cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
southeastern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more southeastern
form: most southeastern
form: south-eastern
Etymology: From Middle English *southesterne, from Old English sūþēasterne, equivalent to south + eastern.
Senses: examples: text: The southeastern part of the country is the most affluent.
text: Much of the southern half of the southeastern body is a mafic syenite, slightly more felsic than the shonkinite.
ref: 1954, J. C. Olson, D. R. Shawe, L. C. Pray, W. N. Sharp, Rare-Earth Mineral Deposits of the Mountain Pass District, San Bernadino County, California, U.S. Geological Survey, Professional Paper 261, page 22:
text: It’s the stuff of nightmares for some, but it’s simply summer in southeastern Colorado, where thousands – yes, thousands – of male tarantulas are making the trek to find a mate.
ref: 2019 August 9, Dylan Miettinen, “Is that love in the air? Thousands of tarantulas to descend on southeast Colorado in search of mates”, in CNN:
coordinate_terms: eastern
northern
northeastern
northwestern
southern
southwestern
western
glosses: Of or pertaining to the southeast.
brickwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪk.wɝk/
Etymology: From brick + -work.
Senses: examples: text: The two lower rows of tubes at each end pier were then drilled through to the extrados of the brickwork to act as weep holes and assist in the drainage from the backs of the arches.
ref: 1954 January 24, “Strengthening of Coquet Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: A structure, or portion of a structure, that is made out of bricks.
glosses: The quality of the construction of a brick structure.
Derived terms: brickworks
brickworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickworks
Etymology: From brick + works.
Senses: glosses: A place where bricks are made.
Synonyms: brickyard
Coordinate terms: sense: type of works
word: works § Hyponyms
Related terms: brickwork
calcium oxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A white powderous substance, CaO, normally made by heating calcium carbonate.
Synonyms: burnt lime
lime
quicklime
department store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: department stores
Senses: glosses: A large store containing many different departments, each of which deals in the sale of different goods or services.
Derived terms: discount department store
corrective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈɹɛktɪv/
ipa: /kəˈɹektɪv/
rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Etymology: Borrowed from French correctif, equivalent to correct + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: As the currents were changing rapidly, the captain had to make many corrective course changes.
text: Since the accident I've had to wear a corrective brace.
text: Alway remember, that yf any other humour do abounde in the choleryke persone, as fleume, or melancolye, than vntyll that humour be expelled, the diete must be correctiue of that humour, and therfore more hotte and fyne, than the natural dyete before rehersed:
ref: 1539, Thomas Elyot, The Castel of Helth, London, Book 3, Chapter 16, p. 73:
text: The Justice that relates to Men, is either Universal, which gives us the Character of Good Men; or particular, and this is either Distributive or Corrective Justice. […] To corrective Justice belongs the punishment of Crimes.
ref: 1686, Richard Blome, “Moral Philosophy”, in The Gentlemans Recreation, London: for the author, page 30:
text: In the finished pieces of his youth, when he [John Milton] had a critical eye at every hour on every page, we find no want of corrective touches.
ref: 1795, Isaac D’Israeli, chapter 3, in An Essay on the Manners and Genius of Literary Character, London: T. Cadell, Junr. and W. Davies, page 18:
text: Molly and Cynthia were out walking when she came—doing some errands for Mrs. Gibson, who had a secret idea that Lady Harriet would call at the particular time she did, and had a not uncommon wish to talk to her ladyship without the corrective presence of any member of her own family.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 25, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: Florrie spoke angrily.
“She hadn’t got nothing to say!”
Miss Silver gave a slight corrective cough.
“I noticed that she did not say anything.”
ref: 1953, Patricia Wentworth, chapter 23, in Vanishing Point, Philadelphia: Lippincott:
glosses: Of or pertaining to correction; serving to correct.
examples: text: The Psalmist interposeth a caution in this corrective particle, Yea, Happy. It hath the force of a revocation, whereby he seems to retract what went before, not simply and absolutely, but in a certain degree […]
ref: 1642, Richard Holdsworth, A Sermon Preached in St. Maries in Cambridge, Cambridge, page 27:
glosses: Qualifying; limiting.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: autocorrective
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: corrective facility
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: corrective lens
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: correctively
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: correctiveness
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: corrective rape
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: corrective shoe
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: hypercorrective
sense: Terms derived from corrective (noun)
word: postcorrective
nasal mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal mutations
Senses: glosses: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
soft mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft mutations
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances; lenition.
aspirate mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæs.pɪ.rət mjuˈteɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: aspirate mutations
Senses: synonyms: spirant mutation
glosses: An alteration of the initial consonant of a word which occurs in certain Celtic languages under particular linguistic circumstances.
taiga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtaɪɡə/
ipa: /taɪˈɡɑː/
rhymes: -aɪɡə
rhymes: -ɑː
homophone: tiger (non-rhotic, using the initial-stress pronunciation)
Forms: form: taigas
form: tayga
form: tajga
Etymology: From Russian тайга́ (tajgá), from South Siberian Turkic (Altai region, for example the Altay or Shor language, cf Khakas: тағ (tağ)), or alternatively Yakut тайга (tayga, “untraversable forest”). Doublet of Tayga.
Senses: examples: text: The mountains run from the Arctic Island of Novaya Zemlya southwards, dividing the endless wastes of the Siberian taiga and the steppes from the Russian platform in the west.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 197:
text: Like the taiga, he was everywhere, and mysterious—a heroic being with unearthly gifts.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 871:
text: Reindeer are well suited to the taiga’s frigid winters. They can maintain a thermogradient between body core and the environment of up to 100 degrees, in part because of insulation provided by their fur, and in part because of counter-current vascular heat exchange systems in their legs and nasal passages.
ref: 2013 March 24, Nancy Langston, “Mining the Boreal North”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Apr 2016, page 98:
synonyms: boreal forest
snow forest
glosses: A subarctic zone of evergreen coniferous forests situated south of the tundras and north of the steppes in the Northern Hemisphere.
wikipedia: uk:Циганенко Галина Павлівна
Derived terms: taiga flycatcher
tall oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall oils
Etymology: From Swedish tallolja (“pine oil”).
Senses: synonyms: talloel
tallol
glosses: A dark yellow resinous acidic oil obtained as a byproduct during the pulping of pine; it is used in the manufacture of soaps and lubricants.
taper pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taper pins
Senses: glosses: A tapered self-holding peg or pin used to connect parts together
equaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equalisers
Etymology: From equalise + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Spain were provoked into a response and Villa almost provided a swift equaliser when he rounded Hart but found the angle too acute and could only hit the side-netting.
ref: 2011 November 12, “International friendly: England 1-0 Spain”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of equalizer.
Derived terms: coequaliser
tektite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tektites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τηκτός (tēktós, “molten”), from τήκειν (tḗkein, “to melt”).
Senses: glosses: A small, round, dark glassy object, composed of silicates, formed by the rapid cooling of molten ejecta from meteorite impacts.
Hypernyms: lechatelierite
Hyponyms: desert glass
microeconomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmaɪkɹəʊˌɛkəˈnɒnɪks/
/ˌmaɪkɹəʊˌiːkəˈnɒnɪks/
Etymology: From micro- + economics.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
coordinate_terms: macroeconomics
glosses: The field of economics that deals with small-scale economic activities such as those of an individual or company.
microlitre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlitres
form: microliter
Etymology: From micro- + litre.
Senses: examples: Holonyms: millilitre < litre < kilolitre < megalitre < gigalitre
Meronyms: picolitre < nanolitre
glosses: A unit of fluid measure being one millionth (10⁻⁶) of a litre. Symbol: μL or μl (homoglyphic: µL or µl).
Derived terms: submicrolitre
microphysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + physics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That branch of physics that deals with objects smaller than a molecule
tetrahedrite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrahedrites
Etymology: Named for its tetrahedral crystals in 1845.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex ore of copper, a mixed sulfide of copper, iron, zinc, silver and antimony.
clegg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleggs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cleg.
viscoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visco- + plastic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a material that behaves as a solid below a critical value of stress, but flows like a viscous liquid at greater values of stress.
Related terms: yield stress
yield stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yield stresses
Senses: glosses: Synonym of yield strength.
synonyms: word: yield strength
shear stress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear stresses
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the component of stress that causes parallel layers of a material to move relative to each other in their own planes.
microskirt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microskirts
Etymology: From micro- + skirt, by analogy with miniskirt.
Senses: examples: text: The girls were slender, delectable in stacked heels and shiny clothes that glowed in the dark. One of them wore a microskirt, and he could see the tops of black or navy thigh-highs as he stopped to pick them up.
ref: 1999, James Patterson, Pop Goes the Weasel, Headline, →ISBN:
glosses: An extremely short miniskirt with its hemline at the upper thigh, at or just below crotch or underwear level.
Derived terms: microskirted
Middle Korean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Korean language of the 10th (or 13th, depending on the analysis) century to 16th century, or from the era of Goryeo to the middle of Joseon, based on the dialect of Kaesong because the new Goryeo dynasty moved its capital city to northern area of Korean peninsula.
Related terms: Proto-Koreanic
Old Korean
Early Modern Korean
Modern Korean
Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Korean terms
microrobot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microrobots
Etymology: From micro- + robot.
Senses: glosses: A very small robot capable of operating at the microscopic scale.
Related terms: microrobotics
microwire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microwires
Etymology: From micro- + wire.
Senses: glosses: A very small diameter wire, especially one with a glass coating.
microzone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microzones
Etymology: From micro- + zone.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small area.
thermoacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From thermo- + acoustics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the study of phenomena influenced by thermodynamics and acoustics
Related terms: thermoacoustic
thermoacoustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermo- + acoustic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to thermoacoustics
Derived terms: thermoacoustic array
thermoacoustic effect
thermoacoustic engine
microvesicle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microvesicles
Etymology: From micro- + vesicle.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic sac, cavity, cyst or cell in animal or vegetable tissue.
microvegetation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + vegetation.
Senses: glosses: microscopic vegetation
microtektite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtektites
Etymology: From micro- + tektite.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic tektite.
microstylar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + stylar.
Senses: examples: text: The house was constructed using a microstylar technique.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a building style where each floor has its own separate rows of columns.
microquantity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microquantities
Etymology: From micro- + quantity.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small quantity.
micropower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + power.
Senses: examples: text: A micropower source is required for modern cardiac electronics.
glosses: The generation, storage and use of extremely small amounts of power.
micropulsation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropulsations
Etymology: From micro- + pulsation.
Senses: glosses: A very small, change in the strength of the magnetic field of the Earth.
microparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microparticles
Etymology: From micro- + particle.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small particle.
Derived terms: submicroparticle
microphenocryst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microphenocrysts
Etymology: From micro- + phenocryst.
Senses: examples: text: The basalt of Goose Island of the Ice Harbor Member is unique for the occurrence of microphenocrysts of ilmenite and titanmagnetite.
ref: 1983, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, page 9:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A very small crystal in a fine-grained porphyritic rock.
Derived terms: microphenocrystic
microparasitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + parasitic.
Senses: examples: text: Malaria is a microparasitic disease.
glosses: Of or pertaining to microparasites.
microparasite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microparasites
Etymology: From micro- + parasite.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small parasite.
micromodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromodules
Etymology: From micro- + module.
Senses: glosses: A very small scale electronic module
micronodular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + nodular.
Senses: examples: text: The diagnosis of silicosis was confirmed by the presence of micronodular opacities on the radiographs.
glosses: Of or pertaining to micronodules.
micronodule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micronodules
Etymology: From micro- + nodule.
Senses: glosses: An area of opacity on a radiograph, indicative of certain diseases.
Related terms: micronodulation
microschizont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microschizonts
Etymology: From micro- + schizont.
Senses: glosses: In protozoa, a microscopic cell that undergoes asexual division
asexual division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The process of binary fission in cells where a cell divides to form daughter cells.
binary fission
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process whereby a cell divides asexually to produce two daughter cells.
daughter cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daughter cells
Senses: glosses: A cell produced by reproductive division of a cell during mitosis or meiosis.
sacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sackings
Senses: examples: text: The farmer grabbed a handful of sacking and rubbed down the cow.
glosses: Cheap rough cloth such as would be used to make bags (sacks).
examples: text: He followed his sacking with a good drink.
glosses: Firing or termination of an employee.
sacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sack
reproductive division
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process of mitosis or meiosis.
sacredly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sacredly
form: most sacredly
Etymology: From sacred + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Scip[io]. […] Remember Syphax / Thy vow hath made thee Romes. / Syph[ax]. Which Ile preserve / As sacredly inviolate, as if / Eternall seales had ratifi’d it.
ref: 1637, Thomas Nabbes, Hannibal and Scipio, London: Charles Greene, act II, scene 3:
text: [H]e proteſted to me, that if he vvas naked in Bed vvith me, he vvould as ſacredly preſerve my Virtue, as he vvould defend it if I vvas aſſaulted by a Raviſher; […]
ref: 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 136:
text: […] I have a communication of a very private—indeed, I will say, of a sacredly confidential nature, which I desire to make to you.
ref: 1871–1872, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter LXI, in Middlemarch […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book VI:
text: Each girl has to read her story out loud and then we talk it over. We are going to keep them all sacredly and have them to read to our descendants […]
ref: 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, chapter 26, in Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:
text: Satisfaction because the ritual of Gormenghast was proceeding as sacredly and deliberately as ever before […]
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “Mr Rottcodd Again”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: In a sacred manner.
sacredness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sacrednesses
Etymology: From sacred + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sacred.
Synonyms: sacrality
sanctity
sacrosanctness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sacrosanct + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property or quality of being sacrosanct.
Synonyms: sacrosanctity
interpersonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + personal.
Senses: examples: text: By slightly modifying Piaget's scheme of the development of the capacity to follow and be aware of rules, I propose to distinguish three stages, or types, of mastery of interpersonal processes: coercion, self-help, and cooperation.
ref: 1974, Thomas S. Szasz, M.D., chapter 13, in The Myth of Mental Illness, →ISBN, page 213:
text: The complexity of having so many organisations involved, and the deep integration required, has undoubtedly tested the interpersonal skills of project leaders who have had little face-to-face contact.
ref: 2021 June 2, Paul Stephen, “Advances made in digital revolution”, in RAIL, number 932, page 58:
glosses: Between two or more people.
Synonyms: interindividual
Coordinate terms: intergroup
Derived terms: interpersonally
noninterpersonal
sadistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sadistically
form: most sadistically
Etymology: From sadistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a sadistic manner.
glosses: In a particularly horrible or brutal manner, as painfully as possible.
micrometazoa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micrometazoan
micrometazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + metazoan.
Senses: examples: text: The confirmation of the theory relied on evidence from the micrometazoan elements of the fossile record.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the micrometazoa
micrometazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micrometazoa
form: micrometazoans
Etymology: From micro- + metazoan.
Senses: glosses: A very small metazoan.
micrometastasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + metastasis.
Senses: glosses: The microscopic level action of metastasis, the spread of disease from the primary site to other areas.
Related terms: micrometastatic
microlaser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + laser.
Senses: examples: text: The surgeon used microlaser techniques to repair the damage.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the use of lasers on very small scales.
microlaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microlasers
Etymology: From micro- + laser.
Senses: examples: text: In 1989, the first dramatic demonstration of a microlaser was successfully performed by scientists based primarily at Bell Labs; they were able to manufacture one million lasers on a tiny chip smaller than a fingernail.
ref: 1999, Michio Kaku, Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the Twenty-first Century, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 288:
glosses: A microscopic laser, typically a few microns in size.
microinvertebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microinvertebrates
Etymology: From micro- + invertebrate, perhaps by analogy with microorganism.
Senses: glosses: An invertebrate of microscopic size.
microfungus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microfungi
Etymology: From micro- + fungus.
Senses: glosses: A fungus of microscopic size.
microexplosion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microexplosions
Etymology: From micro- + explosion.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small-scale explosion.
microexplosive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + explosive.
Senses: examples: text: The two metals were joined using microexplosive techniques.
glosses: Of or pertaining to microexplosions.
microexplosive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microexplosives
Etymology: From micro- + explosive.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic explosive.
microearthquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microearthquakes
form: micro-earthquake
Etymology: From micro- + earthquake.
Senses: glosses: A very low-intensity earthquake, usually three or less on the Richter scale.
Synonyms: microquake
microquake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microquakes
Etymology: From micro- + quake.
Senses: glosses: microearthquake
phonographer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phonographers
Etymology: From phonography + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled at phonography.
Synonyms: phonographist
on the pill
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Jane went on the pill when she left for college.
glosses: Using oral contraceptives.
raw_tags: of a woman
sagely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪd͡ʒli/
Forms: form: more sagely
form: most sagely
Etymology: From Middle English sagely, sagilly, equivalent to sage + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In the manner of a sage, with wisdom, wisely.
no smoke without fire
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: there's no smoke without fire
form: where there's smoke, there's fire
Senses: glosses: Gossip and accusations are often substantiated by fact.
sagaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sagaciously
form: most sagaciously
Etymology: From sagacious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Who could forbear smiling, to see my charmer, like a farcical dean and chapter, choose what was before chosen for her; and sagaciously (as they go in form to prayers, that God would direct their choice) pondering upon the different proposals, as if she would make me believe, she has a mind for some other?
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter [HTTP://NAME.UMDL.UMICH.EDU/004835420.0001.003 LETTER 37]”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume III, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, pages 189-190:
text: But if these suspicions were really his, he sagaciously refrained from verbally expressing them, however his actions might seem to hint them.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “Chapter 130”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: “Introduce me, now there’s a good fellow,” he said,
“If we happen to meet it together!”
And the Bellman, sagaciously nodding his head,
Said “That must depend on the weather.”
ref: 1874–1876 (date written), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Fit the Fit the Fourth.⁠ The Hunting.”, in The Hunting of the Snark […], London: Macmillan and Co., published March 1876, →OCLC:
text: At present Joseph Stalin, astute, sagaciously “conservative,” has seen fit to squelch such activities.
ref: 1926 November 8, “Flame but no Fire”, in Time:
glosses: In a sagacious manner, in a way that is clever, shrewd, observant, keen of intellect or discernment, cunning or with ability and aptitude; sagely.
microabscess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microabscesses
Etymology: From micro- + abscess.
Senses: glosses: A very small, localised collection of pus.
microaneurysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microaneurysms
Etymology: From micro- + aneurysm.
Senses: glosses: An extremely small aneurysm
Derived terms: microaneurysmal
sailboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailboards
Etymology: From sail + board.
Senses: synonyms: windsurf board
glosses: A recreational device consisting of a surfboard with a small sail on a flexible mast.
sailboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sailboards
form: sailboarding
form: sailboarded
form: sailboarded
Etymology: From sail + board.
Senses: examples: text: We went sailboarding, but it's just as hard as it looks.
synonyms: windsurf
glosses: To practice the sport of using a sailboard.
Derived terms: sailboarder
sailboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sailboarders
Etymology: From sailboard + -er (agent noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a sailboard and practices the sport of sailboarding.
Synonyms: windsurfer
microatoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microatolls
Etymology: From micro- + atoll, because the colonies superficially resemble atolls, but are much smaller.
Senses: glosses: A colony of coral, usually 1-3 metres in diameter that is dead on the top as a result of exposure at low tide.
add fuel to fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adds fuel to fire
form: adding fuel to fire
form: added fuel to fire
form: added fuel to fire
Senses: examples: text: Depend upon it, there is always a cause for want of appetite; […] inflammation may be in the system, food would then be improper, as it would only add fuel to fire: therefore, let the cause be an over-worked stomach, overloaded bowels, fever, or inflammation, food will be injurious.
ref: 1859, Pye Henry Chavasse, Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Offspring, 6th edition, London: John Churchill, New Burlington Street, page 97:
text: We have no wish to add fuel to fire, and perhaps the whole circumstance of Pastorelle cutting such a very different figure to what she did on the first day was purely accidental.
ref: 1867 October, “‘Our Van.’ The Invoice.—September Scrapings.”, in Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, volume XIV, number 92, London: A. H. Baily & Co., Cornhill, page 50:
glosses: Alternative form of add fuel to the fire.
microbacillus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbacilli
Etymology: From micro- + bacillus.
Senses: glosses: A very small, rod-shaped bacillus.
saintliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saintlinesses
Etymology: From saintly + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [H]e was led away to a private sanitarium for mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, “The Bishop”, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC, page 188:
glosses: The property of being saintly.
salaciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salaciousnesses
Etymology: From salacious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The cock, from his salaciousness, is allowed to be a short lived animal; but how long these birds live, if left to themselves, is not yet well ascertained by any historian.
ref: 1774, Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth and Animated Nature, London: J. Nourse, Volume 5, Part 2, Chapter 2, p. 170:
text: […] he began a tale which cannot be retold here, but which delighted the boys as much by its salaciousness as by its vivacity.
ref: 1895, Frank Harris, “The Best Man in Garotte”, in Elder Conklin and Other Stories, London: Heinemann, page 160:
text: I giggle with the most revolting salaciousness over La Vie Parisienne, when I get hold of one in Chicago, yet I shouldn’t even try to hold your hand.
ref: 1920, Sinclair Lewis, chapter XIII, in Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, →OCLC, page 158:
text: Fokine did not mince words in describing the infamous closing moments of the ballet [L’Après-midi d’un faune], charging that Diaghilev used Nijinski as nothing more than a tool to shock his audience. He hinted that scandal was Diaghilev’s goal, for salaciousness would attract an audience.
ref: 2002, Charles M. Joseph, chapter 2, in Stravinsky and Balanchine: A Journey of Invention, New Haven: Yale University Press, page 51:
text: […] he actually used the word erotic, snagging his tongue on it as though the salaciousness of the syllables themselves was enough to arouse him […]
ref: 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 20:
glosses: The state or characteristic of being salacious.
Synonyms: bawdiness
indecency
lasciviousness
lewdness
salacity
fireguard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fireguards
form: fire guard
Etymology: From fire + guard.
Senses: glosses: A mesh screen around a fire to prevent sparks or falling embers.
Synonyms: fire screen
firescreen
Derived terms: as much use as a chocolate fireguard
salaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From salary + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Paid a salary, as opposed to being an hourly worker or a volunteer. Generally indicating a professional or manager.
glosses: Paid monthly as opposed to weekly.
salaried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From salary + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of salary
microblade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microblades
Etymology: From micro- + blade.
Senses: examples: text: The upper Palaeolithic period saw the first production of microblade tools.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A small blade, typically produced in prehistoric times from silica-rich minerals.
blue-collared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Being a blue-collar employee, an hourly worker.
Related terms: white-collar
Laxmi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Lakshmi.
sacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sack
glosses: simple past and past participle of sac
sacked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sacked
form: most sacked
Senses: examples: text: I can't be sacked to get out of bed today.
text: We asked John if he wanted to come down the pub with us, but he couldn't be sacked.
synonyms: fucked
arsed
glosses: Bothered; willing to make an effort.
glosses: fired from employment
Derived terms: sacked out
salesclerk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesclerks
Etymology: From sales + clerk.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sales clerk.
newsagent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: newsagents
Etymology: From news + agent.
Senses: examples: text: The papers are freely available in Sydney bookshops and newsagents.
ref: 1990 February 11, Kendall Lovett, “Gay Newspapers Banned”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 30, page 2:
glosses: A retail business selling newspapers, magazines, and stationery; a stationer.
examples: text: However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
ref: 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
glosses: The proprietor of such a business.
Related terms: news agency
salesgirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesgirls
Etymology: From sales + girl.
Senses: glosses: A young woman employed as a salesclerk.
newsagents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsagent
corn liquor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn liquors
Senses: glosses: A distilled spirit, derived from maize, having a high alcohol content and little flavor.
cappabar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: capperbar
form: capabarre
form: capperbar
form: cap a bar
form: cape bar
Etymology: Uncertain. First attested 1818 as cap a bar. Dated or obsolete by the early 20th century.
Senses: examples: text: If e'er the Fortune of the war
Gave him a Prize, he'd cap a bar
Like blazes--but stand clear! that elf
Who dared to steal besides himself.
ref: Burton, Alfred (1818), The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy, London: Methuen and Co., page 209
text: Patrick O'Brian, *The Mauritius Command.*
disposing of His Majesty's property was an immemorial practice among His Majesty's servants … and in the Navy it went by the name of cappabar.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: a misappropriation of government property; embezzlement or fraud carried out in the management of a ship.
chili dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chili dog
robocall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: robocalls
form: robo call
form: robo-call
Etymology: From robo- + call. First use appears c. 1998 in the Associated Press Newswire.
Senses: examples: text: The e-mailers are upset about “robocalls”—pre-recorded, automated phone calls containing anti-Democratic political messages.
ref: 2006 November 6, Frank James, “GOP 'robocalls' enrage Democrats”, in Chicago Tribune:
text: Rand Paul’s presidential campaign has drafted in his father, libertarian icon Ron Paul, to directly attack Republican rival Ted Cruz in a robocall in Iowa, the first time the former presidential candidate has gone on the offensive on his son’s behalf.
ref: 2016 January 13, Ben Jacobs, “Ron Paul criticizes Cruz's absence from Fed vote in support of son's campaign”, in The Guardian:
text: Things are at least as bad on mobile phones, which were the lucky recipients of 48 billion robocalls in the United States alone last year.
ref: 2019 March 1, Gail Collins, “Let’s Destroy Robocalls”, in New York Times:
glosses: An automated phone call, commonly for telemarketing purposes, that uses both an autodialer and a recorded message.
robocall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: robocalls
form: robocalling
form: robocalled
form: robocalled
form: robo call
form: robo-call
Etymology: From robo- + call. First use appears c. 1998 in the Associated Press Newswire.
Senses: examples: text: Republicans robo-called Americans during their dinner and evening hours, blaming the annoying calls on Democrats.
ref: 2007, Jackson Thoreau, Born to Cheat: How Bush, Cheney, Rove & Co. Broke the Rules—from the Sandlot to the White House, page 197:
glosses: To make a robocall to.
Derived terms: robocaller
saleslady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesladies
form: sales-lady
Etymology: From sales + lady.
Senses: synonyms: saleswoman
glosses: A woman who is employed as a sales clerk.
salesmanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salesmanships
Etymology: From salesman + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The professional dealer's salesmanship was incredible, I was just looking but he managed to convince me to buy three times what I was considering buying over the next six months.
text: […] this man worked at his business all the harder, with the brightness of the home-joys fading. But it went very hard with him, more than once, when he made a good stroke of salesmanship, to have to put the money in the bottom of his pocket, without even rubbing a bright half-crown, and saying to himself, “I have a’most a mind to give this to Mary.”
ref: 1880, R. D. Blackmore, chapter 9, in Mary Anerley, volume 2, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, page 162:
text: Babbitt’s spectacles had huge, circular, frameless lenses of the very best glass; the ear-pieces were thin bars of gold. In them he was the modern business man; one who gave orders to clerks and drove a car and played occasional golf and was scholarly in regard to Salesmanship.
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, chapter I, in Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam locomotives, such as Baldwins, the American Locomotive Company and the Lima Locomotive Company, either to follow suit or go out of the locomotive building business altogether - [...].
ref: 1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 85:
text: It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.
ref: 1963, Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, New York: Viking, published 1965, Chapter 6, section 4, p. 282:
text: 2012, Nathan Rabin, “The Simpsons (Classic): ‘Treehouse of Horror III’” [season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992], The A.V. Club, TV Reviews, 29 April, 2012,
The idea of a merchant selling both totems of pure evil and frozen yogurt (he calls it frogurt!) is amusing in itself, as is the idea that frogurt could be cursed, but it’s really the Shopkeeper’s quicksilver shift from ominous doomsaying to chipper salesmanship that sells the sequence.
glosses: The skills and knowledge of how to sell.
topics: business
marketing
glosses: A position as salesman.
saliently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saliently
form: most saliently
Etymology: From salient + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a salient manner, relevantly, germanely.
cage fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cage fighters
Senses: glosses: A person who fights inside a cage.
germanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more germanely
form: most germanely
Etymology: From germane + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is germane, relevantly.
relevantly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more relevantly
form: most relevantly
Etymology: From relevant + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a relevant way.
Derived terms: irrelevantly
sallowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sallow + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sallow, yellowishness.
saltcellar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltcellars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of salt cellar.
cage fighting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practise of participating in hand-to-hand combat inside of a usually steel cage.
saltiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltinesses
Etymology: From salty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being, or tasting, salty.
Synonyms: word: salineness
word: salinity
word: saltiness
Hypernyms: word: flavour
Hyponyms: word: brackishness
word: brininess
word: saltishness
Related terms: word: salty
sandblast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈsænd.blɑːst/
Forms: form: sandblasts
form: sandblasting
form: sandblasted
form: sandblasted
Etymology: From sand + blast.
Senses: examples: text: The plane's large rear doors swallowed up my friend in superfast time, its departure sandblasting everyone in red prop wash as it vaporised down the main street and into the afternoon's dust-bowl sky.
ref: 2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 23:
coordinate_terms: wire brush#Verb
wire wheel
glosses: To spray with fast-moving solid grains (such as sand propelled by compressed air, although softer material like sodium bicarbonate used for delicate materials may also be so referred to). The process is used for stripping dirt, rust, paint etc. from the surface of objects.
Related terms: word: sand
word: sandpaper
word: buff
word: buff out
word: polish
sandblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsænd.blɑːst/
Forms: form: sandblasts
Etymology: From sand + blast.
Senses: glosses: Sand driven by a blast of air or steam for cutting and engraving figures on glass or metal.
sanctification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saŋktɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: sanctifications
Etymology: From Old French sanctificacion, from ecclesiastical Latin sanctificātionem, from sanctificāre (“to sanctify”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.
glosses: The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.
glosses: Blackmail.
sandblaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandblasters
Etymology: From sand + blaster.
Senses: glosses: A device used to sandblast.
glosses: A person who operates such a device.
sanely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanely
form: most sanely
Etymology: From sane + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Gloating silently, she laved handfuls of hot sand over her, her mind alternating sanely and insanely.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 296:
glosses: In a sane manner; sensibly; logically; rationally.
saneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sane + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sanity (which is the more common term).
synonyms: word: sanity
extra: which is the more common term
sapience
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪpiəns/
ipa: /ˈseɪpjəns/
ipa: /ˈseɪpɪəns/
ipa: /ˈseɪpjəns/
Forms: form: sapiences
Etymology: From Middle English sapience, from Old French sapience, from Latin sapientia.
Senses: examples: text: As, much Experience, is Prudence; ſo, is much Science, Sapience.
ref: 1651, Thomas Hobbes, chapter V, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 1st part (Of Man), page 22:
text: Mean while the Son / On his great Expedition now appeer'd, / Girt with Omnipotence, with Radiance crown'd / Of Majestie Divine, Sapience and Love / Immense, and all his Father in him shon.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 192–196:
text: In Europe it’s too dreary—the sapience, the solemnity, the false respectability, the verbosity, the long disquisitions on superannuated subjects.
ref: 1886 [1882], Henry James, The Point of View, London: Macmillan and Co.:
text: Was it that his eccentric unsentimental old sapience, primitive in its kind, saw or thought it saw something which, in contrast with the war-ship's environment, looked oddly incongruous in the Handsome Sailor?
ref: 1888–1891, Herman Melville, “[Billy Budd, Foretopman.] Chapter VIII.”, in Billy Budd and Other Stories, London: John Lehmann, published 1951, →OCLC:
text: This, a solo of sapience, / This, a chantey of sophistry, / This, the sum of experiments— / I loved them until they loved me.
ref: 1926, Dorothy Parker, “Ballade at Thirty-Five”, in The Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker, New York: The Modern Library, published 1936, page 60:
text: I then marked out three ways in which we can instead describe and demarcate ourselves in terms of the sapience that distinguishes us from the beasts of forest and field.
ref: 2009, Robert Brandom, Reason in Philosophy: Animating Ideas:
glosses: The property of being sapient, the property of possessing or being able to possess wisdom.
Coordinate terms: sentience
satirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satirists
Etymology: From satire + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: In one of the Greek satirist Lucian's Dialogues of Courtesans, a conversation takes place between the hetaira Tryphaena and a young client named Charmides.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 129:
glosses: A person who writes satire.
satiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satiable
form: most satiable
Senses: examples: text: The god's demand for blood was satiable only by the sacrifice of a virgin.
glosses: Capable of being sated, satisfiable.
satisfiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more satisfiable
form: most satisfiable
Etymology: From satisfy + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being satisfied.
wolfman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wolfmen
Etymology: From wolf + man.
Senses: glosses: A male werewolf or lycanthrope.
lyophilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lyophilic
form: most lyophilic
Etymology: US, c. 1908; compare earlier lyophilize (1894). lyo- (“solvent, dispersion”) + -philic (“having affinity for”), from Ancient Greek λύω (lúō, “to loosen, to dissolve”) + φίλος (phílos, “beloved”) + Latin -icus.
Senses: examples: text: In second sub-group, the “emulsion-colloids” or “lyophilic colloids,” the properties of the solvent are considerably influenced. The internal friction, surface tension, and other properties of the liquid show great changes even when only a small proportion of matter is in colloidal solution.
ref: 1908, Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry,, volume 27, page 935:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having an affinity for the dispersion medium and thus not easily precipitated.
raw_tags: of a colloid
Synonyms: lyophile
Hyponyms: hydrophilic
Related terms: lyophilize
Helsingfors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Swedish Helsingfors.
Senses: glosses: Helsinki (the capital of Finland).