cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
up-front
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Leaked documents from TfL poured cold water over the prospect of driverless trains. They concluded there was no financial case because because of the very high up-front infrastructure costs.
ref: 2020 November 4, Philip Haigh, “Cracks and divisions over funding for public transport”, in Rail, pages 54–55:
glosses: Alternative spelling of upfront.
up-front
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of upfront.
sabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪbɪn/
Forms: form: sabins
Etymology: From Wallace Clement Sabine (1868-1919), US physicist.
Senses: examples: text: Sabine gave his name to the sabin, the standard unit that is ‘equal to the sound absorption of a square foot of a perfectly absorbing surface such as an open window’.
ref: 2012 Sep, Rupert Christiansen, “Quiet, Please”, in Literary Review:
qualifier: acoustics
glosses: A unit of measurement that measures a material's absorbance of sound. A material that is 1 square meter in size that can absorb 100% of sound has a value of one metric sabin.
wikipedia: Wallace Clement Sabine
corpus vile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹpəs ˈviːleɪ/
Forms: form: corpora vilia
Etymology: From Latin corpus (“body”) vile (“worthless”).
Senses: glosses: A person, animal or thing treated as expendable, to therefore use as an experimental subject regardless of whatever loss or damage it may suffer as a result.
glosses: The subject of an experiment.
bandari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Persian بندری (bandari).
Senses: glosses: A kind of rhythmic dance music originating from the Iranian side of the Persian Gulf.
bandari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bhandari.
Dnipropetrovsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dnepropetrovsk
form: Dnipropetrovs'k
form: Dnipropetrovs'ke
Etymology: From Ukrainian Дніпропетро́вськ (Dnipropetróvsʹk), from Дніпро́ (Dnipró, “Dnipro River”) + Петро́вський (Petróvsʹkyj), after Soviet revolutionary Grigory Petrovsky. The city was renamed in 2016 as part of general decommunization of placenames but renaming the oblast has not yet occurred because it is mentioned by name in the Ukrainian constitution. Doublet of Dnepropetrovsk, from Russian Днепропетро́вск (Dnepropetróvsk).
Senses: glosses: An oblast in southeastern Ukraine.
glosses: Former name of Dnipro.
Related terms: word: Dnieper
english: river
translation: river
word: Dnipro
Donetsk
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈnɛtsk/
Forms: form: Donets'k
form: Doneck
form: Donec'k
Etymology: From Ukrainian Доне́цьк (Donécʹk), from Доне́ць (Donécʹ, “the Donets”), diminutive of Дон (Don, “the Don”), from Proto-Scythian *Dānu (“river”). Compare Russian Доне́цк (Donéck), Доне́ц (Donéc), Дон (Don).
Senses: qualifier: city and raion
glosses: A city, a municipal and regional administrative centre, an as well as, a raion of Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine, on the Kalmius river.
qualifier: province
glosses: An oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kramatorsk; former seat: Donetsk (prior to the Donbas War, where Russia occupied and set up puppet countries)
topics: country
location
region
glosses: A self-declared country in Donetsk Oblast in the Donbas region, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Donetsk; occupying 1/3 of the province, but claiming all the province, before the Russian invasion of all of Ukraine in 2022.
glosses: A town in Rostov Oblast, Russia, on the Donets river.
Synonyms: sense: Ukrainian city
english: since 1961
translation: since 1961
word: Donetsk City
sense: Ukrainian city
english: before 1869
translation: before 1869
word: Aleksandrovka
sense: Ukrainian city
word: Yuzovo
word: Yuzovka
word: Hughesovka (1869-1923)
sense: Ukrainian city
word: Trotsk (1923)
sense: Ukrainian city
word: Stalin
word: Stalino (1924-1941; 1943-1961)
sense: Ukrainian city
word: Yuzivka (1941-1943)
sense: Ukrainian province
word: Donetsk Oblast
sense: Ukrainian province
english: since 1961
translation: since 1961
word: Donechchyna
sense: Ukrainian province
word: Stalino Oblast (1938-1941; 1943-1961)
sense: Ukrainian province
word: Yuzivka Oblast (1941-1943)
topics: country
region
location
word: Donetsk People's Republic
topics: country
region
location
word: DPR
topics: country
region
location
english: since 2014
translation: since 2014
word: DNR
sense: Russian town
word: Gundorovka
Derived terms: Donetsk City
Donetskian
Donetsk Oblast
Donetsk People's Republic
DPR
Related terms: Don
Donbas
Don Cossacks
Donets
Donets Basin
Donets River
Don River
Crimea
Lugansk
Luhansk
Kharkiv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈxɑːkiːv/
other: /h/
ipa: /ˈhɑːkiːv/
ipa: /ˈhɑːkɪv/
ipa: /hɑːˈkiːv/
other: /k/
ipa: /ˈkɑːkiːv/
ipa: /ˈkɑːkɪv/
ipa: /kɑːˈkiːv/
ipa: /ˈxɑɹkiv/
other: /h/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹkiv/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹkɪv/
ipa: /hɑɹˈkiv/
other: /k/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹkiv/
ipa: /ˈkɑɹkɪv/
ipa: /kɑɹˈkiv/
Forms: form: Khar'kov
form: Kharkov
form: Char'kov
form: Charkov
form: Har'kov
form: Harkov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Ха́рків (Xárkiv), from Old Ruthenian Ха́рьковъ (Xárʹkov) (compare Russian Ха́рьков (Xárʹkov), whence English Kharkov). The city is named after the Kharkiv River. A folk etymology says the city and river are named after a Cossack called Харко́ (Xarkó), from Харько́ (Xarʹkó), from Greek Χαρίτων (Charíton), but there is no hard evidence supporting this.
Senses: examples: text: As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating ‘Russification’), I was a railway buff.
ref: 2024 September 4th, Vitali Vitaliev, “A salute to Ukraine’s ‘Second Army’”, in RAIL, number 1017, page 46:
topics: cities
city
location
region
glosses: An industrial city, the administrative centre of Kharkiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine.
qualifier: district
glosses: A raion of Kharkiv Oblast, in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kharkiv.
examples: text: But Ukraine claimed its forces had shot down one of these drones for the first time last month near the city of Kupyansk in Kharkiv.
ref: 2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
text: The Russian military command likely chose the seizure of Vovchansk as one of the key tactical objectives of the first phase of the offensive operation in northern Kharkiv Oblast, since Vovchansk is the largest settlement immediately on the border that would provide Russian forces a staging ground close to the Russian rear to prepare for and launch the second phase of the Russian offensive operation.
ref: 2024 May 26, “Reporting from Ukraine” (channel name), 25 May: Ukrainians NULLIFY BRAND NEW RUSSIAN ENCIRCLEMENT OPERATION | War in Ukraine Explained, via YouTube, 2:23–2:44:
text: We switch to the developments along the front line and, uh, the Ukrainians are reporting that the Russians do reconnaissance forces… send reconnaissance forces over the border in Chernihiv, in Sumy, as well as in Kharkiv, so basically along the whole northern border.
ref: 2025 April 23, Torsten Heinrich, “Trump wants Ukraine’s Capitulation. He won’t get it. Ukraine SITREP”, in Military & History, via YouTube, 4:21–4:37:
qualifier: province
glosses: An oblast in eastern Ukraine. Seat: Kharkiv.
qualifier: river
glosses: A river in eastern Ukraine.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Ellipsis of 9167 Kharkiv: an asteroid in Asteroid Belt, Solar System.
Lviv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ləˈviːv/
Forms: form: L'viv
form: L'vov
form: Lvov
Etymology: From Ukrainian Львів (Lʹviv), from Old East Slavic Лвовъ (Lvovŭ) or Львовъ (Lĭvovŭ), originally named after the founder's son, Левъ (Levŭ), Lev I of Galicia (ca. 1228 – ca. 1301).
Compare Belarusian Львоў (Lʹvow), Polish Lwów, Russian Львов (Lʹvov), Slovak Ľvov, Middle Armenian Իլով (Ilov), Armeno-Kipchak Իլօվ (Ilōv). Also compare Old East Slavic Льва городъ (Lĭva gorodŭ, literally “Lev's city”), Greek Λεόπολις (Leópolis) or Λεοντόπολις (Leontópolis), Latin Leopolis and German Lemberg.
Senses: glosses: A city and raion, the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast, in western Ukraine.
glosses: An oblast in western Ukraine.
Synonyms: word: L'vov
word: L’vov
english: from Russian
translation: from Russian
word: Lvov
word: Lwów
word: Lwow
english: from Polish
translation: from Polish
word: L'wow
english: from German
translation: from German
word: Lemberg
english: from Latin
translation: from Latin
word: Leopolis
word: Lemberg region
word: Lviv Oblast
L'viv
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lviv.
Sevastopol
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛvəˈstoʊpəl/
ipa: /səˈvæstəpoʊl/
Forms: form: Sebastopol
Etymology: Late 18th century. From Ukrainian Севасто́поль (Sevastópolʹ) and Russian Севасто́поль (Sevastópolʹ), from Ancient Greek Σεβαστόπολις (Sebastópolis) from σεβαστός (sebastós, “august”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”), probably after Empress (=Augusta) Catherine II of Russia.
Senses: glosses: A port city in Crimea, internationally recognized as part of Ukraine but de facto in Russia. It is the base of the Black Sea Fleet.
wikipedia: Sevastopol
Synonyms: word: Aqyar
Zaporizhia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɑːpəˈɹiːʒi.ə/
ipa: /ˌzɑːpəˈɹiːʒə/
ipa: /ˌzæpəˈɹiːʒə/
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zaporizhzhia.
Derived terms: Zaporizhian
Zaporizhzhia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌzɑːpəˈɹiːʒi.ə/
ipa: /ˌzæp.ə-/
ipa: /-ˈɹiːʒ.ə/
ipa: /-ɹiːʒ.ʒ(i.)ə/
Forms: form: Zaporizhzhya
form: Zaporizhia
form: Zaporizhya
form: Zaporozhe
form: Zaporozhye
form: Zaporozhie
Etymology: From the historical region of the same name, Ukrainian Запорі́жжя (Zaporížžja, “place beyond the rapids”), from за (za, “beyond”) + поро́ги (poróhy, “rapids”), plural of порі́г (poríh, “river rapid, threshold”). Compare Russian Запоро́жье (Zaporóžʹje).
Senses: examples: text: The Ukrainian government says Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and other cities have suffered a barrage of drone attacks, and pleaded with Western countries to step up their assistance in the face of the new challenge.
ref: 2022 October 17, Ivana Kottasová, “‘Kamikaze’ drones are the latest threat for Ukraine. Here’s what we know”, in CNN:
glosses: An industrial city and urban hromada, the administrative center of Zaporizhzhia Raion and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, in south-central Ukraine, on the Dnipro River.
glosses: A raion of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine. Administrative center: Zaporizhzhia.
glosses: An oblast in southeast Ukraine, also illicitly claimed by Russia. Administrative center: Zaporizhzhia.
glosses: A geographic region south-central Ukraine, “beyond the rapids” in the lower reaches of the Dnipro River, base of the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
glosses: A village in Bobrovytsia Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Borzna Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Mahdalynivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Petropavlivka Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Piatykhatky Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Shyroke Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Pokrovsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Velyka Novosilka Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Velyka Lepetykha Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Velyka Oleksandrivka Raion, Kherson Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Oleksandriia Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Pology Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
glosses: A village in Vesele Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine.
Derived terms: Zaporizhzhian
Related terms: word: Nove Zaporizhzhia
word: Zaporozhets
word: Zaporozhian
word: Zaporozhian Cossacks
Kolmogorov randomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Informally, the property of a string being not longer than any computer program that can produce that string; that is, the property of a string being incompressible.
Synonyms: word: algorithmic randomness
algorithmic randomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Informally, the property of a string being not longer than any computer program that can produce that string; that is, the property of a string being incompressible.
Synonyms: word: Kolmogorov randomness
Related terms: statistical randomness
statistical randomness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Informally, the property of a numeric sequence of containing no recognizable patterns or regularities; exemplified in the results of an ideal die roll, or the digits of π (as far as we can tell).
Related terms: algorithmic randomness
waferlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waferlike
form: most waferlike
Etymology: From wafer + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having a shape or texture similar to a wafer.
unrationed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrationed
form: most unrationed
Etymology: From un- + rationed.
Senses: glosses: Not rationed
vinegariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vinegary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of resembling vinegar.
prawn cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prawn cocktails
Senses: synonyms: shrimp cocktail
glosses: A salad dish made from cooked, peeled, chilled prawns with a Marie Rose sauce, served on lettuce with lemon.
Derived terms: prawn cocktail offensive
random seed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: random seeds
Senses: glosses: A number or vector used to initialize a pseudorandom number generator.
go along for the ride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes along for the ride
form: going along for the ride
form: went along for the ride
form: gone along for the ride
Senses: examples: text: Bankman-Fried’s confidants were along for the ride. At his side was Caroline Ellison, Alameda’s CEO and his on-again, off-again lover.
ref: 2023 September 30, Victoria Bekiempis, “‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To accompany someone in a passive manner, or to take a relatively passive or detached role in a project or group activity.
red snapper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red snappers
Senses: glosses: Any of several Atlantic foodfishes, of the genus Lutjanus, that have reddish bodies
glosses: Rhomboplites aurorubens (vermillion snapper)
food fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: food fishes
form: food fish
form: foodfish
Senses: glosses: Any fish used as human food.
Related terms: fish food
polymodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymodalities
Etymology: From poly- + modality.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The use of multiple modes in a piece if music
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: multimodality
multimodality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multimodalities
Etymology: From multimodal + -ity. By surface analysis, multi- + modality.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being multimodal; employing multiple modes.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The presence of multiple modes or maxima in a statistical distribution.
Related terms: transmodality
polymodally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polymodally
form: most polymodally
Etymology: From polymodal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a polymodal manner
glosses: Involving multiple modality
polyquat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyquats
Etymology: From poly- + quat.
Senses: glosses: Any of several quaternary ammonium compounds that are used as algicides.
Synonyms: polyquaternium
polyradiculitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyradiculitides
Etymology: From poly- + radiculitis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: inflammation of the roots of the nerves
polyembryoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyembryomas
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An aggressive form of germ cell tumor usually found in the ovaries.
polymorphean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymorphean
form: most polymorphean
Senses: glosses: polymorphous
polyrhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyrhythmic
form: most polyrhythmic
Etymology: From polyrhythm + -ic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Having multiple, simultaneous rhythms.
Derived terms: polyrhythmically
polyrhythmical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyrhythmical
form: most polyrhythmical
Etymology: From poly- + rhythmical.
Senses: glosses: polyrhythmic
Derived terms: polyrhythmically
polyrhythmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more polyrhythmically
form: most polyrhythmically
Etymology: From polyrhythmic + -ally or polyrhythmical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a polyrhythmic manner; by the use of polyrhythm
polyendocrine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + endocrine.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple endocrine glands.
polymorphistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polymorphistic
form: most polymorphistic
Etymology: From polymorph + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to polymorphism; polymorphic
polyergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyergic
form: most polyergic
Etymology: From poly- + ergo- + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple functions, or functioning in multiple ways.
polymyalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polymyalgias
Etymology: From poly- + myalgia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: pain in several muscles
Derived terms: polymyalgia rheumatica
polymyarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɒlimaɪˈɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˌpɑlimaɪˈɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Etymology: From poly- + myo- + -arian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nematode worms that have many longitudinal rows of muscle cells.
polysaprobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From poly- + saprobic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or inhabiting a body of water containing decomposing organic matter and thus little dissolved oxygen
trophic levels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophic level
cultigen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʌltɪdʒɛn/
ipa: /ˈkʌltɪdʒən/
Forms: form: cultigens
Etymology: From culti(vated) + -gen or from Latin cultus (“cultivated”) + gēns (“kind”). Coined by American botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey in 1918.
Senses: topics: agriculture
biology
botany
business
horticulture
lifestyle
natural-sciences
synonyms: anthropogenic plant
antonyms: indigen
glosses: A plant that has been deliberately altered or selected by humans, that is it has resulted from artificial rather than natural selection.
wikipedia: Liberty Hyde Bailey
Hyponyms: sense: plant selected by humans
word: cultivar
Derived terms: cultigenous
Related terms: indigen
Baran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Belarusian Бара́нь (Baránʹ).
Senses: glosses: A city in Vitsebsk Oblast, Belarus.
implementer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪmpləˌmɛntəɹ/
Forms: form: implementers
form: implementor
Etymology: From implement + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who implements something.
implementor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: implementors
Etymology: From implement + -or.
Senses: examples: text: If components have specific, well-defined responsibilities, they can be combined with new components in ways that were not envisioned by their original implementors.
ref: 1999, Andrew Hunt, David Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Addison-Wesley Professional, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Alternative spelling of implementer.
windmiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: windmillers
form: wind-miller
Etymology: From wind + miller.
Senses: glosses: The miller who manages a windmill
vitalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vitalistic
form: most vitalistic
Etymology: From vital + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vitalism
subsidised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The taxpayer has always subsidised the delinquents of society.
glosses: simple past and past participle of subsidise
subsidised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subsidised
form: most subsidised
Senses: examples: text: The food is subsidised, so it's much cheaper than elsewhere.
glosses: that receives subsidy.
viewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viewable
form: most viewable
Etymology: From view + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be viewed.
glosses: Able to be seen; visible.
glosses: Able to be rendered correctly by a particular browser.
raw_tags: of a webpage or component
vertebrobasilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æsɪlə(ɹ)
-æzɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From vertebro- + basilar.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affecting both the vertebral and basilar arteries.
basilar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbas.ɪl.ə/
ipa: /ˈbæz.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈbæs.əl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.zəl.ɚ/
ipa: /ˈbeɪ.səl.ɚ/
rhymes: -æsɪlə(ɹ)
rhymes: -æzɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: basilary
Etymology: Borrowing from New Latin basilāris, irregularly from basis (“a pedestal, foot, base”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); or from French basilaire, from base (“base, basis”) + -aire (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix), in the pattern of cimbalaire (“cymbal-shaped”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located at a base, but especially at the base of the skull or an organ of Corti.
examples: text: […] that which he has in common with the lion, the cow and the horse—namely, the basilar instincts and appetites that in the animal creation constitute the whole.
ref: 1883, Henry Ward Beecher, “What is the Bible?”, in Plymouth Pulpit: A Weekly Publication of Sermons Preached by Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church Brooklyn, volume 6, number 17, page 343:
glosses: Lower, inferior, base.
Synonyms: basal
Derived terms: basilar artery
basilar crest
basilar groove
basilar index
basilar lamina
basilar membrane
basilar meningitis
bibasilar
cervicobasilar
parietobasilar
petrobasilar
pharyngobasilar
suprabasilar
tribasilar
ventrobasilar
vertebrobasilar
vomerobasilar
Oonagh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant spelling of Oona, Una, Anglicized from Irish Úna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Irish.
varietally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From varietal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to variety
untestable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untestable
form: most untestable
Etymology: From un- + testable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be tested; unverifiable
Related terms: untestability
unillustrated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + illustrated.
Senses: glosses: Not illustrated.
subsidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subsidises
form: subsidising
form: subsidised
form: subsidised
Senses: examples: text: The government wants to subsidise healthcare products for the elderly.
text: The Select Committee's recommendation that those which the railways are required to provide on grounds of national interest or social needs should be subsidised by the state has obviously been pigeon-holed.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The White Paper”, in Trains Illustrated, page 65:
text: Money was tight in 1970, but the government was prepared to subsidise some loss-making passenger services because of their social benefits.
ref: 2020 April 8, Howard Johnston, “East-ended? When the ECML was at risk: Passenger services on thin ice”, in Rail, page 69:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of subsidize.
Derived terms: cross-subsidise
undrafted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + drafted.
Senses: glosses: Not drafted.
glosses: Not contracted to play for a particular sports team.
underclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underclock
underclocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underclocked
form: most underclocked
Senses: glosses: Modified by underclocking
underclock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underclocks
form: underclocking
form: underclocked
form: underclocked
Etymology: From under- + clock.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify (a CPU) by the use of underclocking.
Related terms: derate
underclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underclock
underclocking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
antonyms: overclocking
glosses: The deliberate reduction of the speed of a CPU, often to reduce power consumption.
underbalanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + balanced.
Senses: glosses: Describing a method of drilling for petroleum in which the pressure in the wellbore is kept lower than that of the formation being drilled, thus allowing fluid to enter the well as soon as it is found.
Related terms: overbalanced
uncompetitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncompetitive
form: most uncompetitive
Etymology: From un- + competitive.
Senses: glosses: That does not involve competition; not competitive
Derived terms: uncompetitive inhibition
nervous Nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous Nellies
form: nervous nellie
form: Nervous Nellie
form: nervous nelly
form: nervous Nelly
form: Nervous Nelly
Senses: examples: text: Political opponents doubted his capacity, referred to him as "too nervous, too worried a little man," and remarked that his Senatorial colleagues used to refer to him humorously as "Nervous Nellie."
ref: 1925 January 19, “Gentlemen Asleep”, in Time, archived from the original on 01 Mar 2009:
text: The captain is a nervous Nellie who can't make a decision without the approval of his protective aide-de-camp.
ref: 1993 November 22, Richard Zoglin, “Hill Street Blues on Happy Juice”, in Time, TV review of "Bakersfield P.D.", archived from the original on 08 Apr 2008:
glosses: A person whose personality and behavior are characterized by worry, insecurity, and timidity.
Synonyms: jitterbug
nervous wreck
worrywart
worrier
Related terms: word: nervous-Nellie
word: Alibi Ike
word: Dapper Dan
word: doubting Thomas
word: Gentleman Jim
word: gloomy Gus
word: good-time Charlie
word: plain Jane
word: Silent Sam
unblinding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unblind
unblind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblinds
form: unblinding
form: unblinded
form: unblinded
Etymology: From un- + blind.
Senses: glosses: To free from blindness.
topics: business
glosses: To remove the secrecy from (a bid).
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To convert (a blind signature) back to the unblinded state (as opposed to the blinded state).
glosses: To cause (experimenters) to learn information which, for the purposes of avoiding bias, was previously unknown to them, or should be unknown to them, such as the knowledge of which patients received a drug and which a placebo.
unblind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblind
form: most unblind
Etymology: From un- + blind.
Senses: glosses: Not blind.
nervous-Nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nervous-nellie
form: Nervous-Nellie
form: nervous-nelly
form: nervous-Nelly
form: Nervous-Nelly
Senses: examples: 1993, David Ansen, "Goodbye, Mr. Gibson (film review of The Man Without a Face)," Newsweek,, 30 Aug,
Woody Allen plays his most frazzled variation on the Woody we know best: a nervous-Nellie urban neurotic kvetching his way through life as a means of avoiding it.
glosses: Characterized by worry or anxiety; having a weak, insecure personality.
Related terms: word: nervous Nellie
nervous-nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
Nervous-Nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
unapologetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unapologetically
form: most unapologetically
Etymology: From unapologetic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: It [Derby] is an unapologetically modern station.
ref: 2023 November 1, Nick Brodrick talks to Jason Cocker, “A station that "oozes" customer service...”, in RAIL, number 995, page 50:
text: The other option – typified by the unapologetically noncharismatic leaders of Britain and Germany, Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Chancellor Friedrich Merz – has been to persuade the electorate they’ll work hard to deliver sustainable policy results on issues like immigration, and above all, economic growth, in a way that tub-thumping populists simply cannot.
ref: 2025 July 24, Ned Temko, “In Japan, too, voters want their country to be ‘great again’”, in The Christian Science Monitor, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2025:
glosses: In an unapologetic manner; in a manner that withholds or refuses to offer an accompanying apology for having said or done something that causes actual or potential harm, especially when being apologetic would be appropriate.
nervous-nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
nervous-Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
Nervous-Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous-Nellie.
uhlans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uhlan
nervous nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous Nellie.
Nervous Nellie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nervous Nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous Nellie.
uhlan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈ(j)uːlən/
Forms: form: uhlans
form: ulan
Etymology: From French uhlan, from German Uhlan, from Polish ułan, from Ottoman Turkish اوغلان (oğlan).
Senses: glosses: A lancer, a soldier armed with a lance in a former light cavalry unit of the Polish, Prussian or German, Austrian, and Russian armies.
Coordinate terms: cavalryman
cuirassier
dragoon
hussar
lancer
trooper
yeoman
nervous nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous Nellie.
nervous Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nervous Nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous Nellie.
Nervous Nelly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nervous Nellies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nervous Nellie.
tuberosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtjuːbəˈrɒsɪti/
Forms: form: tuberosities
Etymology: From tuber + -osity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tuberous
examples: text: The basitemporal platform is flat in posterior view because the mamillar tuberosities are very weakly developed.
ref: 2002, T. H. Worthy, The Lost World of the Moa: Prehistoric Life of New Zealand, page 128:
text: The superior aspect of the supramarginal gyrus lies underneath the euryon, which corresponds to the most prominent point of the parietal tuberosity or bossa […]
ref: 2018, Guilherme Carvalhal Ribas, Applied Cranial-Cerebral Anatomy:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A rounded protuberance, at the end of a bone, to which a muscle or tendon is attached.
Derived terms: deltoid tuberosity
facial tuberosity
ischial tuberosity
olecranon tuberosity
radial tuberosity
tibial tuberosity
tuberoplasty
transactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transactivations
Etymology: From trans- + activation.
Senses: glosses: The activation of something by another entity that has a spatial relationship with it
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The activation of a gene by the presence of another at a different locus, especially following infection by a virus
Related terms: transactivator
trackage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹæk.ɪdʒ/
Forms: form: trackages
Etymology: From track + -age.
Senses: glosses: railway tracks collectively
glosses: The right of a railway company to use the tracks belonging to another; the charge levied for this right
glosses: The act of tracking, or towing, as a boat; towage.
Derived terms: trackage rights
townsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: townsites
Etymology: From town + site.
Senses: glosses: In former British colonies, a tract of land authorized to be developed as a town and then surveyed and marked out with streets.
tornillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tornillos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish tornillo (“screw”).
Senses: synonyms: screwbean
glosses: A small tree of species Prosopis pubescens, native to Mexico and parts of the United States, that has spirally twisted pods.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A low-frequency seismic event associated with volcanoes.
Vergil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Virgil (the writer).
glosses: A male given name from Latin, of rare usage, variant of Virgil.
Alesha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: One of the modern variations of Alicia.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Ericka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erica
form: Erika
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a less common spelling of Erica and Erika.
Related terms: Erick
Neptunians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Neptunian
seventh art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɛvnθ ˈɑːt/
ipa: /ˌsɛvənθ ˈɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
Forms: form: the seventh art
Etymology: Calque of Italian settima arte, which was coined by the Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo (1877–1923) in 1921, considering filmmaking to be a new art combining the six previous arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, dance, and poetry. Canudo had previously used the term sesta arte (literally “sixth art”) to describe filmmaking around 1911 when he did not include dance in the set of preceding arts.
Senses: examples: text: Georges Charensol's Panorama du cinema, originally published in 1927, […] was the bible of devotees of the seventh art.
ref: 1948, Jacques Queval, “Three French Histories of Film [book reviews]”, in Hollywood Quarterly, volume 3, number 4, Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 454, column 2:
text: Because of the inherent interdisciplinarity of studying film—once called, appositely, the "seventh art"—film studies was among the first disciplines to embrace such theories and methodologies as feminism, semiotics, and structuralism.
ref: 2004 spring, Barry Keith Grant, “Diversity or Dilution? Thoughts on Film Studies and the SCMS [Society for Cinema and Media Studies]”, in Jon Lewis, editor, Cinema Journal: The Journal of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, volume 43, number 3, Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, page 90:
text: With some 40,000 professionals in attendance, Cannes is the world's largest annual convention, and a yearly thermometer for the temperature of the seventh art.
ref: 2008 May 14, Richard_Corliss, Mary Corliss, “Can Cannes still Do It?”, in Time, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 May 2008:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
qualifier: chiefly preceded by the definite article
glosses: The art of making motion pictures; filmmaking; cinema.
wikipedia: Cinémathèque Française
Federico Fellini
Il bidone
Jean Epstein
Ricciotto Canudo
Related terms: seven arts
7th art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of seventh art.
pearl-ash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gray-white powder, having chemical properties of quicklime, made by heating mollusk shells to a temperature sufficient to calcine the material.
Hanswurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hanswursts
form: Hans Wurst
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hanswurst.
Senses: examples: text: Hanswurst, on the other hand, gained a specific profile in the early eighteenth century. As he is largely known today, in his brightly colored peasant clothing consisting of the trademark baggy yellow trousers, red suspenders, red jacket, […]
ref: 2015, Dorothy Chansky, Ann Folino White, editors, Food and Theatre on the World Stage, Routledge, →ISBN, page 87:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A clownlike character popular in German and Austrian plays during the 18th century.
Related terms: Harlequin
Jack Pudding
Jean Potage
Macaroni
Pickelhering
BUFF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BUFFs
Senses: examples: text: The B-52 Stratofortress is not called the Buff because it is painted a tan or dun-brown color.
ref: 1994, Frederick Forsyth, The Fist of God: [a novel], page 377:
text: I should note here in polite society it is considered proper to call the B-52 a BUFF for Big Ugly Fat Fella or Fellows
ref: 2002, S. Lock, Ribald Tales & Stories from U.T.: Confessions of a Staff Weenie, page 3:
text: Deployed at no higher than 135 knots, the 44-foot drag chute aids in braking the BUFF.
ref: 2004, Nick Veronico, Nicholas A. Veronico, Jim Dunn, 21st Century U.S. Air Power, page 48:
text: There were also, however disgusting it might seem, "BUFF" drivers coming in from B-52 bombers and C-130 cargo haulers.
ref: 2004, Keith R Parris, The Servants of Freedom: The SOF, page 29:
text: The general invited his old buddy to Barksdale to fly in the B-52 and show him just what the old BUFF could do.
ref: 2006, Jim Clonts, When Penguins Flew and Water Burned, page 447:
qualifier: Air Force
glosses: Acronym of big ugly fat fellow (or fucker), US Airforce nickname for the B-52 bomber.
Related terms: SLUFF
keel haul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keel hauls
form: keel hauling
form: keel hauled
form: keel hauled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of keelhaul.
reupholsters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reupholster
reupholstered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reupholster
reupholstering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Since the 19th century as a gerund. By surface analysis, re- + upholster + -ing. More at upholstering § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reupholster
reupholstering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reupholsterings
Etymology: Since the 19th century as a gerund. By surface analysis, re- + upholster + -ing. More at upholstering § Etymology.
Senses: examples: text: These are strongly built and will survive any number of reupholsterings.
ref: 1937, Woman's Home Companion, volume 64, page 105:
text: After several reupholsterings, the wood may no longer function to hold the upholstery in place and must be reinforced.
ref: 1978, Edward Stanek, Antiques and Art: Care and Restoration, Wallace-Homestead Book Company, →ISBN, page 160:
glosses: The act or process, or an instance, of upholstering again (that is, redoing some upholstery), usually to restore a chair or automotive seat that is worn out.
Related terms: reupholsterer
upholsterer
reupholsterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reupholsterer
reupholsterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reupholsterers
Etymology: From reupholster + -er.
Senses: coordinate_terms: upholsterer
glosses: Someone who reupholsters, especially a trained craftsman who does so as an occupation.
woz
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /wəz/
homophone: was (unstressed)
Etymology: From was, wuz.
Senses: examples: text: "You woz saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you woz beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'.
ref: 1893, Bret Harte, Susy: A Story of the Plains:
text: 'If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'
ref: 1894, George Egerton, Discords, page 120:
text: We woz robbed, Brian.
ref: 2002, Christopher Brookmyre, Country of the Blind, →ISBN, page 343:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of was.
Derived terms: woz ere
mishears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mishear
mishearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mishear
mishearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mishearings
Senses: examples: text: The title lyric ["Bei Mir Bistu Shein"], the only part of the original Yiddish preserved by Cahn, was a mondegreen waiting to happen—“My Mere Bits of Shame” and “My Beer, Mr. Shane” were among the earliest recorded mishearings—but the language barrier didn't […]
ref: 2012, Gary Rosen, Unfair to Genius: The Strange and Litigious Career of Ira B. Arnstein, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:
text: Hence, rather than being the result of mishearing and assimilation, the application of Hobson-Jobson to the Muharram was intentionally disparaging.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 59:
glosses: The act of hearing something incorrectly.
Related terms: mondegreen
eggcorn
Hobson-Jobson
folk etymology
lapsus auris
uphill battles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uphill battle
triangle test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triangle tests
Senses: glosses: A test in which a potential consumer is asked to determine blindly which of three similar items is not identical to the other two.
vasectomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /vəˈsɛktəmaɪz/
Forms: form: vasectomizes
form: vasectomizing
form: vasectomized
form: vasectomized
form: vasectomise
Etymology: From vasectomy + -ize.
Senses: coordinate_terms: tie someone's tubes
glosses: To perform a vasectomy (on a patient, a human or nonhuman male animal).
Kievan Russia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Kievan Rus.
peccancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛkənsi/
Forms: form: peccancies
Etymology: From post-classical Latin peccantia, from Latin peccāns, present participle of peccō (“to sin”).
Senses: examples: text: [T]his distorting of equivocall words, which passeth commonly for a triviall peccancy, if it be well examined, will be found a very dangerous admission; for me thinks this may be termed a verbal adultery, as it vitiateth and corrupts the property of another, which would have remained innocent without that sollicitation, and therefore seemeth much a souler fault, than a single incontinency of our own words.
ref: 1648, Walter Montagu, “Of Scurrility”, in Miscellanea Spiritualia, London: W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, section 2, page 144:
text: For it is then as if our tears broke through an inveterate inner dam, and let all sorts of ancient peccancies and moral stagnancies drain away, leaving us now washed and soft of heart and open to every nobler leaning.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XI, XII, and XIII: Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 267:
glosses: A sin or moral transgression.
glosses: Sinfulness.
glosses: A state of being flawed; faultiness.
glosses: Unhealthiness.
paramountcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəmaʊn(t)si/
Forms: form: paramountcies
Etymology: From paramount + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e saw this permanence to be true of the general paramountcy of the higher insight, even though in the ebbs of emotional excitement meaner motives might temporarily prevail and backsliding might occur.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XI, XII, and XIII: Saintliness”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 268:
text: Both, they claim, were British spies, sent into Central Asia as part of a grand design for paramountcy there at the expense of Russia, whose influence they aimed to destroy.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 203:
text: Portuguese Church authorities often made things more difficult for non-Portuguese European missionaries by insisting on the paramountcy of their own culture and ecclesiastical jurisdiction […]
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 703:
glosses: The condition or fact of being paramount; precedence, supremacy; (countable) an instance of this.
East Slav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: East Slavs
Senses: glosses: A member of the East Slavic peoples, including the Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians.
East Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the East Slavs, their culture or language(s).
East Slavic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A subgrouping of the Slavic language family spoken mainly in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.
glosses: The Old East Slavic language.
Related terms: West Slavic
South Slavic