cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
horse latitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-latitudes
form: Horse Latitudes
Etymology: Various theories; probably from a sailors' ritual of parading a straw-stuffed effigy of a horse around the deck before throwing it overboard.
Senses: examples: text: At the equator, an immense mist seems permanently to encircle the globe. It is known as the cloud-ring. The function of the cloud-ring is to temper the heat of the tropics. . . . These are what are called horse latitudes. It was here that navigators of bygone ages were accustomed to cast their horses into the sea to lighten the ship in stormy weather.
ref: 1866, Victor Hugo, chapter 6, in W. Moy Thomas, transl., Toilers of the Sea:
text: The north boundary of Zone A is a belt of high barometric pressure known to many generations of seafaring men as the "Horse Latitudes." Here air currents are divergent and there is relatively low humidity.
ref: 1945 May, “What is Weather?”, in Flying Magazine, volume 36, number 5, page 31:
text: The 27,000-mile course starts in November in the Bay of Biscay on the coast of France; points south through the horse latitudes and doldrums, past Africa to the bottom of the world; rounds Cape Horn; then turns north to home.
ref: 1999 August 15, Lance Morrow, “Captains Courageous”, in Time:
text: The captain used the idle Horse Latitudes to train and prepare the remainder of the crew.
ref: 2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, →ISBN, page 125:
topics: climatology
geography
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: The warm, subtropical bands which encircle the globe between approximately 30 and 35 degrees both north and south of the Equator, characterized by high atmospheric pressure and dry variable winds ranging from calm to light.
examples: text: After months in the horse latitudes, retail and auto sales are scudding along at a brisk pace.
ref: 1961 December 15, “State of Business: Hardening the Soft Spots”, in Time:
text: These are the horse latitudes of fashion, when it's O.K. not to think about clothes, if only for 15 minutes.
ref: 1991 July 23, Woody Hochswender, “Patterns”, in New York Times, retrieved 14 May 2013:
text: The Senate version of the House measure now bobs quietly in the horse latitudes of legislative inaction.
ref: 2000 July 24, Froma Harrop, “When a tax-free Internet robs the states, guess who they will tax?”, in Free Lance-Star, retrieved 16 May 2013, page A9:
text: The Mets were once the clipper ship of baseball, but a demoralizing 4-8 run against the American League East has left them adrift in the horse latitudes.
ref: 2006 July 8, Bob Ekstrom, “One Amazin’ Debacle”, in Sports Central, retrieved 16 May 2013:
glosses: A condition of relative inactivity, calm, or lethargy.
horse-latitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse latitudes.
Horse Latitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horse latitudes.
bed trick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed tricks
Senses: glosses: A plot device in traditional literature and theatre where a character begins sexual activity with someone else, then steals away after the lights are off, allowing another character to continue instead.
bed tricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bed trick
kentia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentias
Senses: glosses: Any palm tree in the genus Howea.
kentias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kentia
disco fries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Fries served with mozzarella and brown gravy, similar to poutine.
glutenins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glutenin
viscoelasticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viscoelasticity
gliadins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gliadin
lovingest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: 'I am in the lovingest of tempers, my dear,' she would assure me with a nod, 'but I am fidgeted and sorry!'
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 40, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:
glosses: superlative form of loving: most loving
aiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aigers
Senses: examples: text: Bores and aigers of gore and flame burst and pour from Hells, reified, Or Wounds, rather: Doom-gathered Kenosis unto Self-Deicide.
ref: 2007, Nathan Redman, Bloodwork, →ISBN, page 167:
text: The Trent is noted for a tidal phenomenon called the Eagre or Aiger. a species of bore like that which occurs on an enormous scale at the mouth of the Amazon.
ref: 1872, John Pincher Faunthorpe, The geography of Lincolnshire: for use in schools, page 9:
text: Thirdly, in one part of the novel, though I cannot just now lay my hand on the passage, mention is made of the aiger, or tidal wave, coming up to St. Oggs.
ref: 1876, Joshua Hatton, George Eliot in Derbyshire:
text: The word aiger would hardly be heard except on a tidal river, but the cry wahr aiger raised by the boatmen when the approaching tidal wave is visible, is still common on the lower part of the river Ouse.
ref: 1892, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Yorkshire Folk-talk:
glosses: Alternative form of eagre; a tidal bore.
examples: text: Oh, I don't know what's come over me! Shakin' aigers or sump'n.
ref: 1947, Lynn Riggs, Four plays, page 162:
text: When he felt the young man's forehead, it was very hot and his eyes were feverishly bright. “G-got the shakes,” Sam said through chattering teeth. “It's the f-fever an aiger.”
ref: 1963, Stephen Warren Meader, The Muddy Road to Glory, page 110:
text: As Newly relates, "In the very wet seasons there was so much swampy land covered with decaying vegetable matter that in the autumn it was one field of malaria or "fever an' aiger" as it was called.
ref: 1969, Wayne E. Kiefer, Rush County, Indiana: a study in rural settlement geography, page 40:
glosses: Alternative form of ague.
aiger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aiger
form: most aiger
Senses: examples: text: I 'II be afther goin' out, now, till I find Micky, an' see if he 's afther aimin' any money wid his papers; but it 's small an' lame he is, an' aiger an' pushin' the other byes is, an' some nights il 's sorra the won paper that he 's afther selling.
ref: 1884, Ballou's Monthly Magazine - Volume 59, page 81:
text: Be this time half the town was ready an' aiger to go wid thim to the coort, an' so they did, an' in, wid the offishers thryin' to kape thim out, an' the wimmin shovin' in, an' all their frinds wid 'em, an' the shur'f callin' out 'Ordher in the coort,' an' the judge lookin' over his shpectacles at thim.
ref: 1888, Irish Wonders:
text: Maybe it was that Widdy Byrne only wanted to kape the pace wid all thim min crowdin' roun' her, an' thim clutchin' on tight to their shticks an' aiger for a fight wid any man on her account.
ref: 1894, The Pall Mall Magazine - Volume 2, page 660:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of eager.
this'd
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: /ˈðɪsəd/
Forms: form: this’d
Senses: examples: This'd be OK.
glosses: This would (in conditional sense).
Arans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæɹənz/
Forms: form: the Arans
Etymology: See Aran.
Senses: glosses: The Aran Islands, a group of islands off the northwest coast of Ireland.
streal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹiːl/
Forms: form: streals
form: strale
form: streale
Etymology: From Middle English strele, stral, from Old English strǣl (“beam, ray, arrow, shaft, dart, missile”), from Proto-West Germanic *strālu (“arrow, ray, beam”), from Proto-Indo-European *strēl- *strēlā- (“arrow, beam”). Cognate with West Frisian striel (“arrow, dart, shaft”), Dutch straal (“radius, ray, beam, stream”), German Strahl (“beam, ray, spurt”), Swedish stråle (“beam, ray”), Icelandic strjál (“arrow”), Lithuanian strėlė (“arrow, dart, jib”), Russian стрела (strela, “arrow, dart”). See also streel.
Senses: glosses: beam, ray (e.g. of light)
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: An arrow.
examples: text: With streals all wounded, with streals was I all wounded.
ref: 1896, The Scottish Review, volume 27, page 299:
glosses: Anything thrown or cast; a missile.
glosses: The pupil of the eye.
Related terms: streel
univocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːnɪˈvɒsɪti/
rhymes: -ɒsɪti
Forms: form: univocities
Etymology: From Late Latin ūnivocitās, from ūnivocus (“univocal”).
Senses: examples: text: Six voices at once are in all fairness more than you could bid me reply to, were it not for the unanimity expressed by your univocity all shouting the same two monosyllables.
ref: 1852, J. H., Colloquial Soliloquies; being a Day's Serious Table-Talk on serious subjects:
glosses: The state or essence of being univocal.
examples: text: Some analogies are deliberate equivocities and others are univocities.
ref: 1999, Armand Augustine Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of Its Principles:
text: In opposition to their assertions, Williams argues that univocity is not only true (as he previously outlined), but it is also salutary.
ref: 2014, Daniel P. Horan, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The idea that words describing the properties of God mean the same thing as when they apply to people or things.
Middle Egyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The form of the Egyptian language used between 2000 BCE and 1300 BCE.
glosses: Synonym of Oxyrhynchite (dialect of Coptic)
synonyms: word: Oxyrhynchite
extra: dialect of Coptic
Veii
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Vēiī, from Etruscan.
Senses: glosses: In ancient times, an important Etruscan city 16 km (9.9 mi) NNW of Rome, Italy.
Synonyms: Veius
Veientes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The first were the Veientes, a people of Tuscany, who had large possessions, and dwelt in a spacious city; […]
ref: 1996, Plutarch (tr. A. H. Clough), Lives Of The Noble Grecians And Romans, Project Gutenberg EBook #674
glosses: The people of the ancient city of Veii.
Synonyms: Veientines
Veintines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: - - and after doing the state good service for one year, were surprised during a religious festival by a band of Veintines and slaughtered to a man.
ref: 2006, Mary Platt Parmele, Short History of Rome and Italy, New York: Cosimo, Inc.:
glosses: The people of the ancient city Veii.
Synonyms: Veientes
Veientines
Veientines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1838, B. G. Niebuhr (tr. Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall), The History Of Rome, second volume, third ed. rev., London, http://archive.org/details/historyofrome001903mbp
But those whom Cæso Fabius led against the Veientines (28), did not look upon him as a legitimate consul: - - (footnote 28) Thus Zonaras, VII. 17, and Dionysius, IX.2. so also the manuscripts in Livy, II.43, not the author, whose meaning unquestionably requires the change introduced by Sigonius, ducendus Fabio in Aequos in Veientes etc. But that the former is the correct view is proved decisively by the superiority of the Veientines after the campaign, while the Æquians were so far from this that Rome was able to turn all her forces against the others
glosses: The people of the ancient city Veii.
Synonyms: Veientes
turn-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-up
math rock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Math rock albums have been colored by many other influences, ranging from world music to avant-garde jazz.
ref: 2013, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Progressive Rock Reconsidered, Routledge, →ISBN, page 257:
glosses: A rhythmically complex, often guitar-based style of experimental rock music that emerged in the late 1990s.
Derived terms: mathcore
Related terms: math metal
moonbase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonbases
form: moon base
Etymology: Compound of moon + base.
Senses: examples: text: Matahka entered the intersection of the moonbase's basic "T" design. With the gym behind him, he glanced to his right down the first hallway that led to the main entrance. The old dorm pods were now used as offices.
ref: 2010, Brian Willshire, Moonbase Eden, page 14:
glosses: A base or outpost located on a moon.
Related terms: lunar colony
moonbases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moonbase
thrill kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrill kills
form: thrill killing
Senses: examples: text: "It was a thrill kill. Robbery was an afterthought. This is one of the most senseless murders we've had down there in years."
ref: 1988 March 9, Sheridan R. Hansen, “Police arrest 2 Utah Count teenagers for questioning in Las Vegas shooting”, in Deseret News, retrieved 17 May 2013, page B3:
text: "[T]his essentially was a killing for no reason, a thrill kill. . . ," said Attorney Donald Macomber.
ref: 2012 April 12, “Supreme Court Hears Appeal of Colin Koehler's Life Sentence”, in WABI TV, retrieved 17 May 2013:
glosses: An act of murder motivated solely by the murderer's desire to have a very exciting experience.
examples: text: We all know that plenty of kids took to Route 66 after reading “On the Road,” but few juveniles committed thrill-kill murders after paging through “Crime and Punishment.”
ref: 2007 September 23, David Bowman, “Torchlit Crit”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or being such an act of murder.
Derived terms: thrill killer
neatsfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neat (“cattle”) + -s- + foot.
Senses: glosses: A yellow oil rendered and purified from the shinbones and feet (but not the hooves) of cattle, and used as a conditioning, softening and preservative agent for leather.
Derived terms: neatsfoot oil
antigliadin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gliadin.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against gliadin.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antigluten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + gluten.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against gluten.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antiself
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + self.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Acting against the organism in which it occurs.
raw_tags: of an antibody
antiself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiselves
Etymology: From anti- + self.
Senses: examples: text: There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you meet your antiself, don't shake hands!
ref: 1988, Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes, page 75:
text: The Western movies, of course, are not cultural visions, but the vicious encounters with the antiselves of civilization, the invented savage.
ref: 1999, Gerald R. Vizenor, Manifest Manners: Narratives on Postindian Survivance, page 7:
glosses: An entity opposing or reflecting a self.
antiselves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiself
postindian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postindians
Etymology: From post- + Indian, coined by Gerald Vizenor.
Senses: glosses: A Native American.
wikipedia: Gerald Vizenor
postindians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postindian
hegemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hegemonisms
Senses: glosses: A policy of hegemony
Derived terms: antihegemonism
antihegemonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + hegemonism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to a policy of hegemony.
anti-Hegelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anti-Hegelian
unpissed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpissed
form: most unpissed
Etymology: From un- + pissed.
Senses: examples: text: As a young child, when my Dad was angry, and he was angry most of the time, he called me Turdhead. When he was rarely happy or more accurately unpissed, he fondly called me Hardhead.
ref: 2013, Dale W Forsythe, Notch 4: Forks in the Road, page 11:
glosses: Not pissed or annoyed.
glosses: Not drunk; sober.
pseudocapacitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocapacitors
Etymology: From pseudo- + capacitor.
Senses: glosses: A device that stores electrical energy faradaically by electron charge transfer between electrode and electrolyte by means of pseudocapacitance.
Related terms: pseudocapacity
pseudocapacitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocapacitor
pseudocapacitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocapacitances
Etymology: From pseudo- + capacitance.
Senses: glosses: The techniques used in a pseudocapacitor, comprehending electrosorption, redox reactions, and intercalation processes.
pseudocapacitances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocapacitance
pseudoblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudoblocks
Etymology: From pseudo- + block.
Senses: examples: text: A pseudoblock surrounding the whole source program can be initialized before actual translation with the entries for standard functions and variables, so that these don't have to be treated separately.
ref: 1971, David Gries, Compiler construction for digital computers, page 229:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A construct that resembles a block of source code but is not a true block.
pseudoblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudoblock
puboprostatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pubo- + prostatic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pubis and prostate.
thrill killing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrill killings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thrill kill.
between-step
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: between-steps
form: between step
Etymology: From between + step.
Senses: examples: text: Clearly, the bottle-arms of this "Angel" represent, at one and the same time, the mother's breasts and the father's penis — though we should not forget the between-step of the concept of the mother's penis, [...]
ref: 1949, Marie Bonaparte (Princess), The life and works of Edgar Allan Poe:
text: If you find that your next situation on the stepladder is very frightening, then it is obviously too big a step and you should try to think of ways to make it a little easier, as a between step.
ref: 1998, Ronald M. Rapee, Overcoming Shyness and Social Phobia:
text: I do not know, nor do I care to know, whether they are a sex by themselves, a justified, because helpless, play of Nature; or even a kind of logically essential link, a between-step, as you seem to have persuaded yourself.
ref: 2003, Edward Prime-Stevenson, James J. Gifford, Imre: A Memorandum:
glosses: An intermediate or intermediary step, stage, process, or phase.
between-step
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: between step
Etymology: From between + step.
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, in conjunction with various forms of pneumatic interlocking, the whole system fails safe, particularly in not holding a between-step condition.
ref: 1963, Measurement and Control: Interpretative Reports for Management - Volume 2 - Page 10
text: In this appendix, a within-step source of error refers to an error of either type that occurs as a result of the operations performed inside any of the boxes shown in Figure E-1; a between-step source of error refers to either type of error that occurs ...
ref: 1988, Daniel Druckman, John A. Swets, Enhancing Human Performance:
text: One assumption implicit in the logistic process in discrete time is that the resource is invariant between time steps. In section 4.4, I relax this assumption, allowing for a between-step variation in the resource due to exploitation by the animals [...]
ref: 1992, T. Royama, Analytical Population Dynamics:
glosses: Intermediate; intermediary; in-process; interim.
despited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despite
despiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of despite
despites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of despite
despites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despite
appilation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of appellation.
glosses: Misspelling of application.
glosses: Misspelling of oppilation.
Smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The 44th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
Smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Smoke
Senses: examples: text: I'm heading down to the Smoke later this week.
glosses: London.
Smoke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Burmilla.
synonyms: word: Burmilla
thrill killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrill killers
form: thrill-killer
Senses: examples: text: New York City's teen-aged thrill killer of 1945 was Lena Theresa Nienstedt, a whisky-drinking factory girl of 16. She carried a small hatchet in her handbag.
ref: 1954 September 6, “SEQUELS: Another Life”, in Time:
text: [H]is best-known performances were two of his earliest: as a preppie thrill-killer in Hitchcock’s “Rope” in 1948, and as a tennis player wrongly suspected of murder in “Strangers on a Train” in 1951.
ref: 2011 March 29, Neil Genzlinger, “Farley Granger, Screen Star of the 1950s, Dies at 85”, in New York Times, retrieved 17 May 2013:
glosses: A murderer who is motivated by a strong personal desire to have a very exciting experience.
Related terms: thrill kill
thrill-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thrill-killers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thrill killer.
categised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of categise
categize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: categizes
form: categizing
form: categized
form: categized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of categise.
categized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of categize
hypokeimenon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypokeimena
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hupokeimenon.
experimentise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: experimentises
form: experimentising
form: experimentised
form: experimentised
Etymology: From experiment + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: It is necessary to experimentise on young seedlings about half an inch or rather less in height
ref: 1880, Charles Darwin, The Power of Movement in Plants:
glosses: To experiment.
scarecrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scarecrow
scarecrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scarecrow
shanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shandas
form: schanda
form: schande
form: shande
form: shonda
form: shonde
Etymology: From Yiddish שאַנדע (shande), from Middle High German schande, schante, from Old High German scanta, skanta, from Proto-West Germanic *skandu (“shame”). Doublet of shand.
Senses: examples: text: Oi, it was such a shanda. I should never buy gribenes from a Mohel. It's so chewy.
ref: 1993, Randi Mayem Singer, Leslie Dixon, Mrs. Doubtfire, spoken by Daniel (Robin Williams):
text: A shanda is humiliation and embarrassment one's misdeed suffers upon one's family. In our faith, a shanda is a terrible sin.
ref: 2011, Teddy Bart, Shadow Seduction, →ISBN, page 171:
text: They don't learn about their heritage. They don't learn about Israel. It's a shanda.
ref: 2012, Allegra Goodman, Kaaterskill Falls, →ISBN:
text: My parents are Orthodox Jews. To them, intermarriage is considered a shanda.
ref: 2015, Eugene Sierras, Beyond El Camino Del Diablo: Beyond the Devil's Highway, →ISBN:
glosses: Shame; disgrace.
herkogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἕρκος (hérkos, “fence, wall”) + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Different relative positionings of the stigma and the anthers.
Derived terms: herkogamous
Related terms: cleistogamy
homogamy
dichogamy
heterostyly
rimrocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rimrock
rimrocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rimrock
antineuralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antineuralgic
form: most antineuralgic
Etymology: From anti- + neuralgic.
Senses: examples: text: The therapeutic action of alphol is said to be similar to that of salol. Pancreatic and the intestinal juices decompose alphol into salicylic acid and alpha-naphthol. The new remedy is recommended as antiseptic, antineuralgic, and antirheumatic.
ref: 1897, David Cerna, Notes on the Newer Remedies, page 178:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Counteracting neuralgia.
antineuralgic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antineuralgics
Etymology: From anti- + neuralgic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any agent that counteracts neuralgia.
antineuralgics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antineuralgic
water key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water keys
Senses: glosses: A valve or tap for the drainage of accumulated fluid from musical instruments such as trombones or trumpets; a spit valve.
glosses: A rod used to open and close a buried quarter-turn water valve, as in a water main.
water keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water key
mordancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mordancy
IOSAPIC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Initialism.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Input/Output Streamlined Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller.
Related terms: PIC
wavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wavy
papyrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From papyro- + -phobia (“fear, loathing”), from Ancient Greek πάπυρος (pápuros, “papyrus, paper”).
Senses: examples: text: Of this papyrophobia... I was cured long ago.
ref: 1790, James Beattie, Elements of Moral Science, volume I, page 281:
glosses: Fear or hatred of paper.
fluorograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluorogram
yakisobas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yakisoba
bloodfests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodfest
designatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more designatively
form: most designatively
Etymology: From designative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a designative manner.
influenzavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: influenzaviruses
Etymology: From influenza + virus.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of viruses, in family Orthomyxoviridae, that cause influenza.
Derived terms: influenzavirus H1N1
influenzaviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of influenzavirus
historywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From history + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of history.
culturewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From culture + -wise.
Senses: glosses: In terms of culture.
geocentricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geocentric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being geocentric.
ant orchid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ant orchids
Senses: glosses: An orchid, Chiloglottis formicifera, originally from New Zealand.
ant orchids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ant orchid
geobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geobiology.
Derived terms: geobiologically
geometrodynamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to geometrodynamics
Synonyms: geometrodynamical
Derived terms: geometrodynamically
diffeomorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From diffeomorphic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In diffeomorphic terms.
geohydrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geohydrologic
form: most geohydrologic
Etymology: From geo- + hydrologic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geohydrology.
geohydrological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + hydrological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geohydrology.
femmy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more femmy
form: most femmy
form: femme-y
Etymology: From femme + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
There's a new "performer" out called Tiny Tim. I'd heard quite a few things about him: guy with real long hair, real femmy.
text: Talks about world affairs, women music concerts, being held by a sexy fat dyke who is femmy and over 30.
ref: 1985 April 20, “Would You Like (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
text: Why do I wear a biker jacket? I like making people scared of me. I get treated better by the servers in the coffeehouses in the gaybourhood. Not to mention getting looked at by the dykes/bykes. :) Without the jacket, I get pushed around more on the subway, people don't get out of my way on crowded sidewalks, and men try to intimidate me -- I'm a wee femmy thing, most of the time.
ref: 1999 March 12, A, “Re: bisexual attire”, in soc.bi (Usenet):
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a femme (a feminine gay man or lesbian).
Capitolium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Capitolium
Etymology: From Latin Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill, its temples; similar citadels”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (noun-forming suffix) or -ōlus (“-ole”, diminutive suffix) + -ium (suffix forming place names). Doublet of capitol and capitoul.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Capitoline Hill.
synonyms: word: Capitoline Hill
Capitolium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Capitolia
Etymology: From Latin Capitōlium (“Capitoline Hill, its temples; similar citadels”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (noun-forming suffix) or -ōlus (“-ole”, diminutive suffix) + -ium (suffix forming place names). Doublet of capitol and capitoul.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of capitol, similar citadels in ancient Italian and Roman towns.
synonyms: word: capitol
word: similar citadels in ancient Italian and Roman towns
Capitolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Capitolium
germophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germaphobia
Etymology: From germ + -o- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Pathological fear of germs.
Synonyms: mysophobia
bacillophobia
bacteriophobia
ablutomania
Related terms: germophobe
germophobic
astrogeodesy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + geodesy.
Senses: glosses: The use of geodetic techniques in astronomy.
Related terms: astrogeodetic
blood blisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood blister
agametes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agamete
unconciliated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconciliated
form: most unconciliated
Etymology: From un- + conciliated.
Senses: glosses: Not conciliated.
pristella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pristellas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A fish, Pristella maxillaris (the only species in its genus).
pristellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pristella
tankdrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tankdromes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tankodrome.
tankdromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tankdrome
bloodfin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodfins
Etymology: From blood + fin.
Senses: glosses: Aphyocharax anisitsi, a South American characin with blood-red tail and fins.
bloodfins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bloodfin
germinability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: germinabilities
Senses: glosses: Ability to germinate.
germinabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of germinability
historicization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: historicizations
Etymology: From historic + -ization.
Senses: glosses: Act or process of historicizing.
historicizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of historicization
histolysing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of histolyse
histolysed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of histolyse
histolyzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of histolyze
histolyzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of histolyze
histolyzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of histolyze
historical materialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of German historischer Materialismus.
Its earliest extant attestation - in German - is in Friedrich Engels's letter [5 August 1890] to Conrad Schmidt.
Its earliest extant public attestation - in English - is in Engels's 1892 "Introduction to the English Edition" to his 1880 booklet Socialism: Utopian and Scientific.
Senses: examples: text: Statt dessen aber dient die Phrase des historischen Materialismus (man kann eben alles zur Phrase machen) nur zu vielen jüngeren Deutschen nur dazu, ihre eignen relativ dürftigen historischen Kenntnisse - die ökonomische Geschichte liegt ja noch in den Windeln! - schleunigst systematisch zurechtzukonstruieren und sich dann sehr gewaltig vorzukommen.
ref: 1967 [1890 August 5], “Engels an Conrad Schmidt in Berlin”, in Marx-Engels-Werke, volume 37, page 437; translated as “Engels to Conrad Schmidt in Berlin”, in Marx/Engels Collected Works, volume 49, translation of original in German, 2001, page 8:
text: And, thus, I hope even British respectability will not be overshocked if I use, in English as well as in so many other languages, the term "historical materialism", to designate that view of the course of history which seeks the ultimate cause and the great moving power of all important historic events in the economic development of society, in the changes in the modes of production and exchange, in the consequent division of society into distinct classes, and in the struggles of these classes against one another.
ref: 1892, Friedrich Engels, “Socialism: Utopian and Scientific”, in Marxists Internet Archive, 1892 English Edition Introduction (General Introduction and the History of Materialism):
glosses: A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history, looking for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life.
wikipedia: Conrad Schmidt (economist)
Friedrich Engels
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific
Connaught
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Connacht.
rodder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rodders
Etymology: From rod + -er.
Senses: glosses: A hot rod enthusiast.
Related terms: hotrodder
rodders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rodder
altereds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altered
unmethodological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmethodological
form: most unmethodological
Etymology: From un- + methodological.
Senses: glosses: Not methodological.
unmetaphorically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unmetaphorically
form: most unmetaphorically
Etymology: From unmetaphorical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a way that is not metaphorical.
astrolabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æbɪk
Etymology: From astrolabe + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an astrolabe.
astronavigational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + navigational.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astronavigation.
astrogational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astrogation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astrogation.
astrochronological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From astro- + chronological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to astrochronology.
Derived terms: astrochronologically
astrochronology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + chronology.
Senses: glosses: The dating of sedimentary units by calibration with astronomically tuned time scales.
astroengineering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From astro- + engineering.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The construction of megastructures in space by technologically advanced beings.
ringworld
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringworlds
Etymology: From ring + world, introduced by Larry Niven in the novel Ringworld (1970).
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An artificial megastructure in space, consisting of a rotating ring encircling a star and having an inhabitable inner surface with gravity produced through centripetal force.
wikipedia: Larry Niven
ringworlds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringworld
capitolos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitolo
femcee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: femcees
Etymology: Blend of female + emcee.
Senses: examples: text: Why was Emerson a failure in 1940s Hollywood but a blazing success as a femcee on early 1950s television?
ref: 2008, Christine Becker, It’s the Pictures That Got Small: Hollywood Film Stars on 1950s Television, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 80:
text: In addition to radiating personality, a femcee had to sell products. When she wasn't demonstrating a kitchen appliance, as Furness did in commercials, a femcee often hosted game shows, where the prizes were wonderful new consumer goods on display in department stores and on supermarket shelves.
ref: 2008, Catherine Gourley, Gidgets and Women Warriors: Perceptions of Women in the 1950s and 1960s, Twenty-First Century Books, →ISBN, page 48:
text: Francis, a regular panelist on What's My Line?, was a poised and dignified “femcee,” and she also served as the program's managing editor.
ref: 2015, Charles L. Ponce de Leon, That's the Way It Is: A History of Television News in America, The University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: A female host of a television show.
examples: text: […] to arguably rap's greatest emcees Tupac Shakur and the Notorious B.I.G. and femcee Lauryn Hill.
ref: 2009, Dalton Higgins, Hip Hop World, Groundwood Books, →ISBN, page 67:
text: She's been featured on dozens of rap and R & B tracks, and she's the only femcee [female MC] currently on the rap charts.
ref: 2010, Steve Jones, "Listen Up: Thank God for Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday", USA Today, 22 November 2010, quoted in Felicity Britton, Nicki Minaj: Conquering Hip-Hop, Twenty-First Century Books (2013), page 38
text: The most well-known Tanzanian femcee to live abroad is Rah-P, who continues to live in Houston, Texas.
ref: 2014, Msia Kibona Clark, “Gender Representations among Tanzanian Female Emcees”, in Misa Kibona Clark, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, editors, Hip Hop and Social Change in Africa: Ni Wakati, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: A female rapper.
femcees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femcee
astropecten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astropectens
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the genus Astropecten of sea stars.
astropectens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astropecten
forlornities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forlornity
experimentising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of experimentise
experimentised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of experimentise
vegetally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vegetal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a vegetal manner.
hoof fungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoof fungi
Senses: glosses: A fungal plant pathogen of species Fomes fomentarius, found in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, producing large polypore fruiting bodies shaped like a horse's hoof, used for tinder.
Synonyms: tinder fungus
sustenances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustenance
Hygieia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈd͡ʒiː.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: Hygiea
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ὑγίεια (Hugíeia) from ὑγίεια (hugíeia, “health”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The goddess and personification of health and healthiness, a daughter of Asclepius and Epione.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 10 Hygiea, a main belt asteroid that is the fourth-largest known.
Derived terms: hygiene
hygienic
cabbage gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabbage gums
Senses: glosses: Eucalyptus amplifolia, a tree of Australia.
cabbage gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cabbage gum
Islamicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Islamicisms
Etymology: From Islamic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Islamic studies
glosses: Islamic fundamentalism
Islamicisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Islamicism
souflakis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of souflaki
historiosophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪˌstɔːɹ.i.əˈsɒf.ɪk/
ipa: /-ˌstɒɹ.-/
ipa: /hɪˌstɔɹ.i.əˈsɑf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒfɪk
Forms: form: more historiosophic
form: most historiosophic
Etymology: From historiosophy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to historiosophy.
Derived terms: historiosophically
historiosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more historiosophical
form: most historiosophical
Etymology: From historiosophy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to historiosophy.
historiosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From historiosophic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of historiosophy.
soul-sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soul-sucking
form: most soul-sucking
Senses: examples: the soul-sucking banality of reality television
glosses: Depressingly tedious.
expatiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expatiators
Etymology: From expatiate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who expatiates.
expatiators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expatiator
geohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geohistory.
Derived terms: geohistorically
geohistorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geohistorians
Etymology: From geo- + historian.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geohistory.
geohistorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geohistorian
geohydrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geohydrologists
Etymology: From geo- + hydrologist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geohydrology.
geohydrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geohydrologist
Islamics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Islam + -ics.
Senses: examples: a doctorate in Islamics
glosses: The study of Islam.
firecracker chicken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Any of various dishes of hot spiced chicken.
geocarpic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to geocarpy.
geocarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production by plants of diaspores within the soil.
Hyponyms: hysterocarpy
protogeocarpy
amphicarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The production by a plant of more than one type of fruit. Sometimes restricted to situations where one fruit type is aerial and one is underground.
Related terms: heterocarpy
chasmogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The production of flowers that open and expose the stamens and styles.
Related terms: chasmogamic
chasmogamous
vitelligene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vitelligenes
Etymology: From Latin vitellus + -gene.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A yolk-forming organ.
Related terms: vitellogenesis
vitelligenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vitelligene
manhater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmænˌheɪtɚ/
Forms: form: manhaters
form: man-hater
form: man hater
Etymology: From man + hater. Compare Old English mannhata (“man-hater”).
Senses: glosses: One who hates mankind; a misanthrope.
examples: text: From past experiences it seems that 99% of man hating women consider themselves feminists, but few feminists consider themselves manhaters.
ref: 2011, Joseph Lowe, Losers and Winners on the Unknown Road to an Unpredictable Destiny:
text: Julia has to make various disclaimers (feminism does not always imply lesbianism and vice-versa; she is a lesbian 'but' not a manhater) before occupying a pro-feminist stance.
ref: 2013, Christina Scharff, Repudiating Feminism (Epub) Young Women in a Neoliberal World:
glosses: One who hates men or the male sex; a misandrist.
Related terms: manhating
hyperfibrinolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperfibrinolytic
form: most hyperfibrinolytic
Etymology: From hyper- + fibrinolytic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperfibrinolysis.
hyperferraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperferremia.
hyperferremic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more hyperferremic
form: most hyperferremic
Etymology: From hyperferremia + -ic.
Senses: antonyms: hypoferremic
glosses: Relating to, or exhibiting, hyperferremia.
Coordinate terms: hypercalcemic
hypercupremic
hyperkalemic
hypermagnesemic
hypernatremic
hyperferraemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyperferraemic
form: most hyperferraemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hyperferremic.
Falkland Islands wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falkland Islands wolves
form: Falkland Island wolf
Senses: glosses: A warrah, an extinct canid of species †Dusicyon australis.
Falkland Island wolf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Falkland Island wolves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Falkland Islands wolf.
geothermobarometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science of measuring the previous pressure and temperature history of a metamorphic or intrusive igneous rock.
Related terms: english: pressure only
translation: pressure only
word: geobarometry
topics: temperature
word: geothermometry
word: geothermobarometer
word: geothermobarometric
geothermically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From geothermic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: geothermally
geothermobarometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From geo- + thermo- + barometric.
Senses: glosses: Relating to geothermobarometry.