cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
calcitonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæl.sɪˈtəʊ.nɪn/
ipa: /ˌkæl.sɪˈtoʊ.nɪn/
Forms: form: calcitonins
form: thyrocalcitonin
Etymology: From calci- + tonic + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Intriguingly, the rat C1b isoform of the calcitonin receptor (CTR) (see Section VI-B) has very little interaction with the thyroidally derived form of calcitonin.
ref: 1997, Louis V. Avioli, Metabolic Bone Disease and Clinically Related Disorders, page 98:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that has the effect of lowering blood calcium.
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A synthetic or recombinant form of calcitonin used to treat Paget disease of bone and postmenopausal osteoporosis.
Derived terms: procalcitonin
salcatonin
thyroxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /θaɪˈrɑksiːn/
ipa: /θaɪˈrɑksɪn/
Forms: form: thyroxines
Etymology: From thyr- (“thyroid”) + ox- (“oxygen”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hormone (an iodine derivative of tyrosine), produced by the thyroid gland, that regulates cell metabolism and growth.
Synonyms: sense: hormone
word: tetraiodothyronine
tidal bore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidal bores
Senses: glosses: A wave, in the form of a wall of water, formed by an incoming tide funnelling into an estuary.
Synonyms: sense: wall of water
word: eagre
Related terms: tidal wave
tidalite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tidalites
Etymology: From tidal + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sediment deposited by tidal activity.
tie rod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie rods
Senses: glosses: A slender metal rod used to support or reinforce part of a structure by connecting two pieces.
glosses: Either of a pair of rods that link the steering mechanism to the front wheel or axle of some vehicles.
time constant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time constants
form: time-constant
Senses: examples: y(t)=y_oe.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A characteristic of an exponential function, represented by τ in the function
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The time in which a physical system's response to a step-wise change in an external variable reaches approximately 63% of its final (asymptotic) value.
glosses: For radioactivity: the decay constant.
countryseat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countryseats
form: country-seat
Senses: glosses: an estate in the country; gentleman's country residence
tissue typing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A procedure in which the tissues of a prospective donor and recipient are tested for compatibility prior to transplantation.
titanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed calcium and titanium neosilicate, CaTiSiO₅, once known as sphene.
sphene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sfiːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Forms: form: sphenes
Etymology: From French sphène, coined by René Just Haüy in 1801, Traité de minéralogie vol. 3 p. 114, after Ancient Greek σφήν (sphḗn, “wedge”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: titanite
wikipedia: René Just Haüy
todorokite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: todorokites
Etymology: From Japanese 轟 (todoroki, “boom, rumble; sound of thunder”) + -ite, after Todoroki Mine (轟鉱山) in Shiribeshi, Hokkaido where it was discovered.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A manganese oxide mineral, also containing calcium, barium, potassium, sodium, and sometimes magnesium that is a major constituent of manganese nodules
wikipedia: Shiribeshi Subprefecture
torbanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torbanites
Etymology: From Torbane + -ite, after Torbane Hill near Bathgate in Scotland, its main location of occurrence.
Senses: glosses: A variety of coal, derived from colonial algae, that resembles carbonaceous shale.
Synonyms: boghead coal
transform fault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transform faults
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A type of strike-slip fault occurring at the border between two tectonic plates which are sliding horizontally in directions parallel with the fault line.
suer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːə(ɹ)
homophone: sewer
Forms: form: suers
Etymology: From sue + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He was the most interesting of all the suers for her hand.
ref: 1869, Littell's Living Age, page 789:
glosses: Someone who sues; a suitor.
Coordinate terms: litigant
plaintiff
defendant
doucher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: douchers
Etymology: From douche + -er.
Senses: glosses: A douchebag; a contemptible person.
tige
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tiges
Etymology: Borrowed from French tige (“stem”), from Latin tibia (“shin bone, leg”). Doublet of tibia.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A steel pin in early rifles.
examples: text: The tige is either simple, as in the White Lily, or branching, as in the Geranium; the branching is the most common form; […]
ref: 1829, Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Familiar Lectures on Botany, page 50:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A stem.
pression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛʃən/
enpr: prĕsh􂀽'ən
rhymes: -ɛʃən
Forms: form: pressions
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pressiō, pressiōnis.
Senses: glosses: Pressure or an act of applying pressure.
employé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒmˈplɔɪeɪ/
ipa: /ˌɒmplɔɪˈeɪ/
ipa: /(ˌ)ɒ̃-/
ipa: /ˌɑmˈplɔɪeɪ/
ipa: /ˌɑmplɔɪˈeɪ/
homophone: employée
Forms: form: employés
Etymology: Borrowed from French employé.
Senses: examples: text: A very respectable employé assured me that as many as 1000 families had in the past ten years emigrated to the Chinese side of the Amnok, which is about five miles from the town, but the neighbourhood bore a flourishing appearance, and the population was said to be still increasing.
ref: 1888, W. R. Carles, Life in Corea, Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, →OL, pages 228–229:
text: Lake Le Barge was named after Mike Le Barge, an employé of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who was employed in constructing the overland telegraph line from America to Europe (via Bering Straits) in 1867. The completion of the Atlantic Cable in 1866 put an-end to this project.
ref: 1898, Harry de Windt, Through the Gold-Fields of Alaska to Bering Straits, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 76:
text: Investigation subsequently showed that one of her employés had been bribed to obtain Somnos from a druggist who should be designated as disreputable.
ref: 1907, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, page 2197:
glosses: Synonym of employee.
synonyms: word: employee
employable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more employable
form: most employable
Etymology: From employ + -able.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We can give you the skills you’re missing to make you highly employable,’ Julian smiled.
ref: 2023, Cecile Pin, Wandering Souls, 4th Estate, page 166:
glosses: Able to be employed.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: employability
employable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: employables
Etymology: From employ + -able.
Senses: glosses: A person who is fit for employment.
blow away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blows away
form: blowing away
form: blew away
form: blown away
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blow, away.
examples: text: He blew away the dust which had collected on the book.
text: Perhaps as startling as the sheer toll was the devastation to some of the state’s well-known locales. Boardwalks along the beach in Seaside Heights, Belmar and other towns on the Jersey Shore were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants all but vanished. Bridges to barrier islands buckled, preventing residents from even inspecting the damage to their property.
ref: 2012 October 31, David M. Halbfinger, New York Times, retrieved 31 Oct 2012:
glosses: To cause to go away by blowing, or by wind.
examples: text: I didn't have to rake. The leaves just blew away.
glosses: To disperse or to depart on currents of air.
examples: text: The kid just blew the clerk away.
glosses: To kill (someone) by shooting them with a firearm.
examples: text: In the end, the question proved to be academic. When SCP-3125 arrived, whether it knew ω-0 was there or not, it took no special action against it, and had no need to. Most of ω-0's members' anchors were Foundationers, or Foundation-adjacent. With those people's minds blown away in the first strike, the dense web of mutual memory which had held the Task Force together since its formation tore loose. More than half of the Task Force was cast into the void and died; the final, real death they had evaded for years.
ref: 2019 August 26, qntm, “Unthreaded”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, page 162:
glosses: To utterly destroy, especially with overwhelming force.
examples: text: The critics were blown away by their latest album.
glosses: To flabbergast; to impress greatly.
examples: text: Newcastle were completely blown away during the opening half of the match but worked up a head of steam after the interval that saw them score four goals in 19 minutes against a bruised and beleaguered Arsenal.
ref: 2011 February 5, Paul Fletcher, “Newcastle 4 - 4 Arsenal”, in BBC:
glosses: To overwhelm.
examples: text: And when skipper Richie McCaw hoisted the Webb Ellis Trophy high into the night, a quarter of a century of hurt was blown away in an explosion of fireworks and cheering.
ref: 2011 October 23, Tom Fordyce, “2011 Rugby World Cup final: New Zealand 8-7 France”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To cause to go away; to get rid of.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To delete (data, files, etc.).
Derived terms: dry up and blow away
co-mingle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡəl
Forms: form: co-mingles
form: co-mingling
form: co-mingled
form: co-mingled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of commingle.
co-mingles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of co-mingle
sacrificially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From sacrificial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sacrificial manner.
fasciola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈsiː.əl.ə/
ipa: /fəˈsaɪ.əl.ə/
Forms: form: fasciolae
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fasciola.
Senses: examples: text: The last-named portion is shaded with lines to indicate that it retreats; it embraces parts of the fasciola and lyra
ref: 1883, Burt Green Wilder, On the Brain of a Cat Lacking the Callosum, Preliminary Notics:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A band of grey matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.
sailboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sailboard + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The sport of recreational activity of using a sailboard. windsurfing.
chest pass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chest passes
Senses: topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A pass played with the ball at chest-height.
sanitaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sanitariums
Senses: glosses: plural of sanitarium
sandlotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandlotters
Etymology: From sandlot + -er. Kearney regularly spoke at an outdoor gathering place known as the Sandlot.
Senses: glosses: One who plays in a sandlot.
glosses: A supporter of the working-class, anti-Chinese political views of Denis Kearney in 19th-century California.
sardonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sardonically
form: most sardonically
Etymology: From sardonic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Her floppy hat came down to the tip of her nose, revealing only a long chin and a wide tight mouth, twitched up at the corners by a nervous contraction of her cheek muscles, which gave her an unexpected air of smiling sardonically in the recesses of her hat.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 93:
synonyms: cynically
mockingly
scornfully
sarcastically
glosses: In a sardonic manner.
satisfyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more satisfyingly
form: most satisfyingly
Etymology: From satisfying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he book, constructed in short, lucid episodes, can be satisfyingly read as a sequence of provocative talks, at once well informed and vatic.
ref: 2014 September 26, Tom Payne, “Sapiens: a Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, review: 'urgent questions' [print version: The story of our species, 27 September 2014, p. R32]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):
glosses: In a satisfying manner.
saucily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saucily
form: most saucily
Etymology: From saucy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She walked off saucily and I watched, entranced, until she turned the corner; then I ran after her to ask her for a date.
text: The Clown put his hands in his pockets, and after puffing out his cheeks and nodding his head at them saucily he said, “My lady fair, / Why do you stare / At poor old Mr. Joker? / You’re quite as stiff / And prim as if / You’d eaten up a poker!”
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Dainty China Country”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 232:
text: 'What do you want?' she called saucily from the top of the stairs.
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 62:
glosses: In a saucy manner; impudently or impertinently.
sawed-off
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The sawed-off shotgun was illegal because its shorter barrel made it too easy to conceal.
glosses: Shortened by sawing.
examples: text: He was a sawed-off runt, just a little guy, but he packed so much attitude into that little package that no one was going to make anything about it.
glosses: Short, as though truncated.
sawed-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sawed-offs
Senses: examples: text: When I'm called off, I got a sawed-off / Squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off
ref: 1988, N.W.A. (Ice Cube), "Straight Outta Compton", Straight Outta Compton, 8 Aug 1998
glosses: A shotgun with a barrel and sometimes buttstock which have been shortened by sawing them off; a sawed-off shotgun.
Synonyms: sense: short barrel shotgun
word: sawn-off
saxifrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæk.sə.frɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: saxifrages
Etymology: From Old French saxifrage, from Late Latin saxifraga, from Latin saxifragus (“stone-breaking”). Doublet of sassafras.
Senses: glosses: Any plant in the genus Saxifraga.
Derived terms: word: alpine saxifrage
taxonomic: Pimpinella saxifraga
word: burnet saxifrage
taxonomic: Micranthes virginiensis
word: early saxifrage
taxonomic: Chrysosplenium spp.
word: golden saxifrage
taxonomic: Saxifraga paniculata
word: livelong saxifrage
taxonomic: Saxifraga granulata
word: meadow saxifrage
word: mossy saxifrage
word: moss saxifrage
taxonomic: Silaum silaus
word: pepper saxifrage
taxonomic: Saxifraga stolonifera
word: strawberry saxifrage
vulgus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vulguses
Senses: examples: text: So the table was cleared, the cloth restored, and the three fell to work with Gradus and dictionary upon the morning's vulgus.
ref: 1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days:
topics: education
glosses: A school exercise in which pupils are tasked with writing a short piece of Greek or Latin verse on a given subject.
sauciness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saucinesses
Etymology: From saucy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being saucy.
glosses: An instance of saucy behavior.
comming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: When ſhe knew this galley a farre of, ſhe lift vp a ſigne in the poope of her ſhippe, and ſo Antonius comming to it, was pluckt vp where Cleopatra was, howbeit he ſaw her not at his firſt comming, nor ſhe him, but went and ſate down alone in the prowe of his ſhippe, and ſaid neuer a word, clapping his head betwene both his hands.
ref: 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Marcus Antonius”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 1001:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of coming, now an occasional misspelling.
ricocheted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ricochet
Warringtonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌwɑɹɪŋˈtəʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɔɹɪŋˈtoʊ.ni.ən/
ipa: /ˌwɑɹ-/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Warringtonians
Etymology: From Warrington + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Warrington.
spooney
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: spoonier
form: spooniest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spoony.
spooney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spooneys
Senses: examples: text: Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. ¶ "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spoony.
scentless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scent + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not having a scent, odorless.
Synonyms: word: aromaless
word: inodorate
word: inodorous
word: odourless
word: onodorate
word: scentless
Hypernyms: word: imperceptible
Hyponyms: word: deodorized
Maura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Either Irish Máire and Scottish Gaelic Màiri, or from Italian Maura. When borrowed from Irish, a doublet of Moira.
Senses: examples: text: Fentanyl represents the latest wave of a rolling drug epidemic that has been fueled by prescription painkillers, as addicts continue to seek higher highs and cheaper fixes. “It started out as an opioid epidemic, then heroin, but now it’s a fentanyl epidemic,” Maura Healey, the attorney general of Massachusetts, said in an interview.
ref: 2016 March 25, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Heroin Epidemic Is Yielding to a Deadlier Cousin: Fentanyl”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 09 Aug 2021:
glosses: A female given name from Irish or Scottish Gaelic, of English, Scottish and Irish usage, variant of Mary.
glosses: A female given name from Italian, masculine equivalent Mauro.
Maura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mauras
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan, French, and Italian Maura.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
coseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: During an earthquake
glosses: coseismal
coseismal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + seismal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a line on a map connecting places simultaneously affected by a seismic event.
coseismal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coseismals
Etymology: From co- + seismal.
Senses: examples: text: As illustrative of what would occur under the supposed conditions Dr. Schmidt gives a diagram like fig. 32, in which coseismals have been drawn on the assumption that the velocity has increased proportionately with the depth. In this case the earthquake rays, which are perpendicular to successive coseismals, are by refraction turned upwards, and no longer radiate in straight lines.
ref: 1898, John Milne, Seismology, page 123:
text: The Central Meteorological Observatory has tentatively placed the epicentre at 144.°6 E, 39.°2 N — a result worked out from the coseismals, which were deduced from the times of beginning of the shock at the different meteorological stations.
ref: 1934, Japanese Journal of Astronomy and Geophysics:
text: Now, the average distance between the two inner coseismals is 32 3/4 miles, between the two outer ones (so far as drawn) 35 1/6 miles, and between the first and third 67 1/6 miles.
ref: 2013, Charles Davison, A Study Of Recent Earthquakes, →ISBN:
glosses: A line on a map connecting places simultaneously affected by a seismic event.
Synonyms: coseismic
epicentral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an epicentre
epicentral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicentrals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An epicentral bone
e-waste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːweɪst/
rhymes: -eɪst
Etymology: From e- (electric) + or e- (digital) + waste.
Senses: examples: text: Following up news articles and e-mails from mainland China, BAN was directed to an e-waste processing area known as Guiyu on the Longdong River near the city of Shantou in the northeast [of] Guangdong Province, four hours by car from Hong Kong. In the course of three intensive days in and around Guiyu's four villages, the small investigative team witnessed firsthand what passes for recycling of e-waste in Asia.
ref: 2002, Jim Puckett, 5:35 from the start, in Exporting Harm: The High-Tech Trashing of Asia, spoken by Mary Ryan, Basel Action Network, →OCLC:
text: In June of last year, the Thai Ministry of Industry announced with great fanfare the ban on foreign e-waste. The police made a series of high-profile raids on at least 10 factories, including New Sky Metal.
ref: 2019 December 8, Hannah Beech, Ryn Jirenuwat, “The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Discarded electrical and electronic equipment.
saw-toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But afterwards three of their Companie were slaine, who in seeking food for life, found death at the hand of naked Sauages, whose weapons were Saw-toothed Darts, which if they entred, must be cut out of the flesh.
ref: 1625, Samuel Purchas, chapter 5, in Purchas his Pilgrimes, volume 1, book 2, London: Henry Fetherstone, page 79:
text: […] everywhere between the poplar stems the saw-toothed outline of the western forts cuts the blue sky.
ref: 1857, Charles Kingsley, chapter 5, in Two Years Ago, volume 3, Cambridge: Macmillan, page 135:
text: Craning our necks, we could see that what we had taken for the shore-line on that side was actually a high, thin, saw-toothed ledge of rock […]
ref: 1929, Dashiell Hammett, chapter 17, in The Dain Curse, New York: Vintage, published 1972, page 149:
text: To the south the landscape changes and the gradient profile immediately becomes saw-toothed, as the line rises and falls with the rolling undulations of this rich farming countryside; [...].
ref: 1961 January, G. H. Robin, “Resorts for Railfans - 32: Ayr”, in Trains Illustrated, page 49:
text: Hours later, having brought in the yellow raft laden with supplies to the green shore, then hidden them in the saw-toothed tall grass, an exhausted Cohn followed Buz into the forest.
ref: 1982, Bernard Malamud, “The Flood”, in God’s Grace, New York: Avon, published 1983, page 31:
glosses: Having a jagged edge like a saw.
Synonyms: saw-tooth
jaggy
serrated
notched
savoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: savouriness
Etymology: From savory + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: umami
glosses: The property of being savory, one of the five basic tastes.
Synonyms: word: brothiness
word: meatiness
word: savoriness
word: umami
word: umaminess
Hypernyms: word: flavour
Related terms: word: meaty
barrel roof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel roofs
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A roof having a semicircular cross section; used to span large distances in railway stations etc
Related terms: barrel vault
saver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪvə/
ipa: /ˈseɪvəɹ/
homophone: savour
rhymes: -eɪvə(ɹ)
Forms: form: savers
Etymology: From save + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a saver of souls
text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms. Those that want to borrow are matched with those that want to lend.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: One who saves.
examples: text: He’s a saver and she’s a spender; you’d think the marriage would be doomed, but he keeps them from going into bankruptcy and she makes sure they have a lot of fun.
glosses: One who keeps savings more than usual.
examples: text: Tickets are cheaper the younger you are—snag a youth ticket (if you're twenty-five or under) for a 35 percent discount. If both you and your travel partner are twenty-six or older, the Small Group Saver will knock off 15 percent.
ref: 2017, Off Track Planet's Travel Guide for the Young, Sexy, and Broke:
glosses: A ticket or coupon that offers a discount.
Derived terms: face-saver
labor-saver
labour-saver
lifesaver
package saver
pizza saver
rail saver
screensaver
screen saver
string saver
time-saver
wine saver
savers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saver
time heals all wounds
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: time heals every wound
Etymology: Traditional sentiment, in the form “time is the healer of all necessary evils” used by Greek dramatist Menander (c. 342–290 BCE).
Senses: examples: text: “We quarrelled long ago, did we not, and many years have passed since we met, but Time heals all wounds and—welcome, son of my father. I need not ask if you are well,” and he glanced enviously at the great-framed man who knelt before him.
ref: 1910, H[enry] Rider Haggard, chapter II, in Morning Star:
synonyms: time heals
time is a great healer
time is a great healer of all wounds
time is the great healer
time heals all hurts
time heals all sorrows
time heals all things
glosses: Negative feelings eventually fade away.
wikipedia: Menander
Related terms: all in good time
in due time
this too shall pass
patience is a virtue
savable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈseɪvəbəl/
Etymology: From Middle English savable, from Middle French sauvable, from Old French salvable, sauvable, from Medieval Latin salvābilis; equivalent to save + -able.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: recoverable, reparable, rescuable, retrievable
synonyms: salvable
salvageable
antonyms: unsavable
;
unsalvable
unsalvageable
glosses: Capable of being saved.
ethe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːθiː/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).
Senses: examples: text: And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
ref: 1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:
text: The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
ref: 1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:
text: […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.
ref: 2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:
glosses: plural of ethos
ethe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈiːθiː/
Forms: form: more ethe
form: most ethe
Etymology: See eath.
Senses: examples: text: Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330:
glosses: easy
sandiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sandy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The sandiness of the soil here causes the water to drain off well.
glosses: The property of containing or resembling sand.
ethea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːθɪə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἤθεα (ḗthea), the uncontracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).
Senses: examples: text: From them sprang, all with a sense of dividing and mapping out boundaries, Moira (Destiny) and Nomos (Law), Nemos (Sanctuary) and Nemesis (Avenging Anger or Righteous Indignation), Ethea, the haunts of the country in which one ranges, and so customs, established behaviour, habits.
ref: 1918, John Herbert Parsons, Mind and the Nation: a précis of applied psychology, page 23:
text: Hartmann means this interpretation of what most would call historical historical relativism to apply also to the contemporaneous diversity of ethea among cultures, sub-cultures, and (evidently) individuals who adopt the viewpoint of one of these.
ref: 1984, Eva Hauel Cadwallader, Searchlight on Values: Nicolai Hartmann’s Twentieth-century Value Platonism, page 93:
text: These three valuational attitudes form a triangle of mutually opposing ethea.
ref: 1994, Richard T. Hull, A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry, page 180:
text: The question arises from a limited ethos combined with its universalization, which transgresses its own limits, and its claim to authority over other ethea.
ref: 1996, Charles E. Scott, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics, page 46:
text: A politics of the order of the Athenian Three has no more person or ethea in it — has only a psyche of halve to logos and their false conjunction supported by an invented episteme, an invented noun instead of a participle…
ref: 1997, Charles Olson et al., Collected Prose, page 358:
text: This question echoes the earliest use of ethos that dates back to Homer and Hesiod, influences Isocrates’ theory of rhetoric and moral character, and, as Charles Chamberlain notes, “refers to the range or arena where someone is most truly at home and which underlies all the fine appearances [‘habits’ and ‘customs’: also ethea] that people adopt”.
ref: 2004, Michael J. Hyde, The Ethos of Rhetoric, page XVI:
text: The place of this region is called the ethea of animals and refers to the place outside the domain of Greek culture, to the place of the barbarian who resists domestication.
ref: 2006, Chanju Mun, Buddhism And Peace: Theory And Practice, page 224:
glosses: plural of ethos
ethoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethos
sackful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackfuls
form: sacksful
Etymology: From sack (“bag”) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A sackful of sand won't help the soil here much, but a dump truck full would.
text: If I be not so rich, as to sowe almes by sackfulls, euen my Mite, is beyond the superfluity of wealth: and my pen, my tongue, and my life, shal (I hope) helpe some to better treasure, then the earth affoords them.
ref: c. 1623, Owen Felltham, Resolves, Divine, Morall, Politicall, London: Henry Seile, Essay 48, p. 155:
text: Potatoes were getting very scarce. If you got a sackful you could take them down to the cook-house and swap them for a water-bottleful of coffee.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter VI, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 77:
text: You live until you die, and it doesn’t matter how you go; dead’s dead. So why carry on like a sackful of sick cats just because Herb Clutter got his throat cut?
ref: 1966, Truman Capote, In Cold Blood, New York: Modern Library, published 1992, Part 3, p. 227:
synonyms: sackload
glosses: The amount a sack will contain.
examples: text: what can the Pope say more for his sackfull of traditions?
ref: 1590, Henry Barrow, A Brief Discoverie of the False Church, page 231:
text: […] away we went home again fraught with a Sackful of news to tell our Master.
ref: 1680, Richard Head, chapter 7, in The English Rogue Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, London: Francis Kirkman, page 87:
text: 1853, uncredited translators, German Popular Tales and Household Stories: Collected by the Brothers Grimm, New York: C.S. Francis, Volume I, 74. “The Fox and the Cat,” p. 381,
[…] I understand a hundred arts, and have, moreover, a sackful of cunning!
text: Day and night the poor fellow raved, and always about that confounded orchid, the loss of which seemed to weigh upon his mind as though it were a whole sackful of unrepented crimes.
ref: 1915, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 19, in Allan and the Holy Flower, London: Longman, Green, page 349:
text: 1986, Hanif Kureishi, “Bradford” in Granta 20, Winter, 1986, p. 163,
He received sackfuls of hate mail and few letters of support.
glosses: A large number or amount (of something).
sackful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sackful
form: most sackful
Etymology: From sack (verb) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Now will I sing the sackfull troopes, Pelasgian Argos held,
ref: c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 2, p. 30:
glosses: Intent on plunder.
demoi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛˈmiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δῆμοι (dêmoi), nominative plural form of δῆμος (dêmos).
Senses: topics: political-science
social-sciences
glosses: plural of demos The common populaces of several states.
safeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English savenes; equivalent to safe + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The safeness of the new drug hadn't been proven, so it could only be used experimentally, and you had to sign a waiver accepting the risks.
glosses: The property of being safe.
waivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈweɪvəbəl/
Etymology: From waive + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being waived, of being given a waiver.
waiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waive
sartorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sartorially
form: most sartorially
Etymology: From sartorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The success rate of the shade varied wildly. Those who qualified for the pale and sartorially interesting included Cotillard, whose dress worked mainly from the back, and Carmen Ejogo, whose sequin slip gown was almost blasé in its simplicity.
ref: 2015 February 23, “Oscars 2015: 10 things we learned”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: With regard to good clothing or skilled tailoring.
hooah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhu.ɑː/
Senses: examples: text: Platoon Leader: Listen up, gentlemen - tomorrow's a rest and refit day, hooah?
Soldiers: Hooah!
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The official yell of the US Army.
Related terms: ooh-rah
oorah
hooyah
saprophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saprophyte + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to saprophytes.
sappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English sapines, equivalent to sappy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It was an old love song playing on the radio, full of sentiment and sappinesss. It made me feel alone and sad.
glosses: The property of being sappy.
saintlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saintlike
form: most saintlike
Etymology: From saint + -like.
Senses: glosses: resembling a saint in behavior, such as benevolence, compassion, humility and or piety; exceptionally good
Synonyms: saintly
safe-deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: safety-deposit
Senses: glosses: Safe enough to store valuables securely
safe-deposit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe-deposits
form: safety-deposit
Senses: glosses: A safe-deposit box
satori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtɔːɹi/
ipa: /sæ-/
ipa: /səˈtɔɹi/
rhymes: -ɔːɹi
Forms: form: satoris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 覚 (satori), from Middle Chinese 覺 (kaewk, “to become aware, awaken to, dawn on”) (modern Mandarin 覺 /觉 (jué); referring to the creature’s mind-reading ability).
Senses: examples: text: The Satori appears in [Toriyama] Sekien's Konjyaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki as a hairy, ape-like, mountain-dwelling creature that can read people's minds[…].
ref: 2010, Zilia Papp, “Art History Meets Gegegeno Kitaro”, in Anime and Its Roots in Early Japanese Monster Art, Folkstone, Kent: Global Oriental, →ISBN, page 112:
text: Satori is a ghost that can read people's thoughts and haunts the mountains. The hairy Satori appears in an Edo-period book titled Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki. According to the book, Satori can read people's minds, but will not harm them. Even if a frightened person plans to kill him or her, Satori reads his or her mind and simply runs away before he or she can do any harm.
ref: 2023, Masami Kinoshita, “Super Scary Yokai”, in The Japanese Yokai Handbook: A Guide to the Spookiest Ghosts, Demons, Monsters and Evil Creatures from Japanese Folklore, Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 29:
text: This is most likely a type of Yokai called a Satori. They have the ability to read people's minds. And like with Satori, the only way to get rid of them is with a sudden, unexpected attack. […] The ability to read minds is dangerous, but it doesn't give the ability to predict sudden actions.
ref: 2023, Kenji Murakami, “Yokai Countermeasures and Weaknesses”, in Zack Davisson, transl., Strange Japanese Yokai: A Guide to the Weird and Wonderful Monsters, Demons and Spirits, North Clarendon, Vt.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN, page 89:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A yokai (“supernatural monster”) having the form of a mind-reading monkey-like creature said to dwell in the mountains of the historical Japanese provinces of Hida and Mino (present-day Gifu Prefecture).
sanguinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanguinely
form: most sanguinely
Etymology: From sanguine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sanguine manner.
scribbler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪbələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskɹɪblə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: scribblers
Etymology: From scribble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The scribbler, pinch'd with hunger, writes to dine.
ref: 1726, George Granville, Epilogue to the Jew of Venice:
text: "That's what I have been talking to you, sir - scientific gibberish! Did you think you could match cunning with me - you with your walnut of a brain? You think you are omnipotent, you infernal scribblers, don't you? That your praise can make a man and your blame can break him?"
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
synonyms: hack
inkslinger
phrasemonger
scrawler
shmock
glosses: One who scribbles; a hasty or untalented writer or artist.
glosses: A machine for coarse carding or teasing of wool.
synonyms: notebook
exercise book
glosses: A ruled notebook or exercise book, especially in grade school.
Derived terms: scribbleress
scribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scribe + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to scribes and their work.
Synonyms: scribely
scrapheap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹæpˌhip/
Forms: form: scrapheaps
form: scrap-heap
form: scrap heap
Etymology: From scrap + heap.
Senses: examples: text: By Easter, "Princess Royal" Pacifics Nos. 46211/2 were in the scrap line at Crewe works and Nos. 46204/5/7/10 were gathered at Crewe South shed, no doubt to follow to the scrapheap.
ref: 1962 June, “Motive Power Miscellany: London Midland Region”, in Modern Railways, page 423:
glosses: A pile in which junk is discarded.
glosses: A junkyard.
glosses: A collection of discarded or rejected items or ideas.
scribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scribble
scribbles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scribble
scripted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of script
scripted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scripted
form: most scripted
Senses: examples: text: It was a carefully scripted meeting, just to allow Tom to meet Jane.
glosses: Planned; something written or prepared before it is read or performed.
glosses: Trite, banal, hackneyed, predictable.
scrambler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmblə(ɹ)
Forms: form: scramblers
Etymology: From scramble + -er.
Senses: examples: text: May it comfort us latter-day scramblers up that fine old mountain to know that Le Conte found it "difficult and fatiguing in the extreme."
ref: 1984, Elizabeth Stone O'Neill, Meadow in the Sky: A History of Yosemite's Tuolumne Meadows Region, page 31:
text: Want an egg sunny-side up? Just crack one into a container, nuke it for 30 seconds, extract it with the handy-dandy Egg Remover, and enjoy a soft yolk breakfast. If you want it scrambled, insert the gridded Egg Scrambler […]
ref: 2002, Lou Harry, Sam Stall, As Seen on TV:
glosses: Someone or something that scrambles (in various senses).
examples: text: Scramblers and palms that climb with the aid of hook-bearing leaves or modified inflorescences (i.e. Desmoncus and the lepidocaryoid rattans) climbed most successfully in dense clusters of small diameter supports, such as occur on the edge of treefall gaps.
ref: 1991, Francis E. Putz, The Biology of Vines, page 77:
glosses: A vine that does not attach itself to its supports.
examples: text: In the movies spies are always talking over cell phones with built-in scramblers.
glosses: A device that makes messages intentionally, but reversibly, unintelligible for reasons of privacy or security.
glosses: A motorcycle used for motocross.
Derived terms: descrambler
unscrambler
reversibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reversibly
form: most reversibly
Etymology: From reversible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that can be undone.
examples: text: In order to accommodate the new platform 4 and the reversibly signalled slow line, a deep cutting had to be cut back and held up in places with a concrete retaining wall.
ref: 1962 June, David Walters, “The new station and layout at Coventry”, in Modern Railways, page 405:
glosses: Relating to something that is reversible.
scrambles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scramble
scrambles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scramble
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: motocross (racing game)
PIB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of polyisobutylene.
hematopoietic cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hematopoietic cell
seniority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /siːnɪˈɒɹɪti/
ipa: /sinˈjɔɹɪti/
rhymes: -ɒɹɪti
Forms: form: seniorities
Etymology: From Middle English senyoryte, from Medieval Latin senioritas, from Latin senior (“elder”).
Senses: examples: text: It's an old-fashioned company, with parking spaces and other perks doled out on the basis of seniority.
synonyms: anciennity
eldership
glosses: A measure of the amount of time a person has been a member of an organization, as compared to other members, and with an eye towards awarding privileges to those who have been members longer.
Related terms: senate
senator
senior
sensationalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sensationalizes
form: sensationalizing
form: sensationalized
form: sensationalized
form: sensationalise
Etymology: From sensational + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To glorify or inflate the importance of a piece of news; to artificially create a sensation.
sensationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sensationalist
form: most sensationalist
Etymology: From sensational + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: clickbait
text: It was a sensationalist newspaper, even by tabloid standards.
glosses: Sensationalistic; tending to sensationalize; characterized by sensationalism (the use of exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention).
Derived terms: sensationalistic
sensationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensationalists
Etymology: From sensational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who indulges in sensational behavior or action.
glosses: One who believes or espouses the philosophy of sensationalism.
sensitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sensitizes
form: sensitizing
form: sensitized
form: sensitized
form: sensitise
Etymology: From sensitive + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Anaphylaxis is the syndrome elicited in a hypersensitive subject upon subsequent exposure to the sensitizing antigen.
ref: 1999, Michael A. Kaliner, “12: Anaphylaxis”, in Marianne Frieri, Brett Kettelhut, editors, Food Hypersensitivity and Adverse Reactions, page 257:
text: Great emphasis should be placed on sensitizing the hands to the feel of the water, and the hands should remain sensitized throughout the workout.[…]Swimmers should sensitize the hands at the beginning of every workout by swimming the first 200 meters with their fists tightly clenched.
ref: 2002, Cecil Colwin, Breakthrough Swimming, page 117:
text: BRCA1 sensitizes cells to apoptosis induced by antimicrotubulin agents like taxanes and vinca alkaloids and also abrogates the effect of DNA-damaging agents like cisplatin and etoposide [ 41 ].
ref: 2012 September 19, Alphy Rose-James, Sreelekha TT, “Molecular Markers with Predictive and Prognostic Relevance in Lung Cancer”, in Lung cancer international, volume 2012, →DOI:
text: Again, I strongly recommend that you sensitize your collodion-coated plates in a tank, rather than a tray, as it is safer, cleaner, and more process-efficient.
ref: 2015, Christopher James, The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes, page 441:
glosses: To make (someone or something) sensitive or responsive to certain stimuli.
examples: text: Ever since the burglary, we've been more sensitized to home security issues.
text: At least two stations have been sensitized towards the position gay media professionals […] have to take to protect their job security.
ref: 1974 April 13, “Media Message”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: To make (someone) increasingly aware of, in a concerned or sensitive way.
glosses: To render capable of being acted on by actinic rays of light.
Synonyms: sense: make someone increasingly aware of
word: familiarize
Related terms: sensitivize
desensitize
sensitive
sensitization
publicize