cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
money tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money trees
Senses: examples: text: Maybe we could learn how to grow money trees.
ref: 1967, Canadian Parliament, House of Commons Debates, volume 1, page 699:
text: Money does not grow on trees. There is no money tree at Mount Kildare. If we had a money tree, boys, there would be no need of the bakery, no need of the raffle.
ref: 2004, Leo Furey, The Long Run, page 86:
text: But there isn't a magic money tree that we can shake, that suddenly provides for everything that people want.
ref: 2017, Question Time (television), spoken by Theresa May, via BBC:
text: Her rival […]argued for fiscal responsibility and warned that such a reckless policy would lead to a run on the pound and a calamitous series of mortgage-rate rises. Given this choice, the electorate for the Tory leadership[…]preferred the magical money tree.
ref: 2022 October 14, Tom McTague, “The Liz Truss Travesty Becomes Britain’s Humiliation”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: An imaginary tree from which money can be plucked. See money doesn't grow on trees.
topics: business
commerce
commercial
glosses: The Malabar chestnut, Pachira aquatica.
glosses: The jade plant, Crassula ovata.
glosses: The cocoa tree, Theobroma cacao.
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A kind of holy tree believed to bring money and good fortune.
examples: 1972, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, American Association of Industrial Nurses, Occupational Health Nursing, Volume 20, page 26,
NIAIN′s one money making project of the year, a money tree, was raffled off and won by Virginia Call of Bell and Howell.
2001, Daniel J. Brown, Chapter 11: School Voluntarism, Social Capital, and Civil Society, Heinz-Dieter Meyer, William Lowe Boyd (editors), Education: Between States, Markets, and Civil Society: Comparative Perspectives, Lawrence Erlbaum, New Jersey, page 173,
Donations from teachers and others were converted into coinage for a money tree that was raffled for $500.
2003, North Carolina Folklore Society, North Carolina Folklore Journal, Volumes 50-53, page 23,
Some families offer elaborate money trees, fashioned from decorated branches and streamers made of bills carefully pinned together […] .
glosses: A miniature tree sculpture decorated with currency, often used as a raffle prize or a gift.
glosses: A cheap tree sculpture, decorated with currency, used as a raffle prize because it would be illegal to offer a cash prize.
Synonyms: sense: an imaginary tree from which money can be plucked
word: magic money tree
sense: jade plant
word: friendship tree
sense: jade plant
word: money plant
sense: Malabar chestnut
word: Guiana chestnut
sense: Malabar chestnut
word: provision tree
sense: Malabar chestnut
word: saba nut
Hypernyms: tree
Related terms: money doesn't grow on trees
myelitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myelites
form: myelitides
Etymology: From myelo- + -itis.
From Ancient Greek μυελός (muelós, “marrow”) + -ῖτις (-îtis, “fire”).
Senses: glosses: Inflammation of the spinal cord or of bone marrow.
Derived terms: acute flaccid myelitis
encephalomyelitis
meningomyelitis
myelitic
myelitogenic
neuromyelitis
osteomyelitis
poliomyelitis
radiculomyelitis
Related terms: myelopathy
mynah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mynahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of myna.
mysteriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mysteriousnesses
Etymology: From mysterious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1651, Jeremy Taylor, Twenty-Seven Sermons for the Summer Half-Year, Sermon II, Part II in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ: A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year, London: Tyler & Royston, 1668, p. 14, https://books.google.ca/books?id=heNBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
This may seem strange; and indeed it is so: and it is one of the great mysteriousnesses of the Gospel.
text: This sort of mysteriousness, which is always so becoming in a hero, threw a fresh grace in Catherine's imagination around his person and manners, and increased her anxiety to know more of him.
ref: 1803 (date written), [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Northanger Abbey; published in Northanger Abbey: And Persuasion. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], 20 December 1817 (indicated as 1818), →OCLC:
text: His children had urged him to travel: Mary Chivers had felt sure it would do him good to go abroad and "see the galleries." The very mysteriousness of such a cure made her the more confident of its efficacy.
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XXXIV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, book II, page 354:
text: And all this is not changed by adding "mysterious" experiences to "manifest" ones, self-confident in the wisdom that recognizes a secret compartment in things, reserved for the initiated, and holds the key, O mysteriousness without mystery, O piling up of information! It, it, it!
ref: 1970, Martin Buber, translated by Walter Kaufmann, I and Thou, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, First Part, p. 56:
glosses: The quality of being mysterious.
mystically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mystically
form: most mystically
Etymology: From mystical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mystical manner.
examples: text: I spoke to her of power and pride,
But mystically—in such guise
That she might deem it nought beside
The moment’s converse; […]
ref: 1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems:
glosses: Cryptically, disguisedly, with a meaning not openly stated.
mystification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystifications
Etymology: From French mystification.
Senses: examples: text: But soon one notices, first in ones and twos, and then in larger groups, men who are very much alive at this hour in the morning, the sorters for the Caledonian, and Edinburgh sections of the "Down Special"; mail is piled high on the platforms, and the postal men glance occasionally towards the platform intermediate signals. By this time the calling-on arm is pulled off, and a few minutes later in comes the train, unannounced by the loud-speakers, to the mystification of many travellers.
ref: 1948 May and June, O. S. Nock, “Scottish Night Mails of the L.M.S.R.—3”, in Railway Magazine, page 157:
text: For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:
glosses: The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
glosses: A mystifying thing.
Synonyms: bafflement
bewilderment
obfuscation
Derived terms: demystification
mythologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪˈθɒlədʒʌɪz/
Forms: form: mythologizes
form: mythologizing
form: mythologized
form: mythologized
Etymology: From mythology + -ize, after Middle French mythologiser.
Senses: examples: text: Most of Æsopes fables have divers senses, and severall interpretations: Those which Mythologize them, chuse some kinde of colour well-suting with the fable; but for the most part, it is no more than the first and superficiall glosse[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 10, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To interpret (a story etc.) as mythological; to explain the symbolic meaning of.
glosses: To construct a myth or mythology.
glosses: To make (something or someone) into a myth; to create a legend about.
Hyponyms: legendrize
Derived terms: mythologizable
mythologization
mythologizer
remythologize
Related terms: demythologize
neurotransmiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of neurotransmitters.
neurotransmitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurotransmitter
synapses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnæpsɪz/
/sɪˈnæpsiːz/
Senses: glosses: plural of synapse
glosses: plural of synapsis
synapses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪnæpsɪz/
/sɪˈnæpsiːz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synapse
mobilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mobilizers
form: mobiliser
Etymology: From mobilize + -er.
Senses: glosses: a person who mobilizes something
Related terms: immobiliser
mobster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɒb.stə/
ipa: /ˈmɑb.stɚ/
rhymes: -ɒbstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: mobsters
Etymology: From mob + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: The proprietor was a "Zip" — a Sicilian-born mobster — who was running a gambling operation that cut into Godfather Gotti's turf.
ref: 1988, New York Magazine, volume 21, number 16, page 66:
text: Most of the carpet joints were run by the mobsters and local henchmen associated with the Mayfield Road Gang, but Peter Schmidt's Playtorium and Glenn Rendezvous were also included.
ref: 2014, Paul A. Tenkotte, James C. Claypool, The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky, page 385:
glosses: A member of a mob or Mafia.
Synonyms: gangster
Mafioso
mafioso
wiseguy
wise guy
Derived terms: mobsterism
mobstress
mocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mockers
Etymology: From mock + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who mocks.
glosses: A mockingbird.
glosses: A deceiver; an impostor.
Derived terms: mockernut
mockers
modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modelling
Etymology: From model + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of model
modeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modelings
form: modelling
Etymology: From model + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The art of sculpting models from clay etc. to create a representation of something.
glosses: The representation of depth in a two-dimensional image.
glosses: The profession of someone who models clothes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The construction and use of a computer model of a physical system.
glosses: The learning of a new skill by copying other people.
Derived terms: analogical modeling
data modeling
information modeling
metamodeling
modeling clay
molecular modeling
palaeomodeling
paleomodeling
scientific modeling
moderateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moderate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the quality of being moderate
moleskin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊlˌskɪn/
Forms: form: moleskins
Etymology: From mole + skin.
Senses: glosses: The fur of a mole.
glosses: A cotton twill fabric with a heavy velvety nap.
glosses: Clothing made of this fabric.
glosses: A padded adhesive bandage used to prevent or treat blisters.
Hyponyms: skin
moleskin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmoʊlˌskɪn/
Forms: form: moleskins
form: moleskinning
form: moleskinned
form: moleskinned
Etymology: From mole + skin.
Senses: examples: text: Sadler has already wrapped an ace bandage around a badly sprained wrist (sustained in a fall on a desert trail), tweezered out a few cactus spines, moleskinned some blisters, and doled out all the pastillas de dolor —painkillers...
ref: 2011, William deBuys, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest:
glosses: To cover with a moleskin bandage.
enzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enzyme
adaptive enzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adaptive enzyme
5-hydroxytryptamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: It is a tryptamine with a hydroxyl group attached to the carbon atom that is numbered as 5.
Senses: glosses: The neurotransmitter serotonin.
Synonyms: 5-HT
astoundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more astoundingly
form: most astoundingly
Etymology: From astounding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For such a fancy, well-known restaurant, the food was astoundingly bad.
glosses: In an astounding manner; so as to astound, surprise, or amaze.
stylistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /staɪˈlɪstɪk/
ipa: /stɪˈlɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more stylistic
form: most stylistic
Etymology: From style + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to style, especially to linguistic or literary style.
Derived terms: stylistically
stylistics
play doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: play doctors
Senses: examples: text: If Shakespeare lived to-day he would have waited four years to have his first comedy read and accepted—after which it would have been re-written by the stage carpenter and the leading lady and put on with interpolated songs and a costume chorus with a play doctor in the rear of the theater keeping track of the laughs with a hand comptometer.
ref: 1912 July 19, The Evening Telegram, Elyria, Ohio:
glosses: A professional who is called in to revise a play written by someone else.
play doctor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays doctor
form: playing doctor
form: played doctor
form: played doctor
Senses: glosses: To pretend to be doctor and patient as a form of child play.
examples: text: […] Jimmie volunteered, […] "How can you have kids if you don't play doctor?"
ref: 1931 October, R. L. Whitely, “Interviewing the Problem Boy”, in E. George Payne, editor, The Journal of Educational Sociology, volume V, number 2, Albany, page 99:
text: By the time they are six, they may play doctor and take one another's rectal temperature or place objects into their orifices, […]
ref: 1988, Lynn Leight, Raising Sexually Healthy Children, New York: Avon Books, published 1990, →ISBN, page 226:
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: To explore or sexually engage with another person's private parts, particularly in the context of roleplay of a medical nature.
raw_tags: of minors
dinq
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪŋk/
Forms: form: dink
Etymology: Initialism of delinquent in nuclear qualifications, originally used in nuclear submarine programs.
Senses: examples: text: My mate is so dinq that he could get 100 signatures a day and he'd still be behind.
glosses: Not making a requisite amount of progress in one's qualifications.
Synonyms: behind the curve
Related terms: up or out
celestial bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of celestial body
philography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From philo- + -graphy.
Senses: glosses: An academic discipline of all forms and styles of writing
glosses: A love for writing
Related terms: philographer
philographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philographers
Senses: glosses: A person devoted to studying and producing written works.
Related terms: philographic
philography
molecularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecularities
Etymology: From molecular + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being molecular
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The number or molecules that react directly with one another
raw_tags: of a reaction
Derived terms: intermolecularity
Related terms: unimolecular
bimolecular
trimolecular
Higher molecularities are probably unknown
momentousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəsnəs/
Etymology: From momentous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: There's a scene near the end in which our ensemble receives some wholesome wisdom from a woman selling balloons in the park, portrayed by Angela Lansbury. Her presence and the momentousness appended to it make no sense, because this role was very clearly conceived for Julie Andrews, who wanted no part in all this.
ref: 2018 December 12, Charles Bramesco, “A Spoonful of Nostalgia Helps the Calculated Mary Poppins Returns Go Down”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 24 May 2019:
glosses: The quality of being momentous.
monocled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monocle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Wearing a monocle.
Synonyms: bemonocled
Derived terms: monocled cobra
motiveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From motive + -less.
Senses: examples: text: This seems to have been a motiveless crime: no money was stolen, and nobody had cause to hate the victim.
text: He was interested in their genuine, yet refined simplicity; and, moreover, the most worn and worldly natures vindicate their humanity by occasional preferences and motiveless likings.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 167:
glosses: Without a motive.
Derived terms: motivelessly
motivelessness
proprioceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proprioceptor
meta-ethics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of metaethics.
feast day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feast days
form: feastday
Senses: examples: text: 17th March is St Patrick's feast day.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A religious festival for a particular saint or religious event.
Synonyms: holy day
saint's day
name day
battery hen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battery hens
Senses: glosses: A hen kept in a small cage or battery.
toils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toil
toils
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toil
mends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Etymology: From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of amends.
Recompense; restoration or reparation, especially (Christianity) from sin.
glosses: Synonym of amends.
Something given as compensation.
examples: text: she has the mends in her own hands.
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], line 69:
glosses: Synonym of amends.
A means of making restoration or reparation; a remedy.
glosses: Repair, restoration; also, healing, recovery.
Derived terms: word: into the mends
word: to the mends
mends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Etymology: From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: glosses: plural of mend
mends
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛndz/
rhymes: -ɛndz
Etymology: From mend (noun, verb) + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum, regular plurals of nouns, and the third-person singular indicative present tense of verbs).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mend
plain paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain papers
Senses: examples: text: Toss me a ream of that plain paper, please. The printer is empty again.
glosses: Paper that has no ruled lines or other markings on it.
glosses: Non-glossy photographic paper.
Synonyms: sense: paper without markings
word: typing paper
chionophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kaɪˈɒnəfaɪl/
Forms: form: chionophiles
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χιών (khiṓn, “snow”) + -phile (lover).
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, chionophiles are more frequently found with altitude, where the snow cover is thicker, the vegetation period shorter and the summers cooler.
ref: 2005, Carmen de Jong, Climate and Hydrology of Mountain Areas, page 210:
glosses: Any animal or plant that thrives in winter conditions, especially one that thrives in snow.
Related terms: chionophilous
dogmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dogma
fancypants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fancypants
Senses: examples: text: And I don't need some fancypants US Marshal from back East stumbling around screwing up what trail there is left. You understand me?
ref: 2001, William W Johnstone, Code of the Mountain Man, page 29:
glosses: Alternative form of fancy pants.
proprioceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proprioceptors
Etymology: Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, originally in the spelling proprio-ceptor, from proprius + clipped receptor.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A nerve ending that functions as a sensory receptor in muscles, tendons, joints and the inner ear; they respond to movement and position
Related terms: proprioception
proprioceptory
business venture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business ventures
Senses: glosses: A business enterprise in which the expectation of gain is accompanied by the risk of loss or failure.
channelize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: channelizes
form: channelizing
form: channelized
form: channelized
Etymology: From channel + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To form a channel, especially by deepening or altering the course of a river.
glosses: To transmit through a channel.
glosses: To multiplex (messages) through a single line.
examples: text: It is particularly confusing when the motorist is channelized across the highway centerline. For long-term closures conflicting pavement markings must be removed or obliterated before relaning the roadway.
ref: 1978, US Department of Transportation, Traffic control for street and highway construction and maintenance operations:
glosses: To direct into a specific course or pathway; to channel.
Derived terms: channelizer
notarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: notarizes
form: notarizing
form: notarized
form: notarized
form: notarise
Etymology: From notary + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To be witness of the authenticity of a document and its accompanying signatures in one's capacity as notary public.
Derived terms: nonnotarized
notarization
notarizer
unnotarized
proprietorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proprietorships
Etymology: From proprietor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state of being a proprietor; ownership.
Derived terms: sole proprietorship
self-synchronize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: self-synchronizes
form: self-synchronizing
form: self-synchronized
form: self-synchronized
Etymology: From self- + synchronize.
Senses: glosses: To adjust its period to that of an average of the group.
raw_tags: of an oscillator in a group having different periods
Related terms: self-synchronizing
unincorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + incorporated.
Senses: glosses: Not organized as a corporation.
glosses: Not contained in a municipality.
raw_tags: of land or the like
Synonyms: word: unincorporate
Derived terms: unincorporated community
unincorporated place
Related terms: sense: no municipality
word: unparished
unincorporated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See unincorporate.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unincorporate
monophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnə(ʊ)ˈfɒnɪk/
ipa: /ˌmɑnəˈfɑnɪk/
rhymes: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From mono- + -phonic.
Senses: synonyms: monaural
coordinate_terms: stereophonic
quadraphonic
glosses: having a single channel
raw_tags: of sound reproduction
examples: Near-synonym: monodic
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: homophonic
coordinate_terms: polyphonic
glosses: Having a single melodic line and no harmony.
examples: text: From a similar selection, says M. Remusat, the Coreans have made a monophonic alphabet of nine vowels and fifteen consonants, with which they write their language.
ref: 1828 July 7, Peter S. Du Ponceau, “On some Points connected with the Nature of the Chinese Language (enclosure in letter from Basil Hall)”, in The Philosophical magazine, volume 5:
topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
orthography
publishing
writing
glosses: having simple one-to-one mapping between letters and phonemes
Derived terms: monophonically
monoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.
Senses: synonyms: monoplanar
uniplanar
glosses: Composed of, or relating to, a single plane (flat surface extending infinitely in all directions).
monoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoplanes
Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.
Senses: examples: text: By the mid-1930s, designs for new fighters and bombers were almost all monoplane designs.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: biplane
triplane
glosses: An airplane that has a single pair of wings.
Derived terms: monoplanist
monoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: monoplanes
form: monoplaning
form: monoplaned
form: monoplaned
Etymology: From mono- + plane. The aviation sense was formed by analogy with biplane; compare French monoplan, as well as the earlier English aeroplane, multiplane, and triplane.
Senses: glosses: To fly in a monoplane.
Related terms: biplane
triplane
parasol
biplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪn
Etymology: From bi- + plane.
Senses: examples: text: biplane angiography
text: The left apical 4-chamber image is used for one measurement and for a “biplane” estimate (that averages values from orthogonal planes), either the right parasternal long-axis image (the authors' preference) or the left apical 2-chamber view (shown here) is also measured. […] Either a biplane (Simpson) method of discs or a 3D volumetric rendering is used for LV volume measurements in human echocardiography laboratories.
ref: 2021, John D. Bonagura, Virginia Luis Fuentes, “Echocardiography”, in John S. Mattoon, Rance K. Sellon, Clifford R. Berry, editors, Small Animal Diagnostic Ultrasound, 4th edition, St. Louis, MO: Elsevier, →ISBN, page 290:
synonyms: biplanar
glosses: Composed of, or relating to, two planes (flat surfaces extending infinitely in all directions).
examples: text: a biplane rudder
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aerocurves, etc.
biplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: biplanes
Etymology: From bi- + plane.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: monoplane
triplane
glosses: An airplane that has two main wings, one above the other and supported by struts.
Derived terms: hydrobiplane
biplane
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: biplanes
form: biplaning
form: biplaned
form: biplaned
Etymology: From bi- + plane.
Senses: examples: text: For an unforgettable experience, try llama trekking along a gentle trail in the White River National Forest, […] There also are sky-high balloon rides, biplaning, hang gliding, paragliding and plenty of wilderness paths for hiking.
ref: 1995 July, Keith Tuber, “Aspen's Summer Charms”, in Orange Coast, volume 21, number 7, →ISSN, pages 21–22:
glosses: To fly in a biplane.
triplane
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + plane.
Senses: glosses: Composed of, or relating to, three planes (flat surfaces extending infinitely in all directions).
triplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triplanes
Etymology: From tri- + plane.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An airplane that has three pairs of wings, one above the others
Related terms: monoplane
biplane
monopolization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˌnɑpəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: monopolizations
Etymology: From monopolize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of monopolizing or the state of being monopolized.
motivated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of motivate
motivated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more motivated
form: most motivated
Senses: examples: text: We're looking for a highly motivated individual who will fit into our fast-paced corporate culture.
text: It seems reasonable to assume that academically able students are more motivated toward academic activities than those less able, and that students from higher socioeconomic levels are more motivated toward school than those from lower socioeconomic levels.
ref: 2001, Norman E. Wallen, Jack R. Fraenkel, Educational Research: A Guide to the Process, page 177:
text: In every instance, she has expressed enormous frustration with social loafers—virtual group members whose lackluster motivation leaves the bulk of group projects to members who are more motivated to excel.
ref: 2009, J. Dan Rothwell, In Mixed Company: Communicating in Small Groups and Teams, page 373:
text: As an athlete, you'll feel more motivated when you're confident in your skill set and believe in your ability to continue to improve.
ref: 2010, Leif H. Smith, Todd M. Kays, Sports Psychology for Dummies, page 47:
glosses: Enthusiastic, especially about striving toward a goal.
Derived terms: economically motivated adulteration
hypermotivated
motivated reasoning
nonmotivated
overmotivated
self-motivated
supermotivated
undermotivated
unmotivated
mountainside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mountainsides
Etymology: From mountain + side.
Senses: glosses: The sloping side of a mountain.
Mexifornication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Mexican + Californication; after Mexifornia.
Senses: examples: text: What Governor Schwarzenegger is proposing is the de facto Mexifornication of California.
ref: 2004 June 4, Iconoclast, “Terminating California?”, in alt.politics.immigration (Usenet):
text: 2004 September 27, Alan K. Stebbens, "Mexifornication Of California", Alan's Radio Weblog, at www.stebbens.org/alan/blogs/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080113122913/http://www.stebbens.org/alan/blogs/stories/2004/08/19/mexifornicationOfCalifornia.html
Since most of these illegal immigrants are Mexicans, it is a "Mexifornication" of California.
text: It was always a small group of latino's [sic.] on stolen bikes.... Just another example of the "cause and effect" of the Mexifornication of Sonoma County.
ref: 2005 November 3, Jimmy Mac, "1 AM Bike Riders - Watchout [sic.] Neighbors", sonoma.general, Usenet http://groups.google.com/group/sonoma.general/browse_frm/thread/d927b3285fe4ac77/00c61e670020d514
text: 2006 May 24, "Katie's Dad", "Why this is our last chance to save this nation from history's dustbin", Unabashedly Unhyphenated, at www.americankernel.com https://web.archive.org/web/20060925120230/http://www.americankernel.com/2006/05/why-this-is-our-last-chance-to-save.htm
The presence of such a malignant cultural factor in even the smallest significant numbers can only lessen us.... The Senate believes that its job is to impose this Mexifornication upon us all
glosses: The transformation of California by infusion of Mexican culture, especially as a result of illegal immigration.
Related terms: Californication
Alsation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Alsatian.
bok-bok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans. Possibly Latin bucca bucca quot sunt hic. See Talk page.
Senses: examples: 2002, https://web.archive.org/web/20060925230826/http://www.voortrekkermon.org.za/Updates/MediaReleases/English/mediar_009.htm
To celebrate the establishment of a living Pioneer Museum as well as the construction of the ‘jukskei’ and ‘kennetjie’ courts which will indeed ensure that the Voortrekker Monument Heritage Site is a living heritage site, a ‘boeresport’ day is being organized for 24 August 2002. Several events, such as ‘jukskei’, bok-bok, ‘skilpadtrek’, ‘haanskop’, ‘kennetjie’, egg tossing, ‘giffie’, ‘stoktrek’ and sack races have been planned.
glosses: A boys' game where two or three children form a base, and others jump on them to make the base collapse.
subjectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more subjectively
form: most subjectively
Etymology: From subjective + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bench may be the greatest catcher subjectively, but he's not statistically. Statwise, Yogi Berra is the all-time backstop, regardless of which measure you prefer. Berra's Total-Z is one-third of a standard deviation higher than Bench's, and his Core-Z average is a point better.
ref: 2002, James F. Vail, Outrageous Fortune: What's Wrong with Hall of Fame Voting and How to Make It Statistically Sound, Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 143:
text: [Animals] are conscious; they are subjectively aware; they have interests; they can suffer. No characteristic other than sentience is required for personhood.
ref: 2008, Gary L. Francione, Animals as Persons:
glosses: In a subjective manner.
occidentotropism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occidentotropisms
Senses: examples: text: A kind of occidentotropism ("Go West Young Man!") informs the films, conveying a thrusting purposiveness...: Red Sundown (1956), Union Pacific (1939), The Last Outpost (1935, 1951), Heaven's Gate (1959).
ref: 2002, Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, “The Imperial Imaginary”, in The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, Blackwell Publishers:
glosses: An expression (sometimes a figure of speech) with an inclination toward western civilization (i.e. the occident).
earphone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪə(ɹ)fəʊn/
Forms: form: earphones
Etymology: From ear + phone.
Senses: glosses: A transducer that converts electric signals into sound and is held near the ear, especially as part of a telephone; an earpiece or headphone.
Derived terms: earphoned
Related terms: headphone
ear bud
edelweiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪdəlvaɪs/
Forms: form: edelweisses
Etymology: Borrowed from German Edelweiß, from edel (“noble”) + weiß (“white”).
Senses: examples: text: And that will mean farewell to the edelweiss, adieu the eider goose.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 297:
glosses: A European perennial alpine plant (Leontopodium alpinum), with downy leaves and small white flower heads in a dense cluster.
chasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chasse
crab-eater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab-eaters
form: crabeater
Senses: glosses: A cobia, a fish of species Rachycentron canadum.
synonyms: krill-eater seal
glosses: A crab-eater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus), which eats krill (not crabs).
Derived terms: crab-eater seal
crabeater seal
mud crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud crabs
form: mudcrab
Senses: glosses: Any of various crabs, principally in families Panopeidae and Xanthidae, that live in or near mud.
Hyponyms: english: Scylla serrata
translation: Scylla serrata
word: muddy
Derived terms: alt: Panopeus herbstii
word: black-fingered mud crab
taxonomic: Scylla serrata
word: muddy
alt: Rhithropanopeus harrisii
word: white-tipped mud crab
charme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charmes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of charm.
charmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charme
shore crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shore crabs
Senses: glosses: A type of crab (Carcinus maenas) native to the coasts of Europe and North Africa.
Synonyms: sense: Carcinus maenas
word: European green crab
sense: Carcinus maenas
word: European shore crab
sense: Carcinus maenas
word: green crab
Derived terms: European shore crab
green shore crab
purple shore crab
spider crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider crabs
Senses: glosses: Any of various species of crab of the superfamily Majoidea with long legs.
glosses: Any of various species of crab of the superfamily Majoidea with long legs.
especially, true spider crabs (family Majidae).
synonyms: sheep crab
glosses: A crab of species Loxorhynchus grandis.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Maja squinado
word: European spider crab
taxonomic: Hyas araneus
word: great spider crab
taxonomic: Macrocheira kaempferi
word: Japanese spider crab
taxonomic: Libinia emarginata
word: portly spider crab
Related terms: sea spider
stone crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone crabs
Senses: glosses: A Florida stone crab (Menippe mercenaria, family Menippidae.
glosses: A mangrove stone crab (Myomenippe hardwickii, family Menippidae.
glosses: A king crab (crustacean of subfamily Lithodinae).
glosses: A hairy stone crab (Lomis hirta, family Lomisidae)
Derived terms: northern stone crab
green crab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green crabs
Senses: glosses: The shore crab.
Derived terms: European green crab
chefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɛfs/
rhymes: -ɛfs
Senses: glosses: plural of chef
dortour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dortours
Senses: examples: text: Into their cloysters now he broken had,
Through which the monckes he chaced here and there,
And them pursu'd into their dortours sad
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: ”Yet, if the Israelite will advantage the Church by giving me somewhat over to the building of our dortour, I will take it on my conscience to aid him in the matter of his daughter.”
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of dorter.
dorter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dorters
form: dortour
form: dortoir
Etymology: From Middle English dortour, from Old French dortoir, dortour (modern dortoir), from Latin dormitorium (“dormitory”). Doublet of dormitorium and dormitory.
Senses: glosses: A bedroom or dormitory, especially in a monastery.
Derived terms: reredorter
rencounter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɹɛnˈkaʊntə/
Forms: form: rencounters
form: rencountering
form: rencountered
form: rencountered
form: rencontre
Etymology: From Middle English rencounteren, rencountren, from Middle French rencontrer, corresponding to re- + encounter.
Senses: glosses: To meet, encounter, come into contact with.
examples: text: Tho, whenas still he saw him towards pace,
He gan rencounter him in equall race
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To attack hand to hand.
rencounter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɛnˈkaʊntə/
Forms: form: rencounters
form: rencontre
Etymology: From Middle English rencountre, from the verb, after Middle French rencontre, corresponding to re- + encounter.
Senses: examples: text: Mr Nightingale promised to enquire into the state of Mr Fitzpatrick's wound, and likewise to find out some of the persons who were present at the rencounter.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: He had some advantage in the difference of our weapons; for his sword, as I recollect, was longer than mine, […] His obvious malignity of purpose never for a moment threw him off his guard, and he exhausted every feint and strategem proper to the science of defence; while, at the same time, he mediated the most desperate catastrophe to our rencounter.
ref: 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, pages 251–252:
glosses: An encounter between opposing forces; a conflict.
examples: text: The Prior at length […] rode off with considerably less pomp, and in a much more apostolical condition, so far as worldly matters were concerned, than he had exhibited before this rencounter.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: An encounter or chance meeting.
consuetude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒnswɪtjuːd/
Forms: form: consuetudes
Etymology: From Middle English consuetude, from Middle French consuetude, from Old French consuetude, learnedly borrowed from Latin cōnsuētūdō. Doublet of costume and custom.
Senses: examples: text: “the stain hath become engrained by time and consuetude; let thy reformation be cautious, as it is just and wise.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: Custom, familiarity.
decking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛkɪŋ
Forms: form: deckings
Senses: examples: text: In 1946, several of the heavy flagstones, which form the decking of the viaduct, were replaced or reseated, and manholes were provided in the decking, to facilitate access to the inner walls.
ref: 1949 May and June, “Notes and News: First Repairs in a Century”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
text: On the day of RAIL 's site visit, in heavy weather, the scaffolding and decking that engineers stand on were submerged deep under choppy water, with work suspended. "We have to work around the tides," explained Project Director Alan Venables. "The wind pushes the tide up and the waves get larger. That causes some problems with the scaffold."
ref: 2023 March 22, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Island Line to reopen to Ryde Pier in June... possibly”, in RAIL, number 979, page 24:
glosses: The material from which a deck is made.
decking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deck
dinking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dink
dinked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dink
niglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niglet.
adamance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I think it is a mistake for our intentions to be determined by the adamance with which the Protestants in Northern Ireland now express their opposition to such a course.
ref: 1972 February 2, Hansard, House of Lords, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2019:
text: […] his witty eyes and unsmiling mouth, some adamance in his unspoken demand on her, and his quiet speech that day—it all seemed to be solemnly taking charge of her body.
ref: 1992, Arthur Miller, “Homely Girl, A Life”, in Homely Girl, A Life and Other Stories, New York: Viking, published 1995, page 28:
text: The ANC government came under fire on Tuesday as opposition parties voiced their adamance that the President Jacob Zuma-led government was responsible for ongoing corruption in the country.
ref: 2015 September 9, The Citizen:
glosses: The quality of being adamant
Synonyms: stubbornness
tamarisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæmərɪsk/
Forms: form: tamarisks
Etymology: From Late Latin tamariscus, from Latin tamarix.
Senses: glosses: Any of several shrubs, of the genus Tamarix, native to arid regions in Eurasia and Africa, often invasive in other arid regions.
Synonyms: salt cedar
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tamarix africana
word: African tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix aphylla
word: athel tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix canariensis
word: Canary Islands tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix chinensis
word: Chinese tamarisk
taxonomic: Myrica germanica
word: false tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix chinensis
word: five-stamen tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix tetrandra
word: four-tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix gallica
word: French tamarisk
taxonomic: Myrica germanica
word: German tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix hispida
word: Kashgar tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix nilotica
word: Nile tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix ramosissima
word: pink tamarisk
taxonomic: Tamarix parviflora
word: smallflower tamarisk
word: tamarisk gall
taxonomic: Meriones unguiculatus
word: tamarisk gerbil
taxonomic: Meriones tamariscinus
word: tamarisk jird
taxonomic: Tamarix usneoides
word: wild tamarisk
melaena
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melaenas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of melena.
chymotrypsin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaɪ.məʊˈtɹɪp.sɪn/
ipa: /ˌkaɪ.moʊˈtɹɪp.sɪn/
rhymes: -ɪpsɪn
Forms: form: chymotrypsins
Etymology: From chyme + -o- + trypsin.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An endopeptidase enzyme that cleaves peptides at the carboxyl side of tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine amino acids.
Derived terms: antichymotrypsin
chymotrypsinated
chymotrypsinized
chymotrypsinogen
chymotrypsinolysis
Related terms: trypsin
foughten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɔːtən/
rhymes: -ɔːtən
Etymology: From Middle English foughten, foghten, ifoghten, from Old English fohten, ġefohten, from Proto-Germanic *fuhtanaz, past participle of *fehtaną (“to comb; struggle with; fight”), equivalent to fought + -en. Cognate with Scots fochten, fochtin, Dutch gevochten. More at fight.
Senses: examples: text: Not that I was afraid of fighting, for now I had been three years at Blundell's, and foughten, all that time, a fight at least once every week [...].
ref: 1869, RD Blackmoore, Lorna Doone, section II:
text: No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge
Those days paternal from my memory […]
ref: 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act I, scene III, verses 44-45:
text: “the field must be foughten in our own presence, and divers weighty causes call us on the fourth day from hence.”
ref: 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:
glosses: past participle of fight
elastase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elastases
Etymology: From elastin + -ase.
Senses: glosses: An endopeptidase enzyme involved in the breakdown of elastin.
Derived terms: antielastase
metalloelastase
proelastase
elastin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elastins
Etymology: From elastic + -in.
Senses: examples: text: Our stomachs produce an enzyme specifically designed to break down elastin, a type of protein found in meat and nowhere else.
ref: 2006, Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma, The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page 289:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, similar to collagen, found in connective tissue, that has elastic properties.
Derived terms: elastase
elastinase
elastinogenesis
elastinolysis
elastinolytic
tropoelastin