cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
epiphragm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛpɪfɹæm/
Forms: form: epiphragms
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A dry layer of mucus used by a snail or mollusk to seal itself inside its shell during hibernation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The dilated apex of the columella in urn mosses.
eristic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eristic
form: most eristic
form: eristical
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.
Senses: examples: c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland
a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic
glosses: Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
Derived terms: aneristic
eristically
eristic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eristics
form: eristical
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.
Senses: glosses: One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
glosses: A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
ethnophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ethno- + -philia.
Senses: examples: 1994, Yuri Slezkine, "The USSR as a Communal Apartment, or How a Socialist State Promoted Ethnic Particularism," Slavic Review, Vol. 53, No. 2., 414-415 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0037-6779%28199422%2953%3A2%3C414%3ATUAACA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-V
"Non-Russian nationalism of all kinds appeared so natural and the Russian version of marxist universalism appeared so natural or so universalist, that most of these scholars failed to notice the chronic ethnophilia of the Soviet regime…"
2000, Alberto Spektorowski, "The French New Right: Differentialism and the Idea of Ethnophilian Exclusionism," Polity, Vol. 33, No. 2., 293 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0032-3497%28200024%2933%3A2%3C283%3ATFNRDA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
"This shift from National-Socialism and "racist ethnophobia" to cultural ethnophilia does not transform the New Right into a non-racist movement."
glosses: Unnatural obsession with ethnicity or race.
Synonyms: ethnomania
funding liquidity risk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The risk of not having access to sufficient funds to make a payment on time.
Synonyms: structural liquidity risk
gauche caviar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French gauche caviar.
Senses: glosses: A person or people claiming to be socialist but living a luxurious lifestyle that is inconsistent with such beliefs, implying hypocrisy or a lack of commitment.
Related terms: limousine liberal
chardonnay socialist
champagne socialist
grosso modo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more grosso modo
form: most grosso modo
Etymology: From Latin grossō modō.
Senses: examples: 1980. Henry Mehlberg, Robert Sonné Cohen. Time, Causality, and the Quantum Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of Science. p. 211.
The fact that event B takes place in the interval separating events A and C has an invariant significance, which may be expressed grosso modo by saying that events which are closer together have more effects in common.
1985. Edward W. Said. Orientalism Reconsidered. Cultural Critique, 1, pp. 94-95.
Still others criticize Orientalism for falsifying the nature of Islam: these are, grosso modo, the fundamentalists.
glosses: roughly, circa or approximately
gynecocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gynecocracies
form: gynaecocracy
Etymology: From gyneco- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: Gynaecocracy may not, however, be an idyllic affair.
ref: 1999, Jacqueline Rose, “Go girl”, in London Review of Books, section 21.19:
topics: government
human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
synonyms: feminocracy
gynocracy
glosses: Government or rule by women, or a society with such leadership.
Coordinate terms: androcracy
gylany
Related terms: gynecocratic
gynarchy
matriarchy
patriarchy
hackability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hack + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Now it could be that all the hacks have moved to UNIX and off of our IBM systems, but there is a distinct change at U of T from 5 or so years ago when hacks abounded on all our systems. My personal opinion is that it is to our collective detriment that the environment no longer exists in which hacks can flourish. Their presence was on the whole benficial in that they always wanted to learn something new, and were always assisting those who didn't know (invariably to show off their hackability) and often ended up doing contract work or getting hired by the computer center, comp sci department, or some prof looking for someone who knew how to (mis)handle a computer.
ref: 1984 November 14, Paul Shindman, “Re: Free and undirected campus computing facilities - Not at Waterloo”, in net.micro (Usenet), retrieved 15 Dec 2016, message-ID <196@utcs.UUCP>:
text: I think the rewards far outweigh the drawbacks, and am pleased that Yet Another Hacker is turning to the Amiga for its hackability. I think it's the most hackable machine to come out since the old S-100 systems of the late 70's, and has the same kind of wonderful feel to it.
ref: 1987 March 8, Leo L. Schwab, “Re: Amiga good for hacking??”, in comp.sys.amiga (Usenet), retrieved 16 Dec 2016, message-ID <2719@well.UUCP>:
text: I've seen an automatic splicer (made by Northern Telecom I think) which injects light through the sheath in one fibre, and detects it through the sheath in a second piece. The fibres are held in a jig which puts a small kink in them at the point where the light is injected/detected. The equipment uses the light received to align the two parts before splicing. It's a pretty good indication of the "hackability" of fibre I would say.
ref: 1992 May 12, John Bennett, “Re: Fiber optic networks and security”, in alt.security (Usenet), retrieved 16 Dec 2016, message-ID <1992May12.123236.163957@dstos3.dsto.oz.au>:
glosses: The state or condition of being hackable.
half-hardy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From half- + hardy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a plant: requiring protection against frost.
half-hardy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-hardies
Etymology: From half- + hardy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant that requires protection against frost.
haversack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhævəsæk/
Forms: form: haversacks
Etymology: From French havresac, from Low German Haaversack and/or German Habersack, Hafersack (literally “oat-sack”), from Hafer + Sack. Compare also Dutch haverzak.
Senses: examples: text: And most significant, these hordes of nonmotorized tourists, hungry for a taste of the difficult, the original, the real, do not consist solely of people young and athletic but also of old folks, fat folks, pale-faced office clerks who don’t know a rucksack from a haversack, and even children.
ref: 1968, Edward Abbey, “Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished New York: Touchstone, 1968, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 49:
text: When I went, I left from the station / With a haversack and some trepidation
ref: 1990, Chris Lowe, Neil Tennant, “Being Boring”, performed by Pet Shop Boys:
glosses: A small, strong bag carried on the back or the shoulder, usually with only one strap, and originally made of canvas.
glosses: An oat-sack, or nosebag for a horse.
Related terms: backpack
knapsack
rucksack
higgle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡəl/
rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Forms: form: higgles
form: higgling
form: higgled
form: higgled
Etymology: Probably an alteration of haggle.
Senses: glosses: To hawk or peddle provisions.
examples: text: The genius of a people vvhere nothing but the monarchy is ſalique, having ceded this department, vvith ſundry others, totally to the vvomen—by a continual higgling vvith cuſtomers of all ranks and ſizes from morning to night, like ſo many rough pebbles ſhook long together in a bag, by amicable colliſions, they have vvorn dovvn their aſperities and ſharp angles, and not only become round and ſmooth, but vvill receive, ſome of them, a poliſh like a brilliant— […]
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “The Husband. Paris.”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume I, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC, pages 171–172:
text: to truck and higgle for a private good
ref: 1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Compensation:
glosses: To wrangle (over a price, terms of an agreement, etc.); to haggle.
Synonyms: haggle
wrangle
chaffer
huckster
Derived terms: higgle-haggle
higgler
hoecake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoecakes
Etymology: From hoe + cake, since it was often cooked on a hoe (a type of pan, not the gardening implement).
Senses: examples: In Jean Fritz's children's book George Washington's Breakfast, the protagonist finds out that George Washington may have eaten hoecakes for breakfast.
glosses: A type of cornbread or cornmeal cake, made with water and salt. It was originally baked before the fire or in the ashes on a type of iron pan called a hoe; in modern times, it is fried in cooking oil in a skillet.
Related terms: johnnycake
humble pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humble pies
form: humble-pie
Etymology: The expression derives from umble pie, the original name of the offal meat pie, considered inferior food. In medieval times the pie was often served to lower-class people. Although "umbles" and the modern word "humble" are etymologically unrelated, each word has appeared both with and without the initial "h" after the Middle Ages until the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: A pie made from the offal of deer or hog.
examples: text: Talking of piemen, humble-pie before proud-cake for me. This notion of being lone and lofty is a sad mistake.
ref: 1857 April 1, Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: Humility, being humble.
Derived terms: eat humble pie
Related terms: eat crow
eat boiled crow
numbles
pity pie
Italophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italophiles
Etymology: From Italo- + -phile.
Senses: antonyms: Italophobe
glosses: An admirer of Italy or of its language, culture or people.
Related terms: xenophile
kairine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kairines
Etymology: From Ancient Greek καιρός (kairós, “the right time”) + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of tetrahydro-quinoline (C₁₀H₁₃NO), formerly used as an antipyretic.
larger than life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Miss Snevellicci's papa looked very big indeed—several sizes larger than life.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 30, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
text: At uniform intervals round the base of the pedestal, four naked figures in chains, somewhat larger than life, are seated in various attitudes of humiliation and despair.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, “With His Prosy Old Guide-book, He Takes a Prosy Stroll”, in Redburn: His First Voyage. […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 197:
glosses: Of greater size or magnitude than is naturally or normally the case; of larger size than life-size.
examples: text: I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light / He's gotta be sure and it's gotta be soon / And he's gotta be larger than life
ref: 1984, Jim Steinman, Dean Pitchford, “Holding Out for a Hero”, performed by Bonnie Tyler:
text: This is a person of surpassing integrity; a man of the utmost sincerity; somewhat larger than life, perhaps.
ref: 1988 January 3, Joyce Carol Oates, “Intellectual Seduction”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: And the next time / That I saw you / You were larger than life / You came and you conquered / You were doing alright
ref: 1996, Ani DiFranco, “Napoleon”, in Dilate:
text: Nor has he cultivated the kind of flamboyant style with which his country became well acquainted in larger-than-life leaders from Chiang Kai-shek to Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
ref: 2007 December 31, Orville Schell, “Person of the Year Runners-up: Hu Jintao”, in Time, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2012:
text: Steve Jobs, driven by his genius and his gut, invented the iPhone and built Apple into the world’s most valuable company. He was uncompromising, larger than life and irreplaceable.
ref: 2023 November 21, David Streitfeld, “The Long Shadow of Steve Jobs Looms Over the Turmoil at OpenAI”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Very imposing, renowned, or impressively influential.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: bigger than life
Related terms: as large as life
lignicolous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: That lives in dead wood, leaves, or sticks, or organic debris
mononym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒnə(ʊ)nɪm/
ipa: /ˈmɑnəˌnɪm/
Forms: form: mononyms
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + -onym (“word, name”).
Senses: examples: text: The singer-songwriter Madonna Louise Ciccone is known by the mononym Madonna.
text: The atlas and axis have special names, but most of the vertebra, like the ribs, are merely numbered ; among the arteries, the aorta only has a mononym ;
ref: 1891, The Shipley collection of scientific papers - Volume 27:
text: Briefly, the adoption of calcar is a logical corollary of the recommendation which is common to the reports of all four American committees, vi., "Other things being equal, it is recommended that mononyms be preferred to polynyms." Calcar avis is a polyonym ; calcar is a mononym. If it be said that unguis is also a mononym, the answer is that in this case "other things" would not be equal, because (1) no general preference has ever been shown for it or for any term of which it is a constituent; (2) there would be lost the advantage of the correlation now existing between the ental ridge and the fissure collacated therewith.
ref: 1898, Biological lectures delivered at the Marine Biological Laboratory of .Wood's Holl [sic].:
text: As the heroine, the tall, thin actress who calls itself Capucine is as crystalline and icy as her elegant mononym.
ref: 1970, John Springer, The Fondas: The Films and Careers of Henry, Jane, and Peter Fonda:
text: The academic I already knew by reputation; they went by the mononym Farah and were one of the foremost authorities on Ilari poetry.
ref: 2019, Alexis Hall, The Affair of the Mysterious Letter, →ISBN, page 146:
glosses: A single name by which a person, thing, etc., is known.
examples: text: ISO 704 and ISO 1087 prescribe mononymy as highly desirable for standardized terminologies, but as experience shows, individuals in developing disciplines (having unsettled terminology) are rarely able to agree on mononyms.
ref: 1993, Richard Alan Strehlow, Sue Ellen Wright, Standardizing Terminology for Better Communication, →ISBN:
text: After usage has created consensus on a mononym, it becomes possible to treat the accepted (preferred) forms in a terminographic glossary...
ref: 1997, Knowledge Organization: KO. - Volume 24, page 14:
glosses: A single term for a thing or concept, allowing for no synonyms.
Synonyms: monomial
mononom
mononomial
uninym
Derived terms: mononymic
mononymize
mononymous
mononymy
name reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: name reactions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical reaction named after its discoverers.
PHAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PHARs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of PHP archive, a file format that contains an entire PHP application.
phone monkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phone monkeys
Senses: glosses: A receptionist or secretary charged with receiving or vetting phone calls.
Related terms: gofer
plycount
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plycounts
Etymology: Compound of ply + count.
Senses: examples: text: Take note that if the side to move first wins, the plycount must be an odd number, since that side makes the last move.
ref: 2004. Jaap van den Herik, Hiroyuki Iida, Ernst A. Heinz. Advances in Computer Games: Many Games, Many Challenges... Springer 2004, p. 216 http://books.google.com/books?id=b1tMzog4M-MC&pg=PA216&dq=plycount&sig=mT8CESvj8h9T-6Z45eQfcuItbQY
topics: board-games
chess
computer
computing
engineering
games
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The total number of moves in a game, counting each player's move as 1.
restrictive practices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restrictive practice
rule of thumb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rules of thumb
form: rule-of-thumb
Etymology: Attested since 1658. Of uncertain origin, but probably based on the use of the thumb as reference for various measurements. For instance, one theory notes that the inch originated as the distance between the base of the thumbnail and the first joint, another notes the practice of approximating the general direction of the wind by wetting the thumb then raising it in the air. A third theory notes that English royal banquet plate setters used the distance of their thumbs to equally space each plate from the table edge. The erroneous claim that the term referred to the maximum thickness of a stick with which it was permissible for a man to beat his wife has appeared in The Washington Post and Time; it may originate from Del Martin's 1976 book Battered Wives.
Senses: examples: text: The usual rule of thumb says that to calculate when an investment will double, divide 70 by the interest rate.
text: Here's a good rule of thumb:
Too clever is dumb.
ref: c. 1935, Ogden Nash, “Reflection on Ingenuity”, in Verses from 1929 On, published 1959:
text: Since it is impossible to second-guess what a user will want to look up, there is a general lexicographical rule of thumb to err on the side of inclusion.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
glosses: A general guideline, rather than a strict rule; an approximate measure or means of reckoning based on experience or common knowledge.
examples: text: I made a quick, rule-of-thumb estimate of the manhours required for the job.
qualifier: usually hyphenated
glosses: Approximated, guesstimated.
scratch sheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scratch sheets
Senses: glosses: A publication that lists the horses withdrawn from a day's horse races, along with the betting odds and statistics for the horses that are running.
examples: text: The scratch sheet – a listing of the competitors – said that the White, Red and Blue fleets totaled 196 boats, run in four classes of 49 boats each.
ref: 2002 July 31, "More than 250 Opti prams crowd bay in perfect sailing weather", Sarasota Herald-Tribune, page 64
glosses: A publication that lists participants in a competitive sporting event or in a political campaign.
Synonyms: dope sheet
racing form
tip sheet
tissue
sequential file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sequential files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A file which consists of the same record types that is stored on a secondary storage device. The physical sequence of records may be based upon sorting values of one or more data items or fields.
serial file
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serial files
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of sequential file consisting of multiple data records with the same fields.
short break
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short breaks
Senses: glosses: A short vacation or holiday.
Related terms: city break
weekend break
slumgullion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /slʌmˈɡʌljən/
Forms: form: slumgullions
form: slobgollion
Etymology: Uncertain, but said to derive from slime and Scots gullion (“swamp; cesspool”). Attested from the late nineteenth century in reference to a watery beverage (see quotation below). Compare Irish góilín (“a creek; a small inlet”).
Senses: examples: text: “Say...if anybody cares, this vat of slumgullion is as ready as it will ever be.”
ref: 1981, Julian May, The Many-Colored Land:
synonyms: slum
glosses: A stew of meat and vegetables.
examples: text: Then he poured for us a beverage which he called “Slumgullion,” and it is hard to think he was not inspired when he named it. It really pretended to be tea, but there was too much dish-rag, and sand, and old bacon-rind in it to deceive the intelligent traveler.
ref: 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, pages 43-44:
glosses: A beverage made watery, such as weak coffee or tea.
glosses: A reddish muddy deposit in mining sluices.
examples: text: There is another substance, and a very singular one, which turns up in the course of this business [of preparing sperm whale], but which I feel it to be very puzzling adequately to describe. It is called slobgollion[…] It is an ineffably oozy, stringy affair, most frequently found in the tubs of sperm, after a prolonged squeezing, and subsequent decanting.
ref: 1892, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, page 394:
text: The “slumgullion” and “lipperings” or “dreenings” of the blubber—consisting of a mixture of the blood which issues from the fat-lean and the salt water and oil which flows from the blubber while the men are handling it as they hoist it aboard ship, stow it away, and prepare it for the try-pots—though discarded in the palmy days of whaling, are now carefully husbanded and amalgamated.
ref: 1904, Charles H. Stevenson, “Aquatic products in arts and industries”, in Report of the Commissioner for Fish and Fisheries, page 198:
text: The slide received its name from a seafaring man who was reminded of slumgullion, the yellow residue from the blubber of a butchered whale.
ref: 1996, Lee Gregory, Colorado Scenic Guide: Southern Region, Slumgullion Earthflow, page 142:
synonyms: gurry
glosses: A waste product or byproduct from processing whales or fish.
snoof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: snoofs
form: snoofing
form: snoofed
form: snoofed
Etymology: Perhaps an alteration of sniff or snuff; or perhaps a blend of snort + sniff.
Senses: glosses: To sniff around, usually in the search for food.
snoof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snoof
form: most snoof
Etymology: Probably coined by Galsworthy (see quotations).
Senses: examples: text: Luckily, they're all ‘snoof’."
"What?" said Michael […].
"It's a portmanteau syllable for 'Got no sense of smell to speak of.' And wanted, too. One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not ‘snoof’?"
ref: 1928, John Galsworthy, Swan Song (A Modern Comedy part 3):
text: […] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.
ref: 1946, Una Jeffers to Dorothy Brett, The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers. With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers, volume 3, Stanford, p. 410
text: And the word "snoof" has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.
ref: 1966, Monroe C. Beardsley, Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers, Prentice-Hall, page 292:
text: My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.
ref: 1994, Diana Starr Cooper, Night After Night, Island Press, page 127:
glosses: Having lost the sense of smell.
ticky tacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ticky-tacky (“shoddy construction material; tar paper”).
tolling agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolling agreements
Etymology: tolling (“charging a fee”) + agreement
Senses: examples: ref: 2023, Thomson Reuter, “Glossary: Tolling agreement”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: In the mining industry, the owner of semi-processed material might enter into a tolling agreement with a smelter or refiner to turn his semi-processed product into metal
ref: 2006, Graham D. Vinter, Project Finance: A Legal Guide, page 130:
topics: business
glosses: An agreement by a toller with an owner of raw materials to process the raw material for a specified fee ("toll") into a product with the raw material and the product remaining the property of the provider of the raw material. E.g. converting fuel into electricity at a certain price.
examples: text: Tolling agreement: An agreement to put a specified amount of raw material per period through a particular processing facility. For example, an agreement to process a specified amount of alumina into aluminum at a particular aluminum plant.
ref: 2018, Campbell R. Harvey, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
topics: business
glosses: An agreement to deliver a specified amount of raw material per period through a particular processing facility.
tolling agreement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolling agreements
Etymology: From tolling + agreement.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agreement that has the effect of tolling or suspending the course of a fixed period of time, as a statute of limitations.
Synonyms: standstill agreement
tomentose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tomentose
form: most tomentose
Etymology: From New Latin tōmentōsus of like application, from tōmentum + -ōsus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: tomentous
glosses: covered in (often matted) hair.
raw_tags: of a surface
Derived terms: subtomentose
tomentulose
trunking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trunkings
Etymology: From trunk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: All the electrical and communications cables bundled together and distributed through a building.
examples: text: But long-distance trunking, of course, is the cream of the road haulier's job as well as the railway's; hence the anguish.
ref: 1964 August, “Dr. B lights a pre-election fuse”, in Modern Railways, page 76:
topics: business
synonyms: linehaul
glosses: The movement of containers or packages between a terminal and a transporter's inland facilities, or the scheduled transportation service between locations.
glosses: A system of ducts for cables, heating or ventilation.
glosses: Plastic conduit or duct used to conceal and protect electrical wiring.
glosses: A two-way radio technique that uses a control channel to automatically assign frequency channels to groups of user radios.
Synonyms: sense: UK: conduit used to conceal and protect wiring
word: conduit
word: raceway
word: cable tray
word: wire molding
word: wire mold
trunking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From trunk + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trunk
Related terms: MLT
SLPP
DSMLT
RSMLT
va-va-voom
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: The first documented use of the phrase is on the April 21, 1949 episode of The Morey Amsterdam Show. Art Carney portrays "Newton the waiter" in a sketch and uses the phrase. He later recorded a song entitled "Va Va Va Voom" (1954). It was popularized a year later by car mechanic Nick in the Hollywood classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which helped the catchphrase to be remembered and reused many decades later in advertisements and pop songs.
Senses: glosses: Expressing that something is lively, sexy, passionate, or exciting.
va-va-voom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The first documented use of the phrase is on the April 21, 1949 episode of The Morey Amsterdam Show. Art Carney portrays "Newton the waiter" in a sketch and uses the phrase. He later recorded a song entitled "Va Va Va Voom" (1954). It was popularized a year later by car mechanic Nick in the Hollywood classic Kiss Me Deadly (1955), which helped the catchphrase to be remembered and reused many decades later in advertisements and pop songs.
Senses: glosses: Lively excitement or sexuality.
guide dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guide dogs
Senses: synonyms: dog guide
hypernyms: service dog
<
working dog
<
working animal
<
animal
coordinate_terms: herding dog
glosses: A dog that is trained to be of assistance to a visually impaired or hearing-impaired person and is thus able to guide them.
Related terms: service dog
mother superior
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mothers superior
form: mother superiors
Senses: glosses: A nun in charge of a priory or convent; either a prioress or an abbess.
Coordinate terms: father superior
reintroduced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reintroduce
reintroduced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: introduced again
raw_tags: of a plant or animal
reintroduce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reintroduces
form: reintroducing
form: reintroduced
form: reintroduced
form: re-introduce
Etymology: From re- + introduce.
Senses: examples: text: Cheap mid-week return tickets were reintroduced by British Railways on May 7, to encourage holiday travel during the week rather than at weekends.
ref: 1957 June 24, “Notes and News: Cheap Mid-Week Tickets Reintroduced”, in Railway Magazine, page 433:
text: Pretend it never happened. The insurance business is completely screwy now. You know they’ve reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company directors?
ref: 1992, Douglas Adams, chapter 13, in Mostly Harmless (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy), page 118:
text: […] whereas, were the masters to reintroduce slavery, both sides would return to the prebargain state, which would fall within the frontier and, therefore, would be inefficient.
ref: 1998, Jules L. Coleman, Markets, Morals, and the Law, page 321:
text: It features equal-sized spoked hickory wheels, pneumatic tires, a chain drive, and an elliptical chain ring, something Japanese manufacturers reintroduced on bicycles in the late 1970s.
ref: 2001 June 1, R.M. Johnson, “On Exhibit: The Mountain Bike's Primitive Ancestors”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The present chapter reintroduces CL in a more compact and less technical way, being written in a semitutorial style with a wider computer science audience in mind.
ref: 2006, Dina Goldin, Scott A. Smolka, Peter Wegner, Interactive Computation: The New Paradigm, page 184:
text: Slums like Dharavi are reintroducing this classic model of social commerce at an entirely new scale. Members of savings groups build assets individually and collectively, forming relationships of trust with their neighbors in the process.
ref: 2011 November 29, Adam Werbach, “How a classic model of social commerce can teach the world how to save”, in The Guardian:
text: “Earth Two,” a new series by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott, reintroduces the concept by putting a new spin on the original versions of characters like the Green Lantern, the Flash and Superman that diverges notably from the past several decades of DC lore.
ref: 2012 June 1, Matthew Perpetua, “Original Green Lantern comes out as gay in DC Comics’ ‘Earth Two’”, in CNN:
text: Sweden has moved to reintroduce conscription “as a response to the new security situation” in Europe, the country’s defense minister told CNN Thursday.
ref: 2017 March 2, James Masters, Laura Smith-Spark, and Lorenzo D'Agostino, “Sweden reintroduces conscription as tensions rise over Russia”, in CNN:
text: SWR has decided to withdraw it with immediate effect and cease the programme of modifications that were under way, to avoid incurring further costs to the taxpayer to reintroduce and operate these trains.
ref: 2021 May 21, Richard Clinnick, “Fleet News: SWR's termination of '442' refurbishment saves £24m”, in RAIL, number 931, page 29:
glosses: To introduce again.
Related terms: reintroducer
reintroduction
hydrogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrogeology.
Related terms: hydrogeologic
hydrogeologically
bladelet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bladelets
Etymology: From blade + -let.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small stone blade with one sharp and one blunt edge
Aterian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Atlas mountains; especially to a style of Paleolithic stone tool from this region.
Iberomaurusian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ibero- + Maurusian.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to a population of early humans that occupied the Mediterranean littoral from Morocco to Tunisia 22,000 to 9,000 years ago
middy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪdi
homophone: midi
Forms: form: middies
form: middie
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A midshipman.
glosses: A measure of 285 ml (10 fl oz) of beer; a pot.
Derived terms: middy blouse
yddim
Capsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French capsien, from Latin Capsianus, from Capsa (“Gafsa”) + -ianus (“-ian”).
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: of or pertaining to a Paleolithic culture of North Africa (named after primary findings there, in the now southern Tunisian oasis Gafsa) and southern Europe
obstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obstructed
form: most obstructed
Derived terms: nonobstructed
obstructedly
obstructedness
unobstructed
obstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obstruct
excavator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɛkskəˌveɪtɚ/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: excavators
Etymology: From excavate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who excavates.
synonyms: digger
excavating machine
glosses: A vehicle, often on tracks, used to dig ditches etc.
glosses: A curette used to scrape out pathological material.
Hyponyms: dragline
dragline excavator
Derived terms: dragline excavator
excavator operator
mini excavator
spoon excavator
Related terms: backhoe
Excavata
exciter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exciters
Etymology: From excite + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It imparts a sweetness to the breath, is a valuable medicine in all nervous complaints, and is esteemed as a prolonger of life and an exciter of venery.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 173:
glosses: One who or that which excites.
glosses: The electronic oscillator that generates the carrier signal for a transmitter.
glosses: An audio signal processing technique used to enhance a signal by dynamic equalization, phase manipulation, harmonic synthesis of (usually) high frequency signals, and through the addition of subtle harmonic distortion.
executrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛkjətɹɪˌsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of executrix
exegeses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕkˌ-sĭ-jēˈ -sēzˌ
ipa: /ɛksɪˈdʒiːˌsiːz/
ipa: /ɛksɪˈd͡ʒiˌsiːz/
rhymes: -iːsiːz
Senses: glosses: plural of exegesis
panocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pano- + -cracy.
Senses: glosses: Rule by all.
glosses: The principle that everyone has the right to participate in the making of decisions that affect them and no one has the right to assume someone else's authority for the decisions they make.
exiguity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛɡzɪˈɡjuːɪti/
ipa: /ɪɡ-/
ipa: /ɛɡziˈɡjuiti/
rhymes: -uːɪti
Forms: form: exiguities
Etymology: From Middle French exiguite, from Late Latin exiguitas. See exiguous.
Senses: examples: text: The exiguity and ſmallneſſe of ſome ſeeds extending to large productions is one of the magnalities of nature, ſomewhat illuſtrating the work of the Creation, and vaſt production from nothing.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: Of the nature of Mr. Knott himself Watt remained in particular ignorance. Of the many excellent reasons for this, two seemed to Watt to merit mention: on the one hand the exiguity of the material propounded to his senses, and on the other the decay of these.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
text: We have yet to treat the exiguity of the accounting framework and this exiguity draws away the interest to any empirical utilisation.
ref: 1986, Manuel J. Vilares, “Macroeconomic Models with Quantity Rationing”, in Structural Change in Macroeconomic Models: Theory and Estimation (Advanced Studies in Theoretical and Applied Econometrics; 6), Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, →DOI, →ISBN, section 1.4.3 (The Exiguity of the Accounting Framework), page 59:
text: However, despite its exiguity, the vicarage did maintain an independent existence as a benefice, and the College continued to make presentations to the bishop of Worcester.
ref: 1991, Robert N. Swanson, “Standard of Livings: Parochial Revenues in Pre-Reformation England”, in Christopher Harper-Bill, editor, Religious Belief and Ecclesiastical Careers in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the Conference Held at Strawberry Hill, Easter 1989 (Studies in the History of Medieval Religion; 3), Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 176:
text: Some undertakings, however, required so much manpower that farmers had to recruit their neighbors. […] These collaborations integrated the neighborhood and established it as more than a mere locality where farmers happened to live. They were one means by which to rise above exiguities and weather the turbulences in a precarious world.
ref: 2002, Martin Bruegel, “Exchange and the Creation of the Neighborhood in the Late Eighteenth Century”, in Farm, Shop, Landing: The Rise of a Market Society in the Hudson Valley, 1780–1860, Durham, N.C.; London: Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 21:
synonyms: exiguousness
meagreness
scantiness
glosses: The quality of being meagre or scanty.
Related terms: exiguate
exiguous
exiguously
exiguousness
unexiguous
exorcize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exorcizes
form: exorcizing
form: exorcized
form: exorcized
Senses: examples: text: There was a house in the village which had a poltergeist, one of those very mischievous influences which cause so much trouble. I volunteered to exorcize it. We have an official form of exorcism in the Church, you know, so I thought that I was well-armed.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: US spelling of exorcise.
Derived terms: exorcizable
exorcizer
unexorcized
expansionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈspænʃənɪzəm/
Forms: form: expansionisms
Etymology: From expansion + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: European colonialism exported its domestic, counter-revolutionary Inquisition around the world, starting with Portuguese expansionism around 1500 C.E.
ref: 2007 September 27, Leslie Feinberg, “Western rulers imposed anti-gay laws throughout world”, in Workers World:
glosses: The policy, of a nation, of expanding its territory or its economic influence.
Derived terms: antiexpansionism
Related terms: expansionist
expansionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expansionist
form: most expansionist
Etymology: From expansion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Unlike passenger demand forecasts in England, that have resulted in the removal of 20% of service capacity in the May 2022 timetable, Welsh Ministers acting through the TfW agency are continuing an expansionist agenda for rail services under their control.
ref: 2021 August 11, Industry Insider, “Rail ambitions in Wales”, in RAIL, number 937, page 68:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Of or pertaining to expansionism.
Synonyms: expansionistic
expansionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expansionists
Etymology: From expansion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Miller argues convincingly that a majority of Americans shared the romantic nationalism of such expansionists as Theodore Roosevelt and Sen. Albert Beveridge and participated vicariously in their dreams of martial glory and expanding markets.
ref: 1982 November 21, Richard E. Welch Jr., “IMPERIAL ADVENTURE”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: international relations
glosses: An advocate of expansionism.
expatiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expatiations
Etymology: From expatiate + -ion; see also -ation.
Senses: glosses: An act of expatiating.
expatiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Surely the time passed in expatiating on the reverend Doctor's faults was rather profitably passed than otherwise.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: present participle and gerund of expatiate
expatiating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expatiatings
Senses: examples: text: […] we can scarcely open, a book in which the habits and manners of animals are treated of, without meeting with numerous, fervent, and eloquent expatiatings on their sagacity […]
ref: 1837, Charles Frederick Partington, The British Cyclopæedia of Natural History:
glosses: expatiation
expatriation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expatriations
Etymology: Borrowed from French expatriation, or from expatriate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Voluntary migration from one's native land to another.
glosses: Forced expulsion of from one's native land to another.
death march
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death marches
Senses: examples: text: the Bataan Death March
glosses: A forced movement of people, on foot, in such circumstances that many die during the journey.
topics: management
glosses: A project that requires a stretch of unsustainable overwork, or whose participants feel it is destined to fail.
examples: text: Jacob Scheele was led to the gallows as a band played a death march.
ref: 2015, Daniel Allen Hearn, Legal Executions in New England, page 282:
glosses: Synonym of dead march (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).
synonyms: word: dead march
extra: (“mournful music for a funeral etc.”).
Related terms: forced march
exiguousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exiguous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being meagre or scanty.
Synonyms: exiguity
expediter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expediters
form: expeditor
Etymology: From expedite + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who expedites.
glosses: Employee charged with tasks related to the purchase of materials (place orders, receive shipments, examine deliveries, check correctness of invoices) and other clerical duties.
Synonyms: expo
experimenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ɪ.mɛn.tə/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛn.tə/
ipa: /ɪkˈspɛɹ.ə.mɛn.tɚ/
ipa: /ɪkˈspeɹ.ɪ.men.tə/
ipa: /ɪkˈspeɹ.ə.men.tə/
Forms: form: experimenters
Etymology: From experiment + -er.
Senses: examples: text: In the request-only condition, the experimenter said simply 'Excuse me, I have 5 (20) copies. May I use the xerox machine?' In the placebic information condition, this was followed by the phrase 'because I need to make copies'. In the real information condition, the reason offered in support was 'because I am in a rush'.
ref: 1986, J. Richard Eiser, Social psychology: attitude, cognition, and social behavior, page 227:
text: In reliable environments, waiting to eat a second marshmallow is likely to be beneficial. However, in environments in which rewards are uncertain, such as when experimenters are unreliable, eating the single marshmallow right away may be beneficial. Thus, impulsivity can be understood as an adaptive response to the contingencies present in an unstable environment rather than a moral failure in which animalistic drives overwhelm human rationality.
ref: 2020, Joseph Cesario, David J. Johnson, Heather L. Eisthen, “Your Brain Is Not an Onion With a Tiny Reptile Inside”, in Current Directions in Psychological Science, volume 29, number 3:
glosses: A person who experiments.
Derived terms: interexperimenter
expositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expositors
form: expositour
Senses: glosses: A person who expounds; a commentator.
Derived terms: expositress
expounder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expounders
Etymology: From Middle English expounder, expounere, expowner, expownere; equivalent to expound + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who expounds or explains
expressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expressionist
form: most expressionist
Etymology: From expression + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s this snaggletoothed, little bird-footed homunculus caricature,” Bourneuf said. “Many artists at this time were trying to make new altarpieces. Klee tended to take a very skeptical distance from the sort of grandiose projects of many of his expressionist peers, so I think it’s actually kind of mocking those hopes.”
ref: 2025 May 7, Nina Siegal, “A Rarely Seen Angel With a Lesson From History”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 08 May 2025:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or in the style of expressionism.
Derived terms: antiexpressionist
expressionistic
expressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: expressionists
Etymology: From expression + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A painter who paints in this style.
Derived terms: abstract expressionist
neo-expressionist
vort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɔɹt/
Forms: form: vorts
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish וואָרט (vort, “word”).
Senses: glosses: A short Torah lesson, thought, or insightful saying, often shared at a wedding, gathering, or celebration.
glosses: An engagement party in Orthodox Jewish communities.
Related terms: drasha
chidush
dvar Torah
l'chaim
vores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vore