cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
coplanar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəʊˈpleɪnə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Etymology: From co- + planar.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
qualifier: usually lines or plane figures
glosses: Within the same plane.
raw_tags: of at least two things
examples: text: Gliese 876’s third, innermost planet . . . is likely to be coplanar with its outer two companions.
ref: 2009 January 9, Robert Naeye, “Exoplanets' Dance Reveals They're Coplanar”, in skyandtelescope.com, retrieved 09 Jan 2009:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Orbiting a central celestial object within the same orbital plane.
raw_tags: of multiple planets or other orbiting bodies
Derived terms: coplanarly
noncoplanar
Related terms: anticoplanar
coplanarity
syncoplanar
coincident
collinear
characteristic polynomial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: characteristic polynomials
Senses: examples: The characteristic polynomial of (cc 1 4\3-5) is |cc 1-x 4\3-5-x|=x²+4x-17.
The characteristic polynomial of a 2×2 matrix M is λ²- mbox tr(M)λ+ mbox det(M), where mbox tr(M) denotes the trace of M and mbox det(M) denotes the determinant of M.
The characteristic polynomial of a 3×3 matrix M is -λ³+ mbox tr(M)λ²- mbox tr( mbox adj(M))λ+ mbox det(M), where mbox adj(M) denotes the adjugate of M.
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The polynomial produced from a given square matrix by first subtracting the appropriate identity matrix multiplied by an indeterminant and then calculating the determinant.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A polynomial P(r) corresponding to a homogeneous, linear, ordinary differential equation P(D) y = 0 where D is a differential operator (with respect to a variable t, if y is a function of t).
Related terms: characteristic equation
characteristic root
characteristic vector
minimal polynomial
eigenvector
eigenvalue
indeterminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indeterminant
form: most indeterminant
Senses: glosses: Not accurately determined or determinable.
glosses: Imprecise or vague.
Synonyms: indeterminate
Derived terms: indeterminantly
indeterminant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indeterminants
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A variable with no value assigned to it; for example the variables in a polynomial.
linear transformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear transformations
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: linear map
glosses: A map between vector spaces which preserves the operations of vector addition and scalar multiplication.
Hypernyms: affine transformation
morphism
Related terms: bilinear
linear operator
sesquilinear
self-adjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + adjoint.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Adjoint to itself.
qualifier: functional analysis
glosses: Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.
skew-symmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: (ccc 0 2 3\-2 0-4\-3 4 0)
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a matrix, satisfying A^( textsf )T=-A, i.e. having entries on one side of the diagonal that are the additive inverses of their correspondents on the other side of the diagonal and having only zeroes on the main diagonal.
Synonyms: antisymmetric
skew symmetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-symmetric.
skew-symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The state of being skew-symmetric
skew symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of skew-symmetry.
unit vector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit vectors
Senses: topics: linear-algebra
mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A vector with the length of 1, defined as mathbf ̂u=(mathbf u)/(‖ mathbf u‖).
Hypernyms: vector
Hyponyms: direction vector
Meronyms: direction cosine
Related terms: unit sphere
◌̂
enervating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enervate
enervating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enervating
form: most enervating
Senses: examples: text: No enervating arts refined
To slumber lull'd his heaven-born might;
No weak indulgence warp'd thy mind,
To cloud a hero's path of light.
ref: 1827, Lydia Sigourney, Poems, Grave of the Mother of Washington, page 10:
text: I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.
ref: 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter XX, in Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 196:
text: Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 1:
glosses: That enervates.
Derived terms: enervatingly
longimanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longimanous
form: most longimanous
Senses: glosses: Having long hands.
manichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manichords
Etymology: From Latin monochordon, from Ancient Greek μονόχορδον (monókhordon), influenced by Latin manus (“hand”). So called because it originally had only one string. See monochord.
Senses: glosses: A clavichord.
maniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin mani,stem of manus (“hand”)) + -form.
Senses: glosses: Having the form of a hand.
manitrunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manitrunks
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
entomology
insects
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The anterior segment of the thorax in insects.
sluttery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slutteries
Etymology: From slut + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: The tickets were valued at $80.00 and because of my slutteries, we got them free.
ref: 2006, Ryan 'Ryonie Balogna', Before I forget:
glosses: A slutty or sluttish act.
glosses: The qualities or practices of a slut (promiscuous person); sluttishness; sexual promiscuity.
examples: text: Where fires thou find'st unrak'd, and hearths unswept, / There pinch the Maids as blew as Bill-berry, / Our radiant Queene, hates Sluts, and Sluttery.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Home to dinner, and there I took occasion, from the blacknesse of the meat as it came out of the pot, to fall out with my wife and my maid for their sluttery […]
ref: 1665 November 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “November 7th, 1665”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:
glosses: The qualities or practices of a slut (slovenly person), such as untidiness and dirtiness.
Related terms: slut
slutty
sluttiness
sluttishness
Taiyuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: T'ai-yüan
form: T'ai-yuan
Etymology: From Mandarin 太原 (Tàiyuán).
Senses: examples: text: "On Wednesday 7th August 1901 a party from T'ai Yüan Fu, consisting of Mr. Duncan, Dr. Creasy Smith, Major Pereira, and Dr. Edwards, arrived to take part in the memorial service ; Mr. Hoste and Mr. Ernest Taylor of the China Inland Mission having arrived a day or two earlier.
ref: [1903 [1901 August 9], “Appendix”, in Fire and Sword in Shansi: The Story of the Martyrdom of Foreigners and Chinese Christians, Oliphant, Anderson and Ferrier, →OCLC, page 318:
text: Shansi (population 12,000,000): On the surface Taiyuan, the capital of Shansi, appears as calm as Sian, only more down at heel. Grass is sprouting in the cracks of the Jap runways on the airfield but smoke rises from the chimneys of foundries and textile plants.[…]
One discovers with shock how deeply the Japanese burrowed into North China. In backwoods Taiyuan there are 25,000 Japanese civilians, most of whom were put down here to mine Shansi’s coal.
ref: 1945 November 12, Charles J. V. Murphy, “China Reborn”, in Life, volume 19, number 20, Chicago: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 113, column 1:
text: The commitment was made at a meeting held in commemoration of Tomb-Sweeping Day and the third anniversary of President Chiang’s passing on April 5, at Yuanshan in front of the Shrine of the 500 Heroes (dedicated to those who fought to the end at Taiyuan, Shansi province, against the Communists in April 1949).
ref: 1978 April 9, “Freedom-seekers vow to defeat Reds”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIX, number 14, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1:
text: Taiyuan, the capital of the province, lies on the upper reaches of the Fen surrounded by irrigated ricelands, orchards and vineyards on the mountain slopes, with enormous seams of coal underground. In Shansi all roads lead to Taiyuan, but the roads that radiate out of Taiyuan in every direction lead nowhere.
ref: 1983, William Hinton, “Introduction: Shansi, Land of the Oxhide Lanterns”, in Shenfan, New York: Vintage Books, published 1984, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxxiv:
text: A group of Maoists commemorating the 35th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s death in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan was violently broken up by police. Chinese authorities have no patience for these Mao-lovers, who seem to have forgotten the former communist leader’s authoritarian streak and retained only the idyllic vision of a fairer society.
ref: 2011 September 23, Ségolène Malterre, “Modern-day Maoists worry Chinese authorities”, in France 24, archived from the original on 28 Dec 2015:
glosses: A prefecture-level city, the provincial capital of Shanxi, in northern China.
Synonyms: Yangku
mawworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawworms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of maw-worm.
ossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑsiə/
ipa: /ˈɔsiə/
ipa: /oʊˈsiə/
ipa: /ˈɒsɪə/
ipa: /ɒˈsiːə/
Forms: form: ossias
Etymology: From Italian ossia (“or rather”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In a musical score, an alternative version of a passage, usually just a few measures long. The alternative may be an easier version of a particularly difficult passage, or a more difficult version of a passage.
mawworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawworm
hawsehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hawseholes
form: hawse hole
Etymology: From hawse + hole.
Senses: examples: text: The bolsters can be seen outboard of the hawseholes, and the way they are cut away to permit the passage of the anchor-cables.
ref: 1986, Jean Boudriot, The Seventy-four Gun Ship, page 59:
text: Then he saw. a few feet aft of the hawsehole, a darker spot on the hull—someone had left a porthole open below the forecastle. in the hold that was the crews' quarters.
ref: 2002, David Sherman, Demontech, Book 1: Onslaught, page 21:
text: Its overlapping steel plates and the empty hawseholes, from which the anchors will soon be suspended, are visible.
ref: 2004, Nelson H. Lawry, Glen M. Williford, Leo K. Polaski, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage, page 86:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The hole through which a ship's anchor rope is passed.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A hole in a ship through which a hawser is passed.
Synonyms: sense: hole through which a hawser is passed
word: cathole
Derived terms: through the hawsehole
hawseholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hawsehole
pantoffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pantoffles
Senses: examples: text: Ile tell you Lady,
 Since you riſe up his Advocate, and boldly,
 (For now I finde, and plainly, in whoſe favour
 My love and ſervice to you was neglected)
 For all your wealth, nay, adde to that your beauty,
 And put your vertues in if you have any,
 I would not yet be pointed at, as he is,
 For the fine Courtier, the womans man,
 That tells my Lady ſtories, diſſolves riddles,
 Uſhers her to her Coach, lyes at her feet
 At ſollemne Maskes, applauding what ſhe laughs at;
 Reads her aſleep a nights, and takes his oath
 Upon her Pantoffles, that all excellence
 In other Madams doe but zany hers:
 Theſe you are perfect in, and yet theſe take not
 Or from your birth or freedome.
ref: 1616–1618, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, “The Queene of Corinth”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 4, column 1:
glosses: Alternative form of pantofle.
pantoffles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pantoffle
cornpone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔnpəʊn/
Forms: form: cornpones
form: corn pone
form: corn-pone
Etymology: From corn + pone.
Senses: examples: text: The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.
ref: 1921, T. S. Stribling, Birthright:
synonyms: corncake
for more, see johnnycake § Synonyms
hypernyms: word: cornbread
english: sometimes coordinate
translation: sometimes coordinate
coordinate_terms: corn pudding
glosses: A form of cornbread made without milk or eggs.
examples: text: Her southern accent was rich as molasses, and she really did, without affectation, call everyone ‘y'all’, but the cornpone was camouflage. A tough, clever mind was evident in her penetrating gaze […]
ref: 2005, John Baxter, We'll Always Have Paris, Bantam, published 2006, page 27:
glosses: Something or someone considered stereotypical of rural, Southern US attitudes or attributes.
cyanoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyanosis
kirkbuzzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirkbuzzers
Etymology: From kirk + buzzer.
Senses: glosses: A robber who preys on churches.
kirkbuzzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirkbuzzer
cyanotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In cold weather rosaceous cheeks often tend to become mauvish and take on a cyanotic tinge.
ref: 1976, Ronald Marks, Common facial dermatoses, page 9:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Resembling or afflicted with cyanosis.
Synonyms: cyanose
cyanosed
Derived terms: acrocyanotic
acyanotic
anthocyanotic
noncyanotic
Related terms: cyan
barrad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrads
Senses: examples: text: He was a youth, slightly made, and arrayed in the embroidered cotaigh, or tunic, the truise of plaided weft, the long, fringed colchal, and the high barrad cap of a bard.
ref: 1852, The Odd-fellows' Offering, page 62:
glosses: A tall hat resembling a dunce cap.
barrads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrad
symphoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more symphoric
form: most symphoric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek συμφορά (sumphorá, “mishap, mischance, misfortune”)?
Senses: examples: text: Who would have endured in this place to have seen two such words as the phthano-paranomic or crime-preventing, and the phthano-symphoric or calamity-preventing, branches of the police?
ref: 1789, Jeremy Bentham, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation:
text: Walk a mile in my snowshoes, I say, before you deal thus harshly with a poor, unfortunate symphoric nyctalopian, come at the dwindling twilight of his life to a state of repentance and hiatus hernia. Ah, you nullifidians, you!
ref: 1989, Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison's Watching, →ISBN:
text: "Just unhook it and come on down. It’s very simple I assure you, old fellow. And perfectly safe unless you are symphoric perhaps."
ref: 2008, Joan F (MI), quoting K. K. Stevens, Moonspins and Widdershins (2005), “Today's Word is for Janie”, in alt.fiftyplus (Usenet):
glosses: Clumsy; accident-prone.
examples: text: Both the symphoric (integrational) phase of the metaphysical, namely ‘mediation’ (cf. ⑥ and ?⃝) and our intermodal triad, termed ‘module’, derive from templates as ancient as the fundamental PH-PX asymmetry and the fundamental PX-SZ asymmetry. All of metaphysics is ultimately aimed at mediating between immortal PH and mortal PX.
ref: 1983, Manfred Faust, Roland Harweg, Werner Lehfeldt, Götz Wienold, editors, Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Textlinguistik: Festschrift für Peter Hartmann:
text: Senn’s paper on “Symphoric Joyce” queried where the pun begins and ends and noted the “symphoric” quality of Joyce’s writing—bringing various nodes of signification together in the text.
ref: 1998 April 1, Donald Theall, “Beyond the Word: Reconstructing Sense in the Joyce Era of Technology, Culture, and Communication”, in Canadian Journal of Communication, volume 23, number 4, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to or involving symphoria (any sense).
calfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calf
spumoni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spumonis
form: spumone
Etymology: From Italian spumoni, plural of spumone, from spuma (“foam”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Oh, I see.’ A slice of spumoni wouldn't have melted on her now.
ref: 1953, Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye, Penguin, published 2010, page 2:
glosses: An Italian style of ice cream dessert made with layers of different colors and flavors (typically cherry, pistachio, and vanilla or chocolate) and usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
Related terms: Neapolitan ice cream
sprucely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sprucely
form: most sprucely
Etymology: From spruce + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Ah ! Hawk,' said one very sprucely dressed personage in a Newmarket coat, a choice neckerchief, and all other accessories of the most unexceptionable kind.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: In a spruce manner; neatly and elegantly.
spruceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spruce + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being spruce, of being neat and elegant.
standard candle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard candles
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any astronomical object of known absolute magnitude. Its distance can then be calculated from its apparent magnitude.
Related terms: standard ruler
colosseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colosseums
form: colossea
form: coliseum
form: colossæum
Etymology: From Latin Colosseum, from neuter of colosseus (“gigantic”), from Ancient Greek κολοσσιαῖος (kolossiaîos), from κολοσσός (kolossós, “giant statue”).
Senses: examples: text: This design was also adopted for their amphitheatres, such as the colossea of Rome and Capua, the plan of which resembles the cavea of two theatres set together so as to enclose an oval space.
ref: 1888, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9th edition, volume XXIII, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 224, column 1:
text: The temples and banking halls of Rome were turned into churches, and the deserted shells of the great monuments, the baths, the stadia and colossea, were used as quarries for buildings to come.
ref: 1971, The Canadian Banker, page 6:
text: The colossea, games and temples declined.
ref: 1997, David Nicholas, The Growth of the Medieval City: From Late Antiquity to the Early Fourteenth Century, Addison Wesley Longman Limited, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coliseum.
netroots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ʹnĕt.ro͞ots
ipa: /ˈnɛt.ɹuːts/
Etymology: Blend of net + grassroots
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Grassroots political activism on the internet, especially on blogs.
Related terms: netroot
statecraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statecrafts
form: statescraft
Etymology: From state + -craft.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of statesmanship (“the ability to guide a state well”).
synonyms: word: statesmanship
extra: the ability to guide a state well
stertorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜː.təɹ.əs/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs/
Forms: form: more stertorous
form: most stertorous
Senses: examples: text: Baldy had not moved since lying down, and his regular and somewhat sterterous breathing […] told Monica that he was alive and resting comfortably.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter IX, in The Understanding Heart:
glosses: Sounding like snoring or snorting.
Derived terms: stertorously
Related terms: stertor
statehouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: statehouses
Etymology: From state + house.
Senses: examples: text: And so it is that something Republicans are calling “critical race theory” became the center of a series of statehouse bills – some proposed, others already signed into law – that aim to ban honest conversations about race and sex oppression in America from classrooms.
ref: 2021 June 17, Moira Donegan, “What the moral panic about ‘critical race theory’ is about”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of state house.
statehouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statehouse
stolidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stolidities
Etymology: From stolid + -ity, from Middle French stolidité, from Late Latin stoliditas.
Senses: examples: text: "[…] So many people find the world a dreary residence," Mr. Calverley sighed, "that it is really a pity some one of these long-faced stolidities cannot die now instead of me. For I have found life wonderful throughout."
ref: 1916, James Branch Cabell, The Certain Hour:
glosses: The property of being stolid; unemotionality.
stolidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stolidly
form: most stolidly
Etymology: From stolid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: On once more we swung, bumping uneasily along in the antique narrow-gauge coach, with gloomy woods and gathering night outside, shouts and songs (and quacks) inside—this was not at all the sort of train ordained by the logical strategists in Paris—then grinding to a stop at a mysterious halt which was no more than a nameboard in the pinewoods, without even a footpath leading to it, but nevertheless with a solitary passenger stolidly waiting.
ref: 1961 November, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part One”, in Trains Illustrated, page 668:
glosses: In a stolid manner.
stonework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneworks
Etymology: From Middle English stonewerk, stonwerk, ston-werke, stoonwerk, from Old English stānweorc; equivalent to stone + -work.
Senses: examples: text: The gate itself has sideposts of rustic stonework, each topped by a large Baroque vase[…]
ref: 2001, A. J. Youngson, The Companion Guide to Edinburgh and the Borders, page 352:
synonyms: masonry
glosses: Constructions made of stone.
synonyms: masonry
stonecraft
glosses: The skill of constructing with stone.
stoneworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stonework
stoneworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoneworks
Senses: examples: text: Follow the road steeply down through forest, turning left before climbing past a stoneworks.
ref: 2022, Paddy Dillon, Walking on Madeira:
glosses: A place where quarried stone is processed.
stoppage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoppages
Etymology: From stop + -age.
Senses: examples: text: The length of the stoppages could not well be reduced; indeed, they are already too short if we are to believe the tale now current of a wandering Jew sort of passenger—a lady of advanced years who can only alight from a train backwards. Every time she begins to get out a porter rushes up crying "Hurry up, ma'am; train's going!"—and pushes her in again!
ref: 1944 May and June, “When the Circle was Steam Operated”, in Railway Magazine, page 150:
text: The brakes were specially developed by the Westinghouse Air Brake Company to provide smooth stoppages under automatic operation.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: Automated trains in New York”, in Trains Illustrated, page 78:
text: A "who-does-what" labour dispute at Swindon works during April led to a stoppage of work on the construction of the new 0-6-0 Type 1 diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the D9500 series and work had not been resumed as we closed for press.
ref: 1964 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: BR Workshops”, in Modern Railways, page 432:
text: The laws are controversial. Forcing someone to work during a lawful strike is a major step. It was always likely to inflame a situation, and so it proved with LNER. ASLEF's counter-tactic came as a five-day walkout, which would have been the longest stoppage for many years had LNER not withdrawn its plan.
ref: 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:
synonyms: word: hiatus
word: moratorium
word: recess
word: break
word: breather
word: cessation
word: demurral
word: gap
word: caesura
word: hiatus
word: halt
word: halting
word: interregnum
word: interruption
word: lapse
word: moratorium
word: pause
word: recess
word: respite
word: resting
word: stoppage
word: stopping
word: suspension
glosses: A pause or halt of some activity.
synonyms: jam
glosses: Something that forms an obstacle to continued activity; a blockage or obstruction.
Derived terms: stoppage time
Mawworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mawworms
Etymology: The name of a character in the play The Hypocrite (1768) by Isaac Bickerstaffe; from maw-worm.
Senses: examples: text: That there are a sufficient number of Mawworms and Cantwells in the profession, is abundantly proved by the number of signatures obtained to the petition against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays.
ref: 1853 - "Editor's letter box", Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, vol.1 (new series), no.49, p.1090, 9 December 1853
text: So, according to this Mawworm, it is not the play itself but its being acted publicly that is so pernicious.
ref: 1862 March 15, “Military mawwormism”, in Punch, page 103:
text: He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best. He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 30:
text: Troublemakers come in splendid variety - from the catamaran, or quarrelsome scold, to the solopsist, or self-absorbed, self-referential me addict; from the blateroon, or compulsive chatterbox, to the mawworm, or pious, mealy-mouthed hypocrite.
ref: 1986 December 12, The Ottawa Citizen, page E8:
glosses: A hypocrite.
wikipedia: Isaac Bickerstaffe
The Hypocrite
Related terms: maw-worm
stoppages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoppage
examples: text: The cashier finished counting off the money; the boy dragged the whole down the counter to Mr. Winterbottom, to whom the stoppages for rent and tools must be paid.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Salary deductions.
strip-mining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strip-mine
storytelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storytellings
form: story-telling
Etymology: From story + telling.
Senses: examples: text: Dynamic typography reinvigorates the storytelling genre by anthropomorphizing fonts, defibrillating calligraphy, creating rhythmic, ambient moodscapes without sacrificing speed or lushness.
ref: 1999, Artbyte, volume 2:
synonyms: taletelling
glosses: The act and skills of presenting stories and tales.
Derived terms: scrollytelling
Related terms: narration
storyteller
straight-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more straight-faced
form: most straight-faced
Senses: glosses: Having a straight face, not revealing excessive emotion, especially amusement.
examples: text: That was a straight-faced lie, and you knew it.
glosses: Bold, blatant, bald-faced.
Synonyms: sense: Having a straight face
word: poker-faced
streamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streamlined
form: most streamlined
Etymology: From streamline + -ed.
Senses: synonyms: air-smoothed
glosses: Designed to offer little resistance to the flow of fluid, especially by having sleek, graceful lines.
examples: text: Commercial pilots would benefit from streamlined rules on flight time, duty and rest requirements in a proposal being announced Friday by federal regulators.
ref: 2010 September 10, Paul Courson, “New rules proposed for pilot flight time and rest requirements”, in CNN:
text: He boasted about how quickly the company had brought the 737 Max to market — and praised the Federal Aviation Administration’s “streamlined” certification process.
ref: 2019 April 3, Chris Isidore, “Boeing boasted about streamlined approval for the 737 Max. Now it’s cleaning up the mess”, in CNN:
glosses: Having been made more simple and straight forward.
Derived terms: nonstreamlined
non-streamlined
semi-streamlined
superstreamlined
unstreamlined
streamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From streamline + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of streamline
spoilage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spoilages
Etymology: From spoil + -age.
Senses: glosses: The part of something that has spoiled.
examples: text: To prevent spoilage, store in a cool, dry place.
glosses: The process of spoiling.
wurbagool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurbagools
Senses: examples: text: My attention was one morning directed to a colony of flying foxes (Pteropus edwardsii) […] The natives call this bat the “wurbagool.”
ref: [1867, Andrew Leith Adams, Wanderings of a naturalist in India: The western Himalayas, and Cashmere, Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, page 15:
text: You see, my lord, I get rheumatic pains in my leg sometimes, and the bone of a wurbagool tied round the ankle with a string of a black cow's hair is, they say, the best cure.
ref: 1877, Robert Armitage Sterndale, Seonee, Or Camp Life on the Saptura Range, page 194:
glosses: An Indian flying fox (Pteropus medius, syn. Pteropus giganteus), found throughout south Asia.
Synonyms: greater Indian fruit bat
wurbagools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wurbagool
dodecasyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecasyllables
form: duodecasyllable
Etymology: From dodeca- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: A word consisting of twelve syllables.
Coordinate terms: monosyllable
disyllable
trisyllable
tetrasyllable
pentasyllable
sexisyllable
heptasyllable
octosyllable
enneasyllable
decasyllable
endecasyllable
polysyllable
Related terms: dodecasyllabic
dharna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dharnas
form: dhurna
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi धरना (dharnā).
Senses: examples: text: ln December 1974, Morarji Desai, gave a threat of staging a dharna inside the Lok Sabha chamber. ln June 1975, Morarji Deshmukh, the Jana Sangh leader, stated that there had to be a Delhi Bandh to compel the Prime Minister to resign.
ref: 2005, Je Varalakṣmi, Varalakshmi Jnapathy, Indira Gandhi: Woman of India's Destiny, Gyan Publishing House, →ISBN, page 115:
glosses: A sit-in.
examples: text: […] house-tax having been imposed on the natives during Lord Minto's government […] the Brahmins resolved to try the virtue of a dharna; […] The local government was exceedingly perplexed; for, besides the risk of hundreds perishing, there was the certainty of a famine, from the cessation of agricultural labour if the dharna continued.
ref: 1854, William Chambers, Robert Chambers, Chambers's Miscellany of Useful and Entertaining Tracts, Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers, page 30:
glosses: A fast undertaken at the door of an offender, especially a debtor.
Related terms: traga
dharnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dharna
crawk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crawks
form: crawking
form: crawked
form: crawked
Senses: glosses: To caw (squawk).
it'sn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈɪtsənt/
Senses: examples: text: It'sn't that hard.
ref: 1994 September 3, Lillith Kylan Lerien, “Short message before vanishing for the weekend”, in alt.pub.coffeehouse.amethyst (Usenet):
text: Or it'sn't. Or I'ven't. Or ... bah. Nevermind.
ref: 1996 December 10, Louis Nick III, “Updated Kibology Web Pages”, in alt.religion.louis-nick (Usenet):
text: Anyway, the tone and tenor of your questions suggest that it'sn't my views that matter to you - it is that I agree with you.
ref: 1997 May 29, Sikhivahan, “Naga's irrelevant arguments Re: PROLETARIAT SCHOOLGIRL!!!”, in soc.culture.indian.gujarati (Usenet):
text: NO it'sn't. His whole team is paying the price.
ref: 1998 June 17, j.m...@usa.net, “We don't like your tackel. Your team lost”, in rec.sport.soccer (Usenet):
text: I don't say it'sn't possible, I'm completly open minded .
ref: 1998 November 3, olivier Laurent, “EU and ways of government”, in alt.politics.usa.republican (Usenet):
text: It'sn't a spam. I post my messages manually with respect of this news.
ref: 2003 August 7, Florian Lhermite, “The Snoozing Team : 750mo no limit transfert PHP/MySQL remuneration up to 19.000$ / month”, in alt.www.webmaster (Usenet):
glosses: Contraction of it is not.
Synonyms: sense: it is not
word: 'tisn't
sense: it is not
word: tint
crawks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crawk
situla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtjuːlə/
Forms: form: situlae
form: situlas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin situla.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A deep ceramic vase with a wide opening.
Related terms: situla art
situla culture
situlate
situliform
situlas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪtjuːləz/
Senses: glosses: plural of situla
somniloquist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somniloquists
Etymology: From somniloquy + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He drooled incessantly, alternately moaning and cursing in a low somniloquist's voice
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 355:
glosses: A person who talks in his/her sleep.
Synonyms: sleeptalker
somniloquists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of somniloquist
nocioception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By surface analysis, noci- + -o- + -ception.
Senses: synonyms: nociception
nociperception
glosses: The physiological perception of pain.
scuppernong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskʌpənɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɔŋ/
ipa: /ˈskʌ.pəɹˌnɑŋ/
Forms: form: scuppernongs
Etymology: Named after the Scuppernong River and Lake in North Carolina near which the grapes were first found and cultivated. Probably from an Algonquian word. Both senses, "grape" and "wine", are first found in documents from the 1800s-1820s.
Senses: glosses: A large greenish-bronze grape native to the Southeastern United States, a variety of the muscadine grape (Vitis rotundifolia).
glosses: A sweet, golden or amber-colored US wine made from this variety of grape.
scuppernongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scuppernong
nociception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nociceptions
form: nocioception
Etymology: From Latin nocēre (“to hurt”) + English (re)ception. By surface analysis, noci- + -ception.
Senses: examples: text: The sensation was curious. The bullet passed through her thigh, cleanly, severing the dust-bones and making the second self stumble for a moment before knitting the injury back together. It didn't hurt — she'd have needed an entire quarry's worth of sand for nociception — but she still felt the hole appear, still felt the tiny slug passing through, still felt the quivering impact and the explosive exit. She felt the next three as well, and then she was standing over a cowering woman in a black leather jacket and beanie with a look of complete and total bafflement on her face.
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The physiological process underlying the sensation of pain.
Derived terms: antinociception
chemonociception
hypernociception
mechanonociception
pronociception
thermonociception
Related terms: nociceptor
nocisensor
microcode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microcodes
Etymology: From micro- + code.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The collective microprograms in a CPU, used to run machine instructions.
microcode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microcodes
form: microcoding
form: microcoded
form: microcoded
Etymology: From micro- + code.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To write or rewrite (program instructions) in microcode, typically to optimize performance.
Tartu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɑɹtu/
Etymology: Borrowed from Estonian Tartu, from earlier Tarbatu, ultimately from tarvas (“aurochs”), qv.
Senses: examples: text: Even though teacher training has been completely overhauled at Tartu University to place more emphasis on how to teach students critical thinking and communication and less on content knowledge, officials there say it’s taking a while to trickle down into the classroom.
ref: 2016 June 23, Sarah Butrymowicz, “Estonia Is Becoming the New Finland”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2016:
synonyms: Dorpat
glosses: The second-largest city in Estonia.
microprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microprograms
form: microprogramme
Etymology: From micro- + program.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of microinstructions in a CPU, used to implement machine instructions.
microprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: microprograms
form: microprogramming
form: microprograming
form: microprogrammed
form: microprogrammed
form: microprogramed
form: microprogramed
form: microprogramme
Etymology: From micro- + program.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To write a microprogram manually.
Related terms: microprogrammable
microinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinstructions
Etymology: From micro- + instruction.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hardware instruction in the CPU of a microprocessor; a software instruction in a microprogram
Pärnu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Estonian Pärnu.
Senses: glosses: A city in Estonia.
homologous pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homologous pairs
Senses: glosses: Two chromosomes that are identical, with the same genes.
Narva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Estonian Narva.
Senses: glosses: A city and municipality of Estonia.
glosses: A river in Estonia and Russia.
glosses: A river in Belarus.
glosses: A small river in Primorsky Krai, in the Far East of Russia.
glosses: A village in Primorsky Krai, Russia.
Derived terms: Narvitian
undertow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undertows
form: undertowing
form: undertowed
form: undertowed
Etymology: From under- + tow.
Senses: examples: text: Off in a gallop the General wheeled vanishing, And sped his steed away into the blue, When Lineoln now alone let go his speech Which had before been undertowed by force, [...]
ref: 1914, Denton Jaques Snider, Lincoln at Richmond:
glosses: To pull or tow under; drag beneath; pull down.
examples: text: A sense that the air, a sighting of muddy river, or that outcrop of rock so implacably bland in the light of midday, is undertowed by memory.
ref: 1998, Richard Gough, David Williams, Ric Allsopp, Performance Research: On Place:
text: I sink because I cannot swim, undertowed to the Centre, abandoning all remembrance of the surface toward the cloud of unknowing, without choice I'm pulled.
ref: 2003, Michael T. Leibig, Mike Leibig Traveling in Disguise:
glosses: To pull down by, or as by, an undertow.
examples: text: Everybody knows this and acts accordingly; but when you say it, it sounds bad and bold, and makes you uncomfortable to hear it, because the puritan blood is still undertowing in your veins.
ref: 1917, The Unpopular review:
glosses: To flow or behave as an undertow.
undertow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertows
Etymology: From under- + tow.
Senses: examples: text: A strong undertow may sweep a returning swimmer off their feet but it does not carry them far from the shore.
glosses: A short-range flow of water returning seaward from the waves breaking on the shore.
glosses: A feeling that runs contrary to one's normal one.
Related terms: rip current
riptide
undersuck
Damascene conversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Damascene conversions
Etymology: From the conversion of St. Paul to Christianity on the road to Damascus.
Senses: examples: text: But unless there is a Damascene conversion in the Treasury, the chances of the UK Government following suit currently look slim.
ref: 2022 May 4, Anthony Lambert, “A revolution in ticketing”, in RAIL, number 956, page 33:
glosses: A sudden and complete change in one's beliefs.
Related terms: Pauline conversion
TQM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of total quality management.
convex hull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convex hulls
Senses: examples: text: 1994, David Eppstein, Chapter 10: Average Case Analysis of Dynamic Geometric Optimization, Association of Computing Machinery, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Proceedings of the Fifth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, page 83,
This problem can be solved in time O(nᶜ) by combining a weight-balanced tree of the convex hull vertices with a farthest neighbor data structure of Agarwal and Matoušek [2].
text: Thus, the polyhedron and the convex hull of the set of its vertices coincide, which was to be proved.
Since the convex hull of a set M is determined uniquely from M, Theorem 1 implies that a bounded solid polyhedron and its surface, i.e., a closed convex polyhedron, are determined uniquely from its vertices.
ref: 2005, A.D. Alexandrov, Convex Polyhedra, page 23:
text: The convex hull of a compact subset of an infinite dimensional topological vector space need not be a compact set.
ref: 2007, Charalambos D. Aliprantis, Kim C. Border, Infinite Dimensional Analysis: A Hitchhiker's Guide, page 185:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The smallest convex set of points in which a given set of points is contained.
Synonyms: sense: smallest convex set of points containing a given set
word: convex envelope
sense: smallest convex set of points containing a given set
word: linear span
sense: smallest convex set of points containing a given set
word: span
unlimited register machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlimited register machines
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particular type of theoretical computer, with infinitely many memory cells, called registers, and formal rules to determine the machine's behavior based on their contents.
Synonyms: URM
Related terms: Turing machine
cellular automaton
pushdown automaton
pushdown automaton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pushdown automata
form: pushdown automatons
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: pushdown
glosses: An automaton with finitely many states that can also use one unbounded stack of memory; the automaton may only push, pop, or read the top of the stack. Abbreviation: PDA.
Related terms: Turing machine
cellular automaton
unlimited register machine
context-free grammar
xenogeneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zɛ.nəʊˈd͡ʒɛ.nə.siːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of xenogenesis
xenogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɛ.nəʊ.d͡ʒəˈnɛ.tɪk/
Etymology: From xeno- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Being of foreign origin; having originated elsewhere.
glosses: Relating to xenogenesis.
context-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From context + -free.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: (Of a grammar) which generates sentences in stages, in such a way that at any intermediate stage, any piece of the sentence is enough to determine the corresponding piece at the next stage; that is, the stagewise transformation at a point does not depend on the rest of the sentence
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: (Of a formal language) which can be decided by a pushdown automaton or a context-free grammar (sense 1)
formal language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: formal languages
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: regular language
holonyms: formal system
meronyms: alphabet
symbol
word
glosses: A set of finite strings (called words) made of symbols (from a finite set of symbols, called an alphabet).
xenogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /zɛˈnɒ.d͡ʒə.ni/
Senses: glosses: Xenogenesis.
Derived terms: xenogenic
Diophantine equation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Diophantine equations
form: diophantine equation
Senses: examples: text: 1993, Ross Talent, Alf van der Poorten (translation editors), Vladimir G. Sprindžuk, Classical Diophantine Equations, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1559, page viii,
Nevertheless, the fundamental idea of Skolem's method, the reduction of algebraic diophantine equations to exponential equations, has shown exceptional vitality in recent episodes of the theory of diophantine equations.
text: Based on lectures he^([Davenport]) gave at the University of Michigan in the early 1960s, this book is concerned with the use of analytic methods in the study of integer solutions to Diophantine equations and Diophantine inequalities.
ref: 2005, Harold Davenport, edited by T. D. Browning, Analytic Methods for Diophantine Equations and Diophantine Inequalities, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, page i:
text: 2020, Hasan Sankari, Mohammad Abobala, Neutrosophic Linear Diophantine Equations With Two Variables, in Neutrosophic Sets and Systems, Volume 38, University of New Mexico, page 402,
The following theorem determines the criteria for the solvability of [a] neutrosophic linear Diophantine equation.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A polynomial equation whose variables are only permitted to assume integer values.
Hyponyms: Pell’s equation
Derived terms: exponential Diophantine equation
Related terms: Diophantine analysis
Diophantine set