cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
flagperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flagpersons
form: flagpeople
Etymology: From flag + person.
Senses: glosses: Someone who uses a flag, especially as a form of signalling.
Related terms: flagman
flagwoman
flâneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flânerie
flat back four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat back fours
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: collectively, a set of defenders who stay on the same level on the pitch.
Related terms: wing back
fist jams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fist jam
flightworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flightworthy
form: most flightworthy
Etymology: From flight + -worthy.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Safe enough to fly
Derived terms: flightworthiness
unflightworthy
Related terms: flyworthy
flunkout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunkouts
Etymology: From flunk + out.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has given up an educational course.
Synonyms: dropout
flyfisherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyfishermen
Etymology: From fly + fisherman.
Senses: glosses: flyfisher
flutter kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutter kicks
Senses: examples: text: Everybody crowded around very excitedly and talked about the Australian crawl, a stroke I cannot do because there is something wrong with my flutter kick.
ref: 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 48:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: A kick technique in which the swimmer kicks the legs alternately up and down for propulsion.
succus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌkəs/
Forms: form: succi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin succus (“juice”).
Senses: glosses: The expressed juice or sap of a plant, often for medicinal use
Derived terms: succus entericus
jefe políticos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jefes políticos
Senses: glosses: plural of jefe político
jefes políticos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jefe políticos
Senses: glosses: plural of jefe político
limaçons of Pascal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limaçon of Pascal
homophonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homophony
contagium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contagia
Etymology: From Latin contagium (“contagion”).
Senses: examples: text: And its escape [from certain diseases] is an approximative proof that, at least for those ten years, no contagium of measles, “nor any contagium of scarlet fever, nor any contagium of small-pox, had arisen spontaneously" within its limits.
ref: 1865, John Simon, “Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Cattle Plague Commissioners”, in Report on the Origin, Propagation, Nature, and Treatment of the Cattle Plague, published 1866, page 42:
text: That this in fact was the case was ascertained by Dr. Edington, who, by adding a large percentage (33 per cent.) of glycerine to the gall taken from a rinderpest beast, was able to show that by such contact the infective power of bile was as effectually destroyed as was the contagium of blood.
ref: 1901 December 20, H. Watkins-Pitchford, “Rinderpest”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 21, pages 641–642:
glosses: contagion; contagious matter
glaciarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡleɪ.ʃiːˈɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌɡleɪ.ʃiˈɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: glaciaria
Senses: glosses: An ice rink.
moiré patterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moiré pattern
municipium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuː.nɪˈsɪ.pɪ.əm/
ipa: /ˌmju.nəˈsɪ.pi.əm/
Forms: form: municipia
Etymology: From Latin municipium. Doublet of municipio.
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman town or city.
praetorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praetoria
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pretorium.
profluvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: profluvia
Etymology: From Latin prōfluvium.
Senses: glosses: A copious discharge of fluid, especially a bodily fluid.
velarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈlɛəɹi.əm/
Forms: form: velaria
form: velariums
Etymology: From Latin velarium. Doublet of veghar.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora.
glosses: An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome and other Roman amphitheaters.
examples: text: In accordance with the epochal significance of the occasion, Berlin was decked out as never before in its history. […] A velarium suspended over Unter den Linden depicted the great military victories that had finally brought Germany its unity.
ref: 2007 October 15, David Clay Large, Berlin, Basic Books, →ISBN:
text: Royal Albert Hall [was dedicated] by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII). As The Times reported on the next day: 'The address [...] was somewhat marred by an echo [...]'. To Col. Scott, the designer of the huge roof structure, this acoustic problem was a mere irritant which could be solved by a velarium of cloth (weighing 1+¹⁄₄ tons) stretched underneath the roof. But in spite of experiments with the height of the velarium, the echo persisted […]
ref: 2009 September 28, Michael Barron, Auditorium Acoustics and Architectural Design, Routledge, →ISBN, page 134:
glosses: A cloth stretched over another space, such as that stretched below the roof of the Royal Albert Hall.
Related terms: velarial
Altai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ǎlʹtīʹ
Forms: form: Altay
Etymology: From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.
Senses: examples: text: Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles, training the birds to hunt foxes and other small animals.
ref: 2021 February 22, Claire Thomas, “On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2021:
glosses: A mountain range in central Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia and Kazakhstan converge.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: Alternative form of Altay.
examples: text: Set dramatically on a dry plain, with high snow-capped peaks in the distance, is the provincial capital Altai, located 1,005 kilometres west of Ulaanbaatar. Before 1960, it was known as Yösön Bulag (the ‘nine springs’). This town of 15,000 people sits at 2,160 metres above sea level, making it the highest city in the country.
ref: 2002, Claire Sermier, “Gobi Aimags”, in Helen Loveday, transl., Mongolia: Empire of the Steppes, Airphoto International Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 270:
glosses: A city in Govi-Altai, Mongolia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Cervus elaphus sibiricus
alt: syn. Cervus canadensis sibiricus
word: Altai wapiti
word: Altaian
Altai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ǎlʹtīʹ
Forms: form: Altay
Etymology: From the Turkic word for "Golden Mountain". Compare Turkish altın (“gold”), dağ (“mountain”) and al (“red, colorful”) which altın is likely related to.
Senses: glosses: The people living in the region of the Altai mountains.
national day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national days
Senses: glosses: A day marking a country's establishment as a sovereign entity, typically a celebration of its independence, revolution or former ruler.
Related terms: national holiday
flutterboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flutterboards
Etymology: From flutter + board.
Senses: glosses: A buoyancy board made of foam, used to support the body when in water.
Synonyms: float
fluorography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: fluorographies
Etymology: From fluoro- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: photofluorography
glosses: visualisation of radiolabelled material
Derived terms: autofluorography
cinefluorography
cytofluorography
fluorographic
immunofluorography
microfluorography
photofluorography
videofluorography
gallinipper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallinippers
Etymology: 18thC. Origin unknown. Earlier forms were gurnipper and gal-knipper. Second element is probably nipper; first element may have become influenced by galley.
Senses: examples: text: And when darkness comes and they leave off, the mosquitoes and the gallinippers join hands to take their place and suck out blood and annoy us until the first day brings its light.
ref: 2011, Roger Abrahams, African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World, page 55:
glosses: Any large insect that bites, for example, certain large mosquitos.
galliwasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galliwasps
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: glosses: Any of the lizards in the genus Celestus.
Derived terms: sea-galliwasp
unownable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ownable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be owned; that cannot be personal property.
kawaiily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kawaiily
form: most kawaiily
Etymology: From kawaii + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kawaii manner; cutely.
raw_tags: in the context of Japanese culture
balanced diet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balanced diets
Senses: glosses: A diet consisting of suitable proportions of foods from all food groups.
glosses: A diet consisting of all necessary seven nutrients in their correct proportions.
ex hypothesi
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Late Latin ex hypothesi (literally “from the hypothesis”), from hypothesis.
Senses: glosses: Following from the hypothesis; in accordance with the hypothesis; by hypothesis; as a consequence of assumptions made; theoretically; supposedly; hypothetically.
v. gr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of v.g..
v. g.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of v.g..
v.gr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of v.g..
cofinance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cofinances
form: cofinancing
form: cofinanced
form: cofinanced
Etymology: From co- + finance.
Senses: glosses: To finance jointly.
cofinances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cofinance
ensiles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensile
ponderative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ponderative
form: most ponderative
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pondering or deliberation
condensability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condensabilities
Etymology: From condense + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being condensable.
condensational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From condensation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to condensation.
condiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: condictions
Etymology: From Latin condictio.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A claim for restitution of a payment
condignity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condignities
Etymology: From condign + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Our obedience to God ought to be such, as that it may have, tho' not a merit of condignity to deserve everlasting bliss, (that being, as I have shewn you, utterly impossible) yet an ordinability, as a great doctor of our church expresseth it, that is, a meetness, fitness, and due disposition toward the obtaining it.
ref: a. 1710, George Bull, The Worthiness of the Partakers of future Glory (sermon)
glosses: The condition of being condign; merit or worthiness.
condimental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more condimental
form: most condimental
Etymology: From condiment + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It is a plentiful species in mountainous countries, but is rather condimental than nutritive.
ref: 1835, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland, page 118:
text: The growing of medicinal, condimental and aromatic plants in the United States[…]
ref: 1912, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cyclopedia of American agriculture, volume 2, page 457:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a condiment.
examples: text: The leek and radish are valued for their highly condimental flavors.
ref: 1908, Kansas State University, Agricultural Education, volumes 1-3:
glosses: Spicy, pungent.
Derived terms: condimentally
noncondimental
condisciple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: condisciples
Etymology: From con- + disciple.
Senses: glosses: A fellow disciple
glosses: A fellow student
ferrugo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ferrūgō (“iron rust”), from ferrum (“iron”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
phytopathology
sciences
glosses: rust (plant disease).
Related terms: ferruginous
bird tables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird table
crasht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crash
suggester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: suggesters
Etymology: From suggest + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The trick was discovered, and the scorned woman vented her fury in a letter; the repentant Beethoven made ample apology to her, and spent his wrath on the head of the suggester of the mischief.
ref: 1903, Rupert Hughes, The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1:
glosses: someone who suggests
stummick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stummicks
Senses: examples: text: Don't make me say it, Millie--it makes me sick to my stummick.
ref: 1918, Fannie Hurst, Gaslight Sonatas:
text: Mind you, he was always kicking and roaring about his liver or stummick, or some of his works.
ref: 1901, Henry Wallace Phillips, Red Saunders:
text: If you'll shove this 'ere meat an' bread into yer stummick, we'll begin fer to make tracks."
ref: 1922, Irving Bacheller, In the Days of Poor Richard:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of stomach.
strucken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Wherat all the people wondred greatly, and laughed me to scorne: but I beeing strucken in a cold sweat, crept between their legs for shame and escaped away.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
text: He that is strooken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: They destitute and bare Of all their virtue: Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute: Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost:
text: My faither had strucken at it, when the mad animal plunged its horns into the side o' the mare, and he fell to the ground.
ref: 1884, various, Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, XXII:
glosses: past participle of strike
strongish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strong + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I poured a cup of strongish coffee.
glosses: Quite strong.
stewy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːi
Forms: form: more stewy
form: most stewy
Etymology: From stew + -y.
Senses: examples: text: All food is fetched in dixeys (large boilers), and tea, stew, and bacon are all cooked in turn in these, so if the orderlies don't wash them clean at dinner time we have greasy, stewy tea.
ref: 1917, Ernest Hodder Williams, One Young Man:
text: The 24-hour Kababish (939 N. Orleans, 312-642-8622) has a few booths set before a steaming buffet of hearty north Indian and Pakistani dishes, notably a thick, stewy, slow-cooked haleem made from wheat, mutton, lentils, and spice; grilled charga chicken sprinkled with garam masala; and goat curry.
ref: 2006 September 22, Mike Sula, “How to Eat Ethnic”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Stew-like, similar to stew.
stereoscopically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From stereoscopic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: A single camera video see-through display is not capable of showing the real-world view stereoscopically.
ref: 2013, Alan B. Craig, Understanding Augmented Reality: Concepts and Applications:
glosses: In a stereoscopic manner.
glosses: By a stereoscope.
stalactitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalactitic
form: most stalactitic
Etymology: From stalactite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. MacCulloch describes calcareous concretions, found in banks of sand in Perthshire, which present a great variety of stalactitic forms, generally more or less complicated, and often exceedingly intricate and strange […].
ref: 1822, Phillip Parker King, Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia, volume 2:
text: In this manner, much as in the case of the growth of stalactitic matter between the blocks of stone in the roofs of a cavern, large fragments of rock, known as "horses," are often pushed out into the body of the vein.
ref: 1910, Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Outlines of the Earth's History:
text: From this point both the landscape and the rocky cauldron are visible, and the latter is seen to be the remainder of a stalactitic cavern, the roof of which has fallen in.
ref: 1916, Fedor Jagor, Tomas de Comyn, Chas. Wilkes, Rudolf Virchow., The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes:
glosses: Consisting of or resembling stalactites.
stalagmitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalagmitic
form: most stalagmitic
Etymology: From stalagmite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: containing stalagmites
Related terms: Stalagmite
sputtery
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sputtery
form: most sputtery
Etymology: From sputter + -y.
Senses: examples: text: It is but a gesture; I expect no coherent words from your clogged and sputtery pen; but while I am sufficiently like yourself to deceive the public into thinking you have written what they read, I am not yet great enough scoundrel to do so without your visiting the scene of your presumed labors.
ref: 1927-1937, Ward Moore, Greener Than You Think:
text: On _____ Is an Apparition (Rossbin), the new album by his trio Blue Collar, he uses puckered curlicues, vocalizations distorted by the horn's tubing, sputtery stammers, quiet half-valved passages that turn his sound into a fluid whisper, and even some clear, straightforward long tones.
ref: 2004 October 15, Mark Athitakis, Monica Kendrick, Peter Margasak, Bob Mehr, “The Treatment”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: prone to sputter
spunkily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spunkily
form: most spunkily
Etymology: From spunky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As for Blue, spunkily performed by Sachs, what can be said for a female character who wants her man to kill her with his dick?
ref: 1989 January 20, Tom Boeker, “Beirut”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Bompass holds Aurora accountable for a debt owed him by her late husband; she can't pay; and their argument escalates until Bompass, no gentleman he, challenges Aurora to a duel--and she spunkily accepts the challenge.
ref: 1991 May 10, Albert Williams, “Off Off Loop Theater Festival: High Fidelity/Mo' Better Blue Velvet, or David Lynch Mob Mentality/Babes in Arms, Act I”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: in a spunky manner
springily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more springily
form: most springily
Etymology: From springy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With that he turned on a spurred heel and crossed springily to where his horse stood. "
ref: 1921, William Patterson White, The Heart of the Range:
text: She moved lightly, springily, as one does who finds in it the joy of calling upon abundant strength.
ref: 1922, William MacLeod Raine, Man Size:
glosses: in a springy manner
sprack
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sprack
form: most sprack
form: sprag
form: sprak
Etymology: From Middle English sprak, from Old Norse sparkr, sprekr (“lively”) and/or Old Norse sprækr (“lively”), from Proto-Germanic *sparkaz, *sprēkijaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sp(h)er(a)g- (“to strew, sprinkle”). More at spark.
Senses: examples: text: She was apprenticed as a 'pupil teacher,' at fourteen years of age, and deemed to have a more than ordinary chance of doing well and getting on, for she was clever, and what is called 'sprack' in the part of the country where she lived.
ref: 1864, Jean Ingelow, chapter 1, in Studies for Stories: Emily's Ambition:
text: "Yes, that I be, and I 'ave a little boy, he be a sprack little chap."
ref: 1916, J. H. Morgan, Leaves from a Field Note-Book:
glosses: lively, full of energy
Derived terms: sprackness
sponsible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sponsible
form: most sponsible
Senses: examples: text: Dey aint sponsible, she says, for what dere grandfadder did.
ref: 1870, William H. Sparks, The Memories of Fifty Years:
text: One of a small community of superannuated pensioners upon the bounty of their former owners, Daddy was easily first citizen of Evergreen annex on Crepe Myrtle plantation, which is to say he was therein a personage of place and of privilege, coming and going at will, doing as he pleased, and as, with uplifted eye, he reverently boasted, "sponsible to nobody but Almighty Gord for manners and behavior."
ref: 1916, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of responsible.
Related terms: sponsibility
spoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkt
Etymology: From spoke + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The river winds underneath it, and the great spoked wheel turns slowly, tossing the water into a cloud of yellow foam, flinging the spray afar into the dark, flowing stream, catching it again; playing with it, half sportive, half fierce, like some monster alive.
ref: 1909, Olive M. Briggs, The Black Cross:
text: On the north wall of the former chapel of St Anthony in Leominster Priory church in Herefordshire, a ten-spoked wheel, with ten medallions on the circumference and one central medallion, is all that can now be seen[…]
ref: 1986, Mary Dove, The perfect age of man's life, page 84:
text: It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.
ref: 2001 June 1, R.M. Johnson, “On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Having spokes.
spoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊkt
Etymology: From spoke + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spoke
spired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From spire + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps some one of the multitude excites special attention, some gigantic castle with turret and battlement, or some Gothic cathedral more abundantly spired than Milan's.
ref: 1894, John Muir, The Mountains of California:
text: This was true not only of the trip on the steamer, the arrival at Enkoeping with its little old-fashioned red houses, the meeting with Mr. Swanson, the drive of thirty miles or more inland, the arrival at the sexton's house not far from a white spired church, and the introduction to a seemingly endless number of new faces, but of the whole long summer.
ref: 1922, Edwin Bjorkman, The Soul of a Child:
glosses: having a spire
spheroidical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spheroidical
form: most spheroidical
Etymology: From spheroid + -ical.
Senses: glosses: spheroidal
spermiogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermiogeneses
Senses: examples: text: Expanding the introductory section to include definitions of indirect and direct development and generalized descriptions of spermiogenesis, oocyte maturation and cytological organization, and fertilization would also help de-mystify these subjects for many readers.
ref: 1998 June 19, Richard Emlet, “Developmental Diversity”, in Science, volume 280, number 5371, →DOI:
text: In wild-type spermatids, Hrb is associated with the cytosolic surface of proacrosomic transport vesicles that fuse to create a single large acrosomic vesicle at step 3 of spermiogenesis.
ref: 2001 November 16, Ningling Kang-Decker et al., “Lack of Acrosome Formation in Hrb-Deficient Mice”, in Science, volume 294, number 5546, →DOI, pages 1531–1533:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The final stage of spermatogenesis. It involves the maturation of the spermatids into spermatozoa.
Related terms: spermiogenic
spermioteleosis
spearsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearsmen
Etymology: From spear + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: It was his claim that no Sudanese spearsman or waddling assegai-thrower could harm him so long as he was mounted and armed, and he boasted that no horse on earth could unseat him.
ref: 1900, Emerson Hough, The Girl at the Halfway House:
text: Agamemnon, a goodly king and a mighty spearsman, is the Greek warrior whose name thou dost ask.
ref: 1909, Various, Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12):
text: As when the Trojan hero came from that fair city's gates, With tossing mane and flaming crest to scorn the scowling fates, His legions gather round him and madly charge and cheer, And fill besieging armies with wild disheveled fear; Then bares his breast unto the dart the daring spearsman sends, And dying hears his cheering foes, the wailing of his friends, So Albert Sidney Johnston, the chief of belt and scar, Lay down to die at Shiloh and turned the scales of war.
ref: 1915, Emma Look Scott, How the Flag Became Old Glory:
glosses: Alternative form of spearman.
spearsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearsman
Sodano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sodanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sodano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
solar coronas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solar corona
stellar winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellar wind
Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
Senses: glosses: Official name of Jordan: a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
acti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actus
egi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛɡi/
Forms: form: egis
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 餌木 (egi).
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: a type of artificial lure (used for squid)
Derived terms: eging
ageres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agere
latifundio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: latifundios
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish latifundio. Doublet of latifundium.
Senses: examples: text: In our time latifundios south of Bahia—from the Recôncavo region to the state of Espirito Santo, between the littoral lowlands and the mountain chain along the coast—still supply raw material for a good part of the world's chocolate consumption.
ref: 1997 [1971], Cedric Belfrage, transl., Open Veins of Latin America, Monthly Review Press, translation of Las venas abiertas de América Latina by Eduardo Galeano, page 92:
glosses: A large estate, large land property, especially in Latin America; a latifundium.
Muslima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʊzlɪmə/
/ˈmʌzlɪmə/
Forms: form: Muslimas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Muslimah.
auctrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin auctrīx.
Senses: examples: text: Under the class of natural faculties, we find three principal sorts; to wit, a facultas generatrix, an auctrix, and a nutrix.
ref: 1826, “Article XII. – Retrospective Review. – Tractatus de Ventriculo et Intestinis, cui præmittitur alius…”, in The North American Medical and Surgical Journal, page 145:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A class of natural faculty.
lady's thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady's thumbs
Senses: glosses: A perennial plant of the knotweed family, native to Eurasia but introduced to many other regions, Persicaria maculosa.
Synonyms: sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: redshank
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: persicaria
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: redleg
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: spotted ladysthumb
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: gambetta
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: willow weed
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: Adam's plaster
sense: Persicaria maculosa
word: Polygonum persicaria
phomazarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
He completed his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree at the University of New South Wales in 1958 and went on to the Victoria University of Manchester where his studies on the fungal pigment phomazarin led to the award of a Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of (the late) Professor Arthur J. Birch.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An aza-anthraquinone pigment isolated from the fungus Pyrenochaeta
polyalicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + alicyclic.
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Cycloaddition results obtained with alkene 5 are a better guide to reactivity than those obtained from Smith’s diene (4), as it is the dihydro subunit in 5 which is present in those other polyalicyclic systems produced by catalyzed cycloaddition of DMAD onto norbornene end groups.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Having many alicyclic rings
Stephie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Steph + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
sufferingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sufferingly
form: most sufferingly
Etymology: From suffering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: How can humanity be eliminated from a scene where it has been intensely, sufferingly active ever since the dawn of history?
ref: 1903, Charles Sprague Smith, Barbizon days: Millet—Corot—Rousseau—Barye:
glosses: With suffering.
Shenzhen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃəːnˈtʃən/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌʃɛnˈd͡ʒɛn/
Forms: form: Shen-chen
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 深圳 (Shēnzhèn), from 深 (shēn, “deep”) + 圳 (zhèn, “irrigation ditch”).
Senses: examples: text: Encyclopædia Britannica
In 1979 Shenzhen was a small border city of some 30,000 inhabitants that served as a customs stop into mainland China from Hong Kong.
text: Over the next two years, China set up four “special economic zones” as testing grounds for free-enterprise practices like foreign investment and tax incentives. The largest zone was Shenzhen, about fifty miles south of Dongguan, which quickly became a symbol of a freewheeling China always open for business. Shenzhen was a planned showcase city, willed into being by leaders in Beijing and supported by government ministries and the companies under them.
ref: 2008, Leslie T. Chang, Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York: Spiegel & Grau, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:
text: The tiny 0.8-square-kilometer Luohu District was where the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone really got off to a good start.
ref: 2009, Lanqing Li, “The Birth of Special Economic Zones”, in Ling Yuan, Zhang Siying, transl., Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-Up Policy, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 122:
text: The blockage of the Suez Canal in March? No, there is another disruption in global shipping. This time, the problem lies in Shenzhen, a sprawling metropolis adjacent to Hong Kong in southeastern China.
ref: 2021 June 21, Keith Bradsher, “Chinese port difficulties amid a Covid outbreak further snarl global trade.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2021, Business:
glosses: A major subprovincial city of Guangdong, in southeastern China.
Synonyms: sense: from Cantonese
word: Shumchun
word: Shum-chun
word: Shamchun
word: Sham Chun
Dyck word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dyck words
Etymology: Named after the mathematician Walther von Dyck.
Senses: topics: combinatorics
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A string consisting of n X's and n Y's such that no initial segment of the string has more Y's than X's.
Related terms: Dyck language
Dyck words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dyck word
proponency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From proponent + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The chairman of the committee will be very glad to give you the opportunity to express your views, whether of proponency or opponency.
ref: 1935, “letter”, in Department of science, art and literature: Hearings before the Committee on Patents, page 112:
glosses: Advocacy.
security through obscurity
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: security by obscurity
form: security-by-obscurity
form: security-through-obscurity
Senses: examples: text: This security through obscurity proved adequate for our prototype, but it was unacceptable for a turnin service in wide use.
ref: 1990, W Cattey, The Evolution of turnin A Classroom Oriented File Exchange Service, USENIX Summer Conference:
text: According to security-through-obscurity advocates, if we carefully hide our gaping vulnerabilities from our enemies, the bad guys will give up in frustration when they cannot easily find holes.
ref: 2006, Harold F. Tipton, Micki Krause, Information Security Management Handbook:
text: Things such as security through obscurity become common practices that usually have damaging results.
ref: 2008, Shon Harris, CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: The habit or practice of relying on a potential attacker's lack of knowledge will maintain security.
Related terms: steganography
bullpup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlpʌp/
Forms: form: bullpups
form: bull pup
form: bull-pup
Etymology: From bull + pup. The firearms sense originated from firearm designers in the United States during the 1930s. The unconventional configuration of bullpup rifles was compared by analogy to bulldog puppies, which were considered "squat, ugly, but still aggressive and powerful".
Senses: examples: text: He sees thou art the best man for the swamp; that thy scent is keen with the bloodhound, thine eye like the hawk's, and thou art quick for fight as the colonel's bullpup.
ref: 1835, William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution:
glosses: A bullpuppy, a bulldog puppy (of either sex).
examples: text: He brought with him the holsters of his young master, wrapped up in the fragment of a blanket. “I tink, Mass Willie,” said he, “dat you better hab dese little bullpups yer, onder you own han'. Dere's no telling how soon you may want 'em. De swode is good 'nough, when you hab dem tory in chopping reach, but de pups kin keep guard on door and winder.”
ref: 1855, William Gilmore Simms, The Forayers:
text: "Gone for his two little bull-pups," said Stubbs. That was what the Parson called his silver-mounted derringers.
ref: 1875, Joaquin Miller, First Fam’lies in the Sierras:
text: In an Iowa murder case two witnesses swore to seeing the defendant forty rods off draw his revolver, when it was proven that they were so near-sighted that they could not tell a pistol from a bull-pup fifteen rods away.
ref: 1889, Logansport Pharos Tribune:
text: 'Bust me, Blaine! you ain't a-goin' to murder this-yer young innercent ez mebbe never toted a derringer in his life, an don't know the difference atween a bowie-knife an' a bull-pup, air you?' interposed Colonel Jefferson.
ref: 1895, "Seven-up" Blaine's Conversion:
glosses: A handgun smaller than a bulldog.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A firearm configuration in which the trigger is located forward of the magazine and breech, as opposed to a conventional configuration in which the trigger is located rear of the magazine and breech.
bullpups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullpup
rill erosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rill + erosion.
Senses: glosses: erosion of soft ground caused by drainage of rain.
much less
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: text: Of the thing that sustains him through trials man has no inkling, much less knowledge, at the time.
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xxi
text: Why, not even a little bird or a tiny butterfly comes here, much less a human being!
ref: 1919, Parker Hoysted Fillmore, The Three Citrons:
text: 1895. M.K. Gandhi, Petition to Natal Legislative Assembly
It is hopeless for him to return to India and expect to earn bread, much less to make a fortune.
text: We had not at Chattanooga animals to pull a single piece of artillery, much less a supply train.
ref: 1886, Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant:
glosses: Let alone; to say nothing of.
Synonyms: let alone
not to mention
no hard feelings
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: no + hard feelings
Senses: examples: text: No need to worry
Everything's under control
O-U-T, but no hard feelings
ref: 1983, “Girlfriend Is Better”, in Speaking in Tongues, performed by Talking Heads:
text: Patrick O'Brien: No hard feelings? I've been falsely accused, had the crap kicked out of me, now I have no job.
Gene Hunt: Look on the bright side. Still got your health. So, you know, every cloud.
ref: 2007 March 6, Julie Rutterford, Life on Mars, Season 2, Episode 3:
glosses: (I, etc.) hold no lingering anger or resentment toward (you, etc.); there's no bad blood between (us, etc.).
forgive and forget
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forgives and forgets
form: forgiving and forgetting
form: forgave and forgot
form: forgiven and forgotten
Senses: examples: text: "We will go away in the yacht. Does it matter where we live, so long as we live for each other? Forgive and forget! Oh, Valeria, Valeria, forgive and forget!"
ref: 1875, Wilkie Collins, The law and the lady, page 33:
text: 'Not long before he died, the old man disowned him. Then a year and a half ago mom forgave and forgot.'
ref: 2002, Jack Womack, Going, Going, Gone, page 73:
glosses: To absolve somebody completely for a past wrongdoing; to pardon with neither resentment nor a view to retribution.
Related terms: forgive but don't forget
forgives and forgets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forgive and forget
forgiving and forgetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forgive and forget
forgave and forgot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forgive and forget
forgiven and forgotten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of forgive and forget
categorified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of categorify
electroneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + neutral.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having no net electric charge
Related terms: electroneutralize
hypercompact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + compact.
Senses: glosses: Extremely compact
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a dense cluster of stars around a supermassive black hole
multiaccess
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-access
Etymology: From multi- + access.
Senses: glosses: accessible to many
multipulse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-pulse
Etymology: From multi- + pulse.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving multiple pulses.
reptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptations
Senses: glosses: A creeping movement.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A creeping thermal motion of entangled linear polymers
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The motion of one plane figure around another, so that the longest diameter of one shall come into line with the shortest of the other.
Related terms: surreptitious
reptons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repton
repton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reptons
Etymology: From reptation + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A single entangled monomer in a system undergoing reptation
falling action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falling actions
Senses: topics: broadcasting
drama
dramaturgy
entertainment
film
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
television
theater
glosses: The events of a drama after the climax (or crisis) but before the denouement (or resolution).
remercy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈməːsi/
Forms: form: remercies
form: remercying
form: remercied
form: remercied
Etymology: From Middle French remercier.
Senses: examples: text: She him remercied as the Patrone of her life.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To thank (someone).
underkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underkeeps
form: underkeeping
form: underkept
form: underkept
Etymology: From under- + keep.
Senses: examples: text: Like as a fire, the which in hollow caue / Hath long bene vnderkept, and downe supprest, / With murmurous disdaine doth inly raue […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: It is not economy to overwork or underkeep, or in any wise neglect the farm horse?
ref: 1865, The farmer's magazine, page 276:
text: [...] how running himself our President underkeeps with such high animals how the british Queen in Her Majesty's own language.
ref: 1967, Rudolf Augstein, Der Spiegel: Volume 21, Issues 19-23:
glosses: To keep under or in subjection; subdue; suppress.
examples: text: Compared to Colva and Benaulim, Palolem 's accommodations are overpriced and underkept — expect to pay Rs200 in season for the privilege of crashing in a charmless double and using a common bathroom outside.
ref: 2004, Let's go: India & Nepal, 2004 - Page 191, Let's Go, Inc:
text: Most houses on Oakland Ave. have large basements that are underkept.
ref: 2011, Marie Puissant, University of Wisconsin off the record:
glosses: To keep or maintain inadequately or below standard.
Derived terms: underkeeper
underkeeping
underkeep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underkeeps
Etymology: From under- + keep.
Senses: examples: text: The earth was swallowing Abascar. "The Underkeeps caved in."
ref: 2007, Jeffrey Overstreet, Auralia's Colors:
glosses: An underground reserve.
examples: text: [...] located in the bottom of the driving-box cellars (underkeeps), a perforated plate being used between the axle and the cake of grease.
ref: 1907, Léonard Archbutt, Richard Mountford Deeley, Lubrication and lubricants:
glosses: A keep or storage space located beneath the foundation of a structure; cellar.
examples: text: They have sliding underkeeps of ample oil capacity with pad lubrication and the underkeeps are supplied with oil direct from a mechanical lubricator.
ref: 1951, Railway gazette international, volume 94:
glosses: Any storage space or reservoir placed below another object.
examples: text: [...] rooms taken up by Mr. Newton one of his Maᵗˢ Gent ushers for the placing of the Kings Maᵗˢ wardrobe stuffe for the space of three weeks at Newmarkett To Robert Ford underkeep of his Maᵗˢ House at Newmarkett in considracon of the want [...]
ref: 1886, John Philip Hore, The history of Newmarket:
glosses: An underkeeper, guardian, or custodian.
nondecisive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + decisive.
Senses: examples: text: It was a nondecisive victory, leaving open the possibility of a second attack.
glosses: Not decisive.
nonovernight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + overnight.
Senses: examples: text: If you wish to lunch here as a nonovernight guest (worth it if you have time), contact Mrs. Meyyappan at least a day before...
ref: 2010, Pippa de Bruyn, Frommer's India:
glosses: Not overnight.
nonregularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonregularities
Etymology: From non- + regularity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being nonregular.
nonregularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonregularity
nonregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonregulations
Etymology: From non- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: Nonregulation of the market led to an eventual collapse.
glosses: Absence of regulation.
examples: text: In addition to regulations, there are nonregulations that are important. For example, the policy at most major medical journals that they will only publish studies that had been prospectively listed in a public clinical trial database.
ref: 2008, Richard Chin, Bruce Y. Lee, Principles and Practice of Clinical Trial Medicine, page 243:
glosses: That which is not a regulation.
nonregulation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + regulation.
Senses: examples: text: So we played a nonregulation one-wall handball game.
ref: 2012, Richard M. Abrams, Street Games: Bygone Times in Brooklyn:
glosses: Not according to regulations.
noneidetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eidetic.
Senses: glosses: Not eidetic.
FG syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the initials of the surnames of two sisters who had five sons with the syndrome.
Senses: glosses: A rare genetic disorder linked to the X chromosome, causing physical anomalies and developmental delays, characterised by retardation, hyperactive behaviour, constipation, hypotonia, and a characteristic facial appearance.
Synonyms: Opitz-Kaveggia syndrome
progredient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more progredient
form: most progredient
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the course of an illness, progressive.
kawaiiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kawaii + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In the interviews it became apparent that the girls choose their products on kawaiiness. A mobile phone is kawaii for communication and e-mail.
ref: 2006, Shenja Van Der Graaf, Yuichi Washida, Information communication technologies and emerging business strategies:
synonyms: kawaii
glosses: The quality of being kawaii; cuteness.
raw_tags: in the context of Japanese culture
Husserlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Husserlian
form: most Husserlian
Etymology: From Husserl + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Thus the title of his paper at Royaumont has a Husserlian ring, but a peculiarly Wildian intonation: “L'anthropologie philosophique et la crise des sciences européennes.”
ref: 1989, James M. Edie, “John Wild and Phenomenology”, in Eugene F. Kaelin, Calvin O. Schrag, editors, American Phenomenology: Origins and Developments (Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research; 26), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 90:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), philosopher who founded phenomenology.
Camusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Camusian
form: most Camusian
Etymology: From Camus + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Albert Camus (1913–1960), French philosopher and writer.