cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Apple tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apple taxes
Etymology: Referring to American technology company Apple Inc., specifically the high price of its high-end computers (sense 1) and its mobile ecosystem (sense 2).
Senses: examples: text: Microsoft has been warning about the so-called "Apple tax" that people pay for buying Macs. Their newest claim: A family of four will pay $3,367 over five years if they buy Macs instead of PCs, not just for the initial machines, but in ongoing costs hardware and software costs.
ref: 2009 April 9, Preston Gralla, “How much does the "Apple Tax" really cost?”, in Computerworld:
text: You'll want to buy what you need and no more, as there is a definite Apple-tax premium here.
ref: 2018 October 30, John Burek, “Hands On With the 2018 Apple MacBook Air”, in PCMag:
text: As a Windows guy, I feel like I’m living in a bizarro world, where the 'Apple Tax' actually gets you more ports and better performance than you can find on most comparable Windows machines, not just an alternative OS and cool design.
ref: 2021 October 13, Napier Lopez, “M1X MacBook Pro event: What to expect from Apple on October 18”, in TNW:
glosses: The price paid by people purchasing Apple products, said to be higher than that of comparable alternatives.
examples: text: (title)
ref: 2015 July 8, Mark Sullivan, “Spotify snubs Apple, invites subscribers to avoid 30% 'Apple Tax'”, in VentureBeat:
text: Epic's CEO Tim Sweeney has been incredibly outspoken about App Store taxes. He’s taken Fortnite off the Google Play Store and would dearly love to find a way to not have to give Apple a cut on iOS devices. Does he have a personal stake in that fight? Obviously. But he's also one of a growing chorus of voices pushing back against the so-called "Apple Tax."
ref: 2020 April 3, Dieter Bohn, “Why Amazon got out of the Apple App Store tax, and why other developers won’t”, in The Verge:
text: Call this scourge what it plainly is, the Apple tax — the billions of dollars a year that Apple collects from large swaths of the technology industry for the privilege of offering paid apps and in-app purchases to iPhone and iPad users.
ref: 2021 May 26, Farhad Manjoo, “The Apple Tax Is Rotten”, in New York Times:
text: The decision by U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers is the most significant strike yet against the system that includes Apple's commission, something critics call "the Apple tax." It could force the tech giant to revamp its entire business model for apps on iPhones and iPads.
ref: 2021 September 10, Bobby Allyn, “A Judge Rules Apple Must Make It Easier To Shop Outside The App Store”, in NPR:
glosses: The commission taken by Apple on purchases on its online services, such as the App Store and iTunes.
Related terms: iPod tax
transactionalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From transactional + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: […]the […] transactionalization of gender relations in the matrimonial marketplace[…]
ref: 2003, A. N. Kaul, Sambudha Sen, A. N. Sen, Mastering Western texts, page 41:
text: The transactionalization of financial relationships is also a reflection of this larger trend. Financial markets in the world today are replete with products that were relations at one time.
ref: 2006, Vinod Kothari, Securitization: the financial instrument of the future, page 4:
text: The Rise of Transactionalization
ref: 2007, Brian Reich, Dan Solomon, Media rules!, page 31:
glosses: The conversion of something into a transaction or series of transactions.
transactionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From transactional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Static separation prohibits programming idioms where a mutable shared location changes between being accessed transactionally and being accessed directly[…]
ref: 2010, Tim Harris, James Larus, Ravi Rajwar, Transactional Memory, page 39:
glosses: With regard to, or in terms of, transactions.
iPod tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iPod taxes
Etymology: From iPod + tax.
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: A levy or tax on digital storage products (e.g. iPods), levied at a per unit capacity rate, used to compensate content providers for piracy of their goods.
Related terms: Apple tax
blank media tax
private copying levy
unsheeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sheeted.
Senses: glosses: Not covered by a sheet.
unsheeted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsheet
underbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underbones
Etymology: From under- + bone.
Senses: glosses: A small motorcycle built on a frame consisting mostly of one large-diameter tubular component.
underbones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbone
ahegao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː.heɪ.ɡaʊ/
ipa: /əˈheɪ.ɡaʊ/
rhymes: -eɪɡaʊ
Forms: form: ahegao
form: ahegaos
Etymology: From Japanese アヘ顔(がお) (ahegao), from アヘアヘ (aheahe, “panting”) + 顔(かお) (kao, “face”).
Senses: examples: text: "The ahegao you draw is the best ever, ■■-sensei!."
ref: 2017, Takashi Kajii, My Little Sister Can Read Kanji: Volume 3, unnumbered page:
text: During the set of intercourse at the end of the story, Sherlock is also drawn featuring ahegao expressions, frequently used in hentai or pornographic works.
ref: 2017, Carolina Lindström, The power of characterization […] , thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 26:
text: Without anime I would never have been introduced to such thought provoking concepts as ahegao or 15 year old girls with boobs the size of basketballs.
ref: 2019 March 6, “Personals”, in The Medium, Rutgers University, page A6:
text: Princess Berpl, an adult performer and cosplay artist, says that many of Delphine’s self-branding tactics, such as using the ahegao face in videos or appealing to the gaming community, originated in the sex work community.
ref: 2019 July 11, Ej Dickson, “Is Belle Delphine, a.k.a. Bathwater Gamer Girl, the Greatest Troll On the Internet?”, in Rolling Stone:
text: In addition to standard cosplay and PG-13, NSFW pictures, she also became known for her ahegao — facial expressions meant to mimic the orgasms of hentai characters.
ref: 2019 October 8, Madeleine Aggeler, “Who Is Belle Delphine, the Gamer Girl Selling Her Bathwater?”, in New York:
text: I sauntered out of the bathroom and over to Joel, standing in front of him. I mentally counted to ten before he looked up to see the Ahegao^([sic]) expression I'd practiced. I stuck my tongue out, rolling it to the side while crossing my eyes and moaning.
ref: 2020, Kat Addams, Just Between Us, →ISBN:
text: I knew she she didn't look at anything of mine online except my Instagram, which used to be 100 percent clothed ahegao with me wearing the pink wigs and the fake face tats and the kitten ears, but was getting a little more risky.
ref: 2024, Rafael Frumkin, “Like and Subscribe”, in Bugsy & Other Stories, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 127:
topics: fiction
literature
media
publishing
hypernyms: o-face
glosses: An exaggerated facial expression consisting of flushed cheeks, rolled-back eyes, and the tongue hanging out, intended to depict a person having an orgasm.
uncinate fasciculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncinate fasciculi
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A tract of white matter in the human brain that connects limbic and frontal parts.
unbracket
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbrackets
form: unbracketing
form: unbracketed
form: unbracketed
Etymology: From un- + bracket.
Senses: glosses: To remove from brackets or parentheses; to highlight; to bring forward.
unbrackets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbracket
unbracketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbracket
unguiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unguiform
form: most unguiform
Etymology: From Latin unguis + -form.
Senses: glosses: claw-shaped
ungrammared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungrammared
form: most ungrammared
Etymology: From un- + grammared.
Senses: glosses: uneducated; illiterate
grammared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From grammar + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: My companion was an American, big-hearted, full-pursed, bad-grammared, with a full knowledge of her shortcomings, a native of the Pacific coast, and "glad of it."
ref: 1894, Massachusetts Reformatory, Our Paper: Volume 10:
text: […]remarks about "the blacksmith's art" as exemplified by a mis-spelled and wild-grammared Los Angeles monthly[…]
ref: 1895, Archaeological Institute of America, Out West magazine: Volume 3:
glosses: Having a specified style of grammar.
Derived terms: ungrammared
grammared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From grammar + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grammar
univerbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjynɪvɜˈbeʃən/
ipa: /ˌjuːnɪvɜː(ɹ)ˈbeɪʃən/
Forms: form: univerbations
Etymology: Probably from French univerbation, from uni- (“uni-”) + Latin verbum (“word”) + French -ation (“-ation”).
Senses: examples: text: Lexicalization and grammaticization compared In Section 3, it was pointed out that there are two kinds of lexicalization which can be usefully compared with grammaticization, i.e. fossilization and univerbation. The discussion and examples in this section will be confined to the more general and widespread of these two types, i.e. univerbation (the emergence of new lexical entries from collocations), primarily in order to keep the presentation simple and straightforward.
ref: 2004, Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Björn Wiemer, What makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from its Fringes and its Components, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Standard examples of univerbation are cupboard, brainstorming, or necklace.
ref: 2004, Walter Bisang, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann, Björn Wiemer, What makes Grammaticalization?: A Look from its Fringes and its Components, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN:
text: This process is referred to as univerbation. An example from English is the word notwithstanding, which derives historically from the word not and the participle withstanding. In modern English it counts as a single word, namely, as a preposition, as in the prepositional phrase notwithstanding his request (compare the ungrammatical withstanding his request). Further examples are the conjunction because from Middle-English bi + cause 'by cause of', parallel to French par cause […]
ref: 2015, John R. Taylor, The Oxford Handbook of the Word, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 173:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The diachronic process of forming a new single word from a fixed expression of several words.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A new word formed by this process.
Synonyms: word: monophrasis
word: word-amalgamation
word: monolexis
word: monolexia
Related terms: grammaticalization
portmanteau
compound word
grammaticalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: grə-mă'-tĭ-kə-lĭ-zā'-shən
ipa: /ɡɹəˌmæ.tɪ.kə.lɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: grammaticalizations
form: grammaticalisation
Etymology: From French grammaticalisation, coined in 1912 by the French linguist Antoine Meillet, corresponding to grammatical + -ization.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of making grammatical.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: grammaticization
grammatization
glosses: The process of language change by which a word or morpheme is reduced to more of a grammeme than a lexeme, for example the reduction of a content word representing an object or action (a noun or verb) to a clitic.
Hyponyms: semantic bleaching
Derived terms: degrammaticalization
Related terms: grammarization
grammarize
grammaticalize
grammaticize
univerbations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of univerbation
grammaticalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammaticalization
unransomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ransomed.
Senses: glosses: Not ransomed.
polyostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ostotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to multiple bones.
Related terms: monostotic
monostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ostotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a single bone.
Related terms: polyostotic
Comtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Comtian
form: most Comtian
Etymology: From Comte + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Auguste Comte (1798–1857), French philosopher and founder of sociology and positivism.
Comtean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Comtean
form: most Comtean
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Comtian.
rheboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhebok
seroepidemiologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to seroepidemiology.
shareland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharelands
Etymology: From share + land.
Senses: glosses: A region of arable land divided into sections farmed by different people.
sharelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shareland
rutherfords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rutherford
semibarbaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + barbaric.
Senses: examples: a semibarbaric method of carrying out justice
glosses: Somewhat barbaric.
Malayalee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Malayalees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malayali.
Malayalee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Malayalee
form: most Malayalee
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Malayali.
Malayalees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Malayalee
brachiobasilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From brachio- + basilic.
Senses: examples: a brachiobasilic fistula
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the arm and basilic vein.
basilic vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basilic veins
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A large superficial vein of the upper limb that helps drain parts of hand and forearm.
Related terms: brachiobasilic
tempics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Gary Saul Morson in the 1990s, perhaps from temporal and poetics.
Senses: glosses: A method of reading narratives in terms of time and the current instant.
wikipedia: Gary Saul Morson
boots and all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So Mike felt he had to jump in boots and all with this new article, and he used his own non-Anglo heritage to bolster his point.
ref: 2010, Peter Kocan, The Fable of All Our Lives, unnumbered page:
glosses: Without reserve, with no holds barred; totally, completely.
examples: text: He would scarcely desire to sleep in them, as was said of Suwarrow, the famous Russian general, who, even in time of peace, slept fully armed, boots and all, prepared for any emergency ; and who used to say that when he was lazy and wished to enjoy a comfortable sleep, he usually took off one spur.
ref: 1869 May 29, “A Soldier's Shoes”, in E. S. Dallas, editor, Once a Week: January-July 1869, page 435:
text: So into the South Fork I dove, boots and all, the boots weren't too neat as they filled with water, but I made it to the log, went under the water, got hold of Jody's collar and started back towards the river bank.
ref: 2011, Gail Isaacson, My Incredible Animals, page 83:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see boots, and all.
blood from a stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Borrowing money from him is like getting blood from a stone!
glosses: Something that cannot be obtained, regardless of how much force or persuasion is used.
Related terms: get blood from a stone
get blood out of a stone
blood from a turnip
linespace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linespaces
Etymology: From line + space.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The gap between successive lines of text.
Synonyms: linespacing
linespaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linespace
linespersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linesperson
adlected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adlect
adlecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adlect
xenophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xenophilic
form: most xenophilic
Etymology: From xeno- + -philic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting xenophilia; fond of foreign people or customs.
xeranthemum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeranthemums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Xeranthemums have silvery flower heads with purplish tubular flowers.
glosses: Any of the genus Xeranthemum of flowering plants native to Southern Europe.
xeranthemums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeranthemum
zygopetalum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygopetalums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Zygopetalum of South American orchids.
zygopetalums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygopetalum
zoosporange
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoosporanges
Senses: glosses: zoosporangium
zoosporanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoosporange
descendency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From descend + -ency.
Senses: examples: text: The tool performs a descendency check to ensure the object is in fact a descendant before allowing the operation to proceed.
glosses: The property of descendence.
bank pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of pool (pocket billiards) in which all scoring shots are made by banking a called ball off a cushion and into a called pocket.
eightsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eightsies
Etymology: From eight + -sies (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: Her hand darted in distraction to fumble eightsies, the jacks scattering.
ref: 2003, Jonathan Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where eight actions must be performed.
ninesies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ninesies
Etymology: From nine + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her lingers perpetually scraped raw.
ref: 2004, Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage, page 282:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where nine actions must be performed.
tensies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tensies
Etymology: From ten + -sies.
Senses: examples: text: He saw Lindy playing jacks on the sidewalk in Front of the store, snatching up ninesies and tensies in a heedless, all-out swoop that kept the backs of her fingers perpetually scraped raw.
ref: 2004, Anne Tyler, The amateur marriage, page 282:
glosses: A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where ten actions must be performed.
multicauline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicauline
form: most multicauline
Etymology: From multi- + cauline.
Senses: glosses: Having more than one caulis.
multiformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiformities
Etymology: From Latin multiformitas.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multiform, or having many forms.
multiformities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiformity
multiarticulate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiarticulate
form: most multiarticulate
Etymology: From multi- + articulate.
Senses: glosses: Able to bend or hinge at more than one point.
multiloquous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiloquous
form: most multiloquous
Etymology: From Latin multiloquus, from multus (“much, many”) + loqui (“to speak”).
Senses: glosses: Very talkative.
Kiriwinan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Kiriwina + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Kiriwina, the largest of the Trobriand Islands.
Kiriwinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kiriwinans
Etymology: From Kiriwina + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kiriwina.
Related terms: Kilivila
Kiriwinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kiriwinan
rosetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosettings
Etymology: From rosette + -ing.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phenomenon where erythrocytes are arranged around a central cell to form a cluster that looks like a flower.
rosewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rosewater
greaseburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greaseburgers
Etymology: From grease + -burger.
Senses: examples: text: We eat the double greaseburger at the Elkhorn in Pagosa Springs, and then stop just a few blocks away, at the hot springs.
ref: 1997, Rick Bass, The Lost Grizzlies, page 234:
text: I got back to my motel tired, wet and hungry. Talking to Miss Maidie had deterred me from grabbing a quick greaseburger en route.
ref: 1999, Rod Davis, American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World, page 145:
text: Life on the road for the Blues or Jazz musician, huddled in frozen bus stops, and eating raw greaseburgers washed down with stale beer, is not the ideal health regimen.
ref: 2003, Maury Dean, Rock 'n' roll: Gold rush: a singles un-encyclopedia, page 19:
glosses: A greasy hamburger.
greaseburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greaseburger
chalazal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chalaza + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the chalaza.
Derived terms: abchalazal
pachychalazal
postchalazal
antipodals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipodal
nucelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucellus
embryo sac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryo sacs
form: embryosac
Senses: glosses: The megagametophyte in a flowering plant.
embryosac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryosacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of embryo sac.
embryosacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embryosac
megastrobilus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megastrobili
Senses: glosses: An ovulate cone bearing ovuliferous scales, found in gymnosperms such as the conifers.
Coordinate terms: microstrobilus
megastrobili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megastrobilus
ovuliferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Etymology: From ovule + -iferous.
Senses: glosses: Bearing ovules.
megasporophyll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megasporophylls
Etymology: From mega- + sporophyll.
Senses: glosses: A sporophyll that bears megasporangia.
megasporophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasporophyll
synergids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synergid
protostelid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protostelids
Senses: glosses: Any of the Protosteliales, a group of primitive slime molds.
protostelids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protostelid
microsporangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + sporangial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microsporangia.
megasporangial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From megasporangium + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to megasporangia.
microsporangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsporangium
megasporangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasporangium
macrosporangia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrosporangium
megasporanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megasporange
megaspores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaspore
macrospicules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrospicule
nonosmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + osmotic.
Senses: glosses: Not osmotic.
resetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɛtə/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌsɛtə/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɛtɚ/
Forms: form: resetters
Etymology: From reset (“to reinitialise”) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, resets.
resetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɛtə/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌsɛtə/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛtə/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɛtə/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ɹəˈsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ˌɹiːˈsɛtə/
ipa: /ˈɹiːˌsɛtə/
ipa: /ˌɹiˈsɛtɚ/
ipa: /ˈɹiˌsɛtɚ/
Forms: form: resetters
form: ressetter
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Scots resettar, ressettar, from Early Scots resettour, from Anglo-Norman recettour, recettour, from Latin receptātor; by surface analysis, reset (“to receive stolen goods”) + -er.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who receives or conceals, as stolen goods or a criminal.
resetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resetter
zellige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zɛˈliːd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: zelliges
form: zellij
form: zillij
Etymology: Arabic زَلِّيج (zallīj)
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A form of terracotta tilework covered with enamel in the form of chips set into plaster, characteristic of Moroccan architecture.
zelliges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zellige
zeroization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈziɹoʊ.aɪˌzeɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: zeroisation
Etymology: From zero + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of zeroizing.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act or process of zeroizing.
The erasure of sensitive parameters from a cryptographic module to prevent their disclosure if the equipment is captured.
zeroisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zero + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of zeroization.
wattman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wattmen
Etymology: From French wattman.
Senses: glosses: A French tram driver.
wattmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wattman
enterprise unions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enterprise union
adlects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Vespasian…adlects senators.
ref: 1980, Ronald Syme, Some Arval Brethren, page 132:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adlect
underbuildings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underbuilding
wilayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wilaya
Wagnerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wagner + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: Wagnerianism
glosses: The philosophical and artistic ideals put forward by the composer and theatre director Richard Wagner.
glosses: An attachment, sometimes fanatical, to the music of Wagner.
glosses: The use of the Wagner Act, a form of labour union legislation.
minecart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minecarts
Etymology: From mine + cart.
Senses: synonyms: cocopan
hypernyms: cart
rolling stock
coordinate_terms: mine car
glosses: A wheeled container, often one that travels on tracks, used for moving mining materials.
minecarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minecart
zoopsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoopsia
Kilivila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kiriwina
Senses: glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in the Trobriand Islands.
Related terms: Kiriwinan
kummel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kummels
form: kümmel
Etymology: From German Kümmel.
Senses: examples: text: ‘The best kümmel comes in those bear-shaped bottles. It comes from Russia.’
ref: 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society, published 2008, page 140:
glosses: A German caraway liqueur.
cynomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyno- + -morphism.
Senses: examples: text: This should teach us to bear in mind that there is, affecting the dog's point of view, almost undoubtedly such a thing as cynomorphism, and that he has his peculiar and limited ideas of life and range of mental vision, and therefore perforce makes his artificial surroundings square with them.
ref: 1892 December, Louis Robinson, “Canine Morals and Manners”, in The Popular Science Monthly, page 177:
text: Without anthropomorphism on our part and cynomorphism on the dog's part, it is unlikely that dogs could have been successfully domesticated and eventually come to live in our homes and serve as companions and workmates.
ref: 2004, Stanley Coren, How Dogs Think: Understanding the Canine Mind, Free Press, →ISBN, page 290:
text: Finally, this definition implies the Razor-friendly dualism Nature/Culture, by using a two-way-only approach, from animals to humans and back (zoomorphism), without the pluralistic biosemiotic-friendly suggestion there might be, say, a cynomorphism or at least an icthyomorphism.
ref: 2008 December, Dario Martinelli, Kristian Bankov, “Bankov's Razor Versus Martinelli's Canon: A Confrontation Around Biosemiotics”, in Biosemiotics, volume 1, number 3, page 413:
glosses: The manner in which a dog sees the world, including the attribution of doglike characteristics to non-canine animals, especially humans.
coanchoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coanchor
coanchored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coanchor
postdisco
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + disco.
Senses: examples: text: Tina Turner […] refashioned herself into a postdisco diva.
ref: 2008, Burton W. Peretti, Lift Every Voice: The History of African American Music, page 162:
text: Well, jungle emerged from rave culture, which fused late sixties psychedelic utopianism with the postdisco music that came out of Chicago and Detroit.
ref: 1999, Karen Kelly, Evelyn McDonnell, Stars Don't Stand Still in the Sky: Music and Myth, page 203:
text: The intention here isn't to situate Goa as a locus of industrial music's history per se; open musical attitudes had flourished earlier in Europe and America in postdisco clubs […]
ref: 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 245:
glosses: Alternative form of post-disco.
zygaenid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zygaenids
Etymology: From translingual Zygaenidae, from Zygaena.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the moth family Zygaenidae.
zygaenids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zygaenid
monociliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + ciliate.
Senses: glosses: Having a single cilium.
multiciliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + ciliate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple cilia.
polyciliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + ciliate.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple cilia.
koulibiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koulibiacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coulibiac.
coulibiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coulibiacs
form: koulibiac
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кулебя́ка (kulebjáka).
Senses: glosses: A loaf of fish, meat, or vegetables baked in a pastry shell.
klepht
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klephts
Etymology: From Greek κλέφτης (kléftis, “thief”).
Senses: glosses: An anti-Ottoman insurgent living in the mountains when Greece was a part of the Ottoman Empire.
Derived terms: klephtic
klephtism
Related terms: kleptomania
klephts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klepht
listed company
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: listed companies
Senses: glosses: A company whose shares are traded in a stock exchange.
Synonyms: public company
publicly traded company
quoted company
keratinizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keratinization
nonkarstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + karstic.
Senses: glosses: Not karstic.
karstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑɹstɪk/
ipa: /ˈkɑːstɪk/
Etymology: From karst + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to karst.
Derived terms: cryptokarstic
karstic spring
nonkarstic
palaeokarstic
paleokarstic
pseudokarstic
karstologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karstologist
karstifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karstification
water law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A branch of law dealing with the ownership, control, and use of water as a resource.
coccygeal vertebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coccygeal vertebra
Slovincian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slə(ʊ)ˈvɪnsɪ.ən/
ipa: /slə(ʊ)ˈvɪnʃən/
rhymes: -ɪnsiən
rhymes: -ɪnʃən
Forms: form: Slovincians
form: Slnc.
form: Slovinzian
Etymology: From Kashubian Słowińc (“Slovincian”, person) + -ian. The ultimate origin is uncertain; the name is often said to be coined by Alexander Hilferding, but it actually predates his research, being found in (17th century) German slowinzisch, related to wendisch and often mistaken with Latin vandalicus.
Senses: glosses: One of a Slavic people living between the lakes Gardno (Gardersee) and Łebsko (Lebasee) near Słupsk (Stolp) in Pomerania.
Slovincian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /slə(ʊ)ˈvɪnsɪ.ən/
ipa: /slə(ʊ)ˈvɪnʃən/
rhymes: -ɪnsiən
rhymes: -ɪnʃən
Forms: form: Slnc.
form: Slovinzian
Etymology: From Kashubian Słowińc (“Slovincian”, person) + -ian. The ultimate origin is uncertain; the name is often said to be coined by Alexander Hilferding, but it actually predates his research, being found in (17th century) German slowinzisch, related to wendisch and often mistaken with Latin vandalicus.
Senses: glosses: The extinct language of the Slovincians.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Slovincian terms
Slovincians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Slovincian
unchewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + chewable.
Senses: examples: text: It is clear that the parts of the goat skeletons that survive best are the unchewable ones.
ref: 1981, Charles Kimberlin Brain, The hunters or the hunted?: An introduction to African cave taphonomy, page 21:
glosses: That cannot be chewed.
Derived terms: unchewably
unchewability
unchewable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unchewables
Etymology: From un- + chewable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be chewed.
chewability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃuːəˈbɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Etymology: From chewable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Endel Karmas, Meat product manufacture, Noyes Publications
All criteria, namely, desirability, odor, flavor, crispness and chewability indicated that optimal temperature of cooking was 150° to 160°C. (302° to 320° F.) and that 130°C. (266°F.) was too low.
text: Since a closer association was established between cross linkages between and within collagen fibers and meat tenderness, the elements which are involved in the cross linkage formation may be more related to the degree of toughness or chewability of meat.
ref: 1982, Abdelfattah Yousif Mohammed Nour, Bovine carcass characteristics: quality, yield, palatability, chemical composition, and mineral profile of early and late maturing breeds of cattle fed two diets in two locations and serially slaughtered over a wide weight range:
text: Plot the average chewability scores for gum A (from Box 3). Connect the dots with a line and label it A-C (for gum A, Chewability score). Repeat for gums B 3. through D. Use different-colored pencils for flavor and chewability scores.
ref: 1993, Charlotte Baecher, Consumer Education Materials Project, Product testing activities by Consumer reports: student databook, Pearson Prentice Hall, →ISBN:
text: On the other hand, hydrogenated oligosaccharides such as maltitol in combination with glycerol are very effective additives for the formulation of chewable soft gelatin capsules, since they augment the taste and chewability and assist in the rapid dissolution of the shell upon chewing, thus improving the mouthfeel (Berry et al., 1988; Montes and Steele, 1999).
ref: 2004, Fridrun Podczeck, Brian E. Jones, Pharmaceutical Capsules, Pharmaceutical Press, →ISBN, page 204:
text: It is desired in some product (e.g., tortilla and plantain chips) that as much moisture is removed as possible to give the product a unique crispy texture, while in others (e.g., breaded chicken nuggets and French fries), retention of sufficient moisture is desired for juiciness and chewability of the products, respectively. Structural changes in these products have an important role in defining heat and mass transfer characteristics and subsequently the quality of the product.
ref: 2008, Servet Gulum Sumnu, Serpil Sahin, Advances in Deep-Fat Frying of Foods, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 172:
glosses: The quality or degree of being chewable.
algebraick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of algebraic.
aristocratick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aristocratick
form: most aristocratick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of aristocratic.
despotick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despotick
form: most despotick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of despotic.
democratick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more democratick
form: most democratick
Senses: examples: text: [S]ome firie ſpirited men in the Miniſterie, got ſuch a guiding of the people at that time of confuſion, as finding the guſte of gouernment ſweete, they begouth to fantaſie to themſelues, a Democratick forme of gouernment: […] and after vſurping the libertie of the time in my long minoritie, ſetled themſelues ſo faſt vpon that imagined Democracie, as they fed themſelues with the hope to become Trbuni plebis: and ſo in a populare gouernment by leading the people by the noſe, to beare the ſway of all the rule.
ref: 1599, [James IV of Scotland (later also James I of England)], “Of a Kings Dvtie in His Office. The Second Booke.”, in ΒΑΣΙΛΙΚΟΝ ΔΩΡΟΝ [BASILIKON DŌRON]. Or His Maiesties Instrvctions to His Dearest Sonne, Henry the Prince, London: […] Felix Kyngston, for Iohn Norton, […], published 1603, →OCLC, pages 39–40:
text: [W]hich government in its due conſtitution no Chriſtian or reformed Church, (not wholly under a democratick or popular ſpirit) yea no one eminent reformed Divine but did highly approve and deſire the happineſs to enjoy, as hath been made evident by their writings.
ref: 1658, John Gauden, Funerals Made Cordials: In a Sermon Prepared and (in Part) Preached at the Solemn Interment of the Corps of the Right Honorable Robert Rich, Heire Apparent to the Earldom of Warwick. […], London: […] T. C. for Andrew Crook, […], →OCLC, page 82:
text: Others avouch plainly the Democratick Principles, That Government riſes from the People's Conſent, and is radically founded in them; […]
ref: 1668, Abraham Philotheus [pseudonym], Anarchie Reviving, or, The Good Old Cause on the Anvile. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 2:
text: The democratick commonwealth is the foodfull nurſe of ambition. […] Whenever, in ſtates which have had a democratick baſis, they have endeavoured to put reſtraints upon ambition, their methods were as violent, as in the end they were ineffectual; as violent indeed as any the moſt jealous deſpotiſm could invent.
ref: 1791 August 3, [Edmund Burke], An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs, […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC, page 120:
text: The division of the legislature into two branches and their diverse origin, the long duration of office in one branch, the distinct power of the executive, the independence and permanency of the judiciary are designed to balance and check the democratick tendencies of our polity.
ref: 1809, [John Thornton Kirkland], “Notices of the Life and Character of Fisher Ames”, in Fisher Ames, Works of Fisher Ames. […], Boston, Mass.: T. B. Wait & Co. […], →OCLC, page xxiv:
text: In the United States, the federal and democratick parties divided the country till the termination of the last war.
ref: 1835, Lyman Cobb, “Lesson CCXVIII. Political Definitions.”, in The North American Reader; […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, paragraph 10, page 473:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of democratic.
democratick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democraticks
Senses: examples: text: This kingly government (as some call it) is a thing that our democraticks cannot brook: we are an undone people if we do not down with that.
ref: 1692, Gershom Bulkeley, “Will and Doom, or The Miseries of Connecticut by and under an Usurped and Arbitrary Power. […]”, in Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume III, Hartford, Conn.: […] [Connecticut Historical] Society, published 1895, →OCLC, page 195:
text: […] [Thomas] Fairfax was made general of all the forces both in England and Ireland; and Rainsbrough [i.e., Thomas Rainsborough], a leveller, and a violent head of the democraticks, high-admiral.
ref: 1760, Delahay Gordon, “The Life and Death of King Charles the First”, in A General History of the Lives, Trials, and Executions of All the Royal and Noble Personages, that have Suffered in Great-Britain and Ireland for High Treason, or Other Crimes, from the Accession of Henry VIII. to the Throne of England, down to the Present Time; […], volume III, London: […] J. Burd, […], page 440:
text: Several circumſtances have concurred to confirm the belief that this wretched lunatick was the identical Marquis de Brunoy, who had been buried in the gloom of a priſon for nine years, whilſt the world thought him dead. The mad democraticks began to ſpread reports that the Count de Provence was privy to this tranſaction; and that it was this Prince who had obtained the Lettre de Cachet, by virtue of which this wretched man had been ſo long deprived of the light of heaven.
ref: 1789 October 10, “Paris”, in I[ohann] W[ilhelm] von Archenholz, editor, The British Mercury, or Annals of History, Politics, Manners, Literature, Arts, etc. of the British Empire, volume XI, number 41, Hamburg: […] B. C. Hoffman, →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of democratic.
economick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more economick
form: most economick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of economic.
sporadick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sporadick
form: most sporadick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of sporadic.
scientifick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scientifick
form: most scientifick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of scientific.
republick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: republicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of republic.
republicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of republick
orthographick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of orthographic.
pricelist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricelists
Etymology: From price + list.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of price list.
pricelists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricelist
pricepoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricepoint
antiphonical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiphonical
form: most antiphonical
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antiphonic.
Derived terms: antiphonically
antiphonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antiphonically
form: most antiphonically
Etymology: From antiphonic + -ally or antiphonical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With antiphony.
antick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antic.
antick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antick
form: most antick
Senses: examples: text: The Entrance to the Royal Apartment is through a Vestibule, supported by Pillars, with some antick Bustoes in the Niches […]
ref: 1719, Elias Ashmole, The Antiquities of Berkshire:
glosses: Obsolete form of antic.
Derived terms: antickly
anticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antick
anticke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticke
form: most anticke
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antique.
anticke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antickes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of antic.
antipyic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + pyic.
Senses: glosses: antisuppurative
antipyic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antipyics
Etymology: From anti- + pyic.
Senses: glosses: An antisuppurative agent.
antipyics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antipyic
antisuppurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisuppurative
form: most antisuppurative
Etymology: From anti- + suppurative.
Senses: glosses: Preventing suppuration.
timelock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timelocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time lock.
timelocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timelock
mouline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moulines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of moulinet.
moulines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mouline
Gorean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gorean
form: most Gorean
Etymology: From Gor + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, players have incorporated Gorean roleplay into a number of online games, adopting the social structures, institutions, and in some cases even the language of Gor.
ref: 2007, Peter Ludlow, Mark Wallace, The Second Life Herald, page 134:
text: The photos show that Gorean slave dress code means wearing “silks,” which amounts to being naked or almost naked.
ref: 2009, Francisco J. Ricardo, Literary art in digital performance, page 118:
text: No way could I pull off being a Gorean kajira. I wasn't nearly submissive enough.
ref: 2010, January Rowe, My One:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fictional world of Gor (in a series of erotic science fiction novels by John Norman).
Related terms: Goreanism
Gorean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goreans
Etymology: From Gor + -ean.
Senses: examples: text: Whatever its origin, just as Second Life had a strong subculture of Goreans, it also had a strong subculture of Furs.
ref: 2007, Mark Stephen Meadows, I, Avatar:
glosses: A member of a BDSM subculture based on the Gorean lifestyle portrayed in the novels.