cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
overpast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + past.
Senses: examples: text: Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 57:1:
text: That the Princess had done with him, done with him for ever, remained the most vivid impression that Hyacinth had carried away from Madeira Crescent the night before.... He was overpast, he had become vague, he was extinct.
ref: 1886, Henry James, The Princess Casamassima, London: Macmillan and Co.:
glosses: ended; having passed over or passed by
setim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsiːtɪm/
Senses: examples: text: Thou shalt make bars also of setim-wood, and shalt overlay them with gold.
ref: 1582, Bible (Douay-Rheims)Exodus 25:13
glosses: Alternative form of shittim.
esports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eSports
form: e-sports
Etymology: From e- + sports.
Senses: synonyms: cybersports
glosses: Abbreviation of electronic sports, the competitive play of video games as a commercial spectator sport.
spirography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From spiro- + -graphy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The measurement of breathing movements.
Related terms: spirogram
spirograph
liberal guilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Empathy for the situation of the poor and working class and shame and remorse for one’s affluence, associated with liberal political views.
Related terms: bleeding-heart
white guilt
-hedra
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕδρα (hédra, “face of a geometrical solid”).
Senses: glosses: plural of -hedron
Related terms: -hedron
-hedral
middle-distance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Designating a race of length greater than that of a sprint but less than several kilometres
Related terms: middle distance
jactitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒaktɪteɪt/
Forms: form: jactitates
form: jactitating
form: jactitated
form: jactitated
Etymology: First attested in 1822; borrowed from Latin iactitātus, perfect passive participle of iactitō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The ass is lying on its side, ribs heaving, forelegs jactitating.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 344:
glosses: To move about restlessly.
Related terms: jactitation
androphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From andro- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who fears men.
glosses: One who hates or is averse to men.
Related terms: androphobia
androphobic
aminogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aminograms
Etymology: From amino- + -gram.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: amino acid profile
glosses: A diagram that shows the amino acid composition of a peptide or protein
debrick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: debricks
form: debricking
form: debricked
form: debricked
Etymology: From de- + brick.
Senses: glosses: To remove bricks from a surface
glosses: To repair a malfunctioning smartphone (or similar device)
attempted rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attempted rape
gestalt therapies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gestalt therapy
orosomucoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orosomucoid
file sections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of file section
flysheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flysheet
amoebal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /əˈmiːbəl/
Forms: form: more amoebal
form: most amoebal
form: amebal
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amoeb- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to amoebas
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Related terms: amoebic
benzofurane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzofuranes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of benzofuran.
deoxynojirimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deoxy- + nojirimycin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The glucosidase inhibitor (2R,3R,4R,5S)-2-(hydroxymethyl)-3,4,5-piperidinetriol present in mulberries
Synonyms: moranoline
episcopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing an optical device in which light is reflected by (rather than traversing) the object being observed
Related terms: diascopic
diascopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From diascopy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to diascopy.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing an optical device in which light traverses (rather than being reflected by) the object being observed.
Related terms: episcopic
immunofluorescently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunofluorescent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of immunofluorescence
Related terms: immunofluorescent
inokosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular phytoecdysone isolated from chaff flowers of species Achyranthes fauriei.
Derived terms: isoinokosterone
monospecies
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + species.
Senses: glosses: Composed of organisms of a single species
moranoline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1-deoxynojirimycin
nojirimycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nojirimycins
Etymology: From nojiri + mycin, first produced by a species of Streptomyces actinobacterium isolated from soil in Lake Nojiri in Japan.
Senses: glosses: An antibiotic, produced by some strains of Streptomyces, that inhibits glucosidases
Derived terms: deoxynojirimycin
galactonojirimycin
nontumor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + tumor.
Senses: glosses: nontumoral
osteochondrodysplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteochondrodysplasias
Etymology: From osteo- + chondrodysplasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disorder that affects the development of bone and cartilage.
Coordinate terms: osteodystrophy
chondrodysplasia
chondrodystrophy
reepithelialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reepithelialisation
Etymology: From re- + epithelialization.
Senses: glosses: The reformation of epithelial tissue as part of wound healing
spectrofluorometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spectrofluorometry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to spectrofluorometry.
glosses: Obtained by use of a spectrofluorometer.
reepithelialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From re- + epithelialisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of reepithelialization.
eWorld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eworld
form: e-world
Etymology: From e- + world.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Cyberspace and its penetration into the nonvirtual world.
eWorld
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: eworld
form: e-world
Etymology: From e- + world.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: eWorld, a defunct online service operated by Apple Inc.
vermiformis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of vermiform appendix.
synonyms: word: vermiform appendix
axial tilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axial tilt
axial tilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axial tilts
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The angle between the rotational axis and the orbital axis of an orbiting celestial object.
Synonyms: sense: angle between rotational and orbital axes
word: obliquity
kwedini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwiːˈdɪni/
Forms: form: kwedinis
Etymology: From Xhosa kwedini, contracted form of nkwenkwendini, vocative form of nkwenkwe (“boy”).
Senses: examples: text: A year later Jonathan – or Sipho, which Gordon said was his ‘real’ name – was back, no longer a kwedini but a man.
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 38:
glosses: A young boy, especially a Xhosa.
ischurias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ischuria
sargo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sargos
Etymology: From Spanish sargo.
Senses: glosses: Diplodus sargus, a species of seabream native to the eastern Atlantic and western Indian Oceans.
Synonyms: white seabream
sargos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sargo
New Low German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The modern stage of the Low German language, distinguished from its predecessor stages such as Middle Low German.
Related terms: english: Middle Saxon
translation: Middle Saxon
word: Middle Low German
english: Old Saxon
translation: Old Saxon
word: Old Low German
baases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baas
hd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of head.
nigorobuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nigorobuna
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ニゴロブナ (nigorobuna) (also written 煮頃鮒, 似五郎鮒, にごろぶな).
Senses: glosses: A freshwater ray-finned fish (Carassius auratus grandoculis), a wild subspecies of goldfish endemic to Japan, its habitat limited to Lake Biwa and environs.
beardtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beardtongues
Etymology: From beard + tongue.
Senses: synonyms: penstemon
glosses: A flowering plant in the genus Penstemon with a prominent, often hairy, staminode.
Derived terms: showy beardtongue
beardtongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beardtongue
decommercialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + commercialization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of decommercializing.
decommercialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decommercializes
form: decommercializing
form: decommercialized
form: decommercialized
Etymology: From de- + commercialize.
Senses: glosses: To make not commercial.
Related terms: decommercialization
decommercializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decommercialize
decommercialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decommercialize
decommercializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decommercialize
daylength
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daylengths
Etymology: From day + length.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: period of daylight; photoperiod
Synonyms: day
photoperiod
daytime
daylengths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daylength
deskbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deskbooks
Etymology: From desk + book.
Senses: glosses: A reference book that may be kept on a desk.
deskbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deskbook
paleencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoencephalon.
deoxidant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxidants
Etymology: From de- + oxidant.
Senses: glosses: A deoxidizer.
palaeoencephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + encephalon.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of paleoencephalon.
detoxicates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of detoxicate
detoxicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detoxicate
detoxicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of detoxicate
deoxidants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deoxidant
paleocerebellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: paleocerebellums
form: palaeocerebellum
Etymology: From paleo- + cerebellum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: spinocerebellum
spinocerebellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: spinocerebella
Etymology: From spino- + cerebellum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vermis, together with parts of the hemispheres of the brain; it regulates body movement
derogatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From derogate + -able.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Capable of being derogated.
Related terms: derogatability
diffusability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusabilities
Etymology: From diffuse + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being diffusable.
diffusabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffusability
diffusionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusionisms
Etymology: From diffusion + -ism.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The belief that changes in one culture are caused by diffusion of ideas from another.
Coordinate terms: inventionism
migrationism
Related terms: diffusionist
Dijon mustard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dijon mustards
Etymology: After Jean Naigeon of Dijon, France, who originated it in 1856.
Senses: glosses: A kind of mustard made with verjuice (or, more recently, white wine) instead of vinegar.
wikipedia: Dijon
Dijon mustards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dijon mustard
historicalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historicalists
Etymology: From historical + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the idea of historicalism.
historicalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historicalist
dismantleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dismantleable
form: most dismantleable
Etymology: From dismantle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being dismantled.
disquietedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disquieted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Quality of being disquieted; disquietude.
synonymiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synonymia
hypofunctions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypofunction
underministries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of underministry
TLE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TLEs
Etymology: Abbreviation
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of time limit exceeded; One of the verdicts used in programming contests to show that the submitted code has failed.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
climatology
engineering
meteorology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of transient luminous event.
topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of two-line element or three-line element.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of technology and livelihood education.
Related terms: word: WA
word: AC
english: unidentifed flying object
translation: unidentifed flying object
word: UFO
english: unexplained aerial phenomenon
translation: unexplained aerial phenomenon
word: UAP
undermanage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undermanages
form: undermanaging
form: undermanaged
form: undermanaged
Etymology: From under- + manage.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: To manage inadequately.
Related terms: undermanagement
undermanaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undermanage
undermanages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undermanage
undermanaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undermanage
undermanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + management.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: inadequate or insufficient management
Related terms: undermanage
overmanagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + management.
Senses: topics: business
glosses: excessive management; micromanagement
Related terms: overmanage
buttermint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buttermints
Etymology: From butter + mint.
Senses: glosses: A kind of soft peppermint made with butter and sugar.
buttermints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttermint
chiphead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipheads
Etymology: From chip + -head.
Senses: examples: text: For all you chipheads, we use 0.5 micron process technology for our 486 devices.
ref: 1995 March 13, InfoWorld, volume 17, number 11, page 36:
text: Although [this book] focuses on technology, it's not an assault course for geeks. For one thing the spine's not wide enough for a chiphead manual.
ref: 1999, Helen Vandevelde, Harnessing Technology for Career Success, page 1:
text: That was the buzz at the latest Microprocessor Forum, an annual gathering of chipheads in Silicon Valley.
ref: 2001 January, Maximum PC, volume 6, number 1:
glosses: A microchip expert.
glosses: A person strongly interested in or knowledgeable about computer hardware.
chipheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiphead
golumpki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of golabki.
preterism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preterit + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: A Christian eschatological view that interprets Biblical prophecies as events which happened in the first century C.E..
Related terms: preterist
historicism
futurism
nonvolitional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + volitional.
Senses: examples: text: The preference among an earlier generation of fat activists […] had been to regard fat as nonvolitional and to demand the majority's understanding, as opposed to an in-your-face defiance of social bodily controls.
ref: 1996, Laura Kipnis, Bound and Gagged:
glosses: Not volitional; not a matter of free choice.
Afrofuturism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afro- + futurism, attributed to cultural critic Mark Dery.
Senses: examples: text: Post-Blackness and Afrofuturism are related in that the latter offers a method of problematizing the idea that a progressive way ahead involves the dissolution of race and erasure of racial performativity.
ref: 2019, Eddie Chambers, The Routledge Companion to African American Art History, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: An Afrocentric literary and cultural aesthetic that combines elements of science fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, and magic realism.
wikipedia: Mark Dery
Related terms: Afrofuturist
Afrofuturistic
Afropunk
techno-orientalism
Africanfuturism
historicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historicism
antihistoricism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihistoricisms
Etymology: From anti- + historicism.
Senses: topics: art
arts
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any aesthetic, such as futurism in architecture, that rejects traditions and historicism.
antihistoricisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihistoricism
antihistoricist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antihistoricists
Etymology: From anti- + historic + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to antihistoricism.
antihistoricists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antihistoricist
Gangnam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæŋ.næm/
ipa: /ˈɡɑŋ.nɑm/
Forms: form: Kangnam
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 강남(江南) (Gangnam), a South-Korean placename meaning "south of the river".
Senses: examples: text: The advanced design studio has moved from Bupyeong, Incheon, to the fashionable Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam, evidently Seoul’s answer to Greenwich Village.
ref: 2010 April 22, Jim Motavalli, “G.M. Looks for Design Edge With New Studio in Seoul”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2023:
text: The Seoul neighborhood of Gangnam is synonymous worldwide with conspicuous consumption and glitzy high-rises, thanks to K-pop singer Psy’s megahit “Gangnam Style.” Lesser known is a shantytown in a corner of Gangnam district, whose makeshift homes were destroyed by a fire on Friday.
ref: 2023 January 20, Min Joo Kim, “Gangnam fire highlights inequality in Seoul’s richest area”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Jan 2023, Asia:
text: "Gangnam Style" is a Korean term referring to the lifestyle associated with the Gangnam District of Seoul where people are trendy, hip and exude a certain supposed "class."
ref: 2023 April 29, Brenda Haas, “How 'Naatu Naatu' and 'Gangnam Style' got the world dancing”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2023, Music / Global Issues:
glosses: A district (Korean: 구 (gu)) of Seoul, South Korea known for being a demographically young, affluent part of the city.
wikipedia: Han River
Related terms: Jiangnan
mitraphylline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mitragyna, phyllo-, -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxindole derivative found in the leaves of the tree Mitragyna speciosa.
thises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of this
thats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As such, they do not have the ontological weight of "Being" and "Not-being," but serve simply as an explanatory vocabulary necessary to describe our world of thises and thats.
ref: 1998, David L. Hall, Roger T. Ames, Thinking from the Han, page 247:
glosses: plural of that
thats
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Forms: form: that's
Senses: examples: text: 2007, Paul Mavis, review of the 1983 film "Hundra", DVD Talk, March 25th
set about to make a spoofy fantasy adventure thats focus would be on a gorgeous, blonde, man-hating super-warrior who was subservient to no one.
text: So I'm writing a paper and I'm saying, "Darfur is a region of western Sudan thats government is…" My question is about the "that"– should it be "that's" (even though that means "that is") or "thats" (with no apostrophe)?
ref: 2008 September 25, jules, “That's or thats? (grammar help please!)?”, in Yahoo! Answers, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2011; quoted in Mark Liberman, “'That's'”, in Language Log, 2014 March 28, archived from the original on 08 Apr 2014:
text: 2015, James Harbeck, The future of English includes an apostrophe-less 'thats', The Week
Let me tell you about a word thats time has come.
glosses: whose, of which
thats
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Why thats the way to choake a gibing ſpirrit, / Whoſe influence is begot of that looſe grace, / Which ſhallow laughing hearers giue to fooles, […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), London: […] W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, →OCLC; republished as Shakspere’s Loves Labours Lost (Shakspere-Quarto Facsimiles; no. 5), London: W[illiam] Griggs, […], [1880], →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: No eye hath ſeene ſuch skarcrovves. Ile not march vvith them through Couentry vvith them, thats flat: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The History of Henrie the Fourth; […], quarto edition, London: […] P[eter] S[hort] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1598, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: He is made like a tilting staffe; and lookes / For all the world like an ore-rosted pigge: / A great Tobacco taker too, thats flat.
ref: c. 1599 (date written), I. M. [i.e., John Marston], The History of Antonio and Mellida. The First Part. […], London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Mathewe Lownes, and Thomas Fisher, […], published 1602, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
text: Euery man can ſay Bee to a Battledore, and vvrite in prayſe of Vertue, and the ſeuen Liberall Sciences, threſh corne out of the full ſheaues, and fetch vvater out of the Thames; but out of drie ſtubble to make an after harueſt, and a plentifull croppe vvithout ſovving, and vvring iuice out of a flint, thats Pierce a Gods name, and the right tricke of a workman.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, “To His Readers, Hee Cares Not What They Be”, in Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC:
text: When yond fame ſtarre thats weaſtward from the pole […]
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
text: At your pleaſure thats rare; then rovvlie, povvlie, our vviues ſhall lye at your commaund: […]
ref: 1601–1602 (date written), attributed to Thomas Dekker and/or Thomas Middleton, Blurt Master-Constable. Or The Spaniards Night-walke. […], London: […] [Edward Allde] for Henry Rockytt, […], published 1602, →OCLC, signature B2, verso:
text: [The game of dice and ball] is near of kin, in the nature of the vvord to that game of Cock-all, vvhich boyes uſe amongſt us, vvhich Cock-all, is as much vvin and take all, as a Cock does vvho victorying, has not onely the praiſe of all, but vvins all thats laied on the match by the Abettors againſt him.
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter XLVIII, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 517:
glosses: Obsolete form of that's.
GIFs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of GIF
GIFing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of GIF
GIFed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of GIF
Savi's warbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Savi's warblers
Senses: glosses: Locustella luscinioides, an Old World warbler, found in parts of Europe, Western Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa.
xenylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xenyl + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xenyl.
xeransis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeranses
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A drying of the tissues.
xerantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to xeransis
xerasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξηρασία (xērasía), from ξηρός (xērós).
Senses: glosses: Dryness and brittleness of the hair.
xerochilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xero- + chil- (“lip”), from Ancient Greek χεῖλος (kheîlos, “lip”), + -ia.
Senses: glosses: Dryness of the lips.
xeranses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xeransis
xerogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerograms
Etymology: From xero- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: Xeroradiograph.
xeromenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The absence of menses during a menstrual period.
xeromycteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xero- + Ancient Greek μυκτήρ (muktḗr, “nostril, nose”) + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Dryness of the nasal mucous membrane.
yente
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yentes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yenta.
brass bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brass band
ooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oom
labdacismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lambdacism.
kierie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪəɹi/
Forms: form: kieries
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans kierie, from Khoekhoe.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We used to have great fights with kieries down at the water.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 85:
glosses: A traditional club used as a weapon by certain indigenous groups of South Africa.
kieries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kierie
agger nasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin agger nāsī (“rampart of the nose”).
Senses: glosses: A small ridge on the lateral side of the nasal cavity.
hemispatial neglect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an inability to pay attention to sensory stimuli to one side of the body's awareness zone, as a result of damage to the parietal lobe on the right or left side of the brain, often as a result of a stroke.
backreacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backreact
beamformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From beam + formed.
Senses: glosses: Modified by beamforming
caloritronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to caloritronics
caloritronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calori- + electronics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The generation and control of currents of heat, especially by means of the degree of freedom of electron spin
Derived terms: spincaloritronics
cometocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From comet + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Relative to the centre of a comet
extradentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra- + dentary.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, we quantify the potential fitness benefits of extradentary processing or the direct employment of megadont molars on mechanically stiff USOs.
ref: 2012, Justin D. Yeakel et al., “Stable isotopes, functional morphology, and human evolution: a model of consilience”, in arXiv:
glosses: With more than the use of teeth.
hyperthick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + thick.
Senses: examples: text: Molar enamel thickness is a morphological trait that differentiates African apes from hominins, being manifested most dramatically in the megadont hominins (Paranthropus spp.) with hyperthick enamel.
ref: 2012, Justin D. Yeakel et al., “Stable isotopes, functional morphology, and human evolution: a model of consilience”, in arXiv:
glosses: Very much more than usually thick
instrumention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of instrumentation.
interclump
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + clump.
Senses: examples: 2012 Paul P. van der Werf et al, "Tearing the Veil: interaction of the Orion Nebula with its neutral environment" arXiv
The gas temperature in this region is approximately 540K, and the HI abundance in the interclump gas in the PDR is 5-10% of the available hydrogen nuclei.
glosses: Between clumps
metastructure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastructures
Etymology: From meta- + structure.
Senses: examples: text: Within any novel, even the most dramatically postmodern ones, there is a metastructure of epistemological assumptions that define the narrative values of the text […]
ref: 1999, Sherryll S. Mleynek, Knowledge and Mortality: Anagnorisis in Genesis and Narrative Fiction:
glosses: A structure that describes another structure.
examples: 2012 Christos Argyropoulos et al, "Broadband Absorbers and Selective Emitters based on Plasmonic Brewster Metasurfaces" arXiv
We discuss the possibility of realizing utlrabroadband omnidirectional absorbers and angularly selective coherent thermal emitters based on properly patterned plasmonic metastructures.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A structure that has one or several properties similar to those of metamaterials
Related terms: metastructural
millicharged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From milli- + charged.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: (of a particle) Having an electric charge less than one thousandth that of the electron
monophase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + phase.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a single phase of alternating current.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Existing as a single phase (normally a liquid).
monophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monophases
Etymology: From mono- + phase.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance existing as a single phase.
phytoplankter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytoplankters
Etymology: From phyto- + plankter.
Senses: glosses: A single phytoplankton organism
subgaussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sub-Gaussian.
sub-Gaussian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + Gaussian.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: whose moment-generating function is bounded by that of a Gaussian
raw_tags: of a distribution
moment-generating function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moment-generating functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function derived from the probability distribution of a random variable.
temporalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: temporalizations
Etymology: From temporal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of temporalizing
teravoxel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teravoxels
Etymology: From tera- + voxel.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: 10¹² voxels
transpressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From transpression + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to transpression.
urbanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From urbanist + -ic or urban + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an urbanist.
Related terms: urbanistics
catering trolley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catering trolleys
Senses: glosses: Mobile furniture used for the distribution of meals and drinks.
velocious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more velocious
form: most velocious
Etymology: From Latin vēlōci-, vēlōx (“swift”) + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Rapid; fast.
Derived terms: velociousness
Related terms: velocity
xeronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xero- + -n- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xeronic acid or its derivatives
xerophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xero- + -phagia.
Senses: glosses: The eating of dry food.
Related terms: xerophagy
landdrost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landdrosts
Etymology: From South African Dutch landdrost, from land + drost.
Senses: examples: text: Remember the words of the young Bibault in the revolt against Van der Stel in 1706: ‘I shall not go. I am an Afrikaner and even if the landdrost kills me or puts me in jail I refuse to hold my tongue.’
ref: 1979, André Brink, A Dry White Season, Vintage, published 1998, page 160:
text: About ten years before this resistance movement the settlement comprised merely four houses, one of which was used by the landdrost.
ref: 2020, Sujit Sivasundaram, Waves Across the South, William Collins, published 2021, page 82:
glosses: A type of magistrate in South Africa, abolished under the British in 1827.
landdrosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landdrost
xerophthalmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xerophthalmia.
xerotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A general dryness of the body.
xerotripsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xero- + anatripsis.
Senses: glosses: Dry friction, rubbing or abrasion.
Rico Suave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rico Suaves
Senses: examples: text: "No Rico Suaves for me." He sank his thumbs into his armpits to simulate wearing overalls. "I'm only into one-hundred-percent Boy-Next-Door crackers."
ref: 2005, E. Lynn Harris, Freedom In This Village: Twenty-Five Years of Black Gay Men's Writing, page 387:
text: The show follows Lawrence Jameson, a regular Rico Suave, and Freddy Benson, a small-time swindler who tugs at ladies' heart.
ref: December 2007, Indianapolis Monthly, "Show Stealers", pp. 194, ISSN 0899-0328
text: He tried to turn on the Rico Suave charm.
ref: 2008, http://books.google.ca/books?id=ueSMeohdBmYC&pg=PA80&dq=%22rico+suave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zSzULa1F5HK0AGqwoGADg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22rico%20suave%22&f=false, The King of Erotica 2: The Crown, →ISBN:
text: 2009, http://books.google.ca/books?id=5wsE8g6iFpsC&pg=PT90&dq=%22rico+suave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zSzULa1F5HK0AGqwoGADg&redir_esc=y Asley & JaQuavis, "The Tale of Murda Mamas: The Cartel 2", →ISBN
That Rico Suave-ass nigga don't know how to keep a bitch like Miamor.
text: 2009, http://books.google.ca/books?id=c9F0mwfs5jgC&pg=PA181&dq=%22rico+suave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zSzULa1F5HK0AGqwoGADg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22rico%20suave%22&f=false Reba Toney, "The Rating Game: The Foolproof Formula for Finding Your Perfect Soul Mate", pp. 181 →ISBN
If you've been invited to a friend's birthday, and you show up only to find three couples, two stragglers, and Rico Suave hitting on the hot waitress, lower your expectations of meeting someone, and try to have a great time anyway.
text: 2010, http://books.google.ca/books?id=izCe2g-4QQ0C&pg=PA10&dq=%22rico+suave%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1zSzULa1F5HK0AGqwoGADg&redir_esc=y#v=snippet&q=%22rico%20suave%22&f=false Michelle Dupress, "Attract the Love You Want", pp.10, →ISBN
He thinks he is Rico Suave and you know him to be a Don Juan.
text: And he felt a cloying kinship with his father, his uncles, his teachers, and his mentors at the same time he was feeling a closer bond with the homeboys, the G-Dawgs, the Rico Suaves.
ref: 2011, Stanley E. Terrell, Brickettes: Tales and Poems from New Ark, page 57:
glosses: A snappily dressed, cool, confident Latino lady's man.
Related terms: suave
Puerto Rico
shorings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoring
woolish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woolish
form: most woolish
form: woollish
Etymology: From wool + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: He grabbed a woolish outfit and didn't realize until putting on the jacket that it was his Confederate uniform.
ref: 1998, Harris Mullen, God Bless General Early, High Water Press, →ISBN, page 263:
text: He also wore a woolish hat that he had down almost over his eyes.
ref: 2004, L. B. Richards, The Adventures of Charley Tooth, Vortex, →ISBN, page 279:
text: (If they had been in color, you would see the flash of gold and white against the green moors -- and, who knows, maybe some woolish grey?)
ref: 2006, C. S. Lovelace, Memoirs of a Lost Island: Remembrances of a Lifetime of Nantucket Summers, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of wool.
Synonyms: woollike
wooly
woolly
xylonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xylose + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to xylonic acid or its derivatives
xylophagan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylophagans
Etymology: Xylophaga + -an
Senses: examples: text: Can you call the Captain Clitus? / Logan, Grant, and Ronald Reagan / In the grave with Xylophagan
ref: 2005, “They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh!”, in Illinois, performed by Sufjan Stevens:
glosses: Any wood-boring marine bivalve of the genus Xylophaga.
woollish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more woollish
form: most woollish
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of woolish.
banalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banalisations
form: banalization
Etymology: From French banalisation, from Middle French; as if banalise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: This displacement also partly explains the banalisation of the scientific 'marvellous': since the excitement of the moon landing, nobody cares much about Russians circling the earth for six months or a Pioneer photographing Saturn.
ref: 1983, Christine Brooke-Rose, A Rhetoric of the Unreal, page 9:
text: Forcing smaller suppliers out of the category adds to the banalisation of retailing, resulting in the multiple retailers and major suppliers managing a category for their own purposes...
ref: 2008, S.C. Bhatia, Retail Management, page 242:
text: The banalisation of the nation entailed the banalisation of the rock music itself, which was further accentuated with additions of songs performed by pop musicians from the pre-rock era as well as children's pop songs.
ref: 2015, Ewa Mazierska, Georgina Gregory, Relocating Popular Music, page 99:
glosses: The action of making something banal; trivialization.
scrape and bow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrapes and bows
form: scraping and bowing
form: scraped and bowed
form: scraped and bowed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bow and scrape.
scraping and bowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bowing and scraping.
exchange flesh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exchanges flesh
form: exchanging flesh
form: exchanged flesh
form: exchanged flesh
Senses: examples: text: […]it was thought ſhe was a Woman, and was turn'd into a cold fiſh, for ſhe wold not exchange fleſh with one that lou'd her: […]
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 IV, scene iv], page 293, column 2:
text: [W]ill-she, nill-she, she must have Roger's company nightly in her bed, to ensure that he lay not with another. . . . To exchange flesh with Roger she would bid all the world defiance.
ref: 1977, Jane Lane, A Secret Chronicle: Edward II (2002 House of Stratus reprint), page 140 (Google preview)
text: She thinks to herself, What crime have I committed? If two people exchange flesh for money, why is it that only the one who contributes the flesh is a criminal and not the one who pays?
ref: 1997, Gail Hershatter, Dangerous Pleasures: Prostitution and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Shanghai, →ISBN, page 210:
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: copulate
Related terms: become one flesh
potvaliant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more potvaliant
form: most potvaliant
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pot-valiant.
dog bone wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɔɡ boʊn ɹɛnt͡ʃ̩̩]
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: dog bone wrenches
Senses: glosses: A traditional double-ended bicycle wrench with a selection of usually 10 sizes—five on each end—arranged in a ball form.
Synonyms: word: dog bone spanner
sea butterflies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea butterfly
dog bone spanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɒɡ boʊn ˈspæn.ə(ɹ)]
rhymes: -ænə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dog bone spanners
Senses: glosses: A traditional double-ended bicycle spanner with a selection of usually 10 sizes—five on each end—arranged in a ball form.
Synonyms: word: dog bone wrench
bus rapid transits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bus rapid transit
peaveys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peavey
sexfid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: sexifid
Etymology: From Latin sexifidus, from sex (“six”) + -fidus, related to findere (“to split”).
Senses: examples: a sexfid calyx or nectary
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: cleft into six
Coordinate terms: bifid
trifid
quadrifid
quinquefid
octofid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
multifid
multifidous
tomines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomin
chipping bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chipping birds
Senses: glosses: chipping sparrow
chipping birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chipping bird
charlatanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more charlatanical
form: most charlatanical
form: charlatanic
Etymology: From charlatan + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or like a charlatan; making undue pretension; quackish.
Derived terms: charlatanically
proining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of proin
proins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proin
proined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proin
parorchis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + orchis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The part of the epididymis, or the corresponding part of the vas deferens, that is derived from the Wolffian body.
doctor blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctor blade
relief printing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: intaglio
hyponyms: linocut
metalcut
woodcut
wood engraving
woodblock printing
coordinate_terms: intaglio
planography
glosses: Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the protruding parts of the printing form.
timps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: timpani
temperating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of temperate
temperates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the temperates
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: The region of the Earth characterized by temperate climate, spanning between the tropics and the polar regions.
temperates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of temperate
temperated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of temperate
skees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skee
sesquialteras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesquialtera
minums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minum
cobra de capello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cobras de capello
Etymology: From Portuguese cobra-de-capelo (“cobra”, literally “hooded snake”).
Senses: synonyms: hooded snake
hooded serpent
glosses: An Indian cobra (Naja naja), a highly venomous Indian snake.
cobras de capello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cobra de capello
parral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of parrel.
parrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parral
spirling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirlings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sperling.
spirlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spirling
stoped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stope