cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
proteinoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteinoplasts
Etymology: From protein + -o- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A specialized leucoplast containing protein in crystalline form for use in enzyme activity.
Synonyms: aleuronaplast
aleuroplast
proteoplast
aleuronaplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleuronaplasts
Etymology: From aleuron + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proteinoplast.
aleuroplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aleuroplasts
Etymology: From aleuro- (“wheat flour,meal”) + -plast (“plastic”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proteinoplast.
proteoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proteoplasts
Etymology: From proteo- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A proteinoplast.
proteoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proteoplast
aleuroplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleuroplast
aleuronaplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aleuronaplast
Omagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊmə/
ipa: /ˈoʊmɑː/
rhymes: -əʊmə
Etymology: From Irish An Ómaigh (“The Sacred (or Virgin) Plain”).
Senses: glosses: A town in and the county town of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref H 4572).
agropastoralist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agropastoralists
Etymology: From agro- + pastoralist.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A member of a people living by a mixture of agriculture and livestock herding
Related terms: agropastoral
agropastoralism
aboutness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbaʊt.nəs/
Forms: form: aboutnesses
Etymology: From about + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The experience of attending to how a good film works is a matter of understanding the composition and the inexhaustible flow of "aboutnesses," relevancies to the world that emerge from the interaction of qualities of meaningfulness that attend such a web of forms and connotations, such a design.
ref: 1982, William Cadbury, Leland A. Poague, Film Criticism: A Counter Theory, →ISBN, page 19:
text: Movie critics provide a good example of aboutness judgments. When some critics rave and others pan, it is not because they have seen different physical texts; rather, all the technical knowledge, topical knowledge, emotions and beliefs of each critic are being engaged in the construction of a response to the physical text.
ref: 1996, Brian C. O'Connor, Explorations in Indexing and Abstracting, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: The relevance of a text to its reader.
aboutnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aboutness
luth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luths
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: The leatherback (turtle).
on-screen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onscreen.
on-screen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: “Asian women on-screen, especially in America and Hollywood, have been so sexualized and fetishized for the benefit of other people’s stories or jokes,” Ashley says. “And we’re like, ‘We’re gonna go balls to the wall, further than anyone’s gone with Asian women.’”
ref: 2023 June 15, Kat Moon, “Ashley Park’s Main Character Energy From ‘Joy Ride’ Is Here To Stay: ‘I’m Treating Myself Like A Lead Now’”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Alternative form of onscreen.
overhead projectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overhead projector
oviform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊ.vɚfɔɹm/
ipa: /ˈoʊ.viːfɔɹm/
Forms: form: more oviform
form: most oviform
Etymology: From ovi- + -form.
Senses: glosses: egg-shaped
Synonyms: egg-shaped
ovate
ovoid
Nibral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nibrals
form: NiBrAl
Etymology: Blend of nickel + bronze + aluminium
Senses: glosses: A metal alloy made of nickel, bronze and aluminium, often used for underwater parts of ships and boats, such as propellors, stabilizers, and foils.
bowlderised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of bowdlerised.
bury the lead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buries the lead
form: burying the lead
form: buried the lead
form: buried the lead
form: bury the lede
Senses: examples: 1977, "Don't bury the lead. This is similar to backing into the lead, except that the major element has been buried several paragraphs down"
2004, "Don't bury the lead in the body of your story. As a TV news viewer, I'm poised to change the channel"
topics: journalism
media
glosses: To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts. See lead paragraph.
LDS Church
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the LDS Church
Senses: examples: text: For LDS Church members, that history is taught from a young age as part of their self-identity.
ref: 2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN:
glosses: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
adhesin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhesins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several factors that enable bacteria to adhere to epithelial surfaces as a step towards infection.
Derived terms: cytoadhesin
immunoadhesin
adhesins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhesin
aeroallergen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeroallergens
Etymology: From aero- + allergen.
Senses: glosses: Any airborne allergen (such as pollen)
Related terms: aeroallergenic
aeroallergic
aeroallergy
aeroallergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeroallergic
form: most aeroallergic
Etymology: From aero- + allergic.
Senses: glosses: Describing any airborne allergic material
Related terms: aeroallergen
agrochemistry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From agro- + chemistry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The branch of chemistry related to agriculture.
electrospinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + spinning.
Senses: glosses: the use of an electric charge to pull very fine fibres from a liquid
endochondral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + chondral.
Senses: examples: text: Ectopic chondrocyte hypertrophy has been demonstrated in OA, suggesting that the pathogenetical process involves a recapitulation of endochondral ossification [ 11 – 13 ].
ref: 2010 January 29, Anita Woods et al., “Control of chondrocyte gene expression by actin dynamics: a novel role of cholesterol/Ror-α signalling in endochondral bone growth”, in Journal of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, volume 13, →DOI:
glosses: Within cartilage.
Derived terms: endochondrally
LDS church
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LDS churches
Senses: examples: text: And that history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting an LDS church in Michigan last Sunday.
ref: 2025 October 5, Eric Levenson, “Attack on LDS Church harkens back to its early history of religious persecution”, in CNN:
glosses: Any of the denominations of Christianity whose teachings and/or organisation derive from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints founded by Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1830.
endonucleolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That cleaves nucleic acids in half by hydrolyzing the bonds between nucleotides
Related terms: endonuclease
endonucleolysis
LDS churches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you were West, I think you would be interested in visiting the LDS churches. The communion is celebrated every Sunday, the deacons, who are young boys of perhaps thirteen or fourteen, passing the sacrament. Water is used instead of wine. […]
ref: 1912: American Missionary Association, Congregational Home Missionary Society, and Making of America Project, The American Missionary, volume 66, page 117 (American Missionary Association)
text: The general wave of public concern over the plight of the Indians was taken to be a problem in which the L.D.S. churches ought to carry a major burden of responsibility, partly because of their geographic position and more especially because of their religious values.
ref: 1954, Robert N. Rapoport, “Changing Navaho Religious Values: A Study of Christian Missions to the Rimrock Navahos”, in The Museum, page 39:
text: In 1952, the Catholic churches, Latter-Day Saints (LDS) churches, and Jewish synagogues reported only adherent data (which included prescribed persons and persons of all ages); in 1981, the Catholic and LDS churches again provided only adherent data.
ref: 1989, Robert Wuthnow, The Struggle for America’s Soul: Evangelicals, Liberals, and Secularism, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 111, →ISBN:
text: Eventually some were excommunicated, and others withdrew from the church voluntarily, thereupon starting their own separate LDS churches, many of which embraced both polygamy and communal living.
ref: 2002, Jeffrey Kaplan, Heléne Lööw, The Cultic Milieu: Oppositional Subcultures in an Age of Globalization, Rowman AltaMira, →ISBN, page 82, →ISBN:
text: If we were nominating the Sacred Wood to the National Register and said “The Sacred Wood is significant because it was here that God told Joseph Smith where to find the golden tablets that contained God’s revealed word about the Levites, Nephites, and Jesus Christ in the New World,” the Register would do very well to look at our nomination askance, because we’d be asking the U.S. government to validate the doctrine of the LDS churches. If instead we said that “The Sacred Wood is significant because in the traditions of the LDS churches it was here that God told Joseph Smith where to find the tablets containing the Book of Mormon, which led to the creation of the LDS churches, which are of great cultural importance to those who subscribe to their beliefs,” the Register could be much more comfortable about accepting our nomination.
ref: 2004, Thomas F. King, Cultural Resource Laws and Practice, Rowman AltaMira, →ISBN, →ISBN:
text: There are today two major LDS churches. The smaller “Reorganized” Church claims to have inherited the truth in a direct line from Joseph Smith.
ref: 2008, Mac Nelson, Twenty West: The Great Road Across America, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 38, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of LDS church
addressivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addressivity
addressivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: addressivities
Etymology: From addressive + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Evidently, in certain languages some of these meanings may be expressed by special affixes (without a causative meaning), as, for example, the meanings of commitativity (cf. 6.3), addressivity (cf. 6.5) and mutuality (cf. 6.6) in Kabardian.
ref: 1970, V.P. Nedyalkov, “On the Typology of the Polysemy of Verbal Affixes”, in Theoretical Problems of Typology and the Northern Eurasian Languages, →ISBN, page 97:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The quality of being addressive, of engaging in communication for the sake of one's interlocutor
invocable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: invokable
Etymology: From invoke + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be invoked; callable.
Related terms: evocable
evokable
carbonaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carbonara
cacheable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: cachable
Etymology: From cache + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Certain areas of memory space must be designated as non-cacheable address space. If the cache controller were to attempt to keep copies...
ref: 1995, Tom Shanley, Don Anderson, John Swindle, ISA System Architecture:
text: Granivorous desert rodents enjoy a high-quality, highly cacheable food.
ref: 2007, Jerry Wolff, Paul W Sherman, Rodent Societies:
glosses: Suitable for caching.
Derived terms: cacheability
noncacheable
uncacheable
admonitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From admonition + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Again, this kind of suffering to the devout Fathers did seem many ways significant, or full of instructive and admonitive emblems; […]
ref: 1677, Isaac Barrow, “The Crucifixion of Christ”, in The Theological Works of Isaac Barrow, volume 6, published 1859, page 283:
text: Wale’ typically occurs in S-final position and conveys variously dubitative (X is possible, but I doubt it), admonitive (X is possible so be careful; X is the case, so take note) or, when used with imperatives, exhortative (hurry up and X).
ref: 2008, William F. Hanks, “Fieldwork on Deixis”, in Journal of Pragmatics, volume 41:
glosses: Of or conveying admonition
Synonyms: admonitional
admonitory
Derived terms: admonitively
horary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to an hour or hours.
glosses: Occurring every hour; hourly.
examples: text: horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
examples: text: But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 276:
text: This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.
ref: 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 295:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
raw_tags: of a question
horary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/
Forms: form: horaries
Etymology: From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
glosses: A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
glosses: A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.
hardcopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hardcopies
Senses: examples: text: Please kindly bring your hardcopy of the Constitution to every class.
ref: 2024, John L. Badalamenti, Ashley C. Grabowski, “ADVANCED CONSTITUTIONAL INTERPRETATION: ORIGINALISM AND ITS FOES”, in University of Florida, page 2:
glosses: Alternative form of hard copy
fat cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat cat
fatcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatcats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fat cat.
fatcats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatcat
heterophenomenologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterophenomenology
heterophenomenological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌhɛtəɹəʊfəˌnɒmɪnəˈlɒd͡ʒɪkəl/
Forms: form: more heterophenomenological
form: most heterophenomenological
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to heterophenomenology.
Derived terms: heterophenomenologically
pant-wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Masturbation, pant wetting, and pica were infrequent.
ref: 1950, American Psychosomatic Society, Psychosomatic Medicine:
text: King Lear is not only portrayed as doddering, reduced to lip-smacking and pant-wetting, but deprived of coherent speech as well.
ref: 2001, Douglas Robinson, Who Translates?:
glosses: Soiling of the pants (underwear) with urine.
pant-wetting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pant-wetting
form: most pant-wetting
Senses: examples: text: I don't appreciate laughing myself into a pant-wetting asthma attack upon witnessing my 6'7", 215-pound spouse screaming like a little girl […]
ref: 2007, Jen Lancaster, Bright Lights, Big Ass:
glosses: Involving great fear or hilarity.
Derived terms: pant-wettingly
relationless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From relation + -less.
Senses: examples: text: A relationless chaos is after all nothing else than a system of relations thought of without relations!
ref: 1905, Howard Jason Rogers, Hugo Münsterburg, Congress of Arts and Science:
text: A passive relationless identity excludes love and action, but this larger and richer oneness fulfils itself by works and by a pure emotion...
ref: 1995, Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ghose, Essays on the Gita:
glosses: Without relations.
eaterie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eateries
Etymology: From eat + -erie.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eatery.
hajjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hajj
quadrivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kwɒdrɪˈveɪlənt/
Etymology: From quadri- + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having a valence of four.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Protecting against four different (usually influenza) viruses.
raw_tags: of a vaccine
examples: text: In graph theory terms, a regular projection of a knot, or knot diagram is thus a quadrivalent planar graph with over/under-decorated vertices.
ref: 2020 January 3, Wikipedia contributors, “Knot (mathematics)”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation:
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having all of its vertices of degree four.
Synonyms: topics: chemistry
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
medicine
sciences
word: tetravalent
Related terms: bivalent
trivalent
quinquivalent
quadrivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kwɒdrɪˈveɪlənt/
Forms: form: quadrivalents
Etymology: From quadri- + -valent.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any quadrivalent chromosome
sexvalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sex- + valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Hexavalent.
autarkical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autarkical
form: most autarkical
Etymology: From autarky + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Autarkic.
fulgid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌld͡ʒɪd/
ipa: /ˈfʊld͡ʒɪd/
Forms: form: more fulgid
form: most fulgid
Etymology: From Latin fulgidus, derived from fulgere.
Senses: glosses: Scintillant, coruscant; marked by fleeting flashes of radiant light.
Derived terms: fulgidity
whiskeyfied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whiskeyfied
form: most whiskeyfied
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whiskified.
widish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈwaɪdɪʃ/
Forms: form: more widish
form: most widish
Etymology: From wide + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat wide.
unribbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ribbed.
Senses: glosses: Not ribbed.
wobegone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wobegone
form: most wobegone
Senses: examples: text: I am only grieved to see you looking wobegone.
ref: 1907, Robert Fraser, Three Men and a Maid:
glosses: Archaic spelling of woebegone.
workperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: workpersons
form: workpeople
Etymology: From work + person.
Senses: examples: text: No workperson shall descend the pit contrary to the directions […]
ref: 1874, Wilfred Creswick, The prevention of accidents in mines:
glosses: A worker; an employee.
workpeople
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So far there was not a hitch. The workpeople, to be sure — riggers and what not — were most annoyingly slow; but time cured that. It was the crew that troubled me.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
text: A few trains, mostly at peak periods, will still terminate at Barnsley because the convenience to workpeople of their current times outweighs the advantages of through working.
ref: 1960 April, “Talking of trains: The new link at Barnsley”, in Trains Illustrated, page 197:
text: One half of the supervisory Board should be appointed by the workpeople through trade union machinery, normally at company or combine level.
ref: 1978, John Elliott, Conflict or Co-operation?:
glosses: plural of workperson
deunionise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deunionises
form: deunionising
form: deunionised
form: deunionised
Etymology: From de- + unionise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deunionize.
deunionising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deunionise
deunionised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deunionise
deunionises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deunionise
life-lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: life-leases
Senses: examples: text: I had counted on a life-lease of the profits, whereas I only received those of a few short years.
ref: 1853, Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener, in Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories, New York: Penguin Books, 1968; reprint 1995 as Bartleby, ISBN 0 14 60.0012 9, p.2
glosses: A lifetime appointment, a condition that exists or service that is provided for the duration of an individual's lifetime or for the remainder of an individual's life.
tetraneutron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraneutrons
Etymology: From tetra- + neutron.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical stable cluster of four neutrons.
Related terms: neutronium
tetraneutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetraneutron
dineutron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dineutrons
Etymology: From di- + neutron.
Senses: glosses: A particle consisting of two neutrons.
dineutrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dineutron
diproton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diprotons
Etymology: From di- + proton.
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical particle consisting of two protons and no neutrons; a helium-2 nucleus. Presumably an intermediate step in the fusion of hydrogen into helium.
diprotons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diproton
rocking chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rocking chair
matrona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matronas
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin mātrōna (“matron”), from māter (“mother; matron”). Doublet of matron.
Senses: glosses: In Ancient Rome, a wife of an honorable man.
microkernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microkernels
Etymology: From micro- + kernel.
Senses: examples: text: In the 1980s, microkernel systems emerged. Microkernel systems were similar to security kernels in that they aimed for minimal functionality in the kernel, but microkernel systems focused on providing system abstractions for building complete systems more easily and more efficiently, rather than more securely.
ref: 2008, Trent Jaeger, Operating System Security, Morgan & Claypool Publishers, →ISBN, page 95:
coordinate_terms: unikernel
qualifier: operating systems
glosses: A minimal operating system kernel offering basic mechanisms rather than abstract services.
microkernels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microkernel
nanokernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanokernels
Etymology: From nano- + kernel.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A particularly small or minimal microkernel.
nanokernels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanokernel
exokernel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exokernels
Etymology: From exo- + kernel.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A very low-level kernel that avoids abstractions.
exokernels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exokernel
mecca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛkə
homophone: mecha
Forms: form: meccas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Mecca.
examples: text: But Seed to Table – which has sprawling spreads of produce, a food court with restaurants and kiosks, and a two-story wine market and tasting room – has become a MAGA mecca, many say, a shrine to former President Donald Trump and Trumpism.
ref: 2024, Patrik Jonsson and Melanie Stetson Freeman, Florida woman kills wild boar with mango. (This is not a meme.), in: The Christian Science Monitor, August 27 2024
glosses: Alternative form of Mecca.
; a place to which a group of people (for example shoppers) are drawn.
doorstepped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of doorstep
doorstepping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doorstep
doorstepping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doorsteppings
Senses: glosses: The visiting of one household after another to solicit sales, charitable donations, political support, etc.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: The action of cornering someone for an unexpected interview.
Related terms: ambush journalism
access control lists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of access control list
tusky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌs.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Forms: form: tuskier
form: tuskiest
Etymology: From Middle English tusky, equivalent to tusk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Ho! Strangers! have you lately ſeen, ſhe ſaid, / One of my Siſters, like my ſelf array’d; […] Vary’d with Spots, a Linx’s Hide ſhe wore: / And at full Cry purſu’d the tusky Boar?
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The First Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 214, lines 443–444 and 447–448:
synonyms: betusked
tusked
glosses: Having tusks, especially prominent tusks.
tusky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʌs.ki/
rhymes: -ʌski
Senses: examples: text: […] mi little stick of Leeds grown tusky draws
galas of rhubarb from the MET-set palms.
ref: 1987 [1981], Tony Harrison, “The Rhubarbarians II”, in Continuous: 50 sonnets from 'The School of Eloquence' (Poetry), London: Rex Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: rhubarb, sticks from that vegetable
museau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mjuːˈzəʊ/
Etymology: From French museau. Doublet of muzzle.
Senses: examples: text: He was the baby of the family, a young man of twenty-two, with a fresh, jaunty museau.
ref: 1922, DH Lawrence, ‘The Horse-dealer's Daughter’, England, My England:
text: I was dark with a round museau of a face and thick lips and a pug nose and high cheekbones and deep-set brown eyes and a bush of black hair.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 33:
glosses: Someone's face.
A plus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: A pluses
form: A-plus
Senses: glosses: An academic grade issued by certain educational institutions. Slightly better than an A.
examples: text: I give this novel an A plus.
glosses: The highest possible rating.
Synonyms: A+
thieveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thievery
hoplomachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplomachoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hoplomachus.
hoplomachus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoplomachi
form: hoplomachos
Senses: glosses: A heavily armed gladiator in ancient Rome.
Related terms: hoplomachic
hoplomachy
outstable
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outstables
form: outstabling
form: outstabled
form: outstabled
Etymology: From out + stable.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: To park (a rail vehicle) in a station, siding or other location away from the (main) depot.
outstables
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstable
outstabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outstable
outstabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstable
outstabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: stabled other than at the (main) depot
raw_tags: of a rail vehicle
cèpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cèpes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cepe (mushroom Boletus edulis, porcini).
touched in the head
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more touched in the head
form: most touched in the head
Senses: examples: text: I believe he's more touched in the head than I am.
ref: 1990, Reinaldo Arenas, The Palace of the White Skunks, page 136:
text: Who could say, perhaps Nastasya was even more touched in the head now, and if she used to make up stories about the old man crying and bleeding when she was here, maybe she had moved on to death over there?
ref: 1991, [1979], Valentin Rasputin, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, Farewell to Matyora, page 199:
text: It is broad daylight and if she can not simply guide the car along the highway then this bitch was more touched in the head that^([sic]) I thought.
ref: 2003, Tracee A. Hanna, A Little Bit of Sinning, page 163:
glosses: Demented; slightly mentally deficient.
Synonyms: tetched
touched
speech from the throne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speeches from the throne
form: Speech from the Throne
Senses: examples: text: The government laid out its agenda for your dollars in Ottawa Wednesday as Governor General Michaelle Jean read the Speech from the Throne.
ref: 2008 November 19, “Speech From The Throne Concentrates Almost Entirely On Economy”, in CityNews, Toronto, retrieved 12 Dec 2008:
synonyms: throne speech
glosses: An event in certain monarchies in which the reigning sovereign, or their representative, reads a prepared speech to members of the nation's legislature.
prover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provers
Etymology: From prove + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "This is a test bed for the technology, so ultimately while we could convert more trains like this, there's a limited number," said Green. "We see this more as a technology prover to allow that, rather to be put into a new train project."
ref: 2025 July 9, Joe Campbell, “Network News: GWR hails success of batteries on branch tests”, in RAIL, number 1039, page 13:
glosses: One who or that which proves.
examples: text: The prover belongs to a family of checking devices, Turing machines or sequences of these, that are capable of establishing the probable correctness of solutions for very large classes of problems.
ref: 2008 January 31, Bart Van Kerkhove, Jean Paul Van Bendegem, “Pi on Earth, or Mathematics in the Real World”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, →DOI:
glosses: A person, device, or program that performs logical or mathematical proofs.
topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who experimentally ingests a substance and then catalogues every effect or symptom.
Derived terms: linen prover
Throne Speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Throne Speeches
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of throne speech.
simultaneum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simultanea
Etymology: From New Latin simultaneum, from simul (“at the same time”).
Senses: glosses: A simultaneous occurrence of unrelated events.
topics: Christianity
glosses: The shared use of a church for both Protestant and Catholic services.
collagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kəˈlæd͡ʒɪk/
Forms: form: more collagic
form: most collagic
Etymology: Apparently a 20th-century neologism, regular derivation from collage + -ic. Earliest confirmed occurrence found in 1971: see citations.
Senses: examples: text: Each section of Markopoulos' GALAXIE is an unqualified gem, but put them all together and the film becomes a collagic bore […] .
ref: 1971, Filmmakers Newsletter (Suncraft International), volume 5, number 1–6, page 24
text: His film Invocation of my Demon Brother[…] has an open, collagic form which has as its center a magical ritual[…] interrupted by discontinuous images which suggest the forces of darkness.
ref: 1977, Barry Walter Moore, Garth S. Jowett, Aesthetic Aespects of Recent Experimental Film, published 1980, →ISBN, page 94:
text: Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.
ref: 1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb, →ISBN, page 18:
text: A second postmodernist impulse is found in the collagic, which critics and writers[…] have seen as a means not of imitating reality, but of intervening in it.
ref: 1988, Lyell Asher, Robert Merrill, Ethics/aesthetics: Post-modern Positions, →ISBN, page 85:
text: [Two CD-ROMs] are collagic and marked by the processes of crafting them from video, scans, and manipulated imagery.
ref: 1998, Nina Rapi, Maya Chowdhry, Acts of Passion: Sexuality, Gender, and Performance, →ISBN, page 106:
text: […]postmodern collagic texts like Kingston's The Woman Warrior[…]
ref: 2005, Guiyou Huang, Asian American Literary Studies, →ISBN, page 43:
glosses: Like a collage, made from the assemblage of diverse things.
épopée
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: épopées
Etymology: Borrowed from French épopée.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of epopee.
overexaggerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overexaggerates
form: overexaggerating
form: overexaggerated
form: overexaggerated
Etymology: From over- + exaggerate, perhaps specifically influenced by overstate and/or overdo.
Senses: examples: "That math test was so hard, nobody could have passed it! Albert Einstein couldn't have done it! Our professor probably had no idea how to solve those equations! I mean-"
I get it, OK? Quit overexaggerating!
glosses: To exaggerate, to overstate excessively.
overexaggerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overexaggerate
overexaggerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overexaggerate
overexaggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From overexaggerate + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overexaggerate
overexaggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + exaggerated.
Senses: glosses: Exaggerated excessively.
underexaggerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underexaggerates
form: underexaggerating
form: underexaggerated
form: underexaggerated
Etymology: From under- + exaggerate, rather illogically, since this might be expected to mean to exaggerate but insufficiently.
Senses: examples: text: Academics tend to be very sceptical of oil forecasts made by the major oil companies as they underexaggerate the probable amounts of oil in the world.
ref: 1983, International Symposium on Theory and Practice in Transport:
text: Without the services of a qualified polygrapher, the defendant will almost always underexaggerate or lie about his or others' involvement in the conspiracy.
ref: 2003, Gregory D Lee, Global Drug Enforcement:
glosses: To understate.
underexaggerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underexaggerate
underexaggerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underexaggerate
underexaggerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underexaggerate
unstylish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstylish
form: most unstylish
Etymology: From un- + stylish.
Senses: glosses: Not stylish; unfashionable.
Synonyms: sense: unfashionable
word: démodé
word: passé
word: unchic
word: unfashionable
unstylishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unstylishly
form: most unstylishly
Etymology: From unstylish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unstylish manner; unfashionably.
styleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From style + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It is not enough to say that style is a characteristic mode of expression, for then it would be almost impossible to speak of anything as styleless.
ref: 1921, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Harlan Logan, Scribner's Magazine:
text: He was too thin, so that the styleless clothes hung poorly, and something in his coloring made her think that he ate the wrong foods.
ref: 1992, Greg Johnson, A Friendly Deceit:
glosses: Lacking good style or any style at all.
examples: text: Short-styled and styleless flowers were sometimes mixed in these individuals.
ref: 1990, Nihon Shokubutsu Gakkai, The Botanical Magazine, Tokyo:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Lacking a style (stalk structure).
Derived terms: stylelessly
stylelessness
stalklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stalklike
form: most stalklike
Etymology: From stalk + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a stalk.
Synonyms: stalky
stipitiform
stylelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From styleless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a styleless fashion.
gapers' block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gapers' blocks
form: gapers block
Senses: examples: text: In the lingo of the traffic reporters, "gapers' block" is a tie-up caused by motorists slowing down to gape at an accident.
ref: 1967 March 10, “Above It All”, in Time:
text: In the pretty, tranquil valley, elk were feeding just off the highway, creating a gapers block.
ref: 2001, "Rocky Road Rocky Mountain National Park boasts as ear-popping drive full of peak experiences," Wichita Eagle (Kansas), 25 Mar., p. 1G
glosses: A traffic jam resulting from motorists slowing to look at a motor vehicle collision or other roadside distraction.
Synonyms: gawkers' block
gawker blocker
Related terms: rubbernecking
train wreck
undereaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of undereat
gapers block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of gapers' block.
dominatrixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominatrix
egg-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From egg + bound.
Senses: glosses: Unable to pass an egg that has formed.
raw_tags: of a hen
glosses: Constipated.
stodgiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of stodgy: most stodgy
stag beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stag beetle
baroqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From baroque + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being baroque.
polyforms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyform
polytans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polytan
polyominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyomino
polyhexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyhex
decominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decomino
polycubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polycube
strong-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strong-arm
strong-arms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strong-arm
polyamories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyamory
strong-arming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strong-arm
strong-armed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strong-arm
nonominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonomino
strongarm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strong-arm.
strongarm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strongarms
form: strongarming
form: strongarmed
form: strongarmed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strong-arm.
strongarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strongarms
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of strong-arm.
polydrafters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polydrafter
polyabolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyabolo
polyaboloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyabolo
heptominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heptomino
baroquely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more baroquely
form: most baroquely
Etymology: From baroque + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a baroque style.
trominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tromino
triominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triomino
examples: Note: as the game plays, polyiamonds are created.
topics: games
glosses: a variant of the game of dominoes using tiles with the shape of an equilateral triangle.
octominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octomino
monominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monomino
pentominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentomino
hexominoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hexomino
polysticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polystick
pseudoscientifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pseudoscientifically
form: most pseudoscientifically
Etymology: From pseudoscientific + -ally or pseudo- + scientifically.
Senses: examples: text: ...the pseudoscientifically backed racist ideology about Jews...
ref: 1989, Leo Spitzer, Lives in Between:
glosses: In a pseudoscientific way or manner.
Judæo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Judeo-.
gawkers' block
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawkers' blocks
Senses: glosses: Synonym of gapers' block.
synonyms: word: gapers' block
biowarfare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + warfare.
Senses: glosses: biological warfare
zoogeographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + geographic, after zoogeography.
Senses: examples: text: An arm of the Tethys known as the Turgai Strait was an important zoogeographic barrier, cutting Asia off from Europe.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 9:
glosses: Of or relating to zoogeography; concerning the geographic distribution of animals.
zoogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zoo- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to zoogeography.
zoogeographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoogeographers
Etymology: From zoo- + geographer.
Senses: examples: text: Professor Dr. Hendrik Engel (1898-1981) was a great historian of biology as well as a zootaxonomist and zoogeographer (see, e.g., Van Benthem Jutting, 1968).
ref: 1989, Bijdragen tot de dierkunde:
glosses: A person involved in zoogeography.
zoogeographers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoogeographer
f-stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f-stops
form: f stop
form: f/stop
Etymology: f is short for focal.
Senses: examples: text: Before you know what f-stop you want, you first have to know what it is you are trying to accomplish in the photograph: Do I want to freeze action, or show motion, and consider shutter speed, or, do I need to get a cast of people in focus, or focus selectively, and cater to aperture?
ref: 2006, Michael Grecco, Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait, Amphoto Books, →ISBN, page 22:
text: If you're shooting at an f-stop of 2.8, then the lens will take in a lot more light than it would if the f-stop was at 22.
ref: 2008 May 23, Ted Kritsonis, “Six of one, half a dozen of the other”, in Globe and Mail, Canada, retrieved 26 Dec 2008:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Any of the discrete steps or stopping points for adjusting the aperture of a lens, either marked on a ring on the lens and adjusted by rotating that ring or marked in the display of a digital camera and adjusted by buttons or touch-sensitive controls.
Related terms: f-number
f stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f stops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of f-stop.
relational databases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relational database
salubriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From salubrious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Healthiness.
foreign keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foreign key
referential integrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: referential + integrity
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The property of a relational database that enforces valid relationships between tables, such that no foreign key can contain a value that does not match a primary key in the corresponding linked table.
beauty-mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beauty-marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of beauty mark.
threitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threitols
Etymology: From thre- + -itol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyalcohol with the molecular formula C₄H₁₀O₄, primarily used as an intermediate in the chemical synthesis of other compounds.
threitols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threitol
anti-matter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antimatter.
dithioerythritol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithioerythritols
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfur-containing sugar, an epimer of dithiothreitol, derived from erythrose.
dithioerythritols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dithioerythritol
dithiothreitol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dithiothreitols
Etymology: From di- + thio- + threitol.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A small-molecule redox reagent with the molecular formula C₄H₁₀O₂S₂.
dithiothreitols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dithiothreitol
Illinoisian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Illinoisians
Etymology: From Illinois + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Illinoisan.
fictioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɪk.ʃənˈɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fictioneers
Etymology: From fiction + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A writer of fiction, especially one who produces many publications.
Derived terms: fictioneering
Related terms: science-fictioneer
fictioneers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictioneer