cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
service set identifiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of service set identifier
dacrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dacron
abiocens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abiocen
key exchanges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of key exchange
Jacobeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jacobean
zero-based budgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zero-based budget
wireless operators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wireless operator
rooming houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rooming house
xenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xenate
girl bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girl band
conveyor belts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conveyor belt
Warta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: värʹtə
ipa: /ˈvɑːtə/
ipa: /ˈvɑɹtə/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə
Etymology: From Polish Warta.
Senses: glosses: A river in central Poland.
Heisenbugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Heisenbug; alternative spelling of heisenbug.
diarsenides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diarsenide
meshuggeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meshuggener
dimities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dimity
alkanoic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alkanoic acid
sogginesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sogginess
curry powders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curry powder
micro-volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-volt
lenities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenity
April gentlemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of April gentleman
hard disk drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hard disk drive
arabinofuranosides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arabinofuranoside
coffee table books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coffee table book
thiazates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiazate
raggednesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raggedness
upper arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upper arm
cliticizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cliticization
pinenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinene
freedom fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freedom fighter
bioanalyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioanalyzer
optimisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of optimiser; alternative spelling of optimizer.
thinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thinge
lesser spotted woodpeckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lesser spotted woodpecker
deerslayer caps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deerslayer cap; alternative form of deerstalker hat.
hammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hammy
glosses: plural of hammie
crowd surfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowd surfer
isotropizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isotropization
back projections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back projection
ultimate sacrifices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultimate sacrifice
seasides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seaside
grey-necked wood rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grey-necked wood rail
Bengal lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bengal light
ebbs and flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ebb and flow
ebbs and flows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ebb and flow
walkovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walkover
brass farthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brass farthing
oxycalcium lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxycalcium light
Hassidim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hassid
quantum ferrofluids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quantum ferrofluid
hot dippings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot dipping
fountains of youth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fountain of youth
downshifters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downshifter
whalesong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whalesongs
Etymology: From whale + song.
Senses: glosses: The sounds through which whales communicate.
Turing tarpit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing tarpits
form: Turing Tarpit
Etymology: Coined by Alan Perlis (1922-1990), computer scientist, from the name of Alan Turing (1912-1954), who described a basis for all possible computational algorithms, and tarpit.
Senses: examples: text: The basic reason for increasing the size of the language is the so-called Turing tarpit: if the language is too simple, one may be able to do anything in it.
ref: 1985, Jean-Paul Tremblay, Paul G Sorenson, The Theory and Practice of Compiler Writing:
text: Without more abstract notions of what constitutes important aspects of a programming language, one is seriously in danger of falling into the Turing Tarpit.
ref: 1994, Jørgen Lindskov Knudsen, Object-oriented Environments: The Mjolner Approach:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The situation in which a programming language is only minimally Turing complete, so that "everything is possible but nothing is easy".
wikipedia: Alan Perlis
Alan Turing
desocialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of desocialize
desocialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desocializes
form: desocializing
form: desocialized
form: desocialized
Etymology: From de- + socialize.
Senses: examples: text: As we desocialize sex and sexuality as purely personal aspects of existence, we begin to see how sexuality is tied to a number of norms...
ref: 2008, Jonathan Alexander, Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice for Composition Studies:
glosses: To take out of a social context; individualize.
examples: 2004, Arden et al, The Angell Memorial Animal Hospital Book of Wellness and Preventive Care
By twelve weeks puppies enter the juvenile stage, and it is at this stage that a negative experience can desocialize the pup.
glosses: To cause to withdraw from society.
examples: text: It was a painful process to desocialize and rehabilitate the Malian economy.
ref: 1975, A P J Van Rensburg, Contemporary Leaders of Africa:
glosses: To cause to cease to be politically socialist.
desocialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desocialises
form: desocialising
form: desocialised
form: desocialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of desocialize.
kiss curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiss curls
Senses: synonyms: word: love curl
word: Newgate knocker
word: aggravator
word: number six
word: beau-catcher
english: when worn by a woman
translation: when worn by a woman
word: spit curl
glosses: A spiral-shaped curl of hair upon the forehead.
serverless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From server + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Generally, when people think of serverless computing, they tend to think of applications with back-ends that run on third-party services, also described as code running on ephemeral containers. In my experience, many businesses and people who are new to serverless computing will consider serverless applications to be simply “in the cloud.”
ref: 2017, Maddie Stigler, Beginning Serverless Computing, Apress, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Based on a cloud computing execution model in which the cloud provider allocates machine resources on demand.
examples: text: serverless architecture
text: 2005, Coulouris et al, Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
A group at the University of California, Berkeley, proposed a serverless network file system architecture and developed a prototype implementation.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not involving a server; composed only of clients.
perambulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perambulation
jazzman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jazzmen
Etymology: From jazz + -man.
Senses: examples: text: I was cut out to be a jazzman the way the righteous are chosen for the church.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A male member of a jazz band.
Synonyms: jazzbo
jazzist
jazzperson
jazzster
jitterbug
suedehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suedeheads
Etymology: From suede + -head, modelled after skinhead.
Senses: examples: text: Since then, he's been a suedehead and a soul-boy. "I used to go down the discos, wear pegs and American bowling shirts."
ref: 1982, Paul Barker, The Other Britain: A New Society Collection:
text: But Austins was always the clothes shop for the suedeheads.
ref: 2001, Chris Brown, Bovver:
text: Bluebeat and ska from a boombox on the pavement. A suedehead dancing a delirious, inebriated moonstomp with a girl who looked like a solicitor's apprentice.
ref: 2013, Joseph O'Connor, Where Have You Been?, page 271:
glosses: A member of an offshoot of the British skinhead subculture, originating in the 1970s and characterised by longer hair and more formal clothing than the skinheads.
rudeboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rudeboys
form: rude boy
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole rude bwoy, equivalent to rude + boy.
Senses: examples: text: Leppo had been a rudeboy since his teens, earning his first three-month jail rap for vagrancy in 1971.
ref: 2000, Timothy White, Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley:
text: I still use the word rudeboy cos it’s been round for longer. People’re always tryin to stick a label on our scene. That’s the problem with havin a fuckin scene. First we was rudeboys, then we be Indian niggas, then rajamuffins, then raggastanis, Britasians, fuckin Indobrits.
ref: 2006, Gautam Malkani, Londonstani, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 5:
text: We were shooting in Pittsburgh, and there were some rudeboys looking at us, like [agonisingly broad Jamaican accent]: “Ya shoodent be shoe-ting ere.” So we’re driving around in this grim area of Pittsburgh and I start talking in this over-the-top Jamaican accent.
ref: 2014 March 6, Stuart Heritage, “Man v Food's Adam Richman – now causing Fandemonium”, in The Guardian:
text: Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.
ref: 2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian:
text: Few brands have been tussled over as hard by competing subcultures. From tennis nuts to Jamaican rudeboys, skinheads, mods, ska-punks, indie kids and Camden popstars, all have done the Perry polo before Proud Boys came along.
ref: 2020 October 4, Nosheen Iqbal, “Fashion … or fascist? The long tussle over that Fred Perry logo”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: Rudy
glosses: A male juvenile delinquent, originally in Jamaica in the 1960s.
examples: text: "I swear I've watched as much MTV Base an Juggy D videos as they have, but I still can't attain the right level a rudeboy finesse," bemoans Jas.
ref: 2007, Dohra Ahmad, Rotten English: A Literary Anthology:
text: The rudeboy might have evolved since his ska-fuelled early days on the streets of 1960s Jamaica, but the staples are the same: nicely buffed footwear, pork-pie hats, cropped trousers and sharp suits.
ref: 2015 September 11, Martell Campbell & Donya Campbell, “Sharp and natty: the baddest rudeboys on the street today – in pictures”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A male enthusiast of ska music.
jackeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackeroos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jackaroo.
jackeroo
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jackeroos
form: jackerooing
form: jackerooed
form: jackerooed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jackaroo.
jacobsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacobsites
Etymology: Jakobsberg, Sweden, and -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A manganese iron oxide mineral, a magnetite spinel.
Tumandar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The title of a leader of Balochi tribes in Pakistan. As defined in the Gazette of Pakistan, a "Sardar", "Tumandar" or chief of a tribe is a person who, under any custom or usage or otherwise could obtain free labour from other persons or compel them to work against their will.
carau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caraus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carrao.
carrao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carraos
form: carau
Etymology: From American Spanish carrao, from Guaraní [Term?] car(r)aú, carao, caraó, originally probably imitative. Compare courlan, from a Cariban language.
Senses: glosses: The limpkin, a bird.
limpkin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limpkins
Etymology: Perhaps from limp, from its jerky manner of walking, + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A large bird, Aramus guarauna, found in marshes in the Caribbean, Central America and southern Florida.
Synonyms: carrao
courlan
crying bird
courlan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courlans
Etymology: From French courlan, courliri (compare courlis, corlieu), ultimately from Kari'na karau. Compare carrao, from Guaraní.
Senses: glosses: Limpkin.
crying bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crying birds
Senses: glosses: limpkin
rectosigmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪɡmɔɪd
Etymology: From recto- + sigmoid.
Senses: examples: text: Lenox Hill finds “considerable stool material in the descending colon as well as the rectosigmoid region.” My doctor diagnoses a combination of slow transit and outlet constipation.
ref: 2022 October 2, Cara Schacter, “My Year of Stress and Constipation”, in The New York Times:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of the rectum and the sigmoid colon; especially, of the junction between them.
rectosigmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪɡmɔɪd
Forms: form: rectosigmoids
Etymology: From recto- + sigmoid.
Senses: glosses: A rectosigmoid junction.
Chingisid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Chinggisid
form: Genghisid
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Chingis (Genghis) Khan, or the Mongol empire that he founded.
Yassa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Ultimately from Middle Mongol ᠶᠣᠰᠤ (yosu, “rule, statute”).
Senses: glosses: The unpublished legal code attributed to Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol empire.
Oghuz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /oʊˈɡuːz/
Etymology: From Turkish Oğuz, from Old Turkic 𐰆𐰍𐰕 (uǧz), a term for a tribal military division, perhaps in origin an early plural of 𐰸 (ok, “kin”) (arrows in early Turkic culture were used as symbolizing such tribes or divisions in ceremonial or ritual contexts).
Senses: glosses: A group of south-western Turkic people, including the Turks and Turkmens
Oghuz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /oʊˈɡuːz/
Etymology: From Turkish Oğuz, from Old Turkic 𐰆𐰍𐰕 (uǧz), a term for a tribal military division, perhaps in origin an early plural of 𐰸 (ok, “kin”) (arrows in early Turkic culture were used as symbolizing such tribes or divisions in ceremonial or ritual contexts).
Senses: glosses: A subbranch of the Turkic language family. The three languages with the largest number of speakers are Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen.
Derived terms: Proto-Oghuz
Related terms: Gagavuz
Oğuz
relucent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relucent
form: most relucent
Etymology: From Latin relūcent-, relūcēns, present participle of relucēre.
Senses: examples: text: The relucent lake glittered, sparkling playfully, with the hues of dusk.
glosses: shining with reflected light.
Related terms: relucence
relucency
Sardar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sardars
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian سردار (sardâr). Doublet of serdar.
Senses: glosses: A title of Persian origin used for military or political leaders.
glosses: A surname from Persian.
halfgod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfgods
form: half-god
Etymology: From Middle English half-god, equivalent to half- + god. Cognate with Dutch halfgod (“demigod”), German Halbgott (“demigod”), Danish halvgud (“demigod”), Swedish halvgud (“demigod, hero”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, I. Her. Who are you and what? Half. Halfgod, the demigod. Her. Not a man? Half. No I'm immortal; for the first Halfgod Was born of Ceres and Triptolemus, His only son was Celeus, Celeus married Phamarete my grandmother; [...]
ref: 1921, George Willis Botsford, Lillie M. Shaw Botsford, A Source-book of Ancient History:
text: [...] the halfgod shouted. "Make way for Her Divinity!"
ref: 1977, John Wood Campbell, Analog science fiction/science fact:
text: The halfgod followed, dark nose held high, as if offended by every reek around him. Four blue sacristans carried the canopied chair of honor, the divine tourist smiling out as if delighted with everything she saw. A dog barked. A child screamed.
ref: 1979, JACK WILLIAMSON, BROTHER TO DEMON BROTHER TO GODS:
text: This union results in the birth of Herakles (called Hercules by the Romans), the legendary yet tragic halfgod hero of classical mythology.
ref: 2008, Evans Lansing Smith, Nathan Robert Brown, The Complete Idiot's Guide to World Mythology:
text: What have we done to you? Jews have had to ask this question for 2000 years or better. Why do you hate us so? Actually, Jews know. They failed to find any evidence that Jesus was a HalfGod. And they lived next door to Jesus at the time!
ref: 2011, Leonardo Smythe-Jones, The Seed of the Tea Party:
glosses: A demigod.
positivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positiveness
positivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positivity
positivisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positivism
concretenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concreteness
perceivableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perceivable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being perceivable
perceivedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perceived + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: O believes he is fleeing from all extraneous perception, from perceivedness or percipi in general
ref: 1988, Sylvie Debevec Henning, Beckett's critical complicity: carnival, contestation, and tradition, University Press of Kentucky, page 128:
glosses: The state or quality of being perceived.
discernibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discernible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being discernible.
recognizabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recognizability
recognizableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From recognizable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being recognizable.
angelicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From angelic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being angelic
heavenlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of heavenly: more heavenly
heavenliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of heavenly: most heavenly
heavenliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heavenlinesses
Etymology: From heavenly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being heavenly.
glosses: The result of being heavenly.
heavenlinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heavenliness
attractivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attractiveness
engagingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From engaging + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being engaging.
interestingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interestingnesses
Etymology: From interesting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The interestingness or real life relevance of anomalies is a key feature of anomaly detection.
ref: 2009, Chandola, V.; Banerjee, A.; and Kumar, V., "Anomaly detection: A survey", ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 3, Article 15 (July 2009), 58 pages. DOI = 10.1145/1541880.1541882
text: Today, popularity is typically a multialgorithmic measure. At Flickr, a photo's interestingness derives from views, comments, notes, bookmarks, favorites...
ref: 2010, Peter Morville, Jeffery Callender, Search Patterns: Design for Discovery:
glosses: The state or quality of being interesting.
interestingnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interestingness
hypotheca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothecae
Etymology: From hypo- + theca.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
microbiology
natural-sciences
planktology
glosses: The lower or posterior half of the theca of a thecate protist such as a diatom or dinoflagellate
Coordinate terms: epitheca
Derived terms: hypothecal
Related terms: hypothec
hypothecal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypotheca + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Two of the four hypothecal plates are very much enlarged.
ref: 1978, Harold Charles Bold, Michael James Wynne, Introduction to the Algae: Structure and Reproduction, →ISBN, page 441:
topics: biology
botany
microbiology
natural-sciences
planktology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hypotheca, the lower half of the shell of certain types of plankton
Related terms: Not to be confused with hypothetical
hypothecary
little pitchers have big ears
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: An allusion to the ear-shaped handles common on pitchers used for serving liquids.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing me listening to something she was saying to Mamma, she turned round upon me with that odious proverb, "Little pitchers have long ears."
ref: 1844, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 2, in Abbeychurch:
text: A caution to U. S. parents, but a joy to radio merchandising, is the dread truth that little pitchers have big ears.
ref: 1939 April 17, “Bedtime Bedlam”, in Time:
text: [N]o kid ever ran to his mother and said that his little sister just defecated in the tub. I suppose he might say pushed or went woowoo, but took a shit is, I fear, very much in the ballpark (little pitchers have big ears, after all).
ref: 2000, Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, →ISBN, page 185:
glosses: Small children often overhear more of what is said than adults realize or desire.
Synonyms: little pitchers have long ears
Related terms: pas devant les enfants
little pitchers have long ears
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of little pitchers have big ears.
hypothecary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: hypothecary action
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or arising from hypothecation, the pledging of property or mortgage as surety for a loan
Derived terms: hypothecarily
hypothecary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypothecaries
Senses: examples: text: Their only real advantage now is that the hypothecary can obtain an order of attachment, […]
ref: 1983, Brian Reginald Bamford, The Law of Shipping and Carriage in South Africa, page 24:
topics: law
synonyms: hypothecatee
glosses: The holder of a hypothec, or pledge
Related terms: Not to be confused with hypothecal
apothecary
hypothecaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothecary
hypothecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypotheca
go down that road
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down that road
form: going down that road
form: went down that road
form: gone down that road
form: go down the road
form: go down a road
Etymology: From road, in the sense of doing or achieving something.
Senses: examples: text: We haven't decided if we want to move yet, but if we go down that road, there'll clearly be no way back.
glosses: To settle a way of doing something; do decide to do something in a particular way.
Related terms: don't go there
go down the road
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the road
form: going down the road
form: went down the road
form: gone down the road
form: go down that road
form: go down a road
Etymology: From road, in the figurative sense of the way to doing or achieving something.
Senses: examples: text: Stay focused on the company's mission so that you can continue to take steps in that direction. Whatever you do, don't go down the road of being a control freak!
ref: 2009, M. Watts, Office Politics - the Good, the Bad and the Ugly:
qualifier: always with "of" and further description
glosses: To employ a way of doing something; to do something in a particular way.
go down the wrong way
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes down the wrong way
form: going down the wrong way
form: went down the wrong way
form: gone down the wrong way
Senses: examples: text: She took a big drink of milk and it went down the wrong way. She was coughing for the next two minutes.
glosses: To go down the trachea (windpipe) in one's throat instead of the esophagus (the tube in the throat for swallowed food and fluids), typically resulting in coughing or choking.
raw_tags: of food or drink
Synonyms: sense: of food and drink
word: go down the wrong pipe
sense: of food and drink
word: go down the wrong throat
patheticness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pathetic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being pathetic.
Evoking emotions, especially pity or sadness.
synonyms: pathos
coordinate_terms: emotionality
examples: text: I […] don’t believe in God, which isn’t surprising given the patheticness of the male authority figures in my life.
ref: 2013, Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being, Canongate Books (2019), page 79:
glosses: The state or quality of being pathetic.
Contemptible inadequacy.
Araks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aras
form: Araxes
form: Arax
Etymology: From Russian Ара́кс (Aráks) and Armenian Արաքս (Arakʻs). Doublet of Araxes and Yeraskh.
Senses: glosses: A river in Turkey, Armenia, Iran and Azerbaijan and empties into Kura river.
Synonyms: Yeraskh
Araxes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /əˈɹæksiːz/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀράξης (Aráxēs). Doublet of Araks.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Araks.
theca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiːkə/
Forms: form: thecas
form: thecae
Etymology: From New Latin, from Latin thēca, from Ancient Greek θήκη (thḗkē, “a case, box, receptacle”), from τίθημι (títhēmi, “put, set, place”). Doublet of tay.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
The pollen-producing organ usually found in pairs and forming an anther.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
The theca folliculi: the twin layers of cells surrounding the basal lamina of an ovarian follicle.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
The thecal sac: the portion of the dura mater that surrounds the spinal cord and the cauda equina.
topics: biology
botany
microbiology
natural-sciences
planktology
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
The membrane complex enveloping the cells of certain plankton including diatoms and dinoflagellates.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
The calcareous wall of a corallite, the exoskeleton of a coral polyp.
qualifier: marine biology
topics: biology
microbiology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several external cases or sheaths.
A sporangium: a spore case.
topics: Christianity
glosses: A case for the corporal cloth used in the Eucharist.
Derived terms: endotheca
endothecium
epitheca
exotheca
exothecium
extrathecal
gnathotheca
gonotheca
hydrotheca
hypotheca
intrathecal
karyotheca
mesotheca
oötheca
ootheca
podotheca
rhinotheca
sarcotheca
spermatheca
spermatotheca
theca cordis
theca externa
theca folliculi
theca interna
thecal
thecaphore
thecasporous
thecate
theciferous
theciform
thecitis
thecoma
Related terms: intrathecally
thecium
thecate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From theca + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Others are thecate, covered with a strong wall of interlocking cellulose plates.
ref: 1974, Ronald Victor Tait, Robert S. De Santo, Elements of Marine Ecology, page 23:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a theca, or outer sheath.
Synonyms: thecated
thecae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theca
octocoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octocorals
Etymology: Back-formation from translingual Octocorallia. By surface analysis, octo- + coral.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Michela Mitchell, a taxonomist at the Queensland Museum Network, said in a statement released by Ocean Census it could be a type of deep-sea coral called octocoral.
ref: 2024 March 11, Katie Hunt, “Scientists discover 100 potential new deep-sea species, including mystery creature”, in CNN:
qualifier: marine biology
glosses: An anthozoan of the subclass Alcyonaria, having eight-branched tentacles and eight septa.
Synonyms: octocorallian
octocoralline
arsoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arsole
octocorals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octocoral
anthozoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /anθə(ʊ)ˈzəʊən/
Forms: form: anthozoa
form: anthozoans
Etymology: From Anthozoa + -n.
Senses: examples: text: In his childhood, he said, he used to walk beside the chalk cliffs of Devon and Cornwall, […] admiring the endless diversity of the semi-sentient marvels oscillating between the vegetable, animal and mineral kingdoms, the zooids and corallines, sea anemones, sea fans and sea feathers, the anthozoans and crustaceans over which the tide washed twice a day […].
ref: 2001, WG Sebald, translated by Anthea Bell, Austerlitz, Penguin, published 2011, page 126:
qualifier: marine biology
glosses: A marine invertebrate of the class Anthozoa, such as a sea anemone or coral.
Related terms: anthozoic
anthozoans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthozoan
corallite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corallites
Etymology: From coral + -ite.
Senses: qualifier: marine biology
glosses: The hard outer cup of a coral polyp
Related terms: coralloid
coralline
corallitic marble
corallites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corallite
leger line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leger lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ledger line.
ledger line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ledger lines
form: leger line
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen fishing for Eels with a ledger line as well as a floated line, don't be in too much haste to strike when you see a bite, for Eels generally gorge the bait, and consequently hook themselves, if you give them time, […] I always use two hooks on my ledger, placing the top one about two feet above the bottom, and to prevent it from moving from its proper place, fix a shot above it and below it, […]
ref: 1823, T[homas] F[rederick] Salter, “Directions How to Angle for and Take the Anguilla, or Eel”, in The Angler’s Guide, Being a New, Plain and Complete Practical Treatise on the Art of Angling for Sea, River, and Pond Fish; […], 5th corrected and enlarged edition, London: Printed by R. Carpenter and Son, […], and sold for the author; by T[homas] Tegg, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Bottom Fishing), page 121:
topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
synonyms: ledger
glosses: A fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; a ligger.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical notation to inscribe notes outside the lines and spaces of the regular musical staves; a line slightly longer than the note is drawn parallel to the staff, above or below, spaced at the same distances as the notes within the staff.
ledger lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ledger line
leger lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leger line
polysiphonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + siphonic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Composed of multiple tubes joined together
polysiphonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polysiphonous
form: most polysiphonous
Etymology: From poly- + siphonous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having multiple stems, filaments or tubes
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: polysiphonic
polygalactia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The excessive secretion of milk by the breasts
polynosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing a strong artificial fibre, made from cellulose, that consists of multiple crystalline fibrils.
Related terms: polynose
polysomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -some + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A fetal malformation in which multiple bodies are partially fused together.
kāvya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kavya.
decalcomanie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decalcomanies
Etymology: Borrowed from French décalcomanie.
Senses: glosses: decalcomania
pre-dreadnought
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-dreadnoughts
form: predreadnought
Etymology: From pre- + dreadnought.
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A late-19th-century or early-20th-century battleship with a small number of big guns (typically no more than four) and a large number of quick-firing medium-caliber guns. It was made largely obsolete in 1906 by the dreadnought type of battleship.
wikipedia: Japanese battleship Mikasa
Hyponyms: semi-dreadnought
at latter Lammas
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: According to one theory, Lammas Day (1 August) being an important day for settling accounts, latter Lammas signified the last day for settling accounts: in other words, judgement day. Thus, in worldly terms, at latter Lammas means never.
Senses: glosses: Never.
infeft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: infefts
form: infefting
form: infefted
form: infefted
Senses: examples: text: There paſſes this Seal alſo a Precept, which is called the Fourth Precept, directed to a Sheriff in that Part, for infefting in Lands holden of a ſubject Superior, after the three Precepts are run againſt him.
ref: 1734, Thomas Hope, John Spotiswood, “Numb[er] IV. The Method of Expeding Infeftments in Lands, Annualrents, Heritable Jurisdictions and Offices Holding of His Majesty, through the Whole Registers and Seals.”, in Practical Observations upon Divers Titles of the Law of Scotland, Commonly Called Hope’s Minor Practicks. […], Edinburgh: Printed and sold by A. Davison […], →OCLC, page 553:
glosses: Obsolete form of enfeoff.
Derived terms: uninfeft
infeft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of infeoff
sexine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexines
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: The outer part of the exine, the outer covering of a pollen grain
Coordinate terms: nexine
ectexine
endexine
Derived terms: sexinal
sexines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexine
kill switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kill switches
form: killswitch
Senses: examples: text: The company developed a ‘kill switch’ that would remotely encrypt its computers and devices if an office was raided by authorities.
ref: 2022 July 11, Paris Marx, “The Uber Leak Exposes the Global War on Workers”, in Tribune:
glosses: A security measure used to switch off a device in an emergency.
Related terms: big red button
dead man's switch
kill switch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kill switches
form: kill switching
form: kill switched
form: kill switched
form: killswitch
Senses: examples: text: Digitization supercharges financialization. It lets car-makers offer subprime auto-loans to desperate, poor people and then killswitch their cars if they miss a payment.
ref: 2023 July 24, Cory Doctorow, “Autoenshittification”, in Pluralistic:
glosses: To switch off using a kill switch.
trio sonata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trio sonatas
Senses: glosses: a type of musical composition with two melodic parts and basso continuo
peloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peloria + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a mutation such that a normally asymmetric flower becomes radially symmetric
raw_tags: of a flower
radiosymmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From radio- + symmetric or radiosymmetry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Possessing radial symmetry, symmetry across multiple lines or planes.
Synonyms: radially symmetric
radiosymmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + symmetry.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of radial symmetry.
synonyms: word: radial symmetry
Derived terms: radiosymmetric
little pitchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little pitcher
aspides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspis
little pitcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little pitchers
Etymology: From the saying little pitchers have big ears.
Senses: examples: text: Thomas Gradgrind now presented Thomas Gradgrind to the little pitchers before him, who were to be filled so full of facts.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “chapter 2”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: "Promise not to tell, or I shall be teased to death," she added, anxiously, entirely forgetting the two little pitchers gifted with eyes as well as ears, who had been watching the whole performance from afar.
ref: 1875, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 15, in Eight Cousins:
glosses: A child.
abductores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌdʌkˈtoɹ.iz/
Senses: glosses: plural of abductor
adductores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adductor
rumpy-pumpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹʌmpi pʌmpi/
rhymes: -ʌmpi
Forms: form: rumpie-pumpie
Etymology: From rump.
Senses: examples: text: Rump, Rumpie-pumpie, a jocular term for copulation.
ref: 1968, Scottish National Dictionary:
text: —What think you, my lord, of... love?
—You mean ‘rumpy-pumpy’.
ref: 1986, Ben Elton et al., “Bells”, in Blackadder II:
glosses: Sex.
adolescences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adolescence
Adonises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adonis
alluviums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alluvium
alluvia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alluvium
pollens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Different asthma patients are allergic to different pollens; some only to one pollen but most of them to more than one.
ref: 2005, Dr. O. P. Jaggi, Asthma And Allergies: Causes, Prevention And Treatment, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: plural of pollen
sommage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French [Term?]
Senses: glosses: pack animals.
decubiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decubitus
dedicatorie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: an epistle dedicatorie
glosses: Obsolete form of dedicatory.
social butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social butterfly
déjeuners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of déjeuner
fiddlehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪdəlˌhɛd/
Forms: form: fiddleheads
Etymology: From fiddle + head.
Senses: synonyms: scroll
glosses: The scroll-shaped decoration at the tip of a fiddle.
coordinate_terms: figurehead
glosses: A similar scroll-shaped ornament on a ship's bow.
synonyms: circinate vernation
tete de violin
tete-de-violin
violin head
glosses: The furled fronds of a young fern, sometimes harvested for food consumption.
Related terms: fiddleback
fiddleneck
filicoid
filicology
fromager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /frɒməˈʒeɪ/
Forms: form: fromagers
Etymology: From French fromager.
Senses: glosses: A cheese merchant.
Synonyms: cheesemonger
Related terms: fromage
fromagerie
fromagophile
affineur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affineurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French affineur.
Senses: glosses: One who ages cheese and purveys it.
Related terms: affinage
ondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of onde
éclairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈklɛəz/
ipa: /eɪ-/
ipa: /ɪˈklɛɹz/
ipa: /ɪˈkleːz/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɪˈkleəz/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ɪˈkliəz/
ipa: /ɪˈkleɹz/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /ɪˈklɜː(ɹ)z/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)z
Senses: glosses: plural of éclair
fascitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fasciitis.
coordination numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coordination number
saporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saporous
form: most saporous
Etymology: From Latin saporus (“that relishes well, savory”), from sapor (“taste”).
Senses: glosses: Having flavour or taste
bacterias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteria
second childhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second childhoods
Senses: examples: text: King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.
ref: 1549, Hugh Latimer, The seconde [seventh] sermon of Maister Hughe Latimer which he preached before the Kynges Maiestie in his graces palayce at Westminster, ye xv. day of Marche [-xix daye of Apryll], M.ccccc.xlix:
text: "You think I'm in my second childhood, I know!" croaked the old woman.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, chapter 52, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: Old age is not always second childhood, says he. "There is often, instead, a second prime."
ref: 1951 July 16, “Second Prime”, in Time, archived from the original on 23 Nov 2010:
synonyms: dotage
senile dementia
senescence
senility
glosses: The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
examples: text: For myself, although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in intellect, and seemed to be brought to a species of second childhood, generally simpering in their expressions, with idiotic smiles, and uttering the most absurd platitudes.
ref: 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XI, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 102:
text: But take care of yourself; a man's second childhood begins when a woman gets hold of him.
ref: 1891, J[ames] M[atthew] Barrie, chapter XIII, in The Little Minister. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; Paris: Cassell and Company, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: dementia
glosses: A childlike state in any adult, resulting from mental illness, trauma, or other conditions.
Related terms: juvenescence
once a man, twice a child
twichild
ass'n
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ass'ns
form: ass'n.
form: assn.
form: assn
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of association.
Synonyms: assoc.
assoc
admin.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: admin
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of administrative.
admin.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admin
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of administration.
bankr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of bankruptcy.
ctr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ctr
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of center (building or organization).
glosses: Abbreviation of counter (“thing that counts”).
constr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constrs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of construction.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of constraint.
constr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Constructive.
constructive notice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A notice of a fact which is created by an operation of law, despite a lack of an actual notice.
angustimurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angusti- + murate.
Senses: topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
glosses: Having relatively narrow muri, not exceeding 20% of the diameter of the lumina
raw_tags: of a pollen grain
Related terms: angustifoliate
curvimurate
isodiametric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more isodiametric
form: most isodiametric
Etymology: From iso- + diametric.
Senses: glosses: Having an equal or nearly equal diameter in all directions.
Derived terms: anisodiametric
isodiametrically
isodiametricity
operatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Originally from Medieval Latin operātōrium, from a participle of Late Latin operor. The modern senses may be derived independently of the obsolete senses.
Senses: glosses: effective; practical; operative
glosses: Of or relating to operations.
Derived terms: preoperatory
operatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operatories
Etymology: Originally from Medieval Latin operātōrium, from a participle of Late Latin operor. The modern senses may be derived independently of the obsolete senses.
Senses: glosses: A laboratory.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A room in which a dentist (or assistant) performs tasks on the patient.
acetolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: acetolyses
Etymology: From aceto- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The breakdown of an organic compound using either acetic acid or acetic anhydride
Hypernyms: decomposition
solvolysis
Derived terms: acetolytic
Related terms: acetolyze
alcoholysis
ammonolysis
hydrolysis
kinnickinnick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kinnikinnick.