cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɜː.nəm/
ipa: /ˈstɝ.nəm/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: sterna
form: sternums
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin sternum, related to Old English steorn (“forehead”), German Stirn (“forehead”).
Senses: examples: text: The neckline fell into a V, showing the bone of his sternum.
ref: 2020, Akwaeke Emezi, The Death of Vivek Oji, Faber & Faber, page 231:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The breastbone, consisting of the manubrium, gladiolus, and xiphoid process.
topics: arachnology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The sclerotized ventral plate of spiders, between the coxae, marking the floor of the cephalothorax.
Derived terms: coxosternum
entosternum
episternum
furcasternum
hyosternum
hyposternum
mesosternum
metasternum
omosternum
presternum
prosternum
sternal
sternebra
xiphisternum
Related terms: bone
calcaneus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calcanei
form: calcanea
form: calcaneum
Etymology: From Latin calcāneus (“heel”), rare form of calx (“heel”).
Senses: glosses: The large bone making up the heel of the human foot, the heel bone.
Synonyms: heelbone
heel bone
Derived terms: calcaneal
tendo calcaneus
commiserate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kəmĭʹzərət
ipa: /kəˈmɪzəɹət/
Etymology: From commiserātus, the perfect passive participle of commiseror.
Senses: examples: text: In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.
ref: 1593: Thomas Nashe, Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem, page 157 (1815 edited republication)
glosses: commiserating, pitying, lamentful
commiserate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: kəmĭʹzərət
ipa: /kəˈmɪzəɹət/
enpr: kəmĭʹzərāt
ipa: /kəˈmɪzəɹeɪt/
enpr: kəmĭʹzərət
ipa: /kəˈmɪzəɹət/
Forms: form: commiserates
form: commiserating
form: commiserated
form: commiserated
Etymology: From the above adjective, see at -ate for more.
Senses: examples: text: A few individuals who commiserated the unhappy condition of British negro slaves.
text: Lord Meersbrook had remarked the same woman a day or two before, peering into the area, as if looking for some of the servants, yet neither venturing to ring nor knock; he concluded she was there for no good, but the self-commiserating tone in which she spoke, together with her Irish accent, now caught his ear;...
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVI, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 160:
synonyms: word: compassionate
word: feel sorry for
word: commiserate
word: compassion
word: compassionate
word: condole
word: feel someone's pain
word: feel sorry for
word: mercify
word: pity
word: rue
word: take pity
glosses: To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
glosses: To sympathize; condole.
raw_tags: as the phrasal verb commiserate with
glosses: To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
Derived terms: commiserating
commiseratingly
commiseration
commiserative
commiserator
dot-commiserate
uncommiserated
uncommiserating
Related terms: immiserate
immiseration
misery
Peterborough
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)bəɹə/
ipa: /ˈpiːtə(ɹ)bɹə/
Etymology: From Peter + -borough, referring to Saint Peter the Apostle. Doublet of Petersburg.
Senses: glosses: A cathedral city, unitary authority, and borough of Cambridgeshire, England.
glosses: A town in South Australia, Australia.
glosses: A town on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
glosses: An independent city, the county seat of Peterborough County, Southern Ontario, Canada, named in honour of Peter Robinson.
glosses: A town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States.
Derived terms: word: Huntingdon and Peterborough
word: Peterborough County
word: Soke of Peterborough
Related terms: Petersburg
Petersburgh
Ajax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/
Etymology: From Latin Aiāx, from Ancient Greek Αἴᾱς (Aíās).
Senses: examples: text: In the legend of the Trojan War, Ajax was king of Salamis and son of Telamon. After Achilles, he was the bravest Greek warrior at Troy. In Homer's epic poem the Iliad, Ajax engages in many combats for...
ref: 1995, David Sacks, Oswyn Murray, A Dictionary of the Ancient Greek World, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 11:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Either of two heroes of the Trojan War.
examples: text: In relative terms, the history of Ajax, Ontario, a town twenty-three miles east of Toronto, is short, spanning a little more than half a century. (Interestingly, to me at least, is the fact that the town is the same age as I am.).
ref: 1994, Mike Filey, Toronto Sketches 3: The Way We Were, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 135:
glosses: A town in Ontario, Canada.
Derived terms: Ajantian
Ajax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/
Forms: form: AJAX
Etymology: Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
Senses: examples: text: An Ajax application eliminates the start-stop-start-stop nature of interaction on the Web by…
ref: 2005, Jesse James Garrett, Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A group of techniques for creating interactive Web applications, in which applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
Derived terms: Ajaxify
Ajaxifying
Ajax
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒæks/
Senses: examples: text: Seldom was the missionary more agreeably surprised than when the mail stage which had picked him up from the train at Ajax, Utah, drew up at an old ranch.
ref: 1910, Forth, page 829:
glosses: A ghost town in Utah.
examples: text: Once across Spring Creek the branch line turns southeast and then southwest and proceeds toward Ajax, South Dakota.
ref: 2000, Construction Into the Powder River Basin, Powder River Basin Expansion Project: Environmental Impact Statement, page 20:
glosses: An unincorporated community in South Dakota.
examples: text: THE road north took us to Ajax, Louisiana, more of a crossroads than an actual town. The RV park sat just a minute or so from the interstate and miles from much else; a saw mill near the highway and a diner across the road were the only...
ref: 2016, Suzi Parron, Following the Barn Quilt Trail, Ohio University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An unincorporated community in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The Amsterdam football club AFC Ajax
glosses: Nickname of Aspen Mountain, a mountain in Pitkin County, Colorado.
Japonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japonisms
form: Japonisme
Etymology: From French japonisme.
Senses: glosses: An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.
Synonyms: Japonaiserie
Related terms: Japonesque
japonisme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: japonismes
form: Japonisme
Etymology: From French japonisme.
Senses: glosses: An influence of Japanese art and culture on European art and design.
Synonyms: japonaiserie
Related terms: Japonesque
foi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fois
Etymology: Borrowed from French foi.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A depiction of a handshake.
colour wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colour wheels
form: color wheel
Senses: glosses: A planar circular chart in which related colours are adjacent, and complementary colors are opposite.
examples: text: With fears that draping normal Christmas fairy lights through the tree's aluminium branches would cause a short circuit, the trees were lit from below by a rotating colour wheel divided into wedge-shaped segments of variously coloured plastic.
ref: 2013, Martin Pullen, The Completely Useless Guide to Christmas:
text: The twins led him across the room to a silver aluminum Christmas tree in the far corner. A device on the floor cast light on the tree from a bulb behind a slowly turning color wheel.
ref: 2013, Robert Jeschonek, Christmas at Glosser's, page 13:
glosses: A device that emits varying colours of light by the use of a wheel, commonly used to illuminate Christmas trees.
Related terms: colour triangle
color wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color wheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of colour wheel.
heel bone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heel bones
Senses: glosses: The large bone making up the heel of the human foot.
Synonyms: calcaneus
planar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪnɚ/
ipa: /ˈpleɪnə/
homophone: plainer
homophone: planer
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more planar
form: most planar
Etymology: From Late Latin plānārius (“relating to a plane”), derived from Latin plānus (“flat”, “level”), equivalent to plane + -ar, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat”).
Senses: examples: text: A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a plane.
glosses: Flat, two-dimensional.
examples: text: A complete graph with more than four nodes is never planar.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Able to be embedded in the plane with no edges intersecting.
raw_tags: of a graph
qualifier: transistor chip; semiconductor devices; transistor chip; semiconductor devices
glosses: Having a flat profile, not etched into a mesa.
Derived terms: antiplanar
biplanar
complanar
coplanar
curviplanar
diplanar
echoplanar
equiplanar
exoplanar
extraplanar
halfplanar
hyperplanar
interplanar
intraplanar
microplanar
monoplanar
multiplanar
nonplanar
outerplanar
periplanar
plabic
planar graph
planar induction
planarisation
planarity
planarization
planarize
planarly
quadriplanar
quasiplanar
synplanar
triplanar
uniplanar
Related terms: plane
planate
complementary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
enpr: kŏm'plĭ-mĕnʹtə-rē
enpr: -trē
ipa: /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
homophone: complimentary
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: more complementary
form: most complementary
Etymology: From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
Senses: examples: text: I'll provide you with some complementary notes to help you study.
text: The two business partners had complementary abilities: one had excellent people skills, while the other had a head for figures.
text: Using the terminology we introduced earlier, we might then say that black and white squares are in complementary distribution on a chessboard. By this we mean two things: firstly, black squares and white squares occupy different positions on the board: and secondly, the black and white squares complement each other in the sense that the black squares together with the white squares comprise the total set of 64 squares found on the board (i.e. there is no square on the board which is not either black or white).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 140:
glosses: Acting as a complement; making up a whole with something else.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of the specific pairings of the bases in DNA and RNA.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Pertaining to pairs of properties in quantum mechanics that are inversely related to each other, such as speed and position, or energy and time. (See also Heisenberg uncertainty principle.)
Derived terms: sense: single words
word: anticomplementary
sense: single words
word: complementarily
sense: single words
word: complementariness
sense: single words
word: complementarity
sense: single words
word: enantiocomplementary
sense: single words
word: intercomplementary
sense: single words
word: noncomplementary
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementariness
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary allophone
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary angle
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary angles
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary antonym
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary colour
sense: Multiword expressions
word: color
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary distribution
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary DNA
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary function
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary good
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary medicine
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary nondeterministic polynomial
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary region
sense: Multiword expressions
word: complementary studies
sense: Multiword expressions
word: intercomplementary
Related terms: complemental
complementary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
enpr: kŏm'plĭ-mĕnʹtə-rē
enpr: -trē
ipa: /ˌkɑmplɪˈmɛnt(ə)ɹi/
homophone: complimentary
rhymes: -ɛntəɹi
rhymes: -ɛntɹi
Forms: form: complementaries
Etymology: From complement + -ary. Piecewise doublet of complimentary.
Senses: glosses: A complementary colour.
examples: text: the hands of the most skilful and cunning complementaries alive
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: One skilled in compliments.
glosses: An angle which adds with another to equal 90 degrees.
feng shui
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: fŭng shwāʹ
enpr: fo͝ong shwāʹ
enpr: fĕng shwāʹ
ipa: /fʌŋˈʃweɪ/
ipa: /fʊŋ-/
ipa: /fɛŋ-/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /fɛŋˈʃuː.i/
rhymes: -eɪ
rhymes: -uːi
Forms: form: feng shuis
form: feng shuiing
form: feng shuied
form: feng shuied
form: Feng Shui
form: fengshui
form: feng-shui
Etymology: Borrowed from Mandarin 風水 /风水 (fēngshuǐ, “feng shui (Chinese system of geomancy)”, literally “wind and water”): 風 /风 (fēng, “wind”) + 水 (shuǐ, “water”). Doublet of fung shui.
Senses: examples: text: I’m going to have my bedroom feng shuied. Maybe this will finally bring me good luck.
text: Library school seemed like gay intellectual paradise to me. After years of unsplitting infinitives and feng shui-ing misplaced modifiers, I sheathed my editor's blue pencil and prepared to sharpen my mind.
ref: 1998, John A. Barnett, “Out Publicly: The Professional and Personal of Gay Public Librarianship”, in James V[inson] Carmichael, Jr., editor, Daring to Find Our Names: The Search for Lesbigay Library History (Beta Phi Mu Monograph Series; no. 5), Westport, Conn.; London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 217:
text: [...] I have seen all these things, and much more, in homes I have been asked to feng shui. It is not surprising that the health of people living in environments such as these are ultimately affected.
ref: 1999, Richard Webster, “Health”, in Feng Shui for Success & Happiness, St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publishers, →ISBN, pages 55–56:
text: Your brother just found me this great house in West Van—up on the hill. [...] It's got a commanding city view, two karaoke rooms and it's been feng-shuied by a Grand Master.
ref: 2006, Douglas Coupland, JPod, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, 2007, →ISBN, page 206:
text: Now, I'm not saying that this man met his wife solely because I feng shuied his house or that my client was offered a job purely because of the fresh flowers, but you would be surprised at how many times I hear similar stories from people whose places I have feng shuied.
ref: 2011, Sophie Keller, “Introduction”, in How Happy is Your Home?: 50 Great Tips to Bring More Health, Wealth and Joy into Your Home, Don Mills, Ont.: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page xi:
text: "Nina?" Cindy touched her arm. "You OK?" / "Oh, no." Nina put her hands up in a warding-off gesture. "Uh, I was just feng shuied last week.
ref: 2014 July, Molly Harper, Better Homes and Hauntings, 1st paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 82:
glosses: To arrange a space according to the rules of feng shui.
Related terms: interior decoration
fengshui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [A] large number of people in the United States and Western Europe are paying fengshui "experts" large sums of money to align their expensive coffee tables with their even more expensive sofas, in the hope of bringing more wealth, and perhaps some happiness, into their already affluent households. This seems a gross perversion of the basic spirit of fengshui – which would say that happiness, and certainly some wealth, would come more easily if these people simply sold off all the furniture and other clutter that's obstructing their contact with their natural surroundings.
ref: 2003, Graham Parkes, “Winds, Waters, and Earth Energies: Fengshui and Awareness of Place”, in Helaine Selin, Arne Kalland, editors, Nature across Cultures: Views of Nature and the Environment in Non-Western Cultures (Science across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science; 4), Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: Alternative form of feng shui.
feng-shui
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feng-shuis
form: feng-shuiing
form: feng-shuied
form: feng-shuied
Senses: examples: text: Your brother just found me this great house in West Van—up on the hill. [...] It's got a commanding city view, two karaoke rooms and it's been feng-shuied by a Grand Master.
ref: 2006, Douglas Coupland, JPod, London: Bloomsbury, →ISBN; paperback edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, 2007, →ISBN, page 206:
glosses: Alternative form of feng shui.
Feng Shui
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: On my telling two missionaries here lately that this Government would not allow a road to be made to their coal mines because it would obstruct the Feng-shui, they only laughed at it. [...] The upper classes may have Feng-shui, and use it when it suits them, as the Government do; but they also, when it suits their purpose, have no difficulty in overcoming the Feng Shui.
ref: 1869 March 15, “Summary of news from the Far East. China. Tientsin.”, in The London and China Telegraph, Japan Herald, and Journal of the Eastern Archipelago, French mail edition, volume XI, number 315, London: Printed for the proprietors by Richard Kindee, […], and published by James West […], published 7 June 1869, →OCLC, page 258, column 2:
text: The following are translated copies of placards which have been extensively posted in the city and suburbs during the past week: [...] "[...] On recovering our Feng Shui land, then the state will be prosperous, the people peaceable, the winds moderate, and the rains favorable. Let all the people exert themselves."
ref: 1878 September 15, “Mr. [M. M.] De Lano to Mr. Holcombe. [Inclosure 3 in No. 61; No. 111; The Wu Shih Shan Riot. Placards.]”, in Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, with the Annual Message of the President, December 1, 1879. […], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, published 1879, →OCLC, page 187:
text: Thought this might be the perfect time to do the Feng Shui so went out and bought Cosmopolitan. Carefully, using the drawing in Cosmo, I mapped the ba-gua of the flat. Had a flash of horrified realization. There was a wastepaper basket in my Helpful Friends Corner. No wonder bloody Tom had disappeared.
ref: 1996, Helen Fielding, “Saturday, 11 November”, in Bridget Jones’s Diary, London: Picador, →ISBN; republished London: Penguin Books, 1999 (2010 printing), →ISBN:
text: As can be seen, there are similarities and differences between sustainable design and Feng Shui concepts. From the analysis, the sustainable design concepts aimed at the creation of enjoyable space for human interactions and balance between the natural and the built environment, can be identified with the Feng Shui concepts of unity of heaven and humanity, and the Yin and Yang harmony.
ref: 2011, Michael Y. Mak, Albert T. So, “Case Studies: Sustainable Design and Feng Shui”, in Scientific Feng Shui for the Built Environment: Fundamentals and Case Studies, Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, →ISBN, page 153, column 1:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of feng shui.
coccyx
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑksɪks/
ipa: /ˈkɒksɪks/
Forms: form: coccyges
Etymology: From Latin coccyx, from Ancient Greek κόκκυξ (kókkux, “cuckoo”), referring to the curved shape of a cuckoo's beak when viewed from the side.
Senses: examples: text: He lands on the concrete path and bounces on his coccyx, which cracks the base of his spine.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 129:
text: An actor herself, McAlpine was hands-on, demonstrating “how you penetrate” on screen: “If you can move your coccyx, just arch your back slightly, it looks fantastic,” she says happily. “Those orgy scenes were amazing.”
ref: 2024 January 30, Elle Hunt, “‘With orgasm people strive for oblivion’: Poor Things’ intimacy coordinator on consent, orgies and Emma Stone”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The final (bottom-most) fused vertebrae at the base of the spine, the tailbone.
Synonyms: word: tailbone
Hypernyms: bone
Derived terms: coccydynia
coccygeal
coccygectomy
coccygeous
sacrococcyx
tailbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪlˌbəʊn/
ipa: /ˈteɪlˌboʊn/
Forms: form: tailbones
Etymology: From tail + bone.
Senses: glosses: The final fused vertebrae at the base of the spine; the coccyx.
geomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geomancies
form: geomancie
Etymology: From Middle English geomancie, from Medieval Latin geomantia from late Ancient Greek γεωμαντεία (geōmanteía). Equivalent to geo- + -mancy.
Senses: examples: text: 1660 Urquhart tr. Rabelais Gargantua & Pantagruel iii. xxv.
Hard by here, in the Brown-wheat-Island, dwelleth Her Trippa; you know how by the Arts of Astrology, Geomancy, Chiromancy, Metopomancy, and others of a like stuff and nature, he foretelleth all things to come...
text: The Arabian Geomancy, said to have been first practised by Almadul, was more recondite, being founded on the effects of motion under the crust of the earth, the chinks thus produced, and the noises or thunderings heard; its foundation was the dogma of Aristotle, that "the moving of the heaven is everlasting, and is the beginning and cause of all inferior movings."
ref: 1855, Edward Smedley et al., The Occult Sciences, London: Richard Griffin, page 314:
text: In geomancy, the enquirer himself was asked to stab the earth at random with a pointed stick. The soothsayer then read the dots.
ref: 1973, K. Ellis, Prediction and Prophecy, page 61:
text: The fountain or the well represents a point where invisible energies flow into a society; in geomancy these would be known as "power points." Where these energies are, elementals or genii loci or nature spirits congregate.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 230:
glosses: A method of divination using earth or the ground, such as interpreting markings on the ground or how handfuls of dirt land when tossed.
examples: text: geomancy [...] The pretended art of divining future events, or of ascertaining the luckiness or unluckiness of any event or locality, by means of signs connected with the earth [...] or, as in China, from the configuration and aspect of a particular region in its relation to some other.
ref: 1899, William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, volume III, page 61:
text: There was [...] a striking similarity between Mesopotamian and Chinese thinking - if not method - in the concept of feng-shui, the Chinese system of geomancy, or divination by topographical features.
ref: 1978, M. Edwardes, The Dark Side of History, page 12:
text: You realize we all live in our surroundings, and you start to look at your surroundings through Feng Shui and geomancy, and try to see, if we understand ourselves and others, how can we make our surroundings as good as they can be for us and the others.
ref: 2015, Serge Augier, Shen Gong and Nei Dan in Da Xuan:
glosses: feng shui; Chinese geomancy.
Related terms: Chinese geomancy
geomance
geomancer
geomant
geomantic
geomantically
pelvis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛlvɪs/
rhymes: -ɛlvɪs
Forms: form: pelvises
form: pelves
Etymology: From Latin pēlvis (“basin”), from Old Latin pēluis (“basin”), further etymology uncertain.
Senses: examples: Meronyms: hip bone, os coxae; sacrum; coccyx
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The large compound bone structure at the base of the spine that supports the legs in hominids.
examples: text: Elvis was swinging his pelvis around and the ladies were swooning.
glosses: The pelvic region of the human body.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: infundibulum, choana, cornu
text: renal pelvis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A funnel-shaped cavity, especially such a cavity in the kidney into which urine passes towards the ureter.
Derived terms: acanthopelvis
diaphragma pelvis
hemipelvis
midpelvis
pelvitis
renal pelvis
Related terms: word: pelvic
sense: cavity
word: hydropelvis
sense: cavity
word: hydropelvic
word: bone
word: coccyx
word: hip
word: hipbone
word: ilium
word: innominate bone
word: ischium
word: os coxae
word: pubis
word: sacrum
hipbone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hipbones
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of hip bone.
centripetal force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centripetal forces
Senses: examples: text: A Centripetal force is that by which bodies are drawn or impelled, or any way tend, towards a point as to a centre.
ref: 1726, Isaac Newton, translated by Andrew Motte, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published 1729:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The force on a rotating or orbiting body in the direction of the centre of rotation.
Related terms: centrifugal force
centripetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛnˈtɹɪp.ə.tl̩/
ipa: /ˌsɛn.tɹɪˈpiː.tl̩/
ipa: /sɛnˈtɹɪp.ə.tl̩/
Etymology: From New Latin centripetālis coined by Sir Isaac Newton, from Latin centrum (“center”) + petō (“to seek, aim”) + -al. Analysable as centri- + -petal.
Senses: glosses: Directed or moving towards a centre.
examples: text: It was a centripetal time, with me at the centre, everything gravitating towards me.
ref: 1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 141:
glosses: Of, relating to, or operated by centripetal force.
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Directed towards the central nervous system; afferent.
raw_tags: of a nerve impulse
Derived terms: centripetal acceleration
centripetal force
centripetalism
centripetally
subcentripetal
coccygeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɒkˈsɪdʒ.i.əl/
ipa: /kɒkˈsaɪ.dʒi.əl/
ipa: /kɑkˈsɪdʒ.i.əl/
Etymology: coccyx + -al
Senses: glosses: Relating to the coccyx
Derived terms: anococcygeal
cephalococcygeal
coccygeally
coccygeal vertebra
intercoccygeal
ischiococcygeal
paracoccygeal
precoccygeal
pubococcygeal
rectococcygeal
sacrococcygeal
coccygeal vertebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coccygeal vertebrae
Senses: glosses: Any of the four vertebrae that are found in the human coccyx.
pyruvic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˌruː.vɪk ˈas.ɪd/
ipa: /paɪˌruː.vɪk ˈæs.ɪd/
rhymes: -æsɪd
Etymology: From New Latin acidum pyruvicum, from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + ūva (“grape”) + -icum (neuter singular of -icus), from its being produced by the dry distillation of racemic acid, originally derived from grapes.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellowish organic keto acid, 2-oxopropanoic acid, which occurs as an intermediate in many metabolic processes, especially glycolysis.
Related terms: pyruvate
pyruvate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɪˈɹuː.veɪt/
ipa: /paɪˈɹuː.veɪt/
Forms: form: pyruvates
Etymology: From pyruvic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: examples: text: On the other hand, it can be observed that, with small exceptions, the S. pneumonia strains are the only Streptococci equipped with homospermidine biosynthesis and pyruvate oxidation pathways, which have been found to be involved in pathogenicity mechanisms [50 ] and in the counteraction of oxidative stress [51 ].
ref: 2015 September 15, “Assessing the Metabolic Diversity of Streptococcus from a Protein Domain Point of View”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of pyruvic acid.
Derived terms: bromopyruvate
enolpyruvate
mercaptopyruvate
phenylpyruvate
phosphopyruvate
intermediate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-tər-mē'dē-ət
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.eɪt/
Forms: form: intermediates
Etymology: From a substantivization of the above adjective, see -ate (noun-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: In Oklahoma, an intermediate license holder may not carry more than one non-family member in the vehicle unless accompanied in the front seat by a licensed driver over 21 years of age.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Intersection Crash Between Passenger Car and Combination Vehicle, Tishomingo, Oklahoma, March 22, 2022:
glosses: Anything in an intermediate position.
glosses: An intermediary.
synonyms: mid-size
glosses: An automobile that is larger than a compact but smaller than a full-sized car.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance formed as part of a series of chemical reactions that is not the end-product.
Any such substance that is produced and sold to commercial customers (business-to-business sales) as an input to other chemical processes.
qualifier: chemical industries
examples: text: Light rain was coming so he chose intermediate tyres.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A kind of tyre with relatively light grooving, used for conditions between fully dry and fully wet.
intermediate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ɪn.tə(ɹ)ˈmi.diˌeɪt/
enpr: ĭn-tər-mē'dē-ət
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.ət/
ipa: /ˌɪn.tɚˈmi.di.eɪt/
Forms: form: intermediates
form: intermediating
form: intermediated
form: intermediated
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin intermediātus, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: glosses: To mediate, to be an intermediate.
examples: text: Central banks need to regulate the entities that intermediate monetary transactions.
glosses: To arrange, in the manner of a broker.
Derived terms: intermediation
intermediatory
beetroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/
ipa: /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/
ipa: /ˈbit.ɹut/
ipa: /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/
ipa: [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt]
Forms: form: beetroots
form: beet root
form: beet-root
Etymology: From beet + root.
Senses: synonyms: beet
red beet
table beet
glosses: A normally deep-red-colored root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating.
glosses: The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared.
Derived terms: beetrootish
beetroot juice
beetroot red
beetrooty
red as a beetroot
beetroot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbi.t͡ʃɹyʔ/
ipa: /ˈbiːt.ɹuːt/
ipa: /ˈbit.ɹut/
ipa: /ˈbiː.tɹʉːt/
ipa: [ˈbiː.t͡ʃɹʉːt]
Forms: form: beetroots
form: beetrooting
form: beetrooted
form: beetrooted
form: beet root
form: beet-root
Etymology: From beet + root.
Senses: examples: text: He straightened up as a spring, beetrooted to the root of his pale hair, and answered wildly, "Ki-Ki-Kan!" I backed prudently towards the door, still keeping that indulgent but firm expression no one sees on the face of warders in lunatic asylums.
ref: 1919, The Sketch: A Journal of Art and Actuality, volume 108, page 356:
text: Harmon's face beetrooted. He strode from the office, stared at the cell block, and swore with artistry.
ref: 2014, Arthur W. Upfield, Bony and the Mouse:
glosses: To turn a bright red or purple color.
racemic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: an equal mixture of the d- and l- forms of tartaric acid found in grape juice; the isomers can be separated via crystallization
retinoic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
pharmacology
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: vitamin A acid
glosses: A derivative of vitamin A, used in the treatment of acne; it is essential for bone and tissue development.
Derived terms: retinoic acid syndrome
Related terms: all-trans retinoic acid
ATRA
tretinoin
ribonucleic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribonucleic acids
form: RNA
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of DNA having ribose in place of deoxyribose, and uracil in place of thymine; its primary function is in the transcription of genetic material and subsequent synthesis of protein.
Synonyms: ribose nucleic acid
Derived terms: ribozyme
Related terms: english: DNA
translation: DNA
word: deoxyribonucleic acid
alt: GNA
word: glycol nucleic acid
word: nucleic acid
alt: PNA
word: peptide nucleic acid
word: ribonucleate
alt: TNA
word: threose nucleic acid
alt: UNA
word: unlocked nucleic acid
alt: LNA
word: locked nucleic acid
alt: BNA
word: bridged nucleic acid
deoxyribose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyriboses
form: desoxyribose
Etymology: From deoxy- + ribose.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of the pentose sugar ribose in which the 2' hydroxyl (-OH) is reduced to a hydrogen (H); it is a constituent of the nucleotides that constitute the biopolymer, deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA.
Derived terms: deoxyribonucleic
deoxyribose nucleic acid
deoxyribosyl
trideoxyribose
double take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double takes
form: double-take
form: doubletake
Etymology: From take (“a visible (facial) response to something”) as used in acting, especially in comedy.
Senses: examples: text: Smith passes the car and does a double take as he realizes it is on fire.
text: I swear I did a double-take when I spotted that $100 bill lying in the gutter!
text: Once a neighbor complained that a Gilbreth had called the neighbor's boy a son of an unprintable word.“What are the facts of the matter?” Dad asked blandly. And then walked away while the neighbor registered a double take.
ref: 1949, Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr.; Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, Cheaper by the Dozen:
glosses: An abrupt movement, used, for example, as a comical reaction to a surprising sight, in which someone casually sees something, briefly stops looking at it, realizes what it is, and snaps attention back to it with an expression of surprise or disbelief.
Derived terms: double taker
spit take
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit takes
form: spit-take
Senses: examples: text: When the wombat-riding chimp jumped onto the bar, Smith, who had been enjoying a beer, did a massive spit take.
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A take (recorded performance), generally expressing surprise or disbelief, in which the actor in the act of drinking spits out the drink.
run and gun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs and guns
form: running and gunning
form: ran and gunned
form: run and gunned
Senses: examples: text: This team likes to run and gun.
text: They're really running and gunning now.
text: This coach likes to play a run-and-gun offense.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To move the ball quickly and shoot often.
examples: text: It has this sort of impulsiveness to it: “One and done.” We do full, A-story episodes in one chunk. For episode six we had Lauren Lapkus, Horatio Sanz, Mitch Hurwitz, me, Mike and Meghan O’Neill in the studio for four hours…we can’t get those people back! So we have to run and gun it.
ref: 2016 March 4, Drew Grant, “‘Animals.’ Creators Mike Luciano and Phil Matarese on Making a D.I.Y. Cartoon for HBO”, in Observer:
text: “We used to just run and gun it,” he says. “Now that we’ve gotten bigger and things got more expensive and we need to kind of up the ante, there’s a lot more production time that goes into it.”
ref: 2019 October 28, Hannah Sampson, “Inside the creation of travel-worthy haunted houses”, in The Washington Post:
glosses: To do something hastily and with great energy.
tp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of toilet paper.
examples: text: You can watch us via satellite on Wikistar 1 tp. 8.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of transponder.
tp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tp's
form: tp'ing
form: tp'd
form: tp'd
form: tp'ed
form: tp'ed
Senses: glosses: To toilet paper; to throw toilet paper in rolls over a structure, so the structure becomes draped with it.
achromatic lens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: achromatic lenses
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A lens generally composed of two separate lenses, one convex and one concave and generally of different materials, in such a way that the chromatic aberration produced by one is corrected by the other.
banjo hitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banjo hitters
Etymology: From the twanging sound of the batter's swing, like that of a banjo.
Senses: examples: text: Aluminum bats, which had replaced wood in the college game in 1974, were so potent they made Babe Ruths out of banjo hitters.
ref: 2005 June 15, USA Today:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: a batter who lacks power, usually hits bloop singles, and would have a low slugging percentage.
mixed initiative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mixed initiatives
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A computer-human interaction in which either the computer or the human can take initiative and decide what to do next.
flawless
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɔːləs/
ipa: /ˈflɔləs/
ipa: /ˈflɑləs/
rhymes: -ɔːləs
Forms: form: flawlesses
form: flawlessing
form: flawlessed
form: flawlessed
Etymology: From flaw + -less (suffix meaning ‘without (something)’).
Senses: examples: text: I got flawlessed again. I'm so bad at this game.
topics: video-games
glosses: To win a fight against (a player) without losing health.
color blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: color blindnesses
form: color-blindness
form: colorblindness
form: colour blindness
form: colour-blindness
form: colourblindness
Etymology: color blind + -ness or color + blindness
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia, Daltonism.
examples: text: Despite the fact that race is embedded in American social life, "color blindness" has recently emerged as the dominant ideology of race.
ref: 2003, Kimberly L. Ebert, "Demystifying Color-Blind Ideology", in C. Herring et al., Skin Deep: How Race and Complexion Matter in the "Color-Blind" Era, p. 1985
glosses: Indifference to a person's skin color or race.
Derived terms: red-green color blindness
red-green colour blindness
Related terms: Daltonism
Daltonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːltənɪzəm/
Forms: form: daltonism
Etymology: Named for the English chemist John Dalton (1766–1844), who had the condition and did early research into it, + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: A person with Daltonism may be said to lack a discriminatory power that others have: his perceptions of red and green are, as such, not to be relied on.
ref: 2002, Richard Davies, Descartes: Belief, Scepticism and Virtue, page 25:
text: The Ishihara plates were developed for the assessment of congenital colour anomalies (Daltonism) and so there is considerable detail in the testing that is not relevant to optic nerve disease where the losses do not follow the specific patterns seen in Daltonism but show largely global losses.
ref: 2011, Gordon Plant, James Acheson, Charles Clarke, Elizabeth Graham, Robin Howard, Simon Shorvon, “13: Neuro-Ophthalmology”, in Charles Clarke, Robin Howard, Martin Rossor, Simon D. Shorvon, editors, Neurology: A Queen Square Textbook, unnumbered page:
text: The concern of Kosmetatos was not how affected individuals would manage to organize their lives taking the effects of Daltonism as given; rather, using the specific case of Daltonism, he suggested the bureaucratization and surveillance of humans by recording their health condition over long periods.
ref: 2013, Sevasti Trubeta, Physical Anthropology, Race and Eugenics in Greece (1880s–1970s), page 109:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors, especially red-green color blindness.
glosses: Achromatopsia.
Synonyms: sense: inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors
word: color blindness
sense: inability or defective ability to perceive or distinguish certain colors
word: dichromatism
Hypernyms: sense: inability or defective ability to perceive color
word: achromatism
sense: inability or defective ability to perceive color
word: achromatopia
sense: inability or defective ability to perceive color
word: achromatopsia
Related terms: Daltonian
Daltonic
daltonic
hot-button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot-buttons
form: hot button
form: hotbutton
Senses: examples: text: As is usually the casee when the use of stimulant medications like Ritalin makes it into mainstream media, the [Sroufe] piece pushed emotional hot-buttons in a way that would scare the daylights out of uninformed readers and lead them to avoid ever using such medications or allowing their children to, thereby giving up on a class of medications with enormous potential benefits.
ref: 1995, Scott D. Wright, Human ecology: progress through integrative perspectives, page 262:
text: What will trigger my hot-button?
ref: 1998, Ginny Pearson Barnes, Successful Negotiating: Letting the Other Person Have Your Way, →ISBN:
text: Therapist: As you can see, this particular thought represents a hot-button emotionally for Susan
ref: 2012, Jay L. Lebow, Twenty-First Century Psychotherapies, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of hot button.
hot-button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hot button
form: hotbutton
Senses: examples: text: a hot-button issue
text: The newspaper published articles on the hot-button issues on the front page to attract attention.
text: It was too hot-button, too controversial for the athlete.
ref: 2005, Dave Zirin, What's My Name, Fool?: Sports and Resistance in the United States, →ISBN:
text: This would be hot-button if Slade lived in Alaska.
ref: 2014, Roland L. Bessette, The Empress of Graniteport, →ISBN:
text: Her platform was AIDS awareness—a big deal for an organization whose representatives usually embraced less hot-button causes.
ref: 2017, Jennifer Weiner, Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing, page 284:
text: We’re only a few months into the Congress, and there are plenty of opportunities for bigger gulfs to appear; partisans agree on most things most of the time because most votes aren’t on hot-button issues.
ref: 2019 July 12, David A. Graham, “The Overhyped Feud Between Nancy Pelosi and AOC”, in The Atlantic:
text: The MAGA masses are growing disillusioned with Justice Department officials who are failing to deliver damning information on a laundry list of hot-button issues — especially Jeffrey Epstein's suicide.
ref: 2025 May 20, Tal Axelrod, “MAGA faithful grow frustrated with Trump's Justice Department”, in Axios:
glosses: Arousing intense reactions; eliciting strong emotion or controversy.
pitiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/
Forms: form: pitifuller
form: pitifullest
form: pitifull
Etymology: From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Scotland has a pitiful climate.
synonyms: word: atrabiliary
word: atrabilious
word: deplorable
word: depressing
word: distressing
word: grievous
word: miserable
word: lamentable
word: lachrymable
word: mournful
word: pathetic
word: pathetisad
word: pitiable
word: pitiful
word: pitisome
word: regrettable
word: rueful
word: sad
word: saddening
word: sorrowful
word: tragic
word: unhappy
word: upsetting
word: woebegone
word: woeful
glosses: So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
examples: text: A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
glosses: Of an amount or number: very small.
examples: text: Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii], signature D3, verso:
text: Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
glosses: Feeling pity; merciful.
Derived terms: pitifulness
unpitiful
Related terms: pitiable
pity
pitiful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩/
Forms: form: more pitiful
form: most pitiful
form: pitifull
Etymology: From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: ‘She followed ’em, cryin’ pitiful, to the old boat on the Wall[.]’
ref: 1906, Rudyard Kipling, Puck of Pook's Hill, London: Penguin Books, published 1994, page 194:
glosses: In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.