cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epididymal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɛpəˈdɪdəməl/
Etymology: From epididymis + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the epididymis, the tube in male mammals which connects the efferent ducts from the rear of each testicle to its vas deferens.
Synonyms: paratesticular
Derived terms: epididymally
periepididymal
subepididymal
Dyle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: River in Belgium, flowing through Leuven and Mechelen
enwrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æp
Forms: form: enwraps
form: enwrapping
form: enwrapped
form: enwrapped
form: inwrap
Etymology: From Middle English enwrappen, inwrappen (“to wrap in”), equivalent to en- + wrap. Compare also Middle English inwlappen (See lap, “to enwrap”). More at en-, wrap. Cognate via Old French with envelop, envelope. Doublet of envelop.
Senses: glosses: To wrap around, surround; to envelop.
glosses: To absorb completely or engross.
Derived terms: enwrapment
Related terms: unwrap
calmnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calmness
enwraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwrap
enwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwrap
enwrapping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enwrappings
Senses: glosses: That which enwraps; a wrapping.
enwrapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Sa. three boys' heads couped at the shoulders ppr. having snakes enwrapped about their necks vert ; (sometimes borne with a chev. ar.) Crest - A boy's head as in the arms, (sometimes crined or.) VAUGHAN
ref: 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry, Or General Armory of England, Scotland and Ireland: Comprising a Registry of All Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, Including the Late Grants by the College of Arms:
glosses: simple past and past participle of enwrap
onenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oneness
filopodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filopodium
lightnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightness
filopodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filopodia
Etymology: From filum (“thread”) + -podium (“leg-like structure”).
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A slender cytoplasmic projection which extends from the leading edge of a migrating cell
Synonyms: microspike
Derived terms: filopodial
Related terms: lamellipodium
lobopodium
pseudopodium
whitenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whiteness
filopodial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filopodium + -al.
Senses: examples: a filopodial protrusion
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of, in or pertaining to the filopodia of a cell
fibrillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fibril + -ary.
Senses: examples: a fibrillary structure
glosses: Of or pertaining to fibrils, or nanoscale fibers
Derived terms: glial fibrillary acidic protein
gliofibrillary
interfibrillary
intrafibrillary
microfibrillary
neurofibrillary
protofibrillary
fetoprotein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetoproteins
Etymology: From feto- + protein.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
ethidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cationic form of a polycyclic aromatic base, name 3,8-Diamino-5-ethyl-6-phenylphenanthridinium, whose bromide is used as a stain for nucleic acids
Derived terms: dihydroethidium
ethidium bromide
hydroethidium
Scheldt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛlt/
ipa: /skɛlt/
rhymes: -ɛlt
Etymology: Derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sċeald (“shallow”), from or related to Proto-Germanic *skala-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelh₁- (“to dry out, wither”).
Modern English shoal, Low German schol, Frisian skol, and Swedish (obsolete) skäll, "thin".
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps as a child she watched for his ship coming up the Scheldt.
ref: 2020, Hilary Mantel, The Mirror and the Light, Fourth Estate, page 408:
glosses: A river flowing through France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
ethidium bromide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An intercalating agent commonly used as a nucleic acid stain, having the molecular formula C₂₁H₂₀BrN₃
Synonyms: EtBr
ethidium
fetoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetoprotein
gillnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnɛt/
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɛt]
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɜt]
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɐt]
ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnet/
ipa: /ˈɡəlˌnet/
Forms: form: gillnets
Etymology: From gill + net.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A vertical net, often resting on the sea floor, which entangles fish in the netting, frequently by the gills.
gillnet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnɛt/
ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnɛt/
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɛt]
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɜt]
ipa: [ˈɡɪlˌnɐt]
ipa: /ˈɡɪlˌnet/
ipa: /ˈɡəlˌnet/
Forms: form: gillnets
form: gillnetting
form: gillnetted
form: gillnetted
Etymology: From gill + net.
Senses: glosses: To fish using a gillnet.
Derived terms: gillnetter
gilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɪld/
rhymes: -ɪld
homophone: gild
homophone: guild
Etymology: From gill + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: a gilled mushroom
glosses: Having gills
Synonyms: branchiate
Derived terms: green-gilled
nongilled
ungilled
germband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germbands
form: germ band
Etymology: From germ + band.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The band of germ layers that forms on the ventral side of the embryo during gastrulation in insects.
gillnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gillnet
gillnets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gillnet
gillnetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gillnet
gillnetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gillnet
germbands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germband
brass rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brass ring
context menu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: context menus
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A context-sensitive menu.
context menus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of context menu
thoracoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoracoscopies
Etymology: From thoraco- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A procedure for examining the inside of the chest cavity through a small incision, using an endoscope.
thoracoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoracoscopy
EGD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EGDs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
reaffix
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹiːəˈfɪks/
Forms: form: reaffixes
form: reaffixing
form: reaffixed
form: reaffixed
Etymology: From re- + affix.
Senses: examples: text: He reaffixed the fallen poster to the wall.
glosses: To affix again.
reaffixes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaffix
reaffixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaffix
reaffixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reaffix
mediastinoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediastinoscopies
Etymology: From mediastinum + -o- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A surgical procedure for examining the inside of the mediastinum and the organs it encloses through a small incision, using an endoscope and usually under general anesthesia.
Derived terms: mediastinoscopic
mediastinoscopies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mediastinoscopy
hepatoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepatoblasts
Etymology: From hepato- + -blast.
Senses: topics: embryology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fetal precursor of the hepatocyte
Derived terms: hepatoblastic
hepatoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatoblast
hemichannel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemichannels
Etymology: From hemi- + channel.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A connexin channel formed between two cells.
halophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halophyte + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: We planted a halophytic species of grass.
glosses: Growing well under salty conditions
Derived terms: xerohalophytic
Related terms: halophyte
hemichannels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemichannel
gardenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gardenlike
form: most gardenlike
form: garden-like
Etymology: From garden + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The hotel is in a gardenlike setting.
glosses: Resembling a garden
Derived terms: ungardenlike
formin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of proteins involved in the polymerization of actin which associate with the fast-growing barbed end of an actin filament
Derived terms: FNBP1
martite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A variety of hematite that is pseudomorphic after magnetite crystals.
pseudomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudomorphs
Etymology: From pseudo- (“false”) + -morph (“form”).
Senses: glosses: A deceptive, irregular, or false form; specifically
examples: text: Petrified wood is a silicic pseudomorph of the original wood.
text: The first kind of pseudomorphs, are pseudomorphs by alteration; the second, pseudomorphs by replacement; the third, pseudomorphs by infiltration; the fourth, pseudomorphs by incrustation.
ref: 1852, James D. Dana, A Manual of Mineralogy, page 54:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A deceptive, irregular, or false form; specifically:
A mineral that formed by replacement of an existing mineral (or organic matter) such that the new mineral has the appearance and dimensions of the original.
Derived terms: opal pseudomorph
pseudomorphic
Related terms: pseudomorphism
pseudomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pseudomorphs
form: pseudomorphing
form: pseudomorphed
form: pseudomorphed
Etymology: From pseudo- (“false”) + -morph (“form”).
Senses: glosses: To be transformed into such a form
pseudomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomorph
martites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martite
situationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: situationisms
Etymology: From situation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A school of thought which holds that personality is more influenced by external factors than by internal traits or motivations.
examples: text: The situationists meant to define a stance, not an ideology, because they saw all ideologies as alienations, transformations of subjectivity into objectivity, desire into a power that rendered the individual powerless: “There is no such thing as situationism,” they said for years.
ref: 1989, Greil Marcus, Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009:
topics: government
politics
coordinate_terms: Lettrism
glosses: A mid-20th-century offshoot of Marxism, influenced by avant-garde art movements.
Related terms: situationist
Situationist International
how'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊl/
rhymes: -aʊl
homophone: howl
Senses: examples: text: I'm as willing to save life as the next man, but I'm not going to wreck my ship fooling round a reef in the night-time. How'll you get a boat over, anyhow?
ref: 2004, Morgan Robertson, Sinful Peck:
glosses: how will
examples: text: "Well, mine ain't," said Beatrice; "I wish she was, that's all; I'd like to change with you; come, how'll you swap?"
ref: 1863, Harper's Magazine:
text: So Smith took the bait, and says he, "Mr. Brown, I wouldn't sell out, but we might swap aroun' — How'll you trade your place fer mine?"
ref: 1916, James Whitcomb Riley, Hewitt Hanson Howland, The Hoosier Book: Containing Poems in Dialect:
glosses: will, how about (as a proposal)
ingressed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ingress
untracable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of untraceable.
neo-pagans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neo-pagan
paganizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paganize
paganizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paganize
paganise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: paganises
form: paganising
form: paganised
form: paganised
Etymology: From pagan + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paganize.
paganising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paganise
paganises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paganise
paganised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paganise
paganistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /peɪɡəˈnɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more paganistic
form: most paganistic
Etymology: From pagan + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Most Christians are totally unaware of how anti-Law, paganistic attitude crept into the Body of Messiah.
ref: 1997, Bruce R Booker, A Call to Holiness:
glosses: Involving or resembling paganism.
Derived terms: neopaganistic
paganistically
invokable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: invocable
Etymology: From invoke + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If we defined all functions as independent services and provided an invokable interface, we ^([sic]) have made a big step toward our goal.
ref: 2006, Jana Polgar, Robert Mark Bram, Anton Polgar, Building and Managing Enterprise-Wide Portals:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be invoked; callable.
Derived terms: uninvokable
Related terms: evocable
evokable
callable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From call + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The list of server tasks is a compromise between only one task for all remotely callable subprograms and one task for each remotely callable subprogram.
ref: 1989, Angel Alvarez, Ada: The Design Choice:
text: Historically, all viable frameworks have always provided a mechanism to implement callbacks. C# goes one step further and encapsulates callbacks into callable objects called delegates.
ref: 2010, Trey Nash, Accelerated C# 2010, page xxvi:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: That can be called.
topics: business
finance
glosses: That may be redeemed by its holder before it matures.
Derived terms: callable bond
noncallable
uncallable
callable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: callables
Etymology: From call + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The ctypes module can be used to create Python callables that wrap around arbitrary memory addresses.
ref: 2013, David Beazley, Brian K. Jones, Python Cookbook: Recipes for Mastering Python 3:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An object of a type that can be called, such as a function.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A callable bond.
callables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of callable
mutandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutanda
Etymology: Latin
Senses: glosses: That which is to be changed.
mutanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutandum
callability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From call + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being callable.
paganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paganizations
form: paganisation
Etymology: From pagan + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of paganizing.
paganisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paganization.
blobbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blobby: most blobby
blobbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blobby: more blobby
squirty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɜː(ɹ)ti/
Etymology: From squirt + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Fountains may be of the gurgly, squirty or spray sort; all are pretty. To some the squirty sort have an air of impatience or nervousness […]
ref: 1917, John Harrison Dick, Garden Guide, the Amateur Gardener's Handbook:
text: Cold Comfort seizes a plastic squirty bottle of tomato ketchup. He's about to inject the red stuff into my pie like a builder squirting insulation […]
ref: 2005, Pete McCarthy, The Road to McCarthy:
text: The woman was busy making the hot chocolates; she was now bent down retrieving the squirty cream from a small box fridge nestled underneath the counter.
ref: 2011, Mark Howell, Scallywags, page 12:
glosses: That operates by squirting.
glosses: Reminiscent of squirting (especially of sound)
Derived terms: squirty cream
flippiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of flippy: most flippy
flippier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of flippy: more flippy
slobbish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slobbish
form: most slobbish
Etymology: From slob + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a slob; slovenly.
slobby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: slobbier
form: slobbiest
Etymology: From slob + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I've put on seven ugly, fat, sloppy, slobby pounds and I don't have anything I can wear. I'm beginning to look as slobby as I feel.
ref: 1972, anonymous author, Go Ask Alice:
text: He'd thought Joe Moreton a great slobby lump; and Joe had not been a great slobby lump. Joe Moreton at least was a man.
ref: 1981, Robert Westall, The Scarecrows:
glosses: Slobbish.
examples: text: A huge, slobby dog was in love with another huge, slobby dog wearing a pink bow in her collar […]
ref: 1998, Francisco Goldman, The Ordinary Seaman:
text: All chewed and slobby with spit. He must have taken huge bites. Like someone starving.
ref: 2001, Gillian Cross, The Dark Behind the Curtain:
glosses: Slobbery.
examples: text: They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen […]
ref: 2003, Michael Crummey, Flesh and Blood, page 38:
glosses: Slushy, like slob ice.
slobbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of slobby: more slobby
slobbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slobby: most slobby
slopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slop
slopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sloppings
Senses: examples: text: […] the birth of Christ, when these long valleys […] were still extensive lakes, sloppings of the great deluge, not yet dried up in time to pass away from the evaporation of the sun's rays and the labour of mankind.
ref: 1860, Horace Marryat, A residence in Jutland, the Danish Isles, and Copenhagen:
text: It is only fair to say that they could have been removed by hand in the dark, but on examining the table, I was unable to see any of those sloppings of water which might be expected to follow such an operation.
ref: 1921, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Wanderings of a Spiritualist:
glosses: Liquid that has been slopped.
Related terms: slopping out
slopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slop
synthetic paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthetic papers
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of paper-like film made from plastic such as polypropylene.
incompressibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incompressibilities
Etymology: From in- + compressibility.
Senses: examples: text: Water has a high degree of incompressibility.
glosses: The quality of being incompressible, of not compressing under pressure
examples: text: The value 120 MeV for the incompressibility is unrealistically small when compared with the value ~180-240 MeV!
ref: 1997, Ignazio Bombaci, Physical Review C, volume 55, →DOI:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The bulk modulus or modulus of incompressibility, measured in either electron volts or dynes per square centimeter.
hyperinsulinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperinsulinemic
form: most hyperinsulinemic
Etymology: From hyper- + insulinemic.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was hyperinsulinemic.
glosses: Suffering from or characterized by hyperinsulinemia, an excessively high level of insulin in the blood
Derived terms: antihyperinsulinemic
Related terms: hyperinsulinemia
hyperglycemic
hypoinsulinemic
hyperinsulinemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperinsulinemias
Etymology: From hyper- + insulinemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an excessively high level of insulin in the blood, usually due to excess production
Derived terms: hyperinsulinemic
Related terms: hyperglycemia
hypoinsulinemia
incompressibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incompressibility
hydroxycinnamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydroxy- + cinnamic. Back-formation from hydroxycinnamic acid.
Senses: examples: text: a hydroxycinnamic ester
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Derived from or pertaining to hydroxycinnamic acid
Derived terms: hydroxycinnamoyl
homogenously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more homogenously
form: most homogenously
Etymology: From homogenous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The ingredients were mixed together homogenously.
glosses: In a homogenous manner, or in a way that ensures homogeneity
Related terms: homogeneously
unknown quantity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknown quantities
Senses: examples: text: Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.
ref: 1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter I, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 14:
text: . . . the Evening Post of this city to refer to him recently as "the young Belgian painter," and to the general public he is an unknown quantity.
ref: 1907, The Bookman, volume 25, page 166:
text: The big French diesel is something of an unknown quantity, whereas many French-built electric locomotives developing 3,000 h.p. and more have been well proved in service.
ref: 1963 June, “Beyond the Channel: France: High-power diesels”, in Modern Railways, page 417:
text: In spite of more than three decades of public service, I knew I was an unknown quantity to many of my countrymen and to much of the world when I assumed office.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, “"I feel like I have already been here a year"”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18:
text: Amin Gemayel, it is felt here, is an unknown quantity and it is impossible to predict how he will act.
ref: 1982 September 22, Henry Tanner, “Gemayel Brothers Assessed in Syria”, in New York Times, retrieved 09 Jan 2016:
text: [H]e was still an unknown quantity – a young, untested figure.
ref: 2015 December 6, “Congratulations on 10 years, David Cameron - but don't rest on your laurels”, in Telegraph, UK, retrieved 09 Jan 2016:
antonyms: known quantity
household name
glosses: A person or thing whose nature or value is a mystery.
examples: text: Many of the applications of mathematics require that you identify an unknown quantity, assign a variable to that quantity, and then attempt to express another unknown quantity in terms of that variable.
ref: 2012 January 1, Richard N. Aufmann, Joanne Lockwood, Beginning Algebra, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 77:
text: So promising was the Skunk Works' stealth cruise missile offering, the USAF ordered an unknown quantity of these missiles under a highly classified program dubbed Senior Prom.
ref: 2016, Steve Pace, The Projects of Skunk Works: 75 Years of Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs, Voyageur Press, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see unknown, quantity.
Synonyms: blank canvas
enigma
Related terms: quesitive
data points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Holonyms: data, dataset, data set
Near-synonym: information (sometimes coordinate)
synonyms: data
glosses: plural of data point
Related terms: datums
viewdata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viewdatas
Etymology: From view + data.
Senses: examples: text: Touch-tone teletext provides many of the services of viewdata and teletext at the low cost intended for teletext alone.
ref: 1980, InfoWorld, volume 2, number 1:
text: A viewdata system can be succinctly described as an information and message service […]
ref: 1981, Rex Winsbury, Viewdata in Action: A Comparative Study of Prestel:
text: The two European systems use an "alphamosaic" method of delivering data to a viewdata terminal screen.
ref: 1981, New Scientist:
text: A particularly important application of intelligent viewdata terminals is in telesoftware where the viewdata network is used for the distribution […]
ref: 1982, Alan Gilchrist, Minis, Micros and Terminals for Libraries and Information Services:
glosses: An information retrieval service of the 1970s and 1980s permitting subscribers to access a remote database and receive requested data on a video display.
Related terms: videotex
telesoftware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + software.
Senses: examples: text: This was the culmination of four years experimental work to examine the technical and educational viability of a telesoftware service […]
ref: 1984, “Digest of Technical Papers”, in IEEE:
text: Of particular appeal is the telesoftware facility which gives subscribers access to hundreds of individual computer programmes and videogames […]
ref: 1984, Timothy Hollins, Beyond Broadcasting: Into the Cable Age:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The broadcasting of software for home computers via Teletext, viewdata systems, etc.
videotex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videotexes
form: videotext
Etymology: From video + text.
Senses: examples: text: A variety of extensions of this basic videotex terminal can be foreseen.
ref: 1980, IEEE Computer Society, Computer:
text: In this paper, the development of a microprocessor based system for converting videotex pages to synthetic speech in real time, for the benefit of blind people, is described.
ref: 1984, The Radio and Electronic Engineer:
glosses: Any of various early information retrieval services, such as viewdata and Teletext systems, that delivered pages of computerized text to users on request.
alphamosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæl.fə.məʊˈzeɪk/
ipa: /ˌæl.fə.məʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæl.fə.moʊˈzeɪ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæl.fə.moʊˈzeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
rhymes: -eɪɪk
Etymology: Blend of alphabetical + mosaic.
Senses: examples: text: The two European systems use an "alphamosaic" method of delivering data to a viewdata terminal screen.
ref: 1981, New Scientist:
text: To create a teletext page using an alphamosaic scheme requires dividing the video frame […]
ref: 1986, Herbert S Dordick, Understanding Modern Telecommunications:
text: The French system Antiope is also alphamosaic by its nature […]
ref: 1987, Oldrich Standera, The Electronic Era of Publishing:
glosses: Of or pertaining to alphamosaics.
silicon wafers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicon wafer
unknown quantities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unknown quantity
microchipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of microchip
microchipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of microchip
process window index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: process window indices
Senses: glosses: A statistical measure that quantifies the robustness of a thermal process.
jigglier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of jiggly: more jiggly
jiggliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of jiggly: most jiggly
tellurobismuthite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tellurobismuthites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft dull grey mineral form of bismuth telluride.
tellurobismuthites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tellurobismuthite
brekky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: brekkies
Etymology: Clipping of breakfast + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of brekkie.
phosphophyllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphophyllites
Etymology: From phospho- + phyllo- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare bluish-green hydrated zinc phosphate mineral.
phosphophyllites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphophyllite
abomasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.boʊˌmeɪ.si/
ipa: /ˈæ.boʊˌmeɪ.saɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of abomasus
stibiopalladinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stibiopalladinites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A palladium-antimony mineral with the chemical formula Pd₅Sb₂.
stibiopalladinites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stibiopalladinite
lazyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lazyish
form: most lazyish
Etymology: From lazy + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat lazy.
nounless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From noun + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ...a nameless delight or terror, unattached to any delightful or dreadful thing, a potent adjective floating in a nounless void, a pure quality.
ref: 1997, Alan Dean, Chaos and Intoxication:
text: A nounless language would not have an exact equivalent of English's the child, but it might get along quite well with constructions like the childlike one.
ref: 2003, Mark C Baker, Lexical Categories: Verbs, Nouns, and Adjectives:
glosses: Without a noun or nouns.
Derived terms: nounlessness
nextly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From next + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the next place; next.
oilproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oilproof
form: most oilproof
Etymology: From oil + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to oil.
oilproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oilproofs
form: oilproofing
form: oilproofed
form: oilproofed
Etymology: From oil + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to oil.
skiwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ski + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothing to be worn while skiing.
sicklily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sicklily
form: most sicklily
Etymology: From sickly + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He grinned sicklily, turning away his head. She had got his manhood, but Lord, what did he care!
ref: 1920, D H Lawrence, Women in Love:
glosses: In a sickly manner.
Synonyms: sickly
subaffluent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + affluent.
Senses: examples: text: "This country will be torn apart if we cannot address the alienated subaffluent on social issues, in terms other than fear," he told National Journal.
ref: 1972, Judith G Smith, Political Brokers:
glosses: Between the poverty line and affluence.
poverty line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poverty lines
Senses: examples: text: America’s poverty line is $63 a day for a family of four. In the richer parts of the emerging world $4 a day is the poverty barrier. But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1.25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
ref: 2013 June 1, “Towards the end of poverty”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 11:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The threshold of poverty, below which one's income does not cover necessities.
Related terms: breadline
living wage
minimum wage
poverty trap
poverty lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poverty line
tyreless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tireless
Etymology: From tyre + -less.
Senses: examples: text: As at Dublin, owing to the special handling that the tyres required, the cycle makers had to send their wheels to the tyre factory to be fitted, and the Dunlop carts were soon careering about Coventry collecting the tyreless wheels and delivering them, fitted, to the various factories.
ref: 1921, W. F. Grew, The Cycle Industry, London, page 54:
glosses: Without a tyre or tyres.
ktiv male
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: [ktiv maˈlɛ]
Etymology: From Hebrew כתיב מלא.
Senses: glosses: In Hebrew writing, the rules for writing without vowel pointers (niqqud).
Synonyms: Ktiv Hasar Niqqud
male ferns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of male fern
male fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: male ferns
Senses: glosses: Dryopteris filix-mas, from which is derived a vermifuge preparation.
Synonyms: aspidium
whosesoever
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhuzsoʊˈɛvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈhuzsoʊˌɛvəɹ/
Etymology: From whose + soever.
Senses: examples: text: If Beals obtained merely the possession, by fraud practiced upon the plaintiff, with fraudulent intent to deprive it thereof, and to appropriate the machine to his own use, and, immediately upon getting possession of it, did in fact fraudulently appropriate it to his own use, these acts constituted a larceny of the machine, and plaintiff could retake it, in whosesoëver possession it might be.
ref: 1880, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Wisconsin, with Tables of the Cases and Principal Matters, volume XLIX, Chicago: Callaghan & Company, pages 317–318:
synonyms: whosoever's
glosses: Of whomsoever.
whosesoever
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhuzsoʊˈɛvəɹ/
ipa: /ˈhuzsoʊˌɛvəɹ/
Etymology: From whose + soever.
Senses: synonyms: whosoever's
glosses: That of whomsoever.
qats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qat
leitmotivs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leitmotiv
TrEPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TrEPS
Senses: glosses: Acronym of traffic estimation and prediction system.
pulpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pulpily
form: most pulpily
Etymology: From pulpy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pulpy manner.
puppylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puppylike
form: most puppylike
Etymology: From puppy + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The image is of the young boy next door: sad, thoughtful, pretty, and puppylike. Lyrically his songs are about being let down and stood up, about loneliness...
ref: 1990, Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, On Record: Rock, Pop and the Written Word:
text: The dog's appearance and behavior have been strongly influenced by a pervasive process of neoteny, causing it to remain more puppylike as an adult...
ref: 2001, Steven R Lindsay, Handbook of Applied Dog Behavior and Training:
glosses: Resembling a puppy.
nonyellowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + yellowing.
Senses: examples: text: Varnishes that contain polyvinyl acetate are nonyellowing.
ref: 1994, Jackie Shaw, The Big Book of Decorative Painting:
glosses: Not prone to yellowing.
Laren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality and town in the Netherlands.
maudlinly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more maudlinly
form: most maudlinly
Etymology: From maudlin + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a maudlin fashion.
needinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neediness
waltzlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waltzlike
form: most waltzlike
Etymology: From waltz + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The waltzlike lavolta performed by two persons could be danced somewhat like the galliard with high leaping.
ref: 1957, Lee E Pearson, Elizabethans at Home:
glosses: Resembling a waltz.
lie detectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lie detector
lingoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lingo
caky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪ.ki/
rhymes: -eɪki
Forms: form: cakier
form: cakiest
form: cakey
Etymology: From cake + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] they are converted into globules or plates of a faint luster, which, partly coalescing, represent irregular, caky masses.
ref: 1883, Carl Heitzmann, Microscopical Morphology on the Animal Body in Health and Disease:
glosses: Resembling cake in texture.
Derived terms: cakily
cakiness
lollops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lollop
cakier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of caky: more caky
cakiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of caky: most caky
lolloping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Croft touched down a few minutes later after a gaping hole opened up down Romania's left flank before Ashton completed his hat-trick following a lolloping run from Haskell.
ref: 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: present participle and gerund of lollop
lolloping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lollopings
Senses: examples: text: Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.
ref: 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
glosses: The motion of something that lollops.
lolloped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lollop
loofahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loofah
loofahs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of loofah
bejeezus
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bejesus.
bejeezus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bejesus.
lughole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lugholes
Etymology: From lug + hole.
Senses: examples: text: Well a backhander under the lughole soon quietened me down[.]
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 172:
text: That way, you got the perfect four-in-one gauge every time. If you were caught doing it any other way, you got a larrup round the lughole or a kick up the khyber.
ref: 2013, Ken Sears, The Boy From Treacle Bumstead:
glosses: The human ear.
lugholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lughole
behatted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From be- + hat + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: In strange contrast to her depressing appearance, there sat beside her an over-dressed, much behatted, peroxided young woman, who bore the stamp of the profession all over her pretty, painted face.
ref: 1910, Baroness Orczy, chapter 9, in Lady Molly of Scotland Yard, London: Cassell, page 234:
text: So brushes teeth, shaves with a safety razor, walks out naked but behatted into his room, starts to go downstairs, remembers clothing […]
ref: 1940, Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, Book 4, Chapter 28, p. 446:
text: If you are among those behatted hordes and live in Texas, chances are yours is a Resistol.
ref: 1984, Peter Applebome, “Texas Primer: The Resistol Hat”, in Texas Monthly, 6/1984:
text: […] his closest political cronies (Hopkins, Morgenthau, Farley, Berle, Baruch, all sitting behatted only feet from the coffin of the martyred candidate […])
ref: 2004, Philip Roth, chapter 8, in The Plot Against America, New York: Vintage, published 2005, page 305:
text: Nor all passengers either - one moustachioed, behatted gent interviewed by the BBC lamented the loss of elegance that the trains represented, as he stood in the plastic Mk 3 buffet that today looks somehow chic and inviting. Time changes everything.
ref: 2021 October 6, Greg Morse, “A need for speed and the drive for 125”, in RAIL, number 941, page 52:
glosses: Wearing a hat.
needlessnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlessness
luncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌntʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: lunchers
form: lunchor
Etymology: From lunch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The knowledge of envy was a pleasant feeling to the man of no account. It was intensified later in the day when a luncher at the Club said, spitefully, “Well, for a debilitated Ditcher, Yeere, you are going it.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 30:
text: Late lunchers had the pick of the menu.
ref: 2014, John Howard Reid, Merryll Manning: A Brush with Death, page 80:
glosses: Someone who lunches; someone who eats lunch.
examples: text: If the luncher, choose venue carefully, reconnoitre loos. If lunchee, be prompt, but not early.
ref: 2008, Stephen Bayley, Roger Mavity, Life's a Pitch: How to Sell Yourself and Your Brilliant Ideas, page 213:
coordinate_terms: lunchee
glosses: One who treats another person to lunch.
lunchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luncher
interlibrary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + library.
Senses: examples: text: Having no copies available, we requested an interlibrary loan.
glosses: Between libraries.
Derived terms: interlibrary loan
bribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bribable
form: most bribable
Etymology: From bribe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: He liked always, where Lambert Strether was concerned, to know the worst, and what he now seemed to know was not only that he was bribable, but that he had been effectually bribed. The only difficulty was that he couldn't quite have said with what. It was as if he had sold himself, but hadn't somehow got the cash.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Susceptible to bribery.
Derived terms: unbribable
bribeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bribeable
form: most bribeable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bribable.
LPs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of LP
labelable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labelable
form: most labelable
Etymology: From label + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be labeled.
schoolgirlishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schoolgirlishly
form: most schoolgirlishly
Etymology: From schoolgirlish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then she ran, schoolgirlishly, to join her friends.
ref: 1965, James Holledge, What Makes a Call Girl?, London: Horwitz Publications, page 55:
glosses: In a schoolgirlish fashion.
methylprednisolone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmiː.θʌɪl.pɹɛdˈnɪs.ə.ləʊn/
ipa: /ˌmɛθ.əl.pɹɛdˈnɪs.əˌloʊn/
Forms: form: methylprednisolones
Etymology: From methyl- + prednisolone.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was treated with methylprednisolone, cyclophosphamide, and azathioprine, as well as burn center protocol care with daily tankings.
ref: 1993, Virginia Medical Quarterly, volumes 120–121, page 44:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A synthetic glucocorticoid, C₂₂H₃₀O₅, used chiefly in the treatment of inflammatory and autoimmune disorders.
Derived terms: methylprednisolone aceponate
methylprednisolone suleptanate
methylprednisolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylprednisolone
unwept
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + wept.
Senses: examples: text: Wish those nights not spent, / Long, unhappy nights, / Which in sighings went / Over lost delights? / Wish those tears unwept, / When you seemed unkind?
ref: 1894, Laurence Binyon, Lyric Poems:
glosses: Not wept.
examples: text: A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon the bed; and on it, plundered and bereft, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this man.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in A Christmas Carol:
text: It was but a few days after the poor mother had gone to her lonely burying-place; and was laid, unwept and disregarded, in a vault full of strangers.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Let fall thy tears! Let rise thy strain! / So canst thou never be among / Those heritors of man's disdain, / Th' unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
ref: 1894, Edmund Vance Cooke, A Patch of Pansies:
glosses: Unmourned.
madams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madam
madams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of madam
veldts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veldt
venomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From venom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: […] the boa constrictor, which kills by constriction but can also give you a mean (but venomless) bite.
ref: 2005, John Noble, Susan Forsyth, Belize:
synonyms: non-venomous
unvenomous
antonyms: venomous
glosses: Without venom.
anastomosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of anastomose
anastomosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Joined by anastomosis
Derived terms: reanastomosed
man-hours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-hour
MAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MA
vermivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Senses: examples: text: The venoms of some vermivorous species contain proteolytic enzymes which cause local necrosis at the site of injection in vertebrates.
ref: 1969, Frank E Firth, The Encyclopedia of Marine Resources:
glosses: Feeding on worms.