cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sensationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈseɪʃənəli/
ipa: /sɛnˈseɪʃnəli/
ipa: /sɛnˈseɪʃənli/
ipa: /sən-/
rhymes: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more sensationally
form: most sensationally
Etymology: From sensational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sensational manner.
examples: text: "Yes," said Slartibartfast, "staggeringly dull. Bewilderingly so. [...] Would you like me to quote you some statistics?" "Er, well..." "Please, I would like to. They, too, are quite sensationally dull."
ref: 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 111:
glosses: To a sensational extent; amazingly.
sensitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensitizations
form: sensitisation
Etymology: From sensitize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The process of making something sensitive.
Derived terms: allosensitization
autosensitization
chemosensitization
cosensitization
cross-sensitization
desensitization
desensitisation
electrosensitization
hypersensitization
hyposensitization
immunosensitization
monosensitization
multisensitization
photosensitization
polysensitization
presensitization
radiosensitization
resensitization
Related terms: sensitive
sensitize
semidarkness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-darkness
Etymology: From semi- + darkness.
Senses: glosses: Partial or near darkness, dimness, twilight.
Related terms: semidark
dimness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dimnesses
Etymology: From Middle English dymnes, dymnesse, from Old English dimnes, dymnys, dimness (“dimness, darkness, obscurity”), equivalent to dim + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:
glosses: The state of being dim, poorly illuminated, almost dark.
domperidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɑmˈpɛɹ.ɪˌdoʊn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -peridone (“risperidone derivative”).
Senses: examples: text: A new word was introduced recently into English — undigestion. This simply refers to a lack of movement of food in the stomach and small intestine and responds to treatment with domperidone.
ref: 2000, Trevor Stone, L. Gail Darlington, Pills, Potions and Poisons : How Drugs Work:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antidopaminergic drug used to suppress nausea and vomiting.
segmented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of segment
segmented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more segmented
form: most segmented
Senses: glosses: Having or made of segments.
Derived terms: autosegmented
bisegmented
hypersegmented
missegmented
monosegmented
multisegmented
nonsegmented
presegmented
pseudosegmented
segmented worm
subsegmented
trisegmented
undersegmented
unsegmented
seemliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seemlinesses
Etymology: From Middle English semelynes, semlynesse, equivalent to seemly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Her black dress, simple to austerity, suggested her bereaved condition, and I was innocently astonished that notwithstanding a real emotion she was able to dress the part she had to play according to her notions of seemliness.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 10”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
glosses: The property of being seemly, appropriateness of conduct or behavior.
glosses: The result or product of being seemly.
seedpod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedpods
form: seed pod
Etymology: From seed + pod.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pouch-like form on a plant which encloses the seeds.
wikipedia: Cape Town
seedpods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedpod
seediness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːdinəs/
rhymes: -iːdinəs
Forms: form: seedinesses
Etymology: From seedy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being seedy (unkempt).
glosses: The property of being seedy (full of seeds).
seedcase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedcases
Etymology: From seed + case.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A pouch-like structure of a plant that encloses the seeds.
seedcases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedcase
seismographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seismographers
Etymology: From seismo- + -grapher.
Senses: glosses: A person who measures and records earthquakes and other ground vibrations.
glosses: A person who studies such records, a seismologist.
seismographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seismographer
seismography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: seismographies
Etymology: From seismo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: The measurement and recording of earthquakes and other ground vibrations.
glosses: The study of these records, seismology.
seismographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seismography + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to seismography and seismology.
atomic weapon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atomic weapons
Senses: examples: text: For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
glosses: A nuclear weapon.
seismological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From seismology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to seismology.
Synonyms: seismologic
Derived terms: seismologically
semiarid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semiarid
form: most semiarid
form: semi-arid
Etymology: From semi- + arid.
Senses: topics: climatology
natural-sciences
glosses: Somewhat arid, receiving little rainfall but more than an arid area would. Typically defined as 25 to 50 cm or 10 to 20 inches of rainfall annually.
separability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛpɹəˈbɪlɪti/
ipa: /ˌsɛpɹəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌsɛpɹəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /ˌsepɹəˈbɪləti/
ipa: [ˌsepɹəˈbɪləɾi]
ipa: /ˌsepɹəˈbələti/
ipa: [ˌsepɹəˈbələɾi]
Forms: form: separabilities
Senses: glosses: The property of being separable.
separateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separatenesses
Etymology: From separate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In “The Liberation,” a 30‐yearold^([sic]) college teacher breaks out of the psychic loneliness of a smothering family into the redeeming sense of her separateness; she had been kept from the person she really was.
ref: 1964 November 10, Jean Stafford, “Breaking Out Of Isolation”, in The New York Times:
text: A prideful sense of separateness prevails toward what Mrs. Moskowitz called “frenetic” Manhattan and “the hipper parts of Brooklyn.”
ref: 2008 November 14, Gregory Beyer, “Isolation Is Pretty Splendid”, in The New York Times:
text: Professor Marty saw Americans retreating into “separatenesses” by choice, and he worried, with Reinhold Niebuhr, that “the chief source of man’s inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to the other man.”
ref: 2020 July 11, David W. Blight, “Confronting the Damage of Trumpism”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being separate.
serviceman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servicemen
Etymology: From service + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who serves in the armed forces.
glosses: A person, especially a man, employed in service and maintenance of equipment.
Derived terms: ex-serviceman
national serviceman
Related terms: servicewoman
soldier
servicewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜːvɪsˌwʊmən/
Forms: form: servicewomen
Etymology: From service + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: The run honors the 160 women who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. There's one mile for each of the fallen servicewomen.
ref: 2014 October 21, Caterina Andreano, “Veteran Runs 160 Miles in 160 Hours to Honor Fallen Servicewomen”, in ABC News:
text: Unlike some Western countries it remains rare for Russian servicewomen to go to war.
ref: 2022 July 13, Will Stewart, “Vladimir Putin loses first servicewoman in Ukraine war as grief-stricken husband weeps”, in Daily Mirror:
coordinate_terms: serviceman
glosses: A woman who serves in the armed forces.
Derived terms: ex-servicewoman
serially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From serial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: All tickets are serially numbered by machine as they are printed, and while two tickets of the same number should not occur, it could possibly happen through a fault in the printing machine.
ref: 1953 November, 'Erca', “Ticket Frauds in the East”, in Railway Magazine, page 779:
glosses: In series, one after the other, as opposed to in parallel.
Coordinate terms: sense: in series
word: in parallel
sense: in series
word: parallelly
sergeants-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sergeant-at-arms
sergeant-at-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sergeants-at-arms
form: serjeant-at-arms
Senses: glosses: A person charged with keeping order at a meeting, especially a meeting of the legislature.
Related terms: serjeant-at-arms
shabbily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shabbily
form: most shabbily
Etymology: From shabby + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: King-of-the-Sky, whose wife had been so shabbily treated in the turtle division by not being given more than her due share, sat with his great back to one of the house posts.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 92:
glosses: In a shabby manner.
glosses: Done poorly or ineptly.
shabbiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shabbinesses
Etymology: From shabby + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He didn’t mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter.
ref: 1921 June, Margery Williams, “The Velveteen Rabbit: Or How Toys Become Real”, in Harper’s Bazar, volume LVI, number 6 (2504 overall), New York, N.Y.: International Magazine Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: The property of being shabby.
shadily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shadily
form: most shadily
Etymology: From shady + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a shady manner, particularly used in the sense of untrustworthy.
shadiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shadinesses
Etymology: From shady + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The autumn fields were autumn woods now—oak and beech and maple shadiness—as if they had ridden backward through the years of cultivation into primeval forest. The air was cool with mystery as well as with the shadiness.
ref: 1931, LeRoy MacLeod, Three Steeples: A Tragedy of Earth, page 113:
text: "There were still a lot of government restrictions on how much meat you could get from the packing houses. So I had to turn to certain "independent" distributors to get some of the meat cuts my customers wanted."
There was something about the way Wolff said the word independent that suggested a slight bit of shadiness, but certainly not enough shadiness for a full-blown indictment.
ref: 1982, Julius K. Hunter, Kingsbury Place: The First Two Hundred Years, page 163:
glosses: The property of being shady.
shagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shaggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being shaggy.
sexily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sexily
form: most sexily
Etymology: From sexy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every eye followed her as she walked sexily across the room.
glosses: In a sexy manner.
severeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: severenesses
Etymology: From severe + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Everyone was surprised by the severeness of the sentence the judge imposed.
text: Depending on the severeness of the crime and the danger of the suspect, the apprehender may apply physical force in order to stop the pursued and proceed to his apprehension.
ref: 1996, Chantal Joubert, Hans Bevers, Schengen Investigated, page 305:
glosses: The property of being severe.
Synonyms: severity
serenely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more serenely
form: most serenely
Etymology: From serene + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I’ve flown in flimsy microlights, soaring serenely above rich farmland. I’ve ridden tactical combat helicopters missions, skimming the desert floor and banking hard around sand dunes.
ref: 2020 December 5, Nic Robertson, “Saudi Arabia has changed beyond recognition. But will tourists want to visit?”, in CNN:
text: Ruling in the immunity case, Chief Justice John Roberts seemed to serenely arrogate to the Court an immense power to determine whether the president might ever face criminal consequence without worrying whether the emboldening of a rampaging executive might at some point place the authority of the judiciary in danger.
ref: 2025 April 9, Quinta Jurecic, “What, Exactly, Is the Supreme Court Thinking?”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: In a serene manner.
scarab beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scarab beetles
Senses: glosses: Any of very many beetles, of the family Scarabaeidae, especially Scarabaeus sacer regarded as sacred by the ancient Egyptians
Synonyms: dung beetle
normocapnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: normocarbia
glosses: The presence of the normal amount of carbon dioxide in arterial blood
clamors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamours
Senses: glosses: plural of clamor
clamors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clamours
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clamor
zori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɔːɹi/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈzoəɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: zori
form: zoris
form: zōri
form: zouri
Etymology: From Japanese 草履 (zōri).
Senses: examples: text: 1983 July, Tony Annesi, Dogu: Tools For the Way, Black Belt, page 70,
Zori should be left at the edge of the training area so they can easily be stepped into. In Western dojo, this is sometimes impractical, but zori should at least be put on as soon as possible after leaving the training area.
text: […]and they had a machine gun aimed at us, and we stood in the snow for three, four, five hours in our underwear and zoris.
ref: 1984, Morgan Yamanaka, “Morgan Yamanaka: Tule Lake”, in John Tateishi, editor, And Justice for All: An Oral History of the Japanese American Detention Camps, page 117:
text: She took a while getting her crooked feet into her zori, but finally turned toward Mr. Tanaka and gave him a look he seemed to understand at once, because he left the room, closing the door behind him.
ref: 1997, Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha, Vintage, published 1998, page 25:
text: Traditionally, zori are worn to and from the place of practice. Zori are similar to flip-flops and used to be made from straw.
ref: 2008, Roy Inman, The Judo Handbook, page 14:
glosses: A Japanese sandal made from rice straw or lacquered wood, worn with a kimono for formal occasions.
examples: text: He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing.
ref: 1980, Stephen King, The Mist, Viking Press:
synonyms: flip-flop
qualifier: especially Southeast US
glosses: A sandal, usually of rubber, secured to the foot by two straps mounted between the big toe and its neighbour.
Related terms: english: clogs
translation: clogs
word: geta
zori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɔːɹi/
note: without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ˈzoəɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: zoris
Senses: examples: text: You are your zori's daughter.
synonyms: zaza#Noun
coordinate_terms: mama
papa
mom
dad
glosses: A parent.
proscriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proscriptive
form: most proscriptive
Senses: glosses: proscribing or prohibiting, for example as according to a norm or standard
Derived terms: proscriptivist
Related terms: proscribe
clamoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clamouring
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clamor
clamoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clamorings
form: clamouring
Senses: glosses: A sound that clamors.
clamored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clamoured
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of clamor
Dorothea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See Dorothy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek, a Latinate variant of Dorothy.
Winchester quart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winchester quarts
Senses: glosses: a unit of volume equal to half a Winchester gallon, equal to two quarts, or 2.273 litres.
glosses: a bottle of that size used in laboratories, commonly holding 2.5 litres.
Gergesenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 8:28:
glosses: plural of Gergesene
Waldorf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waldorfs
Etymology: Ultimately from the German town name, Walldorf.
Senses: glosses: Clipping of Waldorf salad.
Waldorf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from the German town name, Walldorf.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Maryland.
glosses: A city in Minnesota.
Derived terms: Waldorf doll
Waldorf education
Waldorfian
Waldorf salad
Waldorf school
calico cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calico cat
inequation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inequations
Etymology: From in- + equation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A statement that two expressions are not the same.
Synonyms: inequality
clasp-knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clasp-knives
form: clasp knife
Senses: examples: text: ...there is yet ample evidence of the existence of clasp-knives ages before the production of the Canterbury Tales. Among Etruscan antiquities in the Bronze Room of the British Museum are several clasp-knives, some of them with bone, others with bronze hafts, their blades being of iron — a metal employed for cutting implements by the Tyrrhenian tribes, at a far remote era.
A scalprum or penknife has been found in Rome, the blade shutting into a bone haft, which is carved to represent the upper half of a human body; and clasp-knives, with iconic handles of the Roman era, have been discovered both in France and this country.
ref: 1859, Journal of the British Archaeological Association:
text: “Well, this knife is called a clasp-knife, because it shuts and opens, as you see, and it has three blades — a big one for cuttin’ up your victuals with, as you see me doin’; and two little ones for parin’ your nails and pickin’ your teeth, an’ mendin’ pens an’ pencils — though of course you don’t know what that means.”
ref: 1886, R.M. Ballantyne, Red Rooney:
text: Blake picked his teeth reflectively with the point of a clasp knife.
ref: 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 110:
glosses: A knife with a hinged blade or blades that, for safety when not in use, can be folded into a slot in the handle.
Synonyms: folding knife
folder
Coordinate terms: sheath knife
Related terms: penknife
pocket-knife
BNIB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: classified ads
glosses: Initialism of brand new in box.
Related terms: LNIB
LNIB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: qualifier: classified ads
glosses: Initialism of like new in box.
Related terms: BNIB
pocket knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket knives
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pocketknife.
calico cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calico cats
Senses: synonyms: calico
glosses: A tortoiseshell and white domestic cat.
amnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /æmˈniːsɪk/
/æmˈniːʒɪk/
Etymology: From amnesia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: amnesic patients
text: amnesic medications
glosses: Of, pertaining to, affected by, or causing amnesia.
Synonyms: amnestic
Derived terms: amnesically
antiamnesic
nonamnesic
amnesic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æmˈniːsɪk/
/æmˈniːʒɪk/
Forms: form: amnesics
Etymology: From amnesia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: A person with amnesia.
glosses: A medication with amnesic effects.
Synonyms: amnesiac
amnestic
Related terms: nepenthe
diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagram
diagrams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diagram
Waldorf salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Waldorf salads
Etymology: Named after the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York, where the salad was first created in 1896, from the surname Waldorf, after the German town Walldorf.
Senses: examples: text: Would you like some Waldorf salad?
text: Of all the Waldorf salads I've tasted, this is the finest.
glosses: A type of salad, consisting of apple, nuts (especially walnuts), celery, and mayonnaise or a mayonnaise-based dressing.
wikipedia: Waldorf–Astoria (1893–1929)
Walldorf
Waldorf salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Waldorf salad
mixed message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed messages
Senses: examples: text: Don't you think it's sending a mixed message for the magazine to put "Lose Five Pounds in A Month" right next to "Ten Easy Desserts"?
text: Of late, many who are wary of the vaccine say they have become more confused by what they see as mixed messages from federal health agencies and the White House.
ref: 2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Any communication that is contradictory, inconsistent, or unclear, especially in its motive or intent.
Related terms: double standard
mixed signal
oxymoron
read between the lines
riddance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪd(ə)n(t)s/
ipa: /ˈɹɪdn̩(t)s/
Forms: form: riddances
Etymology: Apparently an alteration of earlier Middle English riddeings, ryddyngs, reddyngs (“clearings, clearances”), plural of riddyng, riddynge, rudyng (“clearing away, removal”), partially continuing Old English hryding (“a clearing, cleared land”), by surface analysis, rid + -ance.
Senses: examples: text: A gentle riddance. Draw the curtains, go.
Let all of his complexion choose me so.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: And this kind of riddance is the most pleasant to listen to of all
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 230c:
glosses: An act of ridding, clearance, or removal; elimination.
glosses: Deliverance, release, setting free; a relief involving getting rid of something.
glosses: The earth thrown up by a burrowing animal.
Derived terms: good riddance
good riddance to bad rubbish
densely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛnsli/
Forms: form: more densely
form: most densely
Etymology: From dense + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The forest was densely populated with trees.
text: There are plenty of soldiers in the surrounding Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, the official Chinese name for the region, mounting guard along the nearby border with the DPRK. […] Yanbian, Yanji apart, is one of the least densely populated regions of China outside the high plateau of Tibet and the deserts of Xinjiang.
ref: 2014, David Eimer, The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China, Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 254:
text: The IDF spokesperson provided no comment on whether it had halted the practice, or the reported use of white phosphorus in Gaza, a densely populated area and home to more than 2 million people.
ref: 2023 October 9, Ruth Michaelson, Ben Doherty, “Israel ‘going on the offensive’ after retaking territories overrun by Hamas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a dense manner.
defacto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: defactos
Senses: examples: text: 1992, University of New South Wales Aboriginal Law Research Unit, Aboriginal Law Bulletin, Issue 31, unidentified page,
Homicide, assault, rape, and suicide occur as a result of Aboriginal men′s fear of loss of a valued relationship and jealousy over their wives or defactos.
text: Demographers in Denmark call the practice of living together marriage without papers. In Australia, these couples are known as defactos
ref: 2001, Richard T. Schaefer, Sociology: A Brief Introduction:
text: The police role[…]has tended to exclude a whole class of people — wives, defactos, girlfriends and daughters, or past wives, defactos and girlfriends from the protection of the criminal law, too often with tragic consequences.
ref: 2001, Jude McCulloch, Blue Army: Paramilitary Policing in Australia, page 51:
text: 2007, Jo Barnes, 4: Murder Followed by Suicide in Australia, 1973—1992: A research note, Diane Kholos Wysocki, Readings in Social Research Methods, page 36,
Of the 250 victims in this sample, 50.4 percent were or had been in an intimate relationship with the offender (intimates are defined as present and past spouses, defactos and lovers).
glosses: Alternative form of de facto.
chunter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃʌn.tə/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌn.tɚ/
rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: chunters
form: chuntering
form: chuntered
form: chuntered
Senses: examples: text: Ron continued to chunter under his breath all the way down the street.
ref: 2003 June 21, J. K. Rowling [pseudonym; Joanne Rowling], Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter; 5), London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 349:
glosses: To speak in a soft, indistinct manner, mutter.
examples: text: Since she had another seat and was quite comfortable, we smiled and let her chunter.
ref: 1921, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Mandas”, in Sea and Sardinia, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, →OCLC, page 136:
glosses: To grumble, complain.
Haussmannization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haussmannizations
Etymology: From Haussmann + -ization, after Baron Haussmann.
Senses: examples: text: In second place, the Haussmannization or evisceration of the central quarters of numerous European cities did not solve the problem of mass housing or provide for the kind of egalitarian distribution of urban resources CIAM proposed.
ref: 1989, James Holston, chapter 2, in The Modern City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: The creative destruction of something for the betterment of society.
wikipedia: Baron Haussmann
betterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛtəmənt/
ipa: /ˈbɛtɚmənt/
Forms: form: betterments
Etymology: From better + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss.
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 43:
glosses: An improvement or amelioration.
topics: law
glosses: An improvement to a property that adds to its value.
Derived terms: self-betterment
neuritides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuritis
neurologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurologist
hemispherectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemispherectomy
arrested development
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrested developments
Senses: examples: 1835–1836, Benjamin Phillips, "Bladder, Abnormal Anatomy", in Robert Bentley Todd (ed.), The Cyclopædia of Anatomy and Physiology, Volume I (A–DEA), Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, page 390,
There are upon record a certain number of cases in which two or more urinary bladders are said to have existed. Of these some appear to me to have been cases in which the plurality was maintained merely because the organ was divided into compartments, either as a consequence of arrested development or of the formation of pouches, by the protrusion, or hernia of the mucous membrane of the organ.
1885, Edmund Owen, The Surgical Diseases of Children, Lea Brothers & Co., page 269,
Dr. Chamneys observes, that during fœtal life the mucous layer of the prepuce is always blended with the glans, and that with approaching birth the adhesion melts away. Adherence of the prepuce after birth is thus the result of arrested development. To draw back the foreskin is extremely advisable, lest the lingering adhesions undergo further thickening.
1967, Samuel Angus, The religious quests of the Graeco-Roman world : a study in the historical background of early Christianity, Biblo & Tannen Publishers, →ISBN, page 17,
Then, as ever, the Spirit as life manifested itself more surely and readily in change and motion than in stereotyped forms, prescriptive beliefs, and arrested developments.
2007, John Creaser, "Enigmatic Ben Jonson", in Michael Cordner et al (eds.), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 109,
But even the more complex of Jonson’s figures tend to be definable, seen in a state of arrested development. Their speeches generate little sub-text, except as intrigue.
glosses: A state where development has stopped prematurely.
skyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪn
Forms: form: skylines
Etymology: From sky + line.
Senses: synonyms: horizon
glosses: The line that seems to be the boundary of the sky and the ground; the horizon.
examples: text: Our arrival at Worcester is heralded by the appearance of the city's cathedral tower, a solid square structure that's dominated the skyline since the 12th century.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:
glosses: The horizontal silhouette of a city or building against the sky.
glosses: A path of movement, especially military movement, producing a silhouette above terrain features visible from the location of likely observers.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A panel on the front page of a newspaper outlining some of the features to be found inside.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of skyline operator.
Derived terms: skyline operator
skyline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskaɪˌlaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪlaɪn
Forms: form: skylines
form: skylining
form: skylined
form: skylined
Etymology: From sky + line.
Senses: glosses: To outline something against the sky.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To filter by means of the skyline operator.
hindquarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪndˌk(w)ɔɹtɚ/
Forms: form: hindquarters
Etymology: From hind + quarter.
Senses: glosses: Either rear half of a side of beef, mutton, veal, lamb or by extension from another edible mammal.
examples: text: While Major was speaking four large rats had crept out of their holes and were sitting on their hindquarters, listening to him.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: The hind biped (leg) of a quadruped, or all body parts situated behind the hind legs' trunk-attachment.
glosses: Human behind, butt.
downhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: down-hearted
Etymology: From down + hearted.
Senses: examples: text: Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost.
text: We're going on strike for twelve percent / We're not downhearted yet / They're filming it all for a reality show / So twelve percent we'll get
ref: 2005, “The Land Of Do What You're Told”, in A Singsong and a Scrap, performed by Chumbawamba:
synonyms: word: low-spirited
word: unhappy
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope
Derived terms: downheartedly
downheartedness
Related terms: have one's heart in one's boots
carload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːləʊd/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑːləʊd]
ipa: /ˈkɑɹloʊd/
ipa: [ˈkʰɑɹloʊd]
Forms: form: carloads
Etymology: From car + load.
Senses: examples: text: I brought a carload of flowers to her.
text: We brought a carload of kids and camping gear on our road trip out west.
glosses: The contents of an automobile (passengers, supplies, etc.) for one trip.
examples: text: less-than-carload freight
text: By 1887 the company had grown so large that it was buying its flour and sugar by the carload.
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The quantity of goods that can be carried in a freight car.
Coordinate terms: english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: carful
word: containerload
word: trailerload
word: truckload
word: wagonload
evinced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of evince
localities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locality
superstitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superstition
behavioural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈheɪvjərəl/
ipa: /bɪˈheɪvjɚəl/
Forms: form: behavioral
Etymology: From behaviour + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.
ref: 2003 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Aug 2014:
glosses: Of or pertaining to behaviour.
Derived terms: behaviouralist
behaviourally
biobehavioural
interbehavioural
microbehavioural
neurobehavioural
paleobehavioural
psychobehavioural
sociobehavioural
Related terms: behaviouralism
foram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forams
Etymology: Shortening of foraminifer.
Senses: examples: text: Some forams allow single-celled algae to lodge on the surface of their bodies, rather as tropical coral do.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 291:
glosses: A foraminifer.
pseudopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudopodium
glosses: plural of pseudopod
pseudopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudopodia
Etymology: From pseudo- + -podium.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: pseudopod
undersaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersaturated
form: most undersaturated
Etymology: From under- + saturated.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently saturated
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of igneous rock) Having minerals without free silica
overlying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + lying.
Senses: glosses: lying over or upon something else
Derived terms: overlyingly
reworked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rework
reworked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: worked again
hand-picked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: His hand-picked collection of images gives a 128-page first-hand account of life on the railways - the locomotives, the freight and the rolling stock.
ref: 2021 March 10, “Stop & Examine”, in RAIL, number 926, page 70:
glosses: Alternative form of handpicked.
hand-picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hand-pick
central nervous systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of central nervous system
discordance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discordances
form: discordaunce
Etymology: From Middle French discordance.
Senses: examples: text: There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion.
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], chapter XVIII, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
text: To talk nonsense, or poetry, or the dash between the two, in a tone of profound sincerity, and to enunciate solemn discordances with received opinion so seriously as to convey the impression of a spiritual insight, is the peculiar gift by which monomaniacs, having first persuaded themselves, contrive to influence their neighbours, and through them to make conquest of a good half of the world, for good or for ill.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 15, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
glosses: A state of being discordant; disagreement, inconsistency.
glosses: Discordance of sounds; dissonance.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The presence of a specific genetic trait in only one of a set of clones (or identical twins).
Derived terms: discordancy
immunodiscordance
nondiscordance
serodiscordance
radiothorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + thorium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The radioactive isotope thorium-228
thorium-228
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope of thorium, ²²⁸₉₀Th, having a half-life of 1.9 years; it occurs naturally in small amounts, as member of the thorium-232 decay chain.
Synonyms: radiothorium
nervous systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nervous system
irredentism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪzəm/
Forms: form: irredentisms
Etymology: From irredent(ist) + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Ukraine became a major concern to [Stalin’s] “fortress builders” on the eve of World War II. The defensive bulwark seemed to have developed into a large crack – the threat of Ukrainian irredentism.
ref: 2015, Serhii Plokhy, chapter 21, in The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine:
glosses: A nationalistic doctrine advocating the annexation of foreign lands with historic or ethnic links.
Related terms: irredenta
irredentist
revanchism
war of aggression
plumbline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plumblines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plumb line.
pharmacodynamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pharmaco- + dynamics.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The branch of pharmacology that studies the effects and modes of action of drugs upon the body.
Derived terms: chronopharmacodynamics
pharmacodynamic
Related terms: pharmacokinetics
aerobraking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aero- + braking.
Senses: topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: aeroassisting
glosses: The use of atmospheric drag to reduce the velocity of a spacecraft, especially so as to establish a stable orbit and to reduce fuel consumption.
Hyponyms: aerocapture
Related terms: lithobraking
aerobraking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From aerobrake + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of aerobrake
pharmacodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pharmaco- + dynamic.
Senses: examples: text: The pharmacodynamic properties of drugs
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to pharmacodynamics.
Derived terms: pharmacodynamically
Related terms: pharmacodynamics
pyramidologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidologist
pharmacokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌfɑː(ɹ)məkəʊkɪˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From pharmaco- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: the pharmacokinetic properties of a drug
text: The method was acceptably validated and used to perform a pharmacokinetic study of anthraquinones after oral administration of R. acetosa in rats.
ref: 2019, Hye Suk Lee, Kwang-Hyeon Liu, editors, Drug Metabolism, Pharmacokinetics and Bioanalysis, MDPI, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to pharmacokinetics.
Derived terms: neuropharmacokinetic
pharmacokinetically
Related terms: pharmacokinetics
fundies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fundie
glosses: plural of fundy
egg rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg ring
bioavailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioavailabilities
Etymology: From bio- + availability.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The extent to which a substance is molecularly available to cells and tissues in a living organism, which depends on factors such as solubility, pH level, and presence of enzymes and cofactors; for example, even if one's ingestion of vitamin B₁₂ is average/typical, one might nonetheless have B₁₂ deficiency if one has poor metabolism of this particular vitamin.
examples: text: poor/low oral bioavailability
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: The extent to which a substance is molecularly available to cells and tissues in a living organism, which depends on factors such as solubility, pH level, and presence of enzymes and cofactors; for example, even if one's ingestion of vitamin B₁₂ is average/typical, one might nonetheless have B₁₂ deficiency if one has poor metabolism of this particular vitamin.
The amount of drug or nutrient which reaches the site of physiological activity after administration.
qualifier: nutrition
Related terms: bioavailable
bio-unavailable
geoavailability
bioactivity
Galway hookers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Galway hooker
curato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian curato (“priest”). Doublet of curate and curé.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly even the priests respected their seclusion; I had never caught the whisk of the curato's skirt.
ref: 1888, Henry James, The Aspern Papers:
glosses: priest
idiot savant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idiots savants
form: idiot savants
Etymology: From French idiot savant, literally ‘wise idiot’.
Senses: examples: text: The temptation is to regard him [John Ogdon] as an idiot savant, a big talent bottled inside a recalcitrant body and accompanied by a personality that seems not just unremarkable, but almost entirely blank.
ref: 2014 May 11, Ivan Hewett, “Piano Man: a Life of John Ogdon by Charles Beauclerk, review: A new biography of the great British pianist whose own genius destroyed him [print version: A colossus off-key, 10 May 2014, p. R27]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: A person who exhibits an extraordinary ability in one subject (often mathematics) whilst being intellectually disabled in many other domains.
Synonyms: autistic savant
gating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gate
gating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gatings
Senses: glosses: An arrangement of gates.
examples: text: […] said tumblers having gatings adapted for alignment so as to allow the outer pin to move entirely out of said cylinder groove as the inner pin moves into said tumbler gatings whereby to release said key plug for rotation.
ref: 1954, Canadian Patent Office Record:
glosses: The selective regulation or restriction of access to something.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: The control of the flow of signals based on certain conditions or criteria.
Derived terms: age-gating
alleygating
autogating
misgating
photogating
sensory gating
gated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
homophone: gaited
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gate
gated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
homophone: gaited
Senses: glosses: Capable of being switched on and off (normally by means of a signal).
examples: text: a gated community; a source control system with gated check-ins
text: The flashing signal is intended mainly for use at crossings with lifting barriers, but it may be also be used at some gated crossings and, on minor roads, at some ungated crossings; [...].
ref: 1960 September, “Talking of Trains: New level crossing signs”, in Trains Illustrated, page 519:
text: Gated, gilded and gaudy, they have sprung up all over China: overwrought government buildings erected at vast public expense, and in stark contrast to the shoddy state of so many homes and schools. In style they range from modernist brutalism to Versailles kitsch.
ref: 2013 July 27, “Architectural bombast”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8846:
glosses: Having a gate or other restricted access.
examples: text: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, azure, a castle argent, gated and windowed gules; 2nd, gules three legs armed proper, flexed and conjoined triangularly at the upper end of the thigh, garnished and spurred or; 3rd, azure, a deer's head cabossed[…]
ref: 1956, Thomas Innes of Learney, Scots Heraldry: A Practical Handbook on the Historical Principles and Modern Application of the Art and Science, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 203:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
antonyms: ungated
glosses: Having a gate of a specified colour.
Derived terms: autogated
gated community
mechano-gated
multigated
nongated
twi-gated
Ramsgate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Thanet borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3864).
glosses: A village in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
Meregate
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Margate: a coastal town in Kent, England.