cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
godlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: godlessnesses
Etymology: From godless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being godless.
glosses: Malevolence, wickedness, worldliness.
goggleeyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goggleeyed
form: most goggleeyed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of goggle-eyed.
goggle-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goggle-eyed
form: most goggle-eyed
Senses: examples: text: […] now and then we met a goggle-eyed pilgrim trudging along, and staring about him as if he waited only for night and opportunity to have additional reasons for hurrying to Jerusalem.
ref: 1783, William Beckford, Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents, Letter 13:
text: Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party.
ref: 1958 March 10, Time:
text: 1974, Esther Pasztory, The Iconography of the Teotihuacan Tlaloc, Studies in Pre-Columbian Art and Archaeology No. 15, Dumbarton Oaks, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington, D.C., p. https://books.google.ca/books?id=L0QClI2QOwQC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The frequency of goggle-eyed figures and water symbolism in Teotihuacan art has misled investigators into assuming that ll figures with these associations represent Tlaloc.
text: 1993, Bob Cryer, Hansard, Mines health and safety, 26 October, 1993, https://web.archive.org/web/20190212095659/https://www.hansard-corpus.org/
The Minister knew that it was controversial, but as he is an arrogant, right-wing, goggle-eyed extremist, he does not care.
synonyms: boggle-eyed
glosses: Having prominent eyes; with the eyes widely opened or protruding, either naturally or from astonishment or curiosity.
goingover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The intent of Congress has often been appraised by our courts, but the long-term schemes of those within and without our executive departments have seldom if ever been exposed to a thorough goingover; that is, with regard to the domestic mining policy.
ref: 1959, United States Congress House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Mines and Mining, Depressed Domestic Mining and Mineral Industries:
text: McCartan and I gave London a hasty goingover, had a calm Channel crossing, and parted company in Paris, when I went on towards Rome.
ref: 1973, Barry Faulkner, Barry Faulkner; sketches from an artist's life, page 62:
text: No full stops, no cross-outs or goingovers - just telling it like it is, warts and all!.
ref: 1998, Sides Sudyarto D. S., Baliku, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: Alternative spelling of going over.
consorte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consortes
Senses: examples: text: Consortism is classified into four types according to the benefit derived by the consortes: 1. If it is voluntary with mutual benefit but not asymmetrical or damaging to either consorte, it is mutualism. 2. Commensalism is a voluntary asymmetrical consortism in which one organism is benefited with no appreciable benefit or damage to the partner. 3. Parasitism is an involuntary consortism with progressive asymmetrical damage to one for the benefit of the other. 4. Predation is a nonsymbiotic consortism with damage to one for the benefit of the other.
ref: 2017, V.K. Agarwal, Zoology for Degree Students, →ISBN:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the organisms that associates with another species in consortism.
going over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: going overs
form: goings over
form: going-over
Senses: examples: text: Make sure to give the refurbished products a real going over before they are sold.
text: After the bankruptcy, our accounts were given a thorough going over.
glosses: An inspection, examination, review, or investigation.
glosses: An overhaul.
glosses: A severe, thorough scolding.
examples: text: When the mob men finally found him, they gave him a good going over that left him clinging to life.
glosses: A sound thrashing, beating.
going over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: going-over
Senses: examples: raw_tags: to examine
text: The client is going over the new proposal as we speak.
raw_tags: to create an impression
text: The new policies aren't going over well with the staff.
glosses: present participle and gerund of go over
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: Of a wrestler or wrestlers: to be scheduled to win a match.
goldbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goldbricks
form: gold-brick
form: gold brick
Etymology: From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed forces slang. In early 1900s, used to refer to an unattractive young woman – not pretty, nor able to talk or dance (attested 1903), thence to refer to incompetent enlisted troops at the start of World War I, reinforced by the rank insignia of second lieutenants, which was a gold rectangle.
Senses: examples: text: Experience is the biggest gold brick in the world. All older people have it for sale.
ref: 1920, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Smart Set, January 1920, collected in Tales of the Jazz Age
text: These, as a rule, were not adverse to buying a goldbrick as long as they knew that there was a chance for them to dump it on somebody else afterwards with some profit.
ref: 1932, Rafael De Nogales, Memoirs Of A Soldier Of Fortune, Kessinger Publishing, published 2006, →ISBN, page 98:
text: To-day, American attitude toward Europe is comparable to that of the country greenhorn who, having bought a goldbrick on Broadway, now fills the air not merely with the denunciation of the sharpers who tricked his credulity — […]
ref: 1932, Harper's Magazine, volume 166, page 520:
text: The average farmer may be less of a victim than some other people by reason of his isolation, conservatism, and hard earned money, but he, too, has too often bought a goldbrick that did not materialize.
ref: 1945, in the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration Bulletin, Volumes 422–433, page 5
text: […] that if he bought a goldbrick from Podhoretz for $25,000, he ought to pay me more than the $5,000 a volume that had been agreed on for the pure gold […]
ref: c. 1967, Edmund Wilson, quoted in Lewis M. Dabney, Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature, Macmillan (2005), page 485
glosses: Something fraudulent or nonexistent offered for sale; a swindle or con.
examples: text: Mac, there’s not a confounded thing wrong with you. You are an excellent physical specimen and in good health. You’re nothing but a goldbrick. Now, get your butt out of here and don’t ever come back again unless you’re really sick or need an immunization.
ref: 1945, Dr. Charley Haly, quoted in Doc: heroic stories of medics, corpsmen, and surgeons in combat by Mark R. Littleton, p. 68
text: Tell me that I’ve been a louse and loafer
You won’t get a fight here, no ma’am
Say I’m a goldbrick, a goof-off, no good
But that couldn’t be all that I am
ref: 2004 (written c. 1990), Howard Ashman, Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, “Proud of your Boy”
synonyms: goldbricker
glosses: A shirker or malingerer.
synonyms: goldbricker
glosses: A swindler.
goldbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goldbricks
form: goldbricking
form: goldbricked
form: goldbricked
form: gold-brick
form: gold brick
Etymology: From gold + brick, originally (1850s) an actual gold ingot or brick, later a swindle that consisted of selling a putative gold brick, which was only coated in gold. The swindle is attested from 1879, the sense “to swindle” is attested 1902, and the sense “to shirk” is attested 1914, popularized as World War I armed forces slang. In early 1900s, used to refer to an unattractive young woman – not pretty, nor able to talk or dance (attested 1903), thence to refer to incompetent enlisted troops at the start of World War I, reinforced by the rank insignia of second lieutenants, which was a gold rectangle.
Senses: examples: text: I'd just as soon goldbrick with malaria as with anything else.
ref: 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 173:
text: He learned to despise the Germans, people he once thought fit to rule the world, but now so craven they ate French dirt for a glass of cheap campagne; he mastered the art of goldbricking. Sitting at his desk, bored and full of hate, he got fat and dreamed of Paris.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, “The Assault on Notre-Dame”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
glosses: To shirk or malinger.
glosses: To swindle.
Derived terms: goldbricker
goldfilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goldfilled
form: most goldfilled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gold-filled.
gold-filled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: goldfilled
form: gold filled
Senses: glosses: Having a layer of gold applied to the surface
Related terms: gold-plated
goldplated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goldplated
form: most goldplated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gold-plated.
gold-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡəʊldˈpleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˌɡoʊldˈpleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: goldplated
form: gold plated
Senses: glosses: Having a thin layer of gold applied to the surface, often by electrolysis.
examples: text: One often hears of gold plated designs with reference to our engineers lack of concern for cost.
ref: 1988, Sadhan Choudhury, “Concepts of Project Management”, in Project Management, Tata McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 33:
text: We have to do enough that works. Not a gold-plated program, but a solid one
ref: 2001, United States Congress, quoting Senator Max Baucus, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 107th Congress, First Session, Volume 147—Part 4: March 27, 2001 to April 23, 2001, Government Printing Office, Congressional Record—Senate April 3, 2001, page 5264:
text: The consequence of this regulatory approach is that it has provided an opportunity for airport companies to exercise their market power indirectly through higher-than-necessary levels of investment in capacity and in costly gold-plated investment.
ref: 2008, David Starkie, “Testing the Regulatory Model”, in Aviation Markets: Studies on Competition and Regulatory Reform, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 108:
text: There are countless examples of gold-plated or excessive infrastructure projects — whether publicly or privately financed.
ref: 2008, Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development, “Economic and Policy Instruments to Promote Adapation”, in Shardul Agrawala, Samuel Frankhauser, editors, Economic Aspects of Adaptation to Climate Change: Costs, Benefits and Policy, OECD Publishing, →ISBN, Public private partnerships, page 125:
text: "[...] We could have made this a gold-plated railway but that would have cost a considerable amount more than £40m."
ref: 2021 November 17, Andrew Mourant, “Okehampton: a new dawn for Dartmoor”, in RAIL, number 944, page 41:
qualifier: systems
glosses: Incorporating costly or otherwise excessive features or refinements unnecessarily; overengineered.
raw_tags: of projects
examples: text: Has society introduced swathes of new gold-plated regulations?
ref: 2002 January 29, Peter Ainsworth, “Farming and Food Commission Report”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), column 155:
text: The UK has this gold-plated approach, is that beneficial to the UK in terms of the rest of Europe and in terms of the business and the employees? Do we benefit to a greater degree by adopting such an approach
ref: 2007, House of Lords: European Union Committee, quoting Baroness Gale, Modernising European Union Labour Law: Has the UK Anything to Gain?, Report with Evidence, 22nd Report of Session 2006-07, The Stationery Office, →ISBN, 29 March 2007: Ms Susan Anderston and Mr Tom Moran, page 32:
qualifier: regulations
glosses: Embellished to excess, especially so as to be stifling, or rigid and inflexible.
raw_tags: of laws
Related terms: gold plate
gold-plated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡəʊldˈpleɪtɪd/
ipa: /ˌɡoʊldˈpleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Forms: form: goldplated
form: gold plated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gold-plate
Related terms: gild the lily
uncountable set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncountable sets
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set, containing infinite number of elements, whose elements can not be mapped one-to-one to the natural numbers. A set with a cardinality greater than that of the set of natural numbers.
gonadal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gonad + -al.
Senses: examples: text: In the future, artificial means of reproduction will become possible. Perhaps we will inject the genetic material from one of each partner's sperm into either a synthetic human cell or a gonadal cell with its own nuclear DNA removed beforehand, and grow the resulting emmbryo to term in an artificial uterus.
ref: 1987 April 25, Robert Halfhill, “Genetically Superior Queers: Sound Biological Evidence”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the gonads
Derived terms: accessory gonadal structure
adrenogonadal
agonadal
epigonadal
eugonadal
extragonadal
gonadally
hypogonadal
intragonadal
nongonadal
perigonadal
splenogonadal
urogonadal
uncountable sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncountable set
gonorrheal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gonorrhoeal
form: gonorrhœal
Etymology: From gonorrhea + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with gonorrhoea
Derived terms: nongonorrheal
license plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: license plates
form: spelling
form: licence plate
Senses: synonyms: word: number plate
word: registration plate
glosses: An identifying tag, usually made of metal, bearing a sequence of letters or numbers identifying the vehicle, and placed at the rear and, often, also at the front of a motor vehicle.
libricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libricides
Etymology: From Latin liber, librī + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The destruction of books.
Synonyms: biblioclasm
Related terms: bibliocide
gyno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: gyn-
form: gyne-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γυνή (gunḗ, “woman, female”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to women.
antonyms: andro-
glosses: Of or pertaining to the female reproductive system.
Synonyms: gynaeco-
gynæco-
gyneco-
Derived terms: gynecomastia
gynococracy
gynocologist
gynocology
gynomimesis
gynomimetic
gynophile
gynophilia
gynosexual
gynosexuality
gyn-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gyno-.
Kirlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the inventor's surname.
Senses: examples: text: "It is not the purpose of this chapter to debate the meaning of the Kirlian effect but to provide step-by-step instructions on how to build your own Kirlian apparatus so that you can experiment with it in your own garage."
ref: 1990, Gordon McComb, Gordon McComb's Gadgeteers Goldmine: 55 Space-age Projects, →ISBN, page 77:
text: "The roots of Kirlian photography are in observations of patterns produced in resin dust by high-voltage discharges."
ref: 2000, Newton C. Braga, Electronic Projects from the Next Dimension: Paranormal Experiments for Hobbyists, →ISBN, page 128:
text: "Kirlian photography is a technique that allows the etheric energy patterns around living things to be photographed."
ref: 2002, William Lee Rand, Reiki, the Healing Touch, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Russian inventor Semyon Davidovich Kirlian, and to his process of recording corona discharges from the surface of objects onto photographic plates.
Kirlian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the inventor's surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Russian.
Derived terms: Kirlian photography
Kirlianography
Kirlianographic
denumerable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The word was introduced around the beginning of the 20th century, from Latin denumerō (“to count out”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The empty set is not denumerable because it is finite; the rational numbers are, surprisingly, denumerable because every possible fraction can be assigned a natural number and vice versa.
topics: mathematics
sciences
synonyms: countable
countably infinite
glosses: Capable of being assigned a bijection to the natural numbers. Applied to sets which are not finite, but have a one-to-one mapping to the natural numbers.
Derived terms: denumerability
denumerably
indenumerable
nondenumerable
non-denumerable
Related terms: countable set
uncountable set
enumerable
regioselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regioselective
form: most regioselective
Etymology: From regio- + selective.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a chemical reaction in which the production of one structural isomer is favoured over all others
Synonyms: regiospecific
Related terms: regioselectivity
regiospecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more regiospecific
form: most regiospecific
Etymology: From regio- + specific.
Senses: glosses: regioselective
stereoselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stereoselective
form: most stereoselective
Etymology: From stereo- + selective.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of a chemical reaction in which the production of one stereoisomer is favoured over all others.
Synonyms: stereospecific
neurodegenerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurodegenerative
form: most neurodegenerative
Etymology: From neuro- + degenerative.
Senses: examples: text: neurodegenerative disease
text: A very rare polymorphism in the prion protein gene recently has been identified that appears to protect against prion disease; this finding, in addition to providing greater understanding of the prionlike mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders, might lead to potential treatments.
ref: 2015 December 21, Michael D. Geschwind, “Prion Diseases”, in Continuum (Minneap Minn), →DOI:
text: It doesn’t help that symptoms of Alzheimer’s develop gradually and slowly and a diagnosis might only be made years after the brain has started to undergo neurodegenerative changes.
ref: 2018 January 18, Jürgen Götz, “Why it’s so hard to treat dementia”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resulting in the progressive loss of nerve cells and of neurologic function.
Derived terms: antineurodegenerative
neurodegeneratively
neurodegenerative disease
amyotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amyotrophic
form: most amyotrophic
Etymology: From amyotrophy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The “Euphoria” and “Grey’s Anatomy” actor announced on Thursday that he has been diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease.
ref: 2025 April 10, Dan Heching, “Eric Dane shares that he has been diagnosed with ALS”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by amyotrophy (atrophy of the muscles).
Derived terms: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
wedge product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedge products
Senses: topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A way of representing an exterior product using a wedge symbol: ∧.
Related terms: antiwedge product
daises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daïses
form: deises
Senses: glosses: plural of dais.
apocalyptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɒ.kə.lɪp.tɪkəli/
Etymology: From apocalyptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an apocalyptic manner.
examples: text: Aerial warfare and the atomic bomb, which he “invented” in The War in the Air (1908) and The World Set Free (1914), have proved as apocalyptically destructive as he prophesied.
ref: 1834, William Rose Benet, The Reader's Encyclopedia Second Edition, page 1082:
text: I hope I appear not to speak too apocalyptically in saying that the problem is still there to minister to our interest and perhaps even a little to our anxiety.
ref: 1893, Henry James, Essays in London and Elsewhere, Harper & Brothers, page 185:
text: Juxtaposing a secular vision of an earth apocalyptically destroyed through the activities of a Euro-American culture devoted to exploiting resources in every possible way with an equally apocalyptic, sacred vision of the age of the coming of the fifth world in which the culture of destruction will pass away, Silko depicts a world in which apocalypse saturates the everyday, undoing the realism of the nuclear complex by positioning it in a different timeline that has a different past, a different future, and a different present to anything that the nuclear state might think to contain in even its most totalizing attempts to model the world.
ref: 1929, American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism and Bibliography, Duke University Press, page 773:
text: The Hobo of the Ideal disappeared from my life as apocalyptically as he had come. He stood with me in front of the window of the Press, pointed to a bulletin saying that the Chicago anarchists had been hanged, and whispered to me, “The time has come!”
ref: 1931, The American Mercury 1931-05: Volume 23, Issue 89, Sunway Media, page 104:
text: The protagonist of Shame is a retarded, completely innocent girl who becomes a universal emotional surrogate, absorbing the shame for the acts of the power-hungry characters around her and turning into a monstrous and apocalyptically destructive force.
ref: 1986, Current Biography Yearbook, H. W. Wilson Company, page 481:
glosses: In a manner portending future disaster, devastation, and doom.
digitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/
ipa: /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).
Senses: glosses: Having digits, fingers or things shaped like fingers; fingerlike
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having parts that spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Derived terms: bidigitate
digitately
multidigitate
paridigitate
polydigitate
quadridigitate
quinquedigitate
sexdigitate
subdigitate
tridigitate
unidigitate
Related terms: palmate
digitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪdʒɪtət/
ipa: /ˈdɪdʒɪteɪt/
Forms: form: digitates
form: digitating
form: digitated
form: digitated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1661, the verb in 1657; the adjective was borrowed from Latin digitātus (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), the verb from digitātus, perfect passive participle of digitō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)).
Senses: examples: text: The supine resting on Water onely by retention of Air[…]doth digitate a reason.
ref: 1658, John Robinson, Eudoxa:
glosses: To point out as with one's finger, indicate.
examples: text: But what is most worthy of notice is, that the greater number of muscular fibres arising from the coracoid and radio-ulnar bones form a pectoral muscle, superficial to the other fibres of the great lateral, and digitating with them along the side of the fish opposite the extremities of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth ribs.
ref: 1857 December 23, John Cleland, “On the Skeleton, Muscles, and Viscera of Malapterurus Beninensis”, in Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, volume 1, Edinburgh, published 1858, page 393:
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To spread out from a common point in a finger-like manner.
Derived terms: digitation
interdigitate
Related terms: digit
digital
protoplanet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoplanets
Etymology: From proto- + planet.
Senses: examples: text: Tyrix, one of the largest objects in Thal's asteroid belt, is a metallic asteroid with an iron-nickel core under a rocky olivine mantle. It is possibly a remnant protoplanet prevented from forming into anything bigger by gravitational disturbances from Xerceo.
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tyrix:
glosses: An astronomical object, approximately the size of the Moon, formed from the mutual gravitational attraction of planetesimals; they are thought to collide with each other and slowly form planets
Derived terms: protoplanetary
planetesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetesimals
Etymology: Formed from planet by analogy with infinitesimal.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of many small, solid astronomical objects that orbit a star and form protoplanets through mutual gravitational attraction.
Derived terms: exoplanetesimal
preplanetesimal
protoplanetesimal
satellitesimal
Related terms: protoplanet
planetoid
minor planet
dwarf planet
major planet
superplanet
planet
planemo
mesoplanet
asteroid
planetesimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed from planet by analogy with infinitesimal.
Senses: examples: a planetesimal body
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Being or relating to one of these astronomical objects.
cladoxylopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladoxylopsids
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants, known only as fossils, that are thought to be ancestors of ferns and horsetails
cladoxylopsid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these plants, of the extinct class †Cladoxylopsida
Kari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Norwegian Kari, diminutive of Katrine.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Swedish, of recent usage, equivalent to English Carrie or Cary.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of Saturn.
Kari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karis
Etymology: Two possible origins:
* Borrowed from Finnish Kari, an ornamental surname from kari (“rock, skerry”).
* Borrowed from Marathi करी (karī), a surname of unexplained origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
coolth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kuːlθ/
rhymes: -uːlθ
Forms: form: coolths
Etymology: From cool + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Compare Old Dutch kuolitha (“coolness”).
Senses: examples: text: Froid: m. Cold, cooth^([sic]); coldneſſe, chilneſſe.
ref: 1611, Randle Cotgrave, compiler, “Froid”, in A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, signature Rr, verso, column 2:
text: In the evening my father and Mrs Thrale seated themselves out of doors, just before the Blue-room windows, for coolth and chat; […]
ref: 1842, Fanny Burney, Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay:
text: Through the speckled shadow of the great deodar-forests […] and back into the woodlands’ coolth again […]
ref: 1900 December – 1901 October, Rudyard Kipling, Kim, London: Macmillan and Co., published 1901, →OCLC:
text: The water pushed large blocks of tepid air about around his chair, giving the faint illusion of freshness and coolth.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Penguin, published 2004, page 628:
text: This they do, not only convectively by passing cooler air over the skins of building occupants, but also using radiant coolth.
ref: 2012, David Crichton, Fergus Nicol, Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change:
text: Her voice was an odd mixture of cordiality and coolth.
ref: 2017, Stephanie Huesler, The Price of Freedom, Indie 2017 (Northing Trilogy), p. 253
glosses: The state of being cool, temperature-wise; coolness.
exasperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exasperate
bestung
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bestung
form: most bestung
Etymology: From be- + stung.
Senses: examples: text: No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung.
ref: 1830, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations, page 383:
text: After all, however, it was lucky for us that it was so, for the skin over the whole of our bodies was so bestung that we no longer felt the biting of lice or bugs, although it was impossible to get used to the stinging of those other insects.
ref: 1862, Václav Vratislav, Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw: what he saw in Constantinople, in his captivity, page 129:
text: We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals.
ref: 1872, Sir Henry Morton Stanley, How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa, page 595:
text: ...in homicidal feud, By slight punctilio urged, a jealous smart Against his friend be to deal a blow bestung,—
ref: 1904, William Everett, The Italian Poets Since Dante, page 181:
text: From the day of his landing mosquitoes and black flies marked the Spectator for their own, and before his week at Tijuca was over he was so bestung that his best friend might have been forgiven for passing him upon the street.
ref: 1935, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook, page 167:
glosses: Having been stung.
unnumbered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English unnoumbird, unnoumbrid, un-nowmbyrde, unnowmyrd; equivalent to un- + numbered.
Senses: examples: text: unnumbered paragraphs
glosses: Not identified with a number.
examples: text: unnumbered ways
synonyms: word: numberless
word: unnumberable
word: innumerable
word: countless
word: innumerable
word: numberless
word: uncountable
word: uncounted
word: unnumberable
word: unnumbered
word: untold
glosses: Too numerous to be counted.
pendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The long pendency of the case before this dismissal suggests deep disagreements among the justices on the substantive issues.
ref: 2018, Rory Little, Opinion analysis: A DIG in Vogt', SCOTUSblog, May 29, 2018
glosses: The state of being pendent; suspension.
Derived terms: equipendency
pendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛndənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
homophone: pendant
Forms: form: more pendent
form: most pendent
Etymology: From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.
Senses: examples: text: Now had they brought the work by wondrous Art / Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock / Over the vext Abyſs, […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 312–314:
text: Nectar ran / In courteous fountains to all cups outreach'd; / And plunder'd vines, teeming exhaustless, pleach'd / New growth about each shell and pendent lyre; […]
ref: 1818, John Keats, “Book III”, in Endymion: A Poetic Romance, London: […] T[homas] Miller, […] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, page 149, lines 932–935:
text: The doctor's head [...] was framed in the golden semi-circle of a wig with long pendent curls that touched his shoulders […]
ref: 1936, Djuna Barnes, Nightwood, Faber & Faber, published 2007, page 71:
text: An interesting development has been the analysis of the image of a pendent drop by a video digitizer.
ref: 1986, Bryant W Rossiter, Roger C Baetzold, Investigations of Surfaces and Interfaces:
glosses: Dangling, drooping, hanging down or suspended.
glosses: Pending (in various senses).
topics: architecture
glosses: Either hanging in some sense, or constructed of multiple elements such as the voussoirs of an arch or the pendentives of a dome, none of which can stand on its own, but which in combination are stable.
raw_tags: of a structure
examples: text: Jandrell, Sa. three buckles, the tongues pendent ar. two and a one.
ref: 1780, Joseph Edmondson, A Complete Body of Heraldry:
text: Az. a chev. or, betw. three acorns, pendent, Kymberlee.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry, page 89:
text: JAUDRILL. Ermines, three round buckles ar. tongues pendent.
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, page 49:
text: page 207: de CAMPO REAL: chequy Sable and Argent on a chief Gules a crescent pendent of the field.
ref: 1981, Bruno Bernhard Heim, Armorial Bruno Bernard Heim, Colin Smythe:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Hanging or pointed downward; (of a crescent) with its horns pointing downward.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Incomplete in some sense, such as lacking a finite verb.
raw_tags: of a sentence
glosses: Projecting over something; overhanging.
Derived terms: pendent jurisdiction
pendently
semipendent
Related terms: pendentive
pendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛndənt/
rhymes: -ɛndənt
homophone: pendant
Forms: form: pendents
Etymology: From Middle English pendaunt, Anglo-Norman pendaunt, pendant, respelled to reflect Latin pendēns, pendentis, present participle of pendere (“to hang, to be suspended”). Compare pendant, which retained the spelling.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pendant.
memorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorates
form: memorat
Etymology: From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.
Senses: examples: text: An undemonstrable legend is no legend at all. One must postulate that every fabulate is based on a memorate.
ref: 1974, Linda Dégh, Andrew Vázsonyi, “The memorate and the proto-memorate”, in The Journal of American Folklore, volume 87, →DOI, page 232:
topics: arts
folklore
history
human-sciences
literature
media
publishing
sciences
glosses: an oral narrative from memory relating a personal experience, especially the precursor of a legend.
memorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: memorates
form: memorating
form: memorated
form: memorated
form: memorat
Etymology: From Latin memorātus, past participle of memorāre (“to bring to remembrance, mention, recount”), from memor (“remembering”); see memory.
Senses: glosses: to commemorate
glosses: to memorize
Related terms: fabulate
memorandum
memory
news desk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news desks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of newsdesk.
newsdesk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsdesks
form: news desk
Etymology: From news + desk.
Senses: glosses: The department of a newspaper or broadcasting organization responsible for the collecting of news from journalists and others, and for distributing it to editors.
news wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: news wires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of newswire.
newswire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newswires
form: news wire
Etymology: From news + wire.
Senses: glosses: A service used for the transmission of breaking news to the media or to the public.
Related terms: wire service
antigonon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antigonons
Senses: glosses: Any of three American vines, of the genus Antigonon, including the chain of hearts and the coral vine
antecedently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antecedently
form: most antecedently
Etymology: From antecedent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The History of Brute and the Brutans setteth forth. Principally and antecedently their persons, & in them sheweth the geneallogy or issue which they had, artes which they studied, actes which they did.
ref: 1593, Richard Harvey, Philadelphus, London: John Wolfe:
text: […] it does not at all appear, that all Mixtures must be of Elementary Bodies; but it seems farr more probable, that there are divers sorts of compound Bodies, even in regard of all or some of their Ingredients, consider’d Antecedently to their Mixture.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist, Part 4, pp. 214-215:
text: […] nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and […] all ideas are deriv’d from something antecedently present to the mind;
ref: 1739, David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, London: John Noon, Volume 1, Part 2, Section 6, p. 123:
text: She had never antecedently regarded this occupation of his as any objection to having him for a husband.
ref: 1896, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales, New York: Harper, page 4:
text: The case of envy just described is one in which we feel joy or sadness at the sadness or joy of one we antecedently hate.
ref: 2008, Michael Della Rocca, chapter 4, in Spinoza, London: Routledge, page 161:
synonyms: beforehand
earlier
precedently
previously
antonyms: afterward
later
subsequently
glosses: At an earlier time.
Uniat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ăt'
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'
ipa: /ˈjuː.niːˌæt/
ipa: /ˈjuː.niːˌɪt/
rhymes: -æt
rhymes: -ɪt
Etymology: 19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) + -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).
Senses: examples: text: The Greek Uniat Archbishop at Polotzki Johannes Krasszofsky has sent 1970 rubles in bank assignments
ref: 1818, [From the two Burjat Nobles to their Prince], “Russia”, in Report - British and Foreign Bible Society, volume 15, London: Bible House, →OCLC, page 192:
text: temporal advantages were held out to the Uniat Greeks: no change was at first enforced
ref: 1850, John M. Neale, A History of the Holy Eastern Church, volume 1, London [u.a.]: Masters, →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Uniate
Uniat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ăt'
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'
ipa: /ˈjuː.niːˌæt/
ipa: /ˈjuː.niːˌɪt/
rhymes: -æt
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: Uniats
Etymology: 19th c., borrowed from Russian униат (uniat, “a united Greek”, noun), from Polish uniat (“one having the characteristics of union”), from unia (“union”) + -at (“-ate”), from Latin ūniō (“union”).
Senses: examples: text: They are worse than the Uniats: they never look into the church of God
ref: 1926, “A terrible revenge”, in Constance Garnett, transl., edited by Rudy Panko, Evenings on a farm near Dikanka (The collected works of Nickolay Gogol), New York: A. A. Knopf, translation of Страшная месть [Strašnaja mestʹ] by Nikolai Gogol, →OCLC:
roman: Strašnaja mestʹ
synonyms: Eastern Catholic
hypernyms: Catholic
glosses: Alternative spelling of Uniate.
Uniate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪ.ət/
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-āt'
ipa: /ˈju.niˌɪt/
ipa: /ˈju.niˌeɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: Uniat
Etymology: See Uniat.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a Uniate Church
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Uniates
Uniate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuː.nɪ.ət/
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-ĭt'
enpr: yo͞oʹnē-āt'
ipa: /ˈju.niˌɪt/
ipa: /ˈju.niˌeɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: Uniates
form: Uniat
Etymology: See Uniat.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Uniate.
glosses: A member of a Uniate Church
Synonyms: Eastern Catholic
Hypernyms: Catholic
Hyponyms: Armenian Catholic
Coptic Catholic
Eritrean Catholic
Ethiopian Catholic
Greek Catholic
Maronite
Syriac Catholic
oligomerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oligomerizes
form: oligomerizing
form: oligomerized
form: oligomerized
Etymology: From oligomer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To react together to form an oligomer.
Derived terms: deoligomerize
heterooligomerize
homooligomerize
Related terms: oligomerization
polymerize
oligomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligomerizations
Etymology: From oligomer + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The formation of an oligomer from a monomer
Derived terms: deoligomerization
heterooligomerization
homooligomerization
Related terms: oligomerize
biohydrogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + hydrogen.
Senses: glosses: hydrogen produced biologically (mostly by bacteria) as a biofuel
basun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Powdered gram used in cookery or in cleansing the hair, etc.
excelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excel
goodhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʊd.hɑː.təd/
ipa: /ɡʊd.hɑɹ.təd/
Forms: form: more goodhearted
form: most goodhearted
form: good-hearted
Etymology: From Middle English gode herted; equivalent to good + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: She saw that Velvin, if a stubborn man, was a very simple and very goodhearted one, and she prided herself on her skill in sweetly reasonable persuasion of the lower classes.
ref: 1921, Anthony Wharton, chapter 3, in Joan of Overbarrow, pages 45–46:
glosses: kind, generous and altruistic
Synonyms: warm-hearted
Derived terms: goodheartedly
goodheartedness
goodheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goodheartedly
form: most goodheartedly
Etymology: From goodhearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a goodhearted manner
bused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌst
ipa: /bʌst/
homophone: bust
Forms: form: bussed
Senses: examples: text: In the three weeks since, the city has repeatedly relocated evacuees on short notice. To reopen schools, it bused many to armories, turning drill floors into open dormitories for the first time since a 1980s lawsuit halted the practice.
ref: 2012 November 20, Nina Bernstein, “Storm Bared a Lack of Options for the Homeless in New York”, in New York Times:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bus
goodheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-heartedness
Etymology: From goodhearted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being goodhearted
goodhumored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodhumored
form: most goodhumored
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-humored.
goodhumoredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goodhumoredly
form: most goodhumoredly
Senses: glosses: In a good-humored manner
good-humored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-humored
form: more good-humored
form: best-humored
form: most good-humored
form: goodhumored
form: goodhumoured
form: good-humoured
Senses: examples: text: Lady Feng was at the moment having a little goodhumoured raillery with Yüan Yang, and was taken so much off her guard, that she was quite startled out of her senses.
ref: 1892–1893, Cao Xueqin, translated by H. Bencraft Joly, Hung Lou Mêng; or, The Dream of the Red Chamber; a Chinese Novel, Hong Kong: Kelly & Walsh, →OCLC:
glosses: Happy, cheerful, amiable.
Derived terms: good-humoredly
good-humoredness
good-humouredly
Related terms: good humor
goodnatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodnatured
form: most goodnatured
Senses: examples: text: There is at times said he—a little self-importance—but it is not offensive;—& there are moments, there are points, when her Love of Money is carried greatly too far. But she is a goodnatured Woman, a very goodnatured Woman,—a very obliging, friendly Neighbour; a chearful, independant, valuable character.—and her faults may be entirely imputed to her want of Education.
ref: 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 3, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, page 34:
english: Sanditon
translation: Sanditon
glosses: Alternative spelling of good-natured.
goodnaturedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more goodnaturedly
form: most goodnaturedly
form: good-naturedly
Senses: glosses: In a good-natured manner
goodsized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodsized
form: most goodsized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-sized.
good-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more good-sized
form: most good-sized
form: goodsized
Senses: examples: text: Gas and electric bills take a good-sized chunk of my salary.
text: So, when they came to a good sized farm house, Dorothy walked boldly up to the door and knocked.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Guardian of the Gate”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, pages 111–112:
synonyms: good-size
glosses: Of a reasonably large size.
goodtempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more goodtempered
form: most goodtempered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of good-tempered.
good-tempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: better-tempered
form: more good-tempered
form: best-tempered
form: most good-tempered
form: goodtempered
Etymology: From good + tempered.
Senses: glosses: Not easily irritated; affable.
Derived terms: good-temperedness
keyed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keyed up
form: most keyed up
Etymology: From the phrasal verb key up.
Senses: examples: text: She was all keyed up about the interview.
glosses: Nervous; worried.
keyed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From the phrasal verb key up.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of key up
Bøur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Faroese Bøur.
Senses: glosses: A village in the Sørvágur Municipality, on the island of Vágar, Faroe Islands.
tast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasts
Senses: examples: text: The petty ſtreames that paie a dailie det / To their ſalt ſoveraigne with their freſh fals haſt, / Adde to his flowe, but alter not his taſt.
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC:
text: the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast / Brought Death into the World
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 1-3:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of taste.
justifie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: justifies
form: justifying
form: justified
form: justified
Senses: examples: text: I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the wayes of God to men.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 25-6:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of justify.
waye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of weigh.
examples: text: I may assert Eternal Providence, / And justifie the wayes of God to men.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 25-6:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of way.