cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tubulointerstitium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubulointerstitia
Etymology: From tubulo- + interstitium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The tubules and interstitial tissue of the kidneys
Derived terms: tubulointerstitial
uteroplacental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From utero- + placental.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the uterus and the placenta.
vasculopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasculopathies
Etymology: From vasculo- + -pathy.
Senses: examples: text: Prevention of diabetic vasculopathy is generally sought by the only means at hand: Meticulous control of the diabetes.
ref: 1959 January, Paul M. Brickley, “Flavonoid Therapy in Diabetic Retinopathy”, in California Medicine, volume 90, number 1, page 45:
text: Pulmonary occlusive venopathy and PM are rather uncommon (fewer than 200 cases have been reported in the published data) but increasingly recognized causes of pulmonary hypertension. They could represent part of the spectrum of vasculopathies of PPH, but they are distinct from the precapillary causes of PAH.
ref: 2004 June, Giuseppe G. Pietra, “Pathologic assessment of vasculopathies in pulmonary hypertension”, in Journal of the American College of Cardiology, volume 43, number 12:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any disease of blood vessels.
Derived terms: cerebrovasculopathy
macrovasculopathy
microvasculopathy
panvasculopathy
retinovasculopathy
vasculopathic
torsion wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torsion wrenches
Senses: glosses: An L-shaped tool used in lock picking to apply torsion to the inner cylinder of a lock, in order to hold any picked pins in place, while the other pins are shifted, and then to turn the inner cylinder and open the lock.
Synonyms: tension wrench
torque wrench
torque wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torque wrenches
Senses: glosses: A workshop tool used to precisely apply a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut or bolt; basically a wrench equipped with a torque indicator.
glosses: A torsion wrench, an L-shaped lockpicking tool.
Synonyms: sense: wrench for applying a specific torque
word: torque spanner
tension wrench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tension wrenches
Senses: glosses: A torsion wrench, an L-shaped lockpicking tool.
torsion wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torsion wrench
torque wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torque wrench
tension wrenches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tension wrench
lock picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockpicking
form: lock-picking
Senses: glosses: The action of using tools to unlock a lock without a key to that lock.
Related terms: lock pick
locksport
lock picking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock pick
bump key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bump keys
Senses: glosses: A lockpicking tool in the form of a key of the type generally used to open a lock, on which all pins have been cut down to the lowest position, so that striking this key sharply with a hammer while applying turning force at just the right instant after the impact will 'bump' open a lock.
Related terms: jiggler
bump keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bump key
refudiated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refudiate
refudiates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refudiate
refudiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refudiate
lockpicking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock picking.
lock pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock picks
form: lockpick
form: lock-pick
Senses: glosses: Any device used to unlock a lock without the use of a key.
glosses: A person who picks locks.
Synonyms: picklock
Related terms: electric lock pick
lock pick gun
lock picking
locksport
lock pick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lock picks
form: lock picking
form: lock picked
form: lock picked
form: lockpick
form: lock-pick
Senses: glosses: To use tools to unlock locks without a key; to pick locks.
lock picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock pick
lock picks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lock pick
perzactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: perzackly
form: perxactly
form: prezackly
form: prezactly
form: prexactly
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: examples: text: and Joseph continued: "That's it perzactly, All these words mean perzactly that, but there is hope, sister; there is hope.
ref: 1898, Lynn Roby Meekins, Some of our people, page 190:
text: "Not perzactly," Remy allowed. "Hezzy'd be gathering eggs one minute or sweeping the front porch and the next she'd be flat out on the ground.
ref: 2009, Jan Watson, Sweetwater Run, page 171:
glosses: precisely, exactly; used as an affirmation
lock picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lock pick
lockpick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockpicks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock pick.
lockpick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lockpicks
form: lockpicking
form: lockpicked
form: lockpicked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock pick.
lockpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockpick
lockpicks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock picks.
lockpicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lockpick
lock-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock-picks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock pick.
lock-pick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lock-picks
form: lock-picking
form: lock-picked
form: lock-picked
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock pick.
perzackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perzactly.
lock-picks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock-pick
lock-picks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock picks.
perxactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perzactly.
prezackly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perzactly.
prezactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of perzactly.
prexactly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of precisely + exactly
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of perzactly.
lock-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lock picking.
lock-picking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lock-pick
lock-picked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lock-pick
Pan-Americanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pan-American + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in the benefit of Pan-American organization.
non-newsworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + newsworthy.
Senses: examples: text: He felt the news agency's report was non-newsworthy.
glosses: Not interesting enough to be reported as news.
templatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: templatizations
Etymology: From template + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of templatizing.
WN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Wikinews.
WN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WNs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of white nationalist.
busman's holidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of busman's holiday
endly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).
Senses: examples: text: Of unitie, shewing of our keeping of the sea: with an endly or finall processe of peace by authoritie.
ref: a''' 1600, Richard Hakluyt, The principal navigations, voyages, traffiques & discoveries of the English, published 1903:
text: I pull me up, he push, and endly am i [sic] on one Foot on the little Waggonstep.
(in imitation of German)
ref: 1898, "Ludwig in London: Walkgo towards Tscerringross", by "Ludwig", in Punch, eds. Lemon, Mayhew, Taylor, Brooks, Burnand, Seaman, Volumes 114-115, page 65
text: The stretch of wilful obtuse to go in marriage leads a guiding knowledge of man in achieving an endly reach of it […]
ref: 1972, Igbo market literature - Volume 2 - Page 238
text: Thomas calls it the last or ultimate end—as it were the endliest end.
ref: 2015, Stephen L. Brock, The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas:
glosses: Final, terminal; of or pertaining to the end; conclusive.
Derived terms: unendly
endly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English endly, endely (“final”), equivalent to end + -ly. Compare Dutch eindelijk (“final”), German endlich (“final”), Middle High German endelīch (“final”).
Senses: examples: text: This allows a more flexible resource utilization and better performance: any process can access its data wherever it is, a reduced migration cost can be obtained by the transfer of a minimal part of the process context (the data partially remaining where it is), endly the remote access cost is minimized thanks to the attraction between data and execution context.
ref: 1998, Peter Sloot, Marian Bubak, Bob Hertzberger, High-performance computing and networking:
text: Endly, some implementation aspects are presented.
ref: 1994, Zbigniew Raś, Maria Zemankova, Methodologies for intelligent systems:
text: Endly the reverse model still means water infiltration and erosion control, at least in spring when the daily resultant is a water table lowering.
ref: 1988, Christophe Bonnard, Landslides:
text: And, endly, mark our tailed arborean ancestors, trained to the wearing of garments and a single eye-glass.
ref: 1902, Harry Leon Wilson, The Spenders a Tale of the Third Generation:
text: The rains, which are still falling, have endly allayed this evil...
ref: 1833, Luke Howard, The climate of London: deduced from meteorological observations...:
glosses: Finally; at last.
un-break
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: un-breaks
form: un-breaking
form: un-broke
form: un-broken
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unbreak.
thingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thingly
form: most thingly
Etymology: From Middle English thingli, þingly; equivalent to thing + -ly. For sense development, compare Latin reālis.
Senses: examples: text: All works have this thingly character.
ref: 2009, Donald Preziosi, The art of art history: a critical anthology:
topics: art
arts
human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the substance of a work, separate from what is conveyed; material, substantive.
glosses: Actual; real; substantial.
Related terms: deedly
thingy
workly
un-breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of un-break
un-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of un-break
un-broke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of un-break
un-broken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of un-break
selfly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfli/
Forms: form: more selfly
form: most selfly
Etymology: From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This denotes and declares the divided tongues, where every property had brought itself forth out of the universal sensual tongue into a selfishness and a peculiar selfly understanding, so that they did not any longer understand one another […]
ref: 2001, Jed Rasula, Steve McCaffery, Imagining Language: An Anthology:
glosses: Of or pertaining to self or one's own self, personal.
selfly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛlfli/
Etymology: From Middle English selfly, from Old English selflīċ (“automatic, spontaneous, voluntary”); equivalent to self + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thy gloomy Front, that selfly hath no light
ref: 1880, Josuah Sylvester, The complete works of Joshuah Sylvester:
glosses: In, of, or by one's self; of one's own accord, voluntary, automatic.
lands preserved
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: statement placed on signs or in newspaper ads, advising that hunting or shooting is not permitted on the property.
green-to-green
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Describing the condition in which two sea-going ships travelling in opposite directions pass each other on their starboard sides, making their green navigation lights face each other.
Related terms: red-to-red
Coral Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹəl ˈsiː/
Etymology: Named for coral formations in this sea, such as the Great Barrier Reef.
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean off the north-east coast of Australia.
Derived terms: Coral Sea Islands Territory
Related terms: Great Barrier Reef
Franz Josef Land
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Franz Joseph Land
form: Francis Joseph's Land
Etymology: The first reported finding was in the 1873 Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition led by Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht, who named the area after Emperor Franz Joseph I.
Senses: glosses: An archipelago in the Arctic Ocean in the north of Russia, north of Novaya Zemlya, east of Svalbard.
Related terms: Novaya Zemlya
Kara Sea
Arctic Ocean
numeraire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numeraires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of numéraire.
similiar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of similar.
automatic leveling systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of automatic leveling system
relevances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relevance
sore point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sore points
Senses: examples: text: The affair of the chaplaincy remained a sore point in his memory as a case in which this petty medium of Middlemarch had been too strong for him.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XVIII, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book II, page 337:
text: It is a sore point with me, this being told what I am to do or not do by you self-constituted lords of creation.
ref: 1911 March, Jack London, chapter 6, in Adventure, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: [T]he talks have touched on Iran's suspected nuclear-weapons program, its sponsorship of terrorism and other sore points.
ref: 2003 October 27, Adam Zagorin, Scott MacLeod, “So Who's Talking To Iran?”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2011:
synonyms: bone of contention
bone to pick
point of contention
glosses: An action, belief, or state of affairs which is an enduring basis for disagreement or dissatisfaction.
big-mouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more big-mouthed
form: most big-mouthed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bigmouthed.
blabbermouthed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blabbermouthed
form: most blabbermouthed
Etymology: From blabber + mouthed.
Senses: examples: text: Maybe I'll live long enough to see a newspaper reporter depicted on the screen as a gentleman, not a drunken, blabbermouthed, wise-cracking bum.
ref: 1947 March 31, Kaspar Monahan, “Show Shops”, in Pittsburgh Press, retrieved 27 Jul 2010, page 12:
text: The truth was that all this Freudian sex talk was the preview, a blabbermouthed precursor to all the feckless promiscuity that was to follow in the sixties.
ref: 2001, Will Self, How the Dead Live, →ISBN, page 94:
glosses: Talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner.
Synonyms: sense: talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner
word: bigmouthed
sense: talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner
word: garrulous
sense: talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner
word: loose-lipped
sense: talkative, especially in an indiscreet manner
word: loquacious
Related terms: blabbermouth
storm tide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storm tides
form: stormtide
Etymology: From storm + tide.
Senses: examples: text: At 8pm of the 27th there was 1.0 ft of storm tide at both Pensacola and Port Eads.
ref: Monthly weather review, U.S. Army Signal Corps, 1920
text: South Florida and Louisiana, August 23-26, 1992: Natural Disaster Survey -- Jennifer J. Wilson, James P. Travers, 1997 →ISBN
Storm surge is water height above normal tide level. Storm tide is the water height relative to NGVD, the mean sea level of 1929.
text: All About Camille -- the Great Storm, Dan Ellis, 2000 →ISBN
The advancing storm surge combines with the normal astronomical tide to create the storm tide.
text: Extreme events: a physical reconstruction and risk assessment, Jonathan Nott 2006 →ISBN
Randomly selected cyclones are then run through a numerical storm tide model.
synonyms: hurricane tide
glosses: A rise in local sea level caused by the combination of regular tides and a storm surge.
Related terms: storm surge
storm tides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storm tide
blastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having formative elements such as buds, germs, cells, or cell layers
glosses: Involving blast cells (also called precursor cells)
Derived terms: cholangioblastic
Related terms: antiblastic
monoblastic
brushtail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brushtails
Etymology: Back-formation from brush-tailed. See brush, tail.
Senses: glosses: A brushtail possum.
capias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkapɪəs/
ipa: /ˈkeɪ.pi.əs/
ipa: /ˈkæ.pi.əs/
Forms: form: capiases
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin capiās (“you should seize, you are to seize”), from capiō (“to seize”).
Senses: examples: text: All which when Cupid heard, he by and by / In great displeasure wild a Capias / Should issue forth t'attach that scornefull lasse.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: An arrest warrant; a writ commanding officers to take a specified person or persons into custody.
cheerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more cheerly
form: cheerlier
form: most cheerly
form: cheerliest
Etymology: From cheer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Wel ſaid, thou look'ſt cheerely, / And Ile be with thee quickly: yet thou lieſt / In the bleake aire.
ref: c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vi], page 192, column 2:
text: The first thing that roused me from my meditations, was a cheerly voice that saluted me as I was approaching Tattersall's; round whose gates a detachment of tilburies, stanhopes, and led-horses were clustered."
ref: 1841, Mrs. Gore [i.e., Catherine Grace Frances], Cecil: Or, The Adventures of a Coxcomb: A Novel, volume I, page 100:
glosses: Cheerful, gay; not gloomy.
cheerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)li
Forms: form: more cheerly
form: cheerlier
form: most cheerly
form: cheerliest
Etymology: From Middle English cheerly, cherly, cherely, cheerliche, equivalent to cheer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: My louing Lord, I take my leaue of you, [...] Not ſicke, although I haue to do with death, / But luſtie, yong, and cheerely drawing breath.
ref: 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 26, column 1:
text: What matters me who wears the crown of France? / Whether a Richard or a Charles possess it? / They reap the glory—they enjoy the spoil— / We pay—we bleed!—The sun would shine as cheerly, / The rains of heaven as seasonably fall, / Tho' neither of these royal pests existed.
ref: 1794, Robert Southey, Wat Tyler. A Dramatic Poem. In Three Acts, London: J[ohn] M‘Creery, […] for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, […], published 1817, →OCLC, Act I, page 6:
text: He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass,
Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.
ref: 1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos, page 15:
synonyms: word: gaily
word: mirthfully
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: Cheerily, cheerfully, heartily; briskly.
choicely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more choicely
form: most choicely
Etymology: From Middle English choisly; equivalent to choice + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: a band of men collected choicely, from each county some
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
synonyms: pickily
glosses: Taking care in choosing; with attention to preference.
examples: text: choicely good
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: In a preferable or excellent manner; eminently.
choiceness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choicenesses
Etymology: From choice + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being choice
choirman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choirmen
Etymology: From choir + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male chorister (in a church choir)
clearskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearskins
Etymology: From clear + skin.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of cleanskin (“unbranded animal”).
synonyms: word: cleanskin
extra: unbranded animal
clearwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clearwings
Etymology: clear + wing
Senses: glosses: Any of various moths, of the family Sesiidae, that have transparent wings
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies, usually of the tribe Ithomiini, that have transparent wings
Synonyms: sense: moth
word: clearwing moth
sense: butterfly
word: clearwing butterfly
Derived terms: chestnut clearwing moth
electrotechnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrotechnologies
Etymology: From electro- + technology.
Senses: glosses: Electrical technology and engineering.
Derived terms: electrotechnical
electrotechnician
entellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small Asian monkey (Semnopithecus entellus, syn. Presbytis entellus), one of the gray langurs, having bristly hairs on the crown and the sides of the face.
Synonyms: hanuman
gloxinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloxinias
Etymology: From the genus name (sense 1). Sense 2 was formerly classified in that genus; senses 3 and 4 are named for their resemblance to it.
Senses: glosses: Any of the three species of South American plants of the genera Gloxinia in family Gesneriaceae.
glosses: Brazilian gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa), a plant species formerly classified in the genus Gloxinia, in the family Gesneriaceae.
glosses: Creeping gloxinia (Lophospermum erubescens), in the family Plantaginaceae.
glosses: Hardy gloxinia (Incarvillea delavayi), in the family Bignoniaceae.
hankerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hankerers
Etymology: From hanker + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who hankers
hankerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hankerer
gloxinias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloxinia
lightwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From light (noun) + wood (noun).
Senses: glosses: Any wood used to light a fire; kindlings; especially, very resinous pine wood.
lightwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightwoods
Etymology: From light (“bright, pale”, adjective) + wood (noun).
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees with pale-coloured wood, especially the Australian tree Acacia melanoxylon.
irradiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That radiates light
irrecusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrecusable
form: most irrecusable
Etymology: From ir- + recusable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be challenged or objected to
Derived terms: irrecusably
optimific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɒp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more optimific
form: most optimific
Etymology: From optimum + -ific.
Senses: examples: text: The U-agent will have few choices about how to lead his life, few opportunities to act on considerations of the kind of person he is, or wants to become. He will thus have little room for the things we associate with the very idea of 'leading a life'. These will all be submerged beneath the question of which causal levers are optimific.
ref: 2001, Will Kymlicka, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford University Press, page 26:
text: If we suppose that everyone will try to follow some set of rules, some possible rules would be optimific in the sense that, if these are the rules that everyone tries to follow, things would go best.
ref: 2011, Derek Parfit, On What Matters, volume 1, Oxford University Press, page 251:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: producing the optimum outcome
overboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overboots
Etymology: From over- + boot.
Senses: glosses: A heavy-duty overshoe; a boot that is an overshoe.
pastellist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastellists
form: pastelist
Etymology: From pastel + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who works in pastels
quickbeam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɪkˌbiːm/
Forms: form: quickbeams
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English *quykbeem, from Old English cwicbeam, from Proto-West Germanic *kwikubaum; equivalent to quick (“living”) + beam. Cognate to Old Saxon quikbōm, quekbōm.
Senses: glosses: The European rowan tree.
Synonyms: quicken
Hypernyms: sense: Hypernyms of quickbeam
word: beam
sense: Hypernyms of quickbeam
word: tree
quickthorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quickthorns
Senses: glosses: The may-tree, any species of Crataegus or the species Crataegus monogyna.
recork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: recorks
form: recorking
form: recorked
form: recorked
Etymology: From re- + cork.
Senses: glosses: To replace a cork in (a bottle).
quickthorns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quickthorn
shimiyana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Homebrewed alcohol made from treacle etc.
recorks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recork
recorking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recork
recorking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recorkings
Senses: examples: text: Two and often three disgorgings and recorkings are needed before it is safe to send out for sale.
ref: 1869, William Joseph Flagg, Three Seasons in European Vineyards, page 108:
glosses: The act of closing something again with a cork.
shipbroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipbrokers
Etymology: From ship + broker.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An intermediary who negotiates between shipowners and people wanting to charter shipping
Related terms: shipbroking
shiplap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiplaps
Etymology: From ship + lap.
Senses: glosses: A type of wooden board that has rabbets to allow them to be overlapped, commonly used for the exterior siding of buildings.
shiplap
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shiplaps
form: shiplapping
form: shiplapped
form: shiplapped
Etymology: From ship + lap.
Senses: glosses: To overlap boards by this means.
skilfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skilfishes
form: skilfish
Senses: glosses: A fish, of the genus Erilepis, found on deep rocky bottoms in the North Pacific.
skimmel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimmels
Senses: glosses: A roan (dappled horse)
sparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sparable
form: most sparable
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spareable.
sparable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparables
Etymology: From sparrowbill, in reference to its shape, like a sparrow's beak.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was sometimes seen disputing with the cobbler, his opposite neighbour, about the charge of two-pence; and refusing to pay Crispin's demand, unless he put three or four more sparables in the heels of the shoes which he had mended twice before!
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 183:
glosses: A small headless nail used in making shoes (especially the heels).
spodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed by illuvial accumulation of amorphous organic matter
illuvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or formed by illuviation
illuviation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuviations
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The accumulation of suspended material and soluble compounds leached from an overlying stratum
Related terms: illuviate
illuvium
alluviation
eluviation
suncream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌkɹim/
Forms: form: suncreams
Etymology: From sun + cream.
Senses: examples: text: On sunny days like today we need to wear suncream to make sure we don't burn.
ref: 2017 Dad, "Fire!" Lily's Driftwood Bay September 14
glosses: A cream that contains sunscreen.
tincar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tincal (“borax”).
sunlounger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunloungers
form: sun lounger
Etymology: From sun + lounger.
Senses: glosses: A form of extended deckchair used for sunbathing or relaxing (typically by the sea or a pool)
Synonyms: word: pool chair
sunray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunrays
Etymology: From sun + ray.
Senses: glosses: A beam of sunlight; a sunbeam.
glosses: A beam of artificial light, especially one rich in ultraviolet.
glosses: A plant, Enceliopsis nudicaulis, that has a broad, yellow flower head.
glosses: Any of various Australian plants of the genus Rhodanthe.
talaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈlɛəɹi.ə/
enpr: tə-lârʹē-ə
ipa: /təˈlɛəɹiə/
ipa: /təˈlɛɹiə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Latin tālāria, plural form of tālāris (“of or pertaining to the ankle or heel”), from tālus (“anklebone, talus; heel”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- (“to touch”).
Senses: examples: text: Byres has drawn these figures with wings at their ankles, sometimes fastened to the leg, and sometimes like those at their shoulders, growing from the flesh—in both which ways the talaria of Mercury and Perseus are represented on ancient monuments. Nothing of this sort could I perceive; it was manifest to me that these were not talaria, but simple buskins with peaked flaps, such as are commonly depicted on vases of the archaic Greek style, and on the legs of Roman Lares in the paintings of Pompeii.
ref: 1848, George Dennis, “Bieda.—Blera.”, in The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria. … In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, footnote 10, page 319:
text: From the Graiæ the literary myths make him [Perseus] go to the Nymphs, the artistic ones to the Naiads or nymphs of the lake Tritonis, from which he receives the helmet of Hades, the kibisis or wallet, and the talaria or winged sandals. [...] Other versions made him receive the helmet and talaria from Hermes. On the early monuments the helmet of Hades is like the petasus of Hermes, and the sandals are winged, but in many other works of art, such as mirrors or gems, the talaria are represented as wings, which he attaches to his feet.
ref: 1854 May 25, Samuel Birch, “V. On a Vase Representing an Adventure of Perseus.”, in Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, London: Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London; printed by J[ohn] B[owyer] Nichols and Sons, […], published 1855, →OCLC, page 56:
text: With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels.
ref: 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Baker Farm”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 225:
text: It was the god Hermes, he who conducted souls to the Elysian fields, the slender, agile, elegant figure, beautiful in its sinuous motion, with the petasus on his head and the winged talaria on his ankles, that I beheld floating over me.
ref: 1867 May, W. W. S., “A Modern Magician”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CI, number DCXIX, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, […], →OCLC, page 566:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The winged sandals worn by certain gods and goddesses, especially the Roman god Mercury (and his Greek counterpart Hermes).
wikipedia: Getty Villa
Villa of the Papyri
quaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quakers
Senses: examples: text: The timid and trimming politics of some men of large property here have almost done their business for them. They have lost their influence, and grown obnoxious. The quakers and proprietarians together have little weight. New Jersey shows a noble ardor. Is there any thing in the air or soil of New York unfriendly to the spirit of liberty?
ref: 1776 June 24, John Adams, “[General Correspondence.] To William Tudor.”, in Charles Francis Adams [Sr.], editor, The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations, […], volume IX, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, published 1854, page 411:
text: The demon of fanaticism was the shape which it took with us; and verily, what with religious republicans, harmonists, quakers, fifth-monarchy men, Presbyterians, and the reign of the saints upon earth, it needs the strong hand of a Cromwell to reduce the spiritual chaos to any sort of order.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 35:
text: There is also a chancellor, — no, I mistake, — a chandler and green-grocer, with his hands full of warts; a hunch-backed cadger; a one-eyed cutler; a pudgy exciseman, who is often the worse for liquor, being fond of tippling and sotting in taps; a lubberly fuller; a limping, spoffish limner; a tawer, with a wen or a whelk on the tip of his nose; a stuttering plumber; a splenish quaker; a sexton, with teeth like the times of a harrow; a weazen-faced vintner; a snuffling undertaker’s mute, clothed in deep mourning, and talking of nothing but hearses and palls, dirges and passing-bells.
ref: 1857, T[héodore] Robertson, “[Charles Saville: […]] Chapter XXV”, in Synthèse de la langue anglaise (Charles Saville) : Texte anglais avec la traduction française en regard [Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation], 2nd edition, Paris: Librairie française et anglaise de [French and English bookshop of] J.-H. Truchy; Ch. Leroy, successeur [successor]; […], page 240:
english: Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation
translation: Synthesis of the English Language (Charles Saville): English Text with Opposite French Translation
glosses: Quaker
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the genus Pithecops.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Malacanthus brevirostris
word: quakerfish
talbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talbots
Etymology: After Henry Fox Talbot, a 19th-century pioneer of photography.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An mks unit of luminous energy, exactly corresponding to the SI lumen second.
talbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talbots
Etymology: Possibly after a Norman family Talbot
Senses: glosses: A type of hound with broad mouth and large ears, once used for hunting and tracking.
vibraculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibracula
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A long, whiplike, modified zooid on the surface of certain colonies of bryozoa
Related terms: vibraculoid
vibrio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vibrios
form: vibriones
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: "He dips it into the poison and they are gone. Our Gardener is, in my opinion, about to dip the solar system, and the human bacillus, the little mortal vibrio which twisted and wriggled upon the outer rind of the earth, will in an instant be sterilized out of existence."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Any of several bacteria, of the genus Vibrio, shaped like a curved rod.
axigluons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axigluon
biorthogonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + orthogonal.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a pair of topological vector spaces that are in duality with a pair of indexed subsets in a specific manner
collapsogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collapsograms
Etymology: From collapse + -gram.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spectrum obtained by taking the average of a number of observations
hyperaccreting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + accreting.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: accreting very rapidly, or to a very great extent
interprocedural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + procedure + -al.
Senses: glosses: Between procedures; among or across instances of procedures.
Coordinate terms: intraprocedural
periprocedural
postprocedural
preprocedural
Derived terms: interprocedurally
langasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langasites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral form of lanthanum gallium silicate; it may be grown artificially
polyvariant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + variant.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multivariant
radioracemization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From radio- + racemization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: racemization under the influence of ionizing radiation.
semidiscrete
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + discrete.
Senses: glosses: Partially discrete
amphophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ampho- + -philic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be stained with either an acidic or a basic dye.
Related terms: amphophilous
colcemid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A derivative of colchicine that is used in genetic research
cytogenetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + genetical.
Senses: glosses: cytogenetic
cytomorphologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + morphologic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytomorphology
hematopathologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematopathologist
hematopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematopathologists
Etymology: From hemato- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: A hematologist or pathologist whose speciality is hematopathology
hematopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemato- + pathology.
Senses: glosses: The branch of pathology that deals with diseases of the blood
Synonyms: hemopathology
hyperdiploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + diploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having more than the usual diploid number of chromosomes; hyperploid with respect to a diploid species genome.
Derived terms: nonhyperdiploid
Related terms: hyperdiploidy
hypodiploid
hypodiploidy
hypohaploid
hypohaploidy
immunoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunoblast
touch-and-go landings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of touch-and-go landing
hit and runs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hit and run
impassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: more impassionate
form: most impassionate
form: empassionate
Etymology: From Italian impassionato. By surface analysis, in- (“into”) + passion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: The Briton Prince was ſore empaſſionate, / And woxe inclined much vnto her part, [...]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 46, page 309:
text: It is essential, as in Milton, that poetry be simple, sensuous, and impassionate:—simple that it may appeal to the elements and the primary laws of our nature; sensuous, since it is only by sensuous images that we can elicit truth at a flash; impassionate since images must be vivid, in order to move our passions and awake our affections.
ref: 1813, J. Payne Collier, quoting Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lectures and Notes on Shakspere and Other English Poets, Kessinger Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, III. Lectures on Shakspere and Milton, At Bristol, page 459:
text: “Well sir,” exclaimed a lady, the vehement and impassionate partizan of Wilkes, in the day of his glory, and during the broad blaze of his patriotism,—“well sir! and will you dare deny, the Mr. Wikles is a great man, and an eloquent men?”
ref: 1817 July, Joseph Deniie, John Elihu Hall, “The Adversaria”, in The Port Folio for 1817, volume 4, number 1, Harrison Hall, page 40:
text: Young ministers, deeply impressed and longing to pour out the burning, impassionate zeal of their own souls, are apt to abuse the use of this figure.
ref: 1900, George P. Hott, Christ, the Teacher, U. B. Publishing House, page 81
text: The first and main reason is the fact that after the disobedience of Adam, his body received the whole of its existence and constitutions from physical pleasure that is impassionate and irrational.
ref: 1989 [1801], Pater A Chambers, Nicodemos of the Holy Mountain: A Handbook fo Spiritual Counsel, Paulist Press, translation of Symvouleftikon Encherirdion by Nicodemos the Hagiorite, →ISBN, Chapter Two: Concerning the Mind, page 76:
text: And then what about Margaret Mead? IS it just coincidence that the most impassionate ethnographic disputes of the decade are swirling around the figure of her who was first mother of Media Anthropology?
ref: 1990, David W. Plath, “Fieldnotes, Field Notes, and the Conferring of Note”, in Roger Sanjeck, editor, Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, From Fieldnotes to Ethnography, page 384:
synonyms: impassioned
passionate
antonyms: disimpassioned
apathetic
indifferent
glosses: Filled with passion; impassioned
Derived terms: impassionately
unimpassionate
impassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: impassionates
form: impassionating
form: impassionated
form: impassionated
form: empassionate
Etymology: From the above adjective, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Equivalent to in- (“into”) + passion + -ate.
Senses: examples: text: our Saviour Christ was one while deeply impassionated with Sorrow, another while very strongly carried away with Žeal and Anger
ref: 1662, Henry More, The Defence of the Moral Cabbala:
glosses: to affect powerfully; to arouse the passions of
impassionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃənət/
ipa: /ɪmˈpæʃəneɪt/
Forms: form: more impassionate
form: most impassionate
form: empassionate
Etymology: From im- (“not”) + passionate.
Senses: examples: text: Various old ladies in the neighbourhood spoke of him as The Last of the Patriarchs. So grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate, so very bumpy in the head, Patriarch was the word for him.
ref: 1855 December – 1857 June, Charles Dickens, “Patriarchal”, in Little Dorrit, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1857, →OCLC, book the first (Poverty), page 105:
text: “Try to serve well and to show yourself worthy,” he added, turning sternly to Borís. “I am glad— Are you here on leave?” he recited, in his impassionate voice.
ref: 1869, Leo Wiener, War and Peace, volume 2, BiblioBazaar, translation of Война и мир by Leo Tolstoy, published 1957, →ISBN, page 77:
text: From a scholarly standpoint, the book was poorly written: Scholarly works demand keen attention to logical consistency while maintaining an impersonal, impassionate voice; and while the Course certainly lack humour, it is anything but impassionate, and far from being logically consistent.
ref: 2005, Alexander T. Newport, The Vomit Factory (Life Is Fake: Death Is Good), Lulu.com, →ISBN, Chapter 15: Letter to Veronica, pages 96–97:
synonyms: dispassionate
glosses: Lacking passion; dispassionate
quarrelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarreling
quarrellings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarrelling
pellock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pellocks
Etymology: From Scots pellock, of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: A porpoise.
sponge roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sponge rolls
Senses: glosses: Swiss roll
immunophenotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Characterized by immunophenotyping.
immunophenotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of immunophenotype
immunostainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunostainers
Etymology: From immuno- + stainer.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various devices used for staining immunological samples, or for staining biological samples immunologically
Derived terms: autoimmunostainer