cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
episcopise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: episcopises
form: episcopising
form: episcopised
form: episcopised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of episcopize.
episcopised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of episcopise
episcopises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of episcopise
episcopising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of episcopise
Chinatsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
ergogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergograms
Etymology: From ergo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A diagram illustrating work efficiency.
ergograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergogram
Chika
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
eschatologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of eschatological.
synonyms: word: eschatological
escheatages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of escheatage
estanciero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estancieros
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish estanciero.
Senses: examples: text: Until the 1920's, Argentina was one of the wealthiest nations in the world, thanks to the fertile farms and ranches that spread over the pampa — the grasslands that stretch in a huge arc from Buenos Aires. Back then, free-spending estancieros reveled for months at a stretch in London, Paris and New York, returning just in time for La Rural.
ref: 2006 June 11, Jonathan Kandell, “Buenos Aires Beef, on Hoof and on Plates”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The boss or supervisor in charge of the workers on an estancia.
estancieros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of estanciero
calorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calorizes
form: calorizing
form: calorized
form: calorized
Etymology: From Latin calor (“heat”) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: He finds that materials that have been mechanically worked calorize better than cast material.
ref: 1927, United States National Bureau of Standards, Light metals and alloys: Aluminum. Magnesium, page 39:
text: Forged, wrought, drawn, rolled or pressed metals calorize better than cast metals.
ref: 1930, Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, page 689:
text: The foundry at Barberton is also equipped to dip calorize (coating with aluminum) steel plates and castings.
ref: 1955, Babcock & Wilcox Company, Steam: its generation and use, page 24-14:
glosses: To form a protective surface on (a ferrous metal) by coating with aluminum powder and then heating.
Derived terms: calorizator
calorizer
calorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calorizes
form: calorizing
form: calorized
form: calorized
Etymology: From calorie + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: She too is calorizing. She will retain her flapper figure--- and starve herself to do it!
ref: 1926, Pennsylvania's Health - Volume 4:
text: Mr. Coffey does not tell us whether he accomplished this admirable stabilization of his avoirdupois by exercising, by calorizing, or by reading James Joyce.
ref: 1928, Leonard Bacon, Joseph Parrish Thompson, Richard Salter Storrs, The Independent - Volume 120, page 135:
text: He will vitaminize and calorize you into gaining weight.
ref: 1958, Peter Joseph Steincrohn, You can increase your heart-power, page 212:
glosses: To follow a diet that focuses on the number of calories in food.
examples: text: Candy calorized has endeavored to show a woman that she puts on no more pounds eating candy than she does eating something else.
ref: 1932, The Southern Pharmaceutical Journal - Volume 25, page 240:
text: Diet Plan: l3 to l4 days of completely calorized menus with the all-important basic four food groups included in each meal.
ref: 1984, Restaurant Business - Volume 83, page 162:
glosses: To provide information about the number of calories in (a food item).
examples: text: While calorized feeds for poultry were being developed, scientists were also looking into an improved milk replacer for calves.
ref: 1959, Poultry and Farm Supply World - Volumes 36-37, page 17:
glosses: To make (food) with high-calorie ingredients.
calorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of calorize
Draculaesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Draculaesque
form: most Draculaesque
Etymology: From Dracula + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of the fictional vampire Count Dracula.
calorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of calorize
calorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of calorize
etepimeletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more etepimeletic
form: most etepimeletic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of animal behaviours: aimed at receiving care from others.
Related terms: epimeletic
eucaryot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eucaryots
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eukaryote.
eukaryot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eukaryots
Senses: examples: text: The genome database searching revealed several possible homologues for the protein Mafl in higher eukaryots, including human. But the role of this protein in higher eukaryots is still unknown.
ref: 2007, Alan J. Corvin, New Developments in Cell Apoptosis Research, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of eukaryote.
eucaryots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eucaryot
eukaryots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eukaryot
eurhythmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurhythmical
form: most eurhythmical
Senses: glosses: harmonious
eurhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eurhythmic
form: most eurhythmic
Etymology: From eu- + rhythmic.
Senses: glosses: harmonious
europeanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of europeanize
europeanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of europeanize
europeanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of europeanize
evangelicalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of evangelicalism
evectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From evection + -al.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to evection.
exanthematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to exanthem.
examinatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more examinatorial
form: most examinatorial
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of, an academic examination.
exasperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exasperative
form: most exasperative
Etymology: From exasperate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: exasperating; causing annoyance
exceptionability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being exceptionable.
exclusionisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclusionism
exclusionistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exclusionistic
form: most exclusionistic
Senses: glosses: Synonym of exclusionist.
synonyms: word: exclusionist
excoriators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excoriator
excursionize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: excursionizes
form: excursionizing
form: excursionized
form: excursionized
Etymology: From excursion + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To go on an excursion.
excursionizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of excursionize
excursionizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excursionize
excursionized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excursionize
executry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executries
Etymology: From executor + -y.
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: executorship
glosses: The role of executor.
executries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executry
exhibitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exhibitively
form: most exhibitively
Etymology: From exhibitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exhibitive manner.
exhilaratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exhilaratory
form: most exhilaratory
Senses: glosses: Causing exhilaration.
exilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exile + -able.
Senses: examples: an exilable offence
glosses: For which one may be exiled.
exopoditic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exopodite + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the exopodite.
exosporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹəl
Etymology: From exospore + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exospore.
exosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exospore + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an exospore.
expatiative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expatiative
form: most expatiative
Etymology: From expatiate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: But my Leech—a leech
Fit to suck blood, with lubricous round rings,
Capaciously expatiative, which make
His little body like a red balloon,
As full of blood as that of hydrogene,
Sucked from men’s hearts
ref: 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
glosses: expatiatory; expansive; diffusive
expertism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expertisms
Etymology: From expert + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: We live under the rule of scientific expertism. The President does not dare send a message to Congress, nor does Congress dare pass a law, without at least going through the motions of consulting scientific experts […]
ref: 1999, Donald Davidson, Still Rebels, Still Yankees and Other Essays, page 161:
glosses: A policy of consulting experts.
expertisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expertism
exploitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploitively
form: most exploitively
Etymology: From exploitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an exploitive manner.
expositress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expositresses
Etymology: From expositor + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A female expositor.
expositresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expositress
expostulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expostulative
form: most expostulative
Etymology: From expostulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: Shifty Maillard, translating frenzy into articulation; repressive with the one hand, expostulative with the other, does his best
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VII (The Insurrection of Women), page 262:
glosses: Synonym of expostulatory.
synonyms: word: expostulatory
Derived terms: expostulatively
expressivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressiveness
expressures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expressure
exprobratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exprobratory
form: most exprobratory
Senses: glosses: Expressing, or relating to, exprobration.
expropriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being expropriated, or seized for public use.
Derived terms: unexpropriable
expropriatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expropriatory
form: most expropriatory
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or of the nature of, expropriation.
extracondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From extra + condensed.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Especially condensed.
ultracondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + condensed.
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Extremely condensed.
semicondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + condensed.
Senses: glosses: Partially or somewhat condensed.
hypercondensed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + condensed.
Senses: glosses: Extremely condensed.
extractabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extractability
extractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From extractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By an extractive process.
extraneities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraneity
extraordinarinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraordinariness
extraterritorialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraterritoriality
extrusible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Capable of being extruded.
eyebrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eyebrow
eyebrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The buildup of waste fibers on a spinning frame.
extrusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Undergoing, or relating to, extrusion.
extrorsely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more extrorsely
form: most extrorsely
Etymology: From extrorse + -ly.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: In an extrorse manner.
camel flu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Middle East respiratory syndrome
thanatognomonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thanato- + Ancient Greek γνώμη (gnṓmē, “sign, mark”) + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Foreshadowing death.
king's man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: king's men
form: King's man
form: kingsman
form: Kingsman
Senses: examples: text: The owner of the grist mill, Smith Bowen, was a patriot, but his father was thought to have Tory tendencies, and when they came to burn the mill he ran out waving his hands and crying, "Spare the mill for I am a King's man."
ref: 1894, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, page 424:
text: Moreover, his willingness to lodge British soldiers, and a free hospitality shown to British officers (among others who frequented his house was General Mackay, a relative, probably, of his wife) marked Mr. Murray as a King's man.
ref: 1972, James Henry Stark, The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution:
text: The Virginia House of Burgesses condemned the acts even before they took effect, prompting Governor Dunmore, a loyal king's man, to order it dissolved.
ref: 2014, Frances H. Kennedy, The American Revolution: A Historical Guidebook, Oxford University Press, page 37:
glosses: A Loyalist during the American Revolution, or any supporter of the king.
examples: text: […] "king's man" was a customs officer.
ref: 1990, Sarah Gibbings, “The Tie: Trends and Traditions”, in Barron's, page 84:
text: Either North or Cheney […] must have secured Arden's appointment to the lucrative post of king's customs officer for the port of Faversham […] From the first, Arden was, in the words of Lena Orlin, who has described these relations in compelling detail, "a king's man in Faversham."
ref: 1997, Donald R. Kelley, David Harris Sacks, The Historical Imagination in Early Modern Britain: History, Rhetoric, and Fiction, 1500-1800, Cambridge University Press, page 152:
text: It is said that the King's man, John Silver (you couldn't make this up), caught Symonds red-handed one day and had his head cut off with a cutlass. […] the coast was less closely monitored by the customs officers than the secluded coves of the south; anyway, the customs men were often in cahoots with the smugglers and wreckers. Despite this, there were few run-ins between smugglers and customs men[…]
ref: 2016, Dawn G. Robinson, Secret Bude, Amberley Publishing Limited:
glosses: A customs officer, or other officer appointed by the English Crown.
examples: text: The ‘Kingsmen’ they call the best handkerchiefs—those that have the pretty-looking flowers on them. Some are only worth 4d. or 5d., some’s not worth taking.
ref: 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
coordinate_terms: Randal's man
glosses: A handkerchief or neckerchief with a yellow pattern on a green background.
Synonyms: sense: supporter of the king
word: Loyalist
sense: supporter of the king
word: loyalist
hubbubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hubbub
hubbubing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hubbub
hubbubed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hubbub
hubbubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hubbub
temerously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more temerously
form: most temerously
Etymology: From temerous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...what pain that is, I will not temerously judge, but commit it to the goodness of our Iord, whose judgments be very deep and profound;
ref: 1787, William Muchall, Doctor and Student:
text: The second, that he swear not temerously or lightly without reverence of God's majesty, but with judgment: that is to say, when necessity constraineth for the glory of God or defence of virtue, at the commandment of a just and lawfully appointed judge.
ref: 1817, Legh Richmond, A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England:
text: And temerously, his hands went over her, over the salt, compact brilliance of her body.
ref: 1915, D. H. Lawrence, The Rainbow:
glosses: Recklessly.
thewlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thewless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: A consequence of this which only worsens the intellectuals' thewlessness is that their antagonists are preaching a salvationary religion, and as Max Weber has said, such religions attract social strata in decline.
ref: 1970, The Alternative: An American Spectator - Volumes 4-5
text: The cloying diminution of signification and significance—indeed the thewlessness of all aspects of meaning, whether semantic, syntactic or pragmatic—that befalls the conscious mind as a result of its tendance upon a symbol [...]
ref: 1977, Richard League, Psycholinguistic Matrices: Investigation into Osgood and Morris:
text: That thewlessness is a pointed recollection of the last lines of "History": "Let us go down," Canaan's invaders tell themselves as they pause before descending to pillage and take possession, [...]
ref: 2006, Randolph Runyon, Ghostly Parallels: Robert Penn Warren and the Lyric Poetic Sequence:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being thewless
mathletic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mathletic
form: most mathletic
Etymology: Blend of math + athletic
Senses: examples: text: In the high school ecosystem, hot, disgruntled theatre guys do not ordinarily engage in direct social transactions with stick-insect nerd-girl anthropologists with excellent mathletic records.
ref: 2011, Joanna Pearson, The Rites and Wrongs of Janice Wills, page 17:
glosses: Of or relating to mathletes.
schoene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoenes
Senses: examples: text: The schoene appears to be about 4 Roman miles; but has certainly no connection with that mile, being a Persian measure.
ref: 1831, Major James Rennell, A Treatise on the Comparative Geography of Western Asia:
text: This distance of 1000 orgyas was taken as an itinerary unit, and called a schoene.
ref: 1858, Giuseppe Barilli, Miranda! A book on wonders hitherto unheeded:
text: The length of the country along shore, according to the bounds that we assign to Egypt, namely from the Plinthinetic gulf to Lake Serbonis, which extends along the base of Mount Casius, is sixty schoenes.
ref: 2014, Tom Turner, Garden History Reference Encyclopedia:
glosses: Alternative form of schene.
schœne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schœnes
Senses: examples: text: For, in describing the dimensions of Egypt, he gives them in schœnes, and then reduces them to stades, at the rate of 60 to a schœne, Euterpe 6 and 9.
ref: 1830, James Rennell, The Geographical system of Herodotus, page 25:
text: Each schœne, comprising 60 stades, is equal to 19,636 English feet, or 12,000 Oriental cubits.
ref: 1859, Jon Taylor, The Great Pyramid, page 59:
text: Are we to measure our wisdom by the Persian Schœne, or by the cubits of a child, and to write so imperfectly as not to write at all but to copy the midday shadows, or lines which meet right in front of you, whose lengths are foreshortened and which show themselves in glimpses rather than plainly, being recognized only by certain of their extremities?
ref: 1894, A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, volume 7:
glosses: Alternative form of schene.
remention
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rementions
Etymology: From re- + mention.
Senses: glosses: A subsequent mention
remention
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rementions
form: rementioning
form: rementioned
form: rementioned
Etymology: From re- + mention.
Senses: glosses: To mention once more.
yipee
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yippee.
schoenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoene
whingding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whingdings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wingding.
whingdings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whingding
Wigmore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Herefordshire, England.
glosses: A village in Kent, England.
glosses: A habitational surname from the village in Herefordshire.
Rapley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
snuff box sea bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snuff box sea beans
Senses: examples: text: Lens phaseoloides. Snuff-box sea-bean. Plate LVI. Family Fabaceae. Local names.--Gayê, Gadyê, Gayî, Lódusong, Bayog (Guam); Gogo, Gogong bakai, Bayogo, Balones (Philippines); Cacoon (West Indies); Boja (Cuba); Tupe (Samoa); Kaka (Rarotonga); Match-box bean (Queensland).
ref: 1905, Elihu Root, Elihu Root collection of United States documents:
text: The seeds of the snuff box, sea bean (Entada scandens) are mentioned in Norse literature as early as 1632 as of inorganic origin and were often considered to have been formed by the waves and called solvent stones.
ref: 1920, Edward W. Berry, “A Fossil Sea Bean from Venezuela”, in The American Journal of Science, page 311:
text: Entada phaseoloides (Linnaeus) Merrill, also called Entada scandens, the match-box bean or snuff-box sea bean
ref: 1939, The Guam Recorder, volumes 16-18, page 350:
text: entada rheedii, commonly known as the African Dream Herb or Snuff Box Sea Bean
ref: 2015, S Kamminlun Vaiphei, Folktales of the Vaiphei:
text: The other species of Entada is E. phaseoloides, commonly known as Queensland bean. It is distributed throughout the tropical forests from Africa to Australia. Match box bean and snuff box sea bean are other names used for this species.
ref: 2016, Bharati Bhattacharyya, Golden Greens: The Amazing World of Plants, page 136:
glosses: Variously the St. Thomas bean (Entada phaseoloides) or the African dream herb (Entada rheedei).
Anstey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ansteys
form: Anstie
Etymology: From Old English ān (“one; a, an”) + stig (“path”). Compare Ansty, which shares the same etymology.
Senses: glosses: A small village and civil parish in East Hertfordshire district, Hertfordshire, England (OS grid ref TL4032).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Charnwood district, Leicestershire, England (OS grid ref SK5408).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the place in Hertfordshire.
Derived terms: East Anstey
West Anstey
McGowan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGowans
form: McGavin
form: McGowen
form: McGowin
form: MacGowan
form: Macgowan
Etymology: Anglicized form of Scottish Gaelic Mac a' Ghobhainn and Irish Mac Gabhann (literally “son of the smith”). Compare Scottish Gaelic gobha (“smith”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Sleight
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
LAG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more LAG
form: most LAG
Etymology: Acronym of loose-aggressive.
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: Loose (inclined to play many starting hands, including weak ones) and aggressive (inclined to raise often).
Related terms: tight
loose
aggressive
passive
kitty cat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kitty cats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kitty-cat.
kitty cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kitty cat
succedaneously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From succedaneous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: ...being obliged to acquire a knowledge of the natural system by itself and succedaneously, it is quite certain that he can have as little interest as comprehension...
ref: 1835, Dr. Frank E. Tappan, American Journal of Science, Hezekiah Howe, page 316:
text: ...homologous parts) and this proceeds succedaneously with the still projecting diplotene threads.
ref: 2012, Frederik Jan Maurits Offerijns, Meiosis in the Pollen Mother Cells of Some Cannas, page 45:
text: ...he adds, " whether this is the same kind of palm that was used by the Israelites, we know not ; or whether it is not here succedaneously used as bearing the nearest resemblance to it...
ref: 1831, Henry Phillips, The Companion for the Orchard, page 144:
text: ...does not admit of being realised specifically, is to be realised, as nearly as possible, succedaneously : he then institutes, in conformity with this latter principle...
ref: 1832, Holker Meggison, A Treatise of the Administration of Assets in Equity, page 28:
glosses: In a manner that serves as a succedaneum.
undancing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dancing.
Senses: examples: text: January 7, 1742, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
We had a little ball the other night at Mrs. Boothby's, and by dancing, did not perceive an earthquake, which frightened all the undancing part of the town.
text: The undancing husband of the dancing wife was boring himself in a corner […]
ref: 1885, William Dean Howells, Indian Summer:
glosses: Not dancing.
C-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsiːbɒm/
Forms: form: C-bombs
Etymology: Abbreviation + bomb. In second sense, after F-bomb etc.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike steel, cobalt absorbs radioactivity, and in the explosion of a C-bomb, the thick shell of cobalt metal would be blasted apart with such force that the cobalt would be pulverized into very fine dust.
ref: 1954, From Rags to Riches with Uranium, page 9:
text: But we tend to forget the C-bomb, a hydrogen bomb that could 'transmute' an element such as cobalt into a radioactive element about 320 times as powerful as radium.
ref: 2009, Christopher Coker, War in an Age of Risk:
coordinate_terms: word: N-bomb
word: A-bomb
word: H-bomb
word: U-bomb
word: cobalt
alt: Co
glosses: Abbreviation of cobalt bomb: A type of nuclear bomb encased in cobalt.
examples: text: However, herein lies the anxiety of using the C-bomb. While I am very happy to use it (a little too liberally admittedly) in my everyday parlance, it still feels slightly shocking to see it written down and one is reminded that, for many, it is still the last word in offensiveness.
ref: 2016 July 11, Rachel Braier, The Guardian:
related: word: c-bomb
synonyms: c-word
C-word
coordinate_terms: f-bomb
n-bomb
glosses: The word "cunt".
C-bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of C-bomb
sweet tea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweet teas
Senses: glosses: Sweetened tea.
glosses: Sweetened tea.
Iced tea supersaturated with sugar by adding it during or just after boiling the water.
hypernyms: iced tea
<
tea
<
drink
beverage
Related terms: sweetleaf
silver Y
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver Ys
form: silver-y
Senses: examples: text: The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.
ref: 1992, BBC Wildlife, volume 11, page 69:
text: There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
ref: 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
text: Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.
ref: 2016 July 11, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
glosses: Ant of species Autographa gamma of moths, having distinctive Y-shaped marks on their forewings.
Synonyms: Y-moth
silver Ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver Y
buff-tailed bumblebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buff-tailed bumblebees
Senses: examples: text: Parting the glossy leaves I discovered a buff-tailed bumblebee ensnared in an orb web.
ref: 2016 July 8, Claire Stares, The Guardian:
glosses: Any of species Bombus terrestris of bumblebees common across large parts of Europe.
short-haired bumblebee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short-haired bumblebees
Senses: examples: text: The short-haired bumblebee vanished from the UK in 1988, having suffered declines over the previous 60 years as its habitat was lost, and was officially declared locally extinct in 2000.
ref: 2015 August 11, The Guardian:
glosses: A species of bumblebee, Bombus subterraneus, native to Eurasia.
candoluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, candoluminescence.
candoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The light given off by certain materials at high temperatures (usually when exposed to a flame) that has an intensity at some wavelengths which can be higher than the blackbody emission expected from incandescence at the same temperature.
Related terms: candoluminescent
luminescence
rementioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remention
rementioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remention
rementions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remention
rementions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of remention
Tataviam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Native American group in southern California.
offlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offlay
offlaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offlay
offlays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of offlay
educological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From educology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to educology.
Derived terms: educologically
educologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educologists
Etymology: From educology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies educology.
educologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of educologist
educologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From educological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, educology.
educology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From education + -o- + -logy.
Senses: examples: text: The rules, logical operations, and procedures that are required to substantiate knowledge claims about the field of educational phenomena constitute the discipline of educology, and comparison is one of the requisite logical operations.
ref: 1981, James E. Christensen, Perspectives on education as educology, page 279:
glosses: The fund of knowledge about the educational process, including theoretical, philosophical, and praxeological perspectives.
Derived terms: educologically
educological
educologist
Holliday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: English surname from the noun holiday. Compare Christmas, and by extension the French surname Noël, Noel.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A locality in Johnson County, Kansas, United States.
glosses: A village in Monroe County, Missouri, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Tioga County, Pennsylvania, United States.
glosses: A city in Archer County, Texas, United States.
Derived terms: Holliday junction
Hollidaysburg
telebroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telebroadcasts
Etymology: From tele- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: A television broadcast.
telebroadcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: telebroadcasts
form: telebroadcasting
form: telebroadcast
form: telebroadcast
form: telebroadcasted
form: telebroadcasted
Etymology: From tele- + broadcast.
Senses: glosses: To broadcast by television.
telebroadcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telebroadcast
telebroadcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of telebroadcast
Aboriginalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aboriginalists
Etymology: From Aboriginal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to Aboriginalism.
Aboriginalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aboriginalist
Aboriginalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Aboriginal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A Western view of the Aboriginal cultures of Australia as being based around the Dreaming and other traditional mythology, and thus incompatible with modern society.
Related terms: Aboriginalist
freepost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From free + post.
Senses: examples: text: There are greater constraints on the complexity and length of the questionnaire: if it is not short, simple and easy to complete the respondent is likely to bin it. A stamped addressed envelope or a freepost number can be used to facilitate return.
ref: 2013, Robin Flowerdew, David M. Martin, Methods in Human Geography:
text: There is a belief that real postage stamps lead to a greater response. This seems to be because respondents see the stamp as money and are less likely to throw it away; in comparison, a freepost or pre-paid envelope is worthless.
ref: 2013, Nigel Bradley, Marketing Research: Tools and Techniques:
glosses: A postal service allowing a person to send mail without affixing postage, the recipient paying when collecting the mail.
examples: text: Freepost on one election communication
ref: 2019, Electoral Commission, European Parliamentary elections (Great Britain):
glosses: A postal service allowing an electoral candidate, political party or government department to send mail wholly paid for by Royal Mail (as the statutory universal postal service provider).
Related terms: freephone
UARTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UART
family car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family cars
Senses: glosses: a car that is suitable for and large enough for a family.
shotgun shacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shotgun shack
brush-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brush-downs
Senses: examples: text: Give me a brush-down, would you? Have I got any twigs in my hair? Are you sure? Then good-bye, my love, good-bye!'
ref: 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part Two, Chapter 3:
text: Together, the two young men fed and watered their mounts, gave them quick brush-downs and chatted happily the whole time.
ref: 2006, Clara Miller, The Reluctant Heretic, Virtualbookworm.com Publishing:
text: A light sand or a soft brush-down with wire wool is often enough to clean up the wood while preserving its character.
ref: 2013 November 1, Joanna Simmons, Emily Henson, “Modern rustic: decorating your home with reclaimed timber”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: The act of brushing down (a person, animal or object).
Related terms: brushout
sphygmology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sphygm- + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: Sphygmology only developed in the Alexandrian period, a couple of centuries after Hippocrates.
ref: 1880, American Journal of Philology, page 290:
text: Tactile Sphygmology, probably the most ancient among the branches of medical science, is now far behind some of its younger sisters.
ref: 1895, W. Wood, Heart Studies, Chiefly Clinical: I. The Pulse-sensations: a Study in Tactile Sphygmology:
text: Also, although sphygmology, or pulse lore, is absent from the Āyurvedic classics, it was well developed in Yunānī medicine, and became the symbol of an Āyurvedic physician's skill. The reputation of sphygmology was such that by the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it had become more a technique of divination than a rational diagnostic method.
ref: 1976, Charles M. Leslie, editor, Asian Medical Systems: A Comparative Study, page 356:
text: The procedure of pulse palpation is termed sphygmology, literally meaning 'the study of the pulse'.
ref: 2007, Sean Walsh, Pulse Diagnosis: A Clinical Guide:
text: This emphasis on the skilful feeling of the pulse made sphygmology one area of Renaissance medicine in which the much-vaunted theoretical division between physicians, who did not touch their patients, and surgeons, who routinely got their hands dirty, broke down in practice.
ref: 2014, Joe Moshenska, Feeling Pleasures: The Sense of Touch in Renaissance England:
text: This was the case with the diagnostic techniques of uroscopy and sphygmology, and with prognosis, best represented by the Hippocratic Prognosticon.
ref: 2015, Peter Dendle, editor, Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the pulse.
Synonyms: pulsology
come-down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: come-downs
Etymology: A deverbal from come down.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of comedown.
batrachites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batrachite
sapiophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapiophiles
Etymology: From Latin sapiens + -phile.
Senses: examples: text: I've said it before and I'll say it again, I'm a sapiophile. I'm attracted to intelligent and unique men.
ref: 2014, Jennifer Gibson Joseph, Daith Hardd: Life, Love and the Beautiful Journey of Finding My Authentic Self, Lulu.com, published 2014, →ISBN:
text: She's a registered Sapiophile, a proud Geek since long before Geek was chic and believes that everyone deserves a happily ever after.
ref: 2014, A. D. Marrow, Love and Other Cosmic Nonsense:
text: “My advice to smart single ladies? Go find a^([sic]) emotionally healthy man with high self-esteem,” she says. “He'll most likely be a sapiophile (someone who finds intelligence the most sexually attractive feature), and you'll be good to go!”
ref: 2015 November 2, Simone Paget, Sarnia Observer:
text: I mean, I get the sapiophile thing, but that's still one hell of a stretch.
ref: 2016, Kelley Armstrong, Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing:
text: The sapiophiles and muses of Arch Avenue
ref: 2016, T. Dove Lourde, We Rent These Bodies:
glosses: A person who is attracted, whether it be sexually, romantically, or otherwise, to intelligence or intelligent people rather than to the physical appearance.
Related terms: sapiosexual
semi-proletariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-proletariats
Senses: examples: text: The numerical strength of the semi-proletariat is even more difficult to assess than that of other social strata; being underestimated and hardly identifiable in official statistics is itself a feature of social marginality.
ref: 1997, Volker Perthes, The Political Economy of Syria Under Asad, →ISBN, page 100:
text: In comparison to the pattern of class relations in the 1920-1950 period outlined in Figure 1, the most notable change is the rise of the agro-industrial elite to preeminence everywhere except Guatemala, and the creation of a semi-proletariat particularly in El Salvador and Nicaragua.
ref: 1998, Jeffery M. Paige, Coffee and Power, →ISBN:
text: The semi-proletariat, living in extremely poor conditions, is the urban class with the greatest potential for unity with the proletariat.
ref: 2010, Sudeep Chakravarti, Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country, →ISBN, page 396:
glosses: Alternative form of semiproletariat.
semi-proletariats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semi-proletariat
punditeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punditeers
Etymology: From pundit + -eer.
Senses: glosses: A commentator or critic who is inexperienced or ignorant.
Kazue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Kikuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese きくこ (Kikuko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Kiyoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese きよこ (Kiyoko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Koharu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese こはる (Koharu).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
punditeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punditeer
Misaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Shiori
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
dirty Sanchezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dirty Sanchez
Suzuko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
fold equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fold equities
Senses: examples: text: Alice holds A♣6♥. Brian holds 2♥2♦. Flop: 9♠7♣3♦. If there's no more betting, the pot equity at showdown is: Alice = 31.5%, Brian = 68.5%. But, if Alice bets and Brian is 70% likely to fold, then Alice's fold equity is 70% × 68.5% = 48.2925%. Total pot equity if Alice bets = 31.5% + 48.2925% = 79.7925%.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The portion of the pot one expects to win, on average, by a bet that induces opponents to fold, rather than by seeing the showdown.
Manami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Mihoko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Mikiko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese みきこ (Mikiko).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Haruhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
Himeko
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Japanese.
car part
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car parts
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A part that can be fitted to a car, often as a replacement for a worn-out or damaged part.
Synonyms: word: auto part
Related terms: spare part
car parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of car part
cold cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cold case.
mastologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mastologists
Etymology: From mastology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who studies mastology.
MLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Pony
glosses: Initialism of My Little Pony.
Derived terms: english: abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
translation: abbreviation of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
word: MLP:FiM
word: PMV
MLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MLPs
Senses: qualifier: machine learning
glosses: Initialism of multilayer perceptron.
unassociate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unassociates
form: unassociating
form: unassociated
form: unassociated
Etymology: From un- + associate.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To remove an association (of e.g. a computer with a network, or a file type with an application program); to disassociate.
unassociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unassociate
unassociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unassociate
intertwingularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (1974) to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge.
Senses: glosses: Deep and complex interconnection or interrelation.
wikipedia: Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Related terms: intertwingle
undissociable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undissociable
form: most undissociable
Etymology: From un- + dissociable.
Senses: glosses: Not dissociable.
undissociably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undissociably
form: most undissociably
Etymology: From undissociable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undissociable manner.
undissociability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + dissociability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being undissociable.
nondissociability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + dissociability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being nondissociable.
dissociably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dissociably
form: most dissociably
Etymology: From dissociable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dissociable manner.
engine bay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine bays
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The section in a vehicle where the engine is situated.
Synonyms: engine compartment
Related terms: engine room
engine compartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: engine compartments
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Synonym of engine bay.
synonyms: word: engine bay
put one's foot down on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's foot down on
form: putting one's foot down on
form: put one's foot down on
form: put one's foot down on
form: put one's foot down upon
Senses: examples: text: 'And say it bloody firmly, by God. We want to put our foot down on this idea once and for all.'
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], “Chapter 21”, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: The last way to get money is to make more of it. Dr. Schacht who had pulled Germany out of the horrors of the 1923 inflation, put his foot down on printing more money.
ref: 1939 January 30, “Exit Schacht”, in Time:
text: Deputy Youth and Sports Minister M Saravanan put his foot down on a suggestion mooted yesterday by a Youth Parliament member to legalise the use of marijuana, also known as ganja, in the country.
ref: 2016 February 18, Free Malaysia Today:
glosses: To put a stop to, suppress; to reject.
actours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of actour
tuna casserole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuna casseroles
Senses: synonyms: tuna noodle casserole
glosses: A casserole mainly composed of egg noodles (or some other starch such as rice) and canned tuna fish, with canned peas and corn sometimes added.