cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Nessa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈnɛsə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name, nickname of Vanessa.
Vane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vanes
Etymology: Variant of Fayne.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
telementor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telementors
Etymology: From tele- + mentor.
Senses: glosses: One who mentors by means of telecommunication or computer networks.
Related terms: telementoring
telementors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telementor
Lutheranist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Lutheran + -ist.
Senses: examples: literature of a Lutheranist character
glosses: Lutheran; promoting Lutheranism
Lutheranist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lutheranists
Etymology: From Lutheran + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the tergiversations of the council, wholly devoted to Rome — there was not a Lutheranist or Calvinist present — so disgusted the Protestants, that they refused to recognize its authority, or to be bound by its decrees.
ref: 1866, William Carlos Martyn, A history of the Huguenots, page 305:
glosses: A Lutheran.
telemetrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From telemetric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: By means of telemetry.
telemetrics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: telemetric technology; the use of telemetry
fartin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of farting.
teletutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletutors
Etymology: From tele- + tutor.
Senses: glosses: One who tutors by means of telecommunication or computer networks.
Related terms: teletutoring
burpin'
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of burping.
teletutorial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teletutorials
Etymology: From tele- + tutorial.
Senses: glosses: An educational presentation by means of telecommunication or computer networks.
teletutorials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletutorial
teletutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teletutor
teleseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telesellers
Etymology: From tele- + seller.
Senses: glosses: A salesperson working in telesales.
teleselling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + selling.
Senses: glosses: telesales
telesellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleseller
teleseismological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + seismological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to teleseismology.
teleinstructional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + instructional.
Senses: examples: a teleinstructional session
glosses: Relating to teleinstruction.
teleinstruction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + instruction.
Senses: glosses: instruction or education by means of telecommunication or computer networks
Related terms: teleinstructional
teleinstructor
surgical gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surgical gown
teleteaching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + teaching.
Senses: glosses: teaching by means of telecommunication or computer networks
Synonyms: teleinstruction
Related terms: teleteacher
teleteacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleteachers
Etymology: From tele- + teacher.
Senses: glosses: A teacher who teaches physically remote students by means of telecommunication or computer networks.
Synonyms: teleinstructor
Related terms: teleteaching
teleteachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleteacher
pharos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛəɹɒs/
Forms: form: pharoses
form: pharoi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Φάρος (Pháros).
Senses: examples: text: He […] built a Pharos, or Light House.
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
glosses: An ancient lighthouse or beacon to guide sailors.
examples: text: The house was not very felicitously titled, said many: it was no academic pharos.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 39:
glosses: That which stands out; a shining light.
telerobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telerobots
Etymology: From tele- + robot.
Senses: glosses: A robot that can be controlled remotely; a telerobotic system.
glosses: A proposed device combining the functions of a robot and a television, telegraph, telephone, teleporter or telecommunicator.
telerobots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telerobot
telelearning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tele- + learning.
Senses: glosses: learning by means of telecommunication or computer networks
Related terms: telelearner
telepsychiatrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepsychiatrists
Etymology: From tele- + psychiatrist.
Senses: glosses: A psychiatrist who deals with physically remote patients by means of telecommunication or computer networks.
Related terms: telepsychiatry
telepatient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telepatients
Etymology: From tele- + patient.
Senses: glosses: A patient who uses a telehealth service to receive advice or treatment from another location.
telepsychiatrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepsychiatrist
telepatients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telepatient
telesatellite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telesatellites
Etymology: From tele- + satellite.
Senses: glosses: A telecommunications satellite.
glosses: A television broadcast satellite.
telesatellites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telesatellite
Lutherist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lutherists
Etymology: From Luther + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A scholar who studies Luther or his works.
examples: text: Seized by a fit of rage he denounced Lasson then and there as a Lutherist and hastening from church summoned him before the Court.
ref: 1916 November, The Art World, volume 1, page 145:
text: Catholics own this world. They owned it. Now we and the Dutch're going to smash them. What nonsense it all is! Catholic and Protestant and Calvinist and Lutherist and every other shitist. You should have been born Catholic.
ref: 1986, James Clavell, Shōgun: A Novel of Japan, page 152:
glosses: A Lutheran; a proponent of Lutheranism.
Lutherists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lutherist
pilement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pilements
Etymology: From pile + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: What! had he nought whereby he might be known, / But costly pilements of some curious stone?
ref: 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
glosses: An accumulation; a heap.
pilements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilement
proxemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Senses: examples: text: Begger and lord, Odysseus, in carefully constructed sequence, passes through Hall's four proxemic, or social distances: public (nonacquainted) beggar, social guest of Eumaios, personal friend of Penelope, and, revealed at last as Odysseus, Penelope's husband and intimate bedmate.
ref: 1995, Donald Lateiner, Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, page 120:
glosses: Of or relating to proxemics.
drock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drocks
Etymology: Compare droke, drook.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:drock.
glosses: A drainage ditch, sometimes covered; a small watercourse, especially one used for drainage or sewerage.
drock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drocks
Senses: examples: text: Fig. 12. Is the Earth-board, [...] the Notch a b shews the Rising of the Wood, which takes hold of the Edge of the Sheat, to hold it firmer, to which it is fastened by the Holes c and d; and at the other End it is fastened to the Drock, at Hole e. [...] But this Pin, with which it is fastened to the Drock, it bigger in the Middle [...]
ref: 1762, Jethro Tull, chapter XIX, in Horse-Hoeing Husbandry ... the fourth edition, page 299:
text: T, in fig. 1, represents part of what is called the drock; a piece of wood about 6 inches wide, 3 deep, and something more than 2 feet long, which is the bottom part of the plough. On the top of the drock is fastened an upright piece of wood called the spidle, […] the shelve-boards, which are fastened to the drock and spindle, meeting each other in the angular point P.
ref: 1801, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 90, page 986:
text: … drock, a piece of wood, that forms the lower extremity of the plough; and which is about six inches in width, three in depth, and rather more than two feet in length. - To the top of the drock is fastened an erect piece of timber …
ref: 1802, Anthony Florian Madinger Willich, The Domestic Encyclopaedia; Or, A Dictionary of Facts, page 408
glosses: A part of certain 18th and 19th century models of plough: a piece of wood which forms the bottom part of the plough, to which the spindle and the shelve-boards are fastened.
drocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drock
cyberdemocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberdemocratic
form: most cyberdemocratic
Etymology: From cyber- + democratic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to cyberdemocracy.
tenebrificous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tenebrificous
form: most tenebrificous
Etymology: From tenebrific + -ous, ultimately from Latin tenebrae (“darkness”).
Senses: examples: text: But to fancy any Stars efficiently and poſitively to cauſe cold, is as extravagant and ridiculous as that conceit of Paracelſus, that imagined that it was not the abſence of the Sun but certain Tenebrificous Stars that cauſed Night.
ref: 1681, Henry More, “A Confutation of Aſtrology” (chapter XVI), in Tetractys Anti-Astrologica, […] , London: Printed by J[ohn] M[artyn] for Walter Kettilby, […] , →OCLC, page 86:
text: I consider writers in the same view this sage astrologer does the heavenly bodies. Some of them are stars that scatter light as others do darkness. I could mention several authors who are tenebrificous stars of the first magnitude, and point out a knot of gentlemen, who have been dull in consort, and may be looked upon as a dark constellation.
ref: 1714 August 29 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 582; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, pages 326–327:
text: I have a new theory of optics demonſtrating, that darkneſs is cauſed by certain tenebrificous rays oppugning, obtunding, ſheathing, and abſorbing the rays of light.
ref: 1752 November 25, Samuel Johnson [et al.], “Number VI. SATURDAY, November 25, 1752.”, in The Adventurer, volume I, London: […] J[ohn] Payne, […], published 1753, →OCLC, page 34:
glosses: Synonym of tenebrific (“producing darkness”).
synonyms: word: tenebrific
extra: producing darkness
stargazings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stargazing
superconvergences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superconvergence
superconvergent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superconvergent
form: most superconvergent
Etymology: From super- + convergent.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: converging very rapidly
Related terms: hyperconvergent
superconvergence
spikeproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spikeproof
form: most spikeproof
Etymology: From spike + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage from spikes (such as those on certain kinds of shoe).
scarproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scarproof
form: most scarproof
Etymology: From scar + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being scarred.
marproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marproof
form: most marproof
Etymology: From mar + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to being marred.
heelproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heelproof
form: most heelproof
Etymology: From heel + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage from the heels of shoes.
boyproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boyproof
form: most boyproof
Etymology: From boy + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to boys, their romantic appeal, or the damage they cause by playing.
structuralistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more structuralistically
form: most structuralistically
Etymology: From structuralistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a structuralistic manner or context.
DBFE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Abbreviation of double feature.
Irigarayan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Irigarayan
form: most Irigarayan
Etymology: From Irigaray + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Luce Irigaray (born 1930), Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, and sociologist.
Vizenorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Vizenorian
form: most Vizenorian
Etymology: From Vizenor + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gerald Vizenor (born 1934), Native American writer and lecturer.
Norrisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Norris + -ian, after John Norris, who founded the professorship with a bequest in 1777.
Senses: glosses: Describing a former professorship in divinity at the University of Cambridge, later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity.
lecturership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lecturerships
Etymology: From lecturer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The rank or position of lecturer.
Synonyms: lectureship
lecturerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lecturership
Hulsean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hulsean
form: most Hulsean
Etymology: From Hulse + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to John Hulse (1708–1790), English clergyman who founded a lecturership at the University of Cambridge (later merged into the post of Norris–Hulse Professor of Divinity).
ungroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ungroups
form: ungrouping
form: ungrouped
form: ungrouped
Etymology: From un- + group.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a group; to separate.
degroup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈɡɹuːp/
Forms: form: degroups
form: degrouping
form: degrouped
form: degrouped
Etymology: From de- + group.
Senses: glosses: To remove from a group; to separate.
degroups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degroup
ungrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ungroup
degrouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of degroup
degrouped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of degroup
ungroups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ungroup
deconstructivistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˌstɹʌktɪˈvɪstɪk/
ipa: /diːkənˌstɹʊktɪˈvɪstɪk/
Forms: form: more deconstructivistic
form: most deconstructivistic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to deconstructivism.
Diltheyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Diltheyan
form: most Diltheyan
Etymology: From Dilthey + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), German historian, psychologist, sociologist and hermeneutic philosopher.
nonrelational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-relational
Etymology: From non- + relational.
Senses: examples: text: Most nonrelational databases are hierarchical in structure.
text: However we understand the defect, most divine determinists will likely wish to say that the relation of inconformity between act and law obtains (when it does obtain) merely in virtue of the intrinsic natures of the relata. In other words, the relation of inconformity follows merely upon the nonrelational characteristics of the relata
ref: 2019, Peter Furlong, The Challenges of Divine Determinism: A Philosophical Analysis, page 94:
glosses: Not relational.
nonrelatedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nonrelated + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being related.
Ulmerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Ulmerian
form: most Ulmerian
Etymology: From Ulmer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gregory Ulmer (born 1944), writer and professor of English involved in cybermedia.
mystoriographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mystoriographical
form: most mystoriographical
Etymology: From mystoriography + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to mystoriography.
soundscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From soundscape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The creation of a soundscape.
psychogeographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more psychogeographically
form: most psychogeographically
Etymology: From psychogeographical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a psychogeographical manner or context.
cosmonautics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cosmonaut + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The activities of cosmonauts; Soviet/Russian astronautics.
Related terms: cosmonaut
cosmonautic
cosmonautical
cosmonautic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cosmonautic
form: most cosmonautic
Etymology: From cosmonaut + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or related to cosmonauts or cosmonautics.
Related terms: cosmonaut
cosmonautics
cosmonautical
Zaghlulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaghlulists
form: Zaghloulist
Etymology: From Zaghlul + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of the Egyptian statesman Saad Zaghlul.
Related terms: Zaghlulism
Zaghlulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaghlulist
Zaghloulist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaghloulists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Zaghlulist.
Zaghloulists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaghloulist
Weberian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Weberian
form: most Weberian
Etymology: From Weber + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
qualifier: economy
glosses: Of or relating to Max Weber (1864–1920), influential German sociologist and political economist.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to Ernst Heinrich Weber (1795-1878), a German anatomist and biologist.
Derived terms: Weberian ossicle
Weberian apparatus
Taylorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Taylorian
form: most Taylorian
Etymology: From Taylor + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the English architect Sir Robert Taylor (1714–1788) or the Taylor Institution he founded at Oxford University for the study of European languages.
topics: business
glosses: Of or relating to Taylorism.
examples: text: The problem is basically that any mechanical process of cause and effect may be reinterpreted as a "goal-directed" process along Taylorian lines by simply supposing that whatever happens to be its outcome has all along been the "end" toward which the events comprising the process have been "directed".
ref: 1974, Marilyn Ann Friedman, The Exploration of Human Behaviour in Terms of Its Rationality (doctoral dissertation), London, Ontario: University of Western Ontario, page 374:
text: Later, constructing a notable Taylorian matrix, he argues that Eastonian economic-model theories of political life ‘always end up either laughable, or begging the major question, or both’ (p. 76).
ref: 1983, K. R. Minogue, “Relativism on the Banks of the Isis”, in Government and Opposition, volume 18, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 362:
text: The formation of neighbourhoods within a particular school population may be seen as a counterpart to a Taylorian notion of "distinctness" and survivance.
ref: 2003, Roberta A. Bisaro, Multicultural Practices of Canadian Immigrant Youth: “A Work in Progress” (master’s thesis), Vancouver: University of British Columbia, →DOI, page 57:
text: The U.N. report, while not a philosophical document, nevertheless points to facets of identity-formation that indicate a need to modify the Taylorian account.
ref: 2005, Jane Forsey, “Creative Expression and Human Agency: A Critique of the Taylorian Self”, in Symposium, volume 9, number 2, →DOI, →ISSN, page 290:
text: The first one hundred pages of the book struck me as very Taylorian. Ratzinger’s description of the believer and the unbeliever standing side-by-side whispering “perhaps” into each other’s ears sounds not unlike Charles Taylor’s suggestion that we can’t help but live our faith “in a condition of doubt and uncertainty.”
ref: 2014 November 20, “What We’ve Been Reading (& Listening To)”, in First Things, retrieved 19 Nov 2022:
glosses: Of or relating to the Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor (born 1931).
Related terms: Taylorism
Taylorist
antiessentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiessentialist
form: most antiessentialist
Etymology: From anti- + essentialist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Opposing essentialism.
antiessentialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiessentialists
Etymology: From anti- + essentialist.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who opposes essentialism.
antiessentialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiessentialist
postepistemological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + epistemological.
Senses: glosses: After the decline of epistemology.
Gadamerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gadamerian
form: most Gadamerian
Etymology: From Gadamer + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), German philosopher.
Rortyan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rortyan
form: most Rortyan
Etymology: From Rorty + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Richard McKay Rorty (1931–2007), American philosopher who rejected representationalism in favour of his own neopragmatism.
unconveyable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unconveyable
form: most unconveyable
Etymology: From un- + conveyable.
Senses: examples: unconveyable thoughts
glosses: Impossible to convey.
sensemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sense + making.
Senses: examples: text: Because they can in fact set the stage for ongoing sensemaking efforts, its best to avoid digging holes of mis-messaging that only get harder to overcome with time.
ref: 2016, Elliot Bendoly, Sacha Clark, Visual Analytics for Management:
glosses: The process by which people give meaning to experience.
Related terms: make sense
missense
nonsense
nonsensical
sensical
sentience
Hartmannian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hartmannian
form: most Hartmannian
Etymology: From Hartmann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Nicolai Hartmann (1882-1950), Baltic German philosopher.
Hartmanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hartmanian
form: most Hartmanian
Etymology: From Hartmann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Robert S. Hartman (1910-1973), logician and philosopher in the field of axiology.
Sokalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sokalian
form: most Sokalian
Etymology: From Sokal + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alan Sokal (born 1955), mathematician and critic of postmodernism.
phallogocentrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phallogocentrism
Kristevan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kristevan
form: most Kristevan
Etymology: From Kristev + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Julia Kristeva (born 1941), Bulgarian-French philosopher and critic.
Jacobsian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Jacobsian
form: most Jacobsian
Etymology: From Jacobs + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Jane Jacobs (1916-2006), American-Canadian writer and activist.
Jamesonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Jamesonian
form: most Jamesonian
Etymology: From Jameson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Fredric Jameson (1934–2024), American critic and Marxist political theorist.
neopragmatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neopragmatists
Etymology: From neo- + pragmatist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of neopragmatism.
neopragmatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + pragmatism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A postmodern form of pragmatism that focuses on language and proposes that truth is relative to social contexts and practices.
neopragmatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neopragmatist
mystory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mystories
Etymology: Blend of my + history. Coined by Gregory Ulmer in Teletheory (1989).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A pedagogical genre encouraging the exploration of history as an open-minded individual rather than an analytical historian following institutional norms.
Derived terms: mystoriography
mystories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mystory
mystorical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mystorical
form: most mystorical
Etymology: Blend of my + historical
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to mystory.
Derived terms: mystorically
untheorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more untheorizable
form: most untheorizable
Etymology: From un- + theorizable.
Senses: glosses: Not theorizable.
theorizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theorizable
form: most theorizable
Etymology: From theorize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Susceptible to theory; capable of being described with, or formed into, a theory.
grammatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡɹæ.məˈtɒl.ə.d͡ʒi/
ipa: /ˌɡɹæ.məˈtɑl.ə.d͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
Forms: form: grammatologies
Etymology: From French grammatologie, attested in the 19th century.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of writing systems or scripts.
Derived terms: grammatologic
Related terms: grammatological
grammatologically
grammatologist
grammatologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatology
grammatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatite
mystoriography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mystory + -o- + -graphy. Based on historiography, as mystory was based on history.
Senses: glosses: The writing of mystory.
Derived terms: mystoriographical
servicescape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servicescapes
Etymology: From service + -scape.
Senses: glosses: The range of services available in the market.
Related terms: brandscape
servicescapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of servicescape
lockside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From lock + -side.
Senses: glosses: Beside a lock (segment of a waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels).
lockside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locksides
Etymology: From lock + -side.
Senses: glosses: The area of land beside a lock (segment of a waterway enclosed by gates, used for raising and lowering boats between levels).
locksides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockside
ironism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by American philosopher Richard Rorty, from Ancient Greek εἴρων (eírōn, “one who says less than they think”). By surface analysis, irony + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps Rorty's pragmatics of liberal ironism is a better way of understanding the implication of the existence of disdained others on the post-modern.
ref: 2002, Keith Tester, The Life and Times of Post-Modernity, Routledge, →ISBN, page 149:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A state of doubt regarding one's own "vocabulary" (set of communicative beliefs) that cannot be removed by making arguments in that vocabulary.
Related terms: ironist
postphilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: After the collapse or decline of philosophy.
textshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: textshops
Etymology: From text + shop, modelled on workshop but de-emphasizing the idea of work, inspired by Roland Barthes' essay From Work to Text. Coined by Gregory Ulmer. See Textshop for Psychoanalysis.
Senses: glosses: A kind of writing laboratory where students can experiment with, and attempt to reproduce, the styles and techniques being studied.
wikipedia: Roland Barthes
Hypernyms: playshop
textshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of textshop
minicom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minicoms
Etymology: From a trademark of Ultratec, Inc., possibly from mini- + communicator.
Senses: examples: text: Eventually the trust agreed to install minicoms in all key access points and to make mobile minicoms available to inpatients.
ref: 2004, Joe Kai, Chris Drinkwater, Primary care in urban disadvantaged communities, page 80:
text: Facilities (eg minicoms, hearing loops, etc.) may be inadequate or staff may be unaware of how to use them.
ref: 2009, George Castledine, Ann Close, Oxford Handbook of Adult Nursing, page 516:
text: Instead, with a minicom, you can see every letter the other person types, as they type it. And their spelling errors too! So if you make a mistake, then delete it, the other person sees you deleting those letters from their end.
ref: 2009, British Sign Language For Dummies:
glosses: A textphone.
minicoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minicom
Fourierist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Fourierists
Etymology: From Fourier + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Fourierism.
Fourierist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Fourier + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Fourierism.
Fourierists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fourierist
Fourierites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Fourierite
hypoxemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoxemic
form: most hypoxemic
Etymology: From hypoxemia + -ic.
Senses: antonyms: hyperoxemic
overoxygenated
hypernyms: underoxygenated
coordinate_terms: normoxemic
glosses: Relating to, or afflicted with, hypoxemia.
Derived terms: hypoxemically
nonhypoxemic
Related terms: anoxic
dysoxic
hyperoxic
hypoxic
normoxic
hypoxaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoxaemic
form: most hypoxaemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypoxemic.
hypovolaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypovolaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypovolemia.
hypouricaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypouricaemic
form: most hypouricaemic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypouricemic.
hypouricemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypouricemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hypouricemia
Derived terms: antihypouricemic
entz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A humorous respelling of ents, itself a contraction of entertainments.
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Social and entertainment events provided for the students.
notch in one's bedpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notches in one's bedpost
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of notch on one's bedpost.
high priestesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high priestess
wiccaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiccanings
Etymology: From wiccan + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The welcoming rite — referred to as a wiccaning, a saining, or a paganing — serves a threefold purpose.
ref: 1999, Helen A. Berger, A community of witches, page 90:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A Wiccan ritual analogous to baptism for infants.
Related terms: saining
wiccanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wiccaning
Wiccaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wiccanings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wiccaning.
paganing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paganings
Etymology: From pagan + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The welcoming rite — referred to as a wiccaning, a saining, or a paganing — serves a threefold purpose
ref: 1999, Helen A. Berger, A community of witches, page 90:
glosses: A pagan ritual analogous to baptism for infants.
Related terms: wiccaning
Wiccanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wiccaning
paganings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paganing
threefold law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: threefold laws
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A key tenet of Wicca, stating that the energy a person puts out into the world, whether positive or negative, will return to them multiplied three times.
white magick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any magick used for good purposes
Coordinate terms: grey magick
black magick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any magick used for evil purposes
Coordinate terms: grey magick
grey magick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The left- and right-hand paths often overlap, and this is sometimes called 'grey' magick.
ref: 2002, Donna Darkwolf Vos, Dancing under an African moon: Paganism and Wicca in South Africa:
text: Grey Magick can become either white or black
ref: 2010, Donald Michael Kraig, Modern Magick: Twelve Lessons in the High Magickal Arts, page 17:
glosses: Alternative form of gray magic.
sagehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sage + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The condition or time of being a sage.
examples: text: handpartings, the recognition of crone- or sagehood, and funeral or memorial services.
ref: 1998, Amber K, Robin Wood, Covencraft, page 129:
text: An elder Wiccan man, a male crone. Saging: (SAGE-ing) A ritual to recognize and announce a man's attainment of sagehood
ref: 2006, Ashleen O'Gaia, Family Wicca: practical paganism for parents and children, page 220:
text: Grant (name) the gifts of inspiration, and a clear and quick mind as he/she approaches the honored state of (Sagehood/Cronehood).
ref: 2007, Kevin M. Gardner, A Handbook for Wiccan Clergy, page 29
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The elderly stage of a male Wiccan (compared with the Sage aspect of the Horned God).
Coordinate terms: topics: Wicca
religion
lifestyle
word: cronehood
miscame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of miscome
miscoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of miscome
miscomes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of miscome
hatemail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hate mail.
there are many ways to skin a cat
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of there's more than one way to skin a cat.
Catskills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Amid them, he offers definitive, simple and deadly effective recipes for brisket and cholent; crispy, sweet mandelbrot; Romanian broilings of various sorts; chopped liver and borscht; even fantastic if anti-kosher crossover meals like the Chinese roast pork sandwich on buttery garlic bread that came down from the Catskills in the 1950s to take up residence on the menus of family restaurants across the southern tier of this city.
ref: 2008 June 1, Sam Sifton, “Cooking”, in New York Times:
glosses: The Catskill Mountains
Zep
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Led Zeppelin, an English rock group most active in the 1970s and late 1960s.
Synonyms: Led Zep
Portishead
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pɔːtɪsˈhɛd/
Etymology: From the genitive singular of Old English port (“harbor”), portes + hēafod (“head”), meaning "the harbor headland".
Senses: examples: text: Portishead, lying west-north-west of Bristol, on the Severn, had a small port from medieval times on its pill, or inlet, and began to develop as a seaside resort early in the nineteenth century, when it was served by steam packets from Bristol.
ref: 1955 June, C. L. Mowat, “The Bristol & Portishead Pier & Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
glosses: A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in North Somerset district, Somerset, England, on the Bristol Channel (OS grid ref ST4676).
cruentation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruentations
Etymology: From Latin cruentatio (“bleeding”).
Senses: glosses: The bleeding on the corpse of a murder victim, which was superstitiously believed to occur spontaneously in the presence of the murderer.
sandalpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sandal + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: Do you have something against sandalpunk or something? If you don't like that, try some Bacon. Roger Bacon, that is.
ref: 2006 March 15, Llewelyn Jones <llywelynjones@yahoo.co.uk>, “ASBs Invade”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet), message-ID <4769418477491436>:
text: I've been planning out a sort of sandalpunk-leading-to-steampunk alternate history setting for a while, but I've not yet gotten to a satisfactory level of detail or plausibility to do anything but the most basic story-idea-outlining in it.
ref: 2006 May 26, Logan Kearsley <chrono.surfer@verizon.net>, “Telling time in antiquity”, in rec.arts.sf.composition (Usenet), message-ID <9d3eaa093f0d1c9d>:
text: The specificity of steampunk's Victorian setting, particular in light of the relative presence and notoriety of steampunk vis-à-vis similar subgenres set in other time periods ('clockpunk' or 'sailpunk' set in the Renaissance, such as Paul McAuley's Pasquale's Angel; 'sandalpunk,' set in a technologically innovative ancient world; 'dieselpunk,' 'stonepunk,' etc.) argues for the importance to the present of shifts in technological culture that took place during the Victorian era.
ref: 2011, Noam S. Cohen, Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A subgenre of speculative fiction, based on the technology and society of the Iron Age, especially the Roman Empire.
Myvyrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mivɪɹi.ən/
ipa: /mɪv-/
Etymology: Myvyr (older alternative spelling of the Welsh name Myfyr) + -ian
Senses: examples: text: A
CATALOGUE OF THE MYVYRIAN MSS.
BELONGING TO THE
CYMMRODORION*.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS.
The printed and manuscript books, known under the denomination of the MYVYRIAN COLLECTION, and which have been purchased by the CYMMRODORION from the representatives of the late owner, Mr. Owen Jones, are, in number, one hundred and fifty volumes, […].
ref: 1822, Transactions of the Cymmrodorion, or, Metropolitan Cambrian Institution, volume 1, page 177:
text: 1870, Owain Myvyr (Owen Jones), Iolo Morganwg (Edward Williams), Idrison (William Owen Pughe) (editors), The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, volumes 1-3 (Denbigh)
glosses: Of or pertaining to Owain Myfyr (Owen Jones), who was partly responsible for the The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales.
sailpunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sail + -punk.
Senses: examples: text: Don't forget about chain - great for shredding your target's rigging and not half bad as an antipersonnel round too. (Well, if you're in a "SailPunk" setting it's useful, anyway... Arrr, matey; scupper me wi' a handspike if it ain't so.)
ref: 1996 April 27, Carl Perkins <carl@gergo.tamu.edu>, “Re: Barriers”, in rec.games.frp.cyber (Usenet), message-ID <f2ab6ed35a112b8d>:
text: I notice also that on paper are available nifty and *original* places for live sailpunk RPG'ing but I fear that RN and USN will really frown at the idea of a bunch of live role-players fooling aboard HMS Victory and USS Constitution respectively...
ref: 2010 April 25, dott.Piergiorgio <dott.PiergiorgioNIHON@KAIGUN.fastwebnet.it>, “Re: Steampunk Martians”, in sci.military.naval (Usenet), message-ID <854ef539444badc6>:
text: The specificity of steampunk's Victorian setting, particular in light of the relative presence and notoriety of steampunk vis-à-vis similar subgenres set in other time periods ('clockpunk' or 'sailpunk' set in the Renaissance, such as Paul McAuley's Pasquale's Angel; 'sandalpunk,' set in a technologically innovative ancient world; 'dieselpunk,' 'stonepunk,' etc.) argues for the importance to the present of shifts in technological culture that took place during the Victorian era.
ref: 2011, Noam S. Cohen, Speculative Nostalgias: Metafiction, Science Fiction and the Putative Death of the Novel, →ISBN:
glosses: A subgenre of speculative fiction, focusing on life at sea during the eras of exploration and piracy.
noselift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noselifts
Etymology: From nose + lift. See facelift.
Senses: examples: text: To address these issues, the following procedures were performed: two sessions of scar revision, spaced six months apart; an upper eyelid surgery (blepharoplasty); a noselift (rhinoplasty) and two sessions of autolgous fat transfer to certain areas of the face and beneath the scar.
ref: 2011 February 5, “Wish-granting show paves way for woman with facial deformity to find happiness”, in Manila Bulletin:
glosses: A rhinoplasty operation.
see which way the cat jumps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sees which way the cat jumps
form: seeing which way the cat jumps
form: saw which way the cat jumped
form: seen which way the cat jumped
Senses: synonyms: wait for the cat to jump
see which way the wind is blowing
glosses: To delay taking action based on the outcome of something else.
Related terms: cat and mouse
a cat in gloves catches no mice
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: From the idea that a cat's claws would be hampered by wearing gloves.
Senses: glosses: One cannot obtain what one desires by being cautious; one must be aggressive.
soylent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of soy + lentil, coined in Harry Harrison's 1966 Make Room! Make Room!
Senses: examples: text: The soylent steaks were sitting like lead in his stomach and twice he had to go back to the dark and miserable toilet in the rear of the building.
ref: 1966, Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!, published 1973, →ISBN, →OL, page 26:
text: It is decided that the product will be composed of three elements — soylent green, red, and blue. Each pound of the final product must contain at least 2000 calories of energy and 1000 units of vitamins.
ref: 1976, Roger C. Pfaffenberger, Mathematical Programming for Economics and Business, Ames: Iowa State University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN:
text: “Today's selection is Superaide with a choice of soylent yellow or soylent red,” the servodroid said.
ref: 2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws, New York: Starscape, published 2011, chapter 8:
glosses: An undesirable, lackluster, and artificial foodstuff, as a substitute for real meat.
Derived terms: soylent green
soylent blue
soylent pink
Related terms: mystery meat
enseint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See enceinte.
Senses: examples: text: enseint of a male child
topics: law
glosses: with child; pregnant
hemina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heminas
form: heminae
Etymology: From Latin hemina (“half-sextarius”), from Ancient Greek, from ἡμι- (hēmi-, “hemi-: half”) + -ίνα (-ína, “-ina: forming nouns”). As a Spanish unit, via Spanish hemina.
Senses: examples: text: ...an Æginean Hemina of Hydromel ...
ref: 1727, John Arbuthnot, Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights and Measures. Explain'd and exemplify'd in several dissertations:
glosses: A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of ⁵⁄₆ Roman pound of wine and equivalent to about 0.27 L although differing slightly over time, used in English pharmacy into the 17th century.
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of dry measure equivalent to about 23 L, used particularly in Leon.
glosses: A traditional Spanish unit of land area, varying in size depending on the land's quality and used particularly in Leon.
Synonyms: word: cotyle
word: half-sextarius
english: Roman contexts
translation: Roman contexts
word: half-pint
Coordinate terms: sense: Roman unit of measure
word: lingula (1⁄24 hemina)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: cyathus (1⁄6 hemina)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: acetabulum (1⁄4 hemina)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: quartarius (1⁄2 hemina)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: sextarius (2 heminas)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: congius (12 heminas)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: urna (48 heminas)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: amphora (96 heminas)
sense: Roman unit of measure
word: culeus (1920 heminas)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: cuartillo (1⁄20 hemina)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: medio (1⁄10 hemina)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: celemin (1⁄5 hemina)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: cuartilla (3⁄5 hemina)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: cuarto (1+1⁄5 heminas)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: fanega (2+2⁄5 heminas)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: saco (4+4⁄5 heminas)
sense: Spanish unit of volume
word: carga (9+3⁄5 heminas)
heminae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemina
noselifts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noselift
haematoidin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematoidin.
monogynous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compare French monogyne.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to monogyny, having only one queen.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the Monogynia, a former order of plants having only one pistil.
tymp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tymps
Etymology: Compare tympan.
Senses: examples: text: About five or six inches beneath the tymp, also a little in advance of it, is placed a stone called the dam-stone, which is in the shape of a prism. It is securely fixed by means of a strong piece of iron of a peculiar shape, covering its outer side, and called the dam-plate.
ref: 1868, Francis Herbert Joynson, The Metals Used in Construction:
glosses: A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway of a blast furnace in which the dam stands.
tymps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tymp
portegue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: portegues
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of portague.
portegues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portegue
phacolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phacolites
Etymology: From φακός (phakós, “lens”) + -lite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dull-coloured, lens-shaped variety of chabazite.
phacolites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phacolite