cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
mandella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandellas
Senses: glosses: A decorative Native American object, derived from a traditional ceremonial shield.
Related terms: dreamcatcher
dreamcatcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamcatchers
form: dream catcher
Etymology: From dream + catcher.
Senses: glosses: A decorative Native American object in the form of a hoop and net with attachments such as feathers, traditionally believed by the Ojibwa to “filter out” bad dreams.
Coordinate terms: mandella
dream catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream catchers
Senses: examples: text: He hated how many non-Native people hung dream catchers from their rearview mirrors. It was the last place you wanted to be sleeping, the last place you should be dreaming.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, pages 271-272:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dreamcatcher.
dream catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dreamcatchers
Senses: glosses: plural of dream catcher
catchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catcher
dreamcatchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dream catchers
Senses: glosses: plural of dreamcatcher
light bulbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of light bulb
becomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈkʌmɪŋli/
Forms: form: more becomingly
form: most becomingly
Etymology: From becoming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Some of these were dressed most gorgeously, others becomingly, and several sneaked in with fantail bangers, calling themselves "Gentlemen of the Nineteenth Century."
ref: 1885 July 9, The Hamilton Spectator, page 4:
text: The pleated skirts she liked were becomingly short.
ref: 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44:
glosses: In a becoming manner.
begrudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more begrudgingly
form: most begrudgingly
Etymology: From begrudging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Although British involvement in the slave trade prior to 1807 cannot be denied, or its effects diminished, it is also a fact that the Royal Navy was pretty much the only force in the world in the 19th century with the numbers, drive, willingness, firepower, and capability to curtail the global slave trade, and that, without these efforts, many more would no doubt have been taken to slave plantations and other such destinations during the 19th, and possibly even into the 20th, centuries, as it must be remembered that a great many European powers would only begrudgingly commit to ending the slave trade when the other option was continuous war with the British Empire.
ref: 2018 December 1, Drachinifel, 11:37 from the start, in Anti-Slavery Patrols - The West Africa Squadron, archived from the original on 29 Nov 2024:
glosses: In a begrudging manner; in a manner that is envious or reluctant.
gentilic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/
Etymology: From Latin gentilis (“of a clan or gens”) + English suffix -ic.
Senses: glosses: Tribal or national.
glosses: Describing the inhabitants of a particular place; demonymic.
gentilic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnˈtɪl.ɪk/
Forms: form: gentilics
Etymology: From Latin gentilis (“of a clan or gens”) + English suffix -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Vito Corleone? What kind of name is Corleone? A gentilic?
glosses: A personal name derived from a place name.
glosses: A demonym.
spontaneous pneumothorax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spontaneous pneumothoraces
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A pulmonary condition resulting in the collection of air within the chest, which occurs absent traumatic injury. Spontaneous Pneumothorax are considered a medical emergency, generally requiring assistive radiographic evaluation to determine the extent of lung collapse, as well as determine the most appropriate course of emergency medical treatment for the patient. Abbreviated as SP.
Related terms: primary spontaneous pneumothorax
secondary pneumothorax
artificial pneumothorax
chair mat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chair mats
Senses: glosses: A sheet of durable smooth material that is placed on a floor space occupied by a chair (typically one equipped with casters) to prevent undue wear.
disablement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈeɪbəl.mənt/
Forms: form: disablements
Etymology: From disable + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: The world would change if countries agreed to the disablement of all nuclear weapons.
glosses: The action of disabling or the state of being disabled.
Synonyms: incapacitation
Related terms: disable
chair mats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chair mat
machinations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machination
forswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English forswerynge; equivalent to for- + swearing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forswear
forswearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forswearings
Etymology: From Middle English forswerynge; equivalent to for- + swearing.
Senses: examples: text: Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
ref: 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
glosses: The act of one who forswears.
bashfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bashfully
form: most bashfully
Etymology: From bashful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.
ref: 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 89:
text: The morning of the wedding he bounded up my stair, most tremendously shaved and brushed, stood upon my doormat bashfully hesitant.
ref: 1944, Emily Carr, “Bachelors”, in The House of All Sorts:
glosses: In a bashful manner.
Serendib
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Serendip
Etymology: From Arabic سَرَنْدِيب (sarandīb), from Persian سرندیپ (sarandip), from Prakrit *𑀲𑀻𑀳𑀮𑀤𑀻𑀯 (*sīhaladīva) or Sanskrit सिंहलद्वीप (siṃhaladvīpa, “island of the Sinhala people”). See सिंहल (siṃhala, “Sri Lanka”), द्वीप (dvīpa, “island”). Related to Ceylon.
Senses: examples: text: 2003 Brigitte. Ellemor, Richard Plunkett, Verity Campbell - Sri Lanka
His last two journeys were to Sri Lanka, or Serendib as Arab mariners knew it.
glosses: An ancient name of Ceylon or Sri Lanka.
Related terms: Names of Sri Lanka
progresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: See progress (noun)
Senses: glosses: plural of progress
progresses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See progress (verb)
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of progress
executives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of executive
amœba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmiːbə/
Forms: form: amœbas
form: amœbæ
form: ameba
form: amoeba
Senses: glosses: Dated spelling of amoeba.
amœbæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amœba
barbarically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barbarically
form: most barbarically
Etymology: From barbaric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a barbaric manner.
beauteously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beauteously
form: most beauteously
Etymology: From beauteous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a beauteous manner.
beatifically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more beatifically
form: most beatifically
Etymology: From beatific + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Smiling beatifically, and wearing both his decorations, Napoleon reposed on a bed of straw on the platform, with the money at his side, neatly piled on a china dish from the farmhouse kitchen.
ref: 1945, George Orwell, chapter 8, in Animal Farm:
text: Throughout the negotiations, Makarios would nod sagely as if agreeing with every point Ball raised. Then he would beatifically repeat that the Cyprus problem should go to the U.N.
ref: 1964 February 21, “Irrationality in Flower”, in Time:
text: Watch a YouTube video of each man in his prime, and while Little Richard is wild-eyed and manic, it's a joyous energy that lifts off the screen, not unlike an enraptured Baptist minister at his most beatifically overwhelmed.
ref: 2010 February 26, Ray Robertson, “Goodness gracious!”, in The Globe and Mail:
glosses: In a beatific manner.
bearishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bearishly
form: most bearishly
Etymology: From bearish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bearish manner.
Related terms: bullishly
bullishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bullishly
form: most bullishly
Etymology: From bullish + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bullish manner.
Related terms: bearishly
beefiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beefy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being beefy.
blasphemer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blasphemers
Etymology: From Middle English blasfemour, from Old French blasfemeor; equivalent to blaspheme + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who commits blasphemy; a person who mocks or derides a deity or religion, or claims to be God.
Derived terms: blasphemeress
solfège
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɒlˈfeɪʒ/
ipa: /sɒlˈfɛʒ/
rhymes: -eɪʒ
rhymes: -ɛʒ
Forms: form: solfèges
form: solfege
Etymology: Borrowed from French solfège. Doublet of solfeggio.
Senses: examples: text: Her note is F – F in the German naming convention, fa in the solfege system we use in Russia.
ref: 2020, Ben Creed, City of Ghosts, London: Welbeck Publishing, →ISBN, page 264:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A method of sight singing that uses the syllables do (originally ut), re, mi, fa, sol (or so), la, and si (or ti) to represent the seven principal pitches of the scale, most commonly the major scale. The fixed-do system uses do for C, and the moveable-do system uses do for whatever key the melody uses (thus B is do if the piece is in the key of B). The relative natural minor of a scale may be represented by beginning at la.
Synonyms: solfeggio
solmization
solmisation
sol-fa
Related terms: Aretinian
fixed-do
movable-do
blasphemers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blasphemer
multiplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌltɪplɪˌkeɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˌmʌltɪˈplɪkətɪv/
Etymology: From 6th-century Latin multiplicativus, from Classical Latin multiplicāre (“to multiply”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to multiplication.
examples: text: Matrix determinants are multiplicative; if A and B are square matrices of the same size, then #92;mbox#123;det#125;(AB)#61;#92;mbox#123;det#125;(A)#92;,#92;mbox#123;det#125;(B).
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Distributive over multiplication.
raw_tags: of a function
topics: algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having multiplication as an operator.
Derived terms: multiplicative identity
multiplicative inverse
multiplicatively
multiplicative number
multiplicative numeral
multiplicative operation
multiplicative subset
multiplicativity
nonmultiplicative
submultiplicative
supermultiplicative
supramultiplicative
multiplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʌltɪplɪˌkeɪtɪv/
ipa: /ˌmʌltɪˈplɪkətɪv/
Forms: form: multiplicatives
Etymology: From 6th-century Latin multiplicativus, from Classical Latin multiplicāre (“to multiply”).
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A grammatical adverbial case in Finnish.
aesthetes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aesthete
contemporaneousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From contemporaneous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
Synonyms: contemporaneity
cotemporality
screamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of screaming
hairy ball theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A theorem stating that there is no nonvanishing continuous tangent vector field on the sphere; colloquially, that "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick".
vector field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vector fields
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: a function mapping a subset of ℝⁿ into a subset of ℝⁿ
qualifier: differential geometry
glosses: a function which associates, to each point on a surface, a vector in the tangent plane of that point
Related terms: scalar field
nonvanishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vanishing.
Senses: examples: text: For each nonvanishing function h, which is a solution of (2.1), we consider #92;Omega as above and we define
#92;Omega#95;i#61;d#92;Omega(e#95;i),#92;#59;#92;#59;#92;#59;W#61;#92;frac#123;#92;Omega#125;#123;h#125;
ref: 2001 January 1, A. A. Coley, Bäcklund and Darboux Transformations: The Geometry of Solitons : AARMS-CRM Workshop, June 4-9, 1999, Halifax, N.S., Canada (CRM proceedings & lecture notes), American Mathematical Soc., →ISBN, page 153:
text: This means that the vector space of solutions of (2.25) near #92;lambda#61;0 is generated by
#92;sigma#95;1(#92;lambda) holomorphic and nonvanishing at 0,
#92;left(#92;lambda#92;sigma#95;2(#92;lambda)#43;(log#92;lambda)#92;sigma#95;1(#92;lambda)#92;right) where a #92;sigma#95;2 is holomorphic and nonvanishing at 0.
ref: 2013 November 11, C. Herbert Clemens, A Scrapbook of Complex Curve Theory (University Series in Mathematics), Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 61:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of an expression, especially a function, being nonzero at a value, everywhere on a specified set, or on the entire domain.
nonzero
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-zero
Etymology: From non- + zero.
Senses: examples: text: nonzero Hopf number
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not equal to zero.
raw_tags: of a quantity
examples: text: a nonzero chance of victory
text: Under sharp questioning from Judge Paul S. Diamond, however, they conceded that Trump in fact had “a nonzero number of people in the room,” leaving Diamond audibly exasperated.
ref: 2020 November 11, “Trump lawyers suffer embarrassing rebukes from judges over voter fraud claims”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 11 Nov 2020:
glosses: Of an unspecified positive quantity.
nonzero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonzeroes
form: nonzeros
form: non-zero
Etymology: From non- + zero.
Senses: examples: text: The function has 1074 nonzeros.
glosses: A quantity which is not zero.
Related terms: nonnegative
nonpositive
nonvanishing
nonnegative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-negative.
nonnegative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonnegatives
Senses: glosses: Any value that is not negative.
nonpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + positive.
Senses: examples: text: a nonpositive self-evaluation
glosses: Not positive.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Not positive; either zero or negative.
raw_tags: of a quantity
Derived terms: nonpositively
nonpositive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonpositives
Etymology: From non- + positive.
Senses: glosses: Any value that is not positive.
Related terms: nonnegative
nonvanishing
nonzero
commemorator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commemorators
Etymology: First attested in 1854; borrowed from Latin commemorātor, by surface analysis, commemorate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who commemorates something
commendatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commendatory
form: most commendatory
Etymology: From commend + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: 1577, Raphael Holinshed et al., The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irlande, London: John Hunne, The Historie of England, Kinewulfe, p. 198,
In the yeare of our Lorde .786. […] Pope Adrian sent two Lega[ts into] Englande […] with letters commendatory vnto Offa king of Mercia […]
text: Pompey had made a Law also, to forbid the custom of making commendatory Orations, on behalf of those that were accused:
ref: 1693, “The Life of Cato the Younger”, in Stephen Waller, transl., The Fourth Volume of Plutarch’s Lives, London: Jacob Tonson, page 624:
text: c. 1726, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift dated 8 March, in English Letters and Letter-Writers of the Eighteenth Century, London: George Bell, First Series, 1886, p. 470,
You received, I hope, some commendatory verses from a Horse, and a Lilliputian, to Gulliver; and an heroic Epistle to Mrs. Gulliver.
text: Some boys had latterly tried to impart gaiety to the ruin by using the central arena as a cricket-ground. But the game usually languished for the aforesaid reason—the dismal privacy which the earthen circle enforced, shutting out every appreciative passer’s vision, every commendatory remark from outsiders—everything, except the sky; and to play at games in such circumstances was like acting to an empty house.
ref: 1886, Thomas Hardy, chapter 11, in The Mayor of Casterbridge:
text: One and all, the professors, the preachers, and the editors, hold their jobs by serving the Plutocracy, and their service consists of propagating only such ideas as are either harmless to or commendatory of the Plutocracy.
ref: 1908 February 19, Jack London, chapter 9, in The Iron Heel, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Serving to commend or compliment; complimentary.
examples: text: a commendatory bishop
text: The bishoprics, and the great commendatory abbies, were, with few exceptions, held by that order.
ref: 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, London: J. Dodsley, page 164:
glosses: Holding a benefice in commendam.
Derived terms: commendatorily
commendatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commendatories
Etymology: From commend + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: To him he adheres, resigns the whole ware-house of his religion, with all the locks and keyes into his custody; and indeed makes the very person of that man his religion; esteems his associating with him a sufficient evidence and commendatory of his own piety.
ref: 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica, London, page 27:
text: […] what ever did but bear upon it the Image of God and the Superscription of the Holy Jesus, would need no other Commendatories to our Affection, but would upon that alone account be infinitely dear and pretious to us.
ref: 1674, John Sharp, The things that make for peace delivered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at Guild-Hall Chappel, upon the 23 of August, 1674, London: Walter Kettilby, pages 34–35:
glosses: That which commends; a commendation; eulogy.
commiserative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more commiserative
form: most commiserative
Etymology: From commiserate + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy
Derived terms: commiseratively
commissariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑ.mɪˈsɛr.i.ət/
Forms: form: commissariats
Etymology: Borrowed from French commissariat.
Senses: examples: text: We gave such dinner-parties as our commissariat allowed; the menu was simplicity itself - " blanket " for every course, cunningly disguised as soup, entree, and, I was going to say, joint.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 79:
glosses: A supply of food.
glosses: The department of an army that supplies provisions for the troops.
glosses: A department of the government of the Soviet Union in the early period of its existence.
glosses: A territorial and governmental unit of Colombia at some points in its history.
possessive suffix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: possessive suffixes
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A suffix that indicates possession, occurs in some Uralic, Turkic, Semitic and Indo-European languages.
committal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪtəl/
Forms: form: committals
form: commital
Etymology: From commit + -al.
Senses: glosses: The act of entrusting something to someone.
glosses: The act of committing someone to confinement; an order for someone's imprisonment.
glosses: The act of perpetrating an offence.
glosses: The act of committing a body to the grave at a burial or to the furnace at a cremation.
Derived terms: precommittal
recommittal
Related terms: commit
commitment
noncommittal
committal hearing
committal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪtəl/
Forms: form: more committal
form: most committal
Etymology: From committee + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a committee.
examples: text: On reading the work, we have become impressed with this fact, and have several times wished that the author was more committal on the treatment of several diseases in which he himself must have had a large experience.
ref: 1869, Medical Record, volume 3, page 17:
text: He points out that the former hypothesis is less committal epistemically, and he claims that nothing more committal is required to make sense of scientific method.
ref: 1997, Jarrett Leplin, A Novel Defense of Scientific Realism, page 138:
text: Notice also that the credibility of noncommittal observational beliefs will compare in a similar way with the credibility of more committal (or theoretical) observational beliefs, such as belief that addition of a base solution to an acid solution (to take the more committal, or theoretical, version of the noncommittal observational belief just mentioned).
ref: 1989, David Owen Brink, Moral Realism and the Foundations of Ethics, page 138:
glosses: Of or relating to commitment.
Derived terms: committally
noncommittal
committeeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: committeemen
Etymology: From committee + -man.
Senses: glosses: A man who is a member of a committee
glosses: A man who is a local leader of a political party
Derived terms: precinct committeeman
Related terms: committeeperson
committeewoman
committeewoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: committeewomen
Etymology: From committee + -woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who is a member of a committee.
glosses: A woman who is a local leader of a political party.
Related terms: committeeman
committeeperson
commonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A voice kept saying, Are you sure you want to do that? His commonsense voice that had saved his hide many times.
ref: 2021, Colson Whitehead, Harlem Shuffle, Fleet, pages 294–295:
text: It is the policy of my Administration to support America’s truckers and safeguard our roadways by enforcing the commonsense English-language requirement for commercial motor vehicle drivers and removing needless regulatory burdens that undermine the working conditions of America’s truck drivers.
ref: 2025 April 28, “ENFORCING COMMONSENSE RULES OF THE ROAD FOR AMERICA’S TRUCK DRIVERS”, in whitehouse.gov:
glosses: Alternative form of common sense.
commonsense
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: With his usual dose of commonsense he recognized that nothing could really change the status quo, and all that a knee-crooking knave might do in protest was to sneak a line or two into his verse simply to let off steam […]
ref: 2009, Terence Barnett Magness, The Brood of Time, page 378:
glosses: Alternative form of common sense.
communicability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: communicabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality of being communicable.
Derived terms: incommunicability
intercommunicability
communicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more communicable
form: most communicable
Etymology: From Old French communicable, Latin communicabilis.
Senses: examples: (but the last two are not interchangeable in formal registers)
topics: epidemiology
medicine
sciences
hypernyms: infectious
synonyms: transmissible
spreadable
catching
antonyms: nontransmissible
noncommunicable
hyponyms: contagious
glosses: Able to be transmitted between people or animals.
raw_tags: of a disease
antonyms: incommunicable
ineffable
glosses: Readily communicated.
glosses: Talkative or expansive.
Derived terms: communicable disease
communicableness
communicable scale
communicably
intercommunicable
noncommunicable
uncommunicable
Related terms: communicability
snowmobiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowmobilers
Etymology: From snowmobile + -er.
Senses: synonyms: snowmachiner
snowmobilist
glosses: A person who operates a snowmobile.
new money
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They found, for example, a significant difference in emphasis as you moved from the “old money” rich, or true elite, to the “new money” rich, or unseasoned elite. […] In contrast, the “new money” women are fascinated with high fashion, especially as it is dictated by Paris.
ref: 1959, Vance Packard, The Status Seekers, Pocket Books, published 1971, →ISBN, page 118:
text: They call me new money, say I have no class, I'm from the bottom, I came up too fast.
ref: 2004, “How We Do”, in Jayceon Taylor, Mike Elizondo, Curtis J. Jackson, Andre R. Young (lyrics), Andre R. Young and Mike Elizondo (music), The Documentary, performed by The Game (featuring 50 Cent), G-Unit Records:
synonyms: nouveau riche
hypernyms: big money
glosses: Persons or families that have recently become wealthy.
glosses: The decimal monetary system used in the United Kingdom since 1971.
examples: text: This recipe says add eight ounces of flour; what's that in new money?
glosses: The metric system of measurement, as opposed to the imperial system.
solfeggio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solfeggios
form: solfeggi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian solfeggio. Doublet of solfège.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of solfège.
synonyms: word: solfège
solmization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solmizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of solmisation.
solfege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solfeges
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of solfège.
solmisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solmisations
form: solmization
Etymology: From French solmisation, from solmiser, from sol + mi.
Senses: glosses: Mnemonic association of syllables with musical scale degrees.
glosses: The sol-fa system of singing in particular.
Synonyms: sol-fa
sol-faism
solfège
solfege
solfeggio
airways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airway
professionalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professionalists
Etymology: From professional + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He is a talented chef and a professionalist in the kitchen.
glosses: A person or organisation that supports a professional attitude.
glosses: A professional person.
diablerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diableries
Etymology: Borrowed from French diablerie. Doublet of devilry.
Senses: glosses: witchcraft, sorcery
attributional complexity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attributional complexities
Senses: examples: text: Do beliefs and attributional complexity influence age-differences in the correspondence bias? [article title]
ref: 2006, Horhota, M., & Blanchard-Fields, F., “Do beliefs and attributional complexity influence age-differences in the correspondence bias?” in Social Cognition, volume 24, number 3, pages 310-337
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An individual difference (can be thought of as a personality variable) referring to the extent that a person prefers complex explanations for behavior.
baby wrangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby wranglers
Senses: examples: text: As a baby wrangler, it is her job to make sure that the babies on the set of a photo or television commercial shoot are content, so the photographer can get a good shot.
ref: 2007, Diana Lynn Barnes, Leigh G. Balber, The Journey to Parenthood, Radcliffe Publishing, →ISBN, page 63:
glosses: A person who makes children react to the drama of a scene during the filming of a commercial, television program or film. They may use noisemakers or create games to make the children act naturally.
beach transect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beach transects
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: A geographical technique in which the angle of a beach is measured with a ranging pole and a clinometer.
cloud ceiling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud ceilings
Senses: glosses: The location above the surface of the Earth where the lowest layer of clouds are reported as broken, overcast or obscuration (as opposed to thin or partial).
Related terms: cloud cover
cloudiness
foodstuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foodstuff
labelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of label.
labelling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labellings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labeling.
Derived terms: biolabelling
ecolabelling
labeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: labelings
form: labelling
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: (for packaged goods) branding, trade dress
text: The labeling is required to include the nutrition facts itemized in 21 CFR 101.9.
text: 4:00PM (722) An upper bound for the number of graceful labelings of a path with n edges. Sylvia R. Naples, Bard College
ref: 2009 January, Bernard Russo, James J. Tattersall, “Program of the Sessions: Washington, District of Columbia, January 5-8, 2009”, in Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 56:1http://www.ams.org/notices/200901/, page 143:
synonyms: tagging#Noun
glosses: A set of labels applied to the various objects in a system, to packaged goods, and so on; the act or process of applying them.
examples: text: There are two potential problems with this approach: first, the specificity of labeling depends on the purity of the LPS (if contaminants are present, they may be labeled also); second, removal of the label from the LPS in vivo might occur separately from processing of the LPS molecule itself.
ref: 1992, David C. Morrison, John Louis Ryan, Bacterial Endotoxic Lipopolysaccharides: Molecular biochemistry and cellular biology, →ISBN, page 407:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: tagging#Noun
glosses: The introduction of a traceable chemical group (e.g., containing an isotope or a fluorescent dye) into a protein or other biomolecule of interest so it can be tracked or quantified during experimental analysis.
Derived terms: biolabeling
colabeling
green labeling
phospholabeling
photoaffinity labeling
photolabeling
labeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: labelling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of label
synchronised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Operating in unison, in a state of synchronisation.
Derived terms: synchronised skating
synchronised swimmer
synchronised swimming
synchronised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of synchronise
vacation home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacation homes
Senses: glosses: A building or piece of property used as a secondary residence for vacation purposes; may be rented to others when not in use.
Synonyms: word: holiday home
immortalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmɔː(ɹ).təˌlaɪz/
Forms: form: immortalizes
form: immortalizing
form: immortalized
form: immortalized
Etymology: From immortal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The meek intelligence of thoſe dear eyes / (Bleſt be the art that can immortalize, / The art that baffles time's tyrannic claim / To quench it) here ſhines on me ſtill the ſame.
ref: 1790, William Cowper, “On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk. The Gift of My Cousin Ann Bodham.”, in Poems […], London: […] [F]or J[oseph] Johnson, […] by T[homas] Bensley, […], published 1806, →OCLC, page 579:
glosses: Alternative spelling of immortalise.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To remove the effects of normal apoptosis.
Derived terms: deimmortalize
immortalizable
immortalization
immortalizer
unimmortalize
unimmortalized
lookups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lookup
MRCGP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MRCGPs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of member of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
force field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: force fields
form: forcefield
form: force-field
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A region of space (a vector field) in which a force operates; contains lines of force; a field of force.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mathematical description of the potential energy of a system of atoms.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: An invisible barrier used as a protective shield.
organisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organizations
Senses: glosses: plural of organisation
forcefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forcefields
Senses: examples: text: Penny's world seemed only to make sense to her as a forcefield of detestations.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
topics: chemistry
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative spelling of force field.
smashie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smashies
Etymology: From smash + -ie; compare smashed (“drunk”).
Senses: glosses: Any type of alcoholic drink, especially a beer, ordered with the intention of becoming heavily intoxicated.
Related terms: trashies
force-field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: force-fields
Senses: topics: chemistry
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: Alternative spelling of force field.
field of force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fields of force
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A force field
subsample
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsamples
Etymology: From sub- + sample.
Senses: glosses: A smaller portion of an original sample, created by trimming, subdividing, splitting or discrete collection of the original sample.
examples: text: A second rater scored a subsample of copies ( n = 36 copies of both hands) and achieved high interrater reliability on the 2D and 4D measurements as well as the 2D:4D ratio with the initial rater (all intraclass r s > .97).
ref: 2007 December 12, Kyle L. Gobrogge, S. Marc Breedlove, Kelly L. Klump, “Genetic and Environmental Influences on 2D:4D Finger Length Ratios: A Study of Monozygotic and Dizygotic Male and Female Twins”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, volume 37, number 1, →DOI:
text: In a statement, McDonald’s cited tests conducted in Colorado, the state that had the most cases reported in the outbreak. On its website, the state’s Agriculture Department said that tests were done on “dozens of subsamples from all the lots and all samples were found to be negative for E. coli.”
ref: 2024 October 27, Teddy Rosenbluth, “McDonald’s Says Tests Rule Out Beef Patties as Source of E. Coli Outbreak”, in The New York Times:
topics: sciences
glosses: A portion of the original sample that is representative in nature to that of the original sample, thereby assuring equivalency in results from tests and analysis either upon the subsample or the original material, independent of their size.
subsample
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: subsamples
form: subsampling
form: subsampled
form: subsampled
Etymology: From sub- + sample.
Senses: examples: text: The State Department of Social Services on April 11 released studies indicating statewide ineligibility of 2 to 4 per cent for federally aided cases and 5 per cent for home relief cases. The state's subsampling for New York City suggested that the rate there might be one percentage point higher.
ref: 1972 May 17, Peter Rims, “STATE WILL CHECK RELIEF ELIGIBILITY”, in The New York Times:
text: “Each sample, regardless of how I initially store it, is subsampled and dried in a food dehydrator for a few hours at about 100 degrees Fahrenheit, then vacuum sealed in plastic,” Ms. Gormezano said.
ref: 2007 June 5, Andrew C. Revkin, “A Team of 2, Following the Scent of Polar Bears”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To take subsamples from.
Derived terms: subsampler
barrel-chested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barrel-chested
form: most barrel-chested
Senses: glosses: Having a barrel chest
systempunkt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: systempunkts
Etymology: Blend of system + schwerpunkt.
Senses: glosses: The point in a system (either an infrastructure or a market), where a swarm of disruptions and attacks will cascade and collapse the system (resulting in e.g. financial loss, supply shortages, or destabilization).
barrel chest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel chests
Etymology: From a figurative resemblance to a barrel (cask): large, convex, and deep in the anteroposterior dimension.
Senses: examples: text: There, standing shirtless next to the turquoise pool in the courtyard, was the most masculine human being I had ever seen in my life: broad shoulders, barrel chest (with the perfect amount of hair, of course), and powerful thighs.
ref: 2024 October 2, Kit Jannar, “My Hetero Hunk of a French Lover Asked Me to F*ck Him Like a Woman”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A large, deep chest, as:
A robust chest, often correlated with ample physical strength and endurance, especially among people raised at high altitudes.
glosses: A large, deep chest, as:
A deep and somewhat misshapen chest, sometimes associated with emphysema.
Coordinate terms: english: concave, sunken
translation: concave, sunken
alt: pectus excavatum
word: funnel chest
english: convex but peaked
translation: convex but peaked
alt: pectus carinatum
word: pigeon chest
Derived terms: barrel-chested
communicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/
Forms: form: communicants
Senses: examples: text: 1706 August 30, Francis Atterbury, a sermon preached at the funeral of Mr. Bennett
a never-failing monthly communicant
text: Meanwhile, the lass grew up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. I have heard Dr. Chrystal say that he never had a communicant more full of the things of the Spirit.
ref: 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
text: The folded hands and submissive posture of the orderly line of communicants.
ref: 1986 December 14, Don Hill, “For Gay and Lesbian Catholics, Perseverance Means Carving Their Own Niche”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 22, page 8:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A person who receives (or is allowed to receive) the elements (i.e., bread and wine) of the sacrament of Holy Communion. (Compare also these terms: communion, Communion, Lord's Supper, Mass, Eucharist, Divine Liturgy.)
examples: text: Each was a messenger and communicant with a special branch of knowledge.
ref: 1974, John Boorman, Zardoz, London: Pan Books, page 94:
text: partakers communicant with the bodie of Christ
ref: 1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC:
text: These cyberforums are asynchronous; that is, contributors post (i.e., publish a text message) without the need for fellow communicants to be online at the same time.
ref: 2013, Al Cooper, Sex and the Internet: A Guide Book for Clinicians, page 215:
glosses: One who communicates.
Derived terms: noncommunicant
communicant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkənt/
Senses: examples: text: The co-eternal Son of the living God, incarnate, tempted, crucified, resurgent, communicant of his spirit, ascendant, and obtaining for his church the descent of the Holy Ghost.
ref: c. 1828, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Field on the Church:
glosses: Communicating.
retraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹækʃən/
Forms: form: retractions
Etymology: From re- + traction or retract + -ion.
Senses: glosses: An act or instance of retracting.
glosses: A statement printed or broadcast in a public forum which effects the withdrawal of an earlier assertion, and which concedes that the earlier assertion was in error.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A continuous function from a topological space onto a subspace which is the identity on that subspace.
Derived terms: clot retraction time
retractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retraction
communicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmjuːnɪkeɪtə/
ipa: /kəˈmjunɪkeɪtɚ/
ipa: [kəˈmjunɪkeɪɾɚ]
ipa: /kəˈmjʉːnɪkæɪtə/
Forms: form: communicators
Etymology: From communicate + -or, after Latin commūnicātor (“partner, sharer, participant”); compare Middle French communicateur (“sharer, participant”).
Senses: examples: text: We'll let Nick give the presentation next week: he's a good communicator.
glosses: Someone who, or something that communicates.
glosses: Any of several electronic devices that allow people with various disabilities to communicate via displays or artificial speech.
examples: text: ‘Observation Officer of the Z12Q, attention!’ snapped from the tight-beam headquarters communicator. ‘Cut off those spy rays and report yourself under arrest for treason!’
ref: 1934 August 24, Edward Elmer Smith, “Skylark of Valeron”, in Astounding Stories, volume 13, number 6:
text: Captain, if the Iotians, who are very bright an imitative people, should take that communicator apart...
ref: 1968 January 12, David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon, A Piece of the Action (Star Trek), season 2, episode 17, spoken by Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A usually portable communications device.
Synonyms: sense: science fiction device
word: commlink
Derived terms: agitate the communicator
e-communicator
intercommunicator
minicom
telecommunicator
horsemeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horsemeats
form: horse meat
Etymology: From horse + meat.
Senses: examples: text: In January 2013, supermarkets were hit by an extraordinary scandal as it emerged that foods made of processed 'beef' actually contained horsemeat.
ref: 2015, Ian Marcouse, Andrew Hammond, Nigel Watson, Edexcel Business A Level Year 1: Including AS:
glosses: The meat from a horse.
communistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more communistic
form: most communistic
Etymology: From communist + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Anger at the system turned to anger against art. Damn that foolery too, which took, but never gave. A promise of achievement always withdrawn; an assurance of dignity and ease for ever vanishing over the skyline. The virus of communistic nihilism simmered within him, wishing to submerge all effort in an easily filled belly.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 154:
glosses: Characteristic of communism.
examples: text: communistic birds
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Living or having their nests in common.
Derived terms: anticommunistic
communistically
Eurocommunistic
noncommunistic
uncommunistic
crioulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crioulos
form: criollo
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese crioulo. Doublet of creole and criollo.
Senses: glosses: A native horse of South America, known for its speed and endurance.
Related terms: Crioulo
Crioulo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Portuguese crioulo. Doublet of Creole, Criollo, and Krio.
Senses: glosses: A creole dialect continuum spoken on the islands of Cape Verde, based on Portuguese and influenced by West African languages.
Related terms: Capeverdean Crioulo
dogmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dog meat.
delightsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈlaɪtsəm/
ipa: /dɪˈlaɪtsəm/
rhymes: -aɪtsəm
Forms: form: more delightsome
form: most delightsome
Etymology: From delight + -some.
Senses: glosses: Characterised or marked by delight or delightfulness; very pleasing; delightful.
Derived terms: delightsomely
delightsomeness
undelightsome
catmeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cat + meat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cat meat.
catfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: catfoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cat food.
delightsomely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /dəˈlaɪtsəmli/
/dɪˈlaɪtsəmli/
Forms: form: more delightsomely
form: most delightsomely
Etymology: From delightsome + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a delightsome manner.
Related terms: delightsome
delightsomeness
delightsomeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəˈlaɪtsəmnəs/
/dɪˈlaɪtsəmnəs/
Etymology: From delightsome + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being delightsome.
Related terms: delightsome
delightsomely
discontentment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪskənˈtɛntmənt/
Forms: form: discontentments
Etymology: From dis- + contentment.
Senses: examples: text: By this that ſtraunger knight in preſence came, / And goodly ſalued them; who nought againe / Him anſwered, as courteſie became, / But with ſterne lookes, and ſtomachous diſdaine, / Gaue ſignes of grudge and diſcontentment vaine: […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 297:
glosses: A state of dissatisfaction or discontent.
Related terms: discontent
discontented
impregnated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of impregnate
impregnating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impregnate
besmirchment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /biˈsmɝt͡ʃmənt/
Forms: form: besmirchments
Etymology: From besmirch + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of sullying or besmirching.
Related terms: besmirch
prefectures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prefecture
weltanschauungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɛltɑːnˌʃaʊʊŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of weltanschauung
Related terms: weltanschauung
weltanschauungen
fuddle duddle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuddle-duddle.
fuddle duddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: fuddle duddles
form: fuddle duddling
form: fuddle duddled
form: fuddle duddled
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fuddle-duddle.
cornfed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cornfed
form: most cornfed
Etymology: From corn + fed.
Senses: glosses: Fed on corn.
raw_tags: of an animal
examples: text: Rock's friends, his real friends, present a picture of a nice guy: a Midwestern cornfed boy who heads west to Hollywood to break into pictures
ref: 1980 August 30, Gordon Gottlieb, “Rock Hudson: A Sphinx Without Secrets”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8:
text: a cornfed hillbilly
glosses: Sheltered; uncultured.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Running on ethanol (E85).
raw_tags: of a vehicle