cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
community college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: community colleges
Etymology: The name derives from the fact that community colleges primarily attract and accept students from the local community, and are often supported by the local community through property taxes.
Senses: glosses: An educational institution providing college education granting certificates, diplomas, and associate's degrees, but not higher level degrees; junior college.
glosses: A secondary school, usually offering extended services of some sort.
community colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community college
junior college
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junior colleges
Senses: topics: education
glosses: An institution of higher education that awards an associate's degree but not a bachelor's degree or higher.
glosses: A government high school, usually abbreviated to "JC".
junior colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junior college
associate's degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: associate's degrees
form: associate degree
Senses: glosses: An academic degree awarded after the equivalent of approximately two years of college education, usually by a community college.
Coordinate terms: diploma
bachelor's degree
overexpose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexposes
form: overexposing
form: overexposed
form: overexposed
Etymology: From over- + expose.
Senses: glosses: To expose excessively.
glosses: To provide excessive publicity or reporting regarding (a person, event, etc.).
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: To expose (film) to light during the development process for a longer time than is required to accurately produce the image.
Related terms: overexposure
overexposes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overexpose
overexposing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overexpose
bayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: bade
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bay
bayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
homophone: bade
Senses: examples: text: […]that by the yeerely birth / The large-bay’d Barne doth fill[…]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 3 p. 42:
glosses: Having a bay or bays.
courts of law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court of law
courts of equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of court of equity
zoological garden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzəʊəˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈɡɑːdən/
ipa: /ˌzuə-/
ipa: /ˌzoʊəˈlɑdʒɪkəl ˈɡɑɹdən/
ipa: /ˌzuə-/
Forms: form: zoological gardens
Senses: synonyms: zoological park
glosses: A zoo, a park where live animals are exhibited.
control freak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control freaks
Etymology: From control + freak. First use appears c. 1970 in the Los Angeles Times.
Senses: glosses: A person who is excessively controlling and domineering.
glosses: A tyrant or manipulator.
Derived terms: control freakery
petaflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛtəflɒp/
ipa: /ˈpɛtəflɑp/
Forms: form: petaflops
Etymology: From peta- + flop.
Senses: examples: text: ...a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:
a quadrillion (10¹⁵) floating point operations per second.
examples: text: First computer to surpass the 1 Petaflop (2⁵⁰ FLOPS) barrier [in 2008]
ref: 2012 Fall, Edgar Gabriel, COSC 6374 — Parallel Computation: Introduction and Organizational Issues, slide 20: “IBM Roadrunner”
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Either of two units of measure of the calculating speed of a computer:
1,125,899,906,842,624 (2⁵⁰) floating point operations per second.
teraflop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəflɒp/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹəflɑp/
Forms: form: teraflops
Etymology: From tera- + flop.
Senses: examples: text: The gigaflop supercomputers of today are almost useless. What is needed is a teraflop machine. That’s a machine that can run at a trillion flops, a trillion floating-point operations per second, or roughly a thousand times as fast as Cray Y-MP8. One such design for teraflop machine, by Monty Denneau at I.B.M., will be a parallel supercomputer in the form of a twelve-foot wide box. You want to have at least sixty-four thousand processors in the machine, each of which has the power of a Cray. And the processors will be joined by a network that has the total switching capacity of the entire telephone network in the United States. I think a teraflop machine will exist by 1993. Now, a better machine is a petaflop machine. A petaflop is a quadrillion flops, a quadrillion floating-point operations per second, so a petaflop machine is a thousand times as fast as a teraflop machine, or a million times as fast as a Cray Y-MP8. The petaflop machine will exist by the year 2000, or soon afterward.
ref: 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A unit of computing power equal to one trillion (10¹²) floating-point operations per second.
chipmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipmakers
Etymology: From chip + maker.
Senses: examples: text: On Monday, chipmaker Nvidia (NVDA) cut its sales outlook for the fourth quarter, citing “deteriorating macroeconomic conditions, particularly in China.” Last week, Intel’s (INTC) CEO also noted that “trade and macro concerns, especially in China, have intensified.”
ref: 2019 January 28, Seth Fiegerman, “Apple earnings: How low can iPhone sales go?”, in CNN Business:
text: Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida meets executives of major global chipmakers ahead of a G7 summit.
ref: 2023 May 18, Reuters, “Chipmakers look to Japan as worries about China grow”, in CNN Business:
text: Nvidia, the world’s most valuable publicly traded company, said on Monday that it would invest $100 billion in OpenAI, a deal that will allow the start-up behind ChatGPT to use the chipmaker’s artificial intelligence semiconductors inside its data centers.
ref: 2025 September 22, Tripp Mickle, Cade Metz, “Nvidia to Invest $100 Billion in OpenAI”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: A company that manufactures integrated circuit microchips.
Coordinate terms: fab
foundry
smectite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smectites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σμήχω (smḗkhō, “to rub off”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many clay phyllosilicate minerals that have a relatively open structure.
phyllosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllosilicates
Etymology: From phyllo- + silicate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: sheet silicate
glosses: Any silicate mineral having a crystal structure of parallel sheets of silicate tetrahedra.
Hypernyms: silicate
intronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intron + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to introns.
Derived terms: intronically
nonintronic
phænomena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The phænomena of the diſtillation of amber favour this opinion: It affords actually a ſort of naphtha, and a petroleum too, of a higher or a lighter brown colour, according to the degree of heat employed, and the length of time ſpent in the operation.
ref: 1796, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is Prefixed the Philosophy of Chemistry, pages 209–210:
text: 1798 C.E., Pierre Simon La Place, Exposition du Système du Monde (translated as “on the System of the World”), chapter III: “on Time, and its measure”, quoted in:
text: It is desirable that all people should adopt one and the same æra, independant of moral revolutions, and founded solely on astronomical phænomena.
[…]
The work is divided into chapters. The 1st discusses the diurnal motions of the heavens ; in which the phænomena that ordinarily present themselves are noted and explained.
ref: 1799, Author unknown, The Monthly review. New and improved ser, page 500:
text: Without going over the ground so well occupied by those able writers on the subject of storms — Redfield, Reid, Piddington, and Thom—it will be quite sufficient for our present purpose simply to notice the essential phænomena of revolving storms as manifested by the barometer and vane. The usual indications of a storm in connexion with these instruments are the falling of the barometer and the freshening of the wind, and it is generally considered that a rapid fall of the mercury in the hurricane regions invariably precedes the setting in of a storm. There are three classes of phænomena that present themselves to an observer, according as he is situated on the line or axis of translation, or in either the right or left hand semicircle of the storm. These will be rendered very apparent by a little attention to the annexed engraving, fig. 1.
ref: 1850, William Radcliffe Birt, “Phænomena of revolving storms”, in The Hurricane Guide: Being an Attempt to Connect the Rotatory Gale Or Revolving Storm with Atmospheric Waves. Including Instructions for Observing the Phænomena of the Waves and Storms ; with Practical Directions for Avoiding the Centres of the Latter, London, England: John Murray, Publisher to the Admiralty, pages 8-9:
glosses: plural of phænomenon
phænomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phænomena
form: phænomenons
Senses: examples: text: It is eaſy to obſerve how many empty hypotheſis and idle reaſonings the phænomenons of this river have put mankind to the expence of.
ref: 1735, Jerome Lobo, translated by Samuel Johnson, A Voyage to Abyssinia, […], London: […] Elliot and Kay, […], and C. Elliot, Edinburgh, published 1789, page 116:
text: This wonderful phænomenon has, ſince it was firſt diſcovered, employed the thoughts of very able philoſophers ; many hypotheſes having been offered, not only for its explanation, but even to foretel the future variations in various parts of the world.
ref: November 16, 1786, Tiberius Cavallo, Magnetical Experiments and Obſervations, page #22
glosses: Archaic spelling of phenomenon.
Derived terms: epiphænomenon
petrolea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Some mineral oils, procurable among ourselves, are used by the common people, and often with benefit. The empirical medicine, called British oil, is of the same nature with the petrolea; the genuine sort being extracted by distillation from a hard bitumen, or a kind of stone coal, found in Shropshire and other parts of England.
ref: 1769, William Lewis, An Experimental History of the Materia Medica, or of the Natural and Artificial Substances made use of in Medicine, 3rd edition, volume 2, page 143:
text: Moſt naturaliſts and chemiſts aſcribe the formation of petrolea to the decompoſition of ſolid bitumens by the action of ſubterraneous fires. Naphtha, they obſerve, appears to be the light oil which is firſt diſengaged by fire: that which follows after it, having colour and conſiſtency, forms the ſeveral ſorts of petroleum: And, laſtly, petrolea, united with earthy ſubſtances, or altered by acids, acquire the characteriſtics of mineral pitch, or piſsaſphaltus.
ref: 1796, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is Prefixed the Philosophy of Chemistry, pages 209–210:
text: SOME GEOCHEMISTRY RESEARCH RESULTS by the Bureau of Mines indicate that petrolea hydrocarbons can be produced from simulated petroleum-bearing sediments by gamma irradiation.
ref: 1956, Petro/chem Engineer, page 2:
text: Thus, as I have shown that there is a sort of gradation from naphtha to asphaltum, through a series of undefinable petrolea, so this analogy may be extended to the next general variety of the bitumens, coal.
ref: 1977, The Philosophical Magazine, page 212:
glosses: plural of petroleum
tersest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of terse: most terse
unassuaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unassuaged
form: most unassuaged
Etymology: From un- + assuaged.
Senses: glosses: Not assuaged; not calmed, appeased, mitigated, alleviated, satisfied or diminished.
Hell no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hell no.
takia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takias
Senses: glosses: A kind of outrigger canoe used in Fiji.
takia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takias
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of takya.
allopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.oʊˈpæθ.ɪk/
note: Indic
ipa: /ɐˈlo.pɐ.t̪ʰɪk/
Forms: form: more allopathic
form: most allopathic
Etymology: From allo- + -pathic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to allopathy.
Derived terms: allopathically
allopathic medicine
nonallopathic
allopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlɒpəθi/
ipa: /ˈæloʊpæθi/
note: Indic
ipa: /əˈlopət̪ʰi/
Forms: form: allopathies
form: allœopathy
Etymology: Borrowed from German Allopathie, allo- + -pathy, originally a pejorative term.
Senses: qualifier: originally
glosses: A system of heroic medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce the opposite effect.
synonyms: allopathic medicine
glosses: Conventional Western medicine; a method or treatment therein.
Derived terms: allopath
allopathetic
allopathic
allopathically
allopathist
allopathogen
allopathist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopathists
Etymology: From allopathy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of allopathy
Synonyms: allopath
allopath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopaths
Etymology: From allo- + -path.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of allopathy
Synonyms: allopathist
Related terms: allopathy
allopathic medicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allopathic medicines
Senses: synonyms: allopathy
glosses: A system of alternative medicine that treats symptoms with substances that produce opposite symptoms; the opposite of homeopathy.
glosses: Modern Western medicine.
Related terms: osteopathic medicine
homeopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more homeopathic
form: most homeopathic
form: homœopathic
form: homoeopathic
Etymology: From homeo- (“similar”) + -pathic (“suffering, disease”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to homeopathy.
examples: text: Therefore, with a slight misgiving that so delicate a creature as an embryo shad might possibly be affected by the homœopathic amount of alcohol still present, I set up my apparatus on the shaded piazza of the hotel.
ref: 1875, United States. Congress. Senate, Miscellaneous Documents: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2d Session and Special Session, page 373:
text: On the other hand, the pop psychology titles are usually very accessible (hence their popularity) but frequently state the obvious or simply retread the same old ground – the psychological content is so diluted it's positively homeopathic!
ref: 2008 May 5, Gary Wood, Don't Wait For Your Ship to Come In...Swim Out to Meet It: Tools and Techniques for Positive Lasting Change, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Extremely dilute, insipid.
Derived terms: homeopathical
homeopathically
homeopathic magic
nonhomeopathic
homeopathic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeopathics
form: homœopathic
form: homoeopathic
Etymology: From homeo- (“similar”) + -pathic (“suffering, disease”).
Senses: glosses: Any of the diluted remedies used in homeopathy.
Related terms: naturopathic
counter culture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter cultures
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of counterculture.
laske
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lask.
laske
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lask.
intermeddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmɛd(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈmɛdəl/
rhymes: -ɛdəl
Forms: form: intermeddles
form: intermeddling
form: intermeddled
form: intermeddled
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English entremedlen, entermedlen, from Anglo-Norman entremedler (= Old French entremesler), from inter- + medler.
Senses: glosses: To mix, mingle together.
glosses: To get mixed up (with).
examples: text: The practice of Spain hath been, […]by war[…] and […]by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states.
ref: a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
text: I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 2, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book BOOK I:
glosses: To butt in, to interfere in or with.
Synonyms: butt in
meddle
Derived terms: intermeddlement
intermeddler
intermeddlesome
intermeddlingly
doob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi दूब (dūb). Doublet of durva.
Senses: examples: text: Doob is a shallow rooted plant and obtains its food from the surface layer of soil; most of the other grasses, with which it has to compete, such as motha (Cyperus rotundus), dabhi (Imperata arundinacea) and rari (Saccharum spontaneum) are comparatively deep-rooted; […]
ref: 1911, C.M. Hutchinson, “Turf”, in Agricultural Journal Of India, Pusa: Agricultural Research Institute, page 368:
synonyms: Bermuda grass
glosses: Doob grass.
doob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːb/
rhymes: -uːb
Forms: form: doobs
Etymology: Unknown, perhaps related to doob grass.
Senses: examples: text: I don't smoke doobs and I don't really hang out.
ref: 1996, Eric Bogosian, SubUrbia (motion picture), spoken by Bee-Bee (Dina Spybey-Waters):
synonyms: word: doobie
word: joint
word: reefer
word: spliff
word: score
word: bifta
word: bifter
word: blunt
word: bogie
word: bomber
word: bone
word: bun
word: Camberwell carrot
word: doink
word: doinker
word: doob
word: doober
word: doobie
word: exotic cheroot
word: fatty
word: giggle stick
word: hogger
word: hooter
word: J
word: jazz cigarette
word: jay
word: jimmy
word: joint
word: juju
word: left-handed cigarette
word: muggle
word: number
word: phattie
word: reefer
word: roach
word: spiff
word: spliff
word: toke tube
word: torpedo
word: zol
word: zoot
glosses: A marijuana cigarette.
Derived terms: doobage
doobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doob
astun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: astuns
form: astunning
form: astunned
form: astunned
form: astone
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English astonen, probably ultimately from a- + Old French estoner (“to stun”). By surface analysis, a- + stun.
Senses: glosses: To astonish.
conflates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conflate
conflating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of conflate
conflated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfleɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conflate
QAM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkjuː eɪ ˈɛm/
Forms: form: QAMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quality assurance management.
glosses: Initialism of quality assurance manager.
glosses: Initialism of quality assurance manual.
glosses: Initialism of quadrature amplitude modulation.
bitumens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪtjumɛnz/
Senses: examples: text: Moſt naturaliſts and chemiſts aſcribe the formation of petrolea to the decompoſition of ſolid bitumens by the action of ſubterraneous fires.
ref: 1796, Antoine-François de Fourcroy, Elements of Chemistry, and Natural History: To which is Prefixed the Philosophy of Chemistry, page 209:
text: Thus, as I have shown that there is a sort of gradation from naphtha to asphaltum, through a series of undefinable petrolea, so this analogy may be extended to the next general variety of the bitumens, coal.
ref: 1977, The Philosophical Magazine, page 212:
glosses: plural of bitumen
kirin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirins
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 麒(き)麟(りん) (kirin), from Middle Chinese. Doublet of qilin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of qilin; typically used in Japanese contexts.
synonyms: word: qilin
extra: typically used in Japanese contexts
bitumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈtjumɪnə/
Senses: glosses: plural of bitumen
usuresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌjuːʒəˈɹɛsɪz/
/ˌjuːzjəˈɹɛsɪz/
Senses: examples: text: There are other entries relating to Christian usurers or usuresses Cf. Madox 237. It is a moot point whether Jewish chattels did not belong to the King…
ref: 1889, Sir George Laurence Gomme, The Archaeological Review, page 399:
glosses: plural of usuress
disbursement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disbursements
Etymology: From disburse + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act, instance, or process of disbursing.
glosses: Money paid out or spent.
Derived terms: redisbursement
koina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koinas
form: koinai
Senses: examples: text: The normal assumption that Τέταρτος is due to Doric or Attic influence and τέτορτος is the ‘correct’ form cannot be accepted a priori, but is supported by the presence of τέταρτος in a few Mantinean inscriptions written almost in Doric koina.
ref: 1968, Atti e memorie, page 795:
text: The documents from Kytenion are in North-west Greek koina:[…]
ref: 2007, Stephen Colvin, “Koine and North-west Greek Koina”, in A Historical Greek Reader: Mycenaean to the Koiné, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 188:
text: The Sicilian Hellenistic inscriptions, and especially the public ones, show a highly standardized language, which can be called Sicilian Doric koina. The Sicilian Doric koina was similar to other Doric koinas such as the koina of Rhodes, of the Achaean League, of north-western Greece, which were also especially used for public purposes. The existence of these Doric koinas is usually taken to indicate the resilience of the Doric-speaking areas to the encroachment of the Attic-based koine.
ref: 2012, Susana Mimbrera, “The Sicilian Doric koina”, in Olga Tribulato, editor, Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily, Cambridge University Press, page 245:
text: The terms ‘koina’ (in the singular) and ‘koinai’ (in the plural) were coined by ancient Greek scholars, but, unlike the term ‘koine’, they do not appear as such in any other genre of Greek texts, literary and epigraphic alike. As a general rule, dialectologists normally use the term ‘koina’ to refer to a local variant of koine or, in other words, to the admixture of koine and the dialect spoken in a particular Doric area. Thus, one of the essential features of a koina is the fact that it cannot be separated from koine, to the extent that the former is defined on the basis of the latter.
ref: 2018, Araceli Striano, “Koiné, Koiná, Koinaí: Are we Talking About the Same Thing?”, in Georgios K. Giannakis, Emilio Crespo, Panagiotis Filos, editors, Studies in Ancient Greek Dialects: From Central Greece to the Black Sea, De Gruyter, →ISBN, section 2 (Standard varieties: the so-called koinai), page 133:
glosses: A local dialect of a koine.
koina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koinon
takin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: takins
Etymology: From a Tibeto-Burman language, probably Miju or Taraon.
Senses: glosses: A goat-antelope, of species Budorcas taxicolor.
Synonyms: cattle chamois
gnu goat
Hyponyms: sense: Budorcas
taxonomic: Budorcas taxicolor taxicolor
word: Mishmi takin
sense: Budorcas
word: Shaanxi takin
sense: Budorcas
taxonomic: Budorcas taxicolor bedfordi
word: golden takin
sense: Budorcas
word: Tibetan takin
sense: Budorcas
taxonomic: Budorcas taxicolor tibetana
word: Sichuan takin
sense: Budorcas
word: Bhutan takin
salin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A salt reddish substance obtained from vegetable ashes during potash manufacture.
Related terms: saline
aspin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aspins
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog aspin, a blend of aso + Pinoy, suggested by the Philippine Animal Welfare Society as an alternative to askal.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of askal.
synonyms: word: askal
wikipedia: Philippine Animal Welfare Society
poria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porion
syntonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈtɒnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: more syntonic
form: most syntonic
Etymology: From German Syntonie (“syntony”) + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
antonyms: dystonic
glosses: In harmony or synergy with one's personality and milieu.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the same frequency.
raw_tags: of oscillating systems
Derived terms: egosyntonic
syntonic comma
Latino-Punic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latino- + Punic.
Senses: glosses: Punic text written using the Latin alphabet.
reviles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revile
in dictione
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn dɪktɪˈɔneː/
Etymology: From Latin in dictione, translation of Ancient Greek παρὰ τὴν λέξιν (parà tḕn léxin), which appears in chapter 4 of Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations.
Senses: qualifier: Of a logical fallacy
glosses: Deriving from the linguistic expression used; for reason of ambiguity, division, etc.
Abhishikt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sanskrit अभिषिक्त (abhiṣikta, “a person on whom the ceremony of Abhisheka has performed”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit, of Indian usage.
aboiteau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑ.bwɑ.toʊ/
Forms: form: aboiteaux
Senses: qualifier: Acadia
glosses: Alternative form of aboideau.
extra dictionem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛkstɹæ dɪktɪˈɔːnɛm/
Etymology: From Latin extra dictionem, translation of Ancient Greek ἔξω τῆς λέξεως (éxō tês léxeōs), which appears in chapter 4 of Aristotle’s Sophistical Refutations.
Senses: qualifier: Of a logical fallacy
glosses: Not deriving from the linguistic expression used; for a reason other than of ambiguity, division, et cetera.
Eötvös
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈøtvøʃ/
ipa: /ˈətvəʃ/
ipa: /-vəs/
ipa: /ˈɔtvɔʃ/
Etymology: Named for Hungarian physicist Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Loránd (1848–1919).
Senses: glosses: Invented or enunciated by Vásárosnaményi Báró Eötvös Loránd.
raw_tags: used as a modifier
glosses: A dilapidated lunar crater lying north-northwest of the Roche walled plain and east-southeast of the Bolyai crater at coordinates [35.5° S, 133.8° E].
Derived terms: Eötvös effect
Eötvös number
Eötvös rule
constituent countries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnˈstɪtjuənt ˌkʌntɹiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of constituent country
eo nomine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪ.əʊ ˈnəʊmɪniː/
ipa: /(ˈ)eɪ.oʊ ˈnoʊmɪni/
Etymology: From Latin eo nomine, ablative form of id nōmen, “that name”.
Senses: glosses: Under that name; that is called thus; explicitly.
Related terms: eo ipso
wiggas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wigga
bandeaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1839: Alexander Forbes, esq, California: A History, published by Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill, London
Their feather-bandeaus are sometimes very beautiful; and the acquisition of the materials of some of them must be a work of great labour.
glosses: plural of bandeau
Related terms: bandeaux
fringe benefit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fringe benefits
Senses: glosses: A benefit received in addition to the normal benefits of holding a job, or, by extension, any relationship to the source of the benefit.
Synonyms: employee benefit
Hyponyms: benefit in kind
non-pecuniary benefit
Related terms: perk
perquisite
fringe benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fringe benefit
positing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of posit
positing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: positings
Senses: examples: text: Formulated in this fashion, the phenomenological datum evokes the distinction made earlier between those intendings and positings in which the ego is involved and those in which the ego is not engaged.
ref: 2012, F. Kersten, Phenomenological Method: Theory and Practice (page 53)
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The process by which one posits.
-i-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Etymology: From Latin -i-.
Senses: glosses: A vowel inserted interconsonantally between morphemes of Latinate origin in order to ease pronunciation (an anaptyxis, a linking vowel).
raw_tags: in coining neologisms
Derived terms: english: equidistant
translation: equidistant
word: equi-
alt: sudoriferous
word: -iferous
alt: cuneiform, setiform
word: -iform
Related terms: english: the Greek parallel
translation: the Greek parallel
word: -o-
-i-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Etymology: The initial vowel of primate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A monoclonal antibody derived from a non-human primate source.
Related terms: english: See that entry for full paradigm.
translation: See that entry for full paradigm.
word: -mab is the base suffix common to all monoclonal antibodies
-i-
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: A word-internal spelling variant of a word-final y.
Senses: examples: happiness (happy + -ness)
penniless (penny + -less)
beautiful (beauty + -ful)
glosses: A spelling variant of a word-final -y vowel when followed by a suffix that does not begin with an i, for example -ied, -ier, -iest.
examples: pantiliner (panty + liner)
dutibound (duty + bound)
glosses: In compound words, a spelling variant of a final or suffixed -y vowel in the first word.
interconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + consonantal.
Senses: glosses: Existing or occurring between consonants.
Derived terms: interconsonantally
Related terms: excrescence
-o-
Loiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Loiners
Etymology: Possibly from Old English Leodis (“a Celtic kingdom”). Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary included an etymology from Marsh Lane in Leeds (volume 3, page 565). The word "lane" used to be pronounced /lɔɪn/ in the Leeds area, but this pronunciation has passed out of use.
Senses: glosses: A native of Leeds, England.
buy-to-let
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing, or relating to, a property bought as an investment, the purchaser letting it to others rather than living in it.
buy-to-let
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buy-to-lets
Senses: examples: text: That doesn’t mean property is untouchable from a CGT standpoint. An easier target will be second homes and buy-to-lets; the CGT rate could be aligned with income tax rates – at 20%, 40% and 45% – meaning that the tax take on buy-to-let disposals would rise sharply.
ref: 2020 July 15, Patrick Collinson, “Capital gains tax review: your questions answered”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A property of this kind.
Related terms: buy to let
rixation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈkseɪʃən/
Etymology: From Latin rīxārī (“to quarrel”).
Senses: glosses: Scolding; brawling.
Related terms: rixatrix
hairdressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairdressings
Etymology: From hair + dressing.
Senses: examples: text: There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
Derived terms: hairdressing salon
Related terms: hairdress
hairdresser
hairdressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hair + dressing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hairdress
hairspring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairsprings
Etymology: From hair + spring.
Senses: glosses: A spring, made of a coil of fine wire, that is used to regulate the movement of a balance wheel in a watch.
Derived terms: hairspring trigger
hairstylist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairstylists
Etymology: From hair + stylist.
Senses: examples: text: The relationship between a hairstylist and a client can be far more than simply somebody to cut and shape hair, which is why Tennessee is the latest state to require cosmetologists to complete training on how to recognize and respond to signs of domestic abuse.
ref: 2022 January 5, Kaanita Iyer, “Tennessee is the latest state to require hairstylists to complete domestic violence training”, in CNN:
text: We spoke to Ford and other hairstylists over 40 about what to expect from these changes and how to treat them. Read on for the experts’ tips for helping your hair age gracefully.
ref: 2025 February 16, Sophie Shaw, “5 tips for healthy hair in your 40s and beyond, from professional hairstylists”, in CNN:
glosses: A hairdresser.
Related terms: hairstyle
trion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trions
Etymology: From tri- + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A singlet state formed from three atoms of different colours
Derived terms: magnetotrion
trionic
potin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potins
Etymology: From French potin.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of copper, zinc, lead, and tin.
hammerlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hammerlocks
Etymology: From hammer + lock.
Senses: glosses: A hold, in wrestling, in which an opponent's arm is twisted up behind his back; an armlock
pinon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinons
form: pinones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of piñon.
handset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæn(d)sɛt/
Forms: form: handsets
Etymology: From hand + set.
Senses: examples: text: Helen hears the click of the handset at the other end of the line.
ref: 2012, Hannah Richell, The Secrets of the Tides, →ISBN, page 459:
glosses: The part of a landline telephone containing both receiver and transmitter (and sometimes dial), held in the hand.
examples: text: Similarly, the handset can see more than one base station. Because the positions (longitude and latitude) of the base stations/Node Bs are known, then either a Node B or handset can work out the handset’s position.
ref: 2003, Geoff Varrall, Roger Belcher, 3G Handset and Network Design, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 311:
glosses: A mobile phone.
examples: text: The locomotives can be driven from two positions in the cab or remotely from a radio control handset.
ref: 2022 February 9, Ben Jones, “Batteries included for future shunters”, in RAIL, number 950, page 56:
glosses: A hand-held device for remote control of a piece of equipment.
Related terms: headset
handset
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæn(d)sɛt/
Forms: form: handsets
form: handsetting
form: handset
form: handset
Etymology: From hand + set.
Senses: examples: text: handsetting type
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: To typeset by hand.
hedgehop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hedgehops
form: hedgehopping
form: hedgehopped
form: hedgehopped
Etymology: From hedge + hop.
Senses: glosses: Of an aircraft: to fly very close to the ground, such that evasive manoeuvres need to be taken to avoid obstacles.
examples: text: Gluttonous, hoarding jay; he should have hedge-hopped and lurched from tree to tree in his usual furtive manner.
ref: 1967, J. A. Baker, The Peregrine, page 41:
glosses: Of birds: to move along the line of a hedge; to move by flying from one hedge, bush, or the like, to another close by.
glosses: Of people: to run and jump over a series of hedges, fences, etc., as a pastime.
hibachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hibachis
form: hibachi
Etymology: c. 1870, from Japanese 火鉢 (hibachi, “a charcoal-powered heating brazier”, literally “fire pot”).
Senses: examples: text: Her husband [...] crouches over a portable hibachi nearby, making something that smells amazing.
ref: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 431:
glosses: A portable brazier, powered by charcoal, used for cooking.
glosses: A cooking method and performance art in which the chef grills pieces of food on a hot metal griddle in front of the guests; teppanyaki. This terminology is virtually unknown in Japan.
glosses: The griddle used in such cuisine; teppan.
kipot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kipah
glosses: plural of kipa
buy to let
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys to let
form: buying to let
form: bought to let
form: bought to let
Senses: glosses: To purchase a property as in investment, and to let it out for rental instead of living in it
Related terms: buy-to-let
manto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæntəʊ/
Forms: form: mantos
form: mantoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian manto or Spanish manto. Doublet of mantum.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of manteau.
sutta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suttas
Etymology: From Pali sutta, from of Sanskrit सूत्र (sū́tra, “thread, yarn, string; rule”). Doublet of sutra.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sutra.
toran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torans
Etymology: From Sanskrit तोरण (toraṇa, “arched portal”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A gateway consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels, often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serving as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.
proviso quod
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒˈviːsəʊ ˌkwɒd/
Etymology: From Latin proviso quod, from prōvīsō (ablative neuter singular past participle form of prōvidēre, “to provide”) + quod (neuter form of quī, “that”).
Senses: examples: text: …if the plaintife or demandaunt desist in prosecuting an action, by bringing it to a triall, the defendant or tenent may take out the venire facias to the Shyreeue: which hath in it these words, Prouiso quod, &c. to this ende, that if the plaintife take out any writ to that purpose, the shyreeue shall summon but one Iurie vpon them both.
ref: 1607: John Cowell, The interpreter: or booke containing the signification of words, p[UNKNOWN]
glosses: It being provided that.
Derived terms: proviso
conceptualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɛp.tj(uː.)ə.laɪz/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃuː.ə.laɪz/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.tj(u.)əˌlaɪz/
ipa: /kənˈsɛp.t͡ʃu.əˌlaɪz/
ipa: /kənˈsep.tj(ʉː.)ə.lɑɪz/
ipa: /kənˈsep.t͡ʃʉː.ə.lɑɪz/
Forms: form: conceptualises
form: conceptualising
form: conceptualised
form: conceptualised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of conceptualize.
Derived terms: reconceptualise
underconceptualised
out to get someone
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The supervisor keeps telling me off. He’s out to get me.
text: In order to live a happier life, one of the first steps is to realize that the world is not out to get you.
text: "Why does she think they're out to get her?"
"Because she's a paranoid freak," he answered. "Same reason she wears sunglasses and a hat when she goes out the door, as if that equals a disguise."
ref: 2009, Antonya Nelson, Nothing Right: Short Stories, page 283:
glosses: Deliberately committed or designed to cause problems for another person.
Synonyms: have it in for someone
rix-dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪksˌdɒlə/
Forms: form: rix-dollars
form: reekes doller
form: reichs doller
form: rexdolar
form: rexdoler
form: rexdollar
form: rexdoller
form: ricksdoller
form: rycksdollar
form: rix dollar
form: rix doller
form: rixdollar
form: rixdoller
form: rixe dollar
form: rich dollar
Etymology: Borrowed from obsolete Dutch rijcksdaler (modern rijksdaalder), after early modern German Reichsthaler.
Senses: examples: text: At all other times they would receive the regular salary of thirty rix-dollars monthly.
ref: 1803, [Author Unknown], Medical Journal — Volume IX, page 539:
text: He sent for the celebrated necromancer who lived at the sign of the Goatskin and whose familiar spirit so plagued the thief that he returned the stolen goods to their rightful owner, for which the sorcerer was paid ten rix-dollars.
ref: 1999, Mike Mitchell, translating HJC von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus, V.6, Dedalus 2016, p. 373
glosses: A silver coin and money of account in use from the late-16ᵗʰ to the mid-19ᵗʰ centuries in the European Teutonic countries and their imperial trading networks.
examples: text: Such had the business become before Lord Somerset left, that in 1821 no less than 196 horses were shipped mostly to India, for military remounts by cavalry officers. The declared value was 56,980 rix dollars, which the then currency represented, an average of about £20 per head, or a total of £4,273.
ref: 1902 February 28, “The Horse in South Africa”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 26, page 828:
text: The Dutch monetary system of a rix-dollar or rijksdaalder of 48 stuiver was continued [in Cape Province] by the British in the early nineteenth century.
ref: 1962, Robert Andrew Glendinning Carson, Coins: ancient, mediaeval & modern, page 533:
glosses: A unit of currency introduced into certain former European colonies such as Cape Province and Ceylon.
rix-dollars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rix-dollar
windscreen washer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windscreen washers
Senses: glosses: A device that pumps water mixed with detergent from a tank through small nozzles on to the windscreen/windshield of a car in order to clean it.
Synonyms: word: wet arm system
word: windshield washer
word: spritzer
word: schpritzer
washing of feet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ritual washing of churchgoers' feet by clergy practised by some Christians, especially associated with Maundy Thursday.
Synonyms: feet-washing
foot-washing
mandatum
pedilavium
provocate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈvɒk.eɪt/
ipa: /pɹəˈvɑ(ː).keɪt/
note: Indic
ipa: /prŏ.vɒ.keʈ/
note: Indic
ipa: /-vo-/
Forms: form: provocates
form: provocating
form: provocated
form: provocated
Etymology: From Middle English provocaten, from Latin prōvocō, prōvocātus. Doublet of provoke.
Senses: examples: text: The movie called It is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse But the Society In Which He Lives was a provocating movie. It dramatized the situation and got hard reactions from the gays and the straights. But when you look at it now it is full of hate. And it was OK, in a way, to provocate, but it was not done with a lovely touch.
ref: 1981 December 12, Michael Bronski, Frank Ripploh, “The Meter Is Still Running”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 21, page 8:
qualifier: now nonstandard and non-native speakers' English
glosses: To provoke.
glosses: To call forth.
glosses: To challenge.
Related terms: provocation
provocator
rooftree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːftɹiː/
ipa: /ˈɹufˌtɹi/
Forms: form: rooftrees
form: roof-tree
form: roof tree
Etymology: From roof + tree.
Senses: examples: text: Howsoever these things be, a long farewell to Locksley Hall! / Now for me the woods may wither, now for me the rooftree fall.
ref: 1835, Alfred Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 111:
text: there an Annunciation that annihilates time by showing a rooftree throw the shadow of a cross between the Virgin and the angel […]
ref: 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 985:
glosses: The primary beam of a roof; the ridgepole; hence, the roof itself.
examples: text: [T]he merry company flocked into the King's House, to dance again and drink tea, and make more love, and play round games, and joke, and sing songs, and eat supper under old Colonel Stafford's snug and kindly roof-tree.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which the Sun Sets, and the Merry-making is Kept Up by Candle-light in the King’s House, and Lily Receives a Warning Which She Does Not Comprehend”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 251:
text: With the idea, presumably, of inducing the doctor's wife to leave her husband's roof-tree for some habitation which would be run at my expense, I had crammed my pockets with a store of banknotes, which represented a good deal of my immediate worldly wealth.
ref: 1910, Saki [pseudonym; Hector Hugh Munro], “The Lost Sanjak”, in Reginald in Russia and Other Sketches, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 16:
text: He had forgotten that a prophet is without honor under his own rooftree.
ref: 1955, Mildred Clingerman, The Last Prophet:
glosses: A home; a household.
liquidi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquidus
bijective numeration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijective numerations
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A numeral system that uses digits to establish a bijection between finite strings and the positive integers, especially by k-adic notation such as unary and decimal without a zero.
k-adic notation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The bijective numeration of digits 1 through k inclusive that uses position in powers of k to encode an integer's expansion.
k-adic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From k + -adic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to k-adic notation or the k-adic numbers.
ointments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ointment
blasphemies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blasphemy