cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spikenard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspaɪknɑː(ɹ)d/
ipa: /ˈspɪknɑːɹd/
ipa: /ˈspɪknæɹd/
ipa: /ˈspɪknəɹd/
Forms: form: spikenards
Etymology: From Middle English spikenard, spikenarde, from Anglo-Norman spicanarde, from Medieval Latin spīca nardī, from Latin spica (“spike”) + nardi (“nard”). Equivalent to spike + nard.
Senses: examples: text: While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 1:12:
text: All subtle thought, all curious fears,
⁠Borne down by gladness so complete,
⁠She bows, she bathes the Saviour’s feet
With costly spikenard and with tears.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 51:
text: The glories of Mary held his soul captive : spikenard and myrrh and frankincense, symbolising the preciousness of God's gifts to her soul, rich garments, symbolising her royal lineage, her emblems, the lateflowering plant and lateblossoming tree, symbolising the agelong gradual growth of her cultus among men.
ref: 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:
glosses: A perfumed ointment, extracted from the plant Nardostachys jatamansi that belongs to the Valerian family and grows in the Himalayas.
examples: text: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 4:12-14:
glosses: The plant Nardostachys jatamansi (syn. Nardostachys grandiflora).
glosses: Lavandula stoechas, another species used in antiquity to produce an aromatic oil.
synonyms: spignet
glosses: Any plant of the genus Aralia of the Araliaceae family.
glosses: False spikenard (Maianthemum racemosum, syn. Smilacina racemosa)
glosses: Ploughman's spikenard (Inula conyza, now Pentanema conyzae).
glosses: Wild spikenard (Asarum europaeum).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Aralia racemosa
word: American spikenard
taxonomic: Aralia humilis
word: Arizona spikenard
taxonomic: Nardus stricta
word: bastard spikenard
word: cretan spikenard
taxonomic: Valeriana phu
word: Cretan spikenard
taxonomic: Maianthemum racemosum
word: false spikenard
taxonomic: Aralia cordata
word: Japanese spikenard
word: ploughman's spikenard
english: now Pentanema conyzae
translation: now Pentanema conyzae
taxonomic: Inula conyza
word: plowman's spikenard
taxonomic: Aralia racemosa
word: small spikenard
taxonomic: Asarum europaeum
word: wild spikenard
Hollywood North
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hollywood + north; from the fact that many US movies are filmed in Canada because filming there is less expensive.
Senses: glosses: Canada.
glosses: Toronto or Vancouver.
North East England
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The high banks of the rivers of North East England have led to the shipment of coal from staiths by the simple process of shooting it down gravity spouts from bottom-door wagons.
ref: 1945 January and February, T. F. Cameron, “Dock Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 10:
glosses: One of nine official administrative regions of England, comprising Northumberland, Tyne and Wear and County Durham as well as a small part of North Yorkshire.
calamus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calamuses
form: calami
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin calamus (“reed, cane”), from Ancient Greek κάλαμος (kálamos). Doublet of culm, haulm, helm (Etymology 4, stalk), qalam, and shawm.
Senses: examples: text: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 4:12–14:
glosses: The sweet flag, Acorus calamus.
examples: text: Thus, the four distinct feather parts that have been compared as to amino acid content to note whether or not the composition is uniform are rachis, barbs, calamus and medulla.
ref: 1956, Advisory Board on Quartermaster Research and Development, The Utilization of Chicken Feathers as Filling Materials, page 9:
text: In follicles late in feather growth, after rupture of the feather sheath, this canal contained the upper part of the calamus.
ref: 1969, RIC Spearman, “The epidermis and feather follicles of the king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonica) (aves)”, in Zeitschrift für Morphologie der Tiere:
text: Chapin asserted that the calamus is firmly fixed in the wing
ref: 1969, CH Fry, “Structural and functional adaptation to display in the Standard‐winged nightjar Macrodipteryx longipennis”, in Journal of Zoology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: A quill; the hard, horny, hollow, and more or less transparent part of the stem or scape of a feather.
glosses: A fish of genus Calamus in family Sparidae; certain porgies.
glosses: A palm in genus Calamus, of rattan palms.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A fistular stem without an articulation.
topics: Christianity
glosses: Synonym of fistula (“tube for sucking Eucharist wine”).
synonyms: word: fistula
extra: tube for sucking Eucharist wine
camphire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkæmfaɪə(ɹ)/
/ˈkæmfaɪ.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: camphires
Etymology: Malapropism in the English Bible of the Hebrew כֹּפֶר / כּוֹפֶר (kōp̄er, “henna”) by confusion with camphor. The Hebrew is from Akkadian 𒇒𒌓𒀀 (kupru, “bitumen, pitch”) from Akkadian 𒅗𒉺𒊒 (kapāru, “to smear, to daub on”).
Senses: examples: text: The Wild Valerian is mightily extolled by some for strengthning the Optick Nerves and restoring decay’d Sight tho’ the present Practice does not acknowledge it in any such Intentions; it does sometimes Wonders in Hysterical Affections, especially where those of the fætid Kind are, and where the Spirits are too impetuous in their Motions, so as to occasion Convulsions; being assisted with Camphire and some other things of the like Nature, which are very powerful in breaking thro’ the minutest Obstructions, it has been known to cure obstinate Agues.
ref: 1725, [Noël] Chomel, “VALERIAN”, in R[ichard] Bradley, editor, Dictionaire Oeconomique: Or, The Family Dictionary. […], volume II (I–Z), London: […] D[aniel] Midwinter, […], →OCLC:
text: Câfûr is the name of a fountain in paradise, so called from its resembling camphire (which the word signifies) in odour, and whiteness. Some take the word for an appellative, and think the wine of paradise will be mixed with camphire, because of its agreeable coolness and smell.
ref: 1734, George Sale, The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, London: C. Ackers, Chapter 78, page 475:
text: Sitting over the steam of warm water with camphire, might be tried, especially in such cases as are not disposed to be permanent, and rubbing the scrotum with mercurial ointment joined with camphire.
ref: 1786, John Hunter, A Treatise on the Venereal Disease, London, Part II, Chapter IX, Section VI, page 108:
glosses: Camphor.
examples: text: A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed. Thy plants are an orchard of pomegranates, with pleasant fruits; camphire, with spikenard, Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Song of Solomon 4:12–14:
glosses: The fragrant henna flower (or plant) (Lawsonia inermis, syn. Lawsonia alba)
pruninghook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pruninghooks
Senses: examples: text: And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 2:4:
glosses: Alternative form of pruning hook.
chloroplatinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An acid, H₂PtCl₆, derived from platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, used in the analysis of amines.
Related terms: chloroplatinate
volery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voleries
form: volary
Senses: glosses: A flock of birds.
glosses: An aviary.
shoggoths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoggoth
marginalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɑː(ɹ)dʒɪnəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: marginalizations
form: marginalisation
Etymology: From marginal + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of marginalizing.
Derived terms: demarginalization
premarginalization
remarginalization
demonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: demonizations
form: demonisation
Etymology: From demon + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act of demonizing.
glosses: Something demonized.
weldability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weldabilities
Etymology: From weld + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability of a metal or other material to be welded under specified conditions
calciner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calciners
Etymology: From calcine + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who calcines.
glosses: A device or container in which calcination takes place.
beetle-crusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beetle-crushers
Senses: examples: text: "Think of Arthur, his height! And those great beetle-crushers!"
ref: 1903, M. F. Hutchinson, Princess Kiku, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, page 11:
synonyms: beetle-squasher
glosses: A large, flat foot.
examples: text: The Chinese New Year commenced in Sydney yesterday, the Mongolian Empire, and wherever the beetle-crusher of a native of the Flowery Land hops along beneath a bamboo stick and a pair of baskets.
ref: 1888 February 13, The Australian Star, Sydney, page 2, column 3:
text: [T]he Puddin' merely laughed scornfully, and called Bill a bun-headed old beetle-crusher.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 88:
text: When was first torn from my native; element I was not the grey, worn-out "beetle-crusher" that you see me now.
ref: 1922 October 26, The Farmer's Advocate, Melbourne, page 12:
glosses: A person with large, flat feet.
debride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈbɹiːd/
ipa: /diːˈbɹiːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: debrides
form: debriding
form: debrided
form: debrided
form: debreed
Etymology: Borrowed from French débrider (“to unbridle, unharness”).
Senses: glosses: To remove necrotic tissue or foreign matter from (a wound or the like).
Derived terms: debridal
debrider
nondebrided
undebrided
Related terms: debridation
debridement
tetany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛtəni/
Forms: form: tetanies
Etymology: Borrowed from French tétanie, from New Latin tetania.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition characterized by painful muscular spasms, caused by faulty calcium metabolism.
Derived terms: grass tetany
transit tetany
transport tetany
Related terms: tetanus
contractility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contractilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being able to contract or shrink (used especially of muscles).
glosses: The extent to which something contracts or shrinks.
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The performance of cardiac muscle.
Derived terms: acontractility
electrocontractility
faradocontractility
galvanocontractility
hypercontractility
hypocontractility
vasocontractility
Related terms: contractile
hyperkalemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperkalemias
form: hyperkalaemia
Etymology: From hyper- + kalemia or hyper- + kal(ium) + -emia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally high concentration of potassium ions in the blood (above the reference range).
Coordinate terms: hypercalcemia
hypercupremia
hyperferremia
hypermagnesemia
hypernatremia
Related terms: hyperkalemic
hypocalcemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypocalcemias
Etymology: From hypo- + calcemia or hypo- + calc- + -emia.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: calcipenia, hypocalcia
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
related: word: hypocalcaemia
antonyms: hypercalcemia#Noun
hypercalcaemia#Noun
hypernyms: dyscalcemia#Noun
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sign#Noun
coordinate_terms: eucalcemia#Noun
eucalcaemia#Noun
normocalcemia#Noun
normocalcaemia#Noun
glosses: The medical sign of having an abnormally low concentration of calcium ions in the blood.
Derived terms: word: hypocalcemic
hypomagnesemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomagnesemias
form: hypomagnesaemia
Etymology: From hypo- + magnesemia or hypo- + magnes(io)- + -emia.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of having an abnormally low concentration of magnesium (Mg) ions in the blood (below the reference range).
Coordinate terms: word: hypocalcemia
word: hypocupremia
word: hypoferremia
word: hypokalemia
alt: biometallic cation insufficiency in blood
word: hyponatremia
english: low blood sugar
translation: low blood sugar
word: hypoglycemia
Derived terms: hypomagnesemic
cricothyroidotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cricothyroidotomies
Etymology: From cricothyroid + -otomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: an emergency surgical procedure, a form of tracheotomy, in which a hole is cut through the patient's neck into the windpipe in order to allow air into the lungs
bronchospasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bronchospasms
Etymology: From broncho- + spasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: difficulty in breathing due to a contraction of smooth muscle in the walls of the bronchi and bronchioles
Derived terms: bronchospasmogenic
bronchospasmolytic
Related terms: bronchospastic
identitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: identitarianisms
Etymology: From identitarian + -ism, 1943.
Senses: examples: text: "The radical feminists always wanted in their frantic identitarianism to eliminate the difference between the sexes" (p. 96)
ref: Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large, 1943, e.g.
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Politics based on social identity.
examples: text: Needless to add, this augurs badly for the future of the GRECE’s identitarianism, for it now tacitly acknowledges the right of non-Europeans to occupy and partition European lands.
ref: 2004, Michael O'Meara, New Culture, New Right: Anti-liberalism in Postmodern Europe, page 78:
text: Identitarianism is probably the most well-known of these ‘new’ ideologies, despite its fairly recent emergence on the political scene. Employing the lambda symbol, identitarianism has gained increasing purchase amongst youth across western Europe, and France in particular, growing out of the (European) New Right (Nouvelle Droite), which dates to the 1970s and GRECE (Research and Study Group on European Civilization).
ref: 2020, Tim Nieguth, editor, Nationalism and Popular Culture, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: While the concept of remigration has long existed in academia, its hijacking by the far right on social media appears to have begun about a decade ago when French adherents to identitarianism, an ethno-nationalist movement, organised what they described as the inaugural meeting in Paris on remigration.
ref: 2024 October 3, Ashifa Kassam, “How remigration became a buzzword for global far right”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
human-sciences
politics
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Politics based on social identity.
A far-right political movement and philosophy that seeks to preserve European ethnic and cultural identity against the perceived threats of immigration, Islam, and globalization.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The set of ideas arising from an ontology of identity.
Related terms: identity politics
discriminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkɹɪmɪnət(ə)ɹɪ/
ipa: /dɪˌskɹɪmɪˈneɪt(ə)rɪ/
ipa: /dɪsˈkɹɪmɪnəˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more discriminatory
form: most discriminatory
Etymology: From discriminate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses).
glosses: Showing prejudice or bias.
Synonyms: discriminational
Derived terms: antidiscriminatory
discriminatorily
indiscriminatory
non-discriminatory
nondiscriminatory
undiscriminatory
skis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ski
skis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ski
batta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌtə/
Forms: form: battas
form: bhatta
Etymology: From Hindi भत्ता (bhattā).
Senses: glosses: An exchange rate.
glosses: The discount on uncurrent coins.
examples: text: On the day previous to their entry into the place, the men had shown a spirit of insubordination, refusing to proceed until some promise was given that they should get their extra battas.
ref: The Asiatic journal and monthly register for British and foreign India, China, and Australasia (volume 28)
glosses: Extra pay; especially an extra allowance to an English officer serving in India.
accessable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accessible.
accessibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈsɛs.ə.bəl.nəs/
Etymology: From accessible + -ness.
Senses: examples: The accessibleness of the doctors was thought to be in the best interests of the patients.
glosses: The property that someone or something can be accessed.
accessor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accessors
Etymology: From access + -or.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that accesses.
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A function that retrieves a value, usually without changing any data.
Synonyms: sense: function
word: getter
accessability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of accessibility.
postal code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postal codes
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget to add the postal code to the envelope, or it won't be delivered on time.
text: Taiwan, for instance, extends its civilian control over Itu Aba as a municipality that is part of Kaohsiung's Cijin District, and it has its own postal code.
ref: 2013 December, Clarence J. Bouchat, “Legal Basis and Claims in the Spratly Islands Scrum”, in Dangerous Ground: The Spratly Islands and U.S. Interests and Approaches, United States Army War College, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: A sequence of letters and/or numbers added to a postal address to aid the sorting and delivery of post/mail.
Synonyms: postcode
Hyponyms: word: zip code
word: ZIP code
kybosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The right plan would be to put the complete kybosh (if I may use the expression) on your chances of becoming an alderman.
ref: 1909 October – 1910 February, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “The Knock-out for Mr. Waring”, in Psmith Journalist, London: A[dam] & C[harles] Black, […], published October 1923, →OCLC, page 239:
text: Robbing Peter to pay Paul. Gob, that puts the bloody kybosh on it if old sloppy eyes is mucking up the show.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 321:
glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
kybosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kyboshes
form: kyboshing
form: kyboshed
form: kyboshed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kibosh.
scaleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪl.ləs/
Etymology: From scale + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking anything to give a sense of scale; not having a reference for size.
glosses: Of a surface: free from deposits of scale.
examples: text: There are also some surprises such as Eurotamandua, a scaleless pangolin that looks astonishingly like a South American anteater.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 65:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: esquamulose
antonyms: scaly
squamulose
glosses: Not having scales.
examples: text: scaleless dieting
glosses: Without using a set of scales.
Derived terms: scaleless dragonfish
scalelessness
scantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskæntli/
Forms: form: more scantly
form: most scantly
Etymology: From scant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He scantly filled the bag, increasing his profits but getting dissatisified customers.
glosses: In a way that is slightly lacking, that is scant of how much should be provided.
examples: text: We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, / And there is scantly time for half the work.
ref: 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Enid”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 16:
glosses: Barely; hardly; scarcely.
scantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From scant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being scant.
scarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scarily
form: most scarily
Etymology: From scary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He adores his bedtime baseball stories, even at his ripe old age. “It's called 'The Curse.' Wooooooooo!” Sol sings scarily in a trilly, ghostlike, gradually descending soprano.
ref: 2009, Bob Mitchell, Once Upon a Fastball:
text: Her loneliness is made much worse by post-natal depression and delusions – which are represented with scarily plausible simplicity.
ref: 2021 July 11, Peter Bradshaw, “Three Floors review – Nanni Moretti melodrama lacks profundity”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In a scary manner.
scholastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /skəˈlæstɪkli/
Forms: form: more scholastically
form: most scholastically
Etymology: From scholastic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a scholastic manner.
Related terms: scholarly
scholastics
scholar
scholastic
scrapyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scrapyards
form: scrap-yard
form: scrap yard
Etymology: From scrap + yard.
Senses: examples: text: A steady procession of new Class 421 and '423' electric multiple units to the Southern Region from Derby and York allowed the despatch of many pre-nationalisation 2-BIL and 2-HAL units to scrapyards.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk”, in Rail, page 67:
glosses: A junkyard, a place where scrap is stored, discarded or resold.
artemisia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.tɪˈmɪ.zɪə/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.təˈmɪ.zi.ə/
Forms: form: artemisias
Etymology: From translingual Artemisia, from Latin artemisia, from Ancient Greek ἀρτεμισία (artemisía), from Ἄρτεμις (Ártemis, “Artemis, the goddess”).
Senses: examples: text: In the event of anyone wishing to invoke the very Prince of Spirits, the following ingredients were prescribed to be burnt - Juice of Hypericon, Saffron, Artemisia, and the root of Valerian.
ref: 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 112:
text: Our central issue, however, is whether the artemisia of Dioscorides is mugwort. Fuchs in Germany shows no hesitation in accepting the beyfusz of his country, called armoise by the French and Artemisia latifolia or broadleaved artemisia by the Italians, is the artemisia of Dioscorides, Galen, and Pliny, and he quotes them exactly on the plant's medicinal actions.
ref: 2010, Graeme Tobyn, Alison Denham, Margaret Whitelegg, The Western Herbal Tradition, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 125:
glosses: Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon, often used as traditional medicine, oral contraceptive and flavoring.
Derived terms: artemisin
artemisinin
stupidest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstjuːpɪdɪst/
ipa: /ˈstupɪdəst/
Senses: examples: text: "At any rate I'll never go there again!" said Alice as she picked her way through the wood. "It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life?"
ref: 1865 November (indicated as 1866), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “A Mad Tea-Party”, in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, pages 110–111:
text: Special Irish Branch was looking for Fenians in South Kensington; going from there to a Catholic church for Easter Mass was very nearly the stupidest thing Eliza could do, short of walking into Scotland Yard and cursing the peelers out in Irish.
ref: 2011, Marie Brennan, With Fate Conspire, →ISBN:
glosses: superlative form of stupid: most stupid
scrapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scrappers
Etymology: From scrap + -er.
Senses: examples: text: After the uncle died they sold off most of his rustbuckets to a scrapper and kept one to fix up.
glosses: A person who disposes of scraps, such as one who collects scrap metal to sell to a scrap dealer.
examples: text: He's a real scrapper, even against impossible odds, he always keeps fighting.
text: "An old scrapper don't find many openings. Chucker-out at a pub with free drinks. Nothing doing there."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A person who fights doggedly, who exhibits indomitable will.
vasodilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vasodilator
well behaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well behaved
form: most well behaved
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-behaved.
Brunswick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brownswick
form: Brunswic
Etymology: From the Germanic personal name Bruno, in the genitive case, something akin to *Brunos + Middle Low German wîk (“village, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Braunschweig: a city in Lower Saxony, Germany.
synonyms: word: Braunschweig
extra: a city in Lower Saxony, Germany
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city, the county seat of Glynn County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Lewis Township, Clay County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hanover Township, Lake County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Gary, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Cumberland County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Frederick County, Maryland.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Holton Township, Muskegon County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and unincorporated community therein, in Kanabec County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Chariton County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Antelope County, Nebraska.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rensselaer County, New York.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Columbus County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Medina County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Essex County, Vermont.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Brunswick County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
glosses: An inner city area of Manchester, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SJ8596).
glosses: A civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, which includes Brunswick Village.
Synonyms: topics: city
cities
region
location
word: Braunschweig
Derived terms: Brunswick black
Brunswick County
Brunswick East
Brunswick green
Brunswick Hills
Brunswick Junction
Brunswick Land
Brunswick Mountain
Brunswick North
Brunswick Park
Brunswick Peninsula
Brunswick rifle
Brunswick South
Brunswick star
Brunswick Station
Brunswick stew
Brunswick Town
Brunswick Township
Brunswick Village
Brunswick West
County of Brunswick
District of Brunswick
Duchy of Brunswick
East Brunswick
New Brunswick
North Brunswick
Old Brunswick
South Brunswick
State of Brunswick
West Brunswick
Brunswick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Brunswicks
form: Brownswick
form: Brunswic
Etymology: From the Germanic personal name Bruno, in the genitive case, something akin to *Brunos + Middle Low German wîk (“village, settlement”).
Senses: glosses: A Brunswick gown.
gardenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɑɹˈdinjə/
ipa: /ɡɑːˈdiːnjə/
Forms: form: gardenias
Etymology: From New Latin, named after Scottish naturalist Dr. Alexander Garden.
Senses: glosses: Any of various tropical evergreen small trees or shrubs, of the genus Gardenia, having glossy leaves and white flowers.
examples: text: The aroma given off by flowers has an aphrodisiac effect, especially on women. This is so particularly in the case of lilies of the valley, gardenia, frangipani, and henna.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 98:
text: Heed remembered the baby-powder smell from the bowl of gardenias, their edges browning like toast.
ref: 2003, Toni Morrison, Love, Vintage (2016), page 125:
glosses: The flower of these plants.
Derived terms: native gardenia
Related terms: taxonomic: Gardenia jasminoides
word: Cape jasmine
Gardenia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Belize District, Belize.
gasworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasworks
Etymology: From gas + works.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: gasholder, gasometer, gas line, gasline, pipeline
related: word: gas works
synonyms: gas plant
coordinate_terms: see at works § Hyponyms
glosses: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
related: word: gas works
synonyms: gas plant
coordinate_terms: see at works § Hyponyms
glosses: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
One where coal is converted to coal gas and coke (via gasification).
related: word: gas works
synonyms: gas plant
coordinate_terms: see at works § Hyponyms
glosses: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
One where water gas was generated for distribution.
related: word: gas works
synonyms: gas plant
coordinate_terms: see at works § Hyponyms
glosses: A factory where gas is generated or distributed (whether for industrial consumption or for residential distribution).
One that formerly generated coal gas or water gas and now distributes natural gas from a pipeline.
Related terms: sense: types of gas
word: coal gas
word: illuminating gas
word: producer gas
word: synthesis gas
word: town gas
word: water gas
word: gaslight
gelignite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛlɪɡ.naɪt/
Forms: form: gelignites
Senses: examples: text: Three small gelignite bombs, with pocket watch timing devices, were concealed in packets small enough to fit through the slot of the standard cast-iron post box, the cylindrical bright red colored boxes so common throughout London.
ref: 2008, Steven P. Moysey, The Road to Balcombe Street: The IRA Reign of Terror in London, Binghamton, N.Y.: Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 58:
glosses: An explosive mixture of nitroglycerine and nitrate absorbed onto a base of wood pulp.
Related terms: dynamite
geneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genesis
geochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geochemistries
Etymology: From geo- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of chemistry that deals with the chemical composition of the Earth and other planets, and with the chemical processes that occur in the formation of rocks and minerals etc.
Derived terms: biogeochemistry
hydrogeochemistry
lithogeochemistry
palaeogeochemistry
pedogeochemistry
geologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: As part of a geologic process.
examples: text: The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.
ref: 1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:
glosses: Concerning geology.
Derived terms: hydrogeologically
geomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + magnetic.
Senses: examples: text: One of the earliest (and biggest) space weather events on record occurred in September 1859, when a massive solar eruption crashed into the Earth's magnetosphere, triggering a geomagnetic storm that lasted for days.
ref: 2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, in RAIL, number 996, page 30:
glosses: Of or pertaining to geomagnetism.
Derived terms: geomagnetically
geomagnetic storm
geometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more geometrically
form: most geometrically
Etymology: From geometric + -ally.
Senses: coordinate_terms: arithmetically
exponentially
glosses: In a geometric manner.
glosses: Concerning geometrics.
geophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒiː.əʊˈfɪz.ɪk.əl/
Etymology: From geo- + physical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geophysics.
Derived terms: astrogeophysical
biogeophysical
geophysically
heliogeophysical
hydrogeophysical
nongeophysical
geocentrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geocentric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: in a geocentric manner
geophysicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophysicists
Etymology: From geo- + physicist.
Senses: examples: text: Yevgeny K. Fedorov, one of the Soviet Union's leading geophysicists, died Wednesday, Tass, the official press agency, reported today. He was 71 years old.
ref: 1982 January 3, Reuters, “YEVGENY FEDOROV, AGED 71; A MAJOR SOVIET GEOPHYSICIST”, in The New York Times:
text: “The lack of an agreement to phase out fossil fuels was devastating,” said Prof Michael Mann, a climatologist and geophysicist at the University of Pennsylvania in the US.
ref: 2023 December 14, Damian Carrington, quoting Michael E. Mann, “Failure of Cop28 on fossil fuel phase-out is ‘devastating’, say scientists”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: A physicist who specializes in geophysics.
Derived terms: astrogeophysicist
geopolitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒiːəʊˈpɒlɪtɪks/
ipa: /dʒi.əˈpɒlɪtɪks/
ipa: /ˌdʒioʊˈpɑlətɪks/
Etymology: From geo- + politics, calque of Swedish geopolitik, coined in 1900 by Rudolf Kjellén.
Senses: examples: text: Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.
ref: 2013 July 19, Timothy Garton Ash, “Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 18:
glosses: The study of the effects of geography (especially economic geography) on international politics.
Related terms: astropolitics
geoeconomics
geopolitical
geopolitically
geopolitician
political geography
bagatelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/
Forms: form: bagatelles
Etymology: Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
Senses: examples: text: Sir C. Oh! dear madam, don't ask me, it's a very foolish song—a mere bagatelle.
Char. Oh! Sir Callaghan, I will admit of no excuse.
ref: 1782, Charles Macklin, Love a-la-Mode, page 21:
text: […] the jails were larger and fuller, the number of murders was incomparably greater, the thefts and swindlings in the old country were a bagatelle to the large depredations there […]
ref: 1850, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 68, page 226:
text: The repayment of the cost of the western part of the road, whatever it might be, would be a mere bagatelle, for the older provinces would have been enriched by the stimulus given to business by the opening up of the plains,[…]
ref: 1879 September 6, “Railway Projects”, in Railway World, 5 (36): 853:
text: They'd purchased a little house in the eighth arrondissement in Paris that for them was just a bagatelle, since they rarely lived there.
ref: 1996, Edmund White, “The tea ceremony”, in Ploughshares, volume 22, number 1, page 190:
synonyms: word: bag of shells
word: bagatelle
word: bag of shells
word: bric-a-brac
word: dicky
word: dicky-bird
word: fico
word: fig
word: flyspeck
word: minuity
word: niff-naff
word: picayune
word: scuddick
word: sop
word: toy
word: trick
word: trifle
word: triviality
word: whiffle
word: white chip
glosses: A trifle; an insubstantial thing.
examples: text: One afternoon in 1920. a young pianist sat down in a shuttered room in the capital of defeated Germany and played a Bagatelle by Beethoven.
ref: 2007, Norman Lebrecht, The Life And Death of Classical Music, page 7:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
literature
media
music
publishing
glosses: A short piece of literature or of instrumental music, typically light or playful in character.
examples: text: For some time they did nothing save box, but at last they went down to the bagatelle room, and played bagatelle for a bit. They marked this advance in civilization by prodding holes in the ceiling with the bagatelle cues, which gave the ceiling the appearance of a cloth target after a Gatling gun had been shooting at it.
ref: 1895, Hugh Legge, “The Repton Club”, in John Matthew Knapp, editor, The Universities and the Social Problem, page 139:
glosses: A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
synonyms: pin bagatelle
hit-a-pin bagatelle
jaw ball
glosses: Any of several smaller wooden tabletop games developed from the original bagatelle in which the pockets are made of pins.
Derived terms: bagatellize
Russian bagatelle
Related terms: carom
pachinko
pinball
bagatelle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbæɡəˈtɛl/
Forms: form: bagatelles
form: bagatelling
form: bagatelled
form: bagatelled
Etymology: Borrowed from French bagatelle, from Italian bagattella.
Senses: examples: text: Admittedly Mané’s strike did rebound off a post as the ball bagatelled around the home area. It was characteristically cleared before Roberto Firmino could redirect the fall out beyond Henderson.
ref: 2019 September 28, Louise Taylor, “Henderson howler hands Liverpool narrow win at spirited Sheffield United”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To meander or move around, in a manner similar to the ball in the game of bagatelle.
examples: text: That Saddam Hussein announced his intentions to destroy Israel a long time ago was either ignored or bagatelled. “We just didn't have time to address the threat to Israel,” explained Brigitte Erler on the eve of a large peace demonstration in Bonn.
ref: 2004, Henryk Boder, translated by Broder Translators' Collective, edited by Sander L. Gilman and Lilian M. Friedberg, A Jew in the New Germany, Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: To bagatellize; to regard as a bagatelle.
geosyncline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒiːəʊˈsɪŋklʌɪn/
Forms: form: geosynclines
Etymology: Back-formation from geosynclinal.
Senses: examples: text: Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 173:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates.
Derived terms: autogeosyncline
eugeosyncline
geosynclinal
miogeocline
miogeosyncline
orthogeosyncline
parageosyncline
geothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + thermic.
Senses: glosses: geothermal
Derived terms: geothermically
gerontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gerontology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gerontology.
Derived terms: biogerontological
gerontologically
immunogerontological
psychogerontological
gerontologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: gerontologists
Etymology: From gerontology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A physician who specializes in gerontology
Derived terms: psychogerontologist
gladiola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊlə
Forms: form: gladiolas
Senses: glosses: Gladiolus.
gladioli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gladiolus
glassblower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glassblowers
Etymology: From glass + blower.
Senses: examples: text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: A person skilled in the art of glassblowing.
Synonyms: gaffer
glassmith
glassblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glass blowing
Etymology: From glass + blowing.
Senses: glosses: The art of making objects from molten glass, especially by manipulating a lump of molten glass on the end of a tube whilst blowing into it.
Related terms: glassblower
lampwork
grammatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grammatically
form: most grammatically
Etymology: From grammatical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a grammatical manner.
examples: text: For example, once the child is able to parse (i.e. grammatically analyse) an adult utterance such as Help Daddy and knows that it contains a verb phrase comprising the head verb help and its complement Daddy, then (on the assumption that the language faculty specifies that all heads of a given type behave uniformly with regard to whether they are positioned before or after their complements), the child will automatically know that all verbs in English are canonically (i.e. normally) positioned before their complements.
ref: 2004, Andrew Radford, Minimalist Syntax: Exploring the structure of English, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, §1.7, page 23:
glosses: Concerning grammar.
Derived terms: chronogrammatically
lexicogrammatically
metagrammatically
granitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more granitic
form: most granitic
Etymology: From granite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Castles and houses [...] sat on top of mountains and granitic outcroppings.
ref: 2019, Chigozie Obioma, An Orchestra of Minorities, Abacus (2019), page 274:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing granite.
Derived terms: granitically
semigranitic
guardhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɑɹdˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: guardhouses
Etymology: From guard + house.
Senses: glosses: A station for guards, especially at the entrance of a town, castle, etc.
glosses: Synonym of military prison.
synonyms: word: military prison
Synonyms: sense: small station at entrance
word: barbican
sense: small station at entrance
word: guard station
sense: small station at entrance
word: porter's lodge
gunboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡʌnˌboʊt/
Forms: form: gunboats
Etymology: From gun + boat.
Senses: examples: text: Knock knock. It's the United States. With huge boats (with guns); gunboats.
ref: 2016 February 2, Bill Wurtz, 4:45 from the start, in history of japan:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Any of the various types of small armed vessels.
Hypernyms: warship
Derived terms: gunboat diplomacy
gunboater
gunboat war
Gunboat War
Related terms: cutter
monitor
mortar barge
patrol boat
torpedo boat
gunboat diplomacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunboat diplomacies
Senses: examples: text: The British and French, who had sought to make policy by reviving 19th century gunboat diplomacy, had temporarily lost their credentials for world statesmanship.
ref: 1956 Dec. 3, Acclaim & Misgivings, Time
text: China has ratcheted up its standard gunboat diplomacy—the repeated warnings that it would use force if necessary to unite the island and mainland—more than a month before Taiwanese voters go to the polls.
ref: 2004 Feb, 21, Yan Hua, China warns Taiwan with military exercises, Asia Times Online (retrieved 23 March 2015)
glosses: The pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power.
Related terms: commodity diplomacy
diplomacy
gunboat
hostage diplomacy
panda diplomacy
ping-pong diplomacy
sabre rattling
show the flag
look alike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks alike
form: looking alike
form: looked alike
form: looked alike
Senses: glosses: To have a similar visual appearance.
raw_tags: of multiple things or people
Related terms: lookalike
incentivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incentivises
form: incentivising
form: incentivised
form: incentivised
form: incentivize
Etymology: From incentive + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: The boss will incentivise the workforce by offering bonuses.
text: Overall, he felt the Plan will provide better responsibility regarding the day-to-day operation of the railway but asked how the forthcoming Great British Railways can be incentivised to put passengers first.
ref: 2021 September 22, Tom Allett, “Network News: Webinar hears of barriers to putting passengers first”, in RAIL, number 940, page 14:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of incentivize.
incentivises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The boss incentivises the workforce by offering bonuses.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of incentivise
incentivised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The boss incentivised the workforce by offering bonuses.
glosses: simple past and past participle of incentivise
incentivising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The boss is incentivising the workforce by offering bonuses.
glosses: present participle and gerund of incentivise