cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kimrobinsonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric lemon white mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and tantalum.
kuksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kuks + -ite, named after Russian prospector A. I. Kuks.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal gray lead zinc tellurate phosphate mineral.
krasnovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal pale blue mineral containing aluminum, barium, carbon, hydrogen, magnesium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
kettnerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing bismuth, calcium, carbon, fluorine, and oxygen.
kombatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kombat + -ite, after the Kombat Mine in the north-central part of Namibia, from Herero [Term?] (given name).
Senses: examples: text: Kombatite is bright yellow in color with a light yellow streak.
ref: 1986, Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, page 520:
text: However, later a large number of new minerals were discovered from the manganese and iron ores, such as kombatite, asisite, johninnesite and amaraite.
ref: 2004, Gabi Schneider, The roadside geology of Namibia, page 24:
text: In ordered structures, vacancies in the PbO blocks have the form of a square (in symesite), or a double square (butterfly-like vacancies in kombatite and sahlinite).
ref: 2011, S V Krivovichev, Minerals as Advanced Materials II, page 322:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic light yellow mineral containing chlorine, lead, oxygen, and vanadium.
wikipedia: Kombat
kudriavite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Kudriavy (Russian Кудрявый (Kudrjavyj), the Russian volcano where it was discovered) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic dark reddish gray mineral containing bismuth, cadmium, indium, iron, lead, manganese, selenium, and sulfur.
leiteite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing arsenic, oxygen, and zinc.
lemanskiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lemanski + -ite, after Chet Lemanski, American mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-trapezohedral dark blue mineral containing arsenic, calcium, chlorine, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and sodium.
officewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From office + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: That, perhaps, will be the most significant, lasting impact of the business casual movement: the realization that officewear doesn't have to be uncomfortable.
ref: 2001 June 27, Robin Givhan, “At Oval Office, The Suit Rules For Bush, Formality Matters”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Clothes designed to be worn while working in an office.
Hyponyms: workwear
aeschynite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aeschynites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several basic oxide minerals of mostly titanium and niobium with either cerium, neodymium or yttrium.
aeschynites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aeschynite
brassite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic magnesium arsenate mineral from the Czech Republic.
bariosincosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bario- + sincosite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-dipyramidal mineral derived from sincosite by replacement of the calcium by barium.
brochantite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brochantites
Etymology: From the name of A. J. M. Brochant de Villiers, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic copper sulfate mineral
Synonyms: kamarezite
bariomicrolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bario- + microlite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing barium, hydrogen, niobium, oxygen, and tantalum.
brinrobertsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Brin Roberts, British mineralogist, + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and sodium.
beryllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: For its composition of beryllium, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic white mineral containing beryllium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
berzeliite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Berzelius + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing arsenic, calcium, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, and sodium.
berzelianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named in 1850 by James Dwight Dana in honour of Jöns Jakob Berzelius (1779-1848), Swedish chemist and the inventor of chemical symbol notation.
Berzelius + an + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing copper and selenium.
bario-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form the names of minerals in which an element has been replaced by barium
benyacarite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing aluminum, fluorine, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, manganese, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, and titanium.
bertossaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic light pink mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, lithium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
bannermanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing oxygen, potassium, sodium, and vanadium.
berthierine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-domatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and silicon.
brannockite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal-dihexagonal dipyramidal colorless mineral containing lithium, oxygen, potassium, silicon, and tin.
sincosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mixed calcium and vanadyl phosphate mineral that occurs in tetragonal scales or plates
Duff's device
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Tom Duff of Lucasfilm.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A particular optimized implementation of a serial copy that uses an unusual C-language construct for loop unwinding.
cyclosilicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclosilicates
Etymology: From cyclo- + silicate.
Senses: synonyms: ring silicate
glosses: Any of several classes of silicate mineral having rings of silicate anions.
Hypernyms: silicate
buergerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buergerites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A cyclosilicate mineral related to tourmaline.
papillœdema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papillœdemas
form: papillœdemata
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of papilledema.
cyclosilicates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclosilicate
fedorovskite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal brown mineral containing boron, calcium, hydrogen, magnesium, manganese, and oxygen.
derriksite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, selenium, and uranium.
chastize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chastizes
form: chastizing
form: chastized
form: chastized
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chastise.
chastized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chastize
chastizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chastize
chastizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chastize
ferropargasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ferro- + pargasite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, silicon, and sodium.
foshagite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic snow white mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
filatovite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, arsenic, copper, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, sodium, and zinc.
Arendtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Arendtian
form: most Arendtian
Etymology: From Arendt + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Hannah Arendt (1906–1975), German-American political theorist.
ten sack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ten sacks
form: tensack
form: ten-sack
Senses: glosses: A bag containing ten dollars' worth of a drug, especially marijuana.
closed form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed forms
Senses: examples: text: There is no known representation of π in closed form: each expression for it includes an integral, an infinite series, or an infinite continued fraction.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A form (expression) that does not use limits, implicitly or explicitly.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A differential form whose exterior derivative is zero.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A type of poetry with regular structure, such as meter or a rhyming pattern.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Trobar clus.
examples: text: If ω is a closed form, then dω=0.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see closed, form.
phylloclade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phylloclades
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: phyllocladium
glosses: A flattened stem, a type of cladode that has unlimited extension growth and resembles a leaf.
Derived terms: phyllocladane
cænogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cotyledons or true seed‐leaves of flowering plants, on the other hand, afford excellent examples of cænogenetic characters developed in relation to the special requirements of the embryo.
ref: 1916, Arthur Dendy, chapter XVIII, in Outlines of Evolutionary Biology, D. Appleton and Company, page 280:
glosses: Obsolete typography of caenogenetic.
sound hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sound holes
form: soundhole
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: occhio
glosses: An opening in the belly of a stringed instrument that increases its volume and enhances its tone quality.
sound holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sound hole
fecaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: faecaloid
form: fæcaloid
Etymology: From fecal + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling excrement or faeces.
flying start
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flying starts
Etymology: From sailboat races, where the ships should be 'flying' under full sail as they cross the starting line.
Senses: examples: text: The new restaurant got off to a flying start, packing out every night.
text: He puts the brakes on here and there down the next four miles of curves, but then opens her out so that she rocks and rolls through Totnes at a mile a minute for a flying start on the worst bank of the whole trip, five steep miles up to Rattery Box and four not so steep past Brent up to Wrangaton.
ref: 1956 February, W. A. Tuplin, “Hot Work on a "Star"”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
text: And six minutes in they should have got off to a flying start. Aluko caused the damage. The winger slipped away from Ledley then stood up a cross to the back post which seemed perfect for Lee Wallace charging in.
ref: 2011 December 29, Keith Jackson, “SPL: Celtic 1 Rangers 0”, in Daily Record:
glosses: An especially good start.
glosses: The start of a sports event in which the competitors are moving when they pass the starting line or initial jump point.
Related terms: with flying colours
downcome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downcomes
Etymology: From down- + come.
Senses: examples: text: And doutles, when ever the Pope shall fall, if his ruine bee not like the sudden down-come of a Towre, the Bishops, when they see him tottering, will leave him, and fall to scrambling […]
ref: 1641 May, John Milton, “The First Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, pages 9-10:
glosses: A tumbling or falling down; a sudden or heavy fall; an overthrow; ruin; destruction.
glosses: In ironmaking, a pipe that leads combustible gases downward from the top of the blast furnace to the hot-blast stoves, boilers, etc., where they are burned.
glosses: A downpour of rain.
downcome
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downcomes
form: downcoming
form: downcame
form: downcome
Etymology: From down- + come.
Senses: examples: text: Mirage-bound and moving blind, he downcomes, Up-growing from his sapling game In the laughing park, Bearing the stolen spark
ref: 1958, Botteghe Oscure - Issue 21, page 174:
text: Everthing downcame today Anne the world's spinning out and I spec we finally all going to be riding raw.
ref: 1995, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Page 242:
text: If she exes I don't know what would downcome.
ref: 2013, Jack Womack, Random Acts of Senseless Violence, →ISBN:
glosses: To come down; fall down; come or fall apart.
downpouring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downpour
downpouring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downpourings
Senses: examples: text: It snowed heavily and often, but the white downpourings were gentle, products of kindness rather than rancor — heaven applying face powder to blemishes[…]
ref: 2004, Irving Werner, Dancing Down the Street: And Other Stories, page 100:
glosses: The act of something being poured down.
downrush
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downrushes
form: downrushing
form: downrushed
form: downrushed
Etymology: From down- + rush.
Senses: examples: text: [...] For there is death in the sound of it, and a glamorous fatality, like silver pennons downrushing at sunset, or a dying fall of horns along the road to Roncevaux.
ref: 1989, Michel Gresset, Fascination: Faulkner's fiction, 1919-1936:
glosses: To rush down; rush downward.
Derived terms: downrushing
downrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downrushes
Etymology: From down- + rush.
Senses: glosses: A rushing down.
downsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: doun'səm
ipa: /ˈdaʊnsəm/
rhymes: -aʊnsəm
Forms: form: more downsome
form: most downsome
Etymology: From down + -some.
Senses: synonyms: word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: blitheless
word: dispirited
word: blue
word: bummed out
word: chapfallen
word: cheerless
word: chopfallen
word: crestfallen
word: cut up
word: damp
word: dejected
word: depressed
word: despondent
word: disgruntled
word: disconsolate
word: disheartened
word: dismal
word: doleful
word: dolesome
word: down
word: down in the dumps
word: down in the mouth
word: downcast
word: downhearted
word: downsome
word: dull
word: elegiac
word: elegious
word: forlorn
word: gloomy
word: glum
word: grief-stricken
word: grieving
word: heavy-hearted
word: heartsore
word: heartsick
word: inconsolable
word: infelicitous
word: jawfallen
word: joyless
word: lachrymose
word: lamentful
word: low
word: low-spirited
word: lugubrious
word: lumpish
word: melancholic
word: melancholy
word: miserable
word: moody
word: mopey
word: morose
word: mournful
word: passionate
word: plaintive
word: querulous
word: sad
word: saddened
word: saturnine
word: shattered
word: solemn
word: sombre
word: sorrowful
word: sorrow-ridden
word: sorrowsome
word: spiritless
word: sullen
word: threnetic
word: threnetical
word: triste
word: tristful
word: uncheerful
word: uncheery
word: unconsolable
word: unhappy
word: unlively
word: wistful
word: woe
word: woebegone
word: woeful
word: wretched
glosses: Low-spirited; melancholy.
downsteepy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downsteepy
form: most downsteepy
Senses: examples: He came to a craggy and downsteepy rock.
glosses: Having a great declivity.
darlin'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: därʹlĭn
ipa: /ˈdɑːlɪn/
enpr: därʹlĭn
ipa: /ˈdɑɹlɪn/
Etymology: G-dropping.
Senses: examples: 2001, Damien Rice, “Cheers Darlin’”, track 7 on O (2002)
glosses: Informal form of darling
parusia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek παρουσία (parousía, “presence”).
Senses: examples: text: The parusia has a twofold meaning, a spiritual and an historical, in St. John. Thus in John xiv. 18, 19 the coming Advent is resolved into […] an event already present: […]
ref: 1899, Robert Henry Charles, A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life, page 362:
text: Plato places his utopia of a just society in timeless, mythological space, whereas St Augustine locates it in the mythological future of parusia. In both cases, however, the actual reality of the political institutions is presented as casual and subordinated to the true reality of essence.
ref: 2008, Leszek Koczanowicz, Politics of Time: Dynamics of Identity in Post-communist Poland, page 23:
text: Regarding parusia, a function typifying the epistolary genre, he states, […]
ref: 2024, Stanley E. Porter, Handbook of Classical Rhetoric in the Hellenistic Period, page 178:
glosses: A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past events or the prediction of future ones.
Related terms: parousia
historical present
platyclade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platyclades
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cladode
Maybel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A nonstandard spelling of Mabel.
Senses: examples: text: It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
ref: 2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A female given name from Latin.
voluntold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of voluntell
Isa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈisə/
Etymology: From Isabel, Isabella and Isabelle.
Senses: examples: text: Even "Liz" brought little to his memory; though he said: "The name does recall the fact of a sister. But why call her Isa?" "Just as easy as Liz, or any of the lot, Eliza, Elizabeth, Betsy and Bess. Isa, that's, I think, a sort of a city name," Lee said, with a shadow of a smile.
ref: 1885, Arthur's Home Magazine, volume 53, page 165:
text: It's an awkward name: Isamay, pronounced Is-a-may. Isa is my paternal grandmother's name (shortened from Isabel) and May my maternal grandmother's (it comes, somehow, from Margaret). The amalgamation is, as you see, strictly alphabetical. Life, I feel, would have been much easier if they had chosen Maybel.
ref: 2010, Margaret Forster, Isa & May, Chatto & Windus, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Isabel or of its variant forms, sometimes also used as a formal given name.
Isa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈisə/
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic عِيسَى (ʕīsā) or anglicized from Turkish İsa, both equivalents of Jesus as a given name.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic mainly used by Muslims.
Related terms: Mount Isa
Tikkanen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tikkanens
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Tikkanen.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
paper-pusher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper-pushers
Senses: synonyms: pencil pusher
glosses: A clerk or bureaucrat, especially one with a routine job.
Related terms: push paper
desk job
pixel pusher
definite clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: definite clauses
Senses: examples: text: The clauses #92;negp#92;veeq, #92;negp#92;vee#92;negq#92;veer, and #92;negp#92;vee#92;negq#92;vee#92;negr#92;vees are examples of definite clauses. At least in classical logic these would be equivalent to the formulae p#92;rightarrowq, (p#92;wedgeq)#92;rightarrowr, and (p#92;wedgeq#92;wedger)#92;rightarrows, respectively.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Horn clause with exactly one positive literal.
shopping guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopping guides
Senses: glosses: A written guide to buying a product.
Synonyms: buying guide
buying guide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buying guides
Senses: glosses: A shopping guide.
Rajala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rajalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Rajala.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
passionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passionaries
Etymology: From Middle English passyonarye, from Medieval Latin passiōnārium, from Late Latin passiō, passiōn- (“suffering, enduring; passion”) + Latin -ārium (“-ary”).
Senses: glosses: A book in which the sufferings of saints and martyrs are described
Ranta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Finnish Ranta.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Finnish.
redip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redips
form: redipping
form: redipped
form: redipped
form: re-dip
Etymology: From re- + dip.
Senses: glosses: To dip again.
even-bishop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: even-bishops
Etymology: From Middle English *evenbishop, from Old English efenbisceop (“a co-bishop”), equivalent to even- + bishop.
Senses: glosses: A co-bishop; a coadjutor bishop.
even-christian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: even-christians
form: even christian
form: even-Christian
Etymology: From Middle English evencristen, evencristene, from Old English *efencristena (“fellow-Christian”), equivalent to even- + Christian. Cognate with Old Frisian ivinkerstena, evnkristena (“fellow-Christian”), Middle High German ebenkristen (“fellow-Christian”).
Senses: examples: text: And the more pity, that great folk should have countenance in this world to drown or hang themselves, more than their even christian.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: A fellow Christian.
even-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English even-, efen-, from Old English efn- (“equal, fellow-, co-”), from Proto-West Germanic *ebna- (“like-, level, equal-”, prefix/combining form), from Proto-Germanic *ebnaz (“equal, even”); same as Old English efn (“equal, even, level”). More at even. Cognate with Scots evin- (“equal-”), Old Frisian ivin-, evn- (“even-”), Dutch even-, Old High German eban- (“even-”).
Senses: examples: even-toed, even-numbered, Even-even nucleus
glosses: Even in number, not odd.
examples: even-down, even-tempered, even-toned
glosses: Uniform, evenly in quantity.
examples: evennight, evenmete, evenold
glosses: Prefix meaning equally, similarly, same.
examples: even-bishop, even-christian, even-servant
glosses: Prefix occurring mostly in older terms, bearing the meaning of equal in rank, joint, co-, fellow-.
haulee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haulees
Etymology: From haul + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Haulee, noun.
"Then, holding myself in position by grasping the part of the rope that falls from the other side of the fork, I unclip the loop round the trunk and let it swing clear. Next, combining the roles of hauler and haulee, I climb up, hand over hand using irons as much as possible, until I am right under one of the dividing limbs of the fork."
ref: 1943, Captain M.E.W. North, Some artificial methods of tree-climbing, The Ibis, Volume 85, page 48:
text: Haulee, noun.
"'Bizarre' and 'normal' remind me of the classic scenario of someone being hauled off to the insane asylum and an argument starts about who is insane and who is normal — hauler or haulee?"
ref: 1985, Thomas M. Paikeday, Noam Chomsky, The native speaker is dead!: an informal discussion of a linguistic myth, Paikeday Pub., page 24:
antonyms: hauler
glosses: A person or thing that is hauled or lifted.
haulees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haulee
helply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: helplier
form: more helply
form: helpliest
form: most helply
Etymology: From Middle English helply, equivalent to help + -ly. Cognate with Middle Low German hulplik (“helply”), Middle High German helflich, helfelich (“helply”).
Senses: glosses: Aiding; assisting; ready to help; helpful.
Synonyms: helpsome
Derived terms: helpliness
helpworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helpworthy
form: most helpworthy
Etymology: From help + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: Deserving or worthy of help.
helpsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more helpsome
form: most helpsome
Etymology: From help + -some. Compare Swedish hjälpsam.
Senses: glosses: Marked by a readiness or a willingness to help; characteristically helpful.
Synonyms: helply
palarstanide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Formed from palladium, arsenic, stanno-, and -ide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexagonal-trapezohedral steel gray mineral containing arsenic, palladium, and tin.
marshite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Marsh + -ite, after the Australian mineral collector C. W. Marsh, who first described it.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing copper and iodine.
maldonite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After the town of Maldon, Victoria, Australia + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing bismuth and gold.
wikipedia: Maldon, Victoria
hastite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing cobalt and selenium.
lithiophosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-pyramidal mineral containing lithium, oxygen, and phosphorus.
ravatite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after its discovered locality: Ravat Village, Tajikistan
Ravat + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-sphenoidal mineral containing carbon and hydrogen.
kolymite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hextetrahedral mineral containing copper and mercury.
bunsenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After Robert Wilhelm Bunsen, + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing nickel and oxygen, Nickel(II) oxide.
wikipedia: Robert Wilhelm Bunsen
gupeiite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing iron and silicon.
carlinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal-pyramidal mineral containing sulfur and thallium.
tobelite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, potassium, and silicon.
vandalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vandalist
quæsita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quæsitum
chernykhite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing aluminum, barium, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and vanadium.
phosphofibrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing copper, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, phosphorus, and potassium.
perroudite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Swiss mineralogist Pierre Perroud + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-disphenoidal light red mineral containing bromine, chlorine, iodine, mercury, silver, and sulfur.
pellouxite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic black mineral containing antimony, chlorine, copper, lead, oxygen, silver, and sulfur.
mitscherlichite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal mineral containing chlorine, copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and potassium.
metaschoderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + schoderite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic yellow orange mineral containing aluminum, hydrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and vanadium.
metadelrioite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meta- + delrioite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic-pinacoidal pale yellow green mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, oxygen, strontium, and vanadium.
lithiomarsturite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, lithium, manganese, oxygen, and silicon.
petarasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, silicon, sodium, and zirconium.
geerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal bluish white mineral containing copper and sulfur.
seifertite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic mineral containing oxygen and silicon.
niobocarbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From niobo- + carbide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-hexoctahedral mineral containing carbon, niobium, and tantalum.
cryptomelane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing manganese, oxygen, and potassium.
humboldtine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after German polymath Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), Humboldt + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rare monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing carbon, hydrogen, iron, and oxygen.
metastibnite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous mineral containing antimony and sulfur.
nickelphosphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nickel + phosphide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-disphenoidal mineral containing iron, nickel, and phosphorus.
athabascaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Athabasca + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic mineral containing copper and selenium.
tolbachite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic mineral containing chlorine and copper.
krutaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: krut'aite
Etymology: Named after Czech mineralogist Tomáš Krut'a (1906–1998), + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isometric-diploidal gray mineral containing copper and selenium.
gray eminence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gray eminences
form: grey eminence
Etymology: Calque of French éminence grise.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of éminence grise.
synonyms: word: éminence grise
grey eminence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grey eminences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of gray eminence.
small ad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small ads
Senses: glosses: A short, simple advertisement in a newspaper or magazine, usually collected in a section.
Related terms: classified advertisement
byte code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: byte codes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bytecode.
philopatric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more philopatric
form: most philopatric
Etymology: From philopatry + -ic.
Senses: qualifier: ethology
glosses: Of or pertaining to philopatry.
doucine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doucines
Etymology: From French doucine. Doublet of dulzaina.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A cyma or ogee.
thas
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of thass.
thass
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dhăs
ipa: /ðæs/
rhymes: -æs
Forms: form: thas
form: thash
form: thazz
Etymology: A simplifying reduction of the consonant cluster ts in that’s (“that is”): dhăts to s: dhăs.
Senses: qualifier: dialect or representing slurred or drunken speech
glosses: That’s.
talliage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talliages
Senses: examples: 1898, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution, Part 2: The After-growth of the Constitution,
In the case of the towns, to which the reckoning by hides could not be applied, the Danegeld or hidage was probably compounded for, and such composition represents no doubt the later talliage.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of tallage (“tax”).
nevvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛvi/
Forms: form: nevvies
form: nevey
form: nevvie
form: neffy
form: nevy
Etymology: Possibly from neve and/or nephew + -y, but compare (now mostly obsolete) widespread dialectal forms such as /ˈɑːɡi/, /ˈɑɹɡi/ argy (“argue”) and /ˈvali/, /ˈvæli/ vally (“value”) with /i/ for unstressed standard English /juː/.
Senses: examples: text: What signifies your sisters’ bits o’ money when they’ve got half-a-dozen nevvies and nieces to divide it among?
ref: 1860, George Eliot, chapter VI, in The Mill on the Floss, Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons:
glosses: A nephew.
glosses: A grandson.
begyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of beguile.
La Rochelle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌla ɹɒˈʃɛl/
enpr: lă' rŏ-shĕlʹ
ipa: /ˌlɑ ɹoʊˈʃɛl/
enpr: lä' rō-shĕlʹ
rhymes: -ɛl
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French La Rochelle, from Old French rochelle (literally “little rock”).
Senses: glosses: A port city, the capital of Charente-Maritime department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, on the Bay of Biscay, formerly in Poitou-Charentes.
glosses: A commune in Haute-Saône department, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France.
glosses: A locality in the Rural Municipality of De Salaberry, Manitoba, Canada.
glosses: A suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, named after the city in France.
Derived terms: New Rochelle
Rochelle salt
segmenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: segmenters
Etymology: From segment + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The segmenter now seems to burst, and the young organisms spring apart. Each organism is a hyaline, and is ready for a new cell as host.
ref: 1906, Charles Phillips Emerson, Clinical diagnosis, page 592:
text: It is then placed on the second belt and passed to the segmenters, who after removing the segments and withdrawing the seeds, replace the fruit on the first belt.
ref: 1925, Canning Age, page 326:
glosses: Something that segments or divides.
glosses: Something that segments or divides.
A software program or algorithm that divides text into segments, used in corpus linguistics.
glosses: Something that segments or divides.
A person who successfully separates their work and life.
sucrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sucriers
Etymology: From French sucrier.
Senses: glosses: A sugar producer or seller.
glosses: A sugar bowl.
comb through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: combs through
form: combing through
form: combed through
form: combed through
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: pore over
text: Israeli soldiers who combed slowly through the village on Tuesday warned visiting journalists to stay out of homes that had not been cleared, warning they could be booby-trapped with explosives.
ref: 2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: fine-tooth comb#Verb
glosses: To examine scrupulously.
Related terms: comb out
comb over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: combs over
form: combing over
form: combed over
form: combed over
Senses: glosses: To examine scrupulously.
right-back
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: right-backs
Senses: examples: text: Rooney's United team-mate Chris Smalling was given his debut at right-back and was able to adjust to the international stage in relatively relaxed fashion as Bulgaria barely posed a threat of any consequence.
ref: 2011 September 2, Phil McNulty, “Bulgaria 0-3 England”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of right back.
morale-boosting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more morale-boosting
form: most morale-boosting
Senses: examples: text: Wales claimed their first points in Euro 2012 qualifying with a morale-boosting victory in Cardiff over former Group G joint leaders Montenegro.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
glosses: That lifts the morale (of an individual or a group).
Related terms: morale-booster
break through
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks through
form: breaking through
form: broke through
form: broken through
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see break, through.
examples: text: We are in a drought of famous influencers, and it may be here to stay. People just aren’t breaking through online the way they used to, becoming household names and garnering real, mainstream fame.
ref: 2024 June 26, Stephanie McNeal, “Influencers Aren’t Getting Famous Like They Used To”, in Glamour:
glosses: To gain popularity.
examples: text: Montenegro gave Wales a scare in the first minute at the Cardiff City Stadium when Stevan Jovetic broke through, only to screw his shot well wide.
ref: 2011 September 2, “Wales 2-1 Montenegro”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To penetrate the defence of the opposition.
glosses: To make or force a way through (a barrier)
migraine headache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: migraine headaches
Senses: glosses: A migraine.
mungbean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mungbeans
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mung bean.
corpora cavernosa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpus cavernosum
Mostar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large city on the Neretva river in southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
imaginary unit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imaginary units
Etymology: So named because it takes on the role of unit for the imaginary part of a complex number.
Senses: examples: text: In Section 4.3 we introduced the imaginary unit i with (i)²#61;-1, in the complex space domain. In section 4.4 we introduced the complex unit j with (j)²#61;-1, in connection with the time dependency of the shape (4.4.16) of the swimming profile. These different imaginary units have no interaction, we leave unaltered the product ij.
ref: 2013, J. A. Sparenberg, Hydrodynamic Propulsion and Its Optimization, Springer, page 183:
text: 2014, Dennis G. Zill, Warren S. Wright, Advanced Engineering Mathematics, Ascend Learning (Jones & Bartlett Learning), 5th Edition, page 793,
We now simply say that i is the imaginary unit and define it by the property i²=-1. Using the imaginary unit, we build a general complex number out of two real numbers.
text: Consider now in addition to the given #92;H#92;subset#92;mathbb#123;O#125;, one of the totally imaginary units not contained in #92;H, and note that #123;SU#125;(2) acts transitively on the set of totally imaginary units of a quaternion algebra; as we are assuming #92;alpha#92;notin#92;H, we may in fact assume that #92;mathbb#123;O#125;#61;#92;H#92;oplus#92;H' with #92;alpha#92;in#92;H'.
ref: 2021, Bruce Hunt, Locally Mixed Symmetric Spaces, Springer, page 123:
topics: complex-analysis
mathematics
number-theory
sciences
qualifier: quaternion theory
glosses: An imaginary number (in the case of complex numbers, usually denoted i) that is defined as a solution to the equation x²=-1.
amstallite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the type locality, Amstall, Austria + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic-prismatic colorless mineral containing aluminum, calcium, chlorine, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
anapaite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian Анапа (Anapa) + -ite, named for the town near where it was discovered.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A triclinic-pinacoidal mineral containing calcium, hydrogen, iron, oxygen, and phosphorus.
andorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andorites
Etymology: Named for Hungarian amateur mineralogist Andor von Semsey + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white mineral containing antimony, lead, silver, and sulfur.
Derived terms: quatrandorite
senandorite
anduoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Anduo + -ite, after the region of Tibet where it is found.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal lead gray mineral containing arsenic, osmium, and ruthenium.
ankangite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ankang + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-dipyramidal black mineral containing barium, chromium, oxygen, titanium, and vanadium.
apachite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Apache + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A monoclinic blue mineral containing copper, hydrogen, oxygen, and silicon.
apuanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: ? + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tetragonal-ditetragonal dipyramidal black mineral containing antimony, iron, oxygen, and sulfur.
argentopyrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From argento- + pyrite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An orthorhombic-dipyramidal mineral containing iron, silver, and sulfur.
armangite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of arsenic + manganese + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A trigonal-rhombohedral black mineral containing arsenic, carbon, hydrogen, manganese, and oxygen.