fellator
disputability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispute + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disputable; disputableness.
common salt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: table salt, rock salt, road salt, muriate of soda
synonyms: salt[Appendix:Glossary#broad|broad]] sense>
glosses: Ordinary salt (sodium chloride or any mineral product chiefly composed of it).
spates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spate
spates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spate
Indo-Europeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Indo-European
water tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water table
drainage basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drainage basin
narcokleptocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narcokleptocracy
potlatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potlatch
recaptures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recapture
recaptures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recapture
reexamining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reexamine
recenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recenters
form: recentering
form: recentered
form: recentered
form: recentre
Etymology: From re- + center.
Senses: examples: text: Now I recenter my immortal mind / In the deep sabbath of meek self-content; / Cleans'd from the vaporous passions that bedim / God's Image, sister of the Seraphim.
ref: 1796 December 24–26 (date written), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Ode on the Departing Year”, in Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems, London: Rest Fenner, […], published 1817, →OCLC, stanza IX, page 58:
text: 18.1 Scrolling
C-l (recenter-top-bottom) is a basic scrolling command. It recenters the selected window, scrolling it so that the current screen line is exactly in the center of the window, or as close to the center as possible.
glosses: To center (something) again.
recenter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of recent: more recent
recenters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recenter
recentering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recenter
recentered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recenter
reclassifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclassify
reclassifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclassify
reclassified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclassify
reassesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reassess
reassessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reassess
readying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ready
rehashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rehash
rehashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rehash
rehashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rehash
refectories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refectory
realest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: realist
Senses: examples: text: The realest niggas say, "Your lyrics do shit for me" / I told my story and made history
ref: 2011, “Crew Love”, in Take Care, performed by Drake ft. The Weeknd:
text: You're like the realest person I've ever met.
ref: 2013 February 18, Bad Little Boy (Adventure Time), season 5, episode 11, spoken by Marshall Lee (Donald Glover):
text: I just has a realization, I’m probably the realest nigga rapping
ref: 2019, “My Own Eyes”, in Scatterbrain Crackbaby, performed by Big Mont:
glosses: superlative form of real: most real
renditions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rendition
renditions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rendition
gardon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)dən
Forms: form: gardons
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A European cyprinoid fish; the ide.
oxamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to oxamic acid or its derivatives
Derived terms: polyoxamic
day count convention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: day count conventions
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A convention on how interest accrues over time for a variety of investments, including bonds, notes, loans, medium-term notes, swaps, and FRAs. It determines the number of days between two coupon payments.
raise one's hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises one's hand
form: raising one's hand
form: raised one's hand
form: raised one's hand
Senses: examples: text: She raised her hand to touch his face.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see raise, hand.
examples: text: The sergeant asked for someone to cross the minefield, and Private Muggins raised his hand.
text: Which of you speaks German?” The prisoners looked warily at each other. None of the others moved. Saul, sensing opportunity, raised his hand. “Good, come forward, stand aside here,”
ref: 2010, Michael J. Goodspeed, Our Only Shield: A Novel of the Second World War, page 143:
glosses: To use the gesture (either literally or figuratively) in order:
To volunteer.
examples: text: Kevin pounded his fists into the desk and started crying. “You just hate me,” he wailed. Mrs. Pascual put her book down and said to her class, “Please raise your hand if you think that I hate Kevin.”
ref: 2010, Lori La Forgia, Everybody Has A Story, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 34:
text: To demonstrate how much the students had in common despite their different political views, I said, “Raise your hand if you want America to be less safe and less secure. Raise your hand if you want terrorism to increase. Raise your hand if you want the American economy to collapse. Raise your hand if you want government waste [in spending]. Raise your hand if you want unnecessarily high taxes. Raise your hand if you want innocent people to die. Raise your hand if you want a worse future for you and your children.” None raised their hands.
ref: 2013, Paul K. Chappell, The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World, Easton Studio Press, →ISBN:
text: Raise your hand if you absolutely love spiders. Raise your hand if your favorite thing is snakes. Raise your hand if you enjoy being in an enclosed space. Raise your hand if you look forward to receiving vaccinations. Raise your hand if you adore germs.
ref: 2015, S. Thomas Valentine, Questions of the Soul: Sermons from the 2014 Festival of Young Preachers, Chalice Press, →ISBN:
text: "Who wants more money?" asked the trade union boss. All the men raised their hands.
glosses: To use the gesture (either literally or figuratively) in order:
To vote; to indicate agreement or approval.
examples: The President said that he would now take questions, and several reporters raised their hands.
Little Timmy raised his hand to go to the toilet.
glosses: To use the gesture (either literally or figuratively) in order:
To ask a question or make a request.
examples: text: A man should not raise his hand against his wife.
glosses: To assault physically, notionally with the hand or fist.
raw_tags: with 'against' or 'to'
Related terms: raise a hand
show of hands
put one's hand up
priestlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of priestly: more priestly
Related terms: priestliest
priestliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of priestly: most priestly
Related terms: priestlier
gravure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravures
Etymology: Short for rotogravure.
Senses: examples: text: for too long have the walls of our houses been adorned with examples of effete Old World portrait gravure.
ref: 1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post:
text: THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s.
Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.
ref: 1964 December, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 429:
topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
glosses: A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
glosses: A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.
Related terms: autogravure
photogravure
pyrogravure
rotogravure
Balto-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: BSl.
form: BS.
Etymology: From Balto- + Slavic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Balto-Slavic language, the people who spoke it or their culture.
Related terms: Proto-Balto-Slavic
Balto-Slav
Balto-Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: BSl.
form: BS.
Etymology: From Balto- + Slavic.
Senses: glosses: The Proto-Balto-Slavic language, i.e. the common development stage between the Proto-Indo-European and the later Baltic and Slavic languages.
Related terms: Proto-Balto-Slavic
Balto-Slav
Balto-Slav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balto-Slavs
Etymology: From Balto- + Slav.
Senses: examples: text: AGNI ("Fire") was one of the great original deities of the Rigveda, just as fire was a principal divinity of other Indo-European peoples — Iranians, Greeks, Latins and Balto-Slavs.
ref: 2003, Walter Addison Jayne, Healing Gods of Ancient Civilizations, Kessinger Publishing, page 161:
glosses: A speaker of a Balto-Slavic language or dialect.
Balto-Slavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Balto-Slav
surdo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: surdos
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese surdo (“deaf, muffled”). Doublet of surd.
Senses: glosses: A type of percussion instrument used in Brazil.
stovepipe hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stovepipe hats
Senses: examples: text: One long, lanky man, with long hair and a big white fur stovepipe hat on the back of his head, and a crooked-handled cane, marked out the places.
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 21, in Huckleberry Finn:
glosses: A type of top hat worn mainly in the 19th century, made of silk or other materials and having a very tall, cylindrical, flat-topped crown.
Synonyms: Abraham Lincoln hat
Derived terms: stovepipe-hatted
fantastique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fæntæsˈtɪk/
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French fantastique. Doublet of fantastic.
Senses: examples: text: And certainly the film's free-floating fantasy and the blatant transparency of its narrative--its capacity to be seen for the artifice that it is--are a lot closer to fantastique than they are to the more logically circumscribed forms of fancy celebrated in this country.
ref: 1988 January 29, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Invitation to the Trance”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: A genre of literature and film that is characterized by the intrusion of the supernatural into the realistic framework of a story.
cardiogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cardio- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Originating in the heart.
glosses: Resulting from a disorder of the heart.
Derived terms: cardiogenicity
cardiogenic plate
cardiogenic shock
noncardiogenic
procardiogenic
Galloway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləweɪ/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Scottish Gaelic Gall-Ghàidhealaibhbor.
English Galloway
From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh (literally “(among the) foreign Gaels”), a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.
Senses: glosses: A formerly Gaelic-speaking geographic region in the southwestern-most corner of Scotland, now part of Dumfries and Galloway council area. Capital: Kirkcudbright.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lakefield Township, Saginaw County and Lafayette Township, Gratiot County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Springfield, Greene County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Atlantic County, New Jersey.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Franklin County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Panola County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and coal town in Barbour County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Franzen, Marathon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A locality in Yellowhead County, Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A rural locality in Central Otago district, north-east of Alexandra, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Belted Galloway
Dumfries and Galloway
gallowa
galloway
Galloway boiler
Galloway-Mowat syndrome
Galloway tube
Gallowegian
Galwegian
New Galloway
Related terms: Gallovidia
Gallovidian
Galway
Galloway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæləweɪ/
Forms: form: Galloways
Etymology: Etymology tree
Scottish Gaelic Gall-Ghàidhealaibhbor.
English Galloway
From Scottish Gaelic (eadar na) Gall-Ghàidhealaibh (literally “(among the) foreign Gaels”), a term used for Gaelic-speaking Norse settlers.
Senses: glosses: One of a breed of beef-producing cattle, originating in Galloway, Scotland.
Derived terms: Gallowa
cardiomyogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cardio- + myogenesis.
Senses: glosses: The process leading to the formation of myocardium
Derived terms: neocardiomyogenesis
mitotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mitotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: During, or by means of, mitosis.
Derived terms: endomitotically
nonmitotically
postmitotically
Related terms: mitotic
monoester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəʊˈɛstə/
ipa: /ˈmɑnoʊˌɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ) (some accents)
Forms: form: monoesters
Etymology: From mono- + ester.
Senses: examples: text: Frederick B. Power and Frank Tutin have experimentally confirmed the observations of Carré, that at temperatures above 110° the interaction between phosphoric acid and glycerole results in the production of varying amounts of diester accompanying the monoester or glycerophosphoric acid.
ref: 1905, “Progress in Pharmacy”, in The American Journal of Pharmacy, page 287:
text: For example, hydrolysis of diesters (Fig. 1) separated by a long methylene chain exhibits equal rate constants at each site (k₁ = k₂), which sets an upper limit of 36.8% for the yield of the monoester.
ref: 2016 May 22, Qixun Shi et al., “Water-soluble cavitands promote hydrolyses of long-chain diesters”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 113, number 33, →DOI, page 9199:
text: Twenty healthy individuals participated in the study and on two occasions consumed the ketone monoester supplement or a placebo after a 10-hour fast.
ref: 2018 February 14, “Ketone drink could help diabetics by lowering blood sugar”, in Voxy.co.nz, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2018:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An ester of a polyhydric alcohol or a polycarboxylic acid containing only a single ester group.
Derived terms: phosphomonoester
Related terms: monoesterification
bankerish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bankerish
form: most bankerish
Etymology: From banker + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The Far Common was still empty, and I walked alone down the wide gravel paths among those most Republican, bankerish of trees, New England elms, toward the far side of the school.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 1, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Like a banker.
glosses: Like that of a banker; fit for a banker.
neuroblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroblasts
Etymology: From neuro- + -blast.
Senses: synonyms: primitive nerve cell
glosses: The embryonic cell that develops into a nerve cell
nodeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From node + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking nodes.
Derived terms: nodelessness
antenatally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From antenatal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Before birth.
prebiotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From prebiotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a prebiotic context
alloimmunization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloimmunizations
Etymology: By surface analysis, allo- + immune + -ization.
Senses: synonyms: isoimmunization
coordinate_terms: autoimmunization
glosses: The process of becoming alloimmune.
serologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From serological + -ly.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: With respect to the analysis of blood.
thrombocytopenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thrombo- + cytopenic or thrombocytopenia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having an abnormally low number of platelets in one's blood.
Derived terms: alt: ITP
word: idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura
alt: ITP
word: immune thrombocytopenic purpura
word: thrombocytopenic purpura
alt: TTP
word: thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura
Related terms: cytopenic
thrombocyte
thrombocytopenia
cardiorespiratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪɹətəɹi
rhymes: -ɛspəɹətɔːɹi
rhymes: -aɪɹətəɹi
rhymes: -ɛspəɹətəɹi
rhymes: -aɪɹətɔːɹi
Etymology: From cardio- + respiratory.
Senses: examples: text: cardiorespiratory fitness
text: The second was to provide a panoramic view of some exciting areas in cardiorespiratory biology that are being studied at the genetic level and that, most likely, will have substantial impact on our understanding of disease and therapy.
ref: 2001, “Preface”, in Gabriel Haddad, Tian Xu, editors, Genetic Models in Cardiorespiratory Biology, CRC Press, →ISBN, page vii:
coordinate_terms: cardiovascular
glosses: Pertaining to the heart and breathing.
intraventricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + ventricular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: within a ventricle
Derived terms: intraventricularly
periintraventricular
FBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FBSs
Senses: synonyms: cordocentesis
PUBS
glosses: Initialism of fetal blood sampling.
examples: text: An FBS (fasting blood sugar) measurement is the most convenient test after overnight fasting. […] You have diabetes if your FBS is 126 mg/dl or more. But confirm it once more the next day or any other day. If the next time also FBS is more than 126 mg/dl then definitely you have diabetes.
ref: 2008, Manthappa M., How to Manage Your Diabetes and Lead a Normal Life, New Delhi: Peacock Books, →ISBN, page 10:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of fasting blood sugar.
glosses: Initialism of fetal bovine serum.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of forward-based system.
examples: text: Even more, cross-cousins on the mother's side (MBS and MBD) are called by different terms – the same as for M and MB, respectively – than those on the father's side (FBS and FBD). Finally, FB is called by the same term as F,[…]
ref: 2009 June 24, Jack David Eller, Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 196:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of father's brother's son.
glosses: Initialism of failed back syndrome.
FBS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of Football Bowl Subdivision.
ICH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ICHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of intracranial hemorrhage.
glosses: Initialism of intracerebral hemorrhage.
glosses: Initialism of intracranial hematoma.
glosses: Initialism of intangible cultural heritage.
IVIG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IVIg
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of intravenous immunoglobulin.
Related terms: sense: intravenous immunoglobulin
word: Ig
sense: intravenous immunoglobulin
word: IV
MFM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MFMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of maternal and fetal medicine (“the specialty of medicine, a subspecialty of obstetrics, that deals with high-risk pregnancies”).
qualifier: microscopy
glosses: Initialism of magnetic force microscopy.
glosses: Initialism of modified frequency modulation.
top hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of top hat
intrapatient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + patient.
Senses: examples: 2001, Matthew Miller, “Phase I Oncology Trials”, chapter 10-13 of Robert J. Amdur and Elizabeth A. Bankert (editors), Institutional Review Board: Management and Function, Jones & Bartlett Publishers, →ISBN, page 470,
Intrapatient dose escalation is chosen as an example of innovative dosing strategies because it is precisely the proscription of individualized (i.e., within-patient) dose adjustments that most clearly demonstrated to my patients how research interests trump their medical interests.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Within a single medical patient, usually over time, rather than between patients.
blackcoat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackcoats
Etymology: From black + coat.
Senses: glosses: A member of the clergy.
Related terms: black-coated
xanthoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthosis
nuptual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of nuptial.
renditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rendition
CGN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CGNs
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: nuclear-powered guided-missile cruiser (warship)
glosses: Initialism of childhood gender nonconformity.
glosses: Alternative form of CGNAT.
Related terms: CA
CL
CC
CH
BC
SSG
DDG
CVG
SSGN
CVGN
SSN
CVN
rejoinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejoinder
reinterprets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinterpret
BNC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of British National Corpus.
qualifier: Oxford University
glosses: Initialism of Brasenose College, Oxford.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of Bajonet Neil Concelman connector.
BNC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BNCs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bouncer.
reinterpreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinterpret
recursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From recursive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a recursive way or manner.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Using recursion.
Derived terms: corecursively
recursively enumerable
redecorates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redecorate
registrars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registrar
Tammany
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Tamanend or Tammany was a chief of part of the Lenni-Lenape nation in the Delaware Valley who became a hero to the colonists and gave his name to organizations throughout the American colonies beginning in 1772. One was New York City's Society of St. Tammany, which became the New York County Democratic Party organization.
Senses: glosses: Tammany Hall, a building near Union Square in New York City, formerly headquarters for the New York County Democratic Party.
glosses: The nickname of the New York County Democratic Party, until the success of reform elements in the 1970s.
examples: text: New York City[’s] corrupt political machine, known as Tammany Hall, felt threatened by the Force Bill and mobilized against it on Capitol Hill.
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 28, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: A style of corrupt democratic politics.
Derived terms: St. Tammany Parish
Tammanial
Tammanize
Tammanyize
Tammanyism
Tammanyite
focusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: focuses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of focus
focusses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: focuses
Senses: examples: text: I will next deſcribe the ſeveral Focuſſes, where the Putrifaction begins, as well as the Humour which is Putrified, and how that is transferred from one Focus to another ſometimes, or that there are many Focus’s at firſt.
ref: 1726, John Floyer, A Comment on Forty Two Histories Discribed by Hippocrates in the First and Third Books of His Epidemics, London: J. Isted, page 15:
text: The two points where the pins stand, are called the two focusses of the ellipsis. The line going through the focusses, from one end to the other, is called the longer diameter; and the line cutting the former in the middle between the focusses, is the shorter diameter.
ref: 1809, William Enfield, Astronomy; Or, the Principles of the Solar System, volume I, London: for Thomas Tegg, page 267:
text: Under these two headings of ritual constraints and facework, Goffman thus adopts two rather different focusses: on the one hand on procedures leading to mutual face-preservation, and on the other to individual face enhancement/abasement.
ref: 1988, Guy Aston, Learning Comity: An Approach to the Description and Pedagogy of Interactional Speech, page 101:
text: The focusses vary depending on the individuals – it could be mentoring, internal and external courses, coaching, working on special projects, etc.
ref: 2004, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, CIM Bulletin, volume 97, page 14:
glosses: plural of focus
refocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refocusses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refocus
refocusses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refocuses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refocus
burqini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈkiː.ni/
ipa: /bɝˈki.ni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: burqinis
form: burkini
Etymology: Blend of burqa + bikini.
Senses: glosses: A head-to-toe swimsuit, enabling women to conform to the Islamic dress code when bathing on a public beach.