cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
irreplaceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + replaceable.
Senses: examples: text: For some purposes lead is unique and, apparently, irreplaceable. Battery plates may be an example of this.
ref: 1960, Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), The Commonwealth and Europe (page 182)
glosses: Incapable of being replaced, especially because of uniqueness or finiteness.
Derived terms: irreplaceability
irreplaceably
irreplaceableness
instantaneous velocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instantaneous velocities
Senses: glosses: The velocity of an object at any given instant (especially that of an accelerating object).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The limit of the change in position per unit time as the unit of time approaches zero; expressed mathematically as lim _(t→0)(Δx)/(Δt)
carmoisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: azorubine
Synonyms: E122 when used as a food colouring
azorubine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azorubines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a red azo dye used as a food colouring, mostly in baked goods
Synonyms: carmoisin
E122
ichnofossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪknəʊˌfɒsəl/
Forms: form: ichnofossils
Etymology: From ichno- + fossil.
Senses: examples: text: For example, an ichnofossil might be the preserved track an animal, or its burrow.
text: Suites of taphonomic factors that influence body fossils and ichnofossils are clearly not identical. Nonetheless, without too much twisting, ichnofossil-lagerstätten can be placed into the same genetic categories.
ref: 2007, Charles E. Savrda, “6: Taphonomy of Trace Fossils”, in William Miller, III, editor, Trace Fossils, Elsevier, page 106:
text: The only abundant ichnofossils are large and inclined structures in La Cancha Bed (Profile K), interpreted as mammal burrows.
ref: 2010, Eduardo S. Bellosi et al., “21: Ichnofacies Examination of the Sarmiento Formation”, in R. H. Madden, A. A. Carlini, M. G. Vucetich, R. F. Kay, editors, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca, Cambridge University Press, page 313:
text: Changes in the preservational environment in the thousands or millions of years between the creation of each set of prints results in these different forms of ichnofossil.
ref: 2017 March 22, Elsa Panciroli, “Walking in the footsteps of giants and gerbils: what fossil prints can tell us”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A trace fossil; a fossil record that preserves some activity of an organism, but no part of the organism itself.
Related terms: ichnoassemblage
ichnofacies
ichnology
ichnotaxon
trace fossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trace fossils
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
synonyms: ichnofossil
glosses: A type of fossil reflecting the reworking of sediments and hard substrates by organisms, rather than the physical remains of the organism itself. This includes structures such as burrows, trails, impressions, coprolites and borings.
ichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪkˈnɒləd͡ʒɪ/
Forms: form: ichnologies
Etymology: From ichno- + -logy.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A branch of paleontology concerned with the study of trace fossils such as footprints and burrows. Its subdisciplines include paleoichnology and neoichnology.
Derived terms: ichnologic
ichnological
ichnologist
ornithichnology
palaeoichnology
Related terms: ichnogram
ichneumon
palaeoichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palaeo- + ichnology.
Senses: examples: text: Palaeoichnology would indeed be refined if the originator of each series of trails could be determined as to species, following which normal biosystematic nomenclature would be available.
ref: 1970, T. P. Crimes, J. C. Harper, editors, Trace Fossils: Proceedings of an International Conference, page 324:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoichnology.
neoichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + ichnology.
Senses: glosses: A branch of ichnology concerned with the study of modern traces (such as burrows, trails, etc.) created by organisms on and within fresh sediments
Derived terms: neoichnologist
Related terms: neoichnological
palaeontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Literally tens of pence with an ammonoid fossil to highlight how bling bling the world of palaeontology has become
ref: 2016 November 9, Mark Carnall, “Is palaeontology a waste of public money?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paleontology.
Derived terms: palaeontologic
paleoichnology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoichnology
Etymology: From paleo- + ichnology.
Senses: examples: text: The evolutionary aspect of ecology which has started to develop due to studies of trace fossils will stay long the privilege of paleoichnology.
ref: 1984, Palaeontology: Proceedings of the 27th International Geological Congress: Invited Papers, Volume 2, International Geological Congress:
text: Paleoichnology is their historic equivalent—the study of ichnological evidence of animals of the past.
ref: 2003, Jose Louis Sanz, Starring T. Rex! Dinosaur Mythology and Popular Culture, Indiana University Press, page 8:
text: As far as I can discern for now, only a few of the lessons learned were readily applicable to mainstream neoichnology and paleoichnology, but no matter.
ref: 2004, Ichnology Newsletter, number 26, page 42:
text: This field is called paleoichnology, which means the study (ology) of ancient (paleo) footprints (ichnos). Despite its name, there's more to paleoichnology than footprints.
ref: 2006, Richard L. Orndorff, Robert W. Wieder, David G. Futey, “Geology Underfoot in Southern Utah”, in Mountain, Press Publishing, page 12:
text: The subjects of paleoichnology are trace fossils (also called ichnofossils), which are fossilized structures produced in substrates ranging from unlithified sediment to sedimentary rock or organic matter (including shell, bone, wood and peat) by the activity of organisms.
ref: 2017, Dirk Knaust, Atlas of Trace Fossils in Well Core, Springer, page 5:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A branch of ichnology concerned with the study of trace fossils preserved in ancient rocks.
Coordinate terms: neoichnology
Related terms: ichnofossil
trace fossil
retracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retract
retracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Withdrawn back and in, as the claws of a cat.
examples: text: My guess is that he substitutes a schwa sound for the retracted r in final position.
ref: 1987, Rex Burns, Suicide Season, Viking, →ISBN, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: backed
antonyms: advanced
fronted
glosses: Pronounced further back in the vocal tract.
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: text: Pale, retracted, that is, shortened. It is a French term, used when pales are borne cut off, either pendent from the chief, or issuant from the base, which should be particularly noticed in the blazon.
ref: 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica: Or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 1:
text: RETRACTED, said of charges when borne one shorter than another; as, three pales or palets issuant from the chief, retracted, that is, cut off bend ways, and hanging of different lengths.
ref: 1830, Thomas Robson (engraver.), The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Couped bendwise: cut off by a line diagonal to the main direction.
Derived terms: retracted tongue root
ichnofacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃiːz
Forms: form: ichnofacies
Etymology: From ichno- + facies.
Senses: glosses: A rock sequence whose defining characteristics include its lithology and the trace fossils contained within it, along with other biogenic structures.
Derived terms: ichnofacial
lithology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithologies
Etymology: From litho- + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of rocks, with particular emphasis on their description and classification.
examples: text: The ‘monomict’ meteorites are samples of a single lithology while the polymict meteorites are those containing two or more lithologies.
ref: 1983, Jeremy S. Delaney et al., “The Nomenclature of Polymict Basaltic Achondrites”, in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, volume 18, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: The general composition of a rock or rock sequence.
Derived terms: astrolithology
geolithology
lithologic
lithological
lithologically
lithologist
phytolithology
rock sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock sequences
Senses: glosses: A suite of rocks containing a variety of separate strata, with an overall lithology that can be used to interpret the paleoenvironment of deposition over a certain period.
paleoenvironment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪlioʊɪnˌvaɪɹə(n)mənt/
ipa: /-ˌvajəmənt/
ipa: /ˈpeɪlioʊɪnˌvaɪɚ(n)mənt/
Forms: form: paleoenvironments
form: palaeoenvironment
Etymology: From paleo- + environment.
Senses: glosses: The past environment of an area during a given period of its history.
Derived terms: paleoenvironmental
palaeoenvironment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeoenvironments
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleoenvironment.
Derived terms: palaeoenvironmental
ichnocoenosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ichnocoenoses
form: ichnocoenose
Etymology: From ichno- + coenosis.
Senses: glosses: A trace fossil assemblage, the progenitors of which all belonged to the same faunal community.
Related terms: ichnofacies
trace fossil
epifauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epifaunae
form: epifaunas
Etymology: From epi- + fauna.
Senses: glosses: The benthic fauna, i.e. the collection of sea animals living on the seafloor.
Derived terms: epifaunal
infauna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infaunas
form: infauna
form: infaunae
Senses: examples: text: Burrowing bivalves are infauna that filter-feed from within seafloor sediments.
glosses: Any aquatic organism that lives within the dominant medium of its environment, but especially within aquatic sediments
Derived terms: infaunal
macroinfauna
microinfauna
filter-feeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filter-feeders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of filter feeder.
-aria
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of -arium
-ina
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Italian -ina and its etymon Classical Latin -īna. In some instances perhaps also partly via Spanish -ina.
Senses: examples: text: Here are the male spider and the female spider (which shall be named “spiderina” in this article), both of the species of the garden spider. The former is only two-thirds of the size of Miss Spiderina.
ref: 1915 May, Wilhelm Boelsche, translated by Rheamars Dredenov, “The Love Adventures of the Spider”, in Charles H[ope] Kerr, editor, The International Socialist Review, volume XV, number 11, Chicago, Ill.: Charles H. Kerr & Company, page 659, column 2:
text: I HAVE PROBABLY INVENTED THE PROFESSION OF LAWYERINA
ref: 2015, Jim Benton, “Thursday 12”, in Live Each Day to the Dumbest (Dear Dumb Diary: Year Two), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic Inc., →ISBN:
text: Gobta and his attackers turned around to find a goblina staring them down—a fighter, judging by her muddy red hair. […] Hobgoblins of either gender were high-level creatures capable of language, far more intelligent than their goblin relatives.
ref: 2017, Fuse, translated by Kevin Gifford, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Yen Press, LLC, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of -ine (forming feminine nouns).
glosses: Used to form names of musical instruments.
subtribe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtribes
Etymology: From sub- + tribe. In taxonomy, a semantic loan from New Latin subtribus.
Senses: examples: text: This leaves for consideration of this group of small tribes, or subtribes, so far as mapped by the writer quoted, the Teule, Cazcan, and Tecuexe.
ref: 1911, Cyrus Thomas, Indian Languages of Mexico and Central America:
glosses: A tribe making up part of a larger tribe.
examples: text: The tempo of evolution in South American hamsters was very rapid – in the course of the Pliocene and Anthropocene 40 genera were formed here, at which time a series of them attained the level of tribe and subtribe (Oxymycteri, Phyllotiini, Ichthyomyini).
ref: 1960, Doklady. Biological Sciences Sections, volumes 132–135, Washington, D.C.: American Institute of Biological Sciences, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 640, column 2:
text: Brieger and his associates first divide the subtribe Epidendrinae […] into what could be called series, distinguishing four such series in the subtribe.
ref: 1993, Carl L. Withner, The Cattleyas and Their Relatives: A Book in Six Parts:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: subtribus
glosses: A taxonomic category ranking below tribe.
Celts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Celt
J/psi particle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: J/psi particles
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A subatomic particle with an unusually long lifetime and a large mass; a bound state of a charm quark and an anti-charm quark.
Synonyms: J/psi meson
J
ψ particle
psi particle
scrutinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹuːtɨnaɪz/
enpr: skro͞otʹn-īz
ipa: /ˈskɹutn̩ˌaɪz/
Forms: form: scrutinizes
form: scrutinizing
form: scrutinized
form: scrutinized
form: scrutinise
Etymology: From scrutiny + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: to scrutinize the conduct or motives of individuals
text: whose votes they were obliged to scrutinize
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
text: Those pronounced him youngest who scrutinized his face the closest.
ref: 1879, George Washington Cable, Old Creole Days:
glosses: To examine something with great care or detail, as to look for hidden or obscure flaws.
glosses: To audit accounts etc in order to verify them.
Related terms: inscrutable
scrutineer
scrutiny
null hypothesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null hypotheses
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A hypothesis set up to be nullified or refuted in order to support an alternative hypothesis. When used, the null hypothesis is presumed true until statistical evidence in the form of a hypothesis test indicates otherwise. Therefore, the null and the alternative hypothesis must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
Related terms: alternative hypothesis
respecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: respecters
form: respector
Etymology: From respect + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For these two were old friends, old mates both at school and college, both thorough respecters of themselves and each other..
ref: 1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 2, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: One who regards or judges with partiality; one who respects.
glosses: A person who respects someone or something; usually used in the negative; "X is no respecter of Y".
Derived terms: respecter of persons
philatelically inspired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Produced by the postal authorities, but intended for stamp collectors rather than normal postage usage.
glosses: Being a normal postal item, altered or enhanced in some way, to increase its appeal to collectors: first day covers, first flight covers, etc.
sitootery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sitooteries
form: sitooterie
Etymology: From sit + oot + -ery, perhaps modelled on conservatory.
Senses: glosses: A small patio or sheltered area outside a house suitable for sitting in for relaxation or socialising.
saeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪtə/
ipa: /ˈsɛ-/
ipa: /ˈseɪtɚ/
ipa: /ˈsɛ-/
ipa: [-ɾɚ]
homophone: satyr (GA pronunciation)
homophone: setter (one pronunciation)
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: saeters
form: säter
form: saether
form: sæter
form: seter
Etymology: Borrowed from:
* Norwegian Nynorsk sæter (obsolete spelling), seter, and Norwegian Bokmål seter, from Old Norse sætr, setr (“dairy lands, mountain pastures; residence, seat; setting (of the sun)”); and
* Swedish säter (“mountain pastures”);
all from Proto-Germanic *sitjaną (“to sit”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”). The English word is a doublet of sit.
Senses: glosses: A Scandinavian mountainside meadow used during the summer for grazing milking cows or goats.
glosses: A barn, cabin, dairy, or farm located in such a meadow.
glosses: A meadow, especially one used for grazing that is attached to a dwelling.
Related terms: shieling
first day cover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: first day covers
form: first-day cover
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
synonyms: word: FDC
coordinate_terms: second day cover
glosses: A letter or card with a new stamp, postmarked on the day that the stamp was first issued.
respecter of persons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: respecters of persons
Etymology: Probably originally from Acts 10:34 in the King James Version of the Bible, translating Koine Greek προσωπολήμπτης (prosōpolḗmptēs).
Senses: examples: text: Be careful: a hurricane is no respecter of persons.
text: Then Peter opened his mouth, and ſaid, Of a trueth I perceiue þᵗ God is no reſpecter of perſons:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 10:34:
glosses: Someone who treats people according to their rank, status or importance.
wikipedia: Acts_10#Peter_preaches_to_the_Gentiles_(10:34—43)
King James Version
Synonyms: word: accepter
Related terms: have respect of persons
postally used
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Of a postage stamp, cancelled in the normal course of postal business, rather than to devalue it for sale to collectors.
Related terms: cancelled to order
canceled to order
remaindered
anti-up quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-up quarks
Etymology: From anti- + up quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiquark corresponding to the up quark.
anti-down quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-down quarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiquark corresponding to the down quark.
anti-charm quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-charm quarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiquark corresponding to the charm quark.
anti-strange quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-strange quarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiquark corresponding to the strange quark.
Synonyms: strange antiquark
anti-top quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-top quarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the antiquark corresponding to the top quark.
anti-bottom quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-bottom quarks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The antiquark corresponding to the bottom quark.
anti-beauty quark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anti-beauty quarks
Etymology: From anti- + beauty quark.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The anti-bottom quark.
Kaffir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kaffirs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of kaffir.
bound state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bound states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A composite of two or more particles that behaves as a single particle.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: annexed state
antonyms: absolute state
unbound state
glosses: In Berber languages, a marked form of a noun, varying in usage cases per specific language but chiefly characterized by its being used for untopicalized subjects of sentences – default word order being VSO.
mission mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mission mixes
Senses: synonyms: mission mixture
glosses: Bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
Related terms: kiloware
bank mix
Jahn-Teller effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jahn-Teller effects
Etymology: From Hermann Arthur Jahn and Edward Teller.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A distortion of any symmetric non-linear molecule which reduces its symmetry and lowers its energy.
wikipedia: Edward Teller
Hermann Arthur Jahn
matter-of-fact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matter-of-fact
form: most matter-of-fact
Etymology: From matter of fact.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to facts only; literal, realistic.
glosses: Lacking emotion or color.
examples: text: The students appreciated the health teacher for her matter-of-fact way of talking about sex.
glosses: Straightforward, blunt, frank; treating the situation as normal; not embarrassed, coy, or dramatic.
Derived terms: matter-of-factish
matter-of-factly
matter-of-factness
non-linear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonlinear.
mission mixture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mission mix
Senses: glosses: bulk stamps which include duplication accumulated by missions and charities, then sold to the collecting trade.
Related terms: kiloware
bank mixture
nonlinear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-linear
Etymology: From non- + linear.
Senses: glosses: Not lying on a straight line.
raw_tags: of a set of points
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Whose atoms do not lie in a straight line.
raw_tags: of a molecule
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having a product of independent variables, or a variable with an exponent not equal to one.
raw_tags: of a function
glosses: Whose output is not directly proportional to its input.
raw_tags: of a system
examples: text: a film with a nonlinear plot
glosses: Erratic and unpredictable; tending to jump back and forth.
Derived terms: nonlinear editing
nonlinear editor
nonlinearity
nonlinearization
nonlinearize
nonlinearly
bank mix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: bulk stamps collected by banks and other large businesses, then sold to the collecting trade to raise funds for charities.
Related terms: mission mix
kiloware
go to Canossa
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to Canossa
form: going to Canossa
form: went to Canossa
form: gone to Canossa
Etymology: From the repentance of Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV to Pope Gregory VII after his excommunication for appointing bishops.
Senses: glosses: To submit to the pope.
glosses: To show humility, to be humbled.
manhunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌhʌnt/
Forms: form: manhunts
Etymology: From man + hunt.
Senses: examples: text: After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
glosses: An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
examples: text: Manhunt is a variant of hide-and-seek, she tells me. One person is the seeker. Everyone else hides. If the seeker finds you, you become a seeker, too.
ref: 2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2019:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A variant of hide and seek in which a player who is caught by the seeker themselves becomes a seeker, and the final player remaining is declared the winner.
Derived terms: manhunter
manhunting
womanhunt
looney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: loony
loonie
luny
Forms: form: more looney
form: most looney
Etymology: At least from 1829.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loony.
looney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: loony
loonie
luny
Forms: form: looneys
Etymology: At least from 1829.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of loony.
expanded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspændɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expand
sobriety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbɹaɪ.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /səˈbɹaɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: [səˈbɹaɪ.ə.ɾi]
ipa: /səˈbɹɑɪ.ə.ti/
ipa: [səˈbɹɑɪ.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -aɪɪti
Forms: form: sobrieties
Etymology: From Old French sobriete, from Latin sobrietas.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being sober.
The quality or state of not being intoxicated.
glosses: The quality or state of being sober.
The quality or state of being grave or earnestly thoughtful.
glosses: The quality or state of being sober.
The state or quality of being unhurried; a state of calm.
glosses: The quality or state of being sober.
A state of moderation or seriousness.
glosses: The quality or state of being sober.
Modesty in color or style.
glosses: Soundness of judgment.
Synonyms: sense: quality or state of not being intoxicated
word: soberness
word: drunkenness#Antonyms
Derived terms: field sobriety test
insobriety
postal forgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postal forgeries
Senses: glosses: A forged stamp intended to defraud the post office, rather than defrauding stamp collectors.
philatelic forgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philatelic forgeries
Senses: glosses: A forged stamp intended to defraud stamp collectors, rather than the postal authorities.
discharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discharge
discharging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dischargings
Senses: examples: text: From the magnificent ejaculation of the Waimangu geyser, to the tiniest of gaseous emissions, descriptions of the thermal reserve were rife with dischargings, bubblings and stinkings, quiverings and palpitations, orifices and protuberances.
ref: 2013, Phaedra. C Pezzullo, Cultural Studies and Environment, Revisited, page 42:
glosses: The act or process by which something is discharged.
flash memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flash memories
Senses: topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A rewritable memory chip that retains its data without a power supply.
Related terms: ROM
RAM
EEPROM
NVRAM
vomiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vomit
vomiting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vomitings
Senses: examples: text: Epilepsies, or fallings and reelings, and beastly vomitings. The least of these, even when the tongue begins to be untied, is a degree of drunkenness.
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […], →OCLC:
text: It is certainly probable that these black vomitings and stools may be absent, and in that case it would be extremely difficult to diagnose between simple ulcer of the stomach and non-ulcerative gastritis.
ref: 1856, William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone, The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: emesis
glosses: The act of one who vomits, or the matter that is vomited.
Synonyms: purging
throwing up
vomit
Derived terms: bilious vomiting syndrome
coffee ground vomiting
cyclical vomiting syndrome
cyclic vomiting syndrome
Jamaican vomiting sickness
winter vomiting disease
Greg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡɹɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛɡ
Senses: examples: text: Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who seemingly made fun of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, is now claiming that her comments referring to him as "Governor Hot Wheels" while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles on Saturday were not about Abbott's disability, but rather "his terrible policies."
ref: 2025 March 26, Lalee Ibssa and Jon Haworth, “Rep. Jasmine Crockett defends 'Governor Hot Wheels' comments about Abbott amid censure threat”, in ABC News:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Gregory or Gregor, from English or Scottish (sometimes derived from the surname Greig).
salt marsh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salt marshes
form: saltmarsh
Etymology: From Middle English saltmarsh, saltmerssh, saltmersch, saltmerch, saltmersk, equivalent to salt + marsh.
Senses: examples: text: After a succession of short runs through the salt marshes and vineyards of Languedoc, linking together many towns of considerable size, the "Catalan" joins the P.L.M. main line at Tarascon, [...].
ref: 1961 December, H. G. Ellison, P. G. Barlow, “Journey through France: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 750:
glosses: A marsh of saline water, found in the intertidal zone between land and sea, characterized by halophytic plants such as grasses and sedges adapted to periodic flooding with salt water.
Synonyms: salting
Derived terms: salt-marsh caterpillar
salt marsh elder
salt-marsh hen
salt marsh moth
salt-marsh terrapin
hating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hate
hating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈheɪtɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: hatred
Derived terms: manhating
womanhating
chives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: plural of chive
chives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Forms: form: chive
Senses: glosses: The leaves of the perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, used as a herb.
chives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃaɪvz/
rhymes: -aɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chive
chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkənz/
rhymes: -ɪkənz
Senses: glosses: plural of chicken
chickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkɪnz/
ipa: /ˈt͡ʃɪkənz/
rhymes: -ɪkənz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chicken
checks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛks/
homophone: cheques
homophone: Czechs
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: examples: text: There are seven checks left in the book.
glosses: plural of check
checks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɛks/
homophone: cheques
homophone: Czechs
rhymes: -ɛks
Senses: examples: text: He checks the bin for more potatoes.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of check
charts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chart
charts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chart
claiming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: It isn't that they are claiming they are right; they are claiming you are wrong.
glosses: present participle and gerund of claim
claiming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkleɪmɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪmɪŋ
Forms: form: claimings
Senses: examples: text: He had many wars; inextricable coil of claimings, quarrellings and agreeings […]
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia Called Frederick the Great:
glosses: The act of making a claim.
frisket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friskets
Etymology: Borrowed from French frisquette.
Senses: examples: text: And while the Tympan is coming, he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it, as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position, as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder
ref: 1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published 1678–1683, →OCLC:
text: As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
ref: 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
bacne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbækni/
rhymes: -ækni
Etymology: Blend of back + acne. Equivalent to back + -ne.
Senses: glosses: Acne on the back.
cleanups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleanup
closes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊzɪz/
ipa: /ˈkləʊzɪz/
rhymes: (General American) -oʊzɪz
rhymes: (Received Pronunciation) -əʊzɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of close
closes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkloʊsɪz/
ipa: /ˈkləʊsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of close
philodendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philodendrons
form: philodendra
Etymology: From New Latin philodendron, from Ancient Greek φῐλόδενδρον (phĭlódendron), neuter of φῐλόδενδρος (phĭlódendros, “loving trees”). First known use: 1877.
Senses: glosses: Any of several climbing plants, of the genus Philodendron, native to America and the West Indies that are often grown as house plants.
cloying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cloy
cloying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɔɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪɪŋ
Forms: form: more cloying
form: most cloying
Etymology: By surface analysis, cloy + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
text: It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
ref: August 16 2014, Daniel Taylor, "Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk
glosses: Unpleasantly excessive.
examples: text: Oliver (Barry Keoghan): I don't normally like chocolate cake. / Elspeth (Rosamund Pike): Yes, it can be cloying, can't it?
ref: 2023, Emerald Fennell, 1:38:29 from the start, in Saltburn:
glosses: Excessively sweet.
Synonyms: word: unpleasantly excessive
sense: excessively sweet
word: syrupy
sense: excessively sweet
word: treacly
sense: excessively sweet
word: oversweet
sense: excessively sweet
word: saccharine
Derived terms: cloyingly
cloyingness
noncloying
uncloying
Related terms: clove
clusters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌstɚz/
ipa: /ˈklʌstəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster
clusters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌstɚz/
ipa: /ˈklʌstəz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cluster
coasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of coast
coasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of coast
coasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coastings
Senses: examples: text: Glory be to God, all sublunary coastings will soon be over. Yet a little while, and we shall get into an eternal harbour.
ref: 1772, A Select Collection of Letters of the Late Reverend George Whitefield, page 390:
text: She had been lying quietly in the harbour and making little coasting trips ever since we arrived in her twelve months before.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 125:
glosses: The act of sailing along a coast, or from port to port.
examples: text: Avanti West Coast has introduced the use of coasting with its Pendolino fleet, in an effort to keep disruption during overhead line equipment failures to a minimum. [...] The Class 390s coasted for three miles without power between Harrow & Wealdstone and Wembley Central, running under damaged OLE.
ref: 2020 September 23, “Network News: AWC employs coasting to minimise disruption”, in Rail, page 26:
glosses: The act of disengaging the gears of a moving vehicle and rolling along without the use of engine power.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A progression of symptoms after treatment, before gradual improvement begins.
Derived terms: coasting trade
coasting vessel
coasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊsts/
ipa: /kəʊsts/
rhymes: -oʊsts
rhymes: -əʊsts
Senses: glosses: plural of coast
coasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /koʊsts/
ipa: /kəʊsts/
rhymes: -oʊsts
rhymes: -əʊsts
Senses: examples: text: He just coasts through life like it doesn't mean a thing.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coast
cocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏkt
ipa: /kɑkt/
ipa: /kɒkt/
homophone: caulked (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒkt
Senses: examples: text: He is totally cocked right now, about thirteen beers into his 12-pack.
glosses: Drunk.
examples: text: The large-cocked man entered the meeting room.
glosses: Having a specified form of penis or a specific number of penises.
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: Of a firearm or crossbow; to have the cock lifted or prepared to be fired.
topics: games
gaming
glosses: Of a die: having landed in a tilted position, rather than flat.
Synonyms: sense: drunk
word: drunk
sense: specified form of penis
word: bedicked
sense: specified form of penis
word: bepenised
sense: specified form of penis
word: dicked
sense: specified form of penis
word: penised
sense: specified form of penis
word: phallused
Derived terms: cocked hat
cocked-up
go off half-cocked
half-cocked
cocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏkt
ipa: /kɑkt/
ipa: /kɒkt/
homophone: caulked (cot–caught merger)
rhymes: -ɒkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cock
coercers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coercer
coerces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He coerces people into things they would never do for anyone else.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coerce
cognates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cognate
colleagues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑliɡz/
ipa: /ˈkɒliːɡz/
Senses: glosses: plural of colleague
colleagues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑliɡz/
ipa: /ˈkɒliːɡz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colleague
colleges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑləd͡ʒɪz/
ipa: /ˈkɒlɪd͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of college
combines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑm.baɪnz/
ipa: /kəmˈbaɪnz/
Senses: examples: text: We have eighteen combines in the field at any given time.
glosses: plural of combine
combines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑm.baɪnz/
ipa: /kəmˈbaɪnz/
Senses: examples: text: He combines the best of classical music with the excitement of the modern sound.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of combine
tearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tear
tearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Senses: examples: a tearing great giant of a man
glosses: enormous; of great size or impact
examples: text: a tearing hurry
text: The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: very hasty
tearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Forms: form: tearings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is torn; a laceration.
examples: text: Even in this case, tearing still results if the swap occurs in the middle of a refresh cycle.
ref: 2003, David P. Luebke, Level of detail for 3D graphics, page 303:
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Distortion of an animated display when the contents of the framebuffer are rendered while it contains portions of two or more frames.
Derived terms: display tearing
hot tearing
screen tearing
tearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
ipa: /ˈtɪə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɪɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹɪŋ
ipa: /ˈtɛə.ɹɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛəɹɪŋ
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: continuous shedding of tears; epiphora
Cameron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/
Etymology: An anglicization of Irish Ó Cumaráin, Ó Cumráin (“descendant of *Cumrán”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Cameron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæm(ə)ɹən/
Etymology: Perhaps from Pictish *cam (“crooked”) + *brun (“hill”).
Senses: glosses: A parish of Fife, Scotland.
commemorating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of commemorate
commented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑmɛntɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɒmɛntɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of comment
commenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comment
commenting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commentings
Senses: examples: 1921?, E. F. Benson, Our Family Affairs
That eager reverence was like a lover's adoration: his interpretations might be fanciful, and such as he would never have made in any other commentings, but here his search for hidden meanings in simple phrases had just that quality […]
glosses: The making of a comment; commentary.
instant message
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instant messages
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A message conveyed through an instant messaging program.
Derived terms: IM
Related terms: direct message
private message
instant message
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instant messages
form: instant messaging
form: instant messaged
form: instant messaged
Senses: topics: communication
communications
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convey a message via an instant messaging program.
Derived terms: IM
commissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The admiral will be commissioning the new destroyer in a few minutes.
glosses: present participle and gerund of commission
commissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commissionings
Senses: examples: text: The destroyer's commissioning will be held on February 1st.
text: It was taken out of passenger service in early 2013, for conversion into a test bed for the commissioning of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS) on the Hertford Loop and elsewhere.
ref: 2023 February 22, Howard Johnston, “Southern '313s': is the end now in sight?”, in RAIL, number 977, page 43:
glosses: The process of assuring that all systems and components of a major piece of equipment, a process, a building or similar are designed, installed and tested according to the operational requirements of the owner or final client.
Derived terms: precommissioning
commissions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of commission
commissions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of commission
common nouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common noun
trencherman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trenchermen
Senses: examples: text: The heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. . . . Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops.
ref: 1954 June 28, “Sport: Bumbling Champ”, in Time:
text: My own preference when it comes to a substantial meal might be more than just a scotch egg but that’s because I’m a hearty trencherman.
ref: 2020 December 1, “Scotch egg ‘starter’ rather than substantial meal”, in msn.com:
glosses: Alternative form of trencher-man.
communities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪtiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of community
cretic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiː.tɪk/
Forms: form: cretick
form: creticke
Etymology: From Latin creticus, "of Crete, Cretan", from Latin Creta, "Crete".
Senses: glosses: Using or relating to a metrical pattern of poetry where each foot is composed of three syllables, the first and third of which are stressed and the second is unstressed. This pattern is very rare in English poetry.
cretic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹiː.tɪk/
Forms: form: cretics
form: cretick
form: creticke
Etymology: From Latin creticus, "of Crete, Cretan", from Latin Creta, "Crete".
Senses: examples: text: The foote of a verſe, is a meaſure of two ſillables, or of three, diſtinguiſhed by time which is eyther long or ſhort. […] A ſoote^([sic]) of 3. ſillables in like ſorte is either ſimple or myxt. […] The mixt is of 6. diuers ſortes, […] 5. Creticus of a long, a ſhort, and a long, ﹘⏑﹘ daungerous.
ref: [1586, VVilliam VVebbe, edited by Edward Arber, A Diſcourſe of Engliſh Poetrie (English Reprints), Westminster: A. Constable & Co., published 1895, page 69:
text: And if it be true as Pindarus ſaith, Terpander was the inventour of thoſe ſongs called Scolia, which were ſung at feaſts. Archilochus alſo adjoined thoſe rhymes or Iambicke meaſures called Trimetra: the tranſlation alſo and change into other number and meaſures of a different kinde, yea, and the maner how to touch and ſtrike them. Moreover, unto him, as firſt inventour, are attributed the Epodes, Tetrameter, Iambicks, Procritique and Proſodiacks; as alſo, the augmentation of the firſt, yea, and as ſome thinke, the Elegie it ſelfe: over and beſides, the intenſion of Iambus unto Pæan Epibatos, & of the Herous augmented both unto the Proſodiaque & alſo the Creticke.
ref: 1603, Philemon Holland, Of Muſicke. A Dialogue. The perſons therein diſcourſing: Oneſicrates, Soterichus, Lyſias. (chapter 68, pages 1,248–1,263), in The Philoſophie, commonlie called, The Morals written by the learned Philoſopher Plutarch of Chæronea, London: Arnold Hatfield, translation of Περὶ μουσικῆς [Perì mousikês] by pseudo-Plutarch (in Koine Greek), page 1,257, lines 7–14:
roman: Perì mousikês
glosses: A verse of this kind.
Synonyms: amphimacer