cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
quality of life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualities of life
Senses: examples: text: health-related quality of life
text: And almost anyone can have quality of life destroyed by pain.
ref: 1997, Myles I. Friedman, Improving the Quality of Life: A Holistic Scientific Strategy, page 85:
text: At the Liouguei Reconstruction centre, the guiding philosophy was helping people regain quality of life in ways that reconciled reconstruction activities with the maintenance of social and cultural traditions, both community and school-based.
ref: 2016, Helen James, Douglas Paton, editors, The Consequences of Disasters: Demographic, Planning, and Policy Implications, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 69:
glosses: The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
examples: text: quality-of-life offenses such as graffiti writing, loitering, public urination, public drinking, aggressive panhandling, and turnstile jumping
text: In July 1994, New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani and police commissioner William Bratton began implementing an order-maintenance policing strategy emphasizing proactive and aggressive enforcement of misdemeanor laws against quality-of-life offenses such as graffiti writing, loitering, public urination, public drinking, aggressive panhandling, turnstile jumping, and prostitution.
ref: 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order:
topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: The general well-being of someone, and the degree to which someone's daily experience is enjoyable or unenjoyable.
Concerning prevailing conditions in public, such as cleanliness, safety, and the pleasantness of the surroundings or lack thereof.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Features or improvements designed to make software easier to use without changing the main functionality.
Synonyms: word: QoL
Related terms: quality-adjusted life year
standard of living
rules on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rule on
ruling on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rule on
ruled on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rule on
run-on sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run-on sentence
index verborum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indices verborum
Etymology: Latin: index + verborum
Senses: glosses: An index of words.
Coordinate terms: index locorum
index nominum
index rerum
Related terms: ordo verborum
vugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vughs
Senses: examples: text: 1917, Geological Survey of New South Wales, Mineral resources, Issues 26-35, page 106,
Several years later larger vughs at lower levels were met with containing a much greater number of stalactites. One vugh as large as a room contained so many that it was difficult to move about in it.
text: The explanation of the not infrequent pairs of hemispherical concretionary masses with polished cross-sections might lie in the miners carefully extracting the rounded and bulbous masses of fluorite projecting from vugh linings.
ref: 1955, Yorkshire Geological Society, Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society, volume 30, page 60:
text: The largest patch seen, which is about 2 cm. across, is a milky white crystal almost filling a small vugh in otherwise barren white quartz from the 3-level.
ref: 1957, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Proceedings, page 107:
glosses: Alternative form of vug.
Related terms: vughy
vughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vugh
abdominal evisceration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abdominal eviscerations
Senses: glosses: The presence of the viscera outside of the body, typically through a wound
Gross National Happiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gross national happiness.
Afro-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Afro-American
African-Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African-American
kinæsthesia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From kine- + -æsthesia.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kinesthesia.
præsence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præsences
Senses: examples: text: Spare not to go there, for gracing that farre any that fauour, by your præsence to procure them expedition of justice : although that should be speciallie done, for the poore that can not wait on, or are debarred by mightier parties.
ref: 1888, Basilikon Doron, A Miscellany, George Routledge and Sons, page 142:
glosses: Archaic form of presence.
radar reflectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radar reflector
dislimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dislimbs
form: dislimbing
form: dislimbed
form: dislimbed
Etymology: From dis- + limb.
Senses: glosses: To remove a limb from, to dismember, to pull off arms or legs.
dislimbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dislimb
dislimbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dislimb
dislimbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dislimb
take up a collection
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes up a collection
form: taking up a collection
form: took up a collection
form: taken up a collection
Senses: examples: text: Then somebody sings out, "Take up a collection for him, take up a collection!" Well, a half a dozen made a jump to do it, but somebody sings out, "Let HIM pass the hat around!"
ref: 1885, Mark Twain, chapter 20, in Huckleberry Finn:
text: "But I hope nobody's took up a collection for me. I don't want no charity."
ref: 1915, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 27, in K: A Novel:
text: When Simmons won a scholarship to Dillard University, her high school teachers took up a collection so she'd have a coat.
ref: 2001 September 17, Jodie Morse, “Campus Crusader”, in Time:
glosses: To request and receive money or goods of value from members of a group, especially for a charitable purpose.
Synonyms: pass the hat
diœstrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In all the females studied, whether in diœstrus or in natural or stilbœstrol‐induced œstrus, DOCA reduced the vascular sensitivity to the pressor action of vasopressin.
ref: 1962, Quarterly journal of Experimental Physiology and Cognate Medical Sciences, page 341:
glosses: Archaic form of dioestrus.
stare down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stares down
form: staring down
form: stared down
form: stared down
Senses: examples: text: “Homer’s Triple Bypass” has the potential to be the most depressing episode in the history of The Simpsons, if not television as whole. It is, after all, about a 36-year-old husband and father staring down death and the prospect of leaving his wife a young widow and his small children fatherless.
ref: 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To overcome or make uncomfortable by staring intently.
Related terms: staredown
stares down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of stare down
staring down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stare down
stared down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stare down
œstrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œstruses
form: œstri
Senses: examples: text: Œstrus was noted in a Black-faced ewe (not a virgin) in the beginning of February, and the ewe was served by a ram of its own breed.
ref: 1903, Francis H[ugh] A[dam] Marshall, The Œstrous Cycle and the Formation of the Corpus Luteum in the Sheep (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, series B, volume 196), London: […] [F]or the Royal Society by Dulau and Co., […], page 67:
glosses: Obsolete form of oestrus.
œstri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of œstrus
œnologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more œnologic
form: most œnologic
Senses: examples: text: Clermont has established a limnologic laboratory in the midst of her 20 lakes ; Besançon, laboratories for agricultural analysis and bacteriology, and two experiment stations ; Bordeaux, laboratories for research into diseases of the grape, an experiment station, an agronomic and an œnologic institute ; Nancy, an institute for brewing, and a fine section for the study of agriculture and forestry ; Lyon, a school of tannery perhaps as excellent as any in the world ; while at Caen special attention is devoted to the manufacture of butter and cheese.
ref: 1907, James Ralph Jewell, Agricultural Education, second edition, Chapter V, page 91:
glosses: Obsolete form of oenologic.
gypsycraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gypsy + -craft.
Senses: glosses: The practice(s) of gypsy magic, sorcery, or the use supernatural powers to influence or predict events.
Related terms: witchcraft
spellcraft
tasseography
tea leaf reading
chiromancy
palmistry
tarot card
inferiourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inferiourly
form: most inferiourly
Etymology: From inferiour + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is alſo the very ſame that Prorex is in Latin , to wit, a Vice‐roy: that is,he that in the Kings abſence ſupplyeth his place,and beareth his perſon, as in England the Lord high‐Steward is woont to doe : and more inferiourly it is a deputy or officer under ſome noble man, &c.
ref: 1634, Richard Verstegan, A Restitvtion of Decayed Intelligence, page 320:
glosses: Obsolete form of inferiorly.
superiourly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superiourly
form: most superiourly
Senses: examples: text: Poſſibly it may be argued that, as according to our own account, effects are long in their production ; if the ſyſtems of morality which have been given by the antient Philoſophers of Greece and Rome ; by CONFUCIUS, or MAHOMET, or BRAMA, contain principles which have an equal tendency with Chriſtianity to render their followers more humane and benevolent, the Law of Nations is not ſo ſuperiourly obliged to that religion.
ref: 1795, Robert Plumer Ward, An Enquiry into the Foundation and History of the Law of Nations in Europe, volume II, A. Strahan and W. Woodfall, page 8:
glosses: Obsolete form of superiorly.
pygmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pygmoid
form: most pygmoid
Etymology: From pygmy + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a pygmy; generally, shorter than other peoples but not short enough to be considered pygmies.
pygmoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pygmoids
Etymology: From pygmy + -oid.
Senses: glosses: A person so resembling a pygmy, such as the Negritos of Asia and peoples of the Congo Basin with mixed Pygmy–Bantu ancestry.
Related terms: Negrito
French pancake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: French pancakes
Senses: glosses: A thin pancake.
Synonyms: sense: thin pancake
word: crepe
crepe rubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crepe rubbers
Senses: glosses: Rubber with a crinkled texture, used for soles of shoes.
sphærical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sphærical
form: most sphærical
Etymology: From sphæric + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The membrane forming the filaments is structure‐less, but the sphærical cells, which form more or less moniliform threads sometimes running in parallel lines, at other times forming an irregular net work on the inside of the filaments.
ref: 1874, Edward Parfitt, Grevillea, volume III, Williams and Norgate, page 29:
glosses: Archaic spelling of spherical.
bolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -əʊlə(ɹ)
homophone: bowler
Forms: form: more bolar
form: most bolar
Etymology: From bole (“clay”) + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: bolar loam
text: bolar earth
glosses: Of, relating to, or similar to, bole or clay; clayey.
sphæroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sphæroids
Senses: examples: text: The flattened and irregular sphæroid is covered with indentations and ribs which converge at its lowest part ; and it is in this lowest part, situated almost under the long apophysis, thas we discover the true rings.   Each of these rings supports one of the first sharp radii of the anal fin, whose perforated basis forms another ring, connected with one of those of the flattened sphæroid.
ref: 1804, M. la Cépède quoted in The Critical Review, S. Hamilton; Volume I, page #511
glosses: Archaic spelling of spheroid.
gnashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃi
Forms: form: gnashier
form: gnashiest
Etymology: From gnash + -y.
Senses: glosses: Related to or typical of gnashing the teeth
glosses: grating and harsh
raw_tags: of a sound
examples: text: Deft and comfy, if gnashy of engine, the Prizm looks like an inspired sketch that somehow made it into metal and ought to be viewed as a traveling sculpture exhibit.
ref: 1992, Car and Driver - Volume 38, page 72:
text: I wanted it, but my stomach was so gnashy I ended up taking a bite, walking out to the pool, and then returning for another.
ref: 2015, Alysia Gray Painter, Fairwil, →ISBN:
text: When I'm anxious, me gullet gets gnashy.
ref: 2017, Kara LaReau, The Unintentional Adventures of the Bland Sisters: The Jolly Regina, →ISBN:
glosses: Characterized by grinding or gnashing.
examples: text: Even Hozomeen'll crack and fall apart, nothing lasts, it is only a faring-in-that-which-everything-is, a passing-through, that's what's going on, why ask questions or tear hair or weep, the burble blear purple Lear on his moor of woes he is only a gnashy old flap with winged whiskers beminded by a fool -- to be and not to be, that's what we are -- Does the Void take any part in life and death?
ref: 1965, Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels:
text: What you SHOULD do (again, MHO) is decide _wear_ the big, gnashy treasure items of your world are (in this fabled armory; in that horde) and if the players WANT to tempt a near-total probability of death and _succeed(!)_ then let them HAVE the item(s).
ref: 1994 September 16, Barbara Haddad, “Level .vs. Magic Question”, in rec.games.frp.dnd (Usenet):
text: "Dreary to explain and word all that gnashy science into flowery bower chat," said Emul.
ref: 1994, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Live Robots, page 260:
text: But the grill has some gnashy areas and stuff. Needs someone who wants to restore it to original look or someone who likes old original well used amps. :-) ).
ref: 2002 March 23, Bob Weigel, “FS:Big 'ol ampeg/no speakers”, in rec.music.makers.marketplace (Usenet):
glosses: Unpleasant; tedious or undesirable.
sphæroidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sphæroidal
form: most sphæroidal
Etymology: From sphæroid + -al.
Senses: examples: text: To this sphæroidal weathering we may attribute the bomb‐like balls.
ref: 1902, A. Von Krafft, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India, volume XXXII, page 11:
glosses: Archaic form of spheroidal.
disposable incomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disposable income
800-pound gorillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 800-pound gorilla
dead furrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead furrows
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A furrow left in the field that is slightly wider than twice the width of a plow bottom, usually occurring at the completion of a field.
hemisphæric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hemisphæric
form: most hemisphæric
Senses: examples: text: Body hemisphæric, slightly depressed above, with a concave base, the margins of which are rounded.
ref: 1848, Edward Forbes, Memoirs of the Geological Survey of England and Wales, volume II, page 521:
glosses: Archaic spelling of hemispheric.
exit strategy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exit strategies
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: exit policy
text: Seeking an exit strategy before sailing in harm's way is smart, but it must be related to the mission's goal.
ref: 1993 October 18, Michael Kramer, “The Political Interest It's All Foreign to Clinton”, in Time:
text: "But most of all, we need an exit strategy so that we know what victory is and how we can get there."
ref: 2005 February 1, David E. Sanger, Steven R. Weisman, “In U.S., White House and the Democrats Seek an Edge”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Jun 2011:
text: Mergers, acquisitions and IPOs are no longer a reliable exit strategy with capital markets tanking and buyers wary.
ref: 2009 February 26, David Lawsky, “Silicon Valley: down but not out?”, in Forbes, retrieved 30 Jun 2011:
text: “If your question is, ‘Do I think we should be more aggressive with Belarus,” my answer is no,” he said, emphasizing that Western leaders needed to offer Mr. Lukashenko an “exit strategy.”
ref: 2023 June 22, Valerie Hopkins, quoting Emmanuel Macron, “Belarus Is Fast Becoming a ‘Vassal State’ of Russia”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: business
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A well-defined plan for bringing involvement in a mission, activity, or commitment to an acceptable conclusion.
extermination camp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extermination camps
Senses: glosses: A death camp.
prætends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prætend
Jelgava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: See etymology at Livonian Jālgab.
Senses: examples: text: [The city is] at least ten Rigas and Jelgavas put together! Palace upon palace, bridge upon bridge, tower upon tower.
ref: 2014, Zigmunds Skujins, Flesh-Coloured Dominoes:
glosses: A town in central Latvia, the largest town in Semigallia.
Liepāja
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Liepaja
Senses: glosses: A city and port in the Kurzeme region, on the west coast of Latvia.
danceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dance + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without dancing.
examples: text: Popular music, finally, is contemplative art—a surprising claim, perhaps, given its association with dance and its divergence from danceless art music.
ref: 2014, Kofi Agawu, Representing African Music, page 149:
glosses: Without rhythm suitable for dancing.
raw_tags: of music
Derived terms: dancelessness
campusing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of campus
Rochelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɹoʊˈʃɛl/
Forms: form: Rochell
Etymology: Habitational or topographic name from places in France, La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle diminutive form of roche (“rock”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
examples: text: She was a modern woman. "Rochelle!" I hear my grandma's taunt. "Imagine Rochelle!" And then in Yiddish: "Rachel is not good enough for her."
ref: 1971, E. L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel, Random House, published 2007, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, of 20th century usage.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Alachua County, Florida.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Wilcox County, Georgia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A city in Ogle County, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in McCulloch County, Texas.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Madison County, Virginia.
Derived terms: Rochelle salt
New Rochelle
Related terms: La Rochelle
any minute now
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: He's on the way, and tells me he'll be here any minute now.
glosses: Very soon.
Synonyms: in a minute
Related terms: any day now
any time now
right now
dirty work
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [A] sort of little back kitchen, where dirty work, such as washing up dishes, might be done.
ref: 1848, [Elizabeth Gaskell], chapter II, in Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life. […] (Chapman and Hall’s Series of Original Works of Fiction, Biography, and General Literature), volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: "I am no telltale," said James scornfully. […] Jasper urged James to give information about Rodney, but he steadily refused. "I leave others to do such dirty work," he said.
ref: 1893, Horatio Alger, chapter 21, in Cast Upon the Breakers:
text: [M]any a business-man can say he doesn't do dirty work, because he has others do it for him.
ref: 1917, Upton Sinclair, chapter 11, in King Coal:
text: In a job like that you see the dirty work of Empire at close quarters. The wretched prisoners huddling in the stinking cages of the lock-ups, the grey, cowed faces of the long-term convicts, the scarred buttocks of the men who had been flogged with bamboos—all these oppressed me with an intolerable sense of guilt.
ref: 1936, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Shooting an Elephant”, in Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays, London: Secker and Warburg, published 1950, →OCLC, pages 1–2:
text: US experts believe the Iraqi intelligence service will set the plots in motion, then recruit or extort amateurs to do the dirty work.
ref: 2003 February 4, Elaine Shannon [et al.], “At Home, the FBI Keeps Tabs on Iraqis”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 20 Jan 2011:
text: Das ist die Drecksarbeit, die Israel macht für uns alle.
ref: 2025 June 17, Friedrich Merz, quotee, “Chancellor Merz: Israel does "dirty work" for all of us”, in ZDFheute Nachrichten; English translation from “'Doing the dirty work for us': Merz praises Israel over Iran attacks”, in CGTN Europe, 2025 June 18, of original in German:
glosses: One or more unpleasant tasks, assignments, or employment duties, especially those of a disreputable or illicit nature.
Related terms: get one's hands dirty
similative case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: similative cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A noun case used to indicate likeness, resemblance, or similarity. In English, this is usually expressed by the phrase is similar to or is like or looks like, as in "That bird looks like a robin." Languages that use the similative case include Old Turkic.
vuggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvʌɡi/
rhymes: -ʌɡi
Forms: form: more vuggy
form: most vuggy
Etymology: From vug + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1962, Thomas A. Steven, James C. Ratté, Geology and Ore Deposits, Summitville District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 343), Geological Survey (U.S.) (publisher), page 41,
Parts of the resistant veins have been strongly leached and consists of vuggy, porous quartz ; elsewhere compact quartz has replaced most of the constituents in the original rock.
text: The diachronous layers under the lagoons, when traced seaward, become more and more vuggy, as cement is more patchily developed, and eventually pass into separate lumps (Taylor and Illing, 1969).
ref: 1975, Robin G. C. Bathurst, Carbonate Sediments and Their Diagenesis, page 371:
text: 1976, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Deep Sea Drilling Project, National Ocean Sediment Coring Program, Joint Oceanographic Institutions for Deep Earth Sampling, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Proceedings of the Ocean Drilling Program, Initial Report, page 46,
The basalt consists of a dark greenish-gray, aphyric, vesicular to vuggy altered rock that is diabasic and vesicular near the top, but becomes steadily coarser, more vuggy, and trachitic in texture in the lower part of the unit.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Containing vugs.
vughy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vughy
form: most vughy
Etymology: From vugh + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Owing to soft slidy country rock at the beginning, and hard vughy quartz in the reef, very great difficulty was experienced in putting down this hole.
ref: 1929, New Zealand. Parliament, House of Representatives, Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand, volume 2, page 20:
text: On Mount Gee, the 20 to 50 m thick, dense to highly vughy sequence is characterised by discontinuous, irregular, banded to rhythmically layered quartz, specular hematite and siliceous reddish brown hematitic 'siltstone'.
ref: 1990, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, volume 2, page 996:
text: Fig. 4. Autobrecciated and vughy limestones from the north-west wall of Houghton Cutting (355507) on the A690 trunk road; (a) typical vughy autobrecciated limestone; (b) localized development of autobrecciation in bedded limestone.
ref: 2002, W. R. Dearman, J. R. Coffey, “An engineering zoning map of the Permian limestones of NE England”, in James S. Griffiths, editor, Mapping in Engineering Geology, page 201:
glosses: Containing vughs, vuggy.
servicification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From service + -ification.
Senses: glosses: The transformation or encapsulation of existing processes or systems into one or more discrete services.
examples: text: The servicification of legacy enterprise solutions simplifies ongoing integration and significantly mitigates risk.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The migration from monolithic legacy applications to service-based components and solutions, i.e. a service-oriented architecture.
Related terms: encapsulation
desert pavement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert pavements
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A desert surface that is covered with closely packed rock fragments; reg, serir.
Synonyms: reg
desert varnish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desert varnishes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of rock varnish.
synonyms: word: rock varnish
Bernadetta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Bernadette.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French.
desert pavements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desert pavement
Rothbardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Rothbard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the political or economic theories of Murray Rothbard.
examples: text: Economists familiar with the Rothbardian tradition have taken the analysis even further, persuasively arguing that Somalia is much better without a state than it was with one.
ref: 2011, Robert P. Murphy, Mises Daily, Anarchy in Somalia:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating the political or economic theories of Murray Rothbard.
Anarcho-capitalist.
Rothbardian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rothbardians
Etymology: From Rothbard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of the political or economic theories of Murray Rothbard.
examples: text: The standard statist put-down — "If you Rothbardians like anarchy so much, why don't you move to Somalia?" — misses the point.
ref: 2011, Robert P. Murphy, Mises Daily, Anarchy in Somalia:
glosses: A proponent of the political or economic theories of Murray Rothbard.
An anarcho-capitalist.
Derived terms: Rothbardianism
IMAP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Internet Message Access Protocol.
paliperidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpæl.ɪˈpɛɹ.ɪˌdoʊn/
Etymology: From pali- (of unknown origin) + -peridone (“risperidone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: 9-hydroxyrisperidone, an atypical antipsychotic drug.
sertindole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɚˈtɪnˌdoʊl/
Etymology: Probably blend of ser(o)t(onin) + indole.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An atypical antipsychotic drug.
iloperidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -peridone (“risperidone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An atypical antipsychotic drug used to treat schizophrenia.
Rothbardians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Rothbardian.
documentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of documentalist
nonparanormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + paranormal.
Senses: examples: text: These are pictures of a nonparanormal nature on the same roll of film with pictures of a paranormal nature. The nonparanormal shots show what kind of image the camera takes when there's no supernatural activity around.
ref: 2009, Jason Hawes, Grant Wilson, Michael Jan Friedman, Seeking Spirits: The Lost Cases of the Atlantic Paranormal Society, page 82:
glosses: Not paranormal.
unipedicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + pedicular.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a single pedicle.
bipedicular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bi- + pedicular.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to two pedicles.
non distributio medii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin, literally "undistributed middle".
Senses: examples: text: An educated man must be in some sort instructed; but it is a mere non distributio medii to say that an instructed person must be an educated person.
ref: 1932, Albert Jay Nock, The Theory of Education in the United States:
glosses: A logical fallacy that is committed when the middle term in a categorical syllogism isn't distributed.
triptycenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triptycene
vestibulocerebellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛləm
Forms: form: vestibulocerebellums
form: vestibulocerebella
Etymology: From vestibulo- + cerebellum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The flocculonodular lobe of the cerebellum.
Synonyms: archicerebellum
flocculonodular lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flocculonodular lobes
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A lobe of the cerebellum consisting of the nodule and the flocculus.
flocculonodular lobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flocculonodular lobe
adhæsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhæsions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of adhesion.
adhæsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhæsion
sharkmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shark + meat.
Senses: glosses: The meat of a shark.
mutineries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutinery
effluves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effluve
décollements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of décollement
contrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contrite
moulages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moulage
moulages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moulage
random access
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
computing-theory
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ability to access any element of a sequence in real time, without having to seek through preceding elements.
Derived terms: random access memory
flocculonodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the nodule and flocculus of the cerebellum.
Related terms: flocculonodular lobe
saltproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saltproof
form: most saltproof
Etymology: From salt + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to the corrosive effects of salt.
alkaliproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alkaliproof
form: most alkaliproof
Etymology: From alkali + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to the corrosive effects of alkaline substances.
fadeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fadeproof
form: most fadeproof
Etymology: From fade + -proof.
Senses: examples: fadeproof wallpaper
glosses: Resistant to fading.
autorefresh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + refresh.
Senses: examples: text: Like Paradox and dBASE, Clarion offers an autorefresh facility so data displayed on your screen will be updated if its associated records are changed in the database by another user.
ref: 1991, PC Magazine, volume 10, numbers 9-10:
text: One drawback of the console, though, was its lack of an autorefresh; it had to be updated often to display the current status information.
ref: 2005, Eriq Oliver Neale, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003 Unleashed, page 14:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any feature that automatically refreshes a screen display.
Crouzon syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Octave Crouzon.
Senses: glosses: A genetic disorder that affects the first branchial (or pharyngeal) arch in a developing foetus, causing developmental problems.
wikipedia: Octave Crouzon
inhærent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of inherent.
Kruskal-Szekeres coordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Martin Kruskal and George Szekeres.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
qualifier: general relativity
glosses: A coordinate system suited to the geometry of certain kinds of black hole.
wikipedia: George Szekeres
Martin Kruskal
kryptopyrroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kryptopyrrole
cryptopyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + pyrrole.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kryptopyrrole.
cryptoprocessing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + processing.
Senses: topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Cryptographic operations carried out by a computer or cryptoprocessor.
autoreference
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autoreferences
Etymology: From auto- + reference.
Senses: examples: text: In order to keep the generic autoreferences, the plot was changed from the writing of a novel into the making of a film, the main character not being a writer-narrator, but a film director.
ref: 2018, Zsófia Lóránd, The Feminist Challenge to the Socialist State in Yugoslavia, page 112:
text: Whatever I may perceive or imagine, i.e. an external reference, must be reduced to autoreference. An eloquent example is Novalis's novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen (1800/1802). The text shows that the hero's way into a strange world is always simultaneously a way back to himself and to his self.
ref: Oliver Jahraus, Autoreferentiality, Autoreflexivity, Selftransparency, in 2019, Self-reflection in Literature (page 20)
glosses: Synonym of self-reference.
synonyms: word: self-reference
autoreference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autoreferences
form: autoreferencing
form: autoreferenced
form: autoreferenced
Etymology: From auto- + reference.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-reference.
synonyms: word: self-reference
Related terms: autoreferencing
autoreferential
autoreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autoreference
autoreferences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of autoreference
heteroreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroreceptors
Etymology: From hetero- + receptor.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A receptor regulating the synthesis and/or release of mediators other than its own ligand.
heteroreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heteroreceptor
smashproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more smashproof
form: most smashproof
Etymology: From smash + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being smashed.
joltproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more joltproof
form: most joltproof
Etymology: From jolt + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being damaged by jolting movements.
earlaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earlap
Brownean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brownean
form: most Brownean
Etymology: From Browne + -an.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Thomas Browne (1605-1682), English writer and polymath.
New Ager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: New Agers
Etymology: From New Age + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who espouses New Age beliefs.
Synonyms: New Ageist
New Agers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of New Ager
New Agey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New Agey
form: most New Agey
form: New-Agey
form: new agey
Etymology: From New Age + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She and Kenji had always laughed at the New Agey types who went on about how the universe provides, but maybe they were right.
ref: 2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), page 56:
glosses: Pertaining to, or suggesting, New Age beliefs.
adhærent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adhærent
form: most adhærent
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of adherent.
adhærent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adhærents
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of adherent.
dewlapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dewlap + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: yellow-dewlapped lizards
text: When we were boys, / Who would believe that there were mountaineers / Dewlapp'd like bulls, whose throats had hanging at them / Wallets of flesh?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Having dewlaps (of a specified kind).
New-Agey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more New-Agey
form: most New-Agey
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of New Agey.
earthware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthwares
Etymology: From earth + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of earthenware.
synonyms: word: earthenware
earthwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthware
alco-holic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alco-holics
Etymology: From ALCO + -holic, punningly on alcoholic.
Senses: glosses: An enthusiast of locomotives etc. built by the American Locomotive Company.
earthstars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earthstar
earthliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earthlinesses
Etymology: From earthly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Perchance as vulturs are ſaid to ſmell the earthlineſſe of a dying corps; ſo this bird of prey reſented a worſe than earthly ſavour in the ſoul of Saul, an evidence of his death at hand.
ref: 1642, Thomas Fuller, “The Witch of Endor”, in The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC, book V (The Profane State), page 371:
glosses: The quality of being earthly.
ALCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of American Locomotive Company.
Derived terms: alco-holic
alcoholless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From alcohol + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without alcohol.
earwitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of earwitness
earwitnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of earwitness
echoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echoscopes
Etymology: From echo- + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A medical instrument for intensifying sounds produced by percussion of the thorax.
echoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echoscope
eclampsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eclampsies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eclampsia.
eclampsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eclampsy
Eddaic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eddaic
form: most Eddaic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Eddic.
Eddic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛdɪk/
Forms: form: more Eddic
form: most Eddic
form: Eddaic
form: eddic
Etymology: From Edda + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: A good number of other poems in the eddic style are recorded elsewhere, very often inserted into prose narratives dealing with the exploits of legendary heroes.
ref: 1996, Carolyne Larrington, The Poetic Edda, Folio Society, published 2016, page xii:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Edda (collection of Old Norse literature).
nonedematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + edematous.
Senses: glosses: Not edematous.
edifiest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: edify + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of edify
edingtonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: edingtonites
Etymology: From Edington + -ite, afer Scottish mineral collector James Edington (1787–1844).
Senses: glosses: A particular zeolite mineral.
edingtonites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edingtonite
Edington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛdɪŋtən/
Forms: form: Eddington
Etymology: From Old English Eþandūn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3839).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref ST9253).
Derived terms: edingtonite
edubbas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of edubba
educabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educability
noneducative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + educative.
Senses: glosses: Not educative.
nonindividuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonindividual
nondivisibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + divisibility.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being divisible.
eelgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelgrass
eelspear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eelspears
Etymology: From eel + spear.
Senses: glosses: A spear with barbed forks for spearing eels.
eelspears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eelspear
subsolutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsolution
subsonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subsonically
form: most subsonically
Etymology: From subsonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a subsonic manner.
subspecialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subspecialise
solutionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solution + -less.
Senses: examples: a solutionless problem
glosses: Without a solution or answer.
examples: a solutionless contact lens
a solutionless form of electrolytic rectifier
glosses: Without the use of a chemical solution.
effervescency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effervescencies
Senses: glosses: effervescence
effervescencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effervescency
egg squash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egg squashes
Senses: glosses: A subspecies of squash with small egg-shaped fruit, Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
Synonyms: sense: Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
english: subspecies
translation: subspecies
word: Cucurbita pepo subsp. ovifera
sense: Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
english: variety
translation: variety
word: Cucurbita pepo var. ovifera
sense: Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
english: species
translation: species
word: Cucurbita ovifera
sense: Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
word: nest egg
sense: Cucurbita pepo subsp. polymorpha
word: Japanese nest egg
Related terms: gem squash
egg squashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of egg squash
nonsquamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + squamous.
Senses: glosses: Not squamous.
RAR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Roshal Archive, a proprietary data compression format.
RAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RARs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A RAR file.
glosses: Initialism of railroad accident report.
Derived terms: unrar
unrar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrars
form: unraring
form: unrarring
form: unrared
form: unrared
form: unrarred
form: unrarred
Etymology: From un- + RAR.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To decompress (a compressed archive in the RAR format).
unrars
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unrar
unraring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrar
unrared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrar
unrarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unrar
unrarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unrar
squamosely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squamosely
form: most squamosely
Etymology: From squamose + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a squamose manner.
squamosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From squamose + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being squamose.
egghot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From egg + hot.
Senses: glosses: A posset made of eggs, brandy, sugar, and ale.
egotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ego + theism.
Senses: glosses: The deification of one's own self.
glosses: The view that the idea of God is nothing more than a conception of the self.
Related terms: egotheist
egotheistic
egranulose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From e- + granulose.
Senses: glosses: Having no granules.
egyptological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more egyptological
form: most egyptological
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Egyptological.
Egyptological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Egyptological
form: most Egyptological
form: Ægyptological
form: egyptological
Etymology: From Egyptology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Egyptology.
brown coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its colour.
Senses: glosses: lignite
eikosylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A liquid hydrocarbon, C₂₀H₃₈, of the acetylene series, obtained from lignite.
Synonyms: labdane
eirenicons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eirenicon
electrophoruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophorus
electrophori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophorus
elementalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elementality
eligibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eligible + -ness.
Senses: glosses: eligibility
electrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to electrometry
Derived terms: electrometrically