cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
arborize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arborizes
form: arborizing
form: arborized
form: arborized
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”) + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: A hierarchy […] is not like a row of organ pipes; it is like a tree, arborizing downward.
ref: 1964, Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation, New York: Macmillan, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 433:
text: The imitation neurones I am composed of agitate their dendrites like mad ganglia that arborize the system as the cell bodies dance along the axis cylinder within the fibres of the foot that isn’t there […]
ref: 1967, Christine Brooke-Rose, “The Foot”, in Susan Williams, Richard Glyn Jones, editors, The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women, London: Penguin, published 1996, page 187:
text: The vessels penetrate the clavipectoral fascia […]. They then arborize the underside of the pectoralis major.
ref: 1991, Donald G. McQuarrie, “Techniques of Resection and Reconstruction for Tongue and Mouth Cancer”, in John S. Najarian, John P. Delaney, editors, Progress in Cancer Surgery, St. Louis: Mosby, page 254:
text: Tall, wide shrubs take up a huge amount of space in a small garden, so remove the lower limbs to provide more space underneath. […] When you “arborize” the shrub by limbing it up, you’ll discover an elegant, multi-trunked structure […]
ref: 2008, Jen Weaverling, editor, Creative Flower Gardening, Minnetonka, MN: National Home Gardening Club, page 128:
text: His seven-year-old brain fires and rewires, building arborized axons, dendrites, those tiny spreading trees.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, New York: Norton:
glosses: Alternative spelling of arborise.
Derived terms: arborization
school night
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school nights
form: schoolnight
Senses: examples: text: Jamie has to go to bed at 9:00 on school nights, but on Friday and Saturday he gets to stay up as late as he wants.
text: I can't believe I'm doing this. I can't believe I'm in a graveyard with a strange man hunting for vampires on a school night.
ref: 1992, Joss Whedon, Buffy the Vampire Slayer (motion picture), spoken by Buffy (Kristy Swanson):
synonyms: worknight
glosses: An evening before a typical school day; normally a Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday night.
Related terms: schoolday
weekday
weekend night
weeknight
worknight
bedaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bedazes
form: bedazing
form: bedazed
form: bedazed
Etymology: From Middle English *bedasen (found in past participle bedased, bedasyd (“dazed, dizzy”)), equivalent to be- + daze.
Senses: examples: text: On his first trip to the circus, he was bedazed by the myriad colours, sounds and smells.
glosses: To cause to become dazed.
Derived terms: bedazement
school run
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school runs
Senses: examples: text: The roads are crammed with parents on the school run.
text: Would you mind doing the school run for James this morning?
text: A billion trips are made on the school run every year and, between us, parents produce two million extra tons of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, a cause of global warming.
ref: 2006 April 30, Cole Moreton, “The school run”, in The Independent:
glosses: A period of increased traffic where parents or carers take or collect children to and from school by car; a journey for this purpose during this period.
bed-hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bed-hops
form: bed-hopping
form: bed-hopped
form: bed-hopped
Senses: examples: text: During his university days he would bed-hop whenever he got the chance.
glosses: To be promiscuous; to have multiple sexual partners.
Derived terms: bed-hopper
panada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panadas
form: panade
form: panado
Etymology: From Spanish panada, Italian panata (“panada”).
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A dish made by boiling bread in water and combining the pulp with milk, stock, butter or sometimes egg yolks.
examples: text: He paid his Debts, call'd in some single Acquaintance, told him he was dying & drove away that Panada Conversation which Friends think proper to administer at Sick Bed-Sides, with becoming Steadiness.
ref: 1789 May 8, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
text: [They] swallow, without flinching, all the theological panada with which she may think fit to cram them.
ref: 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, section 12.12:
glosses: Something blandly nourishing; pap.
glosses: A thick paste or sauce made from boiling flour or breadcrumbs.
despised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The little boy loved peas but despised spinach.
glosses: simple past and past participle of despise
despised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despised
form: most despised
Senses: examples: text: The dictator's cruelty made him the most despised person in the region.
glosses: Hated; viewed with scorn.
Derived terms: despisedness
account for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈkaʊnt foɹ/
Forms: form: accounts for
form: accounting for
form: accounted for
form: accounted for
Senses: examples: text: I don't have to account for anything to you.
text: The storekeeper was expected to account for any material removed.
text: […] But there are still four cartridges in the revolver. Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for.
ref: a. 1905, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Dancing Men”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, W. R. Caldwell & Co. (1905), page 78
text: Under the previous administration, the meetings between DfT officials and train operating companies who were performing badly had been scrapped. These have now been restored, with both Avanti West Coast and TransPennine Express being called in to account for themselves.
ref: 2024 August 7, Christian Wolmar, “Labour in a hurry to implement changes on the railway”, in RAIL, number 1015, page 43:
glosses: To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
examples: text: The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.
glosses: To be the primary cause of
examples: text: German speakers accounted for 37% of the population.
text: ... and car strikes account for more than 50000, it's obvious the wolves' effect on the state's deer herd is so small as to be meaningless.
ref: 1992 November 15, “Scientists monitoring return of wolves to Upper Pennisula”, in Chicago Tribune:
glosses: To constitute in amount or portion.
examples: text: When you deduct the direct and indirect costs, the picture looks a little different. Only mail and coal traffic generated a net revenue when accounting for all costs, not just direct operating costs.
ref: 2023 March 8, Gareth Dennis, “The Reshaping of things to come...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 46:
glosses: To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things.
glosses: To be answerable for.
examples: text: Coyotes account for more rabbits than hunters do.
text: Allied Air Forces Account for 34 Axis Aircraft
ref: 1942 October 11, “Check of Fortress, Liberator Raid At Lille Reveals High Enemy Loss”, in Hartford Courant:
text: South Vietnamese counter-attacks helped account for 239 guerrillas reported killed in the 24 hours ending at 6 today, 86 of them in allied air attacks
ref: 1972 February 22, “Jet Missile Downs Mig In Dogfight”, in The Bulletin:
glosses: To destroy or put out of action.
examples: text: He accounted for two deer today.
glosses: To kill, as in hunting.
Derived terms: there's no accounting for taste
arche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑː(ɹ)ki/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ki
Forms: form: archai
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀρχή (arkhḗ, literally “beginning, origin”).
Senses: examples: text: In more modern times both the moving and the matter moved appear more complex and malleable, and less drawn from the realm of everyday experience. The substance may be dark matter and quarks rather than water or air, and the arche may be gravity or string harmonics.
ref: 2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 3, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: often italicized
glosses: The first principle of existing things in pre-Socratic philosophy, initially assumed to be of water.
achromatise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: achromatises
form: achromatising
form: achromatised
form: achromatised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of achromatize.
act on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acts on
form: acting on
form: acted on
form: acted on
Senses: examples: text: The policeman decided to act on the tip from his informant.
glosses: To act decisively on the basis of information received or deduced.
examples: text: He keeps telling me about wanting to make a move, but he hasn't worked up to acting on it yet.
glosses: To act accordingly to a (usually sublimated) desire or impulse.
examples: text: World leaders have repeatedly stated that we must act on climate change.
glosses: To take action against something.
examples: text: Different drugs act on different parts of our body in many different ways.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To affect something.
act upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: acts upon
form: acting upon
form: acted upon
form: acted upon
Senses: examples: text: The policeman decided to act upon the informant's phone call.
text: NR had carried out risk assessments in 2002, identifying potential dangers with the crossing and recommending the installation of automatic locking gates. But this was not acted upon. In 2007, following the tragic deaths of Charlotte and Olivia, NR erected a footbridge and installed locking gates at the foot crossing.
ref: 2023 November 1, Ian Prosser talks to Stefanie Foster, “Safety Mission: Possible”, in RAIL, number 995, page 36:
glosses: To take action on the basis of information received or deduced.
add on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adds on
form: adding on
form: added on
form: added on
Senses: glosses: To incorporate (something extra, often an amount of money) into something else (often a bill).
glosses: To put an expansion (addition) onto a building, usually a home.
Related terms: extend
pile on
tack
add on
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: add ons
Senses: examples: text: The manufacturer sold many add ons for the basic camera.
text: The secretary offered a typing and copying service for theses, with the option of binding as an add on.
glosses: Alternative form of add-on.
adolesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌædəˈlɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: adolesces
form: adolescing
form: adolesced
form: adolesced
Etymology: Back-formation from adolescence.
Senses: glosses: To commence or progress through adolescence.
consequentialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consequentiality
aerify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛːɹɪfaɪ/
Forms: form: aerifies
form: aerifying
form: aerified
form: aerified
Etymology: From aer- + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To mix with air.
glosses: To vaporize.
Derived terms: aerifier
aerosolize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aerosolizes
form: aerosolizing
form: aerosolized
form: aerosolized
Etymology: From aerosol + -ize.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aerosolise.
Derived terms: bioaerosolize
Related terms: aerosolizable
front name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: front names
Senses: examples: text: “Well, the front name I goes by nowadays is Dick,” said he, “and as I ain’t got no partic’ler use for no more name, jes’ call me Dick. […] ”
ref: 1897 March, Montague Stevens, “‘Front Name’ Dick”, in The Cosmopolitan, Volume XXII, Number 5, The Cosmopolitan Press (1897), page 553
text: Because, yesterday everybody said ‘Dr. Lavendar.’ I didn’t think Doctor could be your front name. All the other people had front names.
ref: 1905–6, Margaret Wade Campbell Deland, The Awakening of Helena Richie, Harper & Brothers (1906), page 97
text: "Alfred. Too much ceremony about surnames. Between friends like us, surnames are all wrong. As a friend... purely as a friend, I ask you...what's your front name?"
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 185:
text: I remember one super-cool Chicano in high school who was forever trying to make movidas (time) with every female he saw. His opening line inevitably was 'girl what's your front name'.
ref: 1981 January 27, Alicia Velasquez Angelo, “Careless Bilingual Student May Tell It Like It Isn't”, in Modesto Bee:
text: “Mr. Hooker, sa... Mr. Hooker, I...” “And forget the Mr., too. We're friends.” “That would not be polite. And I do not know your front name.”
ref: 2003, Mickey Spillane, Something's Down There: A Novel - Page 11
glosses: A person's given name.
affranchise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈfɹænˌt͡ʃaɪz/
Forms: form: affranchises
form: affranchising
form: affranchised
form: affranchised
form: affranchize
Etymology: From late Middle English affranchysen, from Old French afranchiss-, long stem of afranchir (modern French affranchir), from a- + franchir (“to free”). By surface analysis, af- + franchise.
Senses: examples: text: Eventually, the intention was that they should affranchise all the slaves.
glosses: To free from obligation, servitude or service.
affranchize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affranchizes
form: affranchizing
form: affranchized
form: affranchized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of affranchise.
Irish cream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish creams
Senses: glosses: A pale-colored liqueur made from whiskey, cream and coffee.
Hyponyms: Baileys
Irish joke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irish jokes
Senses: glosses: A joke with a punchline implying that the Irish people are stupid.
glosses: Something illogical or silly that happened in Ireland.
Related terms: Kerryman joke
hot whiskey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot whiskeys
form: hot whisky
Senses: glosses: A drink consisting of a shot of whiskey, boiling water, brown sugar, and a slice of lemon with cloves.
knuckle dragger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knuckle draggers
Etymology: An allusion to the practice of some large primates of walking on all fours with their knuckles close to the ground.
Senses: examples: text: Mickey was wide receiver on the St. Rita Football Team in 2007—a big strapping, robust south side knuckle dragger and chick magnet.
ref: 2008 December 21, Pat Hickey, “Prepare the Pulitzer”, in Chicago Daily Observer, retrieved 05 Jan 2009:
text: The scientists were frustrated by the constant need to have knuckle draggers following them like mother hens.
ref: 2017, A.K. Brown, Humans on the Menu (Champagne Universe Series: Book 2), page 35:
glosses: A large, strong, and rather dimwitted person.
Synonyms: Neanderthal
air-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air-drops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of airdrop.
air-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: air-drops
form: air-dropping
form: air-dropped
form: air-dropped
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of airdrop.
air ship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: air ships
form: air shipping
form: air shipped
form: air shipped
Senses: examples: text: To expedite their arrival they will air ship the parts.
glosses: To transport (goods) by air.
alchemise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈælkəmaɪz/
Forms: form: alchemises
form: alchemising
form: alchemised
form: alchemised
form: alchemize
Etymology: From alchemy + -ise.
Senses: examples: text: Their dearest wish was to alchemise iron into gold.
text: Something about this gutsy, heartfelt drama from screenwriter Robert D Siegel and director Darren Aronofsky alchemises Rourke’s conceit into a terrifically engaging, likable and even vulnerable performance.
ref: 2009 January 16, Peter Bradshaw, “The Wrestler review – heartfelt drama that alchemises a terrific central performance”, in The Guardian:
text: In tonight's opener, Kevin McCloud revisits the programme's longest-running saga – the five-year (and counting) epic of Stefan Lepkowsky and Annia Shabowska, who have been attempting to alchemise a cutting-edge contemporary home from the unpromising base metal of a derelict mill cottage in Northamptonshire.
ref: 2011 September 13, Andrew Mueller, “TV highlights 14/09/2011”, in The Guardian:
text: Art should alchemise poetry from unexpected ingredients.
ref: 2019 May 17, “The Guardian view on the Venice Biennale’s migrant boat: pushing the limits of art”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: improve
transform
transmute
glosses: To change something's properties by means of alchemy or as if by magic.
italicizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of italicize
sprayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spray
Derived terms: sprayed edges
sprayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹeɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: more sprayed
form: most sprayed
form: spraid
Senses: glosses: chapped with cold
alchemize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: alchemizes
form: alchemizing
form: alchemized
form: alchemized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alchemise.
sheltered workshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheltered workshops
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: A place where persons with limited mental ability can work in a safe environment.
hymenopterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Hymenoptera + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the order Hymenoptera; hymenopteran.
Related terms: -pterous
Sion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: But ye are come vnto mount Sion, and vnto the citie of the liuing God the heauenly Ieruſalem, and to an innumerable company of Angels:
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Hebrews 12:22, column 2:
glosses: Alternative spelling of Zion.
Sion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From French Sion, from Latin Sedunum, from the name of the Seduni tribe.
Senses: glosses: A municipality and town, the capital of Valais canton, Switzerland.
Sion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sions
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Galician Sión, a habitational surname from a place in Pontevedra province.
* Borrowed from French Sion, a reduced form of the personal name Michon.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
mucuna prurita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: an illegitimate taxon according to the Vienna International Code of Botanical Nomenclature under Article 52.
Synonyms: Macuna pruriens
Finglish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭng'glĭsh
ipa: /ˈfɪŋɡlɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈfiŋɡlɪʃ/
Forms: form: Finnglish
Etymology: Blend of Finnish + English.
Senses: glosses: A variant of Finnish language that is spoken by the descendants of Finnish immigrants to North America, the vocabulary of which is heavily influenced by English. It is far from being a uniform language, mainly exists in spoken form, and seems bound to disappear.
glosses: A way of speaking Finnish using English-language terminology excessively. It is particularly common among those professions which are in close contact with the English-speaking world such as IT-professionals, marketing people and managers of global firms.
glosses: English spoken with a heavy Finnish accent and using Finnish linguistic structures, Finnish broken English.
Synonyms: sense: variant of Finnish spoken in North America
word: American Finnish
amberjack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæm.bɚ.d͡ʒæk/
Forms: form: amberjacks
Etymology: From amber (“yellow color”) + jack (“fish of family Carangidae”).
Senses: examples: text: It was an amberjack, and twice as large as any I had ever seen before. As I drew up the captain's snapper this amberjack came to the surface, and I certainly yelled.
ref: 1925, Zane Grey, Tales of Fishing Virgin Seas, published 2000, page 111:
text: Greater amberjacks have 11-19 gill rakers, a long anal fin base, 7 dorsal fin spines, and 30-34 dorsal fin rays.
ref: 2006, Jerald Horst, Mike Lane, Angler's Guide to Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, page 223:
text: The greater amberjack is the largest of the jacks, the most important amberjack to anglers, and, like most of its brethren, a strong fighter.
ref: 2011, Ken Schultz, Ken Schultz's Field Guide to Saltwater Fish, page 31:
glosses: Any of several large food and game yellowtail fishes of the genus Seriola, found in warm waters of all oceans.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Seriola aureovittata
word: flat amberjack
taxonomic: Seriola dumerili
word: greater amberjack
taxonomic: Seriola quinqueradiata
word: Japanese amberjack
taxonomic: Seriola fasciata
word: lesser amberjack
taxonomic: Seriola lalandi
word: yellowtail amberjack
mebbe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: mebby
Senses: examples: text: Mebbe he tried to imitate Dick's tone of voice and told us it was raining.
text: Mebbe the Don wants to pay a sociable call on our ladies. Mebbe his gang is some hungry, as usual.
ref: 1914, Zane Grey, The Light of Western Stars:
text: Wal, if a man can stand the loneliness, an' if he's quick on the draw, mebbe lone-wolfin' it is the best.
ref: 1915, Zane Grey, The Lone Star Ranger:
text: "I thought mebbe there was something wrong at the Willows," he said.
ref: 1929, Edith Wharton, Hudson River Bracketed:
text: “Well then, it's Granny speaking: 'I dunnow!
Mebbe I'm wrong to take it as I do.
There ain't no names quite like the old ones though,
Nor never will be to my way of thinking.[…]
ref: 2013 April 22, Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken and Other Selected Poems (Timeless classic), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of maybe.
kummi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kummis
Etymology: From Tamil கும்மி (kummi).
Senses: glosses: A kind of Indian folk dance.
ocean-going
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Designed and equipped to be capable of sailing on an ocean.
Related terms: seagoing
stadiums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stadium
Synonyms: sense: plural form of stadium
word: stadia
enactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnæktɚ/
ipa: /ɪˈnæktə/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
homophone: enacter
Forms: form: enactors
form: enacter
Senses: glosses: One who enacts.
Derived terms: reenactor
quorums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɔː.ɹəmz/
ipa: /ˈkwɔːɹ.əmz/
Senses: glosses: plural of quorum
RAND
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of reasonable and nondiscriminatory: a standard used with respect to licensing.
Related terms: FRAND
RAND
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Research and Development: a nonprofit global policy think tank.
Derived terms: RANDite
circular letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular letters
Senses: glosses: A freely distributed letter or pamphlet on routine matters.
Synonyms: circular
Derived terms: english: as a circular letter
translation: as a circular letter
word: circular
Related terms: open letter
memorandum
paper chromatography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A simple form of analytical chromatography in which the stationary phase is a sheet of paper.
Related terms: paper chromatogram
papergram
stationary phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stationary phases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The solid or liquid phase of a chromatography system on which the materials are to be separated or selectively absorbed ᵂᵖ
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A phase of bacterial growth in which there is net zero new bacteria ᵂᵖ
Related terms: mobile phase
mobile phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobile phases
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The fluid (liquid or gas) that flows through a chromatography system, moving the materials to be separated at different rates over the stationary phase
solubilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solubility
Emmy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɛmi
Forms: form: Emmys
form: Emmie
form: Emme
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: There was a buxom Irish servant-girl, who […] had […] striven to give Amelia aid or consolation. Emmy was much too sad to answer, or even to be aware of the attempts the other was making in her favour.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: A diminutive of Emily, Emma, Emmeline or Amelia, also used as a female given name.
Emmy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛmi
Forms: form: Emmys
Etymology: Chosen as a feminine-sounding derivation of immy, a nickname for the image orthicon tubes used in early television cameras.
Senses: glosses: An award given for artistic excellence in television productions.
Emmie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Emmy
form: Emme
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Emily and Emma.
carambola
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹəmˈbəʊlə/
rhymes: -əʊlə
Forms: form: carambolas
Etymology: Presumably from Marathi करंबळ (karambaḷ), via Portuguese.
Senses: examples: text: The carambola tree bears a sour fruit which makes a good tart, and there is a variety which bears a sweet fruit. The tree, though originally, it is said, from the Moluccas, flourishes well on this Coast, and is quite naturalized.
ref: 1851, Francis Mason, Tenasserim: Or Notes on the Fauna, Flora, Minerals, and Nations of British Burmah and Pegu: with Systematic Catalogues of the Known Minerals, Plants, Mammals, Fishes, Mollusks, Sea-nettles, Corals, Sea-urchins, Worms, Insects, Crabs, Reptiles, and Birds; with Vernacular Names, American Mission Press, T.S. Ranney, page 121:
glosses: A tree species native to southern Asia, Averrhoa carambola.
examples: text: She leans out of sight before coming back with a bowl of something—looks like sliced fresh carambola with salt and chili.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 124:
glosses: The fruit of this tree, commonly known as star fruit.
glosses: A yellow colour, like that of a carambola.
Derived terms: caramboxin
alloantigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alloantigens
Etymology: From allo- + antigen.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any antigen, present in only some individuals of a species, that stimulates the production of antibodies in those that lack it; an isoantigen
metallodrug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metallodrugs
Etymology: From metallo- + drug.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Any of several pharmaceuticals that contain metals such as silver or platinum; especially such anticancer drugs
proteolytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From proteolytic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of proteolysis.
Related terms: proteolytic
Emile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin of Latin origin, an anglicized spelling of French Émile.
basophil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbeɪsəfɪl/
Forms: form: basophils
Etymology: From baso- + -phil.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
immunology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any cell that has granules stained by basic stains.
A white blood cell responsible for inflammatory reactions during immune response.
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any cell that has granules stained by basic stains.
One of the endocrine basophilic cells of the adenohypophysis, including gonadotrophs and thyrotrophs.
Synonyms: sense: white blood cell
word: basophilic granulocyte
word: beta cell
Hypernyms: granulocyte
multinuclear leukocyte
polymorphonuclear leukocyte
PMN
PML
Related terms: basophile
basophilia
basophilic
inflammasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflammasomes
Etymology: From inflammatory + -some.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
Derived terms: inflammasomal
caspase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caspases
Etymology: Short for cysteine-aspartic acid protease.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several intracellular proteolytic enzymes that mediate apoptosis and pyroptosis.
Derived terms: anticaspase
CAD
metacaspase
multicaspase
noncaspase
pancaspase
paracaspase
polycaspase
procaspase
eukaryophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Describing a bacterium that interacts with eukaryotes, either as a pathogen or as a symbiont
alameda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæləˈmeɪdə/
ipa: /ˌæləˈmiːdə/
Forms: form: alamedas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish alameda.
Senses: glosses: A tree-lined avenue in Spain or Portugal.
pathoadaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathoadaptations
Etymology: From patho- + adaptation.
Senses: glosses: Any of the changes that occur when a bacterium adapts to a new pathogenetic niche
pathogenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From patho- + genetic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing pathogenesis
glosses: Relating to pathogenetics
Derived terms: immunopathogenetic
neuropathogenetic
pathogenetically
Related terms: pathogenic
nanoelectronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nano- + electronic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any electronic device constructed on the nano scale
Related terms: nanoelectronics
chalupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃəˈluːpə/
Forms: form: chalupas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish chalupa. Doublet of shallop and sloop.
Senses: glosses: A shallop (light boat) from Xochimilco.
examples: text: The Tex-Mex–style chalupas I'm most familiar with are built on flat, crisp-fried corn tortillas.
ref: 2018, Dotty Griffith, The Ultimate Tortilla Press Cookbook, page 116:
text: (see title)
ref: 2021 May 6, Lyda Jones Burnette, “Shrimp Chalupas”, in Country Living Magazine:
text: The tortillas for the chalupas are cooked in pork lard on a charcoal-fired comal, and they get doused with salsa, shredded pork, and onions.
ref: 2021 December 6, Hannah Albertine, Nikko Duren, Carlo Mantuano, “NYC’s Best New Dishes Of 2021”, in The Infatuation:
glosses: A specialty food of south-central Mexico, consisting of a bowl-shaped fried tortilla stuffed with chopped meat, lettuce, cheese, etc.
Derived terms: drop a chalupa
enchalupa
quesalupa
Related terms: chalupita
nanoelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪks
Etymology: From nano- + electronics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The use of nanotechnology to create electronic components; the study and use of nanoscale electronic components
Derived terms: bionanoelectronics
Related terms: nanoelectronic
criminalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: criminalists
Etymology: From criminal + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who specializes in criminal law.
glosses: A person who specializes in the collection and examination of forensic evidence at a crime scene.
Derived terms: criminalistics
lote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: lotes
form: loting
form: loted
form: loted
Etymology: From Middle English loten, lotien, from Old English *lotian, a variant (influenced by Old English lot (“fraud; deceit”)) of lutian (“to lie hid; be concealed; lurk; skulk; be latent”), from Proto-Germanic *lutōną (“to conceal; hide; lurk”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍉𐌽 (lutōn, “to deceive”).
Senses: glosses: To lurk; lie hidden
Derived terms: loteby
lote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: lotes
Etymology: From Latin lotus, from Ancient Greek λωτός (lōtós, “lotus”). Doublet of lotus.
Senses: examples: text: Then they led him to the sheikh of the tribe , a tall , lean , old man who held an elegant cane made of lote wood crowned by leather straps embossed with delicate patterns
ref: 2008, Elliott Colla (translator), Ibrahim al-Koni, Gold Dust:
synonyms: lote tree
glosses: A large tree, of species Celtis australis (European nettle tree), found in the south of Europe, with a hard wood and cherry-like fruit.
crime scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crime scenes
Senses: examples: text: The Police may declare a crime scene so nobody is allowed near, and the idea of allowing trains to pass on an adjacent line would horrify the increasing crowd of bystanders.
ref: 2019 October, Ian Walmsley, “Cleaning up”, in Modern Railways, page 43:
glosses: The location of a crime, especially one at which forensic evidence is collected in a controlled manner.
Derived terms: crime scene cleaner
crime scene tape
cancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canchas
Senses: examples: text: Partially open the lid away from you, like a shield, so the cancha doesn't pop into your face. Be very careful, as the oil is very hot and the kernels can pop out of the pan. Most of the kernels should be dark golden brown.
ref: 2015, Ricardo Zarate, Jenn Garbee, The Fire of Peru: Recipes and Stories from My Peruvian Kitchen:
glosses: A toasted grain or grains of corn, a traditional snack in Peru.
moho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohos
Etymology: From Maori moho.
Senses: glosses: The North Island takahē, an extinct rail of New Zealand.
Related terms: moho-pereru
moho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mohos
Etymology: From Hawaiian ʻōʻō, onomatopoeic from its call, via confusion of its name with the moho (“rail”).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of oo.
synonyms: word: oo
augurate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: augurates
Etymology: From Latin augurātus (“augurate”). By surface analysis, augur + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office).
Senses: examples: text: ...we cannot wonder that the emperor allowed him to enjoy no higher distinction than the formal dignity of the Augurate, in which he carefully makred the degrees of his esteem...
ref: 1865, Charles Merivale, History of the Romans Under the Empire:
glosses: The position or office of an augur.
augurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: augurates
form: augurating
form: augurated
form: augurated
Etymology: From Latin augurātus, perfect passive participle of augurō (“to predict, foretell”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix). By surface analysis, augur + -ate.
Senses: examples: 1768-1777, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued
There are habits of misapprehension and prejudice common to every class of men; fretfulness, industrious to seek, or even feign, and brood upon matter that may nourish it; […] melancholy, augurating always for the worst; besides many more, some of which every man may find lurking in his own breast, if he will but look narrowly into it.
glosses: To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
Gerda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latinate variant of Scandinavian Gerd, from Old Norse Gerðr, garðr (“protection”). The name occurs in nineteenth century Swedish poetry and in Hans Christian Andersen's Snow Queen (1844).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages occasionally used in English, mostly around 1900.
p-code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of portable code.
Senses: examples: text: Most implementations of the Pascal programming language employed a p-code system to achieve a greater level of machine independence.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A very low-level code that is machine-independent and enables a compiled file to be run on different processor types.
Related terms: bytecode
Trudy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹudi/
Forms: form: Trudi
form: Trudie
form: Truddy
Etymology: Shortened Gertrude + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of Gertrude, also used as a formal female given name.
Trudie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name, variant spelling of Trudy, a pet form of Gertrude.
Trudi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In some cases, a 20th-century spelling of Trudy; in other cases borrowed from German Trudi.
Senses: examples: text: She had a twin sister named Heidi and neither Trudi or Heidi liked their names. They were the names (in the opinion of Heidi and Trudi) of goat-herding girls and American hookers, of girls who wore their hair in plaits and drank milk or had sex dressed as French maids and nurses. Of girls who never grew up. Trudi and Heidi had no idea why they were so called.
ref: 2002, Kate Atkinson, Not the End of the World, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
cheap and cheerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cheap and cheerful
form: most cheap and cheerful
Senses: examples: text: There's a cheap and cheerful coffee shop on the next street which sells quite a good selection of sandwiches.
glosses: Not of bad quality, or otherwise enjoyable, despite being cheap.
Related terms: cheap and nasty
rough and ready
rotators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rotator
redivides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redivide
redividing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redivide
redivided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redivide
run up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs up against
form: running up against
form: ran up against
form: run up against
Senses: examples: text: The latest model has run up against the limits of its technical capacity.
glosses: To begin to encounter problems with (someone or something).
rebutia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebutias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Rebutia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the cactus genus Rebutia, the crown cactus.
crown cactus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown cacti
Senses: glosses: Any plant of the cactus genus Rebutia, with big colorful flowers and native to South America.
rub up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs up against
form: rubbing up against
form: rubbed up against
form: rubbed up against
Senses: examples: text: She accidentally rubbed up against the painted door and got green paint on her blouse.
glosses: To touch something with one's body.
examples: text: Now men, I have rubbed up against a few men in my time, but women?
ref: 1994, Samuel Becket, Molloy, page 75:
glosses: To touch another person with one's body in a sexually stimulating manner.
examples: text: Tibbles the cat rubbed up against my leg, asking for a piece of my cheese.
glosses: To touch a person's body in a friendly manner, seeking attention. (of animals)
glosses: To come into conflict with someone or something.
palaeobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palaeo- + botanical.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleobotanical.
paleobotanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paleo- + botanical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to paleobotany.
Derived terms: paleobotanically
palaeobotanist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palaeobotanists
Etymology: From palaeo- + botanist.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of paleobotanist.
telecentre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telecentres
Etymology: From tele- + centre.
Senses: glosses: A place where members of the public may access personal computers (and other digital equipment) and the Internet, in order to acquire or improve skills.
Synonyms: telebureau
biopesticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biopesticides
Etymology: From bio- + pesticide.
Senses: glosses: Any naturally-occurring (rather than synthetic) pesticide
microfinancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + financing.
Senses: glosses: The provision of microfinance.
microfinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfinances
Etymology: From micro- + finance. Coined by German sociologist and economist Hans Dieter Seibel in 1990.
Senses: examples: text: Microfinance, once a relative cottage industry championed by antipoverty activists and development wonks, is on the verge of a revolution, with billions of dollars from big banks, private-equity shops and pension funds pouring in.
ref: 2008 June 5, Barbara Kiviat, “The Big Trouble In Small Loans”, in Time, archived from the original on 09 Feb 2011:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Finance that is provided to unemployed or low-income people or groups.
Derived terms: microfinancial
microfinancier
microfinancing
Related terms: macrofinance
microcredit
microinsurance
microlending
underperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underperform
underperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underperforming
form: most underperforming
Senses: examples: text: Underperforming operators will risk termination of their contracts.
ref: 2021 June 2, “Network News: Passenger service contracts”, in RAIL, number 932, page 9:
text: The goal was scruffy, with some debate over whether Johnson got the last touch - and was totally in keeping with the tepid domestic seasons of these two underperforming sides, but no-one at Spurs will care about that.
ref: 2025 May 21, Simon Stone, “Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 Manchester United”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: That performs less well than required.
Hypernyms: performing
stand up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stands up against
form: standing up against
form: stood up against
form: stood up against
Senses: examples: text: In those times there shall many stand up against the king of the south: also the children of the violent among your people shall lift themselves up to establish the vision; but they shall fall.
ref: 2000, The Bible (World English). Daniel 11.14
glosses: To defy or challenge someone
complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complex
complexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of complex
hibernal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hibernal
form: most hibernal
Etymology: From Latin hībernālis (“wintry”), from hiems (“winter”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to winter; brumal or hiemal
Synonyms: brumal
hiemal
wintry
Related terms: hibernate
Aeneid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiː.ni.ɪd/
ipa: /əˈniː.ɪd/
Forms: form: Aeneids
form: Eneid
form: Æneid
form: Aeneide
form: Æneide
Etymology: From Latin Aeneis (Greek third declension, genitive Aeneidos), from Aeneas + -is. By surface analysis, Aeneas + -id.
Senses: glosses: A classic epic poem, written in Latin by Virgil in the 1st century BCE (between 29 and 19 BCE), that tells the legendary story of Aeneas fleeing Troy and settling in Italy as ancestor of the Romans.
Derived terms: word: Aeneidic
word: Aeneadic
nonempty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + empty.
Senses: glosses: Not empty, containing something.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of a set, containing at least one element, thereby being distinct from the empty set.
go up against
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes up against
form: going up against
form: went up against
form: gone up against
Senses: examples: May 27, 2007, Jamie Doward, The Observer.Jail head rejects shared cells plan.
The Director-General of the Prison Service is ready to go up against ministers by resisting any government plan to force more prisoners to share cells.
glosses: To challenge someone.
taho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog taho, from Hokkien 豆腐 (tāu-hū, “tofu”) or perhaps 豆腐花 (tāu-hū-hoe, “tofu pudding”) that it might simply be short for.
Senses: glosses: A Philippine snack food made from sweetened flavoured tofu with sago pearls.
what's yours
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: What do you want to drink?
Synonyms: what's your poison
industrial action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial actions
Senses: examples: text: Furthermore, overdue training of crew on the new Class 385 electrics, compounded by industrial action, meant that announcements of train cancellations "due to a member of the train crew being unavailable" became very familiar to passengers across east central Scotland.
ref: 2019 November 6, Robert Drysdale, “Wires offer boost to Borders revival”, in Rail, page 42:
text: The federation, set up in 1919 after police were banned from taking industrial action when strikes led to riots and looting, is a statutory body that provides legal support to its officers, as well as fighting their corner like a union would over pay, conditions and welfare.
ref: 2025 April 5, John Simpson, “Police Federation under fire for backing ‘unsackable’ rogue cops”, in The Observer:
synonyms: word: job action
word: labor action
coordinate_terms: industrial peace
lockout
qualifier: labour
glosses: A workplace protest by employees designed to inconvenience or disrupt the business of the employer.
Hyponyms: general strike
go-slow
overtime ban
slowdown
stayaway
stayout
strike
walkout
work-to-rule
warts and all
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: warts-and-all
Etymology: In 1653, an artist, Samuel Cooper, was asked to paint Oliver Cromwell’s portrait. Cromwell preferred the portrait to be shown with “pimples, warts and everything” (i.e., to include any defects and imperfections). Over time, this phrase has come to be shortened to “warts and all”.
Senses: examples: text: Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character.
ref: 1957 October 14, “The Last Days of Freud”, in Time:
qualifier: often hyphenated
glosses: Of or pertaining to a description or other depiction which reveals the full range of characteristics of a person or thing, including the shortcomings and imperfections.
warts and all
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: warts-and-all
Etymology: In 1653, an artist, Samuel Cooper, was asked to paint Oliver Cromwell’s portrait. Cromwell preferred the portrait to be shown with “pimples, warts and everything” (i.e., to include any defects and imperfections). Over time, this phrase has come to be shortened to “warts and all”.
Senses: examples: text: The new crop of reality shows brings us that much closer to the contestants, warts and all.
ref: 2003 January 14, Donna Freydkin, “Young and voyeuristic”, in USA Today:
text: "We are very open and publish everything we investigate in detailed reports - warts and all," adds French.
ref: 2021 December 29, Paul Stephen, “Rail's accident investigators”, in RAIL, number 947, page 33:
glosses: In a manner which does not conceal shortcomings or imperfections.
Related terms: bare all
bare one's soul
gory details
leave nothing to the imagination
tell-all
warts-and-all
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of warts and all.