cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
reinvestment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reinvestments
Etymology: From re- + investment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being reinvested
glosses: A second or subsequent investment in the same thing
Derived terms: dividend reinvestment plan
dividend reinvestment program
reiterative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That involves reiteration.
reiterative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reiteratives
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A word signifying repeated action.
reline
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relines
form: relining
form: relined
form: relined
Etymology: From re- + line.
Senses: glosses: To add new lines to.
glosses: To add a new lining to.
reline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A eutectic mixture of choline chloride and urea.
remote-controlled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Operated by remote control
Related terms: radio-controlled
reoccupation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reoccupations
Etymology: From re- + occupation.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being reoccupied
examples: text: Current TPRs [timetable planning rules] call for two-minute dwell times for trains and a two-minute platform reoccupation time. This allows a train into Oxford Road every four minutes.
ref: 2020 January 2, Philip Haigh, “Is there relief to congestion along Castlefield Corridor?”, in Rail, page 22:
glosses: The act of reoccupying
reorientation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reorientations
Etymology: From re- + orientation.
Senses: glosses: A new orientation.
glosses: The act of changing the direction of something.
repairman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repairmen
form: repair man
form: repair-man
Etymology: From repair + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male repairer, a man who repairs things.
Coordinate terms: repairwoman
replenishment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: replenishments
Etymology: From replenish + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of replenishing.
glosses: A new supply of something.
Derived terms: vertical replenishment
repletion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repletions
Etymology: From Middle English replecioun, from Old French repletion, from Latin replētiō, replētiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: Fiddle de dee, the whole thing is neither more nor less than a substitute for the masquerade, which luckily became so gross, it died of repletion.
ref: 1842, [anonymous collaborator of Letitia Elizabeth Landon], chapter XXXVII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 170:
antonyms: depletion
coordinate_terms: completion
;
suppletion
glosses: The condition of being replete; fullness.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Plethora of the blood.
reportorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːɹiəl
Forms: form: more reportorial
form: most reportorial
Etymology: From report(er) + -orial.
Senses: examples: text: So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11:
text: A master of simple, solid, apoetical, reportorial English.
ref: 1988 November 4, Anthony Adler, “Hitting the Skids”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
text: Among the customers, a columnist for the local newspaper was having lunch and a beer or two, though he could not restrain his reportorial instincts.
ref: 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 28:
text: These are very different kinds of books — Cade Metz’s is mainly reportorial, about how we got here; Kevin Roose’s is a casual-toned but carefully constructed set of guidelines about where individuals and societies should go next.
ref: 2021 March 19, James Fallows, “Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a reporter.
repossession
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repossessions
Etymology: From re- + possession.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being repossessed
glosses: The act of repossessing
representational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more representational
form: most representational
Etymology: From representation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to representation or to representationalism.
Derived terms: non-representational
representationalism
representationalist
representationalistic
representationally
representational state transfer
reprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reprograms
form: reprogramming
form: reprograming
form: reprogrammed
form: reprogrammed
form: reprogramed
form: reprogramed
form: reprogramme
Etymology: From re- + program.
Senses: examples: text: Installing a new hard drive would require a modchip that can reprogram or bypass the hard drive lock.
ref: 2003, Andrew Huang, Hacking the Xbox: an introduction to reverse engineering:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: recode
troponyms: refactor
glosses: To program anew or differently.
glosses: To make a fundamental change to the behaviour or habits of.
examples: text: Technically, DOE did not need authority to reprogram the funds as long as the spending didn't span different appropriation line items.
ref: 1993, Diane Publishing Company, Defense Conversion: Redirecting R & D, page 110:
text: This deferral is reported to give Congress time to consider a request to reprogram the funds.
ref: 1976, Gerald R. Ford, “Special Message to the Congress Reporting on Budget Decisions and Referrals”, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford, published 1979, page 2097:
topics: government
glosses: To shift funds appropriated for one government program to a different government program.
reroute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹut/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹʉːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹut/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: reroutes
form: rerouting
form: rerouteing
form: rerouted
form: rerouted
Etymology: From re- + route.
Senses: examples: text: We'll have to reroute some buses to avoid the construction work.
text: Some of those neighbors will also have Meraki boxes that serve as repeaters, relaying the signal still farther to more neighbors. The company equips its boxes with software that maintains a “mesh network,” which dynamically reroutes signals as boxes are added or unplugged, and as environmental conditions that affect network performance fluctuate moment to moment.
ref: 2007 February 4, Randall Stross, “Wireless Internet for All, Without the Towers”, in The New York Times:
text: Approximately 1.25 miles of Virginia Highway 58 was rerouted to merge with US Highway 25E south of the gap. This photograph shows the phenomenon of the “fogfall,” when fog trapped in the meteorite crater of Middlesboro escapes […]
ref: 2014, Martha Evans Wiley, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, page 117:
text: I'm not here to play 5D chess with Charlie, but he keeps roping me in. I try my best to reroute the conversation off us.
ref: 2017 October 31, Krista Ritchie, Becca Ritchie, Lovers Like Us, K.B. Ritchie, →ISBN:
text: Pete Buttigieg, the U.S. transportation secretary, said that the rerouting would affect the national supply chain.
ref: 2024 March 26, Neal E. Boudette, “Automakers Are Rerouting Car Shipments Away From Baltimore”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To change the route taken by something.
reroute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈɹuːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹut/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹaʊt/
ipa: /ɹiːˈɹʉːt/
ipa: /ɹiˈɹut/
rhymes: -uːt
rhymes: -aʊt
Forms: form: reroutes
Etymology: From re- + route.
Senses: examples: text: In 1844, objection was raised to the Furness Railway's Dalton & Barrow line, when it was revealed that the line would pass directly through Furness Abbey. A re-route was achieved, with the line skirting the abbey ruins instead - although many continued to see the intrusion as a travesty against antiquity and the scenic beauty of the site.
ref: 2022 January 12, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 56:
synonyms: rerouting
glosses: The use of a different route from one planned or used before.
resection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resections
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin resectiō.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: excision
-ectomy
glosses: The surgical removal of part or all of a tissue, organ, tumor, or body part.
topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: A method of determining a position by using a map and compass bearings for two additional points.
examples: text: A bruised carcass can often be saved by investing $11.00 in a resection.
ref: 1955 April, James Joseph, “Tire Doctor”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 103, number 4, page 238:
glosses: A section of a tire that has had worn tread replaced.
Derived terms: abdominoperineal resection
pneumoresection
postresection
reresection
resectional
Related terms: resectoscope
reship
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reships
form: reshipping
form: reshipped
form: reshipped
Etymology: From re- + ship.
Senses: glosses: To ship something again.
glosses: To engage oneself again for service on board a vessel after having been discharged.
reshipment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reshipments
Etymology: From re- + shipment.
Senses: examples: 1864, Oregon. Legislative Assembly. House of Representatives
[…] at San Francisco it is warehoused and reshipped to Liverpool, or other foreign market; and in exchange for this wheat, comes back the merchandise which has to pass through all these shipments, reshipments, warehousings, handlings, &c.
glosses: The condition of being reshipped.
glosses: A second or subsequent shipment.
resistless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzɪstləs/
ipa: /ɹəˈzɪstləs/
Forms: form: more resistless
form: most resistless
Etymology: From resist + -less.
Senses: examples: text: His name was Talus, made of yron mould, / Immoveable, resistlesse, without end […]
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: Maſters commands come with a power reſiſtleſs / To ſuch as owe them abſolute ſubjection; / And for a life who will not change his purpoſe? / (So mutable are all the ways of men) / Yet this be ſure, in nothing to comply / Scandalous or forbidden in our Law.
ref: 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 83, lines 415–420:
text: Delving earth in his resistless way, / Howling, the Child with fierce flames / Issu'd from Enitharmon.
ref: 1794, William Blake, The Book of Urizen, 365-7:
text: My limbs now tremble, and my eyes swim with the remembrance; but then a resistless, and almost frantic, impulse, urged me forward; I seemed to have lost all soul or sensation but for this one pursuit.
ref: 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter IV, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
text: I seize the descending man .... I raise him with resistless will. / O despairer, here is my neck, / By God! you shall not go down! Hang your whole weight upon me.
ref: 1855, Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”, in Leaves of Grass, page 45:
text: Is all our Life, then, but a dream / Seen faintly in the golden gleam / Athwart Time's dark resistless stream?
ref: 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “[Untitled poem]”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: That cannot be resisted; irresistible.
examples: text: All this time they were doing something—I could not see what—to the corpse; sometimes they were too busy rifling the dead body, I believe, to talk; again they let it fall with a heavy, resistless thud, and took to quarrelling.
ref: 1861, Elizabeth Gaskell, The Grey Woman:
glosses: Putting up no resistance; unresisting.
restatement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiːˈsteɪt.m(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɹiˈsteɪt.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪtmənt
Forms: form: restatements
Etymology: From re- + statement.
Senses: glosses: The act of restating.
glosses: A second or subsequent statement.
restrainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈstreɪnɚ/
ipa: /ɹɪˈstreɪnə/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: restrainers
Etymology: From restrain + -er.
Senses: glosses: Something that restrains.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A chemical compound (such as potassium bromide), added to a developer to prevent fogging.
restyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪl
Forms: form: restyles
form: restyling
form: restyled
form: restyled
Etymology: From re- + style.
Senses: glosses: To refashion (something) in a new style or shape, to fit another purpose.
glosses: To give another name, designation or title to.
retaliative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more retaliative
form: most retaliative
Senses: glosses: retaliatory
retraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrain
retraining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrainings
Senses: examples: text: The number of neural network retrainings in the experiments with buffer length 100 varied between 3 and 7, whereas it varied between 5 and 14 in the case of buffer length 50.
ref: 2000, Ian Cloete, Jacek M. Zurada, Knowledge-based Neurocomputing, page 354:
text: The legislation, which passed both chambers of Congress this month by wide margins, essentially reauthorizes a Clinton-era law that provided money to states and cities for job retraining.
ref: 2014 July 22, David S. Joachim, “Obama Signs New Job-Training Law”, in The New York Times:
glosses: New or different training, or training in a new field.
retrenchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹɛn(t)ʃm(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹɛnt͡ʃm(ə)nt/
ipa: [ɹi-]
Forms: form: retrenchments
Etymology: Probably either from:
* Middle French retranchement (“defensive work”) (modern French retranchement (“entrenchment”)), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again, once more’) + tranche (“trench”) + -ment (suffix forming nouns usually of an action or a state resulting from an action); or
* retrench (“to construct one or more retrenchments; to protect using retrenchments; to fortify”) + -ment. Retrench is probably derived from Middle French retrancher, retranchier (“to fortify with trenches and banks”), from Old French re- + tranchier, trenchier (“to cut”); see further at etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: The Half-Moon is a Work always raiſed before the Baſtion's Point, being ſo named from the Lowneſs of its Gorges Cavity, &c. and is to ſecure the Two Faces of the Baſtion; but when the Faces have but a weak Defence from the Ravelin, theſe Works are ſoon made uſeleſs or ruined, and give the Beſieged an opportunity of Lodgment, and may ſerve for Batteries and Flanks againſt the oppoſing Baſtions; however they may be retrenched by Traverſes, yet they will not fail to attack entirely in the Face, or where you have your laſt Retrenchment, alſo that called the Counterguard runs the like Hazard.
ref: 1712, H[enry] Curzon, “Of Fortification”, in The Universal Library: Or, Compleat Summary of Science. […] , volume II, London: […] George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC, page 243:
text: [I]f there is one Retrenchment in a Work, it is generally thought ſufficient; but it happens much oftener than there is none at all; ſo that one might be apt to think, a Defence like that we have been explaining is only chimerical, if the Sieges of Vienna and Candy, both by the Turks, were not inſtances of the contrary, where there was hardly an inch of Ground either within or without thoſe two Towns, as far as the Extremities of the Glacis, and even beyond them, but what was retrenched and countermined.
ref: 1747, John Muller [i.e., John Müller], “Part II. Of the Defence.”, in The Attack and Defence of Fortify’d Places. […], London: […] J. Millan, […], →OCLC, page 186:
text: The gate-way of the north ſide, from whence the garriſon got their water, was near the n. w. angle, and about 80 yards from the river; on the ſide of which, oppoſite to the gate, they threw up a retrenchment, in which they kept a guard to protect the water-carriers.
ref: 1778, [Robert Orme], “Book VIII. [The War of Coromandel.]”, in A History of the Military Transactions of the British Nation in Indostan, from the Year MDCCXLV. […], volume II, 1st section, London: […] John Nourse, […], →OCLC:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A defensive work constructed within a fortification to make it more defensible by allowing defenders to retreat into and fight from it even after the enemy has taken the outer work.
retrenchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹɛn(t)ʃm(ə)nt/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹɛnt͡ʃm(ə)nt/
ipa: [ɹi-]
Forms: form: retrenchments
Etymology: Internal formation from retrench (“take up a defensive position”) + -ment, possibly reinforced by misinterpretation of Etymology 1.
Senses: examples: text: Confronted by their practices again and again, these individuals and organizations in the gay community have made token gestures to appease the demands of people of color, while in the long run these confrontations have resulted in retrenchment of attitudes and stereotypes by gay whites.
ref: 1976 December 4, John Kyper, quoting Ken Dudley, “Gays Discuss Their Own (And Others') Racism”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 23, page 3:
text: Retrenchment—on the left and the right—led to exclusivist, mutually recriminating positions on the film that made reasoned debate almost impossible, as opponents drowned each other out with competing narratives of “victimization” and “pariah” status.
ref: 2011, Michael Berenbaum, J. Shawn Landres, “The Passion of Christ Controversy”, in Eric Michael Mazur, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Film, →ISBN, page 352:
text: But at the Seventeenth CCP Congress in 2008 Zeng Qinghong retired, and beginning the very next year the CCP began a deep political retrenchment, halting most of the political reforms, and reverted to old-style harsh and repressive rule.
ref: 2016, David Shambaugh, “Politics: Editorial Introduction”, in David Shambaugh, editor, The China Reader: Rising Power, 6th edition, →ISBN, page 36:
text: While Kim Jong-un has experimented with such reforms, the character of the young leader’s reign has been one of traditionalist retrenchment and the cult of personality.
ref: 2017 February 23, Adam Cathcart, “How different would North Korea have been under Kim Jong-nam?”, in The Guardian:
text: What was once a conservative retrenchment against civil litigation in the United States has now been globalized in no small part due to the proliferation of class actions as legal transplants.
ref: 2021, Michael Molavi, Collective Access to Justice: Assessing the Potential of Class Actions in England and Wales, →ISBN, page 55:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The adoption of a defensive and hostile posture; refusal to compromise, radicalization.
giustamente
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Italian giustamente.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: in strict tempo
gobbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒbəʊ/
ipa: /ˈɡɑboʊ/
Forms: form: gobbos
form: gobboes
Etymology: Clipping of goblin + -o.
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Seth Kerin, The Crimson Staff, Fultus Books (publ.), page 102.
Several goblins lay dead around the campsite, but many had escaped without serious injury. "Dang gobbos." Ged cursed, spitting on a goblin corpse as he yanked his heavy axe […]
text: 2008, R.D. Henham, Black Dragon Codex, Wizards of the Coast (publ.), page 55.
“... And so I were tellin’ him, that ain’t no way to treat yer gobbos! Ya gots to beat goblins till their ears start workin’—then they’ll listen to ya.”
topics: fantasy
glosses: A goblin.
examples: text: I speak a little bit of gobbo.
topics: fantasy
glosses: language of the goblin race
NLETS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System.
ANI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
glosses: Initialism of automatic number identification.
ANI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
gradino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradinos
form: gradini
Etymology: From Italian gradino.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A step or raised shelf, as above a sideboard or altar.
Related terms: superaltar
gradin
water bailiff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water bailiffs
Senses: glosses: A law enforcement officer who polices bodies of water, such as rivers, lake or coastal waters.
polices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈliːsɪz/
ipa: /poʊˈliːsɪz/
Etymology: From police + -s.
Senses: examples: text: I saw three polices standing there, so I didn't try anything stupid.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: plural of police (“police officer”)
polices
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈliːsɪz/
ipa: /poʊˈliːsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of police
policed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of police
Derived terms: nonpoliced
overpoliced
underpoliced
unpoliced
water biscuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water biscuits
Senses: synonyms: word: water cracker
coordinate_terms: table cracker
glosses: A type of biscuit or cracker which is baked using only flour and water, without shortening or other fats.
water diviner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water diviners
Senses: glosses: A person who practices dowsing, a dowser.
water divining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: dowsing
Italo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: text: Italo- + -phile → Italophile
text: Italo- + Austrian → Italo-Austrian
glosses: Italian
frontline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: front-line
form: front line
Etymology: From front + line.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Located at a front
examples: text: Concerns have been raised about available luggage space, with Cash remarking: "With the upcoming Christmas period there will likely be a large increase in health and safety issues and stress for frontline staff."
ref: 2019 November 6, “RMT criticises LNER Azumas over "inadequate facilities"”, in Rail, page 19:
glosses: Most advanced or important
frontline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frontlines
form: front-line
form: front line
Etymology: From front + line.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of front line.
Derived terms: frontliner
amdram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amdrams
form: am dram
form: am-dram
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of amateur dramatics.
tonelada
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toneladas
form: tonnelada
Etymology: From Portuguese and Spanish tonelada, from tonel (“tun”) + -ada (“-ful”), from Old French tonel (“little tun, cask”), from tone + -el (“-elle: forming diminutives”), from Late Latin tunna (“tun”), from Proto-Celtic *tunna (“hide, skin”).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of mass, equivalent to about 920 kg.
glosses: A traditional Portuguese unit of mass, equivalent to about 793 kg.
Synonyms: sense: Spanish unit
word: Spanish ton
sense: Spanish unit
english: Spanish contexts
translation: Spanish contexts
word: ton
sense: Portuguese unit
word: Portuguese ton
sense: Portuguese unit
english: Portuguese contexts
translation: Portuguese contexts
word: ton
Coordinate terms: sense: Spanish unit
word: libra (1⁄2000 tonelada)
sense: Spanish unit
word: arroba (1⁄80 tonelada)
sense: Spanish unit
word: quintal (1⁄20 tonelada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: arratel (1⁄1728 tonelada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: arroba (1⁄54 tonelada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: quintalejo (1⁄27 tonelada)
sense: Portuguese unit
word: quintal (2⁄27 tonelada)
ovo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: ovi-
Etymology: From Latin ōvum (“egg”).
Senses: examples: text: This being just at the height of the culte de la mayonnaise then sweeping Belgium, oversize exhibits of the ovoöleaginous emulsion were to be encountered at every hand.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 611: [cf. oleaginous]
glosses: egg; ovum
Ægyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ægypt + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: But because the letters of every tongue, as we shewed in the first book, have in their number, order, and figure a Celestiall and Divine originall, I shall easily grant this calculation concerning the names of spirits to be made not only by Hebrew letters, but also by Chaldean, and Arabick, Ægyptian, Greek, Latine, and any other...
ref: 1651, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Egyptian.
Ægyptian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ægyptians
Etymology: From Ægypt + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: We will not revive the mysterious crosses of Ægypt, with circles on their heads, in the breast of Serapis, and the hands of their Geniall spirits, not unlike the characters of Venus, and looked on by ancient Christians, with relation unto Christ. Since however they first began, the Ægyptians thereby expressed the processe and motion of the spirit of the world, and the diffusion thereof upon the Celestiall and Elementall nature; implyed by a circle and right‐lined intersection
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, chapter 1, in The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: Archaic spelling of Egyptian.
Ægyptians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We will not revive the mysterious crosses of Ægypt, with circles on their heads, in the breast of Serapis, and the hands of their Geniall spirits, not unlike the characters of Venus, and looked on by ancient Christians, with relation unto Christ. Since however they first began, the Ægyptians thereby expressed the processe and motion of the spirit of the world, and the diffusion thereof upon the Celestiall and Elementall nature; implyed by a circle and right‐lined intersection.
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, chapter 1, in The Garden of Cyrus:
glosses: plural of Ægyptian
nonvocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊkəl
Etymology: From non- + vocal.
Senses: examples: text: The guitar solo is the main nonvocal part of this song.
glosses: Not vocal; silent; not using one's voice.
Yehudim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latinized masculine plural form of יהודי.
Senses: glosses: The Jews.
causing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɔzɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈkɑzɪŋ/
Forms: form: causeing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cause
caused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɔːzd/
ipa: [kʰoːz̥d]
ipa: /kɔzd/
ipa: [kʰɒzd]
ipa: /kɑzd/
rhymes: -ɔzd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cause
Derived terms: causedness
uncaused
to the full
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: to the fullest
Senses: examples: text: 'Brrrrr,' said Lieutenant Dubosc, realizing to the full how cold he was.
ref: 1934, Agatha Christie, chapter 1, in Murder on the Orient Express, London: HarperCollins, published 2017, page 7:
glosses: Fully; completely.
examples: text: Now that I'm retired, I feel I can live life to the full.
glosses: Without any reservation; taking the greatest advantage of the situation.
Synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
Hyponyms: word: to a fault
Coordinate terms: word: partially
word: partly
word: to an extent
word: to some extent
Related terms: word: extremely
word: completely
word: entire
word: everything
noninflammatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + inflammatory.
Senses: glosses: Not inflammatory; not able to inflame.
nonjudicial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Etymology: From non- + judicial.
Senses: synonyms: unjudicial
coordinate_terms: extrajudicial
glosses: Not judicial; not related to the powers of a judge.
Derived terms: nonjudicially
full marks
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Expressing complete satisfaction with someone's efforts.
Synonyms: bravo
well done
full marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: She got full marks. Not one single error.
glosses: The maximum marks obtainable in an exam or test.
examples: text: I would have to give you full marks for that statement.
text: One of these gadgets is a box containing the Entity's source code, which is currently in a wrecked submarine – hence a deep sea-diving set piece which gets full marks for spookiness, and no marks for excitement.
ref: 2025 May 14, Nicholas Barber, “'A miserable, apocalyptic tract': Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning could be 'the feel-bad film of the summer”, in BBC:
glosses: Complete approval or agreement.
for the asking
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: All you have to do is go to the interview. The job is yours for the asking.
text: […] he [Mavji Dave] said: ' […] I would far rather that you sent him to England. My son Kevalram says it is very easy to become a barrister. In three years' time he will return. Also expenses will not exceed four to five thousand rupees. Think of that barrister who has just come back from England. How stylishly he lives! He could get the Diwanship for the asking. I would strongly advise you to send Mohandas to England this very year. Kevalram has numerous friends in England. He will give notes of introduction to them, and Mohandas will have an easy time of it there.'
ref: 1927-29, M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, translated 1940 by Mahadev Desai, Part I, Chapter xi
glosses: Available for someone to have something just by asking for it, i.e., without any significant effort or outlay; freely.
schizo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɪ.tsoʊ/
Forms: form: schiz-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σχίζω (skhízō, “I split”).
Senses: glosses: split, cleft
glosses: schizophrenia
Derived terms: sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizoanalysis
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizocarp
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizodactyly
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizogony
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizoid
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophasia
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophrenia
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophreniac
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophrenialike
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophrenic
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophreniform
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizophrenogenic
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizothymia
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizotypal
sense: Terms from sense "split"
word: schizotypy
sense: Terms from sense "schizophrenia"
word: schizoaffective
sense: Terms from sense "schizophrenia"
word: schizosexual
imbetween
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in-between.
imbetween
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of in between.
whitten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whittens
Etymology: English, used in mid-16th century; variant of whiting.
Senses: glosses: Any of several small trees having leaves that are white and downy underneath.
francoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: francoas
Etymology: The genus Francoa was named by botanist Antonio José Cavanilles (1745-1804) after Spanish physician Francisco Franco who lived in 16th century.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Francoa, with white, pink or red flowers, native to Chile.
ter-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Latin ter (“three times”).
Senses: glosses: three, threefold
sextuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkət/
ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin sextuplicātus, past participle form of sextuplicāre (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).
Senses: examples: text: The customer ordered a sextuplicate quantity.
glosses: Six times the number, volume, length, etc. (of something else).
examples: text: Benzene is a sextuplicate hydrocarbon.
glosses: Comprising six identical parts.
sextuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkət/
ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: sextuplicates
Etymology: From Latin sextuplicātus, past participle form of sextuplicāre (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).
Senses: examples: text: 1945: United States Twelfth Army, Report of Operations: Final After Action Report, PAGE UNKNOWN
If the official receipt is not available, the appropriate CA officer will prepare a similar receipt in sextuplicate.
text: …signed (in quadruplicate for the Financial Office, quintuplicate for the Registrar, and, inexplicably, sextuplicate for the Health Department).
ref: 1985, Erich Segal, The Class, Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: A series, set, collection, or group of six identical copies of something.
sextuplicate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkət/
ipa: /sɛksˈtjuːplɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: sextuplicates
form: sextuplicating
form: sextuplicated
form: sextuplicated
Etymology: From Latin sextuplicātus, past participle form of sextuplicāre (“to sextuple”), from sextuplus (“sixfold”), from sextus (“sixth”) (from sex (“six”)) + -plus (“-fold”) (from plicare (“to fold”)).
Senses: examples: text: Sextuplicate this document for me, please.
glosses: To make six copies of.
Derived terms: sextuplicately
sextuplication
Related terms: duplicate
octuplicate
quadruplicate
quintuplicate
septuplicate
triplicate
gemelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemelles
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Alternative form of gemel.
gradini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gradino
unæsthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unæsthetic
form: most unæsthetic
Etymology: From un- + æsthetic.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of unaesthetic.
sternmost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From stern + -most.
Senses: glosses: Closest to the stern, furthest sternward.
sternward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sternward
form: most sternward
Etymology: From stern + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: winds from sternward
Bore us out onward with bellying canvas […]
ref: 1925, Ezra Pound, Canto I:
glosses: Towards the stern, aft.
sternward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sternward
form: most sternward
Etymology: From stern + -ward.
Senses: glosses: sternwards
affiants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affiant
utterable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From utter + -able.
Senses: examples: text: In his vocabulary was no word for "crocodile"; yet in his thought, as potent as any utterable word, was an image of dreadful import— [...]
ref: 1917 April, Jack London, chapter XX, in Jerry of the Islands, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, page 281:
antonyms: unutterable
glosses: Capable of being expressed in words, especially audibly.
Derived terms: unutterable
Related terms: utterability
scrapbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrapbook
scrapbooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrapbook
utterability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: utterabilities
Etymology: From utter + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: He flashed with most piercing glance into a subject; gathered it up into organic utterability, with truly wonderful despatch, considering the success and truth attained; and threw it on paper with a swift felicity.
ref: 1851, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 5, in Life of Sterling:
glosses: The state or quality of being expressible in words, especially audibly.
examples: text: Fredrik Nilsson talked about new modes of knowledge production (Mode1 and Mode2), transdisciplinarity, ‘minor or nomadic’ sciences versus ‘royal or legal’ sciences, knowledge of visibilities and utterabilities and examples of the architectural practice as knowledge production.
ref: 2006, "Reflections 3 (Research Training Sessions 2006)," Sint-Lucas School of Architecture (Belgium), p. 34
glosses: An idea or feeling which can be expressed in words.
woomeras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woomera
spotted dolphin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted dolphins
Etymology: From spotted + dolphin.
Senses: examples: text: Spotted dolphins perform ‘genital buzzing’, in which an adult directs a rapid stream of low-pitched clicks at the genital area of another, usually a calf.
ref: 2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 59:
glosses: Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.
glosses: Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.
Atlantic spotted dolphin (Stenella frontalis)
glosses: Any of two species of dolphins of the genus Stenella.
pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata)
spotted dolphins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spotted dolphin
jakun
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒʌkun/
Forms: form: more jakun
form: most jakun
Etymology: Semantic extension of the Malay Jakun, an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the jungles of Pahang, Johor and Negeri Sembilan.
Senses: examples: text: A jakun tourist’s worst nightmare…is an idiot who simply cannot see that people want to take photographs & simply stands right in front of the object jakun tourists want to photograph, & lingers around it.
ref: 2009 February 9, The Jakun Tourist A Jakun Tourist’s Worst Nightmare…:
text: Yes, it was one of the many jakun moments I had while in Singapore.
ref: 2013 May 17, Joel Wong, ONE Asia MMA Summit 2013: The Recap:
text: And it’s popular foods in Korean culture that apparently so many of our readers are familiar with it all! But of course, we all jakun lah LOL.
ref: 2015 December 26, The Halal Food Blog, Jinjja Chicken:
text: Sorry so jakun, need to post a picture of my Uber because it looks like a Bentley.
ref: 2015 June 26, shaolintiger, Frog Porridge, Chicken Rice & the Journey Home:
text: I was so jakun with the pen thingy and this happened hehe I feel like a kid.
ref: 2016 March 18, fatinabilaah, [Twitter feed]:
glosses: Fascinated by objects, events, or experiences which seem ordinary to others.
glosses: Overly excited, bad-tempered, unruly, or unsophisticated.
Synonyms: sakai
usurance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: usurances
Senses: glosses: The act of usury
get in someone's hair
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets in someone's hair
form: getting in someone's hair
form: got in someone's hair
form: got in someone's hair
form: gotten in someone's hair
Senses: glosses: To annoy someone.
glosses: To hinder someone or interfere with their actions.
Related terms: get under someone's skin
abrasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abrasures
Senses: glosses: Abrasion, abrading.
zabernism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the German name for Saverne, a town in Alsace. Originated from an incident in 1913 involving an overzealous soldier who wounded a cobbler for laughing at him, ultimately triggering an intervention from the army who took over the power from local authorities.
Senses: glosses: The misuse or abuse of military authority; bullying.
sexaholic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sexaholics
form: sexoholic
Etymology: From sex + -aholic.
Senses: glosses: One who is addicted to sex.
Synonyms: word: shagaholic
Derived terms: sexaholism
Related terms: erotomania
satyromania
nymphomania
zabuton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zabutons
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 座布団.
Senses: glosses: A Japanese cushion for sitting.
zabutons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zabuton
sexaholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sexaholic
pollan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollans
Etymology: From Irish pollán.
Senses: glosses: A freshwater fish, Coregonus pollan, resembling a herring
zaitech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzaɪtɛk/
Etymology: From Japanese 財テク (zaiteku, “money management”), from blend of 財務 (zaimu, “financial dealings”) and テクノロジー (tekunorojii, “technology”), the latter, from English technology. The -tech in zaitech reflects the original borrowing of English technology.
Senses: examples: text: Not all of the capital raised in this way was channeled into new plant and equipment; a large amount was used for what came to be called zaitech, or financial engineering, which included the purchase of more real estate and securities offering higher and higher yield.
ref: 1996, Walter Hatch, Asia in Japan's Embrace: Building a Regional Production Alliance, page 21:
text: This in turn spurred the proliferation of zaitech — sophisticated financial operations on a global scale.
ref: 1998, Frank Gibney, editor, Unlocking the Bureaucrat's Kingdom: Deregulation and the Japanese Economy, page 84:
text: New financial technologies, like securitization, are playing an important role […]. And the leading sources of the new positive zaitech are firms like […]
ref: 2000, Stephen M. Harner, Japan's Financial Revolution and How American Firms Are Profiting, page 217:
glosses: Application of financial engineering techniques in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.
examples: text: Such "high-tech" financial transactions are called 'zaitech' in Japan. Many old-timers thought zaitech was sinfully speculative […]
ref: 1993, Roy C. Smith, Comeback: The Restoration of American Banking Power in the New World Economy, page 245:
text: Inevitably, like the times themselves, the term zaitech later came to connote speculative and imprudent financial dabbling […]
ref: 2000, Stephen M. Harner, Japan's Financial Revolution and How American Firms Are Profiting, page 217:
glosses: Speculative financial investments, using simple financial leverage as well as financial engineering, in Japanese financial markets since their deregulation in 1984.
aphæresis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphæreses
Senses: examples: text: In the other EU countries whole blood or aphæresis donations are entirely based on altruism.
ref: 2006, Philippe Rouger, Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law — Comparison of national donation patterns: The EuroNet–TMS survey, volume 7, pages 37–48:
glosses: Alternative form of apheresis.
diamonte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamontes
Etymology: From a misspelling of diamante?
Senses: glosses: A diamante poem.
aphæreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aphæresis
aphaereses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphæreses
form: aphereses
Senses: glosses: plural of aphaeresis
aphereses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aphaereses
form: aphæreses
Senses: glosses: plural of apheresis
impasta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of imposter + pasta Coined in 2013 by American celebrity molecular gastronomy chef Richard Blais
Senses: qualifier: molecular gastronomy
glosses: Pasta analogue created by using ingredients that are not grains (ie. semolina, maize, rice) or grain substitutes (ie. potato, quinoa), such as a sheet of pasta analogue made out of gelatin
wikipedia: en:Richard Blais
jigida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jigidas
Etymology: Borrowed from Igbo [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A string of beads worn around the waist by Nigerian women.
break-bulk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Break-bulk cargo is characterized by its multiplicity and diversity. […] In break-bulk service, a cargo ship might carry barrels of cooking oil, ... cartons..., bales ..., bags ..., and so on.
ref: 2006, Brian J. Cudahy, Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World, page 9:
hypernyms: noncontainerized
glosses: Of cargo: heterogeneous in size, shape, and handling requirements; neither bulk nor containerized.
break-bulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break-bulks
Senses: glosses: A ship that carries cargo in miscellaneous small containers.
break bulk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks bulk
form: breaking bulk
form: broke bulk
form: broken bulk
Senses: examples: text: a plan is under advisement for the extension of the present newly installed method by the utilization of breaking bulk at a transfer, transferring the freight to containers which will be moved by special container floats to a centrally located pier and then by trucks to destination or to inland stations.
ref: 1922, “Erie Adopts Direct Freight Delivery at New York: Plan Involves Breaking Bulk at Jersey City, N. J., and Use of Auto Trucks, Tractors and Trailers and Ferries”, in Railway age, volume 72:
glosses: To remove one or more items from the packaging, container, vehicle, or vessel in which shipped with other items.
Related terms: break-bulk
breakbulk
breakbulk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of break-bulk.
breakbulk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breakbulks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of break-bulk.
Related terms: break bulk
hordeaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hordeaceous
form: most hordeaceous
Etymology: From Latin hordeum (“barley”) + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to barley.
obsesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obsess
-itate
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Latin -itāt-, past participial stem of -itō. On the model of e.g. Classical Latin nōbilitō and found in borrowings e.g. premeditate, debilitate, agitate.
Senses: examples: text: [A]fter that the land doth trent Westward, as may be suspected by the want of ice, that the land, being farre remote to the North or West, the Sea doth keepe it selfe from frigitating by its continuall chafing and adjectating, as we see by the iles of Farre, Shetland, and Orkney, standing in and neere the same parallell with our frozen Fretum Hudson, where no Snow will lie for any time in Winter.
ref: “frigitate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
glosses: Forming verbs, typically implying intense or repetitive activity.
unbranded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + branded.
Senses: glosses: not branded; lacking a brand
glosses: not associated with a brand name
refracting telescope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refracting telescopes
Senses: glosses: A telescope which produces a magnified image by refracting light through a series of lenses housed in a tube, with a light-gathering objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other.
Synonyms: refractor
Related terms: reflecting telescope
spyglass