cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sauté
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊteɪ/
enpr: sōtāʹ
enpr: sôtāʹ
ipa: /soʊˈteɪ/
ipa: /sɔˈteɪ/
ipa: /sɑˈteɪ/
Forms: form: sautés
form: sautéing
form: sautéed
form: sautéed
form: sautéd
form: sautéd
form: saute
form: sautee
form: sautée
form: sauter
Etymology: Borrowed from French sauté, past participle of sauter (“to sauté”, literally “to jump”); in cooking, diced onions jump in the pan from the hot oil.
Senses: examples: text: Parboil three-fourths cup carrot, cut in strips, fifteen minutes; drain, and sauté in one tablespoon bacon fat to which has been added one tablespoon finely chopped onion.[…]Cook until potatoes are soft, then add twelve small onions cooked until soft, then drained and sautéd in two tablespoons butter to which is added one tablespoon sugar. Onions need not be sautéd unless they are desired glazed. Serve from casserole dish.
ref: 1906, Fannie Merritt Farmer, “Lamb and Mutton”, in The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, section “Lamb en Casserole”, page 220:
text: Frying and sautéing are methods that heat foods for the most part by conduction from a hot, oiled pan, with temperatures between 350 and 450°F/175–225°C that encourage Maillard browning and flavor development.
ref: 2004, Harold McGee, chapter 14, in On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen, Scribner, →ISBN:
text: Lightly sautéing fresh spinach in a drizzle of olive or avocado oil meets this baseline, and it’s tasty and nutritious as well.
ref: 2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:
glosses: To cook (food) using a small amount of fat in an open pan over a relatively high heat, allowing the food to brown and form a crust stopping it from sticking to the pan as it cooks.
Derived terms: sauté up
sauté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəʊteɪ/
enpr: sōtāʹ
enpr: sôtāʹ
ipa: /soʊˈteɪ/
ipa: /sɔˈteɪ/
ipa: /sɑˈteɪ/
Forms: form: sautés
form: saute
form: sautee
form: sautée
form: sauter
Etymology: Borrowed from French sauté, past participle of sauter (“to sauté”, literally “to jump”); in cooking, diced onions jump in the pan from the hot oil.
Senses: glosses: A dish prepared this way.
Derived terms: saute pan
saute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sautes
form: sauteing
form: sauteed
form: sauteed
form: sauted
form: sauted
Senses: examples: text: Likewise for his treatment of linguinilike rice noodles sauteed with whole shrimp, pork, egg, chiles, green onions, and bean sprouts.
ref: 1987 July 24, Texas Monthly, page 36:
text: This appropriate combination of blanched dubu (tofu), sauteed kimchi, and stir-fried pork is a threesome made in heaven. The dubu, which has the potential to be bland on its own, has the pork to add substance and the kimchi to add flavor.
ref: 2023 June 29, Violet Kim, “Korean food: 39 dishes we can’t live without”, in CNN:
text: The distinguishing flavour of sundubu jjigae comes from sauteing gochugaru (Korean red chilli powder) in sesame oil. The first time I tried this, I immediately burnt the gochugaru to a crisp.
ref: 2024 September 25, Jane Lee, “‘Jjigae is comfort food of the highest order’: my obsession with cooking Korea’s best-loved soups”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of sauté.
poissonier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poissoniers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of poissonnier.
obstructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.ʃənˌɪst/
Forms: form: obstructionists
Etymology: From obstruction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: "And you, sir, have lived an unimaginative obstructionist and never can hope now to emerge from it."
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: The obstructionists didn't have their own plan, but they counted, successfully, on delay to frustrate any alternative.
ref: 2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 395:
glosses: Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.
glosses: Someone who systematically obstructs the actions of others.
Someone who attempts to impede the progress of legislation.
obstructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹʌk.ʃənˌɪst/
Forms: form: more obstructionist
form: most obstructionist
Etymology: From obstruction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to obstructionism.
glosses: Obstructionistic.
chorizo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: chŏrēʹzō
ipa: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiː.zəʊ/
other: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːsəʊ/
other: /t͡ʃɒˈɹiːθəʊ/
enpr: chərēʹzō
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈɹi.zoʊ/
other: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹisoʊ/
other: /tʃəˈɹisoʊ/
other: /t͡ʃoʊˈɹiθoʊ/
enpr: chəritsō
ipa: /t͡ʃəˈɹɪtsəʊ/
other: /t͡ʃəˈɹi.tsəʊ/
Forms: form: chorizos
form: choritso
form: chorizzo
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chorizo.
Senses: examples: text: Substitute three chopped scallions and a minced jalapeño for the onion, and 6 ounces crumbled chorizo for the tomatoes. Sub ½ cup queso fresco for the Parmesan in step 2. Serve with salsa.
ref: 2008 January–February, Mark Bittman, “The only 7 meals you need for 2008”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 138:
synonyms: Spanish sausage
glosses: A spicy Spanish sausage flavoured with paprika, often crumbled for use in filling tacos, quesadillas, etc.
Related terms: chouriço
chaurice
perempt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛmpt
Forms: form: perempts
form: perempting
form: perempted
form: perempted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin peremptum, past participle of perimere.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: To destroy or defeat.
Related terms: peremption
peremptory
plentifully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈplɛntɪfəli/
Forms: form: more plentifully
form: most plentifully
Etymology: From Middle English plentefully, plentefullych, plentyfullyche, equivalent to plentiful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 31:23:
glosses: in a plentiful manner.
preferment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈfəːmənt/
Forms: form: preferments
form: perferment
Etymology: From Middle English preferment, preferrement, prefferment; equivalent to prefer + -ment.
Senses: glosses: Prior claim (on payment, or on purchasing something); the first rights to obtain a particular payment or product.
examples: text: But consider—you need not be afraid of delegating power to me. I am no young lady on her preferment. Married women, you know, may be safely authorised.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 6:
text: A mind warranted from prejudice, hath a marvellous preferment [translating avancement] to tranquility.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: The fact of being pushed or advanced to a more favourable situation; furtherance, promotion (of a candidate, action, undertaking etc.).
glosses: Advancement to a higher position or office; promotion.
examples: text: One hall called Civil Law Hall or School, flouriſhed about this time (though in its buildings decayed) by the care of the learned and judicious Dr. Will. Warham Principal or Moderator thereof; which he leaving this year (having before had ſeveral Deputies therein) becauſe of his preferment to the ſee of London, became void for ſome time. The year following the ſaid Warham was tranſlated to Canterbury […]
ref: 1792, Anthony à Wood, The History and Antiquities of the University of Oxford: In Two Books, volume 1, Oxford: John Gutch, →OCLC, page 661:
glosses: A position (especially in the Church of England) that provides profit or prestige.
glosses: The fact of preferring something; preference.
Derived terms: preferment-hunting
preferment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈfəːmənt/
ipa: /pɹɪˈfəːmənt/
Forms: form: preferments
Etymology: From pre- + ferment.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of flour, water and yeast that is allowed to ferment prior to another baking process
Related terms: prefermentation
penologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penologists
Etymology: From penology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A student of, or expert in, penology.
plenitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛnɪtjuːd/
Forms: form: plenitudes
Etymology: From Middle English plenitude, that borrowed from Anglo-Norman plenitude, Middle French plenitude, and their source, Latin plēnitūdō.
Senses: examples: text: The idea that the love of Philimore had abated, when hers for him seemed in its plenitude, was a most severe aggravation of her misfortune.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 152:
text: Louis ignored him, recalling the parlements to the plenitude of their powers on 23 September.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 393:
glosses: Fullness; completeness.
qualifier: heraldry and older astronomy
glosses: Fullness (of the moon).
examples: text: Mankind's old greatness was created in scarcity. But what may we expect from plenitude?
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: An abundance; a full supply.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The metaphysical idea that the universe contains everything that is possible.
Derived terms: overplenitude
plenitude principle
plenitudinary
plenitudinous
plentitude
Related terms: plenty
plenitudine
preferable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛf(ə)ɹəb(ə)l/
ipa: /pɹəˈfɜːɹəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more preferable
form: most preferable
form: præferable
form: preferrable
Etymology: From prefer + -able, probably after Middle French preferable. Compare preference, preferential, etc.
Senses: examples: text: This work has been the care and ſtudy of ſome years; as far as health, and other affairs, would permit. For, this appeared, to the author, of as much greater importance, than any other hiſtory whatever; as morality and religion are more excellent, than any temporal affairs; and the hiſtory of true religion, præferrable to that of impoſtures and deluſions.
ref: 1756, George Benson, “The Præface. To the First Edition.”, in The History of the First Planting of the Christian Religion: Taken from the Acts of the Apostles, and Their Epistles. Together with the Remarkable Facts of the Jewish and Roman History; Which Affected the Christians, Within This Period., the second edition, volume the first, London: […] J. Waugh and W. Fenner, page v:
text: It is not to the point that an inequality of material goods, at high levels, may not be preferable to an equality of material goods at a lower level, precisely for such reasons as self-respect.
ref: 2007, Ted Honderich, On political means and social ends, →ISBN, page 94:
text: While adopting the pronoun as a nonbinary description is vastly preferable for some, Merriam-Webster says, there has also been some debate that it is ungrammatical.
ref: 2019 September 17, Kendall Trammell, “Merriam-Webster adds the nonbinary pronoun ‘they’ to its dictionary”, in CNN:
text: If you’re looking for the most breathable mask, Lukovics says, “Cotton is preferable, mainly for absorbing moisture/sweat.” She says multiple layers may be more protective but will also impact breathability.
ref: 2021 August 17, Elizabeth Wallace and Kai Burkhardt, “12 breathable face masks to protect you while exercising”, in CNN:
glosses: Better than some other option; preferred.
Derived terms: preferableness
preferably
unpreferable
putrify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: putrifies
form: putrifying
form: putrified
form: putrified
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of putrefy.
putrescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more putrescent
form: most putrescent
Etymology: Attested since circa 1730, from Latin pūtrēscēns (“rotting”), present participle of pūtrēscō (“rot”).
Senses: examples: text: When it is combined with that quantity of water with which it is found united in the gall-bladder, it is not more putrescent than the serum of the blood
ref: 1791, George Fordyce, A treatise on the digestion of food, page 68:
text: This same reason accounts to a considerable extent for the fact, that soft steeping liquor, if seldom changed, becomes much more putrescent than hard water retained with the same barleys for a similar period in cistern.
ref: 1885, Henry Stopes, Malt and malting, an historical, scientific, and practical treatise, page 48:
text: although in some instances these spores are elliptical and smooth, they are often coarsely warted and angular. The group in itself seems to be a very natural one, for the species are all soft and fleshy, and even more putrescent than
ref: 2009, Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Introduction to the Study of Fungi, Their Organography,, page 132:
glosses: Becoming putrid; putrefying.
predominance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈdɒmɪnəns/
Forms: form: predominances
Etymology: From predominant + -ance. By surface analysis, pre- + dominance.
Senses: examples: text: Inside classrooms and lecture theatres, all signage is in English, as is the signage in the staff office blocks. There were only three exceptions to this complete predominance of English.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 5:
glosses: The condition or state of being predominant; ascendancy, domination, preeminence, preponderance.
Pleiad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of 16th-century French poets who sought to enrich the French language.
Pleiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pleiads
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any one of the Pleiades.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A member of the Pleiades cluster.
pleiad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleiads
Etymology: Probably from the English Pleiades, divine sisters in Greek mythology who were believed to have been placed in the heavens as a well known group of seven stars.
Senses: glosses: A group of illustrious or talented people, especially one with seven members.
penological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pœnological
Etymology: From penology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to penology.
Derived terms: penologically
penologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From penological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The DOC has offered no evidence to suggest that these actions were taken for any other reason, penologically legitimate or otherwise.
ref: 2001, US Court of Appeals, Rauser v Horn:
glosses: In terms of penology.
prediluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Etymology: From pre- + diluvian.
Senses: glosses: Before the Flood; antediluvian.
prediluvian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːviən
Forms: form: prediluvians
Etymology: From pre- + diluvian.
Senses: examples: text: When Noah in ark, with his ſons did embark, / Prediluvians, uplifted and pompous, / Deem’d his nautical ſcheme a fantaſtical dream, / And pronounc’d the projector non compos.
ref: 1786 November, The County Magazine, for the Years 1786 and 1787, volume I, Salisbury: […] B. C. Collins, and by S. Crowder, in London, published 1788, page 173:
text: […] for the British have in 1,500 years progressed from an initial stage that was probably inferior to that of the prediluvians, and any shipbuilding that they learned from earlier races was a hindrance, not a help.
ref: 2005, C. E. V. Craufurd, Treasure of Ophir: In Search of a Lost City, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2011, →ISBN, page 186:
text: With only two exceptions the prediluvians lived into their tenth century.
ref: 2016, Tremper Longman III, Genesis (The Story of God Bible Commentary), Zondervan, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: One who lived before the Flood; an antediluvian.
film badge holder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: film badge holders
Senses: glosses: A device for holding a film badge which acts not only as a holder, but also as a spectrum analyser, to allow determination of the dose in sieverts.
puristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more puristic
form: most puristic
Etymology: From purist + -ic.
Senses: synonyms: purist
glosses: Of, or relating to purism or purists.
penmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penmanships
Etymology: From pen + -manship.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of handwriting or chirography, one's own style of writing.
synonyms: word: handwriting or chirography
word: one's own style of writing
glosses: Synonym of calligraphy, the art of beautiful writing.
synonyms: word: calligraphy
extra: the art of beautiful writing
Related terms: penwomanship
penpersonship
penlight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penlights
Etymology: From pen + light.
Senses: synonyms: pen torch
pocket light
glosses: A small torch or flashlight that resembles a fountain pen.
Coordinate terms: english: pocket knife
translation: pocket knife
word: penknife
playoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playoffs
form: play-off
Etymology: Deverbal from play off; by surface analysis, play + -off.
Senses: glosses: A final game in a series needed to break a tie.
glosses: A short series of games to select a league champion.
examples: ref: 2023 May 27, Raj Singh Mahil, “EFL Championship playoff final result: Luton defeat Coventry on penalties to clinch Premier League promotion”, in THe Sporting News:
glosses: A short series of games to select the last team to be promoted (to elevate to a higher league).
glosses: A short piece of underscore played during a scene transition in a stage musical, usually reprising a song from the preceding scene.
Derived terms: nonplayoff
playoff beard
preplayoff
Shaughnessy playoff
Related terms: play off
precising definition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precising definitions
Senses: glosses: An extension to a lexical definition for a specific purpose by including additional criteria that narrow down the set of things meeting the definition.
craftsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of craftsman
corgis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corgi
binturongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of binturong
tavernas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taverna
collaborative creation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of theater where the script is not written in advance, but develops from collaborative, usually improvisatory, work, often by the performers themselves.
who ate all the pies
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Who ate all the pies? Who ate all the pies? You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pies. Loser!
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Used pejoratively against a fat person.
knout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [nʌʊt]
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: knouts
Etymology: Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
Senses: examples: text: In Moscow, a Court carbonadoes / His ignorant serfs with the knout; / […] / But Eton has crueller terrors / Than these,—in the Windsor Express.
ref: 1832 October 27, Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Derwent Coleridge, “Tales out of School. A Dropt Letter from a Lady.”, in The Poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed, […]. In Two Volumes, 4th edition, volume II, London: E[dward] Moxon, Son & Co., […], published 1874, →OCLC, page 217:
text: Torture in a public school is as much licensed as the knout in Russia.
ref: 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 5, in Vanity Fair:
text: “I don't suppose a Russian convict under the knout is able to amuse the rest of his gang; and all our men-folk here are gilded convicts.”
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “The Education of Otis Yeere”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 14:
text: Spray and then slogging knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers:
text: The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep.
ref: 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of Love, Canongate, published 2006, page 193:
glosses: A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
Hypernyms: scourge
knout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /naʊt/
ipa: [nʌʊt]
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: knouts
form: knouting
form: knouted
form: knouted
Etymology: Via French knout from Russian кнут (knut), from Old East Slavic кнутъ (knutŭ), from Old Norse knútr (“knot in a cord”). Doublet of knot, node, and nodus.
Senses: examples: text: Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.
ref: 1992, Will Self, Cock and Bull:
glosses: To flog or beat with a knout.
Synonyms: sense: to whip or scourge
word: whip
Derived terms: knouter
Dani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæni/
rhymes: -æni
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Danielle and of its variant forms.
glosses: A rare spelling variant of Danny, diminutive of the male given name Daniel.
Dani
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæni/
rhymes: -æni
Forms: form: Danis
Etymology: * As an Italian, Slovak (Dáni), Romanian, and German surname, from diminutives of the given name Daniel.
* As an Albanian surname, from Dan, a short form of the Islamic name Ramadan.
* As an Indian surname, borrowed from Gujarati દાણી (dāṇī), from Sanskrit दानिन् (dānin, “giving, generous”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Gujarati.
Related terms: Dan
taverna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈvɜː(ɹ)nə/
/təˈvɛə(ɹ)nə/
Forms: form: tavernas
Etymology: From Greek ταβέρνα (tavérna), from Latin taberna. Doublet of taberna and tavern.
Senses: examples: text: The streets of Palizzi, through which no Englishman perhaps had as yet descended, were swarming with perfectly naked, berry-brown children, and before I reached the taverna I could hardly make my way through the gathering crowd of astonished mahogany Cupids. The taverna was but a single dark room, […]; still it was a better resting-place than the hut at Condufóri, inasmuch as it was free from many intruders.
ref: 1852, Edward Lear, Journals of a Landscape Painter in Southern Calabria, &c., London: Richard Bentley, […], pages 46–47:
text: In the tavernas of Loutro I had the best octopus I’ve ever eaten, grilled simply with garlic, olive oil and sage over a charcoal fire.
ref: 2007 November 18, Henry Shukman, “In Rustic Tavernas, a Classic Cuisine Gets Its Due”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
hypernyms: tavern
restaurant
<
establishment
coordinate_terms: taberna#Etymology_2
osteria
trattoria
bistro
glosses: A small Greek restaurant.
corresponds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of correspond
collection society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collection societies
Senses: glosses: Any organisation which manages or administers copyright or rights related to copyright as its sole purpose or as one of its main purposes
vaginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈd͡ʒʌɪ.nəl/
ipa: /ˈvæd͡ʒ.ən.əl/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
rhymes: -ædʒɪnəl
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin vāgīnālis, from vāgīna (“a covering, sheath; the vagina”) + -ālis (“-al”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to vagina + -al.
Senses: examples: text: You may have a vaginal birth, C-section or surrogacy; it's up to you.
text: A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.
ref: 2021 June 8, Jacqui Palumbo, “These innovative designs are tackling taboo health issues for women”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, relating to, or affecting the vagina.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a theca.
Derived terms: abdominovaginal
anovaginal
antevaginal
brachiovaginal
cervicovaginal
circumvaginal
clitourethrovaginal
colovaginal
endovaginal
enterovaginal
extravaginal
ileovaginal
intervaginal
intravaginal
intra-vaginal
ischiovaginal
neovaginal
nonvaginal
orovaginal
palatovaginal
paravaginal
penovaginal
perineovaginal
perivaginal
pervaginal
postvaginal
prevaginal
pubovaginal
rectovaginal
sacrovaginal
subvaginal
supravaginal
transvaginal
ureterovaginal
urethrovaginal
urovaginal
uterovaginal
vaginal birth
vaginal discharge
vaginal epithelium
vaginal flatulence
vaginal fluid
vaginal introitus
vaginalist
vaginality
vaginalize
vaginal lubrication
vaginally
vaginal opening
vaginal process
vaginal ring
vaginal seeding
vaginal sex
vaginal vault
vesicovaginal
vulvovaginal
Related terms: yonic
old-growth forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old-growth forests
Senses: topics: business
forestry
synonyms: primary forest
glosses: A forest that has attained great age without significant disturbance.
wikipedia: old-growth forest
Related terms: second-growth forest
virgin forest
second-growth forest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second-growth forests
Senses: topics: business
forestry
glosses: A forest which has been harvested and is regrowing.
Related terms: virgin forest
old-growth forest
novation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /noʊˈveɪʃən/
Forms: form: novations
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin novātiō (“a renewing, rennovation”), from novō, from novus (“new”). Compare novel, novelty.
Senses: examples: text: 1998, London Clearing House, submission to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission http://www.cftc.gov/opa/press98/opa4163-98-att.htm
Netting by novation will occur immediately upon registration of the transaction in the SCM's name.
text: A similar novation of infrastructure ownership was seen as a logical development for the operation of Merseyrail services. But this has remained with Network Rail, […].
ref: 2024 September 18, 'Industry Insider', “GBR starts to take form”, in RAIL, number 1018, page 84:
topics: law
glosses: Replacement of a contract with one or more new contracts, in particular in financial markets the replacement of a contract between a particular buyer and seller with contracts between the clearing house and each party.
examples: text: An example of a novation is where an original debt which was payable in two instalments is novated to become payable in five installments.
topics: law
glosses: A new contract between the original contracting parties whereby the first obligation is extinguished and a new obligation is substituted.
Related terms: novate
novatio
Legendre symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Legendre symbols
Etymology: Named after French mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre (1752–1833), who introduced the symbol in 1798 in his work Essai sur la Théorie des Nombres ("Essay on the Theory of Numbers").
Senses: examples: text: 1994, James K. Strayer, Elementary Number Theory, Waveland Press, 2002, Reissue, page 109,
Our only method at present for the computation of Legendre symbols requires a possible consideration of (p-1)/2 congruences (unless, of course, we are fortunate enough to encounter the desired quadratic residue along the way).
text: The Jacobi symbol, which generalizes the Legendre symbol, sheds some additional light on how to determine whether (7.29) has solutions when m has two or more distinct prime factors.
ref: 2006, Neville Robbins, Beginning Number Theory, 2nd edition, Jones & Bartlett, page 195:
text: Jacobi symbols can be used to facilitate the calculation of Legendre symbols. In fact, Legendre symbols can be eventually calculated by Jacobi symbols [17]. That is, the Legendre symbol can be calculated as if it were a Jacobi symbol. For example, consider the Legendre symbol #92;left(#92;frac#123;335#125;#123;2999#125;#92;right) where 335 = 5·67 is not a prime (of course, 2999 is a prime, otherwise, it is not a Legendre symbol).
ref: 2013, Song Y. Yan, Number Theory for Computing, Springer, page 149:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A mathematical function of an integer and a prime number, written (a/p), which indicates whether a is a quadratic residue modulo p.
wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
Related terms: Euler's criterion
Jacobi symbol
quadratic reciprocity
Jacobi symbol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacobi symbols
Etymology: Named after German mathematician Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, who introduced the notation in 1837.
Senses: examples: text: 2000, Song Y. Yan, Number Theory for Computing, Springer, 2000, Softcover reprint, page 114,
Although the Jacobi symbol ((1009)/(2307))=1, we still cannot determine whether or not the quadratic congruence 1009=x²(mod 2307) is soluble.
Remark 1.6.10. Jacobi symbols can be used to facilitate the calculation of Legendre symbols.
text: With more than two factors, having a Jacobi symbol of 1 only means that x may be a quadratic non-residue modulo an even number of factors only. Thus in the general case, the Jacobi symbol is not enough to test for the existence of a discrete logarithm. Thanks to this efficient test, given any public process, for example based on a hash function, that transforms the identity of a user into a number x modulo N, this number can directly be used as the user's public key if its Jacobi symbol is 1.
ref: 2009, Antoine Joux, “Chapter 1: Introduction to Identity-Based Cryptography”, in Marc Joye, Gregory Neven, editors, Identity-based Cryptography, IOS Press, page 8:
text: 2014, Ibrahim Elashry, Yi Mu, Willy Susilo, Jhanwar-Barua's Identity-Based Encryption Revisited, Man Ho Au, Barbara Carminati, C.-C. Jay Kuo (editors), Network and System Security: 8th International Conference, Springer, LNCS 8792, page 279,
From the above equations, guessing the Jacobi symbol ((2y_is_j_1s_j_2+2)/N) from ((2y_j_1s_j_1+2)/N) and ((2y_j_2s_j_2+2)/N) is as hard as guessing them from independent Jacobi symbols.
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: A mathematical function of integer a and odd positive integer b, generally written (a/b), based on, for each of the prime factors pᵢ of b, whether a is a quadratic residue or nonresidue modulo pᵢ.
wikipedia: Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi
Related terms: Legendre symbol
quadratic reciprocity
quadratic reciprocity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: law of quadratic reciprocity
Etymology: The theorem highlights a particular form of reciprocity in the solvability of the quadratic equation a² = b in modular arithmetic. It was conjectured by Leonhard Euler and Adrien-Marie Legendre and first proved by Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Senses: examples: text: Yes, but we need not only Quadratic Reciprocity but also Dirichlet's theorem on primes in arithmetic progressions to see this.
ref: 2007, Paul B. Garrett, Abstract Algebra, Taylor & Francis (Chapman Hall/CRC Press), page 287:
text: Gauss studied these sorts of numbers while attempting to formulate and prove higher order reciprocity laws, following his success with quadratic reciprocity.
ref: 2009, Sam Vandervelde, Circle in a Box, American Mathematical Society, page 153:
text: An interesting consequence of the above algorithm is that one can evaluate the Jacobi symbol in deterministic polynomial time in certain cases analogous to the way (“reduce and flip”) that one computes this symbol using quadratic reciprocity in the case F#61;#92;mathbb#123;Q#125;.
ref: 2013, J. Voight, “Identifying the Matrix Ring: Algorithms for Quaternion Algebras and Quadratic Forms”, in Krishnaswami Alladi, Manjul Bhargava, David Savitt, Pham Huu Tiep, editors, Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms, Springer, page 284:
topics: mathematics
number-theory
sciences
glosses: The mathematical theorem which states that, for given odd prime numbers p and q, the question of whether p is a square modulo q is equivalent to the question of whether q is a square modulo p.
wikipedia: Adrien-Marie Legendre
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Leonhard Euler
Related terms: Legendre symbol
Jacobi symbol
quadratic residue
limit up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Condition where the price of the commodity has risen by the maximum daily amount permitted by the exchange.
Related terms: limit down
limit down
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Orange Juice - May & July fell to 5.00-cent limit DOWN ahead of Cold Storage report on 1/21. — Moore Research Center Inc 01/21/2004 https://web.archive.org/web/20051222001650/http://www.mrci.com/client/update.htm
topics: business
finance
glosses: Condition in which the market price of a commodity has fallen by the maximum daily amount permitted by the exchange.
Related terms: limit up
triple witching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The idea of witching for these days is from the unusual patterns of trading that can occur ahead of the contract expiries.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Simultaneous expiry on US markets of stock index futures, stock index options, and stock options, which took place on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December. (With the introduction of single stock futures those days are now quadruple witching.)
Derived terms: triple witching hour
quadruple witching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The idea of witching for these days is from the unusual patterns of trading that can occur ahead of the contract expiries.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Simultaneous expiry on US markets of stock index futures, stock index options, stock options, and single stock futures, which takes place on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December. (Prior to single stock futures those days were triple witching.)
pearling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Used a pointed tip today and learned why I kept pearling with my round tipped board. Round noses like to dig into the water, causing frustrating wipeouts.
ref: 1999, Joanne VanMeter https://web.archive.org/web/20071027111258/http://www.letsplay.net/archive99/020399.shtml
glosses: present participle and gerund of pearl
pearling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pearlings
Senses: examples: text: The barley underwent three pearlings in a pearler.
glosses: The process by which grain is pearled.
examples: text: fishing and pearling craft
glosses: The process of hunting for pearls.
Maryland bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maryland bridges
Senses: hypernyms: bridge
<
restoration#Noun
prosthesis
glosses: A dental prosthetic replacing a missing tooth by a bridging piece which is glued to the backs of the adjacent teeth (as opposed to an ordinary dental bridge, which is attached by grinding down the adjacent teeth and covering them).
Gallomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪniə
Etymology: From Gallo- (“French”) + -mania.
Senses: glosses: An obsession with, or excessive admiration of, all things French.
Synonyms: Francomania
azerty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the first six letters on the top row of the standard French keyboard.
Senses: glosses: Having or using the layout of a French/Francophone keyboard.
Coordinate terms: Dvorak
QWERTY
qwertz
réseau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: réseaus
form: réseaux
form: reseau
Etymology: Borrowed from French réseau (“network”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A system of lines forming small squares of standard size, which is photographed, by a separate exposure, on the same plate with star images to facilitate measurements, detect changes of the film, etc.
glosses: In lace, a ground or foundation of regular meshes.
liposuction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlai.poʊˌsʌk.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.poʊˌsʌk.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: liposuctions
Etymology: From lipo- + suction.
Senses: examples: text: Wasn't my Mom a betty? She died when I was just a baby. A fluke accident during a routine liposuction. I don't remember her, but I like to pretend she still watches over me.
ref: 1995, Amy Heckerling, Clueless, spoken by Cher (Alicia Silverstone):
text: Dr. Peter Normann, the physician who performed liposuctions and other procedures, has been charged in Superior Court with two counts of second-degree murder and one count of manslaughter.
ref: 2008 October 22, Associated Press, “Physician Faces Murder Charges for 3 Liposuction Deaths”, in Fox News:
text: One of my patients, a beautiful 25-year-old woman, was left with shark bite-sized divots all over her thighs and stomach after undergoing laser liposuction by a family medicine doctor.
ref: 2012 July 25, Dr. Anthony Youn, “Plastic surgery: ‘Wild West’ of medicine”, in CNN:
text: But a number of surgeons and clinics have reported an increased demand for surgery on those body parts most visible during video calls – neck liposuctions, lower facelifts and under-eye fillers.
ref: 2021 May 30, Oscar Holland, “From ancient Egypt to Beverly Hills: A brief history of plastic surgery”, in CNN:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: lipo
word: lipoaspiration
glosses: A cosmetic surgery procedure in which excess fat is removed from a specific area by suction.
liposuction
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlai.poʊˌsʌk.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˈlɪ.poʊˌsʌk.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: liposuctions
form: liposuctioning
form: liposuctioned
form: liposuctioned
Etymology: From lipo- + suction.
Senses: examples: text: It’s not easy to get curves like theirs. The most common type of buttock enhancement, called the “Brazilian Butt Lift,” involves liposuctioning fat from the thighs or hips, purifying it, and then re-injecting it into the buttocks.
ref: 2014 February 27, Dr. Anthony Youn, “2013: The Year of the butt?”, in CNN:
text: When Randi Wright got a Brazilian butt lift in 2020 — a complex surgery in which fat is liposuctioned from the abdomen or lower back or other fleshy parts and used to enlarge and shape the buttocks — she knew she couldn’t afford the most expensive post-op care.
ref: 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine, archived from the original on 13 May 2022:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: lipo
liposuck
glosses: To remove by liposuction.
midair
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: mid-air
Etymology: From mid- + air.
Senses: glosses: In the act of flight; airborne.
midair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: midairs
form: mid-air
Etymology: From mid- + air.
Senses: examples: text: The leaping dog spun around in midair.
text: The rooms seemed to run on for blocks, stuffed with automata human and animal assembled and in pieces, disappearing-cabinets, tables that would float in midair and other trick furniture, Davenport figures with dark-rimmed eyes in sinister faces, lengths of perfect black velvet and multicolored silk brocade a-riot with Oriental scenes […]
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Penguin, published 2012:
glosses: The condition of being airborne.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A collision between two or more aerospace vehicles in flight.
vaso-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌveɪsə(ʊ)/
Forms: form: vas-
Etymology: Combining form of Latin vās.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to blood vessels or the vascular system.
Related terms: vas
vascula
vascular
vascularize
vasculature
vasculitis
vasculum
vas deferens
vasectomy
vas efferens
vasopressin
vas-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: vas deferens
Related terms: vaso-
bed hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of bedhead.
synonyms: word: bedhead
dissection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛkʃən/
ipa: /daɪˈsɛkʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: dissections
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin dissectiōnem.
Senses: glosses: The act of dissecting.
glosses: Something dissected.
glosses: A minute and detailed examination or analysis.
examples: text: neck dissection
text: lymph node dissection
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Surgical removal.
Derived terms: antidissection
cryodissection
equidissection
hydrodissection
immunodissection
macrodissection
microdissection
redissection
stereodissection
Related terms: dissect
dissonance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsənəns/
ipa: /ˈdɪsənɪns/
Forms: form: dissonances
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French dissonance, from Latin dissonantia; by surface analysis, dis- + son- + -ance.
Senses: synonyms: cacophony
antonyms: consonance
;
concordance
concord
glosses: A harsh, discordant combination of sounds.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Conflicting notes that are not overtones of the note or chord sounding.
examples: text: Cognitive dissonance exists when a person possesses two cognitions, one of which is contradictory to the other
ref: 1977, Lawrence S. Wrightsman with Kay Deaux, Social Psychology, page 366:
synonyms: word: discordance
word: discord
word: disharmony
word: disjunction
word: dispute
word: argument
word: argy-bargy
word: altercation
word: barney
word: bawl out
word: blue
word: bobbery
word: brawl
word: clash
word: conflict
word: controversy
word: debate
word: difference
word: ding-dong
word: disagreement
word: discordance
word: disharmony
word: disputation
word: dispute
word: dissonance
word: disunion
word: dustup
word: face-off
word: falling out
word: feud
word: fight
word: flite
word: hassle
word: quarrel
word: quibble
word: row
word: spat
word: squabble
word: tangle
word: threap
word: tiff
word: wrangle
glosses: A state of disagreement or conflict.
examples: text: In this polyphony of images in the unconscious which is beyond and outside historical time, there are complex harmonies but no dissonances: the images do not clash, but that, of course, is an aesthetic judgment and not a scientific one.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 106:
synonyms: word: clash
word: dispute
word: argument
word: argy-bargy
word: altercation
word: barney
word: bawl out
word: blue
word: bobbery
word: brawl
word: clash
word: conflict
word: controversy
word: debate
word: difference
word: ding-dong
word: disagreement
word: discordance
word: disharmony
word: disputation
word: dispute
word: dissonance
word: disunion
word: dustup
word: face-off
word: falling out
word: feud
word: fight
word: flite
word: hassle
word: quarrel
word: quibble
word: row
word: spat
word: squabble
word: tangle
word: threap
word: tiff
word: wrangle
glosses: An instance of that state.
Derived terms: cognitive dissonance
critical dissonance
dissonancy
dissonant
lyrical dissonance
Related terms: assonance
sonic
sonorous
sound
demijohn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛmɪdʒɒn/
Forms: form: demijohns
form: demi-john
Etymology: Partial calque of French dame-jeanne (literally “Lady Jane”), of uncertain origin. Note that the French Jeanne (“Jane, feminine of John”) has changed to the masculine form John, rather than the cognate English Jane.
Senses: examples: text: “Reckon it's first-drink time,” the old prospector cried cheerily, and unearthed Monica's two-gallon demijohn.
ref: 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter VIII, in The Understanding Heart:
text: Toby, placing his gold-rimmed spectacles on his nose, set our dinner to simmer and uncorked a demijohn of the old Verfeuille red which glowed in our glasses with the embers of old recollections of half-forgotten journeys and excursions of our youth by the light of the moon.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 234:
synonyms: carboy
glosses: A large bottle with a short neck, sometimes with two small handles at the neck, sometimes encased in wickerwork.
feather pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather pens
Senses: glosses: A quill.
Synonyms: quill pen
featherbed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: featherbeds
form: feather bed
Etymology: From feather + bed.
Senses: glosses: A mattress stuffed with feathers.
examples: text: There are mires, bogs, and 'featherbeds' or quaking bogs. With the first two, look for the tussocks of heavy grass or rushes around the edges, which offer a relatively firm footing, but if you see a stretch of bright green sphagnum moss, for God's sake stay away from it. The moss is a mat covering a pit of wet ooze; […]
ref: 2014 March 17, Laurie R. King, The Mary Russell Series Books 1-4: The Beekeeper's Apprentice; A Monstrous Regiment of Women; A Letter of Mary; The Moor, Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: […] bog. The writers and the old fellows you meet in pubs will tell you to look out for grass or 'bright green areas', and to fear the land that looks the easiest; but bogs - 'featherbeds', the locals call them - might be marked[…]
ref: 2014 May 13, William Atkins, The Moor: Lives Landscape Literature, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
text: [...] a featherbed bog of moss and cotton grasses. Much of their effort has just burned away to nothing — the peat giving[…]
ref: 2023 March 28, Rebecca Schiller, A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: Discovering the Beauty of My ADHD Mind - A Memoir, The Experiment, LLC, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: quaking bog
quagmire
glosses: An area of bog where a layer of moss covers a pool of water or mud, presenting a hazard to walkers who may fall through it. (Also in UK and Irish placenames.)
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A soft, slow pitch of predictable bounce.
featherbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: featherbeds
form: featherbedding
form: featherbedded
form: featherbedded
form: feather-bed
Etymology: From feather + bed.
Senses: glosses: To treat someone with excessive indulgence; to pamper, cosset or mollycoddle.
glosses: To engage in featherbedding; to employ more workers than necessary to fulfill a labor union requirement.
Related terms: feather one's nest
feather bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather beds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of featherbed.
fistulogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fistulograms
Etymology: From fistula + -o- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray taken of a fistula after a contrast medium has been injected.
oxyhemoglobin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyhemoglobins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of oxyhaemoglobin.
lifehack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪfˌhæk/
Forms: form: lifehacks
form: life hack
Etymology: From life + hack. Apparently based upon a comparison between real life and the digital sphere (and, perhaps, video games).
Senses: synonyms: word: jugaad
glosses: Any process or technique that reduces the chaos in one's life and makes it easier to manage, or more convenient.
glosses: The sharing or communication of such a technique: synonym of life pro tip (but see usage note).
Hypernyms: hack
tip
Derived terms: lifehacker
lifehacking
lepto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: lept-
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek λεπτός (leptós, “thin”).
Senses: glosses: thin, fine, narrow, slender
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: lepton
Derived terms: lepta
leptin
leptocephalus
leptokurtotic
lepton
leptoprosopic
leptosome
leptotene
leptonema
leptoxylem
Leptospira
leptospirosis
Related terms: meso-
steno-
lept-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: form of lepto- before a vowel