cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
descendent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Traces of the answer, I submit, are to be discerned in all writings by the daughters of Sappho or the descendents of the tenth muse […]
ref: 2002, Rukmini Bhaya Nair, Lying on the Postcolonial Couch: The Idea of Indifference, page 216:
glosses: Misspelling of descendant.
bioscience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosciences
Etymology: From bio- + science.
Senses: glosses: Any of several sciences that deal with living organisms
Derived terms: nanobioscience
Related terms: bioscientist
ebioscience
bioacoustics
bioastronautics
biochemistry
bioclimatology
biodynamics
bioelectronics
bioenergetics
bioengineering
biogeochemistry
biogeography
biography
bioinformatics
biology
biomathematics
biomechanics
biomedicine
biometeorology
biophysics
biopsychology
biostatistics
biostratigraphy
biotechnology
biotelemetry
biotherapy
purportedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈpɔː(ɹ).təd.li/
Etymology: From purported + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: reportedly, reputedly, putatively, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
text: In addition, none of the purportedly more common terms of these pairs appear to be especially frequent in modern Indian English.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 120:
text: After several years Philip Rigoli left the property, describing his family as ‘strange and toxic’, but father Virgilio and brother Joe continued to develop their nation, maintaining that it was the only valid response to a government purportedly discriminating against ‘Christians, white Anglo-Saxons and capitalists’.
ref: 2022, Harry Hobbs, George Williams, “Motivations” (chapter 3), in Micronations and the Search for Sovereignty, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 98:
text: Australia is working to verify the authenticity of a video that purportedly shows one of its nationals captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine.
ref: 2024 December 23, Hilary Whiteman, “Australia investigates video purportedly showing national captured by Russian forces in Ukraine”, in CNN:
glosses: As appears to be true or is stated or accepted to be (though might not be so).
enisle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪl
Forms: form: enisles
form: enisling
form: enisled
form: enisled
form: inisle
Etymology: From en- + isle.
Senses: examples: text: […] long before England itself was enisled by the sea.
ref: 1930, Walter De la Mare, Desert Islands and Robinson Crusoe, New York: Farrar & Rinehart, page 118:
text: […] park-like belts of villas enisled by lawns […]
ref: 1966, David Keir, The City of Edinburgh, Collins, page 28:
glosses: To make into an island.
examples: text: […] no reply / Comes from the vast, enisling sphere / Of spirit, limitless, divine, / So far from me, so strangely mine.
ref: 1876, Edmond Holmes, “After Death”, in Poems, London: Henry S. King & Co., page 82:
text: To-night, dear, / Let's forget all that, that and the war, / And enisle ourselves a little beyond time, / You with this Irish whiskey, I with red wine / While the stars go over the sleepless ocean,
ref: 1925, Robinson Jeffers, “For Una”, in The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers, Stanford University Press, published 2003, p:
text: […] one in ten New Orleansians lived in the projects—some 50,000 souls more or less, almost all of them women with too many children, a gulag of women and children enisled by poverty.
ref: 2005, Jed Horne, Desire Street: A True Story of Death and Deliverance in New Orleans, New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 25:
glosses: To isolate.
ingeniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒiːnjəs.li/
ipa: /ɪnˈd͡ʒiːniəs.li/
Forms: form: more ingeniously
form: most ingeniously
Etymology: From ingenious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The exterior of the train is perfectly air-smoothed and to cut passenger steps up to recessed doors would never do; when the deep doors are shut, therefore, the steps fold up ingeniously on the inside of them to create a level floor in the corridor of the coach.
ref: 1960 March, G. Freeman Allen, “Europe's most luxurious express - the "Settebello"”, in Trains Illustrated, page 141:
text: Nefzawi, rather ingeniously, offers numerous fantastic explanations and interpretations of dream sequences in The Perfumed Garden.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 124:
glosses: In an ingenious manner; using ingenuity.
noisemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noisemakers
Etymology: From noise + maker.
Senses: examples: text: Women will gather at Filenes with pots and pans as noise-makers and march to Deak-Perera, a firm which sells the South African gold coin.
ref: 1985 June 4, Stephanie Poggi, “Women Against Apartheid”, in Gay Community News, page 2:
text: Before long, the unsuspecting salesman was earnestly pitching him "the quietest noisemaker on the market."
ref: 1999 May 4, William Safire, “Essay; The Quiet Noisemaker”, in The New York Times:
text: The noisemakers spread from soccer to the N.B.A. and other sports.
ref: 2014 June 13, Daniel Engber, “Who Made That Inflatable Noisemaker?”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A person or device that produces a great deal of noise, especially one used in a celebration or sporting event.
glosses: A device comprising a handle with a ratchet at one end, with the ratchet end contained within a box that serves as an echo chamber, so that swinging or moving the device causes the ratchet to rotate within the box, creating a series of loud clicking sounds
Synonyms: sense: device with ratchet
word: ratchet
Hyponyms: sense: device for making noise at events
word: air horn
sense: device for making noise at events
word: blowout
sense: device for making noise at events
word: caxirola
sense: device for making noise at events
word: clacker
sense: device for making noise at events
word: clapper
sense: device for making noise at events
word: kazoo
sense: device for making noise at events
word: party horn
sense: device for making noise at events
word: ratchet
sense: device for making noise at events
word: squawker
sense: device for making noise at events
word: squeaker
sense: device for making noise at events
word: stadium horn
sense: device for making noise at events
word: stadium trumpet
sense: device for making noise at events
word: vuvuzela
noisemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noisemaker
dissociator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissociators
Etymology: From dissociate + -or.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reaction vessel in which a dissociation reaction takes place.
echo chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echo chambers
Senses: glosses: A room or other enclosed space that is highly conducive to the production of echoes, particularly one that has been designed and built for this purpose.
qualifier: music production
glosses: A sound effect that may be applied to live or recorded sounds through a sound editing process, which creates the impression that the sounds originated in an enclosed space which was conducive to producing echoes or echoing.
examples: text: But it would resound in the conservative media's echo chamber.
ref: 2007, Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America:
text: “What you’re going to end up doing is amplifying within an echo chamber, which is really different from what the movement wants,” said Dana Fisher, a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland whose research focuses on activism.
ref: 2020 March 19, Shola Lawal, quoting Dana Fisher, “Coronavirus Halts Street Protests, but Climate Activists Have a Plan”, in New York Times:
text: The videos were tailored for the “echo chamber” that is often created by social media networks like YouTube. To keep you watching, YouTube serves up videos similar to those you have watched before.
ref: 2021 April 15, Cade Metz, “Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: circle jerk
filter bubble
hugbox
mutual admiration society
coordinate_terms: groupthink
filter bubble
peer pressure
conformity bias
glosses: An environment in which a person is exposed to only those beliefs and opinions that agree with their own, so that their existing views are magnified and reinforced while alternative ideas are not expressed or considered.
Related terms: cross-promotion
dissociation reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissociation reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reaction in which a compound is dissociated into its elements, or in which a molecule is dissociated into atoms
reaction vessel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaction vessels
Senses: glosses: Any vessel used to contain the reactants taking part in a chemical reaction. Synonym: chemical reactor.
echo chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echo chamber
dispersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more dispersive
form: most dispersive
Etymology: From disperse + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That becomes dispersed
glosses: That causes dispersion
Derived terms: dispersive line
dispersively
dispersive mass transfer
dispersive medium
dispersive model
dispersiveness
dispersive power
dispersivity
monodispersive
nondispersive
overdispersive
polydispersive
underdispersive
deexcite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːɛkˈsaɪt/
Forms: form: deexcites
form: deexciting
form: deexcited
form: deexcited
Etymology: From de- + excite.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To decrease the energy of something
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To move an atom etc to a lower energy level
Related terms: deexcitation
cloisonné
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloisonnés
Etymology: Borrowed from French cloisonné (“partitioned”).
Senses: examples: text: It was in the form of an equilateral triangle with the corners rounded and was made of blue cloisonné bordered in silver.
ref: The Ruined Map translated by E. Dale Saunders in 1969 from the Japanese by Kobo Abé in 1967
glosses: Alternative spelling of cloisonne.
pyrophoricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pyrophoric + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being pyrophoric.
subfossil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒsəl
Forms: form: subfossils
Etymology: From sub- + fossil.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A partially fossilized organism.
Related terms: subfossilized
cyclicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclicity
cyclicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsaɪklɪsɪti/
/ˈsɪklɪsɪti/
Forms: form: cyclicities
Etymology: From cyclic + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: cyclicality
glosses: The state of recurring at regular intervals; of being cyclic.
glosses: An instance of cyclic behaviour.
Derived terms: acyclicity
Related terms: rhythmicity
paleontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palaeontological
form: palæontological
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to paleontology.
Derived terms: actuopaleontological
archaeopaleontological
micropaleontological
paleontologically
spallations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spallation
spallation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /spəˈleɪʃ(ə)n/
ipa: /spɔːleɪʃən/
ipa: /spɑːleɪʃən/
Forms: form: spallations
Etymology: From spall + -ation.
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: spalling#Noun
spall#Noun
qualifier: materials science
glosses: Fragmentation due to stress or impact, or any pattern of surface damage created thereby.
qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A nuclear reaction in which a nucleus fragments into many nucleons.
Derived terms: spallogenic
non-stationary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nonstationary
Etymology: From non- + stationary.
Senses: glosses: Not stationary; moving.
side-lobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side-lobes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sidelobe.
sidelobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidelobes
form: side lobe
form: side-lobe
Etymology: From side + lobe.
Senses: glosses: The part of an antenna response pattern which is not contained in the main beam
Related terms: Airy pattern
harmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonic
harmonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science of musical sounds
Derived terms: spherical harmonics
hydromagnetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydromagnetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using hydromagnetics.
beta decay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beta decays
Senses: qualifier: nuclear physics
glosses: A nuclear reaction in which a beta particle (electron or positron) is emitted.
divined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of divine
divined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Made divine, made holy.
Derived terms: undivined
atherogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more atherogenic
form: most atherogenic
Etymology: From athero- + -genic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: that initiates or accelerates atherogenesis
Derived terms: antiatherogenic
atherogenicity
nonatherogenic
proatherogenic
apodyterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌæpədaɪˈtɪəɹi.əm/
Forms: form: apodyteriums
form: apodyteria
Etymology: From Latin, from Ancient Greek ἀποδυτήριον (apodutḗrion), from ἀποδύω (apodúō, “strip oneself”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The apartment at the entrance of the baths, or in the palestra, for getting undressed.
apparitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpæɹitɚ/
Forms: form: apparitors
form: apparator
form: paritor
Etymology: Latin appāritor (“public servant”), from appareo (“I wait upon”).
Senses: examples: text: Before any of his apparitors could execute the sentence, he was himself summoned away by a sterner apparitor to the other world.
ref: 1857, Thomas De Quincey, Richard Bentley:
glosses: An officer who attended magistrates and judges to execute their orders.
examples: text: a monition be awarded to an apparitor, to summon a man
ref: 1797, Richard Burn, Ecclesiastical Law:
glosses: A messenger or officer who serves the process of an ecclesiastical court.
atherogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atherogeneses
Etymology: From athero- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The formation of atheromas, especially on the walls of the arteries
Derived terms: neoatherogenesis
diaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diary
diaries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of diary
auspex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auspices
Senses: glosses: An officiating priest in Ancient Rome.
megalopa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megalopas
form: megalopae
Senses: glosses: The final larval stage found in decapod crustaceans
Synonyms: megalops
Derived terms: megalopal
Marchi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marchis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Marchi. Compare Marco, Marko, Markovic. Sometimes also Italianized from Slovene Mrak (from mrak (“murkiness, cloud”)) and Makovec (from mak (“poppy”)).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
sugar of lead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its sweetish taste.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: lead sugar
salt of Saturn
sugar of Saturn
glosses: Lead acetate.
backlashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backlash
backlashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backlash
beast with two backs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beasts with two backs
Etymology: First attested in English by William Shakespeare, see quotations.
Supposedly a calque of French la beste à deux doz (in modern French, la bête à deux dos) from Gargantua and Pantagruel, 1534, by François Rabelais.
Senses: examples: text: I am one ſir, that come to tell you, your daughter, and the Moore, are now making the Beaſt with two backs.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 4:
text: [H]e remained one of the few boys of his year with whom Adrian had never made the beast with two backs, or rather with whom he had never made the beast with one back and an interestingly shaped middle, […]
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 15:
glosses: Two people united in sexual intercourse in the missionary position.
wikipedia: François Rabelais
Gargantua and Pantagruel
William Shakespeare
Synonyms: double-backed beast
two-backed beast
Derived terms: make the beast with two backs
eyeball to eyeball
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: eyeball-to-eyeball
Senses: glosses: Face to face.
eyeball to eyeball
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: eyeball-to-eyeball
Senses: glosses: Face to face.
materteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈtɜːtəɹəl/
Forms: form: more materteral
form: most materteral
Etymology: From Latin mātertera (“maternal aunt”) + -al.
Senses: examples: text: It may be that stipulations about parts and wholes are, in some way that undermines my materteral analogies, unlike stipulations about aunts and legacies.
ref: 1990, (US), Peter Van Inwagen, Material Beings, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
text: Only some insistent pleading (materteral rather than avuncular) had changed their mind.
ref: 2004, (UK), Saif Rahman, Archipelago, Twenty First Century Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 150:
text: It pleased her to see Aunt Maude waiting tables. Smiling to herself, Alice reflected that Maude was materteral ... like a kindly aunt.
ref: 2006, (US), R. D. Chrisman, Cathedral Ledge, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 123:
text: A materteral lady told me that people come here from the city in search of peace.
ref: 2013 October 5, Bee Rowlatt, “Japan's new luxury sleeper train [print edition: Suite surrender on the rails]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Travel), archived from the original on 09 Nov 2013, page T9:
synonyms: materterine
auntish
auntlike
auntyish
coordinate_terms: avuncular
maternal
paternal
glosses: Pertaining to, or in the manner of, an aunt.
noncompos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncompos
form: noncomposes
Etymology: From non compos mentis.
Senses: glosses: A foolish person.
Synonyms: sense: foolish person
word: dunderhead
sense: foolish person
word: fop
sense: foolish person
word: fool
sense: foolish person
word: imbecile
Related terms: ninny
nincompoop
trifler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triflers
Etymology: From trifle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In one word, be anything but a trifler, a trifler with God and your own soul. It was not for this, that God gave you “A mind superior to the vulgar herd.”
ref: 1837, John Wesley, Select Letters, chiefly on personal religion:
glosses: One who trifles, or treats something as inconsequential.
glosses: A pewterer who produced small pewter utensils such as salt cellars.
depositee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depositees
Etymology: From deposit + -ee.
Senses: glosses: The person with whom something is deposited.
glosses: A member of the lowest of the three population classes created by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge party in Cambodia after their revolution in the 1970s. These people were 'deposited' in the villages after being removed from the cities.
planktonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /plaŋkˈtɒnɪk/
ipa: /plæŋkˈtɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Forms: form: planktic
Etymology: From plankton + -ic, after German planktonisch.
Senses: examples: text: Tiny shells of planktonic animals rain down from the surface waters of the ocean on to the deep sea-floor.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 146:
glosses: Of or pertaining to plankton.
glosses: Floating in the open sea rather than living on the seafloor.
Derived terms: aeroplanktonic
epiplanktonic
euplanktonic
holoplanktonic
ichthyoplanktonic
macroplanktonic
meroplanktonic
microplanktonic
mycoplanktonic
nanoplanktonic
nektoplanktonic
nonplanktonic
phytoplanktonic
picoplanktonic
planktonically
pseudoplanktonic
Related terms: benthic
oceanic
pelagic
do drugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does drugs
form: doing drugs
form: did drugs
form: done drugs
Senses: examples: text: There is growing understanding that people drink or do drugs for difference ^([sic]) reasons - and it may be linked to times of stress.
ref: 2023 September 6, Greg Morse, “One more for the road?”, in RAIL, number 991, page 51:
glosses: To abuse an illegal drug or drugs, especially as a result of chemical addiction.
camote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈmoʊti/
Forms: form: camotes
form: kamote
Etymology: From Spanish camote, from Classical Nahuatl camohtli. Compare Tagalog kamote.
Senses: glosses: sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas)
Derived terms: camote cue
camote fries
camote rider
camote tops
camotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camote
des res
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of desirable residence.
Senses: glosses: A desirable residence.
sphincters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphincter
ablative absolute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.soʊˈlut/
ipa: /ˈæb.lə.tɪv æb.səˈlut/
Forms: form: ablatives absolute
form: ablative absolutes
Etymology: Calque of Latin ablativus absolutus.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A construction in Latin and other sister languages in which an independent phrase with a noun in the ablative case has a participle, adjective, or noun, expressed or implied, which agrees with it in gender, number and case – both words forming a clause grammatically unconnected with the rest of the sentence.
Related terms: dangling participle
genitive absolute
free adjunct
nominative absolute
eigenmode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eigenmodes
Etymology: From eigen- + mode.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One of the normal vibrational modes of an oscillating system.
Related terms: eigenbasis
eigenbrain
eigendecomposition
eigen decomposition
eigenface
eigenfunction
eigenhead
eigenpair
eigenspace
eigenspinor
eigenstate
eigensystem
eigentheory
eigenvalue
eigenvector
normal mode
relative superlative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relative superlatives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: the superlative (a degree of comparison) when it is used to express the highest degree of something in relation to something else
examples: text: Ο χειρότερος is the relative superlative form of κακός.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: In Greek: one of the degrees of comparison of an adjective, the equivalent in English of the superlative, similar to the comparative superlative used in Spanish. Compare with absolute superlative.
Related terms: positive
comparative
superlative
absolute superlative
comparative superlative
degrees of comparison
meltwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meltwaters
Etymology: From melt + water.
Senses: glosses: Water from melting ice or snow.
surficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səːˈfɪʃl/
ipa: /səɹˈfɪʃ(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: From superficial, under influence from surface.
Senses: examples: text: When the soil swells on wetting, the former surficial material is mixed with the subsoil.
topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the surface of something, particularly the surface of the Earth.
Synonyms: superficial
brachiopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹækɪəˌpɒd/
other: /ˈbɹeɪkɪoʊˌpɒd/
Forms: form: brachiopods
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Brachiopoda. By surface analysis, brachio- + -pod.
Senses: glosses: Any of many marine invertebrates, of the phylum Brachiopoda, that have bivalve dorsal and ventral shells with two tentacle-bearing arms that capture food
Synonyms: lampshell
Derived terms: brachiopodist
bioturbation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioturbations
Etymology: From bio- + Latin turbātiō (“disturbance; confusion”).
Senses: examples: text: If bioturbation is not present, the newly deposited material stays at the bed surface.
ref: 2012, Wilfried Michaelis, Estuarine Water Quality Management: Monitoring, Modelling and Research, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 168:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The mixing of soil or sediment by living organisms.
Derived terms: bioturbational
bioturbatory
lagtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlæɡ.taɪm/
Forms: form: lagtimes
Etymology: From lag + time.
Senses: examples: text: The lag-time in response to feedback that can result from using pen-and-paper questionnaires or oral reports may therefore reduce students’ active participation in feedback on lessons.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1088:
glosses: The elapsed time between two events.
balance transfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balance transfers
Senses: glosses: A transferal of the current amount owing on one credit card to another one (ideally one charging a lower rate of interest)
irrotational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ir- + rotational.
Senses: glosses: Not rotating or not pertaining to rotation.
topics: calculus
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having zero curl.
Derived terms: irrotational field
irrotational flow
irrotationality
irrotationally
irrotational strain
irrotational vector
Related terms: conservative
continuationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From continuation + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The concept, especially amongst charismatic Christians, that the works of the Holy Spirit (speaking in tongues, prophecy, healing, and miracles) continue in the modern world.
Related terms: continuationist
cessationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cessation + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief or teaching that the visible miraculous works of the Holy Spirit (such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and divine healing) have ceased.
Related terms: cessationist
perversely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more perversely
form: most perversely
Etymology: From perverse + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But even if one of the curves is sloped “perversely,” the condition may still be fulfilled […]
ref: 2005, Alpha C. Chiang and Kevin Wainwright, Fundamental Methods of Mathematical Economics, fourth edition, McGraw-Hill, page 482:
text: By such perversely exacting standards the possibilities for a genuine, living Inuit art to exist at all are slim.
ref: 2009 July 24, Holland Cotter, “Postcards From Canada’s ‘New North’”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 06 May 2021:
text: There is another reason the films are so entertaining and successful, though (with the franchise earning more than $500 million dollars so far). Perversely, we love John Wick himself. That lethal, bereaved assassin is a good bad guy for our times, the natural extension of Tony Soprano, Walter White and all the other heroic antiheroes the culture has embraced.
ref: 2023 March 14, Caryn James, “John Wick: Chapter 4: 'Soars above most action films'”, in BBC:
glosses: In a perverse manner.
disrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrupt
disrupted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disrupted
form: most disrupted
Senses: glosses: Subject to disruption.
Derived terms: nondisrupted
undisrupted
instabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instability
come what may
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: If you vant a more polished sort o' feller, vell and good, have him; but vages or no vages, notice or no notice, board or no board, lodgin' or no lodgin', Sam Veller, as you took from the old inn in the Borough, sticks by you, come what may.
ref: 1837, Charles Dickens, chapter 56, in The Pickwick Papers:
text: [W]e are here of a set purpose and we will go forward with it, come what may.
ref: 1906, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 21, in Sir Nigel:
text: Still, now the prime minister remains "on message," reiterating that the election will be held in January, come what may.
ref: 2004 September 23, Tony Karon, “Allawi Rides to Bush's Rescue”, in Time:
text: May it be, come what may, that I rest all my days in the goodness of Jesus.
ref: 2018, Fiona Aghajanian, Harrison Druery, Michael Farren, Jaywan Maxwell, Jonny Robinson, Rich Thompson, “The Goodness of Jesus”, in Yet Not I:
glosses: In spite of anything that might happen; whatever may occur.
Synonyms: word: anyway
word: no matter what
word: regardless
Derived terms: hold come what may
Related terms: come hell or high water
no matter what
be that as it may
Tirpitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈtɪə(ɹ)pɪts/
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
glosses: A German battleship during the Second World War, the sister ship to the Bismarck.
sister ship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sister ships
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A ship built to the same design and dimensions as another or belongs to the same owners as another.
pro-sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-sentences
Etymology: From pro- + sentence.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A function word or expression that substitutes for a whole sentence whose content is recoverable from the context.
Hypernyms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: pro-form
Coordinate terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: pronoun
Derived terms: prosentential
Mayfair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪfɛə/
Forms: form: Mayfairs
Etymology: From May + fair.
Senses: glosses: An annual two-week-long fair that took place in central London between 1686 and 1764.
glosses: An urban area of London in the City of Westminster, Greater London, named after this fair (OS grid ref TQ2880).
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood in south-west Calgary, Alberta.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A community in Southwest Middlesex municipality, Middlesex County, Ontario.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A hamlet in the Rural Municipality of Meeting Lake, Saskatchewan.
glosses: A place in Canada:
A neighbourhood of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A census-designated place in Fresno County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Albany Park community area, Chicago, Illinois.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Washington, D.C..
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa.
glosses: A suburb of Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Mayfair exponential game system
Mayfairish
Mayfair tan
riverwalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riverwalks
form: river-walk
form: river walk
Etymology: From river + walk.
Senses: glosses: A pedestrian street or pathway alongside a river, providing a space for outdoor activity.
personal pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of personal pronoun
indefinite pronouns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indefinite pronoun
Advent calendar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Advent calendars
Etymology: Probably a calque of German Adventskalender, the modern tradition having originated in 19th-century Germany.
Senses: glosses: A calendar used to count down the days of Advent, having windows revealing a hidden picture or gift on each day.
Derived terms: reverse Advent calendar
pee-pee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːpiː/
rhymes: -iːpiː
Forms: form: pee-pees
form: peepee
form: pee pee
Etymology: Probably a reduplication of pee, but compare French pipi, German Pipi, Italian pipì, Latin pipinna, Romanian pipi, Spanish pipí, Turkish pipi, and Greek πιπί (pipí).
Senses: glosses: Urine.
examples: text: […]while passing the sponge over the upper part of the little fellow's thighs, the nurse cried out, "O, doctor! be very careful—don't touch his pee-pee—it's very sore;" and upon examining his penis I found it in a state of extreme erection.
ref: 1875, Lewis A. Sayre, Lectures on Orthopedic Surgery and diseases of the joints, page 14:
text: A pee-pee for making Wee-Wee.
ref: 1980, Alona Frankel, Once Upon a Potty:
text: Using the word familiar to Claude[…], I said that he seemed to be afraid that he would lose "his pee-pee", since he imagined that his sister and his mother had lost theirs[…]
ref: 2001, A.H. Brafman, Untying the Knot: Working with Children and Parents:
text: While washing her daughter's hair, Suzie looked up and asked her if she would wash her "pee-pee" too.
ref: 2001, R. Timothy Kearney, Caring for Sexually Abused Children, page 11:
text: When asked if Hubie touched her pee-pee or if she touched Hubie's pee-pee, she repeatedly replied, “No.”
ref: 2011, Sandra B. McPherson, Farshid Afsarifard, Equivocal Child Abuse, page 150:
text: She has also said her dad is mean and hurt her pee pee. She ask^([sic]) a lot about if people are going to look at her pee pee (i.e. Doctors, different apts. we go to, that is her first question to me).
ref: 2014, Elsbeth Renee O'Lea, Trolls, Snakes and Shadow People, page 26:
glosses: The penis or vulva; genitalia.
Derived terms: pee-pee dance
pee-pee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːpiː/
rhymes: -iːpiː
Forms: form: pee-pees
form: pee-peeing
form: pee-peed
form: pee-peed
form: peepee
form: pee pee
Etymology: Probably a reduplication of pee, but compare French pipi, German Pipi, Italian pipì, Latin pipinna, Romanian pipi, Spanish pipí, Turkish pipi, and Greek πιπί (pipí).
Senses: glosses: To urinate.
Synonyms: sense: standard terms
word: urinate
word: urinate
sense: euphemistic terms
word: pee
sense: euphemistic terms
word: piddle
sense: euphemistic terms
word: tinkle
sense: euphemistic terms
word: wee
sense: euphemistic terms
word: wee-wee
sense: slang terms
word: whiz
sense: coarse slang terms
word: piss
capperbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capperbars
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cappabar.
-fier
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -ifier
Etymology: From -fy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, does what is indicated by the stem (usually a verb).
Derived terms: quantifier
Related terms: -ify
-ification
pophole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popholes
form: pop-hole
Etymology: From pop + hole.
Senses: examples: Mr. Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the pop-holes.
glosses: A small door in the side of a chicken coop, normally connected to the ground via a ramp.
-ifier
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -ify + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -fier.
premillennialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹiːmɪˈlɛnɪəlɪz(ə)m/
Etymology: From premillennial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Premillennialism stressed division and separation within society, to gather in the elect, and its frostiness to Enlightenment projects of social reform contributed to that peculiar process by which ‘liberal’ has become a word of abuse in the United States, in sharp contrast to its esteem in European society.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 912:
glosses: A concept in Christian eschatology that the Second Coming of Christ will happen before the millennium.
Related terms: amillennialism
postmillennialism
premillennialist
federal government
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: federal governments
Senses: glosses: Any of several forms of government of federations.
glosses: The national government of the United States, in contrast to government at the state or local level.
glosses: The national governments of Canada and Pakistan, in contrast to government at the provincial or territorial level.
glosses: The national governments of Australia, Malaysia, and Nigeria, in contrast to government at the state or territorial level.
Synonyms: word: fedgov
chestnut-flanked sparrowhawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chestnut-flanked sparrowhawks
Senses: glosses: A bird, Accipiter castanilius, found in the forests of Lower Guinea
met-enkephalin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metenkephalin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of a pair of pentapeptides, (Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Met) occurring naturally in the brain, that affects pain perception.
Related terms: leu-enkephalin
polonium-210
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A radioactive isotope of polonium, ²¹⁰₈₄Po, having a half-life of 138 days; it as used as a reference alpha emitter in the calibration of radiation counters
pentapeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentapeptides
Etymology: From penta- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligopeptide formed from five amino acids.
Derived terms: cyclopentapeptide
lipopentapeptide
pentapeptidase
in the groove
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Originally slang that first appeared in the mid-19th century with a (usually pejorative) reference to the difficulty of leaving a well-worn rut (see in a rut). As back in the groove, the phrase acquired a positive sense of returning to one's usual self after a period of illness, setbacks, etc. With special regard for music, originally US jazz slang from the 1920s, possibly with reference to the grooves of early records.
Senses: glosses: Running or performing extremely smoothly.
examples: text: The jazz musicians gave no grandstand performances; they simply got a great burn from playing in the groove.
ref: 1933 Aug., Fortune, p. 90
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Playing perfectly, perfectly in sync with others, or with perfect focus.
examples: text: The whole course of legislation... had flowed in the same groove for centuries.
ref: 1869, J.E.T. Rogers's preface to Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, Vol. I, p. 27
text: […] having such a wonderful time which puts me in a groove […]
ref: 1932 Oct., Melody Maker, p. 836
text: There's a time in everybody's life when they know precisely what is right. And when I was doing that, when I was in the groove, I knew exactly what was right.
ref: 2005, Joe McCabe, Hanging Out With the Dream King: Conversations with Neil Gaiman, page 77:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, groove.
Synonyms: topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: in the pocket
topics: music
entertainment
lifestyle
word: in the zone
Related terms: groovy
glibness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glibnesses
Etymology: From glib + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being glib; having fluent words but shallowness in understanding.
set-to
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set-tos
Senses: examples: text: […] we two had never had a serious quarrel, though I had had many a set-to with other lads, and had twice over given Bob Chowne black eyes.
ref: 1887, George Manville Fenn, Devon Boys:
glosses: A fight.
minacious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈneɪʃəs/
ipa: /mɪˈneɪʃəs/
Etymology: From Late Latin minacia (“threat”) + -ious, from Latin minax (“threatening”) + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns). Cf. Italian minaccioso, attested 1532.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of threatening, in its various senses.
synonyms: word: threatening
extra: in its various senses
Derived terms: minaciously
minaciousness
Related terms: menace
minacity
minacy
monistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒˈnɪstɪk/
ipa: /məˈnɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more monistic
form: most monistic
Etymology: From monist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: For them too it is a monistic insight, in which the other in its various forms appears absorbed into the One.
ref: 1902, William James, The Varities of Religious Experience, Folio Society, published 2008, page 329:
glosses: Of or pertaining to monism; characterized by one single principle, being or force.
Derived terms: antimonistic
monistically
monistic polytheism
nonmonistic
unmonistic
fursona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɝˈsoʊnə/
ipa: /fɜːˈsəʊnə/
ipa: /fɵːˈsɐʉnɘ/
ipa: [fɵːˈsɐʉnɜ]
Forms: form: fursonas
form: fursonae
form: sona
Etymology: Blend of fur + persona. By surface analysis, fur + -sona.
Senses: examples: text: Fursuiters dress the part of their furry persona or fursona.
ref: 2009 July 28, Zack Parsons, Your Next-Door Neighbor is a Dragon, New York: Rebel Base, →ISBN, →OL, page 159:
text: Especially interesting in this regard are furries with more than one fursona. […] Consider, for instance, how Muse describes his two fursonas: My two current sonas are a bat and a rabbit.
ref: 2020, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Kathy Shepherd Stolley, Lisa Lyon Payne, Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connections and Blurred Boundaries, McFarland, →ISBN:
topics: lifestyle
hyponyms: bearsona
dragonsona
foxsona
glosses: An anthropomorphic animal character used to represent oneself online or in furry role-playing.
Related terms: fursonality
internetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internetworks
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
From inter- + network.
Senses: glosses: A network of networks.
internetwork
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: internetworks
form: internetworking
form: internetworked
form: internetworked
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁en-
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Italic *ənter
Latin inter
Latin inter-bor.
English inter-
Proto-Indo-European *neHd-
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Proto-Germanic *natją
Proto-West Germanic *nati
Old English nett
Middle English net
English net
Proto-Indo-European *werǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-om
Proto-Indo-European *wérǵom
Proto-Germanic *werką
Proto-West Germanic *werk
Old English weorc
Middle English werk
English work
English network
English internetwork
From inter- + network.
Senses: glosses: To set up as a network of networks.
Derived terms: internet
Internet
Jenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnə/
rhymes: -ɛnə
homophone: Jena
homophone: Gena
Etymology: A Cornish name, usually as an diminutive form of Jennifer.
Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna when based on Jenny's other derivations.
Senses: examples: text: In 1981, their twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna (named after their grandmothers) were born. In 1994, George W. Bush was elected governor of Texas.
ref: 2002, Margaret Brown Klapthor, Allida M. Black, The First Ladies, Government Printing Office, →ISBN, page 95:
text: I gave the false name I always use, Jenna Barclay. Password: Jennbar17. I don't know why but this always strikes me as the perfect white, Anglo-Saxon name.
ref: 2019 March 5, Elly Griffiths, The Stranger Diaries, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 284:
glosses: A female given name, variant of Jenny.
fleche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flèche.
fleche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fleches
form: fleching
form: fleched
form: fleched
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flèche.
boo-ya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: booyah
Senses: examples: 1996, Jerry Maguire (film) -- Catch the ball!' BOO YA! Touchdown! I make miracles happen! http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116695/quotes
1997, Jackie Brown (film) -- As Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) is sitting in the fitting room and sliding the bag filled with bath towels, books and money under the dressing room door to Melanie (Bridget Fonda), Jackie adds an extra wad of cash - a "cherry on top..." and exclaims, "Boo-ya!"
2002, Scooter and the Galactic Starship by Douglas R. Robinson -- "Boo-ya!" yelled Jay as he sank an outside shot from the edge of the lawn. "Nothing but net. Just wait till next week, I'm going to light it up for a whole bunch of points." http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595256775&id=SPOpW7yl2mYC&pg=RA1-PA61&lpg=RA1-PA61&ots=kfPG221jK6&dq=%E2%80%9CBoo-ya!%E2%80%9D+yelled+Jay+as+he+sank+an+outside+shot+from+the+edge+of+the+lawn&sig=sbXCdg0BzUDXHRgwmZqW-FMXJV4
2002, Geoffrey Litwack 2002 Annual by Geoffrey Litwack -- [I should] try to get an American Express Stanwood card. That way I can get free upgrades. Boo-ya! Not to Iowa, though. Out of the country. http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0595267602&id=atecnHWvKDgC&pg=RA1-PA325&lpg=RA1-PA325&ots=eEar7HV0QD&dq=%22should+do:+try+to+get+an+American+Express+%22&sig=-q0I5INXVi4d6ySuRjBqhIvJNxQ
glosses: An exclamation of joy, excitement or triumph.
antepagmenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antepagmentum
axenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /eɪˈzɛnɪk/
/eɪˈzinɪk/
Etymology: From a- + xenic.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: monocultural, monocultured
text: This species has resisted all attempts at axenic culture.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: monoaxenic
;
gnotobiotic
qualifier: sample; specimen; etc; sample; specimen; etc
glosses: Containing only a single species of microorganism.
raw_tags: of a culture
examples: Near-synonyms: isolated, sequestered
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: monoaxenic
;
gnotobiotic
glosses: Isolated from organisms of any other species.
raw_tags: of an organism
Derived terms: axenically
nonaxenic
Related terms: word: axenicity
word: axenization
word: axenize
word: monoaxenic
english: and its derivatives, such as xenofree
translation: and its derivatives, such as xenofree
word: xeno-
word: containment
word: immunologically naive
word: isolation
bed-mould
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bed-moulds
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The congeries of mouldings which is under the projecting part of almost every cornice, of which, indeed, it is a part.
Related terms: bed moulding