cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mineralize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mineralizes
form: mineralizing
form: mineralized
form: mineralized
Etymology: From mineral + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: in all these cases , the bones found in caverns are never mineralised, but simply in the state of grave bones more or less decayed or incrusted by stalagmite ; and have no farther connexion with the rocks themselves
ref: 1823, William Buckland, Reliquiæ Diluvianæ:
glosses: To convert to a mineral; to petrify.
examples: text: mineralized water
glosses: To impregnate with minerals.
examples: text: He was a senior when he asked Barnes if he ever went "mineralizing," referred admiringly to Bowdoin's Professor Cleaveland, and expressed a wish to "give a good knock about the rocks in Maine."
ref: 1978, Eleanor Marguerite Tilton, Amiable Autocrat: A Biography of Doctor Oliver Wendell Holmes:
glosses: To mineralogize; to collect and study minerals.
Derived terms: biomineralize
mineralizer
permineralize
remineralize
gelatinase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gelatinases
Etymology: From gelatin + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several proteolytic enzymes that catalyze the hydrolysis of gelatin.
Derived terms: progelatinase
thermoreversible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thermoreversible
form: most thermoreversible
Etymology: From thermo- + reversible.
Senses: glosses: Whose properties or action can be reversed by heating
sarcomeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sarcomere
Melodie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from English, of rather rare usage, variant of Melody.
psychopharmaceutical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychopharmaceuticals
Etymology: From psycho- + pharmaceutical.
Senses: examples: text: Using clinical diagnostic tools, we found that around 40% of incels had moderate-to-severe levels of depression, and a similar percentage had moderate-to-severe levels of anxiety. For context, presenting with these levels of symptoms would usually lead to an offer of psychopharmaceutical intervention from a primary healthcare provider (e.g. a GP).
ref: 2024 February 27, Andrew G. Thomas, “Incels Uncovered: How Potent Is the Black Pill?”, in Psychology Today:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any drug used to treat a psychosis or similar disorder
divis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of divi
psychopedagogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + pedagogy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The psychology of education
milligramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milligrammes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of milligram.
howto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howtos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of how-to.
night soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-soil
form: nightsoil
Etymology: At least notionally because such soil was removed at night by nightmen, and because chamberpots were needed especially at night (when one, in one's nightgown, might be less disposed to leave the house for the outhouse); but the general taboo around human excrement encourages euphemism, and any word in the allusive range of the night–dark–black–bad archetypes might serve as well as another for the purpose; thus, compare blackwater.
Senses: examples: text: There, the night soil along with the community refuse is filled in trenches for composting and subsequent use in agriculture.
ref: 1977, Hillel I. Shuval, Water Renovation and Reuse, →ISBN:
text: The flow of nitrogen from night-soil in rural China is valuable, whereas human excrement in an urban center is a pollution problem.
ref: 2006, Mario Giampietro et al., “Can Biofuels replace Fossil Energy Fuels?”, in International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research, volume 1, number 1, page 58:
text: Time for the local night soil man to appear. He left the inn to find the night man who serviced the place.
ref: 2017, Jennifer Taylor, Echoes of the Moon, →ISBN:
glosses: Human faeces.
Related terms: nightman
piacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piacular
form: most piacular
Etymology: Early 17th century, from French piaculaire, from Latin piacularis, derived from piaculum, from piō (“I appease, purify, expiate”) +-culum (instrumental suffix).
Senses: examples: text: And while we think it ſo piaculous, to go beyond the Ancients; we muſt neceſſarily come ſhort of genuine Antiquity, Truth; unleſs we ſuppoſe them to have reach'd perfection of Knowlege in ſpight of their own acknowledgments of Ignorance.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: or, Contest Ignorance, the way to Science […], London: […], Chapter XVII, page 103
glosses: Requiring atonement or reparation: wicked, sinful, bad.
examples: text: The piacular sacrifice arose from the need of atoning for bloodshed within the kinship group ; properly speaking, the culprit himself should suffer : should he be unknown or beyond the reach of vengeance, a substitute had to be found[…]
ref: 1911, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, page 981:
text: The distinction between clean and unclean beasts and birds was made, a distinction which has its principal significance in reference to a piacular offering. Not any and everything may be offered as an atonement, but only that which is [clean].
ref: 2013 November 25, W.G.T. Shedd, Dogmatic Theology, Ravenio Books:
glosses: Expiatory; serving to atone.
Derived terms: piacularly
transpersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more transpersonal
form: most transpersonal
Etymology: From trans- + personal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: That transcends the personal or individual
evolutive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more evolutive
form: most evolutive
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating evolution or development; evolutionary
Derived terms: coevolutive
evolutively
evolutiveness
evolutivity
macroevolutive
microevolutive
neuroevolutive
normoevolutive
morning-land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔː.nɪŋ.land/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.nɪŋ.lænd/
Forms: form: Morning-land
form: Morning-Land
form: Morning Land
form: Morningland
Etymology: From morning + land, translating German Morgenland, Luther's translation of Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “(sun-)rising”).
Senses: examples: text: Where old Nile is everflowing, / And the Sphynx with heavy lids / Sits by ruins grim and sombre — / Onward to the Pyramids. […] Far in Morning Land I wandered / Where the summers never cease, / And Romance's golden waters / Ever run and murmur peace.
ref: 1852, C. P. Cranch, “The Palm Tree of Capri”, in Dwight's Journal of Music, page 26:
text: Still the old leaven remains behind: here, as elsewhere in the “Morning-land,” you cannot hold your own without employing the voie de fait.
ref: 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 18:
text: Elsewhere he speaks of the “fresh air of the East,” the people in morning-land as living “at the very source of being,” among whom “doubts were few and broad was truth.” Thus the poet took up the East as more than a mere vesture […]
ref: 1906, The Contemporary Review, volume 90, page 170:
text: In this morning-land there is no room for worldly thoughts. See the Brahmins sitting under the mat umbrellas by the river-bank, looking out across the sunlit river into infinities of space!
ref: 1931, Lowell Thomas, India, Land of the Black Pagoda, page 213:
text: Even in modern times, the influence of this enchantment has led some learned and enthusiastic writers to describe India as the primal source of all knowledge and culture, the radiant morning-land of human civilization.
ref: 1988, John D. Baldwin, Pre-Historic Nations, page 216:
text: The Evening-Land (the West) embodies in itself the Morning-land; therefore both have a world-historic sense.
ref: 2007, Lin Ma, Heidegger on East-West Dialogue: Anticipating the Event, page 91:
glosses: The Orient; the East.
breaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
homophone: breeching
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of breach
breaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪŋ/
homophone: breeching
rhymes: -iːtʃɪŋ
Forms: form: breachings
Senses: examples: text: breachings of decorum
glosses: The act by which something is breached.
Derived terms: hasty breaching
brakemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brakeman
brinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brink
broaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broach
broaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of broach
broaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of broach
broaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: machining#Noun
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cutting
coordinate_terms: slotting#Noun
shaping#Noun
drilling#Noun
reaming#Noun
milling#Noun
grinding#Noun
;
turning#Noun
boring#Noun
planing#Noun
glosses: A type of machining in which a tool (either rotating or nonrotating) moves through a linear toolpath to cut internal shapes that have corners.
bobcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bobcat
bumblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bumbler
bullshits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bullshit
bullshitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bullshit
brutalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːt(ə)lʌɪz/
Forms: form: brutalises
form: brutalising
form: brutalised
form: brutalised
form: brutalize
Etymology: From brutal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: To inflict brutal violence on.
glosses: To make brutal, cruel or harsh.
glosses: To live or behave like a brute.
Related terms: brutalisation
brutalization
brutalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brutalizes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brutalise
brutalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brutalizing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brutalise
brutalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brutalized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of brutalise
butterflying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of butterfly
butterflied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butterfly
butterfly net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly nets
Senses: examples: text: He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: A small net with attached handle used to collect butterflies and other insect species.
butterfly nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly net
bulldozes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bulldoze
bulldozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bulldoze
-ies
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: country, countries; party, parties; colloquy, colloquies; wy, wies.
glosses: Variant of -es for the plural forms of nouns ending in a consonant + y; equivalent to (dropped y) + (-i- + -es).
examples: objectify, objectifies; parry, parries.
glosses: Used to form the third person singular in the present indicative of verbs ending in a consonant + y.
glosses: Alternative form of -sies.
briars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briar
bifurcates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bifurcate
bifurcating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bifurcate
bifurcating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: dividing or forking into two
death's head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death's heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of death's-head.
singlicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: singlicates
Senses: examples: text: Most conventional immunoassays, especially those performed using automated equipment, have reached a level of reliability such that singlicate analysis is now the normal practice.
ref: 2005, Microarrays in Clinical Diagnostics, Joos & Fortina:
glosses: An assay performed singularly, as opposed to replicated assays (e.g. assays performed in duplicate or triplicate).
tea pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea pads
Senses: examples: text: Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:
glosses: A hash-bar; a place to buy or smoke marijuana.
creep joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creep joints
Senses: examples: text: Took my public-school training in three jails and a plenty of pool-rooms, went to college in a gang of tea-pads, earned my Ph.D. in more creep joints and speakeasies and dancehalls than the law allows.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 3:
glosses: A brothel or other disreputable or low-class place, especially where patrons are robbed.
glosses: A gambling game which moves to a different location every night.
close one's eyes and think of England
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: closes one's eyes and thinks of England
form: closing one's eyes and thinking of England
form: closed one's eyes and thought of England
form: closed one's eyes and thought of England
form: shut one's eyes and think of England
form: lie back and think of England
form: think of England
Etymology: Supposedly derived from the journal of Alice Marion Mills in 1912, Lady Hillingdon, now lost. Later apocryphally connected to Lucy Baldwin, wife of Prime Minister Baldwin, and Queen Victoria or described as advice given to Victorian era brides-to-be. First popularized by the translation in 1955 of Pierre Daninos's Les Carnets du Major Thompson (1954), a French satire on upper class British culture.
Senses: examples: text: I am happy now that Charles calls on my bedchamber less frequently than of old. As it is, I now endure but two calls a week and when I hear his steps outside my door I lie down on my bed, close my eyes, open my legs and think of England.
ref: 1912, Alice Marion Mills, Journal (attrib.)
text: ...when the test comes, when the United Kingdom gets into trouble again, and when the King calls upon his loyal subjects all over the world, the Canadian knows at a still deeper level of his being that he will undoubtably do as he has always done before. He will close his eyes and think of England.
ref: 1940 Nov. 2, "Canadian Industrial Independence Seen as War Outcome", Windsor Daily Star, p. 10
text: Meltenham and her mother had prepared her for marriage in an entirely Victorian spirit. The day before she left home, Lady Plunkwell had delivered her final advice: "I know, my dear, it's disgusting. But do as I did with Edward: just close your eyes and think of England!" Like her mother and her mother's mother before her, Ursula closed her eyes. She thought of the future of England.
ref: 1955, Robert Farn tr. Pierre Daninos as The Notebooks of Major Thompson
text: One finds as many mentions in Edwardian literature to the chastity, the holy purity of upper class women, indeed to their active abhorrence of sex, as one does in the nineteenth century. There was the passage I quoted from Lady Hillingham at the head of this chapter—"...close my eyes, open my legs and think of England". The source for this quotation is a little suspect. The sentiment expressed is without question typical and accurate.
ref: 1972, Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, The Rise and Fall of the British Nanny:
glosses: To accept one's duty patriotically, particularly (idiomatic, euphemistic) to endure sex (sexual activity) under a concept of sex as solely a marital and reproductive duty.
wikipedia: Baron Hillingdon
Frank Dicksee
Lucy Baldwin
Queen Victoria of England
Stanley Baldwin
Victorian era
pneumococci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumococcus
blustered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bluster
brags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹæɡz/
rhymes: -æɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brag
boringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boringly
form: most boringly
Etymology: From boring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The professor droned on boringly, putting his class to sleep.
text: "I understand most of them are most boringly moral in their private lives.
ref: 1958, A.G. Yates, The Cold Dark Hours, Sydney: Horwitz, published 1963, page 36:
text: "Let's take another boringly democratic vote. Shall we...Consuella?"
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 59:
glosses: In a boring manner.
pound sand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pounds sand
form: pounding sand
form: pounded sand
form: pounded sand
form: pound dirt
form: pound salt
form: pound sand into a rathole
Etymology: Of 19th-century origin. Used as an example both of an activity so simple that almost anyone could do it and of an activity so pointless that only a fool would do it.
Senses: examples: text: "Bishop McKillup lives there. He's got only three wives, and they three all put together don’t know enough to pound sand with a mallet, with a receipt on the handle."
For which striking symbol of imbecility I should have given Jake a good deal of credit, if I had not heard him using it several times before as a regular stock expression
ref: 1871 January 24, Everett Chamberlain, “My Christmas at Salt Lake”, in The Lakeside Monthly:
glosses: To engage in a simple useful activity, which anyone would know how to perform, other than those who are incapable of any simple activity.
examples: text: […] Without men on the ground, we'll be pounding sand."
ref: 2010, Eric Blehm, The Only Thing Worth Dying For: How Eleven Green Berets Forged a New Afghanistan, HarperCollins, published 2010, →ISBN, page 44:
text: He told Shelton we needed to "unleash holy hell." “We're not just going to pound sand,” he added.
ref: 2011, Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: A Memoir:
glosses: To engage in a futile activity.
examples: text: All you do is complain. Why don't you go pound sand up your ass and stop bothering the line staff.
text: "The price to us was going to be $3 million, and we had four months to pay before the Licensing 6.0 deadline. We told Microsoft to go pound sand."
ref: 2003 March 15, Christopher Koch, “Showdown at the 6.0 Corral”, in CIO:
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: To go away; get lost; go to hell; To waste one's own time (with some other meaningless task) rather than waste the speaker's time with something equally irritating or pointless.
Synonyms: sense: do something futile
word: get blood from a stone
sense: do something futile
word: piss up a rope
sense: go away
word: get lost
sense: go away
word: go fly a kite
sense: go away
word: take a hike
sense: go away
word: fuck off
Related terms: enough sense to pound sand into a rathole
motherferyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌðəfəjə/
Forms: form: motherferyers
Etymology: Euphemistic alteration of motherfucker.
Senses: examples: text: And it was in Pontiac that I dug that Jim Crow man in person, a motherferyer that would cut your throat for looking.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Don’t Cry, Ma”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 4:
glosses: Motherfucker.
repossesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of repossess
repossessing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repossess
piss up a rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses up a rope
form: pissing up a rope
form: pissed up a rope
form: pissed up a rope
Senses: glosses: To engage in futile or impossible activity.
examples: text: You can't park here; I'm saving this spot for my friend.
Go piss up a rope.
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: Used as an abrupt dismissal.
Synonyms: pound sand
Related terms: piss in the wind
repossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of repossess
invar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invars
Etymology: Shortening of invariable.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron containing 35.5% nickel, and having a very low coefficient of expansion.
Related terms: Elinvar
Six Counties
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The six Irish counties that form Northern Ireland.
Related terms: Twenty-Six Counties
Ulster
32-county
STB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 2008, original
SWIM will do an A/B and STB next week on the same bark and post yields.
glosses: Initialism of straight to base.
STB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: STBs
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Initialism of set top box, a video signal converter for televisions.
Synonyms: converter
TV converter
television converter
converter box
Related terms: cable box
satellite receiver
descrambler
canhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkanhaʊs/
Forms: form: canhouses
Etymology: From can + house.
Senses: examples: text: The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Not too Far Tangent”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 22:
qualifier: chiefly Chicago
glosses: A brothel.
A/B
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of acid-base.
A/B
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: A/Bs
form: A/Bing
form: A/Bed
form: A/Bed
Senses: examples: text: Any queries about how it compares to LCD-4, Utopia, 1266/Diana, Susvara et cetera would have to be answered by someone with more experience A-Bing those headphones.
ref: 2019 December 9, “My (waaay too long) review of the Stax SR-009S”, in Stax Headphones, archived from the original on 27 Sep 2020:
text: I briefly tried to use the same set of pads with both however that didn't work out very well from a practical standpoint. Too much time was lost between swapping pads for A/Bing.
ref: 2022 August 7, “Comparing the HD600 and the HD580: In Pursuit of the Truth”, in audiodiscourse.com, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2022:
glosses: To compare two pairs of headphones or earphones by switching between one and the other.
Related terms: A/B testing
breast pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breast pumps
Senses: glosses: A device used by a lactating woman to extract milk from her breasts (typically for short-term storage).
slow up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slows up
form: slowing up
form: slowed up
form: slowed up
Senses: examples: text: She has been intto prison ministry work for several years and has never slowed up, but intensified her love.
ref: 1976 December 18, John Gibbs, “A True Sister”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 4:
text: Roscoe slowed up at the town limit.
ref: 1997, Lee Child, “Chapter 22”, in Killing Floor:
text: Amidst all the chaos, Großer Kurfürst slows up and strikes her colors, her crew having had enough, and have^([sic]) overpowered the officers - willing to fight, but not willing to commit suicide.
ref: 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 25:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
glosses: To slow; to slow down; to decelerate.
Synonyms: slow
slow down
decelerate
Ha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic and linguistic group based in Kigoma Region in western Tanzania.
Ha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The dialect of Rwanda-Rundi spoken by this group.
Ha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A god of the deserts to the west of Egypt, associated with the underworld (duat) and pictured as a man wearing the symbol for desert hills on his head.
Related terms: Hagryphus
guidant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: guiding; providing guide
colores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colore
glosses: plural of color
colorons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloron
prosciutti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosciutto
suant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsjuː.ənt/
Forms: form: more suant
form: most suant
form: suent
Etymology: From Middle English suant (“following”), from Anglo-Norman suant, from Old French suiant, sivant, present participle of sivre (“to follow”), from Latin sequor.
Senses: glosses: Smooth, or proceeding smoothly.
Derived terms: suantly
suant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsjuː.ənt/
Forms: form: more suant
form: most suant
form: suent
Etymology: From Middle English suant (“following”), from Anglo-Norman suant, from Old French suiant, sivant, present participle of sivre (“to follow”), from Latin sequor.
Senses: examples: text: When all sems gwayin' suant, Jist when 'e sem 'e've schuled ther hart, […]
ref: 1867, William Frederick Rock, Jim and Nell: A Dramatic Poem in the Dialect of North Devon, page 11:
text: Peter and his wife did not get on very "suant" together.
ref: 1899, Sabine Baring-Gould, Book of the West, page 252:
glosses: Smoothly; without difficulty.
Synonyms: smoothly
well
suantly
Related terms: pursuant
suent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suent
form: most suent
Etymology: See suant.
Senses: examples: text: Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its sommersets. ...Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with éclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.
ref: 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods, (1962) The New American Library, A Signet Classic, 16th printing, page 27
glosses: Uniformly or evenly distributed or spread; even; smooth.
rames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rame
rames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rame
rament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raments
Etymology: Latin ramentum.
Senses: glosses: A scraping; a shaving.
douches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douche
douches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of douche
-ab
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Acronym of a(nti)b(ody).
Senses: glosses: antibody
Derived terms: english: monoclonal antibody
translation: monoclonal antibody
word: -mab
english: polyclonal antibody
translation: polyclonal antibody
word: -pab
english: human monoclonal antibody
translation: human monoclonal antibody
word: -umab
canorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more canorous
form: most canorous
Etymology: From Latin canōrus.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately Watt was thinking of birds at the time, their missile flights, their canorous reloadings.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: melodious
glosses: resonant
Synonyms: sense: melodious
word: dulcet
word: musical
word: euphonious
sense: resonant
word: booming
word: remugient
word: sonorous
Derived terms: canorously
canorousness
Cantabrigian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kæntəˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪən/
Forms: form: more Cantabrigian
form: most Cantabrigian
Etymology: From Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”) + -n.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of Cambridge or its university
Cantabrigian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kæntəˈbɹɪd͡ʒɪən/
Forms: form: Cantabrigians
Etymology: From Latin Cantabrigia (“Cambridge”) + -n.
Senses: glosses: A native or resident of Cambridge
glosses: An undergraduate, graduate or fellow of the University of Cambridge
Derived terms: Tab
Cantab
visses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of viss
childbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪl(d)bɛd/
Forms: form: childbeds
form: child-bed
form: child bed
Etymology: From Middle English child bed; equivalent to child + bed.
Senses: glosses: The final stage of pregnancy; confinement.
glosses: The bed in which a baby is born.
Derived terms: childbed fever
supprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: supprimes
form: suppriming
form: supprimed
form: supprimed
Etymology: From Middle English supprymen, from Middle French supprimer and its etymon Latin supprimere, supprimō (“to press down, suppress”), from sub- (“under, down”) + premō (“to press”).
Senses: examples: text: This triumph of orthodoxy, however, was not able to stop the impuls of the new renaissance, and the taste for a literary and profane art, that had been always supprimed by orthodoxy in Byzantium, prevailed.
ref: 1914, Speltz, Alexander, The Coloured Ornament of All Historical Styles: With Coloured Plates From Own Paintings in Water Colours, Leipzig: K. F. Koehlers Antiquarium, Second Part: Middle Ages, page 20:
glosses: To suppress (in various senses).
childbed fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: puerperal fever
supprimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of supprime
chorionic villus sampling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorionic villus samplings
Senses: topics: medicine
obstetrics
pathology
sciences
synonyms: word: CVS
glosses: A form or prenatal diagnosis in which part of the placental tissue is tested for genetic abnormalities.
chorionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chorion + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the chorion.
Derived terms: allantochorionic
amniochorionic
chorionic gonadotropin
chorionicity
chorionic villus sampling
dichorionic
exochorionic
human chorionic gonadotropin
human chorionic somatomammotrophin
human chorionic somatomammotropin
monochorionic
multichorionic
nonchorionic
subchorionic
trichorionic
sophophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŏfəfōʹbĭə
ipa: /sɒfəˈfəʊbɪə/
Etymology: From sopho- + -phobia; compare phobosophy
Senses: examples: text: 1995, July 24th: mary.elizabeth, sci.med.aids (Google group): From the Editor, 8:00am
Washington insiders should note that the new Presidential Advisory Council is the Administration’s second effort to form an advisory group. When one of the Administration’s staffers reviewed the original list of committee nominees, the President was informed that two of the nominees had already died and one was close to death. When I discussed the original nominations with the staffer who ultimately decided to protect the White House from this gaffe, I recommended that he let the deceased nominees go through to illustrate the Executive Office’s lack of sensibility of and sensitivity to the reality of the AIDS pandemic. If my advice would have been taken, President Clinton could have excused himself on the basis of his sophophobia.
text: 2001, December 11th: Robert Knowles, ok.general (Google group): BumbleFrank Goes on Bended Knee, 10:36pm
Yeah, I’ve learned to downplay the “edgykashun” angle here. Especially since the vast majority of mine was obtained outside Oklahoma, where I might have been exposed to dangerous outside ideas.
Fortunately, my experience in ‛Bama taught me to recognize the symptoms of sophophobia, so I have learned to adapt and only reveal my “credentials” to those similarly endowed.
So, show me yours and I’ll show you mine.
text: “Justin, you don’t wanna mess with her,” the girl warned, “not only is she smart, she got 3 brothers who’ll kick the shit outa you once they get out the penitentiary. You’d better concentrate on your own case of sophophobia, Justin, and stop worryin whether Halle Jackson’s got a fear of sexual intercourse.”
ref: 2004, H.W. Benjamin, Mamasense, page 274:
text: A little-known fact is that one of the fastest growing phobias in modern America is ballistophobia — fear of bullets. Especially when they are fired directly at you! That fear is right up there with sophophobia — fear of learning. Today, a considerable number of school-age kids suffer terribly from this phobia.
ref: 2006, Albert R Koch, Help Mom with the Dishes: Lessons from Life’s Classroom, page 26:
glosses: The fear of learning.
Related terms: phobosophy
organises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of organise
a camel is a horse designed by a committee
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: a camel is a horse designed by committee
form: a camel is a horse made by a committee
form: a camel is a horse made by committee
Etymology: The distinguishing features of a camel, like its humps, plate-shaped feet, habitual spitting, strange shape and poor temperament, can be seen as the sort of deformities that typify the sort of ideas that committees come up with that make projects bad.
Senses: examples: text: A camel is a horse designed by a committee, so we hope that this committee will—and I think it will—function appropriately.
ref: 1952, Proceedings Regular Meeting, Ohio Valley Transportation Advisory Board, Pacific Northwest Advisory Board, page 24:
text: And we all know the saying, which is true as well as witty, that a camel is a horse that was designed by a committee.
ref: 1964, Peter and the Commissar, Allan Sherman and the Boston Pops
text: If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a materials policy statement prepared by seven study teams?
ref: 1975, The Professional Geographer: The Journal of the Association of American Geographers, volume 27, page 132:
text: Whoever concluded that a camel is a horse designed by a committee could have similar thoughts about taxicabs.
ref: 1976, Popular Science, v.209 1976 Jul-Dec:
text: "A camel," it has been said, "is a horse designed by committee." This might sound like a telling example of the terrible deficiencies of committee decisions, but it is really much too mild an indictment.
ref: 1998, The Possibility of Social Choice, Nobel Lecture, Amartya Sen
text: "This is a presidential address, Andrea, not a camel (...) A camel! A horse built by committee!" (Toby Ziegler)
ref: 2002,The West Wing, episode Night Five, original airdate February 6th, 2002
text: To quote another ancient proverb, "A camel is a horse designed by a committee." Life or Something Like It is the movie designed by the camel.
ref: 2004, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2005, Roger Ebert, Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 388:
text: "You know what they say about committees, a camel is a horse designed by a committee - Honorable Mayor Lawrence Werther, Mayor of the Incorporated Village of Mineola, New York.
ref: 2011, January 5, 2011 Mineola, NY Village Meeting. original airdate January 5, 2011
glosses: Too many people on one project can spoil it by having conflicting or inexperienced ideas.
Related terms: by committee
too many cooks spoil the broth
lusus naturae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oʹsəs nətyo͝oəʹrē
enpr: lyo͞oʹsəs nətyo͝oəʹrē
ipa: /ˈluːsəs nəˈtjʊəɹiː/
other: /ˈljuːsəs nəˈtjʊəɹiː/
enpr: lo͞oʹso͞os nətyo͝oəʹrē
enpr: lyo͞oʹso͞os nətyo͝oəʹrē
ipa: /ˈluːsuːs nəˈtjʊəɹiː/
ipa: /ˈljuːsuːs nəˈtjʊəɹiː/
Forms: form: lusus naturae
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin lūsus nātūrae (“sport of Nature”), from lūsus (“playing”, “sport”) + nātūrae (“of Nature”), genitive singular of nātūra (“Nature”). Plural from lūsūs nātūræ (“sports of Nature”), from lūsūs (“playings”, “sports”).
Senses: examples: text: I have observ'd some meshes to have 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9. sides, and some to have onely one, so exceeding various is the Lusus Naturæ in this body.
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXII:
qualifier: originally
glosses: A sportive quality in Nature to which abnormal forms were formerly ascribed; a supposed capricious act of Nature regarded as the cause and origin of anomalies in a given organism.
glosses: An organism exhibiting marked such deviation from the norm, seeming to be the result of sportive design; a freak of nature.
Synonyms: sense: capricious act of Nature
word: God's joke
sense: variant of seemingly sportive design
word: freak of nature
sense: variant of seemingly sportive design
word: lusus
high-pitch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: high-pitched
long-acuminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɒŋ.əˈkjuː.mɪ.nət/
ipa: /lɒŋ.əˈkjuː.mɪˌneɪt/
Forms: form: more long-acuminate
form: most long-acuminate
Etymology: From long + acuminate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Tapering to a characteristically long point at its apex.
Related terms: acuminate
acumination
selenodesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek selene, Moon, + daiein, to divide, by analogy with geodesy.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The science of studying and mapping the Moon's size, shape and surface topography, and its gravitational and magnetic fields.
selenodetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to selenodesy.
slub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌb/
ipa: /slʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: slubs
Senses: examples: text: The challenge is not just to produce a thick-and-thin yarn, but to make soft slubs, connected by nicely spun yarn without overtwist. The should not be lumps and bumps that happen by accident, but a contrived texture, with the size and placement of the slubs completely controlled by the spinner.
ref: 1987, Paula Simmons, Spinning and weaving with wool, published 1977, →ISBN, page 135:
text: The huge bolts of cloth had to be checked for imperfections such as slubs and misweaves.
ref: 2014, Thomas Allison, Moonshine Memories, page 98:
glosses: A small thickened portion or knot found in yarn, caused by defects or intentionally leaving sections of the yarn unspun.
glosses: Fabric fiber produced by slubbing.
slub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌb/
ipa: /slʊb/
rhymes: -ʌb
Forms: form: slubs
form: slubbing
form: slubbed
form: slubbed
Senses: glosses: To draw and twist fibers in order to prepare them for spinning.
Related terms: slubber
slubbings
slubbing billy
slubby
brigands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigand
beepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beeper
batched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: Made in batches
Derived terms: unbatched
batched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of batch
immunomodulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + modulatory.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the ability to alter or regulate immune functions
Derived terms: neuroimmunomodulatory
Related terms: immunomodular
immunomodulation
mozarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mozarkite
Etymology: Missouri + Ozarks + -ite (because the Missouri Ozarks were the primary source); appeared in print 1837.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular kind of rock, a form of chert, native to Missouri.
Synonyms: ozarkite
Related terms: MOzarks
Missouri Fox Trotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Missouri Fox Trotters
form: Missouri fox trotter
Etymology: From Missouri + fox trot (“an ambling gait”) + er.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A horse of a midsized, muscular breed with an ambling gait, bred in Missouri, United States.
Synonyms: foxtrotter
sell my clothes, I'm going to heaven
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A translation of German verkauft mein Gewand, ich fahr in Himmel.
Senses: glosses: A hyperbolic phrase expressing elation.
take the point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes the point
form: taking the point
form: took the point
form: taken the point
form: take someone's point
form: take your point
form: take one's point
form: take my point
form: take point of
Etymology: take + the + point
Senses: examples: text: "Then," said Mr Mifflin, cordially, "say no more. I take your point. My objections are removed."
ref: 1914, P. G. Wodehouse, “Deep Waters”, in The Man Upstairs and Other Stories:
text: Wading through the apparent sarcasm, we can take his point that the "badness" common to popular music as a whole is not excused by the small amount of it that is notably good.
ref: 2002, Richard D. Leppert, “Commentary: Music and Mass Culture,”, in Essays on Music, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: To agree with what a person says, to be persuaded by their arguments.
examples: text: I take your point well enough, but mayn't you be after all quite wrong?
ref: 1900, Henry James, Mrs. Medwin:
text: "I played 'em off one against the other," said my uncle. I took his point in an instant. He had gone to each of them in turn and said the others had come in.
ref: 1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 5, in Tono-Bungay:
glosses: To grasp the essential meaning of what a person is saying, to understand a person's argument and point of view.
Synonyms: sense: grasp the essential meaning
word: get the point
word: the point
word: point taken
Related terms: get the meaning
have a point
take the meaning
take one's point
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's point
form: taking one's point
form: took one's point
form: taken one's point
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of take the point.
broadcasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broadcast
pithier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pithy: more pithy
pithiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pithy: most pithy
broilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broiler
bedsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bedside
banaler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of banal: more banal
banalest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of banal: most banal
reflexive possessive pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflexive possessive pronouns
Etymology: From reflexive possessive + pronoun or reflexive + possessive pronoun.
Senses: glosses: A possessive pronoun that is reflexive; i.e. one that refers back to the subject
analysers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analyser
analyzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analyzer
cabarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabaret
chalets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalet
potplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potplants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pot plant.
correlation coefficient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correlation coefficients
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any of the several measures indicating the strength and direction of a linear relationship between two random variables.
Derived terms: Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
random variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A quantity whose value is random and to which a probability distribution is assigned, such as the possible outcome of a roll of a dice.
examples: text: Henceforth the symbol X(w) will be used for the random variable X#58;S#92;rightarrow#92;mathbb#123;R#125;.
ref: 1996, Ron C. Mittelhammer, Mathematical Statistics for Economics and Business, volume 78, Springer, page 45:
text: The particular example considered here is the Hilbert space of random variables.
ref: 2009, Christian Perwass, Geometric Algebra with Applications in Engineering, Springer, page 351:
text: A two-dimensional random variable is a mapping of the points in the sample space to ordered pairs {x, y}. Usually, when dealing with a pair of random variables, the sample space naturally partitions itself so that it can be viewed as a combination of two simpler sample spaces.
ref: 2012, Scott Miller, Donald Childers, Probability and Random Processes, 2nd edition, Elsevier (Academic Press), page 177:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A measurable function from a sample space to the measurable space of possible values of the variable.
Synonyms: word: variate
word: random quantity
word: aleatory variable
word: stochastic variable
Derived terms: continuous random variable
discrete random variable
pot plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot plants
form: pot-plant
form: potplant
Senses: examples: text: Pot-plants on spindle-legged stands lurked in wait for an incautious gesture.
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, →OCLC, page 60:
text: Then there was the sound of transport, too heavy a sound for a private car, and headlights showed up the withered pot-plants in Crabbe's porch.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 494:
glosses: A plant growing in a flowerpot; a houseplant.
pot plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pot plants
form: pot-plant
form: potplant
Senses: glosses: A marijuana plant.
house plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of houseplant.
Christianopolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Christiano- + -polis.
Senses: glosses: A utopian society proposed by Johannes Valentinus Andreae in the 17th century.
clearsighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clearsighted
form: most clearsighted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clear-sighted.
Derived terms: clearsightedly
clearsightedness
clockmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clock + making.
Senses: examples: text: The Black Forest was traditionally known for clockmaking in centuries past.
coordinate_terms: watchmaking
glosses: The art or trade of a clockmaker; the manufacture of clocks.
Related terms: clockcase
clock face
clockwork
like clockwork