cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autovector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autovectors
Etymology: From auto- + vector.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An interrupt vector representing a priority level, from which the processor determines the actual target address.
colum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colums
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coolung.
colum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of column.
Scottish Deerhound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scottish Deerhounds
Senses: glosses: A large sighthound bred in Scotland to hunt deer.
Scottish Deerhounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scottish Deerhound
nonpositional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + positional.
Senses: glosses: Not positional.
nonsituational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + situational.
Senses: glosses: Not situational.
fensible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fensible
form: most fensible
Etymology: Reduced form of defensible.
Senses: examples: text: the Castle wall, / That was so high, as foe might not it clime, / And all so faire, and fensible withall, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Defensible, well-fortified.
compacture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin compactūra.
Senses: examples: text: […] ouer it a faire Portcullis hong, / Which to the gate directly did incline, / With comely compasse, and compacture strong […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The fact of being closely put together; compact nature or structure.
larum-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: larum-bells
Senses: examples: text: His larumbell might lowd and wide be hard, / When cause requird, but neuer out of time; / Early and late it rong, at euening and at prime.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: An alarm-bell.
alarm-bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alarm-bells
Senses: glosses: A bell rung to signal danger or emergency.
glosses: A bell which is rung to indicate a pre-arranged time, especially to mark a desired moment for waking up, performing a specific action etc.
gest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
homophone: jest
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: gests
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French geste. Doublet of jest.
Senses: examples: text: The tales of Robin Hood, or the gests written by Ariost the Italian in his booke intituled Orlando furioso.
ref: 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:
text: Who faire them quites, as him beseemed best,
And goodly gan discourse of many a noble gest.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.
examples: a. 1639, Joseph Mede, a sermon
And surely no Ceremonies of dedication , no not of Solomons Temple it self , are comparable to those sacred gests , whereby this place was sanctified
glosses: An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.
examples: text: through his heroic grace and honorable gest
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24:
glosses: Bearing; deportment.
examples: text: They did obeysaunce, as beseemed right, / And then againe returned to their restes: / The Porter eke to her did lout with humble gestes.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: more Kings and Princes have written his gestes and actions, than any other historians, of what quality soever, have registred the gests, or collected the actions of any other King or Prince that ever was[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 36, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: A gesture or action.
Derived terms: gested
gestic
gest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛst/
homophone: jest
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: gests
Etymology: A variant of gist (“resting-place”).
Senses: examples: text: […]Yet of your Royall presence, Ile aduenture / The borrow of a Weeke. When at Bohemia / You take my Lord, Ile giue him my Commission, / To let him there a Moneth, behind the Gest / Prefix'd for's parting: yet (good-deed) Leontes, / I loue thee not a Iarre o'th' Clock, behind / What Lady she her Lord. You'le stay?
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
glosses: Alternative form of gist (“a stop for lodging or rest in a journey, or the place where this happens; a rest”).
Derived terms: english: roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress
translation: roll reciting the several stages of a royal progress
word: gests
gests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Etymology: A variant of gists (etymology 1).
Senses: examples: text: The pictured lives of martyr, or of saint, / Or gests of valorous knight
ref: 1829, John Hanmer, “Proteus”, in Fra Cipolla: And Other Poems:
glosses: Alternative form of gists (“a roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress”).
gests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛsts/
rhymes: -ɛsts
Etymology: From gest + -s (suffix forming regular plurals of nouns).
Senses: glosses: plural of gest
indicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indican
trindle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪndl/
Forms: form: trindles
Etymology: From Middle English trindel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend + -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend.
Senses: glosses: A wheel, especially of a wheelbarrow.
glosses: A piece of wood, etc., laid between the cords and boards of a book to flatten before cutting.
trindle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪndl/
Forms: form: trindles
form: trindling
form: trindled
form: trindled
Etymology: From Middle English trindel (“wheel, roller”), from Old English tryndel (“circle, ring”), from Proto-West Germanic *trundil (“ring, hoop”), equivalent to trend + -le. Akin to Low German tründeln (“to roll”). More at trend.
Senses: glosses: to roll, trundle.
Related terms: trendle
trindle-tail
trundle
trend
classifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: c. 1863 classifiable + -ity
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being classifiable.
violably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more violably
form: most violably
Etymology: From violable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Done in a violable manner.
steam-cracks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steam-crack
steam-cracking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of steam-crack
Lukashenko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ukrainian Лукаше́нко (Lukašénko).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Лукаше́нко (Lukašénko).
Related terms: english: from Belarusian
translation: from Belarusian
word: Lukashenka
Yanukovych
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yanukovich
Etymology: From Ukrainian Януко́вич (Janukóvyč).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Януко́вич (Janukóvyč).
in true
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Properly aligned; in alignment.
out of true
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Not properly aligned; out of alignment.
Servian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Servian
form: most Servian
Etymology: From Servia + -an.
Senses: examples: text: I must say they were not cheering to me, for amongst them were “Ordog”—Satan, “pokol”—hell, “stregoica”—witch, “vrolok” and “vlkoslak”—both of which mean the same thing, one being Slovak and the other Servian for something that is either were-wolf or vampire.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Jonathan Harker’s Journal”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter I, page 6:
text: She probably thought Kaikobad was an unfashionable German spa, where you'd meet matrimonial bargain-hunters and emergency Servian kings.
ref: 1904, ‘Saki’, “Reginald's Rubaiyat”, in Reginald:
glosses: Serbian.
Servian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Servians
Etymology: From Servia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Serbian.
Servian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Servia + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Serbian language.
Servian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ancient Roman grammarian Servius.
proximity mines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proximity mine
indicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin indicans.
Senses: examples: text: The ability to suffer patiently, then, is indicant of spiritual maturity
ref: 2009, Paul L. Heck, Common Ground: Islam, Christianity, and Religious Pluralism:
glosses: indicative; that points out.
Derived terms: coindicant
indicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicants
Etymology: From Latin indicans.
Senses: examples: text: Yet in spite of the essential crudity of this advertising, it had very early developed the value of the trademark as an indicant of quality in the product to which it was attached.
ref: 1910, Edwin Balmer, The Science of Advertising:
text: "A number of things—his gratuitous and obviously mendacious statement that he had just read of the murder; his wholly insincere homily on the sacredness of professional confidences; the cautious and Pecksniffian confession of his fatherly regard for the girl; his elaborate struggle to remember when he had last seen her—this particularly, I think, made me suspicious; and then, the psychopathic indicants of his physiognomy."
ref: 1927, Willard Huntington Wright, The "Canary" Murder Case/Chapter 11, Chapter 11:
glosses: Something which indicates or points out; an indicator
Derived terms: contraindicant
indicavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indicavits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin indicāvit (“he has indicated”).
Senses: examples: text: This act recited, that thentofore suits met with unmeet delays, by the indicavits being sued out before the suit in the spiritual court was recorded
ref: 1791, John Mallory, Modern Entries, in English:
topics: law
glosses: A writ of prohibition against proceeding in the spiritual court in certain cases, when the suit belongs to the common-law courts.
tire kickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tire kicker
semidurable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semi-durable
Etymology: From semi- + durable.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat durable.
semidurable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semidurables
form: semi-durable
Etymology: From semi- + durable.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A nondurable good with a somewhat limited lifetime, such as clothing.
money goggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He's having indiscriminate sex with women, and he's using money goggles instead of beer goggles to get the job done.
ref: 2009 April, Newsweek, page 67:
glosses: The illusion that a man appears more attractive to women when he is wealthy regardless of his appearance or personality.
Related terms: beer goggles
quadrilobate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + lobate.
Senses: glosses: Having four lobes.
Synonyms: quadrilobed
emerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈməɹd͡ʒ/
Etymology: Clipping of emergency.
Senses: examples: text: These EMS people, who should just walk into the emerg, drop their patient off, and then leave, are frozen in the emerg for a long period of time, because there aren't enough resources there.
ref: 2009 January 17, Daniel Dale, “Ambulance waits get longer”, in Toronto Star::
text: “Rather than going to emerg and getting admitted and having the condition over a period of time, we understand that the event happened fairly quickly.
ref: 2009 May 26, Theresa Boyle, Tanya Talaga, “Swine flu Factor Probed in death”, in Toronto Star::
text: “What we've seen in the last few days is a number of cases that have come to emerg departments.
ref: 2009 October 1, Theresa Boyle, “Second swine-flu wave hits Toronto, southern Ontario”, in Toronto Star::
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The emergency department of a hospital.
Synonyms: word: A&E
word: accident and emergency
word: casualty
word: casualty department
word: emergency
word: emergency department
word: emergency room
word: ER
word: E. R.
word: E.R.
Coordinate terms: trauma
trauma center
trauma centre
trauma department
trauma room
outlift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outlifts
form: outlifting
form: outlifted
form: outlifted
Etymology: From out- + lift.
Senses: glosses: To lift more weight than.
multiculti
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiculti
form: most multiculti
form: multi-culti
Etymology: From German Multikulti. By itself a clipping of multiculturalism.
Senses: examples: text: But many of her fans didn’t listen too closely to her lyrics, concentrating instead on the beat, the newness of the sound and her own multiculti, many-layered appeal.
ref: 2010 May 25, Lynn Hirschberg, “M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: But Bloom has a bit of Zürich in him too – modernist multi-culti Zürich, the Zürich of the flâneur as well as the banker.
ref: 2016, Padraig Rooney, The Gilded Châlet, page 110:
text: The literary landscape of London is as varied as the city itself. According to the 2011 census, 40 percent of residents identified as “Asian, Black, Mixed or Other.” While this is no multi-culti utopia, it is undeniably an intensely multicultural metropolis where more than 300 languages are spoken.
ref: 2022 October 12, Bernardine Evaristo, “Read Your Way Through London”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Multicultural.
multiculti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multicultis
form: multi-culti
Etymology: From German Multikulti. By itself a clipping of multiculturalism.
Senses: examples: text: Tired of the endless battle between liberals and identity politicians, Western civvies and multicultis?
ref: 1992, Lingua franca: the review of academic life: Volume 3:
text: She claimed the Labour Party had been "hijacked by Muslims and multicultis"[…]
ref: 2010, Sam Cherribi, In the House of War: Dutch Islam Observed, page 167:
glosses: One who pushes multicultural beliefs and values in a politically correct way.
Related terms: Multikulti
multicult
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multicult
form: most multicult
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: multicultural
puck handling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puck-handling.
puckhandling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puck-handling.
puck-handling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puck handling
form: puckhandling
Etymology: 1921, puck + handling.
Senses: examples: text: Dazzling puck handling by the visitors, but college men break up swift attacks. [headline]
ref: 1921 March 12, Boston Daily Globe, page 6:
text: […] Flyers dominated the game with superior skating, checking, passing and puck-handling.
ref: 1965 May 15, Kingston Whig-Standard, page 9:
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: The ability to control the puck; stickhandling.
Related terms: puckhandler
decretals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decretal
bountihead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bountihed
Etymology: From bounty + -head.
Senses: examples: text: How shall fraile pen, with feare disparaged, / Conceiue such soueraine glory, and great bountihed?
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Bounteousness.
compane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: companes
form: companing
form: companed
form: companed
Etymology: From Old French compaignier.
Senses: examples: text: Dioclesians fiftie daughters shene / Into this land by chaunce haue driuen bene, / Where companing with feends and filthy Sprights, / Through vaine illusion of their lust vnclene, / They brought forth Giants […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To associate with.
cycloheptadiene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloheptadienes
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Decomposition of 4 in the presence of cis-piperylene at room temperature results in the stereocontrolled formation of trans-cycloheptadiene 27 in 90% ee (96% ee at -78 °C).
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric unsaturated alicyclic hydrocarbons having seven carbon atoms and two double bonds; any derivative of such compound
cycloheptadienes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
These transformations can be used in general methods for the asymmetric synthesis of vinylcyclopropanes, cyclopropaneamino acids, 4,4-diarylbutanoates, cycloheptadienes, bicyclo[3.2.1]octadienes, 8-oxabicyclo[3.2.1]octan-3-ones, tropanes and other polycyclic compounds.
glosses: plural of cycloheptadiene
vodka tonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vodka tonics
Senses: glosses: An alcoholic beverage made with vodka and tonic water.
marry off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marries off
form: marrying off
form: married off
form: married off
Senses: examples: text: Mark Warshavsky, the composer of the classic "Oifn Pripitchik" wrote the melody now well-known from the conclusion of the wedding festivities, in which the parents marrying off their last child, sit with garlands on their heads, while family and friends dance around them.
ref: 2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 141:
glosses: To successfully arrange the marriage of someone, especially a relative.
seal the deal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seals the deal
form: sealing the deal
form: sealed the deal
form: sealed the deal
Senses: examples: text: After completing a medical and the requisite paperwork on Tuesday to seal the deal, Di María said: “I am absolutely delighted to be joining Manchester United. I have thoroughly enjoyed my time in Spain and there were a lot of clubs interested in me, but United is the only club that I would have left Real Madrid for.
ref: 2014 August 26, Jamie Jackson, “Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To come to an agreement; to finalize a deal.
keep someone on ice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps someone on ice
form: keeping someone on ice
form: kept someone on ice
form: kept someone on ice
Senses: glosses: To keep someone uninformed and waiting for a response.
what can I say
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: what can you do; it is what it is
text: A: But it's written right there in the instructions! B: What can I say? We're not dealing with people who are good at reading, here.
synonyms: what can I tell you
glosses: Indicating that nothing that could be said would add to or improve the situation.
I am what I am
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: For Jacob's God and Peter's Saviour Utters above each circumstance—"I am what I am"
ref: 1907, M. A. Chaplin, Chimes for the Times, London: Farncombe & Son, Gospel Chimes: "I Am That (What) I Am", page 22:
text: The Apostle said that he was 'not worthy to be called an apostle because he persecuted the Church of God', but he goes on to add: 'But by the grace of God I am what I am'. What does it matter what I was? 'I am what I am.'
ref: 1965, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, pages 65, 66:
text: Popeye said, "I am what I am, that is all that I am, I am Popeye the sailorman." I like that. Somehow, we have to incorporate this concept throughout our lives. I am important because I am what I am.
ref: 1974, Melvin White, Barriers to Health Care for Older Americans: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health of the Elderly of the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate, Part 10, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, Statement of Dr. Melvin White, Director, Rocky Mountain Gerontological Center at the University of Utah, page 1025:
text: I am what I am and I am U.S. American
ref: 1983 [1981], Rosario Morales, edited by Cherríe Maraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, New York: Kitchen Table, "I Am What I Am", page 12:
glosses: I am as I must be; I cannot be changed; I can't help the way I am.
Related terms: it is what it is
tough cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tough cookie
tough cookies
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Too bad (for one); the outcome that one desires is not likely to change.
Synonyms: tough luck
hard cheese
shit out of luck
tough bananas
tough shit
tough sledding
tough tarts
tough titties
tough titty
tough toodles
tough tuchus
play it cool
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays it cool
form: playing it cool
form: played it cool
form: played it cool
Senses: glosses: to act cool
Taíno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Taínos
form: Taino
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Taino.
Taíno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Taino.
displeasance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old French desplaisance.
Senses: examples: text: Cordeill said she lou'd him, as behoou'd: / Whose simple answere, wanting colours faire / To paint it forth, him to displeasance moou'd […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Displeasure, dissatisfaction.
areach
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːtʃ
Forms: form: areaches
form: areaching
form: areached
form: areached
form: araught
form: araught
Etymology: From Old English aræcan, corresponding to a- + reach.
Senses: examples: text: Then his ambitious sonnes vnto them twaine / Arraught the rule […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To reach for, get at, obtain, get hold of.
Lakhota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lakota.
Mazanderanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mazanderani
crenotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From creno- + therapy.
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The therapeutic use of mud, mineral waters and steam.
creolin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creolins
Senses: glosses: A fraction of coal tar containing cresols.
noegenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined around 1923 by Charles Spearman in The nature of intelligence and the principles of cognition, from noetic + -genesis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The acquisition of new knowledge from observation and experience, and from inferring relationships between known things.
wikipedia: Charles Spearman
Derived terms: noegenetic
creosol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creosols
Etymology: From creosote + -ol (with syllabic brachylogy of -ote).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The methoxy phenol 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol that is a constituent of creosote
Brunswicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunswickers
Etymology: From Brunswick + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Braunschweig, also known as Brunswick, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Brunswick, a suburb of Melbourne, capital of Victoria, Australia.
glosses: A native or inhabitant of any city named Brunswick, such as the ones in Georgia, Maine, Maryland and Ohio, United States.
Related terms: New Brunswick
crepon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepons
Etymology: Borrowed from French crépon.
Senses: glosses: A thin fabric made from silk or fine wool
Brunswickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Brunswicker
antinucleons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinucleon
antipersistence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-persistence
Etymology: From anti- + persistence.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being antipersistent
antiscreening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + screening.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property, in some gauge theories, of a strong interaction becoming arbitrarily weak at short distances
Synonyms: asymptotic freedom
Asmus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asmuses
Etymology: Borrowed from Danish, Dutch, German Asmus.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
foy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪ
Forms: form: foys
Etymology: From Middle French foy.
Senses: examples: text: He Easterland subdewd, and Danmarke wonne, / And of them both did foy and tribute raise, / The which was dew in his dead fathers dayes […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Faith, allegiance.
examples: text: To Westminster Hall in the morning with Captain Lambert, and there he did at the Dog give me and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day towards the Streights.
ref: 1661 November 25, Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys: 1661, Echo Library, page 124:
glosses: A feast given by one about to leave a place.
femtoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From femtoscopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to femtoscopy.
ferroelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ferroelectric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a ferroelectric manner
glosses: With regard to ferroelectricity
fibrillatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibrillatory
form: most fibrillatory
Senses: glosses: Accompanied by fibrillation.
Derived terms: antifibrillatory
postfibrillatory
profibrillatory
matroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matroidal
form: most matroidal
Etymology: From matroid + -al.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a matroid
Derived terms: polymatroidal
nanolithographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + lithographic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or produced by nanolithography
Derived terms: nanolithographically
nonextremal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + extremal.
Senses: glosses: Not extremal
vibron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrons
Etymology: From vibro- + -on.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A quantum of intramolecular vibration
Related terms: phonon
polaron
disthronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disthronizes
form: disthronizing
form: disthronized
form: disthronized
Etymology: From dis- + throne + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Deposed was from Princedome soueraine, / And pitteous Elidure put in his sted; / Who shortly it to him restord againe, / Till by his death he it recouered; / But Peridure and Vigent him disthronized.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To remove from the throne, to dethrone.
foys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foy
disthronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disthronize
disthronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disthronize
disthronized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disthronize
crenature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crenatures
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A rounded tooth or notch of a crenate leaf, or any part that is crenate; a crenelle.
glosses: The state of being crenated or notched.
crepature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepatures
Etymology: From Latin crepātūra (“fissure, crack”), from Latin crepāre (“to crack, creak”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: a rupture, hernia
glosses: a wound, crack or chap in the skin
Kia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The universal mind or ultimate power, in the dualist occultism of Austin Osman Spare.
Coordinate terms: Zos
Kia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Irene's conversation with Christina “Kia” Strömborg brought nothing new.
ref: 2014, Helene Tursten, The Fire Dance, →ISBN:
text: I owe to my wife, Anna Christina (Kia) De Ozorio Nobre, not only a life full of love, but also the initial idea of dedicating more attention [...]
ref: 2014, Luciano Floridi, The Fourth Revolution, →ISBN:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Christina.
Kia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Korean 기아 (Kia), from 起 (ki, “to arise”) + 亞 (a), from 亞細亞 (asea, “Asia”), in turn from Latin Asia.
Senses: glosses: A Korean conglomerate company and brand name.
Kia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kias
Etymology: From Korean 기아 (Kia), from 起 (ki, “to arise”) + 亞 (a), from 亞細亞 (asea, “Asia”), in turn from Latin Asia.
Senses: glosses: A vehicle of the Kia brand.
evangely
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evangelies
Etymology: From ecclesiastical Latin evangelium.
Senses: examples: text: […] good Lucius, / That first receiued Christianitie, / The sacred pledge of Christes Euangely […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: The "good news" revealed by the Gospel; redemption.
glosses: One of the four Gospels.
passability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From passable + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being passable.
Carlene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A 20th-century coinage from Carl and the ending -ene, -lene, as in Marlene and Charlene.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
impassability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impassabilities
Etymology: From impassable + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being impassable.
computerizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computerizable
form: most computerizable
Etymology: From computerize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be computerized.
spoilful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spoilful
form: most spoilful
Etymology: From spoil + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: […] hauing oft in battell vanquished / Those spoilefull Picts, and swarming Easterlings, / Long time in peace his Realme established […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Destructive, pillaging.
incommunicably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incommunicably
form: most incommunicably
Etymology: From incommunicable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incommunicable manner or fashion.
somatic nervous system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatic nervous systems
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The part of the peripheral nervous system that transmits signals from the central nervous system to skeletal muscles, and from receptors of external stimuli, thereby mediating sight, hearing and touch.
crystal healing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Demonstrated by experienced professionals, the fair will provide the opportunity to learn about unique healing methods such as Chakra Healing, Sound Therapy, Reiki, Kinesiology and Crystal Healing.
ref: 2023 December 21, The Central Coast Community News, NSW, page 16, column 2:
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: The practice of using the supposed therapeutic effects of crystals to cure illness.
Related terms: charmstone
what does that have to do with the price of tea in China
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: what does that have to do with the price of corn
form: what does that have to do with the price of fish
Senses: examples: text: A: "I read that aliens built the Egyptian pyramids." – B: "What medications are you taking?" – A: "What does that have to do with the price of tea in China?"
text: My reaction is "What does this have to do with the price of tea in China?"
ref: 1972, American School Counselor Association, The School counselor, volume 20, page 7:
text: To quote the old saying, "what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?" Talk about totally irrelevant.
ref: 2000, United States Senate, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, Agricultural trade options: hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, →ISBN, page 103:
glosses: Used to indicate that a previous comment is irrelevant or non sequitur.
nonfuzzy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fuzzy.
Senses: examples: a nonfuzzy subset
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not fuzzy.
biocybernetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biocybernetic
form: most biocybernetic
Etymology: From bio- + cybernetic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to biocybernetics.
bioconversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bioconversion
nonmalaria
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.məˈlɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.məˈlɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From non- + malaria.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to malaria.
nonmalarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɒn.məˈlɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌnɑn.məˈlɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From non- + malarial.
Senses: glosses: Not malarial.
pretranslations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretranslation
pretranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretranslations
Etymology: From pre- + translation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Translation performed in advance.
Related terms: pretranslated
pretranslator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretranslators
Etymology: From pre- + translator.
Senses: glosses: A program or process that performs pretranslation.
pretranslators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretranslator
nonaddicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + addicted.
Senses: examples: text: The scientists used an M.R.I. scanner to compare the brain responses of 12 gambling addicts and 12 nonaddicted people to a card-guessing game. Subjects were told to pick a playing card, and if the card turned out to be red, they won a euro.
ref: 2006 June 25, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, “An Anti-Addiction Pill?”, in The New York Times Magazine:
glosses: Not addicted.
nonerratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + erratic.
Senses: glosses: Not erratic.
noncognition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + cognition.
Senses: glosses: Absence of cognition; failure to know or perceive.
precognitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precognition
anosognosias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anosognosia
admirability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ædmɪɹəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: admirabilities
Etymology: From Latin admīrābilitās. By surface analysis, admire + -ability.
Senses: synonyms: admirableness
glosses: That quality which produces admiration or wonder
Related terms: admirable
admiration
admire
anosognosic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anosognosic
form: most anosognosic
Etymology: From anosognosia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or exhibiting anosognosia.
berisp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈɹɪsp/
rhymes: -ɪsp
Forms: form: berisps
form: berisping
form: berisped
form: berisped
Etymology: From Middle Dutch berispen, berespen, berepsen, from be- + *repsen, from Old Dutch *repsōn (“to blame, accuse”), from Proto-West Germanic *rafsijan (“to blame”)).
Senses: glosses: To censure; reprove.
epiclassical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: epiclassic
Etymology: From epi- + classical.
Senses: examples: text: epiclassical law
text: There followed 60 years of disorder, up to 300, which have been termed epiclassical.
ref: 1998, Simon Hornblower, The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, page 397:
glosses: Coming after the classical period and, usually, maintaining continuity with it.
epiclassic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epiclassical.
betrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æp
Forms: form: betraps
form: betrapping
form: betrapped
form: betrapped
Etymology: From Middle English betrappen, bitrappen, from Old English betræppan, betreppan (“to entrap, catch”), from Proto-West Germanic *bitrappjan, equivalent to be- + trap. Cognate with West Frisian betrappe, betraapje (“to catch, surprise”), Dutch betrappen (“to catch, surprise”).
Senses: glosses: To catch in a trap; entrap; ensnare; enclose.
betrap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æp
Forms: form: betraps
form: betrapping
form: betrapped
form: betrapped
Etymology: From be- + trap.
Senses: glosses: To furnish (a horse) with trappings; deck; adorn.
bewake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewakes
form: bewaking
form: bewaked
form: bewaked
Etymology: From Middle English bewaken (“to watch”), from Old English bewacian (“to watch, keep watch over”), equivalent to be- + wake. Cognate with Dutch bewaken, German bewachen, Swedish bevaka, Danish bevåge.
Senses: glosses: To watch; keep watch over; guard.
glosses: To awaken thoroughly; keep awake.
glosses: To spend waking; watch through.
glosses: To keep awake; watch.
glosses: To watch over (a body); observe funeral rites for.
Related terms: bewatch
porridgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more porridgey
form: most porridgey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of porridgy.
bokke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese ボッケ (bokke).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sea raven (“fish”).
synonyms: word: sea raven
extra: fish
embraceries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embracery
noncylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + cylinder.
Senses: glosses: Not in the shape of a cylinder.
nonacrimonious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + acrimonious.
Senses: glosses: Not acrimonious.
nonconflicted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + conflicted.
Senses: glosses: Not conflicted.
nonreconstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + reconstructed.
Senses: glosses: Not reconstructed.
kerygmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerygma
pocket park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket parks
Senses: examples: text: The Central West End Midtown Development Corp. has shed its somewhat unwieldy moniker for the sleeker Park Central Development Corp. […] The new name is meant to reflect the relationship of the neighborhoods to Forest Park, Tower Grove Park, the Missouri Botanical Garden and numerous pocket parks.
ref: 2010 March 31 – April 13, "Local Motion", West End Word, volume 39, number 7, page 2
glosses: A small public park.
Synonyms: minipark
Coordinate terms: parklet
kerugma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kerugmata
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kerygma.
pocket parks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket park
kerugmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerugma
nonhilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + hilar.
Senses: glosses: Not hilar.
mulelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mulelike
form: most mulelike
Etymology: From mule + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mule.
colubriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin coluber and translingual Coluber + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a snake
glosses: Characteristic of snakes of the family Colubridae; colubrid
colubriform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colubriforms
Etymology: From translingual Colubriformes.
Senses: glosses: Any snake of the clade Colubriformes
fascialike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fascialike
form: most fascialike
Etymology: From fascia + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fascia.
altarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more altarlike
form: most altarlike
Etymology: From altar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: All this he inferred from the altarlike prow and there being no women on board.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi: And a Voyage Thither:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an altar.
columbiferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more columbiferous
form: most columbiferous
Etymology: From columbium + -ferous.
Senses: glosses: That contains or yields columbium
Pucklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pucklike
form: most Pucklike
Etymology: From Puck + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of the mythological Puck, a mischievous nature sprite.
columbiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more columbiform
form: most columbiform
Etymology: From translingual Columbiformes.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a dove or pigeon; of the order Columbiformes.
columbiform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columbiforms
Etymology: From translingual Columbiformes.
Senses: glosses: Any bird of the order Columbiformes.
columelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more columelliform
form: most columelliform
Etymology: From columella + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a columella.
sphygmograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphygmogram
columniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more columniferous
form: most columniferous
Etymology: From column + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing columns.
columniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more columniform
form: most columniform
Etymology: From column + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a column.
lasering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of laser
checkt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of check
combatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combatable
form: most combatable
Etymology: From combat + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be combated or opposed
Derived terms: uncombatable
bananaless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From banana + -less.
Senses: examples: text: If you take ten bananas because the bananas are free, you'll likely end up with eight rotten bananas covered in flies while another person is left tragically bananaless. Take what you're going to use and leave the rest for someone else.
ref: 2010, Jaime Morrison Curtis, Prudent Advice: Lessons for My Baby Daughter, page 80:
glosses: Without bananas.
appleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apple + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without apples.
combinedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more combinedly
form: most combinedly
Etymology: From combined + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In combination; jointly
dorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: dorses
Senses: glosses: The Baltic cod or variable cod (Gadus morhua callarias).
dorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔː(ɹ)s/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: dorses
Etymology: Compare Latin dorsum (“the back”).
Senses: examples: text: books, all richly bound, with gilt dorses
ref: 1691, Anthony Wood, Athenæ Oxonienses:
glosses: The back of a book.
glosses: A dossal.
Derived terms: send to dorse
eriometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eriometer
comfiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kʌm.fɪ.tjʊə/
Forms: form: comfitures
Etymology: From French confiture, from Latin confectūra.
Senses: examples: text: Onely let mee love none, no, not the sport / From country grasse, to comfitures of Court […]
ref: 1635, John Donne, Loves Usury:
glosses: A confection, especially of preserved fruit.
treasurelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treasurelike
form: most treasurelike
Etymology: From treasure + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of treasure.
blushless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blushless
form: most blushless
Etymology: From blush + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without blushes; unblushing.
Derived terms: blushlessly
blushlessness
comfortlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comfortlessly
form: most comfortlessly
Etymology: From comfortless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a comfortless manner
comfitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comfiture
unlasered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lasered.
Senses: examples: text: Her vision was poor in the unlasered eye.
glosses: Not having been lasered.
governmentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more governmentlike
form: most governmentlike
Etymology: From government + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of government.
parliamentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parliamentlike
form: most parliamentlike
Etymology: From parliament + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parliament.
nonrusty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rusty.
Senses: glosses: Not rusty.
fineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finery
soapings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soaping
neck down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: necks down
form: necking down
form: necked down
form: necked down
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: To alter (a cartridge) by forcing it into a smaller calibre and size.
Related terms: neck up
fireform
tablewares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tableware