cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
prebooking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prebookings
Senses: glosses: A booking made in advance.
rubout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubouts
Etymology: Deverbal from rub out.
Senses: glosses: An instance of erasing with a rubber.
examples: text: This high-concept take on low life includes a concealed lethal weapon (by Claire Fontaine); photographic evidence of a rubout (by Torbjorn Rodland); and cryptic, possibly sinister messages galore from Tauba Auerbach, Daniel Knorr, David Lieske and Matias Faldbakken.
ref: 2007 June 8, Holland Cotter, “Quirks and Attitude to Burn”, in New York Times:
glosses: An assassination.
examples: text: A direct manipulation editor would support, for example, a single rubout key that uses the cursor to find the appropriate character for deletion […]
ref: 1990, Michael D. Harrison, Harold Thimbleby, Formal methods in human-computer interaction, page 130:
text: The TS-1000 had ENTER instead of NEW LINE and DELETE instead of RUBOUT.
ref: 2002, Brotha G, “ZX81 Prototype Keyboard”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of backspace.
synonyms: word: backspace
rubouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubout
shaftlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shaftlike
form: most shaftlike
Etymology: From shaft + -like.
Senses: examples: text: One particularly eye-catching shot is a heroic portrait of the stalwart men who built the Williamsburg next to one of its caissons, the shaftlike structures that permit construction under water.
ref: 2007 June 8, Bridget L. Goodbody, “New York in All Its Nuts-and-Bolts Glory”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a shaft.
shaftments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shaftment
sitcomlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sitcomlike
form: most sitcomlike
Etymology: From sitcom + -like.
Senses: examples: text: So the anecdotes in “The Diana Chronicles” wind up varying from credible to melodramatic to weirdly sitcomlike (Diana clobbering Charles with a Bible while he kneels in prayer?), although many reveal Ms. Brown’s fine ear for casual snobbery.
ref: 2007 June 8, Janet Maslin, “The Diana Chronicles”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sitcom.
swathings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swathing
undefaced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + defaced.
Senses: examples: text: Beyond this point, we’re in some low-rise, post-Trump city of the future, in which no line is straight, no monument respected, no surface undefaced.
ref: 2007 June 8, Holland Cotter, “Quirks and Attitude to Burn”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been defaced.
underseen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underseen
form: most underseen
Etymology: From under- + seen.
Senses: examples: text: New York galleries are in the habit of saving their best — their newest, boldest, oddest — for last, for the annual blitz of end-of-season group shows that give exposure to underseen artists and freelance gigs to promising curators, while the commercial heat is down.
ref: 2007 June 8, Holland Cotter, “Quirks and Attitude to Burn”, in New York Times:
glosses: Too little seen.
undersecretarial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌn.dəˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛəɹi.əl/
ipa: /ˌʌn.dɚˌsɛk.ɹəˈtɛɹi.əl/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəl
Etymology: From under- + secretarial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an undersecretary.
nonwinterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + winterized.
Senses: glosses: Not having been winterized.
unwinterized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + winterized.
Senses: glosses: Not having been winterized.
anticommercialism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anticommercial + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Unstructured gigs at the city’s acid-drenched ballrooms encouraged epic jams of the sort perfected by the Grateful Dead, Big Brother and the Holding Company, and the Jefferson Airplane, along with a naïve anticommercialism — hit singles were for the hacks in Laurel Canyon.
ref: 2007 June 9, Michael Walker, “(Don’t Go Back to) San Francisco”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: An ideology that opposes commercialism.
creaturelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more creaturelike
form: most creaturelike
Etymology: From creature + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Barrio, often rightly lauded for the power and intensity of her performances, lends her creaturelike presence to the second half.
ref: 2007 June 9, Roslyn Sulcas, “Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a creature.
descrescendo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descrescendos
form: descrescendi
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s probably the most difficult piece I’ve ever done,” he said before trying out several movements at a Wednesday evening concert, his fingers slinking from keyboard to keyboard and darting restlessly over the 729 stop-control tablets as phrase seamlessly followed phrase and crescendo climaxed and faded into descrescendo.
ref: 2007 June 9, Craig R. Whitney, “Amid the Shirts and Socks, a Concert Can Break Out”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of decrescendo.
descrescendos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descrescendo
decrescendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decrescendo
intramurals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intramural
jackman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackmen
Etymology: From jack + -man.
Senses: examples: text: While Stewart’s team checked out the damage to his car in the pit stall, Busch pulled next to Stewart’s car, forcing the jackman Jason Lee to jump back and onto the hood.
ref: 2007 June 9, The Associated Press, “Sports Briefing”, in New York Times:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.
examples: text: Christie […] the laird's chief jackman.
ref: 1820 March, [Walter Scott], The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC:
glosses: One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer.
examples: text: Blanca's ball fell soft and punctual as a footstep, and the handful of jackmen rang out as she played. The tap of the ball falling and the jacks swept in and out never faltered, but now Blanca began speaking to him from the floor.
ref: 1991, Kay Boyle, Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, page 51:
glosses: A six-pointed playing piece in the game of jacks; a jackstone.
jackmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackman
juneberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of juneberry
overattribute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overattributes
form: overattributing
form: overattributed
form: overattributed
Etymology: From over- + attribute.
Senses: examples: text: “At such times, executives can overattribute their company’s strong performance to their own actions and abilities, rather than to the buoyant economy,” he said.
ref: 2007 June 9, Paul B. Brown, “In Corporations They Don’t Trust”, in New York Times:
antonyms: underattribute
glosses: To attribute too much.
Derived terms: overattribution
overattributed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overattribute
overattributing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overattribute
overattributes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overattribute
rawly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rawly
form: most rawly
Etymology: From raw + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was pretty and her low-cut baju showed a delicious expanse of warm milky-brown neck. The boys teased her, guffawing rawly.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 443:
text: Noche Flamenca, which returned to Theater 80 in the East Village last week for its summer season, does a pretty good job of all this even if its new program, “Aldaba,” is heavily weighted toward the rawly emotional side of flamenco, with mixed results.
ref: 2007 June 9, Roslyn Sulcas, “Spanish Guitars, Fast Footwork, Everything but the Cafe”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a raw manner.
unlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlevel
form: most unlevel
Etymology: From un- + level.
Senses: examples: text: It creates an unlevel playing field because some companies are taking unfair advantage.”
ref: 2007 June 9, Steven Greenhouse, “Investigating Mislabeling of Workers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not level.
unlevel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unlevels
form: unleveling
form: unlevelling
form: unleveled
form: unleveled
form: unlevelled
form: unlevelled
Etymology: From un- + level.
Senses: glosses: To make no longer level; to apply a bias to.
pancontinental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + continental.
Senses: glosses: Across all continents.
pumpkinseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pumpkinseeds
Etymology: From pumpkin + seed. The fish is so named for its small body that is shaped much like a pumpkin seed.
Senses: examples: text: The current menu includes curried goat, rack of lamb with a pumpkinseed crust, and braised short ribs.
ref: 2007 June 10, “Newcomers, End to End”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of pumpkin seed (“the seed of a pumpkin”).
synonyms: punkie
kivver
glosses: A North American sunfish; Lepomis gibbosus.
glosses: A type of small riverboat.
pumpkinseeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pumpkinseed
reaccelerate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reaccelerates
form: reaccelerating
form: reaccelerated
form: reaccelerated
form: re-accelerate
Etymology: From re- + accelerate.
Senses: glosses: To accelerate again or anew.
reaccelerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reaccelerate
reaccelerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reaccelerate
refundability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From refund + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Like most of Kendal’s nine other retirement communities, Kendal at Oberlin now offers two different Type A contracts and one Type B contract, with three levels of refundability for each.
ref: 2007 June 10, Christine Larson, “As ‘Continuing Care’ Grows, So Do the Payment Options”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being refundable.
scenographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scenographic
form: most scenographic
form: scenographical
form: scenographick
Etymology: From scenography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Widely acknowledged as an expert on scenographic history and theory, he has participated in the quadrennial since 1987.
ref: 2007 June 10, Donna Kornhaber, David Kornhaber, “In Prague, a World of Stage Design”, in New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to scenography.
Derived terms: scenographically
semicylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semicylinder
semicylindrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semicylindrical
form: most semicylindrical
Etymology: From semi- + cylindrical.
Senses: examples: text: Molds of these pages were dropped down chutes to the basement pressroom and used to cast semicylindrical printing plates.
ref: 2007 June 10, David W. Dunlap, “‘Copy!’”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having the shape of a semicylinder.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a leaf: elongated, flat on one side and round on the other.
songwriterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more songwriterly
form: most songwriterly
Etymology: From songwriter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Every so often on Alex Delivery’s debut album, “Star Destroyer” (Jagjaguwar), a diffident male or female voice offers a few songwriterly stanzas.
ref: 2007 June 10, Jon Pareles, “From Folk to Soul, Old School’s In for Summer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Befitting a songwriter.
swellegant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swellegant
form: most swellegant
form: swelegant
form: swelligant
Etymology: Blend of swell + elegant
Senses: examples: text: The childhood raised in various swellegant locales around the world: London, Rio, Paris, wherever his mother (nee Margherita Agnelli) and his father, Alain Elkann (and later his stepfather, Serge de Pahlen), wanted to be.
ref: 2007 June 10, David Colman, “Everything Isn’t Always Black and White”, in New York Times:
glosses: Both swell and elegant.
unbeckoned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + beckoned.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not that Mr. Foner harbors no worry about an attack; his mind can wander unbeckoned to such horrors as a terrorist bomb exploding in the Lincoln Tunnel.
ref: 2007 June 10, Michael Powell, “New York: Yours, Mine and Theirs”, in New York Times:
glosses: Without having been beckoned.
ungentrified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + gentrified.
Senses: examples: text: They concluded they were priced out of even ungentrified areas of Brooklyn.
ref: 2007 June 10, Joyce Cohen, “Moving On From Post-College Mode”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been gentrified.
vodkalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vodkalike
form: most vodkalike
Etymology: From vodka + -like.
Senses: examples: text: An evening out with colleagues here follows a predictable, alcohol-centered pattern: dinner, usually some grilled pork, washed down with soju, Korea’s national vodkalike drink; then a second round at a beer hall; then whiskey and singing at a “norae bang,” a Korean karaoke club.
ref: 2007 June 10, Norimitsu Onishi, “Corporate Korea Corks the Bottle as Women Rise”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of vodka.
wonderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wondering
griefathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: grief and marathon; compare telethon, readathon, etc.
Senses: examples: text: “It was the first great griefathon.
ref: 2007 June 11, Michael Kimmelman, “The Former Queen of Buzz Conjures a Golden Heyday”, in New York Times:
glosses: A great outpouring of grief in response to some public news event.
nonentertainment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + entertainment.
Senses: examples: text: And its success or failure is likely to tell whether talents as varied as Will Ferrell, Tom Cruise, Jerry Bruckheimer, Derek Jeter or Norah Jones — Creative Artists clients all — will maintain their leverage against evolving media giants like the News Corporation and Viacom or make new fortunes from the nonentertainment companies that are looking to Hollywood.
ref: 2007 June 11, Michael Cieply, “At Creative Artists, a Bit of Blushing After a Corporate Kiss-Off”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to entertainment.
Multikulti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Multikulti, from Multikulturalismus (“multiculturalism”). Originated with the German progressive movements of the 1970s and 1980s.
Senses: glosses: multiculturalism
do the deed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the deed
form: doing the deed
form: did the deed
form: done the deed
Etymology: Earliest attested usage is from Middle English: 1340, Ayenbite of Inwyt "Ȝete þai ben al clene; Haue þai no dede y-done" ("Yet they are all clean; They have not had intercourse"); and in 1443, Reginald Pecock, The Rule of Christian Religion: "By force hath he..don that dede, That he hath reft hire of hire maydenhede." (By force he has done that deed, That he has deprived her of her virginity.)
Senses: glosses: To have sex.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: to do a given deed.
Synonyms: copulate
Derived terms: deedworthy
has sex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of have sex
had sex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of have sex
HPPD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: clinical-psychology
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hallucinogen persisting perception disorder.
think too much
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: thinks too much
form: thinking too much
form: thought too much
form: thought too much
Senses: glosses: To think over a problem in a complex way where the solution is simple.
examples: For French today, we will learn the word douche - now, don't think too much!
glosses: To associate something with a taboo topic such as sex and profanity.
raw_tags: not standard
need I say more
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Joe Bloggs became president – need I say more?
text: 'How was your picnic?' 'My husband did the cooking, need I say more?' 'Nah, say no more'
glosses: Used to say that audience can predict the result of something.
adianta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adiantum
declinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: declinators
Etymology: Compare French déclinateur. See decline.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for taking the declination or angle which a plane makes with the horizontal plane.
examples: text: the Votes of the Declinators could not be heard for the noise
ref: 1693, John Hacket, Scrinia Reserata:
glosses: A dissenter.
treasure troves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of treasure trove
labour of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labours of love
Senses: examples: text: SETG's work has been a labour of love on rolling stock that's far from the glamorous end of 'top link' locomotive preservation.
ref: 2024 February 7, Philip Haigh, “Railway's fragile resilience”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 3:
glosses: Alternative spelling of labor of love.
labours of love
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labour of love
inferrable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infer + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of inferable.
toadless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From toad + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a toad or toads.
leptomeningitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptomeningitides
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the leptomeninges
bimatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimatrices
Etymology: From bi- + matrix.
Senses: examples: 2010 Maria-Florina Balcan, Mark Braverman, "Approximate Nash Equilibria under Stability Conditions" arXiv
Finding approximate Nash equilibria in n x n bimatrix games is currently one of the main open problems in algorithmic game theory.
glosses: A matrix with two elements per cell.
Related terms: trimatrix
adjuvate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adjuvates
form: adjuvating
form: adjuvated
form: adjuvated
Etymology: From Latin adiuvatum, variant of adiutus, perfect passive participle of adiuvo.
Senses: examples: text: ...I doubt not but you will adiuvate suche poore adnichilate orphans as whilom were condisciples with you, and of antique family in Lincolnshire.
ref: 1553, Thomas Wilson, “An ynkehorne letter” in The Arte of Rhetorique, printed by Richard Grafton, fol. 86
text: For this reason we make known this unto you as friends and Allies in Europa, to the end that you not at all in the least manner with assist this Heathens against us being a Christian Nation, but rather adjuvate us to forward our rightious weapons against this unhuman people.
ref: 1756, H. G. Krog, H. H. V. Castoniers, F. C. Hoyer, and J. H. Gille, Letter to the Governer and his Council at Fort St. George, Records of Fort St. George. Diary and consultation book ... 1752-1756, Govt. Press (Madras: 1984), 216–217
glosses: To help; to further.
Related terms: adjuvation
paper mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper mill
I've lost my keys
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: I lost my keys
Senses: glosses: Indicates that the speaker has lost his or her keys.
Christianas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Christiana
constringes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of constringe
constringent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constringent
form: most constringent
Etymology: From Latin constringens.
Senses: examples: text: constringent action
text: constringent motion
text: Our strengthen'd bodies in its cold embrace,
Constringent; feeds, and animates our blood
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Winter”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
glosses: contracting, binding, or compressing.
Komotini
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Κομοτηνή (Komotiní).
Senses: glosses: A city in Thrace, northeastern Greece.
atomic nuclei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic nucleus
kibbitzes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kibbitz
kibbitzing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kibbitz
kibbitzed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kibbitz
Didymoteicho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Διδυμότειχο (Didymóteicho).
Senses: glosses: A town located in the eastern part of the Evros Prefecture of Thrace, Greece.
Kavala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Greek Καβάλα (Kavála), from Byzantine Greek Καβάλα (Kabála) of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A port city in northern Greece.
Synonyms: word: Neapolis
Alexandroupoli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alexandropolis
Etymology: From Greek Αλεξανδρούπολη (Alexandroúpoli).
Senses: glosses: A city in Greece and the capital of the Evros Prefecture in Thrace.
crystalluria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crystal + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The presence of crystals in the urine.
chihuahuas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chihuahua
eftsones
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eftsoons.
euge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuːd͡ʒi/
Etymology: From Latin euge, from Ancient Greek εὖγε (eûge).
Senses: examples: text: No such good news to heaven as this; not only approbation, but joy in heaven over one such convert prodigal: the music that Pythagoras talks of in the orbs, was that of the minstrels which our Saviour mentions at the return of that prodigal, to solemnize the euge's, the passionate welcomes of heaven poured out on penitents.
ref: a. 1606, Henry Hammond, God is the God of Bethel:
text: Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!
ref: 1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs:
glosses: applause
dict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicts
Etymology: From Middle English dicte, from Latin dictum. Doublet of dictum.
Senses: examples: text: And accoꝛdyng to theyꝛe dictys reherſyd as thus […]
ref: [c. 1525], [Fernando de Rojas], anonymous translator, A New Cõmodye in Englysh in Maner of an Enterlude Ryght Elygant ⁊ Full of Craft of Rethoryk / Wherein Is Shewd ⁊ Dyscrybyd as Well the Bewte ⁊ Good Propertes of Women […], [London]: Iohẽs rastell […]:
text: In the deſcription of King Priams ſtate, we must needes imagine it great, where ſo many forraigne Kings aſſembled in his ayde, in whoſe names we haue confer’d Dares, the Troian Dictes, the Greeke Homer, Virgill, and others, who though in ſome particuler thinges (not momentarily they differ) yet they generally concurre in this, that ſuch Princes with ſuch populous and almoſt inuincible aſsiſtance ſuccored Troy.
ref: 1609, Tho[mas] Heywood, “Canto. 11.”, in Troia Britanica: Or, Great Britaines Troy. […], London: […] W[illiam] Iaggard, →OCLC, page 265:
text: The fifth and laſt Rule, keep a good and conſtant correſpondence, as between heart and tongue, to ſpeak as yee think (as was ſhewed before) ſo between tongue and hand to do what you ſay, to pay what you vow to God, and perform what you promiſe to men, and to ſay no more to either, than you can and will do, that there may bee an harmony between your words and your works, that as your Tongues are the interpreters of your minds, ſo your hands may bee the Executors of your Tongues, to perform the Dicts and Ingagements thereof. Good language joyned with real performance is (as one ſaith) as a pleaſant ſauce to wholeſome meat.
ref: 1656, Edward Reyner, Rules for the Government of the Tongue: Together with Directions in Six Particular Cases. […], 3rd edition, London: […] R. I. for Thomas Newberry, […], published 1658, pages 74–75:
text: ‘Nay, my lord, he never was buried.’ / ‘What, the old dict was true after all?’
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter XXXV, in The Cloister and the Hearth; or, Maid, Wife, and Widow. A Matter-of-Fact Romance., New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton; London: Trübner & Co., page 90, column 2:
ref: 1965, Robert S. Cox, Jr., The Old English Dicts of Cato and Others, →OCLC
glosses: A saying; a statement.
dict
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dicts
form: dict.
Senses: examples: text: I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project [4] and in my homepage [5]. […] There currently are three sorts of dicts:
 - The acronym dict
 - Translations from and to English languages
 - Monolingual Dictionaries with explanations of words or phrases.
ref: 2005 January 26, Jutta Wrage, “Debian Dictionary”, in linux.debian.doc (Usenet):
text: Other times, they combine words from one big dictionary with words from a smaller one. Steube was able to crack "momof3g8kids" because he had "momof3g" in his 111 million dict and "8kids" in a smaller dict.
ref: 2013 May 28, Dan Goodin, “Anatomy of a hack: even your ’complicated’ password is easy to crack”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Dec 2022:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Clipping of dictionary.
Košice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kosice
Etymology: From Slovak Košice.
Senses: glosses: The second largest city of Slovakia.
Vitali-Carathéodory theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Giuseppe Vitali and Constantin Carathéodory.
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem which states that any real-valued Lebesgue integrable function can be approached arbitrarily closely from below by an upper semicontinuous function and also from above by a lower semicontinuous function.
wikipedia: Constantin Carathéodory
Giuseppe Vitali
lower semicontinuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lower semi-continuous.
Related terms: upper semicontinuous
σ-additivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sigma additivity
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: countable additivity
sigma additivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of σ-additivity.
ambiquitous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ambiquitous
form: most ambiquitous
Etymology: From ambi- + quitous.
Senses: examples: text: The rabbit liver enzyme lactate dehydrogenase is ambiquitous.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: having the ability to reversibly bind to stationary subcellular structures (such as the cytoskeleton or membrane)
how do you spell this word
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I would like to know how this word is written.
erubescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛɹ.ʊˈbɛs.ənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more erubescent
form: most erubescent
Etymology: 18th century. From Latin erubescens, present participle of erubescere (“to grow red”); e (“out”) + rubescere. See rubescent.
Senses: examples: text: Cycloptically through the windowdisks and with eddying awes the round eyes of the rundreisers, back to back, buck to bucker, on their airish chaunting car, beheld with intouristing anterestedness the clad pursue the bare, the bare the green, the green the frore, the frore the cladagain, as their convoy wheeled encirculingly abound the gigantig’s lifetree, our fireleaved loverlucky blomsterbohm, phoenix in our woodlessness, haughty, cacuminal, erubescent (repetition!) whose roots they be asches with lustres of peins.
ref: 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC:
text: Fruits ovoid or orbicular, without nutlets at base, narrow into a neck, often underdeveloped, white, greenish white and erubescent only on 1 side
ref: 2004, L I Malyschev, Flora of Siberia:
glosses: Red; reddish.
examples: text: [T]he Major erubescent confounded the impudence of the young folks, and said when he had his hair cut he would keep a lock of it for Miss Laura.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 54, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: I see you on the edge of a mountain,
I call your name.
You turn and give a smile, you hug me and hold me.
As the sun goes down,
You can see I'm clearly Erubescent.
I hate and I love it at the same time.
ref: 2019, Cameron Mcnaughton, “Erubescent,”, in Imaginings: 21St Century Poet:
glosses: Blushing
Related terms: english: becoming white
translation: becoming white
word: albescent
english: becoming yellow
translation: becoming yellow
word: flavescent
english: becoming black
translation: becoming black
word: nigrescent
english: becoming green
translation: becoming green
word: virescent
erubescite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ērubēscō (“I redden”) + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of bornite.
synonyms: word: bornite
genetrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genetrixes
form: genetrices
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of genitrix.
genetrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genetrix
detailee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detailees
Etymology: From detail + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In a letter highly-critical of government efforts to “secure” the nation’s critical infrastructure, Beckström said that NSA “effectively controls DHS cyber efforts through detailees [and] technology insertions.”
ref: 2010, Tom Burghardt, The “Cyberwar” Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won:
glosses: An employee of a United States government agency on assignment or loan.
globemaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globemakers
Etymology: From globe + maker.
Senses: glosses: A person or business that produces globes of the Earth and other planets.
intercedent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Probably by way of French intercedent (adjective), which seems to be more commonly attested than this English adjective. Ultimately from Latin intercedens, present participle of intercedere, and possibly borrowed twice by English, with the later borrowing being a learned borrowing.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: intercessionary, intercessory
text: the intercedent region of the brain
glosses: Interceding: Passing between; mediating
Related terms: intercedently
globemakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globemaker
globemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From globe + making.
Senses: glosses: The activity of manufacturing representations of the Earth or other planets.
resync
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resyncs
form: resynch
Etymology: Shortening of resynchronization.
Senses: glosses: resynchronization
resync
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: resyncs
form: resyncing
form: resynching
form: resynced
form: resynced
form: resynched
form: resynched
form: resynch
Etymology: Shortening of resynchronization.
Senses: glosses: to resynchronize
resyncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resync
resynced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resync
resyncs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resync
resyncs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resync
resyntheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of resynthesis
peak body
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peak bodies
Senses: examples: text: The following series of extracts provides a snapshot of the chief professional organisations, or peak bodies, and research centres in Australia.
ref: 2006, David Spencer, Michael Brogan, Mediation Law And Practice, page 33:
text: The relationship between so called ‘peak bodies’ (so called because they operate at the apex of groupings with common concerns and represent collective interests) and governments is often fraught with political and professional tension.[…]Some peak bodies might even consider a combative relationship with the government or public sector agencies as a tangible proof of their legitimacy.
ref: 2010, John Butcher, John Wanna, Benoît Freyens, Policy in Action: The Challenge of Service Delivery, page 72:
text: EA^([Environment Australia]) consulted peak stakeholder groups (fisheries peak bodies, oil and gas peak body, tourism agencies, indigenous organizations, regional economic development bodies, scientists and conservationists).
ref: 2000, Luca Tacconi, Biodiversity and Ecological Economics: Participation, Values, and Resource Management, page 123:
glosses: An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
Synonyms: peak organisation
broomrapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of broomrape
sprigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sprig
sprigging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spriggings
Senses: examples: text: The use of spriggings on Ontario pottery, both stoneware and earthenware, extends back to the early 1850s.
ref: 1976, Material History Review, numbers 1-6, page 15:
glosses: ornamentation in the form of sprigs or sprays
peak bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peak body
pupped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pup
pupping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pup
rogued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rogue
roguing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rogue
peak organisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peak organisations
Senses: examples: text: But comparisons at peak organisation level are useful as a kind of aggregate data. In addition, such organisations have often given a lead to member unions on the treatment of women, and the position of women unionists in peak organisations may well serve as an example to member unions.
ref: 1986, Joni Lovenduski, Women and European Politics: Contemporary Feminism and Public Policy, page 172:
text: 1997, James Elliott, Tourism: Politics and Public Sector Management, Routledge, UK, page 187,
A peak organisation seeks to represent all the companies within that industry. There are several peak organisations in the tourism industry.
text: 2005, Alfred C. Aman, Jr, Globalisation, Democracy, and the Need for a New Administrative Law, Michael Likosky (editor), Privatising Development: Transnational Law, Infrastructure and Human Rights, Brill Academic Publishers, UK, page 289,
Peak organisations are not at all typical in the U.S., but the economic discourse that increasingly dominates much of regulation, and certainly, the raison d′etre for privatisation, narrows the discourse in such a way as to make most groups sound essentially the same. There may be no peak organisation, per se, but the discourse is so similar that this may be a distinction without a difference.
glosses: An organisation which represents an entire sector of industry or the community to the government, often incorporating other organisations in that area.
Synonyms: peak body
peak organisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peak organisation
detailees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detailee
birdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜɹd.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: birdlings
Etymology: From bird + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: birdlet, birdie, birb; chick, nestling, fledgling
text: Clasped, love, close to thy heart, thy birdling Foldeth her wings in peace-- Trusts, love! feeling nor cold nor shadow, Finding at last her ease, From fear a safe release, Heart's love, with thee."
ref: 1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious:
text: Nay, fear not, birdling! let me gently Uplift and hold thee in my hand; Thou gazest on me so intently, Thou must my motive understand.
ref: 1913, John L. Stoddard, Poems:
glosses: A little bird; especially, a baby bird.
birdling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɜɹd.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: birdlings
Etymology: From Old English byrdling, from Proto-Germanic *burdilingaz. By surface analysis, bord + -ling.
Senses: glosses: Turtle.
clerkling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɑɹk.lɪŋ/
Forms: form: clerklings
Etymology: From clerk + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Every Spaniard that spoke to him, whether clerkling or underling, was presented as a leading merchant, a marquis, or a count, while on the other hand any one who passed him by was a greenhorn, a petty official, a nobody!
ref: 1912, Jose Rizal, The Reign of Greed:
text: A little after, he sent a lad, as he were the priest's clerkling that had confessed her, to the lady to ask if she wot of were come thither again.
ref: 1886, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375), translated by John Payne (1842-1916), The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio:
text: Una stood with a hulking man pressing as close to her side as he dared, and a dapper clerkling squeezed against her breast.
ref: 1917, Sinclair Lewis, The Job:
glosses: A young or insignificant clerk.
Phillips screw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Phillips screws
Senses: glosses: A screw with a Phillips head.
Phillips screws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Phillips screw
birdlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of birdling
Tajik Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Tajiki (variety of the Persian language)
at church every time the doors are open
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in church every time the doors are open
Senses: examples: text: I was at church every time the doors were open. I started learning more about the Bible and even got baptized in the back of the church in a toddler pool.
ref: 2007, Patrick Irish, The Day God Asked Me a Question:
text: I am ashamed to admit it now, but for years I operated under the assumption that Christians who didn't show up at church every time the doors were open were somehow lacking in spirituality.
ref: 2010, Mark Atteberry, Let It Go: Come Home from Your Guilt Trip, page 70:
synonyms: at church every time the doors swing open
glosses: Religious to the point of excess; ridiculously religious.
raw_tags: of a Christian
pencil pleat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pencil pleats
Senses: glosses: A pleat with a semicylindrical appearance like a row of pencils, often used for curtains.
nonrotting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rotting.
Senses: examples: text: Foam sandwich for the hulls means that we have a material that is 100 percent nonrotting, is fast to build, can take very heavy impacts...
ref: 1998, Tristan Jones, Outward Leg, page 72:
glosses: Not prone to rotting.
nonpreserved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + preserved.
Senses: glosses: Not preserved (in various senses).
mythohistorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mythohistorical
form: most mythohistorical
Etymology: From mytho- + historical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to mythohistory.
Derived terms: mythohistorically
nitro-hydrochloric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitro-hydrochloric acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aqua regia
nitro-hydrochloric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nitro- + hydrochloric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing nitric and hydrochloric ions, see nitro-hydrochloric acid.
incorrigibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From incorrigible + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: (1) They had become sufficiently convinced of the incorrigibleness of the party in power: the fact that the governing lords had even in the last war neither forgotten their spite nor learned greater wisdom, was shown by the effrontery bordering on simplicity with which they now instituted proceedings against Hamilcar as the originator of the mercenary war, because he had without full powers from the government made promises of money to his Sicilian soldiers.
ref: 1854, Theodor Mommsen, The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5):
text: On the one side she was attached to her king, notwithstanding his incorrigibleness; on the other, she was devoted to the principles involved, including the independence of the Church.
ref: 1913, J. C. McFeeters, Sketches of the Covenanters:
glosses: The quality of being incorrigible; incorrigibility.
possessorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈzɛsəɹˌʃɪp/
Etymology: From possessor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: He experiences the overwhelming joy of possessorship, for she is his.
ref: 1846, Amanda Millie Douglas, A Little Girl of Long Ago:
text: As Christ manifested to the world the love of the Father, so are we to manifest the love of Christ--a manifestation, however, which is only possible because of our possessorship of a common life.
ref: 1894, A. J. Gordon, The Ministry of the Spirit:
text: It was unconsciously, insidiously, that her ten years of happiness with Westall had developed another conception of the tie; a reversion, rather, to the old instinct of passionate dependency and possessorship that now made her blood revolt at the mere hint of change.
ref: 1910, Edith Wharton, The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part 2 (of 10):
glosses: The state of possessing something, possession.
misereres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miserere
misereatur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The first part of the absolution service in the Roman Catholic liturgy, beginning "Misereatur vestri omnipotens Deus" (may almighty God have mercy on you).
placator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placators
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placater.
video DVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video DVDs
Senses: glosses: A DVD containing video in DVD-Video format
Related terms: audio DVD
audio DVD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: audio DVDs
Senses: glosses: A DVD containing audio in DVD-Audio format
Related terms: video DVD
SACD
shealing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shealings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shieling.
preces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin precēs (“prayers”).
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The alternate responsive petitions, as the versicles and suffrages, between the clergyman and the congregation in liturgical worship.
Carchemish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑːɹkimɪʃ/
Senses: glosses: An ancient city on the Euphrates river in Mesopotamia, on the border between modern Turkey and Syria.
psalme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psalmes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of psalm.
conversion rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conversion rates
Senses: examples: text: If 10 users end up installing your app and your app store shows 100 impressions then your conversion rate is 10%.
ref: 2020, Abhinav Ojha, Advanced Guide to ASO (APP Store Optimization) with Digital Marketing, Evincepub, page 38:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: The proportion of visitors to a website or an app store who take an action desired by the marketers, such as buying a product or subscribing to a newsletter, usually expressed as a percentage.
renes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ren
Mannea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mannai
form: Mana
form: Minni
Senses: glosses: ancient region south-east of lake Urmia
Derived terms: Mannaean
toshiver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toshivers
form: toshivering
form: toshivered
form: toshivered
Etymology: From Middle English toshiveren, toschiveren, equivalent to to- + shiver.
Senses: glosses: To break in pieces.
toslive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toslives
form: tosliving
form: toslived
form: toslived
Etymology: From Middle English tosliven, equivalent to to- + slive.
Senses: glosses: To cleave or split in pieces.
tosliver
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: toslivers
form: toslivering
form: toslivered
form: toslivered
Etymology: From Middle English toslyveren, equivalent to to- + sliver.
Senses: glosses: To split into slivers or small pieces.
slive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: slives
form: sliving
form: slove
form: slived
form: sliven
form: slived
Etymology: From Middle English sliven, from Old English slīfan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīban, from Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: To cut; split; separate.
glosses: To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.
slive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: slives
Etymology: From Middle English sliven, from Old English slīfan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-West Germanic *slīban, from Proto-Germanic *slībaną (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).
Senses: glosses: A slice or sliver; slip, chip.
Related terms: sliver
slive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
rhymes: -aɪv
ipa: /slaɪv/
rhymes: -aɪv
Forms: form: slives
form: sliving
form: slived
form: slived
Etymology: From Middle English sliven, from Old English slīfan, slēfan (“to slip or put a garment on”). Perhaps related to slip.
Senses: glosses: To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.
Related terms: sliverly