cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
socage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɒkɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsɑkɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɒkɪdʒ
Forms: form: socages
form: soccage
Etymology: From Middle English sokage, from Anglo-Norman socage, from Old French soc (“soke”), ultimately from Old English sōcn. By surface analysis, soke + -age.
Senses: examples: text: […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
text: The rest was held by tenants, sometimes called "sokemen" from the "soke" or jurisdiction; and said to hold in "soccage" because they gave plough-service by way of rent.
ref: 1908, Mary A. M. Marks, “In Saxon Times”, in Landholding in England:
glosses: In the Middle Ages (and chiefly but not exclusively medieval England), a legal system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
Derived terms: socager
socman
feoffee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛfˈiː/
ipa: /ˈfɛfi/
ipa: /fiːˈfiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -ɛfi
Forms: form: feoffees
Etymology: From feoff + -ee (“(object)”).
Senses: examples: text: […] this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
glosses: A vassal holding a fief.
Derived terms: cofeoffee
feoffeeship
Related terms: enfeoff
feoff
feoffment
fief
copyhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏp′ē-hōld′
ipa: /ˌkɒp.iːˈhəʊld/
note: older Received Pronunciation
ipa: /ˌkɔːp.iːˈhəʊld/
ipa: /ˌkɔp.iˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˌkɑp.iˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˌkɒp.iˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˌkɑp.iˈhoʊld/
ipa: /ˌkɔp.iːˈhəʉld/
ipa: /ˌkɒp.iːˈhɐʉld/
ipa: /ˌkɔp.iˈhold/
ipa: /ˌkɔp.iːˈhoːlɖ/
rhymes: -əʊld
Forms: form: copyholds
Etymology: From copy + hold.
Senses: examples: text: […]this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lēx locī reī sitae.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, page 311:
topics: law
property
glosses: A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll.
Derived terms: copyholder
cholecystitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkoʊ.lə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɑl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
ipa: /ˌkɒl.ə.sɪˈstaɪ.tɪs/
rhymes: -aɪtɪs
Forms: form: cholecystites
form: cholecystitides
Etymology: From cholecyst + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of the gall bladder.
Derived terms: pericholecystitis
multicoloured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of multicolored.
Related terms: multicolor
multicolour
copyholder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copyholders
Etymology: From copy + holder.
Senses: examples: text: Rents had risen so much […] that copyholders had to hire themselves out as wage labourers or shepherds.
ref: 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 86:
glosses: A person who rents land under the copyhold system.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A device that holds copy in place for typesetting.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: A person who holds copy and reads it aloud to a proofreader, who checks the typeset text against it.
multicolored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌltɪˌkʌlɚd/
ipa: /ˈmʌltɪˌkʌləd/
Forms: form: multicoloured
form: multi-colored
form: multi-coloured
Etymology: From multi- + colored.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple colors.
Synonyms: word: multicolor
word: multicolour
word: polychromatic
word: multichromatic
word: particolored
word: particoloured
word: multihued
word: polyhued
word: aurora-colored (US) / aurora-coloured
word: colorful (US) / colourful
word: colorific
word: discolored [⇒ thesaurus] (US
word: obsolete) / discoloured
word: kaleidoscopic
word: many-coloured
word: motley
word: multicolor (US) / multicolour
word: multicolored (US) / multicoloured
word: multicolorous
word: particolored (US) / particoloured
word: polychromate
word: polychromed
word: prismatic
word: rainbow
word: rainbow-colored (US) / rainbow-coloured
word: tissued
word: variegated
Hypernyms: word: colored
Hyponyms: word: brockle
word: technicolor (US) / technicolour
word: Having two colors:
word: bichrome
word: bicolour
word: bicoloured
word: duocolor
word: dichromatic
word: two-tone
word: Having three colors:
word: trichromatic
word: trichrome
word: tricolored
word: tricolour
word: Having four colors:
word: quadchromatic
word: quadricolor
word: quadricolored
word: tetracolored
word: Having five colors:
word: pentacolor
word: pentacolored
word: quincolor
Related terms: word: loud
word: tie-dye
word: unicorn vomit
word: gaudy
schmoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊ
Forms: form: schmoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of schmo.
schmoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schmo
glosses: plural of schmoe
starfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: starfuckers
form: star-fucker
Etymology: From star + fucker. The band Nine Inch Nails released a track called Starfuckers, Inc. in 1999.
Senses: examples: text: In more contemporary publications, she has been damned as "starstruck," a "lover to the stars," and more outrageously, "the greatest starfucker ever."
ref: 2003, Robert A. Schanke, "That Furious Lesbian": The Story of Mercedes De Acosta →ISBN p. 1
text: 2004https://web.archive.org/web/20070416105616/http://www.redpepper.org.uk/KYE/x-kye-May2004.html
"No, Blair’s alright, he’s such a star-fucker.", remark allegedly made by Rupert Murdoch when asked whether he thought that British Prime Minister Tony Blair was likely to regulate cross-media ownership
text: I am a starfucker. I am a fuckin' star fucking starfucker. There is nothing I love more than a star, except a reality star, which proves nothing except that I'm disturbed in a very special way.
ref: 2005, Jill Soloway, Tiny Ladies in Shiny Pants, →ISBN, page 47:
text: Peter Munk notes, "Conrad is a starfucker - has been all his life. He gets turned on physically by fame and prominence."
ref: 2007 February, Vanity Fair, published 2006, page 196:
text: “A very nice family. Uh, his wife is a wonderful actress, but it wouldn't be appropriate for me to mention her name.” “Absolutely, no.” “Oh, go ahead. Tell us.” “No, no.” (overlapping chatter) “Come on.” “Let's just say that you would recognize her from... more than a few episodes of Law & Order.” “Law & Order. I was going to say...” (snaps fingers) “Ok. I know what's going on here. It's as clear as day. This motherfucker is a starfucker.” “What? Now, I don't think that's what he meant.” “Yes, that is what these schools want. They want the famous parents,”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (15:40 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
synonyms: groupie
glosses: One who obsessively seeks sex or association with stars, or celebrities.
wikipedia: Starfuckers, Inc.
coördinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coördinators
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of coordinator.
subordinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subordinators
Etymology: From subordinate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: subordinating conjunction
text: Subordinators / English has a tiny set of essentially meaningless words that mark the beginnings of certain subordinate clauses (that is, clauses contained inside larger clauses). I’ll call these words subordinators (some linguists call them “complementizers,” and traditional grammars call them “subordinating conjunctions” and wrongly throw a whole bunch of prepositions in with them). I’ll discuss just three items that definitely have to be called subordinators.
ref: 2024, Geoffrey K. Pullum, The Truth About English Grammar, Polity Press, →ISBN, pages 85-86:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: complementizer
coordinate_terms: coordinator
;
coordinating conjunction
;
relative pronoun
glosses: Any of a lexical class of words that join clauses at a subordinate syntactic level (subordinate clauses).
examples: text: […] the possibility of women's collusion with their subordinators, e.g. of their acceptance of subordinate status […]
ref: 1986, South African Journal of Philosophy, volumes 5-7, page 112:
coordinate_terms: dominator
glosses: One who subordinates, or reduces the status of, another person.
albinoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of albino.
ameliorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ameliorate
Puritans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Puritan
avvocato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avvocati
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian avvocato.
Senses: examples: text: No one, not even the avvocato, ever asked the direct question, 'Do you know who made the fire, Peppina?'
ref: 1917, Florence Converse, “The Culprit”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 119, page 57:
glosses: An Italian lawyer.
autostrada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autostradas
form: autostrade
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian autostrada.
Senses: examples: text: Chief MacDonald also warned of another threat to free highways in the possible resurgence of the private toll road, for which the Italian autostrade were the current models.
ref: 1977, America’s Highways, 1776-1976: A History of the Federal-Aid Program, page 117, column 1:
text: Tolls on Italian autostrade are quite steep, ranging from $15 to $20 for a three-hour stretch, but offering the fastest and most direct way to travel between cities.
ref: 1994, Nicole Franchini, Karen Brown, Karen Brown’s Italian Country Bed and Breakfasts, Travel Press, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Italian autostrade are even more impressive than German autobahns because constructing a road in Italy is so much more challenging.
ref: 2001, Yvonne D’Amico, Victor D’Amico, Sharing a Lifetime Passion for Europe, Writer’s Showcase, →ISBN, page 209:
text: According to a 1933 AAA guide to motoring abroad, Americans were reassured that unlike US highways, the Italian autostrade were not crowded.
ref: 2018, D. Medina Lasansky, Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence + Tuscany (Critical Tuscan Studies), didapress, →ISBN, page 116:
text: now, exactly one year after a honeymoon night on the Edinburgh roof, our union is being tested again, this time on the Italian autostrade leading from Rome.
ref: 2018, Mary K. Jensen, Rudy’s Rules for Travel: Life Lessons from Around the Globe, She Writes Press, →ISBN:
glosses: A motorway in Italy (and some other countries)
conversazione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversaziones
form: conversazioni
Etymology: From Italian conversazione (“conversation”). Doublet of conversation.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was frequently present at the breakfast-table and conversazioni of Sir Joseph Banks, and instructed several persons of eminence in the classics.
ref: 1828, JT Smith, Nollekens and His Times, Century Hutchinson, published 1986, page 164:
text: "I'm too detached to talk scandal, and yet at scientific conversaziones I have heard something of Challenger, for he is one of those men whom nobody can ignore."
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: Willie Redmond told of finding him [Oscar Wilde], to his astonishment, at the conversazione of some theatrical society, standing amid an infuriated crowd, mocking with more than all his old satirical wit the actors and their country.
ref: 1922, W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, chapter II, in The Trembling of the Veil, London: Privately printed for subscribers only by T[homas] Werner Laurie, Ltd., →OCLC, book IV (The Tragic Generation), page 168:
text: The one significant exception that was allowed was if an Indian habitually wore European clothes in public, then he would be allowed to wear shoes in the presence of his English masters on such occasions of western-style rituals such as the governor general's levee, a drawing room, conversazione or a ball.
ref: 1983, Bernard S. Cohn, “Representing Authority in Victorian India”, in Eric J. Hobsbawm, editor, The Invention of Tradition:
text: He was a guest particularly sought after for conversation-assemblies, evening conversation parties, or conversaziones, which flourished in London from the 1750s into the 1780s, and which Johnson attended during the last fifteen years of his life.
ref: 1997, Catherine N. Parke, “Johnson and the arts of conversation”, in Greg Clingham, editor, The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson, Cambridge University Press, page 26:
glosses: A formal gathering where something related to the arts or academia is discussed.
examples: text: Another form of young Victoria entertainment was the church conversazione. The Bishop opened, shut and blessed the affair but the congregation did the talking. Conversaziones were held in the church schoolroom which the ladies cut into little cubicles with benches—three sitting sides and one open. The benches were just close enough for one lady's lips to reach across confidentially to the opposite lady's ear. There was music for people who were not chatty and when everything had been done and encored tea was served.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Visiting Matrons”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A community social gathering.
Related terms: word: sacra conversazione
word: at home
word: social
dermatophytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dermatophytoses
Etymology: From dermatophyte + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A fungal infection of the skin caused by a dermatophyte, ringworm.
Hyponyms: word: athlete’s foot
word: tinea pedis
word: beard ringworm
word: barber's itch
word: tinea barbae
word: body ringworm
word: tinea corporis
word: jock itch
word: tinea cruris
word: nail ringworm
word: tinea unguium
word: scalp ringworm
taxonomic: Trichophyton tonsurans
word: tinea capitis
seborrheic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: seborrhoeic
form: seborrhoic
Etymology: From seborrhea + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or affected by seborrhea.
Derived terms: seborrheic blepharitis
seborrheic dermatitis
seborrheic keratosis
sebaceous glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sebaceous gland
gear lever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gear levers
Senses: synonyms: word: gear stick
word: gear shift
word: ;
word: shifter
word: shift lever
hypernyms: shifter
glosses: The lever used to change gears in a motor vehicle.
glosses: The lever used to change gears on other types of machines, such as a machine tool.
Related terms: gearbox
manual transmission
stickshift
automatic transmission
downshift
upshift
bottom gear
low gear
creeper gear
first gear
second gear
third gear
fourth gear
fifth gear
overdrive
top gear
manicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more manicky
form: most manicky
Etymology: From manic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: In the elated, or manicky phase, people may show excessive excitement or silliness, carrying jokes too far.
ref: 1984, Spencer A. Rathus, Psychology, page 445:
glosses: Having a mania, or behaving as if one had a mania; manic.
polymicrogyria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + micro- + gyrus + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A deformity of the brain such that it has an excessive number of small folds, causing mental retardation.
Related terms: microgyria
polygyria
hagriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: The defendant, Hester Adams, claimed that a witch named Pring was tormenting her at night by hagriding her
ref: 1999 Owen Davies - Witchcraft, Magic and Culture, 1736-1951
glosses: present participle and gerund of hagride
hagride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hagrides
form: hagriding
form: hagrode
form: hagrid
form: hagridden
form: hagrid
form: hag-ride
Etymology: From hag + ride.
Senses: glosses: To harass or torment with dread or nightmares.
Related terms: hagridden
disyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈsɪləbəɫ/
Forms: form: disyllables
form: dissyllable
Etymology: From di- + syllable.
Senses: examples: text: He felt as if the play itself penetrated him with the naked elbow of his neighbour, a great stripped, handsome, red-haired lady, who conversed with a gentleman on her other side in stray dissyllables which had for his ear, in the oddest way in the world, so much sound that he wondered they hadn't more sense; and he recognised by the same law, beyond the footlights, what he was pleased to take for the very flush of English life.
ref: 1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A word comprising two syllables.
Synonyms: duosyllable
Coordinate terms: monosyllable
trisyllable
tetrasyllable
pentasyllable
sexisyllable
heptasyllable
octosyllable
enneasyllable
decasyllable
endecasyllable
dodecasyllable
polysyllable
Derived terms: hyperdisyllable
Related terms: disyllabic
tigrish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tigrish
form: most tigrish
Senses: examples: text: His heart was cruel and tigrish.
glosses: Of or pertaining to tigers; tigerish
disyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌdɑɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
Forms: form: dissyllabic
Etymology: Borrowed from French dissyllabique, from Latin disyllabus.
Senses: glosses: Comprising two syllables.
Synonyms: bisyllabic
Derived terms: disyllabically
Related terms: disyllabicity
disyllable
disyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌdɑɪ.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
Forms: form: disyllabics
form: dissyllabic
Etymology: Borrowed from French dissyllabique, from Latin disyllabus.
Senses: glosses: a word consisting of two syllables
manorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a manor or to manorialism.
Derived terms: intermanorial
manorial court
manorialize
manorial roll
manorialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manorial + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A political, economic and social system in medieval and early modern Europe; originally a form of serfdom but later a looser system in which land was administered via the local manor.
Related terms: manorial
early modern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Early Modern
Senses: examples: text: One of the most important economic changes in early modern Europe is what historians have called the Price Revolution. That is, between 1500 and 1600, most prices doubled in real terms, although there was enormous regional variation in the commodities that were sold.
ref: 2008, Mark Konnert, Early Modern Europe: The Age of Religious War, 1559-1715, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 59:
glosses: Describing a period of primarily European history between the Middle Ages and the modern period; the time between c. 1500–1800.
manorial roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manorial rolls
Senses: glosses: The record, kept by a manorial court, of the property held by tenants and the rent paid; physically a continuous roll of parchment documents stitched together.
Synonyms: court roll
manorial court roll
manorial court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manorial courts
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of court, in medieval and early modern Europe, provided by the lord of the manor for his tenants.
Related terms: court baron
court customary
court baron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts baron
Senses: synonyms: baron court
glosses: A form of manorial court that administered the common law for free tenants.
Related terms: court customary
court customary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: courts customary
Senses: glosses: A form of manorial court for unfree tenants or villeins
Related terms: court baron
unfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfree
form: unfreer
form: unfree-er
form: most unfree
form: unfreest
form: unfree-est
Etymology: From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.
Senses: examples: text: By the time of the Nibelungenlied the word was used to denote a wide variety of usually ecclesiastic or royal administrators, from the lowest, unfree ministerial to an enfeoffed judge.
ref: 2002, Francis G. Gentry, The Nibelungen Tradition, page 142:
text: Economically free countries enjoy decentralized power, whereas the power in economically unfree countries is centralized.
ref: 2006, James R. Otteson, Actual Ethics, page 17:
glosses: Not free; lacking freedom, especially (historical) of a tenant who was bound to a manor.
Related terms: nonfree
unfree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unfrees
Etymology: From Middle English unfre, from Old English [Term?], from Proto-West Germanic *unfrī; cognates include Middle High German unfrī (German unfrei), Middle Low German unvrī, Middle Dutch onvri (Dutch onvrij). By surface analysis, un- + free.
Senses: examples: text: The commissioners then proceeded to consider the various petitions and remonstrances of the unfrees, and to determine the amount to be levied from each.
ref: 1863, James Paterson, History of the Counties of Ayr and Wigton (parts 1-2, page ccviii)
glosses: A person lacking freedom, such as a tenant bound to a manor.
lord of the manor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lords of the manor
form: lords of the manors
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The feudal lord of a manor estate.
glosses: A ceremonial title retained or bestowed in certain contexts.
Hypernyms: lord
feudal lord
Hyponyms: castellan
chatelain
Related terms: to the manor born
rugby union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Alternative form of Rugby Union .
head_nr: 2
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A form of rugby football, historically amateur, having 15 players per side; points are scored for a try, penalty, drop kick or conversion.
Related terms: rugby league
winged bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winged beans
Senses: glosses: A tropical legume of species Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, having clusters of purple flowers and pods with four jagged wings
Synonyms: sense: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
word: Goa bean
sense: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
word: asparagus pea
sense: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
word: goa bean
sense: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
word: Manila bean
sense: Psophocarpus tetragonolobus
word: winged pea
wiring diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiring diagrams
Senses: examples: text: Because most diesel failures can be traced to electrical faults, minor in themselves but often difficult to pin-point, any unscheduled halt during a trial run is often the signal for the frenzied unfolding of wiring diagrams and the appearance of an impressive array of voltmeters and circuit testers.
ref: 1962 April, R. K. Evans, “The Acceptance Testing of Diesel Locomotives”, in Modern Railways, page 268:
hypernyms: diagram#Noun
glosses: A schematic representation of the components of an electrical device showing how electrical wiring must be connected.
Related terms: wiring harness
rat's nest
witherite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: witherites
Etymology: After the English physician and mineralogist William Withering (1741-1799) in 1790.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow-grey mineral form of barium carbonate, BaCO₃
Wolf-Rayet star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wolf-Rayet stars
Etymology: For Charles Wolf and Georges Rayet, French astronomers
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of young, very hot stars that have a very strong stellar wind and consequent broad, strong emission lines.
Synonyms: WR
Derived terms: Wolf-Rayet galaxy
stellar wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellar winds
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The equivalent of solar wind associated with a star not restricted to being the Sun.
Hyponyms: solar wind
Related terms: heliosphere
heliopause
heliosheath
termination shock
stellar magnetosphere
pathologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pathology
emission line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emission lines
Senses: glosses: A spectral line resulting from the emission of electromagnetic radiation from an atom or other species as it decays from an excited state to one of lower energy.
Related terms: absorption line
bacteriophages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriophage
wollastonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wollastonites
Etymology: From Wollaston + -ite, after William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist and physicist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey inosilicate mineral, mostly calcium silicate, CaSiO₃, found deposited in limestone.
wulfenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wulfenites
Etymology: From Wulfen + -ite, for Austrian mineralogist Franz X. von Wulfen (1728-1805), named in 1841.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orange mineral, lead molybdate, PbMoO₄, found in lead veins.
wurtzilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurtzilites
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A black, insoluble, carbonaceous material formed from the metamorphosis of shale oil.
Synonyms: elaterite
wurtzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wurtzites
Etymology: From Wurtz + -ite, for Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, French chemist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown zinc iron sulfide mineral ((Zn,Fe)S), a form of sphalerite.
wurtzite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Wurtz + -ite, for Charles-Adolphe Wurtz, French chemist.
Senses: examples: text: A new family of semiconductors has been synthesized for the first time in the form of wurtzite phase nanocrystals of Cu2ZnAS4−x and CuZn2AS4.
glosses: Of or pertaining to wurtzite crystal structure, a hexagonal crystal system named after the mineral wurtzite.
X-ray astronomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An observational branch of astronomy, which deals with the study of X-ray emission from celestial objects.
X-ray fluorescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray fluorescences
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The emission of electrons from a material when exposed to X-rays.
X-ray microscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray microscopes
Senses: glosses: A device that uses soft X-rays to produce images of very small objects.
X-ray telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray telescopes
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: An instrument that detects X-rays originating from outside the Earth's atmosphere.
phallectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: phallectomies
Etymology: From phallus + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the penis.
Synonyms: penectomy
observational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒbzəˈveɪʃənəl/
ipa: /ˌɑbzɚˈveɪʃənəl/
Forms: form: more observational
form: most observational
Etymology: From observation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The essential fact is simply that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational fact, are mathematical pictures.
ref: 1931, Sir James Hopwood Jeans, “Into the Deep Waters”, in The Mysterious Universe, Cambridge UP, page 111:
text: An alternative way of defending the proposal to conflate NP MOVEMENT with XP MOVEMENT would be to question the observational adequacy of the claim that NP MOVEMENT only ever has NP constituents as its target.
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 10, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 535:
text: No less than the novelist, the psychologist must employ techniques of literary construction to render scientific accounts acceptable. Most importantly, to the extent that such techniques dominate the scientific account, observational practices—regardless of rigor—cease to be influential.
ref: 1990, Kenneth J. Gergen, “Textual Considerations in the Scientific Construction of Human Character”, in Style, volume 24, number 3, →JSTOR, page 366:
glosses: Relating to observation, especially scientific observation.
Derived terms: multiobservational
nonobservational
observational comedy
observational error
observationalism
observationalist
observationality
observational learning
observationally
preobservational
prostatectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: prostatectomies
Etymology: From prostate + -ectomy.
Senses: examples: text: Doctors can perform prostatectomies in one of three different ways: perineally, retropubically, or laparoscopically.
ref: 2011, Paul H. Lange, Christine Adamec, Prostate Cancer For Dummies:
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of part or all of the prostate gland.
Hyponyms: radical prostatectomy
Derived terms: radical prostatectomy
stapedectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: stapedectomies
Etymology: From stapes + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the stapes of the middle ear.
thrombectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: thrombectomies
Etymology: From thromb- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of a blood clot or thrombus from a blood vessel.
thymectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: thymectomies
Etymology: From thymus + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of the thymus
thyroidectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: thyroidectomies
Etymology: From thyroid + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of part or all of the thyroid gland.
Derived terms: hemithyroidectomy
Related terms: thyroidectomize
thyroidectomized
vitrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: vitrectomies
Etymology: From vitreous + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of some or all of the vitreous humour from the eye.
Related terms: vitrector
vitreotome
vitrectomise
vitreous humor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitreous humors
form: vitreous humour
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: The clear gel that fills the eyeball between the lens and the retina.
Synonyms: vitreous body
vitreous fluid
vitreous jelly
Derived terms: vitrectomy
Related terms: aqueous humour
vulvectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: vulvectomies
Etymology: From vulva + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of some or all of the vulva.
hemicraniectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicraniectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + craniectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of half of the cranium to enable brain surgery; hemicraniotomy.
socio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsəʊ.si-/
ipa: /ˌsəʊ.ʃi/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.si-/
ipa: /ˌsoʊ.ʃi/
ipa: /ˌsəʉ.si-/
ipa: /ˌsəʉ.ʃi/
Etymology: From Latin socius (“associated, allied; partner, companion, ally”), from Proto-Indo-European *sokʷ-yo- (“companion”), from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to follow”).
Senses: examples: text: So we at this point want to encourage everyone to have principled relationships, and to understand where their relationship fits in terms of socio-impact. We want heterosexuals to understand their privilege in relation to lesbians but not to across the board say we're not going to work with you unless you're a lesbian.
ref: 1980 December 27, Lee Swinslow, quoting Krissy Keeler, “Wallflower: Moving With Their Politics”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 23, page 10:
glosses: society
hemipelvectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemipelvectomies
Etymology: From hemi- + pelvectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical removal of half of the pelvis, and the leg on that side.
cell membranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cell membrane
-ostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -o- (“interconsonantal”) + -stomy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -stomy.
Derived terms: sigmoidostomy
Related terms: ostomy
-ectomy
-plasty
-tomy
neurotoxins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotoxin
neurotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neurotoxic
form: most neurotoxic
Etymology: From neuro- + toxic.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
pharmacology
sciences
toxicology
glosses: Having a toxic effect on nerve tissue.
Derived terms: fetoneurotoxic
neurotoxically
subneurotoxic
Related terms: neurotoxicity
neurotoxin
yersinia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yersinias
form: yersiniae
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Yersinia.
Senses: glosses: A Gram-negative bacterium, of the genus Yersinia, that is an etiological agent of several diseases in animals and humans, notably Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic plague.
Related terms: yersinial
Zener diode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zener diodes
Etymology: From Clarence Zener, American physicist.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A semiconductor junction device through which current flows normally in the forward direction, and in the reverse direction if a large voltage is applied.
Related terms: diode
photodiode
zooarchaeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zooarcheology
Etymology: From zoo- + archaeology.
Senses: glosses: The study of animal remains at archaeological sites.
Derived terms: zooarchaeologist
zooarchaeological
Austen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɪn/
ipa: /ˈɔstɪn/
ipa: /ˈɑstɪn/
homophone: Austin
rhymes: -ɒstɪn
Senses: glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name; which is a variant of Austin.
glosses: An English surname transferred from the given name; which is a variant of Austin.
Jane Austen (1775–1817), English novelist.
Derived terms: Austenite
austenite
Mount Godwin-Austen
Monseigneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Monseigneurs
form: Messeigneurs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of monseigneur.
pass through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes through
form: passing through
form: passed through
form: passed through
Senses: examples: text: We passed through the checkpoint on the road that passes through Freedonia.
text: At length, the two schemes were amalgamated to form the Manchester & Birmingham, which was to pass through the Potteries and join the Grand Junction at Chebsey, a few miles north of Stafford.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 617:
text: Beginning where the road crosses the Sino-Soviet frontier at Man-chou-li, it passes through Hailar and Ha-erh-pin (Harbin) and ends when it crosses back into Soviet territory at Sui-fen-ho (Pogranichnaia). During its history it has been known as the Trans-Manchurian Railway, the North Manchurian Railway, the Chinese Changchun Railway and the Harbin Railway. The main line from Man-chou-li to Sui-fen-ho is 950 miles in length.
ref: 1978, “CHINESE EASTERN RAILWAY”, in Joseph L. Wieczynski, editor, The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, volume 7, Academic International Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 49:
synonyms: go through
traverse
lustrate
glosses: To go through, to travel through, to transit or lie across a place or from one place to another.
examples: text: The dough is passed through the pasta machine several times.
glosses: To make something move through something else.
examples: text: We all passed through those phases.
glosses: To undergo; to experience.
examples: text: We passed through enemy lines in the fog.
glosses: Synonym of infiltrate.
synonyms: word: infiltrate
Related terms: may I pass through
passer-through
talk through
work through
pass through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pass throughs
Senses: glosses: A framed, window-like aperture in the interior wall of a house, usually between a kitchen and dining room, through which items (especially food) can be passed. A serving hatch.
Sheldon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛldən/
Etymology: From Old English scylf (“shelf”) + dūn (“hill”) or denu (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the placename.
examples: text: The pixels’ use in a taxpayer context resulted in the “reckless” sharing of legally protected data that could put taxpayers at risk, according to the report by Warren and her Democratic colleagues Sens. Ron Wyden; Richard Blumenthal; Tammy Duckworth; and Sheldon Whitehouse; Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Democrats; and Democratic Rep. Katie Porter.
ref: 2023 July 12, Brian Fung, “Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A place name:
A village and civil parish in Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire, England, famous for the legend of the Sheldon duck (OS grid ref SK1768).
glosses: A place name:
A village and civil parish in East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST1208).
glosses: A place name:
A suburb of Birmingham, West Midlands, England (OS grid ref SP1584).
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A village and township in Iroquois County, Illinois.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in O'Brien County and Sioux County, Iowa.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Vernon County, Missouri.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Wyoming County, New York.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A small city in Ransom County, North Dakota.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Beaufort County, South Carolina.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place and unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Franklin County, Vermont.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Rusk County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Shaldon
Wharton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈʍɔː(ɹ)tən/
/ˈwɔː(ɹ)tən/
Forms: form: Whartons
Etymology: Various possible origins:
* The villages in Cheshire and Herefordshire are named after the River Weaver, whose name derives from Old English wæfre (“wavering, winding”), + Old English tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The village in Lincolnshire is named with either Old English weard (“ward, guard”) or waroþ (“shore, warth”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
* The village in Cumbria is named with Old English hwearf (“wharf, embankment”) + tūn (“enclosure; settlement, town”).
Senses: glosses: A placename:
A neighbourhood of Winsford, Cheshire West and Chester district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ6666).
glosses: A placename:
A civil parish (without a council) near Kirkby Stephen, Eden district, Cumbria, England (OS grid ref NY7606).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Leominster parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO5055).
glosses: A placename:
A hamlet in Blyton parish, West Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref SK8493).
glosses: A placename:
A borough of Morris County, New Jersey, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A village in Wyandot County, Ohio, United States.
glosses: A placename:
A city, the county seat of Wharton County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A placename:
An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Derived terms: jelly of Wharton
Wharton County
Whartonesque
Whartonian
Wharton's duct
Wharton's jelly
modal case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modal cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case used to express ability, intention, necessity, obligation, permission, possibility, etc.
Related terms: essive-modal
a modal verb
a modal auxiliary--example of the modal case in English
revolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revolve
cap-gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cap-guns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cap gun.
kashrut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: Ashkenazi
ipa: /ˈkɑʃɹəs/
ipa: /kɑːʃˈɹuːt/
Forms: form: kashruth
form: kashrus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew כַּשְׁרוּת (kashrut).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The Jewish dietary laws, stating which foods are fit to eat.
Derived terms: eco-kashrut
Related terms: kosher
excessiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excessivenesses
Etymology: From excessive + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: excess
glosses: The property of being excessive.
bad egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæd ɛɡ/
Forms: form: bad eggs
Etymology: An allusion to an egg that has gone bad or turned rotten.
Senses: examples: text: "Dat's right!" piped up the newsboy who had brought the policeman. "I see him do de trick jest a minit ago!"
"This is a plot against me!" fumed the swindler.
"Dat feller is a bad egg!" went on the newsboy. "His name is Bill Butts. He's a slick one, he is. Hits de country jays strong, he does!"
ref: 1906, Horatio Alger, Joe the Hotel Boy:
text: I've been a fairly bad egg, Byrne, for a great many years; but, by George! I'm not entirely rotten yet.
ref: 1914 October – 1916 July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, in The Mucker, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published 31 October 1921, →OCLC:
text: My son had a drug problem and hired a bad egg as a chief accountant […]
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
text: "And the fifth immortal we know tried to kill you." "He is a bad''' egg. We stick to good eggs."
ref: 2017 May 26, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Friday, May 26, 2017:
glosses: Someone whose behaviour is reprehensible or irresponsible; a rogue.
qualifier: literal
glosses: An egg that has gone bad; a rotten egg.
Related terms: bad apple
bad seed
ergophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ergo- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: An irrational fear of or aversion to work
neck oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Neck oil lubricates the throat.
ref: 1995, Tom Langeste, Words on the Wing:
text: The neck oil was to flow profusely in Newquay that night.
ref: 2001, Terry Hanley, The Endless Bummer:
glosses: Beer or other alcoholic drink.
sunburned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌn.bɝnd/
Forms: form: more sunburned
form: most sunburned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sunburnt.
sunburned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsʌn.bɝnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sunburn
stingily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stingily
form: most stingily
Etymology: From stingy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stingy manner.
Related terms: stinginess
stickily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stickily
form: most stickily
Etymology: From sticky + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sticky manner.
knock for a loop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: knocks for a loop
form: knocking for a loop
form: knocked for a loop
form: knocked for a loop
Senses: examples: text: [Denham answered] "Gas bombs, Old Man! My own prescription. […] Gas bombs powerful enough to knock a row of elephants for a loop."
ref: 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 7:
text: [A] triple threat to the U.S. economy[…]has knocked stock prices for a loop.
ref: 1967 November 17, “Wall Street: Big Casino”, in Time, archived from the original on 20 Jul 2014:
text: Poor Janice, she'll be knocked for a loop. She'll feel she's let her father down.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest, →ISBN, page 394:
text: Karyn McNay as Ulla, the sexy Swedish actress/receptionist/cleaning woman, knocks the audience for a loop too.
ref: 2008 September 7, Anita Gates, “Stage: Dinner and a Show, in One Spot, at One Price”, in The New York Times, retrieved 02 Aug 2014:
synonyms: throw for a loop
throw off
glosses: To astonish; to stagger or overwhelm; to confuse or disorient.
stetson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stetsons
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Stetson.
steeliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From steely + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He had a steeliness of eye that tended to cow people who acted tough.
glosses: toughness, hardness or durability resembling (or likened to) that of steel.
shoot the bull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shoots the bull
form: shooting the bull
form: shot the bull
form: shot the bull
Senses: examples: text: 1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
I didn't get what this group therapy was all about, it seemed to me it was just a bunch of people shooting the bull.
text: Shooting the bull with Benny and Elvira while Nelson skitters around out there in the lake of rooftops, selling used cars like hotcakes.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
synonyms: word: shoot the breeze
word: shoot the shit
word: throw the bull
word: throw the bull around
glosses: To chinwag; to talk idly.
stone-deaf
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Completely deaf.
stone-cold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stone-cold
form: most stone-cold
form: stone cold
form: stonecold
Senses: examples: text: By the time I returned to my desk, my tea was stone-cold.
glosses: Completely cold.
examples: text: He was a stone-cold killer: he didn't flinch as he took the shot.
glosses: Without emotion.
examples: text: With an ace-high flush on an unpaired board, he had the stone-cold nuts.
glosses: Absolute; incomparable.
Derived terms: stone-cold fox
stone-cold sober