cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ligroines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ligroine
lills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lill
lilling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lill
lilled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lill
limbuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limbus
lime pit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lime pits
form: limepit
Senses: glosses: A limestone quarry.
glosses: A pit in which lime is burnt.
glosses: A pit in which lime is slaked.
glosses: A pit of lime and water in which tanners dehair hides.
limepit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limepits
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lime pit.
lime pits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lime pit
limepits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limepit
limeworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limeworks
Etymology: From lime + works.
Senses: glosses: A limestone-processing facility.
lippened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lippen
lippens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lippen
mononymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mono- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: ISO 704 and ISO 1087 prescribe mononymy as highly desirable for standardized terminologies, but as experience shows, individuals in developing disciplines (having unsettled terminology) are rarely able to agree on mononyms.
ref: 1993, Richard Alan Strehlow, Sue Ellen Wright, Standardizing Terminology for Better Communication, →ISBN:
text: As for mononymy, in the context of standardization, the notion that a concept ought to have only one designation seemed both reasonable and desirable.
ref: 1997, Knowledge Organization - Volumes 24-25, page 10:
text: The emphasis here is on monosemy (one meaning per term) and one term per concept (which is commonly called mononymy, although this term is avoided in the standard, perhaps because it is less transparent).
ref: 2006, Pius ten Hacken, Terminology, Computing and Translation, →ISBN, page 29:
text: What I am calling systematic gazetteers are primarily digital in form and address this lack of mononymy by providing a mix of disambiguating information in complex gazetteer records.
ref: 2007, Bassey Antia, Indeterminacy in Terminology and LSP, →ISBN:
glosses: Standardization of terms so that each entity has only one name.
examples: text: This new system, mononymy, would classify animals by means of a one-word taxon representing both genus and species in lieu of the binary system of two words, one for genus and the other for species.
ref: 1960, Carl John Drake, Collected papers - Volume 3, page 7:
text: Bailey even states that "we should have gained much in simplicity of literature, in clarity and in popular usage, if we had had a mononymy or other arrangement instead of a taxonomic dionymy."
ref: 1940 May, Earl Edward Sherff, “The concept of the genus: IV. The delimitations of genera from the conservative point of view”, in Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, volume 67, number 5:
glosses: The use of one-word names.
lintier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of linty: more linty
lintiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of linty: most linty
myonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /maɪˈɒnɪmi/
Etymology: From myo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Chaussier's idea that the name of each muscle, for example, should accurately indicate all its relations, led him to frame a myonymy which is not only inapplicable to the same parts in many animals, but so ponderous as to be useless ;
ref: 1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 271:
glosses: Nomenclature of the muscles.
lisles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lisle
lispund
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lispunds
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lispound.
lispunds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lispund
neonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: After pointing out the basic principles of neonymy, the principal methods of neonymic formation of chemical terms are cited and illustrated by examples taken from recent nomenclature recommendations issued by the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Standards Organization (ISO), and other international organizations.
ref: 1988, Richard Alan Strehlow, Standardization of Technical Terminology, →ISBN:
text: The software packages which exist on the market would become more useful if they would pay much more attention to neonymy. Have people studied sufficiently the possibilities offered by terminology to perfect these software packages?
ref: 1993, Helmi B. Sonneveld, Kurt L. Loening, Terminology: Applications in Interdisciplinary Communication, →ISBN:
text: Hence Derrida brings forward as strategies of deconstruction paleonymy and neonymy. The first is a formation recalling what was discussed a propos the bricoleur, where an old signifier brings with it archaisms into a changed context.
ref: 2012, Marian Hobson, Jacques Derrida: Opening Lines, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: The coining of new terms.
examples: text: According to the letter of the law I might be convicted of neologism, but its spirit would acquit me of neonymy in any unusual or unjustifiable degree.
ref: 1885, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, page 286:
text: Most recently, Communist leaders of spiritual-political movements likewise practiced neonymy, such as the lawyer Vladimir Ulyanov who became Nicolai Lenin, Marxist Revolutionary.
ref: 1994, Henry Hanoch Abramovitch, The First Father: Abraham, page 93:
text: Rather, identity reformation and mass 'political neonymy' focused on an anti-European Hebraicization that induced writers such as Rachel, SY Agnon and many others to reject their Ashkenazic birth names and adopt Hebrew ones.
ref: 2002, Joe Lockard, “Somewhere Between Arab and Jew: Ethnic Re-Identification in Modern Hebrew Literature”, in Middle Eastern Literatures, volume 5, number 1:
glosses: The process of giving a new name to an established concept; renaming.
lithistid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithistids
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Lithistida, a taxonomic order of sponges.
Derived terms: sublithistid
sublithistids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublithistid
lithistids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithistid
lithias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithia
lobbygow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒbiɡaʊ/
Forms: form: lobbygows
Etymology: Probably from Cantonese, but of unclear derivation. The first element is either English lobby or modified after that word from an obscured Chinese source; the second element may be English gow (“opium”), or may be Cantonese 狗 (gau², “dog”).
Senses: glosses: An errand boy, especially in Chinatown.
lobbygows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lobbygow
locksman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locksmen
Etymology: From lock + -s- + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who operates a lock on a river or canal.
glosses: A dreadlocked Rastafarian.
locksmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of locksman
neuronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From neuro- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: After giving the subject much attention he had concluded that neuronymy would be most advanced by the employment of technical Latin names as far as possible with an English dress or with a vernacular face and aspect.
ref: 1885, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal - Volume 113, page 16:
text: There are about one hundred Latin encephalic names beginning with corpus; rid of them, neuronymy is relieved, lightened, literally disemoodied.
ref: 1894, Albert Henry Buck (ed), A Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences Embracing the Entire Range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science:
text: As a result, the rising generation of students at all our colleges will learn, especially in neuronymy, a brain which differs so greatly in its terms from that of our day that unless we who learned our anatomy many years ago keep “brushed up” we shall not know what in the world the boys are talking about.
ref: 1897, George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Medical Record - Volume 51, page 287:
glosses: The nomenclature for parts of the brain.
loessial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loessial
form: most loessial
Etymology: From loess + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: When Washtucna Coulee could not contain the great surge, floodwaters rose to make one of the most significant records on the entire plateau. In two places, they topped the divide between the nearly parallel preglacial Palouse and Snake valleys, crossing it to enter the Snake Canyon. They swept away a loessial cover more than 100 feet thick from 80 square miles of summit area and scored the basalt thus exposed into a congeries of canyons, cataracts, and rock basin.
ref: 1969 September 24, J. Harlen Bretz, “The Lake Missoula Floods and the Channeled Scabland”, in The Journal of Geology, volume 77, number 5, University of Chicago Press, →JSTOR, Flood Crossings of the Palouse Snake Divide, page 526:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to loess.
Synonyms: loessal
logania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləʊˈɡeɪnɪə/
Forms: form: loganias
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin Logania (“the genus name”), after the botanist James Logan.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Logania of plants native to Australia and New Zealand.
loganias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logania
wildegranaat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Afrikaans wildegranaat, from wilde granaat (“wild pomegranate”).
Senses: glosses: Burchellia bubalina, the wild pomegranate.
streets ahead
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Far superior; much better or more advanced.
pultenaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pultenaeas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Pultenaea of Australian flowering plants; the bush peas.
pultenaeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pultenaea
streets behind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Coined as an opposite to streets ahead.
Senses: glosses: far inferior, much lesser
loginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From logy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being logy.
logily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more logily
form: most logily
Etymology: From logy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a logy manner.
oronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oronymies
Etymology: From oro- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: The specific features of the Rockies oronymy are: a) the relatively young age of the oronyms, b) the prevalence of the transferred geographical names, c) the scarcity of the (printed) documentation, and finally d) the varied lexical inventory of specific names derived from mountain terminology as compared to other regions of Canada.
ref: 1969, Proceedings and Transactions: Actes Et Mémoires, page 122:
text: The counterpart to hydronymy is oronymy, that is, the names of all "uplift" features, such as mountains, hills, capes, promontories, and rocks. Broadly interpreted, hydronymy and oronymy may be made to include almost all feature-names.
ref: 1975, George Rippey Stewart, Names on the globe, page 13:
text: An ancient survival in Turkish oronymy is quite possible, but I have not found Nihan Dag on the relevant sheets of the 1 :200,000 map of Turkey, which are very detailed in matters of oronymy;
ref: 1992, Gordon Douglas Young, Mari in retrospect: fifty years of Mari and Mari studies, page 13:
text: The structure of oronymies of the west-Slavonic region was suitably supplemented by I. Bihy (Germany) with his paper Zur Namentypologie in ehemaligen altsorbischen Sprachgebiet
ref: 1992, Slovak Review - Volumes 1-2, page 194:
glosses: The nomenclature of mountains, hills and other geographic rises.
oronymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oronymy
sugar bear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sugar bears
Senses: glosses: A sweetheart; one's darling.
raw_tags: as a term of endearment
Related terms: honey chile
pookie bear
sugar bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sugar bear.
Aldissian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Aldissian
form: most Aldissian
Etymology: From Aldiss + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Brian Aldiss (1925–2017), English writer and editor, best known for science fiction.
dine and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dine and dashes
form: dine-and-dash
Senses: examples: text: He was also an irresponsible boozehound who habitually ran out on the check in restaurants, even though he must have known it was the waitress who had to pay the bill for such dine-and-dash customers.
ref: 2009 November 20, Stephen King, “Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The crime of eating a meal in a restaurant and leaving without paying.
Derived terms: dine-and-dasher
Related terms: gas and dash
smash and dash
dine and dash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dines and dashes
form: dining and dashing
form: dined and dashed
form: dined and dashed
form: dine-and-dash
Senses: examples: text: Dine-and-dashed for an ice cream sundae. I did it two or three times a month. Kept it to a hot fudge sundae—never real food or anything like that.
ref: 2016, Kevin Morris, All Joe Knight, Grove Press, →ISBN, page 48:
glosses: To commit such an act.
Related terms: word: do a runner
logotypy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: The use of logotypes or ligatures.
logboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒɡbɔː(ɹ)d/
Forms: form: logboards
Etymology: Attested since 1659 as log-board. A compound of log + board.
Senses: examples: text: 1659, Navigation by the Mariners Plain Scale New Plain'd, by John Collins
Every Noon the Master and his Mates take the reckoning off the Log-board, and double the Knots run, and then divide the Product, which is the number of Miles run by three, the quotient is the Leagues run since the former Noon, and according to custom the Log is thrown every two hours, and I never knew the course nearer expressed on the Log-board, then to half a point of the Compass.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A board on a vessel displaying the current portion of the log, to be transcribed later into the logbook.
logboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logboard
loliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lolium
loofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loof
lotoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotos
lovages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovage
love vine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: love vines
Senses: glosses: Any of various Cassytha species alleged to have aphrodisiac properties.
glosses: Clematis virginiana, virgin's bower a North American ornamental vine.
glosses: Any of various Cuscuta species confused with Cassytha.
glosses: Ipomoea lobata, a Brazilian vine related to morning glory.
love vines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of love vine
darzee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darzees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of durzi.
darzees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darzee
singkamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sincamas
form: sincama
Etymology: Borrowed from Tagalog singkamas, from Philippine Spanish síncamas, from Early Modern Spanish jícamas, plural of jícama; from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.
Senses: examples: text: If all of the 35 kinds could have been handled by one stand, the average sales for the year would have amounted to P2,904; sales from boiled green corn, singkamas, lanzones, Carabao mango, pineapple, and watermelon would have represented more than two-thirds of the total.
ref: 1952, The Philippine Agriculturist, volume 36, page 199:
text: Harvesting of peanuts, singkamas, onions, caimito and root crops still underway.
ref: 1960, Philippines. Weather Bureau, Annual Climatological Review:
text: I remember that singkamas became a decorative air plant in our homes; hung from a wall, it would sprout a sprig that grew into a leafy vine.
ref: 1989, Benjamin M. Pascual, The Happy Time of an Ilocano Boy, and Other Essays, page 43:
text: For example, achara, pickle relish made of grated unripe papaya and vegetable, red and green bell pepper, purple shallots, carrots, cucumber, and singkamas or turnip—all preserved in and flavored with coconut vinegar, salt, and spices—is a prime medium for this art.
ref: 1994, Cultural Center of the Philippines, CCP Encyclopedia of Philippine Art: Philippine visual arts, →ISBN, page 98:
glosses: Synonym of jicama.
synonyms: word: jicama
air biscuits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air biscuit
live like a king
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lives like a king
form: living like a king
form: lived like a king
form: lived like a king
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To live in luxury, in costly and comfortable surroundings.
paleonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpeɪliˈɑnɪmi/
Forms: form: paleonymies
Etymology: From paleo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Paleonymy stands in Takeuchi's text as a device to think such older words or concepts anew, therebv allowing them to effectively intervene in critical discourse.
ref: 2005, Yoshimi Takeuchi, Richard Calichman, What is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi, →ISBN, page 8:
text: A paleonymy proceeds by continuing to use an old, traditional name while making the name different from what it always was, because one or more of the predicates associated with that name is being rethought and reworked.
ref: 2012, Ed Pluth, Signifiers and Acts: Freedom in Lacan's Theory of the Subject, →ISBN, page 19:
text: In his introduction, he begins with the problem of paleonymy, the summoning up of old names in new circumstances, writing self-consciously about the form in which his text will present itself.
ref: 2016, Christy Wampole, Rootedness: The Ramifications of a Metaphor, →ISBN, page 208:
glosses: The use of a preexisting word in a new context.
examples: text: I use the word "humanities," as the expression "English department," with a keen sense of the value of paleonymy.
ref: 1992, James A. Berlin, Michael Vivion, Cultural Studies in the English Classroom, page 43:
text: It is my belief that unless the paleonymy of the language is felt in some rough historical or etymological way, the translator is unequal to her task.
ref: 2005, Sandra Bermann, Michael Wood, Nation, Language, and the Ethics of Translation, →ISBN, page 100:
text: I should not have used this phrase because the word "violence" has a kind of paleonymy that suggests bad stuff.
ref: 2007, Nermeen Shaikh, The present as history:
glosses: The connotations that a word carries due to its historical meaning or meanings.
paleonymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleonymy
weatherstripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of weatherstrip
loxygen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlɒksɪd͡ʒən/
Etymology: Blend of liquid + oxygen.
Senses: glosses: Liquid oxygen.
triple barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triple barrels
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The act of bluffing on the flop, turn and river in the same round.
triple barrel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: triple barrels
form: triple barreling
form: triple barrelling
form: triple barreled
form: triple barreled
form: triple barrelled
form: triple barrelled
Senses: topics: card-games
poker
glosses: To make a triple barrel bluff.
lubbards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubbard
wedleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedlease
preflops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preflop
loyallest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loyal: most loyal
loyaller
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of loyal: more loyal
lucumones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucumo
glosses: plural of lucumone
luftmenschen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luftmensch
papponymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papponymies
Senses: examples: text: Papponymy is not documented among Israelites. The only exception, Tahat son of 'Elyada' son of Tahat is doubtful and is not a papponymy sensu stricto.
ref: 1988, Ran Zadok, The Pre-Hellenistic Israelite Anthroponymy and Prosopography, →ISBN:
text: He tries to fill these gaps primarily by means of information from several sources: Papponymy (the naming of a grandson after a grandfather) was a common practice during this period.
ref: 2006, Lester L. Grabbe, A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period, →ISBN:
text: Documented cases of maternal-line papponymy (a child named for a male ancestor on the maternal line) indicate that children born in marriages between women of Greek background (as determined by their fathers' Greek names) and men whose Babylonian names point to Babylonian identity were nearly as likely to bear Greek names as they were to have Babylonian names.
ref: 2014, Julia M. O'Brien, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies, →ISBN, page 197:
glosses: The practice, or an instance, of naming a grandson after his grandfather.
papponymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papponymy
lumining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lumine
lumined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lumine
blue vulva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue vulvas
Etymology: Coined on the model of blue balls.
Senses: glosses: A cramp-like ache in the vulval region caused by prolonged sexual arousal.
lunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lunt
lunting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lunt
subacutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subacute
lunulated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lunulated
form: most lunulated
Senses: glosses: Synonym of lunulate.
synonyms: word: lunulate
Derived terms: sublunulated
luzern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luzerns
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lusern.
luzerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of luzern
lyttae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lytta
kachcha
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more kachcha
form: most kachcha
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kutcha.
kachcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kutcha.
Kaylyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: 20th-century coinage from Kay + Lyn.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
Kailyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Kaelyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Spelling variant of Kaylyn.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage.
autogressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Senses: examples: text: When we encounter estimation problems in the linear regression and autogressive models, this package provides more efficient estimators than other R packages.
ref: 2016, Jiwoong Kim, “KoulMde: An R Package for Koul's Minimum Distance Estimation”, in arXiv:
glosses: Synonym of autoregressive.
synonyms: word: autoregressive
grisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grism
tripartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tripartition
tripartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tripartition
quadripartitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quadripartition
quadripartitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quadripartition
bipartitionings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bipartitioning
nonpartitionable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + partitionable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be partitioned.
patronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patronymies
Etymology: From patr- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Neither of the two other Rodolfi in the oath can be Rodolfo di Andrea, it should he added, for they have other patronymies; and there are almost no other Rodolfi in the documents.
ref: 1998, Chris Wickham, Community and Clientele in Twelfth-century Tuscany, →ISBN:
text: The practice of women taking their husbands' names has been critiqued but little discussion of the impact of patronymy on children has occurred.
ref: 2007, Anne Lorene Chambers, Misconceptions, →ISBN:
text: Patronymy often reflects and reinforces a number of gender stereotypes. It is claimed that: By the rules of patronymy, therefore, the woman is symbolically compelled into a posture of existential derivation, dependence, and submission.
ref: 2009, Rebecca Probert, Stephen Gilmore, Jonathan Herring, Responsible Parents and Parental Responsibility, →ISBN, page 120:
text: In what follows, I will argue that the ongoing legal and social tolerance of patronymy reinforces a monovocal notion of womanhood, thereby striking at the heart of women's right to liberty and unique personality.
ref: 2009, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Gendering the Nation-State: Canadian and Comparative Perspectives, →ISBN:
glosses: The practice of naming children after their fathers.
examples: text: Masculine patronymies commonly terminate in ides, which is added to the stem of the proper name— as Priamides, Cecropides (from Cecrops).
ref: 1862, Leonhard Schmitz, Grammar of the Latin language, page 168:
text: In the Hanan (Ananus or Annas) family of high priests (first century CE) recurrent names are Hanan (Ananus), a patronymy repeated for three generations, and Matthias.
ref: 2005, Rāḥēl Ḥak̲lîlî, Jewish Funerary Customs, Practices And Rites In The Second Temple Period, →ISBN:
glosses: A son's name which is derived from his father's name.
examples: text: It was a hierarchical group which consisted of concentric 'circles which formed patronymies of the first, second and tertiary order. A totality of patronymies made up a Patriarchal Clan.
ref: 1986, James George Frazer, Marriage and Worship in Early Societies - Volume 2, page xx:
text: However, the sib and the joint family are two social units differing totally in their structure. For this reason the patronymy must be borne in mind here. As M. O. Kosven writes, the patronymy is a group of families, joint or nuclear, that came into being as the result of segmentation of a single patriarchal family commune.
ref: 1978, Soviet Anthropology and Archeology: - Volume 17, page 5:
glosses: An extended family grouping centered around the father's family.
patronymies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of patronymy
keelivine pen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keelivine pens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of keelyvine pen.
kerneled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kernelled.
phytonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phyto- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: We cited a goodly number of synonyms, some of them may seem superfluous, but I thought of linguists interested in phytonymy.
ref: 1993, J. A. J. Verheijen, Glossary of Taxonomic-Indonesian Plant Names, page 4:
text: Furthermore, adding to the many linguistic identities of the Caribbean isles, the British isles have likewise a composite stratification in phytonymy.
ref: 2008, Renato Tomei, Forbidden Fruits: The Secret Names of Plants in Caribbean Culture, →ISBN:
text: In this section, after a few preliminary remarks, we will discuss the principles of ancient plant name formation in Greek and Latin, as well as the problems ancient authorities encountered with phytonymy.
ref: 2015, Gavin Hardy, Laurence Totelin, Ancient Botany, →ISBN:
glosses: The nomenclature of plants.
Related terms: phytonym
feuilletine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feuilletines
Etymology: From French feuilletine.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Crispy flakes of crêpe used in desserts.
feuilletines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feuilletine
kerchieves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kerchief
native-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more native-like
form: most native-like
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nativelike.
khoum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːm
Forms: form: khoums
Etymology: Back-formation from khoums, by misinterpreting it as an English plural with -s.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of khoums.
synonyms: word: khoums
kintledge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kentledge.
kirbeh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kirbehs
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic قِرْبَة (qirba).
Senses: glosses: An animal-skin bag used to carry water in the Middle East.
kirbehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kirbeh
humanesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more humanesque
form: most humanesque
form: human-esque
Etymology: From human + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or depicting a human.
sirra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sirras
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sirrah.
uninventoried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inventoried.
Senses: glosses: Not inventoried.
babesioses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: babesia + -oses
Senses: glosses: plural of babesiosis
babooneries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baboonery
babuism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babuisms
Etymology: From babu + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: They altered the idiom, but they could say whatever they wanted to say quickly; there were none of the babuisms ascribed to them up at the Club.
ref: 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 60:
text: Abandoning its original application, then, let us use "babu English," or "babuism," as a general term to mean discourse in which the speaker (or writer) throws around learned words he does not understand in order to create a favorable impression. Babuism probably has existed and will continue to exist in every culture in which there is a learned class of magicians, shamans, priests, teachers, and other professional verbalizers with big vocabularies.
ref: 1972, Samuel Ichiyé Hayakawa, Language in thought and action, page 239:
text: This book, written 'with love' and based on Goffin's considerable experience as manager of first the Bombay Branch and then the whole India operation, was a spirited defence of Indian English as a legitimate form of the language, which, once it had thrown off its thrall to babuism, would take its place on the international stage.
ref: 2006, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Empires of the Mind:
glosses: A malapropism or other erroneous form produced by an Indian speaking English.
Related terms: babu English
babuisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babuism
babudom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From babu + -dom.
Senses: glosses: Administrative bureaucracy, or red tape, in India.
babyfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babyfoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baby food.
babyfoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babyfood
annaprashana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit अन्नप्राशन (annaprāśana). See also annaprasan.
Senses: glosses: A Hindu rite of passage marking an infant's first intake of food other than milk.
truncated dodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncated dodecahedra
form: truncated dodecahedrons
Etymology: From truncated + dodecahedron, referring to a construction method for the figure.
Senses: examples: text: 1813, Spinell, entry in John Mason Good, Olinthus Gregory, Newton Bosworth (editors), Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Volume XI: SPA — TZE, unnumbered page,
This, which may be regarded as a brown garnet or schoerl in truncated dodecahedrons of Rome de Lisle, was originally found in the island of Ceylon, among tourmalines and other crystalline substances, with which it was confounded.
text: The morphologies commonly observed in bcc materials include truncated dodecahedrons with {110} faces and {100} truncations and cubes with {100} faces.
ref: 1983, Electron Microscopy Society of America, Proceedings: 41st Annual Meeting, page 232:
text: Void shapes were found to be generally truncated dodecahedra with {011} faces and {001} truncations.
ref: 1990, David S. Gelles, “Neutron Irradiation Damage in Ferritic Fe-Cr Alloys”, in Nicholas H. Packan, R. E. Stoller, A. S. Kumar, editors, Effects of Radiation on Materials: 14th International Symposium, Volume 1, page 90:
text: 1996, T. A. Fournelle, K. W. Weston, Generalizations of Steinberg Groups, World Scientific Publishing, Series in Algebra, Volume 4, page 176,
The edges of the linkages lie on the edges of a truncated dodecahedron. Note that the group of orientation preserving symmetries of a truncated dodecahedron is precisely A₅.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An Archimedean solid with thirty-two regular faces (twelve decagons and twenty triangles) and ninety edges.
truncated dodecahedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncated dodecahedron
truncated dodecahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of truncated dodecahedron
backra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buckra.
backra
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of buckra.
backras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backra
baclavas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baclava
poecilonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poecilo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Stated in technical linguistic terms, in this treatise poecilonymy is avoided; e. g., instead of taenia hippocampi in one place, corpus fimbriatum in another, and fimbria in a third, the last is consistently employed and the others given as synonyms.
ref: 1890, Univ. of Pennsylvania Medical Bulletin: Volume I-XXIII:
text: There are also too many relapses into poecilonymy; for example, on p. 758 occur appendix vermiformis, appendix, and rermiform appendix, whereas on p. 160 had already been introduced, without explanation, the very convenient contraction of the third term into vermix.
ref: 1893, The Nation - Volume 56, page 850:
text: Based on distinctions by Philo (Alleg. Interp. 3.70 §§196–97), δόσις sometimes is seen as the act of giving and δώρημα as the thing given, but James may simply be using poecilonymy (a piling up of synonyms) to emphasize God's generosity, or he may be quoting an extant “saying” or expressing himself poetically.
ref: 2009, Dan G. McCartney, James (Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament), →ISBN:
glosses: The use of several names for the same thing in the same document.
bafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baft
pseudonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: It is now well known that the Irish employed pseudonymy in their Latin writings of that period. Some famous examples are the Pseudo-Augustinian De Mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae, the Pseudo-Isidorian De Ordine Creaturarum, and the Cosmographia of the so-called "Aethicus Ister", ascribed by H. Löwe to Vergil (Fergil), an eight-century Irish bishop of Salzburg.
ref: 1976, Ludwig Bieler, John Joseph O'Meara, Bernd Naumann, Latin Scripts and Letters A.D. 400-900, →ISBN:
text: The consequences of accepting the pseudonymy hypothesis are similar to those of accepting the forgery hypothesis.
ref: 1987, Mary Ellen Waithe, A History of Women Philosophers - Volume 1, →ISBN:
text: Pseudonymy, as a modern institution, can thus be contrasted to the mere anonymity of the copyist.
ref: 2003, David L. Eng, David Kazanjian, Loss: The Politics of Mourning, →ISBN, page 40:
glosses: The use of a pseudonym.
bandittis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of banditti
bandolining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bandoline
bandolined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bandoline
retronymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From retro- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Much retronymy is driven by advances in technology.
ref: 2012, e-Study Guide for: Integrated Business Communication, →ISBN:
text: Of special interest to terminologists is retronymy, which consists of renaming an existing concept more precisely in order to adjust to a conceptual shift, as will be illustrated below.
ref: 2013, Peter Bachmann, Michael Köhl, Risto Päivinen, Assessment of Biodiversity for Improved Forest Planning, →ISBN:
text: What they describe is the well-known phenomenon of retronymy (see, for instance, Ahmad & Collingham 1996). Whatever such consequential terminological changes are called, this understanding of 'gap' is system-related.
ref: 2015, M. Rogers, Specialised Translation: Shedding the 'Non-Literary' Tag, →ISBN:
glosses: The process of creating retronyms; coining new words for existing concepts because the meaning of the original word has broadened.
modelessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From modeless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a modeless manner.
moodless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mood + -less.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Without grammatical mood.
Derived terms: moodlessness
barbequing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of barbeque
bannering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of banner
unbannered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bannered.
Senses: glosses: Not adorned with a banner.
theonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From theo- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: The widespread occurrence of both roots in the theonymy of the Indo-European world, their prevalent merger into one divine name, and the striking resemblance in mythological functions tied to this onomastics enable us to look for the same ancestry of all historically attested variants.
ref: 1985, Stephen Rudy (ed), Roman Jakobson: Selected Writings, →ISBN, page 45:
text: Were that the case, it would only strengthen my position: for Deuteronomy, at the time of its composition, like the Qumran Temple Scroll, would then constitute a divine pseudepigraph, with theonymy the ultimate trope of authority.
ref: 2002, Bernard M. Levinson, Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation, →ISBN, page 34:
text: Since the octave describes the nonhuman parts of Creation, it omits both morality and theonymy: God and Christ are never named.
ref: 2010, Stephen Burt, David Mikics, The Art of the Sonnet, →ISBN, page 215:
glosses: The names given to gods, collectively.
Derived terms: literal theonymy
Related terms: theonym
literal theonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: When H[ans] Meyersahm, in a dissertation of 1891, studied literal theonymy, the giving to humans of unadjusted divine names, he felt able to declare that the practice first emerged in the first century ad.
ref: 2000, Robert Parker, “Theophoric Names and the History of Greek Religion”, in Simon Hornblower, Elaine Matthews, editors, Greek Personal Names: Their Value as Evidence (Proceedings of the British Academy; 104), Oxford, Oxfordshire: [F]or the British Academy by Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 57:
text: There are a few instances of mortals called Artemis or Hermes, but such literal theonymy is relatively rare, and mostly dates from the first century ad or later.
ref: 2006, Emma Stafford, “Tibullus’ Nemesis: Divine Retribution and the Poet”, in Joan Booth, Robert Maltby, editors, What’s in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature, Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, →ISBN, page 34:
text: As is evident from Fig. 8, female theophoric names on Artemi- are quite uncommon and literal theonymy, where the personal name is same as the name of the deity, is extremely rare.
ref: 2009, Pia Guldager Bilde, “Quantifying Black Sea Artemis: Some Methodological Reflections”, in Tobias Fischer-Hansen, Birte Poulsen, editors, From Artemis to Diana: The Goddess of Man and Beast (Danish Studies in Classical Archaeology, Acta Hyperborea; 12), Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, →ISBN, section II (Artemis – Regional Aspects), page 323:
glosses: The naming of a person with a divine name, such as the use of Jesus as a given name in Mexico and Central America.
bargoose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargeese
Senses: glosses: The common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna.
bargeese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bargoose
barniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of barny: most barny
baroquest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: baroque + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of baroque: most baroque
barytas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baryta
ready, fire, aim
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: Modification of ready, aim, fire.
Senses: glosses: Used as a reminder that prompt action is often better than thoroughly planned action, especially in business.
glosses: Used to emphasize the dangers of acting hastily.
xenonymy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xeno- + -onymy.
Senses: examples: text: Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.
ref: 2000, Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Peter Stockwell, Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk, →ISBN, page 28:
text: The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.
ref: 2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 57:
text: A lexicon can therefore be said to correspond more to a dynamic system of relations: a) syntagmatic sense relations between lexical units in the same string, ie philonymy, xenonymy, tautonymy; b) paradigmatic sense relations between lexical units occurring in a given combination, and a set of possibilities provided by the language...
ref: 2013, Romina Vergari, “Aspects of Polysemy in Biblical Greek. A Preliminary Study for a New Lexicographical Resource”, in Digital Humanitiesin Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, →ISBN:
glosses: The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
unobstructive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unobstructive
form: most unobstructive
Etymology: From un- + obstructive.
Senses: glosses: not obstructive
de-energise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: de-energises
form: de-energising
form: de-energised
form: de-energised
Etymology: From de- + energise.
Senses: examples: text: Overhead wires at 25000 volts AC were used for the electrification of the main line from Euston and they were extended through Camden Road on the No. 1 lines [of the North London Line] to a Freightliner terminal near Maiden Lane on 25th October 1965. They were de-energised at the end of 1971.
ref: 1997, Vic Mitchell, Keith Smith, North London Line - Broad Street to Willesden Junction, Middleton Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of de-energize.
truncated icosidodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: truncated icosidodecahedra
form: truncated icosidodecahedrons
Etymology: From truncated + icosidodecahedron, referring to a partial construction method for the figure. (The resultant figure requires further distortion to make the faces regular.)
Senses: examples: text: The Solid Shapes Lab, another Science Materials Center contribution to future mathematicians, together to form not only regular polyhedrons but rhombicosidodecahedrons, truncated icosidodecahedrons, and such.
ref: 1961, The New Yorker, Volume 37, Part 4, page 172:
text: The truncated icosahedron and truncated icosidodecahedron have fivefold symmetry and cannot four four-connected frameworks with lattice symmetry.
ref: 1962, The Mineralogical Magazine and Journal of the Mineralogical Society, volume 33, page 1008:
text: It is also a Catalan solid, the disdyakis triacontahedron, dual of the truncated icosidodecahedron.
ref: 2007, Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics: International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, page 95:
glosses: An Archimedean solid with 62 regular faces (12 decagons, 20 hexagons and 30 squares) and 180 edges.
Synonyms: sense: polyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces
word: great rhombicosidodecahedron
sense: polyhedron with 12 decagonal, 30 hexagonal and 30 square faces
word: rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron
Derived terms: great truncated icosidodecahedron
satyriasist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satyriasists
Etymology: From satyriasis + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A man or boy with excessive sexual desire.
chondroinductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chondro- + inductive.
Senses: examples: text: Recently, it has been reported that exposure of aggregates to chondroinductive media prior to encapsulation provides an extremely favorable environment for the aggregates to be “primed,” which drives chondrogenic differentiation [43 –45 ].
ref: 2016 January 1, “Stem Cells in Aggregate Form to Enhance Chondrogenesis in Hydrogels”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: That induces the growth of cartilage
Related terms: chondroinduce
chondroinduction
chorioamniotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chorio- + amniotic.
Senses: examples: text: The procedure is performed during a vaginal examination, by separating the chorioamniotic membrane from the lower uterine segment by a circular movement of the finger.
ref: 2016 January 1, “Antepartum Membrane Stripping in GBS Carriers, Is It Safe? (The STRIP-G Study)”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to, or connecting the chorion and the amnion (or their membranes)
chromatomap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chromatomaps
Etymology: From chromato- + map.
Senses: glosses: A two-dimensional chromatogram (using different solvents in each direction)