cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
carbide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑː.baɪd/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹ.baɪd/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)baɪd
Forms: form: carbides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The polyatomic ion C2−2, or any of its salts.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The monatomic ion C⁴⁻, or any of its salts.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbon-containing alloy or doping of a metal or semiconductor, such as steel.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Tungsten carbide.
topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: trivial name for calcium carbide (CaC₂), used to produce acetylene in bicycle lamps in the early 1900s.
Derived terms: barium carbide
beryllium carbide
borocarbide
boron carbide
caesium carbonate
calcium carbide
carbide lamp
carbide planet
cerium carbide
chromium carbide
dicarbide
ferric carbide
hafnium carbide
iron carbide
monocarbide
niobium carbide
niobocarbide
percarbide
protocarbide
silicon carbide
sodium carbide
tantalum carbide
tetracarbide
titanium carbide
tungsten carbide
vanadium carbide
yttrium carbide
zirconium carbide
Related terms: cementite
Salvi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salvis
Senses: glosses: A Salvadoran person born or raised in the United States.
querulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querulousnesses
Etymology: From querulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being querulous.
glosses: A querulous utterance.
Synonyms: querulity
fuels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuel
fuels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fuel
cupro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: /kjuːpɹoʊ/
Forms: form: cupr-
Etymology: From Late Latin cuprum (“copper”) through its compound form in -o-.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to copper.
Synonyms: chalco-
Derived terms: cupromagnesite
cupronickel
cupro-plumbite
cuproscheelite
cuprosulfate
cuprosulphate
cuprotitanium
cuprotungstite
Related terms: Cu
antaphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntæfɹəˈdɪzɪˌæk/
ipa: /æntæfɹəˈdiʒɪˌæk/
Etymology: From ant- + aphrodisiac.
Senses: glosses: Capable of reducing the sex drive.
antaphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æntæfɹəˈdɪzɪˌæk/
ipa: /æntæfɹəˈdiʒɪˌæk/
Forms: form: antaphrodisiacs
Etymology: From ant- + aphrodisiac.
Senses: glosses: A medicinal substance capable of reducing (inhibiting or eliminating) the sex drive/libido.
Synonyms: anaphrodisiac
Arioch
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The King of Ellasar, who participated in the Battle of the Vale of Siddim, described in Genesis.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The person who was, according to the Torah, appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to put to death the wise men of Babylon.
anaphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + aphrodisiac.
Senses: examples: text: Tobacco and the plant valerian are also considered to be anaphrodisiac in their effects, diminishing sexual inclination.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11:
glosses: Antaphrodisiac (capable of reducing the sex drive).
anaphrodisiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaphrodisiacs
Etymology: From an- + aphrodisiac.
Senses: examples: text: Among this group are the solanacei alkaloids, that have a decided anti-sexual tendency. Such plants and similar anaphrodisiacs were often used, especially in the Middle Ages, to promote asceticism and, in the case of monks, to diminish fleshly desires.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 11:
glosses: An antaphrodisiac (substance which reduces the sex drive).
Synonyms: word: anaphrodisiac
word: antaphrodisiac
word: antiaphrodisiac
word: anti-Viagra
word: boner-killer
word: lust-quencher
word: passion killer
word: passion-queller
word: turn-off
stutterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stutterers
Etymology: From stutter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who stutters; one who speaks with a stutter.
Synonyms: stammerer
Related terms: stutter
stuttering
stutteringly
stammerer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stammerers
Etymology: From stammer + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Marry—as the friendly vapour ascended, how his prattle would curl up sometimes with it! the ligaments, which tongue-tied him, were loosened, and the stammerer proceeded a statist!
ref: 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page ix:
glosses: One who stammers; a stutterer.
Pap smear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pap smears
form: pap smear
Etymology: From Papanikolaou. Named after Greek-American physician Georgios Papanikolaou.
Senses: examples: text: She felt vulnerable, like sheʼd just gotten her first Pap smear and didnʼt know how invasive it would feel.
ref: 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris, The Other Black Girl, Bloomsbury, page 344:
topics: gynaecology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A screening test meant to detect pre-cancerous and cancerous cells by taking a sample (‘smear’) of cells from the cervix.
Synonyms: cervical smear
Pap
pap
pap test
Pap test
smear test
clod
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klɒd/
ipa: /klɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: clods
form: clodding
form: clodded
form: clodded
Etymology: From Middle English clod, a late by-form of clot, from Old English clot, from Proto-West Germanic *klott (“mass, ball, clump”). Compare clot and cloud; cognate to kloot (“clod”).
Alternatively, Middle English clod may derive from Old English *clod (found in Old English clodhamer (“a kind of thrush”) and Clodhangra (a placename)), from Proto-West Germanic *kloddō (“lump, clod”), from *gel- (“to ball up, become lumpy”), related to West Frisian klodde (“clod, lump”), Dutch klodde (“lump, blob”).
Senses: examples: text: "When I went there yesterday evening in the gloaming it had crept down and was trying to catch the little speckled fishes that play in the pool, and I had to clod it to make it go up the tree again and let them alone."
ref: 1906, Mark Twain, Eve's Diary:
text: when I came out and started to hoist it to the mule's back they rushed at me and jerked my suspenders down and then they clodded me with chunks of dirt
ref: 1959, Louis L'Amour, The First Fast Draw:
glosses: To pelt with clods.
examples: text: "So, sir, she grippit him, and clodded him like a stane from the sling ower the craigs of Warroch-head"
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: To throw violently; to hurl.
examples: text: Clodded in lumps of clay.
ref: 1610, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph:
glosses: To collect into clods, or into a thick mass; to coagulate; to clot.
hydrogen economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrogen economies
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical future economy in which the primary form of stored energy for mobile applications and load balancing is hydrogen (H₂), and, in particular, hydrogen replaces fossil fuels in automobiles.
golden calf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden calves
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
qualifier: Old Testament
glosses: A golden image of a calf, made by Aaron and worshipped by the Israelites.
glosses: Money as an end in itself; Mammon.
glosses: Any object of unworthy worship.
kesho-mawashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kesho-mawashi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 化粧廻し (“ornamental belt”).
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: A decorative mawashi worn by a sekitori during the ring-entering ceremony.
nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nī'trīd
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪd/
Forms: form: nitrides
Etymology: From nitr(ogen) + -ide.
Senses: examples: text: This process provides an unpatternable sheet of silicon nitride that electrically isolates the devices […]
ref: 2005, Paolo Dario, Raja Chatila, Robotics Research: The Eleventh International Symposium, page 506:
text: Presence of nitrides, argonides, arsenides, and iodides in the crystalline rocks
ref: 2017, Kathleen F. Edwards, Joel F. Liebman, No Nobel for Noble Gases - Some Guesses Why:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of nitrogen where nitrogen has an oxidation state of −3.
Derived terms: aluminium gallium nitride
aluminium nitride
beryllium nitride
beta carbon nitride
boron nitride
calcium nitride
carbonitride
decanitride
dinitride
gallium nitride
hafnium nitride
heptanitride
hexanitride
indium gallium nitride
indium nitride
lithium nitride
magnesium nitride
mononitride
nitridation
nitrider
nitridize
nitridyl
nonanitride
octanitride
oxynitride
pentanitride
pernitride
silicon nitride
strontium nitride
subnitride
sulfur nitride
sulphur nitride
tetranitride
titanium nitride
trinitride
uranium nitride
zirconium nitride
nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nī'trīd
ipa: /ˈnaɪ.tɹaɪd/
Forms: form: nitrides
form: nitriding
form: nitrided
form: nitrided
Etymology: From nitr(ogen) + -ide.
Senses: glosses: To subject to the nitriding process.
nitr-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of nitro- used before a vowel.
sticky wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky wickets
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: gluepot
sticky dog
glosses: A pitch that has become wet because of rain and therefore on which the ball bounces unpredictably.
synonyms: word: ass in a sling
word: bind
word: bucket of syrup
word: calvary
word: cross
word: cross to bear
word: difficulty
word: dilemma
word: dire straits
word: doghouse
word: fix
word: hole
word: jam
word: kettle of fish
word: ordeal
word: pickle
word: pinch
word: plight
word: predicament
word: quandary
word: quagmire
word: situation
word: spot
word: spot of bother
word: sticky situation
word: sticky wicket
word: tight spot
word: trouble
glosses: A difficult or unpredictable situation.
Mainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mainer
hibernacle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hibernacles
Etymology: From Latin hībernācula, plural of hībernāculum.
Senses: glosses: A winter retreat; winter quarters.
synonyms: hibernaculum
glosses: A place where an animal hibernates.
Related terms: hibernaculum
brumal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹuːməl/
Forms: form: more brumal
form: most brumal
Etymology: From Latin brūmālis (“of or pertaining to the winter solstice; wintry”), from brūma (“the winter solstice; winter”), which is a contraction of *brevima (“the shortest (day)”).
Senses: glosses: Belonging to winter; winterlike; wintry.
glosses: Occurring in winter.
Related terms: brumate
brume
brumous
crumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: plural of crumb
crumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crumb
crumbs
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹʌmz/
rhymes: -ʌmz
Senses: glosses: An expression of mild surprise.
brume
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɹuːm/
ipa: /bɹɪu̯m/
rhymes: -uːm
homophone: broom
Forms: form: brumes
Etymology: Borrowed from French brume, from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Senses: examples: text: For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated / Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
ref: 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
text: All around their bubble of stupidity I could feel the brume of the dragon.
ref: 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, André Deutsch, page 77:
glosses: Mist, fog, vapour.
Related terms: brumous
brumal
brumate
moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊmənts/
ipa: /ˈməʊmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of moment
moments
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊmənts/
ipa: /ˈməʊmənts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of moment
brumous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːməs/
ipa: /ˈbɹuməs/
ipa: /ˈbɹə-/
Forms: form: more brumous
form: most brumous
Etymology: From brume + -ous, probably modelled after French brumeux (“foggy, hazy, misty”), from Late Latin brūmōsus (“wintry”), from Latin brūma (“winter solstice; winter; winter cold”) + -ōsus (suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Brūma is derived from brevima, brevissima (“shortest”), the superlative of brevis (“brief; short”) (the winter solstice being the shortest day of the year), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mréǵʰus (“brief, short”).
Senses: examples: text: The blond misses of Albion see nothing in the dull inhabitants of their brumous isle, which can compare with the ardour and vivacity of the children of the South. We bring our sunshine with us; we are Frenchmen, and accustomed to conquer.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, “A Little Innocent”, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume I, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849, →OCLC, page 233:
text: One of the greatest charms of fox-hunting undoubtedly is, that it disposes of all the dirty weather which goes to make up three-fourths of an English winter. Wet, and drizzle, and muggy fog (the characteristics of our brumous and insular climate, according to numerous French authorities), are the capital on which it trades. To the hunting man a rainy morning in winter […] means sport, and society, and enjoyment.
ref: 1866 October, “Essays at Odd Times”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume XIV, number 84, London: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, section XIV (Of a Fox Covert), page 476, column 2:
text: The Golden Gate was hardly to be seen at all, except on very favorable days, for the thick veil of ocean mist which hung over it. The whole scene was dull, sombre, brumous, depressing.
ref: 1869 December, “Nebulæ”, in The Galaxy. An Illustrated Magazine of Entertaining Reading, volume VIII, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Sheldon & Company […], →OCLC, page 861, column 1:
text: Let us compare these observations made in our brumous latitudes with those effected by Father [Angelo] Secchi with the fine equatorial of the Roman Observatory.
ref: 1872 July, Richard A[nthony] Proctor, “A Giant Planet”, in E[dward] L[ivingston] Youmans, editor, The Popular Science Monthly, volume I, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton and Company, […], →OCLC, page 293:
text: She worked under the great tapestry with its glowing but subdued tones—huntsmen with lofted horns had been running down a female stag. After the rape, leaving the grooms to bring the trophy home, they galloped away into the soft brumous Italian skyline; […]
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur or The Prince of Darkness: A Novel, London: Faber and Faber, →ISBN; republished in The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian, Quinx, London: Faber and Faber, 1992, →ISBN, page 23:
glosses: Foggy or misty; wintry.
Derived terms: brumously
Related terms: brume
brumal
brumate
komatik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: komatiks
form: comatik
form: qamutiik
form: qamutiq
Etymology: From Eastern Canadian Inuktitut ᖃᒧᑏᒃ (qamotiik); attested since about 1824.
Senses: glosses: A rawhide-lashed sledge with wooden crossbars and runners, first invented and used by the Inuit of Northern Canada, but since used also by non-Inuit people.
lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lemon
lemons
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lemon
oniochalasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊniəʊkəˈleɪziə/
ipa: /ˌəʊniəʊkəˈleɪʒə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὤνιος (ṓnios, “for sale”) + Ancient Greek χαλαστικός (khalastikós, “relaxing”).
Senses: glosses: The purchasing of objects as a form of mental relaxation
Related terms: oniomania
oniomania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊnɪə(ʊ)ˈmeɪnɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὤνιος (ṓnios, “for sale”) + -mania, after German Oniomanie.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal impulse to buy things, or a condition characterised by such impulses.
Derived terms: oniomaniac
onychalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onych- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: pain in the nails or claws.
unattached
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Forms: form: more unattached
form: most unattached
form: unattacht
Etymology: From un- + attached.
Senses: examples: text: Take the unattached end of the rope in one hand.
glosses: Not attached or joined; disconnected.
glosses: Not married and not involved in a romantic relationship.
glosses: Not connected with or belonging to a group or organization.
glosses: Not seized for debt.
Derived terms: unattachedly
unattachedness
unattached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnəˈtæt͡ʃt/
rhymes: -ætʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unattach
undeceive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: undeceives
form: undeceiving
form: undeceived
form: undeceived
form: undeceave
Etymology: From un- + deceive.
Senses: examples: text: [I]t is a deed of higheſt charitie to help undeceive the people, and a vvork vvorthieſt your autoritie, in all things els authors, aſſertors and novv recoverers of our libertie, to deliver us, the only people of all Proteſtants left ſtill undeliverd, from the oppreſſions of a Simonious decimating clergie; […]
ref: 1659, J[ohn] M[ilton], “To the Parlament of the Commonwealth of England with the Dominions therof”, in Considerations Touching the Likeliest Means to Remove Hirelings out of the Church. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcombe] for L[ivewell] Chapman […], →OCLC:
text: […] Marcasites, I say, being thus fitted to delude the unskilful, I have had much ado to undeceive some, that brought or sent me them from America, of the pleasing Confidence they had entertained, that these promising Fossiles were Lumps of rich Ore of Gold, or Silver.
ref: 1690, Robert Boyle, “A Previous Hydrostatical Way of Estimating Ores”, in Medicina Hydrostatica, London: Samuel Smith, Section V, p. 168:
text: Undeceived in her expectations and chilled in her hopes, the heart of Cecilia no longer struggled to sustain its dignity, or conceal its tenderness […]
ref: 1782, [Frances Burney], chapter IX, in Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Payne and Son […], and T[homas] Cadell […], →OCLC, book VI, page 318:
text: If you think that this loss has broken my heart undeceive yourself, for such as I live years in an hour and show no sign.
ref: 1863 January 3, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 1, in Pauline’s Passion and Punishment: Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, volume XV, number 379, page 229:
text: Early every morning she made something she called (and believed to be) coffee for George, and he was gallant enough not to undeceive her.
ref: 1918, Booth Tarkington, chapter XXXIII, in The Magnificent Ambersons, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 467:
glosses: To free from misconception, deception or error.
Synonyms: disabuse
Derived terms: undeceiver
underlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underlay
undulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: undulations
Etymology: From undulate + -ion, or borrowed from Medieval Latin undulātiō; compare French ondulation.
Senses: examples: text: But the next undulation would raise us, showing the island ablaze in the sunlight, an emerald of dazzling beauty resting lightly on the bosom of the sea.
ref: 1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 77:
glosses: An instance or act of undulating.
glosses: A wavy appearance or outline; waviness.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A tremulous tone produced by a peculiar pressure of the finger on a string.
glosses: A wavelike curve; a smooth and regular rise and fall.
glosses: A wavelike motion of the air; electromagnetic radiation.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A feeling as if of an undulatory motion about the heart.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The distinctive motion of the matter within an abscess on being pressed when it is ripe for opening.
Derived terms: undulationist
unfaithful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaithful
form: most unfaithful
Etymology: From Middle English unfeithful, equivalent to un- + faithful.
Senses: glosses: Not having religious faith.
glosses: Not keeping good faith; disloyal; not faithful.
glosses: Adulterous.
glosses: Not honest or upright.
examples: text: The painting was an unfaithful rendering of its subject.
glosses: Negligent or imperfect.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: Not faithfully rendering the meaning of the source language; incorrect.
Synonyms: nonfaithful
Derived terms: unfaithfully
unfaithfulness
unfeigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfeigned
form: most unfeigned
Etymology: From un- + feigned.
Senses: glosses: Not feigned.
glosses: Genuine.
glosses: Not false or hypocritical.
Derived terms: unfeignedly
unfeignedness
unfeigning
unformed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unformed
form: most unformed
Senses: glosses: Not formed or made.
glosses: Not having a definite form; shapeless; amorphous.
glosses: Not well developed.
glosses: Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Not grouped into any constellation.
raw_tags: of stars
unheroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unheroic
form: most unheroic
Etymology: From un- + heroic.
Senses: glosses: not heroic
Derived terms: un-hero
unheroical
unheroically
unheroism
unlade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: unlades
form: unlading
form: unladed
form: unladen
Etymology: From un- + lade.
Senses: glosses: To unload.
glosses: To disburden; take the burden from; relieve.
glosses: To discharge the cargo from.
glosses: To discharge a cargo; discharge a burden.
Derived terms: unladen adjective
monotonic decreasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: always decreasing or remaining constant, and never increasing; contrast this with strictly decreasing
raw_tags: of a function
Coordinate terms: monotonic increasing
monotonic increasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: always increasing or remaining constant, and never decreasing; contrast this with strictly increasing
raw_tags: of a function
Coordinate terms: monotonic decreasing
vertices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɝtɪsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of vertex
unlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + laid.
Senses: examples: text: an unlaid egg
text: unlaid paving stones
text: The table was still unlaid, despite Mum asking us the kids to lay it five times.
text: the first foundations of the world being as yet unlaid
ref: 1594–1597, Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby [for Matthew Lownes], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
glosses: not laid
examples: text: stubborn, unlaid ghost
ref: 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
english: Comus
translation: Comus
glosses: not laid
Not laid by exorcism
examples: text: I've been unlaid since my boyfriend left me 5 months ago, so I'm desperate for a shag!
text: He smiled at this proudly, like he was the campus pussy-bandit being lauded for his prowess by his unlaid friends.
ref: 2012, Norah Vincent, Thy Neighbor: A Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: not laid
not having had sexual intercourse
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: With their pellets of small wit, / Parts of me they judg'd decay'd; / But we last out still unlay'd
ref: a. 1638 (date written), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: not laid
Not laid out, as a corpse.
glosses: not laid
Not marked with parallel lines.
raw_tags: of paper
unlaid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈleɪd/
rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + laid.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlay
unlettered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lettered.
Senses: examples: text: […]that vnletered ſmall knowing ſoule[…]
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 124, column 1:
text: Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.
ref: 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 374:
text: They were short days, for into them were crowded many hours of insidious instruction of the unlettered child by the lonely woman.
ref: 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter XVI, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC:
text: But this Chapman girl will come to us wholly unlettered.
ref: 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC:
text: […] an unlettered seaman […]
ref: 1928 February, H[oward] P[hillips] Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, in Farnsworth Wright, editor, Weird Tales: A Magazine of the Bizarre and Unusual, volume 11, number 2, Indianapolis, Ind.: Popular Fiction Pub. Co., →OCLC, pages 159–178 and 287:
text: Thus, the oldest Price girl, Fanny, is plucked from her pack of siblings and, at 10 years old, largely unlettered, hypersensitive and extremely timid, the girl is thrust into the life of Mansfield Park, a great estate in the country.
ref: 2025 June 27, Lauren Groff, “Jane Austen’s Boldest Novel Is Also Her Least Understood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: ignorant
illiterate
glosses: Not instructed in letters; not educated, not well-read; unable to read.
glosses: Not expressed in or marked with letters.
Derived terms: unletteredness
unmade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Forms: form: more unmade
form: most unmade
Etymology: From un- + made.
Senses: examples: text: On the most unmade bed imaginable sat two older Jewish men, both with black coats folded across their knees, bent close to each other […].
ref: 1965, Frederic Morton, The Schatten Affair, page 180:
glosses: That is not yet made.
glosses: Having had its making undone.
examples: text: [E]ven when it turned off the unmade road and went steeply upwards along an even more unmade track, I was still exhilarated […].
ref: 1980, Blackwood's Magazine, page 505:
text: It was an unexpected benefit to early rail investors that passengers had an appetite for travel, which up to then had been a tortuous experience on largely unmade roads and involving stays at coaching inns that provided variable amenities.
ref: 2021 September 22, Industry Insider, “A new way of thinking”, in RAIL, number 940, page 92:
glosses: Without a hard, smooth, permanent surface.
raw_tags: of a road
Derived terms: unmade road
unmade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + made.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unmake
scamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæmp/
ipa: /skæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: scamps
Etymology: From Middle Dutch schampen (“slip away”), from Old French escamper (“to run away, to make one's escape”), from Vulgar Latin *excampāre. Compare escape.
Senses: examples: text: "He is a scamp, he is and it isn't difficult to find his tracks and signs of his reckless shooting, for he can never wait, like other folks, till the birds have had a good start at their play."
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 77:
synonyms: word: swindler
word: rogue
word: agitator
word: bad boy
word: bad news
word: bear
word: bhoy
word: blackguard
word: booger
word: boot boy
word: bovver boy
word: brat
word: brawler
word: breedbate
word: buffoon
word: bugger
word: bully
word: charva
word: cutup
word: devil
word: elf
word: enfant terrible
word: firebrand
word: gadfly
word: hell-raiser
word: hood
word: hoodlum
word: hool
word: hoolie
word: hooligan
word: hothead
word: imp
word: inciter
word: initiator
word: instigator
word: jackanapes
word: joker
word: jokester
word: kindle-coal
word: kindle-fire
word: knave
word: lout
word: makebate
word: minx
word: mischief
word: mischief-maker
word: miscreant
word: ne'er-do-well
word: pixie
word: pot stirrer
word: practical joker
word: prankster
word: puck
word: rabble rouser
word: rakeshame
word: rantipole
word: rapscallion
word: rascal
word: rogue
word: roly-poly
word: rowdy
word: ruffian
word: scamp
word: scapegrace
word: scoundrel
word: shit disturber
word: shitmonger
word: shit-stirrer
word: tearaway
word: thug
word: titivil
word: tough
word: troublemaker
word: undesirable
word: vandal
word: wag
word: wagpastie
word: wrangler
word: yob
word: yobbo
glosses: A rascal, swindler, or rogue; a ne'er-do-well.
examples: text: My nephew is a little scamp who likes to leave lighted firecrackers under the lawnchairs of his dozing elders.
text: While walking home from the bar, he was set upon by a bunch of scamps who stole his hat.
text: Prince Harry idolized Diana more and understood her less. He would always be her baby, a scamp who was “thick” at his lessons and “naughty, just like me.” His emotions, like hers, were always simmering near the surface.
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: A mischievous person, especially a playful, impish youngster.
Derived terms: foot-scamp
royal scamp
scamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæmp/
ipa: /skæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: scamps
form: scamping
form: scamped
form: scamped
Etymology: Perhaps related to sense 1, but influenced by the later attested skimp; however, compare Icelandic skamta (“to dole out, to stint”), which is related to skammur (“short”).
Senses: examples: text: 1884, Samuel Smiles, Men of Invention and Industry
His work was always first-rate. There was no scamping about it. Everything that he did was thoroughly good and honest.
text: “They know our boats will stand up to their work,” said Willison, “and that counts for a good deal. A low estimate from us doesn't mean scamped work, but just for that we want to keep the yard busy over a slack time.”
ref: 1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 3, in Well Tackled!:
glosses: To skimp; to do something in a skimpy or slipshod fashion.
scamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skæmp/
ipa: /skæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: scamps
Senses: examples: text: It did not matter that the scamp (simple illustrative line-drawing) it contained could have been done in the pub the night before.
ref: 2007, Adrian Mackay, Practice of Advertising, page 124:
text: From the scamps, the creative idea can be developed more fully into a proposal for an actual ad. This needs to be clear enough to present to the client.
ref: 2009, FCS: Advertising & Promotions L4, page 25:
topics: advertising
business
marketing
glosses: A preliminary design sketch.
unpretending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛndɪŋ
Forms: form: more unpretending
form: most unpretending
Etymology: From un- + pretending.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps our wedding might even be as unpretending as her own, and I might not find it necessary to say anything about it until it was over.
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: unpretentious, real, genuine
Derived terms: unpretendingly
unpretendingness
unpropitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpropitious
form: most unpropitious
Etymology: From un- + propitious.
Senses: examples: text: 'Tvvas vvhen the Dog-ſtar's unpropitious ray / Smote ev'ry brain, and vvither'd ev'ry Bay; / Sick vvas the Sun, the Ovvl forſook his bovv'r, / The moon-ſtruck Prophet felt the madding hour: […]
ref: 1742, [Alexander Pope], “Book the Fourth”, in The New Dunciad: As is^([sic]) It was Found in the Year 1741. […], Dublin: […] George Faulkner, →OCLC, page 10, lines 9–12:
text: [I]t was there that he had hoped to have found peace and rest from the past turmoils of life, in that enchanting spot, in which he might have desired to have ended his days, had not Fate, ever unpropitious to him, chased him from it.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter VII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 82:
glosses: Not propitious; unfavourable, untimely.
Derived terms: unpropitiously
unpropitiousness
unscramble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æmbəl
Forms: form: unscrambles
form: unscrambling
form: unscrambled
form: unscrambled
Etymology: From un- + scramble.
Senses: glosses: To reverse the process of scrambling, decrypt.
glosses: To put into order or restore to order.
Clymene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɪmɪni/
ipa: /ˈklaɪmɪni/
Forms: form: Klymenê
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Κλυμένη (Kluménē).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A nymph married to Iapetus, mother of Prometheus, Epimetheus, Menoetius and Atlas.
Derived terms: Clymene dolphin
unweighed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + weighed.
Senses: glosses: not weighed
glosses: not deliberately considered or pondered; hasty
Derived terms: unweighable
unweighedly
unweighing
unweighed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪd
Etymology: From un- + weighed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unweigh
unwonted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈwɑntɪd/
ipa: /ʌnˈwɒntɪd/
homophone: unwanted
Forms: form: more unwonted
form: most unwonted
Etymology: From un- + wonted. Redundant in form, as wont is by itself historically the participle adjective. Largely displaced earlier unwont.
Senses: examples: text: Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted, / Which now came from him.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: After the first flutter of conscious delight which his entrance had caused, she was able to talk to him cheerfully, and her spirits rose with the unwonted enjoyment.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Arrived at Home”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 91:
text: And Rick with unwonted diffidence had accepted his exclusion. Now with the same diffidence he came, looking trim and loving and mysteriously humble.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
text: ...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything: Black Swan, page 23:
text: [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.
ref: 2008, Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:
text: On the other hand, it was not so well known among them that Moses was always to be their ruler, and so it behooved those who rebelled against his authority to be punished in a miraculous and unwonted manner.
ref: 2008, Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
glosses: Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
glosses: Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
Derived terms: unwontedly
unwontedness
Klymenê
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Clymene.
unworkable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unworkable
form: most unworkable
Etymology: From un- + workable.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: infeasible, untenable, unusable
text: These plans seem unworkable; moreover, a budget for their implementation remains a fantasy.
text: A Welsh Government spokesman said: "We are opposed to the approach being taken by the UK Government, which we feel is unnecessary, probably unworkable, and will do nothing to resolve industrial disputes.
ref: 2024 March 20, Conrad Landin, “"Farcical" Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act isn't working”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 25:
glosses: Not workable.
Not operable; not practical; unmanageable.
synonyms: inoperable
nonworking
antonyms: workable
practicable
examples: text: Near-synonyms: unprocessable, unusable
text: unworkable soils;   unworkable clays;   unworkable metals
glosses: Not workable.
Not suitable or amenable for being manipulated or transformed.
hypernyms: unsuitable
unamenable
raw_tags: of raw materials
Derived terms: unworkability
unworkableness
unworkably
Related terms: unworked
unworkable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unworkables
Etymology: From un- + workable.
Senses: examples: text: The building of the consensus group, however, forced these interests to distinguish annoying features of the law from unworkable ones, and the list of the unworkables steadily dwindled.
ref: 1983, Lawrence David Brown, Politics and Health Care Organization: HMOs as Federal Policy:
text: We all have some secret little hope that the unworkables will be resurrected. You haven't seen any of the occupants of the pyramids pull this off yet, nor will you see any use for old, outdated, dead office stuff.
ref: 2004, Don Aslett, The Office Clutter Cure, page 44:
text: His effort at maintaining a casual relationship was one of the unworkables in his life. Ealy had once observed that friends may become lovers, but lovers could never be friends.
ref: 2011, Terry Kay, Bogmeadow's Wish, page 33:
glosses: Something that is not workable, or cannot be made to work.
unyoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈjəʊk/
ipa: /ʌnˈjoʊk/
rhymes: -əʊk
Forms: form: unyokes
form: unyoking
form: unyoked
form: unyoked
Etymology: From Middle English unyoken, from Old English unġeocian (“to unyoke”), equivalent to un- + yoke.
Senses: glosses: To release something from a yoke or harness.
glosses: To disconnect, unlink.
glosses: To liberate, deliver from oppression.
glosses: To unyoke an animal.
glosses: To cease from labour.
Synonyms: abjugate
Derived terms: unyoked
cretinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cretinisms
Etymology: From cretin + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Cretinism is a form of amentia, which is endemic in certain districts, especially in some of the valleys of Switzerland, Savoy, and France.
ref: 1922, W. G. Aitchison Robertson, Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, 9th edition, page 69:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of severely stunted physical and mental growth due to the untreated congenital deficiency of thyroid hormones.
Synonyms: congenital iodine deficiency syndrome
Related terms: hypothyroidism
instances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of instance
instances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnstənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instance
producing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: prədo͞osʹĭng
ipa: /pɹəˈdusɪŋ/
enpr: prədyo͞osʹĭng
ipa: /pɹəˈdjuːsɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːsɪŋ
Senses: examples: text: Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Unspontaneous combustion”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 29:
glosses: present participle and gerund of produce
Derived terms: grain-producing
towns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taʊnz/
ipa: /tuːnz/
rhymes: -aʊnz
Senses: glosses: plural of town
cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of clean
Derived terms: self-cleaning
cleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: cleanings
Senses: examples: text: So good dental hygiene, with regular periodontal cleanings, can help protect your heart as well as your teeth.
ref: 2009 January 13, Jane E. Brody, “New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart”, in New York Times:
text: Like me, it's old, slow, loud, unsophisticated, underpowered, and in bad need of a good cleaning .
ref: 2021, David F. Lambert, Free to a Good Home:
glosses: The process of making something clean.
raw_tags: of clean
examples: text: The risk which the cow runs, after slinking, is in not getting quit of the cleaning, or afterbirth, or placenta[…]
ref: 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of Farm:
glosses: The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
Derived terms: autocleaning
bond cleaning
cleaning agent
cleaning fluid
cleaning lady
cleaning rod
cleaning shoe
cleaningware
cleaning woman
deep cleaning
dry cleaning
housecleaning
precleaning
spring cleaning
Patterson's curse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paterson's curse
Etymology: Said to be named after the Patterson family who had it as an ornamental garden plant which spread and took over adjacent previously productive paddocks (though this was not the first large outbreak).
Senses: examples: text: 1905 J. H. Maiden, Agricultural Gazette of New South Wales, xvi.268, Quoted in 1985, G. A. Wilkes, A Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms, second edition, Sydney University Press, →ISBN,
That ‘Paterson’s Curse’ produces some feed is undoubted, but it is a smothering, rough, coarse plant ... the vernacular name ‘Curse’ shows what many people think of it.
text: In spring the fields near the river are covered with beautiful mauve flowers, another pest, known as Patterson’s curse.
ref: 1952, Glynde Nesta Griffiths, Some Southern Homes of New South Wales, page 20:
text: 1991, Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, Landscope: The Journal of the Western Australian Department of Conservation and Land Management, Volumes 7-9, page 42,
A plant with tough seeds such as Patterson’s curse (Echium plantagineum) or caltrop (Tribulus terrestris) can easily be spread in this way, as can plants that reproduce vegetatively.
text: 1995, John Marsden, A Killing Frost, 1998 US edition (originally published 1995, in Australia, as The Third Day, The Frost), unnumbered page,
They came swarming across the land, like locusts, like mice, like Patterson’s Curse.
glosses: The plant Echium plantagineum, considered a noxious weed in Australia.
Synonyms: Lady Campbell
salvation Jane
Riverina bluebell
images
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of image
images
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈɪm.ɪ.d͡ʒɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of image
holds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊldz/
ipa: /hoʊldz/
rhymes: -əʊldz
rhymes: -oʊldz
Senses: glosses: plural of hold
holds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /həʊldz/
ipa: /hoʊldz/
rhymes: -əʊldz
rhymes: -oʊldz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hold
features
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːtʃəz/
ipa: /ˈfit͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feature
features
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfiːtʃəz/
ipa: /ˈfit͡ʃɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of feature
calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːlz/
ipa: /kɔlz/
ipa: /kɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: plural of call
calls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːlz/
ipa: /kɔlz/
ipa: /kɑlz/
rhymes: -ɔːlz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of call
characteristics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæɹəktəˈɹɪstɪks/
ipa: /ˌkɛɹəktəˈɹɪstɪks/
Senses: glosses: plural of characteristic
salvation Jane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salvation Jane
Etymology: From salvation + Jane (“female given name”); a reference to its use as animal fodder in times of drought.
Senses: examples: text: The plaintiff, an agency of the Commonwealth, in 1980 proposed to import into Australia and release certain insects for the purpose of eradicating or controlling a plant known as Salvation Jane. The plaintiff regarded Salvation Jane as a noxious weed. However, apiarists and certain others engaged in the production of honey regarded Salvation Jane as useful in agricultural production.
ref: 2001, Law Book Company, The Federal Law Reports, volume 162, page 447:
text: 2009, Basia Bonkowski, Shimmer, Large print edition, page 176,
Salvation Jane coats the hills like a lavender shroud. Its distant beauty is at once mysterious and deceptive—the purple tubular flowers sublime and delicate, the stems holding them prickly and unrelenting.
text: Though it is a meagre source of food compared to grass when there is no grass, Salvation Jane may just save the day for a hungry herd.
ref: 2009, Nathan Mullins, How to Amputate a Leg: And Other Ways to Stay Out of Trouble, page 164:
glosses: The plant Echium plantagineum.
Synonyms: sense: Echium plantagineum
word: Patterson's curse
sense: Echium plantagineum
word: Riverina bluebell