cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
IPC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of Integrated Physics and Chemistry.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of interprocess communication.
IPC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: criminal law
glosses: Initialism of Indian Penal Code, the former official criminal code of India.
examples: text: The new language reads: “The USOPC is committed to protecting opportunities for athletes participating in sport. The USOPC will continue to collaborate with various stakeholders with oversight responsibilities, e.g., IOC, IPC, NGBs, to ensure that women have a fair and safe competition environment consistent with Executive Order 14201 and the Ted Stevens Olympic & Amateur Sports Act, 36 U.S.C § 22501, et. seq.”
ref: 2025 July 22, Kevin Dotson, “US Olympic and Paralympic Committee says it will comply with Trump’s order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports”, in CNN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
coordinate_terms: IOC
NPC
glosses: Initialism of International Paralympic Committee.
topics: media
publishing
glosses: Initialism of International Publishing Company, now IPC Media.
PP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PPs
Senses: examples: text: Whose is that car? Do you see it she said, parking at the gate? Oh God let it not be the PP and the state of the place.
ref: 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 11:
glosses: Initialism of parish priest.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of polypropylene.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of precocious puberty.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
topics: video-games
glosses: Abbreviation of performance points.
examples: text: partitive PP
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: NP
VP
glosses: Initialism of prepositional phrase.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of postpositional phrase.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
related: word: pp
word: pp.
word: p.p.
word: p. p.
coordinate_terms: pres. part.
pres.part.
glosses: Initialism of past participle.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of power play.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of promenade position.
glosses: Initialism of pussy pass.
glosses: Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
glosses: Initialism of public parking.
glosses: Initialism of planning permission.
PP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: PP’s enthusiasts claim that it emboldens nervous speakers and forces everyone to present information in an ordered way. […] The presentational precursor to PowerPoint was the overhead projector, which is why PP screens are still called “slides”.
ref: 2015 September 23, Andrew Smith, “How PowerPoint is killing critical thought”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2018:
glosses: Initialism of PowerPoint.
glosses: Initialism of PayPal.
glosses: Initialism of Planned Parenthood.
topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Puzzle Pirates.
examples: text: Nowadays, for example, voting for the Socialist Party can mean a leftist coalition between the Socialists and Podemos, the anti-establishment party, or a center-right one among the Socialists, the center right Ciudadanos and Partido Popular; a vote for Ciudadanos may yield a right-wing alliance with the P.P. or a centrist one with the Socialists.
ref: 2016 August 28, Martín Caparrós, “Spain: A Country With No Government”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
text: Although the PP won the most seats, it fell short of a parliamentary majority and has proved unable to form a government, even with the support of the far-right Vox party and other, smaller political groupings.
ref: 2023 November 5, Sam Jones, “PSOE members back Catalan amnesty plan to secure power in Spain”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2023:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Partido Popular (“People's Party”): a conservative and Christian democratic political party in Spain.
PP
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ‘Well, I’ll bet you half a dozen of claret on it; come!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire, resuming the conversation to which Mr. Pell’s entrance had caused a momentary interruption.
[…] ‘I never bet half a dozen!’ said the other gentleman. ‘I’ll take a dozen.’
‘Done, Simmery, done!’ said Wilkins Flasher, Esquire.
‘P. P., mind,’ observed the other.
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the chapter name)”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: Initialism of play or pay.
-ation
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: ā′shən
ipa: /ˈeɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈæɪ̯.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈe.ʃən/
ipa: /ˈeː.ʃon/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ⠠⠝
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English -acioun /-acion,, derived from Old French -acion /-ation, derived from Latin -ātiō, an alternative form of -tiō (whence -tion). By surface analysis, -ate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: sediment + -ation → sedimentation
glosses: An action or process.
examples: text: found + -ation → foundation
glosses: The result of an action or process.
examples: text: color + -ation → coloration
glosses: A state or quality.
Derived terms: -ization
-isation
Related terms: -ification
-tion
Ari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, of Jewish usage, variant of Arieh (also transcribed as Aryeh, Arye). Ari derives directly from Hebrew: אֲרִי (arí, “lion”); compare Yiddish: לייב (leyb, “Leib”), English: Leo, Leon, French: Léo, Léon, Czech: Lev, Polish: Lew, Russian: Лев (Lev), and Ukrainian: Лев (Lev).
glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Arianna, Ariana, Ariel, Ariella, or Arielle, also used as a formal given name.
glosses: A Papuan language spoken in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
glosses: A town in Abruzzo, Italy.
glosses: A village in Mazandaran Province, Iran.
glosses: A village in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Indiana, United States.
glosses: Alternative form of Aari (language of Ethiopia)
govt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: govts
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of government.
govt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: govts.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of govt.
ETI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Ethical Trading Initiative.
ETI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Related terms: CETI
SETI
craftsperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɑːftspɜːsən/
enpr: krăftsʹpûr-sən
ipa: /ˈkɹæftspɝsən/
Forms: form: craftspersons
form: craftspeople
Etymology: From craft + -s- + person.
Senses: glosses: Someone who is highly skilled at their trade; an artificer.
glosses: A person who produces arts and crafts.
Synonyms: artificer
artisan
artist
Hyponyms: craftsman
craftswoman
Derived terms: craftspersonship
craftsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kräfts′-mən
ipa: /ˈkɹɑːftsmən/
enpr: krăfts′-mən
ipa: /ˈkɹæftsmən/
enpr: kräfts′-mən
ipa: /ˈkɹɐːftsmən/
Forms: form: craftsmen
form: craftman
Etymology: From craft + -s- + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Dilettanteism presupposes art as botchwork does handicraft; and the Dilettante holds the same relation to the artist that the botcher does to the craftsman.
ref: 1874, The Quarterly Review, volume 137, page 388:
text: And if someone wants to know how to make objections to actual craftsmen themselves on the subject of art in general or any particular art, there are published treatises available, as you know.
ref: 2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 232d:
text: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.
ref: 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
glosses: One who is highly skilled at one's trade; an artisan or artificer.
examples: text: Yeh Wang (1826-1889), a master craftsman born in Chiayi, founded the Taiwanese branch of the industry, and though his work is rare these days, you can still see some of his original figures in Ciji Temple in Syuejia near Tainan (see p.333).[...]Chiayi is still home to numerous koji craftsmen - in addition to its vibrant colours, koji is unique in that everything is handmade.
ref: 2007, Stephen Keeling, Brice Minnigh, “Central Taiwan”, in The Rough Guide to Taiwan (Rough Guides), Penguin, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 287:
glosses: A person who makes or creates material objects partly or entirely by hand.
glosses: A person who produces arts and crafts.
Hypernyms: word: artisan
word: craftsperson
Coordinate terms: craftswoman
Derived terms: craftsmanlike
craftsmanly
craftsmanship
mastercraftsman
master-craftsman
master craftsman
witchcraftsman
Related terms: handicraftsman
craftswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: craftswomen
Etymology: From craft + -s- + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A female artisan.
Hypernyms: word: artisan
word: craftsperson
Derived terms: craftswomanship
artificer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈtɪfəsɚ/
ipa: /ɑɹtɪˈfɪsɚ/
ipa: /ɑːˈtɪfɪsə/
Forms: form: artificers
Etymology: From Middle English artificer, from Middle French artificier, from Latin artificiarius.
Senses: examples: text: And Zillah, she also bare Tubal-cain, an instructer of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 4:22:
glosses: Someone who is skilled in their trade; an artisan.
glosses: An inventor.
glosses: A member of the military who specializes in manufacturing and repairing weapon systems.
glosses: A trickster.
glosses: A savant.
Derived terms: artificership
Related terms: opificer
Lothario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /loʊˈθɛəɹioʊ/
Forms: form: Lotharios
form: lothario
Etymology: Named after Lothario, a character in the play The Fair Penitent, a reference to a seducer of the same name in the metastory of the Quixote called The Impertinent Curious Man.
Senses: examples: text: High times, indeed, if unprincipled young rakes like him are to be permitted to invade the sanctity of domestic bliss; though do what the Bashaw will, he cannot keep the most notorious Lothario out of his bed; for alas! all fish bed in common.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Schools and Schoolmasters”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 437:
text: He warned her 'gainst seductive youths in scarlet clad and gold, / As much as 'gainst the blandishments paternal of the old; / But kept his gravest warnings for (hereby my ditty hangs) / That snowy-haired Lothario Lieutenant-General Bangs.
ref: 1886, Rudyard Kipling, “[Departmental Ditties] A Code of Morals”, in Departmental Ditties […], New York, N.Y.: M. F. Mansfield & A. Wessels, published 1899, →OCLC:
text: So much of the plot structure rested on Chandler being the second string: the maladroit loser to Joey’s lothario, the joker skating beneath Ross’s romantic gravity.
ref: 2023 October 29, Zoe Williams, “‘The ironic, metrosexual lothario’: how Matthew Perry captured the spirit of the age”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: lady-killer
word: Casanova
word: Romeo
word: benedick
word: cad
word: drabber
word: fuck boy
word: fuck-boy
word: fuckboy
word: gallant
word: goat
word: he-bitch
word: himbo
word: homme fatal
word: horndog
word: loverboy
word: loverman
word: man ho
word: man whore
word: man-whore
word: manslut
word: manwhore
word: muttonmonger
word: philanderer
word: pimp
word: playboy
word: player
word: rakehell
word: rake
word: rip
word: rolling stone
word: salty dog
word: satyriasist
word: satyromaniac
word: satyr
word: shag bandit
word: sleaze
word: smell-smock
word: striker
word: stringer
word: stud
word: swordsman
word: tart
word: tomcat
word: whoremonger
word: adulterer
word: bed-hopper
word: carpetmonger
word: chamberer
word: debauchee
word: debaucher
word: fornicator
word: gallant
word: lecher
word: lewdster
word: libertine
word: hood rat
word: philanderer
word: rake
word: rantipole
word: rizzler
word: roué
word: player
word: seducer
word: voluptuary
word: wanton
coordinate_terms: Romeo
glosses: A man whose chief interest is seducing, usually women.
wikipedia: The Fair Penitent
lothario
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotharios
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Lothario.
add-on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: add-ons
form: addon
Etymology: Deverbal from add on.
Senses: examples: text: Payments made before an add-on sale must be allocated entirely to the previous contract or contracts.
ref: 1969, Edward D. Giacomini, California Retail Installment Sales, page 172:
glosses: Something which can be appended to something else.
examples: text: Microdrives that can hold several gigabytes (see Figure 2.20) have been available as add-ons for portable devices.
ref: 2010, Kenneth Baldauf, Ralph Stair, Succeeding with Technology, page 77:
topics: computer-hardware
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A software extension or hardware peripheral that provides additional functions or customization for a core application or system.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Additional chips that can be purchased at specific times in tournament play.
topics: video-games
glosses: Synonym of expansion pack.
synonyms: word: expansion pack
Synonyms: sense: something which can be appended to something else
word: addition
word: supplement
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: add-in
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: plug-in
Related terms: look and feel
peripheral
skin
recommendation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛkəmɛnˈdeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌɹɛkəmənˈdeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: recommendations
Etymology: From Middle English recommendacioun, from Anglo-Norman recomendacion, from Medieval Latin recommendatio.
Senses: glosses: An act of recommending.
examples: text: Some of the recommendations made by the PTF to prevent the spread of Covid-19 as religious institutions and hotels open up include: managed access to markets and locations of economic activity to limit the risk of transmitting Covid-19, mandatory use of face masks and temperature checks in public places, and information campaigns on the dangers of the virus among others.
ref: 2020 June 2, Aisha Salaudeen, “Nigeria reopens churches, mosques and hotels amid rising cases of Covid-19”, in CNN:
text: The US Centers and Disease Control and Prevention is considering recommending annual Covid-19 shots to those who are older or who have compromised immune function, rather than the current blanket recommendation for everyone 6 months of age and older.
ref: 2025 April 16, Brenda Goodman, “CDC considers narrowing its Covid-19 vaccine recommendations”, in CNN:
glosses: That which is recommended.
examples: text: Your next employer may require a recommendation.
glosses: A commendation or endorsement.
examples: text: He made a recommendation about what food to order.
text: We followed the recommendation to order sushi.
glosses: A suggestion or proposal about the best course of action (with adpositions including "about" for the context and "to" for the course of action)
Derived terms: letter of recommendation
self-praise is no recommendation
Related terms: recommend
machinery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mə-shē'nə-rē
ipa: /məˈʃiːnəɹi/
rhymes: -iːnəɹi
Forms: form: machineries
Etymology: From machine + -ery. Compare French machinerie.
Senses: examples: text: The external aspect of the oficina was not unlike that of a north-country coal or iron mine—tall chimneys and machinery, corrugated iron buildings, offices and houses, the shanties of workmen, a high bank of refuse.
ref: 1890, William Howard Russell, “Iquique to the Pampas”, in A Visit to Chile and the Nitrate Fields of Tarapacá, Etc., London: J[ames] S[prent] Virtue & Co., […], page 171:
text: One or two wondered then, as if suddenly recalling the outlander, how he would manage, or if he would perish, up there among his unholy modern machineries that puffed out frozen steam to store the deer meat and shot fowl for him, […] "And there were big boxes lugged up there, done up in iron clasps. Cruel-cold earth in those." […] "Like corpse boxes," someone else suggested, down in the half-light, snug fust of the village drinking shop.
ref: 2013, Tanith Lee, “Their Monstrous Minds”, in Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling, editors, Queen Victoria’s Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy, New York, N.Y.: Tor Books, →ISBN:
text: All Mr. Yeats's grotesque machinery of sowlths and tevishes and sheogues leaves us without a shudder; his fantasies are stage-properties of the most unillusive kind.
ref: 2013, Norman A. Jeffares, W. B. Yeats:
glosses: The machines constituting a production apparatus, in a plant etc., collectively.
glosses: The working parts of a machine as a group.
examples: text: All of the machinery of the law was brought to bear on the investigation.
text: Since the three histone-fold domain amino acids are located at the surface of the α-helix 2 domain that is responsible for the formation of H3-H4 dimers and accessible in prenucleosomal complexes, it has been suggested that the specificity associated with these amino acid positions derives from interactions with different assembly or post-translational-modification machineries.
ref: 2015 October 28, “Comparing the Assembly and Handedness Dynamics of (H3.3-H4) 2 Tetrasomes to Canonical Tetrasomes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The collective parts of something which allow it to function.
glosses: The literary devices used in a work, notably for dramatic effect.
Derived terms: antimachinery
heavy machinery
micromachinery
nanomachinery
political machinery
turbomachinery
Related terms: machinist
seller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlə/
ipa: /ˈsɛlɚ/
enpr: sĕl-ər
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
homophone: cellar
homophone: sellar
Forms: form: sellers
Etymology: From Middle English seller, sellere, (also siller, sullar, sullere), from Old English *sellere, *syllere, equivalent to sell + -er (agent noun) (sense 1) and sell + -er (patient) (sense 2). Cognate with Danish sælger, Swedish säljare, Icelandic seljari (“a seller; dealer”).
Senses: examples: text: Alisha was a seller of fine books.
text: De Beers, the world’s largest diamond producer, announced plans in 2017 to operate a carbon-neutral mine and pointed out that the FTC has warned lab-grown diamond sellers over the veracity of their environmental claims.
ref: 2020 March 10, Oliver Milman, “Are laboratory-grown diamonds the more ethical choice to say 'I do'?”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2023:
text: Amazon secured a major legal victory in its fight with rival eBay over seller poaching, with an arbitration panel ruling in its favor earlier this month, according to court filings by the company on Tuesday.
ref: 2020 November 24, Rishi Iyengar, “Amazon wins legal fight against eBay over alleged seller poaching”, in CNN:
glosses: Someone who sells; a vendor; a clerk.
examples: text: Two of the books Alisha authored had become big sellers.
text: Still, she sat in her chair and read it and reread it, six, seven times. She was pleased with it, she was pleased with herself. This time for sure, she said to herself. This one’s a seller. Really big.
ref: 1980, Marianne Wiggins, Went South, New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 87:
glosses: Something which sells.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: bookseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: dramseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: fishseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: printseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: pyramid seller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: rumseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: seller's market
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: seller's remorse
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: slopseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: superseller
sense: terms derived from seller (1)
word: toyseller
sense: terms derived from seller (2)
word: bestseller
sense: terms derived from seller (2)
word: megaseller
sense: terms derived from seller (2)
word: panic seller
sense: terms derived from seller (2)
word: short seller
sense: terms derived from seller (2)
word: system seller
seller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛlə/
ipa: /ˈsɛlɚ/
enpr: sĕl-ər
rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ)
homophone: cellar
homophone: sellar
Forms: form: sellers
Etymology: Alternative forms.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of cellar.
hazer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: hazers
Etymology: From haze + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who administers acts of hazing, or abusive initiation.
glosses: The rodeo performer who hazes the steer.
antimitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + mitotic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Preventing or disrupting mitosis.
antimitotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antimitotics
Etymology: From anti- + mitotic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An agent that prevents or disrupts mitosis.
mitosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈtəʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /maɪˈtoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: mitoses
Etymology: From German Mitose, from Ancient Greek μίτος (mítos, “thread”) + -osis, probably in reference to the thread-like chromatin seen during mitosis.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: karyokinesis
english: of nucleus
translation: of nucleus
word: karyomitosis
coordinate_terms: meiosis
glosses: The division of a cell nucleus in which the genome is copied and separated into two identical halves. It is normally followed by cell division.
Derived terms: word: amitosis
word: antimitosis
word: endomitosis
word: mitogen
word: mitotic
word: mitotically
word: polymitosis
word: pseudomitosis
word: transmitosis
Related terms: meiosis
Rhineland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪnlænd/
ipa: /ˈɹaɪnlænd/
Etymology: From the German Rheinland, equivalent to English Rhine + -land.
Senses: glosses: An area on both sides of the river Rhine, in the west of Germany. Roughly equivalent to the former Prussian Rhine Province, now the greater part of Rhineland-Palatinate plus the south-western half of North Rhine-Westphalia.
raw_tags: with the definite article
glosses: All of Germany's territories on the Rhine.
glosses: A village in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Knox County, Texas, United States.
glosses: A rural municipality in southern Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A hamlet in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Rhineland bastard
Rhinelander
Rhineland Heavy Draft
Rhinelandic
Rhineland massacres
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland rod
Related terms: Rhenish
Academy Awards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Academy Award
Academy Awards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The ceremony at which Academy Award winners are announced and receive their prizes.
YK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yk
form: Yk.
form: YT
form: Y.T.
form: Y. T.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Yukon: a territory of Canada.
trilobite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹaɪ.ləˌbaɪt/
Forms: form: trilobites
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Trilobita. By surface analysis, tri- (“three”) + lobe + -ite (“mineral, individual”), literally “three-lober”.
Senses: examples: text: When you look at a Precambrian trilobite in the lobby of a New York bank, it is difficult to speculate about its primeval environment.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 209:
glosses: An extinct arthropod of the class Trilobita, whose body had three large lobes.
Derived terms: Barr trilobite
trilobite beetle
trilobitelike
conscription
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈskɹɪpʃən/
Forms: form: conscriptions
Etymology: From Middle French conscription, from Latin cōnscriptiō (“levying of troops”).
Senses: synonyms: draft
glosses: Involuntary labor, especially military service, demanded by some established authority.
examples: text: conscription of men of war
ref: 1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]:
glosses: An enrolling or registering.
Derived terms: anticonscription
conscriptional
nonconscription
reconscription
Related terms: conscribe
conscript
ECGD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Export Credits Guarantee Department.
vasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasas
Etymology: ]
From Malagasy vaza.
Senses: glosses: Any parrot of the genus Coracopsis, native to Madagascar.
vasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vāsa.
Senses: glosses: plural of vas
Related terms: vasa murrhina
vasa previa
vasa vasorum
erotomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Forms: form: erotomanias
Etymology: From late 19th century. From Ancient Greek ἐρωτικός (erōtikós, “related to love”), which is from ἔρως (érōs, “passionate or sexual love”); eroto- + -mania.
Senses: examples: text: I read a case study of a woman, Patient M, who suffered from erotomania, or De Clerambault syndrome, in upstate New York in the 1970s. […] One July morning, professional acquaintances and friends of the professor were shocked tor receive wedding invitations to the marriage of him and Patient M.
ref: 2021, Megan Nolan, Acts of Desperation, Random House, →ISBN:
glosses: A psychological disorder in which a person has a delusion of a romantic relationship with another person.
glosses: Excessive sexual inclination or desire.
Synonyms: de Clérambault's syndrome
Derived terms: erotomaniacal
Related terms: erotomane
earthenware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈəːθ(ə)nwɛː/
Forms: form: earthenwares
Etymology: From earthen + -ware, first recorded appearance in 1673.
Compare Dutch aardewerk (“earthenware”).
Senses: examples: text: earthenware bowl
topics: ceramics
chemistry
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: stoneware
glosses: An opaque, semi-porous ceramic made from clay and other compounds.
potash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒt.æʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɑt.æʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: potashes
Etymology: From pot + ash, because the substance was originally obtained by leaching ash in water and then boiling down the resulting solution in a pot. Compare Dutch potas, German Pottasche.
Senses: glosses: The water-soluble part of wood ash, used for making soap and glass and as a fertilizer (chemically speaking, an impure form of potassium carbonate (K₂CO₃) mixed with other potassium salts).
examples: text: permanganate of potash
translation: potassium permanganate
english: potassium permanganate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Potassium. Chiefly used in the names of compounds of the form "... of potash".
glosses: A class of potassium minerals, of similar applicability to potassium carbonate, such as being a fertilizer. (ie. potassium chloride, potassium hydroxide)
Derived terms: acetate of potash
carbonate of potash
caustic potash
chlorate of potash
chromate of potash
citrate of potash
iridiate of potash
manganate of potash
muriate of potash
nitrate of potash
nitre of potash
osmiate of potash
oxygenated muriate of potash
permanganate of potash
plumbate of potash
potash alum
potash bentonite
potash blue
potashery
potash-feldspar
potash-felspar
potash-granite
potash greensand
potash kettle
potash-lime
potash lye
potash-mica
potash of sulfur
potash of sulphur
potash-water
potash water
silicate of potash
stannate of potash
stannite of potash
sulfate of potash
sulphate of potash
sulfurated potash
sulphurated potash
Related terms: potass
potassa
potassium
potash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɒt.æʃ/
ipa: /ˈpɑt.æʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: potashes
form: potashing
form: potashed
form: potashed
Etymology: From pot + ash, because the substance was originally obtained by leaching ash in water and then boiling down the resulting solution in a pot. Compare Dutch potas, German Pottasche.
Senses: examples: text: In order to ascertain the difference between the rapidity of pickling when the tin frames had been potashed and pickling without such treatment, two batches were used.
ref: 1910, Platers' Guide: With which is Combined Brass World:
text: Gold ornaments are sand blasted or steel brushed nicely, then potashed,
ref: 1915, Metal Finishing: Preparation, Electroplating, Coating:
text: After removal from a worker bee they should be potashed in ten percent potassium hydroxide, washed, dehydrated, cleared, and mounted.
ref: 1953, Nature Magazine, page 223:
text: For the extraction of the internal sclerites the aedeagus was potashed in cold saturated KOH solution for several hours and transferred to a vial of distilled water.
ref: 2003, Senckenbergiana biologica, page 136:
glosses: To treat with potassium.
elevenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlɛv(ə)nzɪz/
ipa: /əˈlɛvənzəz/
Forms: form: elevenses
Etymology: From dialectal elevens (“the eleven-o'clock meal”).
Senses: examples: text: The harvestmen who board in the farm-houses fare sumptuously during the month of harvest.— […] at eleven o'clock in the morning, and four in the afternoon, they have each a large light plum-bun, with a pint of ale a piece, carried into the field, to encourage them to work cheerfully. These extra refreshments they call, in their provincial language, their "elevenses" and "fourses." I could not at first imagine what the servants meant by talking of carrying the harvestmen their elevenses and fourses, till Mrs. Henley explained that it was a vulgar abbreviation of the four-o'clock and eleven o'clock meals.
ref: 1837 February, Anna Lee, “The Pinch of Salt”, in The Ladies’ Companion: A Monthly Magazine, Embracing Literature and the Arts, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: Published by William W. Snowdon, →OCLC, page 162, column 2:
text: "In Europe," said Ghosh Babu who read a great deal, "they all stop work at eleven to have tea or coffee or cocoa, or some stronger beverage; they call it elevenses." / […] ["]Ghosh Babu, how long time they get for elevenses?" / "About half-an-hour," replied Ghosh with authority. […] / "We get no time off for elevenses," complained Sambamurthy. "We should bring it up before the Clerks' Association."
ref: 1989, Khushwant Singh, “Man, How the Government of India Run!”, in The Collected Short Stories of Khushwant Singh, New Delhi: Ravi Dayal Publisher, →ISBN, page 96; republished as “Book Extract: They also Serve …”, in Sunday, volume 18, number 4, Calcutta: Ananda Bazar Patrika, 2 January – 2 February 1991, →OCLC, pages 75–76:
text: Even in these tough economic times when many employers seem hell-bent on sucking any and all vestiges of pleasure out of the daily existence of the average working stiff, some things remain sacrosanct. Chief among them is the partaking of elevenses. Even if we spend the majority of our lives glued to a desk, staring at a computer screen or in meetings pretending we care about the interpretation of a spreadsheet, the break for a hot drink and a little snackette between breakfast and lunch is a covenant between Britain and God.
ref: 2010, Simon Majumdar, “Elevenses”, in Eating for Britain: A Journey into the Heart (and Belly) of the Nation, London: John Murray, →ISBN:
text: Betjeman, who was a bit of a gricer, wrote: "I know of no greater pleasure for elevenses in London than to sit in this tea place and watch the trains arrive and depart."
ref: 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:
synonyms: word: elevensies
english: one sense
translation: one sense
glosses: A short mid-morning break taken around eleven o'clock for a drink or light snack.
Coordinate terms: fourses
Related terms: eleven
morning tea
varis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vari
perceptron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəɹˈsɛp.tɹɑn/
ipa: /pɜːˈsɛp.tɹɒn/
Forms: form: perceptrons
Etymology: From percept + -tron.
Senses: glosses: an element, analogous to a neuron, of an artificial neural network consisting of one or more layers of artificial neurons
glosses: a network of such elements.
Synonyms: sense: an element of network
word: McCulloch-Pitts neuron
Derived terms: multilayer perceptron
perceptronic
perceptronium
paraplegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraplegias
Etymology: From New Latin paraplegia, from Ancient Greek παραπληγίη (paraplēgíē), Ionic Greek for παραπληξία (paraplēxía, “paralysis on one side”), from παραπλήσσεσθαι (paraplḗssesthai, “to be stricken on one side”), active παραπλήσσειν (paraplḗssein, “to strike on one side”), from παρά (pará, “beside”) + πλήσσειν (plḗssein, “to strike”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition where the lower half of a patient's body is paralyzed and cannot move.
Derived terms: paraplegin
Related terms: hemiplegia
monoplegia
paraplegic
quadriplegia
paraplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈplid͡ʒɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəpəˈlid͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -iːdʒɪk
Etymology: From para- + -plegic.
Senses: examples: text: The guard looks at you with a troubled, uncomfortable glare, like that of a man who must explain to his paraplegic daughter that her dreams of becoming a ballerina will never come true.
ref: 2011,, Kazerad, Katia: Talk to guard, in: Prequel -or- Making A Cat Cry: The Adventure (webcomic), March 14 2011
glosses: Of, related to, or suffering from paraplegia. Paralyzed from the lower half of the body down.
Derived terms: nonparaplegic
Paralympian
Paralympic
Paralympic Games
paraplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɛɹəˈplid͡ʒɪk/
ipa: /ˌpɛɹəpəˈlid͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -iːdʒɪk
Forms: form: paraplegics
Etymology: From para- + -plegic.
Senses: glosses: A person who suffers from paraplegia.
psychiatry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹi/
Forms: form: psychiatries
Etymology: First attested in 1846. From French psychiatrie, from Medieval Latin psychiatria. By surface analysis, psych- + -iatry.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The branch of medicine that focuses on mental and behavioral health by subjectively diagnosing, treating, or preventing mental disorders (mental illnesses) and behavioural conditions.
Derived terms: antipsychiatry
biopsychiatry
ecopsychiatry
ethnopsychiatry
gerontopsychiatry
geropsychiatry
immunopsychiatry
neuropsychiatry
orthopsychiatry
pedopsychiatry
pharmacopsychiatry
postpsychiatry
psychiatric
psychiatrist
psychiatrize
telepsychiatry
xenopsychiatry
zoopsychiatry
Related terms: psyche
psychology
psychopathology
neuropathology
neuropathy
neurosis
palynology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palyno- + -logy.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: The scientific study of spores, pollen and particulate organic matter in various matrices including the air (pollen counts), crime scenes, and sedimentary rocks.
Derived terms: actuopalynology
aeropalynology
archaeopalynology
melissopalynology
micropalynology
neopalynology
paleopalynology
palynological
palynologist
junk DNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk DNAs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
synonyms: non-functional DNA
hypernyms: non-coding DNA
<
DNA
deoxyribonucleic acid
<
nucleic acid
glosses: Any portion of the DNA sequence of a chromosome or a genome with no apparent function identified by science to date.
intrauterine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈjuːtəɹɪn/
ipa: /ˌɪntɹəˈjuːtəɹaɪn/
Forms: form: intra-uterine
Etymology: From intra- + uterine.
Senses: examples: text: The latest research, published Wednesday in the medical journal JAMA, analyzed years of health records for thousands of Danish women ages 15 to 49, with an even split between those who started using intrauterine devices that release the hormone levonorgestrel for birth control and those who hadn’t used any type of hormonal contraceptive.
ref: 2024 October 17, Deidre McPhillips, “Some IUDs linked to higher rates of breast cancer, but overall risk remains low”, in CNN:
antonyms: extrauterine
glosses: Located or taking place inside the uterus.
Derived terms: intrauterine contraceptive device
intrauterine cranial decompression
intrauterine device
intrauterine insemination
intrauterinely
Related terms: fetal
prenatal
inoffensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inoffensive
form: most inoffensive
Etymology: From in- + offensive.
Senses: examples: text: an inoffensive joke
text: [S]he was one of your ſoft ſpoken, canting, whining hypocrites, who with a truly jeſuitical art, could wreſt evil out of the moſt inoffenſive thought, word, look or action; […]
ref: 1765, Catherine Jemmat, The Memoirs of Mrs. Catherine Jemmat, Daughter of the Late Admiral Yeo, of Plymouth. Written by Herself, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed for the author, at Charing-Cross, →OCLC, page 145:
text: On January 7, 1964, a group of American students at Balboa High School in the Panama Canal Zone set into motion events that soon threatened our relations with Panama and endangered operation of the Panama Canal. It was, on the surface, an inoffensive act: The students raised the American flag in front of the school.
ref: 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 180:
glosses: not offensive
examples: text: an inoffensive plant
glosses: harmless
Synonyms: sense: all senses
word: innocuous
Derived terms: inoffensively
inoffensiveness
inoffensivism
inoffensivity
hyperventilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪpɚˌvɛntəˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /haɪ.pə(ɹ)ˌvɛntəˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: hyperventilations
Etymology: From hyper- + ventilation.
Senses: examples: text: As artificial hyperventilation is advocated in the treatment of raised intracranial pressure, it must be questioned where to set the limit beyond which hypocapnically induced cerebral tissue hypoxia may occur.
ref: 2012, H. Penzholz, M. Brock, J. Hamer, Brain Hypoxia: Pain, →ISBN, page 42:
topics: medicine
pulmonology
sciences
glosses: The state of breathing faster or deeper than necessary.
Derived terms: post-hyperventilation
moose test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moose tests
Etymology: From Swedish älgtest (which see for more), from German Elchtest; although a Swedish test, the word was coined in German and then calqued into Swedish.
Senses: topics: automotive
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
transport
vehicles
glosses: A test of the stability of a vehicle, which determines the maximum speed it can attain and still be able to steer clear of an obstacle (such as a child or a large animal running in front of the car) without going out of control.
examples: text: He passed the moose test.
glosses: Any stringent test of the quality of a product (also used figuratively).
Synonyms: elk test
sinusitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinusitises
form: sinusitides
Etymology: From sinus + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An inflammation of one or more paranasal sinuses.
Derived terms: aerosinusitis
barosinusitis
nasosinusitis
pansinusitis
polysinusitis
rhinosinusitis
sinusitic
sinusitis-infertility syndrome
elk test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elk tests
Senses: glosses: moose test
repulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpʌlsɪv/
enpr: /rĭ-pŭl'sĭv/
enpr: /rē-pŭl'sĭv/
Forms: form: more repulsive
form: most repulsive
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French repulsif, from Medieval Latin repulsivus, from Latin repulsus. By surface analysis, repuls(e) + -ive.
Compare typologically Polish odpychający (< pchnąć), Russian отта́лкивающий (ottálkivajuščij) (< толкну́ть (tolknútʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: a repulsive smell
glosses: Tending to rouse aversion or to repulse; disgusting.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having the capacity to repel.
glosses: Cold; reserved; forbidding.
Synonyms: word: repellent
sense: similar
word: disgusting
sense: similar
word: vile
sense: similar
word: inappropriate
lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.təʊˌəʊ.vəʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæk.toʊˌoʊ.voʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lacto-ovo-vegetarians
form: lacto-ovo vegetarian
form: lactoovovegetarian
Senses: glosses: A vegetarian whose diet excludes animal flesh, but accepts food that can be produced from a living animal without directly causing death (such as eggs, honey, and dairy products).
Synonyms: eggetarian
ovo-lacto-vegetarian
ovolactovegetarian
lacto-ovo-vegetarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌlæk.təʊˌəʊ.vəʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌlæk.toʊˌoʊ.voʊˌvɛ.d͡ʒɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: lacto-ovo vegetarian
form: lactoovovegetarian
Senses: glosses: Describing such a person or diet.
braids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of braid
braids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹeɪdz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of braid
smoothness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smoothnesses
Etymology: From Middle English smothenesse; equivalent to smooth + -ness. Compare Old English smēþnes (“smoothness, a smooth place, a level surface”).
Senses: examples: text: The admirable smoothness of the riding also reflected the greatest credit on those who, despite the difficulties caused by the shortage of men and materials, have succeeded in maintaining the track in such first-class order.
ref: 1946 July and August, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 213:
text: The ‘smoothness’ of distributions can be understood in various senses, this is why we used quotation marks before; further we will drop them. The smoothness can be understood as the differentiability of the distribution function, boundedness of some of its derivatives, the existence of the absolutely continuous component, the decrease of the characteristic function with a certain rate, the validity of the Cramér condition, the condition #92;sigma(#92;Phi)#92;rightarrow 0 as n#92;rightarrow#92;infty, etc.
ref: 1998, Vladimir V. Senatov, Normal Approximation: New Results, Methods and Problems, Walter de Gruyter (VSP), page 32:
text: With it,^([a pavement profile]) paving operations can be adjusted "on the fly" to maintain or improve smoothness.
ref: 2013, Robert Otto Rasmussen, “et al.”, in Real-time Smoothness Measurements on Portland Cement Concrete Pavements During Construction, Transportation Research Board, page 3:
glosses: The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
examples: text: Smoothness can vary from 0 (for a nondifferentiable function) to infinity (for a smooth function).
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain.
raw_tags: of a function
examples: text: A central problem in approximation theory is to characterize the best approximation of a function by polynomials, or other classes of simple functions, in terms of the smoothness of the function. In this chapter, we study the characterization of the best approximation by polynomials on the sphere. In the classical setting of one variable, the smoothness of a function on #92;mathbbS¹ is described by the modulus of smoothness, defined by the forward difference.
ref: 2013, Feng Dai, Yuan Xu, Approximation Theory and Harmonic Analysis on Spheres and Balls, Springer, page 79:
qualifier: approximation theory; numerical analysis; approximation theory; numerical analysis
glosses: The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness.
raw_tags: of a function
Derived terms: modulus of smoothness
Related terms: differentiability class
modulus of continuity
modulus of smoothness
uniform continuity
Sumatra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈmɑːtɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Sumatera, from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra, “sea”). Mentioned in the 11th century in Sanskrit as समुद्रभूमि (samudrabhūmi, “land of Sumatra”), gradually replacing the earlier सुवर्णद्वीप (suvarṇadvīpa).
Senses: glosses: The largest island entirely in Indonesia and the world’s sixth largest island.
Derived terms: Sumatran
Sumatra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈmɑːtɹə/
Forms: form: Sumatras
Etymology: Borrowed from Indonesian Sumatera, from Sanskrit समुद्र (samudra, “sea”). Mentioned in the 11th century in Sanskrit as समुद्रभूमि (samudrabhūmi, “land of Sumatra”), gradually replacing the earlier सुवर्णद्वीप (suvarṇadvīpa).
Senses: examples: text: In the Straits of Malacca one encounters a squall every night; there they are known by the name of Sumatras, crossing as they do from the island bearing that name.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 119:
qualifier: formerly
glosses: A squall or violent rainstorm coming from the south.
glosses: A chicken of a breed native to the island of Sumatra, formerly used in cock-fighting and now mainly kept for exhibition.
sugar beet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar beets
Senses: examples: text: It was heading a freight train, loaded mainly with sugar beet, en route from the country area of Angus to the beet factory at Cupar (Fife).
ref: 1953 February, “Notes and News: Locomotive Notes: Scottish Region”, in Railway Magazine, page 141:
glosses: A type of beet whose root contains a high concentration of sucrose.
examples: text: I just want to say I wouldn't be here without the support of a very special lady- my always outrageous fiancée, Selma. Take a bow, sugar beet.
ref: 1996, Jack Barth, “A Fish Called Selma”, in The Simpsons, spoken by Troy McClure (Phil Hartman):
text: “So is my sugar beet all tucked in?”
“She is. Happily exhausted, too. Just like me.”
ref: 2016, Marianne Evans, Woodland Hearts:
glosses: Darling; sweetheart
Synonyms: Beta vulgaris subsp. vulgaris
Beta vulgaris rapacea var. altissima
Related terms: beet sugar
sugarbush
sugar bush
sugar cane
sugar maple
softness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔftnəs/
ipa: /ˈsɑftnəs/
ipa: /ˈsɒftnəs/
Forms: form: softnesses
Etymology: From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]
ref: 1882, The Pall Mall Budget, page 9:
glosses: The quality of being soft.
Synonyms: word: flaccidity
word: mollitude
word: softness
Hyponyms: word: bendability
word: flexibility
word: moldability
Related terms: word: clay
word: down
word: feather
word: foam
word: wax
word: cushion
word: padding
word: pillow
word: butter
word: dough
word: pudding
word: soft
word: soften