cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Phryne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φρύνη (Phrúnē), from φρύνη (phrúnē, “toad”), a nickname often given to prostitutes of the time.
Senses: examples: text: The suffrages were recently divided between Mademoiselle Lange and Madame Tallien — the Helen and Phryne of the nation.
ref: 1797, "Anthony Pasquin" (John Williams), The Pin-Basket to the Children of Thespis: With Notes Historical, Critical and Biographical, page 91:
text: But in the first of these instances, an impediment may be supposed to be insurmountable, which Dryden has only surmounted by the substitution of matchless beauties of his own! He wins his cause, like Phryne pleading before the Areopagus.
ref: 1835, Selections from the Edinburgh Review, page 354:
text: The Roman-period stories that circulated about Phryne have to do with her beauty, her nudity, and her forwardness.[…]Alciphron also crafts a letter that Phryne writes to Praxiteles; in it, Phryne toys with the theological implications of Praxiteles' use of her as a model for Aphrodite, and her statuary appearance at a sanctuary to Eros at Thespiai.
ref: 2010, Laura Salah Nasrallah, Christian Responses to Roman Art and Architecture: The Second-Century Church Amid the Spaces of Empire, page 261:
glosses: An Ancient Greek courtesan of the 4th century BC, reputedly the model for Praxiteles' Aphrodite of Cnidus and famously tried for the capital charge of impiety, during which trial she allegedly bared her breasts before the judges.
wikipedia: Gustave Boulanger
Jean-Léon Gérôme
hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: plural of hook
hooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʊks/
rhymes: -ʊks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hook
calmer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmə/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: calmers
Etymology: From calm (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Christ was the calmer of a storm on the Sea of Galilee.
glosses: A person or thing that calms.
calmer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmə/
ipa: /ˈkɑmɚ/
rhymes: -ɑːmə(ɹ)
Etymology: From calm (adjective) + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of calm: more calm
cutchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutcheries
form: cutcherry
form: katcheri
form: katcherry
form: kacheri
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cutcherry (administration office)
cutchery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutcherry
form: katcheri
form: katcherry
form: kacheri
Senses: glosses: A spice: kitchery.
glosses: An Indian dish of rice boiled with split pulse, onions, eggs, butter, and condiments
glosses: Alternative spelling of kedgeree (dish of fish, rice and eggs)
hostesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hostess
hoaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoax
hoaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hoax
hoaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hoax
hoaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoaxings
Senses: examples: text: What Gundling thought to himself, amid these pranks and hoaxings, we do not know. The poor soul was not born a fool; though he had become one, by college-learning, vanity, strong-drink, and the world's perversity and his own.
ref: 1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II of Prussia, called Frederick the Great:
glosses: The perpetration of a hoax.
alkenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alkenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any unsaturated aliphatic ketone
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any long-chain di-, tri- and tetra- unsaturated methyl and ethyl ketones that are synthesized by a limited number of haptophyte microalgae; the degree of unsaturation is a function of the water temperature
Related terms: alkanone
microalga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microalgae
Etymology: From micro- (“small”) + alga.
Senses: glosses: Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.
Synonyms: phytoplankton
Derived terms: microalgal
macroalga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroalgae
Etymology: From macro- + alga.
Senses: glosses: Large algae, often living attached in dense beds, such as kelp.
Derived terms: macroalgal
haptophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptophytes
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Haptophyta. By surface analysis, hapto- (“binding”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A kind of unicellular marine phytoplankton, typically covered in tiny scales or plates composed of carbohydrates and calcium deposits
Derived terms: haptophytic
Related terms: word: coccolith
alt: DMS
word: dimethyl sulfide
word: hydrophyte
word: phytoplankton
haptonema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haptonemas
form: haptonemata
Etymology: From hapto- + -nema.
Senses: glosses: In haptophytes, a peg-like organelle attached near the flagella and unique to the group. May function in attachment, feeding, or avoidance responses.
Related terms: Haptophyta
haptophyte
cytopathologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytopathologists
Etymology: From cyto- + pathologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist whose speciality is cytopathology.
alabado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alabados
Etymology: From Spanish alabado.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: A Mexican Catholic devotional hymn.
cytopathology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytopathologies
Etymology: From cyto- + pathology.
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: cytohistopathology
text: Immune serum could block the cytopathology; a heatlabile factor was required.
ref: 2018, Douglas P. Fine, Complement Infectious Diseases:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
pathology
sciences
hypernyms: pathology
coordinate_terms: histopathology
;
cytology
glosses: The branch of pathology that deals with abnormalities of cells, independently of the tissue architecture from which they came, as for example in aspiration biopsy such as fine-needle aspiration.
Related terms: exfoliative cytology
aliene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alienes
form: aliening
form: aliened
form: aliened
Etymology: Variant of alien (“to alienate”).
Senses: examples: text: to aliene an estate
glosses: To alienate; to transfer (a title or property).
dopeheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dopehead
druggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of druggie
cephalosporins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cephalosporin
alumbrado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alumbrados
form: alombrado
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alumbrado (“illuminated”).
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of a mystical form of Christianity in Spain during the 15th and 16th centuries.
smacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smack
smacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of smack
smacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of smack
smacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smackings
Senses: examples: children who received regular smackings
glosses: A series of smacks; the act by which somebody is smacked.
smacking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Ashiepattle said it was something like a whistle, and it was really no bid at all for it, but for her sake he wouldn't mind selling it to her, if she would give him three hundred dollars and a smacking kiss for each dollar in the bargain.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 177:
glosses: That resounds with a loud smack or series of smacks.
cubical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjubɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjʉːbɪkəl/
ipa: /ˈkjʉːbəkəl/
homophone: cubicle
Forms: form: more cubical
form: most cubical
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cube; cubic.
Derived terms: cubically
cubicalness
cubitainer
noncubical
semicubical
subcubical
Related terms: cubicle
amaine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: So likewiſe turnde the Prince vpon the Knight, / And layd at him amaine with all his will and might.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 27, page 430:
text: [T]he Queene o'th Skie [ i.e., Juno], / Whoſe watry Arch, and meſſenger, am I. / Bids thee leaue theſe, & with her ſoueraigne grace, / Here on this graſſe-plot, in this very place / To come, and ſport: here [i.e., her] Peacocks flye amaine: / Approach, rich Ceres, her to entertaine.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 2:
text: For they both ſay and beleeue that this picture hath ſo great vertue, as alſo that of Padua, whereof I haue before ſpoken, that whenſoeuer it is carried abroad in a ſolemne proceſſion in the time of a great drougth, it will cauſe raine to deſcend from heauen either before it is brought backe into the Church, or very ſhortly after. […] I cannot be induced to attribute ſo much to the vertue of a picture, as the Venetians do, except I had ſeene ſome notable miracle wrought by the ſame. For it brought no drops at all with it: onely about two dayes after it rained (I muſt needes confeſſe) amaine. But I hope they are not ſo ſuperſtitious to aſcribe that to the vertue of the picture.
ref: 1611, Thomas Coryate [i.e., Thomas Coryat], “My Obseruations of the Most Glorious, Peerelesse, and Mayden Citie of Venice: […]”, in Coryats Crudities Hastily Gobled Vp in Five Moneths Trauells […], London: […] W[illiam] S[tansby for the author], →OCLC, pages 214–215:
text: And rearing Lindis [a river] backward pressed / Shook all her trembling bankes amaine; / Then madly at the eygre's breast / Flung uppe her weltring walls again.
ref: 1863, Jean Ingelow, “The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire. (1571.)”, in Poems, London: Longmans, Green, Reader, & Dyer, →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of amain.
smacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of smack
cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cubist
form: most cubist
Etymology: See Cubist.
Senses: examples: text: They sat on cubist sofas in full evening dress and allowed us to hand them thimbles of cherry brandy and to talk to them about their poetry.
ref: 1918 February (date written), Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Je ne parle pas français”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cubist.
Derived terms: cubistic
precubist
cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubists
Etymology: See Cubist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Cubist.
cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubists
Etymology: From cube + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] as far as I know there is no standard word describing the art of playing with the cube. Cubing? Cubistics? Rubikonomia? or perhaps Rubikomania? Can the science (or art) of doing it be called “cubology”, as suggested by Scientific American? Some enthusiasts borrow “cubism” and call themselves “cubists”, all very reminiscent of the 1920s three dimensional, modern art phase.
ref: [1982 March 18, Stephan Sulyak, “Review: The magic cube (A Büvös Kocka)”, in New Scientist, volume 93, number 1297, →ISSN, page 734:
text: Being a new reader of this group and a novice cubist, I'm not familiar with either of these notations. Would someone please fill me in? Thanks in advance for the help.
ref: 1992 May 5, SH...@slacvm.slac.stanford.edu, “Re: God's algorithm again for Rubiks Cube, was Re: combinatorial puzzl”, in rec.puzzles (Usenet):
synonyms: Rubik's cubist
glosses: A player of Rubik's cube; a cuber.
Cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːbɪst/
ipa: /ˈkjubəst/
Forms: form: Cubists
form: cubist
Senses: examples: text: To the world at large, relativity seemed to pull the rug out from under perceived reality. And for many advanced thinkers of the 1920s, from Dadaists to Cubists to Freudians, that was a fitting credo, reflecting what science historian David Cassidy calls "the incomprehensiveness of the contemporary scene--the fall of monarchies, the upheaval of the social order, indeed, all the turbulence of the 20th century."
ref: 1999 December 27, Frederic Golden, “Albert Einstein (1879-1955): Person of the century”, in CNN:
topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist who works in the style of cubism.
Derived terms: post-Cubist
Cubist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkjuːbɪst/
ipa: /ˈkjubəst/
Forms: form: cubist
Senses: examples: text: Her most notable feature is her eyes, which are distinctly uneven—the left one is a good quarter-inch higher than the right. Despite this Cubist touch, Shannen's face is particularly inexpressive.
ref: 1993 November 24, Lynn Hirschberg, “Brat on a Hot Tin Roof”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: Of, or pertaining to cubism.
Derived terms: post-Cubist
fluoroquinolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluoroquinolone
cullender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cullenders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colander.
cytoplasmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪtə(ʊ)ˈplazmɪk/
rhymes: -æzmɪk
Etymology: From cytoplasm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The fourth type of hybrid, the kind being developed in British universities, is called cytoplasmic. It is created by transferring the nuclei of human cells, such as skin cells, into animal eggs from which almost all the genetic information has been removed.
ref: 2008 May 19, David Batty, The Guardian:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cytoplasm.
Derived terms: anticytoplasmic
cybrid
cytoplasmically
cytoplasmic determinant
cytoplasmic membrane
cytoplasmic polyhedrosis virus
cytoplasmic streaming
endocytoplasmic
exocytoplasmic
extracytoplasmic
granulocytoplasmic
intracytoplasmic
noncytoplasmic
nucleocytoplasmic
pancytoplasmic
pericytoplasmic
transcytoplasmic
antineoplastics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antineoplastic
cystic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪstɪk/
rhymes: -ɪstɪk
Etymology: From Middle French cystique, from Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a cyst.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the gall bladder or the urinary bladder.
Derived terms: abdominocystic
adenocystic
adenoid cystic carcinoma
cystically
cystic duct
cystic fibrosis
cystic mastitis
cystic worm
endocystic
extracystic
fibrocystic
glomerulocystic
hematocystic
hepatocystic
hysterocystic
intercystic
intracystic
macrocystic
microcystic
monocystic
multicystic
nasocystic
nodulocystic
noncystic
pericystic
polycystic
precystic
semicystic
transcystic
unicystic
cynically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪn.ɪk.(ə.)li/
Forms: form: more cynically
form: most cynically
Etymology: From cynical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a cynical manner
quinolones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinolone
amparo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amparos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish amparo.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In some Hispanic jurisdictions (such as Mexico) a writ or an appeal demanding or seeking the protection of constitutional rights similar to a habeas corpus acting as a remedy for the violation of a person's constitutional rights thereby invalidating any laws preventing said person from exercising them.
ampute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: amputes
form: amputing
form: amputed
form: amputed
Etymology: Borrowed from French amputer (“to amputate”) or its etymon Latin amputāre, amputō. Doublet of amputate, which was borrowed through the past participle amputātus.
Senses: examples: text: Besides the loss already mentioned, the 49th had three officers and four men wounded. Some of our officers were wounded severely, Lieutenant Lane having had his arm amputed upon the field.
ref: 1844, W[illiam] D[allas] Bernard, Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis, from 1840 to 1843; […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, page 296:
glosses: To amputate (a limb).
amputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ampute
anexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of annexes.
glosses: plural of anex
anhele
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ənˈhiːl/
ipa: /əˈniːl/
rhymes: -iːl
homophone: anneal
Forms: form: anheles
form: anheling
form: anheled
form: anheled
Etymology: Compare Old French aneler, anheler. See anhelation.
Senses: examples: text: All men know that we be here gathered, and with most fervent desire, they anheale, breathe, and gape for the fruit of our convocation; as our acts shall be, so they shall name us; […]
ref: 1536 June 19 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 49:
glosses: To yearn for, or to pant.
animas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anima
animes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæ.nɪ.meɪz/
ipa: /ˈæ.nɪ.məz/
ipa: /ˈæ.nəˌmeɪz/
ipa: /ˈæ.nɪˌmeɪz/
Forms: form: anime
Senses: glosses: plural of anime
aparejo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aparejos
form: aparejoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aparejo.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A kind of packsaddle formerly used in the United States military, and in Latin America, made of leather stuffed with hay, moss, or similar substances.
cymbalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪmbəlɪst/
homophone: symbolist
Forms: form: cymbalists
Etymology: From cymbal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A musician who plays the cymbals.
cyclonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyclonic
form: most cyclonic
Etymology: From cyclone + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter I, http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks16/1600641.txt
The wind was blowing in cyclonic fashion, but not a drop of rain fell.
text: An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
ref: 2013 March 24, Frank Fish, George Lauder, “Not Just Going with the Flow”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 01 May 2013, page 114:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a cyclone.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rotating in the same direction as the Earth i.e. anticlockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
Derived terms: anticyclonic
cyclonically
cyclonic separation
cyclonic storm
cyclonic vacuum cleaner
mesocyclonic
noncyclonic
cyclically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪk.lɪk.li/
ipa: /ˈsɪk.lɪk.ə.li/
Forms: form: more cyclically
form: most cyclically
Etymology: From cyclic + -ally or cyclical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The exhibits, moreover, reject the supposedly Eurocentric notion of historical development. “Things are looked at very cyclically, not in a linear way,” one curator told The Washington Post.
ref: 2004 December 12, Christopher Shea, “Nonhegemonic Curating”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: El Niño, a temperature change in the Pacific ocean that happens cyclically, may have begun interacting with the long-term process of global warming, with catastrophic results.
ref: 2017 February 20, Paul Mason, “Climate scepticism is a far-right badge of honour – even in sweltering Australia”, in the Guardian:
glosses: In a cyclic manner; in cycles; periodically.
Derived terms: spirocyclically
aplomado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aplomados
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of aplomado falcon.
aplome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haplome
Etymology: From French aplome, from Ancient Greek ἁπλόος (haplóos, “single, simple”). Coined by French priest and mineralogist René Just Haüy in 1801.
Senses: examples: text: Aplome (properly haplome) has its dodecahedral faces striated parallel to the shorter diagonal, whence Haüy inferred that the fundamental form was the cube; and as this form is simpler than the dodecahedron, he gave it a name derived from ἁπλόος, simple. Color of the original aplome (of unknown locality) dark brown; also found yellowish green and brownish green at Schwarzenberg in Saxony, and on the Lena in Siberia.
ref: 1912, Edward Salisbury Dana, A Text-book of Mineralogy with an Extended Treatise on Crystallography and Physical Mineralogy, New York: John Wiley & Sons, E.2.(b), page 417:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brown or green variety of andradite containing manganese.
djellabah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: djellabahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of djellaba.
galabiya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galabiyas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of djellaba.
apode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apodes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of apod.
apodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apode
apostilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apostille
dwindling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dwindle
dwindling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dwindling
form: most dwindling
Senses: examples: text: There is dwindling support for New Labour.
text: Yes, I am aware of the dwindling suppy situation. The supplies meant for the Resistance had to be diverted at the last moment, so we never received them.
ref: 2017, BioWare, Mass Effect: Andromeda (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reply Message: "Low Supplies?":
text: The first of the boys trapped in a Thai cave were rescued earlier today, and the mission has been temporarily suspended while teams restock supplies. But rescuers have a dwindling window of opportunity, with forecasters predicting the return of heavy monsoon rains in the coming days, effectively sealing off the cave until October.
ref: 2018 July 8, Euan McKirdy, Hilary Whiteman, “Thai cave rescue: Divers enter cave to free boys”, in edition.cnn.com, CNN, retrieved 08 Jul 2018:
glosses: declining; growing less
Derived terms: dwindlingly
undwindling
dwindling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwindlings
Senses: glosses: A gradual reduction to nothing.
dynamism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamisms
Etymology: From English dynam(ic) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Great energy, drive, force, or power; vigour of body, mind or personality; oomph or pizzazz
examples: text: The fact that the war is no longer the main issue in the election points to the dynamism of foreign affairs.
text: But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?
ref: 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:
glosses: Dynamic reality; active energy; continuous change, progress, or activity.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Any of several philosophical theories that attempt to explain the universe by an immanent force.
Derived terms: hyperdynamism
monodynamism
dynamiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dynamiters
Etymology: From dynamite + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses dynamite, especially one who uses it unlawfully.
examples: text: Would you say it was fair to describe these salesmen that were in your crews as dynamiters, or suede shoe salesmen?
ref: 1954, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Subcommittee on Housing and Urban Affairs, FHA Investigation: Hearings, page 2397:
glosses: A high-pressure salesman.
dyslectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈlɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more dyslectic
form: most dyslectic
Etymology: Piecewise doublet of dyslexic
Senses: glosses: dyslexic
dyslectic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈlɛktɪk/
rhymes: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: dyslectics
Etymology: Piecewise doublet of dyslexic
Senses: glosses: dyslexic
stoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Forms: form: stonings
Senses: examples: text: The stonings came as something of a surprise, in that Iranian officials had said they had suspended that method of execution.
ref: 2009 January 14, Nazila Fathi, “Iran Says U.S. Helped Finance Overthrow Plot”, in New York Times:
glosses: lapidation: punishment by throwing stones, usually resulting in death
stoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stone
arad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arads
Etymology: Borrowed from Mongolian ард (ard, “people”)/ᠠᠷᠠᠳ (arad).
Senses: glosses: A nomadic herder.
aras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ara
arabas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araba
araban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arabans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polysaccharide composed of arabinose residues
Derived terms: arabanase
aren
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arn
Etymology: From Middle English aren, from Old English earon, earun, present plural indicative of Old English bēon (“to be”). Equivalent to are + -en. More at are.
Senses: glosses: first-person plural simple present of be
examples: text: “Ye're not Irish, aren ye?” “No, we're from Canada.”
ref: 2007, Theresa Kishkan, Phantom Limb, page 154:
glosses: second-person plural simple present of be
glosses: third-person plural simple present of be
arara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: araras
Senses: glosses: The palm cockatoo, native to Australia and the Malay Archipelago (Probosciger aterrimus).
araras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arara
arare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Japanese あられ (arare).
Senses: examples: text: arare あられ 霰 little rice crackers resembling hailstones. They are eaten with drinks as tsumamimono.
ref: [1997, Richard Hosking, A Dictionary of Japanese Food, page 509:
text: And the newest concoction made by Jen Kunishima at her McCully bakery is Arf Arf Arare, a rice-flour cracker glazed with beef broth, shaped like a tiny doggie bone and hand-wrapped with nori (seaweed).
ref: 2000 September 20, Joan Clarke, “Quick Bites”, in Honolulu Advertiser, page D.3:
text: We were four generations of women – my maternal greatgrandmother lived with my grandmother at that time – staying in one house with no men, and we were surrounded and supported by the seven sisters who brought us sashimi and takuan for dinner, homemade bento for lunch, arare and mochi and edamame for snacks.
ref: 2002, Kimberly Lau, “This Text Which is Not One: Dialectics of Self and Culture in Experimental Autoethnography”, in Journal of Folklore Research, volume 39, number 2/3, page 243:
text: A brand named Chimaski focuses on Japanese sweets and snacks. They make accessories that resemble popular snacks such as arare rice crackers and kaki-no-tane rice snacks, which are shaped like persimmon seeds.
ref: 2014 January 24, Midori Yamamura, “Styles good enough to eat: Designers launch brands for tasteful wearable treats”, in The Japan News, Lifestyle:
glosses: A Japanese confection made from small pieces of mochi (glutinous rice cakes) that are fried and usually flavored with soy sauce or other flavorings.
armo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armos
form: Armo
Etymology: From Armenian + -o.
Senses: glosses: An Armenian.
wasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waster
cortile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cortiles
form: cortili
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An internal courtyard, surrounded by walls but open to the sky
arrastras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrastra
arrastra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrastras
form: arrastre
form: rastra
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish arrastre.
Senses: glosses: A device formerly used by gold-miners for grinding auriferous quartz, crudely resembling a mortar and pestle, with the crushing element dragged around by horse or mule.
bakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bake
bakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /beɪks/
rhymes: -eɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of bake
chopping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chop
chopping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: choppings
Senses: glosses: The action by which something is chopped.
Derived terms: chopping mill
chopping stump
chopping
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪŋ
Forms: form: more chopping
form: most chopping
Senses: examples: a chopping sea
glosses: Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other.
examples: text: Yet some prolific planet smil'd, / And gave the pair a chopping child[…]
ref: a. 1730, Elijah Fenton, The Widow's Wile:
glosses: stout; large; plump
potting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pot
potting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pottings
Senses: examples: text: In all subsequent pottings, the ball of roots must be placed so as to form a mound in the middle of the pot, so that the roots will not be liable to saturation; this is an essential requisite in cultivating them successfully.
ref: 1841, The Floricultural Cabinet, and Florists' Magazine, volume 9, page 218:
glosses: The placing of something in a pot.
glosses: The making of pottery.
Derived terms: potting compost
potting mix
potting shed
potting soil
potted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒtɪd
Etymology: From pot + -ed. Adjective meaning "prepared in advance" by analogy with potted meat (canned meat), first used in a published work by L. Susan Stebbing in her Pelican classic Thinking to some purpose (1939), where "potted thinking" is defined as "a compressed statement to save us the trouble of thinking".
Senses: examples: text: potted meat
glosses: simple past and past participle of pot
invites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invite
invites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of invite
Ayr
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛə/
ipa: /ɛː/
enpr: âr
ipa: /ɛɚ/
ipa: /ɛɹ/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
homophone: air
homophone: ere
homophone: eyre
homophone: heir
homophone: are stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: err stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
homophone: e'er (US)
Senses: glosses: A town in South Ayrshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS3321).
glosses: A river in East Ayrshire council area and South Ayrshire council area, Scotland, which runs into the Firth of Clyde at the town.
glosses: A town in the Shire of Burdekin, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A village and township in Adams County, Nebraska, United States.
glosses: A minor city in Cass County, North Dakota, United States.
glosses: A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A community in North Dumfries township, Waterloo Regional County Municipality, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Ayrshire
Heads of Ayr
Mount Ayr
Newton-on-Ayr
Point of Ayr
Stu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /stu/
homophone: stew
homophone: stu
homophone: Stew
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Stuart.
Related terms: Stew
recreational drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recreational drug
air rage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: By analogy with road rage.
Senses: examples: text: Repeated incidents of air rage have led to stricter security on airplanes.
glosses: Aggressive, disruptive behaviour on an aircraft.
buy time
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buys time
form: buying time
form: bought time
form: bought time
Senses: examples: text: We need you to buy us some time, so distract the security guard for a few minutes.
text: Parliament, dominated by supporters of the government, voted on Thursday to delay making a decision on whether it will amend the constitution. The decision angered protesters and opposition parliamentarians, who accused parliament of trying to buy time.
ref: 2020 September 25, Reuters Staff, “Thai republican hashtag trends after constitution change delayed”, in Reuters, Reuters, retrieved 25 Sep 2020:
synonyms: gain time
play for time
glosses: To purposefully cause a delay, in order to achieve something else.
paroxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈɹɒk.sə.tiːn/
ipa: /pəˈɹɑk.səˌtin/
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antidepressant that is a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor and is also used for the treatment of anxiety disorders.
Derived terms: paroxetine hydrochloride
beside the point
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: besides the point
Senses: examples: text: His many charitable donations are beside the point. They do not make up for the fact that he stole the money to begin with.
antonyms: to the point
glosses: Irrelevant, moot.
beside the point
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: besides the point
Senses: examples: text: Judges in the British law courts used to tell lawyers who spoke beside the point or quoted irrelevant cases that they might as well say that Robin Hood in Barnsdale stood.
ref: 1944, George Stimpson, A Book about a Thousand Things, quoted in Marcus A.J. Smith and Julian Wasserman, "In the Sheriff's Court: […] ", in Thomas G. Hahn (editor), Robin Hood in Popular Culture, Boydell & Brewer (2000), page 229
glosses: Irrelevantly, off-topic.
Synonyms: neither here nor there
beat it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiˌdɪt/
Forms: form: beats it
form: beating it
form: beat it
form: beat it
form: beaten it
Senses: examples: text: […] and he said, "You beat it." So I beat it two squares up to Seventeenth Street and went into a saloon.
ref: 1916, United States. Commission on Industrial Relations, Francis Patrick Walsh, Basil Maxwell Manly, Industrial relations: Final report and testimony, page 10986:
text: Showin' how funky and strong is your fight / It doesn't matter who's wrong or right / Just beat it
ref: 1983, Michael Jackson, “Beat It”, in Thriller:
synonyms: beat a retreat
hit it
qualifier: dismissal
glosses: To leave; to go away.
raw_tags: as imperative
synonyms: word: beat off
word: bash one out
word: bate
word: beat it
word: beat off
word: crank one out
word: fap
word: frig
word: jack off
word: jack it
word: jerk it
word: jerk off
word: jork it
word: knock one out
word: masturbate
word: mastuprate
word: play pocket pool
word: play with oneself
word: pleasure oneself
word: rub one out
word: self-abuse
word: self-pollute
word: service oneself
word: skeet
word: toss
word: toss off
word: touch oneself
word: wank
word: wank off
word: whack off
glosses: To masturbate.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see beat, it.
speak in tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: speaks in tongues
form: speaking in tongues
form: spoke in tongues
form: spoken in tongues
Etymology: Calque of Ancient Greek ἐλάλουν τε γλώσσαις (eláloun te glṓssais)
Senses: examples: text: And when Paul had laid [his] hands upon them, the Holy Ghost came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
ref: Acts 19:6
text: "These letters evince the degree of enthusiasm to which their writers, and others of the same persuasion, had attained, before their pretensions to the gift of tongues. Having adopted, by means of their spiritual instructors, extravagant views of the operation of the Holy Spirit, they were, in a peculiar sense, in the Spirit, and had the mind of Christ ; and, modelling the Scriptures on these topics to their favourite prepossessions, they came to the conclusion that they were enlightened to understand the mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures, as perfectly as the Apostles were inspired to write it! This prepared them for the next stage of delusion, namely, that the same power which enabled the Apostles to speak in tongues, was also in them, and that their thoughts and words were not their own, but the Spirit’s.
ref: 1830 August 3, A. Robertson, “ROW HERESY AND GARELOCH MIRACLES”, in The Kaleidoscope; or, Literary and Scientific Mirror, volume XI, number 527, Liverpool, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 39, column 3:
glosses: To speak in a language unknown to the speaker, especially when in a state of religious ecstasy; glossolalia.
Related terms: speaking in tongues
tongues-speaker
tongue speaker
tongues-speaking
arrastre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arrastres
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of arrastra.
arrastres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrastre
arread
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arreads
form: arreading
form: arread
form: arread
form: arreed
form: aread
form: areed
form: arede
Etymology: From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).
Senses: examples: text: But mark what I arread thee now. Avaunt; …
ref: 1808, The cabinet of poetry
text: His hall resounds!―amaz'd the stranger wight Arreads it all as done to him in fell despight.
ref: 1822, The Works of the British poets, with lives of the authors - Volume 34 - Page 144
text: Nothing but mirth can conquer fortune's spite; No sky is heavy, if the heart be light: Patience is sorrow's salve; what can't be cur'd, So Donald right arreads, must be endur'd.
ref: 1825, William Hazlitt, Select poets of Great Britain:
glosses: To declare; tell; interpret; explain.
examples: text: My tongue shall speak but what my heart arreads, Nor varnish use to blacken more thy deeds; …
ref: 1850, William Hamilton (of Bangour), The poems and songs of William Hamilton of Bangour
glosses: To counsel; advise; direct; teach.
examples: text: Soldier, I come. But, ere we part, I will arread thy doom, Proud ruthless woman!
ref: 1831, Henry Rich, The daughter of Herodias:
text: Now, good Christe arread, and gesse whoe gaue thee the buffet?
ref: 1872, Alexander Balloch Grosart, Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library:
glosses: To guess; conjecture.
examples: text: You arread me aright.
ref: 1971, James T. Boulton, Samuel Johnson's Taxation No Tyranny:
glosses: To read.
arread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arreed
form: aread
form: areed
form: arede
Etymology: From earlier aread, arede, from Middle English areden, from Old English ārǣdan, ārēdan (“to appoint, prepare; arrange, settle, decide; guess, prophesy, interpret, utter; read, read out, read to”), from Proto-West Germanic *uʀrādan, from Proto-Germanic *uzrēdaną (“to guess”), equivalent to a- + read or a- + rede. Cognate with German erraten (“to guess”), Gothic 𐌿𐍂𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌽 (urrēdan, “to contrive, discriminate”).
Senses: glosses: Advice; discourse; narration.
narcotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From narcotic + -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of narcotic
narcotics
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From narcotic + -s.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of narcotic; Pertaining to narcotic drugs.
topics: government
law
law-enforcement
politics
glosses: Pertaining to illicit drugs, especially psychoactive ones.
Derived terms: anti-narcotics
antinarcotics
counter-narcotics
counternarcotics
arrobas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arroba
octa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octas
form: okta
Etymology: See octa-.
Senses: examples: text: It has been shown that most of the flood-rainy days are associatied with 6-8 octa ScFb, CuSc in the morning and CuSc, ScFb with or without Cb in the afternoon of the previous day.
ref: 1935, Indian Science News Association, Science and Culture, Indian Science News Association, Page 93
text: This method does not give any information on the distribution of clouds in the sky dome. But it presents the advantage of an objective method by eliminating the source of error due to personal appreciation of the fraction of the sky covered by clouds, as is the case in the classical climatorlogical observation of the cloudiness expressed in octa (N = 0 corresponding to cloudless sky and N = 8, to overcast sky in this scale).
ref: 1994, Commission of the European Communities, edited by R. Dogniaux, Prediction of Solar Radiation in Areas With a Specific Microclimate, Kluwer Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 23:
text: In Figure 4 we compare the photolysis frequencies of different processes in scatter plots, including all measurements from the field campaign over a variety of meteorological conditions (χ = 40-90°, 296-380 DU total ozone, 0-8 octa cloud cover, 9-35 °C ambient temperature).
ref: 1998, Ralf Koppmann, Jochen Rudolph, Atmospheric Measurements During Popcorn: Characterisation of the Photochemistry Over a Rural Area, Springer, page 169:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The proportion of the sky that is obscured by clouds, in eighths (one octa means that one eighth of the sky is obscured, two octas that one quarter is obscured, and so on).
arrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Spanish, from Andalusian Arabic الرُّبّ (ar-rúbb), from Arabic رُبّ (rubb).
Senses: glosses: A form of grape concentrate, typically produced in Spain, made by boiling unfermented grape juice into a syrup. It may be added to dark, sweet wines.
harrowing of hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harrowings of hell
form: harrying of hell
Senses: examples: text: Not the direct vision of the harrowings of hell as reported, for example, by many Christian visionaries, but accounts given by the departed souls themselves are more frequent and typical features of Jewish moralist writing.
ref: 1977, Raphael Werblowsky, Joseph Karo: lawyer and mystic, 2nd edition, page 44:
text: Of the four harrowings of hell that are cornerstones of Western literature […], we can eliminate the oldest.
ref: 2003, Robert J. Andreach, Drawing upon the Past: Classical Theatre in the Contemporary American Theatre, page 36:
text: […] the Hero Twins go on to defeat Xibalba and its ghastly denizens, a true Harrowing of Hell.
ref: 2007, Sophie & Michael Coe, The True History of Chocolate, page 39:
topics: human-sciences
lifestyle
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
religion
sciences
theology
glosses: A raid into the underworld by a heroic figure.
Related terms: word: Harrowing of Hell
vocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊk(ə)lʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /voʊk(ə)l(a)ɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: vocalizations
Etymology: From vocalize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of vocalizing or something vocalized; a vocal utterance
glosses: Any specific mode of utterance; pronunciation
glosses: The use of speech to express an idea
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of communication sounds with the syrinx or larynx (in tetrapods) or with the swim bladder (in fish)
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The production of musical sounds using the voice, especially as an exercise
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: The vowel diacritics in certain scripts, like Hebrew and Arabic, which are not normally written, but which are used in dictionaries, children's books, religious texts and textbooks for learners.
topics: communications
human-sciences
journalism
linguistics
literature
media
orthography
phonology
publishing
sciences
writing
glosses: The addition of these diacritics and the respective phonemes to a word; the spoken form the word thereby receives.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The change in pronunciation of historically or variably consonant (typically sonorant) sounds as vowels. For example, the syllabic /l/ in words like people or the coda one in words like cold or coal are variably realized as a high back vowel or glide—[ʊ], [u], [ɤ] or [o]—in many dialects of English in the US, UK, and the Southern Hemisphere. For example, in African American Vernacular English, one common pronunciation of the words "people", "cold", and "coal" is [pʰipʊ], [kʰoɤd], or [kʰoɤ] respectively.
Synonyms: english: supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts
translation: supplying vowels/diacritics to Arabic and Hebrew words/texts
word: vowelization
word: tashkil
word: nikud
Derived terms: l-vocalization
Related terms: vocalize
harrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/
Etymology: By surface analysis, harrow + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of harrow.
harrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæɹəʊiŋ/
Forms: form: more harrowing
form: most harrowing
Etymology: By surface analysis, harrow + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
ref: 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text:
text: Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
ref: 2013 January 24, Brian Hayes, “Father of Fractals”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, page 62:
glosses: Causing pain or distress; harrying.
Derived terms: harrowingly
harrowingness
unharrowing