cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
psychopomp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkəʊpɒmp/
ipa: /ˈsaɪkoʊpɑmp/
Forms: form: psychopomps
Etymology: From Latin psȳchopompus, from Ancient Greek ψῡχοπομπός (psūkhopompós), from ψῡχή (psūkhḗ, “soul”) + πομπός (pompós, “conductor”).
Senses: examples: text: As the souls of the departed are symbolized as rats, so is the psychopomp himself often figured as a dog. Sarameias, the Vedic counterpart of Hermes and Odin, sometimes appears invested with canine attributes; and countless other examples go to show that by the early Aryan mind the howling wind was conceived as a great dog or wolf.
ref: 1872, John Fiske, Myths and Myth-Makers:
text: It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode.
ref: 1994, Brian B. Schmidt, Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition, page 84:
text: These intermediaries take various forms: the psychopomps of the Neo platonists, the angelic beings of ritual magic, the spirit guides of theosophy, the aliens of modern Ufologists, and the neopagan gods which are a feature of late twentieth-century alternative thought.
ref: 1996, Juliette Wood, “Chapter One: The Concept of the Goddess”, in Sandra Billington, Miranda Green, editors, The Concept of the Goddess, page 8:
text: For most of us, Dr Wilder Penrose was our amiable Prospero, the psychopomp who steered our darkest dreams towards the daylight.
ref: 2000, J. G. Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 3:
text: Characteristically, the shaman is a healer, a psychopomp (someone who guides the souls of the dead to their home in the afterlife), and more generally a mediator between her or his community and the world of spirits (most often animal spirits and the spirits of the forces of nature).
ref: 2001, James R. Lewis, Odd Gods: New Religions & the Cult Controversy, page 323:
text: This is an allusion to Hermes as the guide of souls, the psychopomp; an important element of Hermes' nature that receives only this scant mention in the Hymn. To understand Hermes as psychopomp we must get to the root of the Hermes of life and death.
ref: 2012, Dennis L. Merritt, Hermes, Ecopsychology, and Complexity Theory, volume 3, page 43:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A spirit, deity, person, etc., who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife.
Related terms: shaman
fermis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fermi
hypnotizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypnotizable
form: most hypnotizable
Etymology: From hypnotize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be hypnotized.
Derived terms: unhypnotizable
hypnotizable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypnotizables
Etymology: From hypnotize + -able.
Senses: glosses: One who is susceptible to hypnosis.
rationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalists
Etymology: From Middle French rationaliste; rational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “He says,” replied Lord Peter, “that he believes Hannah to be a sincerely religious woman. He has sat beside her in chapel and shared her hymn-book.” “But that may be the merest hypocrisy,” said Miss Murchison, rather warmly, for she was militantly rationalist. “I don’t trust these unctuous people.”
ref: 1930, Dorothy L. Sayers, Strong Poison:
glosses: A person who follows the philosophy of rationalism
hypnotisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypnotise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypnotizable.
fogbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fogbound
form: most fogbound
Etymology: From fog + -bound.
Senses: glosses: enveloped in fog to such an extent that movement is dangerous or impossible
cytohesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytohesins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a family of proteins, abundant in cells of the immune system, that are regulatory factors in lymphocytes.
soporifics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soporific
azaspiracid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azaspiracids
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several organic compounds with a complex polycyclic structure, that is responsible for the toxicity of some mussels (Mytilus edulis)
Synonyms: Killary toxin
downers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downer
samara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmərə/
ipa: /səˈmɛrə/
ipa: /ˈsæmərə/
ipa: /səˈmɛərə/
Forms: form: samaras
form: samarae
Etymology: From Latin samara (“elm seed”), from a Gaulish term derived from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).
Senses: examples: text: The fruit is a nut, samara or drupe, containing a single seed with a straight embryo and little or no endosperm.
ref: 1993, R. H. Richens, "Ulmaceae", pages 95-96 in, V. H. Heywood, ed., Flowering Plants of the World, updated edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, page 96
synonyms: helicopter
polynose
whirligig
whirlybird
glosses: The winged indehiscent fruit of trees such as the ash, elm or maple.
biocoenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biocoenoses
form: biocenosis
Etymology: From bio- + Ancient Greek κοινός (koinós, “common”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A community of interacting organisms that form a natural ecological unit.
Related terms: biocoenological
biocoenology
biocoenotic
palaeobiocoenosis
paleobiocoenosis
congeniality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˌd͡ʒiːniˈælɪti/
rhymes: -ælɪti
Forms: form: congenialities
Etymology: From congenial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Eugenie was known for her congeniality; she could easily fit in to virtually any group of people and have a good time.
text: If congeniality of tastes could have made a marriage happy, that union should have been thrice blessed.
ref: 1856, John Lothrop Motley, The Rise of the Dutch Republic. A History. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being congenial; the state of being agreeable or of having similar tastes.
Derived terms: uncongeniality
Related terms: geniality
Internet forum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Internet forums
form: Internet fora
Senses: glosses: A system in which users may send, read and reply to messages on a particular subject.
Synonyms: message board
phytotelmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phytotelma
Js
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J
J's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J
Related terms: j's
limnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the deeper, open water of a lake.
Derived terms: autolimnetic
bathylimnetic
epilimnetic
hypolimnetic
limnetic zone
metalimnetic
limnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪmˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Forms: form: limnetics
Senses: glosses: Any animal that lives in the limnetic zone.
Related terms: benthic
littoral
profundal
tropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trope
tropes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trope
long-windedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more long-windedly
form: most long-windedly
Etymology: * long-winded + -ly
Senses: examples: text: […] an Italian piece of many parts and much intricacy—it is only a Master Braham or Madame Catalani who has got throat long enough and flexible enough for it; which stretching out as gracefully as a hen drinketh water, she cackles out the whole piece as sweetly as Orpheus, as dexterously as a fiddler’s elbow, as long-windedly as the pipe of an ass, and as proudly as if she had laid a golden egg.
ref: 1814, James Gilchrist, Reason the True Arbiter of Language; Custom a Tyrant, London: J. Johnson, page 21:
text: One who had caught a glimpse of the shining yet solemn eyes of the youth, as he walked home, would wonder no longer that he should talk as he did—so sedately, yet so poetically—so long-windedly, if you like, yet so sensibly—even wisely.
ref: 1875, George Macdonald, chapter 18, in Malcolm, volume I, London: Henry S. King, pages 219–220:
text: 1962, Isaac Babel quoted by Konstantin Paustovsky in “Reminiscences of Babel” in Patricia Blake and Max Hayward (editors), Dissonant Voices in Soviet Literature, New York: Pantheon, p. 50,
Perhaps my sentences are too short. This may be partly due to my chronic asthma. I can’t talk long-windedly; I’m short of breath.
text: But then I thought, perhaps this is how these Dutch Protestants behave when they fall in love: prudently, long-windedly, without fire, without grace.
ref: 2009, J. M. Coetzee, “Adriana”, in Summertime, London: Harvill Secker:
glosses: In a long-winded manner; employing more lengthy phrasing than required.
Synonyms: verbosely
tersely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tersely
form: most tersely
Etymology: From terse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
ref: 2023 February 8, Greg Morse, “Crossing the border... by Sleeper”, in RAIL, number 976, page 45:
glosses: In a brief, concise, or to the point manner.
Synonyms: concisely
whac-a-mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whac-a-moles
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whack-a-mole.
non-esterified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonesterified
Etymology: From non- + esterified.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Occurring free, rather than esterified with glycerol to form a glyceride or other lipid.
raw_tags: of a fatty acid
Derived terms: non-esterified fatty acid
Whac-A-Mole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Whac-A-Moles
Senses: examples: text: He plays four-dimensional chess while his current analogue often seems to play Whac-a-Mole.
ref: 2017 May 31, “The Trump Administration Shakes ‘House of Cards’ Hard”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 29 May 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of whack-a-mole.
nonesterified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-esterified.
non-esterified fatty acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-esterified fatty acids
form: NEFA
form: nonesterified fatty acid
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any fatty acid which occurs free, rather than esterified with glycerol to form a glyceride or other lipid; usually as the result of hydrolysis
Synonyms: free fatty acid
nonesterified fatty acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonesterified fatty acids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-esterified fatty acid.
free fatty acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free fatty acids
Senses: examples: text: The smoke point depends on the initial free fatty acid content of the fat: the lower the free fatty acid content, the more stable the fat, and the higher the smoke point.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 15, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
synonyms: FFA
glosses: non-esterified fatty acid
adiponectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiponectins
Etymology: From adipo- (“fat”) + nectin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein hormone that modulates glucose regulation and fatty acid catabolism.
Derived terms: adiponectinemia
oxyntomodulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyntomodulins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide hormone found to suppress appetite.
sirtuin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɚ.tu.ɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
Forms: form: sirtuins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that act as regulatory factors that mediate the life-extending effects of a low-calorie diet.
patagium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈteɪd͡ʒi.əm/
/pætəˈd͡ʒaɪəm/
Forms: form: patagia
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin patagīum (“gilded edging of a woman's tunic”), from an unattested Ancient Greek παταγεῖον (patageîon), perhaps from πάταγος (pátagos, “clatter”).
Senses: glosses: The thin membrane that extends between the limbs and body of a bat or of gliding mammals.
glosses: A similar membrane between the body and wing of a bird.
glosses: One of the scales affixed to the pronotum of lepidopterous insects; the tegula.
Derived terms: chiropatagium
Related terms: brachiopatagium
cruropatagium
dactylopatagium
parapatagium
plagiopatagium
propatagium
uropatagium
Internet forums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Internet forum
baseball bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseball bats
Senses: examples: text: Beat on the brat / Beat on the brat with a baseball bat / Oh yeah...
ref: 1976, The Ramones, Beat on the Brat:
glosses: A long instrument, typically wood, metal, or plastic, which is swung to strike baseballs.
baseball bats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baseball bat
sirtuins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sirtuin
fire escapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire escape
UMLS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unified Medical Language System.
packies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packie
litter boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of litter box
cat box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat boxes
form: catbox
Senses: examples: text: Pregnant cat owners are often advised to have someone else clean the cat box to reduce the risk of contracting toxoplasmosis.
text: I'm in advertising, you know. Oh, yes. I designed the ad campaign that put those pictures of missing children on bags of kitty litter. Every time you change the cat box, there are those little faces looking up at you. It has to help. Think about it.
ref: 1985 December 21, Larry Hitt, “Perfect Couple Creation”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 23, page 7:
glosses: A box used to provide a soiling area for (usually) pet cats, generally filled with sand, clay chips, etc.
Synonyms: sense: box designated as soiling area for cats
word: litter box
Related terms: kitty litter
cat boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cat box
retiari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retiarii
Senses: glosses: plural of retiarius
retiarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retiari
Senses: glosses: plural of retiarius
homelands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of homeland
findings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finding
findings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small tools and materials used by artisans and craftsmen
out like a light
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Once she received anesthesia, she was out like a light.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Asleep or unconscious, particularly if this has occurred suddenly and the sleep is deep.
efflagitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈflæd͡ʒ.ɪ.teɪt/
Forms: form: efflagitates
form: efflagitating
form: efflagitated
form: efflagitated
Etymology: From Latin efflagitare.
Senses: glosses: To demand something urgently
leis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /leɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: lays
Senses: glosses: plural of lei
sneath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sneaths
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of snath.
gâche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɒʃ/
rhymes: -ɒʃ
homophone: gosh
Forms: form: gâches
Etymology: Borrowed from Norman gâche.
Senses: examples: text: A huge Guernsey gache, which is a sort of fruit cake, was flanked by plates and baskets of figs, grapes, nectarines, peaches, and raspberries.
ref: 1938, National Geographic, volume LXXIII:
text: She said I could go on the Sunday afternoon, and she would make a gâche I could take to him.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 48:
text: Baking of bread, gâche – a sort of fruit loaf rather like the Welsh bara brith – and Guernsey biscuits – a kind of bread bun – would be done once a week […]
ref: 1980, John McCormack, The Guernsey House:
text: It is too hot to eat much, so we lunch on bananas and the gache loaf bought the previous day, and set off for Guernsey at half past one.
ref: 2011, Sandra Clayton, Dolphins Under My Bed:
glosses: A type of traditional fruitcake. (Often as Guernsey gâche.)
quizzing glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quizzing glasses
form: quizzing-glass
Senses: examples: text: Some of the symphonies are in practice quite boring and reek of loveless background music for the aristocratic soirées of yesteryear, with brocaded people who have not washed for quite a while kissing hands, fluttering fans and peering through quizzing-glasses.
ref: 2013, Simon Winder, Danubia, Picador, published 2014, page 281:
glosses: An eyeglass with or without a handle; a monocle.
Gelugpa chanting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: An austere and restrained form of chanting practised by the Gelug school of Buddhism.
backward linkage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backward linkages
Senses: glosses: An effect in which increased production by a downstream manufacturer provides positive pecuniary externalities to an upstream manufacturer responsible for different stages of the same production process.
haoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hom
form: homa
Etymology: Transliteration of Avestan 𐬵𐬀𐬊𐬨𐬀 (haoma). Doublet of soma.
Senses: examples: text: The offering of haoma was a common practice among Achaemenids; the Haumavarga Scythians probably owe their name to the fact that they did not press the plant but strewed it ritually (HOFFMANN 1975).
ref: 1999, Karel van der Toorn, Bob Becking, Pieter Willem van der Horst, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible: DDD, page 384:
topics: Zoroastrianism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A plant associated with the divinity Haoma.
wikipedia: haoma
Derived terms: english: the extracted juice of the haoma plant
translation: the extracted juice of the haoma plant
word: parahaoma
nunatak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌn.ə.tæk/
ipa: /ˈnuː.nə.tæk/
Forms: form: nunataks
form: nunataker
form: nunataq
Etymology: Borrowed from Greenlandic nunataq.
Senses: examples: text: We made for a slope close to the end of the island or nunatak, where Shackleton must have got up also; it is obviously the only place when you look at it from a commanding rise.
ref: 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913, volume 2, Constable and Company Ltd., page 365:
text: Only a few lichens and mosses colonize the rocky walls of cirques and nunataks.
ref: 2008, Andrea M. J. Coronato, Fernando Coronato, Elizabeth Mazzoni, Miriam Vásquez, “The Physical Geography of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego”, in J. Rabassa, editor, The Late Cenozoic of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, Elsevier, →ISBN, page 45:
text: The peak in whose lee you have chosen to set up your command post is far too regular in shape to be the nunatak you imagine it.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 155:
glosses: A mountain top or rocky element of a ridge that is surrounded by glacial ice but is not covered by ice; a peak protruding from the surface ice sheet.
Related terms: monadnock
xyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪst
Forms: form: xysts
Etymology: From shortening of Latin xystus.
Senses: glosses: A xystus.
lancinating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːnsɪneɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lancinate
lancinating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlɑːnsɪneɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more lancinating
form: most lancinating
Senses: examples: text: the rains of the equinox had so soaked the earth that the cold oozed up through the soles of the shoes, lancinating cold of the approach of winter that grips hold of your belly and squeezes it tight.
ref: 1979, Angela Carter, ‘The Erl-King’, The Bloody Chamber, Vintage, published 2006, page 96:
glosses: Sharp, stabbing or piercing.
raw_tags: of pain
truck farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market.
Synonyms: word: market gardening
Related terms: truck crop
truck farm
passant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæsənt/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /pəˈsɑnt/
rhymes: -æsənt
Forms: form: passaunt
Etymology: From Middle English passaunt (c. 1300), from Old French passant.
Senses: examples: text: He them espying, gan himselfe prepare, / And on his arme addresse his goodly shield / That bore a Lion passant in a golden field.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: The official blazon of the arms of Perth is "Gules, a Holy Lambe passant regardant staff and cross argent, with the banner of St. Andrew proper, all within a double tressure counter-flowered of the second": […].
ref: 1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 480:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
coordinate_terms: statant
courant
glosses: Walking, usually to the right, and looking straight ahead with the right forepaw raised from the ground.
raw_tags: of a four-legged animal
examples: text: Many opinions are passant concerning the basilisk, or little king of serpents, commonly called the cockatrice [...].
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.7:
glosses: Currently in use; in vogue.
Derived terms: counterpassant
Related terms: en passant
market gardening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The relatively small-scale growing of vegetables for market.
Synonyms: word: truck farming
Derived terms: market-garden
South Africans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of South African
cosplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒz.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɒs.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑs.pleɪ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌkoʊˈspleɪ/
Forms: form: cosplays
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.
Senses: examples: text: Men, of course, also participate in cosplay and all its attending events, but women make up the greater numbers.
ref: 2003, Cosplay Girls: Japan's Live Animation Heroines:
text: The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.
ref: 2006, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga, page 75:
text: It didn't take long for anime cons and cosplay to become a part of popular culture fandom in the West[…]
ref: 2010, Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, Boys' Love Manga, page 5:
glosses: The art or practice of costuming oneself as a (usually fictional) character.
examples: text: Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.
ref: 2010, Sarah Lynne Bowman, The Functions of Role-playing Games, page 29:
text: According to a student from France who went to Japan to study Japanese, "Universities in France are like Halloween when otaku students engage in these cosplays. They take Japanese language because of anime, but they see after a few classes that it's hard and not fun. Many drop out" (author interview, 2009).
ref: 2010, Anne Cooper-Chen, Cartoon Cultures: The Globalization of Japanese Popular Media, page 121:
text: Popular cosplays include, for example, characters from the Final Fantasy range of games[…]
ref: 2012, Dan Hunter, Ramon Lobato, Megan Richardson, Amateur Media: Social, cultural and legal perspectives:
glosses: A skit or instance of this art or practice.
Coordinate terms: dress-up
cosplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒz.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɒs.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑz.pleɪ/
ipa: /ˈkɑs.pleɪ/
note: hyperforeign
ipa: /ˌkoʊˈspleɪ/
Forms: form: cosplays
form: cosplaying
form: cosplayed
form: cosplayed
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.
Senses: examples: text: She cosplayed at the manga convention.
text: Senior politicians have cosplayed as train drivers, ambulance workers, Border Force officials – the list goes on.
ref: 2022 December 23, Marina Hyde, “Who can doubt the futuristic brilliance of Sunak and co? They’ve given us driverless government”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To costume oneself as a character.
examples: text: She cosplayed Sailor Moon at the manga convention.
glosses: To costume oneself as (a character).
examples: text: Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war?
ref: 2022 March 17, Aila Slisco, “Ukrainian UN Ambassador Accuses Russians of Engaging in 'Nazi Cosplay'”, in Newsweek, retrieved 18 Mar 2022:
text: On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
text: […] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone.
ref: 2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian:
text: Whilst their stability was generally an improvement on earlier German destroyers, as the vessels no longer displayed a strong desire to cosplay as U-boats, the main armament proved to be something of a problem.
ref: 2022 August 27, Drachinifel, 2:44 from the start, in Type 1936A / Narvik class - Guide 298, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022:
text: Nigel Farage is a “political fraud and hypocrite” who is “cosplaying” as a working-class champion in order to win votes at this week’s local elections, the UK’s most senior union chief has warned.
ref: 2025 April 27, Pippa Crerar, quoting Paul Nowak, “Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another.
Coordinate terms: dress up
Derived terms: cosfamous
cosplayer
crossplay
Related terms: gijinka
unhale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + hale. Compare unwhole.
Senses: glosses: Unsound; not hale; unhealthy.
cosplayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cosplayers
Etymology: From Japanese コスプレイヤー (kosupureiyā). Equivalent to cos- + player or cosplay + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.
ref: 2006, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga, page 75:
glosses: One who takes part in cosplay.
Derived terms: noncosplayer
terrines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrine
foreyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreyards
Etymology: From Middle English forȝerd, equivalent to fore- + yard (“enclosure”). Compare German Vorgarten.
Senses: glosses: A yard in front; front yard
foreyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreyards
Etymology: From fore- + yard (“stick; beam”).
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A yard on the lower mast of a square-rigged foremast of a ship used to support the foresail.
Synonyms: headyard
foreyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreyard
squaresail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squaresails
Etymology: From square + sail.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Alternative form of square sail.
squaresails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squaresail
square sail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square sails
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A sail bent to a horizontal yard set athwartships.
square sails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square sail
squarrose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squarrose
form: most squarrose
Etymology: From Latin squarrosus (“(perhaps) scurfy, scabby”).
Senses: glosses: Rough or scaly.
glosses: Consisting of scales widely divaricating; having scales, small leaves, or other bodies, spreading widely from the axis on which they are crowded; said of a calyx or stem.
glosses: Divided into shreds or jags, raised above the plane of the leaf, and not parallel to it; said of a leaf.
glosses: Having scales spreading every way, or standing upright, or at right angles to the surface; said of a shell.
Synonyms: sense: rough or scaly
word: rough
word: scaly
Derived terms: squarrosity
teeterboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teeterboards
Etymology: From teeter + board.
Senses: glosses: A seesaw; teetertotter.
glosses: A similar board used by acrobats that sends a human into the air when another human jumps onto the opposite end.
Synonyms: sense: acrobatic equipment
word: Korean plank
teeterboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teeterboard
teetertotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetertotters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teeter-totter.
teetertotter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teetertotters
form: teetertottering
form: teetertottered
form: teetertottered
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of teeter-totter.
teetertotters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teetertotter
Goreyesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Goreyesque
form: most Goreyesque
Etymology: After author and artist Edward Gorey.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Edward Gorey.
glosses: Morbid, especially in the vein of Edward Gorey.
phlebotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phlebotomy
venesection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venesections
Senses: examples: text: She had paſſed through the milder Remedies frequently without ſucceſs: upon which account I deſigned Mercurialls; and beginning with Venæſection, afterwards purged her with decoct. epithymi, as it is preſcribed in the method of Cure.
ref: 1676, Richard Wiseman, “Of Lepra, or Elephantiasis”, in Several Chirurgicall Treatises, London: Printed by E. Flesher and J[ohn] Macock, for R[ichard] Royston […], and B[enjamin] Took […], →OCLC, 1st book (A Treatise of Tumours), page 139:
text: His teachings on plethora and venesection remained influential until the nineteenth century.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 74:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: venipuncture
glosses: Cutting open or exposing a vein; a phlebotomy.
schvartze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schvartzes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shvartze.
Bellairsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bellairsian
form: most Bellairsian
Etymology: From Bellairs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Bellairs (1938–1991), American author, or to his fantasy and gothic mystery novels or their style.
land bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd bɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: land bridges
Senses: topics: biogeography
biology
geography
natural-sciences
glosses: An isthmus or other land connection between what at other times are separate land masses.
examples: text: His reference to waves of lorries on the A55 that match ferry schedules may become dated. Until very recently, the A55 formed part of a land bridge between Ireland and continental Europe. However, when Britain left the European Union, ferries started to ply a direct sea link from Ireland, [...].
ref: 2021 December 29, Philip Haigh, “Rail's role in unifying Great Britain and Northern Ireland”, in RAIL, number 947, page 25:
topics: lifestyle
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: Travel by ferry from one country, via another country by road, then by another ferry crossing to a third country. An example is from Ireland by ferry to the UK, by road to the opposite coast, then ferry to France.
Derived terms: De Geer Land Bridge
immedicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɛdɪkəb(ə)l/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French immedicable and its source, Latin immedicābilis.
Senses: examples: text: Here love receiv'd immedicable harmes, / And was dispoiled of his daring armes.
ref: 1650, John Donne, Elegie XVII:
text: wounds immedicable / Ranckle, and feſter, and gangrene, / To black mortification.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 42:
text: The beast
Has a loud trumpet like the Scarabee,
His crookèd tail is barbed with many stings,
Each able to make a thousand wounds, and each
Immedicable; from his convex eyes
He sees fair things in many hideous shapes,
And trumpets all his falsehood to the world.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: Incurable; not able to be assisted by medicine.
Derived terms: immedicably
land bridges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of land bridge
physicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of physical
clove hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clove hitch
half hitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half hitches
Senses: qualifier: knots
glosses: A knot or hitch made by passing the end of the rope once around the standing part or other rope.
half hitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half hitch
verb phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verb phrases
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction in a clause consisting of a verb and its internal complements, or modifiers.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A phrase that functions syntactically as a verb, consisting of a main verb and any auxiliaries.
Coordinate terms: word: phrase
word: adverbial phrase
word: conjunctional phrase
word: interjectional phrase
word: phrase
word: phrasal noun
word: phrasal preposition
english: not to be confused
translation: not to be confused
word: phrasal verb
word: pronominal phrase
verb phrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verb phrase
complements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complement
complements
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complement
wrings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wring
wrings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wring
abstriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹɪk.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: abstrictions
Etymology: From Latin ab- (“from, away, outside”) + strictio (“act of pressing together”), from strictus (“tightened”). Equivalent to abstrict + -ion.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
hypernyms: abscission
glosses: A method of spore formation in fungi in which successive portions of the sporophore are cut off through the growth of septa; abjunction.
abstricting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstrict
abstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹɪk.təd/
Etymology: From abstrict + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Separated by abstriction.
abstricted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹɪk.təd/
Etymology: From abstrict + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstrict
abjunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æbˈd͡ʒʌŋk.ʃən/
Forms: form: abjunctions
Etymology: From ab- (“away”) + junction (“to join”).
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: The creation of spores by cutting off portions of the sporophore by the growth of septa; abstriction.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Synonym of material nonimplication.
synonyms: word: material nonimplication
sporophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sporophores
Etymology: From sporo- + -phore.
Senses: glosses: A spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores.
glosses: A sporophyte, or spore-producing plant.
sporophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sporophore
emeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emesis
tremoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "These tender ruins try The memory: And we are walking there again, and the swans are there, and there the lake Winks back my tremoring look, While the sun ..."
ref: 1942, John Malcolm Brinnin, 'The Garden is Political, page 42:
glosses: present participle and gerund of tremor
tremoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremorings
Senses: examples: the tremorings of desire
glosses: A tremor.
syrup of ipecac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: liquid medicine made from a flowering plant, Psychotria ipecacuanha, used as an emetic; ipecac
tremors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremor
tremors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tremor
tremored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tremor
tremorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tremorous
form: most tremorous
Etymology: From tremor + -ous.
Senses: glosses: In a tremoring manner.
Derived terms: tremorously
tremorousness
protagonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protagonist
course of action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courses of action
Senses: examples: text: It didn’t stretch too hard attempting to wrap everything up in a bow, but instead focused narrowly on two moments: The aftermath of Daenerys’ brutal violence, and the weeks-later meeting of the rulers of the lands to determine a course of action.
ref: 2019 May 19, Alex McLevy, “The final Game Of Thrones brings a pensive but simple meditation about stories (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 22 May 2019:
glosses: A plan; a set of intended actions, through which one intends to achieve a goal.
Related terms: action plan
courses of action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of course of action
hyphae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhaɪfi/
Senses: glosses: plural of hypha
Derived terms: hyphaelike
mycelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːliə
Senses: glosses: plural of mycelium
funguses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: fungi
fungusses
glosses: plural of fungus
single-celled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: monocellular
unicelled
unicellular
antonyms: multicelled
multicellular
pluricellular
glosses: Consisting of one cell; unicellular.
raw_tags: of an organism
uglier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ugly: more ugly
tonetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /təʊˈnɛtɪk/
ipa: /toʊˈnɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Senses: glosses: Having to do with intonation.
glosses: Having to do with linguistic tones or tonal languages.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: tonemic
glosses: Relating to tones described in a phonetic, rather than phonemic, way.
drum stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drum sticks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drumstick.
drum sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drum stick
intones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intone
xanthopsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xanth- + -opsia.
Senses: glosses: A visual defect, a form of chromatopsia in which everything appears yellow.
campagna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæmˈpɑːnjə/
Forms: form: campagnas
form: campagne
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian campagna, from Late Latin campānia. Doublet of champagne, campaign, and campania.
Senses: glosses: A flat stretch of countryside; open rural plain.
quarter final
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter finals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quarterfinal.
concinnity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concinnities
Etymology: Coined 1531 by Sir Thomas Elyot in his treatise, The Boke Named The Governor, from Latin concinnitās (“skillfully put together”).
Senses: examples: text: In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the barbarism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, they would beg to call the Orismology of the science, they have endeavoured to introduce throughout a greater degree of precision and concinnity—dividing it into general and partial Orismology; […]
ref: 1815, William Kirby, William Spence, “Preface”, in An Introduction to Entomology: Or Elements of the Natural History of Insects: with Plates, 3rd edition, volume 1, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, published 1818, page xii:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The harmonious reinforcement of the various parts of a work of art.
wikipedia: Thomas Elyot
scything
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scythe
scything
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scythings
Senses: examples: frequent scythings
glosses: The act of using a scythe.
glosses: The mown material left after using a scythe.
fiamma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiamme
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Italian fiamma (“flame”).
Senses: examples: text: […] black glass from "fiamma" of ignimbrites from Zavaritzkiy caldera in Simushir Is.
ref: 1966, Bulletin Volcanologique, page 88:
text: […] the largest fiamma in the centre of the photograph has responded in a brittle fashion to […]
ref: 1993, Jocelyn McPhie, Mark Doyle, Rodney Leslie Allen, Volcanic Textures: A Guide to the Interpretation of Textures, page 135:
text: […] lenticular "fiamme" of dense black glass. In (d), devitrification has produced radiating spherulites that have grown outward from centers around phenocrysts and across the original shards of glass.
ref: 1993, Alexander R. McBirney, Igneous Petrology, page 359:
text: […] total phenocryst content in fiamme of pyroclastic rocks and in matrix of coherent rhyolitic rocks; data see Tables 1 and 2; (d) aspect ratio v. maximum particle size (mps) of fiamme (note: this diagram shows field measurements not presented in tables […]
ref: 2008, Kenneth Thomson, Nick Petford, Structure and Emplacement of High-level Magmatic Systems, page 214:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
volcanology
glosses: A "flame structure" found in welded ignimbrite and tuff: a small, dark lens of glassy material (possibly pumice which was compressed or collapsed during welding).
fiamme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiamma
anarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anarchy
snath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæθ/
rhymes: -æθ
Forms: form: snaths
form: snythe
form: snathe
form: snaith
form: sneath
form: sneathe
form: sned
form: sneed
Etymology: From a variant of snead, itself from Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd (“the shaft or handle of a scythe”), akin to Old English snīþan (“to cut”). More at snithe.
Senses: examples: text: It felt natural to him, holding a scythe in his hands and working with it again […] but the blade clashed on the stone of the foundation and threw a spray of white sparks and broke off close so that he was left holding but the snath.
ref: 1997, Charles Frazier, chapter 3, in Cold Mountain, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 71:
glosses: The shaft of a scythe.
Related terms: haft
the handle of any of various tools
helve
RoHS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive - EU Directive 2002/95/EC.
cladogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladograms
Etymology: From clado- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Hard though it may seem to associate avian elegance with cumbersome and ferocious behemoths this was the story told by the cladograms, revealed by interpreting the bones of the famous old bird Archaeopteryx unfettered by preconceived notions.
ref: 2000, Richard Fortey, “No Such Thing as a Fish”, in London Review of Books, volume 22, number 13:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A branching treelike graphical representation of the phylogenetic relationships between organisms showing which taxa have branched from common ancestors.
qualifier: phylogenetics
glosses: A phylogenetic tree that is strictly the outcome of a cladistic analysis.
Hypernyms: dendrogram
Derived terms: patrocladogram
treelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treelike
form: most treelike
Etymology: From tree + -like. Compare Swedish trädliknande (“treelike”).
Senses: synonyms: word: arboreal
word: arboresque
word: treely
word: dendritic
glosses: Having some characteristics of a tree; resembling or similar to a tree.
channelopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: channelopathies
Etymology: From channel + -o- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any inherited disease caused by a mutation in the genes that code for ion channel subunits or the proteins that regulate them.
Derived terms: ion channelopathy
subunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌbˈjuːnɪt/
Forms: form: subunits
Etymology: From sub- + unit.
Senses: examples: text: The bogies are built up of welded sub-units which are stress-relieved before assembly by riveting.
ref: 1961 October, “New Metropolitan Line train sets enter service”, in Trains Illustrated, page 622:
text: Interchange manipulation comparisons showed that all subunits are still active, if at slightly lower rates.
ref: 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Three (Legendary):
text: UMISEA is a subunit in Hololive featuring idols with nautical themes. The group debuted in 2021 as the first JP+EN collab subunit. Chloe was added to the roster after holox debuted.
ref: 2023 August 14, Brandon Lyttle, “Hololive group UMISEA releases new single Ocean Wave Party☆Live”, in Niche Gamer, archived from the original on 26 Sep 2023:
glosses: Any subdivision of a larger unit.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein subunit.