cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
caches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæʃɪz/
rhymes: -æʃɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of cache
no-lone zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: no-lone zones
Senses: glosses: An area into which entry by a single individual is prohibited; commonly an area with accessibility to a nuclear weapon.
no lone zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of no-lone zone.
Subaru
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.bə.ruː/
ipa: [ˈsu̟w.bə.ɹu̟w]
ipa: [ˈsʉw.bə.ɹʉw]
Forms: form: Subarus
Etymology: From Japanese 昴 (Subaru).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese automotive manufacturer.
glosses: A male or female given name from Japanese.
glosses: A Japanese traditional constellation, equivalent to the Western asterism the Pleiades (“the Seven Sisters”) (an open cluster).
Derived terms: Lesbaru
Subie
unspoken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈspoʊkən/
Etymology: From un- + spoken.
Senses: glosses: Not spoken; not said.
examples: text: The unspoken rule is to start a new pot of coffee when it is empty.
text: I don't think we could ever have a good parent-son relationship as long as there is something as important as this that I'm hiding from you, and you (probably) are wondering about vaguely, but everything remains on a silent unspoken level.
ref: 1973 December 22, Bill, “Merry Christmas, with Love”, in Gay Community News, volume 1, number 27, page 7:
text: To melt with the sight of a smile that divulges the words unspoken.
ref: 2013, Tina Marie Lees, Me:
glosses: Not formally articulated or stated; implicit or understood.
Synonyms: sense: not spoken
word: unsaid
sense: not spoken
word: unmouthed
sense: not spoken
word: untongued
sense: not formally stated
word: unacknowledged
word: unwritten
word: implicit
Derived terms: unspoken rizz
unspoken rule
unspoken water
unspoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈspoʊkən/
Etymology: From un- + spoken.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unspeak
souteneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: souteneurs
Etymology: From French souteneur (literally “one who supports”), from the verb soutenir.
Senses: examples: text: The souteneur ... though he lives in comparative comfort from what his mistress gives him, he rarely makes a big haul. His mistress gone, the pot ceases to boil; in fact, he calls her his marmite.
ref: 1892 Albert Dresden Vandam. An Englishman in Paris: (Notes and Recollections) - Page 335
text: 1894 Richard Krafft-Ebing & Charles Gilbert Chaddock. Psychopathia Sexualis. p. 416 Pub. F.A.Davis
These "souteneurs" attach their "jesus" to themselves.
The passive pederasts are "petits jusus," "jesus," or "aunts."
The "petits jesus" are lost, depraved children, whom accident places in the hands of active pederasts, who seduce them, and reveal to them the horrible means of earning a livelihood, either as "entretenus" or as male street-walkers, with or without "souteneurs."
The most suitable and promising "petits jesus" are given into the hands of persons who instruct these children in the art of female dress and manner. Gradually they then seek to emancipate themselves from their teachers and masters, in order to become "femmes entretenues"; and not infrequently by means of anonymous denunciation of their "souteneurs" to the police.
It is the object of the "souteneur" and the "petit jesus" to make the latter appear young, as long as possible, by means of all the arts of the toilet.
text: 1920 Aldous Huxley Limbo
As long as the two parts of him kept well apart, as long as his male self could understand mathematics, and as long as his lady novelist’s self kept up her regular habit of writing at night and retiring from business during the day, the arrangement would be admirable... His life would arrange itself so easily and well. He would devote the day to the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, to philosophy and mathematics... After midnight he would write novels with a feminine pen, earning the money that would make his unproductive male labours possible. A kind of spiritual souteneur... Like a gentleman of the East, he would sit still and smoke his philosophic pipe while the womenfolk did the dirty work.
glosses: A man who protects, and commonly compels, a prostitute of any gender and lives off the earnings; a pimp. Originally a Parisian term, but since adopted into other languages such as English.
lucky break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lucky breaks
Senses: examples: text: At 17, she got her lucky break when she appeared on television and became a popular musician overnight.
glosses: A stroke of luck; a fortunate event, particularly of the sort that propels one to success, fame, etc.
Synonyms: sense: by ellipsis
word: break
Related terms: lucky streak
overindulgence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overindulgences
Etymology: From over- + indulgence.
Senses: examples: text: He blames his overindulgence in food for his expanding waistline.
glosses: An act of overindulging; indulgence in too much; pleasure or consumption taken in excess of what is satisfying or necessary.
turn tail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns tail
form: turning tail
form: turned tail
form: turned tail
Senses: examples: text: A box-lobby lion or a Regent-street animal . . . will never bite, and, if you offer to attack him manfully, will fairly turn tail and sneak off.
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, “Some Particulars Concerning A Lion”, in Mudfog and Other Sketches:
text: [H]e stormed at me all through the lessons in a very violent manner of scolding, [...] I was often tempted to turn tail, but held my ground for all that, and got some profit of my lessons; [...]
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Flight in the Heather: The Heugh of Corrynakiegh”, in Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC, page 202:
text: Morning found us still vainly toiling through the passage. At last, in despair, we turned tail, ran out to sea, and sailed clear round Bassakanna to our objective, Malu.
ref: 1911 June, Jack London, “Cruising in the Solomons”, in The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 279:
text: Five of the enemy planes were shot down and the remainder turned tail.
ref: 1945 April 3, Bruce Rae, “Okinawa: The Marines Have Landed”, in New York Times, page 1:
text: The men blew up two oil pipelines in eastern Libya near the rebel-held Sarir fields, before turning tail and speeding back west.
ref: 2011 April 27, Vivienne Walt, “Have Fuel, Will Fight”, in Time:
synonyms: turn on one's heel
glosses: To turn away from someone or something, in preparation for running away; to reverse direction; to leave or flee.
Hezbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hezbos
Senses: glosses: A member of or a supporter of Hezbollah.
squared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɛəd/
ipa: /skwɛɹd/
ipa: /skweːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skweəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skwiəd/
ipa: /skweɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skwɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of square
squared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɛəd/
ipa: /skwɛɹd/
ipa: /skweːd/
note: without the cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skweəd/
note: New Zealand, cheer–chair merger
ipa: /skwiəd/
ipa: /skweɹd/
note: Lancashire, fair–fur merger
ipa: /skwɜː(ɹ)d/
rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)d
Senses: examples: text: The children were taught to plot graphs on squared paper.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Covered with a grid of squares.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Raised to the second power.
examples: text: a light-squared bishop
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: Located on the specified kind of square on the board.
Synonyms: ²
square
Derived terms: CDO squared
CDO-squared
squared circle
pan theisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan theism
pan-theisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan-theism
mnemonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mnemonical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Through the use of mnemonics.
glosses: As a mnemonic.
Avi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew אבי (ávi).
Senses: examples: text: “This is different than anything we’ve faced before,” said Avi Hasson, the CEO of Start-Up Nation Central (SNC), a non-profit that promotes Israel’s tech industry globally.
ref: 2023 October 13, Hanna Ziady, “‘All hands on deck.’ How Israel’s vital tech sector is navigating the war”, in CNN Business:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
misprision
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒn̩/
ipa: /ˌmɪsˈpɹɪʒ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ɪʒən
Etymology: From misprize (“to despise or hold in contempt; to undervalue”) + -ion (suffix indicating a condition or state), probably influenced by misprision (etymology 1). Misprize is derived from Middle English mesprise, mespryse, from Anglo-Norman mespriser, Middle French mespriser, and Old French mesprisier, mesproisier (“to disdain, scorn; to despise, hate”) (modern French mépriser), from mes- (prefix meaning ‘badly; wrongly’) + priser, prisier (“to appraise, value”) (from Late Latin pretiāre, the present active infinitive of pretiō (“to consider valuable, esteem, prize, value”), Medieval Latin pretiō (“to appraise, assess, value”), from Latin pretium (“cost, price; value, worth”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before; in front; first”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs)).
Senses: examples: text: Heere, take her hand, / Proud ſcornful boy, vnworthie this good gift, / That doſt in vile miſpriſion ſhackle vp / My loue, and her deſert: […]
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], page 238, column 1:
text: [Y]ou may be one of those unhappy persons, whose dim eyes being unable to penetrate the starry spheres, and to discern therein the decrees of heaven at a distance, have their hearts barred against conviction by prejudice and misprision.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter III, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, page 42:
text: The boy was grievously distressed by the loss [of a book]; it seemed an insult to Ruth Hailey, and a misprision of her kindly wishes.
ref: 1895, I[srael] Zangwill, “A Wander-year”, in The Master, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, book I, page 96:
text: What if I love you!—This misery / Of your dissatisfaction and misprision / Stupefies me.
ref: 1917, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “A Bad Beginning”, in Look! We Have Come Through!, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 77:
synonyms: word: misprisal
word: misprizement
word: misprizing
glosses: Despising or holding in contempt; disdain, scorn.
synonyms: word: misprizing
glosses: Not seeing the value in something; undervaluing.
Related terms: word: misprisal
word: misprize
word: misprized
word: misprizement
word: misprizer
word: misprizing
teratoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ə.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: more teratoid
form: most teratoid
Etymology: From terato- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: Lucien, staring goggle-eyed at the only brother he’s ever had, is standing very still, face still unwittingly teratoid, the broom at an angle in his hand, the Colt dangling at his side, […]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 486:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Monster-like, exhibiting abnormal development.
Synonyms: sense: exhibiting abnormal development
word: abnormal
sense: exhibiting abnormal development
word: malformed
sense: exhibiting abnormal development
word: monstrous
teratoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ə.tɔɪd/
Forms: form: teratoids
Etymology: From terato- + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: In each of these divisions there are subdivisions, according as the parasite consists of a more or less recognisable fœtus, or only of a mass of fœtal tissue (teratomata, teratoids, dermoids).
ref: 1903, Encyclopaedia Medica, volume 13, page 138:
text: They can be divided into dermoids (only an epithelial layer present) and teratoids (all three germ layers present).
ref: 2005, Richard A. Bordow, Andrew L. Ries, Timothy A. Morris, Manual of Clinical Problems in Pulmonary Medicine, 6th edition, page 610:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal tumor similar to a teratoma.
examples: text: I wanted to explore how at the launch of a new millennium many people were beginning to feel like teratoids in the global commodity exchange.
ref: 2002, Lance Olsen, “Omniphage: Rock 'n' Roll and Avant-Pop Science Fiction”, in Edging Into the Future: Science Fiction and Contemporary Cultural Transformation, →ISBN, page 51:
text: The objects floating in the bath and lazing about on the bathroom's floor are all monsters, teratoids dehumanized by the husking of their clothes.
ref: 2002, Aiko Ito, Graeme Wilson, I Am a Cat, volume 2, translation of original by Natsume Soseki, →ISBN, page 345:
text: He had little time, however, to ponder his lack of reflex, for new incident forced his attention back to the ridge where the four teratoids had first broken from cover.
ref: 2007, Geoffrey Verdegast, Of Staves and Sigmas: Souls of Ergos Book One, →ISBN, page 67:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A mutant.
Related terms: teratism
terato-
teratogen
teratogenic
teratology
teratoma
aphonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphonias
form: aphony
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀφωνία (aphōnía, “speechlessness”). By surface analysis, a- + -phonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Loss of voice; the inability to speak.
Related terms: aphonic
aphrasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphrasias
Etymology: From a- + -phrasia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Condition of being unable to speak.
rimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪmd/
homophone: rhymed
rhymes: -aɪmd
Etymology: From rime (etymology 1) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
Senses: examples: text: The rimed window permitted only shades of the traffic outside.
glosses: Covered in rime (etymology 1) or (generally) frost.
rimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪmd/
homophone: rhymed
rhymes: -aɪmd
Etymology: From rime (etymology 1) + -ed (suffix forming possessional adjectives, and past tense and past participle forms of regular verbs).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rime
valance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvæləns/
rhymes: -æləns
Forms: form: valances
form: valaunce
form: valence
form: vallance
Etymology: From Middle English valance, valans, valaunce, valence, valons. Origin uncertain. Probably from Anglo-Norman valaunce, valence, from valer (“go down, let down”), aphetic form of Old French avaler (“to descend, go down”).
Senses: examples: text: Even the mantelpiece is adorned with a totally unfunctional tasselled valance rather like an altar frontal.
ref: 1969, David G. Irwin, The Visual Arts, Taste and Criticism, page 27:
glosses: A short curtain that usually hangs along the top edge of a window.
glosses: A decorative framework used to conceal the curtain mechanism and so on at the top of a window.
glosses: A short, decorative edging of cloth that hangs from a bed, from beneath the mattress to the floor, used to conceal the box spring or space under the bed and prevent dust from accumulating there.
examples: text: Mortally insulted, Jasper went under the couch, where he remained with only his nose showing beneath the valance, emitting little world-weary groans at intervals, and refusing to come out for cake.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 145:
glosses: A short, decorative edging of cloth that conceals the legs of a couch, sofa, etc.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A low-hanging auto body panel, below a front or rear bumper, whose purpose is aerodynamic and decorative but not structural (often valance panel).
glosses: The drooping edging of the lid of a trunk, which covers the joint when the lid is closed.
Synonyms: sense: bedding
word: dust ruffle
sense: bedding
word: bedskirt
sense: bedding
word: bed ruffle
Derived terms: valanced
anechoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ănˌ-ĕ-kōˈ-ĭk
ipa: /ˌæn.ɛˈkəʊ.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌæn.ɛˈkoʊ.ɪk/
rhymes: -əʊɪk
rhymes: -oʊɪk
Forms: form: more anechoic
form: most anechoic
Etymology: From an- + echoic, from echo + -ic, from Middle English ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”).
Senses: examples: text: The bassoonist settled into the anechoic chamber and prepared for another grueling recording session.
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: Lacking echoes; particularly, designed to absorb sound.
Synonyms: dead
echoless
soundproof
Derived terms: anechoically
semianechoic
Related terms: echo
echoic
moppet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moppets
Etymology: From mop (“child, girl”) + -et.
Senses: examples: text: They are also very sympathetic, especially Caesar’s orangutan advisor, Maurice (Karin Konoval), who takes a shine to a human moppet (Amiah Miller) he finds hiding in the back of a shack, and the poignant Bad Ape (a scene-stealing Steve Zahn), a mangy chimp who was beaten so often in his zoo-animal days that he came to believe what his handlers were shouting was supposed to be his name.
ref: 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: A child. Often used lovingly or in an affectionate way.
glosses: A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth.
glosses: A long-haired pet dog.
Coordinate terms: mopsy
Derived terms: moppetry
Related terms: muppet
whistly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whistly
form: most whistly
Etymology: From whistle + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Making a whistling sound.
Related terms: dog-whistly
whistly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whistly
form: most whistly
Etymology: From whist + -ly.
Senses: glosses: silently
doily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔɪli/
rhymes: -ɔɪli
Forms: form: doilies
form: doyley
form: doiley
Etymology: From Doiley, the name of a 17th-century London draper. The surname is Anglo-Norman, from d'Œuilly, name of several places in Calvados, from Old French oeil (“eye”).
Senses: examples: text: She looked polite, and observed the oiled floors, hard-wood staircase, unused fireplace with tiles which resembled brown linoleum, cut-glass vases standing upon doilies, and the barred, shut, forbidding unit bookcases that were half filled with swashbuckler novels and unread-looking sets of Dickens, Kipling, O. Henry, and Elbert Hubbard.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC:
text: Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys / With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.
ref: 1956, John Betjeman, “How to Get On in Society”, in Nancy Mitford, editor, Noblesse Oblige, page 159:
glosses: A small ornamental piece of lace or linen or paper used to protect a surface from scratches by hard objects such as vases or bowls; or to decorate a plate of food.
glosses: A similar circular piece of lace worn as a head-covering by some married Jewish women.
glosses: An old kind of woollen material.
Derived terms: doilied
believers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of believer
delegates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delegate
delegates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delegate
researches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ˈɹiːsɚt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: examples: text: ... they have led to a number of researches both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
ref: 1962, Russian Journal of Physical Chemistry, page 999:
glosses: plural of research
researches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈsɜːt͡ʃɪz/
ipa: /ɹɪˈsɝt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of research
glistening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glisten
Derived terms: glisteningly
nanoglistening
unglistening
glistening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glistenings
Senses: examples: text: My eyes had adjusted to the faint starlight and I could make out pale glistenings and white glow of bones which had worked their way free of clinging flesh.
ref: 2008, Dan Simmons, Song of Kali:
glosses: The appearance of something that glistens.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A fluid-filled microvacuole within a lens.
informing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inform
informing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more informing
form: most informing
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, and some that were informing; and even the captain, though he kept me at the stick’s end the most part of the time, would sometimes unbuckle a bit, and tell me of the fine countries he had visited.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: informative; educational
Derived terms: informingly
uninforming
availed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avail
fulgurant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fulgurant
form: most fulgurant
Senses: glosses: Resembling a lightning flash; fulgurous.
Derived terms: fulgurance
fulgurantly
conversed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of converse
imitated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪteɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imitate
imitated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmɪteɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: Virtual, simulated; in effect or essence, rather than in fact or reality.
Derived terms: non-imitated
woes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of woe
assuasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assuasive
form: most assuasive
Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.
Senses: examples: text: If in the Breast tumultuous Joys arise,
Musick her soft, assuasive Voice applies;
Or when the Soul is press’d with Cares
Exalts her in enlivening Airs.
ref: 1713, Alexander Pope, Ode for Musick, London: Bernard Lintott, pages 2–3:
text: “[…] Perhaps,” said Bounderby, starting with all his might at his so quiet and assuasive father-in-law, “you know where your daughter is at the present time?”
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 282,”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC:
text: The medicine, whatever it might be, had the merit, rare in doctor’s stuff, of being pleasant to take, assuasive of thirst, and imbued with a hardly perceptible fragrance,
ref: 1882, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter 12, in Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret, Boston: James R. Osgood, published 1883, page 152:
text: The stuff gagged him but he forced it down. This wasn’t smart but the alcohol had an assuasive effect.
ref: 1965, Robert Wilder, chapter 1, in Fruit of the Poppy,, New York: Putnam, page 16:
glosses: Mild, soothing.
Derived terms: assuasively
assuasiveness
assuasive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assuasives
Etymology: From assuage (“to relieve, soothe”) on the model of persuasive.
Senses: examples: text: […] the heat of the sun operates in all its vigour, without an assuasive to mitigate its force.
ref: 1808, Thomas Coke, chapter 1, in A History of the West Indies, volume 1, Liverpool, page 65:
text: 1817, Richard Yates, The Basis of National Welfare, London: F. C. and J. Rivington et al., § 9, p. 112,
the bland, the courteous, the truly Christian assuasives of friendly attention
text: 1908, Mary Virginia Terhune (as Marion Harland), The Housekeeper’s Week, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Chapter 23, p. 312,
Nature, as the laity may know it, is a vast pharmacopœia of assuasives and curatives
glosses: Anything that soothes.
epidermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛpɪˈdɝməl/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)məl
Forms: form: epidermical
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms. By surface analysis, epidermis + -al = epi- + derm- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The epidermal cells of the capsule wall of Jubulopsis, with nodose "trigones" at the angles, are very reminiscent of what one finds in Frullania spp.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 4-5:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the epidermis.
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Derived terms: antiepidermal
basiepidermal
dermoepidermal
epidermalization
epidermally
intraepidermal
neoepidermal
neuroepidermal
nonepidermal
polyepidermal
subepidermal
transepidermal
walleye epidermal hyperplasia virus
Related terms: dermal
epidermis
mycological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mycology + -ical.
Senses: examples: ref: 2020, In partnership with Ecuador's National Institute for Agricultural Research, scientists are doing basic research into local 'petrophilic' fungal strains and training local communities in mycological techniques.:
glosses: Of or pertaining to mycology or to fungi
Synonyms: mycologic
Derived terms: aeromycological
ethnomycological
mycologically
speleomycological
nail-biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail-biters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nail biter.
nailbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪl.bɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: nailbrushes
Etymology: From nail + brush.
Senses: examples: text: Rupert Sheffield, scrubbing John's blood from his hands with a nailbrush and hospital soap, swore that this was the last time [...] that he would have to do this.
ref: 2016, Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 303:
glosses: A small brush, with firm bristles, used to clean the fingernails or to scrub the hands.
nailbrush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪl.bɹʌʃ/
Forms: form: nailbrushes
form: nailbrushing
form: nailbrushed
form: nailbrushed
Etymology: From nail + brush.
Senses: glosses: To scrub with a nailbrush.
nakedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more nakedly
form: most nakedly
Etymology: From Middle English nakidly; equivalent to naked + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: So while Ralph generally seems to inhabit a different, more glorious and joyful universe than everyone else here his yearning and heartbreak are eminently relateable. Ralph sometimes appears to be a magically demented sprite who has assumed the form of a boy, but he’s never been more poignantly, nakedly, movingly human than he is here.
ref: 2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2013:
text: It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left.
ref: 2019 May 22, Farhad Manjoo, “America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 01 Jun 2019:
text: The past 14 years have shown that decisions on such fundamental issues as fuel duty and fares are taken within the Treasury for nakedly short-term political reasons, with no regard for environmental or transport objectives.
ref: 2024 June 12, Sir Michael Holden, “A manifesto for our railway to thrive”, in RAIL, number 1011, page 41:
glosses: In a naked manner; without concealing anything; blatantly or openly.
Derived terms: nakedly self-interested
matriculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌtrɪkjʊˈleɪʃən/
ipa: /məˌtrɪkjəˈleɪʃən/
Forms: form: matriculations
Senses: glosses: Enrollment in a college or university.
examples: text: It was Oxford now—the matriculation photograph, posed in the stony front quad at Corpus, the pelican on top of the sundial appearing to sit on the head of the lanky, begowned chemist at the centre of the back row.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 60:
glosses: A pass in some university examinations.
glosses: A registration of armorial bearings.
Derived terms: matriculation exam
matriculation examination
postmatriculation
prematriculation
Related terms: alma mater
matriculant
matriculate
matrix
nameable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: namable
Etymology: From name + -able.
Senses: examples: text: 1635, Alexander Gill, The Sacred Philosophie of Holy Scripture, London: Joyce Norton and Richard Whitaker, Chapter 8, p. 30,
[God’s] pure being, because it is neither understandable, nor nameable by us, we speake of goodnesse, of power, &c. as of the effluences or prime acts thereof […]
text: Mr. Hyde […] gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation […]
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Search for Mr. Hyde”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, page 25:
text: The vogue for the sleuth-flâneur […] in the first half of the twentieth century has encouraged recent attempts to map the rise of British detective fiction, and its subsequent love affair with the thriller, onto the shifts in national morale precipitated by international conflict. One train of thought, for instance, suggests that the genre provides nameable, explicable corpses to mourn, after the senseless obliterations of the First World War.
ref: 2007 June 20, Trev Broughton, “More work for Margery Allingham”, in The Times Literary Supplement:
text: There's a strange kind of power in games like that; like XCOM, with its nameable soldiers, or The Sims' customizable families.
ref: 2014 June 6, Griffin McElroy, “Tomodachi Life review”, in Polygon:
text: Grits have been part of the story of the South as long as the South has been a nameable region — and they were around long before that, too.
ref: 2019 February 9, Susannah Felts, “Grits more than 'fuel in a box'”, in Knoxville News Sentinel:
glosses: Capable of being distinguished and named; able to be called by a specific name.
examples: text: […] the culture [of alfalfa] is not very expensive, though the profit is not nameable till the second or third year, when the cuttings are considerable […]
ref: c. 1785, Josiah Ringsted, The Cattle-Keeper’s Assistant, 7th edition, London: J. Dixwell, page 52:
text: 1810, William Coleman, An Appeal to the People, New York: C.S. Van Winkle, p. 72,
A mission hatched by Jefferson under the pretence of forming a commercial treaty, though we have neither trade of any nameable amount with Russia, nor any political concerns with her […]
glosses: Worthy of being named or having a name; significant; memorable (especially in negative expressions).
Synonyms: word: distinguishable
word: identifiable
word: recognisable
word: notable
Derived terms: nameableness
nameably
extrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extrusive
form: most extrusive
Senses: glosses: Jutting out; extruding.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of rocks: forced, while in a plastic or molten state, on to the Earth's surface to lie atop existing rocks.
Synonyms: effusive
Related terms: extrude
extrusion
detrusive
intrusive
protrusive
retrusive
extrusive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extrusives
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Rock which has been formed through volcanic extrusion.
name brand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name brands
form: namebrand
form: name-brand
Senses: examples: text: The company that invented the category remains a name brand to this day.
antonyms: off brand
store brand
hypernyms: brand#Noun
label#Noun
coordinate_terms: own brand
glosses: A trademark, or a distinctive name for a brand, or for a range of products by a single manufacturer.
examples: text: When it comes to laundry detergent, she always buys a name brand, just to be safe.
antonyms: off brand
store brand
coordinate_terms: own brand
glosses: A product having such a mark or name.
Related terms: big name
brand name
brand-name
brandname
make a name for oneself
name-calling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name-callings
Etymology: Compare call names.
Senses: examples: text: So inflammatory were the words of some preachers during these trying years that a resolution to silence, by mayoral proclamation, a continuation of name-calling from the pulpit was presented to the city council by one would-be pacifier.
ref: 1940, Bessie Louise Pierce, A History of Chicago, volume 2, page 389:
text: The next day things got heated in the schoolyard as the name calling began. It was three against one.
ref: 2011, Mike Mose, One Drop Too White, page 107:
text: […] a former Republican lawmaker who left the Legislature earlier this year after she clashed with party leaders over a series of proposed transgender bills and closed-door meetings, she said, devolved into yelling and name-calling.
ref: 2023 April 27, Jim Robbins, Mike Baker, Jacey Fortin, “A Transgender Lawmaker Is Exiled as Montana G.O.P. Flexes New Power”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 30 Apr 2023:
text: Can dark woke get the Democrats a Senate seat back in Ohio? What about Montana? Will enough name-calling put the Democrats in the mix in Missouri? It’s unlikely.
ref: 2025 May 1, Ross Barkan, “'Dark Woke' Is Cringey”, in Intelligencer, New York, N.Y.: New York Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 01 May 2025:
glosses: The use of derogatory labels in verbal attacks on a person or other entity.
Related terms: word: call names
word: name-caller
word: call someone every name in the book
word: mudslinging
podiatrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈdaɪətɹɪst/
Forms: form: podiatrists
Etymology: From podiatry + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: I visited my podiatrist to get a new pair of orthopedic inserts for my sneakers.
text: Dr. Larry Braunstein, a podiatrist who died in 2007, often told the story of providing Donald Trump with the diagnosis of bone spurs in his heels so he could be exempt from military service, his two daughters – Dr. Elysa Braunstein and Sharon Kessel – told the New York Times.
ref: 2018 December 26, Veronica Stracqualursi, “New York Times: Daughters of foot doctor say he diagnosed Trump with bone spurs as ‘favor’ to Fred Trump”, in CNN:
text: To better help you in your quest, we asked multiple podiatrists and seasoned long-distance walkers exactly what to look for when selecting the best walking shoes.
ref: 2024 September 6, Isla Harvey, “The 10 most comfortable walking shoes, according to podiatrists and shoe experts”, in CNN:
text: The subcommittee, which is chaired by Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a podiatrist, will hold a markup session for the report Wednesday before submitting it to the congressional record.
ref: 2024 December 2, Katherine Dillinger, “House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A health care practitioner who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of foot ailments.
Synonyms: chiropodist
Related terms: podiatry
namedrop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: namedrops
form: namedropping
form: namedropped
form: namedropped
Senses: examples: text: He namedrops the Thundercats, Punky Brewster and “hammerhead sharks in Bermuda,” describes his car as looking “like Almond Joy” and taunts, on “Ain’t I (remix),” “The choppers in the trunk will make you do the Macarena.”
ref: 2009 January 26, “New CDs”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Nov 2022:
glosses: Alternative spelling of name-drop.
Derived terms: namedropper
namedrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namedrops
Senses: examples: text: [Adam Gopnik] moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into conversation such as: “As John Updike once said to me …”, although he has the nervy Jewish self-consciousness to follow that with “… if you’ll forgive the namedrop.”
ref: 2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An instance of name-dropping.
name-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: name-drops
form: name-dropping
form: name-dropped
form: name-dropped
form: name drop
form: namedrop
Etymology: From name + drop.
Senses: synonyms: namecheck
glosses: To casually mention a well-known or illustrious person or the titles of their works, often implying familiarity or association, especially in order to impress others, increase one's status, or to appear knowledgeable or fashionable.
Related terms: name-dropping
namedropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of namedrop
namedropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namedroppings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of name-dropping.
administrations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of administration
name-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name-droppings
form: name dropping
form: namedropping
Senses: examples: text: “The one thing I don't want anybody to do, the one thing I will not tolerate, is name-dropping. It's bad. Marlon Brando told me that.”
ref: 1997, Chris Chase, Name Dropping, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 14:
synonyms: name-checking
glosses: The practice of casually mentioning famous or important people or the titles of their works, subtly implying familiarity or association, in order to impress others.
Related terms: name-drop
namedrop
name drop
namedropper
drop
name-dropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: name dropping
form: namedropping
Senses: examples: text: Our drama teacher is always name-dropping, but I bet she's never even been to New York.
glosses: present participle and gerund of name-drop
namedropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: namedroppers
Etymology: From name + dropper or namedrop + -er.
Senses: examples: text: One last note: Ann Landers is a name dropper. "I had lunch with the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia yesterday", "Just last week I was talking with the Senator."
ref: 1974 April 13, Barbara Piccirilii, “Landerslander”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
glosses: A person who name-drops
name-dropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name-droppers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of namedropper.
namelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more namelessly
form: most namelessly
Etymology: From nameless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without using, or revealing a name; anonymously.
Austrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒstɹi.əns/
ipa: /ˈɔːstɹi.əns/
Senses: glosses: plural of Austrian
napless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpləs/
Forms: form: more napless
form: most napless
Etymology: From nap (“soft or fuzzy surface, generally on fabric or leather”) + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Stout men with napless hats on, look out of the bedroom windows, and cut jokes with friends in the street.
ref: 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, “chapter 59”, in Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Without a nap; worn or threadbare.
napless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæpləs/
Forms: form: more napless
form: most napless
Etymology: From nap (“a short period of sleep”) + -less.
Senses: examples: text: a napless baby
glosses: Without napping or sleeping.
Derived terms: naplessness
pain in the bum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pains in the bum
Senses: examples: 2000, Max Allen, Crush: The New Australian Wine Book
This is fine and dandy for the wineries and the consumer […] but it’s a pain in the bum for people like me who have to pigeonhole everybody to make them fit nicely in a book.
2003, Alan Grayson, Mile End
“Yes, she’s a pain in the bum, coming over all the time.”
2004, Sandy Row, Surviving the Special Needs System
I know I became a royal pain in the bum to the LEA.
glosses: Someone or something very annoying.
Synonyms: pain in the arse
pain in the ass
pain in the butt
pain in the neck
Related terms: proctalgia
dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dolphin
napper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nappers
Etymology: From nap + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who takes a nap.
examples: text: You look so dapper from your napper to your feet.
ref: 1911, Charles Collins, Fred E. Terry, E.A. Sheppard, “Any Old Iron”:
text: Under fire when this magazine is emptied you shout for “ammo” but perhaps No. 2, the ammo carrier, is lying in the rear with a bullet through his napper.
ref: 1917, Arthur Guy Empey, “Lewis Gun”, in Over the Top, G. P. Putnam's, page 297:
text: As he walked back to his flat after meekly apologising, he wondered why a severe pain in his napper could affect the lead in his pencil.
ref: 2011, Jeremy Roberts, Let's Not And Say We Did, page 96:
synonyms: word: bean
word: beaner
word: belfry
word: block
word: bonce
word: brainbox
word: brain bucket
word: dome
word: head
word: loaf
word: lolly
word: napper
word: noodle
word: noddle
word: noggin
word: nut
word: sconce
word: skull
glosses: The head.
glosses: A machine used to raise the nap on cloth.
hypernyms: word: criminal
word: thief
glosses: A sheepstealer.
Derived terms: catnapper
dognapper
gene-napper
rain napper
PMT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMTs
Senses: examples: text: Other circumstances, such as sunburn, travel, or emotional crisis, can also aggravate fluid retention and "PMT".
ref: 1978, Barbara Seaman, Gideon Seaman, Women and the crisis in sex hormones:
text: Fraser knew girls had periods but he'd never heard of PMT.
ref: 2006, Mike Edwards, Friendly Fire:
text: In the 20th century Frank coined the term premenstrual tension (PMT).
ref: 2006, Peter Clark, Ian A Greer, Practical Obstetric Hematology:
text: "It's PMT - she'll be back." "I expect that's your father - let's eat."
ref: 2006, Rachel Loosmore, Saucy Shorts for Chefs:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: PMS
glosses: Initialism of premenstrual tension.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Abbreviation of photomultiplier tube.
femininity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɛmɪˈnɪnɪti/
Forms: form: femininities
Etymology: From Middle English femynynytee, femyninytee, variants of femynyte (archaic modern English feminity), equivalent to feminine + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It's almost eerie, in the wake of the Lawrence Summers controversy, to encounter the words of an earlier Harvard president, John Kirkland, a "friend and mentor" of Elizabeth's, who advised her that if any woman "is raised by genius and knowledge above the level of her sex, her neglect of attention appropriate to the best half of creation, attentions called femininities, will more than counterbalance all her advantages and reduce her below other women."
ref: 2005 April 17, Francine Rose, “'The Peabody Sisters': Reflected Glory”, in The New York Times:
text: A contributing factor to this slightly regressive femininity may have been the sugary fabrics (silver lamé, tulle over sequins) and the meringuelike puffs and baby Googums bows at the neck.
ref: 2007 February 6, Cathy Horyn, “Young Spirits, One of Them an Old Master”, in The New York Times:
text: One outcome of the idea of fluid masculinity and femininity is the notion of genderqueerness.
ref: 2012, Jo Reger, Everywhere and Nowhere, page 160:
synonyms: feminineness
womanlikeness
antonyms: manlikeness
masculinity
glosses: The sum of all attributes that are feminine or convey womanhood.
Synonyms: femineity
Derived terms: antifemininity
cisfemininity
hyperfemininity
toxic femininity
Related terms: feminine
feminization
feminize
narcotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narcotizations
Etymology: From narcotize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: the state of being narcotized; narcosis
glosses: the act of narcotizing someone or something
Derived terms: electronarcotization
masculinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From masculine + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: We live in a masculinist-oriented (as opposed to a feminist-oriented) society. That is, we live in a society which rewards masculine action, even if such action is taken by a woman.
ref: 1985 April 27, Michael Zonta, “Men and the Sexual Revolution”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
text: But evolutionary psychology, as it has been disseminated across mainstream consciousness, is a cranky and despotic Cyclops, its single eye glaring through an overwhelmingly masculinist lens. I say "masculinist" rather than male because the view of male behaviour promulgated by hard-core evolutionary psychologists is as narrow and inflexible as their view of womanhood.
ref: 1999 March 19, Natalie Angier, The Guardian:
text: This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing.
ref: 2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84:
glosses: Relating to or in accordance with masculinism.
masculinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: masculinists
Etymology: From masculine + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An advocate of masculinism.
Derived terms: antimasculinist
Related terms: masculinism
masculinistic
masculism
masculistic
narcotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɑːkə.tʌɪz/
ipa: /ˈnɑɹ.kəˌtaɪz/
Forms: form: narcotizes
form: narcotizing
form: narcotized
form: narcotized
Etymology: From narcot(ic) + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To use a narcotic in order to make (someone) drowsy or insensible; to anesthetize, to drug.
glosses: To dull the senses of (a person, place etc.).
examples: text: The sun hangs overhead like a lantern, the essence of new grass and apple blossom narcotizes the air, the clack and whir of the wheels have a quelling, hypnotic effect on the passengers.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 235:
glosses: To make into a narcotic.
Derived terms: denarcotize
narcotization