cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epigenome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪˈd͡ʒiːnoʊm/
Forms: form: epigenomes
Etymology: From epi- + genome.
Senses: examples: text: It is now possible to define whole epigenomes, representing the totality of epigenetic marks in a given cell type. Epigenetic processes are essential for packaging and interpreting the genome, are fundamental to normal development and are increasingly recognized as being involved in human disease.
ref: 2008 August 7, The American Association for Cancer Research Human Epigenome Task Force; European Union, Network of Excellence, Scientific Advisory Board, “Moving AHEAD with an international human epigenome project”, in Nature, volume 454, →DOI, page 711:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The total epigenetic state of a cell.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chemical responsible for the activation of a particular gene.
Related terms: epigenetics
epigenomic
ecological service
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecological services
Senses: glosses: Any beneficial natural process arising from healthy ecosystems, such as purification of water and air, pollination of plants and decomposition of waste.
wikipedia: ecological service
Related terms: ecological good
NURF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of nucleosome remodeling factor: one of several ISWI-containing protein complexes that catalyze ATP-dependent nucleosome sliding and facilitate transcription of chromatin in vitro.
Related terms: ORF
nucleosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleosomes
Etymology: From nucleo- + -some, and to evoke the older name nu body. Coined by P. Oudet et al. in 1975 (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: We have termed these particles “nucleosomes,” to evoke their nuclear origin and their resemblance to the “nu” (ν) bodies described by Olins and Olins (1974).
ref: 1975, P. Oudet, M. Gross-Bellard, P.Champon, “Electron Microscopic and Biochemical Evidence that Chromosome Structure Is a Repeating Unit”, in Cell, →PMID, page 9:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of the subunits that repeat in chromatin; a coil of DNA surrounding a core of eight histones.
Derived terms: antinucleosome
dinucleosome
hemisome
hypernucleosome
internucleosome
intranucleosome
mononucleosome
NCP
nucleosomal
nucleosomic
oligonucleosome
polynucleosome
prenucleosome
ribonucleosome
tetranucleosome
trinucleosome
ORF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ORFs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of open reading frame.
Derived terms: ORFeome
ORF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Österreichischer Rundfunk (“Austrian Broadcasting Corporation”).
Related terms: NURF
game point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: game points
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A situation where if one of the two players wins the next point, he or she will win the game (but not the set).
qualifier: racket sports
glosses: A juncture within a game when a player, or team, only needs to win the next rally to win the game.
Related terms: break point
match point
set point
open reading frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open reading frames
form: ORF
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sequence of DNA triplets, between the initiator and terminator codons, that can be transcribed into mRNA and later translated into protein.
paramutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paramutations
Etymology: From para- + mutation.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutation in which a heritable change in one allele is induced by another in the same locus
Related terms: paramutate
vesiculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesiculations
Senses: glosses: The formation of vesicles; blistering.
glosses: The presence of vesicles.
actinopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: actinopterygians
Etymology: Actinopterygii + -an
Senses: examples: text: […] actinopterygians have 'ray fins' which are supported by a series of narrow cartilaginous or bony rods called radials, while sarcopterygians have 'lobe fins' supported by a single basal bone and with muscles that can modify the posture of the fin.
ref: 1997, Michael J. Benton, Vertebrate Palaeontology, 2nd edition, Chapman & Hall, →ISBN, page 64:
text: The ear of all nonteleostean actinopterygian fishes (Grande and Bemis 1996) does not differ much from that of ratfish (considered by most an ancient line of cartilaginous fish), with the notable exception of the position of the ultricular macula.
ref: 1999, Bernd Fritzsch, “2: Hearing in Two Worlds”, in Richard R. Fay, Arthur N. Popper, editors, Comparative Hearing: Fish and Amphibians, page 19:
text: The otico-orbitotemporal region is formed by a single ossification in primitive actinopterygians but by many separate ossifications in advanced actinopterygians, expecially teleosts.
ref: 2004, Bhavna Khanna, Ichthyology Handbook, page 108:
text: 2004, M. L. J. Stiassny, E. O, Wiley, G. D. Johnson, M. R, de Carvalho, 24: Gnathostome Fishes, Joel Cracraft, Michael J. Donoghue (editors), Assembling the Tree of Life, page 416,
The most basal of living actinopterygians are the bichirs (Polypteridae), a small group (11 spp.) of African fishes previously thought to be related to the lobefin fishes (sarcopterygians), or to form a third group.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the ray-finned fish of the taxonomic class Actinopterygii.
actinopterygian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more actinopterygian
form: most actinopterygian
Etymology: Actinopterygii + -an
Senses: examples: text: Already some years ago it was pointed out that the skeleton of the pelvic fin and girdle of Polypterus is much more actinopterygian than crossopterygian in structure.
ref: 1908, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report of the Annual Meeting, volume 77, page 546:
text: Still more Actinopterygian is the skeleton of the pelvic fin; here only four bony radials are preserved, separately articulating with the pelvic girdle.
ref: 1909, Edwin Stephen Goodrich, edited by Ray Lankester, A Treatise on Zoology: Part IX: Vertebrata Craniata: (First Fascicle: Cyclostomes and Fishes), page 296:
glosses: Of the nature of fish of the class Actinopterygii.
love game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love games
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A game in which one of the two players scored no points.
natural killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural killers
form: NK
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A natural killer cell
natural killer cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: natural killer cells
Etymology: The description "natural killer" refers to the fact that they do not require activation to kill cells missing MHC class I "self" markers.
Senses: examples: text: While such information doesn't assist us in deciding whether natural killer cells derive from a macrophage or T cell lineage, it does tell us that the mouse natural killer cell system is a thymus dependent system.
ref: 1982, Gustavo Cudkowicz, “Regulation of Natural Cytotoxic Activity”, in Sigurd J. Normann, Ernst Sorkin, editors, Macrophages and Natural Killer Cells, Plenum Press, page 767:
text: 1984, Meir Kende, Joseph Gainer, Michael A. Chirigos (editors), Chemical Regulation of Immunity in Veterinary Medicine: Proceedings of a Symposium, A. R. Liss, page 138,
Natural killer cell activity is currently an area of active interest in cellular immunology (Herberman 1981).
text: The effects of lead exposure of varying duration on natural killer cell and T-lymphocyte function were investigated in rats.
ref: 1999, Toxicological Profile for Lead, United States Department of Health and Human Services, page 173:
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
synonyms: large granular lymphocyte
NK
NK cell
glosses: Any cell that expresses cell surface receptors that deliver signals to either activate or inhibit a response as part of the innate immune system.
wikipedia: MHC class I
Related terms: english: performs an analogous role for the adaptive immune system
translation: performs an analogous role for the adaptive immune system
word: cytotoxic T cell
NK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of North Korea.
glosses: Initialism of Nagorno-Karabakh.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Ninja Kiwi.
NK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NKs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of natural killer.
NK
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of not kidding.
hitching-bar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitching-bars
form: hitch-bar
Senses: glosses: A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
examples: text: At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets.
ref: 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
text: He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 7:
glosses: A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.
Related terms: hitching post
television station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: television stations
Senses: glosses: A studio or building from where a television channel is broadcast.
glosses: An organization which operates a television channel.
glosses: A radio frequency or band assigned to a television broadcaster.
Related terms: television network
television channel
affiliate
coverlid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverlids
Etymology: Variant form of coverlet.
Senses: examples: text: [T]aking some clean towels out of my night-sack, I spread them over the coverlid, on which tired nature found repose, in spite of the previous disgust.
ref: 1796, Mary Wollstonecraft, Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Oxford, published 2009, page 93:
text: The physician took his hand, and strove to draw him aside; but the attempt caught the eye of the sufferer; she strove to raise herself, and extend her hand to her father, but it dropped heavily on the coverlid.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Sick Room”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: 'Here are your clean clothes,' she went on, stroking my coverlid with her brown hand as she spoke.
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 9:
glosses: A coverlet.
broadcast station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadcast stations
Senses: glosses: A station from which a signal is emitted (most commonly a radio station or a television station).
radio station
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪ.di.oʊ ˌsteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: radio stations
form: radiostation
Senses: examples: text: Radio station / Beside yourself
ref: 1981, R.E.M., “Radio Free Europe”, in Radio Free Europe:
glosses: An installation of a radio transmitter, and possibly a receiver, for the purpose of broadcasting or communication.
Derived terms: pirate radio station
screencast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screencasts
Etymology: Coined in 2004. From screen + -cast, from broadcast.
Senses: synonyms: video screen capture
screen recording
glosses: A digital recording of a computer screen's display.
glosses: A video stream that's broadcasted live to an audience.
Related terms: screenshot
synodic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈnɒd.ɪk/
ipa: /sɪˈnɑd.ɪk/
Etymology: From Latin synodicus, from Ancient Greek συνοδικός (sunodikós, “of or related to an assembly or meeting”). Equivalent to synod + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: a synodical epistle
ref: 1664, Edward Stillingfleet, A Rational Account of the Grounds of Protestant Religion:
topics: Christianity
glosses: Of, related to or produced by a synod; synodal.
examples: text: a synodical month
text: the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the conjunction of two or more heavenly bodies.
Derived terms: synodic month
synodic period
synodic time
corraled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corral
humongoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From humongous + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Well I guess looking at the Colgate and looking at the Crest we have many sizes so we still have a lot of decisions left to make - the first one being that I'm only going to be here for three weeks so I don't really need a humongoid thing
ref: 1989 -- Journal of phenomenological psychology, Spring 1989. (page 67) http://books.google.com/books?q=%22don%27t+really+need+a+humongoid%22
glosses: Very large; humongous.
griot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
Forms: form: griots
Etymology: Borrowed from French griot.
Senses: examples: text: Griots may be the chroniclers of an important family or of a group of people — like the Bambara hunters’ griot — or itinerant poets and musicians who extol the praises of the person who has hired them for a special festivity.
ref: 1995, Françoise Pfaff, “Sembene, A Griot of Modern Times”, in Michael T. Martin, editor, Cinemas of the Black Diaspora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality, page 118:
text: When ethnographers are asked to read their works to gatherings of Songhay, elders, they, too, are considered griots.
Ethnographers, however, usually consider themselves scholars, not griots. They prepare themselves for their life's work in a manner altogether different from that of the griot.
ref: 1997, Paul Stoller, Sensuous Scholarship, page 15:
text: I decided that it would be better for a griot to take us back into the legend, rather than me, a contemporary man. Griots have deeply marked me. I already narrated my first film, Ta Dona, in the same way that a griot would have.
ref: 2003, Melissa Thackway, “Interview I: Adama Drabo, director”, in Africa Shoots Back: Alternative Perspectives in Sub-Saharan Francophone African Film, page 183:
text: Yet the critics of writing weren’t entirely wrong. In oral cultures, bards carried epics in their heads; griots could reel off centuries of genealogy on demand.
ref: 2025 October 26, Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Age of De-Skilling”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A West African storyteller who passes on oral traditions; a wandering musician and poet.
Derived terms: griotic
griot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹi.oʊ/
Forms: form: griots
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A Haitian dish of fried pork.
spationaut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spationauts
Etymology: From French spationaute. spatio- + -naut.
Senses: examples: text: How many spationauts are there?
ref: 1997, Aaron Jelinek, “spationauts”, in sci.space.science (Usenet):
glosses: An astronaut, regardless of nationality.
examples: text: Long term cosmonauts Gennadiy Manakov and Aleksandr Polishchuk, who arrived at Mir on Jan. 24th, will be flying French Spationaut Jean-Pierre Haignere in the older Soyuz TM-16 capsule.
ref: 1993, Glenn Chapman, “Russian/French crew set to leave Mir space station”, in sci.space (Usenet):
glosses: A French spationaut or astronaut.
examples: text: The next flight to the ISS is scheduled for April 19th and will be composed of Russian cosmonaut Guennady Padalka, American astronaut Michael Fincke and ESA Dutch spationaut André Kuipers. [ESA, AFP 04/02/2004, Air & Cosmos 04/09/2004]
ref: 2004, “EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY HOPES TO SEND TWO ASTRONAUTS TO THE ISS IN 2005”, in France in Space, archived from the original on 06 May 2004:
text: Considering the weight problems that Hermes ran into, the astronauts probably thought that they were lucky to have seats, much less ejection seats, rather than slings to sit in. Something about an ESA spationaut putting their ass into a sling is unappealing.
ref: 2005, Pat Flannery, “Son of Little Joe II”, in sci.space.policy (Usenet):
glosses: A European astronaut, specifically one representing ESA.
Related terms: astronaut
cosmonaut
taikonaut
vyomanaut
hydromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydromancers
Etymology: From Middle English idromauncer, equivalent to hydromancy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who practices hydromancy.
hydromancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydromancer
hydromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydromancy.
nickels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nickel
nickels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nickel
arithmomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arithmancy.
bibliomancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliomancy
palmister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmisters
Etymology: See palmistry.
Senses: glosses: One who practices palmistry.
Synonyms: chiromancer
palmist
palmisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palmister
chiromancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheiromancers
form: chyromancers
Senses: glosses: plural of chiromancer
chiromantical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
chiromantic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chiro- + -mantic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chiromancy.
Masshole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmæs.hoʊl/
Forms: form: Massholes
Etymology: Blend of Massachusetts + asshole
Senses: examples: text: God-damned Masshole trespasser who maybe ought to have his arrogant ass kicked for the hell of it.
ref: 2011, K.W. Moak, Discontinuum, →ISBN:
glosses: A contemptible or obnoxious person from Massachusetts.
examples: text: This damn Masshole cut in front of my car!
text: You're a typical Massachusetts driver, known affectionately as a "Masshole." Bit of advice: Don't ever go to Ohio, or you will get arrested within five miles of the border.
ref: 2002, John Sheirer, Free Chairs, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A contemptible or obnoxious person from Massachusetts.
Especially, an obnoxious or irresponsible automobile driver from Massachusetts.
examples: OK massholes it is pouring rain, possibly all day. It is going to be more of a pain to get out and vote.
glosses: A contemptible or obnoxious person from Massachusetts.
Any resident of Massachusetts.
qualifier: Massachusetts; usually self-referential; Massachusetts; usually self-referential
myxochondroepithelioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myxochondroepitheliomas
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign tumor of the salivary gland, composed of three kinds of cells: epithelial cells, chondrocytes and stroma cells.
rubati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubato
steer clear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: steers clear
form: steering clear
form: steered clear
form: steered clear
form: stay clear
Senses: examples: text: I always told Sir John to steer clear of too much journalizing.
ref: 1835, James Fenimore Cooper, The Monikins, Introduction:
text: Foreign youth steer clear of the gymnasium; its rules are too severe.
ref: 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 4, in A Tramp Abroad:
text: "You steer clear of that rascally teacher and young Merwell," advised Dave's father. "They are a bad lot."
"I'll steer clear if I can," answered Dave.
ref: 1914, Edward Stratemeyer, chapter 10, in Dave Porter in the Gold Fields:
text: But unless you are also philosophical and like to listen to a lot of dialogue—or, worse yet, read reams of subtitles—I think you'd be wise to steer clear.
ref: 1964 January 28, Bosley Crowther, “Movie Review: The Seventh Juror (1962)”, in New York Times, retrieved 15 Jan 2014:
text: If you think you can steer clear of government surveillance by staying off-line, think again.
ref: 2013, “Surveillance State: Three Ways You're Being Watched”, in BloombergBusinessweek Videos, retrieved 15 Jan 2014:
glosses: To avoid; to dodge; to sidestep.
raw_tags: followed by of
portati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portato
implicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of implicate
portate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin portatus, past participle of portare (“to carry”).
Senses: examples: a cross portate
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Borne diagonally athwart an escutcheon with the central column going from dexter chief to sinister base (a cross tilted the opposite way is portate reversed), especially as a T-shaped or Saint Anthony's cross.
raw_tags: of a cross
gone over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go over
beaten up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of beat up
demeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more demeaned
form: most demeaned
Senses: examples: text: One last consolation, however, was left to the casual poor and naturally enough they tended to clutch at it: their women could be more demeaned, more lowly, than they.
ref: 1999, Miriam Dixson, The Real Matilda, page 79:
text: Antiope is the more demeaned that she was violated by so outrageous a figure of ribaldry and degradation.
ref: 2010, Aida Besancon Spencer, Donna F.G. Hailson, Catherine Clark Kroeger, The Goddess Revival, page 71:
text: Wearing make-up made her feel "very degraded and very demeaned."
ref: 2019, Zachary Kramer, Outsiders: Why Difference is the Future of Civil Rights, page 20:
glosses: Debased; degraded; lowly.
examples: text: The 0-crossings in a demeaned signal can indicate the dominant frequency component in a signal.
ref: 2006, Wim van Drongelen, Signal Processing for Neuroscientists, page 68:
text: A demeaned version of this time series x is depicted in ( B ) .
ref: 2011, Mario Heiderich, Eduardo Alberto Vela Nava, Gareth Heyes, Web Application Obfuscation, page 93:
text: To pursue the analogy between a driftless random walk and a Wiener process a bit further, consider a “demeaned standard random walk" which is constructed from a standard driftless random walk by subtracting the sample mean.
ref: 2011, Fumio Hayashi, Econometrics, page 568:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Having had the mean subtracted from all values.
Derived terms: undemeaned
demeaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demean
decremented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decrement
incremented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of increment
Jhingade
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Jhingades
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi झिंगाडे (jhiṅgāḍe).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Marathi surname झिंगाडे (jhiṅgāḍe).
militaristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪl.ə.təˈɹɪs.tɪk/
ipa: [ˌmɪl.ə.ɾəˈɹɪs.tɪk]
ipa: [ˌmɪl.ə.təˈɹɪs.tɪk]
Forms: form: more militaristic
form: most militaristic
Etymology: From militarist + -ic or military + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Using the power of the military.
glosses: Related to the use of the military.
glosses: Of or pertaining to militarism.
Synonyms: militarist
Derived terms: antimilitaristic
militaristically
nonmilitaristic
paramilitaristic
pseudomilitaristic
unmilitaristic
Tashelhit
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tachelhit
form: Tashelhiyt
form: Tashlhiyt
form: Tashlhit
Etymology: From Tashelhit taclḥiyt.
Senses: glosses: A Berber language of Morocco.
Synonyms: Shilha
Chleuh
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Tashelhit terms
shi ⁠
detestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɛsteɪt/
Forms: form: detestates
form: detestating
form: detestated
form: detestated
Senses: examples: text: This worlde, whiche as a mortall enemy the doctrine of the Ghospel dooeth detestate and abhorre.
ref: 1549, Erasmus, “(please specify the book of the Bible, or other title)”, in Nicolas Udall [i.e., Nicholas Udall; et al.], transl., The Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testamente, London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche:
glosses: To detest.
dubitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dubitates
form: dubitating
form: dubitated
form: dubitated
Etymology: First attested in 1837; borrowed from Latin dubitātus, perfect passive participle of dubitō (“to doubt”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of doubt.
Senses: examples: text: If […] he were to loiter dubitating, and not come
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book II (Nanci), page 92:
glosses: to doubt
Related terms: dubitative
tirasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tirasses
Senses: examples: text: This way is not only more beautiful but more difficult, unless one is assisted by a Tirasse or Marche Pieds.
ref: 1995, Fenner Douglass, The Language of the Classical French Organ, page 203:
text: In early and middle-period instruments (through at least 1875), only the Grand Orgue, or possibly the Positif, was equipped with a Tirasse.
ref: 2006, Douglas Earl Bush, The Organ: An Encyclopedia, page 569:
glosses: A pedal-coupler in organ-building.
longspine snipefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longspine snipefishes
Senses: glosses: A moderately elongate snipefish with a tubular snout equal to about a quarter of the total body length and a dorsal spine, of species Macroramphosus scolopax.
Synonyms: sense: Macroramphosus scolopax
word: bellowfish
sense: Macroramphosus scolopax
word: slender snipefish
sense: Macroramphosus scolopax
word: snipefish
sense: Macroramphosus scolopax
word: trumpet fish
sense: Macroramphosus scolopax
word: trumpetfish
bloodguilt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blood + guilt, since the 16th century.
Senses: glosses: Guilt of wrongfully causing death or shedding blood.
Derived terms: bloodguiltless
nau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nou
ipa: /naʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Forms: form: naus
Etymology: From Portuguese nau. Doublet of nef and nave.
Senses: examples: text: Bentley Duncan has even suggested that it was the prospect of trade rather than the doubtful facilities of the dockyard that persuaded so many naus to stop at Mozambique Island.
ref: 2008, Liam Matthew Brockey, Portuguese Colonial Cities in the Early Modern World:
glosses: Synonym of carrack.
synonyms: word: carrack
Eskimo kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Eskimo kisses
Etymology: So called after an Inuit traditional greeting or sign of affection, the *kunik, in which the nose and upper lip are placed against another's skin while breathing in.
Senses: glosses: The rubbing of one's nose against another's as a sign of affection.
Related terms: hongi
honi
kunik
nuzzle
Genevan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Geneva + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, or pertaining to, Geneva.
glosses: Of or relating to Genevanism.
Genevan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Genevans
Etymology: From Geneva + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Geneva.
glosses: A supporter of Genevanism.
genesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: genesial cycle of menstruation
glosses: Of or relating to generation or genes.
Related terms: genesis
chorionic gonadotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chorionic gonadotropins
Senses: glosses: A hormone secreted by the chorion of the placenta. Its role is to maintain the corpus luteum.
Derived terms: hCG
human chorionic gonadotropin
Dryas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹaɪ.əs/
ipa: /ˈdɹaɪ.æs/
rhymes: -aɪəs
Etymology: Named after the wildflower Dryas octopetala, fossils of which dated to approximately the Younger Dryas period are common in parts of Europe.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of two climatic stages of the late glacial period in Northern Europe in which plants of the genus Dryas were abundant
Derived terms: Older Dryas
Younger Dryas
comradery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comraderies
Etymology: From comrade + -ry, likely influenced by camaraderie; these are etymological twins, both derived from Latin camera (“room, chamber”), though via different routes.
Senses: glosses: camaraderie
Synonyms: camaraderie
chumminess
comradeship
comradeliness
rise from the ashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rises from the ashes
form: rising from the ashes
form: rose from the ashes
form: risen from the ashes
Etymology: The phrase refers to the resurrection of the mythical phoenix.
Senses: glosses: To make a comeback after a disaster that almost led to a tragic end; to make a comeback after a long hiatus; to come back into common use or practice, or back into popularity.
Kharijite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kharijites
form: Khawarij
Etymology: From Arabic خَارِجِي (ḵārijī, “one who split off, one who departed”), from the root خ ر ج (ḵ r j).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of a reactionary Islamic sect in the 7th and 8th centuries.
Synonyms: Khariji
militsiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: militsiyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of militsia.
nazir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nazirs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani, from Classical Persian نَظِیر (nazīr), from Arabic نَظِير (naẓīr).
Senses: glosses: The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment.
glosses: A native official in an Anglo-Indian court who served summonses, etc.
nazir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nazirs
Etymology: See Nazir.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Nazir (“Nazarite, a Jew bound by vow to do certain things”).
suona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /swoʊˈnɑː/
Forms: form: suonas
Etymology: From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 嗩吶／唢呐 (suǒnà), from Persian سورنا (sornâ). Doublet of zurna and horn.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A traditional Chinese double-reeded horn with a distinctively loud and high-pitched sound.
Related terms: sorna
zurna
session data
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The set of session variables held on a server that allow the continuation of a conversation with the client without the need to continually reinput data.
Related terms: session poisoning
miting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mitings
Etymology: From mite + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: He calleth me his whiting,
His mulling and his miting.
ref: c. 1550, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elynour Rummyng:
qualifier: term of endearment
glosses: A little one; a mite.
rosarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /rəʊˈzɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /roʊˈzɛ.ɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: rosarians
Etymology: From rosary (“rose garden”) + -an.
Senses: glosses: An expert in the cultivation and propagation of roses.
uninominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + nominal.
Senses: topics: government
politics
qualifier: an electoral system; etc; an electoral system; etc
glosses: That elects one member from each district, or (of a person) elected from a specific district rather than at large.
raw_tags: of a legislature
glosses: Alternative form of uninomial (“consisting of a single word or term”).
Related terms: plurinominal
tumulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːmjələs/
ipa: /ˈtuːmjələs/
Forms: form: tumuli
Etymology: From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“I swell”). Doublet of tombolo.
Senses: examples: text: They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
ref: 1898, Friedrich Ratzel, The History of Mankind, volume III, London: Macmillan and Co., page 325:
text: The delicate white body will be covered to-day,
The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way:
And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
ref: 1898, Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, in Welsh Ballads:
text: The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.
ref: 2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
Synonyms: burial mound § Synonyms
tumuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tumulus
tuna fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuna fishes
Senses: glosses: The tuna or tunny
glosses: The flesh of this fish, used as food
tunny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌni/
Forms: form: tunny
form: tunnies
form: thunny
Etymology: From Middle French thon + -y, from Old Occitan ton, from Latin thunnus, from Ancient Greek θύννος (thúnnos), + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 3:
text: You're a lucky guy to be eating anything right now. Instead you might easily be feeding the tunny fish and tarpon, to say nothing of the astronesthes and myctophids--
ref: 2021, Edward Stratemeyer, Don Sturdy on the Ocean Bottom:
glosses: Synonym of tuna.
synonyms: word: tuna
Derived terms: little tunny
tunnies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunny
tridimensional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tridimensional
form: most tridimensional
Etymology: From tri- + dimensional.
Senses: glosses: three-dimensional
affogato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɑːfəˈɡɑːtəʊ/
/ˌæfəˈɡɑːtəʊ/
Forms: form: affogati
form: affogatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian affogato (literally “drowned”).
Senses: examples: text: The magic of affogato is that you get two pleasures in one: a spoonable dessert sauced with coffee, and a cream-blushed drink to chase it.
ref: 2021 August 11, Eric Kim, “Affogato”, in New York Times Cooking, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Aug 2021:
glosses: A drink or dessert (especially ice cream) topped with espresso and sometimes a caramel or chocolate sauce.
affogati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affogato
musicianship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: musicianships
Etymology: From musician + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: "Strung Out's signature energy and musicianship is still kicking it hard, finding the members performing as good as ever," Sputnik Music wrote of this Los Angeles punk band […] .
ref: 2010 September, "The SLM Calendar", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9, page 170
glosses: The skill of a musician or of a composer.
parking meters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parking meter
durate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: durates
form: durating
form: durated
form: durated
Etymology: Back-formation from duration
Senses: examples: text: But in the same way as we shall say of our simple creature that he perceives his sensation when it exists at all, and that he perceives time when it (the sensation) durates at all, 80 we shall say he perceives a certain definite[…]
ref: 1891, Herbert Nichols, The Psychology of Time: Historically and Philosophically Considered, with Extended Experiments:
text: "Perception of time duration is always a process and never a state — for us to perceive five seconds, something must durate five seconds, for us to perceive a year some definite sensation would have to durate a year."
ref: 1903, Mary Hallock-Greenewalt, Pulse and Rhythm, page 430:
text: Fear is often found associated with the uncertainty of doubt and with the durating sense of strangeness that characterize a well-developed state of marvel.
ref: 1910, Benjamin Putnam Kurtz, Studies in the Marvellous, page 88:
text: Simply because a sentence of, say, ten words necessitates a time period, e.g. 5 seconds, i.e. it durates. The formal description of English during a given period will result in what English is.
ref: 1988 02, Richard E. Schade, Lessing Yearbook XIX, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 117:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To have, or last for, some duration (of time).
cross-trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Quick as thought, I sprang into the mizzen shrouds, rattled up hand over hand, and did not draw a breath till I was seated on the cross-trees.
ref: 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Two horizontal beams at the top of the lower and top masts, used to spread rigging and as a standing place for sailors.
dick-head
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dick-heads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dickhead.
standard gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard gage
Senses: examples: text: The city began as a local trading centre for north Chinese settlers at the end of the 18th century. It expanded rapidly and from 1905 to 1935 was a major junction and transshipment point between the Russian-owned broad-gauge Chinese Eastern railway and the Japanese-owned standard-gague South Manchurian railway. Ch’ang-ch’un was equipped with sizable railroad shops and also became the junction for railways extending westward into Inner Mongolia and eastward into northern Korea.
ref: 1964, Norton S. Ginsburg, “CH’ANG-CH’UN”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →OCLC, page 267, column 2:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A track gauge of 56.5 inches (1435 mm).
Related terms: narrow gauge
broad gauge
metre gauge
headphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛdfəʊn/
ipa: /ˈhɛdfoʊn/
Forms: form: headphones
Etymology: From head + phone.
Senses: examples: text: Some joggers wear only one headphone in their ears, to enjoy music while paying attention to their environment.
text: From "Little" Louie Vega, David Camacho, and Tyrone Francis I learned about seamless beatmixing, using a so-called lollipop headphone for one ear and a monitor speaker for the other.
ref: 2017, Mark J. Butler, Electronica, Dance and Club Music:
glosses: singular of headphones: a cushioned speaker placed on, over, or inside the ear, normally used in left/right pairs.
examples: text: headphone plug
text: headphone socket
glosses: Used with headphones.
Derived terms: headphone concert
headphoned
headphonelike
Related terms: earphone
earpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪəpiːs/
ipa: /ˈɪɹpiːs/
Forms: form: earpieces
Etymology: From ear + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: headpiece (sometimes holonymous)
text: Holding the earpiece to my ear, I could hear him speaking clearly.
related: word: mouthpiece
coordinate_terms: mouthpiece
glosses: A speaker placed inside or held near to the ear.
glosses: A receiver of a telephone to hold near to one's ear.
examples: text: My glasses won't stay on, as I've broken the left earpiece.
glosses: The arm on a pair of glasses that hooks over the ear to hold them in place.
Derived terms: earpieced
Related terms: speakerphone
stereophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereophones
Etymology: From stereo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: headphones
convective current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convective currents
Senses: glosses: The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid, usually as the result of convection
sgroppino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sgroppinos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian sgroppino.
Senses: glosses: A cocktail, originally from Venice, consisting of a mixture of vodka, Prosecco and lemon gelato.
acclamate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acclamates
form: acclamating
form: acclamated
form: acclamated
Etymology: Perhaps a backformation from acclamation.
Senses: glosses: To acclaim.
glosses: Misspelling of acclimate.
base metal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: base metals
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metal at the lower end of the electrochemical series that oxidizes readily.
topics: engineering
metallurgy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The metal to be welded (rather than that used to weld).
glosses: A common or inexpensive metal.
topics: alchemy
pseudoscience
glosses: A common or inexpensive metal.
one that was hoped to be transmuted into a precious metal.
Related terms: noble metal
electrochemical series
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrochemical series
Senses: topics: chemistry
electrochemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A list of the metals in order of their electronegativity (and hence their reactivity).
fansub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfænˌsʌb/
Forms: form: fansubs
Etymology: Short for fan subtitle.
Senses: glosses: Subtitles translated by amateurs.
examples: text: While Díaz Cintas and Muños Sánchez (2006) hint at the implications of fansub for commercial audiovisual translation norms, Pérez González (2006) places the practice in the frame of ‘interventionist’ goals emerging in the media landscape, with fans’ search for authenticity in translation.
ref: 2008, Minako O’Hagan, “Fan Translation Networks: An Accidental Translator Training Environment?”, in John Kearns, editor, Translator and Interpreter Training: Issues, Methods and Debates (Continuum Studies in Translation), Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 161:
text: The practices of fansub (user translation of a film from its original language into another and adding subtitles) and fandub (user dubbing or redubbing of a film in a way that usually changes its storyline, dialogue, and character personalities) gains more producers and a larger audience every month, and remixing is now standard musical practice.
ref: 2010, Lauryn S. Mayer, “Dark Matters and Slippery Words: Grappling with Neomedievalism(s)”, in Karl Fugelso, editor, Defining Neomedievalism(s) (Studies in Medievalism; XIX), D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, page 74:
text: In the case of fansub, the danmaku interface effectively visualizes and mediates the cosmopolitan contact zone as a layer of paratextual comments on screen (Fig 8.5).
ref: 2021, Jinying Li, “Pirate cosmopolitanism and the undercurrents of flow: fansubbing television on China’s P2P networks”, in Seok-Kyeong Hong, Dal Yong Jin, editors, Transnational Convergence of East Asian Pop Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Translation of subtitles by amateurs.
fansub
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfænˌsʌb/
Forms: form: fansubs
form: fansubbing
form: fansubbed
form: fansubbed
Etymology: Short for fan subtitle.
Senses: glosses: To translate subtitles as an amateur.
Coordinate terms: scanlation
scanlate
Derived terms: fansubber
Related terms: fandub
fanslation
causate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causates
Etymology: First attested in 1652; borrowed from Medieval Latin causātus, perfect passive participle of causō (“to cause”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the present case, therefore, it now comes closer and closer, in thought, to the first finite; but before taking hold of it, and determining to explore it, the mind proposes, and ruminates, certain middle questions, touching the actual existence of a nexus, and the possibility there is, of discovering the nature, and quality of the nexus, which subsists between the cause, and the causate, or between the infinite, and the first finite.
ref: 1848, Emanuel Swedenborg, The Philosophy of the Infinite; Outlines on a philosophical argument on the Infinite:
text: Hence the causing entity exists before the causate.
ref: 1923, Emanuel Swedenborg, The existence of the human soul:
text: It is also causate-- that is, the effect of a cause--because it has had its beginning in something else.
ref: 1940, Apostolos Makrakēs, A New Philosophy and the philosophical Sciences:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The effect of a cause.
causate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more causate
form: most causate
Etymology: First attested in 1652; borrowed from Medieval Latin causātus, perfect passive participle of causō (“to cause”), see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: A conscientionall, accidentall event..but no appropriate, causate, and observate experiment.
ref: 1652, John Gaule, Πυς-μαντια, The Mag-Astro-Mancer, or the Magicall-Astrologicall-Diviner posed and puzzled, 103:
glosses: Caused, existing due to a certain cause.
raw_tags: as participle
causate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: causates
form: causating
form: causated
form: causated
Etymology: First attested in 1852, in the writings of the poet Philip James Bailey; from cause + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: This possibility may be explored by future researches involving stricter controls and protracted over longer periods of time so that on the one hand, the graduated development of the said characteristics and, on the other, retardation in the development of these, as causated by experimental doses of praise and of reproof, respectively, can be delineated.
ref: 1993, S. B. Kakkar, Readings in Educational Psychology, page 404:
text: These studies indicated that variations of the IIP-MF projections...were probably associated with a physiological process inside the hippocampus causating behavioral differences in spacial learning and exploration.
ref: 1999, Byron C. Jones, Pierre Mormède, Neurobehavioral Genetics: Methods and Applications, page 225:
text: According to the Bible, Jesus Christ is the Last Adam who permanently reverses the effects of Original Sin causated by the First Adam.
ref: 2005, Mark Fernando, Questions You Always Wanted to Ask about Easter Answered, page 83:
glosses: To cause, originate.
glosses: To originate.
doti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhoti.