cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lash
recriminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkɹɪmɪneɪt/
Forms: form: recriminates
form: recriminating
form: recriminated
form: recriminated
Etymology: From Latin recrīminātus, past participle of recrīminō.
Senses: examples: text: Tom said Harry had lied, and Harry recriminated by saying Tom had manipulated him.
text: It is not my business to recriminate, hoping sufficiently to clear myself in this matter.
ref: 1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church:
text: Besides, he might come and begin a string of abuse or complainings; I’m certain I should recriminate, and God knows where we should end!
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XI, in Wuthering Heights:
glosses: To accuse in return, state an accusation in return, make a countercharge.
messes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mess
messes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mess
ditches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of ditch
ditches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ditch
crashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of crash
crashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crash
bashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of bash
bashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bash
bosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boss
bosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boss
tosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toss
tosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toss
gashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gash
gashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gash
itches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of itch
itches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of itch
pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitch
pitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pitch
sashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sash
yeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jɛsɪz/
Forms: form: yesses
Senses: examples: text: Emily was seated in a window; but there was room for two, and her unsuspected lover took his place. Mechanically she shut the book, assumed an attitude of attention, and prepared a few yeses.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 322:
glosses: plural of yes
yeses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /jɛsɪz/
Forms: form: yesses
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yes
beaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
homophone: beeches
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of beach
beaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -iːtʃɪz
homophone: beeches
rhymes: -ɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beach
hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of hitch
hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ɪtʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hitch
twitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twitch
twitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of twitch
searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɜːtʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of search
searches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈsɜːtʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of search
birches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birch
birches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of birch
to a fault
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I am trusting to a fault.
text: 1710, Isaac Norris, Friendly Advice to the Inhabitants of Pensilvania, Andrew Bradford (Philadelphia), p. 2,
He also had that good qualification, of a moderate expectation, almost to a fault.
text: These mosquitoes […] are feeble, insignificant in size, diffident to a fault.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter 34, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC:
text: Fitz-Roy's character was a singular one, with very many noble features: he was devoted to his duty, generous to a fault, bold, determined, and indomitably energetic.
ref: 1887, Charles Darwin, chapter 3, in The Autobiography of Charles Darwin:
text: Madam, I'm as gentle as a jellyfish, and peaceful to a fault.
ref: 1904, Rex Ellingwood Beach, “Pardners”, in Pardners:
text: Self-deprecating to a fault, he refuses any praise for his work.
ref: 2001 February 13, Aparisim Ghosh, “Subcontinental Drift: Shining Star”, in Time:
text: Charles has been described by his biographer Catherine Mayer as “loyal to a fault. Sometimes to the point of fault,” but this was too much.
ref: 2025 October 30, Robert Booth, “Not in this together: King Charles cuts Andrew loose to save royal family’s repute”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: to an extent
glosses: To an excessive degree; extremely; counterproductively.
underpasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underpass
caresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of caress
caresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈɹɛsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of caress
guesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛsɪz/
rhymes: -ɛsɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of guess
guesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɛsɪz/
rhymes: -ɛsɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of guess
wenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wench
rims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rim
rims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rim
punches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punch
punches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of punch
pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinch
pinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinch
bumps race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bumps races
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: A form of rowing race in which a number of boats chase each other in single file; each boat attempts to catch the boat in front without being caught by the boat behind.
hunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌnt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌntʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of hunch
hunches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌnt͡ʃɪz/
rhymes: -ʌntʃɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hunch
metalepsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metalepses
Etymology: From Latin metalēpsis, from Ancient Greek μετάληψις (metálēpsis, “succession”), from Ancient Greek μετά (metá, “after”) and λαμβάνω (lambánō, “I take”).
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which is itself a metonym; more broadly, a metaphor consisting of a series of embedded metonyms or rhetorical substitutions.
Synonyms: transumption
metonymical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more metonymical
form: most metonymical
Etymology: From metonym + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Meander is a Riuer in Lycia, a Prouince of Natolia, or Aſia minor famous for the ſinuoſitie and often turning thereof, riſing from certaine hills in Meonia, hereupon are intricate turnings by a tranſumptive and metonimicall kind of ſpeech, called Meanders, for this Riuer did ſo ſtrangely path it ſelfe, that the foote ſeemed to touch the head.
ref: 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] The Epistle of Rosamond to King Henry the Second. Notes of the Chronicle Historie.”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC, folios 4, verso – 5, recto:
glosses: Synonym of metonymic, of or relating to metonymy.
synonyms: word: metonymic
word: of or relating to metonymy
Derived terms: metonymically
metol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a trade name, presumably a shortened form of the chemical name.
Senses: topics: arts
chemistry
hobbies
lifestyle
natural-sciences
photography
physical-sciences
glosses: The sulphate of 4-methylaminophenol, used as a photographic developer
Synonyms: elon
p-methylaminophenol sulfate
sacration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrations
Etymology: From Latin sacrātiō(n) (“dedication, consecration”).
Senses: examples: text: He was not certain whether the pious donations of the eleventh century were sacrations to God or the Devil, but he was quite certain that the patrimony of the Crown was as much sacratum as the revenue of the Church.
ref: 1890, William Arthur Shaw, Minutes of the Manchester Presbyterian Classis. [1646-1660]:
text: Transcendence is the key characteristic of the sacration model — the world is suffused with the divine. Optimism is strong, since sacration is an evolutionary process.
ref: 1976, Robert Bundy, Images of the future: the twenty-first century and beyond, page 179:
text: We do well to remember that long before "the Sacred" appeared in discourse as a substantive (a usage that does not antedate Durkheim), it was primarily employed in verbal forms, most especially with the sense of making an individual a king or bishop (as in the obsolete English verbs to sacrate or to sacre), or in adjectival forms denoting the result of the process of sacration.
ref: 1992, Jonathan Z. Smith, To Take Place: Toward Theory in Ritual:
glosses: A coronation or consecration.
Related terms: sacrate
sacrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacrates
form: sacrating
form: sacrated
form: sacrated
Senses: glosses: To consecrate or dedicate
sacrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sacrate
form: most sacrate
Senses: glosses: consecrated; hallowed, sacred
sacrary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacraries
Senses: synonyms: sacrarium
glosses: A sacred building, or store for sacred objects; a shrine.
sacrarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈkɹɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /səˈkɹɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: sacrariums
form: sacraria
Etymology: From Latin sacrārium.
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a place where sacred objects were kept, either in a temple (the adytum) or in a house (holding the penates)
examples: text: The hay-trusser deposited his basket by the font, went up the nave till he reached the altar-rails, and opening the gate entered the sacrarium, where he seemed to feel a sense of the strangeness for a moment; then he knelt upon the footpace.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 2, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: 2016, Martin Pousson, Black Sheep Boy, Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, Part I, “Wanted Man,”
The bathroom looked like a radiant sacristy, the sink a piscine, the drain a sacrarium.
glosses: The area surrounding the altar of a Christian church; the sanctuary or piscina. Sometimes specifically a drain directly to the earth, perhaps including reference to a basin, for washing vessels from consecration.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The complex sacrum of any bird.
Mother's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mother's Days
form: Mothers' Day
form: Mothers Day
Etymology: From Anna Jarvis's campaign in the early 20th century, which insisted on using a singular spelling in order to associate the day with observants' particular mothers.
Senses: glosses: A day in honor of one's mother on the second Sunday in May in the United States and Canada.
glosses: Synonym of Mothering Sunday, the fourth Sunday of Lent, a moveable feast three weeks before Easter, used as a day in honor of mothers in some Commonwealth countries.
synonyms: word: Mothering Sunday
extra: the fourth Sunday of Lent, a moveable feast three weeks before Easter, used as a day in honor of mothers in some Commonwealth countries
glosses: Other similar holidays honoring mothers or one's mother in various countries.
Related terms: Father's Day
cotton swab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotton swabs
Senses: glosses: A small wad of cotton wrapped around the end of a small rod, made of wood, rolled paper, or plastic. The most common uses for cotton swabs include aural hygiene and cosmetics application.
Synonyms: sense: cotton wrapped around end of rod
word: cotton bud
sense: cotton wrapped around end of rod
word: cotton wool bud
sense: cotton wrapped around end of rod
word: ear bud
sense: cotton wrapped around end of rod
word: Q-tip
denseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: densenesses
Etymology: From dense + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being dense, as:
Thickheadedness: limited mental capacity.
glosses: The quality of being dense, as:
Density: mass per unit volume.
harpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harpy
candies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candie
glosses: plural of candy
candies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of candy
flurries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flurry
flurries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flurry
GUID
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GUIDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of globally unique identifier.
Related terms: UUID
globally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡloʊbəli/
ipa: /ˈɡləʊbəli/
Etymology: From global + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In all places or situations.
examples: text: Biden and his spokespeople have proudly touted his signature COVID relief bill as a major stimulus for policing in a national context already characterized by globally unparalleled police spending.
ref: 2022 January 25, Eric Reinhardt, “How Joe Biden Launched a New Prison Boom”, in Slate:
glosses: Over the entire planet.
Derived terms: gravatar
nonglobally
Related terms: global
globe
tardigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪˌɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more tardigrade
form: most tardigrade
Etymology: From Latin tardigradus (“slowly stepping”), from tardus (“slow”) + gradior (“step, walk”).
Senses: examples: text: Each tendril ending in a perfect claw, / Obeys the whole routine of Nature's law; / Transforms each sinus to a sylvan shade, / Though p'rhaps its force is rather tardigrade.
ref: 1850, Joses Badcock, “Botany; or, Phytology”, in Poems, volume 1, page 67:
text: He ran on into the piazza, but he quickly heard the tramp of feet behind him, for the other two prisoners had been released, and the soldiers were struggling and fighting their way after them, in such tardigrade fashion as their hoof-shaped shoes would allow—impeded, but not very resolutely attacked, by the people.
ref: 1863, George Eliot, Romola:
text: In sorrow, its voice is tardigrade but loud, dragging time at a snail's pace before our eyes.
ref: 2001, Richard S. Conde, “The Metronome”, in Century One, →ISBN, page 92:
glosses: Sluggish; moving slowly.
Derived terms: tardigradous
tardigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɑɹdɪˌɡɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: tardigrades
Etymology: From translingual Tardigrada.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: water bear
glosses: A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
glosses: A sloth, a neotropical mammal of suborder Folivora (syn. Tardigrada).
Hyponyms: macrobiotid
vanities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity
irregularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irregularity
strategies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strategy
capacities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capacity
water bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water bears
Etymology: Calque of German Wasserbär, used to describe these animals by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773. Equivalent to water + bear.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: moss piglet
pudgy wudgy
space bear
tardigrade
glosses: A member of the animal phylum Tardigrada.
simple microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple microscopes
Senses: glosses: A microscope with only one lens.
Related terms: compound microscope
compound microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compound microscopes
Senses: glosses: A microscope with more than one lens, arranged so that the image formed by one lens is further magnified by another.
Related terms: simple microscope
weet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Forms: form: weets
form: weeting
form: weeted
form: weeted
Etymology: From Middle English weten, a Middle English variant of witen (“to know”). More at wit.
Senses: examples: text: But Glauce, ſeeing all that chaunced there, / VVell vveeting hovv their errour to aſſoyle, / Full glad of ſo good end, to them drevv nere, / And her ſalevved vvith ſeemly belaccoyle, / Ioyous to ſee her ſafe after long toyle.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 25, page 87:
text: The nobleness of life / Is to do thus, when such a mutual pair / And such a twain can do ’t, in which I bind, / On pain of punishment, the world to weet / We stand up peerless.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], lines 37–41:
text: I wept for myself, but resigned my soul to the tyranny of Time and Circumstance, well weeting that Fortune is fair and constant to no man.
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “Night 13”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
glosses: To know.
Related terms: weet weet
weet-weet
weet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wiːt/
rhymes: -iːt
Senses: examples: text: ... binds with wind and weet / The vestment round his thews.
ref: 1885, James Lumsden, Rural Rhymes and Sketches in East Lothian, page 80:
text: When dingy packs on Criffel lower, Then hoose yer kye an' stuik yer duir, But if Criffel be fair an' clear, For win' or weet ye needn't fear (Cum.).
ref: 1913, Elizabeth Mary Wright, Rustic Speech and Folk-lore, page 314:
glosses: Alternative form of wet, especially in the sense "rainy weather".
teddy bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teddy bear
Great Bear
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A bright circumpolar asterism of the northern sky, said to resemble a large bear. It is part of the constellation Ursa Major and includes the stars Mizar, Dubhe, and Alkaid.
Synonyms: Big Dipper
Charles' Wain
the Plough
the Wain
Related terms: Alkaid
Dubhe
Little Bear
Mizar
septentrion
currencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of currency
ovular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ovular
form: most ovular
Etymology: From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an ovule.
examples: text: There were lights across the street and an ovular pool of light from Noah’s window on the grass between her and the back fence.
ref: 2023, Brandon Taylor, The Late Americans, Jonathan Cape, page 244:
glosses: Oval.
Derived terms: anovular
biovular
diovular
extraovular
monovular
periovular
polyovular
uniovular
ovular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovulars
Etymology: From ovule + -ar. In the feminist sense, chosen as an opposite to seminar because of that term's etymological link with semen, the male sexual fluid.
Senses: examples: text: Trebilco considers 'seminar' offensively 'masculinist', so she has replaced it with ovular, which she regards as its feminist equivalent.
ref: 1994, Christina Hoff Sommers, Who Stole Feminism?:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A seminar for feminists.
Related terms: ovulary
bibiliography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bibliography.
wound-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wound-up
form: most wound-up
Senses: glosses: brought to a state of great tension
Synonyms: english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: aroused
word: tense
eluvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eluviums
form: eluvia
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Residual deposits of soil, dust and rock particles produced by the action of the wind
Related terms: eluvial
hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatch
hatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hatch
monies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moneys
Senses: examples: text: And to the end and intent that sufficient monies may be raised to make up the said principal sum of one million two hundred and four thousand seven hundred eighty six pounds three shillings and four pence three farthings, and to complete the redemption of the said annuities amounting to sixty thousand two hundred thirty nine pounds six shillings and two pence per annum;...
ref: 1722, National Debt Act 1722, Great Britain:
text: Many of the institutions reported monies available and awarded without reporting the number of scholarships represented by these sums.
ref: 1951, Theresa Birch Wilkins, Scholarships and Fellowships Available at Institutions of Higher Education, page 1:
text: A wide variety of projects can be funded with monies available under Section 319.
ref: 2004, EPA Funds Available for Forestry Projects, page 3:
glosses: plural of money
glosses: plural of mony
scientific model
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific models
Senses: hypernyms: model#Noun
glosses: A formal abstraction of a real-life system that omits less essential aspects of the system in order to make it amenable to scientific analysis.
Related terms: model organism
scientific method
huskies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhʌskiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of husky
formalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formality
faxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fax
faxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fax
waxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wax
waxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wax
hexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksɪz/
rhymes: -ɛksɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of hex
hexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛksɪz/
rhymes: -ɛksɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hex
linear pairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linear pair
interpolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + polar.
Senses: glosses: between poles
timar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timars
Etymology: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish تیمار (timar), from Persian تیمار (timâr).
Senses: glosses: A fiefdom in the Ottoman Empire granted by the Sultan to a spahi in exchange for his cavalryman service and cultivated by villeins who leased it from him.
templar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templars
Etymology: From Middle English templer, from Old French templier; cf. the Medieval Latin templārius, from Latin templum (“temple”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A barrister having chambers in the Inner Temple or Middle Temple.
templar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more templar
form: most templar
Etymology: From Late Latin templāris, from Latin templum (“temple”) + -āris, equivalent to temple + -ar.
Senses: examples: c. 1815-1833?, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Donne
solitary, family, and templar devotion
glosses: Of or relating to a temple.
enterprisey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enterprisey
form: most enterprisey
Etymology: From enterprise + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Because of its built-in support for many advanced features, TorqueBox is often distinguished as enterprise-grade software. But it does this without many of the drawbacks programmers often associate with “enterprisey” things.
ref: 2016, Joe Kutner, Deploying with JRuby 9k: Deliver Scalable Web Apps Using the JVM, Pragmatic Bookshelf, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling the sort of software that would be developed for a large commercial enterprise.
independent function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: independent functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a set of functions the value of which can not be deduced from that of all the others.
initial mass function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a relationship that specifies the mass distribution of a newly formed stellar population
Hypernyms: mass function
Related terms: Salpeter function
integrable function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integrable functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function that possesses a finite integral
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: locally integrable function
globally integrable function
integral function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: integral functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An entire function
inverting function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverting functions
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic logic circuit which inverts the phase of a signal
Brummies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brummie
glosses: plural of Brummy
APG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any classification (of the Angiosperms) conforming to the publications of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group: an international group of botanists.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The classification (of the Angiosperms) in the first, 1998, publication by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, as distinct from APG II (2003).
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of Austrian Power Grid.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Associated Petroleum Gas.
Derived terms: APG II
APG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Nuggets star is averaging 24.9 PPG, 11.9 RPG (rebounds per game) and an agonizing 9.9 APG (assists per game) – demonstrating Jokić’s incredible all-around ability.
ref: 2023 April 5, Thomas Schlacher, “Joel Embiid vs. Nikola Jokić vs. Giannis Antetokounmpo: What’s the latest in the race to become the NBA MVP?”, in CNN:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Abbreviation of assists per game.
APG II
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The classification (of the Angiosperms) in the second, 2003, publication by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, as distinct from previous and subsequent APG classifications published beginning in 1998.
Omid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Persian امید (omid).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Persian male given name امید (omid).
basher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈbæʃə/
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bashers
Etymology: From bash + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Consider the cold-eyed thrush, that springy carnivore of lawns, worm stabber, basher to death of snails.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 14:
glosses: One who bashes something, figuratively or literally.
examples: text: a Paki-basher
text: He was beaten up by a queer-basher.
text: It's impossible to count how many harassers and bashers are growing discouraged at the sight of 12 or so queers in black and teal uniforms walking down the street in tight formation. The message is simple: queer folk are banding together and walking the streets in cities around the United States to protect their own.
ref: 1991 August 17, Steve Karpf, “Don't Tread On Us!”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 5, page 1:
glosses: One who engages in gratuitous physical or verbal attacks on a group or type of people.
examples: text: There are bashers and bashers, of course. Most of them, like 'Bob', try to travel as far as possible behind a particular type of locomotive. 'Bob' likes Class 37 diesels.
ref: 2004, Ian Marchant, Parallel Lines, Bloomsbury, →ISBN:
text: Nose around any modest-sized station and the odds are you'll find that the chargeman's office doubles as a bashers' club, a place where shivering spotters can get warm and catch up on the gen.
ref: 2015, Nicholas Whittaker, Platform Souls: The Trainspotter as 20th-Century Hero:
text: Determined 'bashers' do still ride trains, of course, seeking to cram the largest number of route-miles into 24 hours.
ref: 2017, Ian Carter, British railway enthusiasm, page 102:
glosses: A trainspotter, especially one who likes to travel on specific trains or trainlines.
examples: text: Suddenly awake she looked around, startled, it was light, hot, intensely hot and she was sleeping in a shell scrape under a basher.
ref: 2014, LA Clarke, Callsign Whiskey, page 24:
text: I was well used to sleeping out under the stars whatever the weather. I had a hammock and a basher, a rain sheet to go over where I was sleeping.
ref: 2018, John-Paul Jordan, Joys of War:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A rainproof sheet for sleeping under.
glosses: A shelter built from improvised materials by a homeless person.
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A kind of small floodlight.
Derived terms: Bible basher
bush-basher
button basher
button-basher
earbasher
fag basher
gay basher
hand-basher
Koran basher
pommie basher
Pommie-basher
Pommy-basher
queer basher
angiosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angiosperm
gymnosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnosperm
seed plants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seed plant
demulcent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmʌls(ə)nt/
ipa: /dɪˈmʌls(ə)nt/
ipa: /dəˈməlsənt/
Forms: form: more demulcent
form: most demulcent
Etymology: From Latin dēmulcēns, present active participle of dēmulceō (“to stroke caressingly; to soften, soothe, allure”), from dē- (“from; of”) + mulceō (“to move or touch gently or lightly, to stroke; to make pleasant or sweet; to soften, soothe, alleviate, relieve”).
Senses: examples: text: In continual hectic Heats, and if the ſweet Juices, by a continued ſlow Fever, acquire a ſaltiſh alcaline Acrimony, Cream and new Butter, on Account of their demulcent Qualities, are found to produce excellent Effects.
ref: 1747, R[obert] James, “Of Alteratives”, in Pharmacopœia Universalis: Or, A New English Dispensatory. …, London: Printed for J. Hodges, at the Looking-Glass, over-against St. Magnus's Church, London Bridge; and J. Wood, under the piazza of the Royal Exchange, →OCLC, book II (Of the Operation of Medicines), pages 150–151:
text: Twenty leeches were ordered to be applied round the nose every two days; frequent emollient fomentations; the local vapour bath; general bathing; stimulating pedilavia; a strict regimen; vegetables, milk, white meats; demulcent or acidulated drinks; avoidance of exposure to the sun or to cold air; flannel waistcoat and trousers. This treatment, being strictly observed for two months, caused all the inflammatory symptoms to disappear, […]
ref: 1827 May 1, “XXVI. Spreading Ulcer of the Nose.”, in James Copland, John Darwall, John Conolly, editors, The London Medical Repository and Review, volume XXVII, number 161 (New Series, volume IV, number XXIII), London: Printed for Thomas and John Underwood, 32 Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 465:
text: I channel vertically under the sheet to hide my blushing neck, muttering demulcent nothings.
ref: 1990, Helen Simpson, “Four Bare Legs in a Bed”, in Four Bare Legs in a Bed: And Other Stories, London: William Heinemann, →ISBN; republished London: Vintage, 1998, →ISBN, page 1:
text: Expectorants may have a demulcent (soothing and irritation-allaying) effect on the cells of the respiratory tract and assist in repelling invasion through providing a medium for the upward propulsion of foreign particles by ciliary action.
ref: 1997, Manuchair Ebadi, “Expectorants; Drugs that Increase Respiratory Tract Fluid”, in CRC Desk Reference of Clinical Pharmacology (CRC Desk References), Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, page 218:
text: And like many of us, Dr. Ed filled those 5–10 'extra minutes' a day with some unchallenging, often demulcent reading material.
ref: 2016, W. D. Clarke, “[Love’s Alchemy.] Pure Bull***t”, in White Mythology: 2 Novellas: Skinner Boxed; Love’s Alchemy, [s.l.]: All That Is Solid Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Soothing or softening.
Related terms: demulce
demulcent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈmʌls(ə)nt/
ipa: /dɪˈmʌls(ə)nt/
ipa: /dəˈməlsənt/
Forms: form: demulcents
Etymology: From Latin dēmulcēns, present active participle of dēmulceō (“to stroke caressingly; to soften, soothe, allure”), from dē- (“from; of”) + mulceō (“to move or touch gently or lightly, to stroke; to make pleasant or sweet; to soften, soothe, alleviate, relieve”).
Senses: examples: text: Indians of the West Coast used preparations of prickly-pear to treat wounds, burns, contusions, warts, and even to facilitate childbirth. Modern herbalists recognize the plant's slippery-oily juice as a useful emollient and demulcent, which may be used externally to soothe dry, irritated skin or internally as a diuretic or anti-inflammatory agent for the digestive and urinary tracts.
ref: 1997, Gregory L. Tilford, “Prickly-pear Cactus”, in Edible and Medicinal Plants of the West, Missoula, Mt.: Mountain Press Publishing Company, published July 2009, →ISBN, page 118:
text: For constipation, a neem powder of two or three grams with three to four black peppers given three times a day is both a laxative and a demulcent.
ref: 2000, Ellen Norten, “Medicinal Uses of Neem”, in Jean Pütz, with Kordula Werner and Deborah Straw, editors, Neem: India’s Miraculous Healing Plant, 1st English edition, Rochester, Vt.: Healing Arts Press, Inner Traditions International, →ISBN, page 46:
text: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) […] If showing symptoms, give absorptive preparations and/or demulcents.
ref: 2014, Trish Scorer, “First Aid Procedures”, in Victoria Aspinall, editor, Clinical Procedures in Veterinary Nursing, 3rd edition, Edinburgh; London: Butterworth-Heinemann, Elsevier, →ISBN, table 9.5, page 185:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A soothing medication used to relieve pain in inflamed tissues.
saxicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /sækˈsɪkələs/
Forms: form: more saxicolous
form: most saxicolous
Etymology: From Latin saxum (“a rock”) + Latin colere (“to dwell”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: saxicole
saxicoline
saxigenous
glosses: Growing on, or living among rocks or stones
Synonyms: lithophyte
line function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line functions
Senses: topics: management
glosses: Any primary business function that would affect customers or profits if interrupted
Related terms: linear function
staff function
linear function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose graph is a straight line: f(x)=ax+b
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value on the sum of two elements is the sum of the values of the function on the two elements and whose value on the product of a scalar times an element is the scalar times the value of the function on the element: f(ax+by)=af(x)+bf(y)
logarithmic trigonometric function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logarithmic trigonometric functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The logarithm of a trigonometric function
loop transfer function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loop transfer functions
Senses: glosses: The ratio of the Laplace transform of the primary feedback signal of a control system to that of the actuating signal
Synonyms: loop ratio
loop ratio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loop ratios
Senses: glosses: A loop transfer function
loss function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loss functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function which expresses numerically the loss produced by a decision or other event.
Synonyms: cost function
Hypernyms: function
wooley
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wooley
form: most wooley
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wooly.
woolier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wooly: more wooly
wooliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wooly: most wooly
woolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wooly
glosses: plural of woolie
woolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of chaps.
woolybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woolyback
Hymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hymie
wood pigeons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wood pigeon
juxtaposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of juxtapose
juxtaposing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juxtaposings
Senses: glosses: An act of juxtaposition.
biodot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biodots
Etymology: From bio- + dot.
Senses: glosses: A small circle containing a liquid crystal whose colour indicates the temperature of the skin on which it placed; changes in temperature may be related to stress
Qaanaaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greenlandic, related to qaaneq (“space underneath the sleeping platform”) and originally meaning “hollowed out by wind or ice erosion.”
Senses: glosses: A town in northwestern Greenland near the Thule Air Base.
qabalah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The study of qabalah is reputed to offer a multitude of spiritual benefits.
ref: 2000, Steve Savedow, Sepher Rezial Hemelach / The Book of the Angel Rezial, page 9:
text: 2002: John Bonner, Qabalah: A Magical Primer
Qabalah certainly involves a mystical interpretation of scriptural texts, it does provide an esoteric doctrine, and it undoubtedly represents a substantial […]
glosses: Alternative spelling of Kabbalah.
directories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directory
philosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosophy
sties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: examples: text: Szechwan.[…]By the end of 1977, Hungya County had some 22,600 oxen in sties.
ref: 1978, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East Weekly Supplement, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: plural of sty
glosses: plural of stie
sties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sty
qabalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more qabalistic
form: most qabalistic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cabalistic.
Derived terms: qabalistically
plies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of ply
plies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ply
plies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaɪz/
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of plie
ferries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ferry
ferries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ferry
qaimaqam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qaimaqams
Senses: examples: text: A petition is sent to the qaimaqam by Bern Yasin asking for the 1965 cancellation of the village council.
ref: 1979, Richard T. Antoun, Low-Key Politics: Local-level Leadership & Change in the Middle East:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kaymakam.
ferrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ferry
ferrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferryings
Senses: examples: text: Their workday of love was one of ferryings and crossings from shore to shore, island to island, of perceptions into death[…]
ref: 1998, William Goyen, Half a Look of Cain:
glosses: The act by which something is ferried.
kaymakam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌɪməˈkɑːm/
Forms: form: kaymakams
form: qaimaqam
form: qaim maqam
form: kaimakam
form: kaimacon
form: kaimacan
form: kaimakan
form: kaimacham
form: kaimacam
form: caimacon
form: caimacan
form: caimakan
form: caimacham
form: caimacam
form: caimakam
form: caimaicon
form: caimaican
form: caimaikan
form: caimaicham
form: caimaicam
form: caimaikam
form: caymacon
form: caymacan
form: caymakan
form: caymacham
form: caymacam
form: caymakam
form: chaimacon
form: chaimacan
form: chaimakan
form: chaimacham
form: chaimacam
form: chaimakam
form: chaymacon
form: chaymacan
form: chaymakan
form: chaymacham
form: chaymacam
form: chaymakam
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قایمقام (kaymakam), from Arabic مَقَام قَائِم (qāʔim maqām, “stand in”).
Senses: examples: text: He desird him to leave a charge with the Chimacham his Deputy.
ref: 1645, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-elianae..., volume iii, page 87:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as grand vizier and governor of Constantinople during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as beylerbey of Egypt between regular appointments.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who acted as hospodar of Moldavia or Wallachia during any absence or illness of the incumbent.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
A lieutenant colonel in the Ottoman or early Turkish army, replaced by the rank of yarbay.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
Synonym of sanjakbey during the mid-19th century.
synonyms: word: sanjakbey during the mid-19th century
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
An Ottoman official who oversaw a kaza during the late 19th and early 20th centuries; similar positions in Ottoman successor states.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A lieutenant or deputy in various Turkish contexts, particularly
A local administrator in Turkey, Northern Cyprus, Iraq, and Lebanon.
Coordinate terms: wali
sanjakbey
mutasarrif
mudir
kaza
kaymakamlik
Related terms: kaymaˈkamlik
stresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stress
stresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stress
qanat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qanats
form: kanat
form: qanāt
Etymology: From Classical Persian قنات (qanāt), from Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh).
Senses: examples: text: Shafts are dug to the required level along the planned route of the qanat, every 300 m or so […].
ref: 1981, Richard Edward Chapman, Geology and Water: An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics for Geologists, page 112:
text: Elsewhere over large areas of the plateau and the foothill regions, the qanat irrigation cultures were weakened considerably.
ref: 1988, Keith Stanley McLachlan, The Neglected Garden: The Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Iran:
text: Its gardens are watered by rivers that invariably flow underground, like the subterranean qanat'''s developed by the Persians.
ref: 2019, Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Arabs, Yale University Press, page 127:
glosses: An underground conduit, between vertical shafts, that leads water from the interior of a hill to villages in the valley
Synonyms: foggara
karez
raspberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raspberry
raspberries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of raspberry
kanat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːt
Forms: form: kanats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qanat.