cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
outsounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He met the beautiful Effie—each unknown to the other— rendered her some trifling courtesy, and returned to his books to find her sunny features upon every page, and to hear the melody of that one remembered tone outsounding all the grave voices of Antiquity.
ref: 1848, Peter Hamilton Myers, The First of the Knickerbockers, page 52:
text: The savants fall into long treatises to know whether these mysterious roots were verbs, or pronouns, whether a vowel could be a root or not, whether the consonant ought to be onsonnding or outsounding.
ref: 1859, Sir Isaac Pitman, Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education, volume 18, page 341:
text: Her lullabies, outsounding battle tones,
Outlingering Iliads, brought unbroken rest.
ref: 1911, Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, volume 81, page 277:
glosses: present participle and gerund of outsound
outsounding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outsoundings
Senses: examples: text: And it is not too much to say that its outsoundings and reverberations went into all the seventeen states of the precious Union that God 's providence had blessed us with.
ref: 1920, Christ Church, Philadelphia:
text: Her wood-clattery heels sound
against the stones at the gate.
Against a cluster of coppered leaves;
their outsoundings, a filigree.
ref: 2013, Christine Murray, Cycles, page 37:
glosses: A sounding out
outsounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outsound
missounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missound
missounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missound
missounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missound
sound trucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound truck
verbivore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: verbivores
Etymology: From Latin verbum (“word”) + Latin vorax, from vorō (“devour”), on the pattern of herbivore and carnivore; coined in the early 1980s by by Richard Lederer.
Senses: glosses: One who has an enjoyment of words and wordplay.
Synonyms: logophile
verbophile
word buff
Related terms: verbivorous
surround sounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surround sound
sound systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound system
sound tracks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound track
sound-alikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound-alike
verbivores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbivore
conscientous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of conscientious.
unported
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + ported.
Senses: examples: text: There are still two hundred unported applications that we need to add to the distribution.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not having been ported, or converted to another platform.
examples: text: This text is published under the licence Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-3.0 unported.
topics: copyright
intellectual-property
law
glosses: Not having been adapted to country-specific legislation.
raw_tags: of a Creative Commons licence
unported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unport
tricksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trĭk'si
ipa: /ˈtɹɪksiː/
rhymes: -ɪksi
Forms: form: tricksier
form: tricksiest
Etymology: From tricks + -y.
Senses: examples: text: My trickſey Spirit.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 18:
text: There will succeed, therefore, in my opinion, and that too within no long time, to the rudeness and rusticity of our age, that ensnaring meretricious popularness in literature, with all the tricksy humilities of the ambitious candidates for the favourable suffrages of the judicious public, which if we do not take good care will break up and scatter before it all robustness and manly vigour of intellect, all masculine fortitude of virtue.
ref: 1809, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Friend:
text: A green light was flickering in his bulging eyes. ‘Masster, masster!’ he hissed. ‘Wicked! Tricksy! False!’ He spat and stretched out his long arms with white snapping fingers.
ref: 1954 November 11, J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, “The Forbidden Pool”, in The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of The Lord of the Rings, 2nd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1965, →ISBN, book IV, page 297:
text: As an experienced editor I disapprove of backflashes, foreshadowings and tricksy devices […]
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: The second section of the novel consists of “The Golden Vanity”, the New Yorker short story that prompted the narrator’s substantial advance, and which transposes names and details of the story and characters introduced in part one. This may seem tricksy in a way we’ve seen many times before.
ref: 2015 January 14, Catherine O'Flynn, “10:04 by Ben Lerner review”, in The Guardian:
text: “I know what you're trying to do. You're trying to smoke me out, you tricksy little bitches. Well, eat skata. Because I actually quite like this new company.”
ref: 2023 July 20, Jake Bender & Zach Dunn, “Pride Parade” (19:25 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 5, episode 3, spoken by Nadja of Antipaxos (Natasia Demetriou):
text: And that is exactly what he did: marrying tricksy European post-modernism with hard-boiled American noir, to create something dizzyingly inventive and new.
ref: 2024 May 1, Lisa Allardice, “Brooklyn’s bard: Paul Auster’s tricksy fiction captivated a generation”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious.
tricksier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tricksy: more tricksy
tricksiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tricksy: most tricksy
split-finger fastballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of split-finger fastball
cut fastballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cut fastball
two-seam fastballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-seam fastball
gallimaufrey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallimaufreys
Senses: glosses: Dated form of gallimaufry.
gallimaufreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gallimaufrey (alternative form of gallimaufries).
mumsier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of mumsy: more mumsy
mumsiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of mumsy: most mumsy
mimsies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mimsy
gumptionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gumptionless
form: most gumptionless
Etymology: From gumption + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But I am no gumptionless Eve, that he should beguile me.
ref: 1901, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, Cinderella:
text: No actress that I know can so mingle dewy pathos and the salt of sanity: yet she must forego these in favour of gumptionless Dianas.
ref: 1924, James Agate, The Contemporary Theatre:
text: You're the most gumptionless person on earth.
ref: 1989, Howard Lewis Russell, Iced Tea and Ignorance:
glosses: Lacking gumption.
hitter's count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hitter's counts
Senses: examples: text: The runners will be going on the hitter's count.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A count favourable to the batter, in which there are more balls than strikes, especially a 3-0, 3-1, or 2-0 count.
Carrollian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Carrollian
form: most Carrollian
Etymology: From Carroll + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Lewis Carroll (1832-1898, real name Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) or his writings, most notably a type of imaginative fantasy involving humorous plays on words and logic.
switch hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switch hitter
quitting time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quitting times
form: quitting-time
Senses: antonyms: beginning of day
coordinate_terms: close of business
end of day
glosses: The time when a day's work ends, and an employee is permitted to go home.
Related terms: word: clock out
word: punch out
word: it's five o'clock somewhere
word: yabba dabba doo
Tolkienian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolkienian
form: most Tolkienian
Etymology: From Tolkien + -ian.
Senses: synonyms: Tolkienesque
Tolkienish
Tolkieny
glosses: Of or relating to John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973) or his writings, of which the best known are the fantasy epics The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.
Tolkienesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Tolkienesque
form: most Tolkienesque
Etymology: From Tolkien + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or influenced by the works, ideas, or literary style of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973).
Related terms: Tolkienian
pinch hits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinch hit
pinch hits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pinch-hits.
renogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: renograms
Etymology: From reno- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A medical scan of the kidney.
renograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of renogram
pinch hitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinch hitter
lackbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lackbrains
Etymology: From lack + brain.
Senses: examples: text: Among themselves, his clerical brethren who employed him to produce revivals, acknowledged him to be but a pitiful lackbrain...
ref: 1841, George Rogers, Tales from Life:
text: "Is that clear enough, even for you, lackbrain?"
ref: 1995, Catherine Coulter, Lord of Falcon Ridge:
text: One moment I was staring up at that lackbrain Sister Margaret, and the next I was staring at that lackbrain chieftain...
ref: 2007, Sandra Hill, Down and Dirty:
glosses: A person who lacks brains; an idiot.
lackbrains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lackbrain
opera glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opera gloves
Senses: examples: text: Anyone who knows a-n-y-t-h-i-n-g about pop culture will immediately recognize this iconic little black dress, opera gloves, and tiara combo from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
ref: 2023 September 19, Chaise Sanders, “50 Best Halloween Costumes of All Time, From the Classics to the Truly Unique”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Synonym of evening glove.
synonyms: word: evening glove
evening glove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: evening gloves
Senses: glosses: A ladies' formal glove that extends beyond the elbow.
Synonyms: opera glove
robbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more robbable
form: most robbable
Etymology: From rob + -able.
Senses: examples: text: ...and doubtless the robber barons had hard times to pick up a living, because the demand for robbable passers must have exceeded the supply.
ref: 1904, Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook:
text: All old men are robbable. He's an old man. He's robbable.
ref: 1989, Robert Pinget, A Bizarre Will and Other Plays:
text: After all, we are all robbable, and it is the offender's decision to rob...
ref: 1991, Diane Sank, David I Caplan, To Be a Victim: Encounters with Crime and Injustice:
glosses: That can be robbed; susceptible to robbery.
championless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From champion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Lone in a far-off land, / With empty heart and treasure lost, / Poor, championless, and fortune-crost, She stretches out her hand...
ref: 1886, Harriett Stockall, “"From Love's Ashes"”, in Poems: Second Series:
text: And while men spoke betwixt wrath and mockery of the Rusty Knight, I loved more dearly that champion who was doing so ill so bravely for a championless lady...
ref: 1921, Eleanor Farjeon, Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard:
glosses: Without a champion.
unchampioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + championed.
Senses: glosses: Not championed.
Synonyms: championless
drizzlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drizzly: more drizzly
drizzliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of drizzly: most drizzly
drearsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drearsome
form: most drearsome
Etymology: From drear + -some.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed to me illogical that, at some expense, the Government was going to keep me for eighteen months doing something for which I had no aptitude whatever. Even when I eventually settled to the dull and drearsome life in the Pay Office in Singapore, I had good shorthand speed and I could type, but these jobs were allotted to civilians while I tried to make sense of army accounting.
ref: 2008, Leslie Thomas, In My Wildest Dreams:
text: “[...] And as if it were your custom to wear your best habit on a drearsome day like this one. The old blue one were good enough for Miss Charley and Miss Melissa afore today.”
ref: 2013, Amanda Scott, Dangerous Illusions:
glosses: Marked by dreariness; characteristically dreary.
Synonyms: bleaksome
Foley catheter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Foley catheters
Etymology: Invented by Frederic Foley of Minnesota.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A catheter that is held in the bladder by an inflatable balloon
statesmanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more statesmanly
form: most statesmanly
Etymology: From statesman + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a statesman.
private dicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of private dick
laugh track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laugh tracks
form: laughtrack
form: laugh-track
Senses: examples: text: You know where you never see a camcorder? At a funeral. Wouldn't that be fun? Especially if you didn't know any of the people there. Why not go to a stranger's funeral, and bring your camcorder? Have a little fun! Zoom in on the corpse's nose hairs. Then pull back, and pan over to the widow's tears. Get a tight shot of that. Do a montage of people wracked with grief. Then go home and put a laugh track on it! Smoke a joint and show it to your friends. That would be a lot of fun.
ref: 1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 173:
text: Possibly a show with no laugh track would improve with a well-done laugh track.
ref: 2004, Robert Kubey, Creating Television, →ISBN:
text: He felt it weird to have this discussion with a laugh track running faintly in the background.
ref: 2012, Ridley Pearson, No Witnesses, →ISBN:
text: There were shows where they let us not use a laugh track ... and portions of shows. Whenever they were in the O.R. or serious surgery, there was no laugh track.
ref: 2013, Allan Neuwirth, They'll Never Put That on the Air: The New Age of TV Comedy, →ISBN:
synonyms: canned laughter
laughter track
glosses: The soundtrack of laughter sounds that accompanies a television comedy show.
canned laughter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Prerecorded laughter that is edited into the soundtrack of a TV program.
Synonyms: laugh track
catheterisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catheterisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of catheterization.
Derived terms: self-catheterisation
axmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of axman
recursivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recursiveness
incursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more incursively
form: most incursively
Etymology: From incursive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an incursive way.
quintenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Based on Latin quintus and number adjectives like septenary and novenary.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of five things.
Synonyms: quinary
kitschily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kitschily
form: most kitschily
Etymology: From kitschy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a kitschy way.
fruitily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fruitily
form: most fruitily
Etymology: From fruity + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fruity way.
shilly and shally
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shillies and shallies
form: shillying and shallying
form: shillied and shallied
form: shillied and shallied
Senses: examples: text: We know how they dillied and they dallied and they shillied and they shallied until after her death
ref: 1873, Dr. Kenealy's statement, July 30, the Tichborne trial http://books.google.com/books?id=ICgrAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA412
text: Mummy shillied and shallied
ref: 2007, Vivek Iyer, Samlee's Daughter, page 79:
glosses: Alternative form of shilly-shally.
RAM disk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RAM disks
form: ramdisk
form: RAM disc
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: silicon disk
glosses: A virtual disk, implemented in software, that stores its contents in random access memory.
ramdisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ramdisks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of RAM disk.
RAM disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of RAM disk
ramdisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramdisk
phagology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phago- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The study of habits related to eating or feeding.
Derived terms: phagological
cybercampaign
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cybercampaigns
Etymology: From cyber- + campaign.
Senses: glosses: A campaign waged on the Internet.
cybercampaigns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cybercampaign
oralities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orality
misphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misphrases
form: misphrasing
form: misphrased
form: misphrased
Etymology: From mis- + phrase.
Senses: glosses: To phrase incorrectly.
misphrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misphrase
misphrasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misphrasings
Senses: glosses: An instance of something being phrased badly or wrongly.
misphrases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misphrase
misphrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misphrase
unstudious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstudious
form: most unstudious
Etymology: From un- + studious.
Senses: glosses: Not studious; not inclined towards studying.
fansubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fansub
fansubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fansub
fansubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfænsʌbə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: fansubbers
Etymology: From fansub + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fansubs: an amateur translator of subtitles.
fansubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fansubber
danburite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdænbəɹaɪt/
Forms: form: danburites
Etymology: Danbury, Connecticut, USA, where it was first discovered, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystalline mineral similar to topaz.
wikipedia: Danbury, Connecticut
danburites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of danburite
cylindrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cylindrites
Etymology: From cylinder + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfosalt mineral, containing tin, lead, antimony and iron, whose triclinic pinacoidal crystals often occur as tubes or cylinders.
cylindrites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cylindrite
agrellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrellites
Etymology: Stuart Olof Agrell (1913-1996), optical mineralogist, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral with the chemical formula NaCa₂FSi₄O₁₀
wikipedia: Stuart Olof Agrell
agrellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrellite
punditries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punditry
sugar papers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar paper
geladas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gelada
nanotechnologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanotechnologists
Etymology: From nanotechnology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: By controlling matter at this size, nanotechnologists hope to fabricate devices and materials with novel, seemingly magical properties.
ref: 2007 September 23, Jason Pontin, “In Tiny Particles, a Big Link in Jerusalem”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who does research into nanotechnology; someone studying things on the scale of nanometers.
nanotechnologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanotechnologist
handwrite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handwrites
form: handwriting
form: handwrote
form: handwritten
Etymology: From hand + write.
Senses: examples: text: “Whoever you get, whether it’s the neighbor down the street or somebody you don’t know, type or even handwrite exactly what the duties and responsibilities are and have both parties sign it,” Mr. Dunn said.
ref: 2007 December 28, Billie Cohen, “Searching for a Caretaker”, in New York Times:
text: The 800-word work (on a paper slightly bigger than a postcard) is one of 13 works submitted by a group of authors that includes Doris Lessing, Tom Stoppard, Margaret Atwood and Nick Hornby, The Associated Press reported. Ms. Rowling used both sides of her card to handwrite the prequel to her seven-book Potter series.
ref: 2008 May 30, Felicia R. Lee, “Harry Potter Prequel for Charity”, in New York Times:
glosses: To write something manually, normally used to emphasise that it is not being typed.
Synonyms: word: handwrite
word: set down
word: write
Hypernyms: word: communicate
Hyponyms: word: jot
word: dash off
word: scrawl
word: scribble
word: scribe
Related terms: write
scribe
handwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of handwrite
handwrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of handwrite
phallocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phallocratic
form: most phallocratic
Etymology: From phallo- + -cratic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to government or dominance by males.
Related terms: phallocracy
phallocrat
phallocentric
wabi-sabi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese わび・さび or 侘び寂び (wabi-sabi)
Senses: examples: text: Tai purchased purple flowers in a wabi-sabi pot for Tara.
text: If Dot were to pick an ideology, hers would be wabi-sabi. Her life is full of decay and beauty in imperfection.
ref: 2021, Jenni Fagan, Luckenbooth, William Heinemann, page 265:
text: Wabisabi is like this! Look! Look. It looks old, but it's not purposely made this way. With the, you know, time it's looking like this! But it still looks beautiful! That's WABISABI!
ref: 2024 April 24, Matcha Samurai, Instagram:
glosses: A Japanese aesthetic that derives from imperfection and transience.
zoosadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From zoo- + sadism; coined by German psychoanalyst Ernest Borneman.
Senses: glosses: The deriving of sexual pleasure from cruelty to animals.
wikipedia: Ernest Borneman
Derived terms: zoosadist
well begun is half done
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Traditional, via Ancient Greek; quoted by Aristotle in his Politics.
Senses: glosses: Much depends on the beginning of an endeavor.
wikipedia: Aristotle
Politics (Aristotle)
Related terms: a good beginning makes a good ending
Chita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈtɑː/
ipa: /t͡ʃɪˈtə/
homophone: cheetah
Etymology: From Russian Чита́ (Čitá).
Senses: glosses: A city, the administrative center of Zabaykalsky Krai, Siberia, Russia.
Derived terms: Chita Oblast
sunk costs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunk cost
non-rational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: nonrational
Etymology: From non- + rational.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, the tirade against information in effect serves to justify the constriction of the area of rationality and scientific approach, in order to find room for all kinds of non-rational sources of "knowledge."
ref: 2005, Irfan Habib, “How to Evade Real Issues and Make Room for Obscurantism”, in Social Scientist, vol. 33, no. 9/10, p. 7:
glosses: Contrary to reason; lacking an appropriate or sufficient reason; irrational.
examples: text: But what of non-rational beings—the animal or infant-man of attuition?
ref: 1898, S. S. Laurie, “The Growth of Mind”, in The School Review, volume 6, number 2, page 83n:
glosses: Lacking the ability to reason.
examples: text: In the total artistic process the two phases—rational and non-rational, planful and inspirational—may be successive or simultaneous.
ref: 1959, Thomas Munro, “Art and Scientific Technology”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 19, number 3, page 400:
text: Holton, a Harvard physicist and science historian, introduces us to the two extremist factions he sees attacking science from both sides: the "new Dionysians" who would widen the spectrum of scientific knowledge to include nonrational experience and the "new Apollonians" who would restrict scientific investigation to dealing only with those questions that seem to guarantee rational solution from the outset.
ref: 1974 August 10, John Douglas, “Daedalus on the Challenges to Science”, in Science News, volume 106, number 6, page 92:
text: Although some nonrational elements may be inconsistent with legal ideals, others—emotions and intuitions of certain types, imagination, judgment, rhetorical persuasiveness (considered below)—are fully consistent with those ideals.
ref: 1996, Paul Gewirtz, “On ‘I Know It When I See It’”, in The Yale Law Journal, volume 105, number 4, page 1036:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; outside the competence of the rules of reason.
examples: text: In the nature of things there must be causes that explain why an industrial enterprise—mill, factory, foundry, dairy, refinery—is located at just this or that place, and not somewhere else. Some of these causes are non-rational, such as accident and caprice. . . . The remaining causes are rational and economic; that is, the selected locality is deemed to offer certain advantages in production or marketing.
ref: 1896, Edward A. Ross, “The Location of Industries”, in The Quarterly Journal of Economics, volume 10, number 3, page 247:
topics: economics
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: Not based on one's own interests; inconsistent with utility maximization.
Synonyms: sense: lacking the ability to reason
word: arational
sense: lacking the ability to reason
word: irrational
sense: not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason
word: arational
Related terms: irrational
non-rationality
rational
nonrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rational.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-rational.
arational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /eɪˈɹaʃ(ə)nəl/
rhymes: -æʃənəl
Forms: form: more arational
form: most arational
Etymology: From a- + rational.
Senses: examples: text: If the end-product of a man's philosophizing about the nature of the cosmos is the ultimate, arational matter, this will affect his moral opinion of the cosmos.
ref: 1938, Marten Ten Hoor, “The Philistines over Philosophy,”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 35, number 20, page 542:
text: Scientific knowledge is conceptual, rational, and testable. Mystical knowledge is usually aconceptual, arational, and does not lend itself to interpersonal testing.
ref: 1974, Ervin Laszlo, “Why Should I Believe in Science?”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 34, number 4, page 484:
text: Regarded with the objectivity of hindsight, the illusion appears arational, almost fantastic: it would be like being able both to lie and to trust other people at the same time.
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 146:
text: On the first view, emotions are purely biological phenomena. . . . They are arational and amoral, like other natural bodily functions.
ref: 2001, Ronald De Sousa, “Moral Emotions,”, in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, volume 4, number 2, page 109:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Not within the domain of what can be understood or analyzed by reason; not rational, outside the competence of the rules of reason.
Synonyms: non-rational
Related terms: arationality
irrational
rational
nordic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɔː.dɪk/
ipa: /ˈnɔɹ.dɪk/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)dɪk
Forms: form: more nordic
form: most nordic
Etymology: See Nordic.
Senses: examples: text: The resort’s terrain, known for its excellent tree skiing, also includes nordic trails and thousands of untracked acres reachable by snowcat on guided trips.
ref: 2008 January 25, Nick Kaye, “Trappers Creek at Schweitzer Mountain Resort and Alea”, in New York Times:
coordinate_terms: alpine
glosses: Of or relating to cross-country skiing.
glosses: Alternative spelling of Nordic.
Derived terms: Nordic combined
nordic combined
nordic skiing
para-nordic
para nordic
para nordic skiing
para-nordic skiing
cels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cel
bounceback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouncebacks
Etymology: Deverbal from bounce back.
Senses: glosses: A rebound.
glosses: An economic recovery.
examples: text: Don't be fooled into thinking that just because you don't get many bouncebacks and not many people are unsubscribing that you have a good list […]
ref: 2012, Alex Blyth, How to Grow Your Business, page 17:
synonyms: bounce
glosses: An automated response to an email, indicating that it could not be delivered.
examples: text: List management company and rental order service. Includes AMERICAN CONSUMER (10,372,518 names) covering such subject lists as horticultural products, art prints, books, jewelry and fashion items, diet products, beauty and cosmetics, housewares and gifts, general merchandise, catalog offers, bouncebacks, […]
ref: 1977, Richard D. Millican, National Mailing-list Houses, page 5:
text: It is not unusual to get as high as 15 or 20 percent return in bounceback orders if customer satisfaction with the original order is high and the appeal for a follow-up order is strong.
ref: 1991, Herman Holtz, Starting and Building Your Catalog Sales Business, page 11:
text: Bouncebacks encourage customers […]
ref: 1996, Night Club & Bar, volume 12, page 16:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A customized order form sent out with previously ordered goods, encouraging the customer to make a further order, perhaps motivated by a discount or free gift.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient who returns with the same complaint.
Related terms: bounce back
bouncebackability
bouncebackable
equal weight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equal weights
Senses: glosses: A weighting that gives the same weight (or importance) to two or more options
eyecatching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyecatching
form: most eyecatching
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eye-catching.
invalided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of invalid
shillyshallying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shilly-shallying.
underskilled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underskilled
form: most underskilled
Etymology: From under- + skilled.
Senses: glosses: Insufficiently skilled
securin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein involved in anaphase triggering.
solartype
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of solar-type.
solar-type
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Having similar characteristics to those of the Sun.
raw_tags: of a star
solitarious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒlɪˈtɛəɹi.əs/
ipa: /ˌsɑlɪˈtɛɹi.əs/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.əs
Forms: form: more solitarious
form: most solitarious
Senses: glosses: solitary; not gregarious
solitariously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more solitariously
form: most solitariously
Etymology: From solitarious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a solitarious manner
solubles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Liquid, containing dissolved and dispersed solids, that is a byproduct of alcoholic fermentation, and is used as a source of dietary protein.
solvolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solvolytic
form: most solvolytic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to solvolysis.
New Amsterdam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Calque of Dutch Nieuw-Amsterdam; From nieuw (“new”) + Amsterdam (a city in the Netherlands).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of New Netherland, a colony of the Netherlands; the Dutch colonial settlement that later became New York City.
glosses: The capital city of East Berbice-Corentyne, Guyana.
glosses: A town in Indiana, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States.
Mede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /miːd/
rhymes: -iːd
Forms: form: Medes
Etymology: From Latin Medus, from Ancient Greek Μῆδος (Mêdos).
Senses: glosses: Any of a Western Iranian people who inhabited the ancient region of Media.
Derived terms: Law of the Medes and Persians
Related terms: Medean
Media
Median
Medic
Medism
medize
Medes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mede
Bithynia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /bɪˈθɪni.ə/
Etymology: From the Latin Bīthȳnia, from the Ancient Greek Βῑθῡνῐ́ᾱ (Bīthūnĭ́ā).
Senses: glosses: A geographic region, ancient kingdom, and historical province of the Roman Empire in the northwest of Asia Minor in modern Turkey.
somatocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From somato- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Describing any function of neurons centred on the soma.
somatosensation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: somatosensations
Etymology: From somato- + sensation.
Senses: glosses: A somatosensory sensation
Lycia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪʃi.ə/
/ˈlɪʃə/
/ˈlɪsi.ə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Lycia, from Ancient Greek Λυκίᾱ (Lukíā).
Senses: examples: text: The circumstances surrounding the League's creation are unclear, but it was probably a response to the tyranny of Rhodes, which was briefly assigned control of Lycia in 190 BCE by Rome.
ref: 2023 September 7, Alastair Gill, “The ancient civilisation that inspired US democracy”, in BBC Travel, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2023:
glosses: A historical region in southwestern Asia Minor, in modern-day Turkey.
glosses: A former province of the Roman Empire, existing on its own from 43 AD to 74 AD, and later as part of Lycia et Pamphylia.
somitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From somite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a somite.
sonicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sonicators
Senses: glosses: Any device that produces high-intensity ultrasound
Related terms: sonication
trinary star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinary stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stellar system that has three stars orbiting around each other; triple star.
Synonyms: triple star
trinary
trinary star system
ternary star
ternary star system
triple star system
Derived terms: trinary star system
Related terms: binary star
double star system
quadruple star
quadruple star system
multiple star
multiple star system
star system
trinary stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinary star
spacebased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spacebased
form: most spacebased
Etymology: From space + based.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of space-based.
spacegroup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spacegroups
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of space group.
triple star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Three stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a trinary star.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Three stars that appear to be one when seen with the naked eye, either because they orbit one another (trinary stars) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance.
Synonyms: sense: star system
word: trinary
sense: star system
word: trinary star
sense: star system
word: triple star system
sense: star system
word: trinary star system
Derived terms: triple star system
Related terms: double star
quadruple star
multiple star
star system
spectrotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Forms: form: spectro-temporal
Etymology: From spectro- + temporal.
Senses: examples: text: The microphone signal was fed to a custom-made, real-time song recognizer that detected the first stereotypic syllable of song motifs using a two-layer neural network trained on spectrotemporal song data.
ref: 2008 November 12, Georg B. Keller, Richard H. R. Hahnloser, “Neural processing of auditory feedback during vocal practice in a songbird”, in Nature, volume 457, number 7226, →DOI:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Being a function of both time and frequency or wavelength
triple stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triple star
pantsless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pants + -less.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pantless.
trouserless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trouser + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without trousers.
Synonyms: trousersless
speedometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speed + -o- + -metry.
Senses: glosses: The measurement of speed
Related terms: speedometer
spermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermines
Etymology: From sperm + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A polyamine, N,N'-bis(3-aminopropyl) butane-1,4-diamine, originally extracted from sperm, that is involved in cellular metabolism.
Derived terms: thermospermine
quadruple star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruple stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Four stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a quadruple star system.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Four stars that appear to be one when seen with the naked eye, either because they orbit one another (quadruple star systems) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance.
Synonyms: sense: star system
word: quadruple star system
Derived terms: quadruple star system
Related terms: triple star
quintuple star
multiple star
star system
quadruple stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadruple star
spheroplasted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spheroplast + -ed.
Senses: glosses: That has been converted into a spheroplast
quadruple star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruple star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stellar system that has four stars orbiting around each other; quadruple star
Synonyms: quadruple star
Related terms: trinary star
triple star system
quintuple star
quintuple star system
multiple star
multiple star system
star system
quadruple star systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadruple star system
Atropatene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Ātropatēnē, from Ancient Greek Ἀτροπατηνή (Atropatēnḗ).
Senses: glosses: An ancient kingdom established in the 4th century BC in the modern-day region of Azerbaijan in Iran by the satrap Atropates.
glosses: a satrapy of later Parthian and Sasanian empires; Aturpatakan; Adurbadagan; Atrapatakan
Synonyms: Atropatia
Derived terms: Atropatenid
Media Atropatene
trinaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinary
multiple star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Multiple stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a multiple star system.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Multiple stars that appear to be one when seen with the naked eye, either because they orbit one another (multiple star systems) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance.
Synonyms: sense: star system
word: multiple star system
Derived terms: multiple star system
Related terms: single star
double star
triple star
quadruple star
quintuple star
star system
multiple stars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiple star
spiralian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spiralians
Etymology: From spiral + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any animal belonging to the superphylum Spiralia, known for their spiral cleavage pattern.
shilly-shallyings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shilly-shallying
multiple star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiple star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A stellar system that has multiple stars orbiting around each other; multiple star
Synonyms: multiple star
Related terms: single star system
double star system
triple star system
quadruple star system
quintuple star system
star system
binary star
binary star system
trinary star
trinary star system
Macedonist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Macedonists
Senses: glosses: A proponent of Macedonism.
Macedonists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Macedonist
splitless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From split + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a split
spiralians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spiralian
binary star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: binary star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A binary star.
Synonyms: double star system
binary star
Related terms: stellar system
star system
multiple star system
single star system
trinary star system
triple star system
quadruple star system
quintuple star system
spongious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spongious
form: most spongious
Etymology: From Middle English spongious, from Latin spongiōsus. By surface analysis, sponge + -ious.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a sponge; spongy
Derived terms: spongious body
trinary star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinary star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a trinary star
Synonyms: triple star system
trinary star
Hypernyms: trinary system
Related terms: stellar system
star system
multiple star system
single star system
binary star system
double star system
quadruple star system
quintuple star system
Caria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˈkɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Κᾱρίᾱ (Kāríā).
Senses: glosses: A historical region in the southwest corner of Asia Minor, in modern Turkey.
Derived terms: Carian
squarelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squarelike
form: most squarelike
Etymology: From square + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a square.
glosses: Rectangular.
binary star systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binary star system
trinary star systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trinary star system
double star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a binary star
Synonyms: binary star system
binary star
Related terms: stellar system
star system
multiple star system
single star system
trinary star system
triple star system
quadruple star system
quintuple star system
triple star system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple star systems
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: a trinary star
Synonyms: trinary star system
trinary star
Related terms: stellar system
star system
multiple star system
single star system
binary star system
double star system
quadruple star system
quintuple star system
stadial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdɪəl/
Forms: form: more stadial
form: most stadial
Etymology: From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a glacial stade.
examples: text: He drew on the growing ethnographic record contained in travellers' tales about extra-European societies to develop a stadial view of human evolution according to which each society passed through the stages of hunting, pastoral life, farming, and trading – a schema which had no place for scriptural precept.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 188:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Pertaining to or existing in successive stages of a given culture, society etc.
Derived terms: interstadial
intrastadial
stadialism
stadialist
stadially
trans-stadial
trans-stadially
stadial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsteɪdɪəl/
Forms: form: stadials
Etymology: From Latin stadiālis, from stadium.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A short, colder period within an interglacial; a stade.
stadials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadial
Colchis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kolkhis
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κολχίς (Kolkhís).
Senses: glosses: A historical region and ancient Georgian kingdom on the coast of the Black Sea in the South Caucasus on the border between Europe and Asia, corresponding to what is now western Georgia (including Abkhazia), as well as parts of Russia and Turkey.
Related terms: Colchian
Colchidian
Iberia
Egrisi
Lazica