cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Alistair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ăl'-ĭ-stər
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.stɚ/
enpr: ăl'-ĭ-stə
ipa: /ˈæl.ɪ.stə/
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair, from Norman Alexandre or Latin Alexandrus, from Ancient Greek Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros), from ἀλέξω (aléxō, “I defend”) + ἀνδρ- (andr-), the stem of ἀνήρ (anḗr, “man”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Allistaire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A rare spelling variant of Alistair, from Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Allister
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈælɪstə/
ipa: /ˈælɪstɚ/
Etymology: Anglicized from Alasdair, the Scottish Gaelic form of Alexander
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States.
peeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pee
pees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pee
pees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pee
peapod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peapods
form: pea pod
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The pod of the pea plant, that holds the seeds (the peas) until they ripen
glosses: The pod and its contents as a vegetable; the mangetout
qualifier: materials science
glosses: A hybrid nanomaterial consisting of spheroidal fullerenes encapsulated within a carbon nanotube.
examples: text: A thick-shouldered boy in yellow oil pants and a duck-billed cap rowed by in a peapod, so close to the rockweed he would have seen her if he'd looked up.
ref: 1954, Elisabeth Ogilvie, The Dawning of the Day, Down East Books, published 2014, page 52:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A small rowboat traditionally used for fishing and lobstering in Maine.
light industry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light industries
Senses: glosses: Any industry that does not require high capitalization or heavy machinery.
Related terms: light engineering
comprehensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more comprehensively
form: most comprehensively
Etymology: From comprehensive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Ferguson, perhaps recalling how United had been comprehensively outfought in the 3-1 defeat at Liverpool last season, opted for a side with a more pragmatic look with Phil Jones moved into a midfield role.
ref: 2011 October 15, Phil McNulty, “Liverpool 1 - 1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: In a comprehensive manner; in an all-inclusive or wide-ranging fashion.
Synonyms: completely
exhaustively
thoroughly
totally
complimentary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
enpr: kŏm'plĭ-mĕnʹtə-rē
enpr: -trē
ipa: /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
homophone: complementary
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: more complimentary
form: most complimentary
Etymology: From compliment (noun) + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complementary.
Senses: examples: text: a complimentary remark
text: But yesterday evening late, when Lewis arrived from down town he found his supper spread, and some presents of books there, with very complimentary writings on the fly-leaves, and certain very complimentary letters, and more or less greenbacks of dignified denomination pinned to those letters and fly-leaves...
ref: 1877 August 25, Mark Twain, The Letters of Mark Twain, volume 3,2004, page 56:
antonyms: uncomplimentary
glosses: In the nature of a compliment.
examples: text: complimentary drinks
text: In the evenings, Ward and PJ offer guests a complimentary drink. This gesture seems to reinforce the hosts' desire to make everyone feel welcome.
ref: 2005, Vivien Lougheed, Belize Pocket Adventures, page 65:
synonyms: word: free of charge
word: complimentary
word: costless
word: chargeless
word: free
word: free of charge
word: gratis
word: gratuitous
glosses: Free; provided at no charge.
examples: text: The complimentary closing is the word grouping used to bring the message or text to a close.
ref: 2003, Richard H. Beatty, The Perfect Cover Letter:
glosses: With respect to the closing of a letter, formal and professional.
Derived terms: complimentarily
complimentariness
noncomplimentary
overcomplimentary
encompasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encompass
encompassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪŋˈkʌmpəsɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encompass
Derived terms: all-encompassing
encompassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encompass
surrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It was an informative guide to the city and surrounds.
glosses: Things bordering, adjacent to, or near something else; surroundings.
Synonyms: environs
hinterland
surrounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surround
Aleksei
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Russian Алексе́й (Alekséj)
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj).
Aleksey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Алексе́й (Alekséj), equivalent to Alexius.
Derived terms: alsakharovite-Zn
exosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosmoses
Etymology: From exo- + osmosis.
Senses: glosses: osmosis in which fluid flows through a membrane towards a region of lower concentration
Related terms: endosmosis
uploads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upload
uploads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of upload
endosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endosmoses
Etymology: From endo- + osmosis.
Senses: glosses: osmosis in which fluid flows through a membrane towards a region of higher concentration
Derived terms: electroendosmosis
Related terms: exosmosis
exospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exospores
Etymology: From exo- + spore.
Senses: glosses: The outer layer of a spore, especially in some algae and fungi.
Derived terms: exosporal
exosporic
exosporous
Related terms: endospore
exospory
endospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endospores
Etymology: From endo- + spore.
Senses: glosses: The inner layer of a spore.
glosses: A small vegetative spore produced by some bacteria.
Related terms: endospory
exospore
pneumatic device
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatic devices
Senses: glosses: Any device which generates or is powered by compressed air.
compressed air
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Compressed air is used for the operation of certain contactors, the sanders, the horn, and the re-fuelling equipment, but vacuum brakes are fitted to the locomotive.
ref: 1951 January, “Diesel-Electric Branch-Line Locomotive for British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 71:
synonyms: pressurized air
pressurised air
glosses: Air which has been reduced in volume and increased in pressure for use in industrial processes or for cleaning.
Derived terms: compressed-air bath
Related terms: air compressor
Léon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Leon, region of Brittany.
carbon trading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: carbon emissions trading
carbon footprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon footprints
Etymology: Popularized by a 2005 advertising campaign for fossil-fuel company BP in order to shift blame for climate change onto individual consumers. Modelled after the ecological footprint concept developed in the 1990s.
Senses: examples: text: House insulation is another way of reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint, as well as double glazing and draught-proofing.
ref: 1994, Peter Simmons, Petrol to Gas: A Fully Illustrated Guide to Complete D.I.Y.Conversion for the Motorist, Password Publishing, page 14:
text: Usage of local products has boosted the income of local farmers, created more work opportunities and lowered carbon footprints. Previously, business owners in Jiasian competed with each other and fought over business opportunities.
ref: 2018, Lena Dominelli, editor, The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work, Routledge, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 134:
text: Also true is that building HS2 will produce considerable carbon emissions. However, those emissions pale into insignificance if this claim from the business case is true: "To put HS2's carbon footprint in perspective, the estimated total carbon emissions from both building and operating Phase 1 for a full 120 years produces the same amount of carbon as just one month of the UK's road network."
ref: 2020 May 6, Philip Haigh, “Just one more stop on the long journey to HS2 fulfillment [sic]”, in Rail, page 65:
text: But the oil companies would like you to think that’s how it works. It turns out that the concept of the “carbon footprint”, that popular measure of personal impact, was the brainchild of an advertising firm working for BP.
ref: 2021 August 23, Rebecca Solnit, “Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed. Keep them on the hook”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: carbon cost
coordinate_terms: ecological footprint
glosses: A measure of the amount of carbon dioxide produced by a person, organization or state in a given time.
wikipedia: BP
Related terms: carbon emissions trading
digital footprint
carbon cost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon costs
Etymology: From carbon + cost.
Senses: examples: text: Without carbon costs, the marginal cost of producing electricity is given by the ratio between fuel costs and the efficiency of the plant.[…] With carbon costs, the marginal cost for each plant contains the emission factor which depends on the fuel burnt[…].
ref: 2011, Julien Chevallier, Econometric Analysis of Carbon Markets: The European Union Emissions Trading Scheme and the Clean Development Mechanism, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Synonym of carbon footprint.
synonyms: word: carbon footprint
carbon audit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon audits
Senses: glosses: The systematic measurement of the carbon footprint of a person, organization or state, for use in carbon emissions trading
carbon neutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: carbon-neutral
Etymology: In mainstream usage since the early 2000s.
Senses: examples: text: We must accelerate the switch from coal and oil to clean, carbon-neutral power. Such a shift will bring new jobs and growth.
ref: 2003 January 23, Claude Martin, “Weather in Davos : Let's now get serious about warming”, in The International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
text: The hotel plans to make the property "carbon neutral" — whereby carbon emissions are offset by tree planting or other green schemes, and the hotel car runs on filtered, used vegetable oil. Or will, when the promised supply arrives.
ref: 2004 February 6, Katherine Tanko, “Luxury in an 'eco' world”, in International Herald Tribune, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: carbon positive
carbon negative
glosses: Having an overall zero carbon footprint after carbon emissions trading has been taken into account.
Derived terms: carbon neutrality
carbon market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbon markets
Senses: glosses: Any market in which carbon emissions trading takes place.
season creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A small but significant tendency for spring to start earlier and for autumn to end later; the result of global warming.
Related terms: Christmas creep
Christmas creep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Christmas + creep
Senses: glosses: The inexorable tendency for the commercial aspects of Christmas to appear earlier every year.
geostationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + stationary.
Senses: examples: text: The measurement is accomplished by observing the Faraday rotation angle of signals from geostationary satellites on a continuous basis.
ref: 1971, Thomas A. Croft, Measurement of a Solar Wind Plasma Stream which Endures Several Months But is Intermittent on a Time Scale of about One Day:
glosses: At a fixed distance in three dimensions relative to a particular point on the Earth's surface; generally only possible with orbital satellites.
Derived terms: nongeostationary
Related terms: geosynchronous
heliostationary
heliosynchronous
graybeard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graybeards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of greybeard.
graybeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graybeard
greybeards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greybeard
faggots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faggot
skeezy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskiːzi/
rhymes: -iːzi
Forms: form: skeezier
form: more skeezy
form: skeeziest
form: most skeezy
Etymology: US, 1992. Variant of sleazy, possibly influenced by sketchy (“dubious, unnerving”); alternatively analyzed as blend of sketchy + sleazy.
Senses: examples: text: “It feels really different to pay for access to people,” said Kathryn D. Coduto, a Boston University professor who studies dating apps. “Paying for it makes it feel a little skeezy.”
ref: 2024 March 12, J. Edward Moreno, quoting Kathryn D. Coduto, “Dating Apps Have Hit a Wall. Can They Turn Things Around?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Despicable, tasteless.
examples: text: I jilled while babysitting, having found a cache of skeezy porno mags hidden at the bottom of a big basket of magazines in one family's master bathroom.
ref: 2002, Hanne Blank, Unruly Appetites: Erotic Stories, page xiv:
text: I went to Rock Jungle twice and it was a disaster. It was filled with skeezy old men with bad cologne and gold chains trying to pick up eighteen-year-old girls.
ref: 2005, Dan Lieberman, Carnegie Mellon University, page 93:
text: The pregnant daughter was yawning a lot and kept trying to lean on her skeezy boyfriend, who was housing a bag of Late Night All-Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos and not really sharing.
ref: 2014, Alena Smith, Tween Hobo: Off the Rails, page 192:
glosses: Sleazy.
Related terms: skeeze
skeezer
clotheshorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clotheshorses
form: clothes-horse
form: clothes horse
Etymology: From clothes + horse.
Senses: examples: text: In front of the darkened electric fire stood a wooden clothes horse draped with tights and underwear.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 279:
synonyms: airer
clothes maiden
clothes screen
drying rack
glosses: A frame on which laundry is hung to dry.
examples: text: Her mother was a genuine clotheshorse. She had had more kimonos and dresses than room in their chests to store them […]
ref: 1997, Haruki Murakami, translated by Jay Rubin, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.; republished New York: Vintage Books, 1998, →ISBN, page 471:
glosses: A person excessively concerned with the appearance of their clothing.
Related terms: clothesline
coat hanger
causal ontology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: causal ontologies
Senses: examples: text: If English were a causal ontology, you could not say or write 'I ate my house', because you cannot eat a house.
glosses: Language or other descriptive system which restricts that which can be described to that which can be.
sloe-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsləʊˌaɪd/
ipa: /ˈsloʊˌaɪd/
Senses: examples: text: Macdonald's wife was an immensely stout, raven-haired, sloe-eyed, talkative body, the most motherly woman I have ever known.
ref: 1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance:
text: Royal Beaudry carried about with him in his work on the Lazy Double D persistent memories of the sloe-eyed gypsy.
ref: 1917, William MacLeod Raine, chapter 19, in The Sheriff's Son:
text: [S]warthy, sloe-eyed Mexicans, with huge sombreros on their knees, lolled in the shade of a tree.
ref: 1918, Zane Grey, chapter 35, in The U. P. Trail:
text: First you're another sloe-eyed vamp, then someone's mother, then you're camp.
ref: 1971, Stephen Sondheim, I'm Still Here (Follies song):
glosses: Having dark eyes.
bouffant cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouffant caps
Senses: glosses: A loose cap, so called because of its puffy shape, typically secured around the head with an elastic, and frequently used in cleanrooms, food service, and other settings to contain loose hair.
Related terms: hairnet
tortilla chip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortilla chips
Senses: synonyms: nacho
glosses: A chip or crisp made from baked corn tortillas.
Hyponyms: Dorito
haugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɔː/
ipa: /hɔːx/
rhymes: -ɔː
rhymes: -ɔːx
Forms: form: haughs
Etymology: From Northern English dialectal and Scots haugh, from Northern Middle English *halgh, from Old English healh (“corner, nook”), from Proto-West Germanic *halh. Doublet of hale.
Senses: examples: text: The sheriff of the county of Lanark was holding the wappen-schaw of a wild district, called the Upper Ward of Clydesdale, on a haugh, or level plain, near to a royal borough, […]
ref: 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter II, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume I (The Black Dwarf), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 35–36:
text: The position of the playfield is here identified as lying north of this open space between it and the burn, and occupying the haugh which extended west […]
ref: 1884, Alexander Maxwell, The History of Old Dundee:
text: The cattle had […] loved their life in the haughs of Echt, south there across the uncouthy hills was a world cold and unchancy.
ref: 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 46:
text: It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 27:
synonyms: inch
glosses: A low-lying meadow by the side of a river.
wikipedia: English language in Northern England
bunta
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: boonta
Senses: examples: text: When the full forward kicked a goal after the siren, the crowd went bunta.
glosses: Crazy, riotous, out of control.
serpentinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serpentinites
Etymology: From serpentine + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: a metamorphic rock composed of serpentine minerals formed by the hydration of ultramafic rocks
servomechanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servomechanisms
form: servo
form: servo-mechanism
Etymology: From servo- + mechanism.
Senses: synonyms: servo
glosses: A mechanical device for controlling large amounts of power by means of smaller amounts of power and correcting the performance of the device using feedback.
glosses: Any system which controls motion automatically using feedback.
flirting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flirt
Derived terms: flirtingly
flirting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flirtings
Senses: examples: text: Drinking and gambling were flirtings with the devil, or giving over to him entirely. So was card-playing.
ref: 2011, William A. Owens, Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle, page 109:
glosses: A flirtation.
Derived terms: cyberflirting
flexting
sewing machine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewing machines
form: sewing-machine
Senses: hypernyms: machine
glosses: Any mechanical or electromechanical device used to stitch cloth or other material; normally uses two threads to form lock stitches.
Derived terms: sewing-machine music
sferic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sferics
form: spheric
Etymology: From atmospherics.
Senses: glosses: A short pulse of electromagnetic radiation produced by lightning
sferics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmospherics.
Senses: glosses: plural of sferic
sferics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spherics
Etymology: From atmospherics.
Senses: examples: text: A Sferics Locating System has been developed to determine the geographical location of lightning strokes...
ref: 1920: Wilbur H. Paulsen (American Meteorological Society pub.), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society http://books.google.com/books?vid=0myaFW4os6gDX0JMkJ&id=_IEOAAAAIAAJ&q=sferics&dq=sferics&pgis=1
text: ...an artificial sferics generator was used as a known source of EM pulses.
ref: 1965 (pub.): Mitre Corporation, Research & Experimentation 1960-1964 http://books.google.com/books?vid=0womdjATmZ-KMq2Hz5&id=KqTvgTb9FlAC&q=sferics&dq=sferics&pgis=1
text: 1987: Barbara Tufty, 1001 Questions Answered About Hurricanes, Tornadoes and Other Natural Air Disasters http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0486254550&id=LpVoN0gmVKcC&pg=RA2-PA38&lpg=RA2-PA38&dq=sferics&sig=BapiarKgnm1NVr9NDBl1Xcgtp-A
Researchers have thought that possibly these sferics could be used to track hurricanes—but so far, they have been only marginally successful.
text: Sferics are classified normally by the frequency of the receiver used to detect them.
ref: 1998, Donald R. MacGorman, W. David Rust, The Electrical Nature of Storms:
text: This circuit generates a bipolar pulse waveform that closely approximates the main features of sferics.
ref: 1999, Rudolf F. Graf, William Sheets, The Encyclopedia of Electronic Circuits:
text: The second common theoretical approach of the propagation of sferics involves viewing the Earth-ionosphere cavity as a waveguide...
ref: 2003: Rakov, Vladimir A. Rakov, Martin A. Uman, Lightning: Physics and Effects http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0521583276&id=NviMsvVOHJ4C&pg=PA446&lpg=PA446&dq=sferics&sig=X0H-Fg7yaFTa7xnvGjFpMCvXmXM#PPA446,M1
glosses: Electromagnetic pulses caused by atmospheric phenomena, such as lightning. plural of sferic
examples: text: In the identification of sources of short whistlers, the spectral characteristics of the sferics can often be used to establish many sferics as doubtful...
ref: 1959, D. L. Carpenter, Identification of Whistler Sources on Visual Records and a Method of Routine Whistler Analysis:
text: As it turned out, the whistler was only the first of a family of sferics whose taxonomy was to include clicks, hooks, risers, nose-whistlers and one like a warbling of birds called the dawn chorus....
ref: 1963, Thomas Pynchon, V.:
glosses: Radio interference caused by sferics; atmospherics.
atmospherics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From atmosphere + -ics.
Senses: examples: text: Other projects in progress at CRPL involve the study of audiofrequency tellurics (current induced in the earth) and earth conductivity measurements using atmospherics.
ref: 1964, United States. National Bureau of Standards, Technical News Bulletin, volumes 48-49, page 131:
glosses: radio interference caused by pulses of electromagnetic radiation in the atmosphere as the result of lightning and other events (both natural and man-made)
glosses: elements of the overall background atmosphere or ambiance of a physical location (e.g., retail shop) or a sensory performance (e.g., music)
Related terms: sferic
Epicurus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈkjʊəɹəs/
ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈkjʊɹəs/
Etymology: From Latin Epicūrus, from Ancient Greek Ἐπίκουρος (Epíkouros).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement known as Epicureanism.
mallets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mallet
pickaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pickaxe
pickaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pickax
razors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razor
razors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of razor
screwdrivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screwdriver
hacksaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hacksaw
hacksaws
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hacksaw
Oberon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈoʊbərɒn/
Forms: form: Auberon
Etymology: Earlier Auberon, from Old French Alberon, partial loan translation from Middle High German Alberich, literally ‘elf king, fairy king’, from alp + -rich << Proto-Germanic *rīks.
Senses: glosses: A fictional character in medieval and Renaissance literature, the king of the fairies, appearing for example in William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
qualifier: moons
glosses: The outermost major moon of Uranus.
glosses: A town and local government area in New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A minor city in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: operating systems
glosses: A general purpose programming language and operating system descended from Modula-2, developed in the late 1980s.
Derived terms: Oberonian
lavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lava
blundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blunderings
Senses: examples: text: The captain's blunderings led to the loss of the ship.
glosses: The act of making a blunder.
blundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Maccario, it was evident, did not care to take the risk of blundering upon a picket, and a man led them by twisting paths until at last the hacienda rose blackly before them.
ref: 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 26, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:
glosses: present participle and gerund of blunder
resorting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resort
outfoxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfox
thundering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: ...Mr. Crofts (that was the name of my brute) was gone out of the house, after waiting till he had tired his patience for Mrs. Brown's return, they came thundering up-stairs...
ref: 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:
english: Fanny Hill
translation: Fanny Hill
glosses: present participle and gerund of thunder
thundering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thundering
form: most thundering
Etymology: From Middle English thonderynge, þoundryng, equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or accompanied by thunder.
glosses: Producing a noise or effect like thunder; thunderous.
examples: text: “I think it had a thundering lot to do with the story I am considering now,” said Father Brown.
ref: 1927, G. K. Chesterton, The Secret of Father Brown:
glosses: Very great; extraordinary.
Derived terms: thundering herd
thundering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thunderings
Etymology: From Middle English thundryng, þondring, from Old English þunring (“thundering; thunder”), equivalent to thunder + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I listened while God seemed to speak through the thunderings of the great cataract before me.
ref: 1833, Bela Bates Edwards, Memoir of the Rev. Elias Cornelius, page 275:
glosses: A loud percussive sound, like thunder.
glosses: A thunderstorm.
admiralties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of admiralty
gateways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gateway
tetraoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetraoxides
Etymology: From tetra- + oxide.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetroxide.
Derived terms: arsenic tetraoxide
depave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depaves
form: depaving
form: depaved
form: depaved
Etymology: From de- + pave.
Senses: examples: text: Environmental programs: Depaving; auto free city centers; closure of roads...
ref: 1995 September, Susan Cohn, Green at Work, Island Press, page 223:
text: Hand out a bonus for building on wasted brownfields and depaving asphalt ones; penalize building on greenfields.
ref: 1998 October, Jane Holtz Kay, Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back, University of California Press, page 356:
text: Then the town depaved part of a city street and closed another to cars.
ref: 2000 March–April, Laird Harrison, "Depaving Paradise", Audubon Magazine https://web.archive.org/web/20060815221845/http://magazine.audubon.org/profile/profile0003.html
text: They depaved their driveway to grow food, and they are proud to own no car, TV or refrigerator
ref: 2002, Jan Lundberg, "Gasoline Prices and Food: in Context", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/press_release3.html
text: The city has a requirement to provide off-street parking.... UA Homes had real difficulty persuading City Hall to allow us to depave about six places for a garden.
ref: 2003, Richard Register, "Depaving the World", Culture Change, at www.culturechange.org http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/rregister.html
text: This afternoon, we started depaving the driveway to make room for another garden bed.
ref: 2006 May 28, Paul Cooley of Santa Fe, "Miscellaneous Stuff", Carfree Family, at carfreefamily.blogspot.com https://archive.is/20121203103059/carfreefamily.blogspot.com/2006/05/miscellaneous-stuff.html
text: Rewilding can be as complex as depaving a creek or as simple as planting a few seeds. All you need is a bit of time, curiosity, keen eyes and creativity.
ref: 2018, Michelle Mulder, Going Wild: Helping Nature Thrive in Cities, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To undo the act of paving; to remove pavement (especially if it is in the form of asphalt, concrete or the like) so as to restore the land to a more natural state.
Synonyms: english: especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones
translation: especially if the paving is in the form of paving stones
word: unpave
shunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shun
shunning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃʌnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ʌnɪŋ
Forms: form: shunnings
Senses: examples: text: His mind began showering him with painful memories, forcing him to relive shunnings that stretched from elementary to high school and a procession of college roommates who'd ignore him after the first week.
ref: 2003, Nelson Erlick, GermLine, page 100:
text: Shunnings divided families, turning sisters and brothers into strangers ... . . even if the shunned one repented and returned home.
ref: 2004, Beverly Lewis, The Prodigal, page 36:
text: It was during one of my first “shunnings” that I learned a very valuable lesson. Playground politics, it seemed, dictated that while being shunned by the cool group, it was not acceptable behavior to start hanging around with the “non-cool” group.
ref: 2008, David Ritchie, A Harmless Drug, page 3:
glosses: The act by which something is shunned; avoidance.
Arjuna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arjunas
form: Arjun
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit अर्जुन (arjuna).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Sanskrit, popular in South Asia.
glosses: A major character of the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit epic.
Related terms: Arjun
Aruna
exosporium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exosporia
Etymology: From exo- + spore + -ium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.
Synonyms: exine
exospore
Coordinate terms: alt: intine
word: endosporium
exine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exines
Etymology: From German Exine, from Latin ex- + German -ine.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
synonyms: extine
glosses: The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exosporium.
Coordinate terms: english: inner wall
translation: inner wall
word: intine
Derived terms: ektexine
endexine
exinal
exineless
exinite
nexine
primexine
sexine
exostosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exostoses
Etymology: From Koine Greek ἐξόστωσις (exóstōsis, “diseased excrescence on the bone”), from Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon, “bone”).
Senses: examples: text: Unquestionably, gentlemen, the bones most liable to exostosis are, first, the femur; secondly, the humeri; and thirdly, the lower jaw. But exostoses are met with on the sternum clavicle, and the bones of the head; in short, I may state, that there are no bones on which exostoses may not be produced.
ref: 1834, Samuel Cooper, “Lectures on the Principles, Practice, & Operations of Surgery: Lecture LXIV”, in Michael Ryan, editor, The London Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 4, Henry Renshaw, page 516:
text: Exostoses are the most common benign tumors of the EAC.^([External Auditory Canal])
ref: 2009, Mauricio Castillo, Valerie L. Jewells, Craig Buchman, “2: The External Auditory Canal and Pinna”, in Joel D. Swartz, Laurie A. Loevner, editors, Imaging of the Temporal Bone, 4th edition, Thieme, page 44:
text: 2013, Quinton Gopen, Fundamental Otology: Pediatric & Adult Practice, Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, page 381,
Part of the issue is the exostoses themselves, which can lead the surgeon directly into normal important structures. The exostosis may grow medially and become in direct contact with the tympanic membrane. The exostosis may also grow medial to the annular insertion of the tympanic membrane, placing the facial nerve at significant risk.
glosses: A benign bony growth, often covered with cartilage, on the surface of a bone or tooth.
Synonyms: bone spur
Hyponyms: osteophyte
Related terms: ectostosis
endostosis
osteosis
ostosis
hyperostosis
exoticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoticisms
Etymology: From exotic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: For all the exoticism of the images, they possess a phenomenal immediacy and even contemporaneity.
ref: 2004 January 25, Mark Feeney, “A piece of Asia's past, in living color”, in The Boston Globe:
glosses: The state of being exotic.
examples: text: Chinese restaurants, now dotting this peninsula like azaleas at Cypress Gardens, have introduced thousands of us Occidentals to the delights of moo goo gai pan. As a result, attempts to produce such exoticisms in our own homes have multiplied.
ref: 1985 February 14, Jane Nickerson, “Chinese New Year”, in The Ledger:
text: The distribution of instruments is fairly traditional, but with piccolo trumpet and bass trombone to explore extremes, and bells, gongs and tam-tams to variegate the sound. Such exoticisms as the xylorimba (Richard Fitz) and glockenspiel (Jeffrey Milarsky) are introduced along with the sounds of shifting sand.
ref: 2000 July 20, Bernard Holland, “LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL REVIEW; Messiaen's Nature Worship Calls on Bird Song and Faith”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Something exotic.
examples: The English pronunciations of Beijing and Chumash with French-like j and ch are exoticisms, as is the spelling T'Sou-ke for the original Anglicization Sooke.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word changed in spelling or pronunciation to look or sound more exotic or foreign.
Synonyms: sense: state of being exotic
word: exoticness
sense: state of being exotic
word: exoticity
sense: state of being exotic
word: exotism
sense: made falsely exotic
word: hyperforeignism
exotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exotoxins
Etymology: From exo- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any toxin secreted by a microorganism into the surrounding environment.
Related terms: endotoxin
exotoxic
endotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endotoxins
Etymology: From endo- + toxin.
Senses: examples: text: It may resemble the factor 5 in Salmonella, a heat-labile determinant on the endotoxin molecule which, because of its superficial location, blocks the agglutination reaction of the deeper heat-stable O antigens in the same way as do the Vi and K antigens.
ref: 1966, Karina Dzintars Burda, A Study of Heat-labile Superficial Somatic Antigen of Vibrio Fetus, page 41:
glosses: Any toxin secreted by a microorganism and released into the surrounding environment only when it dies.
Derived terms: antiendotoxin
endotoxinemia
Related terms: endotoxic
exotoxin
exotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: of, related to, or caused by an exotoxin
Related terms: endotoxic
endotoxic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endotoxic
form: most endotoxic
Etymology: From endo- + toxic.
Senses: glosses: Of, related to, or caused by an endotoxin.
Derived terms: antiendotoxic
Related terms: exotoxic
exotropia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛks.oʊˌtɹoʊpi.ə/
Forms: form: exotropias
Etymology: From exo- + -tropia, from Ancient Greek -τροπία (-tropía), from τρόπος (trópos, “a turn”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A form of strabismus in which the eyes deviate outwards.
Derived terms: pseudoexotropia
Related terms: esotropia
exotrope
exotropic
opthalmologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ophthalmologist.
agonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agonist
antagonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonises
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of antagonize
antagonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antagonizing
form: most antagonizing
form: antagonising
Senses: examples: text: In other words, agents are more persuaded by anti-establishment frames when the establishment is both more antagonizing and more resistant to change.
ref: 2002, Nick Crossley, Making Sense Of Social Movements, page 138:
text: He had a kind of pugnacity about him that could be very antagonizing.
ref: 2008, Barry Cooper, Jodi Bruhn, Voegelin Recollected: Conversations on a Life, page 132:
text: The actions of such group or movement become more and more antagonizing to actions of other groups or movements over time.
ref: 2020, Jonathan Matusitz, Global Jihad in Muslim and non-Muslim Contexts, page 323:
glosses: Tending to antagonize.
Derived terms: unantagonizing
antagonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonising
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of antagonize
antagonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonised
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of antagonize
antagonized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antagonized
form: most antagonized
form: antagonised
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
qualifier: especially describing a muscle
glosses: Having been acted on by antagonistic forces.
glosses: Having been aggravated or made into an enemy.
raw_tags: of a person or group
Derived terms: unantagonized
antagonise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: antagonises
form: antagonising
form: antagonised
form: antagonised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of antagonize.
Derived terms: antagoniser
chupacabra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃʰupəˈkʰabɹə/
Forms: form: chupacabras
form: chupacabras
Etymology: Variant spelling of chupacabras used in English cryptozoological publications by misanalysis of the Spanish chupacabras as a plural.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:chupacabra.
topics: biology
cryptozoology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Synonym of chupacabras.
synonyms: word: chupacabras
Related terms: goatsucker
rosid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the rosids.
rosid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rosids
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any rose-like flowering plant.
asterids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asterid
fabids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: presumably based on subclass Fabidae
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Introduced as a more user-friendly alternate for eurosids I.
malvids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malvid
lamiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lamiid
Etymology: Presumably based on subclass Lamiidae
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: euasterids I.
campanulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Presumably based on subclass Campanulidae
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: euasterids II.
campanulids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campanulid
injudicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪnd͡ʒʊˈdɪʃəs/
rhymes: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more injudicious
form: most injudicious
Etymology: From in- + judicious.
Senses: examples: text: By introducing, into any Composition, Personages and Actions, foreign to each other, an injudicious Author loses that Communication of Emotions, by which alone he can interest the Heart, and raise the Passions to their proper Height and Period.
ref: 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, London: A. Millar, Essay 3, page 45:
text: In a general light, private theatricals are open to some objections, but as we are circumstanced, I must think it would be highly injudicious, and more than injudicious, to attempt any thing of the kind.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 260–261:
text: “What happens when an editorial assistant on a weekly paper lets the bosses in for substantial libel damages?” He was able to answer that one. “He gets the push and, what's more, finds it pretty damned difficult to land another job. He's on the blacklist.” I saw what he meant. These birds who run weekly papers believe in watching the pennies. They like to get all that's coming to them and when the stuff, instead of pouring in, starts pouring out as the result of an injudicious move on the part of a unit of the staff, what they do to that unit is plenty.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
glosses: Showing poor judgement; not well judged.
Synonyms: imprudent
unwise
Derived terms: injudiciously
injudiciousness
asterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asterids
Senses: examples: text: He concludes that Echinocystis is an echinid and not a cystid; and that Palæodiscus is an echinid and not an asterid.
ref: 1897, The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, page 239:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
asterid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the asterids.
military load class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: military load classes
Senses: glosses: One of the numbered classes in a standard system that categorizes routes, bridges, or rafts according to the load they can carry. Vehicles are also assigned class number(s) indicating the minimum class of route, bridge, or raft they are authorized to use.
military load classification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A standard North Atlantic Treaty Organization system in which a route and aircraft, bridge, or raft is assigned class number(s) representing the load it can carry; vehicles are also assigned class number(s) indicating the maximum class of route, bridge, or raft they are authorized to use.
MLC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MLCs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of military load classification.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of multi-level cell.
glosses: Initialism of mid-life crisis.
glosses: Initialism of member of legislative council.
Hyponyms: sense: multi level cell
english: single-level cell
translation: single-level cell
word: SLC
sense: multi level cell
english: triple-level cell
translation: triple-level cell
word: TLC
sense: multi level cell
english: quad-level cell
translation: quad-level cell
word: QLC
Related terms: sense: multi level cell
english: single-level cell
translation: single-level cell
word: SLC
sense: multi level cell
english: triple-level cell
translation: triple-level cell
word: TLC
sense: multi level cell
english: quad-level cell
translation: quad-level cell
word: QLC
snakebit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snakebit
form: most snakebit
Etymology: From snake + bit.
Senses: glosses: Bitten by a snake.
examples: text: Bob was feeling snakebit after losing four games.
glosses: Experiencing a period of bad luck; unlucky.
examples: text: This was followed by the BP oil spill, which made him look snakebit.
ref: 2011 March 25, Peggy Noonan, “The Speech Obama Hasn't Given”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Jumpy, as if expecting to struck by sudden misfortune.
glosses: Being drunk and high at the same time.
Related terms: snakebitten
Elgar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English Ælfgār (from Proto-Germanic *Albigaizaz, equivalent to ælf (“elf”) + gār (“spear”)) and Old English Æþelgār (from Proto-Germanic *Aþalagaizaz, equivalent to æþele (“noble”) + gār (“spear”)).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old English.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Edward Elgar, an English composer.
Related terms: Male given names
equally rare: Algar
Alger
sinistral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, facing, or on the left side.
glosses: Left-handed.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to the left; reversed.
raw_tags: of certain spiral shells
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having left lateral fault movement.
Synonyms: sense: of, facing, or on the left side
word: sinistrous
Derived terms: sinistral fault
sinistral fold
Related terms: sinister
sinistral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinistrals
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A left-handed individual.
parvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑː.vɪs/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.vəs/
Forms: form: parvises
form: parvise
form: pervis
Etymology: From Middle English parvis, parvise, parvys, borrowed from Old French parvis, parevis, from Latin paradīsus, from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *paridayjah. Used since the Middle Ages to describe the court in front of St Peter's in Rome, and later, similar courts in front of other churches. Doublet of paradise.
Senses: glosses: An enclosed courtyard in front of a building, especially a cathedral.
glosses: A portico surrounding such a space.
glosses: The porch of a church, or the room over it.
chack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃæk/
Forms: form: chacks
form: chacking
form: chacked
form: chacked
Senses: glosses: To toss up the head frequently, as a horse to avoid the restraint of the bridle.