cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lande
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landes
Etymology: From Middle English lande, launde, from Old French lande (“clearing in a wood, leigh; remote wooded area”). Doublet of lawn and land.
Senses: glosses: An uncultivated plain, especially a sandy track along the seashore in southwestern France.
perforati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perforatus
knowledge is power
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: See Scientia potentia est. Often incorrectly attributed to Francis Bacon.
Senses: glosses: Scientia potentia est; with knowledge and/or education, one's potential or ability to succeed in the pursuit of one's objectives will certainly increase.
wikipedia: Scientia potentia est
turkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkises
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of turquoise.
penultima
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penultimas
Etymology: From Latin, from pēnultimus, paenultimus (“the last but one”).
Senses: glosses: the next to last syllable in a word
Coordinate terms: sense: names of syllables
word: ultima
sense: names of syllables
english: last
translation: last
word: ult
sense: names of syllables
word: penultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but one
translation: last but one
word: penult
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultime
sense: names of syllables
word: antepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but two
translation: last but two
word: antepenult
sense: names of syllables
alt: præantepenultima
word: preantepenultima
sense: names of syllables
word: preantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but three
translation: last but three
word: preantepenult
sense: names of syllables
word: propreantepenultimate
sense: names of syllables
english: last but four
translation: last but four
word: propreantepenult
Derived terms: penultima law
HzRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HzRGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of high-redshift radio galaxy.
Related terms: BLRG
NLRG
WLRG
RG
LINER
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LINERs
Senses: glosses: low ionization nuclear emission line region
Related terms: AGN
ELG
NELG
NLRG
BLRG
WLRG
NLS1
BLS1
NLQ
BLQ
annual leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If you're already thinking ahead to next year's holidays you can double your break and get a whopping 52 days off using just 26 days of annual leave.
ref: 2019 December 17, Helen Knapman, “How to DOUBLE your annual leave in 2020 – and you’ll only need to book off 26 days holiday”, in The Sun:
qualifier: workplace
glosses: Amount of time expressed as the number of days per year that an employee is entitled to be away from work.
examples: text: The European Working Time Directive, brought into UK law in 1998, says workers should receive their 'normal' pay when they go on annual leave.
ref: 2014 December 4, Tom McTague, Simon Lambert, “Millions of workers to get extra holiday pay after landmark ruling forces firms to take into account regular overtime shifts”, in The Daily Mail:
text: Recruitment firm Glassdoor has similarly alarming statistics: 23% of employees who took annual leave in 2018 regularly checked their emails, while 15% continued working throughout their holiday because of fear of falling behind and the consequences of not hitting their targets.
ref: 2019 August 10, Mary-Ann Russon, “Are you able to switch off when on holiday?”, in BBC News:
qualifier: workplace
glosses: The use of such days to be away from work; on holiday or vacation.
Synonyms: sense: use of days
word: break
word: leave
word: vacation
squiggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of squiggle
periodontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Periodontics.
Derived terms: periodontological
periodontologist
fatele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fateles
form: fatele
Senses: glosses: A form of traditional song and dance in Tuvalu.
FTFA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Filipino Task Force on AIDS.
kajal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She had thick black kajal on her eyes, unbecoming lipstick, and a wristful of bangles.
ref: 2011, Arupa Patangia Kalita, translated by Deepika Phukan, The Story of Felanee:
glosses: Kohl.
superdense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + dense.
Senses: glosses: Denser than ordinary matter.
raw_tags: of matter
glosses: Having an information density of two classical bits per qubit, made possible by a shared entanglement state between sender and recipient.
raw_tags: of quantum coding of information
palsa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palsas
Etymology: From Finnish palsa, from Northern Sami balsa.
Senses: examples: text: Peat plateaux are larger landforms formed by the coalescence of palsas. String bogs, also called patterned fens, occur in muskeg. They are alternations of thin, string-like strips or ridges of peat, mainly Sphagnum moss, which may[…]
ref: 2003, Richard J. Huggett, Fundamentals of Geomorphology, Psychology Press, →ISBN, page 244:
text: These basin bogs are generally associated with Picea mariana or are treeless. Species in these wetlands are similar to those found in other palsas in Canada.
ref: 2013 March 9, Dennis F. Whigham, D. Dykyjová, S. Hejný, Wetlands of the World I: Inventory, Ecology and Management, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 480:
topics: geography
geology
geomorphology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hummock rising out of a bog with a core of ice; similar in appearance to a pingo but due to different structure palsas cannot grow as big as pingos.
Derived terms: lithalsa
kandi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of candy (“rave accessory”).
overthrower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overthrowers
Etymology: From overthrow + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who overthrows.
overthrowers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overthrower
masterwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːstəwəːt/
Forms: form: masterworts
Etymology: From master + wort.
Senses: examples: text: The root of Masterwort is hotter than Pepper, and very available in all cold griefs and diseases both of stomach and body, dissolving very powerfully upward and downward.
ref: 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 184:
glosses: Peucedanum ostruthium, an umbelliferous plant grown in gardens, formerly much used for medicinal purposes.
glosses: Astrantia spp., such as the great masterwort.
glosses: Ground elder (Aegopodium podagraria).
pahus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pahu
patu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patus
Etymology: From Maori patu (“beating, hitting; a club, a weapon”).
Senses: glosses: A Maori club or pounder.
taus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tau
every once in a while
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Synonym of once in a while.
synonyms: word: once in a while
Derived terms: even a blind squirrel finds an acorn every once in a while
Related terms: every now and again
every now and then
every so often
denominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denominate
denominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denominate
crumbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crumblers
Etymology: From crumble + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of crumble: one who crumbles.
crumblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crumbler
humblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humbler
twiddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twiddlers
Etymology: From twiddle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: These are the slaves to technology: the Candy Crushers, the Facebook fanatics, the Insta-idlers, the Snapchat servants and Twitter twiddlers who spend every spare minute absorbed by their screens.
ref: 2018, Jack Lewis, The Science of Sin: Why We Do The Things We Know We Shouldn’t, Bloomsbury Sigma, →ISBN:
glosses: One who twiddles.
Derived terms: knob-twiddler
twiddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twiddler
muddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌd.lə/
ipa: /ˈmʌd.lɚ/
Forms: form: muddlers
Etymology: From muddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person or thing that muddles.
glosses: A tool used in muddling, used to mash and mix.
Coordinate terms: pestle
Related terms: muddle
muddling
muddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muddler
fudger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʌd͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ʌdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fudgers
Etymology: From fudge + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of fudge: one who fudges.
fudgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fudger
HVPT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of hyperventilation provocation test.
glosses: Initialism of high-variability phonetic training.
racoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racoon
radicalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: radicalises
form: radicalising
form: radicalised
form: radicalised
Etymology: From radical + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Let us dwell briefly on the threefold requisites for an equal association between the sexes for achieving socially-directed goals. At the threshold, mark you, this is part of a way by the weak against the strong; this is re-reading religion, re-writing literature and history, re-building economics and politics, and radicalising sex sociology. This is a grim battle, not won by stray queens and prime ministresses and fortunate women of letters of science. It is a massive campaign not carried on by sophisticated ‘hen conventions’ or ‘gentle ladies’ organisations.
ref: 1980, V[aidyanathapuram] R[ama] Krishna Iyer, Minorities, Civil Liberties, and Criminal Justice, New Delhi: People’s Publishing House, →OCLC, page 12:
text: But whatever the truth, the fateful journey that Abedi made to the Manchester Arena last Monday started long ago. “He’s not been radicalised by Isis,” Rafiq said. “His life story is all about being radicalised from birth and then Isis cherrypicked him.”
ref: 2017 May 28, Jamie Doward, Ian Cobain, Chris Stephen, and Ben Quinn, “How Manchester bomber Salman Abedi was radicalised by his links to Libya”, in The Guardian:
text: Rightwing extremist groups have “exploited” anger at Covid-19 lockdowns to radicalise Australians in wellness and alternative medical circles into adopting white supremacist ideologies, Victoria police have warned a parliamentary inquiry into extremism.
ref: 2021 February 24, Elias Visontay, “Far right 'exploiting' anger at lockdowns to radicalise wellness community, police say”, in The Guardian:
text: History shows that attempts to suppress dissent through indiscriminate repression have precisely the opposite effect. Such an approach generally recruits more dissenters and radicalises their actions. It creates, rather than pre-empts, chaos.
ref: 2023 January 19, Stephen Reicher, “More conflict, more violence: that’s the future if the UK’s new anti-protest law is passed”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of radicalize.
countify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: countifies
form: countifying
form: countified
form: countified
Etymology: From count + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: We can, for instance, “countify” mass nouns which come to be associated with a standard counter or container. […] Also in distinguishing some particular kind or type of the mass noun substance (by a limiting modifier of some kind), it is possible to readily countify: […]
ref: 1965, Robert P. Stockwell, Jean Donald Bowen, and John Watson Martin, The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 81:
text: Any stuff for which there are standard portions used for whatever purposes will immediately become countified: three beers, an ice cream, an entertainment, etc.
ref: 1989, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Lenhart K. Schubert, “Mass Expressions”, in Dov M. Gabbay, F. Guenthner, editors, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, volume 10, Springer, published 2003, →ISBN:
text: 1992, James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project”, in Andrew Ortony, John Slack, and Oliviero Stock (editors), Communication From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Theoretical and Applied Issues, NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Volume 100, Springer, →ISBN, page 104,
Under deviant vocabulary we include “verbing” of nouns (He tricycled away), and perhaps “massifying” of count nouns and “countifying” of mass nouns. (Note that the preceding sentence itself contains instances of deviant vocabulary in scare quotes.) “Massifying” and “countifying” are illustrated respectively by A year ago they started digging the hole for his house; A year later, there's still more hole than house; and How many orange juice will that give us?.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To use as a count noun.
Related terms: countification
massify
massify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: massifies
form: massifying
form: massified
form: massified
Etymology: From mass + -ify.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: To become, or cause to become, oriented toward mass production, mass consumption, and high throughput rather than individuality.
examples: 1992, James F. Allen and Lenhart K. Schubert, “Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project”, in Andrew Ortony, John Slack, and Oliviero Stock (editors), Communication From an Artificial Intelligence Perspective: Theoretical and Applied Issues, NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences, Volume 100, Springer, →ISBN, page 104,
Under deviant vocabulary we include “verbing” of nouns (He tricycled away), and perhaps “massifying” of count nouns and “countifying” of mass nouns. (Note that the preceding sentence itself contains instances of deviant vocabulary in scare quotes.) “Massifying” and “countifying” are illustrated respectively by A year ago they started digging the hole for his house; A year later, there's still more hole than house; and How many orange juice will that give us?.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: To use as a mass noun.
Derived terms: demassify
massification
massifier
Related terms: countify
epic fail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epic fails
Senses: examples: text: Maybe next the cloud overhead would open up and a huge cartoon hand emerge from below, pointing at him, accompanied by a thunderous, authorial voice: TOM MERCER. EPIC FAIL.
ref: 2012, Zadie Smith, NW, London: Penguin Books, published 2013, →ISBN, page 131:
text: The second sentence is saying ‘Gina greedily anticipates even more than the monthly doubling of her bank balance’ — more than is modifying expects. Not the same meaning at all. Sorry computer, epic fail!
ref: 2013, Wendy M. Anderson, Geraldine Woods, Lesley J. Ward, English Grammar Essentials For Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 30:
text: “What, you thought you could flee to Canada and hide from your epic fail? […]
ref: 2014, Lauren Morrill, Being Sloane Jacobs, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 95:
text: So yeah, epic fail on my part when I didn't recognize one of Kubrick's most iconic works, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
ref: 2014, Leah Raeder, Unteachable, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 29:
text: I was happy with my new, more sophisticated haircut but the rest of my efforts were pretty much epic fail.
ref: 2014, Sheila Agnew, Central Park Showdown, The O'Brien Press, →ISBN:
text: I'm tied to a chair. Epic fail.
ref: 2016, Kristen Reidel, “Bodies Of Water”, in 12 Monkeys, season 2, episode 5 (television production), spoken by Jennifer Goines (Emily Hampshire):
glosses: An utter failure, especially where success should have been reasonably expected.
Related terms: task failed successfully
crashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
ipa: /ˈkɹæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: crashier
form: crashiest
Etymology: From crash + -y.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Tending to crash.
contrasexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contrasexual
form: most contrasexual
Etymology: From contra- + sexual.
Senses: examples: text: Another contemporary scholar of Gnosticism, C. G. Jung, has taken this notion of the twin ray and applied it to his own model of the contrasexual nature of the self.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 31:
text: If one rigidly keeps one's inner contrasexual side unacknowledged, no psychic growth can occur.
ref: 1987, Benjamin G. Lockerd, Edmund Spenser, The Sacred Marriage: Psychic Integration in the Faerie Queene, Bucknell University Press, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The issue of gender becomes reality based with the human experience of the contrasexual aspect of our own psyches.
ref: 1997, Polly Young-Eisendrath, Gender and Desire: Uncursing Pandora, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN:
text: While Jung's theory of the contrasexual component of the personality seems radical in certain respects, there are other parts of it which are conservative.
ref: 2012, David Tacey, The Jung Reader, Routledge, →ISBN, page 145:
qualifier: Jungian psychology
glosses: Of part of the psyche, having characteristics of the opposite gender.
cousinette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cousinettes
Senses: examples: text: Another soup is cousinette, a vegetable broth made with beet greens, spinach, lettuce, sorrel, and cousine (a wild member of the mallow family). Sometimes cousinette is thickened with cornmeal, in which case it is called jerbilhou.
ref: 1997, Paola Gavin, French Vegetarian Cooking, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of soup containing chard and sorrel.
examples: text: But his wants are really few; his tastes were naturally simple; he had been becoming blase/ on everything, when he found his occupation as an artist gone; and he is consoled besides by the love of the cousinette, who has proved that her giddiness was only skin-deep by giving him a marvellous proof of disinterestedness.
ref: 1883, The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art:
text: Pa made much of me—ma made much of me ; so did her brothers and sisters, and uncles and aunts, and cousins and cousinettes, and cousiniculings.
ref: 1889, Thomas William Robertson, The Principal Dramatic Works of Thomas William Robertson, pages 434–435:
text: So she remained with the cousinettes while the cousins took a walk.
ref: 1902, The Independent - Volume 54, Part 2, page 1772:
text: And uncles and aunts have I none; grandfathers and grandmothers have I none; cousins and — cousinettes have I none!
ref: 1981, Bruce Mason, Blood of the Lamb, →ISBN:
text: Victor, his cousinettes and I spent a quiet night roaming Sai Gon.
ref: 2014, Robert Downs, Pasture to Paddy: A Novel, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A young female cousin.
cooption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooptions
form: co-option
Etymology: From coopt + -ion.
Senses: glosses: A cooptation
Related terms: cooptive
cooptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cooptations
form: coöptation
form: co-optation
Etymology: From coopt + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: cooption
glosses: A co-opting: a commandeering, appropriation, or taking over.
examples: text: This book is a study of co-optation rather than counterculture, an analysis of the forces and logic that made rebel youth cultures so attractive to corporate decision-makers rather than a study of those cultures themselves. In doing so, it risks running afoul of what I will call the co-optation theory: faith in the revolutionary potential of "authentic" counterculture combined with the notion that business mimics and mass-produces fake counterculture in order to cash in on a particular demographic and to subvert the great threat that "real" counterculture represents.
ref: 1997, Thomas Carr Frank, The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: cooption
glosses: A co-opting: an absorption or assimilation.
co-optation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-optations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooptation.
co-option
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-options
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cooption.
quota-hopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: within the EC
glosses: The circumvention of a trade quota by registering a business (or a fishing vessel) in a foreign country in order to benefit from its quota
quote-driven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Describing any market system in which prices are established by quotations given by market makers.
market maker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market makers
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A person or company that undertakes to quote both a buy and a sell price for a financial instrument.
jeerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪɹɚ/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɪəɹə(ɹ)/
note: without the mirror–nearer merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiɹə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiəɹə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiɹəɹ/
note: East Anglia, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛːɹə/
rhymes: -ɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: jeerers
Etymology: From jeer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1631, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act V, Scene 2, in The Works of Ben Jonson, London: G. & W. Nicol, Volume v, p. 305,
Fitton. Pox o’ these true jests, I say!
Madrigal. He’ll turn the better jeerer.
text: […] what good will my vanities do, when death says he will have no nay? What good will all my companions, fellow-jesters, jeerers, liars, drunkards, and all my wantons do me? Will they help to ease the pains of hell?
ref: 1658, John Bunyan, “A Few Sighs from Hell, or the Groans of a Damned Soul”, in The Works of John Bunyan, 3rd edition, volume I, London: W. Johnston, published 1767, page 493:
text: “Victory over such unkind jeerers would be sweet,” said Lady Caroline.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, “The Marchioness of Stonehenge”, in A Group of Noble Dames, New York: Harper & Bros., page 130:
text: On either side of the narrow way were massed laughers and jeerers.
ref: 1974, Anthony Burgess, Napoleon Symphony, New York: Knopf, Part II:
glosses: One who jeers; a mocker.
jeerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeerer
lirate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lirate
form: most lirate
Senses: glosses: Having fine thread-like lines or grooves.
abecedism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abecedisms
Etymology: Roughly a + b + c + d + -ism; compare abecedarium.
Senses: examples: text: 1949 April 17, editorial in The Denver Post, quoted in Levette J. Davidson, “Folklore in Modern Speech”, in Louise Pound, “Miscellany”, in American Speech, Volume 25, Number 4, Duke University Press (December 1950), page 303,
The tampering with our language, like so many other things, can be blamed on the Roosevelt new deal which created WPA, NRA, FDIC and so many other abecedisms.
text: Contents: A key to over 45,000 acronyms (or initialisms or abecedisms), contractions, and similar condensed appellations.
ref: 1969, Saul Galin with Peter Spielberg, Reference Books: How to Select and Use Them, Random House, →LCCN, →OL, page 36:
text: "Brook" is a verb, H.M. (as in HMS) is a well-known abecedism (how do you look in a pinafore? don't answer), and we all know what a peter is -- […]
ref: 1996 February 21, “RossWilymz”, “Re: MENSA, a haven for people having trouble with English?”, in rec.org.mensa (Usenet), message-ID <4ggar6$ia3@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:
glosses: An initialism.
abiturient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiturients
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Abiturient.
half-open
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + open.
Senses: examples: text: Between the fixed, full-height ends run flexible covers, carried on tubes running in guides, which can be locked in the closed, half-open or fully open positions; [...].
ref: 1964 April, G. Freeman Allen, “The BRB shows traders the Liner train prototypes”, in Modern Railways, page 265:
glosses: partially open; ajar
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: (referring to an interval on the real line) containing only one of its endpoints
ablow
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbloʊ/
Etymology: From a- + blow.
Senses: examples: text: [...] The flower breaks from its sheath and is ablow / And gives its richest perfumes. [...]
ref: 1867, Augusta Webster, “Lota”, in A Woman Sold and Other Poems, London; Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 238:
text: You know, the year's not always May —
Oh, once the lilacs were ablow !
ref: 1891, Lizette Woodworth Reese, “Hallowmas” (poem), in A Handful of Lavender, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, page 13
text: [...] against the green, yet, growing in tilled soil, grow stronger and taller than any daffodil can grow in turf : hundreds of them are ablow together, and the very robustness of their splendour [...]
ref: 1989, Stephen L. Swynn, Garden Wisdom: Or, from One Generation to Another, Ayer Publishing, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Blossoming, blooming, in blossom.
glosses: Blowing or being blown; windy.
ADHD-PI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Primarily Inattentive.
Related terms: ADHD
ADHD-C
ADHD-PH/I
ADHD-PH/I
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Primarily Hyperactive/Impulsive.
Related terms: ADHD-C
ADHD-PI
ADHD-C
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder-combined.
Related terms: ADHD-PH/I
ADHD-PI
LIRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LIRGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of luminous infra-red galaxy.
Derived terms: HLIRG
ULIRG
Related terms: LRG
LRN
ULIRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ULIRGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Acronym of ultra-luminous infra-red galaxy.
Related terms: LIRG
HLIRG
BLRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BLRGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: broad emission-line radio-galaxy
Related terms: BLQ
BLS1
ELG
HzRG
NLRG
WLRG
LINER
NLRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NLRGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: narrow emission-line radio-galaxy
Related terms: BLRG
ELG
HzRG
NELG
NLQ
NLS1
WLRG
LINER
WLRG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WLRGs
Senses: glosses: Weak emission-line radio-galaxy.
Related terms: HzRG
BLRG
NLRG
ELG
LINER
ELG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ELGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: emission-line galaxy
Derived terms: NELG
Related terms: BLQ
BLRG
BLS1
NLQ
NLRG
NLS1
WLRG
LINER
NELG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NELGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of narrow emission-line galaxy.
Related terms: ELG
NLRG
NLS1
NLQ
LINER
traverse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈvɝs/
ipa: /tɹəˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
ipa: /ˈtɹævɚs/
ipa: /ˈtɹævəs/
Forms: form: traverses
Etymology: From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A route used in mountaineering, specifically rock climbing, in which the descent occurs by a different route than the ascent.
examples: text: At the entrance of the king, the first traverse was drawn, and the lower descent of the mountain discovered, which was the pendant of a hill to life, with divers boscages and grovets upon the steep or hanging grounds thereof.
ref: 1811, Ben Jonson, The Dramatic Works: Embellished with Portraits, volume 4, page 571:
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A series of points, with angles and distances measured between, traveled around a subject, usually for use as "control" i.e. angular reference system for later surveying work.
examples: text: Than sholde ye see there pressynge in a pace / Of one and other that wolde this lady see, / Whiche sat behynde a traves of sylke fyne, / Of golde of tessew the fynest that myghte be […]
ref: 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Court:
text: At the entrance of the king, / The first traverse was drawn.
ref: 1613, Francis Beaumont, The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray's Inn:
glosses: A screen or partition.
examples: text: He will succeed, as long as there are no unlucky traverses not under his control.
glosses: Something that thwarts or obstructs.
topics: architecture
glosses: A gallery or loft of communication from side to side of a church or other large building.
topics: law
glosses: A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc ("without this", i.e. without what follows).
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The zigzag course or courses made by a ship in passing from one place to another; a compound course.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A line lying across a figure or other lines; a transversal.
examples: text: At night, when the Federal guns slowed their fire, the men created new traverses and bombproofs.
ref: 1994, Stephen R. Wise, Gate of Hell: Campaign for Charleston Harbor, 1863, page 160:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: In trench warfare, a defensive trench built to prevent enfilade.
examples: text: The whole care of the vessel rested, therefore, upon me, and I was obliged to direct her by my former experience, not being able to work a traverse.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 7, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A traverse board.
Related terms: girdle traverse
Grand Traverse County
Grand Traverse disease
hand traverse
Little Traverse
traversal
Traverse City
Traverse County
traverse drill
traverse jury
traverse sailing
traverse table
traversive
travis
Tyrolean traverse
traverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈvɝs/
ipa: /tɹəˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
ipa: /ˈtɹævɚs/
ipa: /ˈtɹævəs/
Forms: form: more traverse
form: most traverse
Etymology: From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: athwart; across; crosswise
traverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹəˈvɝs/
ipa: /tɹəˈvɜːs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
ipa: /ˈtɹævɚs/
ipa: /ˈtɹævəs/
Forms: form: more traverse
form: most traverse
Etymology: From Middle English traversen, from Old French traverser, from Latin trans (“across”) + versus (“turned”), perfect passive participle of Latin vertere (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: paths cut with traverse trenches
text: Oak […] being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work.
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
text: the ridges of the fallow field lay trauerse
ref: a. 1628 (date written), John Hayward, The Life, and Raigne of King Edward the Sixt, London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press, and J. Lichfield at Oxford?] for Iohn Partridge, […], published 1630, →OCLC:
glosses: Lying across; being in a direction across something else.
Derived terms: traverse drill
Vasthy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Persian, variant of Vashti.
ElG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ElGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of elliptical galaxy.
Related terms: IrG
gE
DEG
dE
dSph
IrG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IrGs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: irregular galaxy
Synonyms: Irr
Related terms: ElG
dI
DIG
Sm
Im
koloa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koloas
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian koloa, from Proto-Polynesian *toloa (“duck”).
Senses: examples: text: The Hawaiian duck or koloa (Anas wyvilliana) has never been reduced to anything like the pitiful remnant that once represented its relatives on Laysan.
ref: 2000, Errol Fuller, Extinct Birds, Oxford, page 83:
glosses: The Hawaiian duck, Anas wyvilliana.
kilomegacycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilomegacycles
Etymology: From kilo- + megacycle.
Senses: glosses: gigahertz (1000 megacycles)
kilomegacycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilomegacycle
kmc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kmcs
form: kMc
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of kilomegacycle.
FWK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: census forms
glosses: Initialism of framework knitter.
framework knitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: framework knitters
form: frame work knitter
Senses: glosses: The operator of a knitting machine, especially of a stocking frame
Related terms: word: FWK
raw_tags: used on UK census returns
stocking frame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stocking frames
Senses: glosses: knitting machine used to manufacture hosiery
Related terms: framework knitter
atropisomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atropo- + isomerism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: isomerism as a result of restricted rotation about a single bond
Related terms: atropisomer
pop-under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pop-unders
form: popunder
Senses: glosses: A pop-up advertisement that appears behind the window that triggers its appearance, and thus cannot initially be seen.
consanguinea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consanguineas
Senses: examples: text: The media jurisprudentia, i.e. the opinions of the jurisprudents, excluded altogether females descended through males except sisters so descended (consanguinea;).
ref: 1900, The Institutes of Justinian, page 554:
text: Indenture between Henry de Grymshagh, son and heir of Adam de Grymshagh and Cecilia, daughter and one of the heirs of Henry de Clayton on the moors (1), and Henry de Rissheton and Margaret his wife and cousin (consanguinea), the other heir of Henry de Clayton (2), who agree to share the lands in Clayton and Huncotes thus.
ref: 1921, Remains, Historical & Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of Lancaster and Chester, page 80:
text: If, in an action brought against a man and wife, it be pleaded that the consanguinea is in fact the wife named in the writ, the demandant will not be allowed to aver that the consanguinea is dead, but must say that the tenant is a different person, and assign a diversity of father and mother.
ref: 2012, Luke Owen Pike, Year Books of the Reign of King Edward the Third, →ISBN, page 320:
glosses: blood relative
Related terms: consanguineal
consociate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃieɪt/
Forms: form: consociates
Etymology: From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
Senses: examples: text: [I]f his juſt hand ſhall ſvveep us avvay in the company of our vvicked conſociates, vve have reaſon to thank none but our ſelves for our ſufferings.
ref: 1648, J[oseph] Hall, chapter XLIX, in Select Thoughts: Or, Choice Helps for a Pious Spirit. […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Brooke, […], published 1654, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: An associate; an accomplice.
consociate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃieɪt/
Etymology: From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
consociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsəʊsiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃiət/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊsieɪt/
ipa: /kənˈsəʊʃieɪt/
Forms: form: consociates
form: consociating
form: consociated
form: consociated
Etymology: From Latin cōnsociātus, past participle of cōnsociō (“to associate, unite”).
Senses: examples: text: In the first place therefore, it cannot but amuse a mans mind to think what these officious Spirits should be that so willingly sometimes offer themselves to consociate with a man: […]
ref: 1662, Henry More, "An Antidote Against Atheism", Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 129
text: One of his earliest observations was that white children should know their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation.
ref: 1855, Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom. […], New York; Auburn, N.Y.: Miller, Orton & Mulligan […], →OCLC:
glosses: To associate, partner, or join (with).
examples: text: Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds.
ref: 1747, David Mallet, Amyntor and Theodora:
text: Under this last section, several persons consociated themselves
ref: c. 1860, David Davis, The Binghamton Bridge:
glosses: To form an alliance, confederacy, or relationship with; to bring together; to join; to unite, usually figuratively.
glosses: To unite in an ecclesiastical consociation.
pignora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pignus
pignorate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹət/
ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹɪt/
Forms: form: pignerate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pignoratus, variant of earlier Latin pignerātus (“pledged, guaranteed”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pignoratitious.
synonyms: word: pignoratitious
pignorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹət/
ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹeɪt/
ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹət/
ipa: /ˈpɪɡnəɹɪt/
Forms: form: pignorates
form: pignorating
form: pignorated
form: pignorated
form: pignerate
Etymology: From Medieval Latin pignoro, variant of earlier Latin pignerō (“to pledge, to guarantee”).
Senses: glosses: to pledge or pawn
acre-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acre-feet
Senses: glosses: A unit of volume equal to an acre times a foot, equal to 43,560 cubic feet, or about 1233.5 cubic meters.
board foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: board feet
Senses: glosses: A board one square foot by one inch, about 2.36 liters.
Related terms: linear foot
US survey foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: US survey feet
Senses: glosses: A unit of length equal to ¹²⁰⁰⁄₃₉₃₇ of a meter, used in some states for measuring land.
Kilian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish, variant of Killian.
Edda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdə/
Forms: form: the Edda
form: Eddas
Etymology: Likely from Old Norse edda (“great-grandmother”).
Senses: examples: text: So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished.
ref: 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh. […], London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 155:
glosses: A collection of Old Norse poems and tales from two medieval manuscripts found in Iceland.
Derived terms: Eddaic
Eddic
Poetic Edda
Prose Edda
Snorri's Edda
musclehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌsəlˌhɛd/
Forms: form: muscleheads
Etymology: From muscle + -head.
Senses: glosses: A large and muscular man, especially one interested in bodybuilding.
glosses: A muscular person who is dull or stupid.
Synonyms: musclebrain
meathead
Related terms: gym bunny
gym rat
Gothicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Gothicises
form: Gothicising
form: Gothicised
form: Gothicised
Etymology: From Gothic + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Director Burton skillfully mixes aspects of these [traditional horror] films with the emotional naiveté and post-modern chic of contemporary teen-films. This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink.
ref: 1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20:
text: ..He was commissioned to Gothicise the royal apartments at Windsor and to work on William Beckford's house at Fonthill.
ref: 2006, Veronica Ortenberg, In Search of the Holy Grail: The Quest for the Middle Ages:
text: Her tales of benevolent ghosts Gothicise everyday domestic space.
ref: 2012, Andrew Smith, Victorian Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion, page 229:
text: Music can be a Gothicising factor in the cinema without necessarily being representative of the genre itself: the performativity of musical connotations can cause a Gothicising of the film narrative or imagery.
ref: 2012, Isabella Van Elferen, Gothic Music: The Sounds of the Uncanny:
glosses: To make Gothic in style or character.
gormand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gormands
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of gourmand.
Derived terms: gorbelly
gormandise
gormandism
woven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊ.vən/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.vən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Senses: examples: text: Woven kevlar is tough enough to be bulletproof.
glosses: Fabricated by weaving.
examples: text: The woven words of the sonnet were deep and moving.
glosses: Interlaced
Derived terms: bewoven
biwoven
handwoven
nonwoven
plain-woven
uniwoven
woven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊ.vən/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.vən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Forms: form: wovens
Senses: glosses: A cloth formed by weaving. It only stretches in the bias directions (between the warp and weft directions), unless the threads are elastic.
woven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwəʊ.vən/
ipa: /ˈwoʊ.vən/
rhymes: -əʊvən
Senses: examples: text: The spider had woven her web on a corner of the attic.
glosses: past participle of weave
pandebono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish pandebono.
Senses: glosses: A type of cheese bread made with flour of both corn and cassava (yuca), popular in the Colombian department of Valle del Cauca.
rabbit board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbit boards
form: Rabbit Board
form: rabbit-board
Etymology: From rabbit + board.
Senses: examples: text: You speak of rabbit boards in the other colonies.[…]You have had nothing to do with the rabbit boards in Queensland?
ref: 1899, South Australian Parliament, Proceedings of the Parliament of South Australia, volume 3, page 227:
text: 1907, Western Australian Department of Agriculture, Journal of the Department of Agriculture of Western Australia, Volume 15, Issue 1, page 325,
I think the time is not too far distant when there will need to be rabbit boards appointed to deal with the pest locally, and with that in view I have had a draft of a new Act prepared by the Crown Law Department making provision for such, and have submitted it to you for your approval.
text: Infested districts are proclaimed by the Governor, and thereupon a rabbit board shall be constituted to carry out the provisions of the Act.
ref: 1909, The Legislation of the Empire: Being a Survey of the Legislative Enactments of the British Dominions from 1898 to 1907, volume 1, page 471:
text: There are about fifty or sixty Rabbit Boards in New Zealand, controlling a tremendous area of land, and it is necessary for them to supply farmers with certain poisons,[…].
ref: 1936, New Zealand Parliament, Parliamentary Debates, volume 243, page 235:
text: Most notable in this regard have been the Rabbit Boards of Queensland[…].
ref: 1976, Tom Lee McKnight, Friendly Vermin: A Survey of Feral Livestock in Australia, volume 21, page 6:
text: 1980, Royal Australian Historical Society, Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Volumes 66-67, page 139,
These bodies—pastures protection boards, stock boards, rabbit boards, and so on—discharged various reserved functions of local government, and made up a parallel hierarchy.
glosses: An authority responsible for the management and control of wild rabbits.
examples: text: Rabbits are fastened upon rabbit-boards and anesthetized with a mixture of three parts of ether and one of alcohol.
ref: 1902, Harold Clarence Ernst, Animal Experimentation, page 97:
text: The laboratory should be supplied with chemical work tables and sinks ; a fume chamber; large water bath for 40 and 100 degrees C.; dog and rabbit boards; analytical balance; scales weighting 0.01 gm. to 20 gm.;[…].
ref: 1902, American Medical Association, The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 39, page 544:
text: The animal is restrained on the rabbit board, with the level of the head slightly below the level of the heart, the neck region shaved with small animal clippers, and then palpated to locate the trachea.
ref: 1978, Peter W. Jones, Ralph Freudenthal, Carcinogenesis—A Comprehensive Survey, volume 3, page 349:
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
veterinary
zoology
glosses: A board on which a rabbit may be immobilised.
rabbit-eared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having long ears resembling those of a rabbit.
Derived terms: rabbit-eared bandicoot
rabbit-proof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabbit-proof
form: most rabbit-proof
Etymology: From rabbit + -proof.
Senses: examples: a rabbit-proof fence
rabbit-proof wiring
glosses: Resistant to rabbits.
Liege
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Liège, a city in Belgium.
crisp bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crisp breads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crispbread.
tatie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taties
Etymology: Shortened form of potato + -ie; compare tater.
Senses: glosses: potato
Derived terms: tatie pot
cross country skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cross-country skiing.
clam shrimps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam shrimp
clam worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clam worms
Senses: glosses: A polychete worm, Nereis succinea.
clam worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam worm
civils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪvl̩z/
Senses: examples: text: The work involves extensive civils and p/w since, the track has to drop from the present embankment level, some 5m above the adjacent road, to the floor level of the new tunnel [the 'cut & cover' section of which, is, I guess, about 10m below it.
ref: 1999 January 7, Ken Welsby, “Re: DLR Do”, in uk.transport.london (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jul 2008:
text: Our [ISO] 9000 (etc) accreditation extends, so far as I am aware, to cabling, ducting, poling and other civils activities.
ref: 2002 May 13, Ian G Batten, “Re:Safety on the railways”, in uk.railway (Usenet), retrieved 07 Jul 2008:
text: Conreate bases, ducts and minor civils […] bases for structures, in situ concrete bases, including holding down bolts and fixings.
ref: 2003, “DC Electrification”, in Franklin + Andrews Ltd, editor, Spon's Railways Construction Price Book 2nd Edition, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: civil engineering
uncomplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncomplicates
form: uncomplicating
form: uncomplicated
form: uncomplicated
Etymology: From un- + complicate.
Senses: glosses: To remove complications from.
Synonyms: simplify § Synonyms