cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nonmailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + mailable.
Senses: glosses: Not mailable; that cannot (legally) be sent by mail.
kivas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiva
monade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monades
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of monad.
monocrystalline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + crystalline.
Senses: glosses: Having a single crystalline form
multihadronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multihadronic
form: most multihadronic
Etymology: From multi- + hadronic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Involving multiple hadrons
elaterin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaterins
Etymology: From elaterium + -in.
Senses: glosses: An extract from the juice of the fruit of Ecballium elaterium (the squirting cucumber), used as a purgative.
Synonyms: elaterium
Irish English
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Hiberno-English
Anglo-Irish
glosses: The set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Hyponyms: word: Northern Irish English
line manager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line managers
Senses: glosses: The manager who is directly responsible for an employee.
Related terms: line management
significands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of significand
cinematographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinematography
badelaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: badelaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French badelaire, baudelaire, a corruption of earlier (14th century) baselard.
Senses: examples: text: I heard the ring of steel on stone, as if someone had struck one of the grave markers with a badelaire.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter I, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: A short sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: This sword used as a heraldic charge.
errorfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: error-free
Etymology: From error + -free.
Senses: examples: text: It is evident that the shape of the expected power pattern, as represented by the first term, is unchanged from the power pattern of the errorfree array.
ref: 1976, Bernard D. Steinberg, Principles of aperture and array system design:
text: The realization of the interior orientation is assumed as errorfree.
ref: 1980, International Archives of Photogrammetry:
text: In order to be categorised as errorfree, an uttrance must not contain the morphological, syntactic and lexical errors listed below in §4.6.4.1 through §4.6.4.3.
ref: 2005, Sharon Unsworth, Child L2, Adult L2, Child L1: Differences and Similarities:
glosses: Free from errors.
electrogravitics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + gravity + -ics.
Senses: glosses: a proposed science involving the use of an electric field to charge (or polarize) an object so as to counteract the effects of gravity.
Derived terms: electrogravitic
electrogravitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From electro- + gravitic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to electrogravitics
augmented reality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːɡˌmɛntɪd ɹiːˈælɪti/
ipa: /ɔɡˌmɛntəd ɹiˈæləti/
ipa: /ɑɡˌmɛntəd ɹiˈæləti/
Forms: form: augmented realities
Senses: examples: text: Augmented Reality enhances a user's perception of and interaction with the real world. The virtual objects display information that the user cannot directly detect with his own senses.
ref: 1997 August, Ronald T. Azuma, “A Survey of Augmented Reality”, in Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, volume 6, number 4, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 355–385:
text: Microsoft workers are calling on their employer to cancel a $480m contract to provide the US army with augmented reality (AR) headsets, saying they “do not want to become war profiteers”.
ref: 2019 February 22, Julia Carrie Wong, “‘We won't be war profiteers’: Microsoft workers protest $480m army contract”, in The Guardian:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: AR
glosses: The merging of a view of the real-world environment upon a digital image in real time.
Hypernyms: mixed reality
Coordinate terms: word: augmented virtuality
alt: RR
word: reality
roman: RR
alt: RR
word: real reality
alt: VR
word: virtual reality
word: supranet
Related terms: extended reality
spatial computing
🥽
clip joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clip joints
form: clip-joint
form: clipjoint
Etymology: From clip (“to cheat, swindle, or fleece”) and joint (“disparaging US slang for a place of business”).
Senses: examples: text: "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
ref: 2009 February 19, Gareth Lewis, Southern Daily Echo:
glosses: An establishment, usually a strip club or bar, in which customers are tricked into paying money only to receive poor goods or services or none at all.
holloware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollowares
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hollowware.
hollowares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holloware
flatwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatware
hollowware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hollowwares
form: holloware
Etymology: From hollow + -ware.
Senses: coordinate_terms: flatware
glosses: Items such as sugar bowls, creamers, coffee pots, teapots, soup tureens, etc. (but not flatware) intended to accompany the pottery on a table.
glosses: Hollow articles of ironware, such as pots and kettles.
hollowwares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hollowware
Biblical Aramaic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Chaldean
glosses: The form of the Aramaic language that is used in the books of Daniel, Ezra and a few other places in the Hebrew Bible.
clip joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clip joint
treeware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tree + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Documentation provided on paper.
triacontahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacontahedra
form: triacontahedrons
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρῐᾱ́κοντᾰ (trĭā́kontă) + -hedron.
Senses: glosses: A polyhedron with 30 faces.
Related terms: triacontahedral
Middle Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: word: Ancient Chinese
coordinate_terms: Old Chinese
Middle Chinese
glosses: Chinese language spoken during Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui, Tang, and Song dynasties (6th century – 10th century)
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Chinese terms
six-footer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: six-footers
Etymology: From six foot + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who is six feet tall.
glosses: An object that is six feet in length or height.
dance pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance pads
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A plastic or metal pad used for playing dance games. The player provides input to the game by stepping on and off various panels on the pad.
Synonyms: dance mat
dance platform
vampyrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampyr
Johnny Foreigner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: UK late-20th century. The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang says "first recorded in 1990 but in use earlier". From John or Johnny as a personified idea. Compare Johnny Canuck (“Canadian”), Johnny Crapaud (“Frenchman”), Johnny Reb (“Confederate American”).
Senses: examples: text: No wonder Johnny Foreigner lays in supplies of the stale bread rolls whenever he appears over the horizon.
ref: 1983, Richard Ingrams, John Wells, Private Eye - Issues 550-575, page 70:
text: Mr. King's message was that Johnny Foreigner does it better than us. In Germany, in Japan and in the United States, these bottlenecks just do not happen.
ref: 1984 December 3, John Torode, “Why must training for tomorrow be a dead turn-off?”, in The Guardian, page 18:
text: A time when Johnny Foreigner knew his place. A time when beautiful women from other countries existed primarily to be seduced...
ref: 1999, James Chapman, Licence to thrill: a cultural history of the James Bond films:
text: ...the constant threat of spontaneous outbreaks of singing on Centre Court by pop has-beens and the occasional ungentlemanly antics of Johnny Foreigner...
ref: 2004, Charles Godfrey-Faussett, Footprint England:
glosses: Foreigners collectively; people who are not British.
Synonyms: alien
outlander
peregrine
foreigner
superordinately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superordinately
form: most superordinately
Etymology: From superordinate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superordinate manner.
Synonyms: supraordinately
superordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superordinate
Limbu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Limbus
form: Limbu
Senses: glosses: A member of a tribal people of Nepal (and to a lesser extent India and Bhutan).
Limbu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Tibeto-Burman language, written in a unique script.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Limbu terms
Tibeto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Tibet + -o-.
Senses: examples: text: Tibeto-Burman
text: Tibeto-Buddhist
text: Tibeto-Himalayan
text: Oral tradition and archaeological evidence suggest the Chin were the earliest Tibeto-Burman group to come to the Chindwin Valley, a settlement process starting as early as the 4ᵗʰ century.
ref: 2021 December 24, Samson Alexander Lotven, “THE SOUND SYSTEMS OF ZOPHEI DIALECTS AND OTHER MARAIC LANGUAGES”, in Indiana University, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2025, page 7:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Tibet.
Burmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Burman
Kaithi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kayathi
form: Kythee
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कैथी (kaithī). Doublet of Kayasthi.
Senses: glosses: A script historically used in parts of North India to write legal and administrative records.
Related terms: Wiktionary's coverage in Kaithi script
South Britain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: England and Wales: (UK, law) The jurisdiction covering England and Wales, two constituent countries of the United Kingdom, which share a single legal system and are treated as a single country for various purposes.
Derived terms: South Briton
Related terms: North Britain
Great Britain
labyrinthinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more labyrinthinely
form: most labyrinthinely
Etymology: From labyrinthine + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a labyrinthine manner.
unlacquered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lacquered.
Senses: glosses: Not lacquered.
unlaminated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + laminated.
Senses: glosses: Not laminated.
nonlaminar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + laminar.
Senses: glosses: Not laminar.
nongeek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nongeeks
Etymology: From non- + geek.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a geek (technical expert).
nongeeks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nongeek
filin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish filin, itself from English feeling.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A genre that emerged in late 1940s in La Habana, influenced by the melodic and expressive style of vocal jazz.
Greater Hebrides
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Collectively, the islands off the west coast of Scotland, divided into the Inner Hebrides and the Outer Hebrides.
Engerland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɪŋɡələnd/
/ˈɪŋɡəˌlænd/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Ingerland.
Irelanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irelander
Irelander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Irelanders
Etymology: From Ireland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Ireland or of Irish descent.
Derived terms: United Irelander
Related terms: Britisher
Englander
Scotlander
Scotlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotlander
Scotlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotlanders
Etymology: From Scotland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person from Scotland or of Scottish descent; a Scot.
Related terms: Britisher
Englander
Irelander
Englanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Englander
Englander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Englanders
Etymology: From England + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Änglounder (“an Englishman”), German Engländer (“an Englishman”), Danish englænder (“an Englishman”).
Senses: synonyms: word: English
word: Englisher
word: Englishman
glosses: A person from England or of English descent.
Derived terms: Little Englander
Middle Englander
Related terms: New Englander
Young Englander
Britisher
Scotlander
Irelander
unquelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + quelled.
Senses: examples: 1874, James Thomson, City of Dreadful Night, XX
His vigilant intense regard was poured
Upon the creature placidly unquelled,
Whose front was set at level gaze which took
No heed of aught, a solemn trance-like look.
glosses: Not quelled.
petcare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pet + care.
Senses: glosses: The care and medical treatment of pets (domestic animals).
petfoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petfood
escitalopram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛs.əˈtæl.əˌpɹæm/
Etymology: From a phonetic spelling of the letter S, with citalopram, since this drug is the (S)-stereoisomer of the earlier drug citalopram.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that functions as an SSRI and is administered orally in the form of its oxalate C₂₀H₂₁FN₂O·C₂H₂O₄ to treat depression and anxiety.
Derived terms: escitalopram oxalate
cheese syndrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A hypertensive crisis caused by the ingestion of foods high in tyramine (such as some cheeses) while the monoamine metabolism is compromised by the use of monoamine oxidase inhibitors.
amfetamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amfetamine
protriptyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular tricyclic antidepressant, also used to treat ADHD.
Related terms: amitriptyline
desvenlafaxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɛsˌvɛn.ləˈfækˌsiːn/
Etymology: From des- + venlafaxine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that functions as an SNRI and is administered orally chiefly in the form of its succinate C₁₆H₂₅NO₂·C₄H₆O₄·H₂O or fumarate C₁₆H₂₅NO₂·C₄H₄O₄ especially to treat depression. It is the primary active metabolite of venlafaxine. Its succinate is marketed under the trademark Pristiq.
Derived terms: desvenlafaxine fumarate
desvenlafaxine succinate
milnacipran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪlˈnæs.əˌpɹæn/
Etymology: From milna- (of unknown origin) + cy(clo)pr(op)an(e).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A psychoactive drug, an SNRI antidepressant also used to treat chronic pain, especially fibromyalgia.
Derived terms: levomilnacipran
maprotiline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈpɹəʊ.tɪl.iːn/
ipa: /məˈpɹoʊ.təˌliːn/
Etymology: Blend of mapro- (of unknown origin) + amitriptyline.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A tetracyclic antidepressant with properties similar to those of tricyclic amitriptyline, usually administered orally as the hydrochloride; 3-(9,10-dihydro-9,10-ethanoanthracen-9-yl)propyl(methyl)amine, C₂₀H₂₃N.
Derived terms: maprotiline hydrochloride
groundworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundworms
form: ground-worm
Etymology: ground + worm
Senses: examples: text: They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:
ref: 1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239
glosses: earthworm
mazindol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A tricyclic central nervous system stimulant used to treat obesity.
reboxetine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From [Term?] + -oxetine (“fluoxetine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antidepressant drug used in the treatment of clinical depression, panic disorder and ADD/ADHD.
viloxazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɪˈlɒksəziːn/
Senses: glosses: A bicyclic antidepressant, a morpholine derivative that acts as a selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor.
DAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Defense Acquisition University.
DAU
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DAUs
Senses: topics: business
marketing
glosses: Initialism of daily active user.
Ewart
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Old French from the Norman French for Edward
glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A locality, formerly a settlement, in the Rural Municipality of Pipestone, Manitoba, Canada, named after J. S. Ewart.
glosses: A civil parish (without a council) north-west of Wooler, north Northumberland, England.
Related terms: Ewarton
dexmethylphenidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dex- + methylphenidate.
Senses: examples: text: Dexmethylphenidate is a pharmaceutical that should be kept in secure places because of its potential for abuse.
glosses: A psychostimulant, a dopamine reuptake inhibitor that affects the central nervous system and is used to treat ADHD. It is judged to have a high potential for abuse (Schedule II in the US). Chemical formula: C₁₄H₁₉NO₂.
dextroamfetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dextro- + amfetamine.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dextroamphetamine.
desoxyephedrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From desoxy- + ephedrine.
Senses: glosses: methamphetamine
Derived terms: levodesoxyephedrine
methamfetamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of methamphetamine.
dothiepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Former name for dosulepin.
dosulepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular tricyclic antidepressant.
Synonyms: word: dothiepin
doxepin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒk.səp.ɪn/
ipa: /ˈdɑk.səp.ɪn/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -oxepin (“tricyclic compound”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A psychotropic agent with tricyclic antidepressant and anxiolytic properties.
Derived terms: cidoxepin
trimipramine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tɹaɪˈmɪpɹəmiːn/
Etymology: Blend of trimethyl + imipramine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A tricyclic antidepressant with sedative and anxiolytic properties.
dibenzoxazepine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪbɛnzɒkˈsazəpiːn/
Forms: form: dibenzoxazepines
Senses: glosses: An incapacitating and lachrymatory agent, developed by the British Ministry of Defence for riot control in the late 1950s and early 1960s, whose derivatives have some pharmaceutical applications.
dibenzoxazepines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dibenzoxazepine
moclobemide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈkloʊ.bəˌmaɪd/
Etymology: From mo(rpholine) + chlo(ro)- + be(nza)mide.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug used to treat depression and social anxiety.
amphetaminil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A stimulant drug derived from amphetamine, formerly used to treat obesity, ADHD, and narcolepsy.
amphiarthroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphiarthrosis
nonclient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonclients
Etymology: From non- + client.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a client.
Synonyms: noncustomer
nonclients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonclient
tandospirone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Probably from (me)than(oisoi)ndo(le) + -spirone (“buspirone derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A psychoactive drug of the piperazine and azapirone chemical classes, used as an anxiolytic and antidepressant.
agomelatine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A melatonergic antidepressant.
tianeptine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Neptune's Fix
gas station heroin
glosses: A tricyclic antidepressant used to treat major depressive episodes and commonly abused in high doses for its opioid-like effects.
opipramol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əʊˈpɪpɹəmɒl/
Senses: glosses: A psychoactive drug used as an anxiolytic and antidepressant.
opiomelanocortins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opiomelanocortin
clobenzorex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kləˈbɛnzəɹɛks/
Senses: glosses: A stimulant drug used as an anorectic.
pearlesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pearlesque
form: most pearlesque
Etymology: From pearl + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Having the colour or lustre of pearl; pearly.
groundworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundworm
Kayathi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kaithi.
Kayasthi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi कायस्थी (kāyasthī). Doublet of Kaithi.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Kaithi.
synonyms: word: Kaithi
unspokenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unspoken + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unspoken manner; tacitly.
siegelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siegelike
form: most siegelike
Etymology: From siege + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There was a siegelike atmosphere as we waited behind the locked door.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a siege.
sledgelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sledgelike
form: most sledgelike
Etymology: From sledge + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sledge (heavy hammer).
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a sledge (sled or sleigh).
conflicts of interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conflict of interest
cluster fucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cluster fuck
squill-gee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squill-gees
form: squillgee
form: squilgee
form: squillage
form: squillagee
Etymology: Unknown
Senses: examples: text: After the holy-stone, comes the squill-gee; a wooden instrument like a hoe, but with a face, broad and flat, and lined with leather: the decks are partly dried with it; and the operation is completed by the swabs, articles formed by tying a number of loose yarns together, now dashed, by their handles, with violence about the deck.
ref: 1829, George Jones, Sketches of Naval Life, with Notices of Men, Manners and Scenery, on the Shores of the Mediterranean, in a Series of Letters from the Brandwine and Constitution Frigates, volume 1, page 97:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A tool used for cleaning the decks of ships.
squill-gees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squill-gee
lightpen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightpens
Senses: examples: text: I have a Vectrex in great working shape along with a multicart that contains every game for the Vectrex except a couple of the lightpen games.
ref: 2001, Spud, “FS/FT: Vectrex & Multicart!”, in van.forsale (Usenet):
glosses: Alternative spelling of light pen.
lightpens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightpen
xiphopagi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphopagus
magic word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɜːd/
ipa: /ˌmædʒɪk ˈwɝd/
Forms: form: magic words
Senses: glosses: Any word that has a magical effect when uttered.
examples: text: If you learn to use magic words when you are little, it would be easy in your adulthood.
text: What's the magic word?
glosses: One of the words please, thank you, or hello.
raw_tags: in teaching or training polite words to children
examples: text: When someone offers you drugs, the magic word is "no".
glosses: Any word that is considered very significant in a certain situation or context.
examples: text: One of the magic words used in the MediaWiki software is __NOTOC__, which hides the table of contents that would normally be on the page.
text: The header consists of an optional self-execution script, a magic word, a version number, and the word offset of the first instruction, relative to the magic word.
ref: 2021, Clinton L. Jeffery, Build Your Own Programming Language, page 273:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: magic number
glosses: A string of text having some special function or purpose.
VARA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Acronym of Visual Artists Rights Act.
VARA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Acronym of volume at risk approach.
magic words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædʒɪkˌwɜːdz/
Senses: glosses: plural of magic word
rebootable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reboot + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You'll probably also want to get an uninterruptible power supply with a rebootable system, in case the power goes out so that your server can get back online without your waking up at three in the morning.
ref: 2000, Mark Binder, Beth Helman, The Everything Build Your Own Home Page Book:
glosses: Capable of being rebooted.
varanids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varanid
moocher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moochers
Etymology: From mooch + -er.
Senses: examples: text: When Mitt Romney says that 47% of Americans are moochers, or Barack Obama says that entrepreneurs didn’t build their own businesses, partisan viewers crave a partisan response.
ref: 2012 September 22, “CNN’s woes: Unbiased and unloved”, in The Economist:
glosses: A person having a tendency to take advantage of the help of others, especially if making little effort to help themselves.
examples: text: The whole area is a network of nature reserves among estuaries and marshes, and a paradise for a moocher like me.
ref: 1980, Robert Dougall, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 378:
glosses: A person who mooches about.
Derived terms: molly moocher
ylang ylangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ylang ylang
ylang-ylangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ylang-ylang
ilang-ilangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ilang-ilang
leaf peepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf peeper
-choron
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek χῶρον (khôron, “room”).
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: -hedroid
glosses: Used to form the names of 4-dimensional solids bounded by a certain number of cells/polyhedra (polychora).
Related terms: -choral
SSD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SSDs
Senses: examples: text: We’ve found the T7 Touch SSD to be fast, secure and quite portable. But the inclusion of a fingerprint sensor for security onboard increased the price: $129.99 for 500GBs, $229.99 for 1TB and $399.99 for 2TB.
ref: 2020 May 19, Jacob Krol, “Samsung’s T7 SSD is a fast external drive at a cheaper price”, in CNN:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of solid-state drive.
examples: text: First, static separation of duties (SSD) is based on user-role membership (Gavrila & Barkley, 1998).
ref: 2006, Merrill Warkentin, Enterprise Information Systems Assurance and System Security, →ISBN:
text: Administrative functions include all those associated with Core RBAC, as well as creating, delting, and modifying an SSD relation, as well as setting the cardinality of the SSD role set. The cardinality determines the number of users to whom the entire set of SSD roles could be assigned, thus violating SSD, but in a known and limited way.
ref: 2012, Alessandro Colantonio, Roberto Di Pietro, Alberto Ocello, Role Mining in Business: Taming Role-based Access Control Administration, →ISBN, page 25:
text: Your organization might decide to use static separation of duty (SSD). SSD dictates that the member of one group cannot be the member of another group.
ref: 2016, Michael Gregg, CISSP Exam Cram, →ISBN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
qualifier: security
glosses: Initialism of static separation of duty.
examples: text: An SSD like this one converts a visual signal to a sound, which the brain can then learn to convert back into vision. […] Because of this, SSDs are one of the first technologies to meaningfully demonstrate just what synesthesia – or at least one kind of it – might feel like to those who have never had it.
ref: 2017 October 10, Vanessa Potter, “My sudden synesthesia: how I went blind and started hearing colors”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of sensory substitution device.
Proto-Dravidian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Dravidian.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical, ancestral proto-language from which the Dravidian languages are descended.
-culum
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -cule (diminutive suffix).
-cule
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -icle
form: -culus
form: -culum
form: -ule
form: -ole
Senses: glosses: Used to form diminutive nouns.
Synonyms: word: mini-
word: micro-
word: nano-
word: -ette
word: -ee
word: -y
word: -icle
word: -ule
word: -ole
Derived terms: animalcule
particule
molecule
cubicle
fascicule
spermatozoön
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spermatozoa
Senses: examples: text: The human spermatozoön possesses a head, a neck, a connecting piece or body, and a tail...
ref: 1913, Henry Gray, Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied, new American/18th English edition, Philadelphia; New York: Lea & Febiger, page 42:
glosses: Alternative spelling of spermatozoon.
wife-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌwaɪf ɪn ˈlɔː/
/ˈwaɪfɪnlɔː/
Forms: form: wives-in-law
Etymology: From wife + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: A wife in law only, such as one who has abandoned her husband
glosses: A wife who provides domestic or social support, but not love or affection
examples: text: Instead she arranges, offhand, a nice little farewell dinner for her husband that was and the lady, Flora, who is to be her successor three months hence. […] Flora is generously constrained to leave the sometime-husband and wife to talk the matter over. "Are we not wives-in-law?" says Madame. And the upshot is that although Flora interrupts them by phone from her flat below several times until the receiver is left off, Madame easily wins back her husband. Indeed, so complete is their absorption that they have forgotten completely the trifling circumstance that they are no longer man and wife.
ref: 1922, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, Appraisements and asperities as to some contemporary writers, pages 116–117:
text: the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.
ref: 2002, John Hanson Mitchell, The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness, page 38:
text: "Your plan provides Browne with two charming wives and gives me but one. […]"
"But, my lord," said Saunders, "doesn't the plan give Lady Deppingham two husbands? It's quite a fair division."
"It would make Lord Deppingham my husband-in-law, I imagine," said Drusilla quaintly. "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
"And you would be my wife-in-law," supplemented Lady Agnes. "How interesting!"
ref: 1908, George Barr McCutcheon, Harrison Fisher, The Man from Brodney's, page 148:
text: Many husbands, like the wives-in-law themselves, were deeply divided and upset over a family life that could no longer be defined as a single unit.
ref: 1994, Philip Leroy Kilbride, Plural marriage for our times: a reinvented option?, page 22:
glosses: Another wife of one's husband. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage for one's husband's ex-wife, but sometimes used in polygamy for a co-wife.
Synonyms: english: synonymous with the polygamous sense of the term
translation: synonymous with the polygamous sense of the term
word: co-wife
english: synonymous with the polygamous sense of the term
translation: synonymous with the polygamous sense of the term
word: sister-wife
Coordinate terms: husband-in-law
Related terms: in-law
husband-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: husbands-in-law
Etymology: From husband + -in-law.
Senses: glosses: A husband in law only, such as one who has abandoned his wife
glosses: A husband who provides legally required support, but not love or affection
examples: text: the collection of people who would gather in either of the two houses for Christmas and Thanksgiving, and sometimes again in summer. This collection involved former mothers-in-law, former husbands, ex-wives of former husbands, and doddering uncles from distant marriages, as well as, of course, the various and sundry children and dogs (dogs-in-law as one family member calls them) of the now recombined families. In the process, I believe, we were responsible for the creation of a new American family relative—the wife-in-law, or the husband-in-law.
ref: 2002, John Hanson Mitchell, The Wildest Place on Earth: Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness, page 38:
text: "Your plan provides Browne with two charming wives and gives me but one. […]"
"But, my lord," said Saunders, "doesn't the plan give Lady Deppingham two husbands? It's quite a fair division."
"It would make Lord Deppingham my husband-in-law, I imagine," said Drusilla quaintly. "I've always had a horror of husbands-in-law."
"And you would be my wife-in-law," supplemented Lady Agnes. "How interesting!"
ref: 1908, George Barr McCutcheon, Harrison Fisher, The Man from Brodney's, page 148:
glosses: Another husband of one's wife. Typically used in cases of divorce and subsequent remarriage.
Synonyms: english: used in cases of polyandry
translation: used in cases of polyandry
word: co-husband
Coordinate terms: wife-in-law
Related terms: in-law
katorga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: katorgas
Etymology: From Russian ка́торга (kátorga, “penal servitude”).
Senses: examples: text: Sentenced to ten years of hard labor in the Siberian mines, he defied the Russian tyrant by his funeral oration at the grave of Dmokhovsky, his boldness resulting in an additional fifteen years of katorga.
ref: 1912, Alexander Berkman, Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist:
text: However, brutal floggings, increased terms of katorga, starvation diets, permanent chaining to a wheelbarrow and other fearsome sanctions failed to staunch the flow.
ref: 1991, Alan Wood, “Russia’s ‘Wild East’: exile, vagrancy and crime in nineteenth-century Siberia”, in Alan Wood, editor, The History of Siberia: From Russian Conquest to Revolution, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 124:
text: Under the Bolsheviks there was going to be an end to the katorga.
ref: 2007, Edward Crankshaw, Cracks in the Kremlin Wall:
glosses: Penal servitude in a Russian or Soviet labour camp.
glosses: A tsarist or Soviet labour camp.
nish
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɪʃ
Etymology: From German nichts (“nothing”) or possibly Yiddish נישט (nisht, “no, not”). Originally borrowed from Polari.
Senses: examples: text: If you like the director you do it for nish, so Marcus Thompson got us all to do it for nothing.
ref: 1998 March 4, Janie Lawrence, quoting Ian Dury, “The Dury's Out”, in The Independent:
text: I've got nish to say to you. You can save your breath.
ref: 2017, Dreda Say Mitchell, Blood Mother: Flesh and Blood Trilogy Book Two, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
text: These fucking little smart arses download fucking tunes for nish.
ref: 2017 September 20, BBC Backstage Music Pass, Liam Gallagher (actor):
glosses: nothing.
carditis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carditides
Etymology: From Latin cardītis. By surface analysis, cardi- + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: cardiopathy
glosses: inflammation of the heart (any or all parts of it).
wikipedia: carditis
Brahmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Brāhmī + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Related or belonging to a certain family of abugidas used to write many languages of South and Southeast Asia, descended from the Brāhmī script.
raw_tags: of writing systems
ayns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ayn
ayn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: ayns
Etymology: A romanization of the sixteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Hebrew ע (ʿayin), Phoenician 𐤏 (ʿayin), Aramaic 𐡏 (ʿē), and Classical Syriac ܥ (ʿē), Arabic ع (ʕayn) (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ayin, the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages.
synonyms: word: ayin
extra: the various letters representing the consonant /ʕ/ in Semitic languages
ayn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
Forms: form: ayns
Etymology: A romanization of Kazakh аин (ain), the Kazakh name for the letter Ғ (Ğ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
synonyms: word: ghayn
extra: the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh
dysbiosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysbioses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δυσ- (dus-, “bad”) and βίωσις (bíōsis, “way of living”); the intended meaning of the compound word is contrasted with symbiosis - a relationship of mutual benefit. By surface analysis, dys- + -biosis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: eubiosis
glosses: A medical condition caused by microbial imbalances within the body.
Related terms: word: dysbiotic
word: rebiosis
word: symbiosis
coar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coars
Senses: examples: text: Coar of an Apple, or a Pear
ref: 1675, Henry Hexham, A Copious English and Netherdutch Dictionary:
glosses: Obsolete form of core.
piñas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piña
piñatas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piñata
Kimber
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kymber
Etymology: * From the name of a 7th-century English female saint, Kyneburga or Cyneburg, from Old English cyne- (“royal”) + burh (“fortress”).
* English: probably a habitational name from East and West Kimber in the parish of Northlew in Devon, so named from Old English cempa (“warrior”) (or the Old English personal name Cempa) + bearn (“grove/wood”). It may also be an altered form of Kimbrough. Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Kinberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
examples: text: When Brin Ohmsford had come into Darklin Reach three hundred years earlier, Hearthstone had been the home of Cogline and the child he claimed as his granddaughter, Kimber Boh.
ref: 1990, Terry Brooks, The Scions of Shannara, Ballantine Books, page 14:
glosses: A female given name from Old English of modern usage, transferred back from the surname.
Related terms: Kimberley
scrunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scrunt
scrunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scrunt
scrunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scrunt
scrunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scrunt
slumlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slumlike
form: most slumlike
Etymology: From slum + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “District 9,” starring a cast of unknowns, is about an extraterrestrial race forced to live in slumlike conditions on Earth.
ref: 2009 June 6, Brooks Barnes, “Lord of ‘Rings’ to Pay First Visit to Comic-Con”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a slum; squalid.
bridie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹaɪdi/
Forms: form: bridies
Etymology: Perhaps bride + -ie, from being traditionally served at weddings; perhaps from Bridie, a maker's surname.
Senses: glosses: A Scottish meat pastry, similar to a Cornish pasty.
Derived terms: Forfar bridie
bridies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridie
modelization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modelizations
form: modelisation
Etymology: From model + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The act, process or result of modelizing.
modelizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modelization
sous-vide
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈviːd/
Forms: form: sous vide
Etymology: Borrowed from French sous-vide (literally “under vacuum”).
Senses: examples: text: She cooked the steak sous-vide.
glosses: In the manner of heating in an airtight bag for an extended period of time at relatively low, but tightly controlled temperature.
sous-vide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈviːd/
Forms: form: sous-vides
form: sous vide
Etymology: Borrowed from French sous-vide (literally “under vacuum”).
Senses: examples: text: Process and packaging techniques that rely on heat treatments to achieve extended shelf-lives for chilled food products, such as hot-fill, sous-vide and in-pack pasteurisation, are outside the scope of this chapter, but are described in Chapter 11.
ref: 2000, B. P. F. Day, “6: Chilled food packaging”, in Michael Stringer, Colin Dennis, editors, Chilled Foods: A Comprehensive Guide, page 135:
text: Sous-vide was one of the first technologies to take shelf-life beyond 10 days.
ref: 2010, Gary S. Tucker, Susan Featherstone, Essentials of Thermal Processing, unnumbered page:
text: In cooked vegetables (such as cooked potato products, sous-vide mushrooms, “home-made”-type soups, purees or cooked rice foods)[…].
ref: 2011, Antonio Gálvez, Hikmate Abriouel, Nabil Ben Omar, Rosario Lucas, “Chapter 18: Food Applications and Regulation”, in Djamel Drider, Sylvie Rebuffat, editors, Prokaryotic Antimicrobial Peptides: From Genes to Applications, page 380:
glosses: A method of cooking in which food is heated in airtight bags for an extended period of time at relatively low, but tightly controlled temperatures, in order to maintain the integrity of ingredients.
glosses: A cooker designed to facilitate this method of cooking.
sous-vide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /suːˈviːd/
Forms: form: sous-vides
form: sous-viding
form: sous-vided
form: sous-vided
form: sous vide
Etymology: Borrowed from French sous-vide (literally “under vacuum”).
Senses: examples: text: The coppa di testa sounds daintier than what it really is: a pig's head seasoned and rolled, then sous-vided for 18 hours and sliced like ham.
ref: 2011, Ed Levine, Serious Eats, page 311:
text: In a nation where organicized, locovorized, artisanized, and molecularized foods are now aerated, sous-vided, nitro-poached, tweezered, and prepared in every other trendy, offbeat, outlandish, and often geeky way imaginable, let's hear a round of applause for those familiar, traditional, beloved ones that are still being simply ... fried.
ref: 2013, James Villas, Southern Fried: More than 150 recipes for crab cakes, fried chicken, hush puppies, and more, page 8:
text: […]and then stealing the from a modern woman's wallet while she was sous-viding a pressed and sliced turkey in the same pot with broccoli drenched in a cheese gastrique.
ref: 2013, Laurie Notaro, The Potty Mouth at the Table, page 162:
glosses: To cook using this method.
Related terms: boil-in-bag
slow-cook
euxanthate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euxanthates
Etymology: From euxanthic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of euxanthic acid.
euxanthates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euxanthate
euxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euxanthine
Senses: glosses: Indian yellow or magnesium euxanthate, a transparent yellow pigment used in oil paint.
Derived terms: euxanthic
euxanthine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of euxanthin.
Indian yellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Said to have come from India, though the origins are disputed.
Senses: glosses: The pigment euxanthin.
Related terms: purree
undebatably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undebatably
form: most undebatably
Etymology: From un- + debatable + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: unarguably
undisputably
antonyms: debatably
glosses: In a way that is not debatable; in an undebatable way.
jailbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of jailbreak
jailbroken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having undergone jailbreaking.
raw_tags: of an electronic device
alkaptonuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˌkæptəˈnʊəɹɪə/
Forms: form: alcaptonuria
Etymology: From alkapton + -uria.
Senses: examples: text: In his work at St Bartholomew's Hospital and Great Ormond Street in London, Garrod had come across a number of patients with a rare and not very serious disease, known as alkaptonuria.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 39:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A rare inherited genetic disorder of phenylalanine and tyrosine metabolism, causing the accumulation and eventual excretion of alkapton.
Related terms: alkaptonuric
alcaptonuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alkaptonuria.
iron-54
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of iron, ⁵⁴₂₆Fe, having 26 protons and 28 neutrons; it amounts to about 6% of the element in nature
Related terms: iron-56
iron-57
iron-58