cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
videoclip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videoclips
Senses: examples: text: In the past, this weakness frequently was addressed by willing and well-trained U.S. embassy staffers who provided background briefings to visiting U.S. journalists in order to furnish them with “off the record” information and help them establish meetings and interviews. […] Although there is nothing intrinsically wrong with this practice, problems develop when journalists write their stories or file their videoclips without acknowledging the substantial influence or assistance of U.S. embassy personnel.
ref: 2002, Thomas L. McPhail, Global Communication: Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends, Boston, Mass.: Allyn & Bacon, →ISBN, page 6:
text: Your instructor may demonstrate, show a videotape, ask you to watch videoclips on a computer, or simply tell you about the correct results. Record them in Table 46-4.
ref: 2002, James W. Perry, David Morton, Joy B. Perry, Laboratory Manual for Starr and Taggart’s Biology: The Unity and Diversity of Life and Starr’s Biology: Concepts and Applications, Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, →ISBN, page 734:
text: The CD-ROM is a replica of the one-day workshop (see below) and explains the Skill Sequence by showing over 30 videoclips of parents playing with their children. […] The unique feature of the DVD is that it shows dozens of videoclips of parents playing engagingly with their young child with ASD.
ref: 2008, Charles E. Schaefer, Sophronia Kelly-Zion, Judith McCormick, Akiko Ohnogi, editors, Play Therapy for Very Young Children, Lanham, Md.: Jason Aronson, →ISBN, page 387:
glosses: Alternative form of video clip.
airsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airshed
rhytids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhytid
rhytid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɪtɪd/
Forms: form: rhytids
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥυτίς (rhutís).
Senses: glosses: Any undesirable wrinkle in the skin.
branon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: branons
Etymology: Abbreviation of brane oscillation.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical weakly interacting massive particle of dark matter.
ambuscado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambuscados
form: ambuscadoes
Senses: glosses: ambush.
backcross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: backcrosses
form: backcrossing
form: backcrossed
form: backcrossed
Etymology: From back + cross.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: To cross a hybrid with one of its parents.
backcross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backcrosses
Etymology: From back + cross.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The act of crossing a hybrid with one of its parents.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An organism produced by such a crossing.
topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: Alternative form of back cross.
degranulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡɹænjəleɪt/
Forms: form: degranulates
form: degranulating
form: degranulated
form: degranulated
Etymology: From de- + granulate.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To lose granules by the process of degranulation.
Derived terms: undegranulated
nonlinearities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonlinearity
thiolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thiolations
Etymology: From thiol + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: reaction with a thiol
backcrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backcross
backcrosses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backcross
BSoD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BSoDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of BSOD.
acceleron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accelerons
Etymology: From the claim that these particles explain the acceleration of the universe; + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical subatomic particle that is claimed to react with neutrinos to produce dark energy.
anapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scientific Latin Anapsida, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).
Senses: examples: text: The anapsid skull: snub-nosed like an artillery shell, shockingly powerful and primitive.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 186:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the group of reptiles whose skulls do not have openings near the temples, originally considered as a specific subclass
anapsid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anapsids
Etymology: From scientific Latin Anapsida, from Ancient Greek ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἁψίς (hapsís, “arch”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A member of this group of reptiles, including the turtles, tortoises and terrapins.
chirally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chirally
form: most chirally
Etymology: From chiral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a chiral manner; exhibiting chirality; like a left- or right-handed spiral.
deinterlace
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɪntəleɪs/
Forms: form: deinterlaces
form: deinterlacing
form: deinterlaced
form: deinterlaced
Etymology: From de- + interlace.
Senses: examples: text: A deinterlace filter for interlaced raster scanned video data receiving sequential fields of video data one pixel at a time with each pixel of video data being received during a pixel time and outputing a deinterlaced frame of video data for each field received, the deinterlace filter comprising […]
ref: 1984, System for spatially transforming images, US Patent 4472732 (PDF version):
text: I think that an improved receiver, which could do deinterlacing, doubling the frame rate, perhaps combined with some way of getting rid of subcarrier-related artifacts, might be MAC or something else.
ref: 1985, SMPTE Journal: Publication of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, volume 94:
text: One advantage of MPEG-2 video on DVD is that computers and future players can deinterlace it and display it on progressive-scan HDTV screens, with considerably better quality than today's interlaced screens.
ref: 1998, Jim Taylor, DVD demystified, page 117:
text: Bob deinterlacing provides good results when the image intensity varies smoothly, but it can soften the image because it also reduces the vertical resolution.
ref: 2013, Michael Parker, Digital Video Processing for Engineers: A Foundation for Embedded Systems Design, page 43:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: To convert (video footage) into a non-interlaced format; to remove one field from each video frame.
Derived terms: deinterlacer
JavaScripting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From JavaScript + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The swliveconnect attribute comes into play when you're using FSCommands or JavaScripting in your Flash 4 movies.
ref: 2000, Joseph W Lowery, Dreamweaver 3 Bible:
text: Whether you're an old-school scripter who needs to modernize your JavaScripting skills or a standards-aware Web developer who needs best practices...
ref: 2006, Peter-Paul Koch, ppk on JavaScript:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Programming in the JavaScript programming language.
examples: text: This can happen for a variety of reasons but it most often occurs when Javascripting^([sic]) is involved.
ref: 1999, Andrew T Stull, Jeff L Platt, Psychology on the Internet 1999-2000:
text: First, set your browser security protocols to high, and be sure JavaScripting is disabled. This will solve some of the problem...
ref: 2001, Michael Chesbro, The Complete Guide to E-Security:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Execution of JavaScript code.
determinacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnəsi/
Forms: form: determinacies
Etymology: From determinate + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The ability to be completely determined in a definite way; the quality of being determinate.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (game theory) The study of the circumstances under which a game has a winning strategy.
Synonyms: determinateness
Derived terms: undeterminacy
scripting languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scripting language
scripter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scripters
Etymology: From script + -er.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A programmer who uses a scripting language.
scripter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scripters
Etymology: From script + -er (“Variety -er”).
Senses: topics: authorship
broadcasting
communications
film
journalism
literature
media
publishing
television
writing
glosses: A scriptwriter.
Derived terms: co-scripter
scripters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scripter
e-security
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From e- + security.
Senses: glosses: Security as it pertains to the Internet, such as information security.
Caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Call Caddy and tell her to meet us at six o'clock.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Caroline.
Caddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caddies
Etymology: From Cadillac + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She pulled up in a shiny black Caddy at six o'clock.
text: All those ones live in those great big piecrust mock-Two-door houses with His and Hers Caddies parked out by the hydrangea bushes.
ref: 1971, John Updike, Rabbit Redux:
text: He's driving a ten-year old^([sic]) lime-green Caddy with a trunk full of golf clubs and one suitcase. We got a license number.
ref: 2000, John Sandford [pseudonym; John Roswell Camp], Easy Prey, page 126:
text: So Dave backed his car in beside the Caddy, his eyes on the side door of the bar, no one having come out for a while.
ref: 2003, Dennis Lehane, Mystic River:
glosses: A Cadillac car.
Caddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caddy
piecrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piecrusts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pie crust.
piecrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piecrust
administrativia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: administrativia
Etymology: From administrative + -ia (“Latin plural”) – literally, “administrative matters”. Popularized 1960s in US education. Preceded by administrivia, which dates from the 1930s.
Senses: examples: text: An “ASCAP-type” clearing and licensing operation under the statute would involve too much “administrativia,” said Dr. [Harold E.] Wigren — coining a word the subcommittee immediately wanted to put into the public domain.
ref: “House Copyright Group Mulls Educators’ Pleas”, Billboard, Vol. 77, No. 24, 12 Jun 1965, p. 3
glosses: Administrivia.
Synonyms: administrivia
paperwork
beachscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beachscapes
Etymology: From beach + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: ...crowded with dozens of people and with a backdrop of photographically accurate buildings — the antithesis of a Whistler beachscape.
ref: 2001, Stanley Weintraub, Whistler: A Biography:
text: He is a realist as well as a Romantic, as you can see when you look at the marvel of this exhibition, his great Dawn After the Wreck (c.1841), a beachscape of despair that invites direct comparison with the Romantic art of Turner's German contemporary Caspar David Friedrich.
ref: 2009 January 17, Jonathan Jones, “Turner Watercolours”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A beach landscape.
beachscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beachscape
ghettoisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ghetto + -isation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ghettoization.
illusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illusional
form: most illusional
Etymology: From illusion + -al.
Senses: glosses: Illusory; being or pertaining to an illusion.
loathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loathing
pokily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pokily
form: most pokily
Etymology: From poky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a poky way.
pokiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poky + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being poky.
poshness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From posh + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being posh.
sniffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sniffinesses
Etymology: From sniffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being sniffy.
sniffily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sniffily
form: most sniffily
Etymology: From sniffy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sniffy manner.
Synonyms: disdainfully
haughtily
editionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: editionalises
form: editionalising
form: editionalised
form: editionalised
Etymology: From editional + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of editionalize.
editionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of editionalise
editionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of editionalise
editionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of editionalise
bankability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bank + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bankable.
boringness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From boring + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Instinctively, before they had a chance to open their mouths, she knew not only that they were bores but the quality of their boringness.
ref: 1948, John Lehmann, The Penguin new writing:
text: More than one critic has said, of course, that the boringness of the "New Novel" is a feature of its authenticity.
ref: 1964, Stephen Spender, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Encounter:
text: An Analysis of Superficial Boredom and Its Relation to the Boring Object Heidegger does not begin his analysis of "superficial boredom" with boredom itself but with what is boring, or the boringness of a boring object.
ref: 1997, Eugene H. Elias (Jr), The American University, The role of boredom and anxiety in early Heidegger
text: Friends with me, the poster child for imperfection and boringness.
ref: 2005, Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, Lily B. on the Brink of Cool:
glosses: The state or condition of being boring.
Related terms: boringdom
boringhood
cackhanded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cackhanded
form: most cackhanded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cack-handed.
Derived terms: cackhandedly
cackhandedness
characterful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more characterful
form: most characterful
Etymology: From character + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: It will be sadly missed by enthusiasts who have found Ireland's railways among the most characterful in Europe.
ref: 1959 September, W. A. C. Smith, “The end of the Cavan & Leitrim”, in Trains Illustrated, page 415:
text: Definitely no ties or cravats (although I suppose a tie with a polo-necked sweater would be considered characterful).
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
glosses: Full of character.
Derived terms: characterfully
harmonisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmoniser
rendezvousing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rendezvous
thrillfest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrillfests
Etymology: From thrill + -fest.
Senses: glosses: An experience, such as a film, offering many thrills.
thrillfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrillfest
timebomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timebombs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of time bomb.
timebombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timebomb
wellington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wellingtons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Wellington (the boot).
wellingtons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellington
gives it some welly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of give it some welly
giving it some welly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of give it some welly
gave it some welly
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give it some welly
yuck it up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yucks it up
form: yucking it up
form: yucked it up
form: yucked it up
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yuk it up.
chatshows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chatshow
microgeneration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microgenerations
form: micro-generation
Etymology: From micro- + generation.
Senses: examples: text: Microgeneration has the potential to make a significant contribution to overall energy use in the UK and, combined with energy efficiency measures, will help towards reducing our carbon emissions. The concerned individual can take an active role in the battle against climate change.
ref: 2008 June 2, John Vidal, quoting Malcolm Wicks, “Microgeneration could rival nuclear power, report shows”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The generation of zero-carbon or low-carbon heat and power by individuals, small businesses and communities to meet their own needs.
examples: text: The elderly are market segments, by generations or microgenerations within age cohorts or by historical experience as personality types.
ref: 2002, Merry White, Perfectly Japanese: Making Families in an Era of Upheaval, page 169:
topics: demographics
demography
glosses: A demographic or cohort similar to a generation but covering a shorter timespan.
songsmith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: songsmiths
Etymology: From song + smith.
Senses: glosses: A writer of songs.
Synonyms: songwriter
songsmiths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of songsmith
tolazoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolazolines
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A non-selective competitive α-adrenergic receptor antagonist, a vasodilator used to treat spasms of peripheral blood vessels (as in acrocyanosis) and in veterinary medicine to reverse xylazine-induced sedation.
tolazolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolazoline
uninvestigated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + investigated.
Senses: examples: text: That the Oath Keepers recording went uninvestigated by the FBI until after January 6 is an “additional piece of information that congressional investigators in particular on the January 6th committee and the other Homeland Security committees should be looking at to determine whether or not the FBI and other law enforcement organizations were doing enough on the prevention side,” Cordero told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Tuesday.
ref: 2022 October 4, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, “Secret recording played at trial shows Oath Keepers allegedly planning for violence in DC”, in CNN:
glosses: Not investigated.
Synonyms: unexplored
unresearched
unresearched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + researched.
Senses: glosses: Not researched.
Synonyms: unexplored
uninvestigated
mudlark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdlɑːk/
Forms: form: mudlarks
Etymology: From mud + lark.
Senses: glosses: A pig; pork.
examples: text: Besides these, there were the mudlark and the scupple hunter: the former prowling about at low water, receiving in his small bag such petty packages as he could get from his dishonest friends on board; and the later sneaking about the wharves and quays, under the pretense of wanting work, to pick up everything and anything that came to hand.
ref: 1799, George Mogridge, Old Humphrey's walks in London and its neighbourhood, Religious Tract Society, page 286:
text: She removes only what the water ‘delivers’ to her – items she can see lying on the surface. Unlike some other mudlarks, she does not dig for finds.
ref: 2019 August, Neil Armstrong, “A Real Muck Raker”, in Literary Review:
text: Dr. Fiona Haughey, a London archaeologist who has worked on the Thames since the 1990s, said that although some mudlarks are looking for valuables, others are looking for a connection with the everyday objects of a bygone Britain.
ref: 2020 February 12, Megan Specia, “Mudlarks Scour the Thames to Uncover 2,000 Years of Secrets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One who scavenges in river or harbor mud for items of value, especially in London.
examples: text: the children were nothing like inert: a large population of junior mudlarks, so long unwashed that you could hardly make them out, climbed among the ruins, cheerfully playing the games that all children play – pushing wheels with sticks, flipping rusty lids and bottle caps in makeshift tiddlywinks.
ref: 1995, Isabel Fonseca, Bury Me Standing, Vintage, published 2007, page 104:
glosses: A child who plays in the mud; a child that spends most of its time in the streets, a street urchin.
glosses: A soldier of the Royal Engineers.
glosses: Any of various birds that are found in muddy places or build their nests with mud, especially Anthus petrosus and Alauda arvensis.
glosses: The Grallina cyanoleuca that builds its nest with mud into a bowl-like shape.
synonyms: mudder
glosses: A racehorse that performs well on muddy or wet tracks.
Derived terms: mudlarker
mudlark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌdlɑːk/
Forms: form: mudlarks
form: mudlarking
form: mudlarked
form: mudlarked
Etymology: From mud + lark.
Senses: glosses: To scavenge in river or harbor mud for items of value.
mudlarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mudlark
bistability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bistabilities
Etymology: From bi- + stability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bistable.
bistabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bistability
anamorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anamorph
collagenase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collagenases
Etymology: From collagen + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An enzyme that breaks the peptide bonds in collagen.
Derived terms: anticollagenase
procollagenase
collagenases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collagenase
digoxigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digoxigenins
Etymology: From digoxin + -genin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A steroid found exclusively in the flowers and leaves of the plants Digitalis purpurea and Digitalis lanata.
Derived terms: antidigoxigenin
digoxigenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digoxigenin
electrophysiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From electrophysiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of or by means of electrophysiology.
immunostainings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunostaining
positionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From position + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a positional context; in terms of position.
pristinamycine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pristinamycines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pristinamycin.
pristinamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pristinamycins
Etymology: From [Term?] + -mycin (“antibiotic derived from Streptomyces”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antibiotic used primarily in the treatment of staphylococcal infections, and to a lesser extent streptococcal infections.
pristinamycines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pristinamycine
pristinamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pristinamycin
splenic fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of anthrax.
synonyms: word: anthrax
Betjemanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Betjemanesque
form: most Betjemanesque
Etymology: From Betjeman + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Other opinions, as on the smartness of well-maintained black engine liveries, are as sound as they are well stated, and justice is done to some Betjemanesque aspects of railway Victoriana.
ref: 1961 August, “New reading on railways: British Steam Railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page vii:
glosses: Resembling the works of John Betjeman (1906-1984), English poet and broadcaster.
quantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quantises
form: quantising
form: quantised
form: quantised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of quantize.
Derived terms: quantisation
quantises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quantise
quantising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quantise
quantised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quantise
resamples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resample
resampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resamplings
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any technique or instance of generating a new sample from an existing dataset.
resampling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resample
fast Fourier transforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fast Fourier transform
transactivator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transactivators
Etymology: From trans- + activator.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An endogenous cellular or viral protein that triggers transactivation.
transactivators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transactivator
unobservable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + observable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be observed.
unobservable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unobservables
Etymology: From un- + observable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be observed.
unobservably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unobservable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unobservable way.
ascospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ascospore
biogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biogeographers
Etymology: From bio- + geographer.
Senses: glosses: A person engaged in biogeography.
biogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biogeographer
atherectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atherectomy
Bannian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bannians
Senses: examples: text: This species of men, from the great severity with which they revenge the death of a hare or partridge, might be thought to cultivate the same superstition with the Bannians in India; many of whom, we are told, dedicate their whole lives to the preservation and protection of certain animals; was it not that our English Bannians, while they preserve them from other enemies, will most unmercifully slaughter whole horse-loads themselves; so that they stand clearly acquitted of any such heathenish superstition.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter II, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book III:
glosses: Alternative form of banyan (trader or merchant belonging to the business class)
bannian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bannians
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of banyan.
epitaxially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From epitaxial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an epitaxial way.
lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lymphangioleiomyomatoses
Senses: synonyms: LAM
glosses: Obstruction of small airways in the body, caused by disorderly smooth muscle proliferation throughout the bronchioles, alveolar septa, perivascular spaces, and lymphatics.
Related terms: lymphangiomyomatosis
lymphangioleiomyomatoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lymphangioleiomyomatosis
mislink
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mislinks
form: mislinking
form: mislinked
form: mislinked
Etymology: From mis- + link.
Senses: glosses: To link incorrectly.
mislinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mislink
mislinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mislink
mislinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mislink
mispredict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispredicts
form: mispredicting
form: mispredicted
form: mispredicted
Etymology: From mis- + predict.
Senses: glosses: To predict incorrectly.
misprediction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispredictions
Etymology: From mis- + prediction.
Senses: glosses: An instance of mispredicting; an incorrect prediction.
mispredicts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispredict
mispredicting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispredict
mispredicted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispredict
mispredictions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misprediction
traineeship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traineeships
Etymology: From trainee + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.
ref: 2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2021:
text: Tunnel boring machines creating 64 miles of route between London and the West Midlands have required special effort to find partners to create traineeships and apprenticeships.
ref: 2021 September 8, Howard Johnston, “Network News: HS2 jobs boost - but skills shortage a concern”, in RAIL, number 939, pages 16–17:
glosses: The condition of, or the time served by, a trainee; training.
traineeships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traineeship
user controls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of user control
athetizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of athetize
athetizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of athetize
cynodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cynodonts
Etymology: From cyno- + -odont, from Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn, “dog”) and ὀδόντος (odóntos), genitive singular of ὀδούς (odoús, “tooth, tusk”).
Senses: examples: text: The Triassic immediately followed a devastating mass extinction, and the cynodonts diversified in its aftermath in much the same way mammals did in the Paleocene.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 160:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of several small carnivorous synapsids in the clade Cynodontia, ancestral to mammals and extinct close relatives.
Derived terms: eucynodont
erethic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erethic
form: most erethic
Etymology: See erethism and -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abnormally excited.
Related terms: erethism
erethistic
athetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of athetize
auntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: auntlier
form: more auntly
form: auntliest
form: most auntly
Etymology: From aunt + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was late, very late, when finally she climbed into the great bed after having received an auntly kiss.
ref: 1928, Nella Larsen, “13”, in Quicksand, page 159:
text: The legacy Martineau offers to Eliot is auntly in the terms of my definition, because it is simultaneously gratuitous and enabling.
ref: 2001, Mary Evans, Feminism:
text: He watched the auntly lady twist the ends of the diaper so that the whole assemblage seemed to wrap itself around his boy like magic.
ref: 2012, Josh Ritter, Bright's Passage:
glosses: Of, like, or characteristic of an aunt.
Derived terms: auntliness
un-auntly
auntly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: auntlier
form: more auntly
form: auntliest
form: most auntly
Etymology: From aunt + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of an aunt.
astroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroid
Rutland beauties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rutland beauty
beefalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beefalo
trampoliner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trampoliners
Etymology: From trampoline + -er.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of trampolinist.
synonyms: word: trampolinist
bepurples
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bepurple
bepurpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bepurple
pertinaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pertinacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I had too much experience of my father's pertinaciousness ever to hope for a change in his views.
ref: 1805, Charles Brockden Brown, Wieland; and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist, Penguin Classics, published 1991, →ISBN, page 289:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being pertinacious.
Synonyms: pertinacity
crutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crutters
Etymology: From crut + -er.
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A worker who drills blasting holes, prepares the explosive charge, and removes blasted rock.
crutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crutters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of creetur.
bottle crate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle crates
Senses: glosses: A container used for transport of beverage containers. In the present day they are usually made of plastic, but before the widespread use of plastic they tended to be made of wood or metal.
domination line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domination lines
Senses: topics: lifestyle
sex
sexuality
glosses: A telephone line that a person calls to be sexually dominated.
half-standard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: In gardening, a tree or shrub whose branches start from three to four feet from the ground. This makes the entire plant lower than a plant of the same type of the standard form.
dratted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of drat
dratted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: That dratted cat's been in the vegetable patch again.
glosses: Expressing annoyance or irritation towards the mentioned thing.
syllabic abbreviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syllabic abbreviations
Senses: examples: text: Subaru named it after the New York zip code Tribeca — a syllabic abbreviation of “Triangle Below Canal Street” — not so much to connote wealth and glamour
ref: 2008 March 19, “HE SAYS...So nondescript is the redesign, the car all but fades”, in The Times:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An abbreviation formed from syllables, usually the initial ones, of several words.
Hypernyms: abbreviation
Related terms: topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: portmanteau
topics: linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: blend
pitch mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitch marks
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An indentation caused by a golf ball hitting the ground in golf.
pregorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pregnancy + anorexia.
Senses: examples: text: 2008, Jane Bainbridge, "Pregorexia: body image over baby?" (article), in British Journal of Midwifery, Volume 16, Issue 9, September 4 2008, page 608.
text: Pregorexia came on the radar in 2006 when former TV presenter Liz Fraser told Marie Claire magazine about her struggle with bulimia during pregnancy.
ref: 2009 July 7, Kevin Courtney, “Pregorexia”, in The Irish Times:
text: Her dramatic weight loss meant Mrs Bassett had to be taken into hospital when just 11 weeks pregnant. Evan was born early at 30 weeks, but her ‘pregorexia’ left her too frail to care for him until he was 14 months old.
ref: 2012 March 2, Alison Smith-Squire, “The 'pregorexic' mother whose weight plummeted to FOUR STONE because she was so worried about getting fat during pregnancy”, in Daily Mail:
text: Pregorexia, or 'mommyrexia', as they dub it Stateside, is a growing disorder: women exercising madly all through the pregnancy (there are now scores of websites devoted to selling workout gear for pregnant women, while sizes for maternity clothes these days often include an extra-small, which would be impossibly tiny even for the average non-pregnant woman), […]
ref: 2013, Emily Hourican, How to (Really) Be a Mother, Gill & Macmillan, →ISBN:
glosses: A condition where a pregnant mother is obsessed with being thin.
wheeze rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheeze rates
Senses: glosses: The proportion of the respiratory cycle duration occupied by wheezing (measured as Tw/Ttot)
bepurpled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bepurple
carnival glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it was sometimes given as prizes at carnivals and fairgrounds.
Senses: examples: text: Consider, for example, the phenomenon of carnival glass. Known also as taffeta glass, it got its more popular name from the fact it was once given away as prizes in carnivals.
ref: 1983, Ford Times, volume 76, number 4, page 23:
synonyms: aurora glass
dope glass
iridescent ware
Iridill
poor man's Tiffany
rainbow glass
taffeta glass
coordinate_terms: depression glass
glosses: A type of glassware dating from the early 20th century, notable for lustrous colors.
aurora glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
dope glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
iridescent ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
Iridill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Trade name of an early such glass produced beginning in 1908 by the Fenton Art Glass Company. Perhaps formed from iridescent.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
rainbow glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
taffeta glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
brainists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brainist
poor man's Tiffany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of carnival glass.
synonyms: word: carnival glass
nullius in bonis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin nūllīus (“of no one”) (genitive of nūllus) + in + bonīs (“goods, property”) (ablative of bōna).
Senses: examples: text: ...but being the case of a singing bird, though reclaimed, as it is a thing of base nature, it must be considered as nullius in bonis.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume IV, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
topics: law
glosses: No one's property.
bullectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bullectomy
dead man's switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead man's switches
Senses: examples: text: Holonyms: device, machine
text: This seat is equipped with a dead man's switch. As the theory goes, "if the driver stops sitting, the machine is quitting."
text: P.S. What about using a disc collection with a specific weight as a dead man's switch? Or making up a new format out of rare, esoteric, or even thaumaturgical materials, and using the anomaly to duplicate them? Or...
ref: 2020 December 10, HarryBlank, “SCP-5751”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024:
hypernyms: kill switch
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glosses: A switch that ensures a fail-safe condition by automatically triggering an action (for instance, to stop a machine or vehicle) if a specified input from the operator is not made or is altered.
Related terms: Dead Hand
deadman
fail-deadly
punkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punker
ventrilocution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ventri- + locution.
Senses: examples: text: "You are not apprized of the existence of a power which I possess. I know not by what name to call it. [* Biloquium, or ventrilocution. Sound is varied according to the variations of direction and distance. . . .] It enables me to mimic exactly the voice of another, and to modify the sound so that it shall appear to come from what quarter, and be uttered at what distance I please."
ref: 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, chapter 22, in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale:
glosses: Obsolete form of ventriloquism.
biloquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biloquists
Etymology: Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805).
Senses: examples: text: Back in Maisel, I was a biloquist. A common street performer. What you would call a ventriloquist.
ref: 1999, Jack O'Connell, Word Made Flesh, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A person having the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
wikipedia: Charles Brockden Brown
Related terms: biloquial
biloquism
biloquium
biloquial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810).
Senses: examples: text: Deception was often unnecessarily practised, and my biloquial faculty did not lie unemployed . . . . Standing one evening on the steps of the great altar, this devout friar expatiated on the miraculous evidences of his religion; and, in a moment of enthusiasm, appealed to San Lorenzo, whose martyrdom was displayed before us. No sooner was the appeal made than the saint, obsequious to the summons, whispered his responses from the shrine.
ref: 1805, Charles Brockden Brown, chapter 5, in Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or possessing the ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
Derived terms: biloquialism
biloquialist
Related terms: biloquism
biloquist
biloquium
biloquium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably coined by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810), from the Latin bi- (“two”) + loquor (“to speak”) + -ium.
Senses: examples: text: "You are not apprized of the existence of a power which I possess. I know not by what name to call it. [* Biloquium, or ventrilocution. Sound is varied according to the variations of direction and distance. . . .] It enables me to mimic exactly the voice of another, and to modify the sound so that it shall appear to come from what quarter, and be uttered at what distance I please."
ref: 1798, Charles Brockden Brown, chapter 22, in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale:
glosses: The ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
Synonyms: biloquism
Related terms: biloquial
biloquist
biloquism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly based on similar terms used by American novelist Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) in Wieland, or the Transformation: An American Tale (1798) and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (1805).
Senses: examples: text: Though there was certainly an element of entertainment in Raphaelle's performances, ventriloquism, or "biloquism" as the new "science" was called, represented far more than entertainment in early-nineteenth-century America.
ref: 1994, D. C. Ward and S. Hart, "Subversion and Illusion in the Life and Art of Raphaelle Peale," American Art, vol. 8, no. 3 and 4, p. 106
glosses: The ability to speak in two different voices, especially as a ventriloquist.
Synonyms: biloquium
Related terms: biloquial
biloquist
acai berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /a.saˈiː ˈbɛɹi/
Forms: form: acai berries
form: açai berry
form: açaí berry
Etymology: From Brazilian Portuguese açaí + berry.
Senses: glosses: A fruit that grows on the Brazilian wild palmberry tree, Euterpe olearacea, used for nutritive support as an antioxidant. It is similar in size to a grape.
trunk-maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunk-makers
Senses: glosses: A person who builds large hinged boxes (trunks).
examples: text: This somewhat may be indeed resembled to the famous trunk-maker in the playhouse; for, whenever the person who is possessed of it doth what is right, no ravished or friendly spectator is so eager or so loud in his applause: on the contrary, when he doth wrong, no critic is so apt to hiss and explode him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A critic who pounds upon the benches in a show of approval.
trunk-makers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trunk-maker
Tom Jones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɒm ˈdʒəʊnz/
ipa: /ˌtɑm ˈdʒoʊnz/
Forms: form: Tom Joneses
Etymology: After the title character in The History of Tom Jones, written by Henry Fielding and published in 1749; now perhaps also influenced by the Welsh singer of the same name and similar reputation.
Senses: examples: text: All men are not Tom Joneses. The standard of masculine behaviour continues to go up: many of us make fine efforts to conform to it, and some of us succeed. But the Tom Jones is there in all of us who are not anaemic or consumptive.
ref: 1909, Jerome K. Jerome, chapter X, in They and I:
text: You know he's not the king of Bedside Manor.
He's not the Tom Jones who lives next door.
ref: 1992, Barenaked Ladies, “The King of Bedside Manor”, in Gordon:
glosses: A desirable man of loose morals, prone to having sex with many women.
Synonyms: sense: desirable man of loose morals
word: casanova
sense: desirable man of loose morals
word: Don Juan
sense: desirable man of loose morals
word: lady-killer
sense: desirable man of loose morals
word: Lothario
Tom Joneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tom Jones