cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
seediest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of seedy: most seedy
extremophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extremophile
tallied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tally
tarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: tard
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tar
terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terrier
theorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of theorize
theorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theorizings
Senses: glosses: The formation of theories.
threshhold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of threshold.
tidying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di.ɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tidy
tidying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪ.di.ɪŋ/
Forms: form: tidyings
Senses: glosses: The act or process in which things are tidied.
tidiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tidy: most tidy
tiptoed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tiptoe
tiptoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tip-toes
form: tippytoes
form: tippy-toes
Senses: examples: text: She stood on her tiptoes to appear taller.
glosses: The tips of the toes.
tiptoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tip-toes
form: tippytoes
form: tippy-toes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiptoe
toddled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toddle
tomtoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tomtom
quin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪn/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: Quinn
Forms: form: quins
Senses: glosses: A quintuplet.
Synonyms: quint
Related terms: quad
quin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɪn/
ipa: [kʰw̥ɪn]
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: Quinn
Forms: form: quins
Senses: examples: text: Similarly the stocks of the free-living scallops and quins, which are caught by trawling, are threatened by over-fishing to supply the market for canned or frozen luxury sea-foods.
ref: 1973, N. L. Tranter, Population since the industrial revolution, page 104:
glosses: A European scallop, Pecten opercularis, used as food.
tracings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracing
transcendently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transcendently
form: most transcendently
Etymology: From transcendent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a transcendent manner.
trussed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʌst
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of truss
twitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twitching
typewritist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typewritists
Etymology: From typewrite + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: What is a typewriter? It is a machine. Some people call the young lady who operates the machine, a typewriter. This is an error: she is a typewritist.
ref: 1891, Edith Eaton, "The Typewriter", The National Stenographer, Harvard University, p. 215
glosses: A typist, specifically one who uses a typewriter.
abstainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstainer
aptitudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aptitude
arrowheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrowhead
agates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agate
asperities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asperity
avengers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛndʒə(ɹ)z/
Senses: glosses: plural of avenger
lessie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lessies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lezzie.
mudra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /muːˈdɹɑː/
ipa: /mʊˈdɹɑː/
rhymes: -ɑː
Forms: form: mudras
form: mudrā
Etymology: From Sanskrit मुद्रा (mudrā, “seal”).
Senses: examples: text: The king of creation would not have curved his palm into the likeness of a Hindu mudra in an attempt to protect the tiny launching pad on his thumbnail from the dank wind.
ref: 1996 [1994], Andrew Bromfield, Crystal World, translation of original by Victor Pelevin:
text: For the next few minutes, the audience had sat mesmerized as the sisters performed, fingertips joining and parting in mudras, eyebrows quivering.
ref: 2023, Santanu Bhattacharya, One Small Voice, Fig Tree, page 109:
topics: art
arts
dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Any of several formal symbolic hand postures used in classical dance of India and in Hindu and Buddhist iconography.
examples: text: The Kechari Mudra is accomplished by thrusting the tongue into the gullet, by turning it over itself, and keeping the eyesight in the middle.
ref: 1915 [14th century], Pancham Sinh., Hatha Yoga Pradipika, translation of original by Swami Swatmarama:
glosses: Any of the formal body positions and postures used in yoga and meditation.
Related terms: asana
wai
nonviolent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonviolent
form: most nonviolent
Senses: examples: text: When Malcolm X was assassinated in 1965 – 50 years ago on Saturday – I was an activist in the civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, a man of peace who led the nonviolent protests that brought down segregation in America, and ushered in the civil rights and voting rights acts.
ref: 2015 February 20, Jesse Jackson, “In the Ferguson era, Malcolm X’s courage in fighting racism inspires more than ever”, in The Guardian (London):
text: Counterprotesters shouted epithets as they walked by, but the opposing groups kept it nonviolent.
ref: 2025 January 15, Linda Feldmann, “Outside the DC jail, where Jan. 6 rage and devotion live on”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Alternative form of non-violent.
nonviolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonviolences
form: non-violence
Etymology: From non- + violence.
Senses: examples: text: From this theological perspective, the spectrum of violences has to give way to a spectrum of nonviolences.
ref: 2014, Jamie Pitts, Principalities and Powers:
glosses: A philosophy that rejects the use of violence, and instead seeks to bring about change through peaceful responses even to violent acts.
record-breaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The peak of the record-breaking month came during the fourth week, when the railways were called upon to handle the transport side of the official evacuation from the London area.
ref: 1944 September and October, “A Busy Month”, in Railway Magazine, page 259:
text: For example, record-breaking rainfall in the UK made February 2020 the wettest February on record, while July 2019 was deemed to be the warmest month on record worldwide.
ref: 2020 July 29, Ian Prosser discusses with Paul Stephen, “Rail needs robust and strategic plans”, in RAIL, page 42:
synonyms: record-setting
record
glosses: Of an achievement or observation, exceeding the highest previously recorded level in that activity or category.
snappier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of snappy: more snappy
snappiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of snappy: most snappy
Fine Gael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌfɪnə ˈɡeɪl/
Etymology: From Irish Fine Gael (literally “family of Gaels”).
Senses: examples: text: Ireland’s ruling Fine Gael party and its longtime rival Fianna Fáil have moved closer to forming an unprecedented coalition government.
ref: 2020 April 14, Rory Carroll, “Ireland’s Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil close to forming coalition government”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: An Irish political party founded in the 1930s.
Related terms: blueshirt
mudrā
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudrās
form: mudra
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mudra.
enorm
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈnɔː(ɹ)m/
Forms: form: more enorm
form: most enorm
Etymology: From Middle French enorme. See enormous.
Senses: examples: text: The Alani[…]wander[…]in[…]enorme and huge cantons
ref: 1609, Ammianus Marcellinus, translated by Philemon Holland, The Roman Historie, […], London: […] Adam Jslip, →OCLC:
glosses: enormous
excurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: This species of tree is recognized by the excurrent veins in its leaves.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a vein or costa, extending beyond the tip or the margin of a leaf.
Related terms: decurrent
incurrent
percurrent
sticktoitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sticktoitive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There is no success like "sticktoitiveness."
ref: 1871, The Indiana School Journal:
text: Although this costs us a good deal more, we charge no more for it, and are satisfied with the "sticktoitiveness" of our subscribers.
ref: 1892, Gleanings in Bee Culture, volume 20:
text: Yes, but, says one, it is muscle and everlasting grit and sticktoitiveness that makes the farm go. The sticktoitiveness is all right but an abnormal muscle is not altogether necessary.
ref: 1898, "Duty of the Farmer" by E. E. Rodgers, from Indiana Board of Agriculture annual report, Issue 47
text: 1899, "The Planting and Culture of an Apple Orchard" by R.A. Jones from the proceedings of the annual convention of the Northwest Fruit Growers Association
To be in the successful 10 per cent, as above referred to, requires an abundance of sticktoitiveness, energy, thought, industry, and watchfulness. Now, in which class do you propose to be?
text: There is probably nothing more essential to permanent business success than sticktoitiveness, or it might be expressed in the word continuity. It requires time to fit oneself for service.
ref: 1905, Ad sense: devoted to the interests of buyers of advertising, volume 18:
text: And let me tell you that the greatest test of sticktoitiveness that has ever yet been devised is the application of a correspondence course.
ref: 1921, National Electric Light Association, Convention, volume 1:
text: Perhaps he oversimplified his life when he wrote: "All you need to be a modern johnny Appleseed is a guitar and some sticktoitiveness,"
ref: 1990, David King Dunaway, How can I keep from singing: Pete Seeger, page 305:
text: But before we give kudos to the media for their stick-to-itiveness in this case, let us examine some minor details that might just prove my theory that political association seems to grant special favours.
ref: 2011, Melvin Pennant, “Colour-coded justice system?”, in The Gleaner, Jamaica:
synonyms: stick-at-itiveness
stick-with-it-ness
glosses: Persistence; determination.
HA-tag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: HA-tags
Senses: glosses: A short immunoreactive sequence that is cloned to a gene and can be used to identify or purify recombinant proteins.
Kalderash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The Kalderash were originally cauldron makers (coppersmiths) in the Balkans and the name of the language refers to this. Compare Romanian căldărar (“coppersmith”) and the related căldăraș.
Senses: glosses: A dialect of Vlax Romani language belonging to the Romani languages.
under the counter
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more under the counter
form: most under the counter
form: under-the-counter
Senses: examples: 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel - Page 157 by Irving Wallace
Oh, yeah, I remember, you mean about me not trying to sell from under the counter?
2004, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 55,
When Prohibition became the law, they produced the stuff in greater quantity and sold it under the counter to anybody who wanted it.
glosses: Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
under the counter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more under the counter
form: most under the counter
form: under-the-counter
Senses: examples: text: This morning he said he could not remember exactly where or how the invoice was written. It was used to cover up an under the counter payment from the sale of his land in Lucan.
ref: 2003 September 19, “Lawlor questioned at Planning probe”, in RTE News:
glosses: In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.
Related terms: under the table
off the books
nixer
over the counter
macrolanguage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrolanguages
Etymology: From macro + language.
Senses: examples: text: Much of the emphasis in spatial decision-support research continues to focus on developing tools, typically using macrolanguage scripting exclusively or scripting linked to compilable programming and commercial geographic information system software, such as workstation Arc/Info and desktop ArcGIS.
ref: 2006, G. Brent Hall and Michael G. Leahy, "Internet-Based Spacial Decision Support Using Open Source Tools", Chapter XIII of Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragićević, Collaborative Geographic Information Systems, Idea Group Inc., page 238
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of macro language (“system for defining and processing macros”).
nanoscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoscale
nanoelement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nænoʊˈɛləmɪnt/
Forms: form: nanoelements
Etymology: From nano- + element.
Senses: examples: text: A nanoelement compares to a basketball, like a basketball to the size of the earth.
ref: 2005, G. Ali Mansoori, Principles of Nanotechnology, →ISBN, page 3:
glosses: An individual element of a nanosystem
Derived terms: nanoelemental
nanoelements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoelement
overviewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overview
forge over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forges over
form: forging over
form: forged over
form: forged over
Senses: examples: text: When the morning broke, they found that the vessel had forged over the reef, about four or five miles, not having more than two feet water; the reef extending for nine or ten miles to the S.E.
ref: 1857, Chris Biden, Want of a Light on the Pratas Shoal:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To press on regardless of hindrances.
overviewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overview
busy as a bee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɪziæzəˈbiː/
rhymes: -iː
Etymology: Compare Middle English bisy as bees.
Senses: examples: text: Lord, I have been as busy as a bee ever since dinner!
ref: 1811, Jane Austen, chapter 26, in Sense and Sensibility:
text: Heidi ran backwards and forwards as busy as a bee and brought out everything she could find in the cupboard, for she did not know how to be pleased enough that she could help to entertain the doctor.
ref: 1872 — Johanna Spyri, Heidi, ch. 16 (translated)
text: There was his father bending over his papers at his writing-table before the window, busy as a bee no doubt at some new enthusiasm which was destined to infuriate his neighbours.
ref: 1914, A. E. W. Mason, chapter XVIII, in The Witness for the Defence:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Very active; working constantly.
snowrut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowruts
Etymology: From snow + rut.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A long line that forms an indentation in the snow.
awardee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əwɔɹˈdi/
Forms: form: awardees
Etymology: From award + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The other awardee that evening was Tom Frei, being honored for his advancement of the cure for leukemia.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 375:
glosses: The recipient of an award or special honor.
Synonyms: honoree
awardees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awardee
drip tip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drip tips
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: drip point
dripping point
glosses: An elongated leaf tip from which excess water can drip harmlessly, as found in plants of the rainforest.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An elongated extension to the wall of a structure, such that unwanted water drips off, as found in the nests of some species of rainforest paper wasps.
examples: text: Once you know you have a dry atomizer, add three drops of your E-liquid through the drip tip.
ref: 2010, Mike Sands, Make Your Own E-Liquid, page 15:
text: Bottles of glycerin, propylene glycol, nicotine and flavorings line the shelves behind Setzer while mod boxes, atomizers and drip tips rest in the display case in front of him.
ref: 2015 June 6, Amy Trent, “Concerns cloud e-cigarette craze”, in Lynchburg News and Advance:
text: And you can bling them up with accessories, covers, different tanks, hand-crafted drip tips and so on.
ref: 2017 August 20, Simon Waters, “How I quit smoking and is vaping something you should try?”, in New Zealand Herald:
glosses: An attachment for an e-cigarette that drips e-liquid directly onto the atomizer.
abelian group
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbi.li.ən ɡɹup/
ipa: /əˈbil.jən ɡɹup/
Forms: form: abelian groups
form: Abelian group
Etymology: Named in honour of Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), a Norwegian mathematician.
Senses: examples: text: 1986, Partially Ordered Abelian Groups with Interpolation, American Mathematical Society, 2010 softcover reprint, page 12,
Let G and H be partially ordered abelian groups. A positive homomorphism from G to H is any abelian group homomorphism f:G→H that maps positive elements to positive elements, that is, f(G⁺)⊆H⁺.
text: 2000, David Arnold, Abelian Groups and Representations of Finite Partially Ordered Sets, Springer, Softcover reprint of 1st edition, page 74,
Chapter 2 is a brief introduction to some fundamental techniques for countable torsion-free abelian groups.
text: By the end of Chapter 2 we had the full power of the Pontryagin Duality Theorem for compact abelian groups and for discrete abelian groups. Locally compact abelian groups are much closer to compact abelian groups than is apparent at first sight.
ref: 2013, Karl H. Hofmann, Sidney A. Morris, The Structure of Compact Groups: A Primer for the Student: A Handbook for the Expert, Walter de Gruyter, page 299:
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: commutative group
glosses: A group in which the group operation is commutative.
wikipedia: Niels Henrik Abel
Hypernyms: group
solvable group
Hyponyms: cyclic group
free abelian group
torsion subgroup
Derived terms: free abelian group
optophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From opto- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: The fear of opening one's eyes.
rhizodermis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: epidermis
epiblem
rhizoderm
glosses: The outermost primary cell layer of the root.
geoscientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒioʊˈsaɪəntɪst/
Forms: form: geoscientists
Etymology: From geo- + scientist.
Senses: glosses: A scholar or researcher in geoscience, an inclusive term for the earth sciences.
Synonyms: earth scientist
Hyponyms: aeroscientist
astroscientist
Derived terms: biogeoscientist
geoscientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geoscientist
epistemologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epistemologically
form: most epistemologically
Etymology: From epistemological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The more epistemologically interesting cases are those in which expertise is involved.
ref: 1985, John Hardwig, “Epistemic Dependence”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 82, number 7, page 337:
glosses: In a manner that pertains to epistemology.
examples: text: It has been argued that because an object is epistemologically dependent on an observer, it is also physically dependent on that observer.
ref: 1949, Edith Watson Schipper, “Independence: Epistemological and Physical”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 46, number 4, page 101:
synonyms: epistemically
glosses: In a manner that pertains to knowledge or cognition.
Related terms: episteme
epistemic
epistemically
epistemics
epistemological
epistemologist
epistemology
epistemonical
minis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mini
epistemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more epistemically
form: most epistemically
Etymology: From epistemic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an epistemic way, as:
In a way that pertains to knowledge and cognition.
examples: text: We can say that a message, M, is epistemically defective if either it is false, inappropriate, or connected to other beliefs in ways that are inapt, misleading, or unwarranted.
ref: 2002, Sheryl Tuttle Ross, “Understanding Propaganda: The Epistemic Merit Model and Its Application to Art”, in Journal of Aesthetic Education, volume 36, number 1, page 23:
glosses: In an epistemic way, as:
In a way that pertains to metaknowledge and epistemology (awareness of the source, truth, and epistemologic grounding of knowledge).
synonyms: epistemologically
qualifier: more specifically
Related terms: episteme
epistemic
epistemics
epistemological
epistemologically
epistemologist
epistemology
epistemonical
Terra Nova
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹ.ə ˈnoʊ.və/
rhymes: -əʊvə
Etymology: Derived from Portuguese Terra Nova (“Newfoundland”).
Senses: glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Bohemian-Moravian Highlands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Highlands located in the Czech Republic.
crocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crock
fatling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfatlɪŋ/
Forms: form: fatlings
Etymology: From fat + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Lo I have prepared my dynner, myne oxen and my fatlinges are kylled, and all thinges are redy, come unto the mariage.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 11:6:
glosses: A young animal (especially a calf or lamb) which has been fattened for slaughter.
paper mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper mills
form: papermill
Etymology: paper + mill
Senses: hypernyms: mill#Noun
;
factory
;
plant#Noun
glosses: A factory devoted to making paper from wood pulp and other ingredients.
examples: text: Similarly, buying papers from paper mills, or paying for someone else to write a paper, is obviously dishonest and is a clear example of plagiarizing.
ref: 2010, Rosemarie Menager, Lyn Paulos, Quick Coach Guide to Avoiding Plagiarism, →ISBN, page 13:
synonyms: essay mill
glosses: An organization that unethically sells pre-written papers to students.
examples: text: Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are complicating publishers’ efforts to tackle the growing problem of paper mills — companies that produce fake scientific papers to order.
ref: 2023 May 31, Layal Liverpool, “AI intensifies fight against ‘paper mills’ that churn out fake research”, in Nature, →DOI:
coordinate_terms: content mill
;
accreditation mill
;
diploma mill
;
ordination mill
glosses: An organization that produces large volumes of poor-quality or forged research papers.
Coordinate terms: degree mill
diploma mill
Derived terms: paper-milling
Related terms: mill
paper
Evelina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
Arne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Arnes
Etymology: For the given name, a short form of Old Norse compound names beginning with arn- (“eagle”).
Senses: examples: text: “If we have created a holiday camp for criminals here, so what?” asked Arne Kvernvik Nilsen, the prison’s governor and a former minister and psychologist. He added, “We should reduce the risk of reoffending, because if we don’t, what’s the point of punishment, except for leaning toward the primitive side of humanity?”
ref: 2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English.
glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A hamlet and civil parish in Dorset, England, formerly in Purbeck district (OS grid ref SY9788).
glosses: A township in Benson County, North Dakota, United States.
Arno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɑɹnoʊ/
enpr: ärʹnō
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)nəʊ
Etymology: From Italian Arno, from Latin Arnus.
Senses: glosses: A river in Tuscany that flows through Pisa and Florence.
Rudolf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Rudolf and German Rudolf.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Czech or German, equivalent to English Rudolph.
Rudi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rudi.
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rudi.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Rudolf, from German.
Rudy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːdi/
homophone: rudy
homophone: rudie
rhymes: -uːdi
Etymology: From Rudolph + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani claimed Sunday that the President hypothetically could have shot the former FBI director to end the Russia investigation and not face prosecution for it while in office.
ref: 2018 June 3, Veronica Stracqualursi and Dana Bash, “Giuliani to HuffPost: Trump could have ‘shot James Comey’ and not be prosecuted”, in CNN:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Rudolph.
glosses: A surname.
Rudy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːdi/
homophone: rudy
homophone: rudie
rhymes: -uːdi
Forms: form: Rudys
Etymology: Borrowed from Jamaican Creole rudie.
Senses: examples: text: Stop your running around / Making problems in town / Rudy, a message to you, Rudy
ref: 1967, Dandy Livingstone, “A Message to You Rudy”:
text: They dance the West Indian Reggae because it is the only old‐fashioned dance beat around and the total opposite of Pepsi‐Rock, the Plastic Ono Band and Jethro Tull and Blood, Sweat & Tears, all of which they naturally despise; and they also have a wary respect for West Indians in general and the Rudys in particular, the Jamaican street gangs who are older and tougher then^([sic]) themselves.
ref: 1970 March 29, Nik Cohn, “England's New Teen Style Is Violence”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A rude boy; a member of a Jamaican street gang in the 1960s and 70s.
Mikaela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
oligonucleotides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligonucleotide
oligo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑlɪɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˈɒlɪɡəʊ/
Forms: form: oligos
Etymology: Clipping of oligonucleotide
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oligonucleotide.
Synonyms: oligonucleotide
oligos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oligo
multibay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: multi-bay
Etymology: From multi- + bay.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple bays or recesses.
topics: architecture
glosses: Having three or more rigid supports.
raw_tags: of a structure
Derived terms: multibay frame
Related terms: single-bay
miRNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miRNAs
Etymology: From microRNA. The seminal article on microRNAs did not introduce the abbreviation miRNA nor the term microRNA, but rather referred to the entities as small RNAs.
Senses: examples: text: There are ~80 genes in the C elegans genome coding for miRNAs that are twenty-one to twenty-four nucleotides long.
ref: 2007, Benjamin Lewin, Genes IX, →ISBN, page 343:
text: MicroRNAs (miRNAs) finely regulate gene expression and play an important role in various cellular processes, including cell growth, differentiation, proliferation, and apoptosis.
ref: 2010, Dimond, Patricia F., "miRNAs' Therapeutic Potential" (original copy), Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, vol. 30, no. 6, page 1
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A microRNA.
wikipedia: microRNA
Derived terms: miRNAome
miRNAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miRNA
photoswitchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfoʊtoʊˈswɪt͡ʃəbl̩/
Etymology: From photo- + switchable.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
nanotechnology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Capable of being photoswitched, or switched by an optical signal.
Derived terms: photoswitchability
Related terms: photoswitching
photoswitch
homodimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hoʊmoʊˈdaɪmɚ/
rhymes: -aɪmə(ɹ)
Forms: form: homodimers
Etymology: From homo- + dimer.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: dimer
<
oligomer
<
molecule
;
substance
coordinate_terms: heterodimer
glosses: A dimer derived from two identical monomers.
Derived terms: homodimeric
homodimerization
homodimerize
nonround
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-round
Etymology: From non- + round.
Senses: glosses: Not round. (of a shape)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Having qualities the opposite of a round vowel.
raw_tags: of a vowel
examples: text: a round number (e.g., 100) was paired with a nonround number (e.g., 103).
ref: 2004, Amos Tversky, Preference, Belief, and Similarity, page 85:
text: The researchers hypothesize that everyday experience teaches us that round (imprecise) numbers are usually larger than nonround (sharp) numbers.
ref: 2007 September 21, “Random Samples”, in Science, 317(5845), page 1657:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Having a sharp or precise numeric value; having not been rounded.
raw_tags: of a number
Synonyms: unrounded
Derived terms: nonroundness
Related terms: nonhigh
nonback
Hakomi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hopi hakomi, possibly also from the same Chinese word.
Senses: glosses: A form of body-centred somatic psychotherapy developed in the 1970s.
electroporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˌlɛktɹoʊpɔˈɹeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: electroporations
Etymology: From electro- + poration.
Senses: topics: biotechnology
engineering
medicine
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: the creation of transient pores in the cell membrane, through the application of a high-voltage electrical pulse
Synonyms: electropermeabilization
Derived terms: coelectroporation
nanoelectroporation
postelectroporation
Related terms: electroporate
electroporatic
electroporator
electropore
electroporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electroporation
permafrosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permafrost
voe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəʊ/
ipa: /voʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Forms: form: voes
form: vae
form: vo
Etymology: Shetland and Orkney dialect, from Norn, from Old Norse vágr. Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian våg, and Faroese vágur. Doublet of way.
Senses: glosses: A narrow sea inlet, particularly in the Shetland Islands, similar to a fjord.
vividity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vɪˈvɪdɪti/
Forms: form: vividities
Etymology: From vivid + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vividness.
synonyms: word: vividness
glosses: A vivid thing.
Synonyms: sense: quality
word: vividness
gibbous moons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibbous moon
greiges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of greige
dithyrambics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dithyrambic
greying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grey
greyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grey
Derived terms: ungreyed
spearchucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spearchuckers
Etymology: From spear + chucker, in the offensive sense, alluding to a stereotype of Africans as primitive savages who use spears in hunting and war.
Senses: examples: text: The other night, Jackson's on the radio asking if anybody in the area has seen two spearchuckers winging it off on foot with a pile of nigger clothes in their hands. Jesus Christ. Spearchuckers? Niggers? The guy's KKK material.
ref: 1983, Maurice Punch, Control in the Police Organization, MIT Press:
text: 9:45 A man across the circle from me shouted, "Hey spearchuckers! Hey spearchuckers! Why don't you turn bright red! Oh!, They're not spearchuckers, they're Indians.
ref: 1991, 1990 Witness Report: Chippewa Spearfishing Season : Violence, Ineffective Law Enforcement, and Racism:
glosses: A black (African or African-American or an Aboriginal Australian) person.
examples: text: O’Dwyer is seen by the Kroger people as a spear-chucker for everything anti-Kroger.
ref: 2017, John Ferguson, Today in Victoria: A Peter Costello return makes no sense:
text: Fred is pro surfing’s original spear-chucker.
ref: 2017 February 13, Nick Carroll, “Nick Carroll On: Plan C, Ideas For The WSL”, in Coastalwatch, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2017:
glosses: An agitator.
vividities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭvĭʹdĭtēz
ipa: /vɪˈvɪdɪtiːz/
Senses: examples: text: …and the vividities of passion, the writer may not have known how to procure the morrow’s sustenance.
ref: 1823, AUTHOR UNKNOWN, The Lady’s magazine (and museum). Improved ser., enlarged, page 266:
text: At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
ref: 1925: Joseph Conrad, The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 (Nota bene: this citation and every one of those marked with a superscribed obelus (†) are identical copies of Joseph Conrad’s unfinished last novel “Suspense” (published posthumously in 1925))
text: We are the echoes from the planets,
 the blackbody vividities,
 and the high-energy tailing
 that flows from the springs of time. […]
ref: 1977, Angus Wilson, John Holloway, Writers of East Anglia, page 120:
text: At every momentary pause in his long and fantastic adventure it returned with its splendid charm and glorious serenity, resembling the power of a great and unfathomable love whose tenderness like a sacred spell lays to rest all the vividities and all the violences of passionate desire.
ref: 1995, Joseph Conrad, The Collected Works of Joseph Conrad, p255 †:
glosses: plural of vividity
double obelus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double obeli
Senses: glosses: A typographical symbol: ‡, also called a double dagger.
Related terms: †
double obeli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double obelus
spearchuckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spearchucker
nanocircuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnænoʊˌsɝkɪt/
Forms: form: nanocircuits
form: nano-circuit
Etymology: From nano- + circuit.
Senses: glosses: An electrical circuit at nanoscale.
Derived terms: nanocircuitry
Related terms: microcircuit
megacircuit
macrocircuit
nanocircuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocircuit
fluid ounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluid ounces
Senses: glosses: Any of various units of volume used for liquid measure, all approximately 1.73–1.83 cubic inches or 28.4–30 milliliters.
A unit of volume equal to one sixteenth of a US pint or approximately 29.6 ml
glosses: Any of various units of volume used for liquid measure, all approximately 1.73–1.83 cubic inches or 28.4–30 milliliters.
A unit of volume equal to one twentieth of an imperial pint or approximately 28.4 ml
Related terms: dram
pint
fluid ounces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluid ounce
eager beaver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiː.ɡə ˈbiː.və/
ipa: /ˌi.ɡɚ ˈbi.vɚ/
Forms: form: eager beavers
Etymology: *
Senses: examples: text: PULASKI: I am unfamiliar with this symbol.
DATA: It indicates a genetically engineered biological life-form.
PULASKI: About twenty percent of the specimens fall into that category. Some eager beaver at play.
DATA: Query: "eager beaver?"
PULASKI: Well in this case, eager beaver refers to some over achieving genetic engineer, who probably because of lack of anything better to do has forced this strain of virus to mutate, just so he can see how bad bad can get.
ref: 1988 November 21, Diana Muldaur, Brent Spiner, The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Paramount Domestic Television, →OCLC:
text: An “eager beaver” in terms of computing, Gates apparently started programming at age eleven.
ref: 2007, Bernadette Hlubik Schell, The Internet and Society, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 178:
glosses: One (especially a child) who is very excited or enthusiastic to begin a task; a person who is exceedingly assiduous in an enthusiastic manner
Related terms: eager
beaver away
Timișoara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌtimiˈʃwɑɹɑ/
Forms: form: Timisoara
form: Timişoara
Etymology: From Romanian Timișoara, from Hungarian Temesvár.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Timiș County, Romania.
packsack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: packsacks
Etymology: From pack + sack.
Senses: examples: text: The boy has a little packsack, in which he can carry twenty-five pounds for a short portage.
ref: 1899 November 19, “Deer Hunting in Minnesota”, in New York Times, page 12:
glosses: A backpack, knapsack, rucksack or similar bag packed with provisions or personal items, especially as carried by a traveller or a hiker, and often slung over the shoulder.
off-topic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off-topic
form: most off-topic
form: offtopic
form: off topic
Etymology: From off- + topic.
Senses: examples: text: When someone asks an off-topic question […] they are usually quickly told to knock it off. You can't ask a question about modems in an echo devoted to local-area networks.
ref: 1992, Dial in, page 9:
glosses: Not related to the matter under discussion.
unrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrounded
form: most unrounded
Etymology: From un- + rounded.
Senses: glosses: Not rounded.
Derived terms: unrounded vowel
pomology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomologies
Etymology: From Latin pōmum (“fruit”) and -ology.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of pome fruit and of the cultivation of such fruit.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The study of fruit in general and of the cultivation of fruit.
glosses: A work or treatise written on this subject.
Coordinate terms: fruticulture
Related terms: pomological
pomologist
unifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unify
unifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unifying
form: most unifying
Senses: glosses: Tending to unify; promoting unity; uniting.
unifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unifyings
Senses: examples: text: […] the human founds itself on separated multiplicity and is the subject even when the master of their division and fragmentations and their difficult solderings and unifyings.
ref: 1990, Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, page 393:
glosses: unification
Sonnenschein
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sonnenscheins
form: Sonnenshine
Etymology: Borrowed from German Sonnenschein.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Hundred Years' War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Hundred Years' War
Senses: glosses: A series of conflicts between France and England, lasting 116 years from 1337 to 1453.
equalitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more equalitarian
form: most equalitarian
Etymology: Coined around 1800 from equality + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: There was more than one way, however, in which the principles embodied in the cosmological conception of the Chain of Being could be used as weapons against social discontent and especially against all equalitarian movements.
ref: 1936, A. O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea, Harvard University Press, page 205:
text: Later it became the fashion to decry the militias, and therefore to pretend that the faults which were due to lack of training and weapons were the result of the equalitarian system. Actually, a newly raised draft of militia was an undisciplined mob not because the officers called the privates 'Comrade' but because raw troops are always an undisciplined mob.
ref: 1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:
text: In the increasingly equalitarian Britain of the postwar years, Britain's monarchy found itself subject to a questioning, scarcely articulated, of the utility of an expensive royal household.
ref: 1957 October 21, “The Queen's Husband”, in Time:
text: I keep using the term monogamus ^([sic]) as opposed to "marriage" because I feel that the marital institution is anti-gay in that it is not equalitarian as it now exists for heterosexuals...so it could not conceivably by equalitarian for us gay people.
ref: 1974 April 27, Joel Starkey, “Reactions”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
synonyms: egalitarian
glosses: Characterized by social equality and equal rights for all people.
Derived terms: antiequalitarian
equalitarianism
inequalitarian
nonequalitarian
pseudoequalitarian
equalitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkwɒl.ɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ɪˈkwɑ.lɪˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: equalitarians
Etymology: Coined around 1800 from equality + -arian.
Senses: synonyms: egalitarian
glosses: A person who accepts or promotes the view of equalitarianism.
equalitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equalitarianisms
Etymology: From equalitarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: 1962, "She Was Eleanor" (obituary of Eleanor Roosevelt), Time, 16 Nov.,
All of her strivings and all of her little lectures and admonitions would add up to a U.S. in which all were equal. . . . She was until the day of her death the most effective advocate of welfare-state equalitarianism.
glosses: Egalitarianism.
perjuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perjure
unhinges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unhinge
unhinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unhinge
Derived terms: unhingingly
craisin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹeɪzn̩/
rhymes: -eɪzən
Forms: form: craisins
form: Craisin
Etymology: Genericization of the brand name Craisin. Blend of cranberry + raisin
Senses: examples: text: But the craisins I have had in the past, seem to have additional sugar.
ref: 1995 May 12, Pete Stryjewski , “How to make craisins?”, in rec.food.cooking (Usenet):
text: Then I threw a craisin (sweetened dried cranberry) in my mouth and it flew to the back of my throat and stuck there, choking me....
ref: 1997 April 3, Kristen Mahan-Moutaw , “Bad Moods”, in bit.listserv.cinema-l (Usenet):
text: I was giving him craisins and he started to stick his head in the bag looking for more.
ref: 2002 March 12, pinktrixrabbit@aol.comnospam, “Mr. Craisin Head”, in alt.pets.rabbits (Usenet):
text: c. 2004, Judith Moffett, "The Bear's Baby", in Gardner Dozois, ed., The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection, 2004, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 156,
Denny passed the remaining hours of daylight eating a sandwich and a packet of craisins, […]
glosses: A dried cranberry.
compound symbols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compound symbol
coefficients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coefficient
toadstools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toadstool
Stasi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːzi/
ipa: /ˈʃtɑːzi/
rhymes: -ɑːzi
Etymology: From German Stasi, abbreviation of Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (“Ministry for State Security”).
Senses: glosses: The Ministry for State Security, secret police and intelligence organization of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
Stasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɑːzi/
ipa: /ˈʃtɑːzi/
rhymes: -ɑːzi
Forms: form: Stasi
Etymology: From German Stasi, abbreviation of Ministerium für Staatssicherheit (“Ministry for State Security”).
Senses: examples: text: The Facebook Stasi then surreptitiously monitored the subscribers' writing to note changes in vocabulary to indicate mood swings.
ref: 2014 July 3, Daniel Ruth, “Taking a byte out of privacy”, in Danbury News Times:
glosses: One who engages in covert surveillence or similar activities associated with secret police.
examples: text: All vile and grossly insensitive certainly; but on balance I think I’m more afraid of the Twitter Stasi and their increasingly zealous police enforcers.
ref: 2015 January 1, James Bloodworth, “Katie Hopkins' views are now considered matters for law enforcement, and it is utterly terrifying”, in Independent:
text: After the image was removed, Mr Harlass shared the image of the couple, writing: "Apparently the Facebook Stasi has removed this wonderful, pure picture."
ref: 2019 March 25, Douglas Patient, “Blonde who claims far-right websites are stealing her photos threatens legal action”, in Daily Star:
text: I suspect the vast majority of us, on all points of the political spectrum, don't want to live in a society where Twitter Stasi are constantly looking for wrongthink to report to one's employer[…]
ref: 2020 June 19, David Bernstein, “On Cancel Culture and Civil Liberties”, in The Volokh Conspiracy:
synonyms: Nazi
glosses: One who imposes one's views on others; one who is unfairly oppressive or needlessly strict.