cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
instructionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From instruction + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In order to better understand the psychological processes involved in instructionless learning, we have been studying people's attempts to learn about a computer controlled toy robot called "BigTrak" .
ref: 1984, Ann Janda, Human factors in computing systems: proceedings of the CHI '83:
glosses: Without instruction.
conferencelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conferencelike
form: most conferencelike
Etymology: From conference + -like.
Senses: examples: text: But while I waited for the test results, I sat in an inner conferencelike room filled with other girls with unwanted pregnancies. We sat in a circle facing each other. At first no one spoke. They also were teenagers.
ref: 1986, Jerry Falwell, If I should die before I wake:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a conference.
picksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: pĭk'səm
ipa: /ˈpɪksəm/
rhymes: -ɪksəm
Forms: form: more picksome
form: most picksome
Etymology: From pick + -some.
Senses: examples: text: The former is fastidious, and to be thus selective, thus picksome, is surely a virtue.
ref: 1948, Ivor John Carnegie Brown, No idle words:
text: “[...] And you know our Rachel can become notoriously picksome when she doesn't get her way.”
ref: 2013, Sarita Leone, Masquerade:
glosses: Characterised by picking and choosing, or by being picky; selective.
glosses: Valued for picking; choice; select.
Derived terms: picksomeness
out-Heroded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of out-Herod
out-Herods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of out-Herod
out-Heroding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of out-Herod
noninstructional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + instructional.
Senses: examples: text: The union represents more than 26,000 noninstructional school staff members, including school aides and parent coordinators.
ref: 2009 July 31, Winnie Hu, “Aides Paid by Parents May Return to Schools”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not instructional.
franchisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more franchisable
form: most franchisable
Etymology: From franchise + -able.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Suitable for being franchised.
Related terms: franchisability
nonequally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + equally.
Senses: glosses: In a nonequal manner.
Synonyms: unequally
ænigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ænigmatic
form: most ænigmatic
Etymology: From ænigma + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: One easily sees that this ænigmatic cast of the pastoral was meant to give it an air of instruction, and to make is a reasonable entertainment to such as would nauseate a sort of writing.
ref: 1811, Richard Hurd, The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester, volume I, page 215:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of enigmatic.
nonmanually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + manually.
Senses: examples: the voting habits of the nonmanually employed
glosses: In a manner that is not manual.
nonrenovated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + renovated.
Senses: glosses: Not renovated.
apocalypticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apocalypticists
Etymology: From apocalyptic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who holds or expresses an apocalyptic view.
apocalypticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apocalypticist
twistable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twistable
form: most twistable
Etymology: From twist + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being twisted.
Derived terms: twistability
untwistable
apocalyptical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apocalyptical
form: most apocalyptical
Senses: glosses: apocalyptic
icemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ice + making.
Senses: glosses: The artificial formation of ice.
nonmosaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mosaic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not mosaic.
plumbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From plumb + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable (as depths) of being plumbed.
unplumbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + plumbable.
Senses: examples: text: Either because it was a less toxic species, or because by now Doug was growing immunized, or for some other unplumbable reason, in this case the effects were no worse than those from a bee sting.
ref: 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:
glosses: Not plumbable; unfathomable.
nonpolymeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + polymeric.
Senses: glosses: Not polymeric.
untumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tumbled.
Senses: glosses: Not having been tumbled (smoothed or polished).
siziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sizy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being sizy.
sizy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sizy
form: most sizy
form: sizey
Etymology: From size + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] which I expected to have found extremely sizy and glutinous, or indeed coagulated, as it is in pleuretic complaints;
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter XIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII:
text: The cellular tissue of the front part of the neck and chest was infiltrated with a sizy, transparent liquid.
ref: 1861, Harold Havelock Kynett, Samuel Worcester Butler, D G Brinton, The Medical and surgical reporter: Volume 5, page 282:
glosses: Like size (weak glue or paste).
glosses: Exhibiting size (the thickened crust on coagulated blood).
Derived terms: siziness
sizey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sizey
form: most sizey
Senses: examples: text: The blood in most was not sizey; but the crassamentum was tender, and the serum bilious. Where the heat was great, gentle emetics brought up much bile, and very much lessened the inflammatory state of the disease.
ref: 1762, Royal Society, Philosophical transactions, page 647:
glosses: Alternative form of sizy.
cursored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cursor
cursoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cursor
Hawiye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hawiyes
form: Hawiye
Etymology: From Somali Hawiiye.
Senses: glosses: A member of a large clan of Somalia, traditionally inhabiting central and southern Somalia, Ogaden and the North Eastern Province.
Hawiyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawiye
unmeaningfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmeaningfully
form: most unmeaningfully
Etymology: From unmeaningful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unmeaningful manner.
unmeaningful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmeaningful
form: most unmeaningful
Etymology: From un- + meaningful.
Senses: synonyms: meaningless
glosses: Not meaningful.
Synonyms: nonmeaningful
loncos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lonco
unfeignedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unfeigned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unfeigned; sincerity.
interform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + form.
Senses: examples: text: There was an interform competition each year where each form [grade level] had to put together a program including a few solos and a whole form piece. All of this was run by one very energetic music teacher who sadly died last year.
ref: 2011, Lucy Green, Learning, Teaching, and Musical Identity: Voices Across Cultures, page 228:
glosses: Between forms (school groups).
interform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interforms
Etymology: From inter- + form.
Senses: examples: text: Having completed its cycle on the nuclear or female stage of maturement, its atmosphere, the sum of the atmospheres or essential organisms of its interforms, ascended as a whole to the atmospheric or male plane of maturement.
ref: 1879, Jean Story, Substantialism; Or, Philosophy of Knowledge, page 267:
text: A “zone of rarity” emerges when symptoms cluster neatly into syndromes and interforms are uncommon, although not altogether absent. Fuzzy boundaries and interforms are a special problem for PTSD […]
ref: 2004, Gerald Rosen, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies, page 127:
glosses: An intermediate form.
interfluves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interfluve
Bouddhist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bouddhists
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Buddhist.
Bouddhism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Buddhism.
Bouddhists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bouddhist
cashmire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cashmires
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cashmere.
cashmires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cashmire
horsetraders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horsetrader
Walachians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Walachian
peasantries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peasantry
wealsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wealsmen
Etymology: From weal + -s- + man.
Senses: examples: text: Meeting two such wealsmen as you are — I cannot call you Lycurguses — if the drink you give me touch my palate adversely, I make a crooked face at it.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A statesman.
wealsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wealsman.
gypsiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsiologists
Etymology: From gypsy + -ologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies the life and culture of gypsies.
gypsiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gypsy + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of the life and culture of gypsies.
Synonyms: ziganology
tsiganology
ciganology
Romani studies
romology
romalogy
romistics
Related terms: gypsiologist
gypsiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gypsiologist
antigypsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigypsy
form: most antigypsy
Etymology: From anti- + gypsy.
Senses: examples: text: This violently antigypsy diatribe, which brings together all the racial and ethnic stereotypes held in sixteenth-century Spain, was duly withdrawn from the elementary school reader...
ref: 2000, Carroll B. Johnson, Cervantes and the material world, page 93:
text: There is also evidence of numerous local antigypsy campaigns by police, often acting on their own initiative and not in response to complaints or orders from above.
ref: 2004, Herman Roodenburg, Social Control in Europe: 1500-1800, page 216:
glosses: Opposing or countering gypsies; practicing or exhibiting antigypsyism.
wealful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwiːlfʊl/
/ˈwiːlfəl/
Forms: form: more wealful
form: most wealful
form: wealefull
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English weleful, equivalent to weal + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Successful; prosperous.
glosses: Happy; joyful; felicitous.
Synonyms: sense: successful
word: fortunate
word: roaring
word: prosperous
sense: happy
word: glad
word: merry
word: happy
Derived terms: wealfully
companionways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of companionway
nonliquidated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + liquidated.
Senses: glosses: Not liquidated.
liquidatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From liquidate + -able.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: capable of being liquidated
raw_tags: of assets
Derived terms: unliquidatable
glandered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glanders + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: He tried to trick me into buying a glandered horse!
glosses: Suffering from glanders.
Derived terms: nonglandered
unglandered
baptisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From baptise + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, the Church of England usually did not recognize slaves "as baptisable human beings."
ref: 2003, Rodney Stark, For the glory of God, page 337:
glosses: Capable of being baptised.
Derived terms: unbaptisable
waywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waywise
form: most waywise
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of way-wise.
unvoluptuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unvoluptuous
form: most unvoluptuous
Etymology: From un- + voluptuous.
Senses: examples: text: Chavez's writing is bare, brusque, unvoluptuous. The attacks, transitions and rhythmic sequences are excessively abrupt; the periods and movements compressed; squat as Toltec divinities; […]
ref: 1929, Paul Rosenfeld, An Hour with American Music, page 146:
glosses: Not voluptuous.
Samarcand
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Samarkand.
FLPP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of Future Launchers Preparatory Programme.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Foreign Language Proficiency Pay.
halberded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From halberd + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Armed with a halberd.
Mangalica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɑŋɡəˈliːtsə/
Forms: form: Mangalicas
form: Mangalitsa
form: Mangalitza
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian mangalica (“Mangalica”).
Senses: glosses: A domestic pig of a Hungarian breed developed in the mid-19th century, which grows a thick, curly coat of hair.
Bessarabian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bessarabian
form: most Bessarabian
Etymology: From Bessarabia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of Bessarabia.
Bessarabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bessarabians
Etymology: From Bessarabia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Bessarabia.
Bessarabians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bessarabian
besprinkling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of besprinkle
besprinkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of besprinkle
alguazil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /al(ɡ)wəˈzɪl/
ipa: /al(ɡ)wəˈziːl/
Forms: form: alguazils
form: alguacil
Etymology: From Early Modern Spanish and Portuguese alguazil, from Arabic اَلْوَزِير (al-wazīr, “minister, vizier”). Doublet of vizier and wazir.
Senses: glosses: An officer of the law in Spain or Latin America.
topics: bullfighting
entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: An official who maintains order during a bullfight and ensures that the rules are followed; a referee.
alguazils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alguazil
field-programmable gate array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field-programmable gate arrays
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a gate array designed to be configured by the customer or designer after manufacturing in the field, i.e. after manufacturing.
Synonyms: FPGA
field-programmable gate arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field-programmable gate array
unerudite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unerudite
form: most unerudite
Etymology: From un- + erudite.
Senses: glosses: Not erudite; uneducated.
toilsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toilsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being toilsome.
toilsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toilsomely
form: most toilsomely
Etymology: From toilsome + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sisyphus also I saw, with unwelcomest taskage tormented, / Toilsomely hoisting aloof, unassisted, a ponderous round stone.
ref: 1829, William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry (page 73)
glosses: In a toilsome manner.
gunlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnˌlɒk/
Forms: form: gunlocks
Etymology: From gun + lock.
Senses: glosses: A mechanism fitted to a cannon that fires it when a cord is pulled.
Hypernyms: lock
gunlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnˌlɒks/
Senses: glosses: plural of gunlock
gate array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gate arrays
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: an integrated circuit that is a prefabricated silicon chip circuit with no particular function except standard functions like NAND or NOR logic gates, and other active devices.
Synonyms: uncommitted logic array
Derived terms: field-programmable gate array
gate arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gate array
uncommitted logic array
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncommitted logic arrays
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gate array.
uncommitted logic arrays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncommitted logic array
initialisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of initialisation
commonweals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commonweal
concert grands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concert grand
⠐⠡
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠡ ch
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: character
⠐⠣
Language: English
Part of speech: punct
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: Opening parenthesis, (
raw_tags: punctuation
Synonyms: ⠶
⠐⠕
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠕ o
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: one
⠐⠗
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠗ r
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: right
pipes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pipe down
piping down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pipe down
⠐⠝
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠝ n
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: name
piped down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of pipe down
⠐⠟
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠟ q
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: question
⠐⠞
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠞ t
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: time
⠐⠥
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠥ u
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: under
⠐⠮
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Etymology: The logogram prefix ⠐ and the letter ⠮ the
Senses: qualifier: Braille
glosses: there
euphorbiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euphorbiaceous
form: most euphorbiaceous
Etymology: From translingual Euphorbiaceae + -ous. By surface analysis, euphorbia + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae of spurges.
euphorbium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin euphorbium, from Ancient Greek εὐφόρβιον (euphórbion), from Εὔφορβος (Eúphorbos, “Euphorbus, physician to the Mauretanian king Juba II”) + -ιον (-ion, “related to”).
The name is from εὔφορβος (eúphorbos, “well-fed”), from εὖ (eû, “well”) + φορβή (phorbḗ, “food, fodder”).
Senses: glosses: An acrid dull yellow or brown resin consisting of the concreted milky juice of several species of Euphorbia, formerly used as a purgative and emetic.
algraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From algraphy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to algraphy.
berdaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berdache
glissandoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glissando
berdash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /bə(ɹ)ˈdæʃ/
Forms: form: berdashes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of berdache.
examples: text: a treatise against the cravat and berdash
ref: 1712 December 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Richard Steele], “MONDAY, November 24, 1712”, in The Spectator, number 544; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A kind of neckcloth.
berdashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of berdash
blindfoldings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindfolding
cofinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + final.
Senses: examples: text: The Archimedean property of real numbers means that the natural numbers form a cofinal subset of ℝ.
text: In order to apply this result to Quine’s project of radical translation, we take X to be the set of all Native observation sentences and construe an observational sub-language that contains only observation sentences and all their syntactic parts such that X is cofinal in the set of expressions of the sub-language.
ref: 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
topics: mathematics
order-theory
sciences
glosses: Of a subset of a partially ordered set; containing elements at least as late as any given element of the set, relative to the given partial order.
Derived terms: cofinality
cofinally
coinitial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + initial.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having an element b for each element a in the superset such that b is less than or equal to a.
raw_tags: of a subset
defeasibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfiːzɪbli/
Etymology: From defeasible + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As is common practice in psychology, where a term is used univocally (‘bald’, ‘consciousness’), it can be assumed (defeasibly) that individual differences in the associated conceptions of competent users of the term can be abstracted away from, and commonalities studied.
ref: 2007 November 24, Michael V. Antony, “Are Our Concepts”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: In a defeasible manner; subject to being defeated or invalidated.
Buridan's ass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Buridan's asses
form: Buridan's Ass
Etymology: After the fourteenth-century French philosopher Jean Buridan, whose philosophy of moral determinism it satirizes.
Senses: examples: text: The National Peace Council was, I will not say a Buridan's Ass, but a kind of eunuch organisation, unable to take a decision one way or another.
ref: 1972, Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin, For God's sake, go!: an autobiography:
glosses: A person or organization who does not make a choice.
examples: text: Not that they are Buridan's ass; they just do not believe in categorical decisions.
ref: 1972, The Statesman, volume 22, page 76:
text: You are Buridan's ass, in your immoral refusal to head toward one or the other of what you claim are irresistible allures of 'human rights.'
ref: 2003 August 11, A Planet Visitor <abcxyz@zbqytr.ykq>, “Re: Where is Europe....Where is France”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet), message-ID <tc3ejvkr2qekfefd2fp90esv07vu8fqtcl@4ax.com>:
text: You know the opinion you hold. You just will not divulge it... in cowardly fear of him turning on you. And not divulging it will not in the slightest keep him from turning on you whenever he feels like it. Please do not tell me you are Buridan's ass, and have no opinion about this.
ref: 2005 May 6, Doctor Make U. Feelgood <nappynospam@eatthlink.net>, “Re: Yom Hashoah”, in alt.activism.death-penalty (Usenet), message-ID <LIidncWpaYTpj-HfRVn-tQ@giganews.com>:
glosses: Collectively, people who do not make a choice.
desirabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desirability
extrabodily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + bodily.
Senses: examples: text: Functionalists have all along been committed to the possibility of extrabodily states playing the role of beliefs and desires.
ref: 2007 December 28, Daniel A. Weiskopf, “Patrolling the Mind’s Boundaries”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Outside of the body.
holophrastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From holophrastic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Leitgeb writes: “Thus, according to Quine, while the stimulus meaning of an observation sentence can be identified with its meaning if the sentence is taken holophrastically, i. e. as a single-word expression ..., this is no longer possible if the observation sentence is not taken holophrastically, i. e. if it is taken analysed as being syntactically composed of meaningful parts” ( ibid ., p. 418; emphasis is mine).
ref: 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: In a holophrastic manner.
holoreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holoreceptor
pneumatophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumatophore
murderbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murderbots
Etymology: From murder + -bot.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A robot that murders.
murderbots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of murderbot
pœnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penology
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of penology.
glider gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glider guns
Senses: examples: text: But in one position and phase of a 2-bee shuttle (the standard glider gun), the debris evolves into a glider and sails away before the bees return.
ref: 1989 October 31, Scott Huddleston, “life: glider guns”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
text: Alas this transformation by itself increases traversal length of the circuit because these new glider guns are much larger.
ref: 1998, M. Delorme, Jacques Mazoyer, Cellular automata: a parallel model, page 64:
text: In particular, since those two patterns extend their repetitions endlessly to the left and right, there is no need for a "glider gun" to provide a continuous supply of new patterns, as you suggest.
ref: 2005 January 2, Kent Dolan, “Re: Smaller UTM than Rule110”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):
topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: In the Game of Life, any pattern that "fires" out gliders.
intersubstitutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + substitutable.
Senses: examples: text: The Context Principle still demands that for two expressions to be synonymous in L, they should be intersubstitutable salva interpretatione in all sentences of L, and not just intersubstitutable in all observation sentences.
ref: 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Capable of being substituted for each other; interchangeable.
linguiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linguiform
form: most linguiform
Etymology: From Latin lingua (“tongue”) + -form.
Senses: glosses: shaped like a tongue
linguicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more linguicidal
form: most linguicidal
Senses: glosses: Causing linguicide, the death of a language.
whalebones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whalebone
intersubstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intersubstitutions
Etymology: From inter- + substitution.
Senses: glosses: The act of intersubstituting.
intersubstitute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: intersubstitutes
form: intersubstituting
form: intersubstituted
form: intersubstituted
Etymology: From inter- + substitute.
Senses: glosses: To exchange, substituting each for the other.
intersubstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intersubstitution
intersubstituting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intersubstitute
intersubstituted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intersubstitute
intersubjectiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intersubjective + -ness.
Senses: glosses: intersubjectivity
revaluable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From revalue + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being revalued.
relationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relationists
Etymology: From relation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The relationist is likely to reply that this is a far cry from demonstrating that the dynamic shift is nomically possible in a strict sense.
ref: 2007 October 30, Gabriele Contessa, “A Note on the Nomic Possibility of a Dynamic Shift”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
text: On the other hand, the relationists, agreeing that the past is a powerful determinant in the individual's current life, contend that one is much more independent of the past than a strict determinist philosophy will allow.
ref: 2012, David F. Barone, Michel Hersen, Vincent B. Van Hasselt, Advanced Personality, page 51:
text: Relationists and non-relationists differ in their assessment of the scope of the principles of justice.
ref: 2022, David Álvarez, João Cardoso Rosas, The Idea of Human Rights Revisited:
glosses: A subscriber to relationism.
relationists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relationist
relationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From relation + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that relations between things have a real existence.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Karl Mannheim's idea, proposed as a response to relativism, that the recognition of different perspectives according to differences in time and social location appears arbitrary only to an abstract and disembodied theory of knowledge.
relationistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relationistic
form: most relationistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to relationism.
relativisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relativisations
Etymology: From relative + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to assume the context principle both for a language L and a sub-language L ′ and avoid contradictions, this relativisation is vital, for it is not guaranteed that two expressions that are synonymous in L ′ will stay synonymous in L, even if the interpretation of the sentences of L ′ stays the same and L and L ′ satisfy the context principle.
ref: 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative form of relativization.
relativisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relativisation
structuralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more structuralistic
form: most structuralistic
Etymology: From structural + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: However, it is introduced for the sake of a higher precision in the structuralistic reconstruction of that theory.
ref: 2007 December 28, Thomas Brückner, “A Structuralist Reconstruction of the Theory of Elementary Particles”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to structuralism.
substantivalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: substantivalists
Etymology: From substantival + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A subscriber to substantivalism.
substantivalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of substantivalist
truthlikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From truthlike + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Rather than characterize scientific progress in terms of increasing truthlikeness, the proposal is to start with the pragmatic view that inquiry involves the elimination error, then to use this understanding of inquiry to characterize a local notion of approximate truth in terms of descriptive nesting relations between our current best physical theories and subsequent theories.
ref: 2007 October 24, Jeffrey Alan Barrett, “Approximate Truth and Descriptive Nesting”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Resemblance to truth.
photobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to photobacteria
Related terms: photobactericidal
tearstained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tearstained
form: most tearstained
form: tear-stained
Etymology: From tear + stained.
Senses: examples: text: She sniffled and wiped her nose on her already tearstained blouse.
text: With tear-stained eyes, he watched his king still struggling like an earl with the worm.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 45:
glosses: Stained with tears.
photobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobacteria
Etymology: From the genus name, from photo- + bacterium.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Photobacterium of bioluminescent bacteria.
Related terms: photobacterial
photobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photobacterium
Derived terms: photobacteriosis
featural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From feature + -al.
Senses: examples: text: As Xu and Carey have shown, while children may be aware of property or featural distinctions between objects, they do not use them to distinguish unique individuals (Xu and Carey 1996).
ref: 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Of or pertaining to features.
examples: text: As a featural alphabet, Hangeul bears some similarities with scientifically created writing systems invented centuries later, such as the Visible Speech system invented by Alexander Melville Bell.
ref: 2015, Robert Koehler et al., Hangeul: Korea's Unique Alphabet, Seoul Selection:
text: Because of its systematic categorization of sounds, with corresponding graphic interpretation, some linguists have come to consider han'gŭl a "featural" system.
ref: 1997, Young-Key Kim-Renaud, The Korean Alphabet: Its History and Structure, University of Hawai'i Press, page 184:
text: The same author also cites Pitman's shorthand as an example of a ‘featural’ writing system .
ref: 1995, Roy Harris, Signs of Writing, Psychology Press, page 58:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a writing system whose symbols encode phonological features of the sounds that they correspond to.
individuative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From individuate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: But these designations appear to run afoul of our earlier concerns about the individuative impotence of dummy sortals.
ref: 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Pertaining to individuation.
negatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From negate + -able.
Senses: examples: text: They are negatable.
ref: 2008 August 1, Michael Baumgartner, “The Causal Chain Problem”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Capable of being negated.
Derived terms: unnegatable
Related terms: negatability
negatability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From negate + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being negatable.
nonobject
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonobjects
Etymology: From non- + object.
Senses: examples: text: It should be clear, however, that this is not the basic distinction between three-dimensional spatially bound objects and nonobjects that the child uses to parse his or her experience.
ref: 2008 January 8, John E. Sarnecki, “Sortals for Dummies”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: That which is not an object.
nonobjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonobject
pretheoretically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pretheoretical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.
ref: 2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: Before taking any theoretical considerations into account.
ostensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostension
Ostender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ostenders
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Ostend.
Ostenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ostender
osteitides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osteitis
representationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representationalists
Etymology: From representational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: It seems plausible that the disagreement between the competing representationalist theories traces back to an underlying disagreement about the nature of mental representation.
ref: 2008 August 27, Mikkel Gerken, “Is There a Simple Argument for Higher-Order Representation Theories of Awareness Consciousness?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A subscriber to the philosophy of representationalism.
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who aims to produces realistic depictions.
representationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more representationalistic
form: most representationalistic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to representationalism (in either art or philosophy).
representationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of representationalist
ferruled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹ(ə)ld/
ipa: /-ɹuːld/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹəld/
Etymology: From ferrule + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having a ferrule.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of viroled, veruled.
ferruled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛɹ(ə)ld/
ipa: /-ɹuːld/
ipa: /ˈfɛɹəld/
Etymology: From ferrule + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ferrule.
microrepresentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrepresentations
Etymology: From micro- + representation.
Senses: examples: text: Ideally, the individual should be a microrepresentation of the macrolevel collectivity — past, present, and future.
ref: 1997, Jennifer E. Turpin, Lester R. Kurtz, The Web of violence: from interpersonal to global, page 192:
glosses: A representation on a smaller scale.
microrepresentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microrepresentation
microresistors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microresistor
semiformal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛmɪˈfɔːml/
ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪˈfɔrm(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌsɛmiˈfɔrm(ə)l/
Forms: form: semi-formal
Etymology: From semi- + formal.
Senses: examples: text: The HLA defines the rules of interoperability, a semiformal methodology for specifying simulation and federation object classes, and the interface specification that is a precise specification of the functional actions that a simulation may invoke.
ref: 2006, Stanislaw Raczynski, Modeling and Simulation: The Computer Science of Illusion, page 31:
text: When wearing the dragon robe on semiformal occasions, a single necklace was appropriate. Only the empress or empress dowager could wear a main necklace formed of Manchurian pearls, the other two being made of coral.
ref: 2007, Valery Garrett, Chinese Dress: From the Qing Dynasty to the Present, page 40:
glosses: Somewhat formal.
examples: text: Suits have largely replaced guayabera shirts as business and semiformal wear for middle and upper-class Panamanian men, made practical by the widespread use of air-conditioning in the cities.
ref: 2005, Williams Friar, Panama, 1st edition, Emeryville, C.A.: Moon Handbooks, →ISBN, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 528:
glosses: Of clothing: having a level of formality between that of informal and formal wear.
examples: text: The skirt was way too short, at least shorter than she preferred. It left exposed a good eight inches between her knee and thigh. But what choice did she really have? Casual cropped pants were hardly appropriate attire for a semiformal event.
ref: 2006, Marcia King-Gamble, Designed for You, New York, N.Y.: Kimani Press, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: Of an event: having a semiformal dress code.
semiformal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛmɪˈfɔːml/
ipa: /ˌsɛˌmaɪˈfɔrm(ə)l/
ipa: /ˌsɛmiˈfɔrm(ə)l/
Forms: form: semiformals
form: semi-formal
Etymology: From semi- + formal.
Senses: examples: text: Bright-colored flyers decorated battered lockers, telling everyone to join the debate team, try out for the school play, and not to miss the fall semiformal this Friday. I wondered what a "semiformal" consisted of at a public school, not that I'd bothered to ask anyone.
ref: 2010, Amanda Hocking, Switched (Trylle Trilogy; 3), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, published 2012, →ISBN, page 9:
glosses: A social event in which one is expected to dress in semiformal wear.
Related terms: half dress
melopœia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of melopoeia.
Muffly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
developmentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪˌvɛləp.mənˈteɪʃən/
Etymology: From development + -ation; the ostensible verb form *developmentate is not found.
Senses: glosses: Development.
Synonyms: development
Related terms: irregardless
gentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gentry
prime implicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime implicants
Etymology: An implicant (Boolean product term) which is called "prime" because none of its proper factors is itself an implicant.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of related 1's (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant in the same map. Equivalently (in terms of Boolean algebra), a product term which is a "minimal" implicant in the sense that removing any of its literals will yield a product term which is not an implicant (but beware: on a Karnaugh map it would appear "maximal").
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A group of related 0's (implicant) on a Karnaugh map which is not subsumed by any other implicant (of 0's) in the same map.
Derived terms: essential prime implicant
non-essential prime implicant
prime implicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prime implicant
essential prime implicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: essential prime implicants
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A prime implicant on a Karnaugh map which "covers" at least one 1 which is not covered by any other prime implicant.
essential prime implicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of essential prime implicant
ekistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Back-formation from ekistics.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to ekistics.
Derived terms: ekistically
ekistician
Rarotongans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rarotongan
non-essential prime implicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-essential prime implicants
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: On a Karnaugh map: a prime implicant which does not cover any 1 which cannot covered by some other prime implicant.
non-essential prime implicants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-essential prime implicant
call to the bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calls to the bar
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Admission to practice in the courts.
call to the bar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls to the bar
form: calling to the bar
form: called to the bar
form: called to the bar
form: call to the Bar
Senses: glosses: To admit (someone) to practice in the courts.
dietary supplements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dietary supplement
eproctophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛˌpɹɒk.tɒˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ɛˌpɹɔk.tɔˈfɪ.li.ə/
ipa: /ɛˌpɹɑk.tɑˈfɪ.li.ə/
rhymes: -ɪliə
Etymology: From e- + procto- + -philia.
Senses: synonyms: eprocto
glosses: A paraphilia characterized by sexual arousal from flatulence.
Hypernyms: olfactophilia
acousticophilia
Derived terms: eproctophile
eproctophiliac
Related terms: eprocto
eproctolagnia
eproctolagniac
flatulophilia
flatuphilia
magic lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magic lamps
Senses: qualifier: Middle Eastern folklore derived works
glosses: An oil lamp that can be rubbed in order to summon a genie who grants wishes.
magic lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magic lamp
turn-by-turn navigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: automotive
business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A feature of GPS devices, particularly smartphones, that continuously gives directions as the person or vehicle approaches navigation points.
turn-by-turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: turn-by-turn navigation
pseudounipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + unipolar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of a neuron, having one axon that is split into two branches.
grandbabes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandbabe
greenhouse gases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greenhouse gas
female circumcisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of female circumcision
defæcations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Why an infant should not proceed to enjoy his pleasurable defæcations, reënforced by praise from his parents or nurse, is completely obscure.
ref: 1937, The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, volume VI, page 410:
glosses: plural of defæcation