cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
pretzel knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretzel knots
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A pretzel link which is a knot.
pretzel link
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretzel links
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: A link with a standard projection comprising several tangles, each a braid on two strands, with the tangles arranged in some cyclic order.
symmetric group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetric groups
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A group whose elements are precisely all of the bijections of some set with itself and whose operation is composition of those bijections.
Meronyms: alternating group
hepatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἡπατοσκοπία (hēpatoskopía), from ἥπατος (hḗpatos), genitive form of ἧπαρ (hêpar, “liver”) + σκοπέω (skopéō, “to see”). Equivalent to hepato- + -scopy.
Senses: examples: 1973 Collier's Encyc. x.
Hepatomancy...animal livers
glosses: Divination by the liver of an animal or bird. The liver was divided into sections, each section representing a deity, and the markings in these zones were important.
Synonyms: hepatomancy
Hypernyms: word: haruspicy
english: divination by entrails generally
translation: divination by entrails generally
word: extispicy
hieromancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hiero- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: HIEROMANCY: Divination through various forms of sacrifice, or preparation for such, especially when performed by adepts in accordance with accepted rituals.
ref: 1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 318:
glosses: Divination by interpreting sacred objects, often used in sacrificial offerings. Similar to aruspicy.
Synonyms: hieroscopy
hippomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hippo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: 1713 Fabricii Bibliographia Antiquaria xii.
Hippomantia ex hinnitu, fremitu, sudore..
1911 Encyc. of Religion & Ethics
There is also a trace of hippomancy in Persia. According to Herodotus (iii. 84-87), after Darius and six other Persian nobles had slain the pseudo-Smerdis, they agreed that he should be king whose horse should first neigh after sunrise, when they had mounted their steeds.
1973 L. Watson Supernature ix.
Precoginition means "knowing in advance," and systems of knowing cover just about every possible source of variation. They include..hippomancy (based on the stamping of horses)... None of these need be taken seriously...
glosses: Divination by the interpretation of the appearance and behaviour of horses. Their neighing and stamping are particularly noted.
gladii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladius
recognising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recognizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recognise
reclined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recline
reclined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: In a reclining posture.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Reclinate.
hydatoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydato- + -scopy.
Hydat- is the stem of Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr, “water”), whence also hydro-.
Senses: glosses: Divination by interpreting rainwater. Omens are drawn from the various formations and sizes of rain puddles, and bowls of rainwater are gazed upon until clairvoyant visions appear on the surface of the water, or in the mind's eye. This is considered in some cases to be more important than hydromancy because rain has fallen from the heavens, making it sacred.
Related terms: english: with water
translation: with water
word: hydromancy
english: with spring-water
translation: with spring-water
word: pegomancy
middle C's
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle C
middle Cs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middle C
ichthyomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icthiomancy
form: icthyomancy
Etymology: From ichthyo- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination interpreting the appearance and behaviour of fish. A form of augury.
glosses: Divination interpreting the entrails of fish. A form of aruspicy.
hairsplitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairsplittings
Etymology: From hair + splitting.
Senses: glosses: The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae.
hairsplitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From hair + splitting.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hairsplit
Related terms: split hairs
idolomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: First element is from Late Latin idolum, from Ancient Greek εἴδωλον (eídōlon, “image, idol”). Second element is from Latin -mantīa, ultimately from Ancient Greek μᾰντείᾱ (mănteíā). Equivalent to idol + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1652 Gaule The Magastromancer xix.
Idolomancy, by Idolls, Images, Figures...
text: IDOLOMANCY: Use of idols or images for purposes of divination. The answers may come through dreams, by drawing lots, or anything else that believers may attribute to the power of such images. Some ancient oracles belonged in this category, and pagan priests often spoke from within hollow statues to give direct replies to questions regarding the future. In many cases, idolomancy has been closely identified with demonomancy, in as much as the idols simply represent the demons who are supposed to inhabit them when properly invoked.
ref: 1973, Gibson Complete Illust, Bk Div. &ast Prophecy:
glosses: Divination by idols, images or figures.
lowpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lowp
lowps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lowp
lecanomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecanomancie
form: lecaunomancy
form: leconomancy
form: leucanomancy
form: licanomancy
Etymology: From Late Latin lecanomantia, from Ancient Greek λεκανομαντείᾱ (lekanomanteíā), from λεκάνη (lekánē, “dish, pan”).
Senses: examples: 1610 Vives in J. Healey Saint Augustine of the Citie of God
Diuination generally was done by diuers means..Hydromancy..done..in a basen of water, which is called Lecanomancie, in which Strabo sayth the Asians are singular.
1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
Have you a mind (quoth Her Trippa) to have the truth of the matter yet more fully and amply disclosed unto you..by Leconomancy, of old in prime request amongst the Assyrians, and thoroughly tried by Hermolaus Barbarus.
1893 Howitt tr. Ennemoser Hist. Magic ii.
Among the various other kinds of divination not here mentioned may be enumerated Chilomancy performed with keys; Alphitomancy or Aleuromancy, by flour; Keraunoscopia, by the consideration of thunder; Eychnomancy, by lamps; Ooscopy, by eggs; Licanomancy by a basin of water; Palpitatim, Salisatio, by the pulsation or motion of some member etc.
1931 Lock tr. de Givry Picture Museum of Sorcery
I may mention further lecanomancy, which was performed by letting precious stones drop into water; a mysterious little whistling resulted which announced the thing desired.
glosses: Divination by interpreting the sound or effect of an object or substance (commonly a gem) falling into a body of water.
ancestresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ănsĕsʹtrəsĭz
ipa: /ænˈsɛstɹəsɪz/
enpr: ănsĕsʹtrĭsĭz
ipa: /ænˈsɛstɹɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ancestress
logarithmancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/
ipa: /lɑɡəˈɹɪðmənsi/
Forms: form: logarithmomancy
Etymology: From logarithm + -mancy; or a blend of logarithm + arithmancy.
Senses: examples: text: What difference betwixt Astromancy, Magomancy, or Magastromancy (as touching a sorcerous both superstition, and operation) and all these after-named? viz. […] Arithmancy, by numbers; Logarithmancy, by Logarithmes; […]
ref: 1652, John Gaule, “From the Affinity to Witch-craft”, in Πῦς-μαντία [Pys-mantia] the Mag-astro-mancer, or The Magicall-astrologicall-diviner Posed, and Puzzled. By John Gaule, Minister of Great Staughton in the County of Huntingdon, London: Printed for Joshua Kirton at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard, →OCLC, page 165:
text: LOGARITHMANCY: A mathematical method of divination performed with the aid of logarithms. Now supplanted by modern computers.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Divination using logarithms.
wikipedia: John Napier
Jost Bürgi
selenomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seleno- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: He is openly incredulous about the gem glossopetra, shaped like a human tongue and supposed to fall from the sky during an eclipse of the moon and to be invaluable in selenomancy.
ref: 1923, Lynn Thorndike, A History of Magic and Experimental Science, page 98:
text: For millennia we have tried to fathom it: via selenography and selenomancy, poetry and algebra, robots and rockets.
ref: 2019, Leah Hager Cohen, Strangers and Cousins, page 240:
glosses: Divination by the appearance and phases of the moon. Similar to lunomancy.
lunomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin luna (“moon”) + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: divination by interpreting shadows created by moonlight on a person's face dusted with silver. This is most often done on the full moon to have the highest moonlight intensity.
nitpicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nitpick
nitpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nitpick
macharomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machæromancy
form: machairomancy
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαχαίρα (makhaíra, “dagger”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1652, Gaule The Magastromancer xix.
Macharomancy, by knives or swords […]
text: MACHAROMANCY: Use of swords, daggers, and knives as instruments of divination. Presumably of ancient origin.
ref: [1973, Walter B. Gibson, Litzka R. Gibson, The Complete Illustrated Book of Divination and Prophecy, London: Souvenir Press, published 1987, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: Divination by interpreting swords, daggers and knives. This was popular in Scotland where on July 31st it was performed to predict the deaths and marriages of the following year.
nitpicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪt.pɪk.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: nitpickers
form: nit-picker
Etymology: From nitpick + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who nitpicks (finds fault in unimportant details).
Synonyms: pettifogger
Derived terms: netpicker
nitpickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nitpicker
Leesburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Alabama.
glosses: A city in Florida.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lee County, Georgia, United States.
glosses: A town, the county seat of Loudoun County, in northern Virginia, United States.
glosses: A village in Ohio.
rainy seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainy season
cryptofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptofascist
crypto-fascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crypto-fascist
form factors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of form factor
fuglemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fugleman
gnossiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnossienne
hypothesizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothesizer
hyperosmolar comas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperosmolar coma
anax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈænæks/
Forms: form: anaxes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄναξ (ánax).
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Greek tribal chief or leader.
Related terms: wanax
golden oldies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden oldie
snickerdoodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snickerdoodles
Etymology: The earliest known use is from 1889. Possibly a fanciful coinage, from snicker + doodle (“doodlebug”; though without clear semantic connection to either word). An alternative etymology derives it from German Schneckennudel, also a round type of pastry, but formed from dough rolled up in a coil.
A Dutch origin has also been surmised, based off semantics (see cookie) and similar-sounding words (see snickersnee).
Senses: examples: 1967, Paul Henry Oehser (ed.), The United States Encyclopedia of History, Curtis Books, page 382,
Besides bread, the bakehouse also turned out such treats as gristmill graham, hobnail, lumberjack, and snickerdoodle cookies in New England; and corn pone, spoon bread, and hominy pudding in the South.
1991, Daranna Gidel, Ceremony of Innocence, Dutton, →ISBN, page 345,
Then, one morning, after making twenty dozen snickerdoodle cookies for an upcoming church function, Wanda collapsed onto the kitchen’s sparking vinyl floor and died.
2006, Kris Nelscott, War at Home, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 22,
I took a bite from the snickerdoodle. It was fresh and soft and tasted like childhood.
glosses: A cookie in which the batter is rolled into a ball and coated with cinnamon sugar.
wikipedia: Marion Harland
de:Schneckennudel
mutagenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From muta- + genetic, by analogy with mutagenesis.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Relating to mutagenesis.
vallecular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vallecula + -ar, derived from diminutive of Latin valles (“valley”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Grooved; pertaining to a vallecula.
examples: text: A transverse section of the internode shows a pattern of sub-epidermal strengthening tissue and chlorenchyma, vallecular canals in the cortex opposite the furrows, and carinal canals opposite the ridges.
ref: 2011 July 12, “An extensin-rich matrix lines the carinal canals in Equisetum ramosissimum, which may function as water-conducting channels”, in Annals of Botany, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a channel between the nodes of the stem of some species of Equisetum.
vascular stroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vascular stromata
Senses: glosses: Blood root supply.
venturi injector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venturi injectors
Senses: glosses: A component that uses the venturi effect to inject a small amount of one fluid into the flow of another fluid, used e.g. to inject fertilizer solution or other chemicals into water in irrigation systems.
assuefaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæ.swɪˈfæk.ʃən/
other: /ˌæ.swəˈfæk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ækʃən
Senses: examples: text: Forget not how assuefaction unto any thing minorates the passion from it, how constant Objects loose their hints, and steal an inadvertisement upon us.
ref: 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
glosses: habituation
muttonchops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muttonchop
mutton-chop whiskers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To judge from the photos Gerald's hippy phase had reached its counter-cultural extreme in a pair of mutton-chop whiskers and a floral tie.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 12, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of muttonchops (“facial hairstyle”).
synonyms: word: muttonchops
extra: facial hairstyle
ammoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ammoniates
form: ammoniating
form: ammoniated
form: ammoniated
Etymology: From ammonia + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To treat with ammonia.
ammoniate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammoniates
Etymology: From ammonia + -ate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound containing ammonia bound as a ligand.
Yonner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yonners
Etymology: From the use of the Lancashire dialect terms "yon" and "yonder".
Senses: glosses: An unsophisticated resident of the towns of Oldham, Rochdale or surrounding areas. Now more widely applied to residents of any the satellite towns of Greater Manchester who speak with a broad Lancashire accent. A Lancashire hillbilly or bumpkin.
Related terms: woolly back
similar term from Liverpool
Hesychast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɛsɪkæst/
Forms: form: Hesychasts
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hesychasta, from ecclesiastical Greek ἡσυχαστής (hēsukhastḗs), from ἡσυχάζειν (hēsukházein, “to be quiet”), from ἥσυχος (hḗsukhos, “quiet”).
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
religion
sciences
glosses: A monk of the Orthodox Catholic Church that engages in noetic prayer.
Anglo-American
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Anglo- + American.
Senses: examples: text: Indian woodworkers, from the obscure Virginia native John the Bowlmaker to the celebrated Mohegan preacher Samson Occom, carved not only the traditional bowls and spoons but also a flat-bottomed vessel specifically designed for Anglo-American tables.
ref: 2012, Bernard Bailyn, Philip D. Morgan, Strangers Within the Realm, page 135:
glosses: Of, belonging to, or involving both England (or Britain), and the United States or Canada.
Anglo-American
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglo-Americans
Etymology: From Anglo- + American.
Senses: glosses: An English-American; an American of English heritage.
Anglo-American
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Anglo- + American.
Senses: examples: text: The assumption is that for a substantial part of the vocabulary, Anglo-American and Indian English coincide exactly.
ref: 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes, page 306:
glosses: The English language as used in Britain and North America.
Wilberforce
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Wilburg + foss (“ditch”); Wilburg was a female given name from wil (“will”) + burg (“fortress”).
Senses: glosses: An English surname from Old English, most common in Yorkshire.
glosses: William Wilberforce, English politician and abolitionist.
glosses: A place name:
A small town in the City of Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A place name:
A community in Highlands East municipality, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A census-designated place in Greene County, Ohio, United States, named after William Wilberforce.
glosses: A place name:
A neighbourhood of Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Related terms: Wilbur
vote in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: votes in
form: voting in
form: voted in
form: voted in
Senses: examples: text: Can only members vote in other members?
text: Why vote a man in who has never kept his promises?
glosses: To collectively approve a nominee for an office or position as a result of voting.
mairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mair
vote out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: votes out
form: voting out
form: voted out
form: voted out
Senses: examples: text: The incumbent candidate was voted out in a tight race.
glosses: To expel the holder of an office or other position through an act of voting.
gambrel roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambrel roofs
Senses: examples: text: It was certainly a depressing place, with a huge, gambrel roof which came down over the upper windows and nearly obscured them.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
synonyms: curb roof
glosses: A roof design having two slopes on the sides and gables in the ends.
Derived terms: gambrel-roofed
gravida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gravidas
form: gravidae
Etymology: From Latin gravida, the feminine singular adjective (and also noun) of gravidus (“pregnant”), from gravis (“heavy”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pregnant woman.
Derived terms: bigravida
Dea Gravida
decigravida
elderly primigravida
monogravida
multigravida
nonigravida
nulligravida
octigravida
plurigravida
primigravida
quartigravida
quintigravida
secondigravida
secundigravida
septigravida
sextigravida
tertigravida
unigravida
Related terms: bigravid
bigravidity
gravid
gravidic
gravidism
graviditas
gravidity
gravidly
gravidocardiac
gravidopuerperal
monogravid
multigravid
multigravidity
non-gravid
nongravid
non-gravidity
nongravidity
nulligravid
nulligravidity
plurigravid
primi
secundigravidity
primigravid
primigravidity
primigravity
quintigravid
secondigravid
secondigravidity
secundigravid
septigravid
tertigravid
unigravid
para
primipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/
ipa: /ˌpɹaɪˈmɪpɹə/
ipa: /pɹaɪˈmɪpəɹə/
Forms: form: primiparas
form: primiparae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prīmipara (“pregnant for the first time; having given birth to only one offspring; primiparous”), from prīmus (“first”) + parere (from pariō (“to bear, give birth to; to beget, produce”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to carry forth”)). The word is cognate with French primipare.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
obstetrics
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: primigravid
primigravida
primip
antonyms: multigravid
multigravida
multip
multipara
glosses: A woman or female animal during or after her first pregnancy.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
obstetrics
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
synonyms: primip
antonyms: multip
multipara
glosses: A woman or female animal that has carried a first pregnancy to a viable gestational age.
Derived terms: primip
primiparity
primiparous
Related terms: multip
multipara
multiparity
nullipara
nulliparity
primigravid
primigravida
primigravidity
primigravity
quadripara
quadriparous
secundipara
cogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: co-genetic
Etymology: From co- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Created at the same time and place as another.
gored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɹd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōrd
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: gourd
homophone: gaud (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: god (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, cot–caught merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gore
gored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɔɹd/
ipa: /ɡɔːd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: gōrd
ipa: /ɡo(ː)ɹd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɡoəd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
homophone: gourd
homophone: gaud (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
homophone: god (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger, cot–caught merger)
Senses: examples: text: a four-gored skirt
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Having a gore or gores.
Derived terms: ungored
goring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gore
goring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorings
Senses: examples: text: The only thing that might make me play is if you get bonus points for either broken pelvises or fatal rodeo-clown gorings.
ref: 2004, Mark St. Amant, Committed: Confessions of a Fantasy Football Junkie, page 15:
glosses: The act by which something is gored; a wound inflicted by a horn, usually the horn of a bull in the context of bullfighting
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A piece of cloth cut diagonally to increase its apparent width.
goring
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Cut gradually sloping, so as to be broader at the clew than at the earing of a sail.
rooming-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of placing the newborn in a crib near the mother's bed, instead of in a nursery, during the hospital stay.
ithyphallophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰθύφαλλος (ithúphallos) (from ἰθύς (ithús, “straight”), a variant of εὐθύς (euthús), + φαλλός (phallós, “penis”)) + English phobia.
Senses: examples: text: So, do you use your violence fantasies to mask your medorthophobia, your ithyphallophobia, or your medomalacuphobia?
ref: 2002 September 13, maf1029 [username], “Re: Homosexuals have phobias”, in alt.politics.homosexuality (Usenet):
text: (Nocturnal erections are probably good if you suffer from 'Ithyphallophobia', the morbid fear of seeing, having or thinking about an erect penis.)
ref: 2013, Tom Cutler, Slap and Tickle: The Unusual History of Sex and the People Who Have it, Constable, published 2012, →ISBN:
text: “Mommy, I know that you don't suffer from ithyphallophobia, so you can stop pretending that you do.”
ref: 2013, Eric Jerome Dickey, Decadence, Dutton, →ISBN:
glosses: The fear of having or seeing an erect penis.
eens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of een
cradling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The woman was cradling the baby in the crook of her arm as she fed it.
glosses: present participle and gerund of cradle
cradling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradlings
Senses: examples: text: About four thousand cradlings were observed among five mother-infant pairs during the first 15 weeks of each infant's life.
ref: 1967, Stuart A. Altmann, Social communication among primates:
glosses: The act by which one cradles a child etc.
glosses: The act of using a cradle (the tool).
glosses: The cutting of a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to pass a narrow place, the two parts being afterwards united and rehooped.
examples: text: the ceiling of the circular part is deeply panelled, the main ribs forming the core for the cradling
ref: 1853, Thomas Tredgold, Elementary Principles of Carpentry:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: The framework in arched or coved ceilings to which the laths are nailed.
grype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grypes
form: gryping
form: gryped
form: gryped
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gripe.
grype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grypes
form: gripe
Etymology: From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin gryps, grȳphus, from Ancient Greek γρῡ́ψ (grū́ps).
Senses: examples: text: One grype-ſchill, with a covering, gilt, […]
ref: 1758 [1540], “The Inventory of such Things as were kept in the Church of Fountains”, in John Burton, editor, Monasticon Eboracense: and the Ecclesiastical History of Yorkshire, York: […] for the Author, by N. Nickson, […], page 144:
text: His faders deed bodye..he devyded to an hondred grypes lest he sholde ryde from dethe to lyfe.
ref: 1520, Chronicles of England; quoted in “Gripe, sb.³”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes IV (F–G), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 430, column 1:
text: O my child, grypes make their nests of gold though their coates are feathers; […]
ref: 1588 (first recorded performance; first printed in 1592), John Lilly, “Gallathea”, in The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, (The Euphuist.) With Notes and Some Account of His Life and Writings by F. W. Fairholt, […]., volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], published 1858, page 237:
text: Like a white Hinde vnder the grypes ſharpe clawes, […]
ref: 1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC, signature E2, recto:
text: The vncleane eate not: to witte, the eagle, and the grype, and the oſprey, the ringtaile, and the vulture and kite according to their kinde: […]
ref: 1609, The Holie Bible, […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Doway: Lavrence Kellam, […], →OCLC, Devteronomie 14:12–13, page 427:
text: I dreamed a grype and a grimlie beast / Had carryed my crowne away, / My gorgett and my kirtle of golde, / And all my faire heade-geere.
ref: a. 1767, “Sir Aldingar”, in Francis James Child, editor, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, part III, Boston, Mass.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, published 1885, page 45:
glosses: A vulture, Gyps fulvus; the griffin.
interlayered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more interlayered
form: most interlayered
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a specified second material between the layers of the primary material
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Consisting of alternate layers of two materials
ipsi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: By alteration of Latin ipse (“self”).
Senses: glosses: self
glosses: same
Synonyms: sense: self
word: auto-
sense: self
word: self-
sense: same
word: homo-
sense: same
word: syn-
sense: same
word: sym-
sense: same
word: syl-
Coordinate terms: iso-
misprison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misprisons
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of misprision.
missprision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missprisions
Senses: examples: text: [I]f any persone were perceiued to be absent, or were sene to laughe at the folye of the emperour [Nero], he was forthe with accused, as it were, of missprision: whereby the emperour founde occasion to committe him to prison or to put hym to tortures.
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, “In what Wise Musike may be to a Noble Man Necessarie: And what Modestie ought to be therin”, in The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: Obsolete spelling of misprision.
paraformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraformers
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical transformer that uses magnetic inductance
resoluble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resoluble
form: most resoluble
Etymology: From Late Latin resolubilis, from Latin resolvō.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of resolvable.
synonyms: word: resolvable
contrastingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more contrastingly
form: most contrastingly
Etymology: From contrasting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a contrasting manner; by way of contrast.
nostrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɒs.tɹɪ.faɪ/
ipa: /ˈnɑs.tɹə.faɪ/
Forms: form: nostrifies
form: nostrifying
form: nostrified
form: nostrified
Etymology: First attested in the 1910s; learned borrowing from Latin noster (“our, ours”, oblique stem in nostr-) + -ify, compare nostrificate.
Senses: examples: text: The status of academic school is conferred on any institution by a special law, and only academic schools are authorized to confer degrees and nostrify degrees granted Polish citizens abroad.
ref: 1936, Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities, page 17:
text: He wanted to lecture on medicine and for that reason planned to nostrify his Paduan doctorate.
ref: 1997, “The Polish Review”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 42, page 81:
glosses: To nostrificate; to grant recognition to a degree from a foreign university.
examples: text: (We 'nostrify' a certain opinion, accept it etc.) This means that the identity of the subject becomes enlarged.
ref: 2000, “Indian journal of Secularism”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 5, page 12:
text: New Orleans palates nostrify incoming cuisines thanks to a pervasive eating will bred into generations of enthusiastic eaters.
ref: 2003, Berndt Ostendorf, “Eating New Orleans Style”, in Christa Grewe-Volpp, Werner Reinhart, editors, Erlesenes Essen, page 99:
text: Paul shows the Christian believers their place in the divine faith-righteousness, but does not "nostrify" Abraham in Christian terms.
ref: 2007, Benjamin Schliesser, Abraham's Faith in Romans 4, footnote 164, page 413:
glosses: To adopt, accept, or include as part of one's own culture.
Synonyms: nostrificate
Related terms: nostrification
nostrificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nostrificates
form: nostrificating
form: nostrificated
form: nostrificated
Etymology: First attested in 1889; back-formation from nostrification on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: To grant recognition to a degree from a foreign university; to nostrify.
Synonyms: nostrify
Related terms: nostrification
reconciliations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reconciliation
groovier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of groovy: more groovy
e-flat major
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternative spelling of E flat major.
grooviest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of groovy: most groovy
fifth column
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fifth columns
form: 5th column
Etymology: From a 1936 radio address by Spanish Nationalist general Emilio Mola, in which he spoke of four of his army columns moving on Madrid and a fifth column (quinta columna) consisting of his militant supporters within the capital, intent on undermining the Republican government from within.
Senses: examples: text: The rebels, who in November 1936 had fought to enter and failed, walked in yesterday as troops of the generally recognised Spanish Government, and not a shot was fired at them. The supporters of Franco in the city, the “fifth column” he once spoke of, had been waiting for this moment for more than two years.
ref: 1939 March 29, “Madrid gives itself up to Franco”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: True, we have people of the fifth column, and, unfortunately, the sixth column, with us; they have them in every country; but so far in this war the British diplomatic and secret service has not been so successful as that clever, astute brute-man Hitler and his agents.
ref: 1940 September 20, The Advertiser, Adelaide, page 24, column 4:
text: Lloyd George's belief in a revolutionary fifth column [the term hadn't been coined then] driving the strike was replicated on Fleet Street. On October 1 [1919] The Times thundered: "The attempt of the strike leaders to subvert Constitutional government in this country and to starve the nation into acquiescence in their revolutionary designs will be defeated, as other onslaughts have been defeated, by the firmness of the people in defence of its liberties."
ref: 2020 January 2, Conrad Landin, “Strife and strikes in post-war Britain”, in Rail, page 52:
glosses: A group of people which clandestinely undermines a larger group, such as a nation, to which it is expected to be loyal.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fifth, column.
Derived terms: fifth columnism
fifth columnist
Related terms: agent provocateur
Trojan horse
focussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more focussed
form: most focussed
form: focused
Senses: examples: text: When first sighted on the curve, outside the focussed beam, the signal aspects were faint and difficult to identify in a confused background.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Collision at Newcastle”, in Trains Illustrated, page 76:
glosses: Alternative spelling of focused.
focussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: focused
Senses: examples: text: Criticism focussed particularly on the services to and from Blackpool.
ref: 1964 November, “LMR under fire in the NW”, in Modern Railways, page 355:
glosses: simple past and past participle of focus
minor chord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minor chords
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical chord which has a minor third, as opposed to a major third, above its root, especially a minor triad.
Related terms: major chord
augmented chord
diminished chord
suspended chord
complexifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complexify
complexifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of complexify
complexified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of complexify
as anything
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He went over to Nuncombe Putney, as sure as anything;—hired Mrs. Clegg's chaise and pair, and asked for Mrs Trevelyan's house as open as anything.
ref: 1869 May, Anthony Trollope, “Dartmoor”, in He Knew He Was Right, volume I, London: Strahan and Company, […], →OCLC, page 122:
text: The heroine had five lovers. I'd be satisfied with one, wouldn't you? She was very handsome and she went through great tribulations. She could faint as easy as anything. I'd love to be able to faint, wouldn't you, Marilla? It's so romantic.
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, “The Delights of Anticipation”, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, published August 1909, →OCLC, page 130:
text: [...] he'll be as sorry as anything, he'll put it right.
ref: 1998, Maeve Binchy, Tara Road, Dell, →ISBN, page 260:
synonyms: as all hell
as hell
qualifier: simile
glosses: To a great degree or extent; very.
as all hell
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: I'd make her calm down, and then I'd go over to the other side of the living room and take out this cigarette case and light a cigarette, cool as all hell.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 265:
text: Her husband puts both hands on her shoulders, and she rubs her face against first one hand, then the other, sensuous as all hell.
ref: 2004, Kate Cann, Spanish Holiday: Or, How I Transformed the Worst Vacation Ever Into the Best Summer of My Life, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 72:
qualifier: simile
glosses: To a great extent or degree; very.
Synonyms: word: as anything
word: as hell
word: as fuck
goslings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gosling
mages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
rhymes: -eɪdʒɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of mage
icecap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icecaps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ice cap.
minuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of minute
minuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of minute
merchandises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merchandise
merchandises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of merchandise
merchandising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜːt͡ʃ(ə)ndaɪzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɝt͡ʃənˌdaɪzɪŋ/
Forms: form: merchandizing
Etymology: From Late Middle English marchaundising (“commerce, trading; commodities, goods; (plural) dealings with other persons”) [and other forms], from marchaundisen (“to engage in commerce, traffic”) (see further at merchandise (verb)) + -ing (suffix forming gerunds). The English word is analysable as merchandise + -ing (suffix forming nouns from verbs).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of merchandise
merchandised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of merchandise
fabling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fablings
Senses: examples: text: Time has obliterated from my memory much of his wild fablings; and the rest would appear but dull, as written, and to be read on shore.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “The Old Margate Hoy”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 60:
glosses: The act of telling fables.
fabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fable
abstringing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstringe
abstringed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstringe
abstruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abstrude
abstruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstrude
summering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of summer
summering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summerings
Senses: examples: text: the city folk, if they cared to, could trace their ancestry back to the same kind of village that they were now returning to for their summerings.
ref: 1965, Perry D. Westbrook, Mary Ellen Chase, page 69:
glosses: An instance of spending the summer, as for a vacation or for cooler weather.
summered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of summer
paroling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parole
paroled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊld
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parole
raping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rape
raping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapings
Senses: examples: text: Even girls of tender years and old women were raped in large numbers throughout the city, and many cases of abnormal and sadistic behavior in connection with these rapings occurred.
ref: 1997, Kelly Dawn Askin, War Crimes Against Women:
text: In the 1967 attacks Witnesses reported the rapings of more than one thousand of their women, one mother being sexually violated by six different men, her thirteen-year-old daughter by three men.
ref: 2003, Edmond C. Gruss, The Four Presidents of the Watch Tower Society, page 79:
glosses: Rape (sexual violation).
glosses: Misspelling of rapping.
relegates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of relegate
relegates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relegate
relegating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relegate
pollutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pollute
supersedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supersede
supersedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supersede
superseding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supersede
superseding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersedings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is superseded.
zippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zipper
zippers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zipper
cubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From cube + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cube
cubing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cube + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: […] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves “cubists”, all very reminiscent of the 1920s three dimensional, modern art phase.
ref: [1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734:
glosses: The activity of solving the Rubik's cube.
Derived terms: speedcubing
cubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cube
cubed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Raised to the third power.
Synonyms: ³
Related terms: CDO-cubed
uncubed
squared
twelfths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: twĕlfths
ipa: /twɛlfθs/
ipa: /twɛlθs/
ipa: /twɛlfs/
ipa: /twɛlftθs/
rhymes: -ɛlfθs
Senses: glosses: plural of twelfth
fifteenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fifteenth
squaring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of square
squaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squarings
Senses: examples: text: Repeated squarings of the number 3 yield the value 6561.
glosses: The act or process by which something is squared (in various senses).
copulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copulate
copulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copulate
copulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of copulate
tensed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tense
quarantining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: By surface analysis, quarantine + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quarantine