cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spryness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnəs
Etymology: From spry + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being spry.
supranational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Etymology: From supra- + national.
Senses: examples: text: Global warming is a supranational problem.
text: The Systems Alliance is an independent supranational government representing the interests of humanity as a whole. The Alliance is responsible for the governance and defense of all extra-solar colonies and stations. […]
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Systems Alliance Codex entry:
text: If its Middle-earth series becomes must-see TV around the world, it would mean millions of new devoted subscribers in the Amazon Prime fellowship, collectively paying billions of dollars, lured by a fleet of dwarves, elves, and hobbits that would, one might say, rule their shopping behaviors and bind them to one supranational force.
ref: 2017 November 13, Derek Thompson, “Why Amazon Thinks You Want to Watch a ‘Lord of the Rings’ TV Show (or Five)”, in The Atlantic:
coordinate_terms: infranational
intranational
;
national
;
transnational#Adjective
;
international#Adjective
glosses: Beyond the borders or scope of any one nation.
Derived terms: supranationalism
supranationality
supranationally
supranational
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: supranationals
Etymology: From supra- + national.
Senses: examples: text: This segment of issuers is known as the supranationals, or supras. Together with regional and agency borrowers, the bonds issued by supranationals form a bond market segment known as SSA (supras, sub-sovereigns and agencies).
ref: 2021, Alexander During, Fixed Income Trading and Risk Management: The Complete Guide, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 147:
coordinate_terms: national#Noun
;
transnational#Noun
;
international#Noun
glosses: Such a person or organization.
actus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actus
form: acti
Etymology: From Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)
Meronyms: sense: units of area
word: juger
sense: units of area
word: jugerum (2 acti)
apoinducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apoinducers
Etymology: From apo- + inducer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein that binds to DNA to activate transcription, particularly in positive gene control mechanisms.
hermetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɚˈmɛt.ɪk(.ə)li/
ipa: [hɚˈmɛɾ.ɪk(.ə)li]
Forms: form: more hermetically
form: most hermetically
Etymology: From hermetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: a hermetically sealed jar
text: they hermetically seal the jars
glosses: In a hermetic way.
With a hermetic seal; so as to be airtight.
examples: text: living hermetically
text: Too often, this interchange of knowledge is thwarted, one way or another: the entropic leanings of the workplace foster hermetically isolated patterns of behavior.
ref: 2001, Timothy J. Lenz, James K. McDowell, “Knowledge management for the strategic design and manufacture of polymer composite products”, in Rajkumar Roy, editor, Industrial Knowledge Management: A Micro-Level Approach, →ISBN, page 379:
text: This was partly because of the fact that race issues were so contentious in the late 2010s, but anyone who thinks race wasn’t being discussed hotly in the late 1980s either wasn’t there or was living quite hermetically. The more important difference was social media, which propagates and even transforms terms more rapidly than broadcasting and print.
ref: 2025 February 20, John McWhorter, “How ‘Woke’ Became the ‘Woke Right’ (and Why It Shouldn’t Surprise Anyone)”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a hermetic way.
In an isolated manner.
synonyms: isolatedly
Derived terms: hermetically seal
hermetically sealed
Related terms: live under a rock
reconfirm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconfirms
form: reconfirming
form: reconfirmed
form: reconfirmed
Etymology: From re- + confirm.
Senses: glosses: To confirm again; to establish more firmly
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: To advise an airline of your intention to use a reservation, or risk cancellation.
Derived terms: reconfirmable
damsel in distress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdæm.zəl ɪn dɪˈstɹɛs/
Forms: form: damsels in distress
Etymology: Calque of French demoiselle en détresse, from the classic theme in many dramatic forms.
Senses: examples: text: I am not a pretty girl / That is not what I do / I ain't no damsel in distress / And I don't need to be rescued
ref: 1995, Ani DiFranco, “Not a Pretty Girl”, in Not a Pretty Girl:
text: The damsel-in-distress archetype probably conjures up images of delicate maidens and chivalrous gentlemen. That is precisely what it is designed to do — for white people.
ref: 2020 May 27, Ruby Hamad, “A White Damsel Leveraged Racial Power and Failed”, in New York Times:
glosses: A young woman perceived as being helpless in a dangerous situation and requiring rescue.
Derived terms: didcap
malingerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlɪŋɡəɹə/
Forms: form: malingerers
form: malingeror
Etymology: From malinger + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It is telling, in this context of rising rates of mental illness, that New Labour committed itself, early in its third term in government, to removing people from Incapacity Benefit, implying that many, if not most, claimants are malingerers.
ref: 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 5, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 37:
synonyms: word: goldbrick
word: one of his majesty's bad bargains
word: pseudopatient
glosses: A person who malingers.
Related terms: word: shirker
word: kengster
plainclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: plain-clothes
form: plain clothes
Senses: glosses: Wearing ordinary civilian clothes instead of a uniform, in order to avoid detection.
raw_tags: of a police officer
Derived terms: plainclothesman
plainclothes man
plainclothesperson
plainclotheswoman
plainclothes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain-clothes
form: plain clothes
Senses: glosses: Ordinary civilian clothes, rather than uniform.
Synonyms: word: mufti
allophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌal.əˈfɒn.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæl.əˈfɑ.nɪk/
ipa: /ˌæl.əˈfɔn.ɪk/
Forms: form: more allophonic
form: most allophonic
Etymology: From allophone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an allophone.
Derived terms: allophonically
Related terms: allophonics
corrector magnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrector magnets
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of several small bar magnets placed and adjusted within a ship's binnacle to correct for the effects of other magnetic influences in the ship.
Related terms: swinging the compass
overtone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvɚtoʊn/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.və.təʊn/
Forms: form: overtones
Etymology: From over- + tone, calque of German Oberton.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A tone whose frequency is an integer multiple of another; a member of the harmonic series.
examples: text: A window opened above the shop, and a frowsty-looking man, yellow-pale, was quickly and nervously hauling in the national flag. There were shouts of derision and mockery—a great overtone of acrid derision—the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.
ref: 1918–1921 (date written), D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “XX Settembre”, in Aaron’s Rod, New York, N.Y.: Thomas Seltzer, published April 1922, →OCLC, page 215:
text: The lawyer and twice-divorced mother of three [Marine Le Pen] had presented herself as the modern face of her party, trying to strip it of unsavoury overtones after her father's [Jean-Marie Le Pen's] convictions for saying the Nazi occupation of France was not "particularly inhumane".
ref: 2012 April 23, Angelique Chrisafis, “François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC:
antonyms: undertone
glosses: An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion, or similar) perceived as overwhelming the explicit message.
examples: text: It has already been established that the crew was competent and qualified for operation of AS66. With the exception of some overtones of irritation about the manner in which another aircraft, N799Y, affected the flight's progress into the Juneau area, the recorded cockpit conversation, in general, reflects a relaxed but businesslike atmosphere.
ref: 1972 October 13, National Transportation Safety Board, “2.1 Analysis”, in Aircraft Accident Report: Alaska Airlines, Inc., Boeing 727, N2969G, Near Juneau, Alaska, September 4, 1971, archived from the original on 31 Aug 2024, page 31:
synonyms: undertone
undercurrent
glosses: An implicit message (in a film, book, verbal discussion, or similar) perceived subtly alongside, but not overwhelming, the explicit message.
Derived terms: overtone singing
overtone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvɚtoʊn/
ipa: /ˈəʊ.və.təʊn/
Forms: form: overtones
form: overtoning
form: overtoned
form: overtoned
Etymology: From over- + tone, calque of German Oberton.
Senses: examples: text: The flesh tints appear to have been darkened by being overworked; the draperies are overtoned in the same way […]
ref: 1860, The Art Journal, page 39:
text: The background is now rendered by using meadow green with a stick pastel around the lower area under the lynx in an irregular fashion, and overtoning the areas closer to the animal with an irregular application of leaf green color.
ref: 1977, Sol Dember, Steven A. Dember, Jeffrey H. Dember, Drawing & painting the world of animals, page 55:
text: Can you imagine, finally, the opening of Janácek's Sinfonietta, with its richly overtoned, overlapping fanfares, performed not by brass but by a consort of oboes—even very loud ones?
ref: 2011, Jerrold Levinson, Music, Art, and Metaphysics:
glosses: To give an overtone to.
Bukarest
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: 22nd/Oct. 5th, 1916, at Bukarest. "Mr. Andrews and I," states the Prefect of Police in his first procès-verbal of the same date, "accompanied one another at 11 a.m. to the premises of the German Legation at Bukarest,
ref: 1917, Microbe-culture at Bukarest: Discoveries at the German Legation, page 5:
text: In fact, it was only last October that the first aeroplane of the "Franco-Romane Aerial Transport Company" made its first flight from Paris to Bukarest. The line Bukarest-Paris-Constantinople is going to be operated regularly this year.
ref: 1922, Aerial Age, page 133:
text: The general, in a confident mood because of recent military events, now called for an end to the pussyfooting policy being pursued with Bukarest.
ref: 2015, Gerard E. Silberstein, The Troubled Alliance: German-Austrian Relations, 1914--1917, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN, page 226:
glosses: Alternative form of Bucharest, the capital city of Romania.
abstract verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstract verbs
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: indeterminate verb
indefinite verb
potential verb
antonyms: concrete verb
definite verb
determinate verb
glosses: Of Slavic languages, a verb of motion whose motion is multidirectional (as opposed to unidirectional) or indirect, or whose action is repeated or in a series (iterative), instead of being a single completed action; always imperfective in aspect, even with prefixes that are normally associated with the perfective aspect (eg. Polish przybiegać).
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see abstract, verb.
abstract verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract verb
John Law
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A personification of law enforcement; a police officer.
Synonyms: police officer
statie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staties
form: Statie
Etymology: From state + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Alan supposed the Staties would arrest him if they ran across him while they pursued other lines of investigation, but otherwise, no. They had more important things to do.
ref: 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: A state trooper.
staties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statie
renaissance man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renaissance men
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Renaissance man.
renaissance men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renaissance man
bukkake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /buˈkɑː.ki/
ipa: /buˈkæ.ki/
ipa: /buˈkɑː.keɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːki
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: bukake
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 打(ぶ)っ掛(か)け (bukkake, “bukkake”, literally “act of splashing”), from the verb 打(ぶ)っ掛(か)ける (bukkakeru, “to splash (with a liquid) rudely”), from 打(ぶ)つ (butsu, “to hit”) + 掛(か)ける (kakeru, “to pour”).
Senses: glosses: A method of pouring broth over cold noodles, commonly udon.
examples: text: When the phone on his desk buzzed with a rude chirp, Brian Babylon picked up the receiver in one smooth movement as he continued browsing the Internet for fresh Bukkake web sites.
ref: 2004 January 24, Baghdad Billion: A Benton Run Adventure by Clifford J. Farides:
text: Tuesdays she drives to a warehouse across town to star in bukkake videos. Seventy-five men cum on her face and in her hair during a shoot.
ref: 2005 March 24, Lance Olsen, 10: 01, page 74:
text: This was a role she was well acquainted with, but it had changed and she longed for the simple days not long ago, terse formalized meetings she watched in a cage suspended from the ceiling, ending with ritual bukkake.
ref: 2005 April 24, Kevin Dole 2, Tangerinephant, page 58:
text: When a friend tells me she's going to get a facial, I immediately think bukkake.
ref: 2005 October 24, Carly Milne, Naked Ambition: Women Who Are Changing Pornography, page 7:
glosses: A sex act in which multiple people ejaculate on another person.
bukkake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /buˈkɑː.ki/
ipa: /buˈkæ.ki/
ipa: /buˈkɑː.keɪ/
rhymes: -ɑːki
rhymes: -æki
Forms: form: bukkakes
form: bukkakeing
form: bukkaked
form: bukkaked
form: bukake
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 打(ぶ)っ掛(か)け (bukkake, “bukkake”, literally “act of splashing”), from the verb 打(ぶ)っ掛(か)ける (bukkakeru, “to splash (with a liquid) rudely”), from 打(ぶ)つ (butsu, “to hit”) + 掛(か)ける (kakeru, “to pour”).
Senses: examples: text: Finally I would take her to an RIT Star Trek club meeting where I would let the masses of geeks bukkake her. She would then roll around in the mess they made as I videotaped it.
ref: 2001 November 27, Bean Fried Pork, “(Off Topic) Finally saw Phantom Menace (w. Spoiler)”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet):
glosses: To ejaculate on (one person).
raw_tags: of multiple people
sino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Sinus.
sino-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Sino- (“China”).
Russo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /ˈɹuːsoʊ/
/ˈɹʌsoʊ/
Etymology: Clipping of Russia + -o-.
Senses: glosses: combining form of Russian
formant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)mənt/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)mənt
Forms: form: formants
Etymology: Borrowed from German Formant, from Latin fōrmāns (“shaping; forming; fashioning”), present participle of fōrmō (“to shape; to form; to fashion”). Doublet of formans.
Senses: examples: text: The resonances of the vocal tract are called formants. Trying to hear the separate formants in a vowel is difficult. We are so used to a vowel being a single meaningful entity that it is difficult to consider it as a sound with separable bits. But it is possible to say vowels so that some of their component parts are more obvious.
ref: 2012, Peter Ladefoged, Sandra Ferrari Disner, Vowels and Consonants, Kindle edition, New York: Wiley, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
natural-sciences
phonetics
phonology
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A band of frequencies, in a sound spectrum, that have a greater intensity; they determine the quality of a sound; especially the characteristic sounds of the consonants.
topics: human-sciences
linguistic-morphology
linguistics
morphology
sciences
glosses: Synonym of formative (“language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function”).
synonyms: word: formative
extra: language unit, typically a morph, that has a morphological function
deep pile carpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deep pile carpets
form: deep-pile carpet
Senses: glosses: A carpet having relatively long fibres; typically used in bedrooms or rooms that get light wear.
Ozark
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊzɑː(ɹ)k/
Etymology: From French aux arcs (literally “at the arches”), in reference to natural bridge formations in the area, or aux Arcs, a clipping of aux Arcansas (“among the Arkansas”), i.e. the Quapaw people.
Senses: glosses: A small city, the county seat of Dale County, Alabama, United States.
glosses: A city in Arkansas, United States and one of the two county seats of Franklin County.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Christian County, Missouri, United States.
Derived terms: Ozark bass
Ozark cavefish
Ozark County
Ozarker
Ozark Highlands
Ozarkian
Ozarkite
Ozark Mountains
Ozark Plateau
Ozarks
Ozark sundrops
Ozark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊzɑː(ɹ)k/
Forms: form: Ozarks
Etymology: From French aux arcs (literally “at the arches”), in reference to natural bridge formations in the area, or aux Arcs, a clipping of aux Arcansas (“among the Arkansas”), i.e. the Quapaw people.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of Ozark with a distinct culture, architecture, and dialect.
payola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪˈoʊlə/
ipa: /peɪˈəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: payolas
Etymology: Perhaps a blend of pay + Victrola, equivalent to pay + -ola.
Senses: glosses: A bribe given in exchange for a favor, such as one given in exchange for the promotion of goods or services (originally one given to a disk jockey to play a record).
Related terms: pay to play
c-note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c-notes
form: c note
Etymology: (banknote): From the Roman numeral C (“100”) (which was printed on it) + note. Attested from the 1920s.
Senses: examples: text: If he ran now, leaving Zygmunt to forfeit the hundred, he'd have to stay on the run. It would be the super's c-note Zygmunt had put up, he wouldn't be able to go back to work on Division Street till he'd squared that hundred.
ref: 1949, Nelson Algren, The Man with the Golden Arm:
synonyms: Benjamin
glosses: A one-hundred dollar ($100) banknote.
Related terms: d-note
c-notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of c-note
Multilith
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From multi- + -lith (originally a commercial product).
Senses: glosses: A small printing machine, rather like a letterpress, that uses a form of lithography
Related terms: multilithed
seism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪzəm/
ipa: /ˈsaɪsəm/
Forms: form: seisms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σεισμός (seismós, “shaking; earthquake”).
Senses: glosses: A shaking of the Earth's surface; an earthquake or tremor.
Related terms: seismo-
red cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red card
rafflesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹəˈfliː.ʒə/
ipa: /ɹəˈfliː.ʒɪ.ə/
ipa: /ɹəˈfliː.zɪ.ə/
ipa: /ɹəˈfli.ʒə/
ipa: /ɹəˈfli.ʒi.ə/
ipa: /ɹəˈfli.zi.ə/
Forms: form: rafflesias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Rafflesia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several large parasitic plants, of the genus Rafflesia, from South East Asia, that have no roots, stems or leaves; Rafflesia arnoldii has the largest known flower with a diameter of over a yard.
green card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green cards
Etymology: The work permit from the historical greenish color (first used in 1946), the bank card from its green design, made to resemble US dollar bills.
Senses: glosses: A US work permit, officially known as United States Permanent Resident Card.
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A warning card, given to a player for an infraction of the rules. A further infraction may warrant a yellow card or red card.
topics: banking
business
glosses: A chargecard launched by American Express in 1969.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see green, card.
Derived terms: blue card
green carder
green card marriage
Related terms: blue card
LPR
green cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green card
rafflesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rafflesia
proteasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteasomes
form: proteosome
Etymology: From protease + -some.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: prosome
glosses: A complex protein, found in bacterial, archeal and eukaryotic cells, that breaks down other proteins via proteolysis.
Derived terms: immunoproteasome
proteasomal
proteasomic
spermatoproteasome
huswife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huswifes
form: huswives
Senses: examples: text: Then hadſt thou had an excellent head of haire. […] Excellent, it hangs like flax on a diſtaffe: & I hope to ſee a huſwife take thee between her legs, & ſpin it off.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 256:
text: He cals her on a ſudden, all to naught; ſhe is a ſtrumpet, a light huswife, a bitch, an arrant whore.
ref: 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Symptomes of Iealousie, Fear, Sorrow, Suspition, Strange Actions, Gestures, Outrages, Locking Up, Oathes, Trials, Lawes, &c.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 3, member 2, subsection 1, page 610:
text: And for my part, I was all in a fright for fear your sister should ask us for the huswifes she had gave us a day or two before; but however, nothing was said about them, and I took care to keep mine out of sight.
ref: 1811, [Jane Austen], chapter II, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Obsolete form of housewife.
Derived terms: huswifely
huswifery
huswife
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: huswifes
form: huswifing
form: huswifed
form: huswifed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of housewive.
archeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to organisms of the kingdom Archaea.
diplodocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈplɒdəkəs/
ipa: /dɪˈplɒdəkəs/
Forms: form: diplodocuses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διπλόος (diplóos, “double”) and δοκός (dokós, “beam”).
Senses: glosses: Any of several herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs, of the genus Diplodocus, known as fossils from the late Jurassic in North America.
aneuploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænjʊplɔɪ̯di/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njəplɔjdi/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njyplɔjdi/
ipa: /ˈænjəplɔjdi/
Forms: form: aneuploidies
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of being aneuploid; the state of possessing a chromosome number that is not an exact multiple of the haploid number of the organism in question.
Derived terms: hypoaneuploidy
Pallister mosaic aneuploidy syndrome
Related terms: aneuploid
aneuploidic
aneuploidogen
aneuploidogenic
cheese crisp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese crisps
Senses: glosses: A snack made by putting cheese on a tortilla and baking.
aneuploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænjʊplɔɪ̯d/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njəplɔjd/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njyplɔjd/
ipa: /ˈænjəplɔjd/
Etymology: From an- + euploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a number of chromosomes that is not a multiple of the haploid number.
Derived terms: aneuploidic
nonaneuploid
aneuploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænjʊplɔɪ̯d/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njəplɔjd/
ipa: /ˈæ̞njyplɔjd/
ipa: /ˈænjəplɔjd/
Forms: form: aneuploids
Etymology: From an- + euploid.
Senses: glosses: A cell or an organism having such a number of chromosomes.
Related terms: aneuploidization
aneuploidy
ploidy
ploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɔɪdi/
Forms: form: ploidies
Etymology: From the ending of words such as haploidy, polyploidy etc.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of homologous sets of chromosomes in a cell.
Derived terms: euploidy
hypoploidy
interploidy
intraploidy
multiploidy
ploidyless
spread-eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spread-eagle
form: most spread-eagle
Etymology: From splayed-eagle (in heraldry), splayed + eagle.
Senses: glosses: Lying with arms and legs outstretched and separated.
examples: a spread-eagle orator
a spread-eagle speech
glosses: Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; bombastic.
Derived terms: spreadeagleism
spread-eagle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spread-eagles
form: spread-eagling
form: spread-eagled
form: spread-eagled
Etymology: From splayed-eagle (in heraldry), splayed + eagle.
Senses: glosses: To put into a spread-eagle position, with arms and legs extended and spread.
glosses: To put one's body in a spread eagle.
sportswriter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sportswriters
Etymology: From sports + writer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sports writer (journalist who specializes in sports).
sportswriters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sportswriter
sportiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sporty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This, it seems to me, is the essential for marriage happiness, rather than the matching up of trait with trait, bookiness with bookiness, sportiness with sportiness, as Cinderella's Prince matched foot with slipper.
ref: 1952, Frances Bruce Strain, Love at the Threshold, page 178:
glosses: The property of being sporty.
spadeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspeɪdful/
Forms: form: spadefuls
form: spadesful
Etymology: From spade + -ful.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: shovelful (broadly synonymous)
synonyms: spadeload
glosses: The amount held or moved by a spade at once.
spadefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spadeful
spareribs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sparerib.
spottily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spottily
form: most spottily
Etymology: From spotty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spotty manner.
spinally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From spinal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spinal manner.
integrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of integrate
integrating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of integrate
integrating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That integrates.
Derived terms: cointegrating
integrating resource
nonintegrating
diplodocuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplodocus
booyah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːˌjɑː/
ipa: /ˌbuːˈjɑː/
Forms: form: boo-yah
form: booya
form: boo-ya
form: booyeah
form: boo-yay
form: booyakasha
Senses: examples: text: Let's go storm that hill. Booyah!
text: The party on Saturday night is going to be awesome. Booyah!
glosses: Expressing excitement and anticipation.
examples: text: Mission accomplished. Booyah!
glosses: Expressing satisfaction or accomplishment.
Related terms: hooray
booyah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbuːˌjɑː/
ipa: /ˌbuːˈjɑː/
Forms: form: booyahs
form: booya
form: bouja
Etymology: Perhaps related to bouillon.
Senses: examples: text: I'd say it's a mixture of veggies, the stewing chickens and the long cooking time that are essential to make real booyah.
glosses: A thick stew of European origin made throughout the Upper Midwestern United States, based on a broth of meat bones to which vegetables are added.
saltopus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltopuses
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A small carnivorous dinosaur, Saltopus elginensis, which lived during the upper Triassic era.
saltopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltopus
concrete verb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concrete verbs
Senses: examples: text: (abstract) I went to the post office. (there and back, multidirectional)
ref: (concrete) I went to the post office. (and am there now, unidirectional)
text: (abstract) I went to the theater and had an accident. (the event occurred during the trip there and back)
ref: (concrete) I went to the theater and had an accident. (the event occurred at the theater)
text: (abstract) I like to fly. (repeated action)
ref: (concrete) I flew to Frankfurt. (a single, completed action)
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: definite verb
antonyms: abstract verb
glosses: Of Slavic languages, a verbal aspect in a verb of motion that is unidirectional (as opposed to multidirectional), a definitely directed motion, or a single, completed action (instead of a repeated action or series of actions). Concrete verbs may be either imperfective or perfective.
concrete verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concrete verb
Bahama
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Bahamas.
Derived terms: Bahama duck
Bahama grass
Bahama Mama
Bahama sisal
Grand Bahama
Bahama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bahamas
Senses: examples: text: Andros is the biggest Bahama.
glosses: Any of the islands that constitute the Bahamas.
monoprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoprints
Etymology: From mono- + print.
Senses: glosses: A form of printing on paper from a glass sheet to which oil paint has been applied; monotype.
monoprint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monoprints
form: monoprinting
form: monoprinted
form: monoprinted
Etymology: From mono- + print.
Senses: glosses: To print using this technique.
brachiosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brachiosauruses
form: brachiosauri
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Brachiosaurus, from brachio- + -saurus; literally “arm lizard”, relating to the great length of its forelegs compared to its hindlegs.
Senses: glosses: A large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, Brachiosaurus altithorax, which lived during the Late Jurassic in North America.
brachiosauruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brachiosaurus
gob stopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gob stoppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gobstopper.
moreso
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Food and other essential resources are limited, and are likely to become moreso.
ref: 1969, Nels Anderson, “The Uses and Worth of Language”, in Nels Anderson, editor, Studies in Multilingualism, E. J. Brill, page 1:
text: We grow more like ourselves in our past, only moreso.
ref: 1997, Hana S. Noor Al-Deen, Cross-Cultural Communication and Aging in the United States, page 30:
text: Consequently, he concluded, new arrangements are necessary and will become moreso in future.
ref: 2000, Conrad Totman, A History of Japan, page 337:
text: The investment environment in the seven years immediately preceding the 1987 crash was as favorable, if not moreso, than the years prior to the 1929 crash.
ref: 2004, Jeffrey B. Little, Understanding Wall Street, page 140:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of more so.
moreso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more so
form: more-so
Senses: examples: text: Though it did add some cool new QoL features, last week's was moreso a balance update.
translation: … last week's was more than anything else a balance update.
english: … last week's was more than anything else a balance update.
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text: It's not quite he got angry and then left, it's moreso he got frustrated and then left.
qualifier: likely proscribed
glosses: more than anything/anything else, rather
Related terms: alot
less so
bailiwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailiwick
formants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formant
monoprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monoprint
monoprints
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of monoprint
diploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diploidies
Etymology: From diploid + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being diploid, having two sets of chromosomes.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instance of being diploid.
Derived terms: autodiploidy
hyperdiploidy
hypodiploidy
merodiploidy
pseudodiploidy
haploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haploidies
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being haploid
Derived terms: hyperhaploidy
hypohaploidy
heteroploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroploidies
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being heteroploid.
mixoploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mixoploid + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being mixoploid.
mixoploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mixo- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having cells with different numbers of chromosomes. The genetically different cell populations usually arise from the same zygote (mosaicism) or, more rarely, they originate from different zygotes (chimerism).
mixoploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixoploids
Etymology: From mixo- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: An organism with such cells.
Related terms: mixoploidy
monoploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoploidies
Etymology: From monoploid + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being monoploid, having one set of chromosomes.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instance of being monoploid.
monoploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a single set of chromosomes.
monoploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoploids
Etymology: From mono- + -ploid.
Senses: glosses: A monoploid cell.
glosses: A monoploid organism.
Related terms: monoploidy
haploid
diploid
polyploid
tetraploid
triploid
triploidy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triploidies
Etymology: From triploid + -y.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of being triploid, having three sets of chromosomes.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An instance of being triploid.
Picasso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Picasso.
Senses: examples: text: Pablo Picasso
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Picassan
Picassian
Picassoan
Picassoesque
Picassofish
Picassoid
Picasso marble
Picasso moth
Pricasso
du jour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /duː ˈʒʊə/
ipa: /də ˈʒʊɹ/
ipa: /du ˈʒʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from French du jour (literally “of the day”).
Senses: examples: text: The soup du jour is French onion.
glosses: Of the day; prepared for the day in question
examples: text: Beth came to the party with her boyfriend du jour.
text: The high unemployment numbers are the government's excuse du jour for not doing anything about the environment.
text: So much for pandemic frustration. Or tax fatigue. Or government backlash. Or all the controversies du jour about masks or wokified curricula or anything else that’s been in the news. Seattle voters set all that aside, en masse.
ref: 2022 February 12, Danny Westneat, “The reason voters see past the terrible headlines with Seattle schools”, in The Seattle Times:
glosses: Currently stylish; en vogue; trendy; favoured now but likely temporary; latest.
Derived terms: de jour
plat du jour
soup du jour
Related terms: de jure
unquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: unquieter
form: unquietest
Etymology: From un- + quiet.
Senses: examples: text: an unquiet mind
text: But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
⁠A use in measured language lies;
⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Uneasy and restless; unable to settle.
examples: text: an unquiet night
text: Madam Zenocrate, may I preſume
To know the cauſe of theſe vnquiet fits:
That worke such trouble to your woonted reſt:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:
text: Wearied out, Francesca at once fell asleep—a slumber which would have been broken by anxiety, could she have known the feverish restlessness which kept Guido wakeful on his unquiet pillow, listening—and dreary it was to listen through the night—to the distant dash of the waves, as they rose beneath the loud and sweeping wind.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 202:
text: Involuntarily I glanced seaward—and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock. When I looked once more for Gatsby he had vanished, and I was alone again in the unquiet darkness.
ref: 1925, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, chapter 1, in The Great Gatsby, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1953, →ISBN, →OCLC:
glosses: Causing or associated with unease or restlessness.
unquiet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -aɪət
Forms: form: unquiets
form: unquieting
form: unquieted
form: unquieted
Etymology: From un- + quiet.
Senses: examples: text: Butt the unbelevinge iewes, steryd uppe and unquyeted the myndes off the gentyles agaynste the brethren.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts:
text: Thus erring Rome hath, doth, & vvill our chriſtian VVorld vnqueate: / May therefore Princes ioyne to race that Monſter from his Seate.
ref: 1602, William Warner, “The Twel[f]th Booke. Chapter LXXIII.”, in Albions England. A Continued Historie of the Same Kingdome, from the Originals of the First Inhabitants thereof: […], 5th edition, London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant for George Potter, […], →OCLC, page 304:
text: they were greatly troubled, and unquieted
ref: 1649, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Raigne of King Henry VIII:
glosses: To disquiet (someone or something); to disturb.
digestibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digestibilities
Etymology: From digestible + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The degree to which something is digestible.
Derived terms: biodigestibility
indigestibility
indigestibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From in- + digestibility.
Senses: glosses: The state of being indigestible.
indigestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indigestible
form: most indigestible
Etymology: From in- + digestible.
Senses: glosses: Difficult or impossible to digest.
glosses: Difficult to accept; unpalatable.
Derived terms: indigestibleness
indigestibly
indigestible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indigestibles
Etymology: From in- + digestible.
Senses: examples: text: "Take a cruller, any way," said she, handing him a cake-basket containing a dozen or so of those unspeakable, Dutch indigestibles.
ref: 1872, James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley:
glosses: Anything that is difficult to digest.
rock climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock-climbing
form: rockclimbing
Senses: examples: text: James never cared much for the sea-side, but developed a passionate love for the Westmoreland mountains, getting to know most of them as an energetic fell walker, preferring this to rock climbing.
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 128:
glosses: The sport of the sport of climbing on rocks or in mountains, or on specially designed walls inside or outdoors.
Related terms: rock climber
rock climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rock-climbing
form: rockclimbing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rock climb
free climbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free-climbing
form: freeclimbing
Etymology: From free + climbing.
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Rock climbing without the aid of ropes or other equipment, sometimes in an urban environment
Related terms: free climber
debounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbaʊns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: debounces
form: debouncing
form: debounced
form: debounced
Etymology: From de- + bounce.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To remove the small ripple of current that forms when a mechanical switch is pushed in an electrical circuit and makes a series of short contacts.
examples: text: With debouncing, we group several calls to the same events into one; with throttling, we are forcing our call to be executed no more than once per time period, such as a maximum of once per 400 ms.
ref: 2016, Maximiliano Firtman, High Performance Mobile Web, page 224:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To discard events or signals that should not be processed because they occurred too close together.
Derived terms: debouncer
Related terms: keybounce
millenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: more millenarian
form: most millenarian
Etymology: From Late Latin millenarius + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Franciscans coming from Iberia were particularly prone to the millenarian enthusiasm which gripped southern Europe around 1500, and which the Franciscan Order had so long fostered. They believed that they were living in the End Times […]
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 699:
text: Mirandola cultivated a Dominican friar, Savonarola, whose millenarian visions had provoked revolution: in the wake of France's invasion, he had inspired a popular uprising in Florence, its ruling Medici family replaced by a people's republic.
ref: 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin, published 2012, page 108:
topics: Christianity
synonyms: millennial
glosses: Pertaining to the belief in an impending period of one thousand years of peace and righteousness associated with the Second Coming of Christ and his reign on earth.
examples: text: Restoration of the old empires was not the aim of the totalitarian revolutions in Russia and Germany, since both wanted to bring back the millenarian empire.
ref: 2007, Bryan-Paul Frost, Daniel J. Mahoney, editors, Political Reason in the Age of Ideology, page 182:
glosses: Pertaining to any of various religious or social movements which believe in a coming or ongoing radical change to existing world order.
examples: text: […] contrasts with the rapid decline and demise of the millenarian empire of Byzantium.
ref: 1994, Catalan Review, volume 8, page 222:
text: But the ashes of Auschwitz fell on Hitler's folly, on the announcement of the millenarian Reich.
ref: 1997, Olivier Clément, Conversations with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, page 159:
text: In a few years, by fueling a sense of regained confidence within its own people, which suffered from the fall of a millenarian empire, Ataturk managed to readapt Turkish traditions in the framework of a new model of state.
ref: 2006, Journal of Middle Eastern geopolitics, volume 1:
glosses: Lasting or expected to last a thousand years.
millenarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlɪˈnɛːɹɪən/
Forms: form: millenarians
Etymology: From Late Latin millenarius + -an.
Senses: examples: text: Like Marxists, wokies are millenarians, working for a magical tomorrow that owes nothing either to past practice or to human frailties.
ref: 2021 June 6, Daniel Hannan, “Communism is evolving. But the new version is no more toxic than the old one”, in The Daily Telegraph:
synonyms: chiliast
Adventist
glosses: A person who believes in an apocalyptic millennium.
Derived terms: millenarianism
millenarianist
powerbroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: powerbrokers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power broker.
coattail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coattails
form: coat-tail
Etymology: From coat + tail.
Senses: examples: text: At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
ref: 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The flap at the back of a coat that hangs down, sometimes below the waist.
examples: text: to ride the coattails
text: Mr Obama’s coat-tails may help lift Wall-Street-basher Elizabeth Warren past pickup-driving Everyman and one-time nude pin-up Scott Brown in Massachusetts[…].
ref: 2012 October 6, “The Senate: Not so flippable”, in The Economist:
text: And Harford grabs the coattails of the trend, giving us 10 rules for thinking differently about numbers in the news, ranging from “check your feelings”, to “ponder your personal experience”, to “keep an open mind”.
ref: 2020 November 17, Ben Chu, “Review: How to Make the World Add Up, by Tim Harford”, in The Independent, retrieved 13 Jan 2021:
glosses: Success of a figure, organization or movement that transfers to those who associate with it.
Hypernyms: tail
Related terms: coattail effect
on the coattails of
ride the coattails