cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
crises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɹaɪsiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of crise
ignoration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ignore + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The state of being ignorant
glosses: The action of ignoring something, or the state of being ignored
Derived terms: ignoration of the elench
stomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈstoʊmətə/
Senses: glosses: plural of stoma
octopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: (see more in main entry)
synonyms: octopodes
octopi
glosses: plural of octopus
Related terms: octopi
octopodes
octopuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of octopus
recced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recce'd
form: recceed
Senses: examples: text: From April 25-27, I recced the approach to Baima Shan, an unclimbed peak of around 5500 meters on the west side of the road between Zhongdian and Dechin.
ref: 1999, Damien Gildea, edited by Christian Beckwith, American Alpine Journal 1999, →ISBN, page 427:
text: Having previously recced the forward ground, Acreman decided that guns C4 and D4 would best serve the defence of the minefield and strip by their deployment covering the bridge across the Anabila Creek and the adjacent beach.
ref: 1998, Peter Brune, The Spell Broken: Exploding the Myth of Japanese Invincibility, →ISBN, page 90:
text: Fifty yards before they reached it, Bob jumped out, recced the road up ahead and waived them on, boarding the pickup truck as it turned onto the road
ref: 2002, Johnny John Heinz, The Signature of a Voice, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Each area recced contained two target complexes - two stationary armoured vehicles, and a row of five on the move with two or three security vehicles.
ref: 1978, Peter Watson, War on the Mind: The Military Uses and Abuses of Psychology, →ISBN:
text: You have recced all the locations and you know that the background for the architect will work best if he is looking left with the flats rising up on the left of shot.
ref: 1999, Colin Hart, Television Program Making: Everything You Need to Know to Get Started, →ISBN, page 104:
text: In such cases I expected that radiating toilet paths would be a give-away and since a base had to be close to water the areas to be recced should be relatively small, particularly in the dry season.
ref: 2003, P. J. H. Petter-Bowyer, Winds of Destruction, →ISBN, page 175:
glosses: simple past and past participle of recce
recced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recc
uteruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uterus
Related terms: uteri
uteri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːtəɹaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of uterus
Related terms: uteruses
kipsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipsies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kipsy.
kipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipsies
Etymology: From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: glosses: A house or shelter.
kipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kipsies
form: kipsying
form: kipsied
form: kipsied
form: kipsie
Etymology: From kips (“plural of kip (lodging-house or sleep)”) + -y (“diminutive suffix”).
Senses: examples: text: “[…]It′s some kind of boarding-house that she kipsies in—”
ref: 2007, Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push, page 155:
glosses: To board, to reside.
kipsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kipsies
form: kibsey
Senses: glosses: A basket.
ki-yi
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪjaɪ/
Forms: form: ki-yis
form: ki-yiing
form: ki-yied
form: ki-yied
form: ki-yi'd
form: ki-yi'd
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: to howl like a dog
ki-yi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪjaɪ/
Forms: form: ki-yis
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: the howl of a dog; a whoop or similar shout of excitement
long-established
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-established
form: longer-established
form: most long-established
form: longest-established
form: long established
Senses: examples: text: First, the employments must be well known and long established in the neighbourhood ;
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations:
text: The age in which we live is remarkable for searching out, and sifting to the bottom, the most long-established opinions which have come down to us.
ref: 1870, George Herbert, “The Primitive Church—Where to Find it”, in The Church. Sermons Preached on Sunday Afternoons in the Cathedral of Limerick, page 116:
text: Some long-established trains have disappeared from the new timetables, including the through trains between Birkenhead and Margate, and York and Bournemouth. These will be restored in May, [...].
ref: 1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 102:
text: During Wave I formations tended to merge with their contemporaries, whereas during Wave II acquisition by longer-established unions was the predominant pattern.
ref: 1995, Jeremy Waddington, The Politics of Bargaining:
synonyms: well-established
glosses: That has been in existence for a long time.
lameter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lameters
Senses: glosses: A cripple.
encoder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encoders
Etymology: From encode + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device or algorithm used to encode something.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sensor which converts a position into an electronic signal.
Derived terms: autoencoder
re-encoder
rotary encoder
shaft encoder
streaming encoder
recce'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recced
form: recceed
Senses: examples: text: We recce'd Davis-Monthan first. There were a dozen C-130 birds in the graveyard.
ref: 1994, Richard Marcinko, Rogue Warrior:
text: Although the Cambodian footage was to be a small part of the whole, Ron wanted everything. Each location that we recce'd was better for him than the last.
ref: 2004, Michael Freeman, Cambodia:
text: I recce'd my range, which was intended to be used for pairs fire and manoeuvre, and generally got on with it.
ref: 2004, Harry Foxley, Marking Time: An Account of Ordinary Soldiering:
glosses: simple past of recce
examples: text: A stout metal fence prevents any further exploration, but at the time the walk was recce'd you could hear water pounding away below.
ref: 2005, Les Lumsdon, Marin Smith, Best Pub Walks in the White Peak: 30 Classic Peak District Rambles:
glosses: past participle of recce
make-ready
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: make-readies
form: makeready
Etymology: From make + ready.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A sheet of paper on which overlays are pasted for printing.
topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: The process of preparing such sheets.
synonyms: set-up#Noun
setup
glosses: The process of preparing something for use.
topics: media
printing
publishing
synonyms: set-up#Noun
setup
glosses: The process of preparing something for use.
The process of preparing a printing press for a print run.
make-readies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of make-ready
n-adic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From n + -adic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of the order n.
topics: chemistry
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having a valency of n.
Related terms: p-adic number
on the ground
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: “It’s so obvious that he has no clue as to what is really happening on the ground,” she added.
ref: 2023 July 15, Brooks Barnes, quoting Fran Drescher, “In Hollywood, the Strikes Are Just Part of the Problem”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Directly in an area of interest or active operations; in the field.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, the, ground.
Synonyms: on the spot
in situ
Derived terms: eyes on the ground
facts on the ground
feet on the ground
boots on the ground
Related terms: ground truth
skimmington
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skimmingtons
form: skimmity-ride
form: skimitry
Senses: glosses: A person impersonating his/her offending spouse in a procession with the aim of ridicule.
glosses: A ludicrous procession for the purpose of ridiculing a person's offending spouse.
glosses: A cuckold.
squarehead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskwɛəhɛd/
ipa: /ˈskwɛɚhɛd/
Forms: form: squareheads
Etymology: From square + head.
Senses: glosses: An honest person; a non-criminal.
examples: text: The squarehead bent his chin to his breast and said, "Very well. In an hour."
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), page 771:
text: "If I'm good enough to talk about I be good enough to drink with," Peters shouted. "Fritz! Squarehead! Two phlegm-cutters here."
ref: 2022, Brian Penton, Landtakers: The Story of an Epoch:
glosses: A foreigner of Germanic origin, especially a German, Dutch, or Scandinavian person.
glosses: A socially conventional or boring person.
stape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stapes
Senses: glosses: A staple
stickybeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkibiːk/
Forms: form: stickybeaks
Etymology: From sticky + beak; presumably from the metaphor of sticking one′s beak (“nose”) where it is not wanted (compare nosy).
Senses: examples: text: I walked back towards the grinning stickybeak who took a few steps backwards before fleeing for the steamy safety of his laundry.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 109:
text: Babies of this age are delightful stickybeaks, vitally interested in everything and everyone around them.
ref: 1994, Robin Barker, Baby Love, Pan Macmillan Australia, published 2009, page 419:
text: 1999, Kate Grenville, The Idea of Perfection, 2012, Text Publishing, unnumbered page,
And I like a chat, kind of thing.
She glanced at Harley.
Plus I′m a stickybeak, as you know.
text: Vanessa took hold of his hand. ‘She′s a dear friend as well as my business manager and,’ she giggled as she admitted her agent′s greatest flaw, ‘when it comes to her clients, the world′s biggest stickybeak.’
ref: 2004, Lynne Wilding, Outback Sunset, published 2010, unnumbered page:
glosses: An overly inquisitive person, a nosey parker.
examples: text: Want me to have a stickybeak at that?
text: Shall we take a stickybeak at that shop?
text: 2009, Australia Justine Vaisutis, Lonely Planet, page 239,
It′s worth popping into the bar for a stickybeak.
text: Between properties, we stopped off for tea with my grandmother and my aunt, and my mother produced her stash of floor plans like enemy intelligence: ‘Have a stickybeak at this!’
ref: 2009, Anna Goldsworthy, Piano Lessons, published 2011, page 109:
text: God knows what the other patients and staff made of a mob of blackfellas rocking up to visit one of our own, in a private room, to have a stickybeak at the new bub.
ref: 2010, Kate Howarth, Ten Hail Marys, page 4:
text: When I patted the pockets of them shorts there wasn't any phone.
"It's in here on the table," said the Irishman.
"And you had a good stickybeak I bet."
ref: 2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p.146
glosses: An act of looking at or watching something, especially something which does not directly concern the one looking.
Synonyms: sense: overly inquisitive person
word: nosey parker
sense: overly inquisitive person
word: snoop
sense: act of looking
word: look-see
sense: act of looking
word: quick peek
stickybeak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪkibiːk/
Forms: form: stickybeaks
form: stickybeaking
form: stickybeaked
form: stickybeaked
Etymology: From sticky + beak; presumably from the metaphor of sticking one′s beak (“nose”) where it is not wanted (compare nosy).
Senses: examples: text: Two of the more arrogant birds actually inspected the inside of the tent, clucking away to each other as they stickybeaked.
ref: 2007, Kevin Hallewell, Woop Woop, page 104:
text: 2007, Harry Hill, He Was My Father, Rosenberg Publishing, Australia, page 124,
When my father had shorn for the Lindleys, I had spent a day at the shed, stickybeaking at everything but making sure I didn′t upset shed activities.
text: I wasn′t stickybeaking or anything, it was at the main bar and your mother mustn′t have realised I was in my usual spot.
ref: 2009, Bryce Courtenay, The Story of Danny Dunn, volume 1, ReadHowYouWant, published 2011, 2, page 202:
glosses: To pry or snoop.
tappy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tappy
form: most tappy
Etymology: From tap + -y.
Senses: examples: a tappy noise
glosses: Resembling a tapping sound.
tappy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tappies
form: tappying
form: tappied
form: tappied
Etymology: See tappish.
Senses: glosses: to lie close to the ground; to lie low or skulk
recceed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recced
form: recce'd
Senses: examples: text: Issued warning order to my troops for next operation. Recceed the general area at Guthuma and Motai BOPs.
ref: 1982, Hāsāna Hāphijura Rahamāna, Bāṃlādeśera svādhīnatā yuddha: dalilapatra:
text: 2005: Delhi Newsline, Bombers avoided city, stuck to outskirts read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060320125051/http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=157037 on 23 Sep 06.
The interrogation of reporter-turned-terrorist Tariq Ahmed Dar has revealed that the four bombers, all foreign nationals, set up base on the fringes of Delhi and only recceed the blast sites days before the attack.
glosses: simple past of recce
examples: 2005: Coral Cay Conservation, April Update - Malaysia Tropical Forest Project read at https://web.archive.org/web/20060930095521/http://www.coralcay.org/archives/2005/04/01/10.37.48.php on 23 Sep 06.
Two exciting new sites were recceed in preparation for camps in the near future - firstly Bintang Hill, a large hill covered in some nice lowland tropical forest; secondly Tasik Borumbak, another wetland site comprising of mangrove, forest and lake habitats.
glosses: past participle of recce
Koepanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Koepangers
Etymology: From Koepang + -er, from the older spelling of Kupang, a city in West Timor.
Senses: examples: 1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess
Up above, the tender kept a sharp eye on the Koepanger paying out the air-pipe, while attending to the life-line himself and the management of the lugger.
2004, William McGregor, The Languages of the Kimberley, Western Australia
Pidginised forms of English were also in use between whites and the other ethnic groups employed in the pearling industry, including Malays, Japanese, and Koepangers […]
glosses: A Timorese person.
Koepanger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Koepang + -er, from the older spelling of Kupang, a city in West Timor.
Senses: examples: 1939, The Works of Ion L. Idriess
Upi, the Koepanger charm doctor, slept in the same room.
glosses: Timorese.
PHY
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /faɪ/
Forms: form: PHYs
form: PHY's
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An electronic circuit implementing the physical layer of the OSI model.
recces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: "I particularly asked for you, in view of the excellent track recces you carried out on the Siamese frontier," Dalley said.
ref: 1958, Dennis Holman, Noone of the Ulu:
text: They would do more detailed recces later. Phineas understood the 'special' operation' more fully now.
ref: 2006, James Scott, The Sweaties:
glosses: plural of recce
recces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He recces the routes, although you don't have to follow them. Some of the roads he finds though are just superb, and often in places you would not normally expect.
ref: 2002: Funkybill, poster on Honda VFR Club website, Strompet read at http://www.hondavfrclub.org/forum/showpost.php?p=62708&postcount=26 on 23 Sep 06
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recce
S.T.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of subject to, used in optimisation problems.
Phy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Phys
Etymology: Derived from Khmer ភី (phii).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
turron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈɹɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: turrones
form: turrons
form: turrón
form: touron
Etymology: From Spanish turrón, probably from Latin torrere (“to roast”).
Senses: examples: text: These loaves or blocks of turron are frequently a foot long and have the dimensions of American packaged bread. They come in many flavors, and may be pink, white, yellow, chocolate, green, or a stomach-churning blend of all five colors. […] The ubiquitous turrones in shop windows, frequently sliced to show the prospective consumer the texture and color pattern, range from what most generously could be described as uninspired to confections of a caliber hard to resist.
ref: 1982 December 26, Robert Packard, “Spain's Temptation for the Holidays”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A Spanish form of nougat made from almonds and honey.
Related terms: Toblerone
decked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deck
decked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛkt/
rhymes: -ɛkt
Forms: form: more decked
form: most decked
Senses: glosses: Adorned or embellished.
glosses: Having a specified number or type of decks.
Derived terms: half-decked
multidecked
undecked
jackknives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackknife
jadedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jadedly
form: most jadedly
Etymology: From jaded + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As all the unemployed writers gathered for the first meeting, someone jadedly welcomed everyone to `Generic Sketch Show Pilot Number 417'.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 127:
glosses: In a jaded manner.
jadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From jaded + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] It’s just a reset, like there’s a knob at the back of your head that’s tilted toward jadedness. Turn it back to wonder.”
ref: 2020 December 24, Elisabeth Egan, “Aimee Nezhukumatathil Wants You to Get Some Fresh Air”, in The New York Times:
text: Perhaps this absence of sentiment is the organic jadedness of being in the industry, 25 years of seeing the sausage get made.
ref: 2024 September 27, Marcus Thompson II, “The A’s are leaving Oakland — good riddance to an inept owner and MLB enablers”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The state of being jaded or worn out.
jaggedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jaggedly
form: most jaggedly
Etymology: From jagged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a jagged manner.
jaggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaggednesses
Etymology: From jagged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Although his existential thoughts seem to have been tossed onto the page in helter-skelter fashion, what Gilboa does here is to open his mind and heart to the reader through verbal jaggedness and poetic unneatness.
ref: 1994, Warren Bargad, "To Write the Lips of Sleepers": The Poetry of Amir Gilboa, page 232:
glosses: The state of being jagged.
jam-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jam-packs
form: jam-packing
form: jam-packed
form: jam-packed
Etymology: From jam + pack.
Senses: examples: text: ScotRail General Manager Margaret Hoey told me at the reopening that she wanted to add shops but didn't "want to jam-pack the station".
ref: 2021 October 20, Philip Haigh, “At a crossroads... and being pulled in different directions”, in RAIL, number 942, page 51:
glosses: To pack or fill very tightly.
Related terms: jam-packed
jam-packed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jam-packed
form: most jam-packed
Etymology: From jam + packed.
Senses: examples: text: Summer holidays: 'Staycationers' alight at London Paddington from a full train from the West Country. No matter what time of day, the trains are invariably jam-packed when they arrive at a London terminus.
ref: 2021 December 29, “Our railway from behind the lens...”, in RAIL, number 947, page 38, photo caption:
glosses: Packed or filled tightly.
jam-packed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From jam + packed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jam-pack
capitular
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capitulars
Etymology: From Late Latin capitulāre, capitulārium, capitulārius, from Latin capitulum (“a small head, a chapter”).
Senses: glosses: an act passed in a chapter
examples: text: The chapter itself, and all its members or capitulars.
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: a member of a chapter
glosses: the head or prominent part
capitular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English capituler, from Medieval Latin capitulāris, from Latin capitulum (“a small head, a chapter”).
Senses: examples: text: the capitular process of a vertebra
topics: anatomy
biology
botany
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: pertaining to a capitulum
examples: text: From the pope to the member of the capitular body.
ref: 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity:
glosses: Pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter.
Derived terms: capitularly
circumcapitular
coelocapitular
Aki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Kōchi Prefecture, Japan.
Pim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
pasting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Forms: form: pastings
Senses: glosses: The act of applying paste to something, or affixing something using paste.
glosses: A defeat; a beating.
pasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪstɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪstɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of paste
pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
Senses: glosses: plural of paste
pastes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /peɪsts/
rhymes: -eɪsts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paste
conciliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈsɪlɪə/
Forms: form: more conciliar
form: most conciliar
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin conciliāris.
Senses: examples: text: The next few years saw increasing tension between those wishing to develop this conciliar mechanism and successive popes seeking to build on the papacy's newly restored integrity.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, New York: Penguin Books, published 2011, →ISBN, page 560:
text: This was the era which witnessed the beginnings of the conciliar movement, which sought to subordinate the papacy to the decisions of Church Councils.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms: The History of Half-Forgotten Europe, London: Allen Lane, →ISBN, page 347:
synonyms: councillary
glosses: Of or pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
Derived terms: conciliarism
conciliarist
conciliarity
conciliarly
conciliar republic
postconciliar
preconciliar
rubber bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The original form of contract bridge; so called because bonuses are awarded for scoring sufficient points to win games and thereby a rubber, which is the best of three games. Compare to duplicate bridge.
trademarked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Registered as a trademark.
trademarked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trademark
copular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑpjələ(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɒpjələ(ɹ)
Etymology: From copula + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: a copular verb
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Being or relating to a copula.
Derived terms: copularly
noncopular
corear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corears
form: corearing
form: coreared
form: coreared
Etymology: From co- + rear.
Senses: glosses: To rear or bring up (children) together.
corresponder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corresponders
Etymology: From correspond + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who corresponds, or writes letters.
Vegliote
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vegliote
form: most Vegliote
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Vegliot dialect
Vegliote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vegliotes
form: Vegliot
Senses: glosses: The northern dialect of Dalmatian, spoken on the island of Veglia.
Vegliot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vegliote
Etymology: From Veglia, the name of an island where the language was spoken.
Senses: glosses: The northern dialect of Romance Dalmatic, spoken on the island of Veglia.
Vegliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vegliots
form: Vegliote
Etymology: From Veglia, the name of an island where the language was spoken.
Senses: glosses: A person who spoke Vegliot (now extinct).
Vegliot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vegliot
form: most Vegliot
form: Vegliote
Etymology: From Veglia, the name of an island where the language was spoken.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the Vegliot dialect or the people who spoke this dialect.
reciprocal pronoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reciprocal pronouns
Senses: examples: text: The English reciprocal pronouns are each other and one another.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pronoun referring to an antecedent in the plural, and expressing a mutual relation.
Synonyms: word: reciprocal pronoun
Hypernyms: word: pronoun
Related terms: word: pronoun
cesura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: cesuras
form: cesurae
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of caesura.
countesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: genitive of countesse
glosses: plural of countess
glosses: plural of countesse
duchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duchess
glosses: plural of duchesse
glosses: genitive of duchesse
duchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of duchess
princesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of princess
baronesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baroness
sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sauce
sauces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sauce
vivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viva
Samson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsæmsən/
rhymes: -æmsən
Forms: form: Sampson
Etymology: From Middle English Sampson, Sampsoun, Samson, from Latin Samson, from Ancient Greek Σαμψών (Sampsṓn), from Hebrew שִׁמְשׁוֹן.
Senses: examples: text: And Delilah ſaid to Samſon, Tel me, I pray thee, wherein thy great ſtrength lyeth, and wherewith thou mighteſt be bound, to afflict thee.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Judges 16:6:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An Israelite judge in the Old Testament who performed feats of strength against the Philistines but was betrayed by Delilah his mistress.
glosses: Any very strong man.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: An English surname derived from the given name, or from Samuel + son.
Derived terms: Apolonio Samson
Samson fox
Samson post
biblicists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biblicist
contract bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A card game in which four players, forming two partnerships, first bid then play by taking tricks.
programmed function key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: programmed function keys
form: PF key
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function key whose function can be assigned by the user or by a program.
PF key
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PF keys
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of programmed (or programmable) function key.
propositional function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: propositional functions
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An expression containing algebraic symbols that serve to represent words or other elements of a sentence or proposition
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: equivalent propositional function
psi function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psi functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function of a complex variable obtained by differentiating the logarithm of a gamma function; the digamma function
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The Schrödinger wave function
quadratic function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadratic functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value is the solution of a quadratic polynomial
radial distribution function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial distribution functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A function which specifies the average density of atoms, molecules etc in three dimensions from a given point.
Hypernyms: distribution function
radicofunctional name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radicofunctional names
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The name of an organic compound that uses two words, the first specifying the radical and the second the functional group, e.g. "alkyl halide" or "benzoyl peroxide".
positives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of positive
random function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function whose formula is always the same, but whose initial value is chosen at random from a set of possible values (its domain).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function chosen at random from a set of functions.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function that returns a random or pseudo-random value that is distributed according to a specific probability distribution associated with the function.
rational function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rational functions
Senses: examples: text: Our first problem is that of interpolation in prescribed points to a given function by a rational function whose poles are given.
ref: 1960, J. L. Walsh, Interpolation and Approximation by Rational Functions in the Complex Domain, 3rd edition, American Mathematical Society, page 184:
text: By Theorem 2.3.2., we have that the right-hand side of this equation can be equal to a rational function only if that rational function is equal to zero.
ref: 1970, Ellis Horowitz, Algorithms for Symbolic Integration of Rational Functions, University of Wisconsin-Madison, page 24:
text: Let #92;mathcal#123;C#125; be the class of continuous maps of #92;mathbb#123;C#125;#95;#92;infty into itself and let #92;mathcal#123;R#125; be the subclass of rational functions.[…]Now #92;mathcal#123;R#125; is a closed subset of #92;mathcal#123;C#125;#95;#92;infty because if the rational functions R#95;n converge uniformly to R on the complex sphere, then R is analytic on the sphere and so it too is rational.
ref: 2000, Alan F. Beardon, Iteration of Rational Functions: Complex Analytic Dynamical Systems, Springer, page 45:
topics: algebraic-geometry
complex-analysis
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function expressible as the quotient of two (coprime) polynomials (and which thus has poles at a finite, discrete set of points which are the roots of the denominator).
Hypernyms: function
meromorphic function
Hyponyms: proper rational function
bank statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank statements
Senses: examples: text: Turian Merchant: This isn't a proof of purchase.
Human Customer: It's a bank statement. It shows that I bought something from you and when I bought it.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Citadel:
synonyms: account statement
glosses: A communication from a bank to a person holding an account in that bank, usually issued monthly, detailing the value of the holdings in that account and the effects of all transactions occurring with respect to that account.
bank statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bank statement
recursive function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recursive functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any function that uses recursion and can call itself until a certain condition is met.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value may be obtained using a finite number of operations using a precisely specified algorithm.
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: partial recursive function
primitive recursive function
regular function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regular functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a meromorphic function
restricted function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restricted functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A function used in an operating system that is not available to application programs.
application program
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: application programs
form: application programme
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer program written to solve a particular problem or to be used in a particular user-defined application.
Related terms: application software
buffalo-berry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buffalo-berries
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buffaloberry.
sample function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sample functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Any function used to obtain a set of samples from a given population
scalar function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalar functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose domain is a vector space and whose value is its scalar field
Hypernyms: function
scattering function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scattering functions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function which describes the intensity of scattered radiation in any given direction
buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtəɹd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of butter
buttered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtəɹd/
Forms: form: more buttered
form: most buttered
Senses: examples: text: hot buttered toast
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Spread with butter.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: Of a turn, achieved by the buttering action.
Derived terms: buttered beer
cocoa-buttered
have one's bread buttered on both sides
hot buttered rum
nonbuttered
prebuttered
unbuttered
Related terms: nosebuttered
tailbuttered
swoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswʊʃ/
ipa: /ˈswʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: swooshes
form: swooshing
form: swooshed
form: swooshed
Etymology: From imitation of the sound.
Senses: examples: text: The fishing rod swooshed through the air.
glosses: To move with a rushing or swirling sound
swoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswʊʃ/
ipa: /ˈswʉʃ/
rhymes: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: swooshes
Etymology: From imitation of the sound.
Senses: examples: text: "What the hell is a swoosh?" the McDonald's rep asked. "You know — a swoosh. Like when you go fast. 'Swoosh!'"
ref: 2005, Frank Arricale, Obviously Not Clairvoyant, →ISBN, page 209:
glosses: A swooshing movement or sound
examples: text: Even TV announcers at the last Winter Olympics were spotted with a swoosh on their jackets.
ref: 2000, Jack Trout, Steve Rivkin, The Power of Simplicity, →ISBN, page 147:
text: lf, on the other hand, you're one of the thousands of graphic designers whose education was based primarily in the art department; almost all of your clients have MBAs and neutral blue swoosh logos […]
ref: 2009, Jennifer Visocky O'Grady, Kenneth Visocky O'Grady, A Designer's Research Manual, page 7:
text: Create various patterns and swooshes in the wet gesso with the old credit card or any other texture tool you choose.
ref: 2011, Carmen Torbus, The Artist Unique, page 39:
glosses: A pattern or logo suggesting a swooshing movement.
Derived terms: swooshtika
swooshy
Schrödinger wave function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Schrödinger wave functions
Etymology: From Erwin Schrödinger, Austrian physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A function which is a solution of Schrödinger's wave equation; the psi function
wikipedia: Erwin Schrödinger
chacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chack
chacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chack
chacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chack
simple function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple functions
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any complex-valued measurable function whose range is finite.
Hypernyms: complex function
measurable function
single-valued function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single-valued functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function in which each point in the domain maps to just one point in the range
staff function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staff functions
Senses: topics: management
glosses: Any secondary business activity that supports the line functions of a business, but does not directly affect customers or profits
symmetric function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: symmetric functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function, of multiple variables, whose value is independent of the order of the variables, i.e. f(a,b) = f(b,a).
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: cyclosymmetric function
elementary symmetric function
cat o' nine tails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cats o' nine tails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat-o'-nine-tails.
trigonometric cofunction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trigonometric cofunctions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Either of a pair of trigonometric functions that have equal values when their arguments are complementary angles, e.g. sine and cosine.
Hypernyms: trigonometric function
marog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sotho marog.
Senses: examples: text: https://web.archive.org/web/20060811214247/http://www.fao.org/ag/AGP/AGPC/doc/Show/SAfrica/sapaper/saessay.htm
Amaranthus hybridus (Figure 38) and other Amaranthus species are either grown for their seeds (Inca wheat) or harvested as spinach (marog).
text: 2003, http://www.dispatch.co.za/2003/04/12/features/GARDEN.HTM
HERE in sunny South Africa amaranth is better known as marog and is used extensively as a nourishing 'spinach' vegetable.
text: Other materials used by the Tsongas are readily available from the environment. The inhabitants of the kraal plant their own mealies and store them, use sorghum in beer production, marog (wild spinach) is eaten, porridge is made from mealies and marula nuts are eaten when other food is scarce.
ref: 2006, https://web.archive.org/web/20060924163249/http://www.tzaneeninfo.co.za/infodetail.asp?idpass=390
glosses: Any of several edible plants of the Amaranthus genus, used locally in South Africa as spinach.
truth function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truth functions
form: truth-function
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A Boolean function whose value is interpreted as truth or falsity
Related terms: truth table
Turing computable function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing computable functions
Etymology: From Alan Turing, English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose value may be computed using a Turing machine.
vasoconstrictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasoconstrictors
Etymology: From vaso- + constrictor.
Senses: examples: text: “Anyone have any nasal spray?” I asked. “Afrin specifically?” Afrin is basically neosynephrine, a potent vasoconstrictor, and would be ideal to put on a tissue stuffed deeply in the nose.
ref: 2019 November 16, Jay Wellons, “The Danger of Traveling Light”, in New York Times:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
synonyms: vasopressor
antonyms: vasodilator
vasodepressor
glosses: Any substance that causes vasoconstriction.
Related terms: vasoactive § Related terms
user-defined function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: user-defined functions
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A program or subroutine, provided by the user rather than being built into the system, that may return a value and may take input parameters.
Related terms: predefined function
vector function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any function whose range is n-dimensional
Hypernyms: function
work function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: work functions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The minimum energy needed to remove an electron from the surface of a material
glosses: A social gathering hosted by an employer for their employees to attend; a formal party.
Derived terms: electronic work function
thermionic work function
vasoconstriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vasoconstrictions
Etymology: From vaso- + constriction.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
antonyms: vasodilation
glosses: Constriction or narrowing of a blood vessel.
Hyponyms: arterioconstriction
venoconstriction
Related terms: vasoactive § Related terms
jangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: janglers
Etymology: From jangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who, or something that jangles.
glosses: A chatterer.
glosses: Someone who argues noisily.
janitorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒæn.ɪˈtɔːɹ.i.əl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more janitorial
form: most janitorial
Etymology: From janitor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a janitor.
Derived terms: janitorially
nonjanitorial
jarful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jarfuls
form: jarsful
Etymology: From jar + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as a jar will hold
jarringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more jarringly
form: most jarringly
Etymology: From jarring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: But Mr. Kleinzahler, 55, noted both for poems that jarringly marry the high and the low and for keeping his distance from the New York illuminati, has found himself late in his career in a rather awkward spot: the cusp of respectability in the cliquish world of poetry.
ref: 2005 February 8, Timothy Williams, “In Addition to His Pugnacity and Charm, He Can Write Poetry”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In a jarring manner.
jato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jatos
Etymology: Initialism of jet-assisted takeoff.
Senses: glosses: An auxiliary jet engine in a detachable unit that provides extra power for the takeoff of an aircraft
glosses: A takeoff assisted by such a unit
glosses: A RATO unit or RATO takeoff - a rocket assisted take-off
JATO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtəʊ
Forms: form: JATOs
head_nr: 1
Senses: head_nr: 2
synonyms: word: RATO
glosses: Acronym of jet-assisted takeoff, a method of using booster rockets to allow heavily-loaded aircraft to lift off more quickly and use less runway length for takeoff.
examples: text: An enduring urban legend claims that someone in Arizona strapped a JATO to their car and crashed it into a cliff.
head_nr: 2
glosses: One of the rockets used for the above purpose.
Synonyms: word: RATO
word: RATOG
jawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑd/
Etymology: From jaw + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having jaws.
glosses: Having a specified type of jaw.
Derived terms: blue-jawed
jimber-jawed
jut-jawed
keel-jawed needlefish
lantern jawed
lantern-jawed
long-jawed spider
pig-jawed
skewjawed
slack-jawed
square-jawed
wapper-jawed
whomper-jawed
whopper-jawed
jawed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔːd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɔd/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɑd/
Etymology: From jaw + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jaw
jazzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæzd/
rhymes: -æzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jazz
jazzed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒæzd/
rhymes: -æzd
Forms: form: more jazzed
form: most jazzed
Senses: synonyms: jazzified
jazzed up
glosses: Played in a jazz style.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:enthusiastic
text: Think about a time in your life when you had those three things in abundance; maybe when you were really locked in on hitting a sales goal or completing a project you were totally jazzed about.
ref: 2012, Roger Seip, Train Your Brain For Success:
synonyms: psyched
stoked
glosses: Very enthusiastic or excited.
Derived terms: jazzed-up
jazzed up
unjazzed
jazzed up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jazzed-up
form: more jazzed up
form: most jazzed up
Senses: glosses: Made more lively, colourful or modern.
examples: text: I'm too jazzed up by the coffee to sleep.
ref: 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest:
glosses: Energetic.