cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
emanata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin ēmānāre, "to flow out,". ēmānāre is the present active infinitive of ēmānō "flow out, ēmānō is derived from the Latin ex- (prefix meaning "out, away") + mānō (verb meaning "to give out; to flow").
Senses: examples: text: Now that we have our characters, there's a lot more we can do with them to show what's going on inside them. Those of you who believe in mental telepathy should not be at all surprised at the things cartoonists have emanating from their characters.
ref: 1980, Mort Walker, The lexicon of comicana, Emanata, page 28:
text: Emanata can come from things as well as people to show what's going on.
ref: 1980, Mort Walker, The lexicon of comicana, Emanata, page 29:
topics: comics
literature
media
publishing
glosses: Unrealistic pictorial elements emanating from a character, symbolizing something about that character, such as a sweatdrop for anxiety or a question mark for confusion, or emanating from an object, such as heat rays from the sun.
butt-ugly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more butt-ugly
form: most butt-ugly
form: butt ugly
form: buttugly
Senses: glosses: Extremely ugly.
tutela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tutelas
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A constitutional process in Colombia by which an individual can seek immediate protection of his/her rights when those are being violated.
packet sniffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packet sniffers
Senses: glosses: Software designed for checking packets of data transferred over the Internet.
User Datagram Protocol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the User Datagram Protocol
Senses: examples: text: This User Datagram Protocol (UDP) is defined to make available a datagram mode of packet-switched computer communication in the environment of an interconnected set of computer networks.
ref: 1980 August 28, Jon Postel, “User Datagram Protocol”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 768:
synonyms: UDP
glosses: A communications protocol that has no error recovery features, and is mostly used to stream material over the Internet.
incidental expense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incidental expenses
Senses: examples: text: His incidental expenses are high, but he gets the job done.
glosses: A minor expense incurred in the course of an activity.
Synonyms: incidental
liaised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of liaise
liaising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːˈeɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of liaise
liaises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of liaise
circular argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular arguments
form: circular logic
Senses: glosses: A term often conflated with begging the question in philosophy.
examples: text: A logically circular argument’s conclusion is included as one of its premises.
ref: 2004 Nov, M Bergmann, “Epistemic Circularity: Malignant and Benign.”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 69, number 3, p. 710 n3:
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An argument which commits the logical fallacy of assuming what it is attempting to prove.
Synonyms: word: circular reasoning
topics: logic
mathematics
philosophy
human-sciences
sciences
word: begging the question
word: petitio principii
Hypernyms: argument
Related terms: epistemic circularity
abbozzi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abbozzo
metacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a metacenter.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a chromosome: having the centromere approximately in the middle, such that the two arms are of similar length.
Derived terms: metacentric height
metacentricity
metacentric stability
submetacentric
metacentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metacentrics
Etymology: From meta- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: A metacentric chromosome.
put a lid on it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts a lid on it
form: putting a lid on it
form: put a lid on it
form: put a lid on it
Senses: examples: text: Oh, put a lid on it already! I heard you the first fourteen times.
glosses: To be quiet; to shut up; to stop talking about something or making noise.
aborti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abortus.
filing cabinet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filing cabinets
Senses: examples: text: [...] adjacent is a clerk's room, with filing cabinets.
ref: 1960 December, “New G.E. diesel loco maintenance depot at Stratford”, in Trains Illustrated, page 767:
glosses: A piece of office furniture composed of drawers or shelves sized to standard file folder widths, traditionally used for storing documents in order.
Synonyms: word: file cabinet
word: file
Derived terms: circular filing cabinet
modal scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modal scales
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tonal scale used in most forms of Western music.
Hyponyms: Ionian mode
Dorian mode
Phrygian mode
Lydian mode
Mixolydian mode
Aeolian mode
Locrian mode
dealbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dealbreakers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deal breaker.
memeplex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːm.plɛks/
Forms: form: memeplexes
Etymology: Blend of meme + complex.
Senses: examples: text: “Whenever you have tribes, you have shamans. So in a sense, you can see those same aggressive spokesmen for Pepe end up being that tribal shaman. Enough people will gather around their teachings, and carry them forward offline. Our empathetic connections with other people get completely overwritten by the sort of "memeplex" that's overwriting our world.”
ref: 2021 August 15, Hayley Garrigus, 38:30 from the start, in You Can't Kill Meme, spoken by self (Hayley Garrigus):
glosses: A set of memes which interact to reinforce each other.
rightfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪtfəli/
rhymes: -aɪtfəli
Forms: form: more rightfully
form: most rightfully
Etymology: From Middle English ryghtefully, equivalent to rightful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: fairly
text: [T]he only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
ref: 1859, John Stuart Mill, “Introductory”, in On Liberty, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, […], →OCLC, page 22:
synonyms: justly
antonyms: unrightfully
wrongfully
wrongly
glosses: In accordance with what is right or just.
examples: text: Ne euer will it [King Arthur's sword] breake, ne euer bend. / Wherefore Morddure it rightfully is hight.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 21, page 296:
synonyms: accurately
truly
antonyms: inaccurately
incorrectly
falsely
wrongly
glosses: Rightly, correctly.
Related terms: arightly
damn right
righteously
rightly
rightly so
serve someone right
-grave
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Old Saxon grēve, typically used in translations of feudal German titles ending in German Graf (“count”), from Proto-West Germanic *garāfijō.
Senses: glosses: Used to signify a local ruler or administrator.
tamperer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamperers
Etymology: From tamper + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who tampers.
tamperers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tamperer
taskmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taskmistresses
Etymology: From task + mistress.
Senses: examples: text: Not only under the laſh of my taſk-miſtreſs, but the drudge of the maid, apprentices and children, I never had a taſte of human kindneſs to ſoften the rigour of perpetual labour.
ref: 1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter V, page 87:
glosses: A woman who assigns tasks; a female overseer.
taskmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taskmistress
tasseled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tasseled
form: most tasseled
form: tasselled
Etymology: From tassel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having tassels.
tasseled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tasselled
Etymology: From tassel + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tassel
ghost band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ghost bands
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: Any spurious results clustered together, outside of normal expected ranges (as in a plot of recorded energy values, with an inexplicable blot, marring the clean expected results).
examples: text: Ghost bands are a common problem in western blot analysis.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large band or stripe that appears on a developed gel as a wide halo with no specific, distinguishable signal.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
glosses: Impersonators of a well-known musical band hired to perform while the real band members are elsewhere.
empanelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of empanel
empanel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpænəl/
Forms: form: empanels
form: empaneling
form: empanelling
form: empaneled
form: empaneled
form: empanelled
form: empanelled
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.
Senses: examples: text: President Biden lent validity to the debate, if not to the idea [of expanding the Supreme Court] itself, by empaneling a commission to examine court expansion and other possible reforms such as term limits for justices.
ref: 2021, Michael Hiltzik, Column: The idea of expanding the Supreme Court to blunt its right-wing bias gains traction, in: The Los Angeles Times, December 17 2021
glosses: Alternative spelling of impanel.
empanel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpænəl/
Forms: form: empanels
Etymology: The verb is from Middle English empanellen, from Anglo-Norman and Old French empaneller.
Senses: examples: text: When the Maior of the Citie, the two Dukes, and the two chiefe Juſtices, were ſet in Guyldhall for the performance of their commiſſion, and began to call the empanels for the enquirie, as the vſe and other is, diuers light witted, and leſſe brayned perſons of the citie, priuely armed them, and by the ringing of Bow bell, thought to aſſemble together a great multitude of their minde and opinion, and ſo by force and might to take from the kepers all ſuch priſoners, as were before apprehended, for the late committed robbery and riot, as they were goyng to their triall or arreignment.
ref: 1569, Richard Grafton, “Henrye the Sixt”, in A Chronicle at Large and Meere History of the Affayres of Englande […], volume II, London: […] Henry Denham, […], for Richarde Tottle and Humffrey Toye, →OCLC, page 630:
topics: law
glosses: A list of jurors; a panel.
impanel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impanels
form: impaneling
form: impanelling
form: impaneled
form: impaneled
form: impanelled
form: impanelled
form: empanel
form: empannel
form: impannel
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman empaneller.
Senses: examples: text: To 'cide this title is impannelled / A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart; / And by their verdict is determined / The clear eye's moiety, and the dear heart's part
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 46”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
text: Therefore a Jurie was impaneld streight / T'enquire of them, whether by force, or sleight, / Or their owne guilt, they were away conveyd?
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: We are often driven to empanell and select a jury of twelve men out of a whole countrie to determine of an acre of land[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: ...placed him under the decent and disagreeable necessity of returning at once, before a bet was decided, whether his own cook, or that of Lord Montagle's, would prepare a single dish to the greatest perfection. The jury of taste had been impanelled, and here was he summoned away ten minutes before the dishes came up.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Request Refused”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 295:
text: In the courtroom itself they were empaneling a jury.
ref: 1968, Charles Portis, True Grit:
glosses: To enrol (jurors), e.g. from a jury pool; to register (the names of jurors) on a "panel" or official list.
Derived terms: impanelment
columelloplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: columelloplasties
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A suture technique to correct caudal septal cartilage dislocation.
septal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.təl/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From septum + -al.
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a septum.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Separating compartments in a burial chamber.
raw_tags: of a stone or slab
Derived terms: aliseptal
anteroseptal
aortoseptal
corticoseptal
episeptal
hippocamposeptal
hyposeptal
interseptal
intraseptal
medioseptal
midseptal
multiseptal
nasoseptal
nonseptal
pallidoseptal
paraseptal
periseptal
preseptal
septally
transseptal
valvuloseptal
septal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛp.təl/
ipa: /ˈsɛp.tl̩/
rhymes: -ɛptəl
Etymology: From sept + -al.
Senses: examples: text: […] and in Ireland it so happened, that these four families emerged victorious out of the septal struggles.
ref: 1878, Standish James O'Grady, History of Ireland: The Heroic Period, volume 1, page 46:
glosses: Relating to an Irish clan or sept.
adaptogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adaptogens
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian адаптоген (adaptogen), coined by Soviet toxicologist and pharmacologist Nikolai Lazarev, equivalent to adapt + -o- + -gen.
Senses: examples: text: As members sipped from their glasses, Joey Rubin, a leader of the group’s Los Angeles chapter, explained that the drink contained adaptogens, herbs said to increase focus and stimulate creativity.
ref: 2022 March 2, Erin Woo, Kevin Roose, “This Social Club Runs On Crypto Tokens and Vibes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any natural herbal substance, such as ginseng, that is purported to assist the body to adapt to stress, and to exert a normalizing effect upon body functions.
Derived terms: adaptogenic
sunflowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌnˌflaʊ.ɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of sunflower
soliloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soliloquy
soliloquies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of soliloquy
luculent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more luculent
form: most luculent
Etymology: From Latin lūculentus, from lūx (“light”).
Senses: glosses: Shining, brilliant.
examples: text: Cleombrotus Ambraciotes persuaded I know not how many hundreds of his auditors, by a luculent oration he made of the miseries of this, and happiness of that other life, to precipitate themselves […].
ref: , I.iv.1
glosses: Of language, speeches etc: lucid, brilliantly clear.
Derived terms: luculently
entitative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈen.tɪ.teɪ.tɪv/
ipa: /ˈen.tɪ.tə.tɪv/
Forms: form: more entitative
form: most entitative
Etymology: From entity + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Considered as pure entity, abstracted from all attendant circumstances.
Derived terms: entitatively
nonentitative
Related terms: entitativity
chubbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of chubby: more chubby
chubbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of chubby: most chubby
shambled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shamble
quins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quin
strutting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strut
strutting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struttings
Senses: examples: text: When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.
ref: 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145:
glosses: The act of one who struts.
columelloplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of columelloplasty
cri-de-coeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cri de coeur.
crew cuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crew cut
crewcuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crewcut
sad sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sad sacks
form: sadsack
Etymology: US 1920s. Popularized by Sad Sack, a cartoon character and eponymous comic strip published originally June 1942 in Yank, the Army Weekly, a US Army publication for soldiers, and later syndicated in the US 1940s and 1950s. Presumably from vulgar “sad sack of shit” as cartoonist Sgt. George Baker said he took it from a “longer phrase, of a derogatory nature”. The term originally referred to a well-meaning but inept soldier.
Senses: examples: text: One law enforcement official played down Mr. Defreitas’s ability to carry out an attack, calling him “a sad sack” and “not a Grade A terrorist.”
ref: 2007 June 3, Cara Buckley, William K. Rashbaum, “4 Men Accused of Plot to Blow Up Kennedy Airport Terminals and Fuel Lines”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2015:
glosses: An incompetent or inept person.
examples: text: “Super Sad” takes as its Romeo and Juliet, its Tristan and Iseult, a middle-aged sad sack named Lenny Abramov and a much younger beauty named Eunice Park.
ref: 2010 July 26, Michiko Kakutani, “Love Found Amid Ruins of Empire”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Weary of his drab life with its nowhere job, failed marriage, boring girlfriend, and estranged teenage son, a middle-aged sad sack fakes his death, changes his identity, and hits the road.
ref: 2013 April 27, “Movie capsules: Arthur Newman”, in Boston Globe, retrieved 05 Apr 2015:
text: We meet him as he's on his way out, taking the news with equal parts tantrum and sad-sack acceptance.
ref: 2014 March 29, Zach Schonfeld, “Film Review: Jason Schwartzman Is Charmingly Inept in 7 Chinese Brothers”, in Newsweek, retrieved 05 Apr 2015:
text: So Samantha, the A.I. assistant with whom the sad-sack divorcé Theodore Twombly (Joaquin Phoenix) fell in love in “Her,” felt like a futuristic revelation.
ref: 2024 May 20, Alissa Wilkinson, “What We Lose When ChatGPT Sounds Like Scarlett Johansson”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: defeatist
loser
glosses: A perennial failure or victim of misfortune.
Related terms: sack of shit
shitbag
legalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: legalisations
Etymology: From legalise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of legalization.
Derived terms: relegalisation
cognisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cognisant
form: most cognisant
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cognizant.
Derived terms: precognisant
botulinum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin botulus (“sausage”).
Senses: glosses: An anaerobic soil bacterium, Clostridium botulinum, that secretes the toxin botulin
Derived terms: botulinum toxin
nonbotulinum
Related terms: Botox
botulin
botulism
dolerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒl.əˌɹaɪt/
ipa: /ˈdɑl.əˌɹaɪt/
Forms: form: dolerites
Etymology: From French dolérite, from Ancient Greek δολερός (dolerós, “deceitful, deceptive”), because it was easily confounded with diorite, + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: diabase
glosses: A type of fine-grained basaltic rock.
Derived terms: doleritic
gabbrodolerite
metadolerite
microdolerite
trachydolerite
diabase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪ.əˌbeɪs/
Forms: form: diabases
Etymology: From French diabase, from Ancient Greek διάβασις (diábasis).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fine-grained igneous rock composed mostly of pyroxene and feldspar.
Synonyms: dolerite
Derived terms: diabasic
polygonboden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from German Polygonboden.
Senses: glosses: polygonal patches of ground, found especially in frozen environments.
glosses: polygonal patches of natural vegetation
polygonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polygonial
form: most polygonial
Senses: glosses: polygonal
polygonial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polygonials
Senses: glosses: polygon
polygonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polygonic
form: most polygonic
Senses: glosses: polygonal
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from plants of the genus Polygonum
Derived terms: polygonic acid
polygonically
polygonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sesquiterpenoid acid, obtained from the water pepper plant, once used as a stimulant or diuretic
whities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whitey
Related terms: tighty whities
affetti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian affetti.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Human passion and feelings expressed through gesture.
hedge funds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedge fund
butthook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butthooks
Etymology: From butt + hook.
Senses: glosses: Attachment to the butt of a rifle that fits around the shoulder of the shooter.
Jalalabad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The capital city of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan.
numbnuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌmnʌts/
Forms: form: numbnuts
form: numbnutses
form: numb-nuts
form: numb nut
Etymology: From numb + nuts.
Senses: examples: text: Tell numbnuts over there to wake up and pay attention to his work.
text: What is your major malfunction, numbnuts? Didn't Mommy and Daddy show you enough attention when you were a child?
ref: 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket, spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (R. Lee Ermey):
glosses: A slow-witted, unresponsive, or inept person (usually male).
television channel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television channels
form: TV channel
Senses: glosses: A specific radio frequency or band of frequencies used for transmitting television.
glosses: A station or broadcaster using the band.
Related terms: television network
television station
notwithstanding clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notwithstanding clauses
Senses: examples: text: Secretary of State Lucien Bouchard is standing firm on his defence of Quebec's use of the constitutional "notwithstanding" clause to safeguard the French language in that province.
ref: 1989 January 12, Ross Howard, “Bouchard stands firm in defending Quebec on language move”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A4:
text: Literary critic William Empson identified seven kinds of ambiguity. Had he looked further, he might have discerned an eighth—Canada's constitutional debate, complete with notwithstanding clauses, devolutions and non-derogations, asymmetries and distinct identities.
ref: 1990, Keith Henderson, "Creative ambiguity" (Review of A Canadian Challenge by Christian Dufour), The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 15 Dec, p. C24
text: The struggle for gay rights took a historic leap forward yesterday with a landmark Supreme Court of Canada decision. . . . Alberta Premier Ralph Klein suggested his province might use the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to override any similar decision affecting Alberta.
ref: 1999 May 21, Kirk Makin, “Gay couples win rights”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, page A1:
topics: law
glosses: Section 33 of Part I (Charter of Rights and Freedoms) of the Canadian Constitution Act (1982), which permits the creation of laws without regard for certain constitutional rights. Specifically, under section 33 the federal and provincial governments may enact laws "notwithstanding" section 2 (Fundamental Freedoms) and sections 7 through 15 (Legal and Equality Rights) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Such laws may be in effect for up to five years and are renewable.
examples: text: The emergency legislation stopped short of leaving the convention and does not include “notwithstanding clauses” which would allow ministers to ignore the ECHR and other international treaties in the area of asylum.
ref: 2023, Rajeev Syal, “Sunak's bill aims to block UK human rights law to save Rwanda scheme”, in The Guardian, London:
topics: law
glosses: A clause within a legal instrument that occurs in spite of any other clause that forbids it.
amaretti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amaretto
ambiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambitus
biofriendly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biofriendly
form: most biofriendly
Etymology: From bio- + friendly.
Senses: examples: text: Billy made a biofriendly choice by recycling his aluminum cans.
glosses: Environmentally friendly.
Huaxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhwɑːˌʃiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 花溪 (Huāxī, “flower brook”).
Senses: glosses: A district of Guiyang, Guizhou, China. It is a scenic university town and cultural center.
glosses: A town in Huaning, Yuxi, Yunnan, China.
glosses: A town in Honyga, Meishan, Sichuan, China.
Synonyms: Hua-ch'i
Huaxi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhwɑːˌʃiː/
Etymology: Borrowed from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 華西 /华西 (Huàxī).
Senses: glosses: A town in Huayin, Weinan, Shaanxi, China.
full screen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: fullscreen
Senses: examples: text: Most computer games are played in full screen mode.
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of a window occupying all the available display surface of a screen.
fullscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From full + screen.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of full screen.
fullscreen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fullscreens
form: fullscreening
form: fullscreened
form: fullscreened
Etymology: From full + screen.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make a window occupy the entire screen.
yoicks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /jɔɪks/
rhymes: -ɔɪks
Forms: form: hoicks
form: yoick
Senses: glosses: A hunting cry used to urge hounds after a fox or other quarry.
fat-finger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡɚ/
Forms: form: fat-fingers
form: fat-fingering
form: fat-fingered
form: fat-fingered
form: fatfinger
form: fat finger
Etymology: See fat finger.
Senses: examples: text: Another Sprint employee speculated that someone might have fatfingered the keyboard.
ref: 1995 September 8, “US West software update disconnects online users”, in Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Minn.:
text: However the other day I fatfingered a web request and got a Charter Communications not found result page
ref: 2008 August 24, “DNS: Patched but not totally fixed”, in TechRepublic:
text: “Evidently, someone said they ‘fat-fingered’ a trade, meaning they accidentally put it in for billions instead of millions,” Snyder said.
ref: 2010 May 6, Jennie Runevitch, “Source of Stocks’ Plunge Investigated”, in WTHR, Indianapolis, Ind.:
text: In general, mobile form designs are "chunkier," using larger input boxes to make it easier to tap in the intended field, even if the user "fat-fingers" it. So make sure to add some extra padding to all your input fields, and also increase the font size a bit so it's not only more legible but also larger on the touchscreen.
ref: 2015, Jon J. Raasch, Graham Murray, Vadim Ogievetsky, Joseph Lowery, “Acquiring Data Interactively”, in JavaScript and jQuery for Data Analysis and Visualization, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (Working with JavaScript for Analysis), page 77:
text: Slowing down the number of login attempts before an IP address is blocked reduces the attractiveness of your site to an automatic attack script. Note that generally these offer temporary IP address blocking, so that valid users who accidentally fat finger their password have an opportunity to log in after the ban has expired.
ref: 2015, Brad Williams, David Damstra, Hal Stern, “Securing WordPress”, in Professional WordPress: Design and Development, 3rd edition, Indianapolis, Ind.: Wrox Press, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 371:
glosses: To type (something) erroneously on a keyboard, keypad, or touchscreen by accidentally pressing with a finger one or more keys other than the intended one.
Related terms: typo
fat-finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡə/
ipa: /ˈfæt ˈfɪŋɡɚ/
Forms: form: fat-fingers
Etymology: See fat finger.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fat finger.
raggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raggednesses
Etymology: From ragged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being ragged.
sluttishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sluttishnesses
Etymology: From Middle English sluttysshenes, slwttisnes, equivalent to sluttish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For my part I would rather counſell you to deſtroy your Rattes and Miſe with Traps, Banes, or Weeſels: for beſides the ſluttiſhneſſe ⁊ lothſomeneſſe of the Catte (you know what ſhe layes in the Malt heape) ſhe is moſt daungerous and pernicious among children, as I mee ſelf haue had good experience.
ref: 1577, Conradus Heresbachius [i.e., Konrad Heresbach], compiler, “The Third Booke, of Feeding, Breeding, and Curing of Cattell”, in Barnabe Googe, transl., Fovre Bookes of Husbandry, […]: Conteyning the Whole Arte and Trade of Husbandry, with the Antiquitie, and Commendation thereof. […], London: […] Richard Watkins, →OCLC, folio 156, verso:
text: Well, praiſed be the Gods, for thy foulneſſe; ſluttiſhneſſe may come heereafter.
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 III, scene iii], page 198, column 1:
text: I looked at the window, but it was all in vain ... I was not a bit the better for it! I even bethought me to send for Matrona, and was giving her some fatherly admonitions in regard to the spider’s web and sluttishness in general; but she simply stared at me in amazement and went away without saying a word, so that the spider's web is comfortably hanging in its place to this day.
ref: 1918, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Constance Garnett, White Nights (Constance Garnett translation), page 4:
glosses: The state or quality of being sluttish (dirty or untidy; disorderly).
examples: text: Before long, the wife begins to reveal her sluttishness and, by the time the play is over, she has arranged a satisfactory financial and sexual deal with her in-laws.
ref: 1971 May 19, George Oppenheimer, “Pinter’s homecoming”, in Newsday, volume 31, number 218, Garden City, N.Y.; Ronkonkoma, N.Y.: Newsday, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, part II, page 8 A:
text: Far more in demand among the Toughs than I, Rammelkamp was an object of gossip and curiosity among the other boys, who occasionally made fun of his name but not his sluttishness. We once compared notes on our sexual initiations, […]
ref: 2000, Gavin Lambert, “Old Times”, in Mainly About Lindsay Anderson, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 13:
text: She still felt attracted to him, but her desire for him had been outweighed by pangs of guilt about her uncharacteristic sluttishness. Yes, he was gorgeous, sexy, funny and interesting, but he was also a complete stranger and she just didn’t do that sort of thing.
ref: 2003, Jane Moore, “Saturday, 22 June, 2002, 11.55 p.m.”, in The Ex Files, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: The state or quality of being sluttish (like a slut; sexually promiscuous).
mesopredator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesopredators
Etymology: From meso- + predator.
Senses: examples: text: Raccoons, skunks, snakes, cats, and foxes are mesopredators.
text: Large predators are equally important as keystone species; their removal can allow predators in the next size class down to proliferate. This phenomenon, known as meso-predator release, can have a huge impact on ecosystems.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 227:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: A medium-sized predator which often increases in abundance when larger predators are eliminated.
Derived terms: mesopredatory
mesopredators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesopredator
pilcrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilcrow
fusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fuse
fusing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfjuːzɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːzɪŋ
Forms: form: fusings
Senses: examples: text: […] one of the peculiarities of the Tyrol costumes is the absence of patterns or fusings of tints, they shine out bright and distinct like the field flowers.
ref: 1867, Elizabeth Tuckett, Pictures in Tyrol and elsewhere, page 211:
glosses: Synonym of fusion.
synonyms: word: fusion
Leodensians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leodensian
organic electroluminescent display
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organic electroluminescent displays
Senses: glosses: A display using organic electroluminescent materials such as organic light-emitting diodes.
Synonyms: organic light-emitting diode display
OLED display
organic electroluminescent displays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of organic electroluminescent display
karyotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɹɪə(ʊ)taɪp/
Forms: form: karyotypes
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кариотип (kariotip), equivalent to karyo- + -type.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The observed characteristics (number, type, shape, etc) of the chromosomes of an individual or species.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A record of such characteristics, usually photographic.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of individuals or species that have the same chromosomal characteristics.
Derived terms: electrokaryotype
heterokaryotype
homokaryotype
karyotypic
protokaryotype
Related terms: karyogram
karyograph
karyotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaɹɪə(ʊ)taɪp/
Forms: form: karyotypes
form: karyotyping
form: karyotyped
form: karyotyped
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian кариотип (kariotip), equivalent to karyo- + -type.
Senses: glosses: To investigate or record such characteristics.
electroluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From electro- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: having the quality of electroluminescence
Derived terms: organic electroluminescent display
karyotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From karyotype + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: karyotypical
glosses: Of or pertaining to karyotypes.
Derived terms: heterokaryotypic
homokaryotypic
karyotypically
pass off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes off
form: passing off
form: passed off
form: passed off
Senses: examples: text: The millennium passed off without any disasters.
glosses: To happen.
examples: 2015. Off the Rim. Sonya Spreen Bates.
He turned and passed it off to number 23, who dribbled a couple of times and passed it to number 61.
glosses: To give something (to someone).
examples: text: I have had a few aches and pains lately and a little fever, but that's nothing; it will pass off.
ref: 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 55”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
text: I know, too, that ever since he lost his leg last voyage by that accursed whale, he’s been a kind of moody—desperate moody, and savage sometimes; but that will all pass off.
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: To abate, to cease gradually.
Related terms: pass off as
NYFM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of New York [City] Foreign Mail, specifically that of the period 1870 to 1879.
rictal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rictal
form: most rictal
Etymology: From rict(us) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Her head, wrenched back, was baring its teeth in a rictal gape.
ref: 2004, Andrea Levy, chapter 44, in Small Island, London: Review, page 413:
glosses: Possessing the qualities of a rictus.
co-exist
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-exists
form: co-existing
form: co-existed
form: co-existed
Senses: examples: text: Learning to co-exist with this new virus, and then to eventually defeat it, is sorely testing the character and determination of humanity as a whole.
ref: 2020 November 18, Mike Brown tells Paul Stephen, “I wasn't going to let the Mayor down”, in Rail, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of coexist.
coincided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coincide
colluded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collude
collocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of collocate
cognized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cognize
cohabited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cohabit
colonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colonised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colonize
colonised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: colonized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colonise
commemorated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commemorate
Derived terms: uncommemorated
combed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combed
form: most combed
Etymology: From Middle English combed, kombide, equivalent to comb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: combed hair
glosses: Arranged or groomed with a comb.
Derived terms: uncombed
combed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English combed, kombide, equivalent to comb + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comb
combed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more combed
form: most combed
Etymology: From comb + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: combed lizards
text: Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.
ref: 1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34:
glosses: Having a comb or crest
Derived terms: pea-combed
proportionated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proportionate
commerced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of commerce
competed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəmˈpiːtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compete
conned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒnd/
ipa: /kɑnd/
rhymes: -ɒnd
homophone: cond
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of con
glosses: simple past and past participle of conn
glosses: simple past and past participle of conne
conciliated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conciliate
concorded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of concord
straight-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of straight-arm
straight-arming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of straight-arm
straight-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straight-arm
straight arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of straight arm
straight arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: straight arms
form: straight arming
form: straight armed
form: straight armed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-arm.
straight arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of straight-arm.
straight arming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of straight arm
straight armed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of straight arm
conglomerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of conglomerate
Alhazen's problem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named for a tenth-century Arab mathematician Ibn al-Haytham, whose latinized name, Alhacen, may be rendered as Alhazen.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical problem in which lines drawn from two points in the plane of a circle must meet at a point on the circumference, making equal angles with the normal at that point.
congregated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of congregate
connived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: “I don't know how I would have gotten through this without you.” “Oh, the feeling is mutual. I've always schemed and connived alone. But as a duo, it is, as you might say, "totes ridic!"” “(gasps) I would say that.”
ref: 2023 October 12, Edgar Momplaisir, “A Few Badgeys More” (6:23 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 7, spoken by AGIMUS (Jeffrey Combs):
glosses: simple past and past participle of connive
down-and-out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of down and out.
down-and-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down-and-outs
Senses: examples: text: So they have trooped forth to organize village down-and-outs and ne'er-do-wells into would-be combat units.
ref: 1933, The Commonweal, volume 19, page 241:
glosses: Synonym of down-and-outer.
synonyms: word: down-and-outer
down-and-outer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: down-and-outers
form: down-and-out
form: down and out
Etymology: From down and out + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is down and out.
down-and-outers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of down-and-outer
consummated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of consummate
containerized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From containerize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of containerize
containerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From containerize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of containerised.
Derived terms: noncontainerized
elects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of elect
elects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elect
electing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of elect
contravened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of contravene
converged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of converge
convoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convoke
convoyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of convoy
cooked up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cook up
cooled down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cool down
specific phobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific phobias
Senses: glosses: Any morbid fear of specific objects or situations, such as fingers, injections, or darkness.
glassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Woman jailed for glassing Aussie singer wins appeal
ref: 2009 July 10, The Age:
glosses: present participle and gerund of glass
glassing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassings
Senses: examples: text: Bridgend on a Saturday night has its temporary inflatable hospitals for the stabbings and glassings.
ref: 2009 January 25, “Letters”, in The Observer:
text: A woman found guilty of a nightclub glassing which left an Australian singer's career in tatters has had her conviction overturned on appeal.
ref: 2009 July 10, The Age:
glosses: An act of glassing (stabbing with broken glass).
haet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: haets
form: haeting
form: haeted
form: haeted
Senses: glosses: Deliberate misspelling of hate.
ecological services
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecological service
paddlefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædəlˌfɪʃ/
Forms: form: paddlefishes
form: paddlefish
Etymology: From paddle + fish.
Senses: examples: text: Caviar comes from various species of sturgeons and paddlefishes.
ref: 1996 May 21, The Associated Press, “Test for Caviar Source”, in The New York Times:
text: A plucky, compact vendor of fish, Mr. Shuckman spent years peddling southern paddlefish roe from his seafood shop in Louisville, knocking on doors of fancy restaurants and country clubs, asking anyone who would listen, "Y'all want some caviar?"
ref: 2003 July 20, Jeffrey Gettleman, “Humble Paddlefish Fulfills Southerners' Caviar Dreams”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of several primitive fish, of the family Polyodontidae, that have a long snout shaped like a paddle.
Derived terms: American paddlefish
Chinese paddlefish
sturddlefish