cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
lifecast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifecasts
Etymology: From life + cast.
Senses: examples: text: On rap Web sites, which abhor a vacuum, seemingly every move he’s made in recent months has been captured and archived in what has amounted to, essentially, a Drake lifecast: video footage and photographs of concerts, audio clips of radio interviews, endless personal and professional gossip and, oh, new songs to go with the two, “Best I Ever Had” and “Every Girl,” that have already become hits, before this Toronto rapper has even signed a recording contract.
ref: 2009 May 28, Jon Caramanica, “A Rapper With Celebrity but No Label”, in New York Times:
text: When both lifecasts are completed, we will put the two molds together and reinforce the seam with plaster before we fill the mold[…]
ref: 2013, Todd Debreceni, Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen:
topics: art
arts
glosses: A three-dimensional copy of a living human body.
Related terms: lifecasting
lifecasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifecast
multifare
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + fare.
Senses: examples: text: The designated sharecabs will take longer to put into effect, because the technology for multifare meters and rooftop destination signs needs to be worked out. Mr. Daus said it could be in place late this year or next year.
ref: 2009 May 28, William Neuman, “Plans Would Let Strangers Share Cab Rides in New York”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to more than one fare.
policywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From policy + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: “And the worst thing is that we haven’t done anything policywise to turn New Jersey around and make it an economic power again.
ref: 2009 May 28, Peter Applebome, “New Jersey G.O.P. Shows Same Moves in the Ring”, in New York Times:
glosses: In terms of policy.
queeny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwiːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Forms: form: queenier
form: queeniest
Etymology: From queen + -y.
Senses: glosses: Like a (royal) queen; queenly; queenish.
examples: text: 1975-1976, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Neither J nor I have been harassed for being fags, etc, and it really is amazing how many queeny men there are just mingling in the masses all over! Even saw an outrageous bull dyke on the bus.
text: A loud button-down shirt with an eye-searing print of orange and red flowers ($49.99) would only be right for the brilliant, queeny comedian Paul Lynde if he were still alive.
ref: 2009 May 28, Mike Albo, “Spend Some Time, if Nothing Else”, in New York Times:
glosses: Like a queen; effeminately homosexual.
stigmatizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stigmatizable
form: most stigmatizable
Etymology: From stigmatize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being stigmatized
rustly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rustly
form: most rustly
Etymology: From rustle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The quaint street, rustly trees and narrow storefronts make everything in the windows look delectable, buyable, wearable — even some flouncy miniskirt in Juicy Couture appears timeless.
ref: 2009 May 28, Mike Albo, “Spend Some Time, if Nothing Else”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending to rustle; making a rustling noise.
skeeve
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: skeeves
form: skeeving
form: skeeved
form: skeeved
form: skeev
Etymology: Back-formation from skeevy, from Italian.
Senses: examples: text: I asked her, one time, if it didn't maybe skeeve her to work for a crud like Duke.
ref: 1964, Lou Cameron, The Block Busters, page 186:
text: "Those are not me — preppy jackets skeeve me! I hate those shoes."
ref: 2007, Alexander Theroux, Laura Warholic, Or, The Sexual Intellectual, page 215:
text: At twenty-three, Eric wasn't that much older than my nineteen, but that didn't mean his pseudo-comeons didn't skeeve me out. There was something almost menacing about him.
ref: 2013, Alyssa Rose Ivy, Soar (The Empire Chronicles #1):
glosses: To disgust or disturb.
raw_tags: with out
examples: text: His mother is repulsed by his uncle; he has heard her whisper it in the kitchen, "I skeeves him, Charley." She is Italian.
ref: 1993, Pete Dexter, Brotherly Love, page 16:
text: You could put that needle in your arm? Man, I skeeve that like death.
ref: 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, Scribner, page 727:
text: Tony's reply: "How can I skeeve you, you're the mother of my children!" Non- Italians can easily figure out that Carmela is hurt because she thinks Tony finds her physically unappealing.
ref: 2007, George De Stefano, An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America, page 173:
text: Indeed, when baby-voiced Teresa describes the bone-crunching finishes in her new home, a 12,000-square-foot French chateau simulacrum that’s “all granite, marble and onyx,” and avers her commitment to the brand-spanking new (“I just skeeve looking at other people’s houses,” she says.
ref: 2009 May 28, Penelope Green, “Jersey Girls, Nesting”, in New York Times:
glosses: To be disgusted or disturbed by.
examples: text: I remember Phil telling O'Maurigan after the Schuyler reading he's afraid I won't ever write a book— not because I'm lazy, or don't have the self-esteem, but because I skeeve on stealing.
ref: 1993, James McCourt, Time Remaining, →ISBN, page 67:
text: “Beecher,” Clementine whispers, “if this is skeeving you out, let's just skip the room and—” ¶ “I'm fine. No skeeving at all,” I tell her, knowing full well that Iris would've had me leave ten minutes ago.
ref: 2011, Brad Meltzer, The Inner Circle, chapter 3:
glosses: To be or become disgusted.
Derived terms: skeeve out
skeeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːv/
rhymes: -iːv
Forms: form: skeeves
form: skeev
Etymology: Back-formation from skeevy, from Italian.
Senses: examples: text: He looked so fucking competent, for a skeeve with greasy blond hair pulled into a ponytail, a beaded headband, and callused bare feet.
ref: 1996, Robert DiChiara, Alibis, page 319:
glosses: A disgusting or loathed person.
Related terms: skeeved
skeevy
cyberbattle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberbattles
Etymology: From cyber- + battle.
Senses: examples: text: The main dispute has been over whether the Pentagon or the National Security Agency should take the lead in preparing for and fighting cyberbattles.
ref: 2009 May 29, David E. Sanger, “Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace”, in New York Times:
glosses: A battle fought in cyberspace.
cyberbattles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberbattle
cybercommand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cyber- + command.
Senses: examples: text: The decision to create a cybercommand is a major step beyond the actions taken by the Bush administration, which authorized several computer-based attacks but never resolved the question of how the government would prepare for a new era of warfare fought over digital networks.
ref: 2009 May 29, David E. Sanger, “Pentagon Plans New Arm to Wage Wars in Cyberspace”, in New York Times:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A facility capable of launching attacks in cyberspace.
hipsterland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hipster + land.
Senses: examples: text: Pop hasn't been this divided since the early 1970s; there's been a revival of that progressive rock snobbery over 'that disco shit', with the Smiths' 'Panic' hit polarising hipsterland.
ref: 1988, Angela McRobbie, Zoot suits and second-hand dresses: an anthology of fashion and music:
text: The fashion has crossed over into hipsterland, where people wear nonprescription glasses to look like brains, little backpacks to look like little kids, and polyester to look like they just don't care.
ref: 1999, Giant robot, numbers 16-23:
text: Following the nightmarish adventures in hipsterland of a young woman named Dorian, it takes viewers on a delirious bad trip from innocence to experience.
ref: 2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: The space inhabited by hipsters.
mentorlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mentorlike
form: most mentorlike
Etymology: From mentor + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He described Ms. Letizia’s relationship with Mr. Berlusconi as chaste and mentorlike.
ref: 2009 May 29, Rachel Donadio, “Prime Minister’s Escapades Finally Raise Eyebrows”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mentor.
Synonyms: mentorly
narcotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of narcotize
narcotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of narcotize
pseudonarrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudonarrative
form: most pseudonarrative
Etymology: From pseudo- + narrative.
Senses: examples: text: If, like the many slavish devotees of “Planet Earth” and the even earlier “Blue Planet,” you are susceptible to the narcotizing effect of gorgeous landscape photography and the pseudonarrative pull of cleverly edited animal behavior, then why resist?
ref: 2009 May 29, Mike Hale, “Pretty Clouds, Vistas and Sardines, Too”, in New York Times:
glosses: Apparently, but not actually, narrative.
scatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scatologically
form: most scatologically
Etymology: From scatological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: They also have sexually and scatologically suggestive elements nicely offsetting the hallucinogenic beauty.
ref: 2009 May 29, The New York Times, “Museum and Gallery Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a scatological manner.
ultrasecurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ultra- + security.
Senses: examples: text: A dour turning in this era of ultrasecurity has motor vehicle officials in four states banning open-faced smiles on photo identification licenses.
ref: 2009 May 29, “Grimace and Bear It”, in New York Times:
glosses: Very high security.
videoboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videoboards
Etymology: From video + board.
Senses: examples: text: Mets fans at Citi Field have surely noticed an M.L.B. policy during video reviews: replays considered by the umpires cannot be shown on stadium videoboards, even afterward, presumably to avoid riling fans.
ref: 2009 May 29, Richard Sandomir, “The Mets Remain Unbeaten in the Replay Booth”, in New York Times:
glosses: A board capable of displaying video footage, as at a sports ground.
videoboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of videoboard
intraunion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + union.
Senses: examples: text: With Mr. Wilhelm controlling a majority of Unite Here’s board, Mr. Raynor had asked the service employees and Mr. Stern for help in his intraunion fight, generating complaints that Mr. Stern was interfering in another union’s business.
ref: 2009 May 30, Steven Greenhouse, “Leader of Garment and Hotel Workers’ Union Resigns”, in New York Times:
glosses: Within a union.
overindebtedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: over-indebtedness
Etymology: From overindebted + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: So loan forgiveness programs are not some sinister form of social engineering. Nor do they encourage overindebtedness, per se.
ref: 2009 May 30, Jonathan D. Glater, “Students Relying on Loans Wonder Whether Forgiveness Will Last”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being too deeply in debt.
seltzers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seltzer
stardate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑɹdeɪt/
Forms: form: stardates
Etymology: From star + date.
Senses: examples: text: Captain's log, stardate 3087.6. While investigating an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and at least this entire quadrant of space, has been subjected to violent, unexplained stress and force.
ref: 1967, Star Trek, The Alternative Factor, season 1, episode 27, spoken by William Shatner:
text: And to avoid any quantum entanglement, make sure that if you visit the show before it closes on the stardate equivalent to Sept. 20, your transporter is in working order.
ref: 2009 May 30, Edward Rothstein, “The U.S.S. Enterprise, in Strange New World of Museum”, in New York Times:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A date according to the fictional system of time measurement developed for Star Trek.
unhumanitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unhumanitarian
form: most unhumanitarian
Etymology: From un- + humanitarian.
Senses: examples: text: I realize that it is an unpopular and unhumanitarian position
ref: 1971, William Rehnquist, “memo”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Not humanitarian.
agrofuel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrofuels
Etymology: From agro- + fuel.
Senses: examples: text: He continues: “It is madness to suppose we would make a significant difference by using more energy-efficient lightbulbs and using agrofuels rather than oil, or that city dwellers can or would take up a rural farming or a hunter-gatherer lifestyle: given our numbers there is no land.”
ref: 2009 May 31, Elizabeth Royte, “The Forest Dumbledore”, in New York Times:
glosses: Any biofuel produced by agricultural means.
agrofuels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrofuel
antistab
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + stab.
Senses: examples: text: They dressed officers with new, military-style uniforms, gave them antistab vests and equipped them with equipment like extendable metal batons and clubs that turn into handcuffs.
ref: 2009 May 31, Sarah Lyall, “Critics Assail British Police for Harsh Tactics During the G-20 Summit Meeting”, in New York Times:
glosses: Protecting against stabbing attacks.
archivolt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archivolts
Etymology: From French archivolte, from Italian archivolto, from Latin arcus (“arch”), volta (“vault”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An ornamental molding or band following the curve on the underside of an arch.
Derived terms: archivolted
archivolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archivolt
buy off on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys off on
form: buying off on
form: bought off on
form: bought off on
Senses: examples: text: You've got to understand this is what Stockman is proposing. The president hasn't bought off on it yet.
ref: 1981 December 4, “Governors Plead For Aid”, in Bangor Daily News, Bangor ME:
text: "I feel very, very encouraged about the plan," she said. "It seems to me that it will be a question of the legislature buying off on the cost of it."
ref: 1988 August 23, “Insurance Plan Gains Local Official's Praise”, in Lawrence Journal-World:
text: Now they have to get the Legislature to buy off on the project and find $14 million to pay for its start-up costs.
ref: 2003 December 18, “Toll on fast lanes takes a step ahead”, in The News Tribune, Tacoma WA:
text: Branches have now been established in the parishes for quick assessments and response, but it took weeks to get the Coast Guard to buy off on the idea.
ref: 2010 July 15, “From Disaster to Catastrophe -- What's Obama's Endgame In the Gulf”, in Fox News:
glosses: To consent to.
unrealizability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unrealisability
Etymology: From unrealizabl(e) + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being unrealizable.
Synonyms: infeasibility
unfeasibility
Coordinate terms: impossibility
aspirationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Forms: form: more aspirationally
form: most aspirationally
Etymology: From aspirational + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some recipes are aspirationally insane — fried chicken and andouille gumbo, or “game day” choucroute with sausage, tasso and duck confit — while others I simply aspire to make, like a fried oyster and bacon sandwich (bacon recipe included), and Link’s outstanding boudin, which he also uses as a heart-stopping beignet filling.
ref: 2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Cookbooks”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an aspirational manner.
chateaulike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chateaulike
form: most chateaulike
Etymology: From chateau + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The chateaulike tower was at 59th and Fifth, where the Sherry-Netherland now stands.
ref: 2009 May 31, Christopher Gray, “Buildings for a City He Could Live Without”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chateau.
crassulacean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Crassulaceae + -an
Senses: examples: text: His description of crassulacean acid metabolism, wherein cacti, yuccas, agaves and sedums open their stomata at night when it’s cooler in order to “bind carbon dioxide on special molecules much like we bind oxygen on hemoglobin in our blood” had me on edge for hours.
ref: 2009 May 31, Dominique Browning, “Gardening Books”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the family Crassulaceae of dicotyledons.
Derived terms: alt: CAM
word: crassulacean acid metabolism
jitteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jitteringly
form: most jitteringly
Etymology: From jittering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In later centuries, the masses of European immigrants making footfall in New York’s streets saw the turbid, jostling, unprecedented mix of peoples, all striving to get ahead, and called the jitteringly new phenomenon “American.”
ref: 2009 May 31, “Reaching Here”, in New York Times:
glosses: So as to jitter.
meatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: "Meat" and its contents (beef, Iamb; steak, stew) is at once a single unit whose members share "meatness" and an entity distinct from "milk" and other "non-meatness" categories […]
ref: 2003, Dvora Yanow, Constructing "race" and "ethnicity" in America:
text: The meatness of me and the cancer exasperated me and wore me out, so I retreated from my traitorous body.
ref: 2009 May 31, Dana Jennings, “Running to Reclaim Your Body”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being meat.
microchapter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microchapters
Etymology: From micro- + chapter.
Senses: examples: text: In posting-length microchapters, Wizenberg describes her charmed upbringing in a food-filled household in Oklahoma, where she’s taught to live and eat “wholly, hungrily, loudly.”
ref: 2009 May 31, Christine Muhlke, “Heartburn”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very short chapter.
microchapters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microchapter
multibar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + bar.
Senses: examples: text: The fully equipped Krom model has a multibar grille that is a dead ringer for the ones now found on Fords.
ref: 2009 May 31, Phil Patton, “Bulldog in a Box, in Shades”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of more than one bar.
mythy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mythier
form: mythiest
Etymology: From myth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox.
ref: 2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to myth; mythical.
ringolevio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relievio
form: ringalevio
form: ring-a-levio
Senses: examples: text: There was stickball, there was handball, and there was ringolevio. Carney had loved the game. It was like tag, but bigger and more monstrous. One team hunted and the other was pursued. “Jail” was a front stoop, or the trunk of a car owned by somebody who wouldn’t beat you for touching their ride. To capture an opponent, you had to hold on for the time it took to scream Ringolevio, one-two-three, one-two-three, one-two-three.
ref: 2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 56:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A children's game, a variation of tag, where each side has a designated "jail" to hold captured players from the other team.
ringpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringpiece
semitasteful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + tasteful.
Senses: examples: text: The phenomenon has been a boon to the near-anonymous painting factories crowded together in the suburbs of Shenzhen, China, famous for cranking out copies of masterpieces, along with landscapes and semitasteful nudes.
ref: 2009 May 31, Randy Kennedy, “Obama’s Face (That’s Him?) Rules the Web”, in New York Times:
glosses: Somewhat tasteful; having only a certain amount of taste.
sessionography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: sessionographies
Etymology: From session + -o- + -graphy.
Senses: examples: text: While Mercer — the author of a biography of the saxophonist Wayne Shorter — is to be applauded for trying to break from the conventional “making of” sessionography, she never quite gets around to making clear such basic facts as exactly when and where “Blue” was recorded, or which songs appear on the album.
ref: 2009 May 31, “Music Chronicle”, in New York Times:
glosses: A description of various musical sessions.
sessionographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sessionography
shumai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shumai
form: shumais
form: shao mai
form: shaomai
form: siu mai
form: siumai
form: siew mai
form: shu mai
form: sui maai
form: shui mai
Etymology: From Cantonese 燒賣 /烧卖 (siu1 maai6-2).
Senses: examples: text: Hot and sour soup, shrimp toast, shumai, General Tso’s chicken, pork with garlic sauce, beef with asparagus, hot and spicy shrimp, sushi deluxe, cheesecake, fried bananas, litchi sherbet.
ref: 2009 May 31, Joanne Starkey, “Old-School Chinese With Efforts at Fusion”, in New York Times:
glosses: A traditional steamed Chinese pork dumpling served in dim sum.
unfluted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + fluted.
Senses: examples: unfluted columns
glosses: Not fluted.
unfeatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈfiːt͡ʃə(ɹ)d/
Etymology: From un- + featured.
Senses: glosses: Not featured.
examples: text: Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.
ref: 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The Tenth Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
glosses: Lacking regular features; deformed.
hackathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hackathon
stardates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stardate
unshowiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unshowy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […]they were needless bursts of imagination from a man who’d made such a show of unshowiness.
ref: 2009 June 1, Jon Caramanica, “Country’s King Rules With Restraint”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being unshowy.
GDI+
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: GDI
qualifier: Microsoft Windows
glosses: A newer and improved version of GDI written in C++.
application programming interface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: application programming interfaces
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A set of routines, protocols, and tools for building software applications, which makes it possible for software components to interact with one another.
Synonyms: english: abbreviated form
translation: abbreviated form
word: API
application programming interfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of application programming interface
zymurgist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zymurgists
Etymology: From zymurgy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practices zymurgy; a knowledgeable brewer.
Niobe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A daughter of Tantalus, said to have turned into stone while weeping for her children.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A daughter of Phoroneus and Teledice.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 71 Niobe, a main belt asteroid.
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Derived terms: Niobean
niobium
Niobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnʌɪ.ə.bi/
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.oʊ.bi/
Forms: form: Niobes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Νιόβη (Nióbē).
Senses: examples: text: With which she followed my poore Fathers body / Like Niobe, all teares.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: There is a word will Priam turne to stone, Make wells and Niobe’s of the maides and wiues.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene xi]:
text: But when a man has been ranging, like the painful bee, from flower to flower, perhaps for a month together, and the thoughts of home and wife begin to have their charms with him, to be received by a Niobe, who, like a wounded vine, weeps her vitals away, while she but involuntarily curls about him; how shall I be able to bear that?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Here poor Mrs Vincy's spirit quite broke down, and her Niobe throat and good-humoured face were sadly convulsed.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book III:
glosses: A crying woman; a woman who is bereaved or inconsolable.
nisba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nisbas
form: nesba
form: nisbah
form: nisbat
form: nisbe
Etymology: From Arabic نِسْبَة (nisba).
Senses: glosses: An Arabic derivational adjective formed with the suffix ـِيّ m (-iyy) / ـِيَّة f (-iyya), or the equivalent construction in another Semitic (or other Afroasiatic) language.
examples: text: Knowing the nisbas of the litigants and their representatives was the qāḍī's single most important preliminary task.
ref: 2013, Zouhair Ghazzal, The grammars of adjudication: The economics of judicial decision making in fin-de-siècle Ottoman Beirut and Damascus:
glosses: The part of an Arabic name consisting of such an adjective.
Related terms: alt: English suffix derived from Arabic ـِيّ (-iyy)
word: -i
circle contact lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle contact lenses
Senses: glosses: A cosmetic contact lens that makes the eyes' irises appear larger, popular in East Asia.
Synonyms: big eye contact lens
circle lens
circle lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle lenses
Senses: glosses: Circle contact lens.
nonego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonegos
Etymology: From non- + ego.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: That part of the psyche excluding the ego
Norcia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Norcias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Norcia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
put over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts over
form: putting over
form: put over
form: put over
Senses: examples: text: Professor Jones is a good teacher. He knows how to put his ideas over to the students.
synonyms: get across
put across
glosses: To state or explain (a concept) in a clear, understandable manner.
examples: text: She fraudulently tried to put herself over as a diving instructor.
glosses: To portray or present.
examples: text: The first was the product of a destructive hard line down the middle by Manu Tuilagi, which sucked in the Australian defence and stretched the cover further out, allowing Farrell and Curry to put May over in the left corner.
ref: 2019 October 19, Robert Kitson, “England into World Cup semi-finals after bruising victory over Australia”, in The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: To make a decisive pass to a teammate so they can score a try.
topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To increase the popularity or prove the legitimacy of another wrestler, usually by losing to them.
Related terms: put one over
LOB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOBs
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of large object.
glosses: Initialism of line of business.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of limit order book, an order book of limit orders.
glosses: Initialism of live on board (i.e. liveaboard)
Derived terms: BLOB
CLOB
WinForms
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of Windows Forms.
Moilanen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Moilanens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Moilanen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
joint entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint entropies
Senses: examples: text: If random variables X and Y are mutually independent, then their joint entropy H(X,Y) is just the sum H(X)#43;H(Y) of its component entropies. If they are not mutually independent, then their joint entropy will be H(X)#43;H(Y)-I(X#59;Y) where I(X#59;Y) is the mutual information of X and Y.
topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The Shannon entropy of a "script" whose "characters" are elements of the Cartesian product of the sets of characters of the component scripts.
Related terms: joint probability
nilotica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: niloticas
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Nile tilapia.
synonyms: word: Nile tilapia
loparites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loparite
loparite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loparites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A granular, brittle oxide mineral of the perovskite class.
astrophyllites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astrophyllite
eudialyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eudialytes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek εὖ διάλυτος (eû diálutos, “well decomposable”), alluding to its ready solubility in acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red silicate mineral that forms in alkaline igneous rocks such as nepheline syenites.
eudialytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eudialyte
carmined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carmined
form: most carmined
Etymology: From carmine + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Their stockings were of lustrous silk, their slippers costly and unnatural, their lips carmined and their eyebrows penciled.
ref: 1932, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, page 441:
glosses: Coloured with carmine.
villiaumite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare toxic halide mineral composed of sodium fluoride.
villenages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villenage
pentagrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentagrid
pentahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pentahedron
antimeres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antimere
antiradicalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + radicalism.
Senses: examples: text: Wartime antiradicalism crested in a postwar Red Scare. (Communists were called “reds” because of the red flag favored by revolutionary organizations.)
ref: 2010, Paul S. Boyer; Clifford E. Clark, Jr.; Joseph F. Kett, The Enduring Vision Since 1865, page 691:
glosses: Opposition to radical ideologies.
isolueshite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + lueshite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brownish-black mineral comprising mostly niobium and lanthanum.
quetzalcoatlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Quetzalcoatl + -ite, the Toltec/Aztec god of the sea, for its blue-green color.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A blue mineral containing zinc, tellurium, and copper.
zlatogorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Zlatogor + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A silvery-white mineral containing copper, nickel, and antimony.
tvalchrelidzeite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Tvalchrelidze + -ite, after Alexander Anton Tvalchrelidze (1881–1957), academic at the Georgia Academy of Science.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A grey mineral containing mercury, antimony, arsenic, and sulfur.
poyson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poysons
Senses: examples: text: Bat if honesty, modesty, and sobernes, be required in apparaile, & adorning of mens selues, as we see that it is commended and commaunded in Deuteronomie, & seing that S. Paule also in his epistle to Titus, willeth that there should be among us a sober and holy countenaunce, singularly and specially in women, which ordinarily be very curious in their garmentes, it is certayne and sure, that there is some poyson or venym hidden under the grasse.
ref: 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
text: XX Therewith she spewd out of her filthy maw A floud of poyson horrible and blacke, Full of great lumpes of flesh and gobbets raw, Which stunck so vildly, that it forst him slacke 175 His grasping hold, and from her turne him backe: Her vomit full of bookes[*] and papers was, With loathly frogs and toades, which eyes did lacke, And creeping sought way in the weedy gras: Her filthy parbreake all the place defiled has. 180 XXI As when old father Nilus[*] gins to swell With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale, His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell, And overflow each plaine and lowly dale: But when his later spring gins to avale, 185 Huge heapes of mudd he leaves, wherein there breed Ten thousand kindes of creatures, partly male And partly female of his fruitful seed; Such ugly monstrous shapes elswhere may no man reed.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, published 1921:
text: OLD QUEENE. O no, sweet Margaret, the fatall poyson Doth work within my heart, my brain pan breakes, My heart doth faint, I dye.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of poison.
poyson
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: poysons
form: poysoning
form: poysoned
form: poysoned
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of poison.
cyberequivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberequivalents
Etymology: From cyber- + equivalent.
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who has attended a technology conference or registered on a Web site is deluged with the cyberequivalent of junk mail.
ref: 1997 December 15, Computerworld, volume 31, number 50:
text: This is the cyberequivalent of the campfire or the front porch and goes way back to oral traditions of storytelling.
ref: 1998, Jon Samsel, Darryl Wimberley, Writing for interactive media, page 67:
text: Big Mistake #1 is thinking that the Delete key is the cyberequivalent of a paper shredder.
ref: 2008, Linda Volonino, Reynaldo Anzaldua, Computer forensics for dummies, page 8:
glosses: An equivalent of something, in terms of computers.
conditional entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conditional entropies
Senses: examples: text: The conditional entropy of random variable Y given X (i.e., conditioned by X), denoted as H(Y#124;X), is equal to H(Y)-I(Y#59;X) where I(Y#59;X) is the mutual information between Y and X.
topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The portion of a random variable's own Shannon entropy which is independent from another, given, random variable.
Related terms: conditional probability
cathodoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more cathodoluminescent
form: most cathodoluminescent
Etymology: From cathode + -o- + luminescent.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting cathodoluminescence.
vyuntspakhkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vyuntspakh + -ite, after a mountain in Russia.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral comprising mostly aluminosilicates of yttrium, ytterbium and various lanthanides
vyomanauts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vyomanaut
thomasclarkite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Thomas Clark + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare earth mineral.
nonalkalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + alkalic.
Senses: glosses: Not alkalic.
abenakiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Abenaki + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral of sodium, cerium, neodymium, lanthanum, praseodymium, thorium, samarium, oxygen, sulfur, carbon, phosphorus, and silicon.
kukharenkoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kukharenko + -ite, after Russian mineralogist Alexander A. Kukharenko.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive mineral containing barium, cerium, and fluorine.
joint probability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: joint probabilities
Senses: glosses: The probability distribution of a random variable whose sample space is the Cartesian product of the sample spaces of its (at least two) component random variables.
examples: Given two events A and B in the same probability space with P(B)>0, the conditional probability of A given B is defined as the quotient of the unconditional joint probability of A and B, and the unconditional probability of B.ᵂᴾ
glosses: The probability that two events will occur simultaneously.
Related terms: joint entropy
conditional probability
Bedwardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bedwardites
Etymology: From Bedward + -ite.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of Bedwardism, the Jamaica Native Baptist Free Church.
Bedwardites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bedwardite
marginal distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marginal distributions
Senses: glosses: The projection of a joint probability distribution onto one of its component random variables.
wardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydrous sodium aluminium phosphate hydroxide mineral, of interest for its rare tetragonal trapezohedral crystallography.
mucilages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucilage
psylliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psyllium
coloradoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Colorado + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: mercury telluride.
howlite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A calcium borosilicate hydroxide found in evaporite deposits.
weddellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named for type locality Weddell Sea in Antarctica, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal mineral form of calcium oxalate.
wikipedia: Weddell Sea
weilite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Weil + -ite, after René Weil (1901–1983), professor of mineralogy at the University of Strasbourg.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare white triclinic arsenate mineral with waxy lustre.
wagnerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Wagner + -ite, after F. M. von Wagner (1768-1851), German mining official.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A combined phosphate and fluoride of iron and magnesium.
vishnevite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vishnevites
Etymology: From Vishnev + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: sulfatic cancrinite
vishnevites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vishnevite
euchroite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eu- + Ancient Greek χρώς (khrṓs) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green hydrated copper arsenate hydroxide mineral.
euchromatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euchromatin
sequenceability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sequence + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sequenceable.
indexability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From index + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being indexable.
sequenceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sequence + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a sequence.
kunzites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kunzite
spurrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spurrite
fukalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Fuka + -lite. From Japanese 布賀; from the Fuka mine in Bitchuu Province, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral comprising mostly calcium, oxygen, and silicon.
Coordinate terms: bicchulite
kinoshitalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kinoshita + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral containing barium, aluminium, magnesium, and silicon.
Derived terms: ferrokinoshitalite
painite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Pain + -ite, after British mineralogist Arthur C. D. Pain.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very rare orange-red borate mineral consisting mostly of calcium, zirconium, boron, aluminium, and oxygen.
rhodochrosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhodochrosite
triplite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare manganese-bearing phosphate mineral.
vaesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vaesites
Etymology: From Vaes + -ite. Named after Belgian mineralogist Johannes F. Vaes.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A nickel-sulfur mineral found with cattierite.
vaesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaesite
metatorbernite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + torbernite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive phosphate mineral, a dehydration pseudomorph of torbernite.
lanthanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lanthanites
Etymology: From lanthanum + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radioactive mineral, a carbonate of the rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, and neodymium.
lanthanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lanthanite
vauxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Vaux + -ite, after American mineral collector George Vaux Junior (1863-1927).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A phosphate mineral of the laueite–paravauxite group.
Related terms: metavauxite
paravauxite
valentinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic antimony oxide mineral.
veatchite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Veatch + -ite, after John Veatch.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A strontium borate mineral.
violarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A red-violet supergene sulfide mineral associated with the weathering and oxidation of primary pentlandite nickel sulfide ore minerals.
trevorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Trevor + -ite, after South African mining inspector Major Tudor Gruffydd Trevor.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very rare black nickeliferous mineral of the spinel group.
Minæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Minæan
form: most Minæan
Senses: examples: text: This alphabet, in which more than 2000 Minæan, Sabæan, Katabanian, and Hadramautian inscriptions are written, is likely to be as old as the other.
ref: 1914, New International Encyclopædia, Dodd, Mead and Company, second edition, Volume I., page 462:
glosses: Obsolete typography of Minaean.
Minæan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of Minaean.
Minæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Minæans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete typography of Minaean.
minability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mine + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Potential or suitability for mining.
baotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baotites
Etymology: From Baotou + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare tetragonal mineral with a unique fourfold silicate ring.
baotites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baotite
barrerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Barrer + -ite, after British teacher Richard Maling Barrer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white to pinkish tectosilicate zeolite mineral.
barreters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barreter