cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
early days
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It’s early days (yet) to know for certain.
text: Lorna liked the sudden transition from urban overcrowding to the rural isolation of Kintrawe House, but she knew it was early days yet.
ref: 2015, Dave Rigby, Darkstone: The Future May Be Closer Than You Think:
glosses: A time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion.
examples: text: In the early days of television, the service was always breaking down.
glosses: The initial period of an innovation
examples: text: Hold on. We're still early days on this.
text: This is still early days, with more to wrap up in the morning and […]
ref: 2010 December 11, Andrew Revkin, “Consensus Emerges On Common Climate Path”, NYTimes.com
glosses: Initial stages of a project.
Synonyms: sense: initial time period
word: beginning
sense: initial time period
word: dawning
sense: initial stage of a project
word: early innings
sense: initial stage of a project
word: formative year
sense: initial stage of a project
word: genesis
sense: initial stage of a project
word: inception
sense: initial stage of a project
word: outset
word-hoard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-hoards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wordhoard.
centrifugal forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrifugal force
cembalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cembalists
Senses: examples: text: Ensemble performances were led by the organist or cembalist ; he sat at his instrument, played the “accompaniment,” and directed the performance—now by movements of his head, now perhaps by beating time with one hand.
ref: 1895, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 17, page 384:
text: While the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart could conceivably be played fairly acceptably under the dual leadership of concertmaster and cembalist, the symphonies of Beethoven could not.
ref: 1948, Pierre Van Rensselaer Key, Alfred Human, Musical Digest - Volume 30, page 18:
text: The position of cembalist was one of equal honor and responsibility.
ref: 2013, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, The Life of Ludwig Van Beethoven: - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 72:
text: For instance, we read that Emanuel was “hired as first cembalist at a salary of three hundred thalers” and that he was: somewhat relieved when Christoph Nichelmann ... was appointed second cembalist in 1744, although this appointment was an occasion for Emanuel's embarrassment: Nichelmann was given a salary twice the size of his.
ref: 2017, David Schulenberg, C.P.E. Bach, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: An orchestral keyboard player; one who plays piano or harpsichord for an orchestra or ensemble.
ear trumpet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ear trumpets
form: ear-trumpet
form: eartrumpet
Senses: examples: text: The second student is a hard-of-hearing, eighty-year-old man with a long, white beard and a huge ear trumpet.
ref: 2012, Joseph DiMona, This Was Burlesque:
glosses: A conical device designed to channel sound to the apex, placed in the ear to serve as a hearing aid.
Synonyms: earhorn
otacousticon
Kosova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Albanian form, Kosova.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kosovo: A partly-recognized country on the Balkan Peninsula in Southeast Europe.
earthmoving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more earthmoving
form: most earthmoving
form: earth-moving
Etymology: From earth + moving.
Senses: topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: Designed to move large quantities of earth or rubble for civil engineering or building purposes.
synonyms: earthshaking
earthshattering
world-shaking
glosses: Of great significance.
Related terms: move heaven and earth
earthmoving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-moving
Etymology: From earth + moving.
Senses: examples: text: Work was started in January, 1958 and involved considerable earth-moving, as a cutting about 25ft deep was needed to give rail access to a newly acquired site to the north of the station.
ref: 1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 403:
glosses: The removal of large quantities of soil, e.g. from a construction site.
Related terms: earthmover
heavy equipment
mining
roadbuilder
tackle twill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tackle twills
Senses: glosses: A tough fabric originally used for American football pants. As newer fabrics were created and tackle twill was replaced with other materials such as Lycra, its primary use became lettering (name and number embroidery), as on athletic apparel.
back-biting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of back-bite
trikatu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Ayurveda
alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A digestive stimulant consisting of equal parts ginger root, black pepper, and long pepper.
ecumenicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ecumenical + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The belief that there should be better understanding and closer co-operation between different denominations in the Christian Church; usually, synonym of ecumenism.
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: absolute temperature
glosses: absorbance; absorbancy
examples: acad
glosses: academy; academician
glosses: accommodation
glosses: accumulator
glosses: accusative case
glosses: acid
examples: A; a.
glosses: acre; acres
glosses: address
glosses: adjutant
glosses: administration
glosses: admiral
glosses: adult
glosses: age; aged
glosses: air
glosses: air branch
glosses: aircraft; airplane
glosses: airman
glosses: alfa
glosses: alto
examples: a.
glosses: amateur
glosses: ambassador
glosses: Americanization
glosses: amphibian
glosses: amplitude
glosses: ana; anna
examples: Å
glosses: Angstrom
glosses: annus (a year)
glosses: anode
examples: ans.; ans; A
glosses: answer
glosses: application
glosses: apprentice
glosses: aqua
glosses: arctic
glosses: army
glosses: article
glosses: artificer
glosses: artillery
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: assault, as on a badge
glosses: associate; association
glosses: atomic weight
glosses: attack
glosses: author
glosses: automobile
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: Amer.
glosses: America
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Amos, the book of
glosses: April
glosses: Atlantic
glosses: August
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: absent
glosses: Absolute
glosses: accepted
glosses: adjusted
glosses: alto
glosses: American
glosses: amphibious
glosses: anterior
glosses: approved
glosses: arctic
glosses: arterial
glosses: Asian
glosses: asked
glosses: astragal
glosses: asymmetric
glosses: atomic
glosses: Australian
glosses: auxiliary
glosses: avancé (fast)
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: admit
glosses: Americanize
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: after
glosses: ante (before)
glosses: at
A.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: annō (Latin for “in the year”)
Perez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew פֶּרֶץ (pérets).
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The father of Hezron and the son of Judah; the grandson of Jacob.
glosses: A Sephardic Jewish surname from Hebrew.
Perez
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Pérez.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Derived terms: Cruzperez
Ramirezperez
Rodriguezperez
Related terms: Peres
qv
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of q.v..
s.n.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin s.n., an initialism of sine nōmine (“without a name”).
Senses: topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Indicating that the title of a cited work is unknown.
Related terms: anon.
n.d.
s.l.
egg-plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg-plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eggplant.
balalajka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balalajkas
Senses: examples: text: Every Cossack is a born dancer, and the merry tinkle of a “balalajka” band eventually proved too much for the colonel (a grey-haired veteran of over six feet), who suddenly rose from his seat, hurriedly left the messroom, and the next moment was wildly “pirouetting” amongst his men with, notwithstanding a flowing robe and spurs, the grace and agility of a ballet-girl.
ref: 1917, Harry de Windt, Russia as I Know It, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 57:
text: The Bayans and Balalajkas of the BERYOZKA FOLK DANCERS
ref: 1956, Friendship: Travel, Trade, Cultural Exchange, volume 1, number 4, page 28:
text: Praising the “play of thought” in Dostoevskij’s work since Crime and Punishment he exclaims: “Well, what sort of playing was there in Poor Folk? One string, and even that on a balalajka.”
ref: 1963, Vsevolod Setchkarev, Studies in the Life and Work of Innokentij Annenskij, Mouton & Co., page 238:
text: My deceased aunts and uncles, / Playing “Balalajkas”, / Sipping glasses of wine?
ref: 1975, The Polish Review, volume 20, Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America, page 84:
text: In the Novgorod uezd (Gruzinskaja volost’), for example, whole groups of ‘gypsy’ girls dressed in brightly coloured frocks and shawls would appear in the village streets going from house to house, dancing and singing gypsy songs to a balalajka and accordion accompaniment.
ref: 1977, Elizabeth A. Warner, The Russian Folk Theatre (Slavistic Printings and Reprintings), Mouton, →ISBN, page 17:
text: […] kruglolitsa” with an accompaniment by balalajkas, domras and a bajan.
ref: 1992, Report from the […] International Meeting of the International Council for Traditional Music’s Study Group on Folk Musical Instruments, Musikmuseet, page 94:
text: Russ. trynka-brynka ‘worthless little coin’ or ‘plink-plunk’ (of a balalajka), associatively helped by purely onomatopoeic tryndi-bryndi ‘plink-plunk’ (verbal rendition of balalajka’s sound ~ trynka ‘small silver coin,’ or a card-game; blended with tren’kat’ / bren’kat’ ‘play badly’ as a further associative echo.
ref: 2005, Mark R[oderick] V[endrell] Southern, Contagious Couplings: Transmission of Expressives in Yiddish Echo Phrases, Praeger, →ISBN, page 118:
text: Other times she was just Oxana, like now, when he lifted little Kolja up from the rough planks on the veranda and danced around with him in her arms, as if there were a balalajka orchestra in her head.
ref: 2013, Lene Kaaberbøl, Agnete Friis, translated by Elisabeth Dyssegaard, Death of a Nightingale, Soho Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of balalaika.
edgeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From edge + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having an edge, or whose boundary is unclear.
glosses: Not having a sharp cutting edge; blunt.
raw_tags: of a blade
examples: text: edgeless writing
glosses: Lacking edginess; bland and unchallenging.
Derived terms: edgelessly
edgelessness
Germanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: Germanity
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being German.
Czechness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Czech + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Smetana's romantic comedy epitomizes one stereotype of Czechness: happy villagers in quaint peasant garb, dancing polkas and skocnas in the local pub while singing hymns in praise of beer.
ref: 1999 May 2, Derek Katz, “MUSIC: Reading the Future in Readings of ‘Rusalka’”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 Dec 2009:
text: "I want people to find my work more European than specifically Czech, but I can't deny the Czechness present in my writing," he said.
ref: 2009 January 8, Stephan Delbos, “A literal literary pub crawl”, in The Prague Post, retrieved 12 Dec 2009:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Czech.
Americanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈmɛɹəkənəs/
/əˈmɛɹɪkənəs/
Forms: form: Americannesses
form: Americaness
Etymology: From American + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “There is a political equation of Americanness with speaking English,” said Arias. “People who don’t speak English are just as American as those who do.”
ref: 2018 June 15, Harmeet Kaur, “FYI: English isn’t the official language of the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being American.
Synonyms: Americanity
Related terms: Africanness
Asianness
Europeanness
Finnishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Finnish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bomfunk MCs, Darude, and HIM, he claims, are products of that part of Finnish culture that does not draw upon the national past and imagery of Finnishness, but instead borrows from the dialogue with ostensibly global popular music.
ref: 2007, Roger Beebe, Jason Middleton, Medium Cool: Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones, page 189:
text: This is not to say that before 1809 a notion of Finnishness did not exist, rather that Finnishness was not understood as the central identity marker of the people or understood as a political project.
ref: 2008, Christopher S. Browning, Constructivism, Narrative and Foreign Policy Analysis, page 74:
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Finnish.
Albanianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Albanian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality, characteristic or state of being Albanian.
Ecuadorianness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ecuadorian + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or characteristic of being Ecuadorian.
edit out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: edits out
form: editing out
form: edited out
form: edited out
Senses: glosses: To remove before publication or broadcasting (as an editorial decision).
egg cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg cups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eggcup.
centauress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centauresses
Etymology: From centaur + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: 1575. A CENTAURESS ſuckling a child. Cornelian.
ref: 1775, A catalogue of impressions in sulphur of antique and modern gems from which pastes are made and sold, page 55:
text: a Centaureſs with a young Man, ſhe holds a cymbal of gilt-bronze, the thrones of Venus and Mars, with their attributes, are in the fame picture
ref: 1800, Letters from Itality, page 122:
text: On a grass-plot of the most glossy verdure lies the centauress, with the whole equine part of her stretched on the ground, the hind feet extending backwards: while the upper female part is gently raised, and reclining on one elbow.
ref: 1820, Lucian of Samosata - Volume 1 - Page 772:
text: we see, from the emptied drinking-vessel of the Centauress before us, that the God did not neglect to requite them for their zeal
ref: 1837, Travels in Crete, Volume 2, page 12:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: centaurette
glosses: A female centaur.
echo sounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echo soundings
Senses: glosses: The technique of using reflected pulses of sound to determine depth or the location of objects (or fish) under water.
glosses: A particular measurement made using this technique.
Related terms: echo sounder
sonar
echolocation
vederala
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vederalas
Senses: topics: Ayurveda
alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: A practitioner of Ayurveda.
soprani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soprano
ebriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈbɹaɪ.ɪt.i/
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: ebrieties
Etymology: From French ébriété (“drunkenness”), from Latin ēbrietātem, from ēbrius (“drunk”).
Senses: examples: text: God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 412:
text: It had been as the murmurous consecration to follow the murmurous welcome; and even if it were but part of Aunt Maud's own spiritual ebriety—for the dear woman, one could see, was spiritually "keeping" the day—it served to Milly, then and afterwards, as a high-water mark of the imagination.
ref: 1902 August 21, Henry James, The Wings of the Dove, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
antonyms: sobriety
glosses: The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
glosses: An instance of being drunk.
Derived terms: inebriety
urger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urgers
Etymology: From urge + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the contrivers, maintainers, and urgers of the service-book, and other grievous innovations […]
ref: 1844, Andrew Stevenson, The history of the church and state of Scotland, page 195:
glosses: One who urges.
dations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dation
massas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massa
poling boats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poling boat
massés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of massé
vertebral columns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vertebral column
comédiennes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comédienne
comédienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comédiennes
Senses: examples: text: Annie Hughes, one of our very few comédiennes, has, happily for Londoners, been playing again in town (in “The Brixton Burglary.”)
ref: 1899 February, “Flashes from the Footlights”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume XX, number 185, London: […] Ingram Brothers […], page 639, column 1:
text: This lady is Mademoiselle Béjart, famed as a comédienne from Languedoc to Brittany.
ref: 1909, H[obart] C[hatfield] Chatfield-Taylor, “Honest Laughter”, in Fame’s Pathway: A Romance of a Genius, New York, N.Y.: Duffield & Company, book 2, page 118:
text: But during the first two acts, while she was indulging herself in comedy imitations which included everybody from Beatrice Lillie to Chic Sale, I could detect very little difference between her performance and that of several other tall English actresses who have visited us in the past few years (of whom I can remember only Lilian Braithwaite at the moment) and either deliberately mugg and run scales for the benefit of what is supposed to be the broader taste of the Colonies, or are just out-and-out bad comédiennes.
ref: 1932, “The Theatre: Minority Report”, in The New Yorker, volume 8, New York, N.Y., page 26, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of comedienne.
Omanis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Omani
dragonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dragoness
dwarfess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwarfesses
form: dwarvess
Etymology: From dwarf + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: Gibson and his wife were among the best English-born artists of their era. He was just three feet six inches in height; she was a dwarfess of the same proportion. This little couple had nine good-sized children, and having weathered the storms of civil war, lived happily together to old age.
ref: 1847, Agnes Strickland, Lives of the Queens of England, volume XIII, page 247:
text: “I have no idea what they will do with it,” he [Vladimir Nabokov] said. “Of course they will have to change the plot. Perhaps they will make Lolita a dwarfess. Or they will make her 16 and Humbert 26. I just don’t know. It’s difficult to translate a book into a movie.”
ref: 1958 November 24, “Ithaca and 'Lolita'”, in Newsweek, page 155:
text: Beside him stood a dwarfess, even smaller than he was, snub-nosed and doll-faced.
ref: 1980, Lilli Palmer, A Time to Embrace, page 201:
synonyms: dwarfette
glosses: A human female dwarf.
examples: text: 1990, Tanith Lee, “White As Sin, Now”, in Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (editors), The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, Third Annual Collection, St. Martin's Press, 0-312-04450-X, page 328,
Heracty has been told that the flaxen dwarfess once had an adventure in the mock forest below the Palace.
text: She was a silver-haired, rather portly dwarfess...and the most powerful enchantress in Ilsdale, if not in the known world.
ref: 2004, James Haberlin, Brian Haberlin, But, But...Barbarians?, page 207:
text: Opening the door, I immediately see a stout dwarfess, probably the owner, behind a counter and a group of young cat-people girls in aprons serving food and alcohol to customers.
ref: 2014, Fujino Omori, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, volume 1, page 51:
topics: fantasy
synonyms: dwarfette
dwarfmaid
dwarrowdam
glosses: A female of the dwarf race.
gobliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goblinesses
Etymology: From goblin + -ess.
Senses: topics: fantasy
human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A female goblin.
Synonyms: goblette
passée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more passée
form: most passée
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of passé (mostly used of women, being the French feminine form)
passés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of passé
tues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tue
CanOD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: CANOX
form: CanOx
Senses: examples: text: We start with the Concise Oxford, which we call the COD. (We call the Canadian Oxford the CanOD.) It had six Canadianisms, four wrongly defined.
ref: 2007, Joe Clark “Barber–Colombo” at fawny.org (quoting Katherine Barber, editor of the Canadian Oxford Dictionary)
glosses: Abbreviation of Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
chuck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chucks out
form: chucking out
form: chucked out
form: chucked out
Senses: glosses: To discard, to dispose of (something).
examples: text: […] she was not eligible to assume the presidency since she had been chucked out of the ruling party.
ref: 2012 April 11, “Malawi's new president: The woman for the job”, in The Economist:
glosses: ; To drive out; to turn out (somebody).
Synonyms: throw away
throw out
Derived terms: chucker-out
chucking-out time
Related terms: chuck off
portasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portass
halant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halants
form: halanta
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi हलंत (halant). The computing sense arises from the diacritic sense through the use in ISCII of the same computer character to act, depending on context and font capabilities, as either a visual diacritic or as a control character modifying a pair of consonants.
Senses: examples: a Devanagari example: क (ka) + ् = क् (k)
glosses: A diacritic used in most writing systems of the Indian subcontinent to signify the lack of an inherent vowel.
glosses: A sign which serves the same purpose in any writing system.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A character which binds consonants into a conjunct or some other form of visual combination which is prototypically a visual indication that the first consonant does not have an implicit vowel
Synonyms: virama
halons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halon
halas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hala
regardes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regarde
shinest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: shine + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of shine
embranglement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embranglements
Etymology: From embrangle + -ment.
Senses: glosses: embroilment, entanglement; the state of being or getting embrangled
psalmody
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑː.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsɑl.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsæ.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsæl.mə.di/
Forms: form: psalmodies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin psalmōdia, from Koine Greek ψαλμῳδίᾱ (psalmōidíā), from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “psalm”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: examples: text: They deserved the enmity of the Pagans; and some of them might deserve the reproaches of avarice and intemperance; of avarice, which they gratified with holy plunder, and of intemperance, which they indulged at the expense of the people, who foolishly admired their tattered garments, loud psalmody, and artificial paleness.
ref: 1781, Edward Gibbon, chapter XXVIII, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume III, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC:
text: All these strange antics were accompanied by still stranger guttural noises from the devotee, who seemed to be praying in a sing-song or else singing some pagan psalmody or other, during which his face twitched about in the most unnatural manner.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 3, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The singing or the writing of psalms.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A collection of psalms.
Related terms: psalmodial
psalmodist
psalmodize
psalmody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɑː.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsɑ.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsɑl.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsæ.mə.di/
ipa: /ˈsæl.mə.di/
Forms: form: psalmodies
form: psalmodying
form: psalmodied
form: psalmodied
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin psalmōdia, from Koine Greek ψαλμῳδίᾱ (psalmōidíā), from Ancient Greek ψαλμός (psalmós, “psalm”) + ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”).
Senses: glosses: To celebrate in psalms.
senarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /sɪˈnɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: senarii
Etymology: From Latin sēnārius.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A verse having six metric feet.
Synonyms: hexapody
Coordinate terms: binarius
ternarius
quaternarius
septenarius
octonarius
moment of force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moments of force
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: torque
coordinate_terms: force
work
energy
power
glosses: The turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation. The moment is equal to the magnitude of the force multiplied by the perpendicular distance between its line of action and the axis of rotation.
tapai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay tapai (“fermented rice”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Asian food made from fermented carbohydrate, such as rice or cassava.
galvanic couple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galvanic couples
Senses: glosses: The corrosive cell formed when two different metals are separated by an electrolyte, or the corrosion produced by this effect.
glosses: The pair of plates (made of different metals or other conductive materials) which form a voltaic cell in a battery.
ushankas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ushanka
oligopolymer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligopolymers
Etymology: From oligo- + polymer.
Senses: glosses: A polymer which occurs naturally in crude oil, or in one of its basic refractory components, usually a mixture of 2 or more polymers.
semi-precious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semiprecious
Etymology: From semi- + precious.
Senses: examples: text: This semiprecious stone, which resembles green glass, has gemlike qualities and is often used in jewelry.
ref: 2009, Simon Cox, Decoding The Lost Symbol, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Sort of or somewhat precious or valuable. Usually used as part of the phrase semi-precious stones or semi-precious gems.
Derived terms: semi-precious stone
semi-precious gem
resurfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resurface
resurfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resurface
resurfacing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resurfacings
Senses: examples: the need for frequent road resurfacings
glosses: The application of a new surface.
examples: text: The researchers measured the number of resurfacings per minute by each dolphin.
glosses: The act of coming above the surface again.
glosses: A reappearance or reoccurrence.
ushanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /uːˈʃɑːŋkə/
ipa: /uˈʃɑŋkə/
Forms: form: ushankas
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian уша́нка (ušánka), from у́ши (úši) (the accusative or nominative plural of у́хо (úxo, “ear”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ṓws (“ear”), from *h₂ew- (“to see; to be aware of, perceive”) with a shift of meaning) + -а́нка (-ánka) (variant of -я́нка (-jánka, suffix forming names of specific objects)).
Senses: examples: text: I have no idea why he's wearing a ushanka in triple digit heat; bro's forehead must be drenched in sweat.
coordinate_terms: shapka
trapper hat
glosses: A traditional Russian fur cap with earflaps.
resurfacer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resurfacers
Etymology: From resurface + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool or machine used to resurface.
glosses: A person who resurfaces something.
Derived terms: ice resurfacer
resurfacers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resurfacer
resubmerge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resubmerges
form: resubmerging
form: resubmerged
form: resubmerged
Etymology: From re- + submerge.
Senses: examples: text: The damaged submarine came up successfully, but was incapable of resubmerging and was captured on the surface.
glosses: To submerge again.
resubmerges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resubmerge
resubmerging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resubmerge
resubmerged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resubmerge
retouching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retouch
retouching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retouchings
Senses: glosses: A retouch.
retouches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retouch
retouches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retouch
retaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retake
retaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retakings
Senses: examples: text: Second, they argue that giving the original owner a take-back option might lead to an infinite sequence of takings and retakings if the exercise price for the take-back option (i.e., the damages assessed at each round) is set too low.
ref: 2010, Ian Ayres, Optional Law: The Structure of Legal Entitlements, page 75:
glosses: The act of taking again.
retinoblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinoblastoma
retinoblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retinoblastoma
retrofits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrofit
retrofits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrofit
retrofitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrofit
retrofitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrofittings
Senses: examples: text: One-hundred-and-six years is a long time and during that period there had been dozens of upgrades and retrofittings
ref: 2012, Terrance Riley, Falling from Heaven, page 8:
glosses: The process by which something is retrofitted.
reveres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revere
revering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revere
embrangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embrangles
form: embrangling
form: embrangled
form: embrangled
Etymology: From em- + brangle.
Senses: examples: text: When it came to governments as hostile to Washington as the Sandinista, such an observation embrangles Sigal's larger claim about "official dominance of national and foreign news."
ref: 2003, Robert S. Leiken, Why Nicaragua Vanished: A Story of Reporters and Revolutionaries:
text: Then there was poor Jacob Dodson, the half-witted boy, who ambled about cheerfully, undertaking messages and little helpful odds and ends for every one, which, however, poor Jacob managed always hopelessly to embrangle.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
glosses: To embroil.
Derived terms: disembrangle
embranglement
responders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responder
reoccupies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reoccupy
reoccupying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reoccupy
reoccupied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reoccupy
punkest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of punk: most punk
brangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: brangles
Etymology: Perhaps related to branle.
Senses: examples: text: "I was a fool, it's a fact, to let any such brangle come up," said Legree; "but, when the boy set up his will, he had to be broke in."
ref: 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin:
glosses: A squabble.
brangle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹæŋ.ɡəl/
rhymes: -æŋɡəl
Forms: form: brangles
form: brangling
form: brangled
form: brangled
Etymology: Perhaps related to branle.
Senses: examples: text: "As if he'd let a cow-handed bantling like you handle them," Cecily muttered.
"Children!" Meredyth protested, her face flushing. "What must Lord Englemere think, to hear you brangle so?"
ref: 1999, Julia Justiss, The Wedding Gamble, page 104:
glosses: To squabble.
Derived terms: branglement
brangler
embrangle
Felliniesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Felliniesque
form: most Felliniesque
Etymology: From the name of the Italian film director Federico Fellini, + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Fantastical or surreal.
glosses: In the manner of the films of Fellini.
hop a freight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hops a freight
form: hopping a freight
form: hopped a freight
form: hopped a freight
Senses: examples: text: Never hop a freight, for nothing quite heals
The wound received under grinding wheels.
ref: 1915 April, Edward L. Tinker, ““Nevers” for Children”, in The Mediator, volume 7, number 4, Cleveland, page 12:
glosses: To travel as a stowaway aboard a freight train on a railroad.
Synonyms: hop freight
Santa Fé
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese Santa Fé (“holy faith”).
Senses: glosses: City in the state of Paraná, Brazil
-lings
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Middle English -linges, variant (with genitive -es) of Middle English -ling (adverbial suffix), equivalent to -ling + -s. Compare Dutch -lings (adverbial suffix), German -lings.
Senses: glosses: forming adverbs, generally of condition or situation
crepida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepidae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crepida, from Ancient Greek κρηπίς (krēpís). Doublet of crepis.
Senses: examples: text: There was likewise found an abundant variety of shoes; the heavy caliga, or sandal, worn by the Roman soldiers, studded under the sole with large-headed nails, the calceus or buskin (3) and the more delicate crepida (4), or slipper looped in the leather on each side of the instep, in like manner with the buskin.
ref: 1854, “Ancient London.—No. IX.”, in The Home Friend; A Weekly Miscellany of Amusement and Instruction, volume IV, number 91, London: […] Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge […], pages 300–301:
text: The museum, though small, contains some very interesting objects classified in groups. In one case are Roman and other shoes, sandals, and crepidæ; […]
ref: 1866 July 20, “The Annual Congress of the Archæological Institute”, in The Building News and Engineering Journal: […], volume XIII, London: […] Proprietor of the “Building News,” [John Passmore Edwards] […], page 484, column 3:
text: The sole of the crepida was usually thick and leather covered the sides and heel of the foot. The crepida, considered the shoe for traveler, young man and warrior, varied in style for civilian and soldier.
ref: 1948, R[uth] Turner Wilcox, “Roman Footwear”, in The Mode in Footwear, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons; London: Charles Scribner’s Sons, Ltd, page 31:
text: What restlessness could have made the goddess trample the earth so fast under the crepidae twisted up on her legs like the sandals of our Romanian frontier guards.
ref: 1984, Romanian Review, volume 38, page 74:
text: Crepidae often covered the foot up to or including the ankle, and they sometimes covered the toes, not a regular feature of the sandal. An excellent example of crepidae with high layered, multicolored soles is depicted in the room of the initiation in the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii, as worn by Ariadne.
ref: 1994 December, Norma Goldman, “Roman Footwear”, in Judith Lynn Sebesta, Larissa Bonfante, editors, The World of Roman Costume (Wisconsin Studies in Classics), Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, published 2001, →ISBN, part I (Roman Garments, Hairstyles, Accessories), page 114, column 1:
text: He had even been known to go out and about dressed in ancient Macedonian style to mimic his hero – the flat kausia hat and the crepidae shoes.
ref: 2019, Alex Gough, Emperor’s Knife (The Imperial Assassin; 2), London: Canelo, published 2022, →ISBN:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A type of footwear consisting of a sole attached to the foot with fairly elaborate straps, distinguished by the Ancient Greeks and Ancient Romans from sandals proper but now usually considered a style of sandal.
wikipedia: Apollo Belvedere
unplausible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unplausible
form: most unplausible
Etymology: From un- + plausible.
Senses: glosses: Implausible
eclegm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclegms
Senses: glosses: A medicine made of oils mixed with syrups; a linctus.
impanate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpænət/
Forms: form: impanates
form: impanating
form: impanated
form: impanated
Etymology: From Late Latin impānātus, past participle of impānō.
Senses: synonyms: inbread
glosses: To embody in bread, especially in the bread of the Eucharist.
Related terms: impanation
impanate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpænət/
Etymology: From Late Latin impānātus, past participle of impānō.
Senses: examples: text: And then, as we have God verily incarnate for our redemption, so should we have him, impanate
ref: 1550, Thomas Cranmer, Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Christ:
glosses: Embodied in bread, especially in the bread of the Eucharist.
second moment of inertia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second moments of inertia
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of a body's resistance to bending; second moment of area.
Related terms: english: rotational dynamics
translation: rotational dynamics
word: moment of inertia
word: polar moment of inertia for torsional strength
second moment of area
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second moments of area
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of a body's resistance to bending.
Synonyms: sense: measure of resistance to bending
word: second moment of inertia
sense: measure of resistance to bending
word: moment of inertia
polar moment of inertia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polar moments of inertia
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A measure of a body's resistance to twisting; a measure of torsional strength.
Related terms: english: rotational dynamics
translation: rotational dynamics
word: moment of inertia
word: second moment of area for resistance to bending
thiasarches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thiasarch
fireboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firebox
periostraca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of periostracum
periostracal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From periostracum + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to periostracum.
double-play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-plays
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double play.
Kumjoinus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Reduction of come join us.
Senses: glosses: A word used in the title of a church or a religious group or class.
saddle tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle trees
Senses: topics: equestrianism
hobbies
horses
lifestyle
pets
sports
glosses: The base on which the rest of the saddle is built, usually based on wood or a similar synthetic material, and is eventually covered in leather or a leatherlike synthetic.
glosses: The tulip tree.
Synonyms: saddle bow
Hypernyms: english: structurally
translation: structurally
word: tree
Related terms: tree-maker
mochila
saddle trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle tree
treeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tree
treeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Forms: form: treeings
Senses: glosses: A tree-like pattern or formation.
Derived terms: electrical treeing
water treeing
treeing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Other sounds: someone, far off, trying to start a car. Farther off, the bugle-baying of a treeing dog.
ref: 1970, Donald Harington, Lightning Bug:
glosses: That is driving something or someone up a tree.
treed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tree
treed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more treed
form: most treed
Senses: examples: text: even in its urban heart, Eugene is more treed than paved.
ref: 1995, Stephanie Irving with David Brewster, Northwest Best Places, page 96:
text: This lends support for the view, propounded to me by landowners in east central Alberta, that the region is now more treed than when it was homesteaded.
ref: 2003, Jack Brink with Johan Frederik Dormaar, Archaeological Society of Alberta, Archaeology in Alberta, page 25:
text: Crete is now more wooded (and vastly more treed) than at any time for at least seven hundred years.
ref: 2003, Alfred Thomas Grove with Oliver Rackham, The Nature of Mediterranean Europe: An Ecological History, page 187:
glosses: Planted or covered with trees.
Related terms: gum-treed
abunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abuna
omphaloskeptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphaloskeptic
bordons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bordon
use case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: use cases
form: use-case
Etymology: From use + case.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A potential scenario in which a system receives an external request (such as user input) and responds to it.
examples: text: So Amazon unveiled more software services to make A.W.S. indispensable. In a speech at the event, Andy Jassy, the head of A.W.S., said it wanted to “enable every imaginable use case.”
ref: 2019 December 15, Daisuke Wakabayashi, “Prime Leverage: How Amazon Wields Power in the Technology World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Shopify fulfills what’s known in the software development community as the “80 percent use case,” which means it provides 80 percent of the features that merchants need and third-party developers supply the rest[…]
ref: 2020 November 24, Yiren Lu, “Can Shopify Compete With Amazon Without Becoming Amazon?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A usage scenario for a piece of software; often used in the plural to suggest situations where a piece of software may be useful.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
qualifier: generally
glosses: A usage scenario for a product, such as a piece of equipment or a tool.
Related terms: persona
class diagram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: class diagrams
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A type of static structure diagram that describes the structure of a system by showing the system's classes, their attributes, and the relationships between the classes.
Paralympics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Paralympics
Etymology: Blend of para- (as in paraplegia or parallel (as preferred by the International Paralympic Committee itself, according to Snopes)) + Olympics
Senses: examples: text: At present, however, the Long Beach resident has more than records on his mind, mainly getting a representative U.S. team to the 1964 "paralympics" to be held in Tokyo Nov. 8–12. [Frank] Vecera is on a fund-raising drive for the six California athletes selected to perform on this year's team. The tab for transporting the six to Tokyo is $3,900.
ref: 1964 August 20, “Funds sought for ‘Paralympian’ trip”, in Nick B[oddie] Williams, editor, Los Angeles Times, volume LXXXIII, number 250, Los Angeles, Calif.: Times Mirror Company, →OCLC, part III (Sports), page 8, columns 2–3:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Synonym of Paralympic Games (“an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue”).
synonyms: word: Paralympic Games
extra: an international sports competition participated in by sportspeople with physical disabilities, which is held every four years as a counterpart of the Olympic Games and nowadays at the same venue
Coordinate terms: Deaflympic
Olympic
Related terms: Paralympiad
Paralympian
Paralympic
Paralympic Games
Paras
goal difference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goal differences
Senses: examples: text: The hosts went close on several occasions with Victor Obinna and Robbie Keane impressive in the first half, yet they had trouble carving out many clear openings and the defeat leaves them at the bottom of the Premier League on goal difference, two points from safety.
ref: 2011 February 6, Alistair Magowan, “West Ham 0 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
text: England will qualify for the semi-finals if they beat Scotland on Tuesday and the Netherlands drop points in their final match with Belgium.
However, even if the Netherlands beat Belgium at home, England could still go through if they defeat the Scots by a sufficiently large scoreline to take their goal difference above the Dutch.
ref: 2023 December 1, Emma Sanders, “England 3-2 Netherlands”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The difference between the number of goals scored and the number of goals conceded, over the duration of a competition.
UML
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Unified Modeling Language.