cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: cades
form: cading
form: caded
form: caded
Etymology: From Middle English cade, kad, kod, ultimately of unknown origin.
Senses: examples: text: Delicacies are thrown away upon a growing youth; they are quite out of place; his appetite does not require pampering, and cading, and coaxing; moreover, a youth who is made to think a great deal of his stomach is sure to grow up an epicure!
ref: 1874, Pye Henry Chavasse, Counsel to a Mother on the Care and Rearing of her Children, 3rd edition, J.&A. Churchill, →OCLC, page 197:
text: Besides, the more luxury a child has, the more he will require—wants beget wants; until, at length, he will become a poor, wretched, artificial imbecile, fit only to be caded and cottoned up in warm enervating rooms; but totally unfit to be buffeted about—as is good for him—in this rough world of ours.
ref: [1881, Pye Henry Chavasse, The Mental Culture and Training of Children, Lindsay & Blakiston, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 118:
text: "He's neither more nor less interesting than any other man, I suppose," replied Miss Podbury drily. "They're all alike, as far as I can see. I can't think what women find in them to make such a fuss about, cading them up and spoiling them in the way they do!"
ref: 1926, Dorothy Rogers, “Miss Podbury's Adventure”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 63, →OCLC, page 222:
text: He's a spoiled boy – I believe he keeps a little bit ill so that we can cade him.
ref: [1911, David Herbert Lawrence, The White Peacock, Heinemann, page 142:
text: mr hemstock: Tha'rt cading him a bit, Nurse.
nurse: It is what will do him good—to be spoiled a while.
ref: 1965 [1941 winter], David Herbert Lawrence, “The Merry-Go-Round”, in Complete plays (Works), W. Heinemann, →OCLC, page 427, originally in Virginia Quarterly Review:
glosses: To make a pet of; to coddle, pamper, or spoil.
cade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: cades
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cade, from Old Occitan cade, from Latin catanum.
Senses: glosses: Juniperus oxycedrus (western prickly juniper), whose wood yields a tar.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Juniperus oxycedrus
word: cade juniper
word: cade oil
cade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: cades
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French cade (“barrel”), from Latin cadus (“bottle, jar”).
Senses: examples: text: A cade of herrings was a vessel containing 500 herrings, while a cade of sprats contained 1,000.
glosses: A cask or barrel.
insigne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insignia
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: examples: text: Elizabeth will give this work of art her regal scrutiny (and, no doubt, a trial run) before granting her imprimatur for the embroidering in gold thread of the royal insigne: er.
ref: 1985, The Baker Street Journal, volume 35/36, page 165:
glosses: An insignia.
polyvinyl fluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A thermoplastic fluoropolymer having various uses as a film or resin. Abbreviation: PVF
polyvinylpyrrolidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinylpyrrolidones
Etymology: From polyvinyl + pyrrolidone.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polyvinyl pyrrolidone.
polyvinyl pyrrolidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinylpyrrolidone
Senses: glosses: A water-soluble polymer used in pharmaceutical products, paint and as an adhesive for postage stamps and envelopes.
Synonyms: word: polyvidone
word: povidone
word: PVP
Derived terms: word: polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine complex
english: PVP-I
translation: PVP-I
word: polyvinylpyrrolidone-iodine
word: PVP
polyvinyl resin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinyl resins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any resinous plastic manufactured by the polymerization of a vinyl monomer
Derived terms: polyvinyl resin emulsion glue
vinyl acetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monomer (CH₃COOCH=CH₂) prepared by reacting ethylene and acetic acid with oxygen and a palladium catalyst. Abbreviations: VAM (vinyl acetate monomer), VyAc
Synonyms: 1-acetoxyethylene
acetic acid ethenyl ester
acetoxyethene
zeset T
Derived terms: ethylene-vinyl acetate
vinyl acetate-maleic anhydride copolymer
vinyl composition tile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vinyl composition tiles
Senses: glosses: A type of vinyl tile used as a covering for floors, especially in public areas. Abbreviation: VCT
polyvinylidene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyvinylidenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any polymer derived from monomers of general formula CH₂=CX₂ where X is typically a halogen
glosses: A polyvinylidene resin
Derived terms: polyvinylidene chloride
polyvinylidene difluoride
polyvinylidene fluoride
polyvinylidene difluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: polyvinylidene fluoride
polyvinylidene fluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A thermoplastic fluoropolymer of high purity and resistance to solvents, acids and alkalis, having many uses, including as an insulator and an ingredient of some paints and batteries. Abbreviation: PVDF
Synonyms: poly-1,1-difluoroethene
polyvinylenedifluoride
polyvinylidene difluoride
KYNAR
vinylogous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of vinyl + homologous
Senses: examples: Aldrichimica Acta Volume 30 No 4 (pdf) from Sigma-Aldrich
Bulky electron-withdrawing groups can cause the vinylogous portion of the vinylcarbenoid to become the active electrophilic site, but usually the use of nonpolar solvents can minimize this type of reactivity.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to or containing a vinyl group, specifically used to describe functional groups in which the standard moieties of the group are separated by a carbon–carbon double bond.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a homologue of a vinyl compound
Derived terms: vinylog
vinylogue
vinylogy
vinylogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The transmission of electronic effects through a conjugated organic bonding system
Derived terms: principle of vinylogy
heartland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːtlənd/
ipa: /-lænd/
enpr: härtʹ-lənd
ipa: /ˈhɑɹtlənd/
ipa: /-ˌlænd/
Forms: form: heartlands
Etymology: From heart (“(figuratively) centre, core, essence”) + land.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of heart (“the seat of the affections or love”).
synonyms: word: heart
extra: the seat of the affections or love
examples: text: [R]ound the Pole all three powers lay claim to enormous territories which in fact are largely uninhabited and unexplored: but the balance of power always remains roughly even, and the territory which forms the heartland of each super-state always remains inviolate.
ref: 1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 172:
text: Israel intercepted a missile fired by Hezbollah near Tel Aviv on Wednesday, an unprecedented attack by the militant group that reached deep into the country’s commercial heartlands and marked a new escalatory step in the conflict between the two sides.
ref: 2024 September 25, Irene Nasser, Dana Karni, Helen Regan and Sophie Tanno, “Israel intercepts Hezbollah ballistic missile near Tel Aviv in first such attack”, in CNN:
glosses: Also in the plural form heartlands:
The interior part of a region, especially when contrasted with coastal parts or when regarded as particularly powerful or significant.
glosses: Also in the plural form heartlands:
In the geopolitical theory of the English geographer Halford John Mackinder (1861–1947): the interior of the world island comprising north-central Eurasia regarded as politically powerful.
coordinate_terms: rimland
examples: text: Those in the HDB [Housing and Development Board] heartland will be able to vote in the airconditioned comfort of their community centres […]
ref: 2003, Anais [pseudonym], soc.culture.singapore (Usenet):
text: Take heart, small-time shopkeepers in the heartlands.
ref: 2001 March 16, Alfred Dass, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 8:
text: I applaud the organising committee's decision to hold the concert in the heartlands.
ref: 2003 July 23, Jason Lee Boon Hong, Today, Singapore: Mediacorp Press, →OCLC, page 10:
glosses: Also in the plural form heartlands:
Residential districts and planning areas outside the city centre; the new towns of Singapore collectively.
glosses: Also in the plural form heartlands:
The states in the centre of the United States, chiefly regarded as politically and socially conservative; also, the people living in such states collectively.
synonyms: Middle America
examples: text: The home counties are the Conservative heartland.
text: We stayed in the heartland of the French wine-growing regions.
glosses: Also in the plural form heartlands:
A region or part of a region particularly associated with or significant for a characteristic, such as an activity, a faith, support for a political party or other organization, etc.
Derived terms: heartlander
Floydian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Floydian
form: most Floydian
Etymology: From Floyd + -ian.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the work of Robert Floyd, American mathematician and computer scientist.
examples: text: I have my own notions, though I hesitate to expound too deeply lest anyone accuse me of taking things Floydian too seriously.
ref: 2005, Russel Reising, Speak To Me: the legacy of Pink Floyd's The dark side of the moon, page xiii:
text: The new Gilmour-led Floyd sounds infinitely more ‘Floydian' than Roger Waters' dirge-like solo albums.
ref: 2003, Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock, page 7:
text: The unmistakable "Floydian" sound is captured in all its glory on this LP: the use of hypnotic slow tempos, the lush textures of the instruments, the gorgeous guitar and saxophone solos, and the dark lyrical vision courtesy of Mr. Waters.
ref: 1998, Tim Morse, Classic Rock Stories: The Stories Behind the Greatest Songs of All Time, page 184:
text: Although far from a Floydian concept album, ‘The Division Bell' has a general theme of communication gone wrong.
ref: 1995, Andy Mabbett, The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd, page 119:
text: A ten-minute Floydian trip from the London rockers’ forthcoming ninth album [subtitle]
ref: 2021 July 23, Ellie Robinson, “Coldplay shoot for the stars with their cinematic new track ‘Coloratura’”, in NME:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of, related to, or similar to the band Pink Floyd or their music; psychedelic.
tongue kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue kisses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of French kiss: kissing involving the tongue.
synonyms: word: French kiss
extra: kissing involving the tongue
tongue kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tongue kisses
form: tongue kissing
form: tongue kissed
form: tongue kissed
Senses: glosses: Synonym of French kiss.
synonyms: word: French kiss
PLP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of pyridoxal phosphate.
PLP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Parliamentary Labour Party
mao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maos
Senses: glosses: The ma'oma'o, Gymnomyza samoensis, a large passerine bird native to Samoa.
recoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of recoil
cruelties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cruelty
predation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: predations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin praedātiō, praedātiōnis, from praedor (“pillage, plunder”), from praeda (“plunder, spoils”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The preying of one animal on others.
examples: text: […]this priest roade in his goune of velvet, with a greate trayne, and was received into every Religion with Procession, as though the legate had bene there, and toke such greate sommes for his visitacion, that the religious sore were greved, and murmured much against it, and in especiall, for they were charged with greate sommes of money to the kyng, and now thys sodayn visitacion or predacion, cleane shaved them.
ref: a. 1547, Edward Hall, “The XVII Yere”, in King Henry the VIII, volume II, London: T. C. & E. C. Jack, published 1904, page 48:
glosses: The action of attacking or plundering.
Derived terms: indirect predation
secondary predation
Related terms: predator
depredation
prey
predate
casks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɑːsks/
ipa: /kæsks/
rhymes: -æsks
rhymes: -ɑːsks
Senses: glosses: plural of cask
hordes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horde
brigades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brigade
theologians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theologian
predating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predate
platitudinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplætɪˈtjuːdɪnəs/
ipa: /-ˈtʃuː-/
ipa: /ˌplætɪˈt(j)ud(ə)nəs/
ipa: /-ɾɪ-/
Forms: form: more platitudinous
form: most platitudinous
Etymology: From platitude + -in- + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: If [Lord George] Bentinck had been reared for office, if, as Wilberforce recommends, he had been harnessed early to official duty, and if he had been sent into Parliament a platitudinous thing, made up of statistics, red tape and priggishness, like Mr. [Benjamin] Disraeli's Tadpole and Taper, we could well understand his strong mind breaking the thralls of official conventionality, and forcing him to become the man he was, armed at all points, ever ready for attack or defence; […]
ref: 1852 March, “Art. II.—Lord George Bentinck. Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography. By B. Disraeli, Member of Parliament for the County of Buckingham. London: Colburn and Co. 1851. [book review]”, in The Irish Quarterly Review, volume II, number V, Dublin: Published by W. B. Kelly, 8, Grafton-Street; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, →OCLC, page 77:
text: “House Decoration” is written with somewhat less verbosity and with a good deal more taste and common sense. But it is, however detailed in its suggestions, equally platitudinous where it is sensible.
ref: 1877 April, “Household Art”, in The Carpet Trade Review. Devoted to the Interest of the Trade in Carpets, Upholstery Goods, Oil Cloths, Paper Hangings, Mattings, Linings, Stair Rods, etc., etc., volume 4, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Thomas A. Kennett, →OCLC, page 46, column 2:
text: As [Charles] de Gaulle's minister, he [André Malraux] was able to visit China in 1965 and to persuade the rather baffled Chinese authorities to grant him an audience with Mao [Zedong]. […] The meeting was brief and platitudinous, but in later accounts […] Malraux turned it into a major summit of great minds.
ref: 2005 April 10, Christopher Hitchens, “‘Malraux’: One man’s fate [review of Malraux: A Life (2005) by Olivier Todd]”, in The New York Times:
text: But surely it is possible for those tasked with ensuring public safety to imagine creative solutions beyond platitudinous expressions of sympathy, extra concrete barriers and additional airport security checks?
ref: 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain: We must now give into fatalism on terror [editorial]”, in The Observer, London, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2017:
glosses: Characterised by clichés or platitudes.
Derived terms: platitudinously
platitudinousness
unplatitudinous
Related terms: platitude
platitudinal
platitudinarian
platitudinize
platitudise
sentries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sentry
diversified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of diversify
diversified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more diversified
form: most diversified
Senses: examples: text: Against the huge boulderstones which lay scattered about on the shore, the mighty waves broke incessantly in the maddest and most diversified manner.
ref: 1844, Johann Georg Kohl, Ireland:
text: We thus see that these naturalised plants are of a highly diversified nature.
ref: 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection:
text: Men of diversified temperament can learn valuable lessons from those of the conserving type by not attempting to think of so many disassociated things; that is, by concentrating the mind.
ref: 1917 June 21, William Judson Kibby, “Analyzing Character by Observation”, in Iron Trade Review, volume 60, number 25, page 1345:
glosses: Diverse; various.
examples: text: Diversified farming reduces the risk.
ref: 1915, University of Delaware. Division of Agricultural Extension, Extension Bulletin - Issues 2-17:
text: On-farm irrigation facilities require modifications to provide the proper water conditions for diversified crops.
ref: 1986, Technical Assistance for Irrigation Management for Diversified Crops in the Philippines, page 21:
text: The main lesson from East Asia is that improved access to infrastructure, a highly qualified workforce, and enforced rules of the game that reward investment and innovation are more likely to provide fertile ground for the emergence of a more efficient and diversified production base.
ref: 2014, Indermit S. Gill, Ivailo Izvorski, Willem van Eeghen, Diversified Development:
text: This also involves establishing a diversified portfolio that matches the investor's objectives and periodically examining and adjusting the portfolio to ensure it stays aligned with the investor's goals.
ref: 2023, How to Create and Maintain a Diversified Investment Portfolio:
glosses: Employing the use of diversification; deliberately using a variety of instruments, methods, ingredients, or products, typically to reduce risk.
examples: text: In West Pakistan during the second plan period efforts were made to introduce diversified courses in 600 middle schools but the difficulty in getting qualified teachers even by giving them shorter periods of training did not make it possible to implement the scheme successfully.
ref: 1966, Pakistan. Commission on Student Problems and Welfare, Report, page 22:
text: The diversified gene differs from the germline gene by multiple nucleotides.
ref: 1993, Janos Gergely, Progress in Immunology Vol. VIII, page 102:
text: Even in a highly diversified society, Durkheim (1933) wrote, Men submit to the same law .
ref: 2001, John Sutton, Law/Society: Origins, Interactions, and Change:
glosses: Changed in a way that creates more diversity.
Derived terms: multidiversified
nondiversified
prediversified
stereodiversified
undiversified
inaugurated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of inaugurate
cautioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of caution
cautioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That has received a caution (typically from the police)
Derived terms: uncautioned
cliche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: klē-shā'
ipa: /kliˈʃeɪ/
Forms: form: cliches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cliché.
cliche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: klē-shā'
ipa: /kliˈʃeɪ/
Forms: form: cliches
form: clicheing
form: cliched
form: cliched
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cliché.
recounted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recount
miffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪ.fi/
rhymes: -ɪfi
Forms: form: miffier
form: miffiest
Etymology: From miff + -y.
Senses: glosses: Easily irritated or offended.
examples: text: "Over-watering" is not the result of putting on too much water at one time, but from watering too often. Daily sprinkling or turning the hose on root areas can be most injurious — especially to some miffy plants like rhododendrons and dogwoods.
ref: 1967, Missouri Botanical Garden Bulletin, volume 55, page 42:
glosses: Particular; fussy.
Derived terms: miffily
miffiness
Attila the Hun
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Attila, kingly ruler of the tribe of the Huns and vast Eurasian Hunnic Empire and feared enemy of the Roman Empire, from 434 until his death in 453.
Derived terms: Attilanic
Attila the Hun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He also told me that while Rehr, in person, could be “a gracious and friendly guy,” he was clearly “the Attila the Hun of the alcoholic beverage industry.
ref: 2004, Ken Wells, Travels with Barley: A Journey Through Beer Culture in America, page 172:
text: He didn't know then that he had hired the Attila the Hun of ambitious young lawyers.
ref: 2003, Gina F. Wilkins, The Family Plan, page 9:
text: They don't have a Jim Baker, they don't have a warrior, an Attila the Hun.
ref: 2001, Jake Tapper, Down and Dirty: The Plot to Steal the Presidency, page 315:
text: The organizations don't tolerate an Attila the Hun in one office and a Mother Teresa next door.
ref: 1998, Ole Ingstrup, Paul Stanley Crookall, The Three Pillars of Public Management: Secrets of Sustained Success, page 9:
text: What better way for them to get started, Grastos said, than for Onassis to call Roy M. Cohn, the Attila the Hun of divorce attorneys.
ref: 1998, Edward Klein, Just Jackie: Her Private Years, page 270:
text: The workers were being supervised by an Attila the Hun.
ref: 1982, Paul L. Brown, Managing Behavior on the Job, page 84:
glosses: Generally, a tyrant, or otherwise, a person characterized by ruthless aggressiveness.
deontologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From deontological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of deontology.
deontological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deontological
form: most deontological
Etymology: From deontology + -ical (1832). The specialised sense in normative ethics is due to C. D. Broad (1930).
Senses: examples: text: Deontological theories hold that there are ethical propositions of the form: 'Such and such a kind of action would always be right (or wrong) in such and such circumstances, no matter what its consequences might be.'
ref: 1930, C. D. Broad, Five Types of Ethical Theory, 206f:
topics: ethics
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
antonyms: non-deontological
glosses: Of or relating to deontology.
Derived terms: deontologically
non-deontological
inspiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inspiringly
form: most inspiringly
Etymology: From inspiring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That line was most beautifully written, and inspiringly put.
glosses: In an inspiring manner.
Chopawamsic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌt͡ʃɒpəˈwɑːmzɪk/
Etymology: From an Algonquian language meaning "isolated lodge".
Senses: glosses: Chopawamsic Island, a private island on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, 275 yards from Quantico.
glosses: Chopawamsic Creek, a tributary stream of the Potomac River in Prince William and Stafford counties, Virginia.
exolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From exo- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Studies of interaction in contact situations have often concentrated on so-called "exolingual" conversations between natives and non-natives.
ref: 2007, Konstanze Jungbluth, Identities in Migration Contexts, page 53:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to a series of utterances between two people who do not speak the same language.
swimming pools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swimming pool
square pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square pyramids
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A three-dimensional geometric figure with a square base and four triangular sides that connect at one point. An example is the Great Pyramid of Giza.
triangular pyramid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangular pyramids
Senses: glosses: A three-dimensional figure with four triangular bases.
Synonyms: tetrahedron
marshalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marshaling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marshal
marshalling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marshallings
form: marshaling
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: The process of transforming the memory representation of an object to a data format suitable for storage or transmission, which is typically used when data must be moved between different parts of a computer program, or from one program to another.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner.
examples: text: It is the first British yard in which every activity of hump marshalling, except for the driving of the hump locomotive and the uncoupling and coupling of wagons, is fully automatic or drastically simplified by modern aids.
ref: 1960 June, “Talking of trains: The new Margam yard”, in Trains Illustrated, page 323:
text: He wanted to see less marshalling of trains, and a move away from a culture that allowed 85% of a wagon's life to be spent "empty, being used as storage bins for goods or in sidings as coal scuttles".
ref: 2023 March 8, David Clough, “The long road that led to Beeching”, in RAIL, number 978, page 42:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The sorting of rolling stock in a marshalling yard.
Related terms: topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: dimidiation
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: enté en point
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: impalement
topics: heraldry
hobbies
nobility
monarchy
politics
government
lifestyle
word: quartering
marshals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marshal
marshals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marshal
rabbitlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rabbitlike
form: most rabbitlike
Etymology: From rabbit + -like.
Senses: examples: rabbitlike ears
rabbitlike behavior
synonyms: cunicular
cuniculiform
lagomorphic
leporiform
leporine
rabbitish
rabbity
glosses: Similar to a rabbit, or an aspect of a rabbit (for example, its shape, behaviors, or other traits).
Related terms: breed like rabbits
doglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doglike
form: most doglike
form: dog-like
Etymology: From dog + -like.
Senses: examples: text: doglike nose
text: doglike devotion
text: Weighing about 60 pounds and bearing powerful jaws, the thylacine had a doglike skull, was about the height and shape of a Doberman, and had tigerlike stripes on its back that may have helped conceal it in the bush from its prey.
ref: 2011 January 8, Sean B. Carroll, “Call of the Thylacine: Protect the Wild”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Similar to that of a dog; canine.
examples: text: doglike treatment
glosses: Befitting a dog.
Derived terms: undoglike
doglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more doglike
form: most doglike
form: dog-like
Etymology: From dog + -like.
Senses: glosses: In a doglike way.
examples: text: She treated me doglike.
glosses: As one would act toward a dog
Related terms: canine
money cowry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money cowries
Senses: glosses: A mollusc of the species Monetaria moneta (syn. Cypraea moneta), the shells of which were formerly used as money by populations in Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
bronch-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: bronchi-
form: broncho-
Etymology: From Latin bronchus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: bronchus, relating to the trachea, or airways to the lungs.
birdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more birdlike
form: most birdlike
form: bird-like
Etymology: From bird + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a birdlike song; birdlike eyes
text: Once or twice I heard a faint pitter-patter like the feet of the dog going hither and thither on the sand far below me, and there were more bird-like sounds, but that was all.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 237:
text: Frail, birdlike wrists and no muscle anywhere on his tiny frame.
ref: 2012, The Onion Book of Known Knowledge, page 82:
glosses: Similar to a bird or an aspect of a bird; reminiscent of birds; avian.
Derived terms: birdlikeness
unbirdlike
Related terms: volucrine
birdlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more birdlike
form: most birdlike
form: bird-like
Etymology: From bird + -like.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a bird; as, to fly.
Hyponyms: turkey-like
pilaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilafs
form: pilaff
form: pillaf
form: pillaff
form: pillaw
form: pilao
form: pilau
form: plov
form: polao
form: pulao
form: pulau
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish پلاو (modern Turkish pilav), from Classical Persian پلاو (pilāw), from Hindi पुलाव (pulāv)/Urdu پُلاؤ (pulāo), from Sanskrit पुलाक (pulāka), which is probably of Dravidian origin. Akin to Tamil புழுக்கு (puḻukku, “cooked rice”).
Senses: examples: text: My spirits rose as I passed among the tents and savored the aroma of steaming pots of pilaf and the long skewers of shashlyk roasting over the open fires.
ref: 1952, Cothburn O’Neal, chapter 1, in Master of the World (Avon; N158), New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, published 1967, →OCLC, book 1, page 17:
text: Charlie Vaughn, the tribal chairman, dismissed his critics at the opening as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs".
ref: 9 Mar 2007, The Independent:
glosses: A dish made by browning grain, typically rice, in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.
squirrellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squirrellike
form: most squirrellike
Etymology: From squirrel + -like.
Senses: examples: text: a squirrellike tail
text: squirrellike restlessness
glosses: Similar to or characteristic of a squirrel.
Synonyms: sense: characteristic of squirrels
word: sciurine
Related terms: sciurine
squirrellike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more squirrellike
form: most squirrellike
Etymology: From squirrel + -like.
Senses: examples: text: to pull a face squirrellike
glosses: In the manner of a squirrel.
lèse majesté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Insulting the monarch is a serious offence in Thailand, one of the few countries that retains the crime of lèse majesté.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), “The world at a glance: Bangkok Jail threat over insult”, in The Week, number 605, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lese majesty.
ducklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ducklike
form: most ducklike
form: duck-like
Etymology: From duck + -like.
Senses: examples: a ducklike bill
a ducklike quacking sound
glosses: Similar to a duck, or a characteristic of a duck.
Related terms: anatine
ducklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ducklike
form: most ducklike
form: duck-like
Etymology: From duck + -like.
Senses: glosses: in the manner of a duck; as, to walk ducklike
lèse-majesté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And I have a hazy memory of members of the Beyhive, Beyoncé's fandom, posting disobliging commentary about my byline photo following a podcast discussion in which I was judged to have committed some forgotten act of lèse-majesté.
ref: 2025 October 25, Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “Call yourself a fan?”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 1:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lese majesty.
Druze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdruːz/
Forms: form: Druze
form: Druzes
form: Druse
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).
Senses: examples: text: At Acre, 15,000 Druzes elected a six-member council comprising sheiks and mukhtars, their first official representative body since the establishment of Israel.
ref: 1950 February 27, “Druzes in Israel Elect Council”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: This backlash also fails to take into account that Israel, for all its faults, is a multicultural society where almost half of graduating doctors today are Arabs or Druze.
ref: 2023 October 29, Thomas L. Friedman, “Please, Israel, Don’t Get Lost in Hamas’s Tunnels”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2023:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A member of a secretive Ismaili Shiite community based mainly in the Middle East, specifically Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.
Druze
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdruːz/
Forms: form: Druse
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic دُرُوز (durūz).
Senses: examples: text: "The judges were very surprised when they found out I was Druze," she told Sonia Verma in The Times.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:
text: Druze men shouted insults when she walked down the street.
ref: (Can we date this quote?), The Week, number 605, page 10:
glosses: Of or relating to this religious community.
Derived terms: Druzism
haptotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more haptotropic
form: most haptotropic
Etymology: From hapto- + -tropic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to haptotropism; moving when touched
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the movement of clusters of atoms between two ligands or other groups
Derived terms: haptotropically
propitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From propitious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result.
Synonyms: auspiciousness
bill of entry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bills of entry
Senses: glosses: A document presented at customs containing information about goods imported or exported
Synonyms: B/E
go in for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes in for
form: going in for
form: went in for
form: gone in for
Senses: glosses: To enter a competition.
examples: text: "I hope she doesn't go in for big purple orchids," Miss Tinkham said to Mrs. Rasmussen, "there are so many pretty kinds."
ref: 2016, Mary Lasswell, Let's Go For Broke:
glosses: To have an interest in or approve of something.
examples: text: Jem, there's a good opening among the hard Fact fellows, and they want men. I wonder you don't go in for statistics.
ref: 1854, Charles Dickens, “Mr. James Harthouse”, in Hard Times. For These Times, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], →OCLC, 2nd book (Reaping), page 148:
text: "Why on earth do you go in for track?" I asked him. And then he explained that he thought that, if you wanted to be an all-around man, you ought to cultivate some form of athletics— he's actually taken up pole-vaulting: isn't that a ghastly thought?
ref: 1979, Edmund Wilson, American Earthquake, page 140:
text: It ain't their fault; I know heaps of nice girls who feel it horribly. What can they do? they can't go in for cricket and football.
ref: 2002, Margaret Oliphant, Phoebe Junior, page 270:
glosses: To engage oneself or take part in something.
cartes blanches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carte blanche
tribelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tribelets
Etymology: From tribe + -let. In use since at least 1925, the term was coined by anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber to refer to hundreds of groups of Native Americans in Central California, and has since been employed by many anthropologists to denote California groups of native people.
Senses: examples: text: Kroeber’s emphasis on the small scale of indigenous California social organizations led him to attach the diminutive "-let" to the anthropologically normative term "tribe".
ref: 1994, Leventhal et. al., Back from Extinction, "The Ohlone: Past and Present Native Americans of the San Francisco Bay Region." Ballena Press Publication, page 299–300
text: The second feature, dialectic separateness, of course is an old story for California, but elsewhere in the state each idiom is usually common to a considerable number of tribelets or "village communities."
ref: 1925, Kroeber, Alfred L. Handbook of the Indians of California. Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology: Bulletin No. 78, page 474
text: The larger tribelets usually had several permanent villages.
ref: 1978, Richard Levy, “Costanoan”, in Handbook of North American Indians, vol. 8 (California):
text: Tribelet […] defined a political and geographical unit comprising several units, usually including a principal and most powerful central village, tied by relations of kinship.
ref: 1994, Leventhal et. al., ‘’Back from Extinction’’, ibid., page 299-300
glosses: A small tribe of Native Americans, especially a small independent group of Native California people who shared a language and usually comprised one principal village, or several in close proximity, plus smaller resource-gathering camps and territories.
examples: text: […] if each tribelet was linguistically quite independent, this would have made communication in the New World a matter of the utmost difficulty for the [enslaved Africans], who would have been far more dependent than otherwise on the entirely new language that had to be learned.
ref: 1941, Melville J. Herskovits, chapter 3, in The Myth of the Negro Past, New York: Harper, page 80:
glosses: A small tribal society in another part of the world.
Related terms: Kroeberian
canopy bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canopy beds
Senses: glosses: A bed equipped with a canopy.
Related terms: four-poster
enlightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlighten
enlightening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
ref: 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
glosses: Serving to enlighten.
Derived terms: enlighteningly
unenlightening
tubeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tube + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a tube.
examples: text: tubeless tyres
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Without an inner tube.
buckteeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucktooth
re-inkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: capable of having ink reapplied
raw_tags: of a stamp etc
horselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more horselike
form: most horselike
form: horse-like
Etymology: From horse + -like.
Senses: examples: a horselike head
glosses: Similar to a horse, or to a characteristic of a horse
Derived terms: unhorselike
Related terms: horsely
equine
mouselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouselike
form: most mouselike
Etymology: From mouse + -like.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: mousy
coordinate_terms: murine
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ratlike#Adjective
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mouse (rodent); as, a mouselike squeak, mouselike timidity.
mouselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mouselike
form: most mouselike
Etymology: From mouse + -like.
Senses: coordinate_terms: ratlike#Adverb
glosses: In a mouselike way.
ratlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratlike
form: most ratlike
Etymology: From rat + -like.
Senses: examples: a ratlike face
ratlike speed
glosses: Similar to a rat, or an aspect of a rat—in behavioral terms: cunning, disloyal, or cowardly; in physical terms: simply resembling those of a rat.
ratlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ratlike
form: most ratlike
Etymology: From rat + -like.
Senses: glosses: In a ratlike way
elephantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more elephantlike
form: most elephantlike
Etymology: From elephant + -like.
Senses: examples: elephantlike stomping
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an elephant.
examples: text: He has an elephantlike memory: he rarely forgets things.
glosses: (Of memory) which is very good
Synonyms: sense: resembling or characteristic of an elephant
word: elephantic
word: elephantine
sense: of memory: very good
word: memorious
word: retentive
word: tenacious
word: memorious
haptotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hapto- + -tropism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The movement of parts of a plant (especially tendrils) in response to a touch stimulus
Synonyms: themotropism
Related terms: haptotropic
chickenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chickenlike
form: most chickenlike
Etymology: From chicken + -like.
Senses: examples: a chickenlike beak
a chickenlike noise
glosses: Similar to a chicken or an aspect of a chicken
glosses: Similar to chicken (the meat)
Related terms: gallinaceous
chickenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more chickenlike
form: most chickenlike
Etymology: From chicken + -like.
Senses: glosses: In a chickenlike manner
meeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meed
master class
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: master classes
form: masterclass
Etymology: From master + class. First use appears c. 1861 in the publications of John Stuart Mill.
Senses: examples: text: The vocal pedagogue loves the Master Class idea. Such classes are usually conducted by the more plutocratic teachers for periods of from two to six weeks. Many of them vaguely promise to deliver a complete technique within that time.
ref: 1929, Tillman Breiseth, “Arias for Angels”, in North American Review, page 95:
topics: education
glosses: A class, typically in a performing art such as music or drama, in which a teacher listens to and critiques the performance of individual students, one at a time, while the other students observe.
glosses: An action or series of actions that serve to demonstrate a person's mastery of a subject.
glosses: A brilliant or virtuosic performance.
forenames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forename
forenames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forename
carbonated water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbonated waters
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: (broadly synonymous) club soda
synonyms: fizzy water
sparkling water
sparkling
soda water
soda
seltzer water
seltzer
bubble water
antonyms: still water
still
flat water
flat
tap water#Noun
glosses: Water that contains carbon dioxide dissolved in it under pressure and is intended for drinking.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see carbonated, water.
Related terms: mineral water
detailedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dɪˈteɪldli/
/ˈdiːteɪldli/
Forms: form: more detailedly
form: most detailedly
Etymology: From detailed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In order to fix your phone, we'll need you to explain detailedly what the issue is.
text: Then we introduce the scale projection conjecture and the general mathematical features of its implementation, anticipating some common features of the microscopical (kinetic) models we analyze later more detailedly.
ref: 2020, Ladislaus Alexander Banyai, Lectures on the Non-Equilibrium Theory of Condensed Matter (Second Edition), page 77:
glosses: In a detailed manner; with attention to detail.
Synonyms: thoroughly
unhealthily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛlθɪli
-ɛlθəli
Forms: form: more unhealthily
form: most unhealthily
Etymology: From unhealthy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Full disclosure: I’m white, and I’ve been intrigued, unhealthily or not, for decades by the whitelessness of Georgetown basketball.
ref: 2010 January 27, Dave McKenna, “Cheap Seats Daily: Hoyas Women’s Basketball Has a Feeling of Whitelessness?”, in Washington City Paper:
glosses: In an unhealthy manner.
deuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deuterated
form: most deuterated
Senses: glosses: Describing a chemical compound which has had some of its normal hydrogen (protium) replaced with the heavy isotope deuterium.
Derived terms: deuterated water
heptadeuterated
hexadeuterated
monodeuterated
nondeuterated
pentadeuterated
perdeuterated
predeuterated
tetradeuterated
undeuterated
deuterated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deuterate
Related terms: protiated
tritiated
lay a venue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lays a venue
form: laying a venue
form: laid a venue
form: laid a venue
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To allege a place.
Brazilian jiu-jitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A martial art and combat sport derived from judo.
traffic islands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traffic island
Leninists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Leninist
tearsheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɛəʃiːt/
Forms: form: tearsheets
Etymology: From tear + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: He handed out tearsheets for each of the stocks he was recommending.
glosses: A single page of some publication containing a specific advertisement, table, or article in print.
tax collector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tax collectors
Senses: examples: text: After the assessment has been made, the file passes to the tax collector.
glosses: One who has the responsibility for collecting taxes.
Synonyms: taxman
retconning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retcon
retconned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of retcon
kismat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kismats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kismet.
animadversions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animadversion
tax collectors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tax collector
straw boss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straw bosses
Senses: glosses: A worker acting as a supervisor of other workers.
tearsheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tearsheet