cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
toy boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toy boys
Senses: examples: text: Miriam returned to work three weeks later with a new wardrobe and her toy boy lover had a brand new Toyota Camry.
ref: 2004, Pauline Lobban, Double Lives of Teachers, page 176:
text: The anger bubbled up in him, "So that's it, is it? Thanks for all the fucking, that was tops, but I've got this real life that I'm not going to... disrupt for some teenage toy boy—is that the situation, Nina?” His face was twisted with fury.
ref: 2010, Noelani Morrell, Crisp Whites, page 233:
text: Gardner alone did not judge Congdon for his sexual orientation; even Robert, who in his mid-twenties as a budding artist also had become very close to Congdon, condemned him for his secretive, complicated relationships, which often involved much younger or uneducated toy boys.
ref: 2010, Marian Janssen, Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of Isabella Gardner, page 94:
glosses: Alternative spelling of toyboy.
uncommunicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncommunicative
form: most uncommunicative
Etymology: From un- + communicative.
Senses: examples: text: He asked and asked, but she remained silent and uncommunicative.
glosses: Tending not to communicate; not communicating.
rale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɑːl/
ipa: /ɹɑl/
ipa: /ɹæl/
ipa: /ɹeɪl/
rhymes: -ɑːl
rhymes: -æl
rhymes: -eɪl
Forms: form: rales
form: râle
Etymology: From French râle (“groan”).
Senses: examples: text: Michael Colot, aged fifteen days, of a strong constitution, not having been sick from the time of birth, was, on the 22nd of November, taken with a violent cough, accompanied with a rale which could be heard without recourse to auscultation.
ref: 1840, CM Billard, A Treatise on the Diseases of Infants, page 416:
text: If you were to tell a patient that he had a ‘rhonchus’ in his chest, he would imagine that it was something formidable, while, if you said that he had a ‘râle’ he would not be alarmed.
ref: 1861, Austin Flint, American Medical Times, 7 Dec 1961
text: But after all the educated classes have a right to expect that their medical man will know the difference between a mitral murmur and a bronchitic rale.
ref: 1894, Arthur Conan Doyle, Round Red Lamp:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal clicking, rattling or crackling sound, made by one or both lungs and heard with a stethoscope, caused by the popping open of airways collapsed by fluid or exudate, or sometimes by pulmonary edema.
Synonyms: crackles
Hyponyms: crepitation
Related terms: bilateral
basal
basilar
bibasilar
guppies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guppy
Toulon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːˈlɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Senses: glosses: A city in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and the préfecture of the département of Var, in France.
glosses: A small city, the county seat of Stark County, Illinois, United States.
Metz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
homophone: mets
homophone: Mets
Etymology: Borrowed from French Metz, from Latin Mediomatrici (later Mettis).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Moselle department, Grand Est, France.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Metzian
Related terms: Messine
Lorient
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /lɒɹiˈɑn/
/lɒɹiˈɒ̃/
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in Morbihan department, Brittany, France.
Morbihan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔː(ɹ)bi.ən/
/ˈmɔː(ɹ)biˌɒ̃n/
Etymology: From Breton Mor-Bihan, from mor (“sea”) + bihan (“little”).
Senses: glosses: A department of Brittany, France. Capital: Vannes.
Finistère
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪnɪsˈtɛəɹ/
/ˌfɪnɪsˈtɛə/
Forms: form: Finistere
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French Finistère, from Latin finis terrae (“land's end”). Compare Breton Penn-ar-Bed (literally “head or end of the world”).
Senses: glosses: A cape in Brittany, France.
glosses: A department around the cape in Brittany, France. Capital: Quimper. Largest city: Brest (INSEE code 29).
Loire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlwɑː(ɹ)/
ipa: /ləˈwɑː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)
Etymology: From French Loire, from Latin Liger, itself borrowed from the native Gaulish name of the river, from *liga (“silt, sediment, deposit, alluvium”) (see also French lie, English lees), from Proto-Celtic *legyā, from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie, lay”), the same source as many words in English such as lie, ledge, etc.
Senses: glosses: The longest river in France, passing (from southeast to northwest) through the departments of Ardèche, Haute-Loire, Loire, Saône-et-Loire, Allier, Nièvre, Cher, Loiret, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire, Maine-et-Loire and Loire-Atlantique.
glosses: A department of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France. Capital: Saint-Étienne.
Derived terms: Maine-et-Loire
Yonne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
homophone: yon
Etymology: Borrowed from French Yonne, from Latin Icaunis, presumably from Gaulish.
Senses: glosses: A department of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France. Capital: Auxerre.
glosses: A left tributary of the Seine in central France, flowing through the departments of Nièvre, Yonne and Seine-et-Marne.
Derived terms: Montereau-Fault-Yonne
Pont-sur-Yonne
Villeneuve-sur-Yonne
Vendée
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /vɒ̃ˈdeɪ/
Etymology: From French Vendée, possibly from Gaulish *vindos (“white”), from Proto-Celtic *windos (“white”).
Senses: glosses: A department of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: La Roche-sur-Yon.
glosses: A right tributary of the Sèvre Niortaise in western France, flowing through the departments of Deux-Sèvres, Vendée and Charente-Maritime.
Somme
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɔm/
ipa: /sɒm/
rhymes: -ɒm
Etymology: From French
Senses: glosses: A department of Picardy, Hauts-de-France, France. Capital: Amiens.
glosses: A river in northern France.
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A major battle of the First World War in 1916 in this area.
raw_tags: with The
Moselle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈzɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Senses: glosses: A left tributary of Rhine, flowing through the departments of Vosges, Meurthe-et-Moselle and Moselle in northeastern France, through Luxembourg, and through the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Germany.
glosses: A department of Grand Est, France.
Derived terms: Meurthe-et-Moselle
Pagny-sur-Moselle
Moselle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məʊˈzɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Moselles
Etymology: Borrowed from French Moselle, from Latin Mosella.
Senses: examples: text: I drank too much moselle, imagining it a mere diuretic.
ref: 1790, James Boswell, edited by Danziger & Brady, Boswell: The Great Biographer, Yale, published 1989, page 28:
glosses: A light white wine, made from Riesling grapes originating in the valley of this river.
Mayenne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɛn/
rhymes: -ɛn
Senses: glosses: A department of Pays de la Loire, France (number 53).
glosses: A right tributary of the Loire, in northwestern France, flowing through the departments of Orne, Mayenne and Maine-et-Loire.
Ille-et-Vilaine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A department of Brittany, France. Capital: Rennes.
départements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of département
ringdove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringdoves
Etymology: From ring + dove.
Senses: glosses: the wood pigeon
conure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒnjʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: conures
Etymology: From scientific Latin Conurus (genus name), from Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + οὐρά (ourá, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: Any of many New World parakeets of the former genus Conurus, now reassigned to other genera in subfamily Arinae, principally Psittacara and Eupsittula.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Enicognathus ferrugineus
word: austral conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura picta
word: azuero conure
taxonomic: Aratinga weddellii
word: dusky-headed conure
taxonomic: Guaruba guarouba
word: golden conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura molinae
word: green-cheeked conure
taxonomic: Eupsittula canicularis
word: half-moon conure
taxonomic: Psittacara mitratus
word: mitred conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura molinae
word: Molina's conure
word: nanaday conure
taxonomic: Aratinga nenday
word: nanday conure
taxonomic: Eupsittula nana
word: olive-throated conure
taxonomic: Eupsittula canicularis
word: orange-fronted conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura picta
word: painted conure
taxonomic: Cyanoliseus patagonus
word: Patagonian conure
taxonomic: Eupsittula aurea
word: peach-fronted conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura lepida
word: pearly conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura picta
word: perija conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura pfrimeri
word: Pfrimer's conure
taxonomic: Pyrrhura molinae
word: pineapple conure
taxonomic: Aratinga solstitialis
word: sun conure
taxonomic: Aratinga weddellii
word: Weddell's conure
unduly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈdjuːli/
ipa: /ʌnˈduːli/
Forms: form: more unduly
form: most unduly
Etymology: From undue + -ly or un- + duly.
Senses: examples: text: The speaker unduly criticized his opponent and later apologized for this.
text: The departure was not unduly prolonged. In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
text: No. 4 has recently undergone complete overhaul to relieve Dolgoch of much of the heavy work, but No. 3 has proved unduly sensitive to permanent way defects and is not to be used in regular service until further track improvements are carried out.
ref: 1952 August, “Notes and News: Talyllyn Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 566:
text: It was a casual sneer, obviously one of a long line. There was hatred behind it, but of a quiet, chronic type, nothing new or unduly virulent, and he was taken aback by the flicker of amazed incredulity that passed over the younger man's ravaged face.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 8, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: Undeservedly; in a way that is not warranted.
rapids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rapid
doubling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of double
doubling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doublings
Senses: examples: text: In an article concerning Yunnan, it pointed out that the efforts of the Nuchiang Lisu Autonomous Chou’s party committee had resulted in a doubling of minorities cadres since 1965, and that many of these persons had assumed the first and second positions in leadership squads at different levels.
ref: 1976, June Teufel Dreyer, China's Forty Millions: Minority Nationalities and National Integration in the People's Republic of China, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 242:
text: Similitude applies to proportional changes, such as doublings, halvings, or quarterings; it does not apply to additive changes.
ref: 1994, David C. Schneider, Quantitative Ecology: Spatial and Temporal Scaling, page 36:
glosses: The process or an instance of making something double; a multiplication by two.
glosses: The act of turning around, or doubling back.
glosses: A pleat or fold.
glosses: A trick; double-dealing.
Derived terms: dedoubling
doubling die
doubling time
period doubling
equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equation
financially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From financial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He helped his daughter out financially, paying her rent and utilities, until she recovered from the accident.
text: As it looked to him, another six months at sea should turn the trick financially. At least it would give him a good interest in the plantation.
ref: 1959, Garland Roark, Tales of the Caribbean, page 140:
text: For many investors using $3,000 in losses to offset regular income taxes can be more financially beneficial than offsetting gains, said Indiana-based CFP Russ Ford, because their income tax rates are higher than their long-term capital gains rate, which is 15% for most investors.
ref: 2022 May 11, Jeanne Sahadi, “Here’s what to do if you have a loss on an investment”, in CNN Business:
glosses: In terms of finance or money.
gathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gather
gathers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gather
imports
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This year's crop of imports will increase the trade deficit.
glosses: plural of import
imports
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He imports Cuban cigars to the United States, which is illegal but profitable.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of import
shooting spree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shooting sprees
Senses: examples: text: A man charged with a drive-by shooting spree in Queens over the weekend that left one man dead and at least four others injured told the police that he got his gun from Lucifer and that he was reacting to “red cars closing in,” according to prosecutors at a bedside arraignment yesterday at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, where he was being held without bail.
ref: 2006 August 30, Corey Kilgannon, “Shooting-Spree Suspect Cited Devil’s Influence, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.
Synonyms: mass shooting
illustrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illustrate
inscriptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inscription
sonochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sono- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The study the effect of ultrasound in forming acoustic cavitation in liquids, resulting in the initiation or enhancement of chemical activity in the solution.
wikipedia: sonochemistry
sourwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sourwoods
Etymology: From sour + wood.
Senses: examples: text: I let him chew the tip of a burgundy leaf and taste how sourwood got its name.
ref: 2021, Richard Powers, Bewilderment, Hutchinson Heinemann, page 17:
glosses: A North American deciduous shrubby tree, of the genus Oxydendrum, having deep fissures in its bark, and sour-tasting leaves.
glosses: An Australian tree, of the genus Hibiscus; the sorrel tree.
littering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of litter
littering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: litterings
Senses: glosses: The dropping of litter.
Derived terms: antilittering
nonlittering
abuttalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of abuttal
abuttalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The description of a piece of land in terms of its abuttals, or the practice of doing this.
acid washing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of acid-washing.
emphasizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of emphasize
liquors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liquor
masts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mast
masts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mast
permits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permit
permits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of permit
relies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rely
statutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstæt͡ʃuts/
Senses: examples: text: The governor issued many statutes during his term.
glosses: plural of statute
gustable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstəbəl/
Forms: form: more gustable
form: most gustable
Etymology: From Latin gustus (“taste”).
Senses: examples: text: This position informs us of a vulgar error, terming the gall bitter; whereas there is nothing gustable sweeter.
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: Having a taste; capable of being tasted.
examples: text: A gustable thing, seen or smelt, excites the appetite, and affects the glands and parts of the mouth.
ref: 1713, William Derham, Physico-Theology:
glosses: Pleasant to the taste; toothsome; savory.
Synonyms: word: flavoury
word: gustable
word: saporific
word: saporous
word: tastable
word: tasteable
Hypernyms: word: perceptible
Hyponyms: word: delicious
word: unpalatable
word: bitter
word: meaty
word: salty
word: sour
word: spicy
word: sweet
word: bananery
word: charry
word: fruity
word: gingery
word: smoky
Related terms: word: edible
gustable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstəbəl/
Forms: form: gustables
Etymology: From Latin gustus (“taste”).
Senses: examples: text: […] this long list of gustables, at the bare name of which his mouth would water […]
ref: 1837, The Monthly Review, page 92:
glosses: Something edible.
sparkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sparkle
ejaculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ejaculate
intrusted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...we must now show the effect of Cromwell's death on our other actors; and cross the Irish channel, to where Henry, the younger son of the Protector, resided, the government of Ireland having been intrusted to his charge.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 242:
glosses: simple past and past participle of intrust. Confer entrusted.
olfactible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more olfactible
form: most olfactible
Etymology: From Latin olfacere (“to smell”) + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
Synonyms: word: odiferous
word: odorant
word: odoriferous
word: odorous
word: olent
word: olfactible
word: scented
word: smellable
word: smelling
Hypernyms: word: perceptible
Hyponyms: word: fragrant
word: malodorous
word: beery
word: cologned
word: fruity
word: garlicky
word: mephitic
word: musky
word: perfumed
word: perfumelike
word: perfumey
word: pungent
word: rosy
word: sagey
word: skunklike
word: skunky
word: spicy
word: sulfurlike
word: sulphurlike
Derived terms: inolfactible
Related terms: word: noisome
word: olfactory
word: smell
relational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relational
form: most relational
Etymology: From relation + -al. The database sense is from the definition of relation as a set of ordered tuples.
Senses: examples: text: essays on relational rights
text: Of these three great groups of feelings the first are extremely unrelational; the second are somewhat more relational; and the third are relational in a comparatively high degree.
ref: 1873, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, volume 1, page 250:
antonyms: irrelational
unrelational
glosses: Relating to relations.
glosses: Friendly and peaceful.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a database technology using tables and adhering to Codd’s 12 rules.
examples: text: relational art
topics: art
arts
glosses: Dealing with the whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a relational adjective, i.e. an adjective that relates what it modifies to a noun rather than qualifying it.
Derived terms: relational adjective
relational antonym
relational attribute
relational community
relational database
relational model
relational operator
woodworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodworkings
Etymology: From wood + working.
Senses: examples: text: There are two woodworkings, the first being the idealized one, the woodworking of expectations, where everything turns out perfect. The spouse is pleased, each and every joint is of Krenovian perfection […]
ref: 2000, Doug Stowe, Simply Beautiful Boxes, page 38:
text: MDF and HDF – or medium-density fiberboard and high-density fiberboard – are two of the trendiest materials in woodworking these days.
ref: 2019 September 20, “MDF vs HDF: Understanding Differences and Best Uses in Woodworking”, in Forest Plywood:
glosses: The crafts of carpentry, cabinet making and related skills of making things from wood.
Hyponyms: carpentry
coopering
cabinetmaking
cabinet making
framing
furnituremaking
wheelwrighting
whittling
woodcarving
wood carving
woodworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From wood + working.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of woodwork
narrower
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of narrow: more narrow
narrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrowers
Etymology: From narrow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, narrows.
halloumi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈluːmi/
ipa: /həˈlumi/
Forms: form: halloumis
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek χαλλούμι (challoúmi), from Cypriot Arabic xallúm, Arabic حَلُّوم (ḥallūm), from Sahidic Coptic ϩⲁⲗⲱⲙ (halōm, “cheese”), or ⲁⲗⲱⲙ (alōm, “cheese”), itself in turn probably a borrowing from Semitic, though in manuscripts and ostraca from 2nd century Roman Egypt, Egyptian Demotic ḥlm is also attested with the meaning "cheese".
Senses: glosses: A traditional cheese from Cyprus, made from goat's and/or sheep's milk.
wikipedia: Oxford Companion to Food
indulges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of indulge
fattened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fattened
form: most fattened
Derived terms: nonfattened
unfattened
fattened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fatten; fatted
disputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disputers
Etymology: From dispute + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disputes.
mooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mooted
form: most mooted
Senses: glosses: Made, or proven to be, moot.
Derived terms: unmooted
mooted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moot
oaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oater.
cuddlable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cuddlable
form: most cuddlable
Etymology: From cuddle + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be cuddled.
glosses: Pleasant to cuddle; cuddly.
Derived terms: uncuddlable
recreated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recreate
reveals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reveal
reveals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reveal
sacrificial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.fɪʃ.əl/
ipa: /ˈsæk.ɹə.fɪʃ.əl/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sacrificiālis (“sacrificial”), from sacrificium (“sacrifice”), from sacrificus (“sacrificial”), from sacrificō (“sacrifice”), from sacer (“sacred, holy”) + faciō (“do, make”).
Senses: examples: text: The old sacrificial well is still there, but animals aren't thrown into it to appease monsters anymore.
text: Rabban Yoḥanan could have succumbed to despair like many at that time. Instead, he looked for alternatives to the sacrificial system, because he understood that it would take a long time to rebuild the Temple and the Jewish people needed other ways to worship God.
ref: 2024, David Golinkin, “Comfort, Oh Comfort My People”, in Responsa in a Moment, volume 4, page x:
glosses: Relating to sacrifice
examples: text: The sacrificial coating protects the hull, but because it takes the damage the hull doesn't, we must replace it annually.
text: The ceremony involves the ritual slaying of a sacrificial lamb.
glosses: Used as a sacrifice.
Derived terms: sacrificial anode
sacrificial lamb
sacrificially
sacrificial poet
emitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əmɪtə/
ipa: /iːmɪtə/
Forms: form: emitters
Etymology: From emit + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which emits something.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).
Derived terms: alpha emitter
beta emitter
chemoemitter
emitter-coupled logic
nanoemitter
photoemitter
radioemitter
superemitter
surface-conduction electron-emitter display
flash floods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flash flood
kitchen timer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitchen timers
Senses: glosses: A device that can be set for a number of minutes (usually up to one hour) that sounds an alarm such as a bell or buzzer when the specified amount of time has elapsed; commonly used when cooking or baking.
Synonyms: egg timer
minute minder
balancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæ.lən.sɚ/
Forms: form: balancers
Etymology: From balance + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, balances.
glosses: An acrobat.
glosses: Any of the rear wings of certain insects used for stability in flight.
Derived terms: harmonic balancer
load balancer
dipterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dipterous
form: most dipterous
form: dipteran
Etymology: By surface analysis, translingual Diptera + -ous, or, by surface analysis, di- + -pterous.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, Diptera or the dipterans.
synonyms: bialate
bipterous
hypernyms: winged
coordinate_terms: apterous
wingless
;
subapterous
brachypterous
;
tripterous
glosses: Having two wings.
Derived terms: nondipterous
devourer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devourers
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English devourere; equivalent to devour + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is doubtful, whether we ought to ascribe any superior qualities to the more ancient Africans; for we find them represented […] as proud, lazy, deceitful, thievish, […] devourers of human flesh, and quaffers of human blood […]
ref: 1774, Edward Long, The History of Jamaica, page 354:
text: [They] have entered into the hunt with all the zeal that characterized the bookhunters, the coin collectors, the autograph devourers and the rest of that class of maniacs.
ref: 1864, Frank Leslie's Ten Cent Monthly, volumes 1-2, page 305:
glosses: One who devours.
Related terms: omnivore
devourers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devourer
people person
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: people persons
form: people people
form: people-person
Senses: glosses: One who interacts skilfully with other people and who receives satisfaction from such interaction.
Related terms: man of the people
people skills
braver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of brave: more brave
braver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bravers
Senses: examples: a reckless braver of dangers
glosses: One who braves something.
resinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more resinous
form: most resinous
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French résineux; cf. Latin resinosus. By surface analysis, resin + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Resin, pitch, sealing-wax, caoutchouc, sulphur, gutta-percha, and generally all bodies commonly termed resinous, besides a great variety of others, will be found to acquire, after friction, the power of attracting light bodies, and hence will be said, according to a limitation of terms already accepted, to be in an electrized or electrified state .
ref: 1855, William Somerville Orr, Orr's Circle of the Sciences, page 205:
synonyms: resinaceous
glosses: Of or relating to resin.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
antonyms: vitreous
glosses: Negative (of electric charge).
Synonyms: word: resinlike
word: resiny
word: resinaceous
word: resinous
Hypernyms: word: viscous
Hyponyms: word: asphaltic
word: asphaltite
word: bituminous
word: pitchy
word: tarry
Derived terms: resinously
resinousness
lady's man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lady's men
form: ladies' men
form: ladies' man
Senses: examples: text: This promenading was chiefly patronised by the marines, and particularly by Colbrook, a remarkably handsome and very gentlemanly corporal among them. He was a complete lady's man; with fine black eyes, bright red cheeks, glossy jet whiskers, and a refined organisation of the whole man.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, chapter 42, in White Jacket:
text: You know, Karen, I may not look much like a lady's man, but many a gal has cried when I left.
ref: 1940, John Lee Mahin, Boom Town (motion picture), spoken by Jonathan Sand (Spencer Tracy):
text: Oh the gals won't leave me alone / I have to disconnect my phone / That's how it is when you're a lady's man
ref: 1952, Cy Coben, “Lady's Man”, performed by Hank Snow:
synonyms: word: squire of dames
glosses: A man who attracts women and enjoys their company.
examples: text: He was the most celebrated portrait painter of his day, a notorious ladies' man, obsessed with women, pale beauties dressed in extravagant gowns . . . or nothing at all.
ref: 2008 March 9, “Klimt And The Golden Art Of Vienna”, in cbsnews.com, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2008:
synonyms: word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
glosses: A womanizer.
man's man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men's men
Senses: glosses: A man who is popular among men.
glosses: a homosexual man.
Related terms: lady's man
man among men
survivors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of survivor
thought-controlled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Medical technology seeks to develop thought-controlled artificial limbs.
glosses: manipulated or regulated directly by the mind.
manipulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of manipulate
amortization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌmɔːtəˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /əˌmɔːtaɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌæmɚtəˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /əˌmɔɹtəˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: amortizations
form: amortisation
Etymology: From Middle English amortisen (“to kill, alienate in mortmain”), from Anglo-Norman amorteser, alteration of Old French amortir, from Vulgar Latin *admortire (“to kill”), from Latin ad- and mors, mortem (“death”).
Senses: glosses: The reduction of loan principal over a series of payments.
glosses: The distribution of the cost of an intangible asset, such as an intellectual property right, over the projected useful life of the asset.
Related terms: english: of tangible assets
translation: of tangible assets
word: depreciation
english: of natural resources
translation: of natural resources
word: depletion
amortizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amortization
manipulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of manipulate
manipulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manipulation
boggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of boggle
boggling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boggling
form: most boggling
Senses: examples: text: The no answer has to do with the general perspective. As Rick wrote from Africa, “The whole idea is so boggling' and awesome that it is almost too much to get nervous about. Our worry quotas don’t include things like “Today’ show appearances.”
ref: 1984, Joan Scobey, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, St. Martin’s/Marek, page 101:
glosses: Stupefying; mind-boggling.
boggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bogglings
Senses: examples: text: Imagine all of Europe speaking Chinese. To even begin to imagine it brings on bogglings of the mind and other parts of the body.
ref: 2011, Oona Frawley, Memory Ireland: Volume 1: History and Modernity, page 227:
glosses: The condition of being bewildered or mystified.
dumb crambo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In early Victoria there were family evening parties to which the father, mother and all sizes of growing children went together and at which they played charades, dumb crambo, guessing games and forfeits.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Visiting Matrons”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
topics: games
glosses: A guessing game, similar to charades, in which players act out, or silently pantomime, words that rhyme with a clue word. The objective is to guess a concealed word that rhymes with the clue.
Related terms: crambo
extemporizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of extemporize
extemporizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This was untrue. I am not even faintly like a rose. She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of extemporize
extemporized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of extemporize
analgesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/
ipa: /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒə/
ipa: /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.ʒi.ə/
ipa: /ˌæn.əlˈd͡ʒiː.zi.ə/
rhymes: -iːʒə
Forms: form: analgesias
form: antalgesia
Etymology: From New Latin analgēsia, from Ancient Greek ἀναλγησίᾱ (analgēsíā, “want of feeling, insensibility”), from ἀνάλγητος (análgētos), from ἀν- (an-, “not”) + ἀλγέω (algéō, “feel bodily pain, suffer”) + -τος (-tos, adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: epidural analgesia
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: analgia
glosses: The inability to feel pain.
examples: text: This office procedure is quick and straightforward, but it does require some analgesia.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: pain relief
coordinate_terms: anaesthesia
glosses: A process of temporarily reducing the ability to feel pain; the provision of this service.
examples: text: apply an analgesia
text: She was able to take analgesia orally.
text: Most physical distress yields to some analgesia—not so depression.
ref: 1988 December 19, William Styron, “Why Primo Levi Need Not Have Died”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: analgesic#Noun
coordinate_terms: anesthetic#Noun
;
anesthesia
glosses: A medication that performs this action: one that relieves pain.
Derived terms: analgesic
antianalgesia
audioanalgesia
congenital analgesia
cryoanalgesia
electroanalgesia
oligoanalgesia
Related terms: algesia
antalgesic
painkiller
analogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From analogic + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, based on, or composed of an analogy.
Synonyms: analogic
analogistic
Related terms: analogical modeling
analogicalness
unanalogical
analog
analogic
analogicity
analogous
analogue
analogy
analogically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From analogic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Absolutely, because for the substance, it eitheir^([sic]) expressley or Analogically containes the doctrine, concerning Faith and Manners, which is communicable and profitable for us to know, which may be proved also by induction, that...
ref: 1662, Edward Leigh, A Systeme or Body of Divinity: Consisting of Three Bookes..., page 104:
glosses: In an analogical manner; in the manner of an analogy.
analogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: analogizes
form: analogizing
form: analogized
form: analogized
form: analogise
Etymology: From analogy + -ize.
Senses: examples: The teacher analogised swotting for an exam in terms of marathon training.
glosses: To express as an analogy.
examples: text: Repulsion over polygamy is so ingrained in the American consciousness — analogizing it to slavery, the Republican platform of 1856 called it one of the country’s “twin relics of barbarism” — that judgmentally reveling in the exotic perversions of “Big Love” feels like something on the order of a national right.
ref: 2009 January 16, Ginia Bellafante, “A Daffy Suburban Family Comes Out of 3 Closets”, in New York Times:
text: Cruz was obviously analogizing Bernie Sanders to the Bolsheviks and Hillary Clinton to the Mensheviks. The oleaginous Texan is an erudite slyboots, but his history is off-kilter.
ref: 2015 November 1, Hendrik Hertzberg, “That G.O.P. Debate: Two Footnotes”, in The New Yorker:
text: Writing objective history or raising a teenager may be like trying to nail Jell-O to a wall, as those and other challenging tasks have been popularly analogized.
ref: 2016, Robert Kerr, How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism:
text: Nance and the United States analogize any responsive authorization that follows a successful lethal injection challenge to responsive appropriations that would follow a successful Section 1983 claim for improved health care.
ref: 2022 April 22, Lee Kovarsky, “Justices will clarify how death-row prisoners can contest a state’s method of execution”, in SCOTUSblog:
glosses: To treat one thing as analogous to another.
Derived terms: analogizable
analogization
analogously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs.li/
Forms: form: more analogously
form: most analogously
Etymology: From analogous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an analogous manner; in a manner which evokes analogy.
analogousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnæl.ə.dʒəs.nəs/
ipa: /əˈnæl.ə.ɡəs.nəs/
Etymology: From analogous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being analogous.
analyzable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more analyzable
form: most analyzable
form: analyzeable
form: analysable
Etymology: From analyze + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The form mameɣeríṡi is analyzable as *mama ‘e kiríṡi 'mother of the robin/wren'.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 248:
glosses: Able to be analyzed.
Derived terms: analyzability
nonanalyzable
unanalyzable
analyzer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.ə.laɪ.zə/
ipa: /ˈæn.əˌlaɪ.zɚ/
ipa: [ˈɛən.əˌlaɪ.zɚ]
ipa: [ˈæ(ː)nəˌlaɪ.zɚ]
note: Maritime Canadian
ipa: [ˈɑnələi̯.zɚ]
note: Maritime Canadian
ipa: [ˈanələi̯.zɚ]
ipa: /ˈæn.ə.lɑɪ.zə/
ipa: /ˈæn.lɑɪ.zə/
Forms: form: analyzers
form: analyser
Etymology: From analyze + -er.
Senses: glosses: an instrument for the analysis of something
glosses: a person who analyzes
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a type of polarizer
Derived terms: autoanalyzer
bioanalyzer
breathalyzer
cytoanalyzer
harmonic analyzer
immunoanalyzer
lexical analyzer
logic analyzer
microanalyzer
spectrum analyzer
thermoanalyzer
viscoanalyzer
analyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of analyze
anarchically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌan.əˈkɪ.kəl.i/
Forms: form: more anarchically
form: most anarchically
Etymology: From anarchic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anarchic manner; in the manner of anarchy.
anathematize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈnæ.θə.mə.taɪz/
Forms: form: anathematizes
form: anathematizing
form: anathematized
form: anathematized
form: anathematise
Etymology: From anathema + -ize; the -t- is part of the root of the underlying Greek word ἀνάθεμα (anáthema) (albeit not visible in the nominative singular form), which also explains the plural anathemata and other derivations from anathema such as anathematic.
Senses: examples: text: These are the fellows that some officers never pretend to damn, however much they may anathematize others.
ref: 1850, Herman Melville, chapter III, in White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, publishers; London: Richard Bentley, published 1855, →OCLC:
text: Rowdy had been heard, more than once lately, to anathematize viciously the prairie-dogs for standing on their tails and chip-chip-chipping at them as they went by.
ref: 1907, B. M. Bower, chapter 9, in Rowdy of the Cross L:
text: As the cruise was to consume a year at least, for they were to stop for indefinite periods at various points of interest, Clayton mentally anathematized Tennington for ever suggesting such a ridiculous trip.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 100:
text: "Crook in the guts," he says tersely. The picturesque reports of previously-treated and disgusted patients have left him doubtful, and he casts an anathematising eye upon the "Black Jack" bottle. "Tabloids and duty!" says the doctor, and the sufferer sighs with relief. There's no taste in tabloids, anyhow, and he reckons the doctor "ain't a bad poor something, after all!"
ref: 1914 October 11, “In camp: The day’s work of a W.A. soldier”, in The Sunday Times, number 875, Perth, W.A.: E. W. Finn for “The Sunday Times” Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1, column 8:
text: Harvard economist Robert Barro anathematized it as "probably the worst bill that has been put forth since the 1930s" and, in a word, "garbage."
ref: 2009 February 13, Candace de Russy, “Madness, Thy Name Is 'Stimulus'”, in American Thinker, retrieved 21 Feb 2009:
synonyms: anathemize
condemn
damn
deprecate
excoriate
vilify
glosses: To cause to be, or to declare as, an anathema or evil.
Derived terms: anathematization
anathematizer
anatomically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anatomical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the anatomy.
Derived terms: anatomically correct
macroanatomically
nonanatomically
anatomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnætəmaɪz/
Forms: form: anatomizes
form: anatomizing
form: anatomized
form: anatomized
Etymology: From Middle English anatomisen, from Medieval Latin anatomizāre. By surface analysis, anatomy + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He did not care the least about Fanny now: he wondered how he ever should have cared: and according to his custom made an autopsy of that dead passion, and anatomised his own defunct sensation for his poor little nurse.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: To inspect or investigate by dissection.
glosses: To punish (a person) by postmortem dissection following execution.
examples: text: I speak but brotherly
of him; but should I anatomize him to thee as he is, I must blush
and weep, and thou must look pale and wonder.
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 I, scene i], lines 130-32:
glosses: To scrutinize down to the most minute detail.
Derived terms: anatomization
anatomizer
unanatomized
all-fired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.
Senses: examples: text: It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 16, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Extreme, excessive.
all-fired
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Probably a euphemistic form of hell-fired.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, I was only stringing Jerry . . . he thinks he's so all-fired cute and smart.
ref: 1909, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 14, in Anne of Avonlea:
text: Latha dear, she said resolutely, once in your life you'll just have to quit being so all-fired superstitious.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug, published 2005, page 32:
text: Sometimes I'm tired and I wonder / What's so all-fired important / About being someplace at some time
ref: 1972, Carole King, “Bitter with the Sweet”, in Rhymes & Reasons:
glosses: Extremely, thoroughly, very.
Synonyms: all-firedly
alkyd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkyds
Etymology: From the ingredients; alkyl (alcohol) + id (acid or anhydride)
Senses: glosses: A synthetic resin derived from a reaction between alcohol and certain acids, used as a base for many laminates, paints and coatings.
inlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inlay
inlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inlayings
Senses: examples: text: By these means a device is obtained, the ground of which is composed of green or English gold, with inlayings of silver and fine gold.
ref: 1848, Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences, page 363:
glosses: An inlaid pattern.
ancestrally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈsɛstɹəli/
Etymology: From ancestral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to ancestry.
anchorperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorpersons
form: anchorpeople
Etymology: From anchor + person, by analogy with anchorman.
Senses: glosses: The primary reporter on a television news broadcast.
Synonyms: word: anchor
word: news anchor
Related terms: anchorman
anchorwoman
anchorwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anchorwomen
Etymology: From anchor(man) + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female anchorperson.
topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The most reliable female runner in a relay team, usually the one that runs last.
Synonyms: word: anchoress
Related terms: english: also the runner
translation: also the runner
word: anchor
word: anchorman
ancientness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ancientnesses
form: auncientnesse
Etymology: From ancient + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Here we are in this wonderful town, where, if you can't see everything you want to see, you can generally see a sample of it, even if your fad happens to be the ancientnesses of Egypt.
ref: 1894, Frank Richard Stockton, Pomona's Travels, page 257:
glosses: The state or quality of being ancient.
Synonyms: ancience
agedness
hoariness
venerability
oldness
anemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anemically
form: most anemically
form: anaemically
form: anæmically
Etymology: From anemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anemic manner.
anesthetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anesthetizations
Senses: glosses: The administration of anesthesia.