cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
chop logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop logics
form: chop-logic
form: choplogic
Senses: examples: text: Mere chop-logic!—you have nothing to say.
ref: 1881, Georg Ebers, chapter 4, in The Emperor:
text: "Up in his ivory tower, the editor of the Times will at last realize that the American people will not be bulldozed, regimented and stripped of their suffrage by fine phrases, chop logic, invitations to the millennium, and the jaded ambitions of indispensable men."
ref: 1944 November 13, “Moses' Masterpiece”, in Time:
text: How can one explain the hypocrisy, chop logic and outright lying now being mustered daily in defence of hunting with hounds?
ref: 2000 December 28, David McKie, “Special report: the hunting debate”, in The Guardian, retrieved 06 Jun 2008:
qualifier: sometimes hyphenated
glosses: Chopped logic: reasoning which is improper; sophistry.
examples: text: How now, how now, chop-logic! What is this?
'Proud,' and 'I thank you,' and 'I thank you not;'
And yet 'not proud,' mistress minion, you,
Thank me no thankings, nor, proud me no prouds,
But fettle your fine joints 'gainst Thursday next.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: A logic chopper: one who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation.
chop logic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chops logic
form: chopping logic
form: chopped logic
form: chopped logic
form: chop-logic
form: choplogic
Senses: examples: text: Vngracious childe I warrant him, harke how hee chops logicke with his mother
ref: 1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act I, signature C3, recto:
glosses: To talk back, bandy words; to argue generally.
examples: text: When the tables are drawn, you shall hold a disputation with him. It will be sport to hear how you chop logic at your Universities yonder.
ref: 1869, Charlotte M. Yonge, chapter 17, in The Caged Lion:
text: King James delighted to chop logic and theology with the doctors of the university.
ref: 1905, "Andrew Lang's Charming Sketches of the English University" (review of Oxford by Andrew Lang), New York Times, 1 Dec.
text: Throughout, Lynch ably chops logic and tests positions for their fit with the Constitution's text.
ref: 2000, Charles A. Lofgren, “Review of Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent by Joseph. M. Lynch,”, in The Journal of American History, volume 87, number 3, page 1018:
glosses: To argue skillfully, using complex logic or clever reasoning.
examples: text: If you are going to chop logic and use Latin words, I think it is time for us to leave the room.
ref: 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, chapter 24, in Wives and Daughters:
text: Varro, as Kent remarks (p. 418, n.f), is by no means logical in every detail; he merely chops logic when he declares that curro lacks the perfect participle.
ref: 1940, J. Whatmough, “Review of Varro on the Latin Language: With an English Translation by Roland G. Kent,”, in Classical Philology, volume 35, number 1, page 85:
text: After the authors have chopped logic, ignored pages, and nibbled at words, the fact remains that the Commission in the Cement case did describe a structure of private government organized to protect an economic security system against hostile groups.
ref: 1949, Earl Latham, “Lament for Cement: Being an Answer to a Reply,”, in The Yale Law Journal, volume 58, number 7, page 1089:
glosses: To make an argument which is illogical, especially one which is overly complex or which improperly uses fine or clever distinctions; to equivocate.
Derived terms: logic chopping
choplogic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chop + logic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of chop logic.
choplogic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choplogics
Etymology: From chop + logic.
Senses: examples: text: The breezy humour and slapdash boisterousness of their platform rhetoric appeal to King Demos, who is apt to weary of the wearisome dialectics of the choplogics of Westminster.
ref: 1909, W[illiam] T[homas] Stead, The Review of Reviews, volume 40, page 115:
glosses: Alternative spelling of chop logic.
chop-logic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop logic.
chop-logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chop-logics
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chop logic.
logic chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logic choppers
form: logic-chopper
Senses: examples: text: The picture we get of a pragmatic gradualist rather than a fierce logic chopper makes him a more human and understandable character.
ref: 1989 November 5, Leslie A. Marchand, “Book Review: Mary came along and changed everything”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Feb 2014:
glosses: A person who makes confusing or specious arguments, especially arguments involving equivocation.
Synonyms: word: chop logic
logic-chopper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logic-choppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of logic chopper.
chopped logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It takes a peculiar kind of chopped logic to see Mao Zedong, almost an archetypal chili pepper-loving Hunanese, as a northerner.
ref: 1996, Michael Dillon, “Review of National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China by Edward Friedman,”, in The American Political Science Review, volume 90, number 1, page 214:
glosses: Reasoning which is improper; sophistry.
Synonyms: alt: n.
word: chop logic
chopped logic
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chop logic
choplogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: How! you choplogical rascal, peasants!
ref: 1659, Richard Brome, The Queen and Concubine, act 4. scene 5:
text: This is not Roos's usual style, but surely a skit of Maud's manner of choplogical circular argumentation, which irresistibly recalls the verses read as 'evidence' before the King of Hearts.
ref: 1961, Ethel Seaton, Sir Richard Ross, c. 1410-1482: Lancastrian Poet, R. Hart-Davis, page 496:
glosses: Characterized by equivocation or by overly complex or specious argumentation; improperly reasoned.
Synonyms: word: chop logic
word: illogical
brast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æst
Senses: glosses: simple past of burst
brast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æst
Forms: form: brasts
form: brasting
form: brast
form: brast
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of burst.
gled
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleds
Senses: examples: text: I say that the eyass should have her meat unwashed, until she becomes a brancher—’twere the ready way to give her the frounce, to wash her meat sooner, and so knows every one who knows a gled from a falcon.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: In this wise, the glossy bright-eyed kestrel, whom tiercels’ training could not reclaim, shook off silver bells, and velvet hood, and broidered jesses; and fled away—to consort, henceforward for evermore, with gleds, and hawks, and such birds of prey as make their nests deep in Bohemian forests, or in the desolate places of the Wilderness that girdles the frontier of the reputable world.
ref: 1866, [George Alfred Lawrence], “Evasit”, in Sans Merci; or, Kestrels and Falcons, volume III, London: Tinsley Brothers, […], page 126:
text: “She’s sharp,” he said admiringly, nodding towards the screen, “she’s as sharp as a gled.”
ref: 1887 November 19, Leslie Keith, “Uncle Bob’s Niece”, in Charles Dickens [Jr.], editor, All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal., volume XLI, number 990, London: […], page 434, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of glede.
glei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gleis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gley.
glei
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gleis
form: gleiing
form: gleied
form: gleied
Senses: examples: text: These depend in a large measure on the movement of the moisture which brings about the gleiing effects, i.e., the rapidity with which the solution introduces changes in the soil.
ref: 1949, Jacob Samuel Joffe, Pedology, page 426:
glosses: Alternative form of gley.
Leonora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Italian short form of Eleonora, cognate to Eleanor.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian.
glosses: A village in Essequibo Islands-West Demerara region, Guyana.
glosses: A town in Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia.
glosses: A local government area in Western Australia, which includes the town; in full, the Shire of Leonora.
Gregorio
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gregorio. Doublet of Gregory.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Related terms: Gregorio del Pilar
San Gregorio
keepy uppy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of keepie-uppie.
Lora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, an alternative spelling of Laura.
glosses: A village and river in Lesja municipality, Innlandet county, Norway.
Roseanne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Roseannes
form: Rose Anne
form: Rose-Anne
form: RoseAnne
Etymology: From Rose + Anne.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Rosanne.
Related terms: Roseann
Roseanna
Isiah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaiah.
Marcellus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛləs
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Marcellus. Doublet of Marcel.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
glosses: A village in Michigan.
glosses: A town and village in New York.
Related terms: word: Marcel
word: Marcus
word: Mark
word: Martin
sense: female given names
word: Marcella
sense: female given names
word: Marcelle
Marcelo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Calatrava, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
glosses: Former name of Bagong Silang: a barangay of Don Salvador Benedicto, Negros Occidental, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Mabini, Bohol, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Bato, Leyte, Philippines.
glosses: A barangay of Kalawit, Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines.
glosses: Ellipsis of Marcelo Green Village: a barangay of Parañaque, Metro Manila, Philippines.
Marcelina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A barangay of Bayugan, Agusan del Sur, Philippines.
risoluto
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian risoluto.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: (To be played) boldly, resolutely
weight-lift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weight-lifts
form: weight-lifting
form: weight-lifted
form: weight-lifted
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of weightlift.
philosophy of science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philosophies of science
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The study of the assumptions, foundations, and implications of science, including such questions as what distinguishes science from non-science, what are the aims of science, or what is a successful scientific explanation of a phenomenon.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A particular theory within the former.
scientific modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of generating abstract, conceptual, graphical and or mathematical models.
weightings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of weighting
wheatfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheatfields
form: wheat-field
Etymology: From wheat + field.
Senses: hypernyms: cornfield
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coordinate_terms: cornfield
glosses: A field of wheat; a plot of land planted with wheat.
wheatfields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheatfield
Bloom's syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloom syndrome
Etymology: First described by New York dermatologist Dr. David Bloom in 1954.
Senses: glosses: A rare genetic disease characterized by stunted growth, predisposition to the development of cancer, and genomic instability.
Bloom syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bloom's syndrome.
vital statistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vital statistics
Senses: examples: text: Except for the fact that the "matter" of which he was now a vital statistic was simply unbearable to him. His death would come as a shock to him […]
ref: 1995, Françoise Sagan, Richard Seaver, A Fleeting Sorrow: A Novel, page 11:
glosses: A single important number derived from public health data or personal measurements.
boredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more boredly
form: most boredly
Etymology: From bored + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Amy stared boredly out of the window, waiting for the rain to stop.
glosses: In a bored manner.
inflare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inflares
form: inflaring
form: inflared
form: inflared
Etymology: From in- + flare.
Senses: examples: text: One hundred and seventy tracings of the feet of Oriental adults from China and India, many of whom have never worn shoes, showed the three types of straight, outflared and inflared feet as in shoe-wearing Americans, though the percentages of the three classes are different.
ref: 1916, HENRY LING TAYLOR, M.D., “RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON CONDITIONS AFFECTING POSTURE”, in TRANSACTIONS OF THE SECTION ON Orthopedic Surgery of the American Medical Association, Sixty-Seventh Annual Session, page 101:
text: While the femoral head flexes and aducts and internally rotates, the opposite ilial surface will have the following accessory movements: superior glide with inflare and internal rotation.
ref: 2001, Sharon Giammatteo, Integrative Manual Therapy for the Upper and Lower Extremities, revised edition, volume II, North Atlantic Books, page 148:
text: … ‘right outflare, left inflare’ pattern, with the innonimates rotated clockwise around the vertical axis …
ref: 2021 September 12, Wolf Schamberger, The Malalignment Syndrome: diagnosis and treatment of common pelvic and back pain, Elsevier Health Sciences, page 52:
glosses: To flare inward.
chrysalises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrysalides
Senses: glosses: plural of chrysalis
chrysalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chrysalides
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chrysalis
caligo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cālīgō (“darkness”). Doublet of garua.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: dimness or obscurity of sight, caused by a speck on the cornea
glosses: A butterfly of the genus Caligo.
Related terms: Caligus
clitorises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clitorides
Senses: glosses: plural of clitoris
colossuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colossi
Senses: glosses: plural of colossus
coloniser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colonisers
Etymology: From colonise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, the colonisers were attempting genocide, they wanted us all dead. If I identified with my wadjela ancestry at the expense of my Aboriginality, the colonisers win.
ref: 2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 03 Dec 2021:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of colonizer.
colonisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coloniser
circularise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circularises
form: circularising
form: circularised
form: circularised
Etymology: From circular + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Proposing passengers were circularised with details of the excursion; [...].
ref: 1961 December, M. J. Wilson, “Special train to Blackpool”, in Trains Illustrated, page 755:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of circularize.
Derived terms: circulariser
recircularise
circularises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of circularise
circularising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of circularise
circularised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of circularise
cantos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of canto
catechisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "Thank goodness, I am not a child," said Lady Mandeville, turning over a collection of those juvenile tomes, which are to make the rising generation so much wiser than their grandfathers or grandmothers—catechisms of conchology, geology, mathematical questions for infants, geography, astronomy; "the child may be 'father to the man;' but the said father must have had some trouble with his offspring."
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 94:
glosses: plural of catechism
catechise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catechises
form: catechising
form: catechised
form: catechised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of catechize.
Derived terms: catechiser
catechises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catechise
catechising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catechise
catechising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catechisings
Senses: examples: text: During the three years I remained here, a place was assigned me in the town-music and solo-singing. I heard several good preachers, and many good catechisings.
ref: 1846, The Jewish Herald:
glosses: catechism
catechised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catechise
catechizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of catechize
catechizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of catechize
catechizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catechizings
Senses: examples: text: […] wholly untrained and untaught as they are in Biblical argument, nothing else could happen, in many instances, but the sudden annihilation of a faith which had come to them only from early maternal catechizings.
ref: 1861, The North British Review, volume 34, page 287:
glosses: catechism
catechized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of catechize
circlets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circlet
creels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of creel
citrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citron
citruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of citrus
clarets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of claret
vowelless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vowel + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Lacking vowels.
chinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chink
Derived terms: unchinked
crystallise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: crystallises
form: crystallising
form: crystallised
form: crystallised
Etymology: From crystal + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: formed from durene and durylic acid by prolonged boiling with dilute nitric acid, crystallises in long transparent prisms, and sublimes at a high temperature.
ref: 1886, Henry Watts, George Fownes, Sir William Augustus Tilden, Watts Manual of Chemistry, page 567:
text: As the time for the excursion drew near, details crystallised.
ref: 1961 December 24, M. J. Wilson, “Special train to Blackpool”, in Trains Illustrated, page 755:
text: Opinion within his organisation had been changing and crystallising rapidly and the situation had altered within the past few months.
ref: 1962 December 24, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 376:
text: By the pathside, there are occasional large boulders that shown black crystals the size of a fingernail; these are pyroxene minerals that had time to crystallise out deep within the chamber of liquid rock – or magma – beneath the volcano.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 10:
text: The pre-match mantra from the Scotland camp may have been of it not being a “must win” game but that fooled no-one, Poland’s win in Georgia earlier last night simply crystallised how vital it was for the Scots not to lose any more ground at this stage of an intensely competitive campaign.
ref: 2014 November 14, Stephen Halliday, “Scotland 1-0 Republic of Ireland: Maloney the hero”, in The Scotsman:
text: In the wake of the Intelligence and Security Committee report on Russia last year, will the Lord President confirm that no British political party should be taking cash from suspicious fortunes made in Russia and Uzbekistan? Can we have a debate in Government time as soon as possible to crystallise a cross-party consensus on this critical topic?
ref: 2021 November 18, Liam Byrne, “Business of the House”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons), volume 703, column 765:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of crystallize.
Derived terms: crystallisability
crystalliser
non-crystallising
recrystallise
uncrystallise
crystallises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crystallise
crystallising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crystallise
crystallised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crystallise
vowellessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vowelless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: ...the devanagari is an alphabet, with the peculiarity that it omits writing one of the vowels, the commonest one, and has a symbol for vowellessness...
ref: 1972, George Leonard Trager., Language and Languages, page 211:
text: The other vowels are shown by appendages to the letters, and vowellessness is indicated by ligatures of the consonants involved in the cluster...
ref: 1992, Pamela Downing, Susan D. Lima, Michael Noonan., The Linguistics of Literacy: 17th Annual Linguistics Symposium : Papers, page 92:
text: ...sound is confined in their point of articulation, upon their vowellessness.
ref: 2001, Aḥmad ibn ʻAlī Ibn Masʻūd, Joyce Åkesson, Arabic Morphology and Phonology, page 224:
text: Vowellessness of the third radical letter of imperative in verb forms 1, 4, 13, and fourteen is the result of the jussiveness of imperative by lām, […]
ref: 2021, Sayyid Muhammad Rida Tabatabaʼi, translated by Mohammed Mehdi Baghi, “Reduplicated Verbs”, in Arabic Morphology Made Simple, London: ICAS Press, →ISBN, footnote 4, page 87:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The state of being without vowels, condition of being vowelless.
cutesier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of cutesy: more cutesy
cutesiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of cutesy: most cutesy
conveyers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conveyer
concavities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concavity
crumbier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crumby: more crumby
crumbiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crumby: most crumby
Capitoline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Capitoline
Etymology: From Latin Capitolīnus (adj. & n.), from Capitolium (“Capitoline Hill”) + -inus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”).
Senses: examples: text: He said to meet him on the Capitoline.
glosses: Synonym of Capitoline Hill, the highest of the seven hills of Rome.
synonyms: word: Capitoline Hill
extra: the highest of the seven hills of Rome
Capitoline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Capitolīnus (adj. & n.), from Capitolium (“Capitoline Hill”) + -inus (“-ine: forming adjectives”), from the oblique stem of caput (“head”) + -ō (“forming nouns”) or -ōlus (“-ole: forming diminutives”) + -ium (“forming location names”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Capitoline Hill in Rome or (historical) the various temples there in antiquity.
Related terms: capitol
brutalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brutality
bents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɛnts/
rhymes: -ɛnts
Senses: glosses: plural of bent
bigotries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The benefit has not, as yet, been equal to the evil; we have not yet succeeded to our hope—liberty is still insecure, and England is still rent by small factions, distracted by foolish bigotries, and now at the will of one man; yet the good seed has been sown.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 31:
glosses: plural of bigotry
doppelgängers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doppelgänger
pungle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpʌŋ.ɡəl/
Forms: form: pungles
form: pungling
form: pungled
form: pungled
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish póngale.
Senses: examples: text: I want my dues and must have them — wont be put off any longer — so "pungle down," and oblige
ref: 1858, Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine, volume 3, page 379:
text: They have kicked the bully Miner ; they have ducked him in the ditch, but they can't make him pungle.
ref: 1877, Dan de Quille, History of the Big Bonanza:
text: The clever fakir is all through our life; but I can imagine the keen enjoyment it must be to those fellows who gather crows on street corners—for they have brains—to watch the simple, open-mouthed gull pungle up his money, and buy his valueless stuff.
ref: 1903, Peter Robertson, The seedy gentleman, page 227:
text: "The published sketch of the exterior of the proposed new Marion County Courthouse is a distinct disappointment to taxpayers pungling up the tax money for its construction," a second editorial read.
ref: 1999, Meredith L. Clausen, Pietro Belluschi: Modern American Architect, page 183:
glosses: To pay or hand over; to shell out
Burgundian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/
ipa: /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/
Forms: form: Burgundians
form: Burgonian
Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”).
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Burgundy, or a person descended from natives of Burgundy.
glosses: A member or descendant of the Burgundians, an East Germanic tribe.
Burgundian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/
ipa: /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/
Forms: form: Burgonian
Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”).
Senses: glosses: The extinct East Germanic language of the Burgundians.
glosses: The Burgundian Oïl language, Bourguignon-Morvandiau.
Synonyms: sense: Romance language
word: Bourguignon
Burgundian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈɡʌndɪən/
ipa: /bɜːɹˈɡʌndɪən/
Forms: form: Burgonian
Etymology: From Burgundy + -an. Compare Old English Burgendan (“Burgundians”).
Senses: examples: text: bright Burgundian vineyards
ref: 1847 November 1, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline, a Tale of Acadie, Boston, Mass.: William D. Ticknor & Company, →OCLC, (please specify either |part=I or II):
glosses: Pertaining to Burgundy, its people or its language.
Derived terms: Burgundian system
Burgundian System
bleaker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bleak: more bleak
bicepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biceps
Senses: glosses: plural of biceps
breakpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakpoint
breadfruits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breadfruit
bioseston
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosestons
Etymology: From bio- + seston.
Senses: glosses: The living particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas.
Hypernyms: seston
Derived terms: abioseston
tripton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triptons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τριπτός (triptós, “rubbed off matter”) + -on.
Senses: glosses: The inorganic particulate matter suspended in bodies of water such as lakes and seas.
Synonyms: abioseston
Hypernyms: seston
alpine bullhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpine bullheads
Senses: glosses: A species of fish in the Cottidae family, Cottus poecilopus.
Synonyms: word: mottlefoot sculpin
word: Siberian bullhead
word: spotted sculpin
alpine bullheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpine bullhead
fourhorn sculpins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fourhorn sculpin
European bullhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European bullheads
Senses: glosses: A European species in the Cottidae family, Cottus gobio.
Synonyms: bullhead
miller's thumb
tommy logge
hurt someone's feelings
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hurts someone's feelings
form: hurting someone's feelings
form: hurt someone's feelings
form: hurt someone's feelings
Senses: glosses: To offend or emotionally hurt someone.
long-spined bullhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long-spined bullheads
Senses: glosses: A species of the Cottidae family, Taurulus bubalis.
Synonyms: sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: bullfish
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: clobberhead
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: long-spined sea scorpion
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: rockfish
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: rout
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: scorpionfish
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: sea scorpion
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: sea-toadfish
sense: Taurulus bubalis
word: spikey
Related terms: sea toad
div.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of division.
qualifier: genealogy
glosses: Abbreviation of divorced.
glosses: Abbreviation of dividend.
Derived terms: cum div.
x-div.
right to life
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see right, life.
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: The right of a human being to the continuation of his or her life.
examples: text: Texas Right to Life, a statewide, anti-abortion, anti-euthanasia organization, was organized last summer. Right to Life groups in Dallas and Houston have been active for some time.
ref: 1974-03, Martha Hume, "Abortions in Texas", Texas Monthly, page 65
text: That means women should have the right to be free about their own bodies. I believe a woman has a right to life. The opposition is an anti-freedom group, rather than, as they have very effectively called themselves, a right-to-life group.
ref: 1987-06, Dale Keiger, "The Quiet Minority", Cincinnati Magazine, page 68
topics: ethics
human-sciences
law
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: public policy
glosses: The moral or legal entitlement of an unborn child to be born, and not have its birth prevented through an abortion or other medical procedure.
Derived terms: right-to-lifer
Related terms: word: pro-life
word: right-to-life
word: capital punishment
word: euthanasia
word: pro-choice
word: right to choose
whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See go the whole hog.
Senses: glosses: Total; entire; without restraint.
whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See go the whole hog.
Senses: glosses: Totally; entirely.
whole hog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See go the whole hog.
Senses: synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: The entire amount; the full extent.
Derived terms: go the whole hog
whole-hogger
whole-hoggism
flat-earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat-earthers
form: flat earther
form: flatearther
form: flat Earther
form: flat-Earther
Etymology: From flat-earth + -er.
Senses: examples: text: His commitment to remaining a flat-earther seems to be strengthened by counterarguments rather than weakened by them.
synonyms: flat-earthist
platygaean
platygaeanist
antonyms: word: globe-earther
word: sphericist
word: ;
word: globehead
word: globetard
glosses: A person who believes or advocates the claim that the planet Earth is flat.
examples: text: 2008, Bob Sweere, "Voice of the Day: Global warming? Yes," News-Leader.com (Missouri), 16 Jun. (retrieved 1 July 2008),
Global warming is settled, unless you are a flat earther or an energy company apologist.
text: When it comes to vaccine safety, they are diehard flat-earthers: the microchips and mercury are articles of faith.
glosses: A person who believes or advocates an outlandish, discredited theory; a person who refuses to acknowledge the truth despite overwhelming evidence.
Related terms: flat-earth
flat-earthery
flat-earthism
platygaeanism
flat earther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flat earthers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of flat-earther.
stirps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirpes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stirps (“rootstock, stem”).
Senses: glosses: A branch of a family.
glosses: A progenitor of a branch of a family.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A superfamily of animals or plants.
Related terms: stirp
stirpes
stirps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stirp
stirp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stirps
form: stirpes
Etymology: Back-formation from stirps.
Senses: topics: anthropology
biology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A line descended from a single ancestor.
qualifier: systematics
glosses: A line descending from a single extant ancestor, a lineage descending from a supergenerative species.
troweling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trowelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trowel
twinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /twɪnd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twin
twinned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /twɪnd/
Senses: examples: text: Twinn'd brothers of one womb
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Produced at, or as if at, a single birth; united.
Synonyms: paired
pairings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pairing
milia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milium
variolation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variolations
Etymology: From variola + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Variolation is no longer used today. It was replaced by smallpox vaccination, a safer alternative, which in turn led to the development of vaccines against many other diseases.
text: To accomplish this, variolation—the use of the smallpox virus—was introduced into military conscription. The practice of variolation that was later routinized in the Qing dynasty was basically a form of vaccination against smallpox.
ref: 2005, Eric A. Croddy, James J. Wirtz, editors, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Volume I, ABC-CLIO, page 310:
text: Vaccination refers to inoculation with live Vaccinae variolae (cowpox) virus. Variolation refers to inoculation with live Variolae major (smallpox) virus.
Both variolation and vaccination are efforts to generate immunity against smallpox. Variolation was employed by practitioners in China and the Middle East for centuries and by farmers and laborers in rural England, where it was referred to as "buying the pox."
ref: 2008, Jack E. McCallum, Military Medicine, ABC-CLIO, page 339:
text: This same French doctor also recorded the progress of the children he had observed for about two weeks after their variolations.¹¹² A French vaccinator remarked that the Vietnamese variolation point on the upper arm corresponded closely to the vaccination point French vaccinators used.
ref: 2015, C. Michele Thompson, Vietnamese Traditional Medicine, NUS Press, page 83:
glosses: The inoculation of a person with smallpox with the intention of inducing a mild form of the illness and subsequent immunity to the disease.
Related terms: variolate
variolator
unspecialized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspecialized
form: most unspecialized
Etymology: From un- + specialized.
Senses: glosses: Having no speciality, or particular purpose.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no speciality, or particular purpose.
Having no special function.
raw_tags: of a cell or tissue
unspecialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unspecialize
cinnamon sugar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of ground cinnamon and granulated sugar, with much more sugar than cinnamon.
and finally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: and finallies
Etymology: From a newsreader's standard introduction to such pieces, which typically come at the end of a news bulletin.
Senses: examples: text: All this was broadcast on the evening of 23 February 1956, and it's the earliest surviving example of an Independent Television News bulletin. Even then, there was an ‘And finally...’ item, but on this occasion it was merely the good news that a thaw was on the way.
ref: 2005 December 26, Raymond Snoddy, The Independent:
text: The best ‘and finallies’ of 2005.
ref: 2006, BBC News website, headline, 1 January
text: Racing domestic animals in funny costumes on soapbox sleds is surely no more offensive than watching David Blaine take a dump in a Perspex box, and will look much better as an ‘And finally...’ on the news.
ref: 2006 June 20, Eddy Lawrence, Time Out, London:
text: The shots were included as part of BBC natural history producer Fergus Beeley nature diary from Beinn Eighe’s National Nature Reserve show water being blown back uphill on a windy day in Torridon. They have been picked up by the media as an ‘and finally’ and widely circulated.
ref: 2008, The Highlands:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A light news story reserved for the end of a bulletin when there is a lack of more important items; typically involving animals or other features supposed to be amusing.
kys
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Person 1: apple juice is gross
Person 2: apple juice is so good kys hater
related: word: KYS
word: keys
glosses: Initialism of kill yourself.
house keeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: house keepers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of housekeeper.
tega
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tegas
Etymology: From Galician tega, variant of earlier talega, from Andalusian Arabic تَعْلِيقَة (taʕlíqa, “hanging thing”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ferrado, a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, mass, and land area
synonyms: word: ferrado
extra: a traditional Galician unit of dry measure, mass, and land area
categorical variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: categorical variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A nominal variable.
cardinal variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardinal variable
discrete variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discrete variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable that takes values from a finite or countable set, such as the number of legs of an animal.
Coordinate terms: continuous variable
continuous variable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continuous variables
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable that has a continuous distribution function, such as temperature.
Coordinate terms: discrete variable
compensative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more compensative
form: most compensative
Etymology: From Late Latin compēnsātīvus.
Senses: glosses: that compensates for something; compensatory
Derived terms: compensatively
compensativeness
overcompensative
compensative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Late Latin compēnsātīvus.
Senses: glosses: compensation
gular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡjuːlə/
ipa: /ˈɡ(j)ulɚ/
rhymes: -uːlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gulars
Etymology: From gula (“upper throat”) + -ar (suffix forming adjectives). Gula is derived from Latin gula (“gullet, throat; palate”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”).
Senses: examples: text: Cnemidophorus maximus [...] Plates of the collar graduating in the posterior gular, the marginal largest, the series concave anteriorly in the middle. Anterior gulars abruptly larger, their median largest.
ref: 1863, E[dward] D[rinker] Cope, “Descriptions of New American SQUAMATA, in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington”, in Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa.: […] Academy [of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia], published 1864, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 104:
text: A small tortoise, females larger than males, with a maximum carapace length of 110 mm and mass of 150 g. [...] The plastron is composed of paired gulars, which together are more than twice as wide than long; [...]
ref: 1989, Richard C. Boycott, “Homopus boulengeri …”, in Ian R[ichard] Swingland, Michael W. Klemens, editors, The Conservation Biology of Tortoises […] (Occasional Papers of the IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC); no. 5), Gland, Vaud, Switzerland: International Union for Conservation of Nature, →ISBN, page 78:
text: The plastral scutes are represented by a complete set including the gulars, extragulars, humerals, pectorals, abdominals, femorals, and four pairs of inframarginals. The gulars are very short medially and do not reach the entoplastron.
ref: 2013, Igor G. Danilov, Vladimir B. Sukhanov, Elena V. Syromyatnikova, “Redescription of Zangerlia dzamynchondi (Testudines: Nanhsiungchelyidae) from the Late Cretaceous of Mongolia, with a Reassessment of the Phylogenetic Position and Relationships of Zangerlia”, in Donald B. Brinkman, Patricia A. Holroyd, James D. Gardner, editors, Morphology and Evolution of Turtles […] (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology Series), Dordrecht: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 412, column 1:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A plate or scale in the throat region of the body of a fish or reptile (especially a snake).
Scanlon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskænlən/
Forms: form: Scanlons
form: Scanlan
form: Scantlin
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Scannláin (“descendant of Scannlán”), a personal name derived from a diminutive of Scannal. Compare Scannell.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
glosses: A city in Carlton County, Minnesota, United States.
viviparous eelpout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viviparous eelpouts
Senses: glosses: A fish in the family Zoarcidae (Zoarces viviparus).
Synonyms: word: viviparous blenny
semantic analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semantic analyses
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The process of relating syntactic structures, from the levels of phrases, clauses, sentences and paragraphs to the level of the writing as a whole, to their language-independent meanings, removing features specific to particular linguistic and cultural contexts, to the extent that such a project is possible.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The phase in which a compiler adds semantic information to the parse tree and builds the symbol table.
viviparous blenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viviparous blennies
Senses: glosses: A fish in the family Zoarcidae, Zoarces viviparus.
Synonyms: word: viviparous eelpout
semantic analyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantic analysis
cusk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʌsk/
ipa: /kʊsk/
rhymes: -ʌsk
Forms: form: cusks
Etymology: Early 17th century; of unknown origin. Probably an alteration of torsk or tusk, a codlike fish, from Norwegian tosk, torsk; Old Norse thorskr, codfish.
Senses: examples: text: He suggested cusk, because he knew they would have it. She had never heard of cusk. “Doesn't it sound exotic!” she said. “Exotic indeed!” he laughed, and almost told her what a humdrum fish it really was, but stopped himself.
ref: 1999, Lucy Honig, The Truly Needy And Other Stories, University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 89:
synonyms: moonfish
torsk
tusk
glosses: A marine cod-like fish in the ling family Lotidae, Brosme brosme.
Synonyms: sense: cod-like fish
word: brismak
sense: cod-like fish
word: brosmius
Derived terms: cusk-eel
mathematical semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A study of formal semantics of computer languages, such as denotational semantics.
eurypterid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jʊəˈɹɪp.tə.ɹɪd/
Forms: form: eurypterids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Eurypterida. By surface analysis, eury- + -pter + -id.
Senses: glosses: A large, prehistoric, carnivorous arthropod, of the class †Eurypterida, thought to be one of the first animals to venture onto land.
Synonyms: sea scorpion
alligatorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alligatorids
Senses: examples: text: This species is large compared with known Eocene alligatorids, although its character states present a mosaic of resemblances to earlier and later alligatorids.
ref: 1956, Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, volume 31, page 554:
text: Although most alligatorids have ventral osteoderms, the American alligator usually has only poorly developed single osteoderms in the pectoral and midventral regions, if at all (Fig. 6C and D).
ref: 1989, International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Crocodiles: Their Ecology, Management, and Conservation, page 24:
text: The oldest alligatorid, Navajosuchus mooki, is from the lowermost Paleocene (66-62 Ma).
ref: 2009, S. Blair Hedges, Sudhir Kumar, The timetree of life, →ISBN, page 403:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any reptile of the family Alligatoridae; a caiman or alligator.
Hyponyms: sense: species of Alligatoridae
word: alligator
sense: species of Alligatoridae
word: caiman