cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
equinus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There are several types of equinus described, which include soft tissue versus osseous equinus and also spastic versus nonspastic.
ref: 2005, Thomas J. Chang, The Foot and Ankle, page 239:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of talipes equinus.
synonyms: word: talipes equinus
yidaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yidakis
form: yirdaki
Etymology: From the Yolngu term yiḏaki.
Senses: examples: text: To increase the understanding of what the mouth of a yidaki player is actually doing, Hollenberg organised to have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans done of him playing the instrument.
ref: 2010, Stephen Luntz, Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats: A Field Guide to Australian Scientists, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: didgeridoo
runiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹuːnɪfɔːm/
Etymology: From rune + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Resembling, or in the form of, runes.
russula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: russulas
Etymology: From the genus name Russula.
Senses: examples: text: “For some species, the colors are unbelievably variable,” Nick says of one group, the russulas, ”and they get washed out by rain, and then the exact distribution of the warts on the spores is an alternative. […].
ref: 2015 November 6, Helen Macdonald, “Sex, Death and Mushrooms”, in The New York Times Magazine, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Nov 2021:
glosses: A mushroom of the genus Russula.
rutic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: So called because it is derived from the plant rue.
Senses: synonyms: rutinic acid
glosses: Capric acid.
rutinic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: rutic acid
glosses: Capric acid.
my eyes are up here
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Said to prompt the interlocutor to stop looking lustfully at the speaker's body.
setten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English setten.
Senses: examples: text: He has setten up shop.
glosses: alternative past participle of set
œcologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In years to come, when the wide belt of forest land on the slopes of the range has been more largely cleared off, a free invasion may be expected, and the changes that will then ensue will afford the œcologists of the future an instructive field for research.
ref: 1907, Donald Petrie, Account of a Visit to Mount Hector, page 298:
glosses: plural of œcologist
superneutral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super + neutral.
Senses: examples: text: Many economic models have superneutral money, with neither inflation nor change in inflation affecting non-monetary variables.
text: Why do agents hold money? Is money neutral? Superneutral?
ref: 1982, Frank Hahn, Monetary and Inflation, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, page xi:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: (said of money) Having no effect on an economy due to its rate of growth or a change in that rate.
Derived terms: superneutrality
semi-elasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-elasticities
form: semielasticity
Etymology: From semi- + elasticity.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The change in a function relative to an absolute change in its parameter. Algebraically, the semi-elasticity of a function f at point x is f'(x) / f(x).
Related terms: elasticity
semi-elastic
prætend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prætends
form: prætending
form: prætended
form: prætended
Senses: examples: text: I ca’nott prætend to any I’tereſt in you for any thinge I have donn, nor aſke any fauor for any ſeruice I may doe you.
ref: 1646, Oiluer Cromwell, featured in The Gentleman’s Magazine, Volume LIV, page 337
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pretend.
cladoptosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cladoptoses
Etymology: From clado- + ptosis.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: self-pruning
glosses: The regular shedding of branches by a plant, for clonal reproduction or growth management, or in response to stress.
'cept
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: /ksɛpt/
/sɛpt/
Etymology: Aphetic form of except.
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard form of except.
'cept
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: /ksɛpt/
/sɛpt/
Etymology: Aphetic form of except.
Senses: examples: text: “’Cept I do hurt people sometimes, Case. I guess it’s just the way I’m wired.”
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 25:
glosses: Nonstandard form of except.
it'd've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: 'Sorry I couldn't offer to come and help you. It'd've been just like the old days,' Pat said softly.
ref: 2011, Margaret Dickinson, Red Sky in the Morning:
glosses: it would have
examples: text: He'd've probably been as mad as the dickens, if it'd've been someone else dying like that, not giving him a chance to finish the race and win the cup, or something.
ref: 1984, Wayne A. Myers, Dynamic Therapy of the Older Patient:
glosses: it had have
belain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪn
Senses: glosses: past participle of belie (“to lie around, surround, encompass”)
fire drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire drill
phantasias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasia
Crusades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Crusade
adamently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of adamantly.
frutex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frutexes
form: frutices
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin frutex.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A bush; a shrub
frutices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frutex
hæmolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of hemolysis.
gemmula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemmulae
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gemmule (in various senses)
gemmulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemmula
gith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪθ
Senses: glosses: The corncockle.
lip dub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lip dubs
Senses: glosses: A music video that combines lip-synching and audio dubbing
nightgear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightgears
Etymology: From night + gear.
Senses: examples: text: every Friday he caused his priests to beat his shoulders with five little yron chaines, which to that purpose were ever caried with his nightgeare.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: The Swiss, the black night-gear discarded for a shirt matching the colour of the skies and the court, might have become tangled up in Santoro's mesmeric webs when he was much younger but these days the little master of spin and slice can be flicked aside with peremptory ease.
ref: 2008 January 17, Steve Bierley, The Guardian:
glosses: Nightclothes.
other times
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: othertimes
form: other-times
Etymology: From other + times, after sometimes.
Senses: examples: text: the more I had laden my selfe with coine, the more I had also burdened my selfe with feare: sometimes of my wayes-safetie, othertimes of their trust that had the charge of my sumpters and baggage[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 40, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: ‘Sometimes you have a good laugh, other times they might be a bit drunk and it's hard to get any sense out of them.’
ref: 2011 March 26, Nicky Woolf, The Guardian:
glosses: At other times; on other occasions.
othertimes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of other times.
-pnea
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: enpr: -pnēʹə
ipa: /-ˈpniːə/
other: /i/
Forms: form: -pnoea
Etymology: Representing -πνοια (-pnoia), the common terminal element of the Ancient Greek ἄπνοια (ápnoia, “apnea”), δύσπνοια (dúspnoia, “dyspnea”), εὔπνοια (eúpnoia, “eupnea”), ὀρθόπνοια (orthópnoia, “orthopnea”), etc, from πνέω (pnéō, “I blow”) and πνοή (pnoḗ, “breath, breathing”).
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: breathing, respiration
fairy chess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛːrɪˌtʃɛs/
ipa: /ˈfɛriˌtʃɛs/
Senses: examples: text: Chess with alternative rules is called fairy chess; a notable science fiction example is the 3-D game played in episodes of Star Trek.
ref: 2005, Gary Westfahl, The Greenwood encyclopedia of science fiction and fantasy: themes, works, and wonders, Volume 1, page 113:
glosses: A chess variant: chess with unusual rules or pieces.
glosses: Synonym of fairy problem: an unusual chess problem.
synonyms: word: fairy problem
extra: an unusual chess problem
retoss
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒs
Forms: form: retosses
form: retossing
form: retossed
form: retossed
Etymology: From re- + toss.
Senses: examples: text: Compare unto him the vulgar troupes of our men, stupide, base, servile, wavering, and continually floting on the tempestuous ocean of divers passions which tosse and retosse the same, wholy depending of others.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To toss again; to throw back.
date nights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of date night
gyldens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gylden
hospitate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hospitates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Senses: examples: text: The Hospitate buildings of a monastery were erected in different parts of the convent ground, according to the profession or quality of the guests.
ref: 1868, Archaeologia Cantiana - Volume 7, page 14:
text: Of these different classes of receipts all, except those from "troncs, quêtes et collectes,” are enjoyed by the hospitates and asylums as well by the bureaux de bienfaisance.
ref: 1893, Report of the Proceedings at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, page 106:
text: Having now described the purely monastic buildings round the great cloister, for the abbot's lodging on the west side properly belongs to the hospitate buildings , with which it will be described , we will pass to the examination of the cloister itself.
ref: 1897, W. H. St. John Hope, “Notes on the Benedicctine Abbey of St, Peter at Gloucester”, in The Archaeological Journal, volume 54, page 97:
text: This contained the granary, with an upper doorway, and also, to judge from old drawings, the main hospitate range.
ref: 1912, David Herbert Somerset Cranage, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, page 867:
text: Some of the hospitate buildings of the abbey were rebuilt in the 14th century, but in the 15th the more profitable plan was adopted of providing inns.
ref: 1947, Transactions - Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, page 43:
glosses: A building or set of buildings for housing non-paying guests or the sick, especially those connected to a monastery.
examples: text: On motion of Julius Freiberg, Esq., it was ordered that the resolution of this Board passed June 3, 1877, relative to the admission of Moritz Sachs, as an indigent student of this College, be rescinded, he not having passed an examination to become a pupil of the high-school, though to remain a hospitate of this Board for one month .
ref: 1892, Annual Report of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, page 473:
glosses: A non-paying guest.
hospitate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hospitate
form: most hospitate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin hospitātus, perfect passive participle of hospitō, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3).
Senses: examples: text: Educational institutions worthy of the name must be hospitate to the nonconformist and must protect the unpopular.
ref: 1969, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education, Hearings, page 237:
text: The chert Osage glades are not hospitate and few animals live on them
ref: 1978, Missouri Conservationist - Volumes 39-40, page 18:
glosses: Hospitable.
Judæan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Judæan
form: most Judæan
Senses: examples: text: If that book could have passed muster for an ancient work, half Phœnician, half Judæan, it might have done execution.
ref: 1829, Algernon Herbert, Nimrod, volume IV, page 276:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Judean.
Judæan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Judæans
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Judean.
præsage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præsages
Senses: examples: text: WHere witty Bertault (in his Fancy) meant / But a faint Præſage of His Prince of France; […]
ref: a. 1619, Josuah Sylvester, “To the High-Hopefull Charles, Prince of Great-Brittaine”, in Du Bartas: His Diuine Weekes and Workes with a Compleate Collectiõ of All the Other Most Delight-full Workes, London: […] Robert Young, published 1633, page 428:
text: This is ominous if not abominous: This præſage’s ſomthing more than that is ordinari: Therefore refrein.
ref: 1683, J[ohn] P[ordage], Theologia Mystica, or The Mystic Divinitie of the Æternal Invisibles, Viz. the Archetypous Globe, or the Original Globe, or World of All Globes, Worlds, Essences, Centers, Elements, Principles and Creations Whatsoever, London, page 39:
text: Yea, there are Præſages of this thing, in the Writings of Pagan Antiquity.
ref: 1712, Cotton Mather, Thoughts for the Day of Rain. […], Boston, New England: […] B. Green: Sold by Samuel Gerrish […], page 28:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of presage.
præsage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: præsages
form: præsaging
form: præsaged
form: præsaged
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of presage.
scoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopers
Etymology: From scope + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That's the role of scopers, to map out the limitations, parameters and dimensions of the problem and its likely solutions. Scopers tell us what now.
ref: 2008, Duncan Brown, Influencer Marketing, page 42:
glosses: One who or that which scopes.
scoper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scopers
Etymology: An allusion to the derogatory slur spastic, following the renaming of the National Spastics Society, a UK disability charity, to Scope in 1994.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of spastic (“stupid, clumsy person”).
synonyms: word: spastic
extra: stupid, clumsy person
Rhætian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Rhaetian.
Rhætian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rhætians
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Rhaetian.
Rhætian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A numerous body of the Alemanni penetrated across the Danube and through the Rhætian Alps into the plains of Lombardy, advanced as far as Ravenna, and displayed the victorious banners of barbarians almost in sight of Rome.
ref: 1782 and revised 1845, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Plain Label Books; page 447
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Rhaetian.
-pnoea
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of -pnea.
trainos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of traino
bradypnœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bră'dĭpnēʹə
ipa: /ˌbɹædɪpˈniːə/
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bradypnea.
trichorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trichorrhea.
bromocresol purple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfonephthalein derived from a brominated derivative of cresol; it is used as an acid-base indicator
trepopnea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trĕpōpnēʹə
ipa: /tɹɛpəʊpˈniːə/
Forms: form: trepopneas
form: trepopnoea
Etymology: Ancient Greek τρέπω (trépō, “I turn”) + -pnea.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Dyspnea that is sensed while lying on one side but not on the other.
Tropæolum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Tropaeolum.
sexts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sext
sexts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sext
sexted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sext
sulfonephthalein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfonephthaleins
Etymology: From sulfone + phthalein.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many sulfonic acids derived from phthaleins, some of which are important acid-base indicators.
Related terms: bromocresol purple
chlorophenol red
phenol red
thymol blue
businessworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more businessworthy
form: most businessworthy
Etymology: From business + -worthy.
Senses: glosses: adhering to principles of ethical and responsible conduct when interacting with society.
raw_tags: of a businessperson or company
glosses: Of business conduct in accordance with the dictum that "Markets could not flourish without a strong underlying moral culture, animated by empathy and Fellow-feeling, by our ability to understand our common bond as human beings and to recognize the needs of others."
glosses: Of a businessperson or business whose actions have contributed to the building of trust, stability and peace, in accordance with the criteria of the Oslo-based Business for Peace Foundation. The word 'businessworthy' has been coined by the foundation, to describe businesspersons or businesses looking beyond being creditworthy to exploring how they can reconnect business with society to mutual gain.
Derived terms: businessworthiness
businessworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From businessworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being businessworthy.
CRKP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumonia.
Related terms: carbapenem
carbapenemase
MRSA
VRE
close calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of close call
sunami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: so͞o-nä'mi
ipa: /suːˈnɑːmi/
rhymes: -ɑːmi
Forms: form: sunamis
form: sunami
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of tsunami.
scratch made
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scratch-made
Senses: examples: text: scratch made biscuits
glosses: Made from scratch.
undepartmentalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + departmentalize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Because it is small, integrated in subject matter and undepartmentalized, Shimer can give year-end comprehensive exams that thoroughly test the student's total knowledge.
ref: 1963 April 19, “Colleges: Unknown, Unsung and Unusual”, in Time, archived from the original on 06 Nov 2006:
glosses: Not divided into departments; not departmentalized
mankin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mankins
Etymology: From man + -kin.
Senses: glosses: A little man; a manikin.
mankins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mankin.
purply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)p(ə)li/
ipa: /ˈpɝp(ə)li/
Forms: form: purplier
form: more purply
form: purpliest
form: most purply
form: purpley
Etymology: From purple + -y.
Senses: glosses: Of or having somewhat of a purple color or hue.
Synonyms: purplish
Derived terms: purpliness
Related terms: purpleness
purpura
aquæducts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aquæduct
rhodocene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhodocenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The rhodium analog of ferrocene
grandfather paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandfather paradoxes
Etymology: From the paradox proposed by the French author René Barjavel in 1944 in his book Le Voyageur Imprudent, translated into English as Future Times Three; in its original form the paradox of one person going back to the past and killing their grandfather before the latter fathered the traveler's father, thus preventing the time traveler from ever being conceived in the first place.
Senses: glosses: The paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.
wikipedia: Future Times Three
René Barjavel
Related terms: autoinfanticide
grandfather paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandfather paradox
closed time loop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed time loops
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.
closed time loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed time loop
ignoranter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɪɡnəɹəntə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of ignorant: more ignorant
ilices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ilex
bywalk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bywalks
Etymology: From by- + walk.
Senses: glosses: a secluded or private walk
Related terms: byway
subdepartment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subdepartments
Etymology: From sub- + department.
Senses: glosses: a subordinate department, bureau
bootstrap paradox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bootstrap paradoxes
Etymology: Compare bootstrap, pull oneself up by one's bootstraps, etc.
Senses: synonyms: causal loop paradox
glosses: A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.
Related terms: causal loop
grandfather paradox
bootstrap paradoxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootstrap paradox
closed timelike curve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: closed timelike curves
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A worldline that returns to its starting point.
closed timelike curves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of closed timelike curve
world lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of world line
butterfly effects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of butterfly effect
Roman ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roman rings
Senses: glosses: A configuration of wormholes where for each individual wormhole the time difference across its mouths is such that it may not allow a closed timelike curve.
Roman rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Roman ring
Tipler cylinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tipler cylinders
Etymology: Named after the American physicist Frank J. Tipler, who recognized the possibility of such a device in 1974.
Senses: synonyms: Tipler machine
Tipler time machine
glosses: A hypothetical massive, infinitely long cylinder spinning along its longitudinal axis, enabling time travel.
wikipedia: Frank J. Tipler
Tipler cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tipler cylinder
chronovisor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chronovisors
Senses: glosses: A hypothetical machine that is able to see past and future events.
chronovisors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chronovisor
mss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ms
infatuator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈfætjuːeɪ̯tə/
Forms: form: infatuators
Etymology: From infatuate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: It is extremely obvious, what difficulties the infatuators are under, and how much they presume upon the blindness of the people when they report, that the Russian empress is to have her capital at Constantinople, which will employ the powers in the late quadruple alliance, and find them attention enough to defend their own dominions!
ref: 1769, A Centinel, “To the Editor of the Political Register. An Instance of Ministerial Merit”, in Political Register and Impartial Review of New Books, volume 4, number 26, page 284:
glosses: A person or thing that infatuates.
mss.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ms.
autoinfanticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + infanticide.
Senses: examples: text: For consider the most lurid implication of Gödel's idea – autoinfanticide.
ref: 2015, Roger Highfield, Peter Coveney, The Arrow of Time:
text: The inventor of a time machine about to commit autoinfanticide in the past
ref: 2016, Paul J. Nahin, Time Machine Tales, page 212:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
Related terms: grandfather paradox
plays ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of play ball
playing ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of play ball
played ball
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of play ball
sh*tload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sh*tloads
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of shitload.
sh*tloads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sh*tload
motherf****rs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherf****r
a**es
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a**
glosses: plural of a**e
a**holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a**hole
c*nts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of c*nt
d*cks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of d*ck
pr*cks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pr*ck
s**theads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of s**thead
sl*ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sl*t
t*rds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of t*rd
tw*ts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tw*t
lutescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more lutescent
form: most lutescent
Etymology: From Latin luteus (“yellow”). See -escent.
Senses: glosses: Of a yellowish colour.
kopjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kopje
biosignal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosignals
Etymology: From bio- + signal.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any signal (usually electrical in nature) of biological origin
biosignals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biosignal
magnetoluminescence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magneto-luminescence
Etymology: From magneto- + luminescence.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: luminescence produced by the presence of a magnetic field.
spangolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈspæŋ.ɡə.laɪt/
Forms: form: spangolites
Etymology: Named after Norman Spang of Pittsburg, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark green, basic aluminosilicate mineral of copper with the chemical formula Cu₆Al(SO₄)(OH)₁₂Cl · 3H₂O.
palæology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of paleology.
Marci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Marcy.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Marci
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Mārcī.
Senses: glosses: plural of Marcus
jaup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jaups
Senses: glosses: A splash.
glosses: A mark left by a splash of water or mud.
jaup
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jaups
form: jauping
form: jauped
form: jauped
Senses: glosses: To splash; to slosh.
cloysome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: kloi'səm
ipa: /ˈklɔɪsəm/
rhymes: -ɔɪsəm
Forms: form: more cloysome
form: most cloysome
Etymology: From cloy + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Feasts, banquets, revels, dancings, masks and turneys, rejoyce them that but seldome see them, and that have much desired to see them: the taste of which becommeth cloysome and unpleasing to those that daily see, and ordinarily have them […].
ref: , I.42
glosses: Cloying.
serail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serails
Etymology: From Middle French sérail, from Italian serraglio.
Senses: examples: text: He ſhall be made a chaſte and luſtleſſe Eunuch,
And in my Sarell tend my Concubines:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
text: What longing lust would not bee alaid, to see three hundred women at his dispose and pleasure, as hath the Grand Turke in his Seraille?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 42, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: London teemed with brothels and other pleasure domes such as Mrs Hayes's serail in Pall Mall, whose floor show included a Tahitian “Love Feast’ between twelve nymphs and twelve youths, and naked dancing.
ref: 1990, Roy Porter, English Society in the 18th Century, Penguin, published 1991, page 264:
glosses: A seraglio.
serails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serail
drossier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of drossy: more drossy
predjudice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predjudices
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of prejudice.
glosses: Misspelling of prejudice.
predjudices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of predjudice
insanery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From insane + -ery.
Senses: glosses: An insane asylum.
loony bins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loony bin
nutfarms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nutfarm
mainstreets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mainstreet
mow down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mows down
form: mowing down
form: mowed down
form: mown down
Senses: examples: text: Our forecast calls for a return of summery weather in the 80s this weekend, so we actually can get out and mow down those weeds without having to inhale clouds of dust.
ref: 2006 Sept. 15, "Roses ’n’ Razzies," gazettetimes.com (Oregon, USA) (retrieved 1 Apr 2011)
glosses: To cut down, especially in large numbers.
examples: text: [T]heir machine-gunners mowed down wave after wave of counterattacking Chinese.
ref: 1952 October 27, “War in Korea: Bloodshed in the Hills”, in Time:
text: The simplest rejoinder to all of Daenerys’ justifications is that this bloodshed could have been avoided. She was given a moment to choose, and she chose blind vengeance, the kind that eliminates any benevolence she hoped to bring to the seven kingdoms by burning it right out of the minds of anyone who saw her astride Drogon, mowing down men, women, and children with abandon.
ref: 2019 May 12, Alex McLevy, “Westeros faces a disastrous final battle on the penultimate Game of Thrones (newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 15 May 2019:
glosses: To kill or slaughter, or to injure by knocking down, especially in large numbers and in a ruthless manner.
talking shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talking shop
Women's Ku Klux Klan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An auxiliary group of the Ku Klux Klan, having female membership.
Synonyms: WKKK
WKKK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Women's Ku Klux Klan.
jegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeg
vegetized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vegetable + -ize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I haven't seen any vegetized wafers on the shelf for decades.
text: I always use vegetized salt or some other seasoned salt.
glosses: To which ingredients found in vegetables have been added, especially minerals and vitamins.
Related terms: vegetization
vegetized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From vegetize.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vegetize
vegetize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vegetizes
form: vegetizing
form: vegetized
form: vegetized
Etymology: From vegetate + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I was vegetizing in front of the TV after a tough week.
glosses: To be in a vegetative state.
examples: text: Watching daytime television could vegetize anyone.
glosses: To put into a vegetative state.
Synonyms: alt: intransitive: to be in a vegetative state
word: vegetate
uninconvenienced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + inconvenienced.
Senses: glosses: Not inconvenienced.
satyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satyres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of satyr.
examples: text: Advice to Sappho, occasioned by her verses on the imitator of the first Satyre of the second book of Horace, by a Gentlewoman,[…]
ref: 1733, Sapphus, poetriae Lesbiae, fragmenta et elogia:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of satire.
descrier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descriers
Etymology: From Old French descrier (“to proclaim, announce, cry”).
Senses: glosses: A person who descries.
paper tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper tape
parestheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paresthesis
Kronecker product
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kronecker products
Etymology: From the surname of Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891), German mathematician.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The ⊗ operation (the tensor product) when applied to two matrices.
wikipedia: Leopold Kronecker
science fairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of science fair
qishlaq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qishlaqs
form: kishlak
Etymology: Borrowed from a Turkic source. Cognates include Turkish kışlık, (colloquial) kışlak, kışla (“barracks”), Azerbaijani qışlaq, Uyghur قىشلاق (qishlaq), Karakhanid قِشْلاغْ (qıšlaɣ), Old Turkic 𐰴𐰃𐰽𐰞𐰍 (qis¹l¹ǧ) and Yakut кыстык (kïstïk).
Senses: glosses: A rural settlement (originally for the winter period) of seminomadic Turkic peoples of Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Afghanistan.
Kashkai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Qashqai.
Yailaq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in Iran.
decumbiture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkʌmbɪtjʊə/
ipa: /dɪˈkʌmbɪtʃə/
ipa: /dɪˈkʌmbɪt͡ʃɚ/
Forms: form: decumbitures
Etymology: From Latin dēcumbo (“lie or fall down”).
Senses: examples: text: It happened during my tedious and melancholy decumbiture...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 34:
glosses: The fact of lying down, specifically of a person due to illness.
examples: text: By casting a figure for the decumbiture, or moment when the patient felt ill, and by resolving a question on the sight of his urine, the astrological doctor claimed to be able to diagnose the disease, prescribe the treatment, foretell when the sickness would reach its crisis, and prognosticate its eventual outcome.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 277:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The time one takes to one's bed during an illness, as used for astrological prognostications; or a chart drawn up to express this.
watry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: watrier
form: watriest
Senses: examples: text: That leg was swell'd, inflam'd to a high degree, from knee to ancle, perfectly black in color, with watry blisters...
ref: 1734, William Stukeley, Of the Gout, J. Roberts, page 34:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of watery.
do you kiss your mother with that mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of you kiss your mother with that mouth.
kills two birds with one stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kill two birds with one stone
killed two birds with one stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kill two birds with one stone
killing two birds with one stone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kill two birds with one stone
strip search
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strip searches
Senses: glosses: A search for items hidden on a person, performed by removing the person's clothes.
examples: text: I've been using the online strip searches to find old comics I remember from childhood.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see strip, search.
strip search
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: strip searches
form: strip searching
form: strip searched
form: strip searched
Senses: glosses: To search for items hidden on a person, by removing clothes.
strip searched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of strip search
strip searching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of strip search
strip searches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strip search
strip searches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of strip search
tap dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tap dance
palæogeography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: ref: 1931, Davidson Black, Palæogeography and polar shift: a study of hypothetical projections:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of palaeogeography.
palæophytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It results from this comparative study that five identical species and seven or eight closely‐related types connect in a common palæophytic epoch the Tertiary districts of Mans and Angers in France with that of Monte Promina in Dalmatia.
ref: 1886, Nature, volume XXXIV, page 636:
glosses: Alternative spelling of paleophytic.
chrome diopside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chrome diopsides
Senses: glosses: A bright green variety of diopside, used as a gemstone.
ametrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæmətɹiːn/
Forms: form: ametrines
Etymology: Blend of amethyst + citrine.
Senses: glosses: A naturally occurring variety of quartz, with zones of purple and yellow or orange.
Synonyms: trystine
bolivianite
zultanite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A gemstone that shifts from varying shades of green in sunlight to a pinkish brown in incandescent light.
Synonyms: diaspore
ædœology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ædœ- + -ology, from Ancient Greek αἰδοῖα (aidoîa, “privy parts, pudenda”) in conjunction with λόγος (lógos, “explanation, narrative”).
Senses: examples: text: ÆDŒOLOGY
A Treatise on Generative Life.
Including Pre‐natal influence, Limitation of Offspring, and Hygiene of the Generative System.
ref: 1893, Sydney Barrington Elliot, page III
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Study of human genitalia.
kunzite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkʊntsˌaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkʌnˌzaɪt/
ipa: /ˈkuːnˌzaɪt/
Forms: form: kunzites
Etymology: From Kunz + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pink- to lilac-colored gemstone, a variety of spodumene.
Paraiba tourmaline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Paraiba tourmalines
Etymology: From Paraíba, the state in Brazil in which the stone was discovered.
Senses: glosses: A bright, gemstone with blue to green tones.
ammolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ammolites
Senses: glosses: A rare and valuable opal-like gemstone, made of the fossilized shells of ammonites.
Synonyms: calcentine
gem ammonite
korite
anyolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anyolites
Senses: glosses: A metamorphic rock composed of intergrown green zoisite, black tschermakite, and ruby.
Synonyms: ruby in zoisite
Tanganyika artstone
Apache tears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apache tear
axstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axestone
Etymology: From ax + stone.
Senses: glosses: A variety of jade, used by the natives of the South Sea Islands for making axes or hatchets.
Gandhara
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit गन्धार (gandhāra).
Senses: synonyms: Paropamisadae
glosses: An ancient kingdom that occupied parts of present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan.
qualifier: otherwise obsolete
glosses: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a province in northwestern Pakistan.
glosses: North-West Frontier Province, proposed as a rename before Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was chosen in 2010. Was favoured by some due to its lack of ethnic connotations.
Derived terms: Gandharan
Gandharan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Gandhara + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Gandhara.
Gandharan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gandharans
Etymology: From Gandhara + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native of Gandhara.
Gange
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ganges
Etymology: Probably of Norman origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norman.
batrachite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batrachites
Etymology: From Latin batrachītēs, from Ancient Greek.
Senses: glosses: A pale greenish-grey variety of montmorillonite.
Bisbee blue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: turquoise that comes from copper mines located in the vicinity of Bisbee, Arizona.
Synonyms: Bisbee turquoise
ganglioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangliomas
Senses: glosses: ganglioneuroma
Derived terms: paraganglioma
come into force
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes into force
form: coming into force
form: came into force
form: come into force
Senses: examples: text: By 1922, when The Railway Magazine attained its Silver Jubilee, the railways were in the throes of grouping, the Act for which had been passed the previous year, and which came fully into force in 1923.
ref: 1957 July 24, M. D. Greville, “A Diamond Jubilee of Railway Memories”, in Railway Magazine, page 496:
synonyms: come into effect
take effect
qualifier: regulation
glosses: To become valid or active, to inure.
raw_tags: of a law
garnett
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: garnetts
form: garnetting
form: garnetted
form: garnetted
Senses: glosses: To pull apart textile fiber waste material, such as old rags, in preparation for carding.
Derived terms: garnetter
garnett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garnetts
Senses: glosses: A machine that reduces textile fibre waste to a fibrous state in preparation for carding
votes of confidence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vote of confidence
algesthesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: algaesthesis
Etymology: From alg- + -esthesis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Perception or sensation of pain.
ganza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ganzas
form: gansa
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish gansa, feminine form of ganso (“goose”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
ganza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gangsa
form: gansa
form: ganse
Senses: glosses: A metal, possibly lead or an alloy, formerly used as an inferior currency in Pegu.
Archæozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of Archaeozoic.
Archæozoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: It is an astounding fact that at least half of geological time (the Archæozoic and Proterozoic eras) passed before there were living creatures with parts sufficiently hard to form fossils.
ref: 1922, John Arthur Thomson, The Outline of Science, volume I, page 90:
glosses: Obsolete form of Archaeozoic.
atmosphære
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: atmosphæres
Senses: examples: text: Now, if I am right in ſuppoſing the light of the ſun to proceed from a luminous atmoſphære, which muſt neceſſarily diffuſe itſelf equally over the whole ſurface, and I think there can be very little doubt that this is really the caſe, this conſtitution cannot well take place in thoſe ſtars, which are in ſome degree periodically more and leſs luminous, ſuch as that in Collo Ceti, &c.
ref: 1783, Michell, Mr. Michell on the Means of diſcovering the Diſtance, Magnitude, &c. of the Fixed Stars, &c. from Philosophical Transactions, page 49
glosses: Obsolete form of atmosphere.
Derived terms: atmosphæric
labiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labia
labias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labia
labruscas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labrusca
accedie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Latin acēdia. Doublet of accidie.
Senses: glosses: Acedia.
lecticae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectica
lecticas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectica
legumina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legumen
legumine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It is the animo-vegetal principal which constitutes the mass of the cotelydon of the almond that induces the reaction; it has been called emulsine, and appears very similar in properties and constitution to the vegetable albumen or legumine, described as the active principle in the alcoholic fermentation (See p. 893).
ref: 1842, Robert Kane, Elements of Chemistry, page 951:
text: Legumine, which plays an important part in the nutrition of animals, is obtained by digesting a quantity of pea or bean meal, or crushed peas or beans in tepid water for two or three hours; the pul is then pounded in a mortar, and afterwards mixed with its own weight of cold water; after one hour's maceration it is pressed through a cloth.
ref: 1845, Jean Baptiste Boussingault, Rural Economy, in Its Relation with Chemistry, Physics, and Meteorology:
text: According to Rochleder, legumine and casein stand in close affinity to one another, and differ only in their respective reactions with acetic acid.
ref: 1846, The Chemist, Or, Reporter of Chemical Discoveries and Improvements, volume 7:
glosses: Archaic form of legumin.
æsthesiometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: æsthesiometers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of esthesiometer.