cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonplussedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-plussedness
Etymology: From nonplussed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nonplussed.
plummily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more plummily
form: most plummily
Etymology: From plummy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He laughed again, plummily. "Sounds as though he'd committed the murder himself."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 582:
text: Her voice rose plummily into the darkened room[…]
ref: 2004, Michael Byers, Long for This World, page 162:
glosses: In a plummy manner.
blindable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From blind + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, specific study designs and specific drug comparisons may exaggerate or reduce treatment effects by making conditions less or more blindable.
ref: 1997, Marc Hertzman, Douglas E. Feltner, The Handbook of Psychopharmacology Trials:
glosses: Of a clinical trial: able to be carried out with information withheld from experimenter and/or participants to avoid influencing the outcome.
examples: text: Finally, we use the term additive joint encryption scheme to denote a secure, blindable, xor-homomorphic, witnessed probabilistic public-key joint encryption scheme.
ref: 1994, Douglas R. Stinson, Advances in cryptology: CRYPTO '93, 13th Annual International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, California, USA, August 22-26, 1993: proceedings:
text: Blindable encryption also provides a useful way to make a given ciphertext unrecognizable.
ref: 2004, Ari Juels, Financial Cryptography: 8th International Conference: volume 8, page 188:
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Such that, given an encrypted bit (binary digit), anybody can create a random ciphertext decrypting to the same bit.
suillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suillages
form: sulliage
form: sullage
Etymology: From Old French souillage, soillage, from souiller, soiller. See soil (“to stain”), and compare sullage.
Senses: examples: text: touching Conducts for the Suillage and other necessities of the House
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture, […], London: […] Iohn Bill, →OCLC:
glosses: A drain or collection of filth.
suillages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suillage
coadunition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + ad- + unition.
Senses: examples: text: the coadunition of several particles endued with contrary and destructive qualities each to other or such as at least tend to a gradual alteration
ref: a. 1677 (date written), Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, London: […] William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery, […], published 1677, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of coadunation.
subinduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subinduces
form: subinducing
form: subinduced
form: subinduced
Etymology: From sub- + induce.
Senses: examples: November 10 1640, Edward Dering, speech
Nay they doe subinduce points repugnant and contrariant
glosses: To insinuate; to offer indirectly.
subinduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subinduce
subinduces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subinduce
subinducing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subinduce
childing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/
Etymology: From Middle English childing, childinge [and other forms], from childen (“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming gerunds from verbs). Equivalent to child + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: This Conſtantia was fiftie yeares of age before ſhe was conceiued with him; whom the emperor Henrie the ſixth to auoide all doubt and ſurmiſe that of hir conception and childing might be thought, and to the perill of the empire inſue: cauſed his regall tent to be pitched abrode in place where euery man might reſort.
ref: 1610 October, John Foxe, “The Whole Tragicall Historie of Frederike the Second Emperor, Translated out of the Latine Booke of Nich[olas] Cisnerus”, in Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happening in the Church, with an Vniuersall Historie of the Same. […], 6th edition, volume I, London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for the Company of Stationers, →OCLC, book IV, page 270, column 1:
text: When Zalzer is grown up, and leaves the nest, the Simorg gives him one of her feathers, telling him, whenever he is in great distress, to burn it, and she will immediately come to his assistance. Zalzer marries Rodahver, who is likely to die in childing; he then burns the feather, and the Simorg appears and orders the Cæsarean operation to be performed.
ref: 1809, Robert Southey, “Notes to Book XI”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volume II, London: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 252:
text: [H]e had grown up there and there wedded a wife; but that when she died in childing with her first bairn, and the bairn had not lived, he loathed the place, and came back again into the Dale.
ref: 1897, William Morris, “The Goodman Gets a New Hired Man”, in [May Morris], editor, The Sundering Flood, London; New York, N.Y.: Longmans, Green, and Co., […], published 1898, →OCLC, page 40:
text: I only wish you had arrived this day past. For we had a feast in honor of my wife's childing and her father's visit. Your arrival would have given us even more to be glad for.
ref: 2008, K. E. Saxon, Highland Vengeance (The Medieval Highlanders; 1), [U.S.A.]: Passion Flower Publishing, published 2012, →ISBN, page 207:
synonyms: delivery
parturition
glosses: gerund of child: the act or process of childbearing or childbirth.
childing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/
Etymology: From late Middle English childing (“pregnant”), from childen (“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming the present participles of verbs, which were often used as adjectives); equivalent to child (verb) + -ing (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having a specified characteristic, nature, or quality’, and forming the present participles of verbs).
Senses: examples: text: With fire and sword the country round / Was wasted far and wide, / And many a childing mother then, / And new-born baby died; / But things like that, you know, must be / At every famous victory.
ref: 1798, Robert Southey, “The Battle of Blenheim”, in The Poetical Works of Robert Southey. […], volume VI, London: […] [Andrew Spottiswoode] for Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, […], published 1838, →OCLC, stanza 8, page 153:
synonyms: word: fecund
word: fruitful
word: in delivery
word: in labour
word: postnatal
english: one sense
translation: one sense
word: postpartal
word: postpartum
word: post-partural
antonyms: barren
infertile
glosses: Able to bear children; fertile; also, pregnant, or in the process of childbirth, or having just given birth to a child.
examples: text: [page 323] Bellis minor hortenſis prolifera. Double double Daiſies or childing Daiſies. […] The chiefeſt variety conſiſteth in this, that is beareth many ſmall double flowers, ſtanding vpon very ſhort ſtalkes round about the middle flower, […] [page 324] The French call them Paſquettes, and Marguerites, and the Fruitfull ſort, or thoſe that beare ſmall flowers about the middle one, Margueritons: our Engliſh women call them Iacke an Apes on horſe-backe, as they doe Marigolds before recited, or childing Daiſies: but the Phyſitians and Apothecaries doe in generall call them, eſpecially the ſingle or Field kindes, Conſolida minor.
ref: 1629, John Parkinson, “Bellis. Daisie.”, in Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris. […], London: […] Hvmfrey Lownes and Robert Yovng […], →OCLC, pages 323–324:
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: Of a flowering plant: producing younger florets around an older flower.
examples: text: The Spring, the Sommer, / The childing Autumne, angry Winter change / Their wonted Liueries; and the mazed worlde, / By their increaſe, now knowes not which is which; […]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 17, lines 111–113:
glosses: Fruitful; productive.
childing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃaɪldɪŋ/
Etymology: From late Middle English childing (“pregnant”), from childen (“to give birth to a child”) + -ing, -inge (suffix forming the present participles of verbs, which were often used as adjectives); equivalent to child (verb) + -ing (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘having a specified characteristic, nature, or quality’, and forming the present participles of verbs).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of child
cascalho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Portuguese cascalho (“a chip of stone, gravel”).
Senses: glosses: A deposit of pebbles, gravel, and ferruginous sand in which diamonds may be found.
decuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkjʊmən/
Etymology: From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
Senses: examples: text: decuman billows
ref: c. 1870, Frederic Farrar, The witness of history to Christ; 5 sermons, being the Hulsean lects. for 1870:
glosses: Large; chief; applied to an extraordinary billow, supposed by some to be every tenth in sequence.
glosses: Connected with the principal gate of an Ancient Roman camp, near which the tenth cohort of the legion was stationed.
decuman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛkjʊmən/
Forms: form: decumans
Etymology: From Latin decumānus (“of the tenth, and by metonymy, large”), from decem (“ten”).
Senses: examples: text: the baffled decuman
ref: 1870, James Russell Lowell, The Cathedral:
glosses: An extraordinarily large billow.
decumans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decuman
seedbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seedboxes
Etymology: From seed + box.
Senses: glosses: A box in which seeds are planted.
glosses: A private server used for uploading and downloading files from a peer-to-peer network.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A capsule.
glosses: A plant (Ludwigia alternifolia) with somewhat cubical or box-shaped capsules.
seedboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seedbox
eryngos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eryngo
eringo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eringos
form: eringoes
Senses: examples: text: Let the skie raine Potatoes: let it thunder, to the tune of Greene-ſleeues, haile-kiſſing Comfits, and ſnovv Eringoes: […]
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v], page 59, column 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of eryngo.
eringoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eringo
cojoin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cojoins
form: cojoining
form: cojoined
form: cojoined
form: co-join
Etymology: From co- + join.
Senses: examples: text: Then 'tis very credent, Thou may'st coioyne with something.
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: We had a Volkswagen campervan – the greatest vehicles ever created; a cheerp cupboard on wheels – and when my parents had finished noisily co-joining, they would take us on post-coital journey all across West Wales […].
ref: 2011 April 2, Caitlin Moran, The Times:
glosses: To join together; to conjoin.
cojoined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cojoin
cojoining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cojoin
cojoins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cojoin
eringos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eringo
bullirag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullirags
form: bulliragging
form: bulliragged
form: bulliragged
Etymology: Compare bully and rag (“to scold, rail”). Compare ballarag.
Senses: glosses: To intimidate by bullying; to push around or pester.
bulliragged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bullirag
bulliragging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bullirag
bullirags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bullirag
convictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more convictable
form: most convictable
form: convictible
Etymology: From convict + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being convicted.
Derived terms: unconvictable
pleurenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pleuro- + -enchyma.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A tissue consisting of long and slender tubular cells, of which wood is mainly composed.
inarch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inarches
form: inarching
form: inarched
form: inarched
Senses: glosses: To graft by uniting, as a scion, to a stock, without separating either from its root before the union is complete.
inarched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inarch
inarches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of inarch
inarching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inarch
inarching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inarchings
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: An instance of grafting by union.
Christic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Christic
form: most Christic
Etymology: From Christ + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The body of God, shaped by the Christic paradigm, is also the cosmic Christ—the loving, compassionate God on the side of those who suffer, especially the vulnerable and excluded.
ref: 2004, Roger S. Gottlieb, This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment, page 262:
glosses: Of or relating to Christ.
Antichristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Antichristic
form: most Antichristic
Etymology: From Antichrist + -ic.
Senses: topics: Christianity
synonyms: antichristian
glosses: Of or relating to the Antichrist.
tokenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊk(ə)nɪst/
Forms: form: more tokenist
form: most tokenist
Etymology: From token + -ist, after tokenism.
Senses: examples: text: The question of whether women could be masons at all was hotly debated, and though many women did join, this was usually in affiliative ‘lodges of adoption’, which were restricted to a tokenist, decorative and spectatorial role.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 368:
glosses: Pertaining to or indicative of tokenism.
splurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splurchases
Etymology: Blend of splurge + purchase.
Senses: examples: text: And there is consensus that impulsive buying is on the rise, thanks to e-commerce and TV home-shopping, neither of which requires us to change out of our sweatpants and leave the house to make a splurchase.
ref: 2009, Lee Eisenberg, Shoptimism: Why the American Consumer Will Keep on Buying No Matter What, Free Press, →ISBN, page 248:
glosses: A spur-of-the-moment purchase.
Synonyms: impulse buy
impulse purchase
splurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splurchase
benting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benting times
Senses: examples: text: Bare benting times […] may come.
ref: 1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: The season (midsummer, apparently), when pigeons were said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
benting times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of benting time
consension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consensions
Etymology: Latin consensio.
Senses: examples: text: one greater individual Animal , with one Mind and Understanding , and a vital Consension of the whole Body
ref: 1692, Richard Bentley, [A Confutation of Atheism] (please specify the sermon), London: [Thomas Parkhurst; Henry Mortlock], published 1692–1693:
text: the consension of opinion at the present time
ref: 1886, Thomas Potter, The construction of silos […] :
glosses: Agreement; accord.
consensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consension
cosmozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cosmozoa + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to cosmozoa.
cosmozoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmo- + zoa.
Senses: glosses: hypothetical seeds or spores that led to the beginning of life, said to have reached Earth through space
Related terms: cosmozoic
cosmozoism
cochineal fig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cochineal figs
Senses: glosses: A cactus (Opuntia cochenillifera or related species), often cultivated for the sake of the cochineal, which feeds on it.
cochineal figs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cochineal fig
epiblema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɛpɪˈbliːmə/
Forms: form: epiblem
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπίβλημα (epíblēma, “cover”); ἐπί (epí, “over, upon”) + βάλλω (bállō, “throw”).
Senses: examples: text: These epidermal cells of the root, taken collectively, have been called the Epiblema
ref: 1885, George Lincoln Goodale, Physiological Botany:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The epidermal cells of rootlets, specially adapted to absorb liquids.
Packer whackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Packer whacker
eeyorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Eeyorish.
cut up rough
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cuts up rough
form: cutting up rough
form: cut up rough
form: cut up rough
Senses: examples: text: As anticipated, however, the Parlement cut up rough over a new stamp duty on public and printed documents […]
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 385:
text: Third, while there is no immediate risk of Greece being kicked out of the club, such a threat could materialise if German taxpayers were to cut up rough and exert real political pressure on Angela Merkel's government.
ref: 2011 June 21, Larry Elliott, The Guardian:
glosses: To become angry; to make a fuss.
Synonyms: cut up nasty
notoedric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Notoedres + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by mites of the genus Notoedres.
pacificatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɪfɪkətɹi/
ipa: /pəsɪfɪˈkeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more pacificatory
form: most pacificatory
Etymology: From Latin pācificātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: This pacificatory move – plus the political credit which he personally enjoyed – helped to stabilize the finances.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 392:
glosses: Promoting peace; conciliatory.
unsnib
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unsnibs
form: unsnibbing
form: unsnibbed
form: unsnibbed
Etymology: From un- + snib.
Senses: examples: text: Catherine unsnibbed the [toilet] door and came out. She smiled bravely and went to wash her hands.
ref: 1997, Bernard MacLaverty, 'Grace Notes' (novel), (Part 2, at page 262 in the 1998 Vintage paperback edition)
text: Somehow she managed to unsnib the window and escape.
text: She unsnibs the window — the metal catches already hot between finger and thumb — and hauls the juddering sach upwards.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 4:
glosses: to undo, untie, or open or become undone, untied, or opened.
Synonyms: unbolt
unlatch
unfasten
psoroptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Psoroptes + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by mites of the genus Psoroptes
sarcoptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Sarcoptes + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or caused by mites of the genus Sarcoptes.
Derived terms: sarcoptic mange
sleeveface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sleevefaces
Etymology: From sleeve (“a protective jacket or case”) + face.
Senses: examples: text: The fad has been sweeping the Internet, with sleevefaces popping up on Facebook and art sites.
ref: 2009 December 13, Debby Abe, “A new hope for old vinyl”, in The Olympian:
glosses: A photograph in which a record sleeve is intentionally placed to create the illusion of the cover art blending into the scene (especially a face or other body part on an album cover obscuring and seeming to replace the same part on a person in the photograph).
sleevefaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sleeveface
zeolitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zeolitizes
form: zeolitizing
form: zeolitized
form: zeolitized
form: zeolitise
Etymology: From zeolite + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: One of the methods that is usually used to zeolitize the diatomaceous earth involves coating the diatoms with zeolite nanoparticles, followed by subsequent attachment and hydrothermal growth of zeolite crystals.
ref: 2012, B.-L. Su, Hierarchically Structured Porous Materials: From Nanoscience to Catalysis, Separation, Optics, Energy, and Life Science:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To convert (or be converted) into a zeolite.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To fill small cracks with zeolite.
quadrillage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of a grid of squares superimposed on a document such as a map.
Related terms: quadrille paper
livermorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlɪvəɹˈmɔːɹiəm/
Etymology: From Livermore + -ium, after the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Senses: glosses: The chemical element with atomic number 116 (symbol Lv).
wikipedia: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Synonyms: eka-polonium
ununhexium
centauresque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more centauresque
form: most centauresque
Etymology: From centaur + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: More distrustful and irritable than ever, in this section, this watchdog character was to be obsessed with the centauresque likeness of my four boys.
ref: 2011, Gérard Gavarry, Jane Kuntz, Making a Novel, page 60:
text: Here they take on their true centauresque form, each one mounting a hired courser and clattering through the town in the direction of the Wood of Verrières.
ref: 1911, "The Centaurs", The Nation: Volume 92, page 212:
glosses: Having attributes like those of the mythical centaur.
examples: text: Message and method merge, centauresque, to assist him.
ref: 2007, Patricia Kathleen Page, Zailig Pollock, The Filled Pen: Selected Non-fiction, page 68:
text: Machiavelli begins chapter 26 by asking if the times are right for a "new prince" in Italy, one "prudente e virtuoso," like Borgia, like the profeta armato, like the hybrid centauresque monster to be composed of Machiavelli's counsel and Medicean power.
ref: 1993, Albert Russell Ascoli, Victoria Ann Kahn, Machiavelli and the Discourse of Literature, page 252:
text: We are of opinion in any way, that the grace is more obvious than the strength ; and there may be something centauresque and of twofold nature in their rushing mutabilities, and changes on passion and weakness.
ref: 1863, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Greek Christian poets and the English poets, page 160:
glosses: By extension, having the characteristics of two things combined together; hybridized; chimeric.
memorandum of understanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memoranda of understanding
form: memorandums of understanding
form: MoU
form: MOU
Senses: examples: text: Immediately after the passage of the act a general memorandum of understanding was prepared and submitted to the States.
ref: 1925, Report of the National Conference on Utilization of Forest Products, page 7:
text: On the question of whether a memorandum of understanding is legally binding, British courts have held that this is determined by the presence (or, as the case may be, absence) of an intention to create a legal obligation, on the part of the states parties concerned, at the time of entry into the arrangement.
ref: 2012, Dinah Shelton, International Law and Domestic Legal Systems, page 624:
text: The memorandum of understanding between the Rail Accident Investigation Branch, the Office of Rail and Road and the police states: "In the absence of a clear indication that serious criminality has caused the accident, RAIB will normally have precedence in respect of the investigation and will assume lead responsibility for the investigation."
ref: 2020 December 2, Philip Haigh, “A winter of discontent caused by threat of union action”, in Rail, page 63:
topics: law
glosses: A document that outlines the legal and factual premises believed by the parties to have been agreed to between them.
Synonyms: memorandum of agreement
memoranda of understanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorandum of understanding
memorandums of understanding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of memorandum of understanding
FBR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FBRs
Senses: glosses: fast breeder reactor
lolsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LOLsies
form: lolzies
Etymology: From lol + -sies; a nonstandard pluralization of lol, perhaps inspired by lulz.
Senses: glosses: LOL.
LOLsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Nonstandard pluralization of LOL, perhaps inspired by lulz.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lolsies.
lolzies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Nonstandard pluralization of LOL, perhaps inspired by lulz.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lolsies.
cold roll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold rolls
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, roll.
cold roll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cold rolls
form: cold rolling
form: cold rolled
form: cold rolled
Senses: topics: arts
crafts
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
metallurgy
metalworking
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
antonyms: hot roll
glosses: To roll metal in a temperature that is below its recrystallization point.
Related terms: cold rolling
cold work
cold working
CRS
hot rolling
rolling mill
asterixis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterixes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek α- (a-, “not”) + στήριξις (stḗrixis, “fixed position”) from Ancient Greek στηρίζω (stērízō, “make fast, fix,support”)
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal muscular tremor characterized by involuntary jerking of the hands
Synonyms: flapping tremor
polemicise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polemicises
form: polemicising
form: polemicised
form: polemicised
Etymology: From polemic + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of polemicize.
polemicises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of polemicise
polemicised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polemicise
polemicising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polemicise
/b/tard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: /b/tards
form: b-tard
Etymology: From /b/ - Random, an imageboard on 4chan. It combines a humorously censored version of bastard with /b/, while rhyming with retard. /b/ itself derives its name from the Futaba Channel (2chan) equivalent.
Senses: examples: text: not to sound insulting, but are you a /b/tard by any chance?
ref: 2006 July 1, nikolai kingsley, rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet), message-ID <4gmmmbF1n9jlsU1@individual.net>:
text: Poole’s efforts to rein in some of the chaos earned him scorn not just from the /b/tards but also from the largest collective of wired rebels in the world, Anonymous, which had first coalesced on 4chan around 2006 as a kind of inside joke (“Anonymous” is the default handle on 4chan).
ref: 2015 March 13, David Kushner, “4chan’s Overlord Christopher Poole Reveals Why He Walked Away”, in Rolling Stone:
text: Slaughter, described by /b/tards as a "lulzcow ... whore," is now memorialized on Urban Dictionary as "The epitome of an eleven year old slut / poser / internet reject / scenecore wannabe."
ref: 2015, Gabriella Coleman, Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Many Faces of Anonymous (page 44)
synonyms: /b/ro
qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: A habitual poster on the /b/ - Random board on 4chan; a member of the /b/ community.
Coordinate terms: /pol/lack
/pol/tard
vip
tard
anon
Bernd
chantard
vipper
/b/tards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: /b/tard
Senses: glosses: plural of /b/tard
copartneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of copartnery
copartnery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copartneries
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of copartnership.
tremella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremellas
Etymology: From the genus name. Derived from Latin tremulus, from the verb tremere (“to tremble”).
Senses: synonyms: fairy butter
witches' meat
glosses: Any fungus of the genus Tremella.
tremellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremella
semisteel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semisteels
Etymology: From semi- + steel.
Senses: glosses: puddled steel
semisteels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semisteel
sweetsop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweetsops
Etymology: From sweet + sop.
Senses: synonyms: sugar apple
glosses: The sugar apple, Annona squamosa.
glosses: The tropical American evergreen tree on which it grows.
Coordinate terms: soursop
sweetsops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweetsop
cockbill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cockbills
form: cockbilling
form: cockbilled
form: cockbilled
Etymology: See cock (“to set erect”).
Senses: examples: text: to cockbill the yards as a sign of mourning
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To tilt up one end of, so as to make almost vertical.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To suspend (the anchor) from the cathead preparatory to letting it go.
Related terms: acockbill
cockbilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cockbill
cockbilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cockbill
cockbills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cockbill
cottonocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒkɹəsi
Etymology: From cotton + -o- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: The whole school argue political or national economy as a party question: it is Cottonocracy versus Cornocracy — the nation is to be crucified between them.
ref: 1840, Robert Owen, The New Moral World, volume 7, page 1027:
text: Make a question between our nation and England about fifty desarters^([sic]), and if the ministers of the day only dared to talk of fighting, the members of all the manufactoren^([sic]) towns in England, the cottonocracy of Great Britain, would desert too!
ref: 1855, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Nature and human nature, page 23:
text: The Lancashire cottonocracy was still waiting for El Dorado, and was quite prepared to believe that the opium trade was delaying its arrival.
ref: 1996, Bill Schwarz, The Expansion of England: Race, Ethnicity and Cultural History:
glosses: A government dominated by the cotton industry, as in the United States prior to the Civil War.
chromid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromids
Etymology: Blend of chromosome + plasmid
Senses: glosses: A large bacterial replicon that contains core genes outside of the main chromosome.
chromid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromids
Etymology: Blend of chromosome + plasmid
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Chromidae, a family of freshwater fishes abundant in the tropical parts of America and Africa.
chromids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromid
centripetency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: centripetence; tendency towards the centre
shude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shudes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shood
shudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shude
stethoscopist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stethoscopists
Etymology: From stethoscope + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.
stethoscopists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stethoscopist
postcommissure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcommissures
Etymology: From post- + commissure.
Senses: examples: text: By gently moving its caudal end , its ventro-cephalic angle will be found to be continuous with the mesocælian roof by a curved and corrugated lamina, the POSTCOMMISSURE
ref: 1893, Burt Green Wilder, Physiology Practicums:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A transverse commissure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commissure.
postcommissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postcommissure
saliniferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more saliniferous
form: most saliniferous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saliferous.
perlid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perlids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any in the genus Perla or family Perlidae of stoneflies.
perlids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perlid
chogset
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chogsets
Etymology: Shortening of cachogset, from an Algonquian language; probably Mohegan-Pequot cachauxet (“conner”).
Senses: glosses: A conner, a fish of species Tautogolabrus adspersus.
Synonyms: blue perch
bergall
choggie
cunner
sea perch
chogsets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chogset
postclavicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ævɪkəl
Forms: form: postclavicles
Etymology: From post- + clavicle.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.
Related terms: postclavicular
postclavicles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postclavicle
11th hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 11th hours
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eleventh hour.
strepsipterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Strepsiptera + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to Strepsiptera.
Related terms: strepsipteran
muscosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin muscosus (“mossy”), from muscus (“moss”).
Senses: glosses: mossiness
collophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collophores
Etymology: Ancient Greek κόλλα (kólla, “glue”) + -φόρος (-phóros, “carrier”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A sucker-like organ on the ventral side of the abdomen of springtails belonging to the Collembola.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An adhesive marginal organ of the Lucernariae.
collophores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of collophore
cross-springer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-springers
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of cross springer.
cross-springers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross-springer
rissoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rissoids
Etymology: translingual Rissoa ("the typical genus") + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the spiral-shaped gastropods of the family Rissoidae, especially those of the genus Rissoa.
rissoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rissoid
tritheite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪθi.aɪt/
Forms: form: tritheites
Etymology: Compare French trithéite.
Senses: examples: text: Gregorious Paulus, who was first a Tritheite, and afterwards an Unitarian
ref: 1691, William Nicholls, An Answer to an heretical book, called the Naked Gospel:
glosses: A tritheist.
tritheites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritheite
spermoblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermoblasts
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a spermatocyte
spermoblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spermoblast
superinfuse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: superinfuses
form: superinfusing
form: superinfused
form: superinfused
Etymology: From super- + infuse. Compare Latin superinfundere, superinfusum (“to pour over”).
Senses: glosses: To infuse over.
superinfused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superinfuse
superinfuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of superinfuse
superinfusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superinfuse
cotyloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cotyloid
form: most cotyloid
Etymology: From cotyle + -oid.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Shaped like a cup.
examples: text: the cotyloid gland
text: the cotyloid ligament
text: the cotyloid foss
text: the cotyloid joint
text: the cotyloid notch
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a cotyloid cavity.
Derived terms: cotyloid cavity
postcotyloid
precotyloid
morgay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morgays
Etymology: From Welsh morgi (“dogfish, shark”), from mor (“sea”) + ci (“dog”).
Senses: synonyms: houndfish
sandy dogfish
rough hound
glosses: The European small-spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula
morgays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morgay
academic years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of academic year
hexiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕξις (héxis, “state or habit”) + -ology. Coined in 1894 by an English naturalist, St. George Jackson Mivart.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Mivart treats elaborately upon the anatomy, physiology, psychology, taxonomy, and hexicology of the cat […]
ref: 1881, Harper's Magazine:
glosses: The science dealing with the relations of living creatures to other organisms, and to their surrounding conditions generally.
Synonyms: ecology
parapeptone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parapeptones
Etymology: From para- + peptone.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An albuminous body formed in small quantity by the peptic digestion of proteids. It can be converted into peptone by pancreatic juice, but not by gastric juice.
parapeptones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parapeptone
displacencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of displacency
displacency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displacencies
Etymology: From Latin displacentia, for displicentia, from displicere (“to displease”), from dis- + placere (“to please”). See displease, and compare displeasance.
Senses: examples: text: A displacency at the good of others because they enjoy it, though not unworthy of it, is an absurd depravity, sticking fast unto corrupted nature, and often too hard for humility and charity, the great suppressors of envy.
ref: 1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 20:
text: He feels a displacency at every offence against God, but only tender compassion to the offender.
ref: 1766, John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, 5th edition, London, published 1785, page 16:
glosses: Lack of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike.
analogisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of analogism
Academy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Forms: form: the Academy
Etymology: From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Senses: topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The school for advanced education founded by Plato; the garden where Plato taught.
topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The disciples of Plato.
topics: classical-studies
history
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Platonism.
glosses: A specific society of scholars or artists.
Academy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæd.ə.mi/
Etymology: From Middle English Achademia, achademy, Achademye, achadomye, from Classical Latin Acadēmī̆a /acadēmī̆a, from Ancient Greek Ἀκαδημία (Akadēmía), a grove of trees and gymnasium outside of Athens where Plato taught; from the name of the supposed former owner of that estate, the Attic hero Akademos. Doublet of academia and Akademeia; compare academe.
Senses: glosses: A place in the United States:
A northern neighbourhood of St. Louis, Missouri.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Charles Mix County, South Dakota.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A settlement in the city of Little River-Academy, Bell County, Texas.
Related terms: academe
Academe
academentia
academia
academic
academical
academically
academician
academics
academy
Akademeia
earth-tongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth-tongues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of earth tongue.
earth-tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earth-tongue
pneumatothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pneumato- + thorax.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pneumothorax.
susception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: susceptions
Etymology: From Latin susceptio. Compare French susception. See susceptible.
Senses: glosses: The act of taking, or taking up; reception.
susceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of susception
superinstitution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinstitutions
Etymology: From super- + institution.
Senses: examples: text: if he did admit and institute him , it would not amount to a Superinstitution
ref: 1725, William Watson, The Clergyman's Law:
glosses: One institution upon another, as when A is instituted and admitted to a benefice upon a title, and B instituted and admitted upon the presentation of another.
superinstitutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinstitution
libral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪbɹəl/
Etymology: From Latin libralis, from libra (“the Roman pound”).
Senses: glosses: Of a pound in weight.
syringotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syringotomy
syringotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syringotomies
Etymology: Ancient Greek σῦριγξ (sûrinx, “fistulous sore or abscess”) + -tomy; compare French syringotomie. By surface analysis, syringo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: The incision of a fistula, such as the anal fistula.
Related terms: syringotome
acanth-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkænθ/
ipa: /əˈkænθ/
Forms: form: acantho-
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting a New Latin combining form, from New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “thorn plant”), from ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”).
Senses: glosses: Having thorns.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
acantho-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkæn.θəʊ/
ipa: /əˈkæn.θoʊ/
Forms: form: acanth-
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek ἄκανθος (ákanthos, “thorn plant”), from ἄκανθα (ákantha, “thorn”).
Senses: glosses: With thorns
chuet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chuets
Etymology: From chew (verb).
Senses: examples: text: as for chuets, which are likewise minced meat, instead of butter and fat , it were good to moisten them , partly with cream , or almond , or pistacho milk
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: minced meat
glosses: A minced meat pie
chuets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chuet
phasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phasels
Etymology: From Latin phaselus, phaseolus, from Ancient Greek φάσηλος (phásēlos, “a kind of bean”). Compare French phaséole, faséole, English fesels.
Senses: glosses: The French bean, or kidney bean.
phasels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasel
acanthocephalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkæn.θəˈsɛf.ə.lən/
ipa: /əˌkænt.θəˈsɛf.ə.lən/
ipa: /əˌkæn.θoʊˈsɛf.ə.lən/
rhymes: -ɛfələn
Forms: form: acanthocephalans
form: acanthocephalid
Etymology: From acantho- + Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -an.
Senses: examples: text: That discussion of fish intestines is justified because many acanthocephalans have been described from fish.
ref: 1970, D. W. T. Crompton, An Ecological Approach to Acanthocephalan Physiology, page 25:
text: 2006, B. B. Nickol, Phylum Acanthocephala, P. T. K. Woo (editor), Fish Diseases and Disorders, Volume 1: Protozoan and Metazoan Infections, 2nd Edition, page 458,
Clearly acanthocephalans contain large amounts of lipid and possess enzyme systems for lipid metabolism (Filipponi et al., 1994; Weber et al., 1995); however, use of these lipid deposits in energy metabolism is yet to be demonstrated.
text: Acanthocephalans are dioecious pseudocoelomate worms remarkably adapted to a parasitic lifestyle in that there is no mouth or digestive system.
ref: 2009, Dennis J. Richardson, Brent B. Nickol, “15: Acanthocephala”, in Carter T. Atkinson, Nancy J. Thomas, D. Bruce Hunter, editors, Parasitic Diseases of Wild Birds, page 277:
glosses: Any of parasitic intestinal worms comprising the phylum Acanthocephala.
Synonyms: sense: any species of Acanthocephala
word: spiny-headed worm
sense: any species of Acanthocephala
word: thorny-headed worm