cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
AWDWWITK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Initialism of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill.
self pity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of self-pity.
yellow menace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellow peril.
synonyms: word: yellow peril
yellow terror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yellow peril.
synonyms: word: yellow peril
yellow horde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yellow hordes
Senses: examples: text: As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.
ref: 1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26:
text: So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs.
ref: 1994 December 18, Steven Erlanger, “The World: Demons in Russia's Mind Arise Again—in the Flesh”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 Jul 2008:
qualifier: racially offensive
glosses: East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.
Related terms: yellow peril
yellow hordes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow horde
syntaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈtaksɪs/
Forms: form: syntaxes
Etymology: From the Late Latin syntaxis, from the Ancient Greek σύνταξις (súntaxis). Doublet of syntax.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Syntax.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A convergence of mountain ranges, or geological folds, towards a single point.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Syntaxy.
gypsophila
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gypsophilas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: There are annual and perennial gypsophilas.
ref: 1999, Hanneke Van Dijk, Encyclopedia of Border Plants, page 151:
text: Gypsophilas are closely related to pinks and carnations.
ref: 2001, David Michener, Nan Sinton, editors, Taylor's Guide to Ground Covers, page 243:
text: Gypsophilas are easily grown from seeds.
ref: 2004, Diana Beresford-Kroeger, A Garden for Life, page 75:
glosses: Any of the many flowering plants of the genus Gypsophila, which have a profusion of small pink or white flowers.
Synonyms: baby's breath
gyp
poëms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poems
form: pœems
Senses: glosses: plural of poëm
tractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tractive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being tractive.
tracklessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trackless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being trackless.
trade-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade-in
trade-lasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade-last
tradecrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradecraft
trademark erosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trademark erosion
tradeoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradeoff
tradespeoples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradespeople
tradespersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tradesperson; tradespeople.
traditional arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traditional art
traditionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traditionary
tragacanths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tragacanth
trail mixes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trail mix
train of thoughts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trains of thoughts
form: train of thought
Senses: glosses: The flow of different thoughts one experiences when thinking.
tranquilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquility; alternative spelling of tranquillity.
tranquillities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquillity
tramadols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramadol
tranquilness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tranquil + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being tranquil; tranquillity.
Barbary ape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barbary apes
Senses: glosses: A tailless monkey, Macaca sylvanus, found on Gibraltar and in parts of north Africa
Synonyms: Barbary macaque
don't let the bedbugs bite
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: don’t let the bedbugs bite!
Senses: examples: text: Sleep tight […] don’t let the bedbugs bite!
glosses: Used to wish a person a good night’s sleep.
intersex
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təɹ.sɛks/
rhymes: -ɪntəɹsɛks
Etymology: From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: His confidentiality was broken, and soon the entire staff and residential population were aware that Jim was intersex. […] we faced the fact that most programs were gender segregated and would not be a safe place for Jim to be known as intersex.
ref: 2006, Dean Spade, “Compliance Is Gendered: Struggling for Gender Self-Determination in a Hostile Economy”, in Paisley Currah et al., editors, Transgender Rights, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 225:
text: When I had learned that I was intersex, I brought this issue to my mother.
ref: 2010, Sean Saifa Wall, “I am the ‘I’”, in Kate Bornstein, S. Bear Bergman, editors, Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation, Seal Press, →ISBN, page 109:
text: A survey of 1100 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people by Griffith and Bond University researchers found that the overwhelming majority had been victims of targeted harassment as well as physical and sexual abuse.
ref: 2010 June 3, The Age:
synonyms: intersexual
intersexed
antonyms: dyadic
endosex
perisex
glosses: Of an individual, having any of a variety of inherent conditions (in a species with distinct sexes) in which one's sex characteristics differ from those of a typical male and female; for example, having sex characteristics relating to both male and female sexes.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A person who can get pregnant and also impregnate someone else.
Synonyms: word: hermaphroditic
word: hermaphrodite
sense: clinical
word: pseudohermaphroditic
sense: clinical
word: pseudohermaphrodite
sense: on forms and documents
word: indeterminate
sense: on forms and documents
word: X
Derived terms: interphobia
interphobic
intersexed
intersexism
intersexphobia
intersexphobic
intersexuality
intersex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təɹ.sɛks/
rhymes: -ɪntəɹsɛks
Forms: form: intersexes
Etymology: From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: A Canadian believes that he has solved the diagnostic problem in human intersex. All human cells, says Dr. Murray L. Barr of the University of Western Ontario, contain something called sex chromatin.
ref: 1953 February 23, Time:
text: A much more common condition caused by early exposure of fish larvae to oestrogenic substances is intersex, which in males usually takes the form of ovotestis.
ref: 2003, Andrew J Lawrence et al., Effects of Pollution on Fish, page 204:
glosses: The condition of being intersex; intersexuality.
examples: text: Goldschmidt and others who have thought of the homosexual individual as an intersex have relied upon incidence figures which were pure guesses and which, as the data in the present chapter will show, bear little relation to the fact....
ref: 1948, Alfred Kinsey with Wardell Baxter Pomeroy and Clyde Eugene Martin, Sexual behavior in the human male, page 659:
text: Conversely, a fertilized egg with one X-chromosome would develop not into a male but into an intersex […]
ref: 1955, Curt Stern, Principles of Human Genetics, page 374:
text: Pseudo-hermaphrodites or other intersexes are not to be confused with transsexualists; transvestites may be transsexualists, but not necessarily.
ref: 1970, Sexology, volume 37, page 26:
text: Genital surgery on intersexes has been performed for about a century
ref: 2003, Peggy Tine Cohen-Kettenis with Friedemann Pfäfflin, Transgenderism and intersexuality in childhood and adolescence, page 155:
text: An intersex, then, is an animal that shows both male and female characteristics.
ref: 2009, Mary C Smith, David Sherman, Goat Medicine, page 609:
text: Kubick also did not specifically include intersex people in the class of those seeking X gender markers, writing in her opinion that because the only Orr v. Trump plaintiffs seeking X gender markers were endosex nonbinary people, it was “not clear that non-binary class representatives could fully represent the interests of intersex class members.”
ref: 2025 June 18, Samantha Riedel, “In Trans Legal Victory, Federal Judge Blocks Trump Admin From Denying Passport Gender Changes”, in Them:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An individual with any of these conditions.
intersex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.tə.sɛks/
ipa: /ˈɪn.təɹ.sɛks/
rhymes: -ɪntəɹsɛks
Forms: form: intersexes
form: intersexing
form: intersexed
form: intersexed
Etymology: From German Intersexe. Doublet of intersect. By surface analysis, inter- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: The point is significant in light of current political issues surrounding real intersexed individuals. [...] It is clearly the case that physical intersexing and psychological androgyny do not conform to sex and gender norms in society. [...]
ref: 2013, Patrick Colm Hogan, Ulysses and the Poetics of Cognition, →ISBN, page 176:
synonyms: intersexualize
glosses: To make intersex.
Related terms: hermaphroditism
pseudohermaphroditism
androgynous
bigender
ambigender
bifora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biforas
Senses: glosses: A type of double reed instrument from Sicily in the oboe family.
topics: architecture
glosses: A window divided vertically into two openings by a small column or a mullion or pilaster; the openings are topped by round or pointed arches.
fission bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fission bombs
Senses: examples: text: I heard the fission bomb test clearly and I was over a hundred miles away.
glosses: An atomic bomb that uses nuclear fission as a source of energy
Related terms: fusion bomb
atom bomb
bigamie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigamies
Senses: examples: text: But now we may find in S. Margarets life, who it is that is Chriſtes wife: whereby we are ſo much wiſer than we were before. But looke in the life of S. Katharine, in the golden legend, and you ſhall find that he was alſo married to S. Katharine, and that our ladie made the marriage, &c. An excellent authoritie for bigamie.
ref: 1584, “The Storie of Saint Margaret Prooued to be Both Ridiculous and Impious in Euerie Point”, in The Discoverie of Witchcraft, […], London: […] William Brome, →OCLC, book XV (The Exposition of Iidoni, […]), pages 459–460:
text: A beauty-waining and diſtreſſed widow, / Euen in the afternoone of her beſt daies / Made priſe and purchaſe of his luſtfull eye, / Seduct the pitch and height of al his thoughts, / To baſe declenſion and loathd bigamie, / By her in his vnlawfull bed he got.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Tragedy of King Richard the Third. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Valentine Sims [and Peter Short] for Andrew Wise, […], published 1597, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
text: Bigamie was a counterplea (deuiſed at yͤ Councell of Lyons, vpon mislike of ſecond marriage) to be obiected, when the priſoner demaundeth the benefite of the Clergie, to wit, his Book, as namely to ſay, that he which demaundeth the priuiledge of the Clergie, was married to ſuch a woman at ſuch a place, within ſuch a Dioceſſe, and that ſhee is dead, and that hee hath married another woman within the ſame Dioceſſe, or within ſome other Dioceſſe, and ſo is Bigamus.
ref: 1624, John Rastell, “Bigamie”, in Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certaine Difficult and Obscure VVords and Termes of the Common Lawes of This Realme Expounded. […], new edition, London: […] Company of Stationers, →OCLC, folio 45, recto and verso:
text: Not to take a Wife to her Siſter] Not to take one Wife to another, or not to have at once two Wives. This ſentence condemneth Bigamie, and Polygamie, having two or more Wives together, Lev[iticus 18. 18. Neither ſhalt thou take a Wife to her Siſter to vex her.
ref: 1661, Thomas Wilson, John Bagwell, Andrew Simson, “Not to take a Wife to her Sister”, in A Complete Christian Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] Thomas Williams […], →OCLC, page 592:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of bigamy.
coparcenary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coparcenaries
Etymology: From co- + parcenary (from the Old French parçonerie).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Joint inheritance or ownership of property.
distensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more distensive
form: most distensive
Senses: examples: text: distensive paralysis
text: distensive opposition
text: distensive headache
text: —. distensive deformations in the Apennines and the Tyrrrhenian basin: behind the compressive front one may rapidly pass to distensive deformations.
ref: 2013, F.-C. Wezel, The Origin of Arcs, page 313:
glosses: Distending, or capable of being distended; expanding or spreading out.
fusion bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fusion bombs
Senses: glosses: An atomic bomb that uses nuclear fusion as a source of energy; a hydrogen bomb
Related terms: fission bomb
atom bomb
papillomavirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /papɪˈləʊməvʌɪɹəs/
Forms: form: papillomaviruses
Etymology: From papilloma + virus.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any variety of virus which causes warts.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: Any variety of virus which causes warts.
Now specifically, a member of the genus Papillomavirus.
Derived terms: bovine papillomavirus
human papillomavirus
Shope papillomavirus
lap-dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lap-dance
coparcenaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coparcenary
van der Waals forces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of van der Waals force
counterinsurgencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterinsurgency
oil spot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil spots
form: oilspot
Senses: glosses: A spot consisting of oil.
A soiled spot on clothing, a tablecloth, etc., where some oil was absorbed; a similar spot on a driveway, puddle, etc., where some oil is lying.
coordinate_terms: oilpatch
glosses: A spot consisting of oil.
An oil film over an area of the ocean after an oil spill.
synonyms: oil slick
oilpatch
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the yellow spots, often circular in shape, on the upper leaf surface of grapevines in the early stages of downy mildew (caused by Plasmopara viticola infection).
pugillare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pugillares
Senses: glosses: A wooden writing tablet, coated with wax, used with a stylus.
raw_tags: in Ancient Rome
bestsellerdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bestseller + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having the status of bestseller.
appositio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin appositiō.
Senses: glosses: Addition of an element not syntactically required for purpose of description or explanation.
Related terms: parenthetical
parenthesis
devis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devi
◌̄
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Used to mark a vowel letter as having its 'long' sound: ⟨ā⟩ /eɪ/, ⟨ē⟩ /iː/, ⟨ī⟩ /aɪ/, ⟨ō⟩ /oʊ/, ⟨ū⟩ /juː/.
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Placed over a vowel letter to indicate that the syllable is long. Also used alone to mark stress in a metrical foot or verse: see ⟨ˉ⟩.
previsions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prevision
previsions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prevision
◌̧
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: examples: text: California, like several other states, prohibits the use of diacritical marks or accents on official documents. That means no tilde (~), no accent grave (`), no umlaut (¨) and certainly no cedilla (¸).
ref: 2015 April 11, Tovin Lapan, “California birth certificates and accents: O’Connor alright, Ramón and José is not”, in The Guardian (in English), archived from the original on 04 Apr 2025:
glosses: Retained in foreign loan words (mostly French ç): façade (or facade).
nightbreak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From night + break.
Senses: glosses: Nightfall, the point at which night begins.
Synonyms: dusk
skip rope
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skips rope
form: skipping rope
form: skipped rope
form: skipped rope
Senses: glosses: To jump over a rope, both of whose ends are held by the jumper or by two others, while the rope is moved under the jumper's feet in a continual rhythm; to play the game of jump rope or exercise by jumping rope.
Synonyms: sense: jump over a rope
word: jump rope
skip rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skip ropes
Senses: examples: text: Where do children's rhymes come from? What ancient motif is simply reclothed in a modern story or a children's skip-rope song?
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 11:
glosses: The rope used in this activity.
Synonyms: jump rope
skipping rope
cuddlesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kŭd'əlsəm
ipa: /ˈkʌdəlsəm/
rhymes: -ʌdəlsəm
Forms: form: more cuddlesome
form: most cuddlesome
Etymology: From cuddle + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterized or marked by cuddling; cuddly.
Derived terms: cuddlesomeness
bituminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bituminizes
form: bituminizing
form: bituminized
form: bituminized
Senses: glosses: to treat with bitumen
Nowak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nowaks
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Nowak, meaning a newcomer to a village.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
technophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: technophilias
Etymology: From techno- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: technophoria
text: This includes research that examines the role that adolescent "tinkering" plays in developing mechanical interests and aptitudes; male and female patterns of participation in Internet-based communications; the prevalence of masculinist "search and destroy" narratives in video and computer games; the masculine subcultures of computing, including the close links between technophilia and technoporn; and the cultivation of gendered differences in consumer desire in technomarketing.
ref: 2002, Sue Curry Jansen, Critical Communication Theory, page 84:
antonyms: technophobia#Noun
cyberphobia#Noun
coordinate_terms: technodeterminism#Noun
techno-futurism#Noun
techno-optimism#Noun
techno-utopianism#Noun
glosses: A love of new technologies.
hypernyms: paraphilia#Noun
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condition#Noun
glosses: A sexual attraction to technology.
Related terms: technophile
carbonylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carbonylated
form: most carbonylated
Senses: glosses: Subjected to carbonylation.
opiomelanocortin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opiomelanocortins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A polypeptide, found in the pituitary gland, associated with endorphins and other hormones
Derived terms: proopiomelanocortin
processive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: glosses: Going forward, advancing, progressive.
Derived terms: superprocessive
processively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more processively
form: most processively
Etymology: From processive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a processive manner; progressively
jet propulsion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Propulsion that is caused by the expulsion of a jet of fluid, especially by a jet engine or jellyfish.
glosses: The study of devices propelled by jet propulsion
Derived terms: jet-propelled
engobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engobe
fill the bill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fills the bill
form: filling the bill
form: filled the bill
form: filled the bill
Senses: examples: text: You've got a head on your shoulders, you have! I guess you'll fill the bill.
ref: 1893, Horatio Alger, chapter 29, in Cast Upon the Breakers:
text: He said that the automotive industry must find a substitute for gasoline, on which the elder Edison commented that the electric storage battery has already filled the bill.
ref: 1923 June 25, “Stratton and Edison”, in Time:
text: For those looking for the unusual, Boston, like most cities, has an abundance of shops that fill the bill. Forever Flamingo, on Newbury St., is now a veritable three-ring circus of some of the best examples of art-deco memorabilia.
ref: 1976 December 18, David Holland, “Dear Santa...”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 11:
text: “Severance” is a so-called puzzle box show, with complex story lines that keep viewers guessing to unravel a mystery at the center of the series. Series like “Lost,” “Westworld” and “Mr. Robot” also fill the bill.
ref: 2025 September 11, John Koblin, “Emmys Top Drama Face-Off Tells You Everything You Need to Know About TV”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Sep 2025:
glosses: Alternative form of fit the bill
Yanjing
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 燕京 (Yānjīng), composed of 燕 (Yān, the name of one of the powers of the Warring States Period during the Zhou Dynasty) and 京 (jīng, "capital").
Senses: glosses: An ancient city located within present-day Beijing, the capital of Ji and Yan.
glosses: An epithet of modern Beijing.
glosses: A brand of beer.
Cyclopean architecture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cyclopian architecture
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Ancient masonry where walls are fitted together of huge irregular stones; architecture that is ancient and roughly composed.
cyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪ.mə/
enpr: sī′mə
rhymes: -aɪmə
Forms: form: cymas
form: cymae
form: cymæ
form: cymata
form: sima
form: syma
form: cima
form: scima
Etymology: From New Latin cȳma (“young sprout or shoot of cabbage”) (whence the botanic usage of cyme), from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave”, “cyma”, “sprout of a plant”), from κύω (kúō, “I conceive, I become pregnant”).
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Most English coinages on this root are formed on its short stem, κῡμ- (kūm-). The fact that the Ancient Greek etymon only inflects as a third-declension neuter noun has led some writers to prescribe forms that preserve the root’s long stem, κῡματ- (kūmat-), for philological reasons (see, for example, the 1903 and 1908 citations of cymatoscope), but such forms are rare.
Latinate phrases that include cyma, namely cyma inversa, cyma recta, and cyma reversa, show that, when employed as a Latin word, cȳma is treated as a first-declension feminine noun rather than as third-declension neuter consonant-stem noun.
There are several Classical precedents, both from Latin and from Ancient Greek, for formations on the short stem (κῡμ- (kūm-)) of this root, although formations on the long stem (κῡματ- (kūmat-)) are more common in Ancient Greek; consequently, whereas formations on the long stem may be preferable, especially when combined with other Ancient Greek elements, formations on the short stem are by no means incorrect.
Senses: examples: text: […] while the double-cyma or classical curve of his mouth was not without a looseness in its close.
ref: 1886 May – 1887 April, Thomas Hardy, The Woodlanders […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
topics: architecture
synonyms: ogee
glosses: The wavelike, curved shape of a cymatium, consisting of a concave and a convex line; (loosely) the cymatium itself.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A cyme (opening bud).
Derived terms: cymagraph
cyma inversa
cyma recta
cyma rectum
cyma reversa
cymatic
cymograph
cymoid
cymatoid
Related terms: cymaise
cymatics
cymatile
cymatium
cymatograph
cymatolite
cyme
cymelet
cymiferous
cymobotryose
cymoid
cymophane
cymophanous
cymoscope
cymatoscope
cymose
cymosely
cymotrichous
cymatotrichous
cymotrichy
cymous
cymule
cymulose
cymas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sī′məz
ipa: /ˈsaɪ.məz/
rhymes: -aɪməz
Senses: glosses: plural of cyma
cycloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔɪdəl
Forms: form: more cycloidal
form: most cycloidal
Etymology: From cycloid + -al.
Senses: glosses: pertaining to or resembling a cycloid, or a circle.
Synonyms: circular
cycloid
Derived terms: cycloidal arch
cycloidal engine
cycloidally
cycloidal arch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cycloidal arches
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An arch that has a cycloidal shape, wherein the span of the arch is some factor of pi*rise.
Goldwynism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Goldwynisms
Etymology: From Goldwyn + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations had now recorded two of the most celebrated Goldwynisms: "In two words: impossible," and the ever-fresh "Include me out."
ref: 1949 January 3, “Homebodies”, in Time:
glosses: Any of a number of often-repeated malapropisms originally uttered by US film producer Samuel Goldwyn (1879-1974) or a malapropism reminiscent of Goldwyn's utterances.
Related terms: include me out
non-skid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonskid.
one L
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one Ls
Senses: glosses: A law student in their first year of law school.
Related terms: two L
three L
four L
one L
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I've heard that one L courses are the hardest courses you'll take in law school.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the first year of law school.
lieing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ...
This little bird is tired of singing a shadow-love song
It's my heart you're breakin' and your liein' I ain't takin'
If you think I'm going to give you my all, you're mistaken
Three years I've been yearning for you
Three years I've been learning from you .[…]
ref: 2008 June 4, Syieve Locklair, Disimprison: Freeing My Soul; Speaking My Heart, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Misspelling of lying.
non-slip
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nonslip.
envisioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: envisioners
Etymology: From envision + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of envision: one who envisions.
Related terms: visioner
visionary
envisioners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of envisioner
intersectionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From intersectional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon of minorities present within minorities, or intersections between minorities; specifically, the phenomenon of interactions of multiple systems of oppression or discrimination.
Related terms: intersectionality
intersectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈsɛk.ʃə.nl̩/
Forms: form: more intersectional
form: most intersectional
Etymology: From intersection + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Intersectional discrimination is particularly difficult to identify in contexts where economic, cultural, or social forces quietly shape the background such that women are placed in positions where they are affected by some other system of [discrimination].
ref: 2009, Yvonne Wesley, Black Women's Health: Challenges and Opportunities:
text: The second type consists of intersectional discrimination where the multiple discrimination cannot usefully or effectively be broken down into its component parts. Thus a young black woman may suffer discrimination in a way that an older black woman does not.
ref: 2013, Malcolm Sargeant, Discrimination and the Law, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The tragic incidents of racially motivated rape are sometimes preceded by another manifestation of intersectional oppression, the propagation of explicitly raced and gendered propaganda directed against ethnic women[.]
ref: 2016, Charles Lemert, Social Theory: The Multicultural, Global, and Classic Readings:
text: In the following viewpoint, Taylor Hawk explains intersectional feminism and underscores its importance. Professor and activist Kimberlé Crenshaw invented the term, but it has since become a buzzword with a reach expanding far beyond the […]
ref: 2017, Anne Cunningham, Reproductive Rights, Greenhaven Publishing LLC, →ISBN, page 62:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an intersection, especially of multiple forms of discrimination (for example, the intersection of misogyny and racism which affects black women specifically).
examples: text: Hunter has also been serving as coordinator for Jewish life and intersectional programming at the College of Wooster.
ref: 2019 February 27, Jeremy Pelzer, “Green Party presidential hopeful says he was fired as rabbi because of Israel criticism”, in cleveland.com:
glosses: Of or relating to intersectionalism or intersectionality.
examples: text: “The revolution will be intersectional or it won't be my revolution” (or the more blunt and succinct “The revolution will be intersectional or it will be bullshit”) warn us of the dangers of single-issue/single-marginalization identity.
ref: 2017, Aaron Hess, Amber Davisson, Theorizing Digital Rhetoric, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: The next Age of the Goddess will not allow for spaces that are exclusionary of trans and nonbinary people, both because it will be intersectional and political, and because it will demand liberation for all.
ref: 2018, Trevor Greenfield, Seven Ages of the Goddess, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
glosses: Encompassing or concerned with multiple different groups or the forms of discrimination they face (for example, inclusive of women of all races and people of color of all genders).
Derived terms: intersectionally
nonintersectional
intersectional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪn.təɹˈsɛk.ʃə.nl̩/
Forms: form: more intersectional
form: most intersectional
Etymology: From inter- + sectional.
Senses: examples: text: I have often thought of the many objections to "Civil War", "War between the States." As it was a war between the Northern and Southern sections of the United States, I have ventured to suggest "Intersectional War" as an appropriate name
ref: 1894 April 27, William H. Stewart, “Best name for the war”, in The Confederate Veteran, page 140:
glosses: Existing or occurring between sections or groups.
feministic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feministic
form: most feministic
Etymology: From feminist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Someone might be feministic without “officially” being a feminist.
glosses: Of or relating to or in accordance with feminism.
Derived terms: anarcha-feministic
antifeministic
ecofeministic
feministically
congestive heart failure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congestive heart failures
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues.
trudgen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trudgens
Etymology: Named for John Trudgen (1852-1902), an English swimmer who popularised the stroke.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
synonyms: Trudgen stroke
glosses: A swimming stroke in which the left and right hands are alternately raised out of the water, brought forward and drawn back through the water. A scissor kick is performed on every second stroke.
trudgen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trudgens
form: trudgening
form: trudgened
form: trudgened
Etymology: Named for John Trudgen (1852-1902), an English swimmer who popularised the stroke.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
swimming
glosses: To swim using this stroke.
mind one's P's and Q's
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: minds one's P's and Q's
form: minding one's P's and Q's
form: minded one's P's and Q's
form: minded one's P's and Q's
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mind one's p's and q's.
skidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪdə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈskɪdɚ/
ipa: [ˈskɪɾɚ]
rhymes: -ɪdə(ɹ)
homophone: skitter stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
Forms: form: skidders
Etymology: From skid + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who travels with a skidding motion.
glosses: One who moves something by the use of a skid.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a vehicle for pulling trees out of a forest.
glosses: The foreman of a construction gang making a skid road.
skidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skidder
lispers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lisper
count out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counts out
form: counting out
form: counted out
form: counted out
Senses: examples: text: I may not be as young as I used to be, but I can still handle this job. Don't count me out.
text: They counted it out for these purposes because their accounting method handles it in another way.
glosses: To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility.
raw_tags: of a person or factor
examples: text: The bank teller counted out five twenty-dollar bills and gave them to me.
coordinate_terms: count off#Verb
read off#Verb
read out#Verb
glosses: To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them.
examples: text: The champ was knocked unconscious and counted out in the third round.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
professional-wrestling
sports
war
wrestling
glosses: To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated.
glosses: To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present.
glosses: To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes.
Derived terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: countout
Related terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: down for the count
word: counting-out game
case in point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪs ɪn pɔɪnt/
rhymes: -ɔɪnt
Forms: form: cases in point
Senses: examples: text: But philosophers inform us that old age is apt to revert to the habits of youth, and Sechard senior is a case in point—the older he grew, the better he loved to drink.
ref: 1837, Ellen Marriage, The Two Poets, translation of original by Honoré de Balzac:
text: The old Ramsgate Harbour station of the one-time South Eastern Railway was a case in point, as also the stations in the Isle of Wight that you name, such as Ventnor West.
ref: 1945 July and August, “The Why and The Wherefore: Station Turntables”, in Railway Magazine, page 241, reply to J. A. Drew:
text: Reassignment can rekindle the yearning for city life in UYs who have spent many years in the villages. A case in point is that of a young woman who settled in Ch’ien-chiang county, Hupei, in 1965, having come from Wuhan. She did well, joined the CCP in 1966, and became YCL branch secretary.
ref: 1977, Thomas P. Bernstein, “The Stability of the Settlement”, in Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 258:
text: To help protect the rights of the elderly, particularly in rural areas, some localities have begun requiring contracts of support between elderly parents and their children. A case in point is the village of Tiezu, or Iron Mouth in English, located in Qindu county on the outskirts of Xianyang, a former ancient capital of China in central Shaanxi province.
Starting this year, newlyweds in Qindu district have been required to sign contracts pledging to support their parents after age 60.
ref: 1996, Lena H. Sun, “China Seeks Ways to Protect Elderly; Support Agreements Replacing Traditional Respect for the Aged”, in Ourselves and Others: The Washington Post Sociology Companion, 2nd edition, Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 131:
text: The furious reaction in Germany after 200,000 protective masks destined for Berlin mysteriously went missing in Thailand and were allegedly redirected to the US is a case in point. There is no solid proof Trump approved the heist. But it’s the sort of thing he would do – or so people believe.
ref: 2020 April 12, Simon Tisdall, “US's global reputation hits rock-bottom over Trump's coronavirus response”, in The Guardian:
glosses: An example that illustrates a point.
Synonyms: word: example in point
sense: an example that illustrates a point
word: precedent
sense: an example that illustrates a point
word: example
sense: an example that illustrates a point
word: instance
sense: an example that illustrates a point
word: illustration
sense: an example that illustrates a point
word: representative
Related terms: make a point
for example
case and point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A good case and point is in our own State of Delaware.
ref: 1948, The American Archivist, page 39:
text: The oscillating strategies of annihilation, exclusionary containment, and assimilation with respect to Native Americans provide but one very poignant case and point.
ref: 1997, Romand Coles, Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas, page 36:
text: Information dissemination about the destruction of the Khamisiyah munitions depot in Iraq is a case and point.
ref: 2003, Monica J. Casper, Synthetic Planet: Chemical Politics and the Hazards of Modern Life, page 222:
glosses: Misconstruction of case in point.
Related terms: one in the same
no-holds-barred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It was meant to be a warning against the excesses of heroin use, according to its author. A no-holds-barred, gritty – albeit often comic – portrait of the travails of a disparate group of misfits navigating Edinburgh’s dark, drug-riddled underbelly.
ref: 2023 July 2, David Barnett, “‘Choose drugs?’ 30 years after he wrote Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh says life is tougher now”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of no holds barred.
OCC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: No funds left Citi, which disclosed the near miss -- when a bank processes the wrong amount but is able to recover the funds -- to the Federal Reserve and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the report said.
ref: 2025 February 28, “Citigroup mistakenly credits customer account $81 trillion in "near miss", FT reports”, in Reuters:
text: While the Trump administration is much more pro-coin, one proposal for current regulation would limit big tech companies from being able to issue their own coins without approval from the OCC, which supervises US banks.
ref: 2025 July 5, Philip Stafford, Akila Quinio, “Stablecoins begin to enter the mainstream with backing from Trump administration”, in FT Weekend, page 11:
topics: banking
business
glosses: Initialism of Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
OCC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of options clearing corporation.
qualifier: control engineering
glosses: Initialism of operations control center.
un-Americanness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un-American + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [Edward] Harrigan, who is best remembered for his turn-of-the-twentieth-century musical comedies with collaborator Tony Hart, went on to clarify that “if it isn't native, it isn't New York,” by way of explaining the un-Americanness presumably espoused by these new immigrants.
ref: 2014, R. DesRochers, The New Humor in the Progressive Era, Springer, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: anti-Americanness
glosses: The state or quality of being un-American.
unadornedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unadorned + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unadorned.
unairworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unairworthy + -ness or un- + airworthiness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unairworthy.
unalikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unalike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being unalike.
Synonyms: disparity
polysarcia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Excess fat; corpulence
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Excess sap
polysarcous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polysarcous
form: most polysarcous
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polysarcia; corpulent
unalikenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unalikeness
polyschematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + schematic.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: Having unusual or multiple metre.
Related terms: polyschematist
answerability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: answerabilities
Etymology: From answer + -ability.
Senses: synonyms: answerableness
antonyms: unanswerability
unanswerableness
glosses: The state of being answerable.
answerabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of answerability
unanswerabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unanswerability
polyschematist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: polyschematic
polyschematist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyschematists
Senses: glosses: polyschematic poetry
polyscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyscopes
Etymology: From poly- + scope.
Senses: synonyms: multiplying glass
glosses: A lens that has multiple facets and forms multiple images.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A device for viewing the cavities of the body.
Related terms: polyscopic
polyetherimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyetherimides
Etymology: From polyether + imide.
Senses: glosses: An amorphous, amber, transparent, high-performance thermoplastic
Synonyms: PEI
polysemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: polysemy
polynema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynemas
Etymology: From poly- + -nema (“thread”).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A connected graph.
connected graph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connected graphs
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A graph in which there is a route of edges and nodes connecting any two nodes.
polyneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynemes
Senses: glosses: Any of several tropical foodfish, of family Polynemidae, that have long filaments below the pectoral fin; the threadfins
polynemid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynemid
form: most polynemid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the family Polynemidae.
polynemid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynemids
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the family Polynemidae: a polyneme or threadfin
polynemiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynemiform
form: most polynemiform
Etymology: From translingual Polynemus + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the family Polynemidae.
polynemoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polynemoid
form: most polynemoid
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of the family Polynemidae.
polynemoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polynemoids
Senses: glosses: Any fish in the family Polynemidae: a polyneme or threadfin
Polyfilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the trade name of a brand of spackling paste.
Senses: examples: text: He writes in well filled fourteeners, with individual words used not only vitally to convey the sense but also as a kind of metrical polyfilla.
ref: 1984, Gerardus Antonius Maria Janssens, Flor Aarts, Studies in Seventeenth-century English Literature, History and Bibliography:
text: Kierkegaard saw clearly that faith is not a kind of epistemic Polyfilla that closes the small cracks left by reason, but a mad leap across a chasm devoid of all reason.
ref: 2013 May 6, Julian Bagginni, “I Still Love Kierkegaard”, in Aeon:
glosses: A metaphorical filler to minimize or obscure defects.
Derived terms: polyfill
polyserositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + serositis or poly- + seros(ae) + -itis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of multiple serosae (serous membranes), as a component of a disease process that is either inherently systemic or has some systemic sequelae.
Hypernyms: serositis
Coordinate terms: panserositis
polyforming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + forming.
Senses: glosses: An early, noncatalytic process for producing petroleum/gasoline by reacting low- and high-molecular weigh hydrocarbons at high temperature.
donzella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: donzellas
Etymology: From Italian donzella, from Old Occitan donçela, donsela, from Vulgar Latin *domnicella. Compare donzel. Doublet of damsel, demoiselle, and doncella.
Senses: glosses: A female donzel.
doga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdoʊ.ɡə/
rhymes: -əʊɡə
Etymology: Blend of dog + yoga.
Senses: examples: text: Ms. Bryan, the author in Seattle, said: “It’s a new field so there can be confusion about what doga is and isn’t.”
ref: 2009 April 9, Bethany Lyttle, “Bonding With Their Downward-Facing Humans”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Nov 2020:
glosses: The practice of yoga with pet dogs.
Februaries
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛbɹuɛɹiz/
Forms: form: Februarys
Senses: glosses: plural of February
Aprils
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ.pɹəlz/
Senses: glosses: plural of April
Mays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: maize
homophone: maze
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mayes.
* As a German surname, variant of Mais.
* As a Dutch surname, from a short form of Thomas.
Senses: glosses: plural of May
Mays
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪz/
rhymes: -eɪz
homophone: maize
homophone: maze
Forms: form: Mayses
Etymology: * As an English surname, variant of Mayes.
* As a German surname, variant of Mais.
* As a Dutch surname, from a short form of Thomas.
Senses: glosses: A surname
Related terms: Mays Landing
Julies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪz/
Forms: form: Julys
Senses: glosses: plural of July
Julies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪz/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒuːliz/
ipa: /d͡ʒʊˈlaɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of Julie