cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
triply
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From triple + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It is important to lock the door, and triply so at night.
text: What is worse is how the custom-designed treatment programs for our community that are springing up make no provision for those of us doubly, triply or even quadruply oppressed […] This neglect is a symptom of the dysfunctionality afflicting our community: the degree to which we've permitted too many assimilationists to define the standards of identity for us all.
ref: 1990 February 4, Leonard Tirado, “Privatized 'Recovery' Versus Collective Action”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 5:
glosses: At three times the severity or degree.
raw_tags: of relative importance
Synonyms: thrice
trebly
Related terms: triple
doubly
Standard English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Holonym: English
text: Meronyms: King's English, Queen's English
text: How to define the criteria of Standard English is a complex topic, but people who want their speech and writing to persuade, impress, and avoid censure will do well to take the advice of well-established style guides and dictionaries.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: StE
glosses: The form of the English language widely accepted as the usual correct form.
high-born
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of highborn.
trousseaux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trousseau
trivialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹɪviəlaɪz/
Forms: form: trivializes
form: trivializing
form: trivialized
form: trivialized
form: trivialise
Etymology: From trivial + -ize.
Senses: synonyms: downplay
understate
banalize
antonyms: exaggerate
glosses: To make something appear trivial
Related terms: trivializingly
trivialization
trivialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trivializations
Etymology: From trivial + -ization.
Senses: synonyms: understatement
minimization
glosses: The act of trivializing.
trisection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trisections
Senses: examples: text: A traditional (but impossible) mathematical problem was to achieve trisection using a straight edge and compass.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: trisegmentation
coordinate_terms: bisection
quadrisection
glosses: The act of division of something (such as an angle, line segment, or circle) into three parts, especially three equal parts.
synonyms: third#Noun
one-third#Noun
coordinate_terms: bisection
bisegment
half
;
quadrisection
quarter
glosses: Any of the three portions thus produced.
Derived terms: trisection point
Related terms: trisect
trisected
trisegmented
tragicomedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɒmədi/
ipa: /ˌtɹædʒɪˈkɑmədi/
Forms: form: tragicomedies
form: comicotragedy
form: comitragedy
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French tragicomédie (whence French tragicomédie), itself borrowed from Italian tragicommedia, from Latin tragicōmoedia, tragicocōmoedia. By surface analysis, tragic + comedy, with haplology.
Senses: glosses: The genre of drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
examples: text: This matters because after the tragicomedies of Brexit and Grexit, the world has been enjoying the spectacle of “Orkxit”. This month it was suggested that the Orkney Islands might like to secede from Britain and become a self-governing territory of Norway.
ref: 2023 July 13, “Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 13 Jul 2023:
glosses: A drama that combines elements of tragedy and comedy.
Derived terms: tragicomedian
tragicomedic
tragicomedienne
tragicomic
tragicomical
tragicomically
Related terms: dramedy
seriocomic
traditionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditionalists
Etymology: From traditional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Pullman traditionalists will no doubt maintain that the full-service-at-every-seat principle is popular with their clientele; […].
ref: 1962 December, “A new Pullman era?”, in Modern Railways, page 362:
text: He speaks at conferences across the country and posts prolifically on social media on topics ranging from the ethics of Covid-19 vaccines (which he has questioned) to the Latin Mass favored by traditionalists (and discouraged by Pope Francis) to local conflicts between priests and bishops.
ref: 2023 October 2, Ruth Graham, “‘Two Trains Charging at Each Other’: A Texas Bishop Takes On the Pope”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.
ref: 2025 May 8, Angela Giuffrida and Harriet Sherwood, “White smoke from Sistine Chapel chimney signals election of new pope”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A person who adheres to tradition, especially in cultural or religious practices.
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A traditional climbing climber.
Derived terms: African traditionalist
current-traditionalist
neo-traditionalist
neotraditionalist
paleo-traditionalist
paleotraditionalist
traditionalistic
ultratraditionalist
ultra-traditionalist
Related terms: tradition
traditional
traditionalise
traditionalism
traditionalistical
traditionalistically
traditionality
traditionalize
traditionally
traditionarily
traditionary
traditionism
traditionist
traditionistic
traditionistically
traditionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more traditionalist
form: most traditionalist
Etymology: From traditional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The day before, Cardinal Burke and other traditionalist prelates made public an exchange of letters with Francis in which they aired grave doubts about the legitimacy of a major assembly of the world’s bishops and laypeople that will, on Wednesday, begin discussing some of the most sensitive topics in the church.
ref: 2023 October 3, Jason Horowitz, “Conservative Catholics, Relegated to Sidelines, Denounce Papal Gathering”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Adhering to tradition, especially in religious practices.
traditionalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditionalisms
Etymology: From traditional + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The adherence to traditional views or practices, especially with regard to cultural or religious matters.
glosses: The continuation of theological rituals on the basis that the ritual has always completed, rather than the ritual being a manifestation of theology.
examples: text: But Drey also gave to the systematic theology of this school its peculiar stamp, equi-distinct from Traditionalism and Rationalism, recognizing on the one hand the objective facts in the history of Revelation and the tradition from generation to generation, maintaining on the other the rights of our natural reason and of philosophical speculation, with all due loyalty to dogma.
ref: 1913, “Johann Sebastian von Drey”, in Catholic Encyclopedia (1913):
glosses: A philosophical system which makes tradition the supreme criterion and rule of certitude; the doctrine that human reason is of itself radically unable to know with certainty any truth or, at least, the fundamental truths of the metaphysical, moral, and religious order.
Derived terms: current-traditionalism
Related terms: tradition
traditional
traditionalist
traditionalistic
traditionality
traditionally
traditionism
traditionist
tea shop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tea shops
Senses: glosses: A shop that sells tea.
glosses: A cafe where tea is served with light (usually sweet) foods.
Synonyms: sense: cafe
word: teahouse
word: pub
bertrandite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bertrandites
Etymology: From Bertrand + -ite, named after French mineralogist Émile Bertrand (1844-1909) in 1883.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A basic beryllium sorosilicate that is an ore of beryllium.
tubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tubus
table stakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: A rule whereby players are only allowed to bet the money they have on the table.
examples: text: So what makes people want to 'listen' to a brand? Sounding like a human, ugh; that's table stakes. If that's all you can say about your social approach, you're not trying hard enough.
ref: 2016, Geoffrey Colon, Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal, →ISBN, page 143:
topics: business
government
politics
glosses: The stake that a stakeholder must put up even just to earn a place at the table (a chance to compete), let alone ensure a win.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see table, stakes.
Related terms: penny ante
tallith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talliths
form: tallithes
form: tallithim
form: tallithot
form: tallithoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tallit.
legumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈɡjuːmən/
rhymes: -uːmən
Forms: form: legumens
form: legumina
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin legūmen. Doublet of legume.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of legume.
Georgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Georgian
disembody
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disembodies
form: disembodying
form: disembodied
form: disembodied
Etymology: From dis- + embody.
Senses: glosses: To cause someone's soul, spirit, consciousness, voice, etc, to become separated from the physical body.
examples: text: "[he] wore the high, stiff collars which were the fashion of the day: in pictures these tend to disembody his head, making him look constrained, uncomfortable, yet they remained his choice."
ref: 1982, William Buchan, John Buchan: a memoir, page 109:
text: Jerusha turned, a flush on her cheeks that wasn't makeup, a swath of steam from the vaporizer swirling around her chest, disembodying her head.
ref: 2015, Marlys Millhiser, Nightmare Country, →ISBN:
glosses: To separate (a part of the body) from the body.
glosses: To discharge from military service or array.
Derived terms: disembodiment
disembodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disembody
disembodying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disembody
jargoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɑɹˈɡuːn/
Forms: form: jargoons
form: jargon
form: jargounce
form: jacounce
Etymology: From French jargon, from Italian giargone, from Arabic زَرْقُون (zarqūn). Doublet of zircon.
Senses: glosses: A variety of zircon.
examples: text: […] he would sigh and gently lay it aside with a slow shake of his head and the slightest raise of an eyebrow. He said that sometimes even “jargoons” or fake jewellery could be worthy of respect, […]
ref: 2011, Tony Broadbent, The Smoke:
text: By the time the buyer had discovered his mistake, there was nothing he could do about it. Similarly with the 'jargoons', except that here the jewellery sold was fake from the start and the seller had to rely on faster talking and a quicker sale. […] Reggie had a way with him. People trusted him, and he could always pick up a few pounds when he needed them from the jargoons and the tweedle.
ref: 2013, John Pearson, The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins:
glosses: A fake ring or other jewellery sold as genuine.
disembodiment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disembodiments
Etymology: From disembody + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: His way of ignoring people whose presence inconvenienced him actually gave them, if they were sensitive to it, a feeling of invisibility, of nonexistence. Archer, as the three strolled back through the park, was aware of this odd sense of disembodiment; […]
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, chapter XV, in The Age of Innocence, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
text: Those groggy, stumbling beats, for a start (K has long been infamous on the US rave scene as an anti-dance drug, a chemical that killed rave energy), not to mention wonky's combination of intense physicality (that w-w-w-wobbly bass) with a sensation of disembodiment.
ref: 2009 March 5, Simon Reynolds, “Feeling wonKy: is it ketamine's turn to drive club culture?”, in The Guardian:
text: […] is giving military analysts an opportunity to review the mixed history of a weapon that has long been associated with low-cost war, a sense of disembodiment from conflict, and for inflicting a high number of civilian casualties.
ref: 2017 March 13, Edward Helmore, “US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the 'war on terror'”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The process or state of disembodying.
glosses: A soul, spirit, or consciousness that has been disembodied, or which otherwise lacks a physical form.
disembodiments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disembodiment
embodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embody
decurrent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkʌɹənt/
ipa: /dɪˈkʊɹənt/
Forms: form: more decurrent
form: most decurrent
Etymology: From Latin decurrens — de (“down”) + curro (“to run”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of plant parts: extending downward, most often in the case of leaf blades that partly wrap or have wings around the stem or petiole and extend down along the stem.
examples: text: In this group of mushrooms, the attachment of the gills to the stipe is decurrent.
topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of lamellae (the gills of a mushroom): broadly attached and extending down the stipe of the mushroom.
glosses: Running or extending downwards.
Derived terms: decurrently
subdecurrent
breaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪz/
homophone: breeches
Senses: glosses: plural of breach
breaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹiːt͡ʃɪz/
homophone: breeches
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of breach
limbal ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limbal rings
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A dark ring around the outside of the iris.
lurgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lurgees
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lurgy (an illness or ailment)
NOPEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of not in OPEC, the oil exporting nations not in OPEC, most significantly Russia, Norway and Mexico.
chastising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chastise
chastises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chastise
videogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: videograms
Etymology: From video- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A physical object containing an audiovisual work, such as a videotape or DVD.
examples: text: We […] generally identify a film on the basis of a videogram and audiogram that does not necessarily use the voices of the actors; in other words, a film that has been dubbed or subtitled remains for us the same film (and not an adaptation or a new version of the original film) […]
ref: 2021, Alessandro Arbo, The Normativity of Musical Works: A Philosophical Inquiry, page 105:
coordinate_terms: audiogram
glosses: The audiovisual work itself, such as the content of a videotape or a DVD, regardless of medium.
gibber plains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibber plain
blindfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blindfold
blindfolds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blindfold
blindfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blindfold
blindfolding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blindfoldings
Senses: examples: text: Now Quine defines the affirmative stimulus meaning as “the class of all stimulations (hence evolving ocular irradiation patterns between properly timed blindfoldings) that would prompt his assent” (Quine 1960, p. 32); negative stimulus meanings are defined analogously.
ref: 2007 November 29, Manfred Kupffer, “An Unintentional Defense of the Indeterminacy of Meaning?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 2, →DOI:
glosses: The act of covering with a blindfold.
loriner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loriners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lorimer.
tie-dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tie-dye
tie-dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tie-dye
tie-dying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Fiber dyes are easily absorbed by skin, so always wear rubber gloves while tie-dying.
ref: 2003, Dawn Cusick, Megan Kirby, The Michaels Book of Arts & Crafts, →ISBN, page 444:
text: She gave me the look that probably worked well when one twin accused the other of tie-dying the family cat.
ref: 2007, Joan Hess, A Really Cute Corpse: A Claire Malloy Mystery, →ISBN:
text: No one seems to know how knowledge of the process spread to the U.S.; however, by the late 1960s, "hip" fashion boutiques were buying one dollar white cotton T-shirts, tie-dying them, and selling the rainbow-hued productsfor up to six dollars apiece.
ref: 2014, Frank Hoffmann, Beulah B Ramirez, Fashion & Merchandising Fads, →ISBN:
glosses: present participle and gerund of tie-dye
tie-dyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tie-dye
partial derivatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial derivative
sefer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛfɛɹ/
/ˈseɪfɛɹ/
Forms: form: sefarim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew סֵפֶר.
Senses: examples: text: Umm, can you tell me the name of the sefer of Rav Nachman's where he wrote this, and where I can get it ? And how the quote originally goes in Hebrew or Yiddish or Russian or whatever language he wrote in ?
ref: 2005 July 22, in...@rambam.biz, “Moshe's new sig”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: and I'm not referring to Rabbi Sally or Rabbi Suzy from the non-O clergy, or for that matter Rabbi Murray or Rabbi Irving from the O clergy, or even from some naarishkeit written from Aish haTorah or Artscroll; but to a recognized Posek who has authored "sefarim"
ref: 2006 April 27, bac...@vms.huji.ac.il, “Spilling out drops of wine at the Seder”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
text: Since R' Shlomo Wolbe spent more years speaking Hebrew than did Josh and wrote several sepharim in that language, I take it for granted he didn't make a grevious^([sic]) grammatical error.
ref: 2009 July 22, Micha Berger, “Netanyahu bows down”, in soc.culture.jewish.moderated (Usenet):
glosses: A book, especially a religious book.
remising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of remise
remised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of remise
fine-toothed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fine-toothed
form: most fine-toothed
Etymology: From fine + toothed.
Senses: glosses: Having small teeth placed closely together (of a comb, brush, etc.).
examples: text: Of course Obama has a fine-toothed understanding of American racism but perhaps because of his unique parentage and history, he has cast himself as the conciliatory middle child, preferring to leave unsaid truths that might inflame, and insulating those said in various layers of cant.
ref: 2020 November 12, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Barack Obama's 'A Promised Land'”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of a search, study, analysis, etc., very exhaustive or thorough.
Derived terms: fine-toothed comb
infraorder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪn.fɹəˌɔː.də/
ipa: /ˈɪn.fɹəˌɔɹ.dɚ/
Forms: form: infraorders
Etymology: From infra- + order.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A taxonomic category below suborder and above superfamily.
Derived terms: subinfraorder
infraorders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infraorder
put someone out of their misery
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts someone out of their misery
form: putting someone out of their misery
form: put someone out of their misery
form: put someone out of their misery
Senses: glosses: To submit a suffering person or an animal to euthanasia.
examples: text: And with some United supporters actually pleading with referee Clattenburg to put them out of their misery, one more moment of brilliance from the magical Silva found Dzeko surging into the area to finish left-footed for his second.
ref: 2011 October 23, Phil McNulty, “Man Utd 1 - 6 Man City”, in BBC Sport:
text: It had been a mighty struggle, but they'd managed to put out her fires. The next time she tried to put Zevala out of its misery, it was going to damn well work. There was going to be nobody left to stop her.
ref: 2023 October 12, HarryBlank, “Fire in the Hole”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 22 May 2024:
glosses: To end or destroy something for the good of the individuals involved in it.
examples: text: Well, I'll put you out of your misery: the amount we won on the lottery was only ten dollars.
glosses: To relieve somebody's anxiety by supplying information that they wanted to know.
Synonyms: word: euthanise
word: euthanize
Related terms: coup de grâce
mercy killing
shoot me
chicos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chico
chicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chica
grandes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grande
meses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mese
juntos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of junto
muchachos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muchacho
fotos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foto
even though
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈiːvən ðəʊ/
ipa: /ˈivən ðoʊ/
Senses: examples: text: She left him even though she still loved him.
text: I can't remember the last time that you invited me to your house for a cup of coffee even though my wife is godmother to your only child.
ref: 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), Paramount Pictures:
glosses: Although; though; despite or in spite of the fact that.
examples: text: As it is, I would defend her honor even though I died in that defence.
ref: 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights:
glosses: Even if.
Synonyms: sense: in spite of the fact that
word: albeit
word: much as
word: although
word: as
word: as much as
word: despite that
word: even though
word: howbeit
word: though
word: thoughbeit
word: while
loyalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loyalty
Lt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lt.
lit.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: lit
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of liter or liters.
glosses: Abbreviation of literature.
Derived terms: comp. lit.
lit.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: lit
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of literal.
lit.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
homophone: lit
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of literally.
gibber plain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibber plains
Etymology: From gibber (“stone”) + plain.
Senses: examples: text: Gibber plains are often covered with a very open low shrubland (see below).
ref: 1984, Ken Simpson, Nicolas Day, The Birds of Australia: A Book of Identification: 758 Birds in Colour, page 278:
text: We were to learn also, as we approached Bedourie and Sandringham, that to the east the Simpson Desert is bounded by stony desert or Gibber plain, which interdigitates with the sandhill-claypan country.
ref: 2009, Richard Macmillen, Barbara Macmillen, Meandering in the Bush, page 19:
text: 2011, Julie E. Laity, 9: Pavements and stone mantles, David S. G. Thomas (editor), Arid Zone Geomorphology: Process, Form and Change in Drylands, unnumbered page,
Gibber plains vary in character according to local sources of bedrock, with limestone gibbers, for example, adjacent to the northern Flinders Ranges (Twidale, 1994) and silcrete gibbers mantling a deflated surface in the Sturt Stony Desert (Thomas, Clarke and Pain, 2005).
glosses: A large desert pavement.
Synonyms: stony desert
stony mantle
biophotolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biophotolysises
form: biophotolyses
Etymology: From bio- + photolysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The photolysis of a biochemical compound; but especially the production of hydrogen by the action of light on algae or any other organism
fermentative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fermentative
form: most fermentative
Etymology: From ferment + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, causing or undergoing fermentation.
Derived terms: antifermentative
biofermentative
fermentatively
fermentativeness
heterofermentative
homofermentative
nonfermentative
photofermentative
respirofermentative
googolplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of googolplex
pebble dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pebble dash
pebble dashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pebble dash
hoariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoarinesses
Etymology: From Middle English horynesse; equivalent to hoary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being hoary.
Synonyms: word: grayishness
word: greyishness
word: mouldiness
word: mossiness
word: mustiness
alt: oldness
word: ancientness
word: hoar
word: oldhood
word: oldness
hirsuteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hirsute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being hirsute; hairiness.
hipness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hipnesses
Etymology: From hip + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Hipness is what it is, / And sometimes hipness is what it ain't
ref: 1973, Emilio Castillo, Stephen "Doc" Kupka, David Garibaldi, “What Is Hip?”, in Tower of Power, performed by Tower of Power:
glosses: The characteristic of being hip; coolness; trendiness.
hilariousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hilarious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being hilarious; hilarity.
high-mindedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From high-minded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being high-minded.
trendiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendinesses
Etymology: From trendy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Guare is one of those rare playwrights who include gay people in his plays not for the sake of sensationalism or of trendiness but because they are an inherent part of his life.
ref: 1977 April 9, Don Shewey, “Guare's Rich and Famous”, in Gay Community News, page 11:
glosses: The state or quality of being trendy.
glosses: The result or product of being trendy.
hoarier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hoary: more hoary
hoariest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hoary: most hoary
trendier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of trendy: more trendy
trendiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of trendy: most trendy
hairiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairinesses
Etymology: From hairy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, Observ. XXVI,
We have had (says he) another of this kind brought us out of the East-Indies, which being planted was in shew like the former, but came not to perfection, the unkindly season not suffering it to shew the flower; but of the Cods that were brought, some were smaller, shorter, and rounder then the Garden kind; others much longer, and many growing together, as it were in clusters, and cover'd all over with a brown short hairiness, so fine, that if any of it be rubb'd, or fall on the back of ones hand, or other tender parts of the skin, it will cause a kind of itching […]
text: The fore-feet of the Yahoo differed from my hands in nothing else but the length of the nails, the coarseness and brownness of the palms, and the hairiness on the backs.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms):
text: Spanberg, the Russian navigator, landed, he says, in a great island from 43° to 50° lat., speaks of the uncommon hairiness of the natives, and of their wearing of silver in their ears.
ref: 1804, William Robert Broughton, A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, London: T. Cadell and W. Davies, Book I, p. 92, footnote:
text: Small reddened but said stubbornly, “The cow likes my singing.” ¶ Cows are different from humans; perhaps the hairiness of their ears strains sound.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “Singing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of being hairy.
examples: text: There was a reduction in hairiness of yarn after warping by about 17% in comparison to the hairiness of the wound yarn.
ref: 1978, Ahmedabad Textile Industry's Research Association, Proceedings of the Technological Conference, page 91:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technical
glosses: A characteristic of yarn: the proportion of fibre ends that stick out and are not embedded in the yarn body.
wackier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of wacky: more wacky
hoarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hoarily
form: most hoarily
Etymology: From hoary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hoary manner.
Synonyms: venerably
oldly
wackiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of wacky: most wacky
hairier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hairy: more hairy
hairiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hairy: most hairy
trendies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trendy
furries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furry
glosses: used in no wukking furries
furriest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of furry: most furry
bobar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bobbar
Senses: glosses: Excrement.
glosses: Something that is rubbish, useless, nonsense.
glosses: Something of poor quality.
bobar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bobars
form: bobaring
form: bobared
form: bobared
form: bobbar
Senses: glosses: To defecate.
photofermentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photofermentations
Etymology: From photo- + fermentation.
Senses: glosses: fermentation that only proceeds in the presence of light; especially a process of producing hydrogen. Unlike biophotolysis in which hydrogen is produced from water, photofermentation produces hydrogen from organic substrates.
Brenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Brendens
Etymology: A variant spelling of Brendan.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Irish, of occasional usage, variant of Brendan.
form factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: form factors
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the RMS value to the absolute mean of a sinusoidal wave (especially to that of an alternating current)
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several functions that describe the unknown internal state of a particle
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The emissivity of a material
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A function that describes the scattering power of an atom as function of the scattering angle
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A factor describing the stress distribution of a body
examples: text: Shugart Associates first introduced the 5.25-inch form factor along with the first 5.25-inch floppy drive back in 1976.
ref: 2004, Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing Laptops, page 311:
text: 2007, March, Erin McKean, “Redefining the dictionary”, Technology Entertainment Design
I want him to barely remember that this is the form factor that dictionaries used to come in.
topics: arts
business
commerce
design
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The geometry of an object, especially in engineering design; configuration.
absolute mean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absolute means
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The mean of the absolute magnitude of a function that has both positive and negative values.
Malik
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈlik/
ipa: /mɑˈlik/
Forms: form: Maliks
Etymology: From Arabic مَالِك (mālik) and مَلِك (malik, “Leader”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Arabic.
glosses: A surname from Arabic.
Derived terms: Maliki
Malikism
SCNR
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sorry, could not resist: used in partial apology for a wisecrack.
SCNR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SCNRs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of signal to effective clipping noise ratio.
SCNR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Supreme Council for National Reconstruction.
Asa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹsə
ipa: /ˈeɪ.sə/
Forms: form: Asas
Etymology: Via Late Latin Asa from Koine Greek Ἀσά (Asá) from Biblical Hebrew אָסָא (ʾĀsāʾ), from Aramaic אָסְיָא (ʾāsyā, “physician, doctor, healer”), from Akkadian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠asû⁠/) from Sumerian 𒀀𒍪 (A.ZU /⁠azu⁠/, “physician, healer”); compare Classical Syriac ܐܵܣܝܵܐ (ʾāsyā, “healer, physician, medical doctor”) whence Arabic آسٍ (ʔāsin).
Senses: examples: text: And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom. And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as did David his father.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 1 Kings 15:9-11:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The third king of Judah mentioned in the Books of Kings who succeeded his father Abijah; the father of King Jehoshaphat. (Matthew calls him "Asaph" in Matthew 1:7.)
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew first used by Puritans.
Asa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: āʹsə
ipa: /ˈeɪ.sə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Aasax (“language”).
coop up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coops up
form: cooping up
form: cooped up
form: cooped up
Senses: examples: text: We ran for the better part of a mile without hearing anything more from the direction of the harbor, and then I reduced the speed to a walk, for the exercise was telling on us who had been cooped up for so long in the confined interior of the U-33. Puffing and panting, we plodded on until within about a mile of the harbor we came upon a sight that brought us all up standing.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
text: This was a fine day's outing for anybody who had been cooped up in the shops for a few months.
ref: 1944 September and October, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—I”, in Railway Magazine, page 285:
glosses: To confine in a restricted place or situation
reputably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reputably
form: most reputably
Etymology: From reputable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reputable manner.
reputedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reputedly
form: most reputedly
Etymology: From reputed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: reportedly, purportedly, putatively, rumoredly, supposedly, allegedly, ostensibly, possibly, probably, likely, plausibly
text: The old mansion was reputedly haunted, but few were willing to go and investigate.
text: The brain of a calf, sheep, and pig, young and served fresh, is reputedly erotic in its effects.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 49:
text: That’s nothing compared with the actions of Emil Bove, Trump’s new nominee for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, who reputedly told subordinates at the Department of Justice that they should “consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” and ignoring any court order blocking a planned deportation flight.
ref: 2025 August 25, Robert Reich, “Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 25 Aug 2025:
glosses: According to repute or general belief.
reservedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reservedly
form: most reservedly
Etymology: From reserved + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reserved manner.
resiliently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resiliently
form: most resiliently
Etymology: From resilient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resilient manner.
resonantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resonantly
form: most resonantly
Etymology: From resonant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resonant manner.
resoundingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈzaʊndɪŋli/
Forms: form: more resoundingly
form: most resoundingly
Etymology: From resounding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The bells tolled resoundingly.
text: The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
text: Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase;
ref: 1909, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, chapter XIII, in Ann Veronica, London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin:
text: "Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!"
ref: 1939, Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire:
glosses: With a loud, resonant sound.
examples: text: The children resoundingly defeated the bully.
text: My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.
ref: 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, “ch. 5”, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
glosses: Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.
resourcefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resourcefully
form: most resourcefully
Etymology: From resourceful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resourceful manner.
respectably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more respectably
form: most respectably
Etymology: From respectable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: A respectably attired solicitor came to read the will.
text: The house was built in Elizabeth’s time, and is a large, regular brick building—heavy, but respectably looking, and has many good rooms.
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 115:
glosses: In a respectable manner; so as to gain respect.
glosses: Moderately; pretty well.
Related terms: respectively
respectfully
resplendently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more resplendently
form: most resplendently
Etymology: From resplendent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a resplendent manner.
restfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more restfully
form: most restfully
Etymology: From Middle English restfully, restfullie, restfullye, equivalent to restful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a restful manner.
restively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more restively
form: most restively
Etymology: From restive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a restive manner.
restrictively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more restrictively
form: most restrictively
Etymology: From restrictive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a restrictive manner.
retentively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more retentively
form: most retentively
Etymology: From retentive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a retentive manner.
reticently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reticently
form: most reticently
Etymology: From reticent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reticent manner.
retrospectively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more retrospectively
form: most retrospectively
Etymology: From retrospective + -ly.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: in retrospect, in hindsight
coordinate_terms: prospectively
glosses: In a retrospective manner.
Related terms: respectively
revealingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revealingly
form: most revealingly
Etymology: From revealing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a revealing manner.
revengefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revengefully
form: most revengefully
Etymology: From revengeful + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a revengeful manner.
revoltingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more revoltingly
form: most revoltingly
Etymology: From revolting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a revolting manner; with repulsion or disgust.
Related terms: revoltedly
righteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more righteously
form: most righteously
form: rightwisely
Etymology: From Middle English rightwisly, from Old English rihtwīslīce; equivalent to righteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a righteous manner.
Related terms: arightly
damn right
rightfully
rightly
rightly so
self-righteously
serve someone right
right-handedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more right-handedly
form: most right-handedly
Etymology: From right-handed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a right-handed manner.
tawdrily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tawdrily
form: most tawdrily
Etymology: From tawdry + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tawdry manner.
Iona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˈoʊnə/
rhymes: -əʊnə
Etymology: Probably a misreading of Latin Ioua, an attempt to Latinize Old Irish Í.
Senses: examples: text: They say you go to Iona when your life is in transition. The 3 by 1.5-mile island is a holy site because it was the first point of contact between Scotland and Christianity.
ref: 2025 April 20, Lamorna Ash, “Could I become a Christian in a year?”, in The Observer, →ISSN:
synonyms: Icolmkill
glosses: A small island in the Inner Hebrides, Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name, of mostly Scottish usage.
glosses: A small community in Nova Scotia, Canada.
glosses: A ghost town in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
glosses: A census-designated place in Lee County, Florida.
glosses: A city in Bonneville County, Idaho.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Knox County, Indiana.
glosses: A city in Murray County, Minnesota.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Gloucester County, New Jersey.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Lyman County, South Dakota.
Related terms: word: Arran
word: Isla
english: other given names derived from Scottish islands
translation: other given names derived from Scottish islands
word: Skye
tearfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tearfully
form: most tearfully
Etymology: From tearful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She was on her knees with her arms round Andrew's neck before he could prevent her. Her eyes were tearfully agleam, as, audibly reckless, she sobbed[.]
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 159:
text: Ellis on Tuesday tearfully confessed to the felony of aiding and abetting false statements that she and other lawyers told Peach State lawmakers.
ref: 2023 October 25, Stephen Collinson, “Trump rages as former acolytes turn against him under legal heat”, in CNN:
glosses: In a tearful manner.
telegraphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more telegraphically
form: most telegraphically
Etymology: From telegraphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The police transmitted a description of the suspect telegraphically.
text: To and fro during the festivities complimentary and congratulatory messages kept going and coming, and from the entire telegraphically-connected parts of the globe messages flowed in at either end, expressing the joy of the civilized world that the belt of electrical communication was complete.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 138:
glosses: By means of telegraphy.
examples: text: Her son's letters were always telegraphically brief and to the point.
glosses: In the concise style of a telegraph.
tempestuously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tempestuously
form: most tempestuously
Etymology: From tempestuous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tempestuous manner.
temporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛmp(ə)ɹ(ə)liː/
ipa: /tɛmpoɹəliː/
Etymology: From Middle English temperally, temperaly, temporally; equivalent to temporal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a temporal manner.
Derived terms: biotemporally
centrotemporally
geotemporally
infratemporally
nontemporally
omnitemporally
pseudotemporally
spectrotemporally
superotemporally
supratemporally
transtemporally
temptingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more temptingly
form: most temptingly
Etymology: From tempting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tempting manner.
tenably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tenably
form: most tenably
Etymology: From tenable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tenable manner.
tendentiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tendentiously
form: most tendentiously
Etymology: From tendentious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tendentious manner.
Isla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪlə/
rhymes: -aɪlə
Senses: glosses: A river in Angus and Perth and Kinross, east-central Scotland, tributary to the Tay.
glosses: A river in Moray and Aberdeenshire, north-eastern Scotland, tributary to the Deveron.
glosses: A female given name transferred from the place name. Coined in the twentieth century from an archaic spelling of Islay, an island in the Hebrides.
Derived terms: Strathisla
Related terms: Iona