cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nameplates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nameplate
optical illusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optical illusion
bao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊ/
Forms: form: baos
form: bao
form: bau
form: bow
form: pao
form: pau
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 包 (bāo) or Cantonese 包 (baau1). Cognate of Vietnamese bánh bao.
Senses: glosses: Any of various types of steamed bread or bun used in Chinese cuisine
glosses: A sandwich or stuffed bun made with this bread
Synonyms: dim sum
Related terms: baozi
char siu bao
dan bau
gua bao
hum bow
tangbao
bao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baʊ/
Etymology: From Swahili bao.
Senses: glosses: A mancala board game played in East Africa.
ruan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruans
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 阮 (short for 阮咸, ruǎnxián).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Chinese long-necked fretted round-bodied plucked lute which has, since the mid-20th century, been produced in a family of five sizes (from low to high).
Synonyms: word: ruanqin
raw_tags: in reference to Taiwan
Hyponyms: english: soprano
translation: soprano
word: gaoyinruan
english: alto
translation: alto
word: xiaoruan
english: tenor
translation: tenor
word: zhongruan
english: bass
translation: bass
word: daruan
english: contrabass
translation: contrabass
word: diyinruan
hua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huas
Etymology: Variant of hooer. Sometimes erroneously thought to be borrowed from Maori.
Senses: qualifier: New Zealand spelling
glosses: Alternative form of hooer.
glosses: abbreviation of the phrase Upoko kōhua, a highly offensive term, shortened to ‘hua
liao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ljaʊ˨˩]
ipa: [ljaʊ˨]
note: in fixed expressions from Hokkien
ipa: [ljaʊ˦˨]
ipa: [ljaʊ˦˨]
ipa: [ljaʊ˨˩]
ipa: [ljaʊ˨]
note: in fixed expressions from Hokkien
ipa: [ljaʊ˦˨]
Etymology: From Mandarin 料 (liào, “ingredients”).
Senses: examples: text: Bak Chor Mee, less mee, Auntie. No extra liao today.
ref: 2012, Tan Tarn How, Fear of Writing, Epigram Books, →ISBN, scene: 35, page 72:
text: Had this hearty bowl of bak chor mee today at Blk 58 New Upper Changi Road market. […] This is the $5 bowl with extra liao. […]
ref: 2019 June 18, ieatishootipost, Instagram:
text: But for all the eggs and liao (ingredients) you have, it isn’t gao (strong).
ref: 2019 August 24, Yeo Boon Ping, quoting Zachary Tang, “If Zi Char Dishes Were In A Battle Royale, Which Would Come Out Tops?”, in ricemedia.co, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2024:
glosses: Meats, vegetables, and other ingredients added to an otherwise plain dish.
kuai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 膾 /脍 (kuài).
Senses: glosses: A historical Chinese dish consisting of finely cut strips of raw fish or meat.
Related terms: sashimi
kuai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kuai
form: kwai
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 塊 /块 (kuài).
Senses: examples: text: Many Chinese people never cook at home because the range of options is endless, from 10-Kuai eats, to 1,000-Kuai feasts.
glosses: yuan (Chinese unit of currency)
guan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡwɑn/
rhymes: -ɑn
Forms: form: guans
Etymology: From American Spanish, from Kuna kwama.
Senses: examples: text: The 'true' (Penelope) guans also occur at a range of altitudes but like most species of cracids, are mostly restricted to forest, both montane and lowland. Piping-guans (Pipile) are primarily lowland species, whereas numerous monospecific (single-species genus) taxa of guans (i.e. Aburria, Penelopina, Oreophasis) are restricted to montane environments.
ref: 2000, Daniel M. Brooks, Stuart D. Strahl, Curassows, Guans and Chachalacas: With Spanish and Portuguese Translations, page 8:
text: Most guans move among only the most rewarding trees, those having the largest fruit crops and/or the greatest reward per fruit. Nevertheless, solitary individuals and some guan groups - as well as the first-mentioned guans, once they deplete the fruit crops in the most popular trees - are stuck with the less rewarding trees.
ref: 2002, Kent H. Redford, Peter Feinsinger, “17: The half-empty forest: sustainable use and the ecology of interactions”, in John D. Reynolds, editor, Conservation of Exploited Species, page 381:
text: The Crested Guan is a large, brown, turkeylike bird most frequently seen peering down from the treetops as it searches for fruit and leaves that make up its diet. As its name implies, this bird has a feathered crest that is frequently raised as it relates to nearby guans or to potential danger.
ref: 2010, Carrol L. Henderson, Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide, page 40:
glosses: Any (member) of several species of birds in the genera Aburria, Chamaepetes, Oreophasis, Penelope, Penelopina, and Pipile, of the family Cracidae, limited to the Americas.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Penelope montagnii
word: Andean guan
taxonomic: Penelope argyrotis
word: band-tailed guan
taxonomic: Penelope ortoni
word: Baudo guan
taxonomic: Penelope barbata
word: bearded guan
taxonomic: Chamaepetes unicolor
word: black guan
taxonomic: Pipile jacutinga
word: black-fronted piping guan
taxonomic: Pipile cumanensis
word: blue-throated piping guan
taxonomic: Penelope perspicax
word: Cauca guan
taxonomic: Penelope ochrogaster
word: chestnut-bellied guan
word: common piping guan
taxonomic: Penelope purpurascens
word: crested guan
taxonomic: Penelope obscura
word: dusky-legged guan
taxonomic: Penelopina nigra
word: highland guan
taxonomic: Oreophasis derbianus
word: horned guan
taxonomic: Penelope marail
word: marail guan
taxonomic: Penelope dabbenei
word: red-faced guan
taxonomic: Pipile cujubi
word: red-throated piping guan
taxonomic: Penelope superciliaris
word: rusty-margined guan
taxonomic: Chamaepetes goudotii
word: sickle-winged guan
taxonomic: Penelope jacquacu
word: Spix's guan
taxonomic: Pipile pipile
word: Trinidad piping guan
taxonomic: Aburria aburri
word: wattled guan
taxonomic: Penelope jacucaca
word: white-browed guan
taxonomic: Penelope pileata
word: white-crested guan
taxonomic: Penelope albipennis
word: white-winged guan
nai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nais
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi नाई (nāī).
Senses: glosses: barber.
nai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nais
Etymology: Borrowed from Romanian nai.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Romanian diatonic pan flute used since the 17th century.
Synonyms: muscal
luan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlu(w)ɑn/
text: Audio (US)
Forms: form: luans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lauan.
kang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangs
form: k'ang
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 炕.
Senses: examples: text: Why is it built this way?
Oh, it's a kang. It's heated from underneath, like an oven.
Kang? What is a kang for?
A community bed. You'll find them in every inn in north China. We've got lots of rooms, but when winter comes, this is the bed everybody'll be in.
You mean togther?
Thirty, forty, fifty at a time. All fully-clothed and ignoring each other. It gets cold here you'll find out.
ref: 1958, 29:45 from the start, in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, →OCLC:
glosses: A traditional long platform of brick, clay or concrete, used for heating in colder parts of China and suitable for sleeping on at night.
glosses: A large Chinese water jar.
kang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kangs
Senses: glosses: Clipping of kangaroo.
kang
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kangs
form: kanging
form: kanged
form: kanged
Etymology: Online alias of an XDA-Developers.com user who appropriated the work of other users.
Senses: qualifier: Android programming
glosses: To appropriate someone else's work.
jiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dʒjaʊ/
/dʒiˈaʊ/
Forms: form: jiao
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 角 (jiǎo). Doublet of kak.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: A currency unit of the People's Republic of China, one tenth of a yuan.
Related terms: yuan
fen
weasellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weasellike
form: most weasellike
Etymology: From weasel + -like.
Senses: glosses: Similar to a weasel.
examples: a weasellike face
glosses: Similar to that of a weasel.
glosses: underhanded; shady.
Related terms: musteline
weasellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weasellike
form: most weasellike
Etymology: From weasel + -like.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a weasel.
gao
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gao
form: most gao
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gau.
Related terms: gao lak
monkeylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more monkeylike
form: most monkeylike
Etymology: From monkey + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a monkeylike skull
text: monkeylike curiosity
text: It is hard to picture a wee monkeylike adult creature weighing no more than an ounce. But fossils of the 55.8 million-year-old animal, the earliest known primate to inhabit North America, have emerged from coastal sediments in Mississippi.
ref: 2008 April 3, John Noble Wilford, “One-Ounce Mississippian of 55.8 Million Years Ago”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or similar to a monkey.
Related terms: simian
monkeylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From monkey + -like.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a monkey.
zai
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [t͡sai̯]
Etymology: From Hokkien 在 (chāi, “steady”); likely a shortening of Hokkien 在穩 /在稳 (chāi-ún, “experienced and composed; safe; reliable; trustworthy”), in the sense of a person being solid, experienced, and collected under pressure.
Senses: glosses: extremely skilled; talented.
xiao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃjaʊ/
Forms: form: xiaos
Etymology: Borrowed the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 簫 /箫 (xiāo).
Senses: examples: text: Chou studied violin and erhu (a two-stringed Chinese fiddle) and tried to emulate his second brother by dabbling in the harmonica, mandolin, xiao (a vertical Chinese flute), and the musical saw.
ref: 2006, Peter M. Chang, Chou Wen-Chung: The Life and Work of a Contemporary Chinese-born American Composer:
glosses: A type of Chinese flute.
swanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swanlike
form: most swanlike
Etymology: From swan + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a swanlike curve
text: swanlike beauty
text: Bosom full and firm. The nose straight. A swan-like gliding gait.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 118:
glosses: Similar to a swan or a characteristic of it, especially in elegance or grace.
glosses: Beautiful like a swan
Related terms: cygnine
swanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From swan + -like.
Senses: glosses: In a swanlike way
glosses: Beautifully like a swan
Rebekah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew רִבְקָה (Riḇqāh, “enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”).
Senses: examples: text: And Isaac was fortie yeeres old when hee tooke Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padan Aram, the ſiſter to Laban the Syrian.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 25:20:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The sister of Laban; Isaac's wife; the mother of Jacob and Esau.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a less-common variant of Rebecca.
tribelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tribelet
spasmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spasm + -ology.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An area of neurology that deals with spasticity and its management.
Related terms: spasmologist
spasmometer
beguiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beguilers
Etymology: From Middle English bigiler, begylar, begilere, bigylere, equivalent to beguile + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who beguiles.
beguine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪˈɡiːn/
ipa: /bəˈɡiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: beguines
Etymology: From American French béguine, from French béguin.
Senses: examples: text: When they begin the beguine, / It brings back the sound of music so tender / It brings back the night of tropical splendor, / It brings back a memory ever green.
ref: 1935, Cole Porter, Begin the Beguine:
text: 1956, Langston Hughes, I Wonder as I Wander, 2003, Arnold Rampersad, Dolan Hubbard (editors), The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 14: Autobiography, page 69,
It was a haunting kind of beguine with a strange sad lyric about slavery and freedom set against insistent drums and voluptuous maracas:
text: He is especially fascinated by the chacha, the percussion instrument that sets the basic rolling rhythmic foundation of the beguine and propels the dancers, writing that “the tempo is set by a shiny tin container filled with pebbles.[…]″
ref: 2003, Brent Hayes Edwards, The Practice of Diaspora, page 174:
glosses: A ballroom dance, similar to a slow rumba, originally from French West Indies and popularized abroad largely through the song "Begin the Beguine"; the music for the dance.
-opia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Attested classically as -ωπία in a few words, such as ἀμβλυωπία (ambluōpía). Apparently equivalent to -οψία (-opsía).
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: vision (used to form names of visual defects)
Related terms: -opsia
-plegic
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Adjectives derived from the related -plegia
-plegia
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From paraplegia, from Ancient Greek παραπληγία (paraplēgía), ultimately from πλήσσω (plḗssō, “to strike”). By surface analysis, para- + -plegia.
Senses: glosses: paralysis
vigna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vignas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Vigna of fabaceous plants, including a number of cultivated legumes.
putrefying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of putrefy
putrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of putrify
arbor vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbor vines
Senses: glosses: Spanish arbor vine, a species of bindweed (Convolvulaceae), Merremia tuberosa.
Synonyms: sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: Hawaiian wood rose
sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: Spanish arborvine
sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: Spanish woodbine
sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: regretvine
sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: yellow morning glory
sense: Merremia tuberosa
word: Ipomoea tuberosa
vigoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vigorosos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vigoroso. Doublet of vigorous.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tempo mark directing that a passage is to be played with emphasis, spirit, vigour or energy.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage having this mark.
vigoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vigoroso. Doublet of vigorous.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Played in this style.
vigoroso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian vigoroso. Doublet of vigorous.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a passage: (to be) played in this style.
Camille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Camille (“Camilla”). Doublet of Camilla.
Senses: examples: text: - - - homecoming weekend at Colgate was frat parties like this, wild earsplitting drunken and not for sensitive girls like Camille, even her name was sensitive, delicate, Camille was to Lionel the most beautiful name he'd ever spoken, like music, - - -
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age: A Romance, Fourth Estate, published 2002, →ISBN, page 88:
glosses: A unisex given name from French.
examples: text: Larry went about alternately urging Margo to disguise herself as a peasant and fly to Peter’s arms, or to stop behaving like Camille.
ref: 1956, Gerald Durrell, chapter 12, in My Family and Other Animals, London: Penguin, page 172:
glosses: A courtesan (from the English translations of La Dame aux Camélias)
Chloé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chloés
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Chloe
Markus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Rare spelling variant of Marcus.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Markus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Marku
hempvine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hempvines
form: hemp-vine
Etymology: From hemp + vine.
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the genus Mikania.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Mikania scandens
word: climbing hempvine
word: Florida Keys hempvine
word: fragile hempvine
word: fragrant hempvine
word: heartleaf hempvine
word: Luquillo Mountain hempvine
word: Maricao River hempvine
word: Puerto Rico hempvine
cecropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cecropias
Senses: glosses: A large saturniid moth native to North America, Hyalophora cecropia, having distinctive red, white and black markings on the wings
examples: text: Surrounded by lofty airy cassias, broad-leaved, white-stemmed cecropias, thick-crowned myrtles, large-flowered bignonias, climbing tufts of the mellifluous paullinias, far-spreading tendrils of the passion-flower, and of the richly flowering hatched coronilla, above which rise the waving summits of Macaubu palms, we fancied ourselves transported into the gardens of the Hesperides.
ref: 1824, Joh[ann] Bapt[ist] von Spix, C[arl] F[riedrich] Phil[ipp] von Martius, Travels in Brazil, in the Years 1817-1820. Undertaken by Command of His Majesty the King of Bavaria., volume the first, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, […], pages 207–208:
text: The chief characteristic of the Amazonian forest, aside from its magnitude, is the great diversity of genera and species. In the northern temperate zone we find forests of a single species, others of three or four species; in this great tropical forest the habit of growth is solitary and an acre of ground will contain hundreds of species—palms, myrtles, acacias, mimosas, cecropias, euphorbias, malvaceas, laurels, cedrellas, bignonias, bombaceas, apocyneas, malpigias, lecythises, swartzias, &c.
ref: 1910, “Brazil”, in The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, 11th edition, volume IV, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 444, column 2:
text: […]: the hopelessness of attemps at plant identification for anyone but a botanist resides in the fact that the flora of the Amazon basin is the most complex on earth; the majority of all plant species known to man are to be found in this vast forest, and Louis Agassiz once identified one hundred and seventeen distinct woods, including palms, myrtles, laurels, acacias, bignonias, rosewood, cecropias, bombaceas, Brazil-nuts or castanheiras, rubber, fig, and purplehearts, in an area a half-mile square.
ref: 1961, Peter Matthiessen, The Cloud Forest: A Chronicle of the South American Wilderness, The Viking Press, page 33:
text: Also called the trumpet tree, cecropias are popular with many animal species for their leaves and fingerlike catkins, which turn to fruits.
ref: 1996, Erich Hoyt, The Earth Dwellers: Adventures in the Land of Ants, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: Any tree of the genus Cecropia.
Derived terms: cecropia moth
hemp-vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemp-vines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hempvine.
pipevine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipevines
Etymology: From pipe + vine.
Senses: synonyms: birthwort
Dutchman's pipe
glosses: A vine of genus Aristolochia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Battus philenor
word: pipevine swallowtail
unsayable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsayable
form: most unsayable
Etymology: From un- + sayable.
Senses: examples: text: Whatsoever has been said before me, even on any subject, surely it belongs thereto that it can be repeated by me in rehearsal, and hence it does not seem possible that in this sense it should be so fitly called unspeakable or unsayable.
ref: 1851, John Kitto, The Journal of sacred literature, Oxford University, page 296:
text: Nonetheless, in some unsayable way, value sentences are about values and reflect the structure of values.
ref: 1938, G. E. Moore, Ethics, University of Chicago Press, page 215:
text: The unsaid drives us to “speak;” but, in some ways, there are limitations on what we can say, because some part always remains unsaid — we must always attempt to say the unsayable.
ref: 2004, Daniel Fidel Ferrer, Philosophical Aphorisms: Critical Encounters with Heidegger and Nietzsche, page 97:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not capable of being said.
examples: text: His task: to say the unsayable. To say all the words we have normally suppressed and to say them and say them and say them.
ref: 1971 June 6, Walter Kerr, “Lenny Lost His Cool . . . (review of Lenny, about comedian Lenny Bruce)”, in New York Times, page D3:
text: In Oakland, Rachel Blau's lawn is green because it rained recently. But if there's no rain, "we let it go," she says, bravely adding the unsayable "I don't care how it looks."
ref: 1991 June 3, John Skow, “Can Lawns Be Justified?”, in Time:
text: He was sacked, rather, for, saying the unsayable: for telling the truth.
ref: 2007 March 17, “Talking points: Racism and the cult of knee-jerk outrage”, in The Week, number 605, page 20:
glosses: Not allowed or not fit to be said.
Synonyms: sense: not capable of being said
word: inexpressible
word: unspeakable
word: unutterable
word: ineffable
sense: not allowed or not fit to be said
word: taboo
sense: not allowed or not fit to be said
word: unspeakable
Derived terms: unsayableness
unsayably
vine-leaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vine-leaves
Senses: glosses: A leaf of any vine, especially of a grapevine.
Derived terms: vine-leaf blister mite
vine-leaf folder
vine-leaf green
vine-leaf-green
vine-leaf hopper
vine-leaf miner
vine-leaf roller
vining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vine
vining
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vining
form: most vining
Senses: glosses: Growing in the manner of a vine; twisting and entwining.
Derived terms: vining pea
vining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinings
Senses: examples: 1880–81, Mary E. Bradley, Mizora: A Prophecy
The mantels and windowsills were of white onyx, with delicate vinings of pink and green. The floor was strewn with richly colored mats and rugs.
glosses: A twisting, twining pattern or motion.
Vinalia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vinalia plural
Senses: glosses: An ancient Roman wine festival in honour of the gods Jupiter and Venus.
Derived terms: Vinalia Rustica
higher being
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher beings
Senses: examples: text: Klencory is famously claimed by the eccentric volus billionaire Kumun Shol. He claims that a vision of a higher being told him to seek on Klencory the "lost crypts of beings of light". These entities were supposedly created at the dawn of time to protect organic life from synthetic "machine devils."
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Klencory:
glosses: A nonhuman lifeform believed to have power over human life, such as the Christian God.
Synonyms: cosmocrat
god
higher power
swordswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordswoman
virals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viral
golf pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf pencils
Senses: glosses: A small pencil, often about three inches long; one which was manufactured that way originally (as opposed to one which has become so through usage).
Related terms: pencil stub
mechanical pencil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical pencils
Senses: coordinate_terms: mechanical eraser
glosses: A pencil with a replaceable and mechanically extendable lead that wears away with use, designed to provide lines of constant thickness without requiring sharpening, and typically featuring a small eraser at the end opposite the tip.
Synonyms: word: retractable pencil
word: propelling pencil
word: pacer
word: clutch pencil
english: Bangladeshi English
translation: Bangladeshi English
word: lead pencil
word: automatic pencil
word: drafting pencil
word: technical pencil
word: click pencil
word: leadholder
word: pen pencil
pencil lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil leads
Senses: glosses: The material (usually black or dark gray) which allows a pencil to work. Usually a mixture of graphite and smaller amounts of other material, but not actual lead.
exceptionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exception + -less.
Senses: glosses: without exception
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Without the use of an exception-handling mechanism.
Synonyms: sense: without exception
word: without exception
Derived terms: exceptionlessly
exceptionlessness
unopposed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + opposed.
Senses: examples: text: A number of other mergers of U.S. railroads are mooted, but the I.C.C. [Interstate Commerce Commission] has made it clear that its assent to the N.& W.-Virginian proposal, which was unopposed by competitors or stockholders, should not be taken as an indication that others will swiftly pass its scrutiny.
ref: 1960 January, “Talking of Trains: N.& W.-Virginian merger”, in Trains Illustrated, page 9:
glosses: With no or little opposition
examples: text: Aaron Rule was elected unopposed in September 2006.
glosses: Without an opponent.
froglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more froglike
form: most froglike
form: frog-like
Etymology: From frog + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Though it was not far to Jamiltepec, once outside the village, the chauffeur and his little attendant lad began to get frightened, and to go frog-like with fear.
ref: 1926, D. H. Lawrence, chapter 19, in The Plumed Serpent, New York: Vintage, published 1955, page 316:
text: I have seen, too, a frog-like beast with protruding green eyes, which is simply a gaping mouth with a huge stomach behind it.
ref: 1929, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 5, in The Maracot Deep:
text: a froglike croak
text: Parsons, Winston's fellow-tenant at Victory Mansions, was in fact threading his way across the room--a tubby, middle-sized man with fair hair and a froglike face.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5:
text: It was the typical chatter of the moment when each woman was showing off her baby, held against her froglike belly.
ref: 1988, Yasunari Kawabata, “Samurai Descendant”, in Lane Dunlop, J. Martin Holman, San Francisco, transl., Palm-of-the-Hand Stories, North Point Press, page 133:
glosses: Similar to a frog (amphibian), or to a characteristic of a frog.
Synonyms: froggish
froggy
frogly
ranine
Derived terms: unfroglike
Related terms: anuran
batrachian
salientian
toadish
toadlike
toadly
toady
froglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From frog + -like.
Senses: examples: text: to hop froglike
text: In all our adventures I do not know that I have ever seen a more strange sight than this impassive and still dignified figure crouching frog-like upon the ground and goading to a wilder exhibition of passion the maddened hound, which ramped and raged in front of him, by all manner of ingenious and calculated cruelty.
ref: 1923, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Creeping Man”, in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, London: Murray, published 1927:
glosses: In a froglike way
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug
time machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time machine
anti-inflammatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-inflammatory
meropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meropias
Etymology: From mero- + -opia.
Senses: glosses: Partial blindness.
Related terms: meropic
sinequanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinequanons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sine qua non.
ametropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ametropias
Etymology: From a- + Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”) + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Any of several disorders of the eye (spherical or cylindrical) resulting from faulty refractive ability.
Derived terms: isoametropia
Related terms: ametropic
anisometropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisometropias
Etymology: From an- + iso- + metr- (“measure”) + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A condition in which the two eyes of an individual have different refractive power.
Related terms: anisometropic
antimetropia
anorthopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anorthopias
Etymology: From an- + ortho- + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A defect of vision in which straight lines appear to be curved; a symptom of various vision disorders.
cyclopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopias
Etymology: From cyclops + -ia; From Ancient Greek Κύκλωψ (Kúklōps).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
teratology
synonyms: cyclocephaly
synophthalmia
glosses: A congenital abnormality in which the orbits of the eye do not divide to form separate sockets
Related terms: cyclopic
cyclopamine
ecotopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecotopias
Etymology: From the name of an ecological utopia in a novel ("Ecotopia") by Ernest Callenbach. Blend of eco- + utopia.
Senses: glosses: Any ecologically ideal place or situation
Derived terms: ecotopian
hemeralopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕm′ər-ə-lō′pē-ə
ipa: /ˌhɛm.əɹ.əˈloʊ.pi.ə/
Forms: form: hemeralopias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin hēmeralōpia, from Ancient Greek ἡμεραλωπία (hēmeralōpía). From ἡμέρα (hēmérā, “day”), ἀλαός (alaos, “blind”), and ὄψ (ops, “eye”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to see clearly in bright light; day blindness.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Night blindness.
Derived terms: hemeralopic
Related terms: nyctalopia
plaisance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plaisances
Senses: examples: text: He wandered thoughtfully in the plaisance adjoining the house, planning, as we all plan, circumstances which never arrive; and framing speeches which, when the time comes, we never make.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 38–39:
glosses: Obsolete form of pleasance (“pleasure ground”).
nyctalopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɪk.təˈləʊ.pɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌnɪk.təˈloʊ.pi.ə/
Forms: form: nyctalopias
form: nyctalopiae
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek νυκταλωπία (nuktalōpía), from νύξ (núx, “night”), ἀλαός (alaós, “blind”), and ὄψ (óps, “eye”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to see clearly in dim light; night blindness
Derived terms: nyctalopic
Related terms: hemeralopia
hemianopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemianopias
Etymology: From hemi- + an- + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of hemianopsia.
Related terms: hemianopic
hemianopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemianopsias
form: hemianopia
form: hemiopia
form: hemiopsia
form: hemiopsy
Etymology: From hemi- + an- + -opsia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Blindness in one half of the field of vision of either or both eyes.
Derived terms: hemianopsic
pleasance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛzəns/
rhymes: -ɛzəns
Forms: form: pleasances
form: plaisance
form: plaisaunce
form: pleasaunce
Etymology: From Middle English plaisaunce, plesaunce, from Old French plaisance. By surface analysis, please + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses
ref: 1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths:
text: It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.
ref: 1924 June 4, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, A Passage to India, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC:
synonyms: pleasure garden
glosses: A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden.
glosses: Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy.
examples: text: Now ſtands the Brere like a Loꝛd alone, / Puffed vp with pꝛyde and vaine pleaſaunce: […]
ref: 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Ægloga Secunda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 6, verso:
glosses: The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight.
Related terms: pleasurance
hemiopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemiopias
Etymology: From hemi- + -opia.
Senses: glosses: hemianopia
Related terms: hemiopic
hypermetropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpə(ɹ)məˈtɹəʊpɪə/
rhymes: -əʊpiə
Forms: form: hypermetropias
form: hypermetropy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὑπέρμετρος (hupérmetros, “excessive”) + ὀπός (opós) (genitive of ὄψ (óps, “eye”)) + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of hyperopia.
synonyms: word: hyperopia
Derived terms: anisohypermetropia
hypermetropic
isometropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isometropias
Etymology: From iso- + metr- (“measure”) + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having equal refractive power in each eye, regardless of their acuity.
Related terms: isometropic
isoametropia
mixoscopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixoscopias
Senses: glosses: mixoscopy or voyeurism
polyopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyopias
Etymology: From poly- + -opia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition in which multiple images of a single object are formed on the retina; multiple vision
quadrantanopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrantanopias
Etymology: From quadrant + anopia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: The loss of vision in one or more quadrants of the field of view.
Related terms: hemianopsia
field of view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of view
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The angular extent of what can be seen, either with the eye or with an optical instrument or camera.
Related terms: field of vision
visual field
kasher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkæʃɚ/
ipa: /ˈkæʃə/
rhymes: -ɑːʃə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æʃə(ɹ)
homophone: casher
Forms: form: kashers
form: kashering
form: kashered
form: kashered
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish כּשרן (kashern), from כּשר (kosher, “kosher”).
Senses: examples: text: “Kosher salt” is called thus, not because it is any more kosher than other types of salt, but because it is used in the kashering process of meat.
glosses: To render kosher.
to remove excess blood from by washing and salting
raw_tags: of meat
examples: text: David moved into his new apartment, put up mezuzahs, and kashered his new kitchen.
glosses: To render kosher.
to remove traces of non-kosher substances from by cleaning, heating, etc.
raw_tags: of kitchenware
Synonyms: word: kosher
cetane number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetane numbers
Senses: glosses: A performance rating of diesel fuel corresponding to the percentage of cetane in a mixture with isocetane (or, formerly, methylnaphthalene) that would have the same performance.
Related terms: octane number
conqueresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conqueress
cetane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cetanes
Etymology: From Latin cetus (“whale”) + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aliphatic hydrocarbon C₁₆H₃₄ (hexadecane) used as a standard for diesel fuel.
Derived terms: cetane number
isocetane
hexadecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexadecanes
Etymology: From hexadec- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the very many isomeric aliphatic hydrocarbons of general formula C₁₆H₃₄
Derived terms: hexadecenoic
isohexadecane
Related terms: cetane
dick weed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick weeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dickweed.
presentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈzɛntmənt/
Forms: form: presentments
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman presentment, presentement, Middle French presentement, corresponding to present + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: In 1771, a grand jury presentment in Georgia revealed that "Slaves are permitted to rent houses …."
ref: 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, Penguin History, paperback edition, page 62
topics: law
glosses: A statement made on oath by a jury.
examples: text: the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, etc.
topics: law
glosses: The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them.
examples: text: He recognised that there was general resentment of the oppressive conduct of the Forest officers, and made provision for regular inquiries into it, and for presentment of Forest offences to be made at the attachment courts, as a procedure preliminary to the Forest Eyre.
ref: 1991, Raymond Grant, The Royal Forests of England, Alan Sutton:
topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A formal complaint submitted to a bishop or archdeacon.
examples: text: When online bill presentment, which removes all the paperwork, becomes widespread, says McKinsey's Stephenson, online banking will be far more compelling.
ref: 2000, Sarah Rose, “The Truth about Online Banking”, in Money, vol. 29.4:
glosses: The act of presenting something for acceptance; now specifically, presenting something (e.g. a bill or cheque) for payment.
examples: text: Noted among the who's-who in portraiture: Hopkinson's Secretary Hughes, Childe Hassam's Governor Alfred E. Smith, of New York, Edmund C. Tarbell's Mary at the Harpsichord, Lillian Westcott Hale's child portrait study of Brothers, Frank Benson's Girl in Blue Jacket, and Marion Boyd Allen's presentment of Anna Vaughn Hyatt.
ref: 1923 December 21, “Arts: In Washington”, in Time:
glosses: An artistic representation; a picture.
glosses: Presentation of a performance, as of a play or work of music.
examples: text: But it was especially the aspect of the three chief officers of the ship, the mates, which was most forcibly calculated to allay these colourless misgivings, and induce confidence and cheerfulness in every presentment of the voyage.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: The aspect or form in which something presents itself; appearance.
examples: text: As to the presentment: that, by the general custom of manors, is to be made at the next court baron immediately after the surrender
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Derived terms: presentment of Englishry
swordsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swordsman
appellate jurisdiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The power of a court to review and potentially modify the decisions made by another court or tribunal.
epistemologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: epistemologists
Etymology: From epistemology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of knowledge.
Related terms: episteme
epistemic
epistemically
epistemics
epistemological
epistemologically
epistemology
epistemonical
epistemologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epistemologist
washing-up liquid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washing-up liquids
Senses: examples: text: I have to use a special washing-up liquid, because I have sensitive skin.
synonyms: dish liquid
dish soap
dishwashing liquid
hypernyms: liquid soap
soap
coordinate_terms: dish detergent
glosses: A form of liquid soap used to wash dishes by hand.
CH activation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CH activations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a wide range of techniques, often using catalysts, in which a carbon to hydrogen covalent bond of an organic compound is made to cleave in order to replace the hydrogen with a functional group.
chabazite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæbəzaɪt/
Forms: form: chabazites
Etymology: From French chabasie, coined by Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic from Ancient Greek χαβάζιος (khabázios), apparently an error for χαλάζιος (khalázios, “a kind of precious stone”) (which is probably from χάλαζα (khálaza, “hail”), due to looking like a hailstone), one of twenty species of stones mentioned in the poem ascribed to Orpheus. See chalaza and chalazion.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several zeolite minerals that occur in basaltic rocks.
tongue-boring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue-borings
Senses: examples: text: Seventeenth-century settlers in the colonies - and usually their children as well - lived in a world that took for granted stocks and tongue-borings, religious proscriptions, fear of witches, and savage repression of the lower orders.
ref: 1993, Peter Kolchin, American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 65)
glosses: A punishment whereby a hole or bore was made in someone's tongue.
Air Force
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Airforce
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The military air force of a particular armed forces.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Ellipsis of United States Air Force.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Ellipsis of Air Force Falcons sports teams representing the United States Air Force Academy.
Synonyms: sense: United States Air Force
word: USAF
sense: United States Air Force
word: United States Air Force
sense: United States Air Force
word: U.S. Air Force
Coordinate terms: word: Army
word: Coast Guard
word: Coastguard
word: Marines
word: Marine Corps
word: Navy
word: Space Force
word: Spaceforce
english: United States Army Air Corps
translation: United States Army Air Corps
word: AAC
english: United States Army Air Corps
translation: United States Army Air Corps
word: USAAC
english: United States Army Air Force
translation: United States Army Air Force
word: AAF
english: United States Army Air Force
translation: United States Army Air Force
word: USAAF
Related terms: Aerospace Force
Aerospace Forces
Air and Space Force
Air and Space Forces
Marines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The United States Marine Corps.
Synonyms: word: USMC
word: Marine Corps
Marines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of marines.
glosses: Alternative form of marine corps.
ethnocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnocides
Etymology: From ethno- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: The deliberate and systematic destruction of an ethnic group, accomplished either by destroying the members of the group (genocide) or by destroying its cultural identity (culturicide).
Derived terms: auto-ethnocide
ethnocidal
maternities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maternity
auto-ethnocide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + ethnocide.
Senses: examples: text: 1981 May 22, Pierre L. van den Berghe, The Ethnic Phenomenon, page 163-164 (paperback 1987), Elsevier Social Science
Of all the ethnic groups, castes are the only ones which, if given an opportunity, would commit “auto-ethnocide,” that is, which would gladly shed their separate identity and join the main body of the society whose culture they share.
text: In what amounted to an act of autoethnocide (which of course is why it has attracted so much anthropological attention), gods, chiefs, and men were desacralized, and men and women (as well as chiefs and commoners) were defined as equal within the framework of a disenchanted world.
ref: 1989-1990 winter, Sherry B. Ortner, “Gender Hegemonies”, Cultural Critique: The Construction of Gender and Modes of Social Division II, number 14, pages 35-80
text: 1993 September 1, James M. Freeman, Beyond the Killing Fields: Voices of Nine Cambodian Survivors in America, forward, page xiv, Usha Welaratna (author), Stanford University Press
The author provides the cultural and historical background to enable the reader to comprehend the magnitude of this auto-ethnocide.
text: In China, totalitarianism led the Chinese people first into political indoctrination, then into social brutalization, and, finally, into alienation from their cultural heritage and auto-ethnocide.
ref: 2003 July 30, Rebecca Knuth, Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century, Praeger Publishers, page 195:
text: Unintentionally, The Ugly American, seems to be a premonition of what would happen in Cambodia after 1970, when a neutral country became involved in proxy wars and fell victim to a policy of auto-ethnocide, long after the Americans had left.
ref: 2004, Srilata Ravi, Mario Rutten, Beng-Lan Goh, Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, page 281:
glosses: The destruction of an ethnic culture by its own members.
spirited away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spirit away
back slap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back slaps
form: back-slap
Senses: glosses: A slap delivered with the back of one's hand instead of the palm-side of an open hand.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: A controlled landing, slapping to the mat with one's back.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An encouraging pat on one's back.
Derived terms: back-slappery
sacralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sacralizes
form: sacralizing
form: sacralized
form: sacralized
Etymology: From sacral + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Bishop Daniel Flores of the Brownsville Diocese in Texas recently wrote on Twitter that Americans “sacralize death’s instruments, and then are surprised that death uses them.” [...] Bishop Flores told the Catholic website The Pillar, “[...] To say something is sacralized is to say it’s almost taken out of any possibility for conversation.”
ref: 2022 June 6, Patrick Jonsson, Noah Robertson, “Has the gun become a sacred object in America?”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
topics: lifestyle
religion
synonyms: word: sacredize
word: sanctify
word: avow
word: behallow
word: bless
word: canonize
word: consecrate
word: dedicate
word: hallow
word: inaugurate
word: martyr
word: sacralize
word: saint
word: sanctify
antonyms: word: desacralize
word: consecrate
glosses: to make sacred
Derived terms: desacralize
resacralize
sacralization