cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
videocall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videocalls
Senses: examples: text: The possibility of having the private sphere invaded by a videocall may change the perception of the home as a safe, private, "back stage" area and result in maintenance of a public persona in the home[…]
ref: 1993, Rosalyn Moran, The electronic home: social and spatial aspects:
text: Once simple handsets, now owned by 75 per cent of Britons, are undergoing a metamorphosis into a sophisticated wireless device which enables users to make videocalls[…]
ref: 2003, Helen McCarthy, Paul Miller, London Calling: How Mobile Technologies Can Transform a City, page 10:
text: When he sits on the sofa in front of the television the call is transferred on the screen and audio system (automatically or after vocal/GUI/gesture confirmation depending on the active profile) becoming potentially also a videocall[…]
ref: 2009, Vic Callaghan, Achilles Kameas, Intelligent Environments 2009, page 441:
glosses: Alternative form of video call.
videocalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videocall
xenogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xeno- + -gamous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to xenogamy.
Lassa virus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lassa viruses
Senses: glosses: An Old World arenavirus that causes fever in human and non-human primates.
Penrosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Penrosian
form: most Penrosian
Etymology: From Penrose + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Edith Penrose (1914–1996), American-born British economist.
glosses: Of or relating to Roger Penrose (1931–), American-born British physicist.
Penrose
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bemrose
Etymology: From Cornish penn (“head”) + ros (“moor, heathland”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Cornish.
glosses: A small village in St Ervan parish, Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SW8770).
glosses: A small town in Wingecarribee Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A suburb of Wollongong, New South Wales.
glosses: A suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Fremont County, Colorado.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Transylvania County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood in Arlington County, Virginia.
Derived terms: Lucas-Penrose argument
Pencourt
Penrose diagram
Penrose drain
Penrose-Lucas argument
Penrose mechanism
Penrose process
Penrose staircase
Penrose stairs
Penrose steps
Penrose transform
Penrose triangle
Penrosian
sheepswool sponge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepswool sponges
Senses: glosses: Hippospongia lachne, a marine sponge.
surgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Big Five Model of Personality categorizes traits into the dimensions of surgency, agreeableness, adjustment, conscientiousness, and openness to experience.
ref: 2001, Robert N. Lussier, Christopher F. Achua, Management Effectiveness: Developing Leadership Skills, South-Western Pub, →ISBN:
text: Contextual or collective surgency is likely to enhance personal well-being, curiosity, and value for friendship, as well as creativity. In the first place, personal surgency has fostered creativity (Feist 2010; M. Wang et al. 2017).
ref: 2019, Chau-kiu Cheung, Xiaodong Yue, Creativity in Chinese Contexts: Sociocultural and Dispositional Analyses, Routledge, →ISBN, page 113:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A trait aspect of emotional reactivity in which a person tends towards high levels of positive affect.
timebase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timebases
Etymology: From time + base.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
television
glosses: A time period used as a base measurement or frequency.
timebases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timebase
Jevonsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jevonsian
form: most Jevonsian
Etymology: From Jevons + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to William Stanley Jevons (1835–1882), English economist and logician.
subsemitonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + semitonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to subsemitones.
semitonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + tonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to semitones.
subtonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + tonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to subtones.
skyship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skyships
Etymology: From sky + ship; compare spaceship, landship.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A manned vehicle that flies through the sky.
skyships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skyship
subsamplers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsampler
swing bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swing bridges
form: swingbridge
Senses: examples: text: When the scheme is completed, the 99-year-old swing bridge over the canal will be dispensed with as the new bridge will have sufficient height to allow clearance for the passage of canal traffic.
ref: 1954 February, “Notes and News: Deviation at Bramwith”, in Railway Magazine, page 137:
text: Turn right here and walk along the harbour side to the swing bridge.
ref: 2019, Alan Staniforth, Cleveland Way, page 86:
text: Then we cross a white swing bridge over the wide Caledonian Canal, which is opened several times a day.
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 44:
glosses: A movable bridge that has as its primary structural support a vertical locating pin and support ring, usually at or near to its centre of gravity, about which the turning span can then pivot horizontally.
examples: text: Cross New Zealand's longest Swingbridge on the 110m long Buller Gorge Swingbridge, suspended 17 1/2 metres high above the mighty Buller River.
ref: 2025 April 23 (last accessed), “Buller Gorge Swingbridge Adventure and Heritage Park”, in Buller Gorge Swingbridge Adventure and Heritage Park:
text: For an active day out, walk the most varied section of the Abel Tasman Coast Track from Medlands to Anchorage with return boat transfers from Kaiteriteri. This walk features the impressive Falls River Swing Bridge (15–20 metres high, depending on the tide height), Torrent Bay inlet, and Anchorage Beach.
ref: 2025 April 23 (last accessed), “Swing Bridge, Bush & Beach #6”, in Abel Tasman National Park:
glosses: A rope bridge, or simple suspension bridge, that swings as pedestrians walk across.
swingbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingbridges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swing bridge.
swingbridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swingbridge
overeducate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overeducates
form: overeducating
form: overeducated
form: overeducated
form: over-educate
Etymology: From over- + educate.
Senses: examples: text: You cannot overeducate the man you place in charge of a steam engine on board of a ship, and on whose judgment and skill a thousand valuable lives, to say nothing of property, may depend.
ref: 1876, F. Colburn Adams, High Old Salts, page 12:
text: They are drilled and attend school on the premises, being taught by a capable mistress who understands their disabilities, and does not overeducate them, and yet tries to prevent their minds becoming fallow.
ref: 1921, J. Anderson Smith, “The Foreign Field”, in Mother and Child, volume 2, page 373:
text: “You know, one thing I find particularly unpleasant about you Americans is your tendency to overeducate your women.”
ref: 2004, Patricia Lewin, Out of Reach, Ballantine Books,, →ISBN, page 177:
glosses: To educate too much.
overeducates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-educates
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overeducate
overeducating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-educating
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overeducate
gaggingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gaggingly
form: most gaggingly
Etymology: From gagging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And have you clocked the billions of pounds they are making in profits? No company, no matter how much their gaggingly overpaid managers whine about the bulk of their investors being your pension, funds should be making this much.
ref: 2007, Robert MacGregor, I Can't Take Any More Crap!, page 10:
text: The thought of that relentless, cruel body that smelled of rancid oil, dung, and something more, something gaggingly sweet, almost made Olivia choke.
ref: 2011, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Blood Games: Saint-Germain: Book Three:
glosses: Causing one to gag or choke.
statuing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of statue
over-educate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-educates
form: over-educating
form: over-educated
form: over-educated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of overeducate.
over-educates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of over-educate
over-educating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of over-educate
wherreted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wherret
wherreting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wherret
unwhirled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + whirled.
Senses: glosses: Not whirled.
unwhisked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + whisked.
Senses: examples: unwhisked egg whites
glosses: Not whisked.
admoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admove
balsamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more balsamical
form: most balsamical
Etymology: From balsam + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of balsamic.
bunn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunns
Senses: examples: text: Such is the general hurry and confusion in the principal streets, such as Castle Street, Lord Street, Pool Lane, Paradise Street, &c. that often passengers take up a bunn, a cake, or some fruit, as they pass the shop of a confectioner or fruit-seller, without stopping, and throw in the pay without inquiring the price.
ref: 1816, Joshua E. White, Letters on England:
text: "Oh," she replied, "when I came to think of it, I saw, that you were right. I thought, 'twas quite likely it would draw a blank. Crust, the baker, offered me what I gave for it, and a sheet of bunns, to boot, and I let him have it, three weeks ago. […]
ref: 1856, Lucius Manlius Sargent, Dealings with the Dead, volume 2, page 472:
glosses: Archaic form of bun (“sweetened bread roll”).
braizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of braize
braized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of braize
bugbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bugbear
bugbeared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bugbear
Hasidism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈxɑːsɪdɪzm/
/ˈhɑːsɪdɪzm/
Forms: form: Chasidism
form: Chassidism
form: Hassidism
form: Ḥasidism
form: Ḥassidism
form: Khasidism
form: Khassidism
Senses: glosses: a Jewish movement founded in Poland in the 18th century by Baal-Shem-Tov
Derived terms: aletho-Hasidism
false Hasidism
neo-Hasidism
palaeo-Hasidism
paleo-Hasidism
post-Hasidism
pre-Hasidism
pseudo-Hasidism
true Hasidism
Related terms: aletho-Hasidic
false Hasidic
Hasid
Hasidic
Hasidic Jew
Hasidic Jewess
Hasidic Judaism
neo-Hasidic
palaeo-Hasidic
paleo-Hasidic
pre-Hasidic
pseudo-Hasidic
true Hasidic
rubying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ruby
rubied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ruby
rubied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubied
form: most rubied
Senses: examples: a rubied crown
glosses: Decorated with rubies.
examples: her rubied lips
glosses: Of a bright red colour, like rubies.
feater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of feat: more feat
featest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of feat: most feat
vasculums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasculum
stannine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral stannite.
subdeaconries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeaconry
subdeaconry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeaconries
Etymology: From sub- + deaconry.
Senses: glosses: The office of subdeacon; subdeaconship.
astomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: astomous
Etymology: From a- + -stomatous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no mouth, mouthless.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Without apertures, pores, or stomata.
ventricous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ventricous
form: most ventricous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ventricose.
astomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of astomatous.
antiblasphemy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiblasphemy
form: most antiblasphemy
Etymology: From anti- + blasphemy.
Senses: examples: text: Pakistan has strict antiblasphemy laws[…]
ref: 2011, Ronald Deibert, John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, Jonathan Zittrain, Access Contested: Security, Identity, and Resistance in Asian Cyberspace, page 229:
glosses: Opposing or countering blasphemy.
canal coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cannel coal.
jutties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jutty
drunkenship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From drunken + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being drunk; drunkenness.
dithecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: dithecous
Etymology: From di- + thecal.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having two thecae.
deferrers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deferrer
extinctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From extinct + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being extinct; extinction.
dithecous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dithecal.
vermiculous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermiculous
form: most vermiculous
form: vermiculose
Etymology: From Latin vermiculosus. See vermicule.
Senses: glosses: Containing, or full of, worms; resembling worms; wormy.
vermiculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vermiculose
form: most vermiculose
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vermiculous.
indignancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indignancy
livre tournois
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livres tournois
Etymology: From French livre tournois (“Tours pound”) (contrasted with that of Paris).
Senses: glosses: One of numerous currencies used in France in the Middle Ages.
glosses: A unit of account used in France in the Middle Ages and the early modern period.
Related terms: english: symbol for the currency
translation: symbol for the currency
word: ₶
marxisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marxisant
form: most marxisant
form: Marxisant
form: marxisan
Etymology: From French.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly Bosher's approach differs significantly from that of a marxisant sociologist like George Comninel[…]
ref: 1993, Gwynne Lewis, The French Revolution: Rethinking the Debate, page 111:
glosses: Somewhat Marxist; tending toward Marxism
demoter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demoters
Etymology: From demote + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who demotes.
demoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoter
promoterless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From promoter + -less.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without a promoter (type of DNA section).
unpromoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + promoted.
Senses: glosses: Not promoted.
undemoted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + demoted.
Senses: glosses: Not demoted.
Cartesians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cartesian
let well alone
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɛtˌwɛləˈloʊn/
Forms: form: let well enough alone
Senses: glosses: Do not interfere.
Synonyms: let sleeping dogs lie
salms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salm
bank accounts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bank account
maternity wards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternity ward
come into one's own
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes into one's own
form: coming into one's own
form: came into one's own
form: come into one's own
Senses: examples: text: And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. . . . [T]he old tricks . . . came to him without effort or discovery, as though they had been his always. . . . [T]he ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again.
ref: 1903, Jack London, chapter 2, in Call of the Wild:
text: Sally just swept along smiling at every one. . . . Sally looked just as if she had come into her own and was made for it; I never did see her look so pretty.
ref: 1913, Gene Stratton-Porter, chapter 7, in Laddie: A True Blue Story:
text: The eyes of the wood-cutter flash like actual possession. He seems now to have come into his own. With all his senses, he is dominant, sure.
ref: 1916, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “[On the Lago di Garda] The Dance”, in Twilight in Italy, London: Duckworth and Co. […], →OCLC, page 182:
text: Everywhere the people would come into their own, and war and tyranny would vanish like a hateful nightmare! Speaker after speaker got up to proclaim this glorious future.
ref: 1919, Upton Sinclair, chapter 12, in Jimmie Higgins:
text: Aerial photography was coming into its own, and flying shutterbugs pushed the envelope, striving to outsnap each other.
ref: 1992, Popular Mechanics, volume 169, number 11, page 18:
text: The subsequent decade played host to numerous stories of Asian nations coming into their own with robustly growing economies.
ref: 2010 November 26, Gemlyn George, “Healthcare in Asia: A Roadmap for the Next Decade”, in Time:
text: "We have some areas on the Mallaig line where you have no road access at all," Phil explains. "This is where the road-rail vehicles come into their own."
ref: 2023 November 29, Paul Clifton, “West is best in the Highlands”, in RAIL, number 997, page 40:
glosses: To reach a stage of development or maturity where one has achieved strength and confidence, economic security, or respect and social acceptance.
spatialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatialisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spatialization.
diachronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diachrony
spatialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatialisation
synchronies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synchrony
taxiphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxiphones
Senses: glosses: A kind of payphone in Tunisia and Algeria.
tartelettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartelette
taxiphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxiphone
mokis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moki
mokos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moko
mokas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moka
trowserless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trowsers + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He put on his jacket and one waistcoat as usual, tied his other waistcoat around his body, so as to serve as a sort of short petticoat reaching to his knees, restored his empty knapsack te its old place, and then shirtless and trowserless, bareheaded and barefooted, "trotted on," to use his own language "with even a merry heart."
ref: 1824, John Dundas Cochrane, Narrative of a Pedestrian Journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the Frontiers of China to the Frozen Sea and Kamtchatka:
text: They were trowserless fellows, in a uniform of calico shirts and pasteboard hats; armed with muskets of all shapes and calibres, and commanded by a great noisy chief, strutting it in a coat of fiery red.
ref: 1847, Herman Melville, Omoo:
glosses: Archaic form of trouserless.
overinstruct
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overinstructs
form: overinstructing
form: overinstructed
form: overinstructed
form: over-instruct
Etymology: From over- + instruct.
Senses: examples: text: It is a common fault to overinstruct the composing room—to tell them the size of type to use in every line and in every corner.
ref: 1922, E. H. Kastor, Advertising, LaSalle Extension University, page 122
text: …feminist critics found fault with the magazine’s tendency to overinstruct readers on how to become some stereotype of a woman they might not be naturally….
ref: 1996, Candace Lewis, “Helen Gurley Brown”, in Nancy Signorielli, editor, Women in Communication: A Biographical Sourcebook, Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 36:
text: Verbal instructions are often overdone and are often unable to capture the many subtle aspects of skilled movements. …The most important message here is do not overinstruct.
ref: 1997, Malcolm R. McNeil, Donald A. Robin, and Richard A. Schmidt, "Apraxia of Speech: Definition, Differentiation, and Treatment", chapter 14 of Malcolm R. McNeil (ed.), Clinical Management of Sensorimotor Speech Disorders, Thieme, page 333
glosses: To instruct excessively.
persin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fungicidal toxin present in the avocado.
Andhra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi आंध्र (āndhra).
Senses: glosses: A former state in India, existing between 1953 and 1956, formed from Madras Presidency and later merged with Telangana, forming Andhra Pradesh.
Derived terms: Coastal Andhra
overinstructs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-instructs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overinstruct
overinstructing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-instructing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overinstruct
overinstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: over-instructed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overinstruct
Tirumala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu తిరుమల (tirumala)
Senses: glosses: A hill town and pilgrimage centre in Andhra Pradesh that houses the Sri Venkateswara temple.
Latinophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Latinophones
Etymology: From Latino- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Two centers of the latinophones crystallized in Southeastern Europe.
ref: 1997, Lucian Boia, History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness:
glosses: A speaker of the Latin language.
Synonyms: word: Latiner
Latinophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latino- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: "Revisiting Blondheim: Judeo-Latin or Latinophone Jews in Antiquity?" at the Conference of the British Association of Jewish Studies
ref: 2011, Aron Sterk, Academic Presentation: Revisiting Blondheim, University of Manchester, School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures:
glosses: Latin-speaking.
confluents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confluent
anational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + national.
Senses: glosses: Not national
bistrots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bistrot
rewetten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewettens
form: rewettening
form: rewettened
form: rewettened
Etymology: From re- + wetten.
Senses: glosses: Wetten again.
unintentionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unintentionalities
Etymology: From un- + intentionality.
Senses: examples: text: But this utopia, drawing on the unconscious operations of Adam Smith's invisible hand, and in sharp n sharp contrast to the hyperconsciousness of the utopian "intentional community," gambled everything on the unintentionality of its universal panacea, for which any number of populations around the globe proved unwilling to wait.
ref: 2010, Michael D. Gordin, Helen Tilley, Gyan Prakash, Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility, page 23:
glosses: The characteristic of being unintentional.
examples: text: […] to cite it as one more proof of the dramatist's willingness to emulate the unintentionalities of living speech.
ref: 1982, Thomas G. Rosenmeyer, The Art of Aeschylus, page 108:
glosses: A thing for which there was no intent.
unintentionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unintentionality
hyperconsciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperconsciousnesses
Etymology: From hyper- + consciousness.
Senses: glosses: Extreme or excessive consciousness of something; hyperawareness.
hyperconsciousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperconsciousness
supersorry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + sorry.
Senses: examples: text: I told her I was supersorry and that it was really dumb.
ref: 2012, Jason Myers, Run the Game, page 260:
text: If she had a choice between being supercautious or supersorry, she'd pick cautious every time.
ref: 2006, Marie Ferrarella, The Woman Who Wasn't There, page 58:
text: To top it off, Tom-Su sported a rope instead of a belt, definitely nailing down the supersorry look.
ref: 2002, Sandro Meallet, Edgewater Angels: A Novel, page 3:
glosses: Extremely sorry.
1drfl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more 1drfl
form: most 1drfl
form: 1derful
Senses: examples: text: Last season - texted: KK top man. bt man u - 1drfl. fwlr 8 all the ps. mn rd bcnu
ref: 2003 August 11, “Manchester City”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2014:
english: Last season - texted: Kevin Keegan top man. Beat Manchester United — wonderful. Fowler ate all the pies. Maine Road, be seeing you.
translation: Last season - texted: Kevin Keegan top man. Beat Manchester United — wonderful. Fowler ate all the pies. Maine Road, be seeing you.
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text: Over the course of our lives, we each have all felt "1DRFL" or "GR8,,"^([sic]) and other days we have had "ENUF" and ran on "MT2DAY."
ref: 2007, Kyle Lance Martin, Reviving the Church, Mustang: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, →ISBN, page 114:
ref: 2011 December, “Y texting is 1drfl 4 ur kids :)”, in Alumni News, number 40, Launceston: University of Tasmania, →ISSN, page 23:
glosses: Abbreviation of wonderful.
WDYMBT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of what do you mean by that?.
Related terms: WDYM
JTLYK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of just to let you know.
NTIM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not that it matters.
BTAIM
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of be that as it may.
OATUS
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of on a totally unrelated subject.
Archimedean screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Archimedean screw
Archimedes' screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Archimedes' screws
form: Archimedean screw
form: Archimedes screw
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A screwlike device invented by Greek mathematician Archimedes, ca. 200 B.C.E., which when twisted inside a cylinder, raises water from a lower level to a higher level, allowing irrigation of fields.
Archimedes' screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Archimedes' screw
ciels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ciel
Gammon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
apodict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈa.pə(ʊ).dɪkt/
Forms: form: apodicts
Etymology: Back-formation from apodictic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An apodictic proposition; a non-mathematical axiom.
apodict
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈa.pə(ʊ).dɪkt/
/a.pəʊˈdɪkt/
/ˈa.pə(ʊ).dɪkt/
Forms: form: more apodict
form: most apodict
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτός (apodeiktós, “demonstrable”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: = apodictic
Eastermonth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Easter month
form: Easter Month
form: Easter-month
Etymology: Calque of Old English Ēastermōnaþ (“April”, literally “Easter-month”), equivalent to Easter + month. Cognate with Old Dutch ōstermānoth (“April”), German Ostermonat (“April”, literally “Easter-month”) (cp. German Ostermond (“April”, literally “Easter-moon”)).
Senses: examples: text: It is pretended that it is a heathen institution, or copied from a heathen institution; which reflection is derived from the circumstance of there having been a goddess called by different writers Aoster, Eoster, Eostre, Oster, or Easter, whose feast was celebrated in the month of April, which was thence called Easter Month.
ref: 1807, The churchman's magazine:
text: Charlemagne called April the Easter month, because it is the month in which Easter usually falls.
ref: 1865, The Bromley record and monthly advertiser:
text: April, the "Easter month" of the Saxon, the season of renewed life in the outside world, is, by some nations, reckoned as the beginning of the new year.
ref: 1883, Dorcas magazine
text: When the month that we call Eastermonth is over, then the night lasts ten hours and the day fourteen hours.
ref: 1900, Georg Herzfeld, Original series:
text: On this Easter month we have for several years sent out to the friends of our Society a little booklet of real pictures, showing some of the many lines of our work among the poor.
ref: 1903, New York City mission monthly
text: However, we find nineteen [and five] nights from the time that Eastermonth comes, the cycle revolves eke to the day when eager with song fervent with words we worship, [...]
ref: 2003, Cyril Roy Hart, Learning and culture in late Anglo-Saxon England:
text: In the meantime, the two systems often produced an identical Easter – when a full moon did not occur in the gap between 21 and 24 March (which delayed the Easter month in the Insular reckoning by another lunar cycle), [...]
ref: 2009, James Earle Fraser, From Caledonia to Pictland:
glosses: The typical month of the Paschal cycle; Paschal month; the month in which Easter typically occurs; April.
dunnos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dunno
inner sanctum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inner sanctums
Senses: glosses: A sanctum sanctorum, a Holy of Holies.
agoraphobiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agoraphobiacs
Etymology: From agoraphobia + -ac.
Senses: glosses: One who fears open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
Synonyms: agoraphobe
Related terms: agoraphobia
from A to B
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəm ˈeɪ tə ˈbiː/
ipa: /fɹəm ˈeɪ tə ˈbiː/
ipa: /fɹəm ˈeɪ ɾə ˈbiː/
Etymology: Possibly from the common practice of labelling points using letters of the alphabet, and then referring to motion from one point to another as “from A to B”, and so on.
Senses: examples: text: My car’s still O.K.: it gets me from A to B.
text: While in our actual world we identify architecture with elements related by permanent relations, in virtual worlds space is a constant function of time. For example, if I have to ascend a stair to get from A to B, I will not necessarily have to descend to get back from B to A. Virtual spaces can hold many surprises.
ref: 1997, Daniela Bertol, David Foell, “A Few Hypotheses for Reconstructed Architecture”, in Designing Digital Space: An Architect’s Guide to Virtual Reality, New York, N.Y.; Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 303:
text: At Leap we have found that, when working with a large group, it is not appropriate to create a traditional play with a story that follows one central character from A to B. Instead, we create a piece of theatre that can employ a large cast, follow several characters' stories in parallel and draw on several styles, especially popular forms.
ref: 1999, Sara Clifford, Anna Herrmann, “Unit Three: Devising the Show”, in Making a Leap – Theatre of Empowerment: A Practical Handbook of Drama and Theatre Work with Young People, London; Philadelphia, Pa.: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 133:
text: It is a journey travelled both by individuals and by societies made up of those individuals. It is not, however, a simple journey, a progression from A to B, starting with the soul and ending at the self.
ref: 1999, M. James C. Crabbe, “Preface”, in M. James C. Crabbe, editor, From Soul to Self, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page x:
text: The zombie scenes are reminiscent of what you might see on a show like The Walking Dead, short bursts of extreme violence and gore punctuating expository dialogue scenes where the survivors try to figure out how they’re going to get from point A to point B.
ref: [2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 10 Sep 2017:
glosses: From one point to the next; from the beginning of a trip to the end.
wikipedia: Royal Society
Related terms: A to Z
doggonit
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: doggone it
Etymology: Euphemistic variant (with metathesis of the consonants "g" and "d") of the phrase goddamn (doggone) + it.
Senses: examples: text: Doggonit, she made me waste my doggone pecan candy.
glosses: An expression that shows mild or strong frustration about something.
Synonyms: goldarned
Related terms: doggone
pavages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavage
broadway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɔːdweɪ/
Forms: form: broadways
Etymology: From broad + way.
Senses: examples: text: Just above the doorway, which opened spang onto the broadway of Datura, a grinning face peered down upon the visitors, its eyes ruby-colored glass.
ref: 1962, Allen Kim Lang, Blind Man's Lantern:
text: On a certain day the King was seated on the story of his palace which overlooked the town and the outskirts beyond the walls, in conversation with his Minister and favourites, when the Durweish was espied at no great distance standing on the broadway; which, when the King knew, he desired messengers might be dispatched to convey the holy man to his presence.
ref: 1917, Mrs. Meer Hassan Ali, Observations on the Mussulmauns of India:
glosses: An esplanade.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A straight from ace to ten in Texas hold 'em.
bombasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: That ill-made doublet of green cloth must be exchanged for one of velvet slashed in the Venetian style like mine own, with hose stuffed and bombasted according to the mode.
ref: 1854, W. Harrison Ainsworth, The Star-Chamber, Volume 1:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bombast
bosoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Beyond were the pines, and a rugged road, flint-edged, full of dips and rises, turns and twists, hovering on edges, or bosoming itself in deep rock-strewn cuts.
ref: 1901, Stewart Edward White, The Claim Jumpers:
text: Those whom you feared most are now bosoming themselves in the queen's grace; and though her highness signified displeasure in outward sort, yet did she like the marrow of your book.
ref: 1818, Lucy Aikin, Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth:
glosses: present participle and gerund of bosom
'eart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'earts
Senses: examples: text: Cries of "Bless his 'eart!" and "Good old Ogden!" rang through the house. "
ref: 1913, Henry W. Nevinson, Essays in Rebellion:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of heart.
eather
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: We are marters, both of us, to prinsple; and every body who knows eather knows that we would sacrafice anythink rather than that.
ref: 1838, William Makepeace Thackeray, Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of either.
eber
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: But wasn't I 'bout de sickest coon dat you eber seen?" "
ref: 1894, Edward S. Ellis, Brave Tom:
text: Every time the Indians would make a charge at us, the darkeys would cry out: "Heah dey cum;" "Dey must be ten thousand ob 'em;" "De whole country is alive wid 'em;" "Massa Bill, does you tink we is eber agoin' to get out o' heah?" and many other similar expressions.
ref: 1879, William F. Cody, The Life of Hon. William F. Cody:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of ever, representing African-American English.
eccho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecchoes
Senses: examples: text: Farwel ye guilded follies, pleasing troubles, Farwel ye honour'd rags, ye glorious bubbles; Fame's but a hollow eccho, gold pure clay, Honour the darling but of one short day.
ref: 1676, Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler:
text: And suddainly hearing the fall of trees, through the force of a whyrlewinde, & noise of the broken bowghes, with a redoubled and hoarse sound a farre of, and yet brought to the eccho of the water thorow the thick wood, I grew into a new astonishment.
ref: 1592, R.D., Hypnerotomachia:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of echo.
electromyographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electromyography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In analogous studies in humans, when subjects view unpleasant pictures, there is an increase in the magnitude of the eyeblink reflex (measured from surface electromyographic recording from the orbicularis oculi muscle) in response to a brief burst of noise (28 ).
ref: 2000 July 28, Richard J. Davidson et al., “Dysfunction in the Neural Circuitry of Emotion Regulation--A Possible Prelude to Violence”, in Science, volume 289, number 5479, →DOI, pages 591–594:
text: Recordings of electromyographic activity from the arm during practice of this task suggest that participants gradually learn to recruit new arm muscles and precisely control the timing of activations of these muscles in order to compensate for the force field (30 ).
ref: 1997 August 8, Reza Shadmehr, Henry H. Holcomb, “Neural Correlates of Motor Memory Consolidation”, in Science, volume 277, number 5327, →DOI, pages 821–825:
glosses: Relating to electromyography.
'elp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'elps
form: 'elping
form: 'elped
form: 'elped
Senses: examples: text: “Burt? Stay there and I’ll ’elp ya finish ’im off!” called Sheila to the two men still fighting over the top of the burger machine.
ref: 2012, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Ratburger, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
text: The blighter made a bit of a row, and said as 'ow he just could n't 'elp stowin' aw'y every boat for T'iti." "
ref: 1921, Frederick O'Brien, Mystic Isles of the South Seas.:
text: But, so 'elp me God, the last name was FitzHugh!"
ref: 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:
text: Considering that she 'ad only just buried her 'usband, Rupert found her quite skittish enough, and he couldn't 'elp wondering wot she'd be like when she'd got over her grief a bit more.
ref: 1909, W.W. Jacobs, Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection):
text: I'll be back to 'elp you in with the breakfast, Mr. Manson.
ref: 1908, Charles Rann Kennedy, The Servant in the House:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of help.
embowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embowel
embowelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embowellings
Senses: glosses: An act of disembowelment.
enregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enregistrations
Senses: examples: text: A new thought causes a new structural enregistration.
ref: 1916, Elbert Hubbard, Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8:
text: He regretted that offices for the enregistration of property had not been established.
ref: 1856, Charles Roger, The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation:
glosses: registration
epigrammatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The work is rather too light, and bright, and sparkling; it wants shade; it wants to be stretched out here and there with a long chapter of sense, if it could be had; if not, of solemn specious nonsense, about something unconnected with the story; an essay on writing, a critique on Walter Scott, or the history of Buonaparte, or something that would form a contrast, and bring the reader with increased delight to the playfulness and epigrammatism of the general style.
ref: 1870, James Edward Austen-Leigh, Memoir of Jane Austen:
glosses: The use of epigrams; epigrammatical character.
packthread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packthreads
form: pack-thread
Etymology: From pack + thread.
Senses: examples: text: Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſtrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:
text: It was tied with pink packthread instead of ribbon.
ref: 1895, Susan Coolidge, A Little Country Girl:
text: The Hand-bos, a bulwark formed of oaken piles, fastened with metal clamps, moored with iron anchors, and secured by gravel and granite, was snapped to pieces like packthread.
ref: 1867, John Lothrop Motley, Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete:
text: In lieu of buckles at his knees, he wore unequal loops of packthread; and in his grimy hands he held a knotted stick, the knob of which was carved into a rough likeness of his own vile face.
ref: 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
glosses: A strong thread or twine used in tying up parcels.
padishah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: padishahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Padishah.
palaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palace
palisadoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palisado
palki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palkis
form: palkee
Etymology: From Hindi पालकी (pālkī), from Sanskrit पल्यङ्क (palyaṅka, “bed, couch, litter”) of uncertain origin. Doublet of palanquin.
Senses: examples: text: The pálkí is an oblong box with sliding doors at the side and a pole at each end; it is usually from six to seven feet long, and is carried by four bearers on their shoulders.
ref: 1877, D. B. Allen et al., “A Statistical Account of Bengal”, in Districts of Gayá and Sháhábád, volume 12, page 81:
text: At length the daughters of respectable people feared to walk along the roads or on the gháts. If one was seen alone, the devoted Hindustani Durwans followed, calling out "Ma Thakurani," and, preventing them from bathing, brought a palki. Many of those who were not accustomed to travel in a palki seized the opportunity of doing so free of expense.
ref: 1884, Miriam S. Knight, The Poison Tree:
text: The wedding party came to a halt at the foot of the tree and some of them lay down to eat and the Raja got out of his palki and lay down to sleep in the shade.
ref: 1909, Cecil Henry Bompas, Folklore of the Santal Parganas:
text: At first the uncle declined, but when a palki was sent for them, he and his nephew entered it.
ref: 1914, C. A. Kincaid, Deccan Nursery Tales:
text: There is little doubt that the palki, which was carried by four coolies, is the oldest type of closed, or "bund", gari. They were used principally for zenana purposes, although they were still on hire in the Calcutta Streets as late as 1900... One of the disadvantages attaching to the old palki was that there were so many blinds and movable parts to become loose that the noise and rattle were difficult to prevent.
ref: 1931 June, Frank E. Bushby, "Old-Time Conveyances in Calcutta", Bengal Past & Present, Vol. XLI, Nos. 81–82, pp. 138–139
text: The music had accompanied her as she was carried, in a palki, from the riverbank to the threshold of her new home […]
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 32:
glosses: Synonym of palanquin.
synonyms: word: palanquin
Related terms: palkigari
pallial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin pallium (“a mantle”).
Senses: examples: text: the pallial line, or impression, which marks the attachment of the mantle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell
text: The oldest points are close to the outcrop of the pallial myostracum (9 ).
ref: 1998 May 8, Stanley R. Hart, Jerzy Blusztajn, “Clams As Recorders of Ocean Ridge Volcanism and Hydrothermal Vent Field Activity”, in Science, volume 280, number 5365, →DOI, pages 883–886:
text: Along a line nearly corresponding with the horny band which proceeds from the insertions of the shell-muscles and encircles the mantle below, the pallial wall is produced inwards and forwards into a membranous fold or ligament, which I will call the pallio-visceral ligament; and this pallio-visceral ligament becoming attached to various viscera, divides the great fifth chamber into an anterior inferior, and a posterior superior portion, which communicate freely with one another.
ref: 1859, Various, Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by a mantle, especially the mantle of mollusks.
glosses: Of or relating to the pallium.
Derived terms: entopallial
extrapallial
hyperpallial
intrapallial
mesopallial
pallial chamber
pallial line
pallial nerve
pallial sinus
subpallial
palynologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From palynologic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: However, carbon isotopic values of leaf wax n-alkanes increased by up to 5 in the mid- and late Holocene, corresponding to a palynologically documented decline in trees and an increase in herbs.
ref: 2001 August 31, Y. Huang et al., “Climate Change as the Dominant Control on Glacial-Interglacial Variations in C3 and C4 Plant Abundance”, in Science, volume 293, number 5535, →DOI, pages 1647–1651:
glosses: in a palynological manner
pantheonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pantheonic
form: most pantheonic
Etymology: From pantheon + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of the nature of a pantheon; having the characteristics of a pantheon