cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Financial Intelligence Units
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Financial Intelligence Unit
investigating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of investigate
shrubbery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹʌbəɹi/
Forms: form: shrubberies
Etymology: From shrub + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: dense shrubbery
text: trim the shrubbery
text: garden shrubbery
text: The path was lined with thick shrubbery.
glosses: A planting of shrubs; a wide border to a garden where shrubs are thickly planted; or a similar larger area with a path winding through it.
glosses: Shrubs collectively.
vindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vindicate
vindicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: justified, avenged or cleared of blame
monkey boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monkey boys
form: monkeyboy
Etymology: From monkey + boy.
Senses: glosses: Term of offense directed at a man who assumes perceived traits of a monkey, e.g. excessive hairiness or impish behaviour.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Term of offense directed at male humans in general.
endobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endobiotic
form: most endobiotic
Etymology: From endo- + -biotic.
Senses: glosses: living within the tissues of a host.
raw_tags: of a parasite or symbiont
examples: text: Even though PXR was initially identified as a xenobiotic receptor, emerging evidence has pointed to an equally important role of PXR as an endobiotic receptor that responds to a wide array of endogenous chemicals (endobiotics), such as bile acids and their intermediates, as well as certain steroid hormones.
ref: 2009, Regulatory Mechanisms in Transcriptional Signaling, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Originating within an organ or biological system.
endobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endobiotics
Etymology: From endo- + -biotic.
Senses: examples: text: ADME and chemical reactivity-related toxicity is low, while biological receptor activity is of higher dimension in chemistry space, and this is partly explainable by evolutionary pressures on ADME to deal with endobiotics and exobiotics.
ref: 2006, Sarfaraz K. Niazi, Handbook of Preformulation: Chemical, Biological, and Botanical Drugs:
text: Even though PXR was initially identified as a xenobiotic receptor, emerging evidence has pointed to an equally important role of PXR as an endobiotic receptor that responds to a wide array of endogenous chemicals (endobiotics), such as bile acids and their intermediates, as well as certain steroid hormones.
ref: 2009, Regulatory Mechanisms in Transcriptional Signaling, →ISBN, page 98:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An endogenous substance that influences the functioning of an organ or biological process.
Related terms: epibiotic
exobiotic
slaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Forms: form: more slaked
form: most slaked
Senses: examples: text: a slaked thirst
glosses: Allayed; quenched; extinguished.
glosses: Mixed with water so that a true chemical combination has taken place.
Derived terms: slaked lime
slaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sleɪkt/
rhymes: -eɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slake
tatty cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatty cake
tatty scones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tatty scone
tatty scone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tatty scones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tattie scone.
chionablepsia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌkaɪənəˈblɛpsi.ə/
Etymology: From New Latin chionablepsia. By surface analysis, chion- (“snow”) + ablepsia (“blindness”).
Senses: glosses: inflammation of the eyes caused by exposure to ultraviolet light
glosses: snow blindness
quilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quilt
quilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of quilt
quilting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiltings
Senses: glosses: A layer or layers of quilted padding.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A coating of strands of rope for a water vessel.
glosses: The practice of creating quilts
Derived terms: quilting bee
quilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quilt
Petty Bag
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former department of the Court of Chancery that dealt with suits involving solicitors and officers of that court.
vittle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vittles
Senses: examples: text: Shift bore (for il aire) as best ye do thinke, / and twise a day giue him fresh vittle and drinke: […]
ref: 1878, Thomas Tusser, “Septembers Husbandrie”, in Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], →OCLC; republished as W[illiam] Payne, Sidney J[ohn Hervon] Herrtage, editors, Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie. […], London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner & Co., […], 1878, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 41:
text: For as the Teeth in Beasts of Prey / Are Swords, with which they fight in Fray. / So Swords in Men of War, are Teeth, / Which they do eat their Vittle with.
ref: 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, page 35:
text: Friday told me, ſuch a Boat would do very well, and would carry much enough Vittle, Drink, Bread, that was his Way of Talking.
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 267:
text: I must confess your wine and vittle / I was too hard upon a little: / Your table neat, your linen fine; / And though in miniature, you shine: […]
ref: 1723, Jonathan Swift, “Stella at Wood Park, […]”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 255:
text: Robin promis'd me / A' my winter vittle; / Fient haet he had but three / Goos feathers and whittle.
ref: a. 1797, Robert Burns, “[No. 543] Robin Shure in Hairst. […]”, in James Johnson, compiler, The Scots Musical Museum: […], volume V, Edinburgh: […] James Johnson […], published 1796, →OCLC, page 562:
text: [H]is motto was, "Meat first, and spoon vittles to top off on."
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 213:
glosses: Alternative spelling of victual.
vittle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vittles
form: vittling
form: vittled
form: vittled
Senses: examples: text: ...Balgruntie was bent on makin' the attempt, especially after he heard that the castle was well vittled, an' indeed he was meritoriously joined by his men, who piously licked their lips on hearin' of such glad tidin's.
ref: 1860, William Carleton, Tales & Stories of the Irish Peasantry:
glosses: Alternative spelling of victual.
vittles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vittle
vittles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vittle
gas and gaiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 'Aha!' cried the old gentleman, folding his hands, and squeezing them with great force against each other. 'I see her now; I see her now! My love, my life, my bride, my peerless beauty. She is come at last--at last--and all is gas and gaiters!'
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
glosses: a pleasant situation
glosses: pomposity and verbosity
salpingo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /sal.pɪŋ.ɡəʊ/
ipa: /sæl.pɪŋ.ɡoʊ/
Forms: form: salping-
Etymology: From New Latin salpinx (“the salpinx”) + -o-, from Ancient Greek σᾰ́λπῐγξ (sắlpĭnx, “a war-trumpet”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: tubo-
glosses: Salpinx; salpingeal.
Fallopian tube.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: tubo-
glosses: Salpinx; salpingeal.
Eustachian tube.
Related terms: english: also semantically related to tubes of various kinds
translation: also semantically related to tubes of various kinds
word: syringo-
Fallopian tubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fallopian tube
oophorectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊˌɒfəˈɹɛktəmi/
ipa: /ˌəʊəfəˈɹɛktəmi/
rhymes: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: oophorectomies
form: oöphorectomy
Etymology: By surface analysis, oophor- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
synonyms: ovariectomy
hypernyms: procedure
operation
surgery
treatment
therapy
coordinate_terms: oophorosalpingectomy
salpingo-oophorectomy
hysterosalpingo-oophorectomy
oophorotomy
ovariotomy
salpingectomy
salpingotomy
salpingostomy
glosses: Surgical removal of one or both ovaries.
Related terms: oophorectomize
TAH-BSO
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of total abdominal hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy.
salpingo-oophorectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sælˌpɪŋ.ɡəʊ.əʊ.ə.fəˈɹɛk.tə.mi/
Forms: form: salpingo-oophorectomies
Etymology: By surface analysis, salpingo- + oophor- + -ectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of oophorosalpingectomy.
synonyms: word: oophorosalpingectomy
jobbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jobbie
bush kanaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush kanakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bus kanaka.
bush-Kanaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bush-Kanakas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bus kanaka.
maid of honour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maids of honour
form: maid of honor
Senses: glosses: An unmarried noblewoman who was the attendant of a queen or princess
glosses: The chief bridesmaid at a wedding
Derived terms: maids of honour cake
maids of honour tart
Related terms: best man
other half
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: other halves
Senses: examples: text: Oh, I'm still missing my other half / Oh, it must be something I did in the past
ref: 1972, Lou Reed, “Goodnight Ladies”, in Transformer:
glosses: A spouse.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see other, half.
Related terms: better half
bridesmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridesmaid
Related terms: bride
maid of honor
bridesmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bridesmaid
Ashleigh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "You never asked us," replied Ashleigh, his vexation vanishing, [...]
ref: 1879, Stephen Watson Fullom, The man of the world; or, Vanities of the lay, page 132:
text: "Ashleigh!" her mother called. "Could you bring me a wrap for Slewette's leg from the feed room?" "Okay!" Ashleigh let herself out of Wanderer's stall. She'd check back in a little while to see if the mare had finally eaten anything.
ref: 1995, Joanna Campbell, Ashleigh's Diary, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 22:
text: She simply smiled and squeezed Gina's arm, her fingers lingering, burning her skin. “Thanks.” Gina couldn't speak. She just nodded. She finally released Ashleigh, her hands falling away from her.
ref: 2010, Gerri Hill, Love Waits, Bella Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname, variant of Ashley.
incisively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnˈsaɪ.səv.li/
Forms: form: more incisively
form: most incisively
Etymology: From incisive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: `Yesterday,' said Rupert Hardman, incisively, forensically.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 230:
glosses: In an incisive manner.
Related terms: incisiveness
SSSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪpəl ˌɛs ˈaɪ/
Forms: form: SSSIs
Senses: synonyms: SSTI
hypernyms: infection#Noun
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condition#Noun
glosses: Initialism of skin and skin structure infection.
hypernyms: site#Noun
place#Noun
location#Noun
glosses: Initialism of site of special scientific interest.
incisiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnˈsaɪ.səv.nəs/
Etymology: From incisive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity.
Related terms: incisive
incisively
reef knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reef knots
Senses: glosses: A knot used to securely tie two pieces of rope together, or to reef sails.
Synonyms: square knot
Related terms: granny knot
aphemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphemias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin aphēmia, from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “not”) + φήμη (phḗmē, “voice”). By surface analysis, a- + -phemia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
speech-pathology
glosses: A type of aphasia in which the ability to speak is lost or severely impaired.
Derived terms: aphemic
residence time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: residence times
Senses: topics: geography
hydrology
natural-sciences
glosses: The average time for which a particular molecule of water will remain in a body of water.
imprecatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From imprecate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: That imprecates or invokes evil.
Derived terms: imprecatorily
Related terms: deprecatory
barathea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baratheas
form: barrathea
Senses: glosses: A soft fabric, made from various combinations of wool, silk and cotton, with a lightly ribbed surface.
shunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shunt
shunting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shuntings
Senses: glosses: The connection of an electrical component in parallel with another, the current being divided between them.
examples: text: Nine-car 800109 hit LNER 43300 Craigentinny during late-night shunting.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Fleet News: Collision-damaged '800' at Wolverton”, in Rail, page 25:
glosses: The manipulation of railway rolling stock into different combinations or onto different tracks.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Arbitrage conducted between certain local markets without the necessity of the exchange involved in foreign arbitrage.
Derived terms: shunting engine
shunting neck
shunting-yard algorithm
sideband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sidebands
Etymology: From side + band.
Senses: glosses: The band of frequencies each side of the frequency of a carrier wave; formed as a result of modulation of the carrier.
Synonyms: SB
Derived terms: double sideband
lower sideband
single sideband
single-sideband modulation
upper sideband
vestigial sideband
Related terms: amplitude modulation
frequency modulation
phase modulation
Loegria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Derived from or related to Welsh Lloegr (“England”).
Senses: glosses: England
Synonyms: Logres
ASU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Bhuiyan said she and her friends created the petition because they believe ASU is not being transparent with its students, and they would like ASU to take the right steps to disinfect areas that could be at risk and to set up sanitizing stations around campus.
ref: 2020 January 29, Allen Kim, “A student has started a petition to cancel classes at Arizona State University over coronavirus fears”, in CNN:
synonyms: Arizona State
coordinate_terms: Arizona
UA
glosses: Initialism of Arizona State University.
glosses: Initialism of Appalachian State University.
synonyms: Alabama State
Bama State
coordinate_terms: Alabama
Bama
glosses: Initialism of Alabama State University.
ASU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASUs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of air separation unit
stylo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylos
Senses: examples: text: Malone put his stylo in his pocket. There was no use reporting a lunatic.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: A stylographic pen.
stylo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylos
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Stylosanthes of flowering plants.
Derived terms: African stylo
Caribbean stylo
Townsville stylo
stylo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stylo
form: most stylo
Etymology: style + -o
Senses: examples: text: We so stylo, they just vile-o / We speak Singlish, awmost English-lah
ref: Quoted in 2024, Andrew J. Moody, The Oxford Handbook of Southeast Asian Englishes (page 677)
glosses: Stylish; fashionable.
Derived terms: stylo milo
minutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈnjuːtlɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪtlɪ/
Forms: form: more minutely
form: most minutely
Etymology: From minute + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: To describe them in full, and to recount minutely the ideas held by the Japanese rustics concerning them, would be to compile an octavo work on dragonology.
ref: 1913, William Elliot Griffis, The Mikado's Empire (book 2, page 478)
glosses: With attention to tiny details.
glosses: On a minute scale.
minutely
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈnjuːtlɪ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnɪtlɪ/
Etymology: From minute + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Happening every minute.
examples: text: Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence.
ref: 1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Continuing; unceasing.
lexigraphical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of lexicographical.
Derived terms: lexigraphically
barefooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/
Forms: form: more barefooted
form: most barefooted
Etymology: From bare + footed.
Senses: examples: text: By following the sound I came upon a bare-footed old woman with a yellow dried-up countenance, who was bending down over the pigs' trough, busy filling it with food, for which the noisy little creatures were fighting, tearing, pushing, and yelling, with expectation and delight.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 278:
text: There were no roads, only paths through the grass worn away by barefooted boys and women.
ref: 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 9:
glosses: Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
Synonyms: barefoot
bare-footen
discalceate
discalced
shoeless
unshod
unshoed
barefooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛː(ə).fʊt.ɪd/
ipa: /ˈbɛɚ.fʊt.ɪd/
Forms: form: more barefooted
form: most barefooted
Etymology: From bare + footed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
ă
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the TRAP vowel
Palestinians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Palestinian
subscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subscribe
subscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subscribings
Senses: glosses: A subscription.
budged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌd͡ʒd/
rhymes: -ʌdʒd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of budge
guilt trip
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: guilt trips
form: guilt tripping
form: guilt tripped
form: guilt tripped
Etymology: From guilt + trip. First use appears c. 1972 in the novel Any Minute I Can Split by Judith Rossner.
Senses: examples: text: It succeeded in portraying environmentalists as guilt tripping, callous and vindictive – exactly the colours in which climate change deniers had been painting them for years.
ref: 2011 May 12, David Burrows, Anna Simpson, Martin Wright, “Winning the persuasion game”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Aug 2013:
text: You are always putting him first, even at your own expense. But you do it anyhow either because you feel obligated to, or are manipulated and guilt tripped into it.
ref: 2019 August 5, Harriet Johnston, “Is YOUR partner a narcissist? Psychotherapist reveals the nine tell-tale signs - including ignoring your choices and giving you guilt trips”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2019:
text: We are thrust into a world where we have to grow such a thick skin so fast. And when we cope with it in unhealthy ways we are guilt tripped and told we are faking it for attention.
ref: 2022 May 12, The Learning Network, quoting B., “What Students Are Saying About Teen Mental Health, Moderating Speech and Special Talents”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:
text: “Where do you draw the line,” she [Rachel Mason] said, “of guilt tripping people into tipping?”
ref: 2023 April 27, Marisa Gerber, “‘Do y’all think tipping culture has gotten out of control?’ Inside our evolving tipping dilemma”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Apr 2023:
glosses: Alternative form of guilt-trip.
sophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sophisms
Etymology: From Middle English sophim, from Old French soffime, sofime, sofisme, sophisme, from Latin sophisma (“fallacy, sophism”), from Ancient Greek σόφῐσμᾰ (sóphĭsmă), from σοφίζω (sophízō) + -μα (-ma).
Senses: examples: text: Within the framework of democracy a new ideology, born of sophism, took root and proclaimed the rights of the individual in all spheres, political as well as moral.
ref: 1958, Sophie Trenkner, The Greek Novella in the Classical Period, page 15:
text: Empiricism has its roots in Greek and Roman sophism and skepticism, and continues through Kant and American pragmatism.
ref: 2003, Murray Leaf, “Ethnography and Pragmatism”, in Alfonso Morales, editor, Renascent Pragmatism: Studies in Law and Social Science, →ISBN, page 92:
text: Sophistic teachers did not, in general, consciously aim at corrupting the young or turning them against their parents, but the radical skepticism and moral relativism of later sophism indirectly achieved something like this.
ref: 2009, Richard M. Berthold, Dare to Struggle: The History and Society of Greece, →ISBN, page 75:
synonyms: sophistic
glosses: The school of the sophists in antiquity; their beliefs and method of teaching philosophy and rhetoric.
examples: text: The hope of improvement is a quality at once so strong and so excellent in the human mind, that I, for one, disapprove of any sophism—or, if you will, argument—that tends to repress it.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIX, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 232:
synonyms: sophistry
glosses: A flawed argument, superficially correct in its reasoning, usually designed to deceive.
glosses: An intentional fallacy.
examples: text: What! No demonstration of the Being of God! No abstract arguments! No proofs a priori! Are these, which have hitherto been so much insisted on by philosophers, all fallacy, all sophism? Can we reach no further in this subject than experience and probability?
ref: 1779, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
text: 30 Oct 1980, H. Dieter Zeh, letter to John Archibald Wheeler.
I expect that the Copenhagen interpretation will some time be called the greatest sophism in the history of science, but I would consider it a terrible injustice if—when some day a solution should be found—some people claim that ‘this is of course what Bohr always meant’, only because he was sufficiently vague.
synonyms: sophistry
glosses: Sophistic, fallacious reasoning or argumentation.
glosses: Wisdom and knowledge.
Related terms: sophist
sophistic
sophisticate
sophisticated
sophistry
half-truth
sophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of Sufism.
unfailing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfailing
form: most unfailing
Etymology: From un- + failing.
Senses: glosses: inexhaustible
examples: text: There is an unfailing charm about his novels, an unwearing freshness.
ref: 1894, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume 89, number 534, page 787:
text: It is a work of love, made in difficult times at complex locations, with the unfailing support of dozens of brilliant professional people.
ref: 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 51:
glosses: changeless, constant
glosses: infallible
so quiet you can hear a pin drop
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one could hear a pin drop.
one could hear a pin drop
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: so quiet you can hear a pin drop
form: so quiet one can hear a pin drop
form: so quiet one could hear a pin drop
Senses: examples: text: Told the waiter Big Joe was settin' me up / Aw!, you coulda heard a pin drop, it got deathly quiet / And the waiter's face turned kinda white
ref: 1967, Tommy Faile, “Phantom 309”, performed by Red Sovine:
glosses: Extremely quiet, for example, as during a lull in a normally bustling place or scene, or at a sudden dramatic or tense moment.
myelopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelopathies
Etymology: From myelo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: A disorder in which the tissue of the spinal cord is diseased or damaged.
glosses: A disturbance or disease of the spinal cord.
Derived terms: myelopathic
neuromyelopathy
radiculomyelopathy
spondylomyelopathy
Related terms: myelitis
barrel nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel nuts
Senses: glosses: An internally threaded screw having a slotted head.
Related terms: barrel nut connector
cross dowel
barrel nut connector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel nut connectors
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical push-and-twist connector for thin coaxial cable.
mortuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to death or a funeral; funereal.
Derived terms: abortuary
mortuary chapel
mortuary sword
nonmortuary
mortuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔɹt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɔːt͡ʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɔːt͡ʃwəɹi/
Forms: form: mortuaries
Etymology: From Middle English mortuary, from Anglo-Norman mortuarie (“gift to a parish priest from a deceased parishioner”), from Medieval Latin mortuārium (“receptacle for the dead; mortuary”), neuter form of mortuārius (“of or pertaining to the dead”), from Latin mortuus, perfect passive participle of morior (“to die”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: word: deadhouse
word: morgue
word: lich-house
glosses: A place where dead bodies are stored prior to burial or cremation; broadly, synonym of funeral home.
synonyms: soulscot
glosses: A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner.
Derived terms: mortuary pole
mortuary science
Related terms: word: mortician
word: soulscot
sense: room in a mortuary where corpses are placed under a rinsing shower
word: lavatory
sounding board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sounding boards
form: sounding-board
Senses: glosses: A thin board that forms part of the resonating chamber of a musical instrument and serves to reinforce its sound.
glosses: A structure that reflects sound towards the intended listeners. Abatsons.
examples: text: Missandei had little interiority beyond being Dany’s sounding board and Grey Worm’s lover, and she had to die to give them both a reason to keep killing, even though you’d think the looming Last War is reason enough.
ref: 2019 May 5, Danette Chavez, “Campaigns are Waged On and Off the Game Of Thrones Battlefield (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 28 Jan 2021:
glosses: Any device or means used to spread an idea or point of view.
glosses: A person, or group, whose reactions to a new idea or proposal serve to assess its acceptability.
Related terms: soundboard
auto insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: motor insurance
hypernyms: insurance
assurance
coordinate_terms: travel insurance
life insurance
health insurance
home insurance
homeowner's insurance
glosses: Insurance purchased by the owner of a vehicle to cover losses due to traffic accidents or theft: car insurance.
motor insurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Insurance purchased by the owner of a vehicle to cover losses due to traffic accidents or theft
Synonyms: word: auto insurance
sidereal time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈdɪə.riəl taɪm/
/səɪˈdɪə.riəl taɪm/
Forms: form: sideral time
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Time measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the vernal equinox; approximated by that based on the rotation of planet Earth relative to the seemingly fixed stars.
Hypernyms: time
Hyponyms: local sidereal time
mean sidereal time
local mean sidereal time
gnus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gnu
360
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θɹiːˈsɪksti/
Forms: form: 360s
form: three-sixty
form: three sixty
Etymology: From 360° of rotation.
Senses: examples: text: The road was wet and my car did a 360, freaking me out.
text: The basketball player did a 360 and dunked.
glosses: A single spin which results in the original orientation.
examples: text: As your organization grows, performing live 360s for every employee obviously won't be feasible. At Return Path, live 360s are limited to VP-level team members and above.
ref: 2013, Matt Blumberg, Startup CEO: A Field Guide to Scaling Up Your Business:
topics: business
glosses: An instance of 360 degree feedback.
examples: text: No thanks. I used to be clueless but I turned that situation around 360 degrees.
ref: 1992 July 30, Scott Adams, Dilbert (comic), archived from the original on 22 Feb 2023:
text: In the past, her stance on abortion was more the way I feel, just for the first trimester, then she did a 360.
ref: 2017, New York Times, ‘You Focus on the Good’: Women Who Voted for Trump, in Their Own Words:
text: “He totally did a 360 [degree turn] from his younger years,” said Steve Black, a long-time friend.
ref: 2022, “Former NHL star Tom McCarthy went to prison then turned his life around”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: Following a political backlash among her strongest supporters, Truss did a 360° and scrapped the tax cut idea.
ref: 2022, Washington Monthly, Great Britain’s Conservatives Are Screwing Up The Economy:
glosses: A complete change of direction or opinion.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: An el rollo.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 3 turns
translation: 3 turns
word: 1080
english: 2-1/2 turns
translation: 2-1/2 turns
word: 900
english: 2 turns
translation: 2 turns
word: 720
english: 1-1/2 turns
translation: 1-1/2 turns
word: 540
english: 1/2 turn
translation: 1/2 turn
word: 180
360
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /θɹiːˈsɪksti/
Forms: form: 360s
form: three-sixty
form: three sixty
Etymology: Clipping of Xbox 360, a trademark.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A Microsoft Xbox 360, a video game console.
Gothic alphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Gothic + alphabet
Senses: glosses: The 27-letter alphabet of the Gothic language.
hall of residence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halls of residence
Senses: synonyms: residence hall
glosses: A building for college or university students to live in.
siderite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σιδηρίτης (sidērítēs, “made of iron”), from Ancient Greek σίδηρος (sídēros, “iron”), or from Latin sideritis (“lodestone”), from Ancient Greek σιδηρῖτις (sidērîtis, “loadstone”). By surface analysis, sider- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: iron ore
glosses: a widespread brown mineral, FeCO₃, having the structure of calcite.
glosses: an iron meteorite
glosses: An indigo-blue variety of quartz.
glosses: magnetic iron ore; lodestone
Synonyms: chalybite
sparry iron
spathic iron
Derived terms: aerosiderite
holosiderite
mesosiderite
oligosiderite
phosphosiderite
sideritic
spherosiderite
xanthosiderite
siderophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderophores
Etymology: From sidero- + -phore, literally iron carrier.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any medium-sized molecule that has a high specificity for binding or chelating iron; they are employed by microorganisms to obtain iron from the environment
glosses: a siderophage
Related terms: siderophoric
siderotyping
siderovar
sigma-delta converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigma-delta converters
Senses: glosses: Any electronic system used to convert analog signals to digital (or vice versa)
Synonyms: delta-sigma converter
delta-sigma converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delta-sigma converters
Senses: glosses: Any electronic system used to convert analog signals to digital (or vice versa)
Synonyms: sigma-delta converter
sillimanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sillimanites
Etymology: From Silliman + -ite. Named after American chemist and geologist Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) in 1824.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A fibrous neosilicate mineral, polymorphic with andalusite and kyanite, with the chemical formula Al₂SiO₅.
Synonyms: bucholzite
fibrolite
Westlaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From West + law; the publishing company was founded by John B. West and his brother Horatio in 1872.
Senses: glosses: An online legal research service most commonly used to search and retrieve United States case law, but also providing comprehensive access to statutes, regulations, and secondary sources discussing the law.
single crystal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: single crystals
Senses: glosses: A material formed from by the growth of a crystal nucleus without secondary nucleation or impingement on other crystals; a regular three-dimensional structure extends throughout the material
Synonyms: monocrystal
ketimines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketimine
congest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: congests
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:congest.
topics: agriculture
business
history
human-sciences
lifestyle
sciences
glosses: A farmer whose lands do not support him adequately.
Synonyms: smallholder
congest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈd͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: congests
form: congesting
form: congested
form: congested
Senses: examples: text: congest traffic
text: congest roads
text: congest lungs
text: Pollution can congest the city’s streets with smog.
glosses: To hinder or block the passage of something moving, for example a fluid, mixture, traffic, people, etc. (due to an excess of this or due to a partial or complete obstruction), resulting in overfilling or overcrowding.
examples: text: Nasal passages can congest during a cold.
glosses: To become blocked or obstructed
Derived terms: congestable
congestee
congester
congestible
congestor
decongest
recongest
Related terms: congeries
congestant
congestion
congestive
arsewipe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arsewipes
Etymology: From arse + wipe.
Senses: glosses: Toilet paper.
glosses: A useless or annoying person.
sintering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sinter
sintering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sinterings
Senses: examples: text: The idea was to build a thick pavement of high-density dry snow, allowing it to "age-harden" like concrete. The latter process, technically known as sintering, depends on the progressive formation of intergranular bonds, mainly by temperature-dependent vapor diffusion.
ref: 1993, Malcolm Mellor, Notes on Antarctic Aviation, US Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research & Engineering Laboratory, page 47:
glosses: A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.
depaving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depave
skarn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skarns
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish skarn (“skarn, filth”), from Old Norse skarn, from Proto-Germanic *skarną. Doublet of sharn.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various metamorphic rocks formed by metasomatism.
Derived terms: endoskarn
exoskarn
skarnic
skarnoid
skutterudite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skutterudites
Etymology: From Skutterud + -ite, after the old spelling of the town of Skotterud in Norway.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of mixed cobalt and nickel arsenide and sulfide minerals.
wikipedia: Skotterud
slip ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slip rings
Senses: glosses: A component of an electromechanical device, which, in combination with brushes, provides a continuous electrical connection between stationary and rotating conductors.
scientific methodology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A systematic way of finding the answer to a question about the observable world.
Related terms: scientific method
scientific problem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scientific problems
Senses: glosses: An observation that contradicts an accepted law or theory.
endocardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endocardium
endocarp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocarps
Etymology: From endo- + -carp.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: pyrena < drupe, stone fruit
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The woody inner layer of the pericarp of some fruits that contains the seed.
Derived terms: endocarpal
ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of n
fs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of f
fs
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of for sure.
ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: y's
Senses: glosses: plural of y
Gs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of G
Ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T
Ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of tosyl.
Ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Tuesday.
Ys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mythical sunken city in Brittany, France.
Related terms: Dahut
Gradlon
Winwaloe
Ys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
ipa: /waɪz/
homophone: whys
homophone: why's
homophone: wise
homophone: Wise
homophone: wyes
ipa: /ˈiːs/
rhymes: -iːs
Forms: form: Y's
Senses: glosses: plural of Y
endocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + -centric.
Senses: glosses: Focused or centered within itself, and not on something external.
examples: text: The noun "houseboat" is endocentric because "boat" is also a noun.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: exocentric
glosses: Fulfilling the same grammatical role as one of its constituents.
raw_tags: of a phrase or compound word
Derived terms: endocentrically
endocentricity
endocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocentrics
Etymology: From endo- + -centric.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An endocentric compound.
endocranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endocrania
Etymology: From endo- + cranium.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The layer between the dura mater and the skull
Related terms: exocranium
modern physics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: As distinguished from classical physics, all physics discoveries made since approximately 1900, including relativity and quantum mechanics.
endocytosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛndəʊsaɪˈtəʊsɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: endocytoses
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process by which the plasma membrane of a cell folds inwards to ingest material.
Derived terms: coendocytosis
electroendocytosis
postendocytosis
retroendocytosis
transendocytosis
Related terms: endocytic
endocytose
endocytosed
endocytotic
endosome
endodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From endo- (“within”) + -odontia (“dentistry”).
Senses: glosses: endodontics
glosses: plural of endodontium
endodontics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛndəʊˈdɒntɪks/
Etymology: From endo- (“within”) + odont- (“tooth”) + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The branch of dentistry dealing with the dental pulp and root, including the root canal (structure) and providing root canals (treatment).
Related terms: endodontist
endodontic
endodontology
endolymph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛn.də(ʊ).lɪmf/
ipa: /ˈɛn.dəˌlɪmf/
Forms: form: endolymphs
Etymology: From endo- + lymph.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: Scarpa's fluid
glosses: The watery fluid inside the membranous labyrinth of the inner ear.
Derived terms: endolymphatic
endolymphic
endometria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endometrium
endometriosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: note: non-merged vowel
ipa: /ˌɛndoʊˌmiːtɹiˈoʊsɪs/
note: merged vowel
ipa: /ˌɛndoʊˌmiːtɹiˈoʊsəs/
Forms: form: endometrioses
Etymology: From endometrium + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: The cyclic changes characterizing endometrioses are particularly apparent in endometriosis of the bladder.
ref: 1934, Analytic Cyclopedia of Practical Medicine, volume 14, page 372:
text: This chapter will cover all types of extragenital endometriosis reported in the literature, besides bowel and urinary tract endometriosis, which are dealt with in detail elsewhere in this book.
ref: 2006, Agneta Bergqvist, “35: Distant endometriosis”, in Christopher Sutton, G. David Adamson, Kevin D. Jones, editors, Modern Management of Endometriosis, page 406:
text: One can treat all adnexal diseases including cysts and endometrioses of the rectovaginal septum.
ref: 2006, Michel Cosson, Denis Querleu, Daniel Dargent, Vaginal Surgery, page 301:
text: Endometriosis is classically defined as the presence of endometrial glands and stroma in ectopic locations. Affecting from 6% to 10% of reproductive-aged women, endometriosis may result in dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, chronic pelvic pain and/or subfertility.
ref: 2008, Richard O. Burney, Linda C. Giudice, “10: Endometriosis: Section 10.1. The Pathogenesis of Endometriosis”, in Camran Nezhat, Farr Nezhat, Ceana Nezhat, editors, Nezhat's Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy and Hysteroscopy, page 251:
text: Endometriosis, which involves tissue similar to uterine tissue growing elsewhere in the body, has myriad symptoms, including GI distress, migraines, discomfort during sex and abdominal pain that can range from debilitating to excruciating.
ref: 2023 June 20, Lauren Mechling, “The last health taboo: why are so many women still suffering with endometriosis?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A generally painful condition characterised by the presence of endometrial-like tissue in places other than the lining of the uterus; an instance of such tissue being present.
Hypernyms: adenomyosis
Derived terms: endometriotic
Related terms: endometrium
endometritis
metrorrhagia
ectopia
endometrial cavity
müllerianosis
carotte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɑt/
ipa: /kəˈɹɒt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: carottes
form: carot
Etymology: From French carotte. Doublet of carrot.
Senses: examples: text: a carotte of perique
text: He himself was obviously a non-smoker, and probably a total abstainer as well. I do not like to end this factual account of my smoking life with hard thoughts about a non-smoking official who deprived me of a carotte of tobacco.
ref: 1957, Sir Compton Mackenzie, Sublime Tobacco:
glosses: A cylindrical roll of tobacco
pseudoplatanus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual pseudoplatanus.
Senses: examples: text: it might provide evidence that both vernacular name and knowledge of the pseudoplatanus came to us from France
ref: 1961, Gardeners' Chronicle, Horticultural Trade Journal:
glosses: A false plane tree (Acer pseudoplatanus)
specific name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific names
Senses: examples: Holonyms: species name (the binomial unit), binominal name, binomial name
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
coordinate_terms: specific epithet
species epithet
;
genus name
;
subspecific name
glosses: The second word in the scientific name of an animal species, following the name of the genus.
subspecific name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subspecific names
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
hypernyms: ternary name
coordinate_terms: subspecific epithet
infraspecific epithet
specific name
specific epithet
species epithet
genus name
glosses: The third word in the scientific name of an animal subspecies, following the name of the species.
Related terms: infrasubspecific
requin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹi.kwɪn/
Forms: form: requins
Etymology: From French requin (“shark”).
Senses: examples: text: The big gullet of the requin shark, for example, could do so. It has been killed with men inside whole.
ref: 1893, Rev. H. J. Foster, “Jonah”, in The Thinker, volume 9, page 124:
glosses: The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
binominals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binominal
X-raying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of X-ray