cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chi kung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃiˈkʌŋ/
/ˌt͡ʃiˈɡɒŋ/
Forms: form: chi-kung
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 氣功／气功 (qìgōng, “breath work, qi work”) Wade–Giles romanization: chʻi⁴-kung¹.
Senses: examples: text: So broad is the definition of Chi kung that spontaneous dancing, walking and other physical activities are all forms of it, but to practise a series of specific Chi kung exercises means consciously choosing to cultivate your personal energy. This book is primarily concerned with the conscious use of Chi kung to control the flow of chi into and out of, as well as within, the body.
ref: 1999, Eleanor McKenzie, chi kung, Octopus Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 8:
text: The New Life Hiking Spa in Killington, Vt., offers an 11-night program at $229 a night for a single room, including meals, three spa treatments, exercise classes and a chi kung “energy training” class.
ref: 2011 December 29, Jennifer Conlin, “My Week at the Biggest Loser Fat Camp”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023, Travel:
text: My course involved meditation, exercise (yoga and chi kung), diet (I was given a tailored menu), herbal remedies, massage, acupuncture and no alcohol.
ref: 2017 May 20, Jeremy Langmead, “Inner peace at a Vietnamese retreat”, in The Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 Oct 2021, Grooming:
text: Using his extensive knowledge of martial arts, as practiced at the Southern Shaolin Temple in southern China, including Zen meditation, Tai chi chuan (taiji) and chi kung (qi gong), Sifu Colarusso has helped hundreds of people around the world understand the nature, process, and benefits of harnessing energy to help calm the mind and overcome daily challenges.
ref: 2018 October 10, “The Benefits of the Internal Energy Arts for Coping with Stress on World Mental Health Day”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2023:
text: Born out of a Taoist culture, I think Chi Kung must have originally come about by a spontaneous breath and movement, by someone on a spiritual path seeking the Tao, or feeling their way towards greater well-being.
ref: 2021, Lizzie Slowe, The Living Art of Chi Kung, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of qigong.
Ba Duan Jin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baduanjin
Etymology: From Mandarin 八段錦／八段锦 (Bā Duàn Jǐn).
Senses: glosses: A form of the Chinese exercise qigong.
Baduanjin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ba Duan Jin.
Llanito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yanito
Etymology: From Spanish Llanitos (“people of the flatlands”), or from Italian Gianni (“Johnny”).
Senses: glosses: A vernacular spoken primarily in Gibraltar, based on a mix of Andalusian Spanish and English, but also influenced by Genoese, Hebrew, Portuguese, Italian and Maltese.
Llanito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Llanitos
form: Yanito
Etymology: From Spanish Llanitos (“people of the flatlands”), or from Italian Gianni (“Johnny”).
Senses: glosses: A Gibraltarian.
Related terms: english: female Gibraltarian
translation: female Gibraltarian
word: Llanita
english: a generic term for English/Spanish interlanguage
translation: a generic term for English/Spanish interlanguage
word: Spanglish
social partnership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: social partnerships
Senses: glosses: Market control based on a comprehensive series of negotiated agreements between business and the labour force.
Atlántico
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Atlántico.
Senses: glosses: A department of Colombia.
TV movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TV movies
Senses: glosses: A movie made for and initially broadcast by a television channel.
Synonyms: english: movie
translation: movie
word: made-for-TV
Balochi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Balochis
form: Baloci
form: Baluchi
form: Baluci
form: Beluchi
form: Bilochi
form: Billochi
form: Billochee
form: Buluchi
Etymology: From Baluchi بلوچی.
Senses: examples: text: Had the fiercely independent Baluchis discovered what they were up to, it would immediately have been assumed that the British were exploring their lands preparatory to seizing them.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 37:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Balochistan, a region of west-central Asia.
Related terms: Baloch
Baluch
Balochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Baloci
form: Baluchi
form: Baluci
form: Beluchi
form: Bilochi
form: Billochi
form: Billochee
form: Buluchi
Etymology: From Baluchi بلوچی.
Senses: glosses: A Northwestern Iranian language spoken mainly in SW Pakistan (80% of speakers), SE Iran and S Afghanistan. SIL standard divides Balochi into three related languages, Eastern Balochi, Southern Balochi and Western Balochi.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Baluchi terms
Yanito
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Llanito.
Yanito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yanitos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Llanito.
Eight Section Brocade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ba Duan Jin, a Chinese exercise.
criminate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: criminates
form: criminating
form: criminated
form: criminated
Etymology: First attested circa 1591; borrowed from Latin crīminātus, perfect passive participle of crīminō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’
ref: 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin, published 1999, page 331:
text: In Germany, I had heard little of this terrible gang, and I had paid no greater heed to the stories related once or twice about them in Carlsruhe than one does to tales about ogres. But here in their very haunts, I learnt the full amount of the terror they inspired. No one would be legally responsible for any evidence criminating the murderer.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate.
glosses: To rebuke or censure (someone).
Derived terms: accriminate
Related terms: discriminate
incriminate
recriminate
criminate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more criminate
form: most criminate
Etymology: First attested circa 1591; borrowed from Latin crīminātus, perfect passive participle of crīminō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: If this bee a crime to call Vanitie, Vanitie: the wisest man that euer was before Christ was herein criminate, not when hee strayed, but when hee repented.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), H. Smith, Sermon:
glosses: Criminated.
raw_tags: as a participle
namus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nawamis
form: Namus
Etymology: From Arabic نَامُوس (nāmūs).
Senses: glosses: A concept of virtue and honor within a family, typically relating to chastity of female family members.
raw_tags: in Arab countries
glosses: A cromlech, a stone circle, a lithic burial structure in the Sinai connected to various superstitions.
insurance fraud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insurance frauds
Senses: examples: text: Some people have committed insurance fraud by setting their houses on fire and claiming that the fire was an accident.
topics: law
glosses: Receiving insurance policy-based compensation by deceitfully causing an event that, if it were accidental, would lead to a rightful claim for said compensation.
agreeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agreeabilities
Etymology: From agreeable (from Middle English agreable, from Old French agreable) by analogy with -ability. By surface analysis, agree + -ability. Compare the only attestation before the 18th century (by Geoffrey Chaucer), Middle English aggreablete, agreablete (“favorable disposition, tolerance”), from Middle French agréableté.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he was all good humour, spirits, sense and agreeability. Surely I may make words, when at a loss, if Dr Johnson does.
ref: 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 95:
glosses: The property of being agreeable; pleasantness.
glosses: The result, product, or an instance of being agreeable.
aglimmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡlɪmɚ/
rhymes: -ɪmɚ
Forms: form: more aglimmer
form: most aglimmer
Etymology: From a- + glimmer.
Senses: examples: text: The Yuletide tree was aglimmer with thousands of little lights.
glosses: Glimmering; gleaming or shining.
glimmerings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glimmering
smoothen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmuːðən/
Forms: form: smoothens
form: smoothening
form: smoothened
form: smoothened
Etymology: From smooth + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Men were smoothening the thatch, which ran from the top of the roof to the ground covering the sides and at the back of the building.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Kintu, Oneworld Publications (2018), page 34:
glosses: To make smooth.
glosses: To become smooth.
smoothens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smoothen
smoothening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smoothen
smoothened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From smoothen + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smoothen
smoothened
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smoothened
Etymology: Ultimately the same as etymology 1. The gene encoding the protein was first identified in Drosophila melanogaster as a segment polarity gene and initially named smooth (smo) by Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard et al. in 1984. This was later revised to smoothened by Dan L. Lindsley and Georgianna G. Zimm in 1992, because the former name already described another locus.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: Smo
glosses: A transmembrane protein belonging to the group of G protein-coupled receptors that is a key component of the hedgehog signaling pathway.
Related terms: patched
radiancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiancies
Etymology: From radiant + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: What radiancy of glory, / What light beyond compare!
ref: 1866, John Mason Neale, The Invalid's Hymn-book:
glosses: The property of being radiant; radiance
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The amount of energy emitted, flux.
radiancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiancy
refulgency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refulgencies
Senses: glosses: The property of being refulgent.
chloroacetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chloroacetophenones
Etymology: From chloro- + acetophenone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chlorinated form of acetophenone, C₆H₅-CO-CH₂Cl, used as the riot control agent CN gas
acetophenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetophenones
Etymology: From aceto- + phenone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic ketone phenyl methyl ketone, used in the manufacture of very many organic compounds
Derived terms: aminoacetophenone
chloroacetophenone
dichloroacetophenone
boneset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonesets
Etymology: From bone + set.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the genera Eupatorium and Ageratina.
glosses: The herb common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum).
glosses: Comfrey.
Derived terms: shrubby boneset
upland boneset
bonesets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boneset
ice lollies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice lolly
common boneset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: agueweed
thoroughwort
glosses: The herb Eupatorium perfoliatum, used by herbalists as a stimulant, febrifuge, and laxative.
thoroughwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughworts
Etymology: From thorough (“through”) + wort: the leaf bases are joined, so it looks like the stem is growing through a single leaf.
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants of the genus Eupatorium.
glosses: Common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum).
thoroughworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thoroughwort
agueweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agueweeds
Etymology: From ague + weed.
Senses: glosses: The common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum).
agueweeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agueweed
aidful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aidful
form: most aidful
Etymology: From aid + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Helpful, assisting, providing aid.
pirate ships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirate ship
aidless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aidless
form: most aidless
Etymology: From aid + -less.
Senses: examples: text: 1637, John Milton, Comus, London: Humphrey Robinson, p. 20,
I found the place
Where that dam’d wisard hid in slie-disguise
(For so by certain signs I knew) had met
Alreadie, ere my best speed could praevent
The aidlesse innocent Ladie his wish’t prey,
text: It is not meet, Sir King, to leave thee thus, / Aidless, alone, and smitten through the helm.
ref: 1842, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Morte d’Arthur”, in Poems, volume 2, London: Moxon, page 6:
glosses: Without aid.
examples: text: Aidless navigation has the advantage of not requiring equipment, but is much less accurate.
glosses: Without mechanical assistance.
airbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛəˌbɪl/
ipa: /ˈɛˌ-/
ipa: /ˈɛɚˌbɪl/
ipa: /ˈɛɹˌ-/
Forms: form: airbills
Etymology: Blend of air + waybill
Senses: topics: transport
glosses: A waybill for cargo being shipped by air.
Synonyms: airwaybill
airboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airboats
Etymology: From air + boat.
Senses: examples: text: No seats were used yet and the pilot of the airboat stood by the engine and operated the throttle manually. Later, a stick control similar to that used in small aircraft was attached to the rudder ropes.
ref: 2000, Jim Huffstodt, Everglades Lawmen: True Stories of Danger and Adventure in the Glades, Pineapple Press Inc, →ISBN, page 74:
text: In keeping with that mission, the law called for the use of airboats in the national park to be phased out.
ref: 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A flat-bottomed boat driven by an in-air propeller and used in shallow water.
Synonyms: fanboat
swamp boat
Derived terms: airboating
airboater
airletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airletters
Etymology: From air + letter.
Senses: glosses: An aerogram.
glosses: A letter sent by airmail.
airletters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airletter
air beds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air bed
airbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbeds
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air bed.
air brick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air bricks
form: airbrick
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A brick-sized block with holes which is embedded in a wall to allow ventilation through it.
air bricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air brick
airbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbricks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of air brick.
airbricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airbrick
alterably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more alterably
form: most alterably
Etymology: From alterable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alterable manner.
allspices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allspice
alopecic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alopecic
form: most alopecic
Etymology: From alopecia + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The mortality rate of alopecic females from 2001 to 2204 was 42.9% (6/14), not significantly different from that of nonalopecic females (40%, 10/25).
ref: 2012, Judith Masters, Marco Gamba, Fabien Génin, Leaping Ahead: Advances in Prosimian Biology, page 382:
text: During the surgical procedure, up to one hundred 4 mm plugs were removed from alopecic scalp to make room for a like number of transplant plugs from nonalopecic scalp.
ref: 2012, Ronald Marks, Gerd Plewig, Skin Models, page 111:
glosses: Relating to or suffering from alopecia.
hens' teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hen's tooth
amalgamator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amalgamators
Senses: glosses: One who amalgamates.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for preparing amalgam.
amalgamators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amalgamator
amassment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈmæsmənt/
Forms: form: amassments
Etymology: Probably from French amassement (“the act of amassing; the result of this action, objects that have been amassed or piled up”); equivalent to amass + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: All her energy was devoted to the amassment of a vast fortune.
text: 1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, London: Thomas Heath, Book 1, Chapter 2, p. 13,
… no can know, whether He [God] created either more Atoms then were requisite to the amassment of this World, or more Worlds then this one:
text: [...] Curmudgeons among Books, are as discoverable as those among Bags; and [...] they may lose more Honour and Credit, than gain Wisdom or Happiness, by the fruitless Amassment and Imprisonment of either.
ref: 1731, William Oldys, A Dissertation upon Pamphlets, London, page 7:
text: Even more than the Russian Bolshevik the American democrat regards wealth with suspicion, and its too eager amassment with a bilious eye.
ref: 1920, George Jean Nathan, H. L. Mencken, The American Credo, New York: Knopf, page 24:
text: Empiricism, magpie amassment of cultural detail, produces an ethnographic telephone book.
ref: 1995, Clifford Geertz, chapter 2, in After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist,, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, page 23:
glosses: The act of amassing.
examples: text: Through the Internet, we have access to an unprecedented amassment of information.
text: [Phancy, i.e. imagination, is] but an amassment of imaginary conceptions, praejudices, ungrounded opinions, and infinite Impostures;
ref: 1661, Joseph Glanvill, The Vanity of Dogmatizing, London: Henry Eversden, page 104:
text: [...] many are the means, whereby the Sultan daily adds prodigious Sums to his Revenues, such as, for Example, The obliging all the Great Bashaws and Governours of his Dominions every New-Years-Day to send him Presents, commonly in ready Money, which amounts to an incredible Amassment.
ref: 1709, Aaron Hill, chapter 20, in A Full and Just Account of the Present State of the Ottoman Empire, London, page 171:
text: [...] did he imagine he could carry his amassments with him out of the world? Had he so loved the gems in his life as to dream he could illumine his tomb with them?
ref: 1893, Lew Wallace, chapter 3, in The Prince of India, or, Why Constantinople Fell, volume 1, New York: Harper, page 21:
text: We had pushed everything into the middle of the floor, and she sat in a rocker on the edge of the amassment, attending to the last year’s baby.
ref: 1935, Nellie McClung, chapter 33, in Clearing in the West: My Own Story, Toronto: Thomas Allen:
text: [...] I trawled my way through the staggering amassment of papers and journals and tomes that chronicle the newest developments in the astonishingly fast-moving world of modern geology.
ref: 2005, Simon Winchester, chapter 4, in A Crack in the Edge of the World, New York: HarperCollins, page 63:
glosses: That which is amassed; a large quantity (of something).
Synonyms: accumulation
collection
amassments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amassment
amatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more amatively
form: most amatively
Etymology: From amative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an amative manner.
ambrosially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ambrosially
form: most ambrosially
Etymology: From ambrosial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ambrosial manner.
amities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amity
alterability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alterabilities
Etymology: From alter + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being alterable.
ameliorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amelioration
amendatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amendatory
form: most amendatory
Etymology: From Late Latin ēmendātōrius (with a- for e- from amend).
Senses: glosses: For the purpose of amending or correction.
amusable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amusable
form: most amusable
Etymology: From amuse + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being amused.
anginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From angina + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His repeated anginal pain finally drove him to a cardiologist.
glosses: Related to angina.
Related terms: antianginal
nonanginal
postanginal
aegirine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegirines
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with monoclinic crystals with the chemical formula NaFe³⁺(Si₂O₆) belonging to the pyroxene group.
Synonyms: acmite
Derived terms: aegirine-augite
aegirinic
aegirite
Baluchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Balochi.
Baloci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Balochi.
Baluci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Balochi.
Eastern Balochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Balochi language, spoken mainly in Pakistan, where it has about 1.5 million speakers.
Southern Balochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of the Balochi language spoken mainly in Pakistan, where it has about 3 million speakers, and in Iran (0.5 million).
Western Balochi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variety of Balochi language, spoken in Pakistan (more than 1 million speakers), Iran (0.5 million), Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan.
alienly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From alien + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an alien manner.
TPTB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of the powers that be.
PTB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: [E]ven reconstructed syllable-initial units, such as his Proto-Tibeto-Burman (PTB) and PLB [Proto-Lolo-Burmese] prefixed spirantal initial *C-s and his PTB and PLB voiceless spirantal initial *s [...] draw on syllable features and syllable-final features for their reflexes
ref: 1974, R. K. Sprigg, “JAMES A. MATISOFF: The Loloish tonal split revisited. (Research Monograph No. 7.) viii, 88 pp. Berkeley : Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, University of California, 1972.”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, volume 37, number 1, →DOI, page 261:
text: The Lahu verb tā ‛place on; put on; set on; stand sthg. upright’ has impeccable Tibeto-Burman credentials⁹, reflecting PLB *ˀta² (cf. WB thâ) and ultimately PTB *s-ta (cf. WT sta ᛝ stad)
ref: 1991, James A. Matisoff, “Areal and universal dimensions of grammatization in Lahu”, in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, editors, Approaches to Grammaticalization, volume 2, →DOI, →ISBN, page 396:
text: PTB had six vowels: /i, e, ɑ, o, u, ə/ while only five /i, e, ɑ, o, u/ were present in Classical Tibetan.
ref: 2009, Gwendolyn Hyslop, “Kurtöp and the classification of the languages of Bhutan”, in Papers from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Society, volume 44, number 1, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 146:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Proto-Tibeto-Burman
cyanid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanids
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cyanide.
allergin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allergins
Etymology: From allergy + -in.
Senses: glosses: Something that provokes an allergic reaction; an allergen.
allergins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allergin
MECE
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive: of a situation that has no logical overlapping to other ideas, often used at consulting firms that provide logical solutions.
porch monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porch monkeys
Senses: examples: text: "[W]e are concerned that outright harassment such as being called nigger, jungle bunny, porch monkey, boy, son, etc., is occurring entirely too much."
ref: 1983 January 14, “Racial incidents, declining sales sour Volkswagen dream”, in Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, page 6:
text: “Look Jake, you need a real partner, you know what I mean, a real white partner, not that overweight porch monkey. . . ; we whites have to stick together.”
ref: 2006, Lee Kohn, Shadows of Rage, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: A lazy black person.
porch monkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porch monkey
emulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emulously
form: most emulously
Etymology: From emulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The inhabitants were all doing well, it seemed, and all emulously hoping to do better still...
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: In an emulous manner; ambitiously or competitively.
Related terms: emulate
lampwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lamp + work.
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A method for working with blown glass that does not require a furnace.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: Glass pieces made by this method.
topics: arts
crafts
glassblowing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: The activity of producing glass pieces using this method.
Related terms: lampworker
lampworking
lampwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lampworks
form: lampworking
form: lampworked
form: lampworked
Etymology: From lamp + work.
Senses: glosses: To produce items by means of this process.
Synonyms: flamework
torchwork
prehistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prehistorical
form: most prehistorical
Etymology: From pre- + historical.
Senses: glosses: prehistoric
biofortification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biofortifications
Etymology: From bio- + fortification.
Senses: glosses: The process of increasing the nutritional content of the edible portion of plant foods to levels that consistently exceed the average content observed.
emulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛm.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /ˈɛm.jə.ləs/
Forms: form: more emulous
form: most emulous
form: æmulous
Etymology: From Middle English emulous, from Latin aemulus (“striving to equal or excel, rivaling; in a bad sense, envious, jealous”) + -ous, from Ancient Greek ἁμιλλάομαι (hamilláomai, “strive, contend”), akin to Latin imitari (“to imitate”); see imitate.
Senses: examples: text: His armes and other moꝛe ſinewous than fleſhie, a ſtout and a valiant gentleman he was and emulous.
ref: 1587 January, Raphael Holinshed, “The Description of Meilerius”, in The Second Volume of Chronicles: Conteining the Description, Conquest, Inhabitation, and Troublesome Estate of Ireland; […], 2nd edition, volume II, London: […] [Henry Denham] […] at the expenses of Iohn Harison, George Bishop, Rafe Newberie, Henrie Denham, and Thomas Woodcocke, →OCLC, page 38, column 1, lines 30–32:
text: [I]f he leaves the School poſſeſs'd of a ſluggiſh indolent Diſpoſition, and of Learning rather forc'd upon him than choſen, it is probable he will forget what he brought thence; but if he be active, emulous and aſpiring, he will certainly find Time for Reading and Thinking; for tho' it be a homely, it is a true Saying, that where there is a Will, there is a Way.
ref: 1724, Pharmacopolæ Justificati: Or, Apothecaries Vindicated from the Imputation of Ignorance. Wherein is Shown, that an Academical Education is No Way Necessary to Qualify a Man for the Practice of Physick, London: Printed for J. Roberts, […], →OCLC, page 6:
text: In such near proximity with the invalid, though all had been emulous of showing him attention, perhaps none were more truly affected by the critical situation of the unhappy Douglas than Miss Airey.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 204:
text: A dozen emulous young persons in, or just out of, pinafores, swift-runners, had taken the field.
ref: 1859, George Meredith, chapter 1, in The Ordeal of Richard Feverel. A History of Father and Son. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC:
text: They had been always of course, the Papers, very largely about him, but it was not too much to say that at this crisis they were about nothing else worth speaking of; so that our young woman could but groan in spirit at the direful example set to the emulous.
ref: 1901, Henry James, The Papers:
glosses: Ambitious or competitive.
Derived terms: emulously
emulousness
inemulous
unemulous
Related terms: emulate
emulation
flatulence tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatulence taxes
Senses: examples: text: A flatulence tax proposed to offset the damage to the ozone layer by farm animal gases could cost New Zealand farmers up to R15billion,
ref: 2001 May 21, “Poop tax suggested for NZ stock farmers”, in Dispatch Online:
text: We can safely assume they would not favor a flatulence tax. Rice cultivation and associated methane emissions are increasing to feed the exploding population
ref: 2005, Harvey Blatt, America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?, page 137:
text: To meet these Kyoto targets, the New Zealand government has proposed a flatulence tax on farmers of sheep, cows, deer and goats.
ref: 2005, Dennis Urbans, God Wants You Healthy!, page 183:
text: New Zealand has abandoned plans for a flatulence tax on animals in the face of fierce opposition from farmers
ref: 2007, Noel Botham, The Best Book of Useless Information Ever, page 124:
text: Belching cows and pigs could start costing farmers money if a proposal to charge fees for air-polluting animals becomes law.
ref: 2008 December 5, “Flatulence tax could bankrupt farmers”, in Independent, UK:
glosses: A tax on methane emissions from cows, first proposed in New Zealand.
Synonyms: fart tax
fart tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fart taxes
Etymology: Compound of fart + tax.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of flatulence tax.
synonyms: word: flatulence tax
flatulence taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatulence tax
fart taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fart tax
death tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death taxes
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: inheritance tax
death taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death tax
when it's at home
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: when it's
form: he's
form: she's at home
Senses: examples: text: Who is Nelson Mandela when he's at home?
glosses: (of a person) In reality; in fact; when it comes down to it.
examples: text: Feng shui? What on earth is that when it's at home?
glosses: (of a topic) Plainly; in plain English; at its most basic level.
Schnitzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Schnitzers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Schnitzer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
murren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: His Cattel must of Rot and Murren die.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of murrain.
adreno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Relating to the adrenal gland.
adreno-cortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of adrenocortical.
angoras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of angora
edifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more edifyingly
form: most edifyingly
Etymology: From edifying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They hung the man from the Adler. […] Down he fell, hands and feet extended, until with a jerk he was at the end of the rope. Then he ought to have died and swung edifyingly, but instead a more terrible thing happened; his head came right off, and down the body went.
ref: 1908, H. G. Wells, The War in the Air:
glosses: In such a manner as to instruct or enlighten.
mapvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of map + advertising. Though there is evidence of usage before, the term first came into heavy use in 2006. The word was trademarked in the United Kingdom only on November 29, 2004.
Senses: glosses: the concept and act of advertising on, or in direct relation to, maps; generally referring to online maps, but also including rooftop and other large, physical ads positioned for satellite photo opportunities.
Related terms: pushpin advertising
supercritical fluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercritical fluids
Senses: examples: text: The most commonly used supercritical fluids are carbon dioxide and water.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A substance at a temperature and pressure above its own thermodynamic critical point that can diffuse through solids like a gas and dissolve materials like a liquid.
second down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second downs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The second down in a series that has a maximum of four downs.
Related terms: first down
third down
fourth down
third down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third downs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The third down in a series that has a maximum of four downs; traditionally the last running/passing play before punting.
Related terms: first down
second down
fourth down
fourth down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fourth downs
Senses: examples: text: Mahomes converted key fourth downs with his legs and looked to Kelce throughout the second half and overtime – the tight end finished with nine receptions and 93 yards after just one catch in the opening half.
ref: 2024 February 12, Ben Morse and Steve Almasy, “Kansas City Chiefs defeat San Francisco 49ers in OT in Super Bowl LVIII, become first back-to-back NFL champions in 19 years”, in CNN.com:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The fourth down in a series that has a maximum of four downs; often used to punt the ball downfield or attempt a field goal (If not punted or converted, the opposing team takes possession wherever the ball is).
Related terms: first down
second down
third down
red zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red zones
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The area extending twenty yards from the end zone, where a team in possession of the ball is expected to score.
glosses: An area of a street where the curb has been painted red, indicating that stopping, standing or parking is prohibited at that spot (except, in some places, for buses).
examples: text: Lee Joyce, who leads on track and drainage for Project Brunel, explains: "The railway saw a lot of change in a short amount of time - COVID, the Elizabeth Line coming on. We lost Red Zone access [working on tracks with trains running].
ref: 2025 May 28, Paul Clifton, “Project Brunel on the right line”, in RAIL, number 1036, page 29:
glosses: Any other area so classified.
come down to us
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes down to us
form: coming down to us
form: came down to us
form: come down to us
Senses: examples: text: It is somewhat remarkable that none of bishop Ridley’s sermons have come down to us.
ref: 1858, Charles Henry Cooper, Thompson Cooper, Athenae Cantabrigienses, volume 1, page 138:
text: There is some confusion about this work since the original has disappeared, and scholars have assumed that what has come down to us is not by Mozart.
ref: 2002, Alexander J. Morin, editor, Classical Music: The Listener's Companion, page 638:
text: As you’ll have noticed, a large number of pre-Renaissance writings on language have come down to us without any indication of their author’s name, or with a false one attached.
ref: 2003, Vivien Law, The History of Linguistics in Europe: From Plato to 1600, page 170:
glosses: To survive to the present day; to be extant in some form.
anagenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anageneses
Etymology: From ana- + -genesis.
Senses: glosses: The evolution of a new species by the large scale change in gene frequency so that the new species replaces the old rather than branching to produce an additional species.
Derived terms: chromoanagenesis
uncannier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of uncanny: more uncanny
uncanniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of uncanny: most uncanny
analog signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog signals
Senses: glosses: A signal that can vary in a continuous manner (as opposed to a digital signal that only takes discrete values).
analog signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analog signal
digital signal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digital signals
Senses: glosses: A signal that only takes discrete values (contrasted to an analog signal that can take continuously varying values).
digital signals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of digital signal
analog clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog clocks
form: analogue clock
Etymology: This is a retronym coined when digital clocks became common.
Senses: glosses: A clock that displays the time using hands that move mechanically around its face.
Related terms: tick-tock
analog clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analog clock
analphabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more analphabetic
form: most analphabetic
Etymology: From an- + alphabetic.
Senses: hypernyms: alphanumeric#Adjective
glosses: (of symbols) Not alphabetic.
examples: text: His system of exchange was that for any book in his bundle you gave him four annas, and any other book. Not quite any book, however, for the book-wallah, though analphabetic, had learned to recognize and refuse a Bible.
ref: 1935, George Orwell, chapter 19, in Burmese Days:
glosses: (of a person) Illiterate, unable to read or write.
analphabetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analphabetics
Etymology: From an- + alphabetic.
Senses: examples: text: At press conferences you hear a visiting statesman so eloquent in his own language—and then suddenly he tries a few words in French...an idiot speaking, an analphabetic from some wretched forgotten hamlet learning to read at the age of seventy.—
ref: 1979, Nadine Gordimer, Burger's Daughter, Penguin, published 1980, page 267:
glosses: An illiterate person.
analphabetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Illiteracy, the inability to read and write.
Related terms: word: analphabet
word: analphabetic
word: analphabetical
word: analphabetically
word: alphabetism
quizmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɪzˌmæs.tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: quizmasters
Etymology: * quiz + master
Senses: glosses: A person who poses questions to contestants on a quiz show.
Synonyms: host
verdurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒəɹəs/
/ˈvɜː(ɹ)djʊəɹəs/
Forms: form: more verdurous
form: most verdurous
Etymology: Originated c. 1595–1605, verdure + -ous, ultimately from verd (“green”), from Latin viridis.
Senses: examples: text: The hill was blanketed in verdurous grasses.
text: The verdurous pasture...
text: a hall stood; o’er whose roof
Fair clinging weeds with ivy pale did grow,
Clasping its gray rents with a verdurous woof,
A hanging dome of leaves, a canopy moon-proof.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 271:
synonyms: word: lush
word: verdant
word: bosky
word: greenly
word: lavish
word: lush
word: verdant
word: verdured
word: verdurous
word: virid
word: viridescent
glosses: Freshly green; verdant; covered with verdure, or consisting of it.
glosses: Having youthful or new qualities.
Related terms: verdant
demitazza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demitazzas
Etymology: Recent coinage, macaronic blend of French demi- (“half”) and Italian tazza (“cup”).
Senses: glosses: A small cup of Greek coffee or espresso, typically about 40-60 ml/2–3 fl oz capacity.
glosses: The cup in which this coffee is served.
when, as, and if
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Forms: form: if, as and when
Senses: examples: text: The dividend on the preferred stock shall be payable in equal amount to the dividend on the common stock when, as, and if the Company declares a dividend on the common stock.
topics: business
finance
law
glosses: Used to indicate the timing and contingency of some obligation in contracts, especially financial.
in posse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈpɑsi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in posse, from in (“in”) + posse (“to be able; can”).
Senses: glosses: In possibility, having a potential to exist, in potential but not in actuality, (contradistinguished by in esse)
in posse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈpɑsi/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in posse, from in (“in”) + posse (“to be able; can”).
Senses: glosses: In possibility, having a potential to exist, in potential but not in actuality, (contradistinguished by in esse).
Coordinate terms: in esse
armipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more armipotent
form: most armipotent
Etymology: From Latin armipotēns.
Senses: examples: text: Swift at the word bold Merion snatch’d a spear
And, breathing slaughter, follow’d to the war.
So Mars armipotent invades the plain,
(The wide destroyer of the race of man,)
ref: 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XIII:
coordinate_terms: bellipotent
glosses: Powerful in battle.
armipotent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armipotents
Etymology: From Latin armipotēns.
Senses: examples: text: The two armipotents brought up their respective legions, thirsting for glory.
ref: 1825, Eileen Archer, Saragossa:
text: With violence the lands are spread / Even as in Israel's day, / And it repenteth me I bred / Chartered armipotents lust-led / To feuds […]
ref: 1917, Thomas Hardy, I Met a Man:
glosses: A powerful combatant.
in esse
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈɛsi/
ipa: /ɪnˈɛseɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin in (“in”) + esse (“be”).
Senses: glosses: In being, in actuality, having actual existence (contradistinguished by in posse; compare in potentia).
Related terms: in posse
in fieri
adoptious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adoptious
form: most adoptious
Etymology: From adopt + -ious.
Senses: examples: text: […] with a world
 Of pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms,
 That blinking Cupid gossips.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: Adopted.
aforehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English aforehande, equivalent to afore- + hand. Compare Scots aforehaund.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he is come aforehand to anoint my body[.]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 14:8:
glosses: Beforehand; in advance; in anticipation.
aforehand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aforehand
form: most aforehand
Etymology: From Middle English aforehande, equivalent to afore- + hand. Compare Scots aforehaund.
Senses: examples: text: He is aforehand with the world.
glosses: Beforehand in condition; forehanded.
apprenticehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apprenticehoods
Etymology: From apprentice + -hood.
Senses: glosses: apprenticeship
arrogancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɹəɡənsi/
Forms: form: arrogancies
Etymology: From Latin arrogāntia.
Senses: examples: text: Were it not a sottish arrogancie, that wee should thinke our selves to be the perfectest thing of this Universe?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Arrogance.
aphetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Having undergone aphesis, the removal of an unstressed initial vowel.
raw_tags: of a word
glosses: simple past and past participle of aphetize
tich
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: tiches
Etymology: After the music hall comedian Harry Relph (1867–1928), who used the stage name Little Tich. This referred to a supposed resemblance to the claimant in the Tichborne Case.
Senses: glosses: A very small person.
wikipedia: Little Tich
Tichborne Case
Related terms: tich button
titch
epical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪkəl/
Forms: form: more epical
form: most epical
Etymology: From epic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Camp Tewattsirokwas was the brainchild of a Trotskyite couple, the Gimelmans from Cedarhurst, begun back at the time of the Schachtman unpleasantness amid epical all-night screaming matches […].
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 457:
glosses: Of or pertaining to epic literature; epic, grandiose.
Derived terms: epically
unepical
epical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛpɪkəl/
Forms: form: epicals
Etymology: From epic + -al.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: Any book containing two or more epics.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A lengthy, revered narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.
rawr
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, from roar.
Senses: glosses: An expression of great appreciation, a happy imitation of a roar, often to emphasize attraction.
glosses: An expression of anger or frustration, though fairly lighthearted.