cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
d100
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: d100s
Senses: topics: dice
games
glosses: A die roll used for example in some role-playing games and wargames to generate a random number between 1 and 100. The most common method is to roll 2 differently colored d10s, where each color has been designated to represent one of the two digits. (Rolls of 10 are treated as the digit 0. Double-0 can be treated as zero or 100, depending on the context.)
glosses: A die with 100 sides.
Synonyms: d%
Related terms: d1000
dilatator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilatators
Etymology: From Latin dilatator (“propagator”), from dilato (“I spread out”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle that dilates any part; a dilator.
kanteles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kantele
envenomations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envenomation
krapfens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of krapfen
ebriose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ebriose
form: most ebriose
Senses: glosses: inebriated; drunk
Synonyms: drunk
Related terms: ebriosity
inebriate
D20
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D20s
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of d20.
oratrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oratrix
D12
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D12s
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of d12.
D8
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D8s
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of d8.
almiqui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almiquis
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish almiquí.
Senses: glosses: Atopogale cubana, a soricomorph endemic to Cuba, unusual among mammals in having venomous saliva.
almiquis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of almiqui
soricomorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soricomorphs
Senses: glosses: Any member of the order Soricomorpha of shrew-like mammals.
soricomorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soricomorph
D4
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D4s
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of d4.
nayward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nay + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: And I'll be sworn you would believe my saying,
Howe'er you lean to th' nayward.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: A state of denial, disbelief; the negative side.
indigenae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indigena
ungoodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ungoodly
form: most ungoodly
Etymology: From un- + goodly (adjective via Middle English ungoodly). Compare obsolete Dutch ongoedelike.
Senses: examples: text: No man that is a bastarde or hath had ii wyves or hath a mahayme or a blemysshe that maketh him ungoodly shall take orders.
ref: 1519, William Horman, Vulgaria, folio 14, verso:
text: […] and the said Comyssarye beyng in that case the Kyngs lawfull officer for the kepyng of his peace, causid his dagger to be takyn from hym, and for his ungoodly maner so then usid to the Comyssarye did send hym to prison, as he myght doo by vertue of the said chartors, […]
ref: 1530, William H[enry] Turner, editor, Selections from the Records of the City of Oxford, with Extracts from Other Documents Illustrating the Municipal History: Henry VIII. to Elizabeth, [1509—1583], Oxford; London: James Parker and Co., published 1880, page 84:
text: So farre vnſemyng is it, that any membre of the body ſhould be deſpiſed, that rather contrarie wyſe, ſuche as ſeme imperfiter partes of the body, vpon them, as neceſſarie, haue we a ſpeciall care: and ſuche, as in comen eſtimacion are thought partes of leſſe honeſtie, to them outwardly we geue great honour: and ſuche as ſeme vngoodly, to them ioyne we ſome comly veſture, with our diligence recompenſyng that, whiche elſwyſe ſemeth vnperfite, knowyng well, that by the vncomlyneſſe of any parte, the whole body is diſwurſhypped.
ref: 1549 August 16, [Myles Coverdale et al., transl.], The Seconde Tome or Volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament: Conteynyng the Epistles of S. Paul, and Other the Apostles. Wherunto is Added a Paraphrase vpon the Reuelacion of S. Iohn., London: […] Edwarde Whitchurche, folio xxxiiii, verso:
text: This is yᵉ goodly Godlye Catholyke doctrine, wherwith the vngoodly vngodly Papiſtes infecte the mindes of ſuch Chriſtians, as are ſimple and light of belief, yea, wherwith they caſte the ſoules of all ſuche, as put their confidence and truſt in theſe pylde, begarly, and louſy ceremonyes, into euerlaſtyng damnation.
ref: [1553], Thomas Becon, The Reliques of Rome, Contayning All Such Matters of Religion, as Haue in Times Past Bene Brought into the Church by the Pope and His Adherentes: […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], published [1563], folio 159, recto:
glosses: Bad; wicked; unhandsome.
ungoodly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ungoodly
form: most ungoodly
Etymology: From un- + goodly (adjective via Middle English ungoodly). Compare obsolete Dutch ongoedelike.
Senses: examples: text: […]the remnaunt toke his ſervauntꝭ and intreated them vngoodly and ſlewe thẽ.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew xxij:[6], folio xxxj, recto:
text: And good thinges vngoodlye vſed, are not good, ſayeth an honorable biſhoppe in an erneſter matter then this is: yet we muſte beware that we laye not mennes faultes vpõ the thing which is not worthie, for ſo nothing ſhulde be good.
ref: 1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge Conteyned in Tvvo Bookes. To All Gentlemen and Yomen of Englande, Pleasaunte for Theyr Pastyme to Rede, and Profitable for Theyr Use to Folow, Both in War and Peace., London: […] Edouardi VVhytchurch, folio 16, verso:
glosses: Badly; in a rough or improper manner.
Mullerian ducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mullerian duct
homobatrachotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + batrachotoxin.
Senses: glosses: A particular batrachotoxin found in the pitohui.
pitohui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitohuis
Senses: glosses: A bird of the genus Pitohui in the family Oriolidae (formerly in Pachycephalidae), endemic to New Guinea, some of which have powerful batrachotoxins in skin and feathers.
glosses: One of several birds of similar appearance, now taxonomically separated from Pitohui proper and placed in families Oreoicidae and Pachycephalidae.
Derived terms: alt: Melanorectes nigrescens
word: black pitohui
alt: Ornorectes cristatus
word: crested pitohui
taxonomic: Pitohui dichrous
word: hooded pitohui
taxonomic: Pitohui cerviniventris
word: Raja Ampat pitohui
alt: Pseudorectes ferrugineus
word: rusty pitohui
taxonomic: Pitohui uropygialis
word: variable pitohui
alt: Pseudorectes incertus
word: white-bellied pitohui
pitohuis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitohui
dilucidated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dilucidate
dilucidating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dilucidate
fallstreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fallstreaks
form: fall streak
Etymology: From fall + streak, because they are composed of cloud crystals falling in streaks.
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A (part of a) virga; a streak of falling ice crystals that sublimate before reaching the ground.
Related terms: virga
fallstreak hole
fallstreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fallstreak
wrap one's head around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wraps one's head around
form: wrapping one's head around
form: wrapped one's head around
form: wrapped one's head around
form: wrap one's mind around
form: wrap one's brain around
Senses: examples: text: It is sometimes mind-boggling to try and wrap one's head around all the possible information sets which one should try to address.
ref: 1978, Science Policy Foundation, Science & Public Policy, volume 5, page 456:
text: “I know how important it is to vote, but I couldn’t wrap my head around the options at that point,” Ms. Dibble said of the 2016 election.
ref: 2020 November 1, “Election at Hand, Biden Leads Trump in Four Key States, Poll Shows”, in New York Times:
synonyms: get one's head around
glosses: To come to a good understanding of.
examples: text: “Some crazy young bastard wrapped his head around a pole.”
ref: 2011, David Adams Richards, The Coming of Winter, page 14:
qualifier: more literally
glosses: To crash into (something, especially a pole) messily and fatally while travelling in a motor vehicle.
examples: text: The words barely left the lips when there came a loud cry and a trample of hoof beats. It was Kelly, radiant and shining, her mane was whipping with her speed. I cried out to her and the mare came to a stop and wrapped her head around mine.
ref: 2005, Charles R. Saint, The A.A.H.:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wrap, head, around.
wraps one's head around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wrap one's head around
wrapping one's head around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wrap one's head around
wrapped one's head around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wrap one's head around
seepingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more seepingly
form: most seepingly
Etymology: From seeping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Gradually encroaching, as if seeping.
reinterpretable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reinterpretable
form: most reinterpretable
Etymology: From reinterpret + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reinterpreted.
misunderstandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more misunderstandable
form: most misunderstandable
Etymology: From misunderstand + -able.
Senses: antonyms: unmisunderstandable
glosses: Capable of being misunderstood.
reflowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reflow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being formed into a different shape by flowing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of having its layout modified so as to fit into the spaces around other objects in a document.
raw_tags: of text
imbibings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbibing
squabness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squab + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: One is a gifted maiden poetess (I am certain she is a gifted maiden poetess), whose squabness of contour, sharpness and redness of nose, and general forty-fiveness of aspect, a little mars the romantic effect of the oleanders which she loves to stick in her hair.
ref: 1866, Mary Brotherton, “Karl's First Love”, in Temple Bar, volume 18, Richard Bentley, page 271:
text: 1891, "Critical Notices", The Calcutta Review, volume 183, Thomas S. Smith, page v
Squabness appear to be the special characteristic of early Hindu architecture; and it had affinities for the grotesque.
text: I suspect it was the oddity of the shape, the extreme squabness of the volume, that first took my fancy, and then I open the pages--and I have never really closed them.
ref: 1922, Arthur Machen, Far Off Things, Martin Secker, page 43:
glosses: The quality of being like a squab
melongene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melongenes
Etymology: From French mélongène, from Medieval Latin melongena, Italian melanzana, from Greek μελιτζάνα (melitzána), from Arabic اَلْبَاذِنْجَان (al-bāḏinjān, “eggplant”), from Persian بادنگان (bâdengân), from باتنگان (bâtengân), from Sanskrit वातिगगम (vātiga-gama, “eggplant”). Doublet of malidzano.
Senses: examples: text: After all, most Trinidadians only have a limited knowledge to cook melongene: we either stew it, fry it, roast it, or curry it, and serve it with rice or roti.
ref: 2008 August 23, Felix Padilla, “Moussaka”, in Simply Trini Cooking (blog), archived from the original on 14 Jan 2025:
text: Melongene grows best in soil which is rich in organic matter.
ref: 2021, Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries, Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, “Melongene: A Step by Step Process for Home Gardening”, in Grow Trinbago:
glosses: An aubergine; an eggplant.
Synonyms: the list in the entry eggplant
melongenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melongene
irritator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irritators
Etymology: From irritate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which irritates.
laetificate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laetificates
form: laetificating
form: laetificated
form: laetificated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin laetificātus, perfect passive participle of laetificō (“to be energetic or outgoing”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: It is called the laetificant, or Powder of gladness, from its effect, for it laetificates the heart and spirits
ref: 1657, Richard Tomlinson, transl., A Medicinal Dispensatory: Containing the Whole Body of Physick: […] , translation of original by Jean de Renou:
synonyms: word: cheer up
word: perk up
word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
glosses: To make, or become, happy.
glosses: To enrich; to fertilize.
Derived terms: laetification
Roms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rom
labent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labent
form: most labent
Senses: glosses: sliding; gliding
klinkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klinker
labelloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labelloid
form: most labelloid
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the labellum, the lower central petal of the orchid.
laberinth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laberinths
Senses: glosses: labyrinth
labetalol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈbiː.təl.ɒl/
ipa: /ləˈbɛt.əˌlɔl/
Etymology: From la- (“alteration of alpha”) + beta + -olol.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that acts as an alpha- and beta-blocker, used in the treatment of hypertension.
Derived terms: -alol
labiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labialities
Etymology: From labial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being labial, that is, lip- or labia-like.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The quality of being a labial sound (a sound produced with the labia).
Derived terms: illabiality
labiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more labiated
form: most labiated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of labiate.
Derived terms: labiated bear
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A French overseas territory located mostly in the Indian Ocean.
shilingi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shilingi
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili shilingi, from English shilling.
Senses: glosses: A unit of currency in East Africa, currently only in use by Tanzania, and divided into 100 senti.
Winogradsky test
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A soil test for fertility by determining its suitability for growing Azotobacter.
Widal test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Widal tests
Etymology: Named after Georges-Fernand Widal (1862-1929), French physician.
Senses: glosses: The agglutination test for typhoid fever.
wikipedia: Georges-Fernand Widal
Synonyms: Widal reaction
Widal's test
dhau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dhaus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).
preferr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preferrs
form: preferring
form: preferred
form: preferred
Senses: examples: text: Let us then feede his flocke with a trebble zeale, expressed in our prayer, preaching and living: Let us make it appeare to the consciences of all, that the top of our ambition is Gods glory: and that wee preferr the winning of soules, to the winning of the world.
ref: 1628, Samuel Ward, A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale:
text: But, Pyrophilus, though this be at present the Hypothesis I preferr, yet I propose it but in a General Sense, teaching only that the Beams of Light, Modify'd by the Bodies whence they are sent (Reflected or Refracted) to the Eye, produce there that Kind of Sensation, Men commonly call Colour; But whether I think this Modification of the Light to be perform'd by Mixing it with Shades, or by Varying the Proportion of the Progress and Rotation of the Cartesian Globuli Caelestes, or by some other way which I am not now to mention, I pretend not here to Declare.
ref: 1664, Robert Boyle, Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours:
text: Thistle, Carduus Mariae; our Lady's milky or dappl'd Thistle, disarm'd of its Prickles, is worth esteem: The young Stalk about May, being peel'd and soak'd in Water, to extract the bitterness, boil'd or raw, is a very wholsome Sallet, eaten with Oyl, Salt, and Peper; some eat them sodden in proper Broath, or bak'd in Pies, like the Artichoak; but the tender Stalk boil'd or fry'd, some preferr; both Nourishing and Restorative. 69.
ref: 1699, John Evelyn, Acetaria. A Discourse of Sallets:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of prefer.
octeract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octeracts
Etymology: Blend of oct- + tesseract
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An eight-dimensional hypercube
Synonyms: 8-cube
hexeract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexeracts
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A six-dimensional hypercube
Synonyms: 6-cube
hepteract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hepteracts
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A seven-dimensional hypercube
Synonyms: 7-cube
tetradecaexon
enneract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enneracts
Etymology: From enna- + tesseract.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A nine-dimensional hypercube
Synonyms: 9-cube
enneracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enneract
hepteracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepteract
hexeracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexeract
octeracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octeract
nail set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail sets
Senses: examples: text: In an emergency a nail set can be made in a few minutes from a tenpenny or other large nail. Cut off the point with hack saw or grinding wheel, clamp the nail in the vise, indent the end by tapping it with a center punch, and taper or bevel the end on the grinding wheel as shown.
ref: 1939 July, Albert W. Stein, Popular Science, volume 135, number 1:
text: Throw away a damaged nail set. It's cheap enough to replace, and there's no reason to destroy a piece of molding with a damaged nail set that slips off the mark.
ref: 1998, Craig Savage, Trim Carpentry Techniques: Installing Doors, Windows, Base, and Crown:
text: The tool to do this is a nail set, which is essentially a pointy steel rod.
ref: 2007, David Thiel, I Can Do That! Woodworking Projects:
topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: A punch that drives in a nail so that its head is level with or below the surface.
Synonyms: nail punch
morin khuur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔɹɪn xɔː/
Forms: form: morin khuurs
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian морин хуур (morin xuur).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument.
Synonyms: horsehead fiddle
pibbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪ.bɪn/
ipa: /ˈpə.bən/
rhymes: -ɪbɪn
Forms: form: pibbins
Senses: glosses: A pigeon.
DWP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌdiːdʌbəljuːˈpiː/
Senses: examples: text: So now Mahmood was in debt and his existing benefits were stopped because the DWP computer thought he was receiving universal credit.
ref: 2019 October 14, Robert Booth, “Computer says no: the people trapped in universal credit's 'black hole'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Department for Work and Pensions.
glosses: Initialism of Department of Water and Power.
RDP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Remote Desktop Protocol.
glosses: Abbreviation of ribavirin diphosphate.
Related terms: sense: ribavirin
word: ribavirin
sense: ribavirin
english: ribavirin monophosphate
translation: ribavirin monophosphate
word: RMP
sense: ribavirin
english: ribavirin triphosphate
translation: ribavirin triphosphate
word: RTP
RDP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Rivière-des-Prairies, a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada.
PAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PATs
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of point after touchdown (“extra point”).
topics: education
qualifier: Alberta
glosses: Initialism of provincial achievement test.
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of portable appliance testing.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: NAT
glosses: Initialism of port address translation.
examples: text: Protocols are abstract as they are, but with PATs, you’re making your protocols generic, which makes your code even more abstract and exponentially complex.
ref: 2019, Tjeerd in 't Veen, chapter 8, in Swift in Depth, Manning, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Initialism of protocol associated type.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of personal access token.
topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of priority air traffic.
PAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Pointe-aux-Trembles: a municipality of Quebec, Canada.
VSL
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VSLs
Senses: examples: text: Forbes got more granular, contrasting the value of a statistical life (VSL) with the value of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) to arrive at a more precise figure.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 13, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: economics
mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of Value of Statistical Life, a measure of the monetary value of reducing the statistical likelihood of death in a population by a given amount.
VSL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Ville Saint Laurent (Ville St. Laurent) — a municipality in the province of Quebec, Canada
TMR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Town of Mount Royal: a municipality of Quebec, Canada.
inutterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈʌtəɹəbl̩/
Forms: form: more inutterable
form: most inutterable
Etymology: From in- + utterable.
Senses: glosses: Unutterable; inexpressible.
Derived terms: inutterably
J2RE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Java 2 Runtime Environment.
Related terms: JRE
J2REs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of J2RE
resacas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resaca
mailfile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailfiles
Etymology: From mail + file.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file that stores electronic mail.
mailfiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailfile
obolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oboloi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of obolus.
unpourable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpourable
form: most unpourable
Etymology: From un- + pourable.
Senses: examples: text: Just before the liquid becomes completely unpourable it is decanted into a dish of cold water, quenching it.
ref: 2007, M. F. Ashby, David R. H. Jones, Engineering materials 2, page 105:
glosses: Not pourable.
antishopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antishopping
form: most antishopping
Etymology: From anti- + shopping.
Senses: examples: text: Though the events in this case occurred before US treaties included antishopping provisions […]
ref: 2004, Ernest Radford Larkins, International applications of U.S. income tax law, page 43:
text: It takes a very long hour, and I attribute my recurring nausea to a lifelong antishopping torpor. I've inherited it from my anti–consumer society grandma Catalano […]
ref: 2008, Camille Cusumano, Tango: an Argentine love story, page 284:
glosses: Opposing shopping.
odorator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorators
Senses: glosses: A device with a tube to be blown into and another that sprays a scent.
parcens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parcen
Hump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hump
Senses: examples: text: The C-47s could not make it over the Hump with a full load and full tanks.
qualifier: World War II
glosses: The Himalayas (a mountain range in Asia), as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.
Hump
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Humphrey or Humphry.
JeOS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of just enough operating system: one customised to the needs of a specific application, with other features excluded.
Coordinate terms: OS
RTOS
control program
Pocket Cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pocket Cubes
Senses: glosses: A smaller variety of Rubik's Cube with only 8 cubies arranged as a 2×2×2 cube.
Synonyms: Mini Cube
Mini Cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mini Cubes
Senses: glosses: Pocket Cube
Synonyms: Pocket Cube
Mini Cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mini Cube
Pocket Cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pocket Cube
popple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpl̩/
Forms: form: popples
form: pople
Etymology: From Middle English popul, popil, from Old English popul, from Latin populus.
Senses: examples: text: Some of them had recently built a pulp mill, and he called my attention to the young growths of "popple" we could see from the car window and remarked: "There's good pulp material in those trees, but it's not easy to get 'em cut. You'll strike lots of Catholic lumber-jacks who won't have anything to do with cutting a popple tree, and they won't cross a bridge or sleep in a house that has popple wood in it. There's a tradition that the cross on which Christ was crucified was of popple, and they say the wood was cursed on that account.
ref: 1911, Highways and byways of the Great Lakes, The Macmillan company, page 264:
glosses: poplar
popple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpl̩/
Forms: form: popples
form: pople
Etymology: From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: Commander Birch was a trifle uneasy when he found there was more than a popple on the sea; it was, in fact, distinctly choppy.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 17, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: Choppy water; the motion or sound of agitated water (as from boiling or wind).
popple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒpl̩/
Forms: form: popples
form: poppling
form: poppled
form: poppled
form: pople
Etymology: From Middle English poplen, possibly from Middle Dutch, of imitative origin.
Senses: glosses: Of water, to move in a choppy, bubbling, or tossing manner.
examples: text: His Brains came poppling out like Water
ref: 1675, Charles Cotton, Burlesque upon Burlesque:
glosses: To move quickly up and down; to bob up and down, like a cork on rough water.
Derived terms: popply
heteropolyanions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteropolyanion
cheesemeister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheesemeisters
Etymology: From cheese + -meister.
Senses: examples: text: Making the 43-year-old cheesemeister look cool was a PR coup, like Tony Bennett going on MTV.
ref: 1995, Jean Strouse, Newsweek, Volume 125, Issues 10-17, page 528:
text: Billed as the most expensive low-budget movie from cheesemeisters Troma...
ref: 1996, Film review:
text: ...that Jagged Little Pill was produced by cheesemeister Glen Ballard...
ref: 1996 June 3, New York Magazine, volume 29, number 22, page 36:
glosses: A purveyor of cheesy (melodramatic or cliché) material.
cheesemeisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheesemeister
geospace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːəʊˌspeɪs/
Etymology: From geo- + space.
Senses: glosses: The region of outer space near Earth, including the upper atmosphere, ionosphere and magnetosphere.
glosses: The region of space that goes from the solar photosphere to the mesosphere of Earth. It includes the solar photosphere, chromosphere and corona, the solar wind, Earth's magnetosheath, magnetosphere, thermosphere, ionosphere and mesosphere.
Related terms: geospatial
calligraffiti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˌlɪɡ.ɹəˈfiː.ti/
Etymology: Blend of calligraphy + graffiti
Senses: examples: text: The words were written in a hurried, unaccomplished new world hand, unlike the calligraffiti that honors the bricks of warehouses and the concrete of overpasses elsewhere in Europe […]
ref: 1995, H. L. Hix, Spirits hovering over the ashes: legacies of postmodern theory, page 48:
text: Showcases the author's creation of calligraffiti, which combines graffiti and calligraphy, through a collection of pieces that he has done for clients and exhibitions.
ref: 2010, Niels Shoe Meulman, Adam Eeuwens, Calligraffiti: The Graphic Art of Niels Shoe Meulman:
glosses: Beautiful or masterfully made graffiti.
black-box testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: Any form of testing in which knowledge of the internals of the system being tested are unknown and unimportant.
Hypernyms: testing
white-box testing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: testing
glosses: The testing of the internal structure, rather than the functionality, of a system.
Hypernyms: testing
stipulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stipula
infinite monkey theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The proposition that a monkey hitting keys independently and at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type any given text, including the complete works of William Shakespeare.
vidéo vérité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video vérité
Etymology: From French.
Senses: coordinate_terms: cinéma vérité
glosses: A genre of video material that appears to be realistic, showing ordinary people in ordinary situations, speaking normal dialogue.
video vérité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vidéo vérité.
unstar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstars
form: unstarring
form: unstarred
form: unstarred
Etymology: From un- + star.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to unstar the review request, just click on the star icon again.
ref: 2014, Sandeep Rawat, Getting Started with Review Board:
glosses: To remove a star from.
topics: government
politics
glosses: To demote a question from an oral one to a written one (because oral questions are conventionally marked with a star on the Order of Business in the House of Commons).
unstars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unstar
unstarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unstar
unstarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstar
unstarred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: nonasterisked
nonstarred
unasterisked
glosses: Not marked with a star.
Related terms: starless
unstarry
standardizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: standardisable
Etymology: From standardize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being standardized.
standardisable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From standardise + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of standardizable.
stampable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stamp + -able.
Senses: examples: stampable nylon sheets
glosses: Capable of being marked with a stamp.
viperfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viperfishes
form: viperfish
Etymology: From viper + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Chauliodus of deepwater fishes, fierce predators with long, needle-like teeth and hinged lower jaws, found mainly in tropical and temperate waters.
viperfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viperfish
speedsolving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speed + solving.
Senses: topics: Rubik's-Cube
games
glosses: speedcubing
Derived terms: speedsolver
unhappenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unhappening
Master Cube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Master Cubes
Senses: glosses: Rubik's Revenge
Rubik's Revenge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rubik's Revenges
Senses: glosses: A variety of Rubik's Cube with 56 cubies arranged as a 4×4×4 cube.
Synonyms: Master Cube
Master Cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Master Cube
Rubik's Revenges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rubik's Revenge
big guy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big guys
Senses: examples: text: "How are you doing there, big guy?" he asked.
synonyms: big man
glosses: A term of endearment, usually addressed toward an all-around good male person.
examples: text: The high school wrestler was a big guy for his age.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see big, guy.
famishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæmɪʃmənt/
Forms: form: famishments
Etymology: From famish + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Sith you will not attend true Wisedoms Words,
Laugh and bee fatt, sith al you touch is Gold,
Though that foode your Soules famishment affordes.
ref: c. 1605, John Davies, “I said unto Laughter, what art thou mad?”, in Wittes Pilgrimage:
text: […] among the French planters, the slaves are in a condition of almost utter famishment during the great portion of the year.
ref: 1838, Authentic Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Boston: Isaac Knapp, Appendix, page 106:
text: As the young Cuban tasted his flesh, his tropical appetite long depressed by the North American dryness suddenly revived, and brought to his mind the thought of his long famishment.
ref: 1957, James Purdy, “The Pupil”, in The Complete Short Stories of James Purdy, New York: Liveright, published 2013, page 682:
text: He churned the emptiness of my stomach, and stirred the fury of my famishment.
ref: 1991, Ben Okri, The Famished Road, New York: Nan A. Talese, published 1992, Section 1, Book 5, Chapter 2, p. 329:
synonyms: hunger
inanition
malnourishment
starvation
glosses: The state or process of being famished.
examples: text: And there ſhalbe erthquakes / in all quarters / and famyſſhment / and troubles.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Mark xiij:[8], folio lxiiij, verso:
glosses: Famine.
fordull
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fordulls
form: fordulling
form: fordulled
form: fordulled
form: foredull
Etymology: From Middle English fordullen, fordollen, equivalent to for- + dull. Cognate with Middle Low German vordullen.
Senses: examples: text: I followed after, fordulled for rudeness, […]
ref: 1843, Thomas Gray, The Works of Thomas Gray:
glosses: To make dull; stupefy.
fordedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fordede.
rule of three
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the rule of three
form: the Rule of Three
Senses: topics: education
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A rule stating that, if two ratios are equal, then the denominator of the second equals its numerator times the reciprocal of the first ratio: if a/b=c/d then d=(bc)/a.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rule for clinical trials used for determining the rate of adverse side effects when no such side effects present during the course of the trial.
topics: comedy
communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A rule which states that things which come in groups of three are inherently funnier or more effective than things which come in groups of other sizes.
topics: comedy
communications
entertainment
journalism
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
writing
glosses: A rule which states that things which come in groups of three are inherently funnier or more effective than things which come in groups of other sizes.
Specifically, the technique of having a setup in advance, a reminder to keep it fresh in the audience's memory, and then a payoff.
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious tenet stating that the energy a person puts out into the world, positive or negative, will be returned to that person threefold.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A rule of thumb in the C++ programming language, stating that any class that defines a destructor, a copy constructor, or a copy assignment operator should define all three of them.
Related terms: topics: mathematics
sciences
word: cross-multiplication
drudgy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: drudgier
form: more drudgy
form: drudgiest
form: most drudgy
form: drudgey
Etymology: From drudge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: We can find it nowhere so clearly as in these old journals, this collection of local historical material that makes such drudgy work to collect and catalog.
ref: 1922, American Library Association, Bulletin of the American Library Association: Volume 16:
glosses: Suggestive of drudgery; being excessively hard or requiring excessive effort.
Synonyms: toilsome
drudgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɹʌd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: drudgey
Etymology: From drudge + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Horses are kept only for riding, whilst bullocks are yoked in the plough and cart, perform every kind of domestic drudgey, and endure the heat better than any other animal they have got [...]
ref: 1824, William Huggins, Sketches in India:
glosses: Drudgery; labour.
bark beetle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bark beetles
Senses: examples: text: Naval stores production is based upon exploiting the terpene chemical defense system of the pine tree, which protects against wood-decaying fungi and insect pests such as bark beetles (Dendroctonus Ips sp.).
ref: 2007, Shibu Jose, Eric J. Jokela, Deborah L. Miller, editors, The Longleaf Pine Ecosystem: Ecology, Silviculture, and Restoration, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Any of various beetles, of the subfamily Scolytinae, many of which reproduce in the inner bark of trees.
Derived terms: lined flat bark beetle
peach bark beetle
smaller European elm bark beetle
drudgey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: drudgier
form: more drudgey
form: drudgiest
form: most drudgey
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drudgy.
drudgey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of drudgy.
Rule of Three
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Rule of Three
form: the Three-Fold Law
form: the Law of Return
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious tenet held by some Wiccans, stating that whatever energy, positive or negative, a person puts into the world will be returned threefold.
Synonyms: karma
golden rule
cross-multiplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-multiplications
form: cross multiplication
Etymology: From cross- + multiplication.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An instance, or the process, of cross-multiplying.
cross-multiplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross multiplications
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-multiplication (denoting countable instances of the uncountable concept).
cross-multiply
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cross-multiplies
form: cross-multiplying
form: cross-multiplied
form: cross-multiplied
Etymology: From cross- + multiply.
Senses: examples: text: Cross-multiplying 3#47;5#61;x#47;2 yields 3#92;times2#61;5x.
glosses: To set the product of the extremes of a proportion equal to the product of its means.
cross-multiplying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cross-multiply
cross-multiplies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cross-multiply
cross-multiplied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cross-multiply
Copernican system
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Copernicus (“a surname”) + -an + system. After Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who formulated and proposed the theory.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A heliocentric model of the solar system, proposed in the 16th century by the eponymous astronomer.
Related terms: Ptolemaic system
crescent moon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crescent moons
Senses: glosses: The Moon as it appears early in its first quarter or late in its last quarter, when only a small arc-shaped section of the visible portion is illuminated by the Sun.
Synonyms: hilal
meniscus
moonsickle
sickle moon
Hypernyms: lunar phase
Hyponyms: sense: image or other representation of a crescent moon
word: lunette
sense: waning moon
word: old moon
sense: waxing moon
word: new moon
sense: waxing moon
word: young moon
Coordinate terms: new moon
half moon
full moon
Related terms: 🌘
🌒
🌙
gibbous
M and M boys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris, who competed to break Babe Ruth's home-run record while on the same team.
rathering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rather
rhombicuboctahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhombicuboctahedra
form: rhombicuboctahedrons
Etymology: From Latin rhombicuboctahaedron,
referring to the fact that the twelve of the square faces lie in the same planes as the twelve faces of the rhombic dodecahedron, the dual of the cuboctahedron. (See rhombicuboctahedron on Wikipedia.Wikipedia)
Senses: examples: text: Therefore eight triangles and eighteen (that is, twelve and six) squares join up to make an icosihexahedron, which I call a truncated cuboctahedral rhombus or a rhombicuboctahedron.
ref: 1997, Johannes Kepler, E. J. Aiton, Alistair Matheson Duncan, Judith Veronica Field, transl., The harmony of the world, American Philosophical Society, page 119:
text: The gaps in a face-centered cubic packing of square sharing rhombicuboctahedra can be filled by cubes and tetrahedra (Fig. 2.4(h)).
ref: 2009, Walter Steurer, Sofia Deloudi, Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures, page 55:
text: So, for instance, covering up the right-hand side of our example (as in Figure 20.2(a)), we see that the rhombicuboctahedron does indeed have three types of face: two four-sided ones and one three-sided one.
ref: 2016, John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things, page 273:
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces; the small rhombicuboctahedron.
glosses: Either of the small rhombicuboctahedron and great rhombicuboctahedron.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 8 triangular and 18 square faces
word: small rhombicuboctahedron
Derived terms: great rhombicuboctahedron
rhombicuboctahedral
pseudo-rhombicuboctahedron
pseudorhombicuboctahedron
quasirhombicuboctahedron
rhombicuboctahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombicuboctahedron
gay panic defense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gay panic defenses
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: homosexual panic defense
Portsmouth defence
glosses: A claim of self-defense against an unwanted homosexual advance.
Related terms: gay panic
trans panic defense
gridpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gridpoint
gridpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gridpoints
Etymology: From grid + point.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any point in the Cartesian plane with integer coordinates.
Synonyms: lattice point
biolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioliths
Etymology: From bio- + -lith.
Senses: examples: text: By extraction of a combustible biolith with different solvents, Holde was able to obtain as much as 7.7 percent of fatty, wax-like or colophony-like bodies.
ref: 1915, David Holde, Edward Mueller, The examination of hydrocarbon oils and of saponifiable fats and waxes, page 7:
text: The third theory which was advanced to explain the formation of phosphorites is the classical biolith hypothesis.
ref: 1955, Roger Van Vloten, Geology of the border region between Coaluila and Zacatecas, Mexico, page 141:
text: Under conditions of strong oxidation, Cd is likely to form minerals (CdO, CdCO₃) and is also likely to be accumulated in phosphate and in biolith deposits.
ref: 2001, Alina Kabata-Pendias, Henryk Pendias, Trace elements in soils and plants, page 144:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: A rock or other geological feature formed by living organisms.
Derived terms: biolithic
caustobiolith
liptobiolith