cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
cannulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænjʊli/
ipa: /-aɪ/
ipa: /ˈkænjəli/
ipa: /-aɪ/
Forms: form: cannulæ
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin cannulae.
Senses: glosses: plural of cannula
earware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: earwear
Etymology: From ear + -ware.
Senses: examples: text: Throw in the hand-cut, all-terrain Goodyears and buying protective earware would be a wise purchase.
ref: 2000, Autocar:
text: If youre an avid cyclist you know riding with your headphones on can be dangerous […]
ref: 2007 June 5, “Hear tunes, sounds with earware”, in Idaho Statesman:
text: Curiously, Aliph calls this earware rather than a headset, hence the comparison to sunglasses.
ref: 2008 May 16, “Style and Design Important for Bluetooth Headsets”, in PC Magazine:
text: Billed as 'earware' it's more jewelry than ho-hum headset and comes in black, silver and rose gold to accessorize with your every outfit.
ref: 2008 June 10, “Gear picks”, in Canada.com:
glosses: Personal acoustical equipment, especially headsets.
glosses: Earrings.
urnae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urna
stratas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strata
fortunae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fortune
rotis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roti
tabulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tabula
gemmae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemma
plantae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planta
militiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of militia
concordias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concordia
venae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vena
cellulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cellula
gallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galla
corollae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corolla
corollas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corolla
choreae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorea
choreas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chorea
gazis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazi
plumulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumula
plumulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumula
muscae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musca
scutellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scutella
talpae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talpa
taleae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talea
sellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sella
amentias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amentia
nymphaeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nymphaea
virgas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virga
hamam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hammam (“bathhouse”).
membranae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin membrānae, plural of membrāna.
Senses: glosses: plural of membrana
bibliothecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bibliotheca
paleae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palea
matriculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matricula
regulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regula
tramae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trama
bird colonels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird colonel
bird courses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird course
carrucas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carruca
fasciolae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fasciola
brassicae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin brassicae.
Senses: glosses: plural of brassica
lutfisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish lutfisk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lutefisk.
spathae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatha
ulvas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulva
metacommunications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metacommunication
calvarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calvaria
planitiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of planitia
tilias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tilia
anticloning
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticloning
form: most anticloning
Etymology: From anti- + cloning.
Senses: glosses: Opposing genetic cloning.
antifields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antifield
antipilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + pilling.
Senses: glosses: Preventing or countering the formation of pills on fabric.
forage cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forage caps
Senses: examples: text: Changing his forage cap for a soft hat, and selecting a stick from a miscellaneous collection in a corner, he prepared to retrace his steps.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 199:
text: As to my dress, I covered my Hussar uniform with a long cloak, and I put a grey forage cap upon my head.
ref: 1903, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Gerard, Chapter 4:
text: Rather should it be said that these ladies wore dress of military style, since there was nothing uniform about their outfits, one being in powder-blue with silver buttons and a forage-cap, the other in tan with gold buttons and the dinkiest of red-peaked kepis.
ref: 1961, Xavier Herbert, Soldiers' Women, Netley, SA: Fontana Books, published 1978, page 88:
text: [C]arpenters and scene painters, in their blouses and forage caps, moved about taking instructions, actors stood gossiping and going through their cues.
ref: 1994, Claire Tomalin, Mrs Jordan's Profession, Penguin, published 2012, page 45:
glosses: Any of various originally military caps intended for undress or working use.
telepathetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌtɛləpəˈθɛtɪkli/
Etymology: From telepathetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telepathically.
escae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esca
puerperae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puerpera
puerperas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puerpera
orbitae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orbita
genae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gena
squamae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squama
squamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squama
crepidae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin crepidae.
Senses: glosses: plural of crepida
ecclesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecclesia
ocreae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocrea
tunicae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunica
tunicas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunica
locustae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locusta
lineae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linea
cucurbitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cucurbita
thecas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theca
furcae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of furca (“fork-like structure”)
fenestellae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fenestella
stickweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stickweeds
Etymology: From stick + weed.
Senses: glosses: Any of various unrelated plants that have seeds that stick to clothing
stifado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stifados
Etymology: From Greek στιφάδο (stifádo), from Venetan stufado, from Latin extufare, from Ancient Greek τύφος (túphos, “steam”). Compare Italian stufato, French estouffade. Doublet of estouffade.
Senses: glosses: A Greek stew, typically made from rabbit meat, tomatoes, small onions and herbs.
crustae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crusta
crustas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crusta
guttas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gutta
thirstland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thirstlands
Etymology: From thirst + land.
Senses: examples: text: On a few excruciating expeditions into the thirstland we found some melon-like objects, but we were too scared to try them in case they were poisonous.
ref: 1978, André Brink, Rumours of Rain, Vintage, published 2000, page 130:
text: […] explorer of the great thirstlands of Botswana and Namibia, […]
ref: 1991, Peter Hathaway Capstick, Sands Of Silence: On Safari In Namibia, page 66:
glosses: An extensive arid region.
scobinae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scobina
althaeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of althaea
ungulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ungula
timepass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Compound of time (noun) + pass (verb). Compare Tamil பொழுதுப்போக்கு (poḻutuppōkku, “hobby, entertainment”), from பொழுது (poḻutu, “time”) + போக்கு (pōkku, “going, passing”).
Senses: examples: text: Why are you doing timepass with your friends? You should be studying!
glosses: Aimless or unproductive activity; killing time.
examples: text: Don't go see that movie; it's just timepass.
glosses: An activity which is boring or not worthwhile; a waste of time.
Related terms: pastime
zeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zea
palaestrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaestra
palaestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palaestra
annonas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annona
twinspot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twinspots
Etymology: From twin + spot.
Senses: glosses: Any of various African waxbills that have spotted underparts.
scaphae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scapha
erucae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eruca
eviler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of evil: more evil
evilest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of evil: most evil
paenulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paenula
palagis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palagi
scolopendras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scolopendra
bucculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buccula
picturae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pictura
camisiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camisia
camisias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of camisia
clausulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clausula
virgulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgula
virgulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of virgula
centiday
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛntɪdeɪ/
Forms: form: centidays
Etymology: From centi- + day.
Senses: examples: text: ABC's This Day Tonight in Adelaide proudly broke the news on 1 April 1975 that metric time was being introduced to Australia. The new metric time system would see seconds become millidays, minutes become centidays, and hours become decidays.
ref: 2008, unknown editor, Talking television.au: There's an April fool born every centiday, blog posting on 31st March 2008:
glosses: One hundredth of one day; that is, 14 minutes and 24 seconds.
Related terms: deciday
centidays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centiday
epistemai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕpĭstēʹmī
ipa: /ɛpɪˈstiːmaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of episteme
fire chiefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire chief
let nature take its course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets nature take its course
form: letting nature take its course
form: let nature take its course
form: let nature take its course
form: let nature take her course
form: let Nature take its course
Senses: examples: text: "Do you mean to put a secret-service operative aboard disguised as a deckhand?"
"Huh! Skinner, you distress me. I'm going to put Matt Peasley aboard the Quickstep as second mate, and let Nature take its course."
ref: 1916, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 27, in Cappy Ricks:
text: A boat trip to St. Joe! I and the Missus and the two love birds. And I'd see to it that the chaperons kept their distance and let Nature take its course.
ref: 1917, Ring Lardner, Sr., “The Water Cure”, in Gullible's Travels:
glosses: To permit events to proceed or a situation to develop without intervention or interference.
examples: text: I have slashed veins in my ankles and am pleasantly bleeding to death in this hot water. There is no greater kindness you can do me than to let nature take its course.
ref: 1984, Piers Anthony, On A Pale Horse, →ISBN, page 145:
text: Her life is not worth living, people say; see, she is dependent on others even for food and water; let nature take its course.
ref: 2005 March 27, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, “If God died for all of us, it is not ours to decide who is fit to live”, in telegraph.co.uk, retrieved 02 Sep 2010:
glosses: To allow a person or animal to die without medical or other attempts to forestall death.
Synonyms: stand aside
Related terms: benign neglect
let sleeping dogs lie
let Nature take its course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets Nature take its course
form: letting Nature take its course
form: let Nature take its course
form: let Nature take its course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
let nature take her course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets nature take her course
form: letting nature take her course
form: let nature take her course
form: let nature take her course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
permit nature to take her course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permits nature to take her course
form: permitting nature to take her course
form: permitted nature to take her course
form: permitted nature to take her course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
permit nature to take its course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: permits nature to take its course
form: permitting nature to take its course
form: permitted nature to take its course
form: permitted nature to take its course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
allow nature to take its course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allows nature to take its course
form: allowing nature to take its course
form: allowed nature to take its course
form: allowed nature to take its course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
allow nature to take her course
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: allows nature to take her course
form: allowing nature to take her course
form: allowed nature to take her course
form: allowed nature to take her course
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of let nature take its course.
shale gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shale gases
Senses: examples: text: In a report released on Monday, the world's foremost energy watchdog, the International Energy Agency (IEA), said the US would benefit from so-called unconventional sources of oil and gas, including shale gas and shale oil, derived from fracking – blasting dense rocks apart to release the fossil fuels trapped within.
ref: 2012 November 12, Fiona Harvey, “US can become world's biggest oil producer in a decade, says IEA”, in The Guardian:
text: The shale gas boom of the past five years took the US by surprise. Gas prices there have plunged and electricity production is shifting fast from coal to gas-fired power stations. This has had a huge effect on all parts of the US economy, and is changing politics globally.
ref: 2013 January 16, Fiona Harvey, “Peak oil theories 'increasingly groundless', says BP chief”, in the Guardian:
text: The UK’s underground shale gas reserves may deliver only a fraction of the gas promised by fracking firms and government ministers, according to a study.
ref: 2019 August 20, Jillian Ambrose, “UK shale gas reserves may be fraction of what is claimed – study”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: shale oil
glosses: Natural gas extracted from shale.
Related terms: fracking
tauros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tauroses
Senses: glosses: A crossbred cattle that is bred to bring back features of the aurochs (“Bos primigenius”), a member of the Tauros cattle breed.
Related terms: aurochs
Heck cattle
a different crossbreeding effort
Taurus cattle
rhombos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhomboi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥόμβος (rhómbos, “bullroarer”), from ῥέμβω (rhémbō, “I turn around”).
Senses: glosses: A musical instrument used in ancient mystical ceremonies, whirled to producing a roaring sound.
hippopotamos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hippopotamoi
form: hippopotamoses
form: hippopotamos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of hippopotamus.
nanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nano
regulos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regulo
mulis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muli
muce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muces
Senses: examples: text: But the Fox was neare driuen when he took this muce and hee ferreted out of it by verie pregnant depositions.
ref: 1599, Samuel Harsnett, A discouery of the fraudulent practises of Iohn Darrel Bacheler:
glosses: Archaic form of muse (“hole through which an animal passes”).
colone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈloʊn/
other: /koʊˈloʊn/
Forms: form: colones
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of colon (“husbandman”).
ossifrage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɒsɪfɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: ossifrages
Etymology: From Middle French ossifrage, from Latin ossifraga (“osprey”), ossifragus (“osprey”), from ossifragus (“bone breaking”).
Senses: examples: text: And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 11:13:
text: Calcareous lies, slate, and trap are still to be found there, rising from layers of conglomerate, like teeth from a gum; but the pickaxe has broken up and leveled those bristling, rugged peaks which were once the fearful perches of the ossifrage.
ref: 1880, [uncredited English translator], The Man who Laughs by Victor Hugo, Book the Third, Chapter I
text: Yes; for these two passions, when they enter into a man, alter his wisdom and understanding and judgment and wit, and he is like the Ossifrage which, for precaution against the hunters, abode in the upper air, of the excess of his subtlety […]
ref: 1885–1888, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “The Spider and the Wind. [Night 162.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume (please specify the volume), [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: The aged sisters draw us into life: we wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die: over us dead they bend. First, saved from waters of old Nile, among bulrushes, a bed of fasciated wattles: at last the cavity of a mountain, an occulted sepulchre amid the conclamation of the hillcat and the ossifrage.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 14]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Gypaetus barbatus, the bearded vulture, the diet of which is almost exclusively bone marrow.
glosses: The young of the sea eagle or bald eagle.
examples: text: And their young Ospraies bee counted a kind of Ossifragi: from them come the lesser Geires, they againe breed the greater, which engender not at all. Some reckon yet another kind of Ægle, which they cal Barbatæ; and the Tuscanes, Ossifrage.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book X.] 3.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
text: And we were just about
To turn and face the foe, as some tire bird
Barbarians pelt at, drive with shouts away
From shelter in what rocks, however rude,
She makes for, to escape the kindled eye,
Split beak, crook'd claw o' the creature, cormorant
Or ossifrage, that, hardly baffled, hangs
Afloat i' the foam, to take her if she turn.
ref: 1871 Robert Browning,Balustrion's Adventure: A Transcript from Euripides, line 117–24
glosses: The osprey.
Related terms: ossiphagy
lupinis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lupini
dolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doli
musculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌ.skjəˌlaɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of musculus
muscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muscules
Etymology: From Latin musculus. Compare French muscule, Portuguese músculo.
Senses: examples: text: For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.
ref: 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W[illiam] Rogers, S[amuel] Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], →OCLC, 1st book, paragraph 18, page 27:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of muscle.
abigei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abigeus
malis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mali
favos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of favo
disci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin discī, plural of discus.
Senses: examples: text: (Since M. 23 is a P. porcarius, it is possible that the difference in the size of the two disci is a specific one.)
ref: 1932, Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London, […] London: Messrs. Longmans, Green, and Co., Ltd., […], page 162:
text: It will carry two 16-pound shots, two disci or one of each.
ref: 1960, Athletic Journal, page 54:
text: Isthmia 458 is one of only three known disci made of iron, and the material of the halter, 459, is unusual, being of lead.
ref: a. 1988, Isabelle K. Raubitschek, “VII: Tools”, in Isthmia: Excavations by the University of Chicago under the Auspices of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, volumes VII: “The Metal Objects (1952–1989)”, Princeton, New Jersey: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, published 1998, →ISBN, page 122:
glosses: plural of discus
arbute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arbutes
Senses: glosses: The strawberry tree.
glosses: The wood of the strawberry tree.
Related terms: arbutean
arbutus
tituli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of titulus
pardi
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: And why so many grains of calomel? santa Maria! and such a dose of opium! periclitating, pardi! the whole family of ye, from head to tail.
ref: 1765, Laurence Sterne, The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume 8, Penguin, published 2003, page 491:
glosses: Obsolete form of pardie.
cestos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cesto
columbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The spelling was probably influenced by Columbo (an old spelling of Colombo), under the assumption that the plant came from there.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of calumba.
Derived terms: columbic acid
American columbo
quadrigate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrigates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quadrigatus
synonyms: word: quadrigatus
boleti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boletus
Related terms: boletuses
somno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: BDSM
lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Clipping of somnophilia.
somnos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From a proprietary name, from Latin somnos (“sleep”).
Senses: examples: text: The subcommittee's report to the Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry shows that the action of somnos is practically identical with that of a 5 per cent elixir of hydrated chloral.
ref: 1906, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, volume 47, pages 872–875:
glosses: A hypnotic and sedative drug containing chloral hydrate.
sucos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suco
cincinni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cincinnus
gladiole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gladioles
Senses: glosses: gladiolus (flowering plant)
capelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capelles
form: capellen
form: kapelle
Etymology: From German Kapelle. Doublet of chapel.
Senses: examples: text: And for rehearsals of those, the musicians of the capelle are required to appear on his demand.
ref: 2002, Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: The private orchestra or band of a prince or church.
unci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uncus
cyathos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyathoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kyathos.
pagis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pagi
canalicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canalicules
Etymology: From canal + -cule.
Senses: glosses: A small canal, channel or duct
caseum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin caseum (“cheese”).
Senses: glosses: Casein.
tholi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tholus
clive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clives
form: cliving
form: clived
form: clove
form: clived
form: clove
form: cliven
Etymology: From Middle English cliven, from Old English clīfan (“to cleave, adhere, stick”), from Proto-West Germanic *klīban, from Proto-Germanic *klībaną (“to glue, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *gleybʰ- (“to lubricate, stick”).
Cognate with Dutch kleven (“to adhere, stick”), German kleben (“to adhere, stick”), Swedish kliva (“to climb, stalk”), Icelandic klífa (“to climb, ascend”).
Senses: glosses: To climb; ascend.
clive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clives
Etymology: From Middle English *clive (in compound: Middle English garclive), from Old English clīfe (“clifers (cleavers), burdock”), from Proto-West Germanic *klībā. Cognate with Middle Dutch kleve, klijve (“burdock”), Middle Low German klive (“burdock”).
Senses: glosses: Burdock or agrimony.
clive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clives
form: cliving
form: clived
form: clived
Etymology: From Middle English cliven, from Old Norse klyfja, klufða (“to split, chop, cleave”), from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną (“to split, pick”), from Proto-Indo-European *glewbʰ- (“to cut, carve, peel”). Cognate with Old English clēofan (“to cleave, split, separate”). Doublet of cleave.
Senses: examples: text: After 'frosting' the stone may be 'clived' or split along the bedding planes. Once clived, the thin slabs are dressed for use and sold as Collyweston Slates, for use as tilestones.
ref: 1990, John Ashurst, Francis G. Dimes, Conservation of building and decorative stone: Volume 1:
text: IL-1β presents the peculiarity of being produced in the form of a biologically inactive precursor, known as proIL-1β, that needs to be clived at an aspartate residue by a specific enzyme, named interleukin-1β converting enzyme (ICE) or [...]
ref: 2007, Robert Ader, Psychoneuroimmunology:
glosses: To split; separate; cleave; chop.
funiculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of funiculus
digitule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitules
Etymology: From Latin digitulus, diminutive of digitus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.
dactyli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactylus
laquearii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laquearius.
rastellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rastella
Senses: examples: text: Mygalomorph spiders tend to be relatively long lived. The majority of these spiders live in burrows in the soil. Many of the burrowing forms have a patch of short stiff spines on their chelicerae called a rastellum that they use for digging.
ref: 2012, Richard A. Bradley, Common Spiders of North America:
text: The female has robust chelicerae with a rastellum. The fovea is a pit, not longitudinal as in Antrodiaetus.
ref: 2012, Richard A. Bradley, Common Spiders of North America, page 73:
glosses: In certain mygalomorph spiders, a row of stiff spines on the chelicera.
examples: text: The pollen detached by the rastellum falls on the surface of the auricle and adheres to it. Then by an upward flexion of the basitarsus on the tibia, the pollen on the auricle, held in place by the rastellum, is pressed up into the lower end of the tibial basket.
ref: 1984, Robert E. Snodgrass, Anatomy of the Honey Bee, page 110:
text: The pollen rake of the opposing hind leg scrapes the inner surface of each pollen comb, which results in the pollen being transferred from each pollen comb through the rastellum to the pollen press on the opposite leg.
ref: 1991, Mark L. Winston, The Biology of the Honey Bee, page 26:
glosses: In honey bees, a row of spines on the distal end of the tibia used to manipulate pollen.
Related terms: rastellar
cycli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclus
cyclo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclos
Etymology: From cycle + -o.
Senses: glosses: A tuk-tuk.
glosses: A cycle rickshaw
cyclos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclo
sacci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccus
saccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccoi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sakkos.
hoplomachi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoplomachus.
zoophori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zoophorus
articuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of articulus
pediculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pediculus
pedicule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pedicules
Senses: glosses: A pedicel
Derived terms: pediculectomy
alnum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alnums
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of alphanumeric.
macco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmækəʊ/
Senses: examples: text: Had you come here as you proposed yesterday afternoon, you would have found that envelope full of bank-notes. As it is, they were all dropped at the infernal macco-table last night
ref: 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
glosses: A gambling game popular in the eighteenth century.
fossate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a fossa or depression.
Derived terms: difossate
tetrafossate
ostiarii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostiarius
scarabaei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scarabaeus
argentarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑː.d͡ʒənˈtɛəɹi.əm/
ipa: /ˌɑɹ.d͡ʒənˈtɛɹi.əm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Senses: synonyms: plumbum argentarium
glosses: Roman alloy of lead and tin for tinning
unguentarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌŋɡwənˈtɛəɹiəm/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiəm
Forms: form: unguentaria
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin unguentarium.
Senses: glosses: A small bottle used to store balms or scented oils
lapillo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lapilli
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lapillo.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lapillus (“lava fragment”).
synonyms: word: lapillus
extra: lava fragment
gibbi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gibbis
Senses: glosses: A palace or royal enclosure in Ethiopia.
gibbis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gibbi
folliculi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of folliculus.
palimbacchii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of palimbacchius
monocule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monocules
Etymology: See monocular.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monocle.
laris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lari
fraxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A fluorescent substance obtained from the bark of Fraxinus excelsior, the European ash tree, and formerly used to treat fever.
martellos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martello
succi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succus
succos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of succah
blood groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blood group
reawake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reawakes
form: reawaking
form: reawoke
form: reawaked
form: reawoken
form: reawaked
Etymology: From re- + awake.
Senses: examples: text: When he reawoke he felt for a second as though he were part of a surrealistic picture. He was sitting alone in an aeroplane ready to take off.
ref: 1984, Fred Uhlman, Beneath the lightning and the moon:
glosses: To wake up again.
reawakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reawake
reawaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reawake
reawoke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of reawake
reawaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reawake
reawoken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of reawake
Israels
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Israel
Davids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Davidses
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name David.
Davids
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of David
Related terms: St Davids
colorum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colorums
Etymology: Corruption of Ecclesiastical Latin in saecula saeculōrum (“for ever and ever”)
Senses: examples: text: Historically, the first colorums in the Philippines were the survivors of Apolinario de la Cruz' Religious Revolt (1840-41), who fled to Mounts Banahaw and San Cristobal, situated between the Quezon (Tayabas) and Laguna Provinces, and settled in their caves and cool riverbanks.
ref: 1979, Gregorio F. Zaide, The Pageant of Philippine History:
glosses: A rebel organization characterized by religious fanaticism.
examples: text: The colorums believed that one day he would rule the Philippines. When this came to pass, the property of all those who were not colorums would be confiscated and apportioned among the members. Like other colorums elsewhere, the Surigao group believed themselves invulnerable to the enemy's bullets.
ref: 1975, Renato Constantino, The Philippines: A Past Revisited, page 350:
glosses: A member of such a group.
examples: text: It does not mean, however, that out of the twelve thousand estimated colorum vehicles we have now in Manila have been reduced by four thousand. As long as the colorum operators take the risk of operating illegally on our thoroughfares, ...
ref: 1982, Land transportation: proceedings of the First Institute on Transportation, 1980, University of the Philippines. Law Center:
text: "[...] it is clear that they have broken those rules grossly, putting at risk the tens of thousands of TNVs without PA or franchise to commit colorum activities,” said LTFRB Chairman Martin B. Delgra III.
ref: 2017 July 18, “Uber, Grab broke the rules by tolerating colorums - LTFRB”, in Manila Bulletin:
glosses: A public transport vehicle operating without a franchise, or in violation of it.
Jerusalems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Jerusalem
unbreaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbreak
unbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unbreak + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbreak
unbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbreaking
form: most unbreaking
Etymology: From un- + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: Their sorry tragedy is cleared away from the universe, and at the end comes in that strange consciousness of the unbreaking perpetual stream of life which makes every tragedy bearable.
ref: 1869, Historical Sketches of the Reign of George Second:
text: The river snaked through the forest, and they travelled on hour after hour, through an unbreaking monotony of green.
ref: 2014, William King, Ocean of Fear: Book Six of the Kormak Saga:
text: At evening, another meal and catheter emptying followed by more television watching until “lights out.” Each new day was a boring and monotonous extension of the previous day—eat, watch TV, sleep—in an unbreaking, sickening cycle.
ref: 2010, Joni Eareckson Tada, Joni: An Unforgettable Story:
glosses: That does not break; unbreakable or unbroken.
unbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unbreak
liquefied petroleum gas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquefied petroleum gases
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: propane (loosely synonymous in US)
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrochemistry
petrology
physical-sciences
synonyms: LPG
autogas
glosses: A mixture of propane and butane with traces of some other gases, which is kept in a liquid state at high pressure in metal bottles, and used as a source of gas for cooking, heating and as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles.
Related terms: word: LNG
word: liquefied natural gas
english: compressed natural gas
translation: compressed natural gas
word: CNG
word: liquid air
word: liquid helium
word: liquid nitrogen
word: liquid oxygen
statūs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin statūs pl.
Senses: examples: text: The reflexivity is perhaps related to the epistemological-ontological duality which the comparison of lunulae and inverted commas establishes: that the mark both establishes different levels and statūs (plural) of meaning, and signals movement between those levels.
ref: 1991, John Lennard, But I Digress: The Exploitation of Parentheses in English, page 21:
text: Analogically we who observe Luhmann’s theory have two statūs²².
²² The ū indicates plural: status (singular) vs. statūs (plural), and so likewise with other Latin words of the so-called u-declension, e.g. nexus vs. nexūs.
ref: 2006, Hans J. Vermeer, Luhmann’s “social systems” theory, page 16:
text: 11,598,369 Tweets with statūs (hash tags) named ‘love’, ‘happy’, ‘sad’, and ‘fun’ are extracted from 715,027 individuals (twitter users).
ref: 2016, Epana Medagedara Thejan Jayaneetha Rajapakshe, Network Patterns Of Psychosocial Feelings Expressed On Social Media –Twitter (Bachelors Thesis, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka), page 16:
glosses: plural of status
rhinocerote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹaɪˈnɒ.sə.ɹəʊt/
Forms: form: rhinocerotes
form: rhinocerot
Senses: examples: text: So a lion is a perfect creature in himself, though it be less than that of a buffalo or a rhinocerote
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: Synonym of rhinoceros.
synonyms: word: rhinoceros
abbates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abbate
abbate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abbates
form: abate
Etymology: From Latin abbatem.
Senses: glosses: An Italian abbot, or similar clergyman in minor orders
glosses: Alternative form of abate (“Italian abbot”).
rore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: rôr
ipa: /ɹɔː/
enpr: rôr
ipa: /ɹɔɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
enpr: rōr
ipa: /ɹo(ː)ɹ/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹoə/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
homophone: roar
homophone: raw (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rōs, rōris (“dew, moisture”).
Senses: examples: text: Demeas: Let it bee lawfull for mee (most honorable not onerable paire) awhile to reteyne & deteyne ligate & obligate your eares with my words neither aspersed or inspersed with the flore or rore of eloquence, yee are both like in nature, & in nurture alike in Genius & both alike ingenuous. What Timon refuses Callimela refuses, what Callimela wills Timon also wills, soe that Callimela may not bee but Timons Callimela, and Timon but Callimelas Timon.
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
glosses: dew
Related terms: roral
rorant
roration
rorid
roriferous
rorifluent
rorifluous
rorigenous
rorulent
rory
pollices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pollex
servitutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servitute
servitute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servitutes
Etymology: From Middle English servitute, from Latin servitus.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of servitude.
cyclopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /saɪˈkloʊ.piz/
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclops
pontifice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pontificem, accusative singular of pontifex, from the noun pons, pontis (“a bridge”) + facere (“to make”). Compare pontiff.
Senses: examples: text: With joy / And tidings fraught, to Hell he now return'd, / And at the brink of Chaos, neer the foot / Of this new wondrous Pontifice, unhop't / Met who to meet him came, his Ofspring dear.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature Ll2, recto, lines 345–349:
glosses: Bridgework; structure or edifice of a bridge.
glosses: pontiff
cantoris
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kænˈtɔːɹɪs/
Forms: form: Can.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cantōris (“of the cantor”).
Senses: examples: text: the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall
text: one accompanyist, let us suppose him seated on the Cantoris side, facing the Decani Organ[…]
ref: 1858, William St. George Patterson, Chants, services, anthems:
qualifier: church architecture
glosses: Of the side of the chancel, apse, altar or choir on which the cantor's (later precentor's) stall is placed (the left hand side to a person facing the altar);
cantoris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kænˈtɔːɹɪs/
Forms: form: Can.
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cantōris (“of the cantor”).
Senses: examples: text: All the extant voices participate fully in the decani-cantoris split at that point, so one is tempted to assume that the tenors split into decani and cantoris parts as well.
ref: 1988, Gordon Paine, Howard Swan, Five Centuries of Choral Music: Essays in Honor of Howard Swan, page 105:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The lower of two choral voice parts sung when a part splits into two; traditionally sung by members of the choir on the cantoris side.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: That half of the choir singing cantoris parts, collectively.
duodecades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duodecade
duodecade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecades
form: dodecade
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin duodecas (“twelve”), from Ancient Greek δυωδεκάς (duōdekás, “twelve”). Equivalent to duodeca- + -ade.
Senses: examples: text: Each Chinese New Year during a "Jupiter return"—when a duodecade has passed and the Chinese zodiac animal of your birth year comes back around—it is expected that you find some red underwear to put on for the special occasion.
text: A second part is meadow-land, and every twelve years this is divided into as many parts as there are holders of village rights, and each one receives a share, of which he has the exclusive use until the redivision at the end of the duodecade.
ref: 1880, The Popular Science Monthly, page 471:
glosses: A period of twelve years.
Related terms: dodecad
duodecennial
duodecade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duodecades
Etymology: From duo- + decade.
Senses: examples: text: When I divide the past sixty years, 1706-65, into twenty-year periods, [I discover that] in the first duodecade, 702 people died, that is, an average of 35 a year. In the second period to 1745, 850, or 42i/$ each year, perished.
ref: 1996, Mary Lindemann, Health & Healing in Eighteenth-century Germany, →ISBN:
text: McIntosh sampled four to six consecutive Leet Court sessions, usually covering two to three years, in each twenty-year span or 'duodecade' of her period. Her f1gures therefore provide a minimum number of communities involved ...
ref: 1999, Reformation:
glosses: A period of two decades, a period of 20 years.
monades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monade
hirudine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hirudine
form: most hirudine
Etymology: From Latin hirūdō (“leech”).
Senses: examples: text: Other factors may contribute to the development of a hirudine constitution by causing primarily a decrease in the water and mineral content of the body.
ref: 1933, Eugene Földes, A New Approach to Dietetic Therapy, page 196:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the leeches.
Derived terms: hirudiniasis