cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
occipital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏk-sĭp'-ĭt-əl
ipa: /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.əl/
ipa: /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.l̩/
ipa: /ɑkˈsɪp.ət.l̩/
rhymes: -ɪpɪtəl
Etymology: Borrowing from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput + -al. Doublet of occipitalis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located within or near the occiput (back of the head) or the occipital bone.
Derived terms: atlanto-occipital
atlantooccipital
atlantoccipital
basioccipital
basiooccipital
cervicooccipital
craniooccipital
epioccipital
exooccipital
exoccipital
frontooccipital
frontaloccipital
hyperoccipital
infraoccipital
interoccipital
laterooccipital
lateraloccipital
medioccipital
midoccipital
nonoccipital
occipital artery
occipital bone
occipital bun
occipital horn syndrome
occipital lobe
occipitally
occipital nerve
occipital point
occipito-
occipit-
otooccipital
otoccipital
oticooccipital
paraoccipital
paroccipital
parieto-occipital
parietooccipital
ponto-geniculo-occipital
postoccipital
preoccipital
sphenooccipital
suboccipital
superoccipital
supraoccipital
temporo-occipital
temporooccipital
temporoccipital
temporoparietooccipital
trachelo-occipital
occipital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏk-sĭp'-ĭt-əl
ipa: /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.əl/
ipa: /ɒkˈsɪp.ɪt.l̩/
ipa: /ɑkˈsɪp.ət.l̩/
rhymes: -ɪpɪtəl
Forms: form: occipitals
Etymology: Borrowing from Middle French occipital, from Medieval Latin occipitālis, from occiput (“the back of the head, occiput”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix), equivalent of occiput + -al. Doublet of occipitalis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of occipital bone.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
zootomy
glosses: An occipital scale in reptiles.
health care
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healthcare
form: health-care
Senses: examples: text: I think free health care should also cover nearsightedness.
text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
glosses: The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
Hyponyms: allied health
dentistry
medicine
nursing
optometry
veterinary medicine
Derived terms: Canadian healthcare
hallway health care
managed health care
ringside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ring + -side.
Senses: examples: text: We got our hands on a pair of ringside tickets for the boxing match.
text: April 19 2002, Scott Tobias, AV Club Fightvillehttp://www.avclub.com/articles/fightville,72589/
And though Fightville, an MMA documentary from the directors of the fine Iraq War doc Gunner Palace, presents it more than fairly, the sight of a makeshift ring getting constructed on a Louisiana rodeo ground does little to shake the label. Nor do the shots of ringside assistants with spray bottles and rags, mopping up the blood between rounds
glosses: Beside the ring, especially a boxing ring.
ringside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringsides
Etymology: From ring + -side.
Senses: glosses: Area beside a ring.
Derived terms: ringside seat
cédille
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cédilles
form: cedille
Etymology: From French cédille. Doublet of cedilla.
Senses: glosses: A cedilla.
cognisances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cognisance
-ido
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Back-formation from Esperantido.
Senses: examples: text: Volapük + -ido → Volapükido (“conlang derived from Volapük”)
text: Toki Pona + -ido → tokiponido (“conlang derived from Toki Pona”)
text: In the "Language Samples" section it also has Communicationssprache (1836) – mostly a simplified French; […] and Spelin (1888), which seems to be a thoroughly reformed Volapükido […
ref: 2023 August 20, u/Christian_Si, Reddit, archived from the original on 19 Nov 2023:
text: at long last, i've completed my tokiponido, "toki pona with penultimate stress"! i'll post the docs shortly after
ref: 2024 February 9, @blazerlazer55, Twitter, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2024:
glosses: Attached to a the name of a language (typically a constructed language) to denote a conlang derived from or based on that language.
expostulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expostulation
Hick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Forms: form: Hicks
Etymology: Rhyming nickname for Rick, pet form of Richard.
Senses: qualifier: rare today
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Richard.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Synonyms: word: Hicks
word: Hickson
word: Higgs
sense: given name
word: Dick
sense: given name
word: Rich
sense: given name
word: Richard
sense: given name
word: Rick
Derived terms: hick
Hicks
Hickson
Higgs
Related terms: Dickson
Dix
Dixon
Richard
Richards
Richardson
misanthropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪkəl
Forms: form: more misanthropical
form: most misanthropical
Senses: examples: text: Although, as we have seen, Mr. Pen had pronounced himself for years past to be a man perfectly blase and wearied of life, yet the truth is that he was an exceedingly healthy young fellow still: with a fine appetite, which he satisfied with the greatest relish and satisfaction at least once a day; and a constant desire for society, which showed him to be anything but misanthropical.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 47, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: misanthropic
punker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: punkers
Etymology: From punk + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Four big hippie bikers were out there drinking & eyeing up the punkers.
text: And famous punker Joe Strummer figures prominently in Mercury's life.
ref: 1988 July 29, Diana Spinrad, “Burnin' With the 8 Ball”, in Chicago Reader:
text: She was a crack-up, she thought she was such a punker. She always had some punk group on her headset.
ref: 2006, John De Herrera, The Kingsnake in the Sun, page 72:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of punk (“a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre”).
synonyms: word: punk
extra: a musician known for playing punk rock or a fan of the genre
punker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌŋkə(ɹ)
Forms: form: punkers
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of punkah.
detartrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: detartrates
form: detartrating
form: detartrated
form: detartrated
Etymology: From de- + tartrate.
Senses: examples: text: Conditioning treatments are employed to clean, detartrate, and discourage microbial growth.
ref: 2002, Richard P. Vine, Ellen M. Harkness, Sally J. Linton, Winemaking: From Grape Growing to Marketplace, page 134:
glosses: To remove tartrates, especially from fruit juices and wines, in order to reduce tartness or sourness.
Derived terms: detartration
tartrates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartrate
alkylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkylations
Etymology: From alkyl + -ation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction in which an alkyl group is added to a molecule; used in the production of high-octane petroleum fuels.
Derived terms: aminoalkylation
bioalkylation
bisalkylation
dealkylation
dialkylation
hydroalkylation
monoalkylation
overalkylation
polyalkylation
Related terms: alkylate
alkylated
hear out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hears out
form: hearing out
form: heard out
form: heard out
Senses: examples: text: Stop interrupting and hear me out!
glosses: To listen to someone until that person has finished speaking; to thoroughly consider all aspects of someone's argument.
Related terms: hear me out
hard feelings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you will name the price you put upon the articles, it is possible the damage may be quietly settled between us, and all hard feelings forgotten.
ref: 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 31, in The Prairie:
text: This foreign visitor asked me how I felt about the war, and I told him that it was over, and I bore no hard feelings.
ref: 1922, Upton Sinclair, chapter 1, in They Call Me Carpenter:
text: The eviction itself went relatively smoothly, but the hard feelings it generated resound deep inside Israeli army barracks.
ref: 2007 August 16, Tim McGirk, “The West Bank: Mission Critical”, in Time:
glosses: Resentment, anger.
Derived terms: no hard feelings
Tainan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: tīʹnänʹ
Forms: form: T'ai-nan
Etymology: From Mandarin 臺南／台南 (Táinán), meaning "South Taiwan". Officially named ca. 1885 with the creation of Tainan Prefecture.
Senses: examples: text: Camphora officinarum, Nees. The aggregate exports of camphor from China have increased considerably of late years. They were 22,231 cwt. in 1892, and 40,763 cwt. in 1893. The island of Formosa yields the principal quantities, the yearly output being now as much as 41,650 cwt., shipped from the ports of Tamsui and Tainan.
ref: 1895 March, P. L. Simmonds, “Notes on Some Saps and Secretions Used in Pharmacy”, in American Journal of Pharmacy, Philadelphia, page 128:
text: The Council of the Mission, at its headquarters in Tainan appeals to the Church at home to make the jubilee year worthy of the name by an endeavor to reach with the Gospel the yet unevangelized tribes of uncivilized aborigines on the eastern side of the island.
ref: 1914 October, “Unreached Aborigines of Formosa”, in Missionary Review of the World, volume XXXVII, number 10, page 790:
text: "Without him, what kind of life would we have today," sobbed an old man from Tainan.
ref: 1975 April 20, “President Chiang still lives in hearts of people”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVI, number 15, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: Taiwan was fighting against time on Sunday to rescue some 120 people believed to be trapped in a building, which collapsed on Saturday when a 6.4-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern city of Tainan.
ref: 2016 February 7, “After earthquake, Taiwan fighting against time to rescue trapped survivors”, in EFE, archived from the original on 17 May 2016:
glosses: A major city in southern Taiwan, dating to the 16th century
examples: text: Chungshe is one of eleven villages in Liuchia township, Tainan county (see Maps 2 and 3). It lies about 30 kilometers northeast of Tainan city.
ref: 1972, Burton Pasternak, Kinship & Community in Two Chinese Villages, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 10:
text: At graduation from Lungtien Primary School in Tainan County, I received the County Magistrate's Award, given to the top-ranked student in the class. From there, I tested into Tainan County's junior high school, and during my junior year there represented Tainan County in the first national Chinese language essay competition, placing second.
ref: 2000, Chen Shui-Bian, “Living and Growing”, in David J. Toman, transl., The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan, Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd., →ISBN, →OCLC, page 55:
glosses: A former county of Taiwan.
Synonyms: word: Fort Orange
word: Fort Zeelandia
word: Fort Provintia
topics: legal
law
word: Tainan City
word: Taiwan
word: T'ai-wan
word: Phoenix City
Related terms: Taipei
vorarephile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vorarephiles
Etymology: From Latin vorare (“to devour”) + -phile.
Senses: glosses: A person who has vorarephilia.
jannock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jannock
form: most jannock
Senses: glosses: Pleasant, outspoken, honest, genuine, straightforward, or generous.
jannock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jannocks
Senses: glosses: A small oatmeal loaf.
retcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retcon
retcons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retcon
nonimportation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonimportations
Etymology: From non- + importation.
Senses: glosses: A policy of refusing to import goods; especially the policy in 18th-century colonial America of preventing imports from Britain
writs of assistance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writ of assistance
peonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peony
pellets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pellet
pellets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pellet
pelvises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelvis
penalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penalized
form: most penalized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of penalised
Derived terms: nonpenalized
unpenalized
penalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of penalize
penalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of penalize
conciliator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conciliators
Etymology: From Latin conciliātor. By surface analysis, conciliate + -or.
Senses: synonyms: reconciler
reconciliator
glosses: A person who conciliates.
concussive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concussive
form: most concussive
Etymology: From concuss + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing concussion
Derived terms: concussively
concussiveness
postconcussive
subconcussive
Related terms: concussion
penalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of penalize
condemner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈdɛmə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: condemners
form: condemnor
Etymology: From condemn + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who condemns or censures
penalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of penalise
penalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more penalised
form: most penalised
Senses: glosses: Subject to a penalty as a punishment
Derived terms: unpenalised
pendula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pendulum, by analogy with Latin second declension nouns, such as bacterium/bacteria, though Latin pendulum is the neuter singular form of the adjective pendulus, whose neuter plural is indeed pendula.
Senses: glosses: plural of pendulum
penalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: penalises
form: penalising
form: penalised
form: penalised
Etymology: From penal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of penalize.
Derived terms: penalisation
penalization
penetrates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of penetrate
peninsulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peninsula
conductibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conductibilities
Senses: glosses: The ability to conduct electricity.
Synonyms: conductance
Derived terms: electroconductibility
nonconductibility
conductible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conductible
form: most conductible
Etymology: From conduct + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Able to conduct (heat, electricity, etc.).
glosses: Able to be conducted or transmitted.
Derived terms: nonconductible
conferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conferable
form: most conferable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of conferrable.
conferrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conferrable
form: most conferrable
form: conferable
Etymology: From confer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being conferred
conferee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conferees
Etymology: From confer + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: His critics ask him if he expects to prevent the conferees in the Conference from talking to one another in the Metropolitan Club and from then coming to the Conference's open sessions merely to register the results of their secret conferrings.
ref: 1921, Asia: Journal of the American Asiatic Association:
text: A press conference was held at 1:30 with many representatives of the press from around the state eating lunch with the conferees.
ref: 1974 April 27, “Maine Symposium”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
glosses: A person who participates in a conference.
glosses: A person on whom something is conferred or bestowed.
Synonyms: sense: a person who participates in a conference
word: conference delegate
sense: a person who participates in a conference
word: conference member
sense: a person who participates in a conference
word: conference participant
conferment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conferments
Etymology: From confer + -ment.
Senses: examples: a ceremony for the conferment of academic degrees
glosses: The act of conferring; a presentation or bestowal.
Synonyms: conferral
perforating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perforate
conferral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈfɝəl/
ipa: /kənˈfɜːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɜːɹəl
Forms: form: conferrals
Etymology: From confer + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The conferral date of an award shall be the date of approval by the Vice-Chancellor.
ref: 2012, John Rowe, Awards and Graduation Manual, Curtin University, page 7
glosses: The act of conferring something; conferment
Derived terms: conferralism
conferralist
pullup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pullups
form: pull-up
Etymology: Deverbal from pull up.
Senses: glosses: An exercise done for strengthening the arms and upper body, in which one lifts one's own weight while hanging from a bar.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A pull-up resistor.
Derived terms: pull-up resistor
Related terms: chin-up
push-up
conferrer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conferrers
Etymology: From confer + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who confers or bestows something
committeemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of committeeman
committeewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of committeewoman
personalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of personalize
confessedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /kənˈfɛsɪdli/
Forms: form: more confessedly
form: most confessedly
Etymology: From confessed + -ly.
Senses: examples: Confessedly, he is the handsomest man in his house.
glosses: Admittedly; by one's own confession.
examples: text: This attempt to confound the seven Epistles mentioned by Eusebius with the other confessedly spurious Epistles, as if they presented themselves to us with the same credentials, ignores all the important facts bearing on the question.
ref: 1889, Joseph Lightfoot, Essays on the work entitled "Supernatural Religion":
glosses: In a way that is generally acknowledged.
pertinently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pertinently
form: most pertinently
Etymology: From pertinent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pertinent manner; relevantly.
Synonyms: word: appositely
word: aptly
word: apropos
word: fitly
word: pertinently
word: relevantly
Hypernyms: word: appropriately
word: properly
word: suitably
Hyponyms: word: above all
Related terms: word: pertain
word: pertinent
phrased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Derived terms: unphrased
phrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪzd/
rhymes: -eɪzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of phrase
pervading
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Derived terms: pervadingly
pervadingness
pervading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pervade
pestering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pester
pestering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pesterings
Senses: examples: text: By swaying the Welsh he could at the same time deflect the pesterings he suffered from in England about the 1886 policy […]
ref: 1984, Richard Shannon, Gladstone: 1809-1865:
glosses: An act or instance of annoying somebody.
petitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of petition
petitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petitionings
Senses: examples: text: They would have turned her forth, I think, but for my own poor petitionings, unceasing in her behalf.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or, The Ambiguities:
glosses: The act of making a petition or appeal.
music stand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: music stands
Senses: glosses: A stand made for holding pages or books of sheet music.
glosses: A raised platform for a musical band; bandstand.
untainted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈteɪntɪd/
Forms: form: more untainted
form: most untainted
Etymology: From un- + tainted.
Senses: examples: text: The master of [the Bell public house] is brother to the great preacher Whitefield; but is absolutely untainted with the pernicious principles of Methodism, or of any other heretical sect.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: Time was when Love and I were well acquainted.
Time was when we walked ever hand in hand.
A saintly youth, with worldly thought untainted,
None better loved than I in all the land!
ref: 1877, W. S. Gilbert, The Sorcerer, Act I:
glosses: Not tainted; free of contamination; pure.
pig dog
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pig dogs
form: pig dogging
form: pig dogged
form: pig dogged
form: pigdog
form: pig-dog
Etymology: In Sense 2, a calque of German Schweinehund. Taj Burrow offers two (perhaps fanciful) explanations for Sense 3: that surfers tend to assume a dog-like expression when in this stance (page 119) or that the stance is low and sturdy like a dog (glossary page 171).
Senses: examples: text: Pig dogging from the take-off is easier than surfing along the wave, lining up a section, grabbing the rail and setting up the tube.
ref: 2003, Taj Burrow, edited by Sam McIntosh, Taj Burrow’s Book of Hot Surfing, Rollingyouth Press, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: To surf in the pig dog stance.
æciospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æciospores
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aeciospore.
æcium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æcia
form: æciums
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aecium.
Yoselyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a modern variant of Jocelyn, by folk etymology interpreted as a feminine form of Jose/José.
æstivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æstivations
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aestivation.
ululated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The boy ululated as he fell to the ground and smashed his arm.
glosses: simple past and past participle of ululate
æsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æsthetic
form: most æsthetic
Senses: examples: text: In the absence of any æsthetic criteria, money is the only yardstick. All “tastes”, like all “needs”, are attended to by the market.
ref: 1995, Richard Appignanesi [orig. ed.], Ziauddin Sardar, and Patrick Curry, Introducing Postmodernism, page 47, “Eclectic Postmodernism” (Icon Books UK / Totem Books USA; →ISBN
glosses: Dated spelling of aesthetic.
æsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æsthetics
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of aesthetic.
ærose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ærose
form: most ærose
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aerose.
algæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alga
anæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anæmias
form: anæmiæ
Senses: examples: text: Harry said "No.” Voted her dullish, and “cold like all blond women, with a touch, perhaps, of anæmia of the brain.”
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Dated spelling of anaemia.
Derived terms: Addison's anæmia
anæmial
anæmic
aplastic anæmia
miner's anæmia
azotæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of azotaemia.
bacteræmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bacteraemia.
eudæmonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eudæmonic
form: most eudæmonic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eudaemonic.
færie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: færies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of faerie (“fairy”).
formulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1827, Francis Baily, Astronomical Tables and Formulæ (published by John Richardson) (link)
glosses: plural of formula
dædal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Here ancient Art her dædal fancies play’d
In the quaint mazes of the criſped roof ;
In mellow glooms the ſpeaking pane array’d,
And rang’d the cluſter’d colum, maſſy proof.
ref: 1777, Thomas Warton, “Ode III”, in The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Warton, and Poet Laureate, volume I, page 136:
glosses: Alternative spelling of daedal.
hæmophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of haemophilia.
hæmorrhoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmorrhoids
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of hemorrhoid.
Derived terms: hæmorrhoidal
hæmorrhage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmorrhages
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of haemorrhage.
hæmorrhage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hæmorrhages
form: hæmorrhaging
form: hæmorrhaged
form: hæmorrhaged
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of haemorrhage.
hyæna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyæna
form: hyænæ
form: hyænas
Senses: examples: text: "This will I do, saying that it is the word of She that it be done, and he who obeyeth not the word of She food is he for the hyænas."
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hyena.
boscage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒskɪdʒ/
ipa: /bɑskɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: boscages
form: boskage
Etymology: From the Middle English boskage, from the Old French boscage, from Vulgar Latin *boscāticum, from Late Latin boscus, from Frankish *busk (compare Middle Dutch busch), from Proto-Germanic *buskaz (“forest, woods”).
Senses: examples: text: At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
ref: 1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571:
text: The shadiest boskage covers it perpetually.
ref: 1888, “T'Yeer-na-n-Oge”, in W. B. Yeats, editor, Irish Fairy and Folk Tales:
text: An abundance of bird life dwells in the luxuriant boscage of the cuttings, and the whole six miles provide a rich field of study for the botanist.
ref: 1950 March, Eric S. Tonks, “The Whitacre—Hampton-in-Arden Line, L.M.R.”, in Railway Magazine, page 187:
glosses: A place set with trees or mass of shrubbery, a grove or thicket.
topics: law
glosses: Mast-nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs, or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Among painters, a picture depicting a wooded scene.
glosses: A tax on wood.
Related terms: bocage
bosk
bosky
headshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headshells
Etymology: From head + shell.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A component of a record player that is attached to the end of a turntable arm. The cartridge is bolted to it.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A component of a Sun server, used to connect a console between two Sun machines. It is made up of a DB-25 male connector with a normal Cat-5 ethernet cable connecting to another DB-25 male connector.
delative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Latin deferre (“to bear or bring away or down”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: delative case
glosses: A grammatical case of nouns used, chiefly in Hungarian, to express movement from the surface of something (like "moved off the table").
superessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Etymology: From Latin superesse (“to be over and above”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the superessive case.
superessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: superessives
Etymology: From Latin superesse (“to be over and above”).
Senses: examples: text: "TIZA 'ten' and HUSA 'twenty' have irregular superessives in forms such as "TIZA:N + "OT tizenot [tizenot] 'fifteen', HUSA:N + HAT huszonhat [husonhot] 'twenty-six';[…].
ref: 1988, Daniel Mario Abondolo, Hungarian Inflectional Morphology, page 264:
text: […]the same three dimensions accommodate distinctions not merely between 'interior' and 'exterior' cases but also between them (and 'posterior' cases) and superessives ('superior' cases).
ref: 1999, E. K. Brown, Jim Miller, Concise Encyclopedia of Grammatical Categories, page 64:
text: The following two examples illustrate incorrect delative inflection. This happens either on a personal pronoun in the first sentence (róla 'about/off-of him/ from him' instead of superessive rajta 'about') or in conjunction with nouns.
ref: 2007, Gergely Tóth, Linguistic Interference and First-language Attrition: German and Hungarian in the San Francisco Bay Area, page 140:
text: The preposition faafi has a fairly wide range of uses. Most of these fall into three broad categories. The broadest of these is a locative one, where faafi is used with a superessive significance, with or without contact: 'on (top of)', 'on the surface of', 'over', 'above'. In the superessive contact meaning faafi usually implies the presence of weight, pressure, force exerted by the upper on the lower one, or some other kind of effect.
ref: 2008, Frantisek Lichtenberk, A Grammar of Toqabaqita, page 481:
text: 2012, László Kálmán, Péter Rebrus, Miklós Törkenczy, Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian, Ferenc Kiefer, Mária Ladányi, Péter Siptár (editors), Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, page 28,
These examples show that, while the 1PL possessive endings and the superessive (SUE) determine the quality of the linking vowel (high in 1PL, mid in the superessive), […] .
glosses: Synonym of superessive case.
synonyms: word: superessive case
lative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Etymology: Borrowed from French latif.
Derived terms: latively
lative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Etymology: Borrowed from French latif.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case of verbs, found in the Uralic and Northern Caucasian languages, used to indicate motion to a location; in the Northern Caucasian languages, the lative also takes up functions of the dative case.
Derived terms: lative case
Related terms: locative
separative: other general local cases
sublative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sublātīvus, from tollere (“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) + -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A case of nouns in Finno-Ugric languages used to express the destination of movement, originally onto the surface of something (e.g. climb onto a tree), and, by extension, in other figurative meanings as well (e.g. to university, or about (a subject)).
sublative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbleɪtɪv/
rhymes: -eɪtɪv
Forms: form: more sublative
form: most sublative
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sublātīvus, from tollere (“to lift up, to elevate; to abolish”) + -īvus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the sublative case.
examples: text: Cessation dependent on a sublative act of the mind
ref: 1890, George Thibaut, transl., The Vedānta sūtras:
glosses: Having power, or tending, to take away.
Derived terms: sublative case
ball player
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɔːl ˌpleɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: ball players
form: ball-player
form: ballplayer
Etymology: From ball + player.
Senses: glosses: A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.
Related terms: ball-playing
baseball player
basketball player
football player
sentiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sentiencies
Senses: examples: text: An example of harmonious action between the intelligence and the sentiency of the mind.
ref: 1871, John Earle, The Philology of the English Tongue:
glosses: The property of having sensation; sentience.
blinkered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blinkered
form: most blinkered
Senses: glosses: Wearing blinkers, that is, blinders.
examples: text: But Delhi's blinkered Kashmir policy since partition in 1947—ignoring UN demands for a self-determination plebiscite, rigging elections, manipulating or overthrowing elected governments, and neglecting economic development—lies at the heart of the problem, according to Barbara Crossette, writing in the Nation.
ref: 2010 August 11, Simon Tisdall, “India's blinkered policy on Kashmir”, in The Guardian:
text: Hungry for fame and the approval of rare-animal collector Queen Victoria (Imelda Staunton), Darwin deceives the Captain and his crew into believing they can get enough booty to win the pirate competition by entering Polly in a science fair. So the pirates journey to London in cheerful, blinkered defiance of the Queen, a hotheaded schemer whose royal crest reads simply “I hate pirates.”
ref: 2012 April 26, Tasha Robinson, “Film: Reviews: The Pirates! Band Of Misfits :”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: Having tunnel vision; unable to see what is happening around one; narrow-minded.
Synonyms: blindered
Derived terms: unblinkered
blinkered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blinker
representative government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representative governments
Senses: glosses: A government where citizens elect people to represent them and make laws on their behalf, instead of always voting directly on laws and other government actions.
pterodactyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pterodactyl
oppositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oppositive
form: most oppositive
Senses: glosses: Expressing contrariety.
oppositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oppositives
Senses: glosses: The oppositive case, or an instance of its use.
Derived terms: oppositively
oppositiveness
scope out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scopes out
form: scoping out
form: scoped out
form: scoped out
Etymology: Quite possibly from the act of surveying (something) from a distance with a scope, such as a field scope (telescope), binoculars, or periscope, as especially in military reconnoitering.
Senses: examples: text: The conference starts on the 12th, but the building will be open on the 11th if you want to scope out the room ahead of time.
text: Everything basically winds up the way you’d expect, with Jon heading to Dragonstone to scope out Dany while Cersei more or less successfully marshals some Tyrell bannermen and some Qyburn inventions for the defense of King’s Landing. But it doesn’t feel like a foregone conclusion.
ref: 2017 July 23, Brandon Nowalk, “The great game begins with a bang on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
synonyms: check out
scope
glosses: To examine; to scout; to investigate.
ægilops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of aegilops.
manicurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: manicurists
Etymology: From manicure + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Ser Perth cut his words off with a sharp laugh. "Maybe a man. But who said you were a man, Dave Hanson? Can't you even understand that? You're only half human. The other half is mandrake—a plant that is related to humanity through shapes and signs by magic. We make simulacra out of mandrakes—like the manicurist in the barber shop. And sometimes we use a mandrake root to capture the essence of a real man, in which case he's a mandrake-man, like you. Human? No. But a very good imitation, I must admit."
ref: 1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling:
text: Again and again, I watched as manicurists, bowed over a hand or a foot of a client, some young as seven, say, “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m so, so sorry,” when they had done nothing wrong.
ref: 2019, Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Jonathan Cape, page 91:
glosses: A person who performs manicures.
manicurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manicurist
ischæmia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ischæmias
form: ischæmiæ
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Obsolete spelling of ischemia.
hypæthral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypaethral.
nebulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: neb'jə-lē
ipa: /ˈnɛbjʊliː/
Senses: glosses: plural of nebula
nymphæa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphæum (alternative spelling of nymphaea).
nymphæum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nymphæa
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nymphaeum.
orthopædic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthopædic
form: most orthopædic
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of orthopaedic.
orthopaedic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orthopedic.
Derived terms: nonorthopaedic
orthopaedical
pæan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pæans
form: pæaning
form: pæaned
form: pæaned
Senses: examples: text: Then let the pæaned hymn aspire, / Nor longer court unholy gloom; / Let happier music wake thy lyre, / Than haunts the precincts of the tomb.
ref: 1804, Joseph Story, “[Fugitive Poems:] Expostulation and Reply”, in The Power of Solitude. A Poem. In Two Parts, new and imp. edition, Salem, Mass.: Published by Barnard B. Macanulty, →OCLC, page 211:
text: Solemn, "as it were a pause in nature," was his [George Washington's] transit to eternity; thronged by the shades of heroes, his approach to the confines of bliss; pæaned by the songs of angels, his journey beyond the stars!
ref: 1812, Robert Treat Paine, Jr., “Eulogy on the Life of General George Washington”, in The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the Late Robert Treat Paine, Jun., Esq. With Notes. To which are Prefixed, Sketches of the Life, Character and Writings, Boston, Mass.: Printed and published by J. Belcher, →OCLC, part IV (Prose Writings), page 329:
text: What harbinger victorious tidings brings, / And yonder soars on golden wings? / Beams on the solar god her bright undazzled eyes, / Proclaims with pæaning trump some hero to the skies!
ref: 1842, Angus Umphraville, “The Siege of Baltimore”, in W[illia]m McCarty, editor, Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects; Compiled from Various Sources, part III (Military), Philadelphia, Pa.: Published by Wm. McCarty, No. 27 North Fifth Street, →OCLC, canto IV, stanza II, page 218:
text: Yea, with gladness did they pæan, bowing low before my car, / In my ears their homage echoed from the sunrise to the star.
ref: 1907, J[ohn] F[rederick] C[harles] Fuller, “The Looking-glass”, in The Star in the West: A Critical Essay upon the Works of Aleister Crowley, London; Felling-on-Tyne, County Durham; New York, N.Y.: The Walter Scott Publishing Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 46:
glosses: Archaic spelling of paean.
congressional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəŋˈɡɹɛʃn̩əl/
Forms: form: more congressional
form: most congressional
Etymology: From congression + -al.
Senses: examples: text: That the Oath Keepers recording went uninvestigated by the FBI until after January 6 is an “additional piece of information that congressional investigators in particular on the January 6th committee and the other Homeland Security committees should be looking at to determine whether or not the FBI and other law enforcement organizations were doing enough on the prevention side,” Cordero told CNN’s Ana Cabrera on Tuesday.
ref: 2022 October 4, Hannah Rabinowitz and Holmes Lybrand, “Secret recording played at trial shows Oath Keepers allegedly planning for violence in DC”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a congress.
Derived terms: congressional delegation
congressional district
congressional fellow
congressionally
precongressional
uncongressional
consecutively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From consecutive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They considered only proteins in the paranome (the set of all duplicate genes in the genome) and numbered them consecutively according to their positions on the chromosomes.
ref: 2011, Axel Meyer, Genome Evolution:
synonyms: successively
in a row
glosses: In a consecutive manner; without interruption.
insertion order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insertion orders
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: A document that specifies the dates and scope of a media buy. Used in print, online, and broadcast media.
to the max
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: To a great degree or extent; very.
glosses: To the maximum possible degree or extent.
Related terms: full blast
one hundred percent
chronometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronometries
Etymology: From chrono- + -metry on the model of chronometer, q.v., ultimately from Ancient Greek χρόνος (khrónos, “time”) and μέτρον (métron, “meter, measuring device”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of horology: the study of time, particularly the science, art, and technology of time measurement.
synonyms: word: horology
extra: the study of time, particularly the science, art, and technology of time measurement
Derived terms: chronometric
chronometrical
chronometrically
chronometrist
cosmochronometry
tephrochronometry
thermochronometry
Related terms: chronometer
riserva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riservas
Etymology: Italian
Senses: glosses: An Italian reserve wine.
milo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milos
Etymology: Probably related to Portuguese milho (“millet”). In early European accounts, millet and sorghum were often confused.
Senses: examples: text: When he does talk, it's always about the farm: the milo is doing poorly this year, the corn has a blight[…]
ref: 1978, Tom Reamy, Blind Voices:
glosses: sorghum
Derived terms: milo disease
Related terms: stylo milo
pleated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːtɪd/
rhymes: -iːtɪd
Etymology: From pleat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pleat
pleated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpliːtɪd/
rhymes: -iːtɪd
Etymology: From pleat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having pleats.
Derived terms: beta-pleated sheet
kick-pleated
pleating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pleat
pleating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleatings
Senses: glosses: An action or arrangement in which something is pleated.
Derived terms: pleating to the sett
pleating to the stripe
pledging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pledge
pledging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛd͡ʒɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛdʒɪŋ
Forms: form: pledgings
Senses: glosses: The making of a pledge.
policing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policings
Senses: glosses: Monitoring or regulation.
glosses: Patrolling by the police.
glosses: Maintenance of public order.
Derived terms: broken windows policing
community policing
identity policing
moral policing
tone policing
Related terms: law and order
policing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. And, as their ubiquity spreads, so too does the debate around whether we should allow ourselves to become so reliant on them – and who, if anyone, is policing their use.
ref: 2013 July 26, Leo Hickman, “How algorithms rule the world”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 7, page 26:
glosses: present participle and gerund of police
Derived terms: policingly
box turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box turtles
form: box-turtle
Senses: glosses: A turtle of the genera Terrapene (the North American box turtles), Cuora, or Pyxidea (the Asian box turtles), characterised by having a domed shell that is hinged at the bottom, allowing the animal to close its shell tightly to escape predators.
Synonyms: box tortoise
Derived terms: Asian box turtle
Chinese three-banded box turtle
Chinese three-striped box turtle
three-toed box turtle
amboina box turtle
Chinese box turtle
Coahuilan box turtle
common box turtle
desert box turtle
eastern box turtle
Florida box turtle
Gulf Coast box turtle
Indo-Chinese box turtle
Indochinese box turtle
keeled box turtle
McCord's box turtle
Mexican box turtle
ornate box turtle
Pan's box turtle
spotted box turtle
three-banded box turtle
three-lined box turtle
three-striped box turtle
western box turtle
yellow-headed box turtle
Yucatan box turtle
Yunnan box turtle
Zhou's box turtle
box-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box-turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of box turtle.
chicken-turtle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken-turtles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chicken turtle.