cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
OOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ...between OOB January 1, 2007 and COB December 31, 2007.
glosses: Abbreviation of Open(ing) Of Business, usually referring to a time frame margin.
glosses: Initialism of offset overhand bend.
glosses: Initialism of out-of-body.
examples: text: So I saw "Lovers," the musical, which impressed me, and I went to TOSOS and asked if I could help out and was made administrative director. I then really got my feet wet in OOB, because that was last summer when the fight broke out with Equity about the new Showcase Code.
ref: 1977 February 12, Don Shewey, John Glines, “Theatre Profiles Part II”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 33, page 8:
glosses: Initialism of off-off-Broadway.
Synonyms: english: start of business
translation: start of business
word: SOB
OOB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of out-of-band.
glosses: Initialism of out of bed.
glosses: Initialism of out of bounds.
glosses: Initialism of out of the box.
glosses: Initialism of out-of-body.
glosses: Initialism of off-off-Broadway.
Related terms: COB
fonda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fondas
Etymology: From Spanish fonda, from Arabic فُنْدُق (funduq, “inn, hotel; manor”), from Ancient Greek πανδοκεῖον (pandokeîon), from πᾰν- (păn-, “all, every”) + the combining form of δέχεσθαι (dékhesthai, “to receive”) + -εῖον (-eîon, “-ium: forming building names”). Doublet of fonduk and fondaco.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing was ever stolen in the Hotel Montana. In other fondas, yes. Not here.
ref: 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, Folio Society, published 2008, page 271:
glosses: An inn or hotel in a Spanish-speaking country.
Hypernyms: lodging place
transdermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + dermal.
Senses: glosses: Through the unbroken skin (as for example with measurements of blood glucose level with an optical glucometer using photometry or of oxygen saturation via pulse oximetry).
Synonyms: transcutaneous
Coordinate terms: percutaneous
Derived terms: transdermal implant
transdermally
transdermal patch
transdermal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transdermals
Etymology: From trans- + dermal.
Senses: glosses: A transdermal patch or implant.
humoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: humoural
Etymology: From Middle English humerale, humorale, humoural, from Middle French humoral and Medieval Latin hūmorālis, from Latin hūmor. By surface analysis, humor + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Both the apocryphal belief in pre-transplant cross-match screening to discard active humoral immune response against the donor and the lack of sensible and reliable markers for detecting AMR give explanation to the surprising fact that AMR was nearly neglected in human renal transplantation during years.
ref: 2009, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Stefano Chiaramonte, N. Perico, Humoral Immunity in Kidney Transplantation, page 118:
text: Thus, the demonstration of the presence of: a thymic-lymphocytosis promoting factor in mice (Metcalf, 1958); a humoral lymphocyte stimulating factor in the serum of irradiated rats (Ito and Weinstein, 1963); a thymic lymphopoietic factor, "thymosin" (Goldstein et al., 1966); and a lymphocytosis inducing factor in the plasma of rats treated with antilymphocyte serum (Rakowitz et al., 1972) lend support to this hypothesis. Several other reports in the literature suggest the presence of humoral agents regulating leukocyte numbers.
ref: 2012, Joseph Lobue, Albert S. Gordon, Humoral Control of Growth And Differentiation, page 52:
text: The usual kind of excitation met with in the pancreas is purely humoral and there is no reason to assume that any form of nervous activity is involved in it.
ref: 2015, G. H. Parker, Humoral Agents in Nervous Activity:
topics: medicine
pathology
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the body fluids or humours.
examples: text: By predicating conception on differing humoral temperaments of men and women, medical theorists justified their own subjugation of women by cultivating a distinct female humorality responsible for behavior.
ref: 2019, Amy Kenny, Humoral Wombs on the Shakespearean Stage, page 4:
text: The planets are used as symbols in Culpeper's humoral philosophy, and the way he uses them had developed within hermetic philosophy.
ref: 2021, Stephen Taylor, The Humoral Herbal: In Good Humour, page 6:
text: It is now well recognized that Gelenic humoral theory underpinned early modern medical practices and the maintenance of health, an antique discourse used to describe interiority and emotion: medical practitioners understood "temperament" or psychological and physiological bodily syestems according to a subject's individual balance of four essential humors—yellow bile (or choler), black bile (or melancholy), phlegm, and blood.
ref: 2021, Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, “Introduction—Everyday Humoralism”, in Amy Kenny, Kaara L. Peterson, editor, Humorality in Early Modern Art, Material Culture, and Performance, page 2:
glosses: Pertaining to humorism. (The theory of the influence of the humors in the production of disease.)
Derived terms: biohumoral
humoral immunity
humoralism
humoralist
humorality
immunohumoral
neurohumoral
nonhumoral
cogitates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cogitate
cogitating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cogitate
cogitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cogitate
cogitation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏj'ĭ-tāʹshən
enpr: kä'jə-tāʹshən
enpr: kōj'ĭ-tāʹshən
ipa: /ˌkɒd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɒː.d͡ʒəˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkəʊd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɑd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkɑː.d͡ʒəˈteɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkoʊd͡ʒ.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: cogitations
Etymology: Latinism, likely a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin cogitatio, cogitationis, possibly influenced by or displacing an earlier doublet of cogitacion inherited from Middle English cogitacioun, from an Old French cogitaciun, from Vulgar Latin cōgitātiō, cōgitātiōnem; compare Middle French cogitatiun, French cogitation. All ultimately from verbal construction cōgitātus + -iō, from the perfect passive participle of Latin cōgitō (“to turn over in the mind; think, consider, ponder, meditate”), frequentative verb from con- (“together, with”) + agitō (“to put in constant motion, drive at something; devise, plot, contrive”), root from Proto-Italic *agō (“to drive, impel”) from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-.
Senses: glosses: The process of cogitating; contemplation, deliberation, reflection, meditation.
glosses: A carefully considered thought, idea, notion.
Synonyms: Synonyms: see Thesaurus:consideration
Related terms: cogitable
cogitate
cogitative
playbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌbɪl/
rhymes: -eɪbɪl
Forms: form: playbills
Etymology: From play + bill.
Senses: glosses: A poster advertising a theatrical performance.
glosses: A program/programme/pamphlet for a theatrical performance.
tracheostomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheostomies
form: tracheotomy
Etymology: From tracheo- + -stomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A surgical procedure in which an incision is made into the trachea, through the neck, and a tube inserted so as to make an artificial opening in order to assist breathing.
Related terms: tracheostomal
andesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæn.dɪˌsaɪt/
ipa: /ˈæn.dəˌsaɪt/
Forms: form: andesites
Etymology: From Andes + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of fine-grained intermediate igneous rock, of volcanic origin, containing mostly plagioclase feldspar.
Derived terms: andesitic
meta-andesite
-lith
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -lite.
Derived terms: acrolith
laccolith
monolith
sialolith
statolith
otolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: otoliths
form: otolite
Etymology: From oto- + -lith, from Ancient Greek ὠτο- (ōto-), stem of οὖς (oûs, “ear”), and λίθος (líthos, “stone”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: otoconium
otosteon
statoconium
statolith
glosses: A small particle, composed mainly of calcium carbonate, found in the inner ear of vertebrates, being part of the balance sense.
Derived terms: otolithic
otolithometry
seneschals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seneschal
calumniation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calumniations
Etymology: From calumniate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: To all those causes of calumniation, may be added the conduct of Darnley, unlearned, unmannered, untoward, as he was, that gave too much cause for censoriousness to represent, and scandal to propagate.
ref: 1822, George Chalmers, The Life of Mary, Queen of Scots: Drawn from the State Papers, with Subsidiary Memoirs:
glosses: A false accusation, or a malicious statement, about someone.
calumniator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calumniators
Etymology: From Latin calumniātor.
Senses: examples: text: He did not go to the police and cover the calumniator with infamy before the tribunals.
ref: 1857, Charles Dickens, Household Words: A Weekly Journal:
glosses: A person who calumniates (slanders, or makes personal attacks upon, others).
cambial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to commercial exchange.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a cambium.
cambium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkambɪəm/
ipa: /ˈkeə̯m.biˌəm/
ipa: /ˈkæm.biˌəm/
rhymes: -æmbiəm
Forms: form: cambiums
form: cambia
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cambium (“a change”), from Gaulish. Doublet of change.
Senses: examples: text: During winter we perceive no change in the cells of the cambium layer, which are filled with nutritive matter […].
ref: 1863, Harland Coultas, What may be learned from a tree:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: meristem
glosses: A layer of cells between the xylem and the phloem that is responsible for the secondary growth of roots and stems.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Periosteum, a membrane that covers the outer surface of bones
examples: text: The radical or innate is daily supplied by nourishment, which some call cambium, and make those secondary humours of ros and gluten to maintain it […]
ref: , Bk.I, New York, 2001, p.147
glosses: One of the humours formerly believed to nourish the bodily organs.
Derived terms: cork cambium
pericambium
procambium
wound cambium
acetates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetate
piaculative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piaculative
form: most piaculative
Etymology: Coined a. 1920 by T.S. Eliot, from Latin piaculum (“propitiatory sacrifice”) + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: The sable presbyters approach / The avenue of penitence; / The young are red and pustular / Clutching piaculative pence.
ref: 1920, T. S. Eliot, “Mr. Eliot's Sunday Morning Service”, in Poems:
glosses: Piacular; atoning for sin or crime.
doloroso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian doloroso.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: plaintively; pathetically
petalless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛt.əl.ləs/
Etymology: From petal + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking petals.
Synonyms: apetalous
cambiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cambium
Related terms: cambia
damsels in distress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damsel in distress
measuring worms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of measuring worm
squarsons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squarson
wheellocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheellock
in-game
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪŋɡeɪm/
ipa: /ˈɪnɡeɪm/
Forms: form: ingame
Etymology: From in- + game.
Senses: examples: text: Shameless in-game purchases aimed at kids have been in the news recently.
ref: 2016, Patrick Aievoli, Veal: The Rise of Generation Interactive, page 41:
text: Interactive in-game music is also present in another sandbox game, Minecraft, as the player can change what music they play on a jukebox. These in-game musical activities can also present as very small mini-games or components on larger quests […]
ref: 2017, Alyssa Aska, Introduction to the Study of Video Game Music, page 79:
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Within an essential part of a video game, not including the character selection.
teabox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teaboxes
form: tea-box
form: tea box
Etymology: From tea + box.
Senses: glosses: A box for carrying or storing tea; a tea chest or tea caddy.
cambric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambrics
form: cambrick
form: cambricke
Etymology: From Cambrai, a French commune where it was manufactured.
Senses: examples: text: Could a Taff'ta ſcarf, a long Eſtridge vvhing, / A ſtiffe Iron Doublet, and a Brazeel Pole / Tempt thee from Cambrick ſheets, fine active Thighs, / From Caudles vvhere the precious Amber ſvvims?
ref: 1634 (first performance), William D’avenant [i.e., William Davenant], The Wits: A Comedie; […], published 1636; republished in Two Excellent Plays: […], London: […] G. Bedel, and T[homas] Collins, […], 1665, →OCLC, Act I, page 1:
text: Scotch cambric, now largely manufactured, is a kind of imitation cambric, made from fine hard-twisted cotton.
ref: 1851 George Dodd, Charles Knight - Knight's Cyclopædia of the industry of all nations, 1851
text: His upper tunic was of white cambric, as fine as a handkerchief, so that the bright red tunic beneath it showed through.
ref: 1954, C. S. Lewis, chapter 14, in The Horse and His Boy, Collins, published 1999:
synonyms: batiste
glosses: A finely-woven fabric made originally from linen but often now from cotton.
Derived terms: cambric tea
Related terms: chambray
camelhair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camelhairs
form: camel hair
form: camel-hair
form: camel's hair
Senses: glosses: The soft hair of a camel.
examples: text: Camelhair brushes are made for artists and architects from the hair of the tails of Russian squirrels.
ref: 1993, Philip Ward, Panama hats, crocodile tears and other common fallacies, page 24:
glosses: A substitute for this hair.
glosses: A soft fabric made from this hair.
Derived terms: camel-hair brush
camerawoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camerawomen
Etymology: From camera + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: […] camerawoman Justine Evans and myself ^([sic]) went for just two weeks to film some aspects of their work and with luck a wolf or two.
ref: 1997, Keith Scholey, BBC Natural History Unit's Wildlife Specials:
glosses: A woman who operates any kind of camera.
living rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living rocks
Senses: examples: text: The temple was hewed from the living rock.
text: So that all men despised him in the streets, / He hewed the living rock, with sweat and tears,
ref: 1892, Rudyard Kipling, “Evarra And His Gods”, in Barrack-Room Ballads and Other Verses, 3rd edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 163:
synonyms: living stone
glosses: Rock that is carved in situ.
synonyms: living stone
glosses: Pyura chilensis, a tunicate that resembles a mass of organs inside a rock.
synonyms: living stone
glosses: A trovant.
glosses: Synonym of living stone (“plant that resembles a rock”).
synonyms: word: living stone
extra: plant that resembles a rock
angel hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Sense 1 is a semantic loan from Italian capelli d'angelo.
Senses: synonyms: capelli d'angelo
capellini
glosses: A type of pasta, thinner than spaghetti or vermicelli.
glosses: A traditional Portuguese sweet food, fios de ovos.
examples: text: Angel hair consists of thin, cotton-like fibers that are found at the scene of UFO sightings. The strands look like spider webs (which many skeptics assert is precisely what they are) and have been found on houses, on the ground, in trees, and hanging off electrical wires following a UFO sighting.
ref: 2019, Stephen Spignesi, William J. Birnes, The Big Book of UFO Facts, Figures & Truth, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
ufology
glosses: A sticky, fibrous substance reported in connection with UFO sightings and other paranormal manifestations.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A parasitic plant of the genus Cuscuta, dodder.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see angel, hair.
a whole nother
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /ə ˈhəʊl ˌnʌðə/
ipa: /ə ˈhoʊl ˌnʌðəɹ/
Forms: form: a whole 'nother
Etymology: Either from a + whole + nother (“different, other”), where nother is a variant of other, rebracketed from an other, or from whole + another, with whole having been inserted by tmesis. Compare also dialectal tother from Middle English þe toþer (“the other”).
Senses: examples: text: "Will the fog be gone by to-morrow morning?" said Patty, disconsolately. "I don't know what we shall do if we have to be a whole 'nother day in the house and in the dark."
ref: 1887 October 29, [Mary Louisa] Molesworth, “The Mysterious Guide: A Story of a London Fog”, in [Charles Peters], editor, The Girl’s Own Paper, volume IX, number 409, London: “The Leisure Hour” Office, →OCLC, page 67, column 3:
text: It's a whole nother bunch of folks over beyond the trees 'cross the tracks.
ref: 1992, Thulani Davis, chapter 6, in 1959 […], New York, N.Y.: Grove Weidenfeld, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 282:
text: They say she look like she have a turtle shell on her back and the healing woman healed that. But that's a whole nother story.
ref: 1998, Gayl Jones, chapter 1, in The Healing, Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, →ISBN, page 18:
text: The problem is when you physically try to impede my progress—then it moves up to a whole 'nother level that you probably can't handle me on. If it's just words, mean little things, I'm not [Joseph] Stalin, say what you want. Get in my way, it's a whole 'nother thing.
ref: 2004, Michael W. Dean, quoting Henry Rollins, “Interviews”, in $30 Music School, Boston, Mass.: Muska & Lipman, Course Technology, →ISBN, page 457:
text: The breeze taps my face with a robe-corner. A lazy blueness, from a whole nother age, is spread all above me.
ref: 2004, Margo Lanagan, “Rite of Spring”, in Black Juice, London: Gollancz, published 2007, →ISBN, page 195:
text: Executing it all well, with the feel, look and operation of a real luxury car, is a whole nother ball of wax.
ref: 2009 October 1, Don Chaikin, “Long-Term Test Cars: Azera, Sedon M35, Highlander Hybrid, Liberty Sport CRD, Cobalt SS”, in Jim Meigs, editor, Popular Mechanics, New York, N.Y.: The Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 Oct 2013:
glosses: An intensified form of another: an entirely different; a whole other.
semplice
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛmplɪtʃeɪ/
Etymology: From Italian semplice.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (To be played) simply, without embellishments.
bytecode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bytecodes
form: byte code
Etymology: Compound of byte + code.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: P-code (various forms of instruction sets designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter as well as being suitable for further compilation into machine code).
wikipedia: bytecode
floodgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʌdˌɡeɪt/
ipa: /ˈflʌdɡeɪt/
Forms: form: floodgates
Etymology: From Middle English flodegate, flodgate, flodeyate, floodȝate, flodȝete, equivalent to flood + gate.
Senses: examples: text: At the start of the Second World War floodgates would be installed at the ends of the under-Thames sections of the Bakerloo and Northern lines to save them from inundation should bombs damage the riverbed.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31:
glosses: An adjustable gate or valve used to control the flow of water through a sluice.
examples: text: “The floodgates for advertising on cable are down,” says Michael Dann, a leading consultant on cable television.
ref: 1981 July 26, Sandra Salmans, “Will cable TV be invaded by commercials?”, in New York Times:
qualifier: extension
glosses: Anything that controls or limits an outpouring of people, emotion, etc.
examples: text: Out of her gored wound the cruell ſteel / He lightly ſnatcht, and did the floodgate ſtop / VVith his faire garment: then gan ſoftly feel her feeble pulſe, to proue if any drop / Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 43, page 199:
text: The accuſation conſiſting of thoſe three articles, was moſt true: your doctrine was ſcādalous, it offred much offence, being generally diſtaſted; and was erroneous, being detected to be the floodgate of Traitors ſtaiers, looſing in ſome ſuppoſititious doctrines, and many blaſphemous arrogating much to man, derogating much from God.
ref: 1610, Daniell Price, The Defence of Truth Against a booke falsely called The Triumph of Truth sent over from Arras A.D. 1609 by Humfrey Leech late Minister. […] , Oxford, Lib. 2 Cap. 3, page 237:
glosses: A stream that passes through a floodgate; a torrent.
Related terms: sluice gate
water gate
watergate
skewed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: Twisted at an angle.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Biased, distorted
raw_tags: of information
skewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of skew
sinfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sinfully
form: most sinfully
Etymology: From sinful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They sinfully committed adultery.
glosses: In a sinful manner; wickedly.
examples: a sinfully delicious dessert
glosses: To an extent or degree that is sinful.
sinfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English synfulnes, synfulnesse, synnefulnysse, equivalent to sinful + -ness. Compare Old English synniġness (“sinfulness”).
Senses: glosses: The property of being sinful.
glosses: The result or product of being sinful.
snugness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snugnesses
Etymology: From snug + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I met someone with whom there was instantly a perfect, almost lock and key snugness between our hearts and minds.
ref: 1986 December 21, Mason Vandiver, “Hungry: On Strike For Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 5:
glosses: The state or quality of being snug.
glosses: The result or product of being snug.
soggily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more soggily
form: most soggily
Etymology: From soggy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a soggy manner.
Tawe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in southern Wales that meets the sea at Swansea.
Derived terms: Tawe-Uchaf
quaternary ammonium compounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quaternary ammonium compound
carboxylic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carboxylic acid
imidic acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imidic acid
oxyacids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxyacid
hydracids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydracid
pseudohalogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohalogen
petronel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛtɹənəl/
Forms: form: petronels
form: petronell
form: poitrinal
Etymology: From Middle French petrinal, alteration of poitrinal, from poitrinal (“of the chest”) (the weapon is thought to have been braced against a chest-pad when firing), from poitrine (“chest, breast”), from Latin pectorina, feminine of pectorinus (“of the breast”) (from pectus (“chest”) + -inus (“-ine”)).
Senses: examples: text: […]And putting vp good ſtore of gold and Iewels for that iourney, and taking with him a good horſe, that was browne Bay, with a Petronell hanging at the arſon of his Saddle[…]
ref: 1634, Matheo Aleman, “Wherein Guzman de Alfarache relateth the Story of thoſe two Louers, Ozmin and Daraxa”, in Don Diego Puede-Ser, transl., The rogue: or The life of Guzman de Alfarache, volume 1, pages 68–69:
topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A short but large-caliber, heavy 16th- and 17th-century firearm that used a matchlock or wheellock mechanism, intermediate between the arquebuse and pistol.
spotlights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotlit
Senses: glosses: plural of spotlight
spotlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spotlit
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spotlight
stiller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From still + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of still: more still
stiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: stillers
Etymology: From still + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who stills, or quiets.
ridiculosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridiculosities
Etymology: From ridiculous + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being ridiculous; absurdity.
Synonyms: word: ridiculousness
superabundant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌs(j)uːpə(ɹ)ˈəbʌndənt/
Etymology: From super- + abundant.
Senses: examples: text: At one time were bison on the American plains not merely abundant but superabundant: they seemed inexhaustible.
text: Cornead. The ſpirit of foolery out of this Archibald Rupenrope he ſhall never be able to caſt, were the nectar of his eloquence a thouſand times more ſuperabundant, inceſſant ſourding.
ref: 1596, Tho[mas] Nashe, “Dialogus”, in Haue with You to Saffron-Walden. Or, Gabriell Harveys Hunt is Up. […], London: […] John Danter, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Have with You to Saffron-Walden (Miscellaneous Tracts; Temp. Eliz. and Jac. I), [London: s.n., 1870], →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: Extremely or exceedingly abundant.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a superabundant number.
superabundance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superabundances
Etymology: From super- + abundance.
Senses: examples: text: We have not merely an abundance, but a superabundance of enemies at this time; they will need to stand in line to disagree with us.
text: Perhaps very young girls, who do not know what to do with a superabundance of affection, run up a kind of romantic liking for each other; but it never lasts—one good-looking young man would break up all the female friendships that ever were formed.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Much Change in a Little Time”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 74:
text: We behold the face of nature bright with gladness, we often see superabundance of food; we do not see, or we forget, that the birds which are idly singing round us mostly live on insects or seeds, and are thus constantly destroying life; or we forget how largely these songsters, or their eggs, or their nestlings, are destroyed by birds and beasts of prey; we do not always bear in mind, that though food may be now superabundant, it is not so at all seasons of each recurring year.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:
text: My friends, do you realize the meaning of VITAL POWER? Have you ever experienced that superabundance of health which breeds an intense satisfaction with life and all living things?
ref: 1904, Bernarr Macfadden, “Preface”, in Building of Vital Power: Deep Breathing and a Complete System for Strengthening the Heart, Lungs, Stomach and All the Great Vital Organs, New York City: Physical Culture Publishing Company, page 3:
text: Long silence not result of lack of interest. Lots of sickness, moving, superabundance of work, etc.
ref: 1977 December 17, “F and S in New Hampshire (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 14:
glosses: An extreme abundance; abundance to a vast degree that seems almost excessive.
superficiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsuː.pə.fɪʃ.iˈæl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: superficialities
Etymology: From superficial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Seeks companion with similar invisible handicap or circumstance which forced early awareness of mortality and is consequently very serious about life and has little time for superficiality.
ref: 1980 August 30, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 14:
glosses: The property of being superficial, the tendency to judge by surface appearance.
suppuration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppurations
Etymology: First use appears c. 1425. From Latin suppūrātiō.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The decay in tissue producing pus, or the pus itself.
examples: text: by the Inflammation and Suppuration of the axillary, inguinal, and other Glands, or in beginning Gangrenes...
ref: 1600-1700, Arbuthnot, John, An essay concerning the effects of air on human bodies, page 178:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The act of suppurating.
Related terms: suppurative
suppuratory
surrogacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɝəɡəsi/
ipa: /ˈsʌɹəɡəsi/
Forms: form: surrogacies
Etymology: From surrogate + -cy.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being a surrogate.
glosses: The practice of being a surrogate mother.
surrogates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogate
suspenseful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suspenseful
form: most suspenseful
Etymology: From suspense + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The television movie was so suspenseful that I leaped in the air and screamed when the doorbell rang.
glosses: Inducing suspense.
Derived terms: unsuspenseful
supercity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercities
Etymology: From super- + city.
Senses: glosses: An extremely large city, metropolis or urban area.
glosses: The merged urban area of several close cities.
Synonyms: megalopolis
megacity
supercities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercity
supernaturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more supernaturally
form: most supernaturally
Etymology: From Middle English supernaturaly; equivalent to supernatural + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: You are supernaturally kind . . kindestest, bestestest . . . and, so, dearestest by the merest justice; only, to think of your hastening home, as if you were under an obligation to write to me in the face of the seven worlds, . . that is too much, and shall not be again — now see that it shall not.
ref: 1898, Elizabeth Barrett, “The” Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett:
glosses: In a supernatural manner.
Synonyms: preternaturally
superlatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superlatively
form: most superlatively
Etymology: From superlative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We may form judgments of Italy widely different, according to circumstances. Sometimes the evil that has been said of it accords with what we see, and at others it appears superlatively unjust.
ref: 1807, [Germaine] de Staël Holstein, translated by D[ennis] Lawler, “[Book XIX. Oswald’s return to Italy.] Chap[ter] VII.”, in Corinna; or, Italy. […], volume V, London: […] Corri, […]; and sold by Colburn, […], and Mackenzie, […], →OCLC, page 216:
glosses: In a superlative manner; in the greatest possible way.
Derived terms: super-superlatively
subluxation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsʌb.lʌkˈseɪ.ʃən/
Forms: form: subluxations
Etymology: From French subluxation, from New Latin subluxatio, from subluxare (“to subluxate, to partially displace”) + -atio (“-ation: forming abstract nouns”), from sub- (“sub-: under, below, lesser”) + luxare (“to dislocate; to displace”) after the model of Ancient Greek παράρθρημα (parárthrēma). Equivalent to sub- + luxation.
Senses: examples: text: The patient experienced subluxations of his right ulna, his lower right rear molar, and the lens of his left eye.
text: Lateral subluxation of the atlantoaxial joints has also been observed in rheumatoid arthritis patients.
ref: 1988, Donald Resnick, Diagnosis of Bone and Joint Disorders:
text: Many diseases and trauma are associated with lens subluxation. Clinical Features. All degrees of subluxation may be seen. Classically, iridodonesis is seen on slit lamp examination with eye movement. Phakodonesis may also be observed.
ref: 2001, William Tasman, Edward A. Jaeger, The Wills Eye Hospital Atlas of Clinical Ophthalmology, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 78:
text: Subluxation of a tooth may cause bleeding and mobility of the tooth as a result of injury to the periodontal fibers. Displacement of the tooth is not usually apparent. Approximately 15 % to 20 % of reported trauma cases exhibit [it].
ref: 2004, Michael Crocetti, Michael A. Barone, Frank A. Oski, Oski's Essential Pediatrics, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 176:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A partial dislocation.
Related terms: sublux
subluxate
brumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin brūma (“winter solstice”) + -tiō, by analogy with hibernation.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A lethargic state that some ectothermic animals, such as many reptiles, assume during cold conditions. Partly analogous to hibernation, but physiological differences include that brumation does not depend on stored fat, but rather on reduced metabolic activity.
Related terms: brumal
brume
brumous
misadventure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misadventures
Etymology: From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, equivalent to mis- + adventure.
Senses: examples: text: It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of the same somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Stephen Blackpool”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 1st book (Sowing), page 75:
text: There were, however, 34 deaths among passengers in movement accidents, due mainly to misadventure and carelessness when entering and leaving trains in motion, falling off platforms and out of carriages, and opening and closing carriage doors.
ref: 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: B.R. safety in 1959”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708:
glosses: An accidental mishap or misfortune.
Derived terms: death by misadventure
misadventurer
misadventurous
camouflager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: camouflagers
Etymology: From camouflage + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in the art of camouflage.
glosses: A person who camouflages things.
campground
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæmpˌɡɹaʊnd/
Forms: form: campgrounds
Etymology: From camp + ground.
Senses: examples: text: At 4.7 miles, on the left, is the campground and park headquarters for Samuel P. Taylor State Park
ref: 1994, Richard Katz, Skating Unrinked: An Insider's Guide to Skating Trails in the San Francisco Bay Area.:
glosses: An area where tents are pitched.
examples: text: Camp Hamilton is the Methodist campground, a few miles from Salem, where the Methodists were holding services.
ref: 1869, The Monthly Religious Magazine:
glosses: An area where a camp meeting (a retreat) is held.
Synonyms: camping ground
go to hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to hell
form: going to hell
form: went to hell
form: gone to hell
Etymology: The third sense is first attested in Shakespeare. The second sense is a variation of older go to the devil. The literal sense is attested since Old English with various verbs for "to go".
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see go, to, hell.
examples: text: Well, that plan has gone to hell.
text: In my opinion, they want us to lose. If we lose Georgia, we lose the whole thing and our country goes to hell.
ref: 2024 August 4, George Chidi, quoting Donald Trump, “Name-calling and hyperbole: Trump continues fear-mongering fest at Georgia rally”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell. In America, we've taken bold action to swiftly shut down uncontrolled migration. Once we started detaining and deporting everyone who crossed the border and removing illegal aliens from the United States, they simply stopped coming.
ref: 2025 September 23, Donald Trump, speech at United Nations:
glosses: To go out the window; become ruined; become useless.
examples: text: Why did Nancy do that to Jake? She can go to hell.
text: You want me to voluntarily work the weekend without pay? Go to hell!
text: Let Fortune goe to hell for it, not I.
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 173, line 21:
text: I shook my head and held up my rifle. "You'll have to go aloft to do it, and the first man that gets into the shrouds will get this."
"Then she can go to hell for all we care," he said, with emphatic conclusiveness.
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Mutiny of the Elsinore, Chapter XLVI:
text: "Oh, go to hell!" said Silas, and kicked open his own unlatched door.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: An expression of anger and contempt directed at someone, especially after that individual has committed a serious crime or transgression.
Synonyms: sense: to be ruined or useless
word: go out the window
sense: to be ruined or useless
word: go to pot
sense: to be ruined or useless
word: go down the drain
sense: to be ruined or useless
word: go down the toilet
sense: go to Hell
word: go to Halifax
sense: in imperative
word: get fucked
Related terms: go to the devil
go die in a fire
go jump in a lake
go jump off a cliff
go jump off a building
to hell in a handbasket
burn in hell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: burns in hell
form: burning in hell
form: burned in hell
form: burned in hell
form: burnt in hell
form: burnt in hell
Senses: examples: text: Wrex: I say every human can burn in hell now--and you'll be there to greet them!
ref: 2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
glosses: An expression of anger and contempt directed at someone, especially after that individual has committed a very serious crime or transgression.
examples: text: Ted could die and burn in hell as far as I was concerned.
ref: 2011, Joyce Turner, Pain Through A Child's Eyes, →ISBN, page 136:
text: For some people, salvation is little more than fire insurance— they don't care about this life, they just don't want to burn in hell.
ref: 2011, Max Lucado, 3:16 Participant's Guide: The Numbers of Hope, →ISBN:
text: I was only about eight years old but the message was loud and clear, “If you die without knowing Jesus as your savior, you will burn in hell for eternity!”
ref: 2012, Bill Petite, A Rose in the Desert, →ISBN:
glosses: To spend the afterlife suffering in hell.
hot stoves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot stove
oenomel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œnomel
form: oinomel
Etymology: From oeno- + Latin mel (“honey”).
Senses: glosses: A beverage made of wine and honey.
thermanesthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermanaesthesia
form: thermanæsthesia
Etymology: From therm- + anesthesia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The inability to feel heat or cold; loss of sense of temperature upon contact with skin.
precambered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + cambered.
Senses: glosses: Having a camber designed in such a way as to reduce deflection under load.
raw_tags: of a beam
catalytic activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catalytic activities
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The increase in rate of a chemical reaction caused by the presence of a catalyst.
glosses: An amount of catalyst, expressed as the increase of the rate of its reaction.
Related terms: english: the SI unit
translation: the SI unit
word: katal
speculators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speculator
tea table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea tables
form: tea-table
form: teatable
Senses: examples: text: Having abundance of roses and ferns and a very artistic taste of her own, she made that tea table such a thing of beauty that when the minister and his wife sat down to it, they exclaimed in chorus over its loveliness.
ref: 1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables:
topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: A small table upon which tea is set to be served.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of rock column comprising discrete layers, with the top layers being wider than the base due to greater resistance to erosion and weathering.
Hypernyms: table
Derived terms: tea-table
congruences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congruence
dudine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dudines
Etymology: From dude + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: A very pretty little dudine of Fifth Avenue is much admired by the dudes in her neighborhood, and it has been observed on several occasions that she appeared to be able to discriminate between them, and not only shows a preference for one dude over another; but is able to recognize the dudes she likes after an interval of separation. It is said, also, that in accepting the attentions of her dude wooers, she shows a peculiar mimicry of the coquettish manners of human girls.
ref: 1883 March 7, “Animal Intelligence: Facts Tending to Throw Light on the Question: ‘Do Dudes Reason?’”, in Puck, volume XIII, number 313, New York, N.Y.: Keppler & Schwarzmann, →OCLC, page 299:
text: Sam Jones' Own Book: A Series of Sermons Collected and Edited Under the Author's Own Supervision, Page 251 by Sam Porter Jones, Publisher: Cranston and Stowe Pub:1887... in the universe is the natural product of fashionable society, the dude and the dudine; and you never catch a dude and a dudine marrying one another. ...
text: Stories of a Country Doctor - Page 324 by Willis Percival King - 1891 She was between sixty and seventy years of age at this time and was as pronounced a specimen of the type dudine as I ever saw.
text: Thomas Ruffin - Page 285 by Edward Winslow Gilliam - 1896 ..., one on each side, dudes and dudine—she sounding her vowels in the broad style heard in the drawing-room of the 400, and they looking sweet upon her ...
text: "Dude" was originally a name for ranch vacationers with no disrespect attached, but it later became derisively associated with clueless easterners who knew nothing of Western ways, as portrayed by Bob Hope in Son of Paleface (1952). Junior's fiancé^([sic – meaning fiancée]) (Jane Russell) tells him to "go out West." When Junior (Bob Hope) wants to show that he has become a Westerner, he wears a tall outsized white hat like Tom Mix and white wooly chaps, the traditional movie outfit representing an eastern dude. A female dude was known as a "dudess" or "dudine."
ref: 2014, Jeremy Agnew, “The Image Persists”, in The Creation of the Cowboy Hero: Fiction, Film and Fact, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 212:
glosses: A woman who is very concerned about her dress and appearance; a female dude.
tilmatli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tilmatlis
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl tilmatli.
Senses: glosses: A cloak, in ancient Aztec culture.
industrialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrialists
Etymology: From industrial + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Brian Donlevy is a wealthy industrialist who survives an attempted murder when his wife's boyfriend is killed in a car crash.
ref: 2004, Douglas Pratt, Doug Pratt's DVD:
glosses: A person involved in the ownership or management of an industrial enterprise.
examples: text: Like a lot of second-wave industrialists, Skinny Puppy's attraction to rhythm wasn't consciously political, but based in the pleasure of making and moving to a beat; Key was, after all, a drummer.
ref: 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 174:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: One who performs or enjoys industrial music.
Related terms: industrialism
capitalist
C-suite
executive
yard-arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yard-arms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yardarm.
monolingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monolingualisms
Etymology: From monolingual + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being monolingual; the ability to speak only a single language.
Synonyms: monoglottism
unilingualism
Related terms: sesquilingualism
bilingualism
trilingualism
multilingualism
multilingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mʌltiˈlɪŋɡwəlɪzəm/
Forms: form: multilingualisms
Etymology: From multilingual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: This is, perhaps, where writing centers and composition studies are implicated most obviously into the conversation of language ideology, translingualism, and multilingualism.
ref: 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word:
text: Spielberg showed us, a nation historically obsessed with the idea of domination, that respect is a courageous choice and that multilingualism is our true color. It is who we are.
ref: 2021 December 18, Ching Ching Tan, “Spielberg’s West Side Story shows us the value of multilingualism”, in CNN:
glosses: The condition of being multilingual; the ability to speak multiple languages.
Synonyms: multilinguality
Derived terms: multilingualistic
Related terms: bilingualism
monolingualism
trilingualism
monoglottism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From monoglot + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Condition of being able to speak only a single language.
Synonyms: monolingualism
unilingualism
Related terms: bilingualism
trilingualism
multilingualism
bilingualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilingualisms
Etymology: From bilingual + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: At Kingsbridge, the bilingualism of the Irish Republic was evident in the tickets, the station notices, and the neat destination boards on the 10.40 a.m. express to Cork.
ref: 1955 May, Rev. A. W. V. Mace, “An Irish Journey—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 297:
glosses: The condition of being bilingual; the ability to speak two languages.
Related terms: monolingualism
multilingualism
plurilingualism
quadrilingualism
quinquelingualism
semilingualism
septilingualism
sesquilingualism
sexilingualism
translingualism
trilingualism
unilingualism
extensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extension