cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
homothecy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homothecies
Senses: examples: text: Let us determine the center and the ratio of this homothecy.
ref: 1950, Duke Mathematical Journal, Duke University Press, page 76:
text: The restriction of B to S_b is a homothecy of scale b.
ref: 1981, Kenneth Joseph Arrow, Michael D. Intriligator, Handbook of Mathematical Economics, North-Holland, page 1720:
text: Proposition 7.4 Homothecies preserve circles. That is, for any homothecy h and any circle C, h(C) is a circle as well.[…]Were we willing to do the same with homothecies, we would meet an obstruction: the composition of two homothecies is not necessarily a homothecy.
ref: 2013, Felipe Cucker, Manifold Mirrors: The Crossing Paths of the Arts and Mathematics, Cambridge University Press, page 161:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A homothetic transformation.
Synonyms: sense: type of transformation
word: homogeneous dilation
sense: type of transformation
word: homothety
homothety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homotheties
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὁμο- (homo-, “same”) + θέσις (thésis, “setting, placement, arrangement”).
Senses: examples: text: The product of two homotheties with the same centre is a homothety with that centre.
ref: 1927, Henry George Forder, The Foundations of Euclidean Geometry, page 178:
text: One cannot obtain all similarity mappings from products of homotheties alone, but they are necessary and basic to similarities.
ref: 1972, Clayton W. Dodge, Euclidean Geometry and Transformations, published 2004, page 106:
text: Since homotheties are determined by the fixed point, called the center of the homothety, and by the similitude ratio λ, we shall denote by h_(P,λ) the homothety with center P and similitude ratio λ.
ref: 2011, Agustí Reventós Tarrida, Affine Maps, Euclidean Motions and Quadrics, Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series, page 69:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An isotropic scaling transformation of an affine space with a single fixed point.
qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: A homomorphism from a module M over a ring A to itself of the form ν:x↦ax for some fixed a∈A (especially when M=A; a is said to be the ratio of the homothety, by analogy with the geometric case).
Synonyms: sense: isotropic scaling transformation with a fixed point
word: homothecy
sense: isotropic scaling transformation with a fixed point
word: homogeneous dilation
sense: isotropic scaling transformation with a fixed point
word: homothetic transformation
Related terms: homothetic
orthobicupola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthobicupolas
Etymology: From ortho- + bicupola.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A bicupola in which the bases have the same orientation
beneficient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɛnəˈfɪʃənt/
rhymes: -ɪʃənt
Forms: form: more beneficient
form: most beneficient
Etymology: Modification of beneficent after beneficial.
Senses: examples: 1929, Time, 25 March, 1929, "Apple Salt," https://web.archive.org/web/20130721133038/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,846362,00.html
Last week. Dr. John Christian Krantz Jr., chemist and pharmacist at Johns Hopkins, announced that that laboratory of many a beneficient drug had created a salt substitute, which has proved palatable during a year's tests.
1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Writers in Politics: Essays, London: Heinemann, Part 1, Chapter 3, p. 47,
And not the least, they smashed the racialist view of peasants as uncultured recipients of cultures from beneficient foreigners.
glosses: beneficent
bicupola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicupolas
Etymology: From bi- + cupola.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A solid formed from two cupolas joined at the base.
Derived terms: gyrobicupola
orthobicupola
open seating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The provision of seating or tables without reservations.
Related terms: first come first served
charnel houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charnel house
nautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nautical.
Derived terms: nautically
Related terms: nautics
first come first served
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-come first-served
form: first come, first served
form: first-come, first-served
form: first-come-first-served
form: first come first serve
Senses: qualifier: operations
glosses: A service policy in which the first to arrive for service receives the service first.
Related terms: first in first out
FIFO
open seating
first in first out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first-in-first-out
form: first-in first-out
form: first in, first out
form: first-in, first-out
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: A method of inventory accounting that values items withdrawn from inventory at the cost of the oldest item assumed to remain in inventory.
examples: text: To the onlooker, and particularly to those whose memories go back to pre-grouping days, the modern cavalcade of "V2s" and "B1s" is apt to become a little monotonous; but to any running man the general utility characteristics of these two classes are a perfect godsend at times of exceptional pressure, when it is often a case of "first in—first out" with locomotive allocations at sheds.
ref: 1949 November and December, O. S. Nock, “Twenty-Four Hours at York—2”, in Railway Magazine, pages 357–358:
topics: management
glosses: A policy of assigning priority to tasks and assignments that have arrived for service first.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of queue data structure in which the oldest added items are retrieved first.
Synonyms: FIFO
Related terms: first come first served
amt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of amount.
amt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amts
Etymology: From Danish amt.
Senses: glosses: A county in Denmark.
conversation piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversation pieces
Senses: examples: text: And Dwayne again carried on a wry talk with the Creator of the Universe, using a robot as an unfeeling conversation piece. A lot of people in Midland City put useless objects from Hawaii or Mexico or someplace like that on their coffee tables or their livingroom end tables or on what-not shelves—and such an object was called a conversation piece.
ref: 1973, Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 261:
text: In 1965, when I moved into my first college apartment, one of my roommates tacked a poster of Guernica up in our kitchen. It was an odd thing to eat under, people said, all those mute screams and twisted shapes; we'd turned a cliché, the requisite famous art in a student apartment, into a conversation piece, but we got used to it, and soon the carnage was just decoration.
ref: 1995, Greil Marcus, “Escape from New York”, in The Dustbin of History, Picador, →ISBN, page 188:
glosses: An unusual item, such as a painting, or a tabletop knick-knack which encourages comment from visitors, and so helps to break the ice.
examples: text: Hogarth's enlargement of painting's scope was based on the conversation piece, which was to prove one of the most flexible and adaptable of genres. The idea of an informal group was not in itself new, nor the invention of Hogarth alone.
ref: 1971, William Gaunt, The Great Century of British Painting: Hogarth to Turner:
text: The painting is a conversation piece without conversation and rightly regarded as one of the masterpieces of the Paul Mellon Collection at Yale.
ref: 2001, Jules David Prown, Art as Evidence: Writings on Art and Material Culture, Yale University Press, →ISBN:
qualifier: painting
glosses: A painting of a group of people engaged in conversation or some other activity, popular in 18th century.
conversation pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conversation piece
neutron-richer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of neutron-rich: more neutron-rich
neutron-richest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of neutron-rich: most neutron-rich
richnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of richness
embarrassments of riches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embarrassment of riches
South Caucasus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Transcaucasus
Transcaucasia
glosses: A mountainous region of West Asia and Eastern Europe, lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising the republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Transcaucasia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: [ˌtɹænskɔːˈkeɪzjə]
[ˌtɹænskɔːˈkeɪʒə]
Forms: form: Transcaucasus
Etymology: From trans- + Caucasus. Calque of Russian Закавка́зье (Zakavkázʹje, literally “beyond the Caucasus”), as viewed from the side of Russia.
Senses: synonyms: South Caucasus
glosses: A mountainous region of West Asia and Eastern Europe, lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising the republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
polyoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyoxides
Etymology: From poly- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polymeric oxide
Transcaucasus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Transcaucasia: A mountainous region of West Asia and Eastern Europe, lying between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, comprising the republics of Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
prismatoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prismatoids
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any polyhedron whose vertices all lie in either of two parallel planes
semispace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semispaces
Etymology: From semi- + space.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of two regions making up a space.
mesioproximal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesio- + proximal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In the description of languages with a four-way distinction for demonstratives, refers to a demonstrative which indicates something near the addressee.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the mesial and the proximal surfaces of a tooth.
Related terms: english: near the speaker
translation: near the speaker
word: proximal
english: far off or out of sight
translation: far off or out of sight
word: distal
english: near neither the speaker nor the addressee but not far off
translation: near neither the speaker nor the addressee but not far off
word: mesiodistal
Hungarian Kuvasz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungarian Kuvasz
form: Hungarian Kuvaszok
Senses: glosses: A Kuvasz dog.
Synonyms: Kuvasz
Hungarian Kuvaszok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungarian Kuvasz
stellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The construction of a stellated polyhedron (or other polytope) by extending edges or planes.
glosses: The radiation of light.
stereographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stereography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to stereography.
Derived terms: stereographic projection
margining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of margin
margined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a margin.
Derived terms: rusty-margined guan
unmargined
margined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of margin
marginicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Fruits in Paullinia are marginicidal, septifragal capsules, whereas those of Serjania are schizocarps with samaroid mericarps.
ref: 1998, Pedro Acevedo-Rodríguez, “Paullinia Lingulata (Sapindaceae), a New Species from French Guiana.”, in Brittonia, number 50, pages 514–16:
glosses: dehiscent by the separation of united carpels.
raw_tags: of fruits
Mudi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmudi/
Forms: form: Mudis
Etymology: From Hungarian mudi.
Senses: glosses: A breed of herding dog originating in Hungary.
marginirostral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒstɹəl
Etymology: See margin and rostral.
Senses: glosses: Round the edges of a bird's bill.
marginless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From margin + -less.
Senses: synonyms: unmargined
glosses: Without a margin.
Derived terms: marginlessness
Hungarian hound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hungarian hounds
Senses: glosses: A breed of hunting dog originating in Hungary.
Synonyms: Erdélyi Kopó
Erdelyi Kopo
Transylvanian Bloodhound
Transylvanian Hound
Hungarian Hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hungarian Hound
vizsla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vizslas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Vizsla.
Vizslák
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vizsla
Vizslak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Vizsla
margosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margosas
Etymology: From Portuguese amargosa, feminine of amargoso.
Senses: glosses: The neem. (a tree)
Derived terms: margosa oil
margravial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From margrave + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a margrave.
Related terms: baronial
comital
ducal
kingly
noble
princely
regal
royal
vicontiel
viscomital
pilpul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪlˌpʊl/
Forms: form: pilpl
form: pilpool
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew פִּלְפּוּל (pilpúl).
Senses: glosses: Sophistry, hair-splitting, quibbling.
glosses: Penetrating investigation, disputation, and drawing of conclusions, especially in Talmudic study.
Derived terms: pilpulism
pilpulist
pilpulistic
Mariavite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Mariavite Church.
Mariavite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mariavites
Senses: glosses: A follower or member of the Mariavite Church.
WLANs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of WLAN
Spanish Water Dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔːtə dɒɡ/
ipa: /ˌspænɪʃ ˈwɔtɚ dɔɡ/
Forms: form: Spanish Water Dogs
Etymology: From Spanish + water dog.
Senses: synonyms: SWD
glosses: A herding water dog originating in Spain.
Spanish Water Dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Spanish Water Dog
maricolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mari- + -colous.
Senses: glosses: Inhabiting the sea.
maricon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maricons
form: maricones
Etymology: Borrowing from Spanish maricón.
Senses: glosses: An effeminate homosexual male in a Spanish-speaking region, especially Central America.
maricons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maricon
Marie Antoinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Marie Antoinettes
Etymology: From Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), French queen, traditionally said to have had a frivolous regard for the starving peasants; see Let them eat cake.
Senses: examples: text: By the end of the year 2000, Howard seemed likely to be remembered as the Marie Antoinette of Australian politics for his incorrigible use of public monies to support the Howard family's personal comfort.
ref: 2002, Francis Gordon Clarke, The history of Australia, →ISBN, page 195:
glosses: Someone with an extravagant and luxurious lifestyle, often at the expense of those who lack food, clothes, or shelter.
wikipedia: Let them eat cake
Marie Antoinette
Related terms: Marie Antoinette syndrome
olefine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olefines
Etymology: From olefiant.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: olefiant gas, or ethylene
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type
mariengroschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈɹɪənˌɡɹəʊʃən/
ipa: /məˈɹi.ənˌɡɹoʊʃən/
Forms: form: mariengroschen
Etymology: From German Mariengroschen.
Senses: glosses: An obsolete coin from Germany, higher in value than a pfennig.
Related terms: groschen
marimbist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marimbists
Etymology: From marimba + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays a marimba.
Synonyms: marimbaist
marimbists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marimbist
ocarinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ocarinists
Etymology: From ocarina + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays the ocarina.
marimonda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marimondas
Senses: glosses: The spider monkey.
spider monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider monkeys
Senses: glosses: Any New World monkey of the genus Ateles, with long, spindly limbs.
synonyms: marimonda
glosses: A muriqui, New World monkey of the genus Brachyteles, closely related to Ateles.
Derived terms: brown-headed spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps fusciceps
Colombian spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps rufiventris
black-headed spider monkey
Ateles fusciceps
brown spider monkey
Ateles hybridus
hooded spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi grisescens
Mexican spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi vellerosus
Nicaraguan spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi geoffroyi
ornate spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi ornatus
Yucatan spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi yucatanensis
Geoffroy's spider monkey
Ateles geoffroyi
Peruvian spider monkey
Ateles chamek
red-faced spider monkey
Ateles paniscus
white-cheeked spider monkey
Ateles marginatus
white-fronted spider monkey
Ateles belzebuth
woolly spider monkey
monkey of the genus Brachyteles
marine biologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marine biologists
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies marine biology.
mariner's compass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mariner's compasses
Senses: glosses: A compass (navigational instrument).
frazils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frazil
marinescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marinescapes
Etymology: From marine + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A view of the sea.
Synonyms: seascape
marionettist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmæɹɪəˈnɛtɪst/
Forms: form: marionettists
Etymology: From marionette + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A puppeteer who controls a marionette.
marionettists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marionettist
marionberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marionberry
obliqued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oblique
obliquing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oblique
upper-case
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uppercase.
strikt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: strikter
form: striktest
Senses: examples: text: this ſame ſtrikt and moſt obſeruant watch
 So nightly toiles the ſubiect of the land,
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of strict.
JGA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: JGAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Jupiter gravity assist.
ɢ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in the digraph ⟨ɴɢ⟩ for the /ŋ/ sound.
brush wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush wolves
Senses: glosses: A small wolf found in western North America.
manubriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manubrium
trade balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade balances
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The balance of trade.
trade balances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade balance
balances of trade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balance of trade
trade deficits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade deficit
trade surpluses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade surplus
archaics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archaic
foster families
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foster family
paeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paeons
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A foot containing any pattern of three short syllables and one long syllable.
Derived terms: paeonic
Related terms: paean
polyglott
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyglott
form: most polyglott
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of polyglot.
polyglott
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyglotts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of polyglot.
pharmaceutically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pharmaceutic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Of recent years Japan wax is an important article of commerce, and it was while examining a lot of several carloads some time ago that the though occurred to me why cannot it be used pharmaceutically?
ref: 1899 June, Robert C. Purcell, “Japan Wax as a Substitute of Beeswax in Ointments and Cerates”, in Merck Report, volume 8, page 257:
text: Pharmaceutically tested in recent times, mandrake show aphrodisiac properties.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 144:
glosses: In pharmaceutical terms or for pharmaceutical purposes.
Derived terms: biopharmaceutically
white mulberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white mulberries
Senses: glosses: A short-lived mulberry tree of species Morus alba, native to northern China, used in traditional Chinese medicine, that yields berries that are paler than other mulberries, even when ripe. The tree is widely cultivated to feed the silkworms employed in the commercial production of silk.
glosses: (false stinger, native mulberry, white nettle (Pipturus argentaeus)
jack-of-the-dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
synonyms: Jack Dusty
glosses: The storekeeper in charge of dry foodstuffs.
chevreuil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevreuils
Etymology: Borrowed from French chevreuil.
Senses: examples: text: We found a chevreuil, and, could we have got him once out of the covert, no doubt should have had an excellent run towards Mortefontaine; but as he was determined not to go straight away, and we were not strong enough to make him, after a short gallop we gave it up.
ref: 1840, Sporting Magazine - Volume 95, page 306:
text: Alexander, with some friends, had gone out to shoot a day or two before, and brought home plenty of game; and by seven o'clock Chevet arrived with a salmon of fifty pounds-weight, a chevreuil roasted entire, and served upon a huge silver dish, and a monster pasty.
ref: 1873, Fitzgerald's Life and Adventures of Alexander Dumas, “Chambers's Journal”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 50, number 1, page 136:
text: I have convinced him that our deer is not a Chevreuil, and would you believe that many letters to different acquaintances in Virginia, where this animal is so common, have never enabled me to present him with a large pair of their horns,
ref: 1903, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Adgate Lipscomb, Albert Ellery Bergh, The Writings of Thomas Jefferson - Volume 6, page 21:
text: Well, the last night we were in Paris I'd been out shooting at Ben Gallagher's in the Sologne the day before and he had a fermée, you know, they put up a low fence while they're out feeding, and shot rabbits in the morning and in the afternoon we had several drives and shot pheasants and I shot a chevreuil.
ref: 1935, Earnest Hemmingway, Green Hills of Africa:
glosses: A roe deer, a roebuck.
boykin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɔɪkɪn/
ipa: /ˈbɔɪkən/
Forms: form: boykins
form: boikin
Etymology: From boy + -kin, diminutive suffix
Senses: glosses: A little boy.
Synonyms: little boy
boikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boikins
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of boykin.
raw_tags: in the 16 ᵗʰ century
boikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boikin
boykins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boykin
nonsensing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nonsense
nonsensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nonsense
bus stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus station
own goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of own goal
air taxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air taxi
bundle of energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bundles of energy
Senses: examples: text: In truth it may be said he is a bundle of energy, and when he enlists in any good cause, he is a living illustration of St. Paul's motto: "But this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize."
ref: 1883, Landon Taylor, The Battlefield Reviewed, 2nd edition, page 367:
text: To children there are few greater delights than that of building a fire in the woods. . . . Winnie and Bobsey, little bundles of energy that they were, seemed unwearied in feeding the flames.
ref: 1885, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 18, in Driven Back to Eden:
text: Anyone looking for a kitten should consider that it is a tiny bundle of energy.
ref: 2007 September 20, Katherine Tweed, “Kitty Considerations: Buying the Perfect Cat”, in FOXNews, retrieved 15 Apr 2009:
glosses: One who is especially lively, continually active, or industrious.
examples: text: But Dubielewicz has a bundle of energy and the fans and his teammates feed off it.
ref: 2007 April 5, Kevin McGran, “'Du-bie, Du-bie' an overnight sensation”, in Toronto Star, Canada, retrieved 15 Apr 2009:
glosses: The energy associated with being lively, continually active, or industrious.
Synonyms: sense: one who is especially lively
word: bundle of nerves
Camargue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kæˈmɑːrɡ/
Forms: form: the Camargue
Etymology: Borrowed from French Camargue.
Senses: examples: text: Then in the 20th century, a different type of transformation occurred: Made famous in films, the Camargue became known as the unbridled Far South, roamed by the gardians of French westerns.
ref: 2024 August 12, Alexis Steinman, “Roam With Cowboys and Flamingos in France’s Wild, Wild South”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 12 Aug 2024:
glosses: A sparsely-populated marshland area in Bouches-du-Rhône department, southern France.
cladi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cladus
pysanky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pysanka
BTUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of BTU
bugloss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buglosses
Etymology: PIE word
 *gʷṓws
From French buglosse, from Latin buglossa, buglossus, from Ancient Greek βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson, “Anchusa italica”), from βοῦς (boûs, “ox”) + γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants in the borage family, Boraginaceae.
wikipedia: bugloss
Synonyms: oxtongue
Derived terms: viper's bugloss
Related terms: Boraginaceae
equiangularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equi- + angularity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being equiangular
equilaterality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equilateral + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being equilateral
buglosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugloss
phonocardiogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonocardiograms
Etymology: From phono- + cardiogram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An image produced by a phonocardiograph.
Synonyms: PCG
phonocardiograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonocardiographs
Etymology: From phono- + cardiograph.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device that records and displays the sounds made by the heart.
Related terms: phonocardiogram
phonocardiographic
phonocardiography
englacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪʃəl
Etymology: From en- + glacial.
Senses: glosses: Occurring or located within a glacier
metabolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolizations
form: metabolisation
Senses: examples: text: The metabolisation of gluten was improved after the experimental supplement was administered to coeliac patients.
glosses: The process of metabolizing (transitive senses).
polyphyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: The condition of being polyphyletic
sphygmogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphygmograms
Etymology: From sphygmo- (“pulse”) + -gram.
Senses: glosses: The recording made by a sphygmograph
Ja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of January.
drogers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of droger
Walen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Walens
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Walen or a variant of Wallen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
virginal membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virginal membrane
glans clitoridis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɡlænz klɪˈtɒɹɪdɪs/
Forms: form: glandes clitoridis
form: glans clitoris
Etymology: Directly from Latin glans clitoridis (“glans of the clitoris”), clitoridis being a genitive.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: glans penis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: glans
holonyms: clitoris
related: word: corpus cavernosum clitoridis
word: praeputium clitoridis
glosses: The clitoral glans
clitoral glans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clitoral glandes
form: clitoral glans
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: glans clitoridis
glans clitoris
clithead
glosses: An external part of the clitoris covered by the clitoral hood.
Related terms: penile glans
clitoral glandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoral glans
slowlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slowly: more slowly
slowliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slowly: most slowly
Rae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
homophone: Ray
homophone: Re
homophone: Rea
homophone: Rhea (one pronunciation)
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname transferred from the nickname. A variant of Roe.
examples: text: CHUCK. Joyce Mathews! I see and this girl's name is Rae Edwards. What does Rae stand for?
CHRIS. Rae, Rae!
CHUCK. Rachel? That's what I'm trying to find out; Sugar Ray? Rae doesn't mean too much to me. Hooray, Sugar Ray, etc. So her name is Rachael H? I see.
ref: 1965, Lewis Yablonsky, The Tunnel Back: Synamon, Macmillan, page 204:
text: Jo Rae Perkins was carrying about 50 percent of the vote in Oregon’s primary as of Wednesday afternoon, vanquishing three other Republican candidates to become the party’s nominee for the seat currently held by Senator Jeff Merkley, a Democrat.
ref: 2020 May 20, Mike Baker, “G.O.P. Voters Back QAnon Conspiracy Promoter for U.S. Senate”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 21 May 2020:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Rachel, also used as a formal given name, mostly as a middle name.
examples: text: My first name is Ray because of a distant relative, a woman, whose name was Rae. I was named for her and spelled my name Rae until I was old enough to realize I was being mocked, when I changed it to the masculine form Ray.
ref: 1941, Ray Bradbury, “My Premature Autobiography”, in The American Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, published 2020:
glosses: Feminine form of Ray.
Derived terms: Raerae
verism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verisms
Etymology: From Latin vērus (“true”) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: In place of the high polish and artifice of, say, Friday the 13th, there is a rougher verism [in Jackass].
ref: 2007, Andrew Shanken, “The Sublime "Jackass"”, in Places, volume 19:
topics: art
arts
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Presenting common, everyday subjects, specifically eschewing the heroic or legendary.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Synonym of verismo (“19th-century art movement”).
synonyms: word: verismo
extra: 19th-century art movement
Ier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Romania and Hungary.
shareability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharability
Etymology: From share + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being shareable.
ECO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ECOs
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of engine cutoff.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of eternally collapsing object, a type of black hole replacement, to avoid having gravitational singularities.
Related terms: english: main engine cut-off
translation: main engine cut-off
word: MECO
english: sustainer engine cutoff
translation: sustainer engine cutoff
word: SECO
english: secondary engine cut-off
translation: secondary engine cut-off
word: SECO
english: booster engine cutoff
translation: booster engine cutoff
word: BECO
english: a different type of black hole replacement that inspired the formulation of ECOs
translation: a different type of black hole replacement that inspired the formulation of ECOs
alt: magnetospheric eternally collapsing object
word: MECO
ECO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Energy Company Obligation.
it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: it's an ill wind
form: it's an ill wind that blows no good
form: it's an ill wind that blows no one any good
Senses: glosses: An action or occurrence must be very bad indeed if it brings no benefit to anyone.
sice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: sices
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sais.
sice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: sices
form: sise
form: size
Etymology: From Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.
Senses: examples: text: In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices[…]
ref: 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta, page 112:
topics: dice
games
glosses: The number six in a game of dice.
Coordinate terms: ace
deuce
trey
cater
cinque
sice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪs/
rhymes: -aɪs
Forms: form: sices
form: sicing
form: siced
form: siced
Senses: examples: text: He was siced about going, and I could tell he seemed to be especially pressed about having a sidekick. And, best of all, admission was free with the passes he'd copped from some honey he met at lunch.
ref: 2001, Robert L. Anderson, Finding Salliq:
text: sice me up … and now you're feeling so excited … I'm siced
ref: 2010 May 9, SaulReel, "I'm Siced" (song), in the video "SaulReel In Studio Performance Of I'm Siced" [rhymed with riced]
text: "I got Jasmine's Range out the shop. It's just like new. I'ma let you hold it, okay?" A smile big as Texas spread across my face. I was siced like shit!
ref: 2012, Eyone Williams, Secrets Never Die, DC Bookdiva Publications:
text: [I'm] siced to not be at work and about to head out on a road trip. […] […] siced: Siced is one of my all-time favorite words. It means excited or happy about, or that you like something. You can be siced for something, you can sice something, or, you can just be siced as a general matter. I'm pretty sure siced is a local word. […] I've also seen it spelled syced, cised, ciced, sysed, and cysed.
ref: 2014 November 6, Tom Bayly, Coffee and a Cool Breeze: A Summer Journal, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN:
qualifier: District of Columbia
glosses: To excite.
clickthrough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clickthroughs
Etymology: From click + through.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of click-through.
syntagmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syntagma
marital rape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marital rapes
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The rape of one's own spouse.
Synonyms: spousal rape
gang-rape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gang-rapes
form: gang-raping
form: gang-raped
form: gang-raped
Senses: glosses: To perpetrate a gang rape.
date-rape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: date-rapes
form: date-raping
form: date-raped
form: date-raped
Senses: glosses: To perpetrate a date rape.
in tandem
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The seats were in tandem.
glosses: One behind the other.
examples: text: He runs the shop in tandem with his brother.
text: In countries such as the US, bird-feeding, birdwatching, and other types of ornithophilic behaviour form the basis of huge conservation efforts, in tandem with science.
ref: 2010, Mark Bonta, “Ethno-ornithology and Biological Conservation”, in Sonia Tidemann, Andrew Gosler, editors, Ethno-ornithology: Birds, Indigenous Peoples, Culture and Society, London: Earthscan, →ISBN, pages 21–22:
text: Investors were now warier of Underground railways. They had seen that the Metropolitan was bringing in lower returns, having broached its City extensions. But the newly established Metropolitan Board of Works (the first London-wide authority) pressed the District to continue with the next part of the plan - Westminster to Blackfriars - so that the building of the railway could go in tandem with the construction of the new Thames Embankment and the sewer it incorporated.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61:
glosses: Together; collaboratively.
Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˌɡɔːnəʊ kɑːɹəˈbɑːk ɹɪˌpʌblɪk/
Forms: form: the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Senses: glosses: An erstwhile Armenian-populated republic with limited recognition in the Nagorno-Karabakh region of the South Caucasus that existed between 1991 and 2024.
Synonyms: word: Republic of Artsakh
word: NKR
NKR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Nagorno-Karabakh Republic.
jaggedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jagged: most jagged
leukotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukotomy
lictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lictor
liturgists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liturgist
mackerelers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mackereler
macromorphologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macromorphology
macroregions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macroregion
magnetograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetogram
magnetographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetograph
maltiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of malty: most malty
negative indexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: The use of a negative integer as an array offset to access from the end of the array. Array[-3] accesses the 3ʳᵈ element from the end of the array, the same as Array[ArraySize - 3].
Related terms: array
hooray for Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoorays for Hollywood
Senses: examples: text: Kirk Stan founding artist member of the Contemporary gallery and Edward L. Carroll the Church Drama guild pitched a hooray for hollywood costume party
ref: 1970 October 28, “After The Blaze.”, in St. Petersburg Times:
text: For the last three years, despite its high drama and hoorays for Hollywood, Oscar night has been sliding in the TV ratings
ref: 1987 March 30, “FINAL COUNTDOWN TO ACADEMY AWARDS The Ratings Envelope, Please”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: […] and the hooray-for-Hollywood mentality of Americans generally.
ref: 1994, Nina Mikkelsen, Virginia Hamilton, page 86:
text: Gottlieb and Kimball feature those songs that became the lullaby of Broadway, a hooray for Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley bullion.
ref: 2001, New York Times Staff, The New York Times Book Reviews 2000, page 2176:
glosses: A celebration of the US filmed entertainment industry.
hoorays for Hollywood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hooray for Hollywood
manbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manbag
manstresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manstress
mastoidectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastoidectomy
mastoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mastoplasty
motherhood and apple pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why are you so critical of baseball? ... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie.
ref: 1974, Howard Cosell, Like it is, page 131:
text: As one newspaper columnist wryly observed, "Motherhood and apple pie, baseball and the flag — all may be subjects of controversy. But the environment is almost beyond debate these days.
ref: 2003, Deborah Lynn Guber, The grassroots of a green revolution: polling America on the environment, page 1:
text: ... those are hardly ideas anyone would disagree with: "It's motherhood and apple pie, or whatever the European equivalent of motherhood and apple pie is."
ref: 2008 November 15, “G-20 Summit: Little Action, Many Promises”, in BusinessWeek:
text: The right to freedom of expression was not entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of "motherhood-and-apple-pie" opinions. Those opinions never needed protection. The right to freedom of expression was entrenched in our Constitution in order to protect the expression of unpalatable opinions, no matter how unpopular.
ref: 2015 June 5, Randall Richmond, “Montreal (City of) c. Nelson, 2015 QCCM 146”, in CanLII, retrieved 18 Jul 2021:
glosses: Alternative form of mom and apple pie.
masterclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of masterclass
horticultor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horticultors
Etymology: From Latin hortus (“garden”) + cultor (“a cultivator”), colere (“to cultivate”).
Senses: synonyms: horticulturist
glosses: One who cultivates a garden.
upper cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upper cuts
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uppercut.
maṇḍalas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maṇḍala
mayoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayoress
megascopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megascope
megaseconds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasecond
megapennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megapenny
memoing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of memo
memoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of memo
allocare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + care.
Senses: examples: text: Older offspring can either provide allocare for siblings, which is in the mother's interest, or try to find a breeding position in another group, which may be even more costly to them than helping their mother (e.g., saddle-back tamarin, Saguinus fuscicollis, Goldizen et al. 1996).
ref: 2012, John C. Mitani, The Evolution of Primate Societies, page 334:
glosses: Care given to an infant by an animal that is not the infant's parent.
Derived terms: allocaretaker
merchandizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchandize
merchandizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of merchandize
merchandized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of merchandize
melodeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodeon
microbodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbody
autoacceleration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoaccelerations
Etymology: From auto- + acceleration.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A local increase in the rate of polymerization of a viscous monomer
millepedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of millipedes.
midyears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of midyear
misvalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misvalue
misvaluing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misvalue
misvalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misvalue
molluscivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molluscivore