cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
parasocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + social, coined by American sociologist Richard Wohl and Donald Horton in 1956.
Senses: examples: text: a parasocial relationship
text: Donald Horton and R. Richard Wohl coined the term parasocial interaction in 1956 to describe the imaginary interactions between the audience and TV variety show hosts, noting the “seeming face-to-face relationship” that viewers developed […]
ref: [2006, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett, editor, Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media, SAGE Publications, →ISBN:
text: In the past, parasocial relationships occurred predominantly with television or film celebrities, but now these […] celebrities openly share their opinions and activities through various social media outlets such as Twitter and Facebook.
ref: 2016, Molly Marshall, AQA Psychology Student Guide 3: Issues and debates in psychology, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: And yet for every creator for whom parasocial relationships are an unintended byproduct of their work, there are many more – influencers, YouTubers, vloggers – who actively cultivate that faux-intimacy with their followers, softening them up so that they might more easily ply their wares, be that waist trainers or make-up brushes.
ref: 2022 February 13, Otegha Uwagba, “Too close for comfort: the pitfalls of parasocial relationships”, in The Guardian:
text: With the advent of AI chatbots, the ethics of parasocial relationships just keep getting murkier. Introducing: CarynAI, a voice-based chatbot that was trained to mimic a human influencer to become your artificial girlfriend.
ref: 2023 May 11, Maggie Harrison, “Influencer Creates AI Version of Herself That You Can Rent as a Girlfriend”, in Futurism:
glosses: One-sided (especially of a relationship, as for example that between a celebrity and their audience or fans, whom they do not know).
Related terms: parasociality
parasocially
astragalotibial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astragalo- + tibial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connecting, the astragalus and the tibia
Related terms: astragalofibular
astragaloscaphoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astragalo- + scaphoid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the knucklebone and scaphoid bone.
pseudosocial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pseudo- + social.
Senses: examples: text: In prison, pseudosocial inmates display chameleonic skill in shifting their allegiances from staff members to inmates […]
ref: 1996, George S. Bridges, Robert D. Crutchfield, Joseph G. Weis, Crime: readings, page 423:
text: This type of pseudosocial relationship has also been observed within the teleshopping venue from a different scenario.
ref: 2007, Carolyn A. Lin, David J. Atkin, Communication technology and social change: theory and implications, page 208:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, social.
preformationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From preformation + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the theory that all organisms start their existence already in a predetermined form upon conception and this form does not change in the course of their lifetime (as opposed to epigenesis)
thoroly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thoroly
form: most thoroly
Etymology: Proposed as a phonetic spelling of thoroughly in 1898 by the American National Education Association.
Senses: examples: text: It was also necessary to free the glass surfaces very much more thoroly from gas than had been thought necessary previously.
ref: 1915, Irving Langmuir, “The Pure Electron Discharge and Its Applications in Radio Telegraphy and Telephony”, in Alfred N. Goldsmith, editor, Proceedings of the IRE, volume 3, number 3, The Institute of Radio Engineers, published 1915, page 269:
text: But there are now not a few well-to-do, well-known and influential men and women who thoroly believe that teaching the poor ...
ref: 1916, William J. Robinson, MD, Birth Control or the Limitation of Offspring, Reprint edition, Wildside Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 150:
text: Thoroly disgusted by now, he straightened up one night, tube in hand, his eye searching the particular spot on the wall where it would give the greatest satisfaction to shatter the offending bulb.
ref: 1920 May 24, The Electrical Experimenter, New York, page 78, column 2:
text: We can scarcely expect that each of our five hundred assistants should be thoroly imbued with the spirit of helpfulness toward the schools or even that they should perfectly understand what we desire and aim to do.
ref: 1920, Arthur E. Bostwick, PhD, Librarian's Open Shelf Essays on Various Subjects, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2004:
text: Swedish and German Ellan and I can easily teah you (if you care to learn them), which would set you up thoroly on the language side. Music I will develop you in thoroly, if you care to work with me.
ref: 1983, Robert Simon, Percy Grainger: The Pictorial Biography, GIA Publications, →ISBN:
text: Kenneth Helrich (1990), Official Methods of Analysis of the Association of Official Analytical Chemists: “Mix thoroly, shake occasionally during 10 min. and filter thru dry folded paper, discarding first few mL filtrate. [Note the use of "thru," another phonetic spelling proposed by the American National Education Association.]”
text: It is, therefore, of extreme importance to clean the vegetables thoroly …
ref: 2003, NW Walker, Raw Vegetable Juices: What's Missing in Your Body, Health Research Books, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Alternative spelling of thoroughly.
wikipedia: National Education Association
Related terms: thoro
thorofare
bookling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booklings
Etymology: From book + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: A bit of a bookling of some thirty pages, but one of great utility, inasmuch as it contains Tables by which the value of cattle, grain, &c. &c., may be ascertained at a glance, with the utmost ease and near approach to extreme accuracy.
ref: 1826, “Review of The Farmer, Grazier, and Corn Merchant’s Pocket Companion” in The Literary Gazette; and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. for the Year 1826 (London: James Moyes, Bouverie Street), page 553
text: Then the proud, who love to see large octavos and duodecimos in vain bindings on their shelves, may have their fancy's fill, while to every sincere lover of literature shall be given his little light bookling, to be read abed, or lounged with in an easy-chair, or to be unpocketed for a taste of its sweetness in city car or cab, or upon still country by-paths.
ref: 1890 March, “The Lightness of Books and Their Form”, in The Bookmart, volume 7, number 82:
glosses: A short-length or compact book, typically under one hundred pages.
booklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bookling
boomsayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boomsayers
Etymology: Blend of boom + doomsayer.
Senses: examples: text: The year 1976 began with high hopes. The stock markets took a euphoric upswing on January 1. But by the end of April, uncertainties began to obtrude, and for the rest of the year, it has been a battle between the doomsayers and the boomsayers. Who will win out?
ref: 1976, Alan Chalkley, "The swing to the right — a refreshing wind of change", Asian Finance, Volume 2, Number 8, November/December 1976
glosses: A person who makes optimistic projections about the future, especially with regard to economic prosperity and growth.
boomsayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boomsayer
common lavenders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common lavender
defibration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːfaɪˈbɹeɪʃən/
Forms: form: defibrations
Etymology: From defibrate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: breakage into fibres
architranseme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑːkɪˈtɹænziːm/
ipa: /ˌɑːkɪˈtɹɑːnziːm/
ipa: /ˌɑːɹkɪˈtɹænziːm/
Forms: form: architransemes
Etymology: From archi- + trans- + -eme.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: A theoretical common denominator used in the comparison of a source text and its target text.
architransemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of architranseme
in all honesty
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I didn't get a girlfriend, though in all honesty, I'm still undecided whether I really want to have one.
glosses: honestly; in truth
Logroño
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɒˈɡɹɒnjəʊ/
ipa: /ləˈɡɹoʊnjoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Logroño, of unknown origin, but most likely from Old Spanish lo (definite article) + Celtiberian gronio (“ford”).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of La Rioja, in northern Spain, on the river Ebro.
glosses: A former province of Spain.
La Rioja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An autonomous community and province in northern Spain. Capital: Logroño.
glosses: A province of Argentina.
glosses: The capital of La Rioja province, Argentina.
Gran Canaria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Grand Canary
Senses: glosses: An island of the Canary Islands, capital city Las Palmas.
Lanzarote
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlænzəˈrɒti/
ipa: /ˌlɑnzəˈroʊteɪ/
ipa: /-ti/
Etymology: From Spanish Lanzarote.
Senses: glosses: An island of the Canary Islands, with capital Arrecife.
Kung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ǃKung.
Kununurra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kʌnəˈnʌɹə/
/kʌnəˈnɑːɹə/
Senses: glosses: A town in Western Australia, Australia.
Kyasanur forest disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to South Asia.
Synonyms: KFD
lacrimatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lacrimatory
form: most lacrimatory
Etymology: From Latin lacrimātōrius. By surface analysis, lacrimate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lachrymatory.
lacrimal duct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacrimal ducts
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small channel, the end of which is visible on the margin of each eyelid, that drains the lacrimal fluid from the eye towards the lacrimal sac.
Synonyms: lacrimal canaliculus
lacrimal canal
Related terms: lacrimal lake
lacrimal punctum
lamper eel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamper eels
Senses: glosses: lamprey (Petromyzontiformes spp.)
land crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land crabs
Senses: examples: text: 'No,' said the lad, he was not afraid; he thought they never had seen any sign of his being afraid, or using tricks as the land crabs might do, and he would prove it to them, for now he would go with them in the ship, but on the condition that they bought three cords of birch logs, exactly measured, and that he was to have the command of the ship, as if he was the skipper, on a certain day.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 187:
glosses: Any of the land-based crabs of the family Gecarcinidae.
glosses: Any of various other crabs of terrestrial habits, such as of the families Gecarcinucidae and Sesarmidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Gecarcinus ruricola
word: black land crab
taxonomic: Discoplax spp. etc.
word: blue land crab
taxonomic: Cardisoma guanhumi
word: giant blue land crab
taxonomic: Cardisoma guanhumi
word: great land crab
taxonomic: Cardisoma guanhumi
word: mulatto land crab
taxonomic: Cardisoma guanhumi
word: white land crab
langlauf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: langlaufs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Langlauf.
Senses: examples: text: Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.
ref: 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:
text: I'm buying a rowing machine, an exercise bicycle, a langlauf podium, a bullworker.
ref: 2010, Julian Barnes, Talking It Over, page 95:
glosses: Cross-country skiing.
examples: text: There, overcome by the view and a sense of pure delight, one loses the last vestige of human reason, binds planks to one's feet and rushes downward, over wind-crust and powdered snow, over icy ridges and drifted fences, with jumps, turns, traverses, langlaufs and schuss-runs into the valley.
ref: 1935, Erich Kästner, Three Men in the Snow: A Story, page 55:
text: The winter of '98 saw the Sunset Mine kept open by means of what sounds like one of the toughest langlaufs of all time.
ref: 1937, The Ski Bulletin - Volume 7, Issues 14-15:
text: Horn's job was to push me down the steepest parts of the langlauf course in the pious hope that a few heavy falls would teach me more respect for Norwegian langlaufs.
ref: 1948, Arnold Lunn, Mountains of Memory, page 204:
text: He went on langlaufs to develop endurance.
ref: 1949, Louis R. Oshins, Champions' Book of Sports, page 137:
text: Those who were drinking "sipped at long glasses of gluhwein, a delicious concoction of warmed burgundy, cinnamon and raisins, and chattered about the day's runs, about technical aspects of langlaufs, cornices, laniéres and christies.
ref: 1964, Walkabout - Volume 30:
glosses: A langlauf run; a trip cross-country skiing.
langlauf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: langlaufs
form: langlaufing
form: langlaufed
form: langlaufed
Etymology: Borrowed from German Langlauf.
Senses: examples: text: He who langlaufs last langlaufs longest.
ref: 1970 October, “Ski Sayings”, in Skiing, volume 23, number 2, page 158:
text: ‘Weekends the family make excursions. Romp in the woods, langlauf, play badminton.’
ref: 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society, published 2010, page 286:
text: He langlaufed across the small plateau that tilted gently upward, and paused on the ridge.
ref: 1996, Jack Higgins, The Valhalla Exchange, page 251:
text: They langlaufed into Hot Sulphur Springs at 9 p.m., and found the Grand Ball in progress.
ref: 2011 Nov-Dec, “Winter Carnival Centennial”, in Skiing Heritage Journal, volume 23, number 6, page 6:
text: We then langlaufed over to 'Higgie' (Mt Higginbottom) and finally back to the Diamantina about 3.30.
ref: 2012, Norman N. Greenwood, Recollections of a Scientist: Boyhood and Youth in Australia:
glosses: To go cross-country skiing.
Derived terms: langlaufer
laniary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin laniarium, from lanius (“a butcher”).
Senses: examples: text: the laniary canine teeth
glosses: Lacerating or tearing
raw_tags: of teeth
laniary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laniaries
Etymology: From Latin laniarium, from lanius (“a butcher”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A canine tooth.
Derived terms: laniariform
lantern fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lantern fish
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lanternfish.
laryngophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laryngophones
Etymology: From laryngo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A type of contact microphone that absorbs vibrations directly from the wearer's throat.
lake trout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lake trouts
form: lake trout
Senses: glosses: A large species of trout found in lakes in North America, Salvelinus namaycush.
qualifier: Baltimore
glosses: Whiting fried in batter and served in a sandwich.
Synonyms: sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: mackinaw
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: namaycush
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: lake char
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: lake charr
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: touladi
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: togue
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: grey trout
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: siscowet
sense: Salvelinus namaycush
word: paperbelly lean
Derived terms: splake
Related terms: Trout Lake
sgraffiato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sgraffiati
form: sgraffiatos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sgraffito.
sgraffiati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sgraffiato
shunto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈʃʊn.toʊ/
Forms: form: shuntō
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 春闘 (shuntō), literally meaning "spring struggle".
Senses: glosses: The annual wage negotiations, between employers and Japanese labor unions aiming to increase wages, occurring in spring.
darn well
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: mild form of damn well
sopapilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sopapillas
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of sopaipilla.
sopapillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sopapilla
valah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wallah.
Loja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and associated province of Ecuador.
Synonyms: Ciudad de la Inmaculada Concepción de Loja
Derived terms: loxensis
atomic piles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic pile
Zeylan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Dutch pronunciation of Ceylon.
Senses: glosses: An early (Dutch) name for Sri Lanka.
Derived terms: zeylanicus
Related terms: Ceylon
foremath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔɹmæθ/
ipa: /ˈfɔːmɑːθ/
Forms: form: foremaths
Etymology: From fore- + math (“a mowing”), by analogy with aftermath.
Senses: examples: text: […] the accidents of itinerary — everything that can be overheard or spied out: everything (in a phrase he used in one of his poems) between the foremath and the aftermath, the early growth and the after growth of the intended harvest.
ref: 1989, Richard P. Blackmur, James T. Jones, Outsider at the heart of things:
glosses: A first mowing; that which is gleaned from a first or prior mowing.
examples: text: The aftermath of glory and the foremath of peace would not blend.
ref: 1920, Rupert Hughs, What's the World Coming To?, Digitized edition, Harper & Brothers, published 2006, page 104:
text: I shall ask you to view these remarks in the of "foremath" note rather than a preface or introduction, which imply a knowledge of what follows. I am using the word "foremath" to suggest what precedes without the knowledge of what follows.
ref: 1967, Edgar M. Horwood, American Society of Planning Officials, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 1:
text: After delaying the decision for three years, the President eventually endorsed the concept in the foremath of the 1984 Presidential election, ...
ref: 1995, William T. Golden, Science and Technology Advice to the President, Congress, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 191:
glosses: Something preceding or producing a particular outcome; events that have yet to occur, or are in the process of occurring.
Synonyms: beforemath
Related terms: aftermath
RST code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RST codes
Etymology: Standing for Readability, Strength and (for nonvoice communication) Tone.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: A code used to express the quality of a radio signal being received.
center spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: center spreads
form: centre spread
Senses: glosses: In a publication and particularly a magazine, the two central pages, which belong to the same paper and face each other: the most visible part.
centre spread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centre spreads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of center spread.
disomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disomy
Sudano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sudanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sudano.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
DX
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of deluxe.
Coordinate terms: sense: deluxe
english: grand sport
translation: grand sport
word: GS
sense: deluxe
english: grand touring
translation: grand touring
word: GT
sense: deluxe
english: limited edition, luxury edition
translation: limited edition, luxury edition
word: LE
sense: deluxe
english: special edition
translation: special edition
word: SE
sense: deluxe
english: luxury
translation: luxury
word: LX
sense: deluxe
english: super, special
translation: super, special
word: SX
sense: deluxe
english: limited, luxury
translation: limited, luxury
word: L
topics: racing
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
sense: deluxe
word: R
sense: deluxe
english: sport, special, super
translation: sport, special, super
word: S
DX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: HX
SX
QX
glosses: Abbreviation of double precision.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: Long-distance contact with or reception of a distant radio station.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
coordinate_terms: UX
glosses: Synonym of DevEx (“developer experience”).
synonyms: word: DevEx
extra: developer experience
DX
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: DXs
form: DXing
form: DXed
form: DXed
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: To receive and identify a long-distance broadcast, such as one by a distant AM, FM, or TV broadcast station.
qualifier: amateur radio
glosses: To complete a long-distance two-way radio information exchange, especially on amateur radio bands.
QRH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRHs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: QR
glosses: Abbreviation of quick reference handbook.
QRM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Do you get the most from your quality risk management (QRM) program? QRM principles should be integrated into the quality management system,...
ref: 2020, Kevin Wall, "How To Stop Fighting Quality Fires Using Quality Risk Management" in Pharmaceutical Online, VertMarkets
glosses: Initialism of quality risk management.
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
glosses: electromagnetic interference
QRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRPs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of queen retinue pheromone.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Initialism of queen's rook's pawn.
glosses: Initialism of questionable research practice
qualifier: social media
glosses: Initialism of quote repost
QRP
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: QRPs
form: QRPing
form: QRPed
form: QRPed
Senses: qualifier: social media
glosses: Initialism of quote repost
QRS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRSs
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A QRS complex.
QRT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of quick response team.
hypernyms: QRP
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: Initialism of quote retweet.
QRT
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: QRTs
form: QRTing
form: QRTed
form: QRTed
Senses: hypernyms: QRP
qualifier: Twitter
glosses: Initialism of quote retweet.
QSD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Quad
glosses: Initialism of Quadrilateral Security Dialogue.
QST
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
government
sciences
taxation
glosses: Initialism of Quebec sales tax.
Hypernyms: sense: Quebec sales tax
english: provincial sales tax
translation: provincial sales tax
word: PST
Related terms: english: harmonized sales tax
translation: harmonized sales tax
word: HST
english: goods and services tax
translation: goods and services tax
word: GST
QSU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Quirino State University.
QTA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The station code of Quetta railway station in Pakistan.
nightstool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightstools
form: night stool
form: night-stool
Etymology: From night + stool.
Senses: glosses: A chamber pot built into a chair.
Synonyms: close stool
commode
Skene's gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Skene's glands
form: Skene glands
form: Skene's glands
Etymology: From Dr. Alexander Skene.
Senses: glosses: A gland of a group of glands in the vagina that drains into the urethra and is related to pleasure during sexual arousal.
Synonyms: female prostate
lesser vestibular gland
paraurethral gland
periurethral gland
Coordinate terms: greater vestibular gland
Bartholin's gland
prostate gland
Skene's glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Skene's gland
inactuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Activation; putting into action or use.
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spattles
Etymology: From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.
Senses: examples: text: [Mix the] cream with an ice "spattle." When the cream gets to be of a certain consistency, the spattle may be held firmly in the freezer, which is to be spun round by means of the fingers on the rim until the whole becomes frozen hard. A good[…]
ref: 1883, The Coffee public-house news, page 67:
text: […] occasionally sprinkle a handful of salt on the ice while freezing, give a few turns and work it down smooth with the spattle; then turn until the cream is frozen even and smooth all through.
ref: 1899, John Blandy, The Bakers' Guide and Practical Assistant to the Art of Bread Making in All Its Branches, page 211:
glosses: A spatula.
glosses: A tool or implement for mottling pottery with colour.
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spattles
form: spattling
form: spattled
form: spattled
Etymology: From Middle English spatyll, spatyl, spatule, from Old French spatule, espatule, from Late Latin spatula.
Senses: examples: text: Ice Creams. Put your cream in the freezing pot, set it in a tub, beat ice small and mix salt with it, put it round your freezer and turn it round, as it freezes spattle it down, if not hard set it again, serve it up in glasses[…]
ref: 1815, Thomas BURFORD, The Friendly Instructor, Or Complete Guide to the Arts of Cookery, Confectionery, Pastry, Preserving, &c, page 27:
text: The mixture is now ready for freezing, and should be poured into the freezer previously set up, and well spattled which it is freezing to give a fine smooth ice.
ref: 1928, David Ellis, Dugald Campbell, The Science and Practice of Confectionery, page 215:
text: […] the cold custard, which must be put in a well set up freezer and frozen thoroughly and well spattled.
ref: 2013 October 28, Henry G. Harris, S.P. Borella, About Ices Jellies & Creams, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: To stir (something, typically ice cream) with a spattle (spatula).
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ... he mingleth earthe and his spattle toguether, and smereth the eyes, eares, and nosethrilles of the childe.
ref: 1888 [1555], The fardle of facions [by Joannes Boemus, tr. by W. Waterman from book 1 and 2 of Omnium gentium mores], page 81:
glosses: Spawl; spittle.
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spattles
form: spattling
form: spattled
form: spattled
Senses: examples: text: I can worke wyles in battle, If I do ones but spattle
ref: 1538, John Bale, Comedy concenynge thre lawes:
text: I would I had a fountain of spittle to spattle on them : I would my spittle might be of so great virtue against them as the words of St Paul[…]
ref: 1842 [1554], John Philpot, The Examinations and Writings of John Philpot ..., page 313:
text: He spattled. "It's brand new," said Hector Grimthorpe, indicating his Corvair.
ref: 1977, John Clute, The Disinheriting Party: A Novel, London : Allison and Busby:
glosses: To spit.
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spattles
Senses: examples: text: The caal^([sic]) or dam of Bankend-Mill, (Fact 12,) pens the water […] consequently, if this were removed, and the channel above widened and deepended, […] the water might be reduced in dry seasons 4 feet within bank, which would render the meadows more firm and dry, and carry off small spattles of rain, without damaging the crops; but in the larger summer floods this improvement would avail but little,[…]
ref: 1812, Dr. Singer (William), Board of Agriculture (Great Britain), General View of the Agriculture, State of Property, and Improvements, in the County of Dumfries ..., page 496:
text: Both painters abjure movement—no blustery clouds or spattles of rain, few running or jumping humans. To be sure, dancers and horse-persons people Luke's "The Rehearsal" (1950, commissioned by Hewitt) but they are closer to figures in the mediaeval Bayeux Tapestry,[…]
ref: 2015 September 10, W. J. McCormack, Northman: John Hewitt (1907-87): An Irish writer, his world, and his times, OUP Oxford, →ISBN:
glosses: A small spate; a slight inundation or a sprinkle of rain.
spattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spattles
form: spattling
form: spattled
form: spattled
Senses: examples: text: The windows […] were all shatter'd: about a foot square of the foundation seemed as if ramm'd in with a force that spattled the dirt as high as the Cornish : […]
ref: 1910, Shropshire Parish Register Society, Shropshire Parish Registers: Diocese of St. Aspah, page 487:
text: ... spattled with nicotine, and measled with pricks from his hypodermic syringe.
ref: 2015, Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories, Pantheon, →ISBN, page 432:
glosses: To sprinkle or spatter; to mottle.
spattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spattle
spattles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of spattle
tympanohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tympano- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the tympanum and the hyoid arch.
tympanohyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tympanohyals
Etymology: From tympano- + -hyal, from Ancient Greek ὖ (û, “the letter upsilon”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The proximal segment in the hyoid arch, becoming a part of the styloid process of the temporal bone in the adult human.
tympanohyals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tympanohyal
rewake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewakes
form: rewaking
form: rewoke
form: rewaked
form: rewoken
form: rewaked
Etymology: From re- + wake.
Senses: examples: text: The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.
ref: 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter III, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):
glosses: To wake again.
rewakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewake
rewaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewake
rewoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of rewake
rewoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of rewake
retrievement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrievements
Etymology: From retrieve + -ment.
Senses: glosses: retrieval
retrievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrievement
mesometria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesometrium
mesometrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesometria
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) + Ancient Greek μήτρα (mḗtra, “womb”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The mesentery of the uterus, a major part of the broad ligament.
Derived terms: antimesometrium
mesometrial
inobservation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compare French inobservation.
Senses: examples: text: inobservation of laws
text: inobservation of doctrines
glosses: Lack of observation.
facundity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin facunditas.
Senses: glosses: eloquence; loquaciousness
Related terms: facundious
instableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From instable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: instability; unstableness
bandle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbændl̩/
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: bandles
Etymology: From Irish banlámh (“cubit”), from Middle Irish bannlám, from bann (“a measure”) + lám (“hand, arm”).
Senses: glosses: An Irish measure of two feet (61 cm) in length.
bandles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandle
psoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Latin psoricus: compare French psorique.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to psora.
brick it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bricks it
form: bricking it
form: bricked it
form: bricked it
Etymology: Related to shit a brick.
Senses: examples: text: The first time I performed in public I was bricking it.
text: I always replied with a casual and breezy ‘Iʼll be fine,’ but deep down I was bricking it.
ref: 2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:
text: I felt in control, but regardless, when the snow started coming over and it got dark/harder to breathe, I was bricking it and I thought I might die.
ref: 2022 July 11, Harry Taylor, quoting Harry Shimmin, “British tourists survive avalanche in Tian Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To be scared; to be terrified.
atypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atypic
form: most atypic
Senses: glosses: atypical
inconsisting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inconsisting
form: most inconsisting
Etymology: From in- + consisting.
Senses: glosses: inconsistent
anthropotomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthropotomists
Etymology: From anthropotomy + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: androtomist
glosses: Someone versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.
anthropotomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthropotomist
misluck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈlʌk/
Forms: form: misluk
Etymology: From mis- + luck.
Senses: examples: text: [...] misluck would have it, however, that this emperor reigned no longer than half a year.
ref: 1997, Michael von Albrecht, Gareth L. Schmeling, A History of Roman Literature:
text: If Good- for-little had been buried, it had been my Tommy, Who by misluck was placed to drive in.
ref: 2007, Raymond Hickey, Irish English:
text: Your belief is true and justified, but not knowledge. In this case you're unlucky enough to be driving through a neighborhood beset by deceptive appearances, but this misluck is corrected by your just.
ref: 2007, Robert C. Roberts, W. Jay Wood, Intellectual Virtues:
synonyms: word: mischance
word: unluck
word: adverseness
word: adversity
word: bad luck
word: hard luck
word: ill luck
word: mischance
word: misfortune
word: mishap
word: misluck
word: tough luck
word: unfortunateness
word: unluck
word: unluckiness
glosses: Ill luck; misfortune.
Derived terms: mislucky
misluck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈlʌk/
Forms: form: mislucks
form: mislucking
form: mislucked
form: mislucked
form: misluk
Etymology: From mis- + luck.
Senses: glosses: To have ill luck; to be unlucky.
lirella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lirellae
Etymology: Diminutive of Latin lira (“a furrow”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A linear apothecium furrowed along the middle
glosses: the fruit of certain lichens.
Derived terms: lirelliform
lirellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lirella
pusil
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pusil
form: most pusil
Etymology: From Latin pusillus (“very little”).
Senses: examples: text: a pusil and a thin soft air
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Very small; little; petty.
Related terms: pusillanimous
deforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deforcements
Etymology: Old French
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
examples: text: There was something in the air and tone of the young soldier, which seemed to argue that his interference was not likely to be confined to mere expostulation; and which, if it promised finally of a process of battery and deforcement, would certainly commence with the unpleasant circumstances necessary for founding such a complaint.
ref: 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary, Oxford University Press, published 2002, page 397:
topics: law
glosses: Resistance to an officer in the execution of law.
ranz des vaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒ̃(s)deɪvaʃ/
ipa: /ˈɹɑ̃(s)deɪvəʃ/
Forms: form: ranz des vaches
Etymology: From Swiss French ranz des vaches.
Senses: examples: text: The herald cries his summons to the lists,
But no sound comes to these sequestered valleys;
I only hear the melancholy note
Of cowbells and the dreary ranz des vaches.
ref: 1972, Friedrich Schiller, translated by William F. Mainland, Wilhelm Tell, act II, scene i:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of numerous traditional Swiss melodies played on the alpenhorn, originally to call cows in from the mountains.
periproctitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From peri- + proctitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the tissues around the rectum or anus.
apheliotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apo- + heliotropic.
Senses: examples: text: But some tendrils are apheliotropic, for instance those of Bignonia capreolata and of Smilax aspera; and the stems of some plants which climb by rootlets, as those of the Ivy and Tecoma radicans, are likewise apheliotropic, and they thus find a support.
ref: 1880, Charles Darwin, The power of movement in plants (London: John Murray, p. 450-451) online
glosses: Turning away from the sun; said of leaves, etc.
Derived terms: apheliotropically
outtell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outtells
form: outtelling
form: outtold
form: outtold
Etymology: From out- + tell.
Senses: examples: text: I have out-told the clock.
ref: c. 1608–1610, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Coxcomb”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To surpass in telling, counting, or reckoning.
outtelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outtell
outtells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outtell
outtold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outtell
impetrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impetrable
form: most impetrable
Etymology: From Latin impetrabilis. Compare French impétrable. See impetrate.
Senses: examples: text: Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money
ref: 1634, Thomas Hobbes, Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre:
glosses: Capable of being obtained or influenced by petition.
incorresponding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incorresponding
form: most incorresponding
Etymology: From in- + corresponding.
Senses: examples: text: Incorresponding veins
ref: 1874, Henry Hartshorne, A Handbook of human anatomy and physiology for the use of students:
glosses: Not corresponding; disagreeing.
nephrostome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nephrostomes
Etymology: From nephro- + -stome.
Senses: glosses: The funnel-shaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.
Derived terms: nephrostogram
nephrostomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nephrostome
intertranspicuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + transpicuous.
Senses: examples: text: every space between
Peopled with unimaginable shapes,
Such as ghosts dream dwell in the lampless deep,
Yet each intertranspicuous.
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “(please specify the page)”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], →OCLC:
glosses: Transpicuous within or between; able to see through.
marone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of maroon (the colour).
opacate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈəʊpəkeɪt/
Forms: form: opacates
form: opacating
form: opacated
form: opacated
Etymology: From Latin opacatus, past participle of opacare.
Senses: examples: text: […] when the same corpuscles, upon the unstopping of the glass, were put into a new motion, and disposed after a new manner, they did opacate that part of the air they moved in.
ref: 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC:
glosses: To darken; to cloud.
Related terms: opacity
opaque
opacated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of opacate
opacates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opacate
opacating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of opacate
opacating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opacating
form: most opacating
Senses: examples: text: First, that the substance of it should be made more clear and transparent, Flax retaining in it a kind of opacating brown, or yellow […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section III:
glosses: Making or becoming opaque.
rurigenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin rurigena, from rus, ruris (“the country”) + genere, gignere (“to bring forth, to be born”).
Senses: glosses: Born in the countryside.
contemperature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kənˈtɛmpəɹətjʊə(ɹ)/
/kənˈtɛmpəɹət͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Senses: examples: text: the different contemperature of the elements
ref: 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
glosses: temperedness; a proportionate mixture.
Related terms: contemperation
erpetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erpetologists
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of herpetologist.
erpetologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erpetologist
devocalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: devocalizes
form: devocalizing
form: devocalized
form: devocalized
Etymology: From de- + vocalize.
Senses: examples: text: If we take a high vowel […] and devocalise it, we obtain a hiss […]
ref: 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: To make toneless; to deprive of vowel quality.
synonyms: debark
disbark
glosses: To reduce the volume of the vocalizations of (an animal) by surgically removing tissue from its vocal cords.
Related terms: devocalization
devocalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devocalize
devocalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devocalize
devocalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of devocalize
carnaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carnary
carnary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carnaries
Etymology: From Latin carnarium, from caro, carnis (“flesh”).
Senses: examples: text: The rugged walls, which formed the gateway and part of the ancient monastery, in this supposition, must have been the work of Walkelin; the chapel and carnary are evidently of a later date, by more than a century.
ref: 1809, John Milner, The History Civil and Ecclesiastical, & Suruey of the Antiquities of Winchester, page 89:
text: Green relates that Bishop de Blois built a carnary chapel at Worcester, that is, a crypt with a chapel over it; in the former were laid all the bodies disinterred during the restoration of the cathedral; in the latter, chaplains said service, and Walter de Cantelupe, bishop in 1265, consecrated it to the honour of God, SS. Mary and Thomas, (Worcester, i. 55).
ref: 1859 November, “Crypt at Christchurch, Hants”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 207, page 500:
text: These carnaries, or charnel houses , were intended to supplement the wholly inefficient churchyards of large cities, which in times of pestilence became so hideously choked that frightful heaps of bones were constantly to be seen on the surface of the soil, sometimes with the half-decomposed flesh adhering to them.
ref: 1873, A. D. Bayne, Royal Illustrated History of Eastern England:
text: In the latter were buried Sir John Wodehouse, in 1430, and his wife, whose skeletons were found entire in 1850, when the carnary was rescued from the ignoble use of a wine cellar.
ref: 1878, Our Own Country, page 10:
text: The Carnary College was founded by bishop Salmon in 1316 with four priests (six after 1322) to pray for him and other bishops of Norwich and to preserve bones in the chapel crypt (carnary or charnel).
ref: 1996, Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500, page 135:
glosses: A crypt, a charnel house.
impen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impens
form: impenning
form: impenned
form: impenned
Etymology: From im- + pen.
Senses: examples: text: Like a sheepe impenn'd in the fold.
ref: 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
glosses: To shut up or enclose, as in a pen.
impenned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impen
impenning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impen
impens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impen
antalkaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antalkaline
form: most antalkaline
Etymology: From anti- + alkaline.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of antialkaline.
besottingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more besottingly
form: most besottingly
Etymology: From besotting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a besotting manner.
tanrec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanrecs
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of tenrec.
tanrecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanrec
trachelipodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹækəˈlɪpədəs/
Etymology: Trachelipoda + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: of or pertaining to the molluscs of the former order Trachelipoda, that have their foot attached to the neck.
didynamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- + Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “strength”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
Related terms: tetradynamous
isodynamous
homodynamous
Didynamia