cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
brickor mortis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of brick + rigor mortis
Senses: examples: text: I've certainly heard people complain of feeling "credit crunched", although I can't really imagine anyone using the term brickor mortis with a straight face.
ref: [2009 January 14, Hilary Osborne, “Empty of pocket, rich in diction: The credit crunched dictionary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A condition of the housing market in which very few houses are bought and sold.
chromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊməʊ/
Forms: form: chromos
Etymology: Shortened from chromolithograph.
Senses: examples: text: All Nature is smiling, in fact, with one large, comprehensive smile, exactly like a first-class PRANG chromo with a fresh coat of varnish upon it.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello Vol. 1, No. 21, August 20, 1870:
text: It was manifest that we all felt that we ought to send the poor shoemaker SOMETHING. There was long and thoughtful discussion of this point; and we finally decided to send him a chromo.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Life on the Mississippi:
text: The neglected warehouse turned out to be a treasury of calendar art from the 1930s through the 1970s, years when chromo art calendars were a major advertising medium, a vehicle for national pride, and a fixture in nearly every home, business, and school.
ref: 1999 February 19, Deanna Isaacs, “On Exhibit: a treasure trove of Mexican pop art”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A color print produced by chromolithography.
chromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊməʊ/
Forms: form: chromos
Senses: examples: text: That dried-up lady snob lived behind lace curtains all her life. She's of no more importance than a chromo.
ref: 1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 81:
glosses: A prostitute.
chromo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹəʊməʊ/
Etymology: Shortened from chromodomain.
Senses: examples: text: HP1 shares an ~50-amino acid NH 2 -terminal sequence motif, the chromo domain, with polycomb, an important regulatory gene that functions in the stable repression of homeotic genes during Drosophila development (28 ).
ref: 1998 April 24, Angus I. Lamond, William C. Earnshaw, “Structure and Function in the Nucleus”, in Science, volume 280, number 5363, →DOI, pages 547–553:
text: To determine whether the conserved domains, the chromo, SET, and cysteine-rich regions, were also critical for Clr4 HMTase activity, we tested mutant Clr4 proteins for HMTase activity.
ref: 2001 April 6, Jun-ichi Nakayama et al., “Role of Histone H3 Lysine 9 Methylation in Epigenetic Control of Heterochromatin Assembly”, in Science, volume 292, number 5514, →DOI, pages 110–113:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production
carle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carles
form: carl
Etymology: Variant of carl.
Senses: examples: text: Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae him a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume III (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 9:
text: Had he instead of on the Doge's throne Stamped the same brand upon a peasant's stool, His blood had gilt the threshold; for the carle Had stabbed him on the instant.
ref: 1820, Lord Byron, “Marino Faliero”, in The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4:
text: Ye may fancy I'm talking like a sour, disappointed auld carle.
ref: 1885, Charles Kingsley, Daily Thoughts:
text: Spake the sad and sorry carle: "We seek the Land where the days are many: so many that he who hath forgotten how to laugh, may learn the craft again, and forget the days of Sorrow."
ref: 1913, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain:
text: I am no sheephearde with a Curre, attending on the flockes:
ref: 1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 1 lines 622-3
roman: I am no Carle nor countrie Clowne, nor neathearde taking charge
glosses: peasant; fellow
deuterobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deuterobenzenes
Etymology: From deutero- + benzene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of benzene in which one or more hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium
Batswana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Motswana
Motswana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒtˈswɑːnə/
Forms: form: Batswana
Etymology: From Tswana Motswana.
Senses: examples: text: He said very carefully, ‘Most of the time we Batswana live in the wilderness and loneliness.’
ref: 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 15:
text: The Minister who piloted it through Parliament, the Honourable Phandu Skelemani, swore that if any Motswana were to suffer under it, he would take personal responsibility.
ref: 2009 June 26, The Botswana Gazette:
glosses: A member of the Tswana tribe of southern Africa, especially an inhabitant of Botswana; a Botswanan.
ne'ertheless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: nâr'dhəlĕsʹ
ipa: /ˌnɛəðəˈlɛs/
Etymology: From Middle English nerthelesse, nere-the-les, nerþeles By surface analysis, ne'er + the + less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nevertheless.
decypher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decyphers
form: decyphering
form: decyphered
form: decyphered
Etymology: As decipher, but retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cypher.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decipher.
Derived terms: decyphered
decypher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decyphers
Etymology: As decipher, but retaining the y from the Old French etyma of cipher (cyfre, cyffre); the i spelling tends to be preferred etymologically, being consistent with its cognates, the French déchiffrer and the Italian decifrare, and with their common ancestor, the Medieval Latin cifra, cifera, ciphra. By surface analysis, de- + cypher.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of decipher.
decyphers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decypher
decyphers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decypher
decyphering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decypher
decyphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decypher
decyphered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deciphered.
deadeye
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdaɪ/
Forms: form: dead-eye
Etymology: From dead + eye.
See glossary of nautical terms of "deadrise" for usage of "dead" to describe a stationary object or spatial stability of an object relative to motion.
See nautical definition of "eye" for usage referring to the foremost part of a ship's bow that aims its orientation.
For biological eye stabilization during head and neck movement, see vestibulo-ocular reflex
Senses: examples: text: Gross, only a 20-year-old junior, is a deadeye passer, a poised runner and a quick-thinking field general.
ref: 1961 November 2, Jerry Green, “Gross Dwarfed, But Not in Ability”, in The Milwaukee Sentinel:
text: Help in that department should come from highly touted freshman Jason Kapono, a 6'7" deadeye shooter who made 211 threes in high school.
ref: 1999 November 15, Alan Shipnuck, “10 Ucla”, in Sports Illustrated, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2013:
text: The old man was a natural sniper, a deadeye shooter even as a boy, and he served with my great uncle in the First World War.
ref: 2008, Gerald Vizenor, Father Meme, University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Very accurate in shooting or throwing.
examples: text: The deadeye stare of the bassist was enough to make any normal person run.
ref: 2004 July 28, Emma Field, “Sons and Daughters / The Archie Bronson Outfit, ICA, London”, in The Independent:
text: Outlandish in its violence and its conceit, "The Brave One" would be an interesting addendum to Foster's career even without its biographical frisson, without the image of Erica holding a gun with a deadeye stare […]
ref: 2007 September 10, Manohla Dargis, “The real Jodie Foster, 100 percent professional”, in New York Times:
qualifier: concerning a stare
glosses: Cold; unfriendly.
Derived terms: Deadeye Dick
deadeye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛdaɪ/
Forms: form: deadeyes
form: dead-eye
Etymology: From dead + eye.
See glossary of nautical terms of "deadrise" for usage of "dead" to describe a stationary object or spatial stability of an object relative to motion.
See nautical definition of "eye" for usage referring to the foremost part of a ship's bow that aims its orientation.
For biological eye stabilization during head and neck movement, see vestibulo-ocular reflex
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A wooden disk having holes through which the lanyard is passed, used for tightening shrouds.
examples: text: He taught both my mother and me to shoot, taught my mother so well that she became a better shot than he was--a real deadeye.
ref: 1989, Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life: A Memoir:
glosses: A very accurate marksman.
examples: text: He examined the cash balance daily, boasted he could pay off all debts in two hours, had a deadeye for fake figures in scanning a ledger, and personally audited the books each New Year's Day.
ref: 1990, Ron Chernow, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance:
text: Thirty-four years later, she was a tough CEO who went after Jimmy's detractors with a deadeye for the jugular.
ref: 1999, Ann Rowe Seaman, Swaggart: The Unathorized Biography of an American Evangelist:
text: Manny's memory had always been an arch-phenomenon of mimcry ^([sic]); he was a deadeye for all the destructive details.
ref: 2002, Lilly Paige White, Manny Lesko: The Erotic History of Estelle Antoinette Francine Chevalier, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A penchant for noticing a particular thing, or a person who has such a penchant.
jump-starts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump-start
jump-starts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jump-start
jump-starting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jump-start
jump-started
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jump-start
deadeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deadeye
tisan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tisans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tisane.
ptisane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ptisanes
Etymology: As ptisan.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tisane.
numinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more numinal
form: most numinal
Etymology: From the oblique stem numin- of Latin numen (“divine will, god”) + -al.
Senses: glosses: divine
Related terms: numen
word salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɜː(ɹ)d ˈsæləd/
Forms: form: word salads
form: word-salad
Etymology: From word + salad, based on the notion that salads offer varied bulk, yet do not substantially provide sustained nutrition.
Senses: examples: text: All of his other verbal offerings were continuous word-salad—a mixture of made-up sounds, syllables, words, and incomplete phrases.
ref: 2018, Bob Bertolino, PhD, Effective Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Evidence-Based Approach, Springer Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 120:
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: A nonsensical assemblage of words, typical of schizophrenia, Wernicke's aphasia, and some other mental disorders.
examples: text: Results will be shown for recognition, prediction, and separation of regular input from word salad (random sequences of words).
ref: 2003, Bjørnar Tessem, Eighth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence: SCAI'03, IOS Press, →ISBN, page 107:
glosses: Meaningless text generated by a computer.
examples: text: Chris Wallace asked @GovAbbott why he didn't complain about migrant abuse when Trump was President and he launched into word salad, with no real answer.
ref: 2021, Jeremy Newberger, Twitter:
glosses: An intentionally nonsensical and voluminous statement.
Related terms: word vomit
pons asinorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontes asinorum
Etymology: From New Latin pons asinorum, from Latin pōns (“bridge”) + genitive plural of asinus (“donkey”). Literally, “bridge of donkeys”.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A method for finding the middle term of a syllogism in Aristotlean analytics.
glosses: An obstacle which will defeat a beginner or foolish person.
examples: text: [H]e had scarce advanced beyond the Pons Asinorum, when his ardour abated, the test of truth by demonstration did not elevate him to those transports of joy with which his preceptor had regaled his expectation; and before he arrived at the fortieth and seventh proposition, he began to yawn drearily […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proposition in Euclid stating that the angles at the base of an isoceles triangle are equal.
nuclear bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuclear bomb
ᴀ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Indicates IPA [a] in unassimilated loans (e.g. French ami, Spanish casa).
on the toss of a coin
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Left to pure chance; based on a flippant metric.
Blue Dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blue Dogs
Etymology: Various, including the presence of the "Blue Dog" paintings of Louisiana artist George Rodrigue in the offices of Louisiana representatives where early meetings were held.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A member of the Blue Dog Coalition, founded in 1994, of conservative and moderate members of the Democratic Party.
Blue Dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Blue Dog
fourragère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fʊɹəʒɛɹ/
Forms: form: fourragères
Etymology: From French, feminine of fourrager (“connected with or yielding forage”), from fourrage (“forage”), from Old French forage.
Senses: examples: text: When an entire division commanded by a political rather than a military general had been wiped out, he had earned for his battalion a French decoration called a Fourragère which is seldom given to other than French regiments.
ref: 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up, A. & C. Boni, page 160:
glosses: A braided cord awarded to a military unit for distinguished service and worn on the left shoulder.
Related terms: aiguillette
fourragères
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourragère
ꜱ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in the digraph ⟨ꜱʜ⟩ for the /ʃ/ sound.
ᴢ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used in the digraph ⟨ᴢʜ⟩ for the /ʒ/ sound.
alendronates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alendronate
miscomprehension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscomprehensions
Etymology: From mis- + comprehension.
Senses: examples: text: Teachers testing with informal reading inventories (selected because of comprehension difficulty unrelated to word recognition) were asked to give explanations for the miscomprehensions of their students.
glosses: An incorrect understanding of something.
Synonyms: misunderstanding
miscomprehensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscomprehension
miscomputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miscomputations
Etymology: From mis- + computation.
Senses: examples: text: His miscomputation of the amount of tax he owed increased his tax bill.
glosses: The incorrect performance of a computation.
examples: text: The miscomputation of the library's weight was the result of not accounting for the weight of the books.
glosses: A wrong or incorrect computation.
Synonyms: miscalculation
miscomputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miscomputation
talismen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: tăʹlĭsmĕn
ipa: /ˈtalɪsmɛn/
Etymology: Plural of talisman by erroneous analogy with man → men; compare shamen.
Senses: examples: text: They had fetiches and talismen, who bring good fortune.
ref: 1911, James H. Anderson, Riddles of Prehistoric Times, page 205:
text: It is easy to understand how the sale or barter of talismen begun.
ref: 1934, Charles W. Warner, Quacks, page 38:
text: A talisman of the Grand Shrine of Ise was placed vertically within the shrine. There were also talismen for the guardian kami.
ref: 1988, Richard McGill, Omamori, page 234:
text: The 1960s and ‛70s counterculture borrowed many fetishes and talismen from other cultures to adorn themselves and their surroundings.
ref: 2004, John Bassett McCleary, The Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia (and Phraseicon) of the 1960s, page 149:
text: Many parents also place a variety of talismen or safe (“jujus”) on their babies.
ref: 2004, James Fairhead, Melissa Leach, Mary Small, Childhood vaccination and society in the Gambia, page 20:
glosses: plural of talisman
viciosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viciosities
form: vitiosity
Etymology: From vitiosity under influence of vicious, both of which derive ultimately from Latin vitiōsus.
Senses: glosses: Viciousness.
vitiosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪʃiˈɒsɪti/
Forms: form: vitiosities
form: viciosity
Etymology: From Latin vitiōsitās, from vitiōsus.
Senses: glosses: viciousness
vitiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitiosity
viciosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viciosity
salix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪlɪks/
/ˈsælɪks/
Forms: form: salixes
form: salices
Etymology: From Salix, the genus name. Doublet of sallow.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Salix; a willow.
bottle openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle opener
love affairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love affair
fairy godmothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fairy godmother
lusus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lususes
Senses: examples: text: On the right hand […] is a multitude of loose stones, lying on the surface. They are of the lime-stone kind, mere lususes, assuming most singular forms; some are excavated, and often perforated.
ref: 1796, Thomas Pennant, The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell, page 118:
glosses: Short for lusus naturae.
Florida rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Florida room
toe cheese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the similarity with cheese.
Senses: examples: text: Love is: learning to appreciate the smell of your sweetheart's toe cheese!
text: Jesse Pinkman: Yo kiss my pink ass man, I didn't ask for any of this! Alright, how am I supposed to live here now, huh?! My whole house smells like toe cheese and dry cleaning.
Walter White: Because, you didn't follow my instructions!
Jesse Pinkman: Oh well Heil Hitler bitch!
ref: 2008 February 10, Vince Gilligan, directed by Adam Bernstein, Breaking Bad, season 1, episode 3, Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (actors):
glosses: The sticky, smegma-like substance that accumulates between one's toes in case of insufficient hygiene.
Synonyms: toe jam
throughfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throughfares
Senses: examples: text: Hurt him? His body's a passable carcass, if he be / not hurt. It is a throughfare for steel, if it be not hurt.
ref: c. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 3:
glosses: Obsolete form of thoroughfare.
pretheater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pretheatre
Etymology: From pre- + theater.
Senses: examples: text: We picked up our tickets and stopped next door to have a pretheater drink.
ref: 1999 March 29, Enid Nemy, “Metropolitan Diary”, in New York Times:
text: Metrazur, in Grand Central Terminal, throws in a free miniature "suitcase" with its pretheater meal, filled with cookies to munch on during intermission and a $3 MetroCard for the commute to Broadway.
ref: 2000 February 9, Rick Marin, “Fashionably Early: New York Starts Buzzing Before Dusk”, in New York Times:
text: If time just doesn't allow for a pretheater restaurant dinner, some places -- Broadway Sal's is one -- can arrange to deliver dinner right to your theater seat.
ref: 2002 November 3, Bruce McCall, “NEW YORK OBSERVED; For Every Light on Broadway, a Case of Indigestion”, in New York Times:
text: It's not necessary to be an expert on British royals before you see one of Shakespeare's history plays, but a little pretheater preparation never hurts.
ref: 2005, Janet Ware, Al Davis, 101 Things You Didn't Know About Shakespeare, Adams Media, →ISBN, page 172:
text: Even though a la carte prices aren't outrageous, we recommend the three-course pretheater menu.
ref: 2006, Donald Olson, Frommer's London from $95 a Day, 10th Edition, Wiley Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:
glosses: Before attending the theater (especially of drinks or a meal).
examples: text: During the early, pretheater period (ca. 700-1350), both religious and secular performing arts prospered.
ref: 1998, Karen Brazell, Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays, Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Preceding the formation of theater.
afterdamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterdamps
form: after-damp
Etymology: From after- + damp.
Senses: topics: business
mining
synonyms: staunch
glosses: Suffocating gases present in a coal mine after an explosion caused by firedamp, consisting of carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, and sometimes hydrogen sulfide.
SMF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: single-mode fibre; a type of an optical fibre which is designed to carry only a single ray of light.
ornis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ornithes
Etymology: From German Ornis, from Ancient Greek ὄρνις (órnis, “bird”), Ancient Greek ὄρνιθος (órnithos, “bird”).
Senses: glosses: A bird.
examples: text: Baird then proceeds to treat of the eastward movement of American birds, and its influence on the ornis of Greenland and Europe, and vice versâ.
ref: 1867, The record of zoological literature, volume 3, page 60:
glosses: The birds collectively of a region; avifauna.
Related terms: ornith-
ornitho-
adiabat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adiabats
Etymology: Back-formation from adiabatic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The curve on a graph of pressure and temperature which gives the adiabatic heating or cooling of a gas.
eragrostis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the genus name Eragrostis.
Senses: examples: text: Springing up between the carrot-seed during the first season were the long frail, feathery stalks of the wind-blown eragrostis, a lush sweet grass.
ref: 1969, Bessie Head, When Rain Clouds Gather, Heinemann, published 1995, page 28:
glosses: Any of several species of grass from the genus Eragrostis; lovegrass.
first imperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first imperatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: present imperative (second-person forms only); compare second imperative
second imperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second imperatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The future imperative mood (second- and third-person forms possible); indicating a command that is to be carried out both now and in future.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A verb form in the second imperative.
second imperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second imperative
first imperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of first imperative
river crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river crabs
Etymology: A calque of Chinese 河蟹 (héxiè).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese mitten crab.
river crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From 河蟹 (héxiè, “river crab”) above, a near-homonym of 和谐 (héxié, “harmony”), referring to China's Harmonious Society campaign.
Senses: glosses: Government censorship.
dollface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dollfaces
Etymology: From doll + face.
Senses: glosses: An attractive woman.
dollfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dollface
departition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: departicion
Etymology: From depart, after Latin analogies, or from Middle English departycyon.
Senses: glosses: separation
glosses: departure
departition
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: departitions
form: departitioning
form: departitioned
form: departitioned
form: departicion
Etymology: From de- + partition.
Senses: synonyms: unpartition
glosses: to remove the partitions from; to merge back into a single unit
nonpubescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pubescent.
Senses: glosses: Not pubescent.
be the case
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: is the case
form: being the case
form: was the case
form: been the case
Senses: glosses: To exist as an independent fact of (external) reality.
Synonyms: obtain
fleme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: flemes
form: fleming
form: flemed
form: flemed
form: fleem
Etymology: From Middle English flemen, from Old English flȳman, flīeman (“to put to flight, drive away, banish”), from flēam (“flight”).
Senses: glosses: To drive away, chase off; to banish.
brute fact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brute facts
form: brute-fact
Senses: examples: text: The rationalist, Kantian definition of truth, therefore, fails. At the bottom of every fact there is an act of reason, and thus no realist notion of truth serves; at the bottom of every rational necessity there is a choice, the act of invention, and so no critical definition of truth serves.³ ² ⁹ The forms and categories of thought themselves need verification in an experience which does not apply them so much as make them.³ ³ ⁰ That the very conditions of intelligibility change and develope is clear, according to LR, from the history of science.³ ³ ¹ Further, a list of categories given once and for all is nothing but itself a brute fact, an irrational surd, if it cannot itself be explained.³ ³ ²
ref: 1985: Guy Mansini, OSB, Analecta Gregoriana — “What is a Dogma?”: The Meaning and Truth of Dogma in Edouard le Roy and His Scholastic Opponents, page 166 (Rome: Editrice Pontificia Università Gregoriana; →ISBN, 9788876525469)
text: 2008: Charles-Édouard “Le Corbusier” Jeanneret-Gris [aut.] and John Goodman [tr.], Toward an Architecture, pages 101–102 (Frances Lincoln Publishers; →ISBN
Architecture has graver ends; capable of sublimity, it touches the most brutal instincts through its objectivity; it appeals to the highest of the faculties, through its very abstraction. Architectural abstraction has the distinctive and magnificent quality that, while being rooted in brute fact, it spiritualizes this, because brute fact is nothing other than the materialization, the symbol of a possible idea. Brute fact is amenable to ideas only through an order that is projected onto it. The emotions aroused by architecture emanate from physical conditions that are ineluctable, irrefutable, forgotten today.
glosses: An inscrutable datum of experience; a thing that is undeniably the case, but which is impervious to reasoned explication.
brute-fact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The fact that we can agree about veridical perceptions with others possessing similar conceptual schemas is strong evidence that the brute-fact features of our perceptual experience have an important correlation with a certain given […]
ref: 1982: Nicholas Rescher [ed.], American Philosophical Quarterly, volume 19, page 215 (Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)
text: I’ll call the third proposal for what grounds the Positive Epistemic Fact the brute-fact proposal, because it gives the Positive Epistemic Fact the status of brute fact.
ref: 2008: Adrian Haddock [ed.] and Fiona Macpherson [ed.], Disjunctivism: Perception, Action, Knowledge, page 220 (Oxford University Press; →ISBN, 9780199231546)
glosses: brute fact (when used attributively)
brute facts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brute fact
daffish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæfɪʃ/
Forms: form: more daffish
form: most daffish
Etymology: From daff + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: fayr frende said Morgan le fay ryde not after that knyght / for ye shalle not wynne no worship of hym / Fy on hym coward saide sire Hemyson / for I wyst neuer good knyghte come oute of Cornewaile / but yf hit were syr Tristram de Lyones / what & that be he said she / Nay nay said he / he is with la beale Isoud and this is but a daffyssh knyght — William Caxton edition, 1485, leaf 205r
"Fair friend, said Morgan, ride not after that knight, for ye shall not win no worship of him. Fie on him, coward, said Sir Hemison, for I wist never good knight come out of Cornwall but if it were Sir Tristram de Liones. What an that be he? said she. Nay, nay, said he, he is with La Beale Isoud, and this is but a daffish knight.
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xlij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
glosses: Stupid, silly.
nonfactorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + factorizable.
Senses: glosses: unfactorizable
orgulity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English orgul (“pride”) + -ity.
Senses: glosses: pride
marish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: marishes
form: marrish
form: marys
Etymology: From Middle English mareys, marys, from Anglo-Norman mareis, mereis, or from Middle French mares, marest, both from Late Latin mariscus, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk (“marsh”). Doublet of marsh and morass.
Senses: examples: text: Thenne sir Tristram departed / and in euery place he asked & demaunded after sir Launcelot / but in no place he coude not here of hym whether he were dede or on lyue /[…]/ Soo syr Tristram rode by a forest and then̄e was he ware of a fayre toure by a mareyse on that one syde / and on that other syde a fayr medowe
ref: 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “primum”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X:
text: The Cherubim descended; on the ground / Gliding meteorous, as evening-mist / Risen from a river o'er the marish glides, / And gathers ground fast at the labourer's heel / Homeward returning.
ref: 1674, John Milton, “Book XII”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, page 333:
glosses: A marsh.
marish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɹɪʃ/
Forms: form: more marish
form: most marish
form: marrish
form: marys
Etymology: From Middle English mareys, marys, from Anglo-Norman mareis, mereis, or from Middle French mares, marest, both from Late Latin mariscus, from Proto-West Germanic *marisk (“marsh”). Doublet of marsh and morass.
Senses: examples: text: And the silvery marish flowers that throng / The desolate creeks and pools among,
ref: 1830, Alfred Tennyson, “The Dying Swan”, in Poems, Chiefly Lyrical:
text: after the manner of Cards or Maps, the utmost limits of knowne Countries, are set downe to be full of thicke marrish grounds, shady forrests, desart and uncouth places.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: At the first outset, heavy, miry ground and a matted, marish vegetation greatly delayed our progress; […]
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: Marshy; growing in bogs or marshes.
Synonyms: boggy
quaggy
swampy
marshy
Derived terms: marishness
web server
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web servers
form: Web server
form: webserver
form: web-server
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: software that delivers Web pages and other documents to browsers using the HTTP protocol.
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the computer on which such software runs.
web servers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of web server
grummer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹʌmɚ/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grum: more grum
grummest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹʌmɪst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grum: most grum
bread crumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bread crumb
surmullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɚˈmələt/
Forms: form: surmullets
Etymology: From French surmulet, from Middle French sormulet, from sor (“reddish brown”) + mulet (“mullet”).
Senses: glosses: A red mullet, Mullus surmuletus.
Synonyms: goatfish
-therm
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek θερμός (thermós, “warm”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: used to name types of animal having a specified form of body temperature mechanism
examples: geotherm
glosses: heat
humpback whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humpback whale
southern bottlenose whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of southern bottlenose whale
northern bottlenose whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern bottlenose whale
pygmy sperm whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pygmy sperm whale
surmullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surmullet
test tube babies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of test tube baby
business architects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of business architect
epistêmê
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistêmês
Senses: examples: text: Truth — objective truth — was the function that permitted the discourse of this epistêmê to operate.
ref: 1980, Proceedings of the International Comparative Literature Association Congress, volume 2, Kunst und Wissen, →ISBN, page 845, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of episteme.
epistemé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epistemés
Senses: examples: text: Its epistemé was focused on the view that in every entity there are hidden forces which generate the very being, control the events, and give meaning to the universe as a unity […]
ref: 1984, M.-L. van Herreweghe, Helsingin Yliopisto, Personalité, Education, Society: Proceedings of the VIII th World Congress of the World Association for Educational Research, Helsinki, Finland, August 2-6, 1982, page 201:
glosses: Alternative spelling of episteme.
Gila monsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gila monster
towel rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towel rail
poker runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poker run
dice runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dice run
kanton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kantons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canton.
incomprehensibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incomprehensible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She liked being reminded of the incomprehensibleness of the world.
ref: 2021, Rivers Solomon, Sorrowland, #Merky Books, page 212:
glosses: The state of being incomprehensible.
Synonyms: incomprehensibility
bee-eaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bee-eater
urethrostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urethrostomies
Etymology: From urethro- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A procedure that creates a permanent opening in the urethra, typically to remove obstructions to the flow of urine.
urethrostomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethrostomy
urolagnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjʊə.rəʊˈlæɡ.nɪ.ə/
ipa: /ˌjʊ.roʊˈlæɡ.nɪ.ə/
Etymology: From uro- + -lagnia.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of urophilia.
synonyms: word: urophilia
gloriosos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glorioso
gloriosas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloriosa
nonclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + claimed.
Senses: topics: intellectual-property
law
patent-law
glosses: Not claimed.
monarchized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of monarchize
indecipherability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indecipherable + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being indecipherable.
urolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uroliths
Etymology: From uro- + -lith.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A urinary stone, being any stone passed from the urinary tract, such as a bladder stone or a kidney stone.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A urinary stone, being any stone passed from the urinary tract, such as a bladder stone or a kidney stone.
A bladder stone as distinguished from a kidney stone or a ureterolith.
Hypernyms: calculus
stone
Coordinate terms: english: sensu stricto, coordinate, but in practice any stone passed in the urine may be called a kidney stone, as the locus of its formation may not yet be known
translation: sensu stricto, coordinate, but in practice any stone passed in the urine may be called a kidney stone, as the locus of its formation may not yet be known
word: nephrolith
Derived terms: urolithiasis
uroliths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urolith
heterographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterography
set-top boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of set-top box
heterographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɛt.ə.ɹəʊˈɡɹæf.ik/
ipa: /ˌhɛt.ə.ɹoʊˈɡɹæf.ik/
Etymology: From heterography.
Senses: glosses: Misspelled; of or pertaining to an incorrect spelling or a spelling that differs from accepted standards.
examples: text: In English. many letters are heterographic.
text: Quite often, more than one heterographic monosyllable […] can represent the same mononym in particular contexts if they are semantically indifferentiable.
ref: 2000, Po-Ching Yip, The Chinese Lexicon: A Comprehensive Survey, page 16:
text: English has few such heterophonic homographs, hence much of the work in English (and French) examining orthography-phonology consistency effects at the whole-word level has focused on heterographic homophones.
ref: 2008, Elena L. Grigorenko, Adam J. Naples, Single-word Reading: Behavioral and Biological Perspectives, page 140:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of a writing system in which a particular symbol represents more than one possible sound.
Synonyms: misspelled
misspelt
Related terms: heterography
RHU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Random House Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged.
Related terms: sense: dictionaries
word: RHD
RHU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RHUs
Senses: topics: aerospace
business
computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
space-science
glosses: Initialism of radioisotope heater unit, a device that generates heat from the natural decay of radioactive material.
topics: government
healthcare
glosses: Initialism of rural heath unit.
Related terms: RTG
radioisotope
heater
unit
Ab Fab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Ab Fab developed from a sketch on the French and Saunders show […]
ref: 2004, Horace Newcomb, Encyclopedia of television:
glosses: Absolutely Fabulous, a British television sitcom of the 1990s.
remarrieds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remarried
soupless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soup + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Glad to escape, they accepted the hearty hand shake that accompanied his "Good bye, boys," and hurried to their cold and soupless meal.
ref: 1885, Bret Harte, The Overland monthly:
text: Some restaurants say soupless noodles account for four-fifths of their ramen sales.
ref: 1997, Look Japan:
glosses: Without soup.
soupiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soupy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being soupy.
bisexualities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bisexuality
strawberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strawberrylike
form: most strawberrylike
Etymology: From strawberry + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a strawberry (plant or fruit).
raspberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more raspberrylike
form: most raspberrylike
Etymology: From raspberry + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a raspberry (plant or fruit).
batfaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batfaced
form: most batfaced
Etymology: From bat + faced.
Senses: examples: text: He ducked back down the alley / With some roly-poly little bat-faced girl / All along along / There were incidents and accidents / There were hints and allegations...
ref: 1986, Paul Simon, You Can Call Me Al (song lyrics)
text: ...in their rumpled jackets they're somber but not wistful; they're too full of themselves for that, batfaced, slightly astonished but also sleepy like us...
ref: 1995, Blue Collar Press, The Sow's Ear, volumes 5-6:
text: Even though the legend's tide seems to put the vicious batfaced monster in the limelight, it is evident that the thematic focus in this story is the struggle between good and evil.
ref: 2000, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Mario Roberto Morales, Cuentos y leyendas:
text: Bon, he said, who had Pam on his arm, was "batfaced."
ref: 2001, Clinton Walker, Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC/DC Legend Bon Scott:
glosses: Whose face resembles that of a bat (the flying mammal).
Plathian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Plathian
form: most Plathian
Etymology: From Plath + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), American poet and novelist, or her works.
seriocomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seriocomically
form: most seriocomically
Etymology: From seriocomic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a seriocomic manner.
seriocomical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɪəɹiəʊˈkɒmɪkəl/
Forms: form: more seriocomical
form: most seriocomical
Senses: glosses: seriocomic
cranberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cranberrylike
form: most cranberrylike
Etymology: From cranberry + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cranberry (plant or fruit).
autoregistration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + registration.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Automatic registration.
Hypernyms: registration
nonregistered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + registered.
Senses: glosses: Not registered; unregistered.
cryptomaterial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptomaterials
Etymology: From crypto- + material.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Any material, such as documents or devices, used in cryptography.
cryptomaterials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptomaterial
fut.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of future.
fut.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: in one sense
Senses: examples: volētis, 2 ⁿᵈ-pers. pl. fut. of volō (“I wish”, “I will”)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of future.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of futures.
relexification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˌlɛksəfəˈkeɪʃn̩/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: relexifications
Etymology: From relexify + -ation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The mechanism of language change by which one language replaces much or all of its lexicon with that of another language.
Derived terms: relex
Related terms: lexicon
relexify
tensal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tense + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Names which do not terminate in a vowel sound, require a vowel prefixed to the tensal inflection, rendering it obun, or ebun.
ref: 1834, Henry Schoolcraft, Narrative of an expedition through the upper Mississippi to Itasca Lake, page 193:
text: If this theory be correct, it shows that the nature of the Hebrew verb, which agrees with the Syriac and Arabic verb, is rather modal than tensal, and differs widely from that of the verb in the Greek, Latin, and modern languages of Europe.
ref: 1865, Francis Barham, “History of the Hebrew philology”, in The Fortnightly, volume 3, Review, page 571:
text: In some participial constructions, however, an aorist participle can have either a tensal or aspectual meaning.
ref: 2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, page 160:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to grammatical tense
dearborn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪəbɔːn/
Forms: form: dearborns
form: Dearborn
Etymology: Named for the inventor.
Senses: examples: text: It was somewhat hazardous to venture out with them at that time of day, but he loaded some in a dearborn so as to give them the appearance of going to a colored Quarterly Meeting, then in session near by.
ref: 1883, Robert Clemens Smedley, History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania, page 290:
glosses: A light four-wheeled wagon.
dearborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dearborn
Dearborns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dearborn
Dearborns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dearborn
quasi partners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasi partner
nominal partners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal partner
nominal clauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal clause
nominal ledgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nominal ledger