cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dutch hoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch hoe
Dutch ovens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dutch oven
locutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locution
boons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buːnz/
rhymes: -uːnz
Senses: glosses: plural of boon
diggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digger
grownups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grownup
hunchbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunchback
involutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of involute
involutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of involute
atavists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atavist
guidons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guidon
backburns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backburn
backburns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backburn
paleoenvironments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleoenvironment
palaeoenvironments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaeoenvironment
pacemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pacemaker
gymnasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnast
zeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zek
smithies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smithy
jellybeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jellybean
skiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skiff
skiffs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skiff
letterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lettering
stuivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stuiver
ernes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɜːnz/
ipa: /ɝːnz/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nz
homophone: earns
homophone: erns
homophone: urns
Senses: glosses: plural of erne
umes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ume
health warnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of health warning
sealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sealer
mojados
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mojado
petticoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petticoat
coldspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coldspot
coworkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coworker
daubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daub
daubs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of daub
lumpsuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lumpsucker
radiosondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiosonde
time outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time out
stokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoker
cooperatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cooperative
rhomboids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhomboid
dappas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dappa
gunyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunya
leptonemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leptonema
jujitsukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jujitsuka
mirrours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mirrour
mirrours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mirrour
steamships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steamship
incomings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incoming
G strings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G string
gabies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaby
Cabernet Sauvignons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cabernet Sauvignon
afterburners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of afterburner
moral orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moral order
vacuum tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuum tube
pectinates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pectinate
pectinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pectinate
networkings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of networking
shinobis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shinobi
perillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perilla
spiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spile
tetrapods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrapod
anecdotists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anecdotist
botch jobs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of botch job
picoamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picoamp
screwers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwer
gerents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gerent
megaelectron volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaelectron volt
gigaelectron volts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaelectron volt
bakeshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bakeshop
occluders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of occluder
xyrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xyrid
stylolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stylolite
second gears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second gear
gearings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gearing
second helpings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second helping
major thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of major third
minor thirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minor third
musical intervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musical interval
diatonic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diatonic scale
musical scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musical scale
steam turbines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam turbine
steam irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam iron
smoothing irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoothing iron
steam locomotives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam locomotive
steam boilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam boiler
steam heaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam heater
steam condensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam condenser
steam hammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam hammer
steam shovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of steam shovel
steam shovels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steam-shovels
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of steam shovel
landforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landform
fire extinguishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire extinguisher
adhibitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhibition
cosmodromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosmodrome
greenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹiːnɪŋz/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of greening
haulages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haulage
consolation prizes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consolation prize
maddoctors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maddoctor
setouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of setout
kiloamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiloamp
megaamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaamp
gigaamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaamp
teraamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraamp
teravolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teravolt
sugarbeets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugarbeet
sundogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sundog (alternative form of sun dogs)
kreteks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kretek
picojoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picojoule
nanojoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanojoule
microjoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microjoule
millijoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millijoule
kilojoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilojoule
terajoules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terajoule
alexiterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alexiteric
picofarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picofarad
nanofarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanofarad
microfarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfarad
millifarads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of millifarad
nanoohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoohm
microohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microohm
milliohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milliohm
kiloohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiloohm
megaohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mega-ohms
form: megohms
Senses: glosses: plural of megaohm
gigaohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigaohm
teraohms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teraohm
expositions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exposition
Blackacre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From black + acre.
Senses: examples: text: If A. have Black Acre and C. have White Acre, and A. has a way over White Acre to Black Acre, and then purchases White Acre, the way will be extinct; and if A. afterwards enfeoff C. of White Acre without excepting the road, it is gone.
ref: 1790, Francis Buller, An Introduction to the Law Relative to Trials at Nisi Prius, page 74:
text: Example: Alvin holds Blackacre for investment and wishes to exchange it for like kind property to be held for investment. Becky wants Blackacre, but has only cash.
ref: 2008, Gwendolyn Griffith Lieuallen, Basic Federal Income Tax, page 209:
text: For example, a gift of Blackacre today, when Blackacre is worth $100,000, will freeze the value of Blackacre at $100,000 forever when determining the value of the transferor's transfer tax base, assuming Blackacre will not be brought back into the transferor's estate under I.R.C. § 2036, 2037, or 2038 because the grantor has retained some right or power over Blackacre.
ref: 2010, Louis A. Mezzullo, An Estate Planner's Guide to Family Business Entities, page 123:
topics: law
glosses: A placeholder name of a fictitious or hypothetical estate in land commonly used to discuss the rights of various parties to a piece of real property.
Related terms: Whiteacre
Greenacre
commends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commend
commending
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commend
armadillos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armadillo
rulership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːlə(ɹ)ʃɪp/
Forms: form: rulerships
Etymology: From ruler + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: All rulership has its original and its most legitimate source in man’s wish to emancipate himself from life’s necessity, and men achieved such liberation by means of violence, by forcing others to bear the burden of life for them.
ref: 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, page 104:
glosses: A position in which one rules or has sovereignty over others.
unilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From uni- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: If you're black you've had to improvise communication with unilingual whites, she'd probably easily acquire this ancient one, too.
ref: 2012, Nadine Gordimer, No Time Like the Present, Bloomsbury, published 2013, page 46:
synonyms: monolingual
antonyms: multilingual
plurilingual
glosses: knowing or using a single language
Derived terms: unilingually
unilingual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Forms: form: unilinguals
Etymology: From uni- + lingual.
Senses: glosses: a person who understands only one language
undresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undress
undressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undress
undressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undressings
Senses: examples: text: Considered thus, the performance is a translation into images of bodies on display, as is well demonstrated by Monsieur Jourdain's repeated dressings and undressings.
ref: 2004, Kathryn Banks, Joseph Harris, Exposure: Revealing Bodies, Unveiling Representations, page 182:
glosses: The act of removing somebody's clothes.
Derived terms: paradoxical undressing
member state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: member states
Senses: examples: text: Coordinate term: observer state
text: As of 1st January 2007 the European Union will have 27 member states.
synonyms: member country
glosses: A sovereign state which is a member of an international organisation or some kind of confederation of other such states.
Related terms: founding member
streusel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstruː.zəl/
ipa: /ˈstrɔɪ.zəl/
Forms: form: streusels
Etymology: Borrowed from German Streusel. Related to strew.
Senses: glosses: A crumbly topping for cakes and quick breads. It is made of sugar, flour, butter, and often other ingredients, especially cinnamon and chopped nuts.
Related terms: Streuselkuchen
subdeaconship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeaconships
Etymology: From subdeacon + -ship.
Senses: glosses: the office of a subdeacon
subdeaconships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeaconship
subdeacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdeacons
Etymology: Originated 1275–1325 from Middle English subdecon and -dekene, from Late Latin subdiāconus. Equivalent to sub- + deacon.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: A layperson who acts as an assistant to the deacon during the celebration of mass.
synonyms: hypodeacon
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon.
subdeacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subdeacon
High Mass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: High Masses
Senses: glosses: A Roman Catholic or Anglo-Catholic Mass celebrated in full ceremonial form, in which the celebrant is generally assisted by a deacon and, in the Tridentine form, a subdeacon, and accompanied by acolytes, a thurifer, and a choir.
glosses: Any sung Mass, including a Missa Cantata.
Coordinate terms: Low Mass
Missa Cantata
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originated 1900–05 from New Latin missa cantāta, from Late Latin missa (Mass) and Latin cantāta (to have sung); literally, sung mass.
Senses: glosses: A Catholic Mass that is less elaborate than a High Mass, but with equivalent sung liturgical parts.
sub-deacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sub-deacons
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subdeacon.
sub-deacons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-deacon (alternative spelling of subdeacons).
day off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: days off
Senses: examples: text: After the accident, he took a day off.
text: Tuesday is my day off.
text: I can meet you tomorrow because I have the day off.
text: In addition to the extra labour at Christmas, because services kept running on Christmas Day many of the staff did not get the day off. […] Moreover, after Christmas Day he got a few days off and had "...a real old jolly time, as only we men of the iron road know how".
ref: 2022 December 14, David Turner, “The Edwardian Christmas getaway...”, in RAIL, number 972, page 35:
glosses: A day of vacation; a day when one does not go to work, school, etc.
Synonyms: sense: day of vacation
word: break
word: recess
word: vacation
boom vang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boom vangs
form: boomvang
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A line or piston system on a sailboat used to exert downward force on the boom and thus control the shape of the sail; a martingale.
Synonyms: sense: A line system on a sailboat to exert downward force on the boom
word: kicking strap
resinate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resinates
form: resinating
form: resinated
form: resinated
Etymology: From resin + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Pitch could be used to resinate wine barrels (4.6.2), among other things.
ref: 2018, Duane W. Roller, A Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To treat a container with resin, e.g. by impregnation in order to impart flavour, typically of wine, and to provide a tighter seal on the container.
Related terms: resination
retsina
resinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resinates
Etymology: From resin acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of a resin acid.
body mass index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: body mass indexes
form: body mass indices
Senses: glosses: A statistical measure of the weight of a person scaled according to height, used to estimate if a person is underweight or overweight. BMI units are defined as kg/m² ≈ 703*lb/in².
Synonyms: word: Quetelet index
word: BMI
Coordinate terms: ponderal index
Related terms: english: body mass
translation: body mass
word: bodymass
Konrad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A surname borrowed from various European languages, all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *Kōnirād, a male given name.
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Conrad
glosses: A surname.
jinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɪŋkə/
rhymes: -ɪŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jinkers
Etymology: Variant of janker.
Senses: examples: text: […] exhibited was a newly designed jinker, invented by Mr. John Allan.[…] can load a tree weighing 1½ tons with the greatest ease.
ref: 1896 September 12, “Improved jinker”, in The Leader (Melbourne AU), page 12:
glosses: A high wheeled wagon designed to carry lumber suspended under the body of the vehicle.
examples: text: The contractor, Mr. A. F. Pincombe, who moved the building intact on a jinker...
ref: 1903 March 18, “East Broken Hill School”, in Barrier Miner (Broken Hill, AU, page 1:
text: A Jinker trailer is a trailer designed to transport long logs or other long pieces of material/blocks.
ref: 2024 November 24 (last accessed), Modern Transport Engineers Australia:
glosses: A specialised trailer for carrying long loads such as logs or other large loads such as when moving buildings.
examples: text: I fell out of the jinker and it ran over me but again I survived that without too much trouble.
ref: 2004 March 11, Australians at War Film Archive, Harold (Mac) Ford:
text: He stood in the jinker and gave the horse a great thwack on the backside with the end of the reins.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 155:
text: These two-wheeled passenger vehicles [sulkies], also known as gigs or jinkers in Victoria, could be found in every town and country district [quoting from "Sulkies, Whiskeys and Gigs" by Jeff Powell]....Not to be confused with a timber-hauling jinker, which has little in common.
ref: 2017 July 11, 432 Pages-Jinker-Monissa's Place:
text: Near the homestead they came upon Peter sitting on the shaft of a jinker, crooning a corroboree song and gazing so intently at the coffin-like ridge that he did not see them.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 179:
glosses: A two-wheeled open horse drawn carriage. A sulky, trap, road cart or gig.
kontor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒntɔː/
ipa: /ˈkɑntɔɹ/
homophone: contour stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: kontors
form: kontore
form: Kontor
Etymology: Attested since late 19th century. Learned borrowing from German Kontor and Middle Low German kontôr (“commercial branch; writing room; counting desk/table”), from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix). Doublet of cantore, computer, and counter.
Senses: glosses: One of the four chief trading posts of the Hanseatic League that enjoyed a great degree of legal autonomy; located in Bruges, London, Bergen and Novgorod.
narrative structure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narrative structures
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
narratology
sciences
glosses: The structural framework that underlies the order and manner in which a narrative is presented to a reader, listener, or viewer.
under no circumstance
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: In no case, whatever happens; never.
Synonyms: absolutely not
never
on no account
under no circumstances
Related terms: under any circumstances
under all circumstances
thermoacidophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermoacidophiles
Etymology: From thermo- + acid + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Any heat- and acid-tolerant bacterium or archaeon, typically of the phylum Crenarchaeota
Derived terms: thermoacidophilic
all over the shop
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: While witness was in the shop, a gentleman came running in, and retched all over the shop. He cried out to the boy, "What have you given me here?"
ref: 1823, Edmund Burke, “Chronicle, March 1822”, in The Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics, and literature, of the year 1822, volume 64, page 52:
text: When Cummings was asked if he blamed MPs for the abuse, he replied: “The MPs said we will have a referendum, we will respect the result and then they spent three years swerving all over the shop.
ref: 2019 September 26, “Dominic Cummings: delivering Brexit only way to solve abuse of MPs”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: all over the ballpark
all over the gaff
all over the lot
all over the show
glosses: All over the place.
equalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equalised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equalize
equalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːkwəlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈikwəˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: equalizes
form: equalizing
form: equalized
form: equalized
form: equalise
form: æqualize
Etymology: From equal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes
text: One poor moment can suffice / To equalize the lofty and the low.
ref: 1815, William Wordsworth, Epitaph 3:
text: No system of instruction will completely equalize natural powers.
ref: 1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric:
glosses: To make equal; to cause to correspond in amount or degree.
examples: text: But a third kingdom yet is to arise / Out of the Trojans scattered ofspring, / That in all glory and great enterprise, / Both first and second Troy shall dare to equalise.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: polling the reformed churches whether they equalize in number those of his three kingdoms
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To be equal to; to equal, to rival.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To make the scoreline equal by scoring points.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: To clear the ears to balance the pressure in the middle ear with the outside pressure by letting air enter along the Eustachian tubes.
topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Said of a morphism: to pre-compose with each of a parallel pair of morphisms so as to yield the same composite morphism.
examples: text: The technique for frequency slewing of a transient is different from that for vibration testing in that it is necessary to equalize at low level as the clock frequency is slewed in relatively small increments from the nominal to the desired frequency.
ref: 1987, The Shock and Vibration Bulletin - Volume 57, Parts 1-4, page 35:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: To adjust the balance between frequency components within an electronic signal.
Synonyms: even out
Derived terms: disequalize
equalization
equalisation
equalizer
equaliser
misequalize
unequalized
equalisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Receivers often incorporate digital equalisers to 'mop up' slight intersymbol interference after initial filtering at the receiver.
ref: 1992, Chris C. Bissell, David A. Chapman, Digital signal transmission (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: plural of equaliser
equalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equalises
form: equalising
form: equalised
form: equalised
Etymology: From equal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The introduction of substitute Andy Carroll sparked Liverpool into life and he pulled a goal back just after the hour - and thought he had equalised as Kenny Dalglish's side laid siege to Chelsea's goal in the closing stages.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard form of equalize.
equalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: equalized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equalise
enterics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enteric + -s.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Gram-negative eubacteria that inhabit intestines.
violacein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: violaceins
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A violet pigment produced by certain bacteria.
prodigiosin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A red pigment produced by certain bacteria.
Derived terms: undecylprodigiosin
performance metric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performance metrics
Senses: examples: text: A criticism of performance metrics is that when the value of information is computed using mathematical methods, it shows that even performance metrics professionals choose measures that have little value. This is referred to as the "measurement inversion".
ref: 2014, Wikipedia, Performance metric:
topics: business
glosses: A measurement of performance, often financial performance, either against peers or against a predetermined target.
Related terms: key performance indicator
fervidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fervidly
form: most fervidly
Etymology: From fervid + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fervid manner.
stertorously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstəː.təɹ.əs.li/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.tɚ.əs.li/
Forms: form: more stertorously
form: most stertorously
Etymology: From stertorous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The patient was now breathing stertorously and it was easy to see that he had suffered some terrible injury.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 28, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: Mr Lumby said, "Oh well, now the doctor's here you don't want me', and lumbered off, glad to get back to bed. Rita said, "She's in here, doctor', and led the way to the foot of the stairs where Mrs Dibble lay breathing stertorously under the dim shop light, still an abhorrent spectacle to Sadie, who edged gingerly round her and escaped upstairs, having no compunction whatever for Mrs Dibble's injuries
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 26:
text: He was a plump little man and we had been walking uphill at a pace—set by him—far too rapid for his short legs. He breathed stertorously, and half the drops which glimmered on his rotund face were not rain but sweat.
ref: 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 23, in Crime out of Mind:
text: Captain McGarrigle, however, seemed to be in trouble. He was breathing stertorously, his throat and chest juddering like those of an asthmatic.
ref: 2000, Mark Gatiss, chapter 20, in Last of the Gaderene:
glosses: With heavy breathing, as if snoring; in a stertorous manner.
Related terms: stertor
stertorous
preternaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more preternaturally
form: most preternaturally
Etymology: From preternatural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Deirdre’s mom never leaves her in the Grotto but also never leaves her side, and has the lipless and flinty-eyed look of a parent whose kid is preternaturally good at something.
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
glosses: In a preternatural manner; beyond what could possibly be natural.
Synonyms: extraordinarily
supernaturally
ledgerdemain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of legerdemain.
inspanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inspan
putatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjuː.tə.tɪv.li/
ipa: /ˈpju.tə.tɪv.li/
ipa: /ˈpjʉː.tə.tɪv.li/
rhymes: -uːtətɪvli
Forms: form: more putatively
form: most putatively
Etymology: From putative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, purportedly, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
text: Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept[.]
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page iii:
text: The following are the focus of research: in the Pyraloidea (Subobjective 1.1) Ategumia, Desmia, Diaphania, Eulepte, Herpetogramma, Omiodes, Patania; in the Gelechioidea (Subobjective 1.2) genera within and putatively near the Recurvaria-group (Gelechiinae: Litini); in the Noctuoidea (Subobjective 1.3) fern-feeding Argyrosticta in relation to Callopistria, boundaries and composition of the Eriopinae, and erebid litter moths (Herminiinae).
ref: 2021, United States Department of Agriculture, SYSTEMATICS OF HYPER-DIVERSE MOTH SUPERFAMILIES, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON AGRICULTURAL PESTS, INVASIVE SPECIES, BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENTS, AND FOOD SECURITY:
text: To construct a phylogenetic tree, molecular biologists compare the differences in nucleotide sequences of many isolates of putatively related organisms.
ref: 2011, Jacques Pepin, “The Source”, in The Origins of AIDS, 1st edition, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: In a putative manner; according to belief.
untouchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl/
Forms: form: more untouchable
form: most untouchable
Etymology: From un- + touchable.
Senses: examples: text: Sunday’s election is the first to be held after youth-led mass protests in 2020 shocked the establishment by […] criticising an institution previously considered untouchable.
ref: 2023 May 14, Rebecca Ratcliffe, Thitipol Panyalimpanun, “Opposition parties take lead in Thai election”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Not able to be touched.
examples: text: The Minnesota Vikings have been untouchable this year as they've won their sixth consecutive game.
glosses: Not able to be defeated or bested.
Derived terms: untouchability
untouchableness
untouchable number
untouchable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʌtʃəbəl/
Forms: form: untouchables
Etymology: From un- + touchable.
Senses: glosses: A criminal who is so well-connected that they cannot be harmed.
glosses: Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.
synonyms: word: outcast
extra: a person excluded from society
glosses: A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.
glosses: A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.
Synonyms: sense: member of the lowest Indian caste
word: Dalit
sense: member of the lowest Indian caste
word: pariah
sense: member of the lowest Indian caste
word: undesirable
Lakhimpur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district of Assam, India.
glosses: A city in Lakhimpur Kheri district, Lucknow division, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Saint Stephen's Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪnt ˈstiːvənz deɪ/
ipa: /sənt ˈstiːvənz deɪ/
Forms: form: Saint Stephen's Days
Senses: examples: text: "Feeding the Wren" is a custom based on the legend of Saint Stephen, who was hiding in a bush and betrayed to his enemies by a wren. On Saint Stephen's Day, December 26, the young children gather together, obtain a wren, and place it in a cage on top of a bush while they go from door-to-door collecting money which will be used for charity.
ref: 1991, Stephen M. Crotts, Saint Nicholas Speaks, Lima, Oh.: C.S.S. Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of St. Stephen's Day.
erythropoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From erythropoiesis + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to erythropoiesis.
Derived terms: dyserythropoietic
erythropoietic protoporphyria
hepatoerythropoietic
nonerythropoietic
proerythropoietic
suberythropoietic
erythropoiesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erythropoieses
Etymology: From erythro- + -poiesis.
Senses: glosses: The production of red blood cells (in bone marrow)
Derived terms: dyserythropoiesis
myeloerythropoiesis
Related terms: erythropoietic
cricketing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cricket
cricketing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cricketing twins Sir Alec and Eric Bedser, who played for Surrey and England […]
glosses: That plays cricket.
cricketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricketings
Senses: examples: text: What between the Cowley cricketings, and the Isis boatings, Mr. Verdant Green only read by spasmodic fits […]
ref: 1853, Cuthbert Bede, The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman:
glosses: A game of cricket.
Stepford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stepfords
Etymology: From step + ford.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
glosses: A placename:
A locality in Dumfries and Galloway council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NX8681).
Stepford
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the fictional place name Stepford. After the fictional suburb in the 1972 novel The Stepford Wives by Ira Levin, and in two films of the same name based on the novel.
Senses: examples: text: “He called you a boring Stepford wife.”
A boring Stepford wife, Molly thought. For a moment it seemed to her that she was once more in prison, eating the tasteless food, hearing the click of locks, lying awake for sleepless night after sleepless night.
ref: 1999, Mary Higgins Clark, We'll Meet Again, page 131:
text: So, when in a dorky Christmas town with Stepford people and themed shops, do as they do. Smile and act like you gave two shits about the person next to you.
ref: 2008, Karin Tabke, Have Yourself a Naughty Little Santa, page 150:
text: Were the Nazis trying to infiltrate the U.S. Navy with an army of gonorrhea-infected Stepford clones?
ref: 2011 July 18, Matt Culkin, “The 16 Most Hilariously Dishonest Old School Advertisements”, Cracked.com
glosses: Docile, unthinking and conformist.
examples: text: The woman seated behind the table looked up at him, smiling a Stepford smile. "Would you like to buy a chance to win a new Blazer? It's only five dollars." Rich shook his head, moved away from the table. "Not today."
ref: 1993, Bentley Little, The Summoning, New York: Kensington Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 170:
glosses: Attractive but lacking any character.
Related terms: Deppford wife
Stepfordian
Stepford wife
mannerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mannerless
form: most mannerless
Etymology: From Middle English manerles, equivalent to manner + -less.
Senses: glosses: lacking good manners; impolite; ill-bred
glosses: clumsy; graceless
Synonyms: ill-mannered
unmannered
unmannerly
Derived terms: mannerlessly
mannerlessness
Messia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛsiə/
Etymology: From the Latin Messia, from messiō (“a reaping”).
Senses: glosses: The Roman goddess of reaping.
tost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.
ref: 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28:
glosses: simple past and past participle of toss
Derived terms: tempest-tost
tost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tosts
Senses: examples: text: Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 52, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of toast.
Boxing Day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒksɪŋ deɪ/
ipa: /ˈbɑːksɪŋ deɪ/
Forms: form: Boxing Days
Etymology: Perhaps because of boxes that were placed outside churches to collect special offerings tied to St. Stephen's Day; or because of the old British custom of tradesmen collecting “Christmas boxes” of money or presents on the first weekday after Christmas as thanks for good service, mentioned by the English diarist Samuel Pepys (1633–1703).
Senses: examples: text: There are plenty of discounted Christmas items in the Boxing Day sale.
text: Boxing-day in the London streets, and especially a wet Boxing-day, can scarcely fail to afford us some tableaux vivants illustrative of English metropolitan life. […] Christmas-eve of the year about which I write was bright and springlike; Christmas-day dismal, dark, and un-Christmas-like; but Boxing-day that year was essentially muggy, sloppy, drizzly, and nasty.
ref: 1875, Charles Maurice Davies, “Boxing-day on the Streets”, in Mystic London, or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis, London: Tinsley, →OCLC:
text: On Boxing day, December 26th, 1902, the sixth grand annual pantomime, "Jack & the beanstalk"
ref: [1902], On Boxing Day, December 26th, 1902, the Sixth Grand Annual Pantomime, “Jack & the Beanstalk”: With which is Incorporated the Patriotic Legend, “St. George and the Dragon.” (pantomime programme), Kingston upon Thames, London: [Royal County Theatre], →OCLC, title page:
text: Think about all those Boxing Day sales, then sit back and relish in the fact that you have enough and that you don't give a shit.
ref: 2015 January 5, Steven J. Bennett, “Rule #12: Boxing Day”, in 365 Rules of the New World: If We Had a Chance to Do It All Over Again, Would We Do It Right?, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 483:
text: Boxing Day is celebrated on December 26 each year and is a national holiday in the UK. […] Boxing Day is a time to spend with family or friends, particularly those not seen on Christmas Day itself. It is also a day to eat left over turkey. […] Boxing Day is also a time when the Brits show their eccentricity by taking part in all kinds of bizarre traditions including swimming the icy cold English Channel, or running into the sea, fun runs and charity events. December 26 is a big day for sales too. Dramatic price reductions lure out millions of shoppers who even queue for hours before the shops open.
ref: 2016 December 22, Chloe Kerr, “More turkey! Where does Boxing Day get its name, what are its origins and how is it celebrated?”, in The Sun, London:
glosses: The day after Christmas; the 26th of December.
wikipedia: Mynors Bright
Samuel Pepys
Derived terms: boxing day
boxing week
Related terms: Christmas Day
Christmas Eve
Proclamation Day
St. Stephen’s Day
interne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internes
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of intern.
interne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: internes
form: interning
form: interned
form: interned
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of intern.
melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of melon
melons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛlənz/
Senses: glosses: A woman's breasts.
snow line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow lines
form: snow-line
Senses: synonyms: snow level
coordinate_terms: tree line
glosses: The altitude, in a mountainous region, above which the ground is covered with snow, at any particular time.
examples: text: Chris Ormel, an astronomer at the University of Amsterdam, and his colleagues recently calculated that protoplanets began to form at the snow line around the star, then grew quickly by accreting pebbles.
ref: 2018 April 26, Alexandra Witze, “Earth May Have Been Formed by a Bunch of Tiny Space Pebbles”, in The Atlantic:
topics: astrophysics
synonyms: frost line
glosses: The inner limit where volatile molecules can remain frozen in the zone around a star.
topics: astrophysics
glosses: The limit for water remaining solid instead of evaporating away under solar radiation.
Derived terms: water snow line
carbon monoxide snow line
Related terms: habitable zone
Venus zone
snowblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowblades
form: snow-blade
form: snow blade
Etymology: From snow + blade, modelled on rollerblade.
Senses: glosses: A short version of a ski.
Synonyms: mini-ski
miniski
mini ski
ski-blade
skiblade
ski blade
ski-board
skiboard
ski board
mini-board
miniboard
mini board
snow skates
ski shoes
snowblade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snowblades
form: snowblading
form: snowbladed
form: snowbladed
Etymology: From snow + blade, modelled on rollerblade.
Senses: glosses: To travel by snowblade.
Derived terms: snowblader
snow blader
snow-blader
snow train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow trains
Senses: glosses: A train service, running only during a winter sports season, that carries skiers and other tourists to and from a resort.
snowboot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowboots
form: snow boot
form: snow-boot
Etymology: From snow + boot.
Senses: glosses: A water-resistant type of footwear with extra insulation or lining.
Related terms: snowboard boot
ski boot
snowless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From snow + -less.
Senses: examples: text: As the dogs were hooked up to the gangline linking them to the A.T.V. on a snowless day, the cacophony of barking built as the animals pulled at the harness to get going.
ref: 2008 February 16, Rebecca Santana, “Training for Alaska, in New Jersey”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Without snow, not having any snow.
snow cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow covers
form: snowcover
Senses: glosses: The amount of snow on a mountain; the depth of snow that has fallen
glosses: A covering of snow
snow chain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow chains
Senses: glosses: A chain put on a wheel of a vehicle to give it more traction
sharecropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sharecroppers
Senses: glosses: A person who enters a sharecropping agreement with a land owner; one who sharecrops.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A fiction book set in a fictional universe created by a different author, typically produced under licence.
warning track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warning tracks
Senses: examples: text: Fly ball to deep center. Shelby goes back and makes the catch on the warning track.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
softball
sports
glosses: The dirt or other material on the edge of a baseball or softball field that warns a player that he or she is approaching the fence, especially the portion in the outfield.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A non-racing surface at the margin of a racing course, representing the edge of the race track.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
coordinate_terms: rumble strip
shoulder
glosses: A non-driving surface at the edge of a road, with a different surfacing warning drivers of the approach to the edge of the road, as part of the shoulder of a road.
tertile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tertiles
form: tercile
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Either of the two points that divide an ordered distribution into three parts, each containing a third of the population.
examples: text: The first tertile results include January through April's revenues.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any one of the three groups so divided.
Hypernyms: quantile
Coordinate terms: median (2-quantile)
tercile
tertile
quartile
quintile
sextile
septile
octile
decile
hexadecile
ventile
vigintile
centile
percentile (100)
millile (1000)
round-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from round off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of roundoff.
redeal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redeals
form: redealing
form: redealt
form: redealt
Etymology: From re- + deal.
Senses: examples: text: We had to redeal because a mistake was made.
glosses: To deal playing cards again.
redeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redeals
Etymology: From re- + deal.
Senses: glosses: The act of dealing playing cards again.