cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
monstrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑnstɹəs/
ipa: /ˈmɒnstɹəs/
Forms: form: more monstrous
form: most monstrous
Etymology: From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin mōnstrōsus. Compare monstruous. By surface analysis, monster + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: So bad a death argues a monstrous life.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: Hideous or frightful.
examples: text: a monstrous height
text: The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragœdy of Othello, the Moore of Venice. […] (First Quarto), London: […] N[icholas] O[kes] for Thomas Walkley, […], published 1622, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 21:
text: Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.
ref: 1901 December 20, “The Ringing of Plants”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 21, page 663:
glosses: Enormously large.
examples: text: The irregular and monstrous births
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], chapter 3, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
ref: 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living:
glosses: Freakish or grotesque.
examples: text: Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.
ref: 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
glosses: Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
examples: text: The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.
glosses: A severe insult that is used to describe a disabled person.
Synonyms: word: monstrous
Hyponyms: word: chimeral
word: draconic
word: draconine
word: dragonish
word: gorgon
word: satyric
word: satyrlike
Derived terms: humongous
monstrocious
monstrous agreement
monstrously
monstrous moonshine
monstrousness
monstrous regiment
semimonstrous
supermonstrous
unmonstrous
Related terms: word: ghost
word: gigantic
apple blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apple blossoms
form: appleblossom
Senses: glosses: The flower of an apple tree that will eventually turn into an apple.
Related terms: cherry blossom
orange blossom
peach blossom
plum blossom
jake
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: more jake
form: most jake
Senses: examples: text: ‘What do you care? Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake.’
ref: 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep, Penguin, published 2011, page 126:
text: Wouldn't you just like to see me now, Marion, wouldn't you? I'm not bitter. O no. I'm quite calm. Completely relaxed. But when you come to me in Mayfair when things are as they ought to be, don't try to move in and think things are going to be jake again.
ref: 1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 289:
glosses: Adequate; satisfactory; acceptable.
jake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dʒeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: jakes
form: jaking
form: jaked
form: jaked
Senses: glosses: To play a Discordian prank on (somebody), involving a large number of people sending bizarre letters or parcels to that person.
Related terms: jake brake
Jake
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒeɪk/
rhymes: -eɪk
Forms: form: Jakes
Etymology: Originally a medieval variant of Jack; today also used as a diminutive form of Jacob and James.
Senses: examples: text: Brett smiled at him. "I've promised to dance this with Jacob," she laughed. "You've a hell of a biblical name, Jake."
ref: 1927, Ernest Hemingway, chapter 3, in The Sun Also Rises:
text: Her attendant - Jake, she had called him, which seemed an appropriate name for a redheaded, no-neck redneck with the muscles of a dedicated weight lifter - -
ref: 1985, Ed McBain, Snow White and Rose Red, page 10:
text: Please “Believe” that Jake Owen will not allow people to diss the LGBTQ community.
ref: 2019 June 27, Lisa Respers France, “Country star Jake Owen claps back at anti-LGBTQ commenter”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name.
Derived terms: Jake it
down the drain
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain
Behind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.
ref: 1997, Bob Dylan, Not Dark Yet, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: Wasted or irretrievable.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, the, drain.
Derived terms: go down the drain
Related terms: circle the drain
waved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wave
waved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Forms: form: more waved
form: most waved
Senses: glosses: Having a wave-like form or outline; undulating.
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:waved.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Wavy.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having on the margin a succession of curved segments or incisions.
poss.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of possessive (form).
glosses: Abbreviation of possible.
poss.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Apparently m > n in khân, khâin “which” (Av. katāma-?), poss. under the influence of khin “who” (*kahya-nā?).
ref: 1929, Georg Morgenstierne, Indo-Iranian Frontier Languages, Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., page 40:
text: The latter sense was modified by two other terms meaning “a lot of money”: long bread (poss. influenced by the Fr. baguette) and heavy bread (poss. influenced by unleavened bread).
ref: 2000, Robert Allen Palmatier, Food: A Dictionary of Literal and Nonliteral Terms, Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 33:
text: pagoda, n. (W10 1588) Rel., (1681) Money, (1900) Cloth., var. pagod + 4 [Pg. pagode, prob. < Per. butkada idol temple, poss. influenced by Prakrit bhagodī divine, holy;[…]]
ref: 2001, Garland [Hampton] Cannon, Alan S[tewart] Kaye, The Persian Contributions to the English Language: An Historical Dictionary, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Abbreviation of possibly.
moonlight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: mo͞on'līt
ipa: /ˈmunˌlaɪt/
Forms: form: moonlights
form: moonlighting
form: moonlighted
form: moonlighted
Etymology: From Middle English monelight, from Old English mōnan lēoht (“moonlight”, literally “moon's light, light of the moon”). Equivalent to moon + light. Cognate with Scots munelicht ~ muinlicht, West Frisian moanneljocht, Dutch maanlicht, German Mondlicht.
Senses: examples: text: There are three individual rear seats. They all slide, they all fold, or they can all be removed completely, so that you can moonlight as a van.
ref: 2004 July, Richard Porter, Paul Kerensa, “MPVs as minicabs” (00:22:29 from the start), in Top Gear (2002 TV series), season 4, episode 7, spoken by James D. May, United Kingdom; Isle of Man; Channel Islands, via BBC Two, →OCLC:
text: Investigators discover that Captain Ospina was forced to take a second job, moonlighting in a bar, in order to make ends meet for his family.
ref: 2011 August 19, Carl Knutson, “The Plane That Flew Too High” (41:00 from the start), in Mayday: Air Disaster, season 11, episode 2, spoken by Jonathan Aris:
text: Believing the bones to belong to a cave bear, the quarry owner passed them on to a local schoolteacher, Johann Carl Fuhlrott, who moonlighted as a fossilist.
ref: 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: To work on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night.
examples: text: Mr. Katzenberg, who moonlights as a top Biden official and has worked with Mr. Clooney on philanthropy for decades, reached out to him to see if there was an off-ramp, according to three people familiar with the matter.
ref: 2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: To engage in an activity other than what one is known for.
glosses: To perform a secondary function substantially different from its supposed primary function, as in protein moonlighting.
raw_tags: of an inanimate object
glosses: To carry out undeclared work.
Derived terms: moonlighter
moonlights
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moonlight
moonlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of moonlight
moonlighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonlightings
Senses: examples: text: Aiming for sky-high productivity, the company discourages the distractions and fatigue of moonlighting by paying people enough that most choose not to bother with a second job.
glosses: The act of, or a period of, working on the side (at a secondary job), often in the evening or during the night, either openly or secretly.
glosses: Moonshining.
Related terms: moonlighter
at night
be on nights
night job
nightly
night owl
night shift
nightwork
night work
on the side
shiftwork
side gig
side hustle
moonlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: moon-lighted
Etymology: From moon + lighted.
Senses: examples: text: “It came downstairs as I went up,” said the trooper, “and crossed the moonlighted window with a loose black mantle on […]”
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “chapter 52”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
text: I sat for hours afterwards, gazing out of the cavern entrance at the moonlighted grove, silent and desolate beyond any telling.
ref: 1907, Upton Sinclair, The Overman, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., page 41:
glosses: Illuminated by moonlight.
Synonyms: word: moonlight
word: moonlit
word: moonshiny
moonlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From moonlight + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of moonlight
brilliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: brĭlyəns
ipa: /ˈbɹɪljən(t)s/
Forms: form: brilliances
form: brilliancy
Etymology: From brilliant + -ance. Compare French brillance.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being exceptionally effulgent (giving off light).
glosses: The quality of having extraordinary mental capacity.
examples: text: What brilliance it took from Harry Kane to control the cross and place the ball into the top corner.
glosses: Magnificence; resplendence.
Derived terms: overbrilliance
superbrilliance
Related terms: word: brilliant
word: brilliantly
word: brilliantness
word: beryl
word: beryllium
eavesdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eavesdroppings
Etymology: From eavesdrop + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 7, in Well Tackled!, →OL:
glosses: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
Listening secretly to the private conversations of others.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
The interception of electronic communication.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: verbal noun of eavesdrop:
The act of one organism listening for another's calls, so as to exploit them.
Derived terms: anti-eavesdropping
eavesdroppingly
eavesdropping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From eavesdrop + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eavesdrop
subliminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌsʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: [ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
Forms: form: more subliminal
form: most subliminal
form: sub-liminal
Etymology: PIE word
 *upó
The adjective is derived from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + liminal (“of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold”) (from Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns)). The English word is borrowed from German subliminal, or a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “beneath the threshold”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
synonyms: latent
underthreshold
antonyms: superliminal
glosses: Of a stimulus: below the limen or threshold of conscious perception, especially if still able to produce a response; also (generally), below the threshold where a response can be produced.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Without directed awareness or thought; subconscious (dated), unconscious.
glosses: Of an advertisement, a message, etc.: conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
Derived terms: subliminality
subliminally
subliminal message
subtweet
Related terms: limen
liminal
liminality
liminary
liminoid
sublime
superliminal
subliminal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˌsʌbˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: /səˈblɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: [səˈblɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
ipa: /ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nəl/
ipa: [ˌsabˈlɪm.ɪ.nl̩]
Forms: form: subliminals
Etymology: PIE word
 *upó
The adjective is derived from sub- (prefix meaning ‘beneath, under’) + liminal (“of or pertaining to an entrance or threshold”) (from Latin līminālis, from līmen (“doorstep, threshold; doorway, entrance; beginning, commencement”) (possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend, bow; elbow”)) + *-mn̥ (suffix forming action nouns or result nouns from verbs)) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship from nouns)). The English word is borrowed from German subliminal, or a calque of German unterschwellig (“subliminal”, literally “beneath the threshold”).
The noun is derived from the adjective.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Chiefly preceded by the: something which is below the limen or threshold of conscious perception.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Chiefly preceded by the: the subconscious (dated) or unconscious self.
glosses: An advertisement, a message, etc., which is conveyed in a manner that a person is unaware of being influenced by it.
Hyponyms: sense: advertisement
word: blipvert
Thames
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: tĕmz
ipa: /tɛmz/
ipa: /θeɪmz/
rhymes: -ɛmz
rhymes: -eɪmz
Etymology: From Middle English Temese, from Old English Temes, Temese (compare Welsh Tafwys), from Latin Tamesis, Tamesas. Variant spellings with h arose in Middle English due to the mistaken assumption of a Greek etymology.
The Latin name is from Proto-Brythonic *Tamesis, from Proto-Celtic *tamesās (“river, waters”, literally “darkness”), a masculine ā-stem of *tames, Proto-Indo-European *tm̥Hes-, zero-grade of *témHes-, *témHos- (“darkness”), an s-stem from the root *temH- (“dark”). Related to Proto-Celtic *temeslos (“darkness”), *temos (“dark”). A parallel in Proto-Celtic of "dark, darkness" taking on the figurative meaning of "water" can also be found in Proto-Celtic *dubros (“water, dark”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰubrós (“dark”), yielding Welsh dŵr (“water”), Irish dobhar (“water, sea, dark, gloomy”). Hydronyms with their origin in this term also occur elsewhere in Europe, for example Portugal's Douro.
Alternatively from Proto-Celtic *tā-, *tāyo- (“to melt, flow”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂- (“to melt”), or from unknown non-Indo-European root.
Possible cognates include the names of rivers and tributaries such as:
* Taff, Tamar (from Latin Tamarus), Tame, Tavy, Team, Teifi (from Welsh Teifi, from Old Welsh Tebi, Teibi), Teme, and Teviot (Latin Tefius, Teifius) in Great Britain
* Tambre (from Latin Tamaris), Támega (in Galician, Portuguese Tâmega, Latin Tamice), Támoga or Támboga (Latin Tamega), and Tamuxe, all of them flowing through Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal
* Tamaran in France
* Tammaro (from Latin Tamarus) in Italy
* Demer in Belgium
* Tamyras in Phoenicia
* Tiberis (Tiber)
* Tons, Tamasa (from Sanskrit तमसा (tamasā)) in India
More at Thames.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: (dated) Isis
glosses: A river in southern England, flowing 336 km (209 mi.) from Gloucestershire, through Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey and Greater London, and between Essex and Kent to the Thames Estuary and North Sea.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A sea area centred on the Thames Estuary.
glosses: A river in Ontario, Canada, flowing 258 km (160 mi.) to Lake St. Clair.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A river in the U.S. State of Connecticut flowing 24 km (15 mi.) past New London to Long Island Sound.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A town in Waikato, New Zealand, situated on the Firth of Thames (a large bay) and the Coromandel Peninsula.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Abingdon-on-Thames
cross the Thames
Dorchester-on-Thames
Goring-on-Thames
Henley-on-Thames
Kingston upon Thames
Moscow-on-Thames
Purley on Thames
Richmond upon Thames
Sandford-on-Thames
set the Thames on fire
Singapore-on-Thames
Singapore-on-the-Thames
Singapore-upon-Thames
Sunbury-on-Thames
Thames barge
Thames Centre
Thames Ditton
Thames Haven
Thamesmead
Thames sailing barge
Walton-on-Thames
Whitchurch-on-Thames
Last Supper
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The Passover meal that Jesus ate with his disciples on the night before his death.
Synonyms: Lord's Supper
Last Supper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Last Suppers
Senses: glosses: An artistic representation of this event.
disciple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/
rhymes: -aɪpəl
Forms: form: disciples
Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
Senses: glosses: A person who learns from another, especially one who then teaches others.
examples: text: And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 9:10:
text: By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.
ref: 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 4, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
glosses: An active follower or adherent of someone, or some philosophy etc.
glosses: A wretched, miserable-looking man.
Synonyms: student
Derived terms: condisciple
disciplelike
discipless
Related terms: discipleship
disciplic
discipline
apostle
disciple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪ.pəl/
rhymes: -aɪpəl
Forms: form: disciples
form: discipling
form: discipled
form: discipled
Etymology: From Middle English disciple, discipul, from Old English discipul (“disciple, scholar”), from Latin discipulus (“pupil, learner”). Later influenced or superseded in Middle English by Old French deciple.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To convert (a person) into a disciple.
examples: text: fraile youth is oft to follie led, / Through false allurement of that pleasing baite, / That better were in vertues discipled […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: To train, educate, teach.
topics: Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: To train, educate, teach.
To routinely counsel (one's peer or junior) one-on-one in their discipleship of Christ, as a fellow affirmed disciple.
qualifier: certain denominations
Derived terms: discipler
Disciple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Disciples
Etymology: A proprialization of disciple.
Senses: glosses: Any of the followers of Jesus Christ.
glosses: One of the twelve disciples of Jesus sent out as Apostles.
glosses: Ellipsis of Disciple of Christ (“member of a particular religious group”).
Related terms: discipleship
grumpily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grumpily
form: most grumpily
Etymology: From grumpy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket. Now he was muttering grumpily at Edmund, "Have to get something better this trip, Edmund."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: In a grumpy manner; in a cranky manner.
grumpiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of grumpy: most grumpy
grumpier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of grumpy: more grumpy
eavesdropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvzˌdɹɒpə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: eavesdroppers
Etymology: From eavesdrop + -er (“person or thing which does”).
Senses: glosses: One who eavesdrops.
examples: text: […] the Japanese Ministry of Defence rang the bell and informed the world's press about the Tokyo Express — the ironic Japanese nickname for the constant flow of Soviet flying eavesdroppers in Japanese airspace.
ref: 1986, Dick Van Der Aart, Aerial Espionage: Secret Intelligence Flights by East and West, page 96:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A surveillance aircraft.
bot herd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bot herds
Senses: examples: text: So-called bot herds - networks of compromised PCs under the control of a malicious hacker - continue to be used as launch pads for other types of attack
ref: 2005 September 19, “Hackers target net call systems”, in BBC Online:
qualifier: computer security
glosses: A large collection of compromised systems exploited for malicious purposes.
lithium fluoride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt that may be prepared by the action of hydrofluoric acid on many lithium compounds, occurring naturally as griceite; its crystals are used in optical instruments, and in radiation dosimetry (based on its radiothermoluminescence).
griceite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Joel D. Grice, a Canadian mineralogist.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, lithium fluoride, that occurs as white aggregates in other minerals, such as fluorite.
fluorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflʊɚˌaɪt/
ipa: /ˈflɔɹˌaɪt/
Forms: form: fluorites
Etymology: From fluor + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: calcium fluoride
text: Fluorite is an important natural resource of Thailand.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: fluor
fluorspar
hypernyms: mineral#Noun
<
material#Noun
glosses: A widely occurring mineral comprising calcium fluoride plus or minus impurities, of various colours, used as a flux in steelmaking, and in the manufacture of glass, enamels and hydrofluoric acid.
Derived terms: antifluorite
fluoritization
hypofluorite
yttrofluorite
dosimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dosimetries
Senses: glosses: The measurement of doses, especially of ionizing radiation.
Derived terms: biodosimetry
dosimetric
dosimetrist
microdosimetry
nanodosimetry
paleodosimetry
photodosimetry
radiodosimetry
Related terms: dosimeter
radiophotoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiophotoluminescences
Etymology: From radio- + photoluminescence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the luminescence observed when some minerals or glasses, having been exposed to ionizing radiation, are subsequently exposed to ultraviolet light; exploited in some dosimeters
luminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌluː.məˈnɛs.əns/
rhymes: -ɛsəns
Forms: form: luminescences
Etymology: From Latin lumen + -escence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any emission of light that cannot be attributed merely to the temperature of the emitting body.
Derived terms: adsorboluminescence
autoluminescence
bioluminescence
cathodoluminescence
chemiluminescence
chemoluminescence
crystalloluminescence
electroluminescence
epiluminescence
immunoluminescence
ionoluminescence
magnetoluminescence
mechanoluminescence
oxoluminescence
oxyluminescence
photoluminescence
piezoluminescence
pyroluminescence
radioluminescence
radiophotoluminescence
radiothermoluminescence
roentgenoluminescence
sonoluminescence
superluminescence
thermoluminescence
triboluminescence
Related terms: fluorescence
luminesce
luminescent
phosphorescence
horsefly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseflies
form: horse-fly
form: horse fly
Etymology: From Middle English horse fliȝe, equivalent to horse + fly.
Senses: examples: text: It was not a horsefly and it was not a deerfly; it was bigger than either.
ref: 2017, Neil Gaiman, Norse Mythology, Bloomsbury Publishing, page 36:
glosses: Any of several medium to large flies, of the family Tabanidae, that suck the blood of mammals (not to be confused with Stomoxys calcitrans, the stable fly, or dog fly).
Synonyms: sense: fly of family Tabanidae
word: cleg
sense: fly of family Tabanidae
word: breezefly
sense: fly of family Tabanidae
word: gadfly
sense: fly of family Tabanidae
word: stoat-fly
sense: fly of family Tabanidae
word: stout
Hyponyms: sense: individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae
word: deer fly
sense: individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae
word: yellow fly
sense: individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae
word: March fly
sense: individual species or subgroups of the family Tabanidae
word: zimb
horse-fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse-flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of horsefly.
correlative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more correlative
form: most correlative
Etymology: From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.
Senses: examples: text: If we reinterpret these phenomena in terms of a consistently game-playing model of behavior, the need to distinguish between primary and secondary gains disappears. The correlative necessity to estimate the relative significance of physiological needs and dammed-up impulses on the one hand, and of social and interpersonal factors on the other, also vanishes. Since needs and impulses cannot be said to exist in human social life without specified rules for dealing with them, instinctual needs cannot be considered solely in terms of biological rules, but must also be viewed in terms of their psychosocial significance—that is, as parts of the game.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, chapter 12, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 200:
glosses: Mutually related; corresponding.
Derived terms: anticorrelative
autocorrelative
biocorrelative
correlatively
correlativeness
correlativism
correlativity
decorrelative
noncorrelative
correlative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correlatives
Etymology: From correlate + -ive or cor- + relative.
Senses: examples: text: The actual motivation for this separation was a curious mixture of arrogance and respect: the new arrogance of the administrators abroad who faced 'backward populations' or 'lower breeds' found its correlative in the respect of old-fashioned statesmen at home who felt that no nation had the right to impose its law upon a foreign people.
ref: 1951, Hannah Arendt, “The Political Emancipation of the Bourgeoisie”, in The Origins of Totalitarianism (A Harvest/HBJ Book), new edition, San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1973, →ISBN, part 2 (Imperialism), page 131:
synonyms: equivalent
analogue
glosses: Either of two correlative things.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A pro-form; a non-personal pronominal, proadjectival, or proadverbial form
Derived terms: objective correlative
Verulam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin Verulamia, being the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.
Senses: glosses: Baron Verulam, Viscount St Albans.
glosses: a placename
Synonym of Verulamium (“ancient Roman town”). A town in Britannia, Roman Empire; near the modern city of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
synonyms: word: Verulamium
extra: (“ancient Roman town”). A town in Britannia, Roman Empire; near the modern city of St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, UK.
glosses: a placename
A town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
glosses: a placename
A former township in Ontario, Canada, now the single-tier municipality of Kawartha Lakes.
Synonyms: sense: township
word: Township of Verulam
sense: township
word: Verulam Township
papal supremacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the supreme and universal power of the Pope, which he can always exercise unhindered, over the Roman Catholic Church
Related terms: papal infallibility
slore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slores
Etymology: Blend of slut + whore
Senses: examples: 1997, Mr. Luvseoul, in alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.fetish.feet, alt.sex.fetish.feet, and alt.barefoothttp://groups.google.com/group/alt.sex.fetish.feet/msg/0227f655d685a427?dmode=source&hl=en
Gorgeous Bare Slore ~ALERT
2001, Maevele S.A. Straw, in alt.music.tool http://groups.google.com/group/alt.music.tool/msg/70cf69ed135da328?dmode=source&hl=en
I believe I did hear something to that effect on tv a year or so ago, when I hardly knew who this christina slore was.
2002, ATP, in misc.fitness.weights http://groups.google.com/group/misc.fitness.weights/msg/56ebf72f193c7571?dmode=source&hl=en
The girl did not look like a slore, she looked fairly wholesome in every other regard.
2003, John Henry, quoted in http://groups.google.com/group/alt.usenet.kooks/msg/3de4dfc767d019f9?dmode=source&hl=en
I'm sitting here wondering why alt.games.morrowind isn't propagating and Google isn't carrying it, and suddenly I download the control message and see this idiot fuckwit slore has rmgrouped it - because "2 days is not long enough for a proper discussion in alt.config."
2004, Morgan Vening, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling http://groups.google.com/group/rec.sport.pro-wrestling/msg/23ecf7a8f2ebeaba?dmode=source&hl=en
But you don't often hear about Nicky. Whereas locally, the slore gets pasted across the media constantly.
2005, Yersinia Pestis, in alt.skate-board http://groups.google.com/group/alt.skate-board/msg/10daa6d1b12e945b?dmode=source
Raven - "Hmm, sounds like my kinda slore."
glosses: A very sexually promiscuous person.
Mephistophelean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mephistophelean
form: most Mephistophelean
form: Mephistophelian
Etymology: From Mephistopheles + -ean.
Senses: glosses: Showing the cunning or ingenuity or wickedness typical of a devil.
machete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃɛ.ti/
ipa: /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/
Forms: form: machetes
Etymology: From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (all sometimes or regionally synonymous) bolo, golok, panga, parang, sundang
text: It breaks loose one rope at a time, haphazardly, tossing the Filipinos up into the air. A boy with a machete cuts the one remaining line, which pops up and lashes him across the face.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 384:
hypernyms: knife
glosses: A sword-like tool used for cutting large plants with a chopping motion, or used as a weapon.
glosses: A small stringed instrument from Madeira, Portugal, having a double bulged body, traditionally of wood, with a small rib and four metallic strings, sometimes attached by wooden pegs.
Derived terms: machete beta
machetelike
Related terms: cleaver
fascine knife
hatchet
machete
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃɛ.ti/
ipa: /məˈt͡ʃɛ.ti/
Forms: form: machetes
form: macheteing
form: macheted
form: macheted
Etymology: From Spanish machete, diminutive of macho (“sledgehammer”), from Latin mattea, possibly from mactare (“slaughter in sacrifice”); cognate with Old French machier, French massue, English mace.
Senses: examples: text: After some hours of intense work, we had macheted a path through the jungle to the bank of the river.
glosses: To cut or chop with a machete.
i'
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: Thou speak'st with all thy wit; / And yet, i' faith, with wit enough for thee.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], line 44:
glosses: Contraction of in.
Derived terms: Hall i' th' Wood
i' faith
i'
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it.
Amuzgo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amuzgos
form: Amuzgo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Amuzgo.
Senses: glosses: One of an indigenous people of Guerrero and Oaxaca, Mexico.
Amuzgo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Amuzgo.
Senses: glosses: The language of the Amuzgo people.
Amuzgo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Amuzgo.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Amuzgos.
glosses: Relating to the Amuzgo language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Guerrero Amuzgo terms
Wiktionary’s coverage of Ipalapa Amuzgo terms
Wiktionary’s coverage of San Pedro Amuzgos Amuzgo terms
amu ⁠
azm ⁠
azg ⁠
Ayyavazhi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A henotheistic religion that originated in South India in the mid-nineteenth century.
Related terms: Akilattirattu Ammanai
Ayya Vaikundar
Ekam
bilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlætəɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: more bilateral
form: most bilateral
Etymology: From bi- + lateral.
Senses: examples: text: General Wego W.K. Chiang, secretary general of the National Security Council, said that the visit of El Salvador Vice President Merino to Taipei on behalf of President Alfredo Cristiani was in response to an invitation of the ROC [Republic of China] Government which hopes to further strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries.
ref: 1989 June 21 [1989 June 20], “El Salvador's Vice President Visits Taiwan”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 81-118, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 81, column 2:
glosses: Having two sides.
glosses: Involving both sides equally.
glosses: Binding on both of the two parties involved.
raw_tags: of an agreement
glosses: Having bilateral symmetry.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Involving descent or ascent regardless of sex and side of the family (bilateral linearity).
Derived terms: bilateral descent
bilateral gill trama
bilateralism
bilateralist
bilaterality
bilateralize
bilaterally
bilateralness
bilateral pneumonia
isobilateral
nonbilateral
bilateral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈlætəɹəl/
rhymes: -ætəɹəl
Forms: form: bilaterals
Etymology: From bi- + lateral.
Senses: glosses: A meeting between two people or groups.
knowledge map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowledge maps
Senses: glosses: a user interface element similar to a graphical organizer, which visualizes connections between data by a series of shapes (or images) representing ideas and arrows representing relations between them.
Synonyms: concept map
Leslie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛzli/
ipa: /ˈlɛsli/
Forms: form: Lesley
Etymology: From a placename in Aberdeenshire, originally Lesslyn, Scottish Gaelic lios cuileann (“garden of hollies”).
Senses: glosses: A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
examples: text: 'Leslie with an "ie",' she had to tell everyone in England because they spelt it with a 'y'. 'Really?' Dominic's mother said, as if Leslie herself was a spelling mistake.
ref: 2010, Kate Atkinson, Started Early, took My Dog, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 19:
glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
glosses: A hamlet in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland, south-west of Insch (OS grid ref NJ5924).
glosses: A large village in Fife council area, Scotland, west of Glenrothes (OS grid ref NO2401).
glosses: A special service area in the Rural Municipality of Elfros No. 307, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Searcy County, Arkansas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Sumter County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and city therein, in Ingham County, Michigan.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Todd County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Franklin County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Belmont, Lafayette County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A town in Mpumalanga province, South Africa.
Derived terms: Leslie County
bilateral symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilateral symmetries
Senses: glosses: the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: the characteristic, in animals, of being symmetric about a plane running from head to tail
exhaust valve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exhaust valves
Senses: glosses: A valve through which the products of combustion escape from the cylinder to the manifold.
raw_tags: in an internal combustion engine
glosses: A valve that allows steam to escape from a cylinder after use.
raw_tags: in a steam engine
linear pair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linear pairs
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The two supplementary adjacent angles formed by two intersecting lines
Verulamium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Verulamium, the name of the Roman settlement on the same site.
Senses: examples: text: The first Christian martyr in Britain was called Alban. He lived in the town called Verulamium.
ref: 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 26:
glosses: A town in Britannia, Roman Empire. An ancient town in Roman Britain, sited in the southwest of the modern city of St Albans in Hertfordshire, England, UK.
Related terms: Verulam
lyrebird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lyrebirds
Etymology: From lyre + bird.
Senses: examples: text: A lyrebird strolled past me on its large feet, among the granite boulders.
ref: 1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 66:
glosses: Either of two large ground-dwelling Australian songbirds, of the genus Menura, named because of the beautiful tail feathers of the male of one species, the superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), which can be erected to look like a lyre, and notable for their extraordinary ability to mimic natural and artificial sounds from their environment.
Derived terms: Albert's lyrebird
superb lyrebird
prevalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛvələnt/
note: reshaped after related prevail also
ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪlənt/
Forms: form: more prevalent
form: most prevalent
form: prævalent
form: prevailent
Etymology: From Latin praevalēns. By surface analysis, pre- + -valent.
Senses: examples: text: Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
ref: 2013 March 24, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 16 May 2013, page 134:
glosses: Widespread or preferred.
examples: text: Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
ref: 2013 June 22, “Engineers of a different kind”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 70:
glosses: Superior in frequency or dominant.
Synonyms: sense: widespread
word: common
word: rife
word: widespread
prevalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛvələnt/
note: reshaped after related prevail also
ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪlənt/
Forms: form: prevalents
form: prævalent
form: prevailent
Etymology: From Latin praevalēns. By surface analysis, pre- + -valent.
Senses: examples: text: The species I found to be most prevalent on the Spring Green study site were compared with lists of prevalents in compositionally related communities of Wisconsin developed by Curtis (1959).
ref: 1983, Donna K. McBain, Influence of Eastern Redcedar (Juniperus Virginiana L.) on Soil Properties and Vegetative Composition of a Sand Prairie in Southwestern Wisconsin, page 26:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A species that is prevalent in a certain area.
Related terms: prevalently
prevalence
aspersions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aspersion
supplementary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supplementary
form: most supplementary
Etymology: From supplement + -ary; compare French supplémentaire.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, leucine is already being seen as a pharmaconutrient of great relevance for the supplementary feeding of malnourished and frail elderly and for specific subpopulations.
ref: 2015 October 15, “Buffalo Cheese Whey Proteins, Identification of a 24 kDa Protein and Characterization of Their Hydrolysates: In Vitro Gastrointestinal Digestion”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Additional; added to supply what is wanted.
Derived terms: nonsupplementary
presupplementary
supplementary angles
supplementary character
supplementary motor area
supplementary plane
supplementary relative clause
supplementary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplementaries
Etymology: From supplement + -ary; compare French supplémentaire.
Senses: glosses: Something additional; an extra.
res judicata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: res judicatae
form: res iudicata
Etymology: From Latin rēs (“thing, matter, affair”) and jūdicata, feminine nominative singular form of jūdicatus, past participle of jūdico (“judge”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A legal claim that has already been decided in another lawsuit or proceeding, and therefore must be dismissed.
topics: law
glosses: The legal doctrine that claims that a case already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding.
Related terms: res adjudicata
deductible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈdʌktəbəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈdʊktəbəɫ]
Forms: form: more deductible
form: most deductible
Etymology: From deduct + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: (Normally forgiven debt is taxable and only business expenses paid for with company income are deductible.)
ref: 2021 February 23, Jeanne Sahadi, “So you got a PPP loan? Here’s what that means for your state taxes”, in CNN Business:
glosses: Eligible to be deducted.
Derived terms: deductibility
tax deductible
tax-deductible
deductible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈdʌktəbəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈdʊktəbəɫ]
Forms: form: deductibles
Etymology: From deduct + -ible.
Senses: examples: text: In a tweet, [Donald Trump] said that the deductibles are in many cases way over $7,000, which makes the coverage worthless or unusable. […] Family bronze plans have an average deductible of just under $12,200 and an average out-of-pocket maximum of nearly $14,000.
ref: 2019 April 1, Tami Luhby, “Fact Check: Are Obamacare’s deductibles more than $7,000?”, in CNN:
topics: business
insurance
glosses: An amount of expenses that must be paid out of pocket before an insurer will pay further expenses.
Synonyms: word: excess
Related terms: deduct
deductable
elegantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more elegantly
form: most elegantly
Etymology: From elegant + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
ref: 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:
glosses: Gracefully, smoothly, and swiftly; with supreme style.
deductable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɪˈdʌktəbəɫ]
ipa: [dɪˈdʊktəbəɫ]
Etymology: From deduct + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The two amounts of tax so found would give the total tax deductable from a yearly payment falling due at 15th May 1902.
ref: 1903, Encyclopædia of Accounting, volume 3, page 329:
text: 1980, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard), Jun 19 - Nov 13, page 421,
One very important point which has arisen is the whole question of the credits; the allowances; marriage allowance and child allowance which are deductable from income before one is taxed.
text: Farmers′ wages and personal costs are taxable not deductable. Deductable depreciation costs include costs of plant, equipment and structures which gradually wear out.
ref: 1993, J. P. Makeham, L. R. Malcolm, The Farming Game Now, page 106:
glosses: Alternative spelling of deductible.
Related terms: deduct
deductible