cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
revitalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revitalise
revitalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revitalise
revitalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revitalise
revitalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revitalize
revitalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of revitalize
revitalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of revitalize
rhizomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizome
rhapsodist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhapsodists
Senses: glosses: A rhapsode.
examples: text: But we find on examination that these are no unconscious lapses of a rhapsodist whose tongue outruns his thought.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 12, page 204:
glosses: One who reads or interprets poetry aloud; one who rhapsodizes.
Related terms: rhapsode
rhapsody
rhapsodists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhapsodist
rhapsodise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rhapsodises
form: rhapsodising
form: rhapsodised
form: rhapsodised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of rhapsodize.
rhapsodises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rhapsodise
rhapsodising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rhapsodise
rhapsodised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rhapsodise
rhythm method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythm methods
Senses: glosses: A method of natural birth control that involves counting days of a woman's menstrual cycle in order to determine when sexual intercourse is most or least likely to result in pregnancy.
Synonyms: calendar method
Knaus-Ogino method
Vatican roulette
rhythm methods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhythm method
calendar method
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rhythm method of natural birth control.
in rem
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: in-rem
Etymology: From Latin in rem (“against the thing”).
Senses: examples: text: The church filed an in rem petition with the court, requesting that the book be declared obscene.
text: True in rem cases involve a dispute over ownership of the property that is the jurisdictional predicate, and (believe it or not) determine the ownership interest in that thing as to every person in the world.
ref: 2021, Richard D. Freer, Civil Procedure, Aspen Publishing, →ISBN, page 50:
topics: law
coordinate_terms: in personam
glosses: Against a thing (such as property) rather than a person.
anachronistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anachronistical
form: most anachronistical
Senses: glosses: Synonym of anachronistic.
synonyms: word: anachronistic
Derived terms: anachronistically
Scouserati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a blend of Scouser (“person from Liverpool”) + literati (“well-educated people, intellectuals”).
Usage is noted in 2007, then gained acceptance by a supplement to the Liverpool Echo newspaper on 1 January 2008, the day Liverpool began its year as European Capital of Culture. The supplement listed 366 people as "The Scouserati - the 366 most influential Scousers on the planet".
Senses: glosses: Notable or influential people whose place of birth or residence is in the city of Liverpool or its surrounding region.
thoughtform
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoughtforms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thought-form.
fussy cut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fussy cuts
form: fussy cutting
form: fussy cut
form: fussy cut
Senses: examples: text: From fabric E, fussy cut four template-Z patches.
ref: 2001, Kaffe Fassett, Passionate Patchwork: Over 20 Original Quilt Designs, Taunton Press, →ISBN, page 91:
topics: business
manufacturing
quilting
textiles
glosses: To cut pieces of fabric so that a particular part of the printed design is centered or featured.
LBJ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LBJs
Senses: topics: biology
birdwatching
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Initialism of little brown job.
LBJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I got a letter from L.B.J,
it said, "This is your lucky day",
it's time to put your khaki trousers on.
ref: 1965, “Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation”, Tom Paxton (lyrics), Tom Paxton (music):
text: This required a legislative program, the Great Society, that would complete the New Deal and earn LBJ a place alongside FDR in the pantheon of heroic Democratic reformers.
ref: 2022, Gary Gerstle, chapter 2, in The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order […] , New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, Part I. The New Deal Order, 1930–1980:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th US president (served 1963–1969).
examples: text: LBJ scores six meaningless points in last forty-five seconds while Warriors keep a seven- to eleven-point lead.
ref: 2020, Robert Scoop Jackson, The Game is Not a Game […] , Haymarket Books, →ISBN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Initialism of LeBron James.
kartel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kartels
Etymology: From Dutch kartel.
Senses: glosses: A German industrial cartel.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A Belgian political cartel.
anaesthetization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaesthetizations
Etymology: From anaesthetize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of anesthetizing
anaesthetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: anaesthetizes
form: anaesthetizing
form: anaesthetized
form: anaesthetized
form: anaesthetise
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anesthetize.
Derived terms: anaesthetization
overanaesthetize
reanaesthetize
unanaesthetized
analeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌænəˈlɛptɪk/
Forms: form: more analeptic
form: most analeptic
Etymology: From ana- + -leptic.
Senses: examples: text: For promotion of the secretion of semen virile, an analeptic diet is recommended by one writer.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 9:
glosses: That restores or stimulates health.
glosses: Of or relating to analepsis (a form of flashback).
Derived terms: analeptically
psychoanaleptic
analeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌænəˈlɛptɪk/
Forms: form: analeptics
Etymology: From ana- + -leptic.
Senses: glosses: A restorative or stimulative medication, especially one used to overcome depression.
analyser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analysers
Etymology: From analyse + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of analyzer.
anastigmatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anastigmatic
form: most anastigmatic
Etymology: From an- + astigmatic.
Senses: antonyms: astigmatic
qualifier: or a lens system
glosses: Free from astigmatism
raw_tags: of the eye
anathemata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anathema
anchoritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anchorite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an anchorite.
Derived terms: anchoritically
andesyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andesytes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of andesite.
little auk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little auks
Senses: glosses: A dovekie, a bird of the species Alle alle.
little auks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little auk
androgynism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From androgyne + -ism.
Senses: glosses: hermaphroditism
Related terms: androgynous
androgyny
anear
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- (“away, off, from, of”) + near (adverb), perhaps partly after afar, anew, etc. Compare earlier (as adverb) anigh.
Senses: examples: text: the measure of misery anear us
ref: 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:
text: And soon I heard a roaring wind: / It did not come anear; / But with its sound it shook the sails, / That were so thin and sere.
ref: 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
text: Anear the centre of that northern crest / Stands out a level upland bleak and bare, […]
ref: 1870–1874, James Thomson, “The City of Dreadful Night”, in The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems, London: Reeves and Turner, […], published 1880, →OCLC, part XXI, stanza 1, page 51:
text: As slowly, one by one, / The stars appear, / My burdened heart I lift, / And feel to God anear.
ref: 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:
glosses: Near.
anear
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Etymology: From a- (“away, off, from, of”) + near (adverb), perhaps partly after afar, anew, etc. Compare earlier (as adverb) anigh.
Senses: glosses: Nearly.
anear
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: anears
form: anearing
form: aneared
form: aneared
Etymology: From a- (“onward, away”; intensifying prefix) + near (verb). Compare Middle English aneiȝen.
Senses: glosses: To approach.
anesthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anesthetically
form: most anesthetically
Etymology: From anesthetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anesthetic manner
glosses: Regarding anesthetics
angary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡə.ɹi/
Forms: form: angaries
Etymology: From French angarie, from Late Latin angaria (“forced service”) from Ancient Greek ἀγγαρεία (angareía, “the office of a courier or messenger”), from ἄγγαρος (ángaros, “courier”), from Old Persian *𐎠𐎥𐎼𐎠 (*a-g-r-a /⁠*angarā⁠/, “missive, letter”), from Aramaic *𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓‬𐡀 (*ʾn‬gr‬ʾ /⁠*ʾengarā⁠/), form of *𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓‬𐡕𐡀 (*ʾn‬gr‬tʾ /⁠*ʾengartā⁠/), variant of 𐡀𐡂𐡓‬𐡕𐡀 (ʾgr‬tʾ /⁠ʾiggartā⁠/), 𐡀𐡍‬𐡂𐡓𐡕‬𐡀 (ʾn‬grt‬ʾ /⁠ʾengirtā⁠/, “missive, letter; contract”), from Akkadian 𒂊𒄈𒌅 (egirtu, “inscribed tablet; oracle of fate, ambiguous wording; contract, bound deal”), from 𒄃 (egēru, “to be difficult, to be twisted or locked together; to have a twisted tongue, to be unable to speak against an order”). See also Classical Syriac ܐܓܪܬܐ (ʾeggarṯā, “letter, document”).
Senses: glosses: The right of one belligerent (government) in a conflict to seize, use or destroy the property of another belligerent or neutral state, or the private citizens thereof, provided compensation is paid.
Synonyms: right of angary
Pandora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌpænˈdɔɹə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek Πανδώρᾱ (Pandṓrā, “all gifts”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The first woman on earth, who had been given a box by the gods and instructed not to open it, but who disobeyed the instructions out of curiosity, releasing all manner of evils into the world.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A moon of the planet Saturn.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: 55 Pandora, a main belt asteroid.
Derived terms: Pandora's box
anginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From angina + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to angina, especially to angina pectoris
Anglicanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Anglicanisms
Etymology: From Anglican + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: "What do you want? Nineteenth-century rationalism, Voltairian deism? We're living in a religious age, you know. I suppose Anglicanism might be a solution."
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 448:
glosses: The beliefs and practices of the Anglican Church.
glosses: Attachment to England or English institutions.
Hypernyms: Christianity
Protestantism
Hyponyms: Episcopalianism
Church-of-Englandism
Related terms: Anglican
anglicism
Anglicism
hirsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜː(ɹ)səl/
Forms: form: hirsels
Senses: examples: text: There are two full hirsels worked on the land that forms the Creag Mhòr Estate.
glosses: The entire stock on a farm or stock under the charge of a shepherd.
angostura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Forms: form: angosturas
Etymology: From the former name of Ciudad Bolívar in Venezuela.
Senses: glosses: Angostura bitters
glosses: A South American tree, with bark used in tradition medicine and as an ingredient in various bitters (but not Angostura bitters), Angostura trifoliata.
Angostura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹə
Senses: glosses: Former name of Ciudad Bolívar.
anility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anilities
Etymology: From Latin anīlitās.
Senses: synonyms: cronehood
glosses: The condition of being anile.
examples: text: We are then told of the basilisk killing by staring, and of a mous running round a snake till it rushes into the jaws of death. After copying many such anilities, the author adds only, "but our readers will excuse our enlarging."
ref: 1819, The Edinburgh Monthly Review, volume 1, page 707:
glosses: An anile utterance; an old wives' tale.
Related terms: anile
senility
animalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animalisms
Etymology: From animal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Animalism understands the human person and the human animal to be identical. The major appeal of animalism is that it avoids the spatially coincident thinkers discussed earlier.
ref: 2014, Neil A. Manson, Robert W. Barnard, The Bloomsbury Companion to Metaphysics, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
ontology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The doctrine that humans are merely animals, and lack any spirituality.
examples: text: The wife is what her husband makes her, and his rude animalism had made her the nervous invalid she was.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, IV.6:
glosses: Animal-like behaviour or appetite; brutality.
glosses: In a positive sense: natural animal activity; physicality, natural energy.
examples: text: For this reason, if before the 1990s animalism was politically nonexistent, much changed after the publication of Animal Liberation.
ref: 2018, Andrew Linzey, Clair Linzey, The Palgrave Handbook of Practical Animal Ethics, page 111:
text: Her organization's website perfectly illustrates the conflation of a religious ethos and animalism: it calls for the protection of cows for ecological reasons while referring to Hindu cosmology (People for Animals 2013).
ref: 2019, Michelle T. King, Culinary Nationalism in Asia:
text: The contemporary movement for animal rights, for example, is explicitly anti-Cartesian and indeed proposes to consider non-human animals (at least some among them) as subjectivities, if not as persons in the juridical sense. What this animalism does not see is that in this way it continues, paradoxically, to remain trapped in Descartes' dualistic apparatus.
ref: 2020, Felice Cimatti, Carlo Salzani, Animality in Contemporary Italian Philosophy, page 22:
glosses: Animal liberation; animal rights advocacy.
Related terms: animalist
speciesism
animality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animalities
Etymology: From French animalité or its etymon Late Latin animālitās. By surface analysis, animal + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: For good reason military leaders attempt to instill in their troops beliefs about the nonhumanity—the bestiality or animality or verminlike character—of the enemy.
ref: 2015, J. M. Bernstein, Torture and Dignity: An Essay on Moral Injury, page 170:
glosses: The nature of an animal.
glosses: The animal kingdom.
glosses: Any characteristic of animality.
animally
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈanɪməli/
Forms: form: more animally
form: most animally
Etymology: From animal (noun) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: There were, besides the pleasant fruity smells, a number of vile, animally smells that one could easily make from simple ingredients or extract from plants.
ref: 2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an animal.
animally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈanɪməli/
Forms: form: more animally
form: most animally
Etymology: From animal (adjective) + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: 'Cosmic emotion' inevitably takes them in the form of enthusiasm and freedom. I speak not only of those who are animally happy.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures IV and V: The Religion of Healthy-mindedness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 79:
glosses: In respect of the physical or "animal" faculties, as opposed to the intellect or spirit.
glosses: In respect of the anima or animal spirits.
animater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: animaters
Etymology: From animate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of animator.
anionically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anionic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The water absorbency of the anionically starch-grafted AA/AM absorbent is markedly affected by the pH of the buffer solution at different ionic strengths. The charge of the ionic monomer affects the pH sensitivity of the superabsorbent polymers. An acidic superabsorbent normally ionizes at high pH but unionizes at low pH.
ref: 2000 October 1, Suda Kiatkamjornwong, Wararuk Chomsaksakul, Manit Sonsuk, “Radiation modification of water absorption of cassava starch by acrylic acid/acrylamide”, in Radiation Physics and Chemistry, volume 59, number 4, →DOI, page 423:
glosses: In an anionic manner.
glosses: By means of anions.
Related terms: cationically
anisic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anise + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or derived from anise
Derived terms: anisate
anisic acid
anisic alcohol
anisoyl
anti-institutionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + institutionalism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to, or rejection of, institutionalism.
institutionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: institutionalisms
Etymology: From institutional + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Institutionalism is brought about, in part, by a sense of learned helplessness, a belief that one has no control over one's environment.
ref: 2003, Robert Stephen Feldman, Development Across the Life Span:
text: Therefore, in addition to noting the similarities between the "new Nietzsche" and nonabsolutist institutionalism, we want to show briefly what, specifically, a reading of Nietzsche adds to the institutionalist treatment of values.
ref: 2016, David F. Ruccio, Jack Amariglio, Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics, page 213:
glosses: Adherence to the established religion, or to established codes of conduct.
glosses: The use of public institutions in health care and social services.
Derived terms: anti-institutionalism
Related terms: institutionalist
antiinstitutionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of anti-institutionalism.
ankus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaŋ.kəs/
Forms: form: ankuses
form: ankhus
form: ankush
form: ankusha
Etymology: From Hindi अंकुस (aṅkus)/अंकुश (aṅkuś), from Sanskrit अङ्कुश (aṅkuśa).
Senses: examples: text: At last he found something really fascinating laid on the front of a howdah half buried in the coins. It was a three-foot ankus, or elephant-goad—something like a small boathook. The top was one round, shining ruby, and eight inches of the handle below it were studded with rough turquoises close together, giving a most satisfactory grip.
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, The King's Ankus:
text: He reached for the ivory handle of his ankus and turned to the stripling.
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, Gentlemen of the Road, Sceptre, published 2008, page 22:
glosses: The hooked goad that is used in India to control elephants.
annexion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annexions
Etymology: From Middle English annexion, from Late Latin annexiō.
Senses: glosses: annexation
Derived terms: annexionism
annexionist
annuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈænjʊlaɪ/
ipa: /-li/
ipa: /ˈænjəlaɪ/
ipa: /-li/
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ānnulī.
Senses: glosses: plural of annulus
bombination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bombinations
Etymology: From bombinate + -ion.
Senses: glosses: the act or sound of humming or buzzing; hum, buzz
Priština
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Serbo-Croatian Priština.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Pristina.
yachtsmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yachtsmanships
Etymology: From yachtsman + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The skill or art of sailing a yacht.
thema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: themas
form: themata
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek θέμᾰ (thémă). Doublet of theme.
Senses: examples: text: Eco has his own image for this method-spiral repetition: every new exploration elevates the solutions to a higher level by expanding the thema's cognitive context.
ref: 1997, Rocco Caopzzi, Reading Eco: An Anthology, page 111:
text: With regard to its division—which is the second main section [of this treatise]—one must diligently examine the meaning of the words that appear in the thema.
ref: 2013, Siegfried Wenzel, The Art of Preaching, page 151:
glosses: A subject or theme.
Pristina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prishtina
form: Priština
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Prishtina.
Senses: glosses: The capital and largest city of Kosovo.
glosses: A district of Kosovo.
glosses: A municipality of Kosovo.
coquelicot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑkləˌkoʊ/
/ˈkoʊk-/
/-lɪ-/
Forms: form: coquelicots
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).
Senses: examples: text: It appeared baleful, fiery and red; it wore coquelicot like a crown of thorns, and cast a humid heat entirely unlike the fierce intensity of the desert sun.
ref: 1980, Stephen Donaldson, The Wounded Land: The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant Book One, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: 'All these weeks we have wasted wrangling, and I knew from the beginning that it must be the green, and not the coquelicot.'
ref: 2011, Cynthia Harrod-Eagles, The Flood-Tide: The Morland Dynasty, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: A reddish-orange colour; poppy.
coquelicot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɑkləˌkoʊ/
/ˈkoʊk-/
/-lɪ-/
Forms: form: more coquelicot
form: most coquelicot
Etymology: Borrowed from French coquelicot (“red poppy”).
Senses: examples: text: I still venture to retain the narrow silver round it, put twice round without any bow, and instead of the black military feather shall put in the coquelicot one as being smarter, and besides coquelicot is to be all the fashion this winter.
ref: 1798, Jane Austen, The Letters (Annotated Edition), Jazzybee Verlag, →ISBN:
glosses: Having a reddish-orange poppy colour.
CRP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CRPs
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
immunology
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of C-reactive protein.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of composite reuse principle.
glosses: Initialism of critical rendering path.
Derived terms: sense: C-reactive protein
word: hsCRP
sense: C-reactive protein
word: hs-CRP
CRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The only major source whom the reporters reveal by name is Hugh Sloan, the slight young Nixon operative who resigned as treasurer of the Committee to Re-Elect the President when he learned of C.R.P.’s sordid political involvements. Sloan led the reporters onto the fact that funds for the burglary came from C.R.P.
ref: 1974 April 22, “The Press: Woodstein Meets Deep Throat”, in Time, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Committee to Re-elect the President, which raised money for Richard Nixon's campaign for 1972 reelection.
Synonyms: word: CREEP
versant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/
Forms: form: more versant
form: most versant
Etymology: Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).
Senses: examples: text: I do not profess to be particularly versant with heraldry or heraldic language; but, […]
ref: 1849, Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Courts of Scotland and in the House of Lords on Appeal from Scotland, page 441:
glosses: Experienced, practiced.
examples: text: This practice is so utterly ridiculous to any body but lawyers (to whom nothing that is customary is ridiculous), that men not versant with courts of justice will not believe it.
ref: 1822, Sydney Smith, “Prisons”, in Edinburgh Review:
glosses: Conversant.
versant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜː(ɹ)sənt/
Forms: form: versants
Etymology: Borrowed from French versant, present participle (used as a noun) of verser, from Latin versō, frequentative of vertō (“I turn”).
Senses: glosses: A slope of a mountain or mountain ridge.
glosses: The overall slope of a region.
Kosovan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsəvən/
Forms: form: more Kosovan
form: most Kosovan
Etymology: From Kosovo + -an.
Senses: glosses: From, of, or pertaining to Kosovo or its people, culture or language.
Synonyms: Kosovar
Kosovan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒsəvən/
Forms: form: Kosovans
Etymology: From Kosovo + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Kosovo.
Synonyms: Kosovar
Kosovar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsəvɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more Kosovar
form: most Kosovar
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian kosovar.
Senses: examples: text: A prominent Kosovo Serb politician, Oliver Ivanovic, was shot dead outside his party offices Tuesday morning, halting talks between Kosovar and Serb delegates that had been set to resume that day.
ref: 2018 January 16, Milena Veselinovic and Sheena McKenzie, “Leading Kosovo Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic shot dead outside office”, in CNN:
glosses: Synonym of Kosovan.
synonyms: word: Kosovan
Kosovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒsəvɑː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: Kosovars
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian kosovar.
Senses: examples: text: While it doesn't give the Albanian Kosovars the independence they crave, it would afford them three years of breathing room under international protection to practice being a state.
ref: 1999 March 22, Johanna McGeary, “Milosevic chooses defiance over compromise, and the military situation in Kosovo deteriorates”, in CNN:
glosses: Synonym of Kosovan.
synonyms: word: Kosovan
Kosovars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosovar
Kosovans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kosovan
UNMIK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo: a United Nations-led civilian administration in Kosovo.
japanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From japan + -ing.
Senses: topics: art
arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A European technique of creating lacquerware in imitation of the traditional Japanese style.
japanning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From japan + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of japan
Derived terms: japanned
Sinophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈfoʊbi.ə/
ipa: /ˌsaɪnəˈfəʊbi.ə/
rhymes: -əʊbiə
homophone: cynophobia
Forms: form: sinophobia
Etymology: From Sino- + -phobia.
Senses: glosses: Fear, hostility, or aversion to China, Chinese people or Chinese culture.
Synonyms: anti-Chinese sentiment
Chinaphobia
Related terms: Sinophobe
Sinophobic
Sinophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sino- + -philia.
Senses: glosses: A strong interest in the country, culture, or people of China.
Related terms: -philia
Sinophile
race walking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of racewalking.
Sinophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sinophile
refall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: refalls
form: refalling
form: refell
form: refallen
form: re-fall
Etymology: From re- + fall.
Senses: examples: text: refalling in love
text: Fire hissed; rain boiled; steam turned back to rain and re-fell.
ref: 2016, John Timmis, Deathling of Dorn:
glosses: To fall again.
refalls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refall
refalling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refall
refell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refall
examples: text: In brief, to set the needless process by, / How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd, / How he refell'd me, and how I replied
ref: c. 1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:
glosses: To refute.
Uusimaa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A cultural-linguistic area in Southern Finland.
glosses: A region (administrative) of Southern Finland.
glosses: A former province of Southern Finland.
reinscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reinscribes
form: reinscribing
form: reinscribed
form: reinscribed
Etymology: From re- + inscribe.
Senses: glosses: To inscribe again.
examples: text: This ambivalent anality both parodied national and gendered fantasies of “hardness” at the same time that it drew on dynamics of racial and queer mimesis to reinscribe hegemonic (white/ straight) masculinity.
ref: 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: To reproduce an idea in a new context or manifestation, typically in a way that reinforces it or extends its influence.
reinscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reinscribe
reinscribing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reinscribe
reinscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reinscribe
restauranter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restauranters
Etymology: From restaurant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who owns or operates a restaurant.
restauranters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restauranter
restauranteer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: restauranteers
Etymology: From restaurant + -eer.
Senses: glosses: One who owns or operates a restaurant.
Related terms: word: restauranter
restauranteers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of restauranteer
hors d'oeuvres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hors d'oeuvre
minority report
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minority reports
Senses: glosses: A committee report written by at least two committee members to state their official position on an issue, when those members are in the minority on that issue (not necessarily in the political minority party).
Related terms: dissent
majority opinion
yank off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: yanks off
form: yanking off
form: yanked off
form: yanked off
Senses: glosses: To remove something, like a piece of cloth or bread, by tearing it with one quick strong pull.
glosses: To jack off, to masturbate.
rivaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rivalling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rival
yd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of yd..
yd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yd
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of yard (“unit of length”).
Derived terms: sq yd
ritualize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪt͡ʃ.u.əl.aɪz/
Forms: form: ritualizes
form: ritualizing
form: ritualized
form: ritualized
form: ritualise
Etymology: From ritual + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make into a ritual.
ritualise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ritualises
form: ritualising
form: ritualised
form: ritualised
Etymology: From ritual + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of ritualize.
ritualizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ritualize
ritualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ritualize
ritualizing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ritualizings
Senses: examples: text: A family meal, for instance, can be the occasion on which the very “body language” of a child can implicitly agree with the “traditional” ritualizings that express the family's self-image or it can be a scarcely recognized protest.
ref: 2004, Bernard Cooke, Power and the Spirit of God: Toward an Experience-Based Pneumatology:
glosses: A ritualization.
ritualized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ritualize
ritualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ritualized
form: most ritualized
Senses: glosses: Developed into a ritual.
ritualises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ritualise
ritualising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ritualise
ritualised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ritualise
reversibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversibilities
Etymology: From reversible + -ity.
Senses: antonyms: irreversibility
glosses: The property of being reversible.
wark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: warks
Etymology: From Middle English werk, warch, from Old English wærc, wræc (“pain, suffering, anguish”), from Proto-Germanic *warkiz (“pain”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵ- (“to make, work, act”). Cognate with Swedish värk (“ache, pain”), Icelandic verkur (“pain”). Related to work.
Senses: synonyms: word: agony
word: pang
word: misery
word: pain
word: wark
glosses: Pain; ache.
Derived terms: bellywark
headwark
wark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: warks
form: warking
form: warked
form: warked
Etymology: From Middle English werken, warchen, from Old English wærcan (“to be in pain”). Cognate with Swedish värka (“to ache, pain”), Icelandic verkja (“to pain”). See above.
Senses: synonyms: word: hurt
word: suffer
word: ache
word: agonize
word: anguish
word: hurt
word: pain
word: passion
word: suffer
word: thole
word: throe
word: wark
word: wring
glosses: To be in pain; ache.
wark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɔː(ɹ)k/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: warks
Etymology: See work.
Senses: examples: text: That September (1582) in time of vacance, my uncle Mr. Andrew, Mr. Thomas Buchanan and I, hearing that Mr. George Buchanan was weak, and his history under the press, passed over to Edinburgh anes errand to visite him, and to see the wark.
ref: 1819, Malcolm Laing, The History of Scotland, page 141:
text: We'dn done a pratty day or two's wark afore t' sodgers geet at us.
ref: 1860, Sir James Phillips Kay- huttleworth, Scarsdale; or, Life on the Lancashire and Yorkshire border, page 85:
text: “Mair wark," replied Tibbie, looking round on her well-kept pans and candlesticks.
ref: 1864, Eliza Tabor, St. Olave's: A Novel, page 18:
text: Uprose anither fearsome cry, Uprose exultingly; He couldna hear the words they spak', Yet corpse-pale turned he. The awsome flames had dune their wark, Nae form was left to see, Nought but a grim and blackened stake, A ghastly vacancy.
ref: 1868, Eneas Sweetland Dallas, Once a Week, page 317:
synonyms: word: labour
word: effort
word: exertion
word: pains
word: wark
word: work
glosses: Work.
examples: text: 'Yet this imposition,' says Nicoll, 'seemed not to thrive; for at the same instant God frae the heavens declared his anger by sending thunder, and unheard tempests, and storms, and inundations of water, whilk destroyed their common mills, dams, and warks, to the town's great charges and expenses.' Eleven mills belonging to Edinburgh, and five belonging to Heriot's Hospital, all upon the Water of Leith, were destroyed on this occasion, 'with their dams, water-gangs, timber and stone- warks, the haill wheels of their mills, timber graith, and haill other warks.'
ref: 1858, Robert Chambers, Domestic Annals of Scotland, page 253:
text: They speak in high terms of "his extraordiner panes and grait cair he had in that Wark, baith by his advyce, and in the building of the same.
ref: 1859, William Steven, Frederick William Bedford, History of George Heriot's hospital, page 54:
text: And because the said Thomas Fallisdaill and John Semple ar alreddy enterit to the said wark, [ and ] coft materiallis as thai declairit, and ressauit ane pairt of the said taxatioun;
ref: 1870, Sir James David Marwick, Records of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, page 265:
synonyms: word: edifice
word: building
word: edifice
word: wark
glosses: A building.
treeify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: treeifies
form: treeifying
form: treeified
form: treeified
Etymology: From tree + -ify.
Senses: examples: text: Now, Daphne — before she was happily treeified —
Over all blossoms the lily had deified,
ref: 1848, James Russell Lowell, A Fable for Critics:
text: 1985: Lope de Vega (Spanish); Alan S. Trueblood & Edwin Honig (tr.), La Dorotea
Pyramus is now no suicide,
nor are all Daphnes treeified
(Ya no se mata Píramo,
Ni son las Dafnes árboles)
text: For being able to show it in the figure, this acyclic graph has been "treeified".
ref: 1992: SIGLINK Newsletter, vol. 1, no. 1
glosses: To turn into a tree.
carmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carman
spissitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spissitudes
Etymology: From Middle English spissitude, from Old French spissitude and Latin spissitūdō, from spissus (“thick”).
Senses: examples: text: The cause is, for that it is over-moistened, and wanteth spissitude: and we have a merry saying, that they that go drunk to bed get daughters.
ref: 1803, Francis Bacon, The works of Francis Bacon, page 495:
text: When the juice of the poppy has been properly dried, that is rapidly, in a cool shade, and protected from dust, it possesses, at the spissitude of 70 per cent. (this is 30 of water) the following properties:...
ref: 1849, American Journal of Pharmacy and the Sciences Supporting Public Health:
text: The ratio between spissitude and percentage strength of solution varies, however, with the temperature, as shown by Figure 7, higher temperatures showing less increase in spissitude with increasing percentage strengths than is the case with low temperatures.
ref: 1902, Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts:
glosses: Density, thickness; the state or quality of being inspissated or thickened.
raw_tags: of liquids
examples: text: Bodies in and of themselves lack spissitude. But since, in nature, all bodies are permeated by spirit of some kind, the ability of a complex body to maintain its size indicates a certain, constant spissitude.
ref: 1989, Amos Funkenstein, Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century, →ISBN:
text: The first concerns the peculiar attribute of spirit, its spissitude or spiritual density that fourth dimension which augments or diminishes as the spirit contracts or expands.
ref: 2012, S. Hutton, Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies, →ISBN:
text: When the soul, for example, is contracted principally in the fourth ventricle, the space occupied possesses not only the three normal dimensions, but also this fourth dimension or spissitude.
ref: 2012, E. A. Burtt, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science, →ISBN:
glosses: Spiritual substance or density, viewed as the fourth dimension of an object.
Related terms: inspissate
inspissated
quintetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintettos
Etymology: From Italian.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A quintet.
examples: text: While this amiable and enlightened quintetto were busily employed in flattering one another, Mr. Cranium retired to complete the preparations he had begun...
ref: 1816, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall:
glosses: A party of five.
quintina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The quartet singing the liturgical music hears a fifth voice, the quintina, emerge — an acoustic effect of combined overtones, or so one might rationalize.
ref: 2013, Regula Burckhardt Qureshi, Music and Marx: Ideas, Practice, Politics, page 152:
text: […] often he experiences that the performance has an excellent amalgam also without the quintina, because he can feel the situation of "mutual harmony between himself and his friends" […]
ref: 2017, Ardian Ahmedaja, European Voices III, page 132:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Sardinian vocal technique in which four performers produce an apparent fifth voice.
obsecrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: obsecrates
form: obsecrating
form: obsecrated
form: obsecrated
Senses: glosses: To beseech; to supplicate; to implore.
reauthorise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reauthorises
form: reauthorising
form: reauthorised
form: reauthorised
form: reauthorize
Etymology: From re- + authorise.
Senses: glosses: To authorize again; to give new authority to.
dialer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaɪələ(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdaɪ(ə)lɚ/
Forms: form: dialers
form: dialler
Etymology: From dial + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He treated his assistant as a voice-operated dialer.
glosses: A person or device that dials, as using a telephone.
examples: text: […] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of the sett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points, […]
ref: 1857, The Mining Magazine, page 128:
topics: business
mining
synonyms: latcher
glosses: A mining surveyor.
Derived terms: autodialer
wardialer
show of hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shows of hands
Senses: examples: text: The vote was taken by a show of hands.
text: You know those actors who become famous for a role that requires them to fake a totally different accent than the one they have IRL and then when you finally hear them speak in their natural accent, you feel this weird mix of emotions that’s somehow simultaneously impressed, incredulous, and a little betrayed all at once? Okay, now show of hands if Millie Bobby Brown was one of those actors for you.
ref: 2022 May 15, Kayleigh Roberts, “Millie Bobby Brown Does a Spot-On Anna Delvey Impression That You *Must* Hear”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A vote in which people raise a hand in order to state their agreement with something.
raise a hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: raises a hand
form: raising a hand
form: raised a hand
form: raised a hand
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raise one's hand.
Z-order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Z-orders
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of z-order.
z-orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of z-order
walk-overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of walk-over
Z-orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z-order
shorter-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of short-term: more short-term
shortest-term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of short-term: most short-term
revetments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revetment
roadless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From road + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The badlands are a roadless waste where few humans ever venture.
text: The state of Colorado today unveiled its final plan to guide management of 4.2 million acres of roadless lands within the state's 11 national forests and submitted it for federal approval.
ref: 2010 April 6, Noelle Straub, “Colo. Submits Final Plan for 4.2M Acres of Roadless Lands”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: unroaded
glosses: Lacking roads.
Derived terms: roadlessness
roadworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From roadworthy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] I cannot but think that those learned judges had not present in their minds the idea that there existed in the case of carriers of passengers, any absolute warranty of road-worthiness.
ref: 1867 July 24, “Readhead v. Midland Railway Company”, in The Canada Law Journal, volume 3, page 187:
text: And this broad obligation renders it unnecessary to import into the contract a special warranty of the roadworthiness of the vehicle; for if the goods are safely carried and redelivered, it would he immaterial whether the carriage was roadworthy or not […]
ref: 1880, Seymour Dwight Thompson, The Law of Carriers of Passengers: Illustrated by Leading Cases and Notes, page 151:
text: Similarly the state has been held liable for a wilful wrong advice given by a vehicles expert recognized by the state but working for a private body which certifies the roadworthiness of the vehicles.
ref: 2013, Mahendra P. Singh, German Administrative Law: In Common Law Perspective, page 142:
glosses: The property of being roadworthy.
morbus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morbuses
form: morbi
Etymology: From Latin morbus.
Senses: examples: text: I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle!
For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”
ref: 1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47:
text: Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.
ref: 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214:
text: Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic.
ref: 1979, F. Kraupl Taylor, D. M. K. Taylor, The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus, page 117:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A disease.
Related terms: cholera morbus
morbus coxarius
morbus cyclometricus
morbus Dupuytren
FISH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of fluorescent in situ hybridization, a molecular cytogenetic technique used to identify whether a DNA sample has a specific sequence.
rubbings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbing
immuno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Relating to the immune systems and processes in a living organism.
Derived terms: immunoassay
immunodeficiency
immunodeterminant
immunoelectrophoresis
immunosensitive
immunosensitivity
revolts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of revolt
revolts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of revolt