cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
free-roaming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of free-roam
free-roaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more free-roaming
form: most free-roaming
Senses: examples: text: While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths.
ref: 2009, Wendy Despain, Writing for Video Game Genres: From FPS to RPG, →ISBN, page 49:
text: Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.
ref: 2009, Michael Duggan, Wii Game Creation for Teens, →ISBN, page 294:
text: Its free-roaming world was a departure for both the programmer and for console gamers, and in retrospect it was an ambitious undertaking that could have all gone horribly wrong.
ref: 2013, Matt Fox, The Video Games Guide, →ISBN:
topics: video-games
glosses: Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.
examples: text: From the distance of today, my guess is that it was the free-roaming horses that had most to do with the increase in carnivores, mainly because nobody was trying to protect them.
ref: 2001, Chilco Choate, The Fire Still Burns, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest.
ref: 2004, Kosher Chicken from Canada, →ISBN, page 1-5:
text: As indicated in the Introduction, free-roaming dogs have "always" been a feature of New Providence's environment and they have "always" been considered a "nuisance" or "problem."
ref: 2005, William J. Fielding, Jane Mather, Maurice Isaacs, Potcakes: Dog Ownership in New Providence, the Bahamas, →ISBN, page 57:
text: By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos.
ref: 2010, Rebecca Solnit, Mona Caron, A California Bestiary, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Since free-roaming cats may come into the yard, any sandboxes should be covered when not in use to prevent cats from defecating in them.
ref: 2012, The Praeger Handbook of Environmental Health - Volume 1, →ISBN, page Robert H. Friis:
glosses: Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.
examples: text: Microlensed double-image quasars have sent a consistent message that the baryonic dark matter consists of a dark population of free-roaming planet mass objects.
ref: 2005, Neil J C Spooner, Vitaly Kudryavtsev, The Identification of Dark Matter, →ISBN, page 183:
text: This would offer an explanation for some of the free-roaming planets that have been found and it could mean that more exist across the Milky Way.
ref: 2012, David Braun, National Geographic Tales of the Weird, →ISBN:
text: There are some suggestions that these free-roaming worlds may outnumber stars by several orders of magnitude, dominating the population of objects in the universe.
ref: 2013, David Stevenson, Under a Crimson Sun: Prospects for Life in a Red Dwarf System, →ISBN:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Not orbiting a gravitational center.
chalons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalon
chewing-gums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewing-gum
CHUs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CHU
cinsaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinsault
CAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CA
cœnobites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cœnobite
coparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coparent
coparents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of coparent
criminalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminalisation
cuviers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuvier
dactyles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dactyle
diablotins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diablotin
duffel coats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duffel coat
exterminatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exterminatrix
FALs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of FAL
fossilisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fossilisation
glaciologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glaciology.
grenaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grenache
guéridons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guéridon
gyneconomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gyneconome
unmean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmean
form: most unmean
Etymology: From un- (“not”) + mean.
Senses: examples: text: The Age of Innocence is based on an Edith Wharton novel and set in the very unmean streets of upper-crust New York, circa 1870.
ref: 1999, Martin Scorsese, Peter Brunette, Martin Scorsese: Interviews, page 188:
text: But this whole time, all you've been doing is judging me, making not unmean comments about my new friends, about the guys I'm dating, about how much I drink, go out—everything—as if you don't approve.
ref: 2008, Sherri Rifkin, LoveHampton, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 247:
text: They are so unmean, so just and so kind.
ref: 2014, Martin Bowman, Battlefield Bombers: Deep Sea Attack, page 8:
text: So the tightrope these unmean men must walk drew taut.
ref: 2010, John Lennard, Of Sex and Faerie: Further Essays on Genre Fiction, page 65:
glosses: Not mean (all senses).
Synonyms: sense: various
word: kind
sense: various
word: agreeable
sense: various
word: generous
unmean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmeans
form: unmeaning
form: unmeant
form: unmeant
Etymology: From un- (“reverse, opposite”) + mean.
Senses: examples: text: The play works to unmean meaning by a double dislocation. It uses expectation to undermine expectation both of everyday 'reality' and of theatrical genre.
ref: 2007, Ralph Yarrow, Franc Chamberlain, Sacred Theatre, page 114:
text: ... just as Steinian non-sense derives its power to “unmean” from the rigidly semantic context of most discursive forms
ref: 2011, Maria Damon, Postliterary America: From Bagel Shop Jazz to Micropoetries, page 83:
text: I'd meant everything I ever said to her, and I didn't know how to unmean it.
ref: 2015, CD Reiss, Shuttergirl:
glosses: To reverse, cancel, or negate what was intentionally communicated.
Synonyms: take back
walk back
withcall
Related terms: unring
houkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of houka
immunologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunology
isogamies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isogamy
JLBs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of JLB
kafta kebabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kafta kebab
levains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levain
maelströms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maelström
ménageries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ménagerie
menologes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menologe
merises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merisis
miséricordes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miséricorde
moralisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moralisation
muguets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muguet
oenologues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oenologue
omphalectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omphalectomy
opulences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opulence
pharyngectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pharyngectomy
pirojkis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirojki
postscriptums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postscriptum
ragoûts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragoût
ragoûts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ragoût
rimayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rimaye
séracs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sérac
shish taouks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shish taouk
simaroubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simarouba
solfèges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of solfège
splanchnicectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splanchnicectomy
subpœnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpœna
talmouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talmouse
terre-pleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terre-plein
topectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topectomy
tourtes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourte.
yumis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yumi
tuxie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuxies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tuxy.
sanguinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin sanguinōsus.
Senses: examples: a sanguinous tumor
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bloody; containing blood.
superbinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + binary.
Senses: examples: superbinary vector(s), superbinary radix, superbinary plasmid, superbinary case
glosses: More than or beyond (a) binary.
unimpassive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimpassive
form: most unimpassive
Etymology: From un- + impassive.
Senses: examples: text: Jack was called plucky, and he was, but it took all the strength of will that the slim, resolute engineer possessed, to hold him to his purpose, when he faced about and surveyed the unimpassive faces which compassed him.
ref: 1899, Martha Frye Boggs, Jack Crews, page 237:
text: Yet the lecturer exhibited no sign of physical emotion, used no gesture, and the unimpassive face with the veiled eye added infinitely to the solemnity of the discourse, which seemed hieratic and liturgical rather than oratorical.
ref: 1911, The Cornhill Magazine, page 534:
glosses: Not impassive.
semula
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsəmula/
ipa: [ˈsa(ː)mula]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Malay semula, a drill command, meaning "all over again".
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To redo or restart (something) from the beginning.
meninist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meninists
Etymology: Blend of men + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: The mainstream is being challenged by everything that isn't itself. Feminists, meninists, animal rights campaigners, anti-corruption activists in Romania, ultra-nationalists in Russia—there seems to be no one particular political direction that has benefited more from the internet.
ref: 2018, Carl Miller, chapter 5, in The Death of the Gods […] , William Heinemann, →ISBN:
glosses: An advocate of meninism.
boy parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: private parts
coordinate_terms: girl parts
manparts
ladyparts
glosses: Pediatric-age male genitalia.
overusage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + usage.
Senses: glosses: excessive usage
unself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unselves
Etymology: From un- + self.
Senses: examples: text: Beckett's text for Neither is a fantasia on limbo, on the no-man's-land between self and unself, subject and object, where we are all forced to dwell: […]
ref: 2003, Daniel Albright, Beckett and Aesthetics, page 149:
glosses: That which is not the self.
Synonyms: nonself
unself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unselfs
form: unselfing
form: unselfed
form: unselfed
Etymology: From un- + self.
Senses: glosses: To deprive of, or detach from, the self.
hydroreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroreceptors
Etymology: From hydro- + receptor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organ that detects water.
hydroreceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydroreceptor
water bottles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of water bottle
bottle cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle cages
Senses: glosses: A device used to hold a water bottle so it can be attached to a bicycle.
bottle cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bottle cage
Irish goodbyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Irish goodbye
Eskimo brothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Ultimately unknown, but various theories exist. Modern usage was popularized by American television show The League; the term itself likely stems from a misinterpretation or invented hoax about some Inuit and Aleutian peoples' cultural practices of polygamy and polyamory, especially among married women and their male guests.
Senses: examples: text: “Are you ready to be Eskimo brothers?” Pete asked with as straight a face as possible.
“I guess,” Derek laughed. “Why? Did you bang her?”
ref: 2010, Douglas Lance, EFiction August, page 51:
text: “We'll finally be Eskimo brothers, mate! I've been looking forward to this day!”
ref: 2013, R. K. Lilley, Grounded:
coordinate_terms: Eskimo sisters
glosses: Men who have had sexual intercourse with the same woman.
wedgebills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedgebill
logrunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logrunner
whipbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whipbirds
Etymology: From whip + bird.
Senses: glosses: Any of various Australian songbirds in the genus Psophodes.
whipbirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whipbird
Japanese anemone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Japanese anemones
Senses: glosses: An autumn-blooming Asian anemone, Anemone hupehensis var. japonica, grown in cooler climates for its showy white or pink flowers.
Japanese anemones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Japanese anemone
centrifugalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: centrifugalises
form: centrifugalising
form: centrifugalised
form: centrifugalised
Etymology: From centrifugal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centrifugalize.
centrifugalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of centrifugalise
centrifugalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of centrifugalise
centrifugalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of centrifugalise
antibubble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antibubbles
form: anti-bubble
Etymology: From anti- + bubble: it is the opposite of a gas bubble, which is a sphere of gas surrounded by a liquid.
Senses: glosses: A droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas, formed when liquid drops or flows turbulently into the same or another liquid.
antibubbles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antibubble
hadronizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hadronize
gammoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gammoids
Etymology: Named by J. H. Mason in a 1972 paper (On a Class of Matroids Arising From Paths in Graphs).
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A certain kind of matroid, describing sets of vertices that can be reached by vertex-disjoint paths in a directed graph.
gammoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gammoid
form: most gammoid
Etymology: Named by J. H. Mason in a 1972 paper (On a Class of Matroids Arising From Paths in Graphs).
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a gamma.
gammoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gammoid
old rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old roses
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see old, rose.
topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: A rose belonging to any of the classes of cultivated roses in existence before the hybrid tea roses were developed.
Hyponyms: alba
apothecary rose
Bourbon rose
cabbage rose
centifolia
China rose damask
gallica
hybrid perpetual
moss rose
noisette
Portland rose
rosa mundi
tea rose
osage oranges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of osage orange
nonbreech
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + breech.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, infants were excluded if they had a congenital malformation identified as severe independently by two obstetricians (EA and GK) or were born in a nonvertex nonbreech presentation, or had missing data for presentation.
ref: 2016 January 9, “Neonatal Mortality and Long-Term Outcome of Infants Born between 27 and 32 Weeks of Gestational Age in Breech Presentation: The EPIPAGE Cohort Study”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not being or relating to a breech birth.
unrejoined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rejoined.
Senses: examples: text: Consequently, the quadratic interactions mechanism predicts that the fraction of DSBs which remain unrejoined at a given time after irradiation should decrease with increasing radiation dose.
ref: 2016 January 8, “Mechanistic Modeling of Dose and Dose Rate Dependences of Radiation-Induced DNA Double Strand Break Rejoining Kinetics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Not rejoined.
Harappan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Harappa + -an.
Senses: glosses: Relating to Harappa or its ancient civilization.
Derived terms: Harappan civilization
Harappan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harappans
Etymology: From Harappa + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Harappa.
Harappan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Harappa + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Indus Valley Language
glosses: Their ancient language, spoken in the timeframe of 2600-1900 BCE.
Harappans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Harappan
pinches off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinch off
pinching off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pinch off
pinched off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pinch off
silver sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silver sulphides
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of silver sulfide.
copper sulphide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
inorganic-chemistry
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of copper sulfide.
triac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triacs
form: TRIAC
Etymology: Short for triode for alternating current.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A three-terminal electronic component that conducts current in either direction when triggered; a bidirectional triode thyristor.
triacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triac
TRIAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TRIACs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of triac.
TRIACs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TRIAC
graduated cylinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graduated cylinder
pseudoenophthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + enophthalmos.
Senses: glosses: The impression that the eye is sunken, caused by a narrow palpebral aperture.
isocoria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + Ancient Greek κόρη (kórē, “pupil”).
Senses: glosses: The condition of having the pupils of both eyes the same size
Derived terms: anisocoria
mascarons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mascaron
whaddayacallits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whaddayacallit
centrepunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centrepunches
Etymology: From centre + punch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of centerpunch.
Bunkyō
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 文京 (ぶんきょう, Bunkyō).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Kita, Arakawa, Taitō, Chiyoda, Shinjuku, and Toshima special wards.
Suginami
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 杉並 (すぎなみ, Suginami).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Saitama Prefecture, Nerima, Nakano, Shibuya, Setagaya special wards, and two cities in Western Tokyo (Mitaka and Musashino).
non-comparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + comparable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of noncomparable.
Minato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 港(みなと) (Minato).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Chiyoda, Shinagawa, Shibuya, and Shinjuku special wards as well as Tokyo Bay.
glosses: A ward of Osaka, Japan.
glosses: A ward of Nagoya, Japan.
Chiyoda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 千(ち)代(よ)田(だ) (Chiyoda).
Senses: glosses: A special ward of Tokyo prefecture, Japan that is surrounded by (clockwise from north) Bunkyō, Taitō, Chūō, Minato, and Shinjuku special wards, and also the location of national-level government institutions.
glosses: A town in Gunma Prefecture.
sciolistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪəˈlɪstikəl/
Forms: form: more sciolistical
form: most sciolistical
Etymology: From sciolist + -ical or sciolistic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Persisting still in the same career of imbecility and assertion, Mr. Stone proceeds to enunciate the following sciolistical riddle.
ref: 1829 February 1, “Remarks on the ‘Evidences against the System of Phrenology. by Thomas Stone, Esq.’”, in John Davies, John Epps, Joseph Houlton, editors, The London Medical and Surgical Journal; Exhibiting a View of the Improvements and Discoveries in the Various Branches of Medical Science, volume II, number 8, London: Published by Thomas and George Underwood, 39, Fleet Street, →OCLC, page 130:
text: [T]hey, who might have been admired and venerated as high priests of their order, are revealed, by their own venality, to be no better than sciolistical professors, whose juggling arts, losing tricks, and gambling speculations, excite no less the derision, than the contempt of the multitude.
ref: 1843 May, Frances Elizabeth Davies, “Tableaux Vivants. … Tableaux V. continued.—Authors.”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XXXVII, London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; Smith and Son, Glasgow; and Cumming, Dublin, →OCLC, page 58:
text: [T]he State, instead of gaining a large body of useful intelligent men – beings of capacity and amiability, impressed with a sense of their duties, who might be potent auxiliaries in the development of the resources of civilization – is corroded with a class of sciolistical asses, whose brains are as worthless as their hearts are false; […]
ref: 1848, Roger Wright Hawkes, A Question of the Nineteenth Century: Are the People to be Educated? Being a Series of Articles Republished from the Columns of a Morning Journal, on the Necessity for a National System of General Instruction; with a Method for its Effectual Accomplishment, London: John Chapman, 142, Strand; Southampton, Messrs. J. & C. Rayner; Dudley, G. Walters …, →OCLC, page 33:
glosses: Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; showing only superficial knowledge.
Synonyms: sciolistic
Related terms: sciolism
sciolist
sciolistically
fist fight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fist fights
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of fistfight.
dressing-gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressing-gowns
Senses: examples: text: Ensconced, each in a large fauteuil, wrapped in loose, white dressing-gowns, the hair only gathered with a single riband, sat the two friends.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “A Late Breakfast”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 72:
text: He slept so long, he looked so deathlike, that Martin made up his mind as he came from time to time in his dressing-gown to look at him, that he would be spared that interview.
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter XVIII, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 311:
text: Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat; put on his dressing-gown and slippers, and his night-cap; and sat down before the fire to take his gruel.
ref: 1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave I. Marley’s Ghost.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, pages 22–23:
glosses: Alternative spelling of dressing gown.
dressing-gowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dressing-gown
lock screen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lock screens
Etymology: From lock + screen.
Senses: examples: text: Take down any pictures, change your lock screen, and put all your cute couple selfies in a “do not open” folder. Then, you know…actually don’t open it.
ref: 2023 October 23, Rachel Varina, “How to Get Over a Breakup So You Can *Actually* Move On and Heal”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: A screen displayed by a computer or mobile device left unattended, requiring the user to perform a certain action to regain access.
lock screens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lock screen
travertin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travertins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of travertine.
veinage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vein + -age, or from French veinage.
Senses: glosses: veining; veins collectively
travertins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travertin
precognitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precognitive
Bierwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bierwurst
Etymology: From German Bierwurst.
Senses: synonyms: beerwurst
glosses: A smoked, seasoned Brühwurst sausage originally from Bavaria in Germany, with a garlicky flavor and dark red color.
beerwurst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partial calque of German Bierwurst, equivalent to beer + wurst.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bierwurst (“a smoked, seasoned Brühwurst sausage originally from Bavaria in Germany, with a garlicky flavor and dark red color”).
synonyms: word: Bierwurst
extra: a smoked, seasoned Brühwurst sausage originally from Bavaria in Germany, with a garlicky flavor and dark red color
unritualistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unritualistic
form: most unritualistic
Etymology: From un- + ritualistic.
Senses: glosses: Not ritualistic.
unritualized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unritualized
form: most unritualized
Etymology: From un- + ritualized.
Senses: glosses: Not ritualized.
unstunned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstunned
form: most unstunned
Etymology: From un- + stunned.
Senses: glosses: Not stunned.
ritualizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ritualizable
form: most ritualizable
Etymology: From ritualize + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being ritualized.
gamifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gamify
gamifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gamify
methoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of method
methoded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of method
bawleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawley
gastromancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastromancers
Etymology: From gastro- + -mancer.
Senses: glosses: One who practices gastromancy.
gastromancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastromancer
bierstub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bierstubs
Etymology: From Alsatian Alemannic German Bierstub f (possibly via French bierstub), cognate to German Bierstube.
Senses: glosses: A cafe, restaurant or bar in Alsace that specialises in beer.
Related terms: bierstube
winstub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: winstubs
form: winstube
Etymology: From Alsatian Alemannic German Winstub f (possibly via French winstub), cognate to German Weinstube.
Senses: examples: text: For food, you have your fill of some very touristy winstubs in the town centre;
ref: 2011, The Rough Guide to France, →ISBN, page 240:
glosses: A cafe, restaurant or bar in Alsace that specialises in wine.
sub-audible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of subaudible.
ammonium phosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The salt of ammonium and phosphate.
capitonymic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From capitonym + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Capitonymic pairs that we perceive as English words — Concord/concord, Polish/polish, Reading/reading — are more satisfying than pairs that strike us as "foreign" […]
ref: 1998, Richard Lederer, The Word Circus, page 277:
glosses: Being or pertaining to a capitonym.
endwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endworks
form: end-work
Etymology: From end + work. Compare Middle English andwork; Old English andweorc (“cause”).
Senses: examples: text: The following column lists the units of hydrogen energy necessary to produce the same endwork as the fossil fuels.
ref: 1987, Proceedings of the 1986 International Congress on Renewable Energy Sources, Madrid, Spain, 18-23 May 1986, Volume 1
text: The endwork of such a critical task that freely places blame or adjudicates value for the sake of a castigation or rejection of worth is performed too quickly and easily.
ref: 2005, Peter Pericles Trifonas, Communities of Difference:
text: This is most explicit in his essay “What is Metaphysics?” in which the metaphysical tradition is shown as culminating in “Nothing,” which is the “end-point of tradition, ”thus marking the “metaphysical endwork of traditional metaphysics” or tradition's terminus point, after which it passes into another beginning.
ref: 2012, David Carr, Chan-Fai Cheung, Space, Time and Culture:
text: The 'opposition' is surely right to speak of 'end-works' in this connection – if only its own products were not so hopelessly unengaging and devoid of comedy.
ref: 2014, Theodor W. Adorno, Thomas Mann, Correspondence 1943-1955:
glosses: Work done on, about, or toward an end; a result; purpose; goal
Synonyms: product
North Ndebele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Northern Ndebele.
South Ndebele
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Southern Ndebele.
aristarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aristarchic
form: most aristarchic
Etymology: From aristarchy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: "Bodin himself applied this distinction only to the three forms, monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy (concerning which a neat use of words would be to call the governments monarchic, aristarchic, or demarchic, and the states monocratic, aristocratic, or democratic); […]"
ref: 1915, Correa Moylan Walsh, The Political Science of John Adams: A Study in the Theory of Mixed ...:
glosses: Of or related to aristarchy.
intrabrand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From intra- + brand.
Senses: glosses: Within a brand.
Avilés
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish Avilés.
Senses: glosses: A city on the coast of Asturias, Spain.
no tea, no shade
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: See throw shade and spill the tea.
Senses: examples: text: No tea no shade, I do not like your hair today.
text: Even before LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett left the group, it always felt to me like DC was about Beyoncé, like Destiny's Child should just be called Beyoncé (and her chorus of rotating background singers), no tea no shade.
ref: 2012, Madison Moore, How to Be Beyonce:
text: “All right, all right!” he replied. “I will holler at her in the morning and give her a talking to. But if she comes for me, no tea, no shade, I will read her for filth, is that understood?”
ref: 2015, “Yoshe”, in Crazy in Love 2:
qualifier: LGBTQ slang
glosses: Indicating that no offence is meant, that the speaker is merely making an observation.
Synonyms: word: I'm not being funny
nonheterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-heterosexual.
nonheterosexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonheterosexuals
Etymology: From non- + heterosexual.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of non-heterosexual.
tripack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripacks
Etymology: From tri- + pack.
Senses: examples: text: In 1897 du Hauron conceived the idea of using a tripack for recording color photographs.
ref: 2013, John Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography:
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: Film that has three emulsions sensitive to red, green, or blue stacked on top of one another.
Related terms: bipack
ferrotyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ferrotype
ferrotyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ferrotype
postapocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postapocalypses
form: post-apocalypse
form: post-apo
form: post apo
Etymology: From post- + apocalypse.
Senses: examples: text: The show is a gamble on the part of Discovery and Mr. Beers, who is best known for “Deadliest Catch,” as it seeks to capitalize on society’s fascination with the postapocalypse.
ref: 2009 July 21, Brian Stelter, “It’s Doomsday Once Again. Are We Having Fun Yet?”, in New York Times:
text: "Instead, the film focuses on the plight of those living in the postapocalypse and on the seemingly implacable powers that control, limit and punish them."
ref: 2013, Mary K. Leigh, Kevin K. Durand, editors, Marxism and the Movies: Critical Essays on Class Struggle in the Cinema:
glosses: The time after the apocalypse.
post-apocalypse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: post-apocalypses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of postapocalypse.
post-apocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of post-apocalypse
postapocalypses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postapocalypse
minoritarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minoritarianisms
Etymology: From minoritarian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: minorityism
glosses: A political structure or process in which a minority segment of a population has a certain degree of primacy in that entity's decision-making.
minoritarianisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minoritarianism
minoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minoritarian
form: most minoritarian
Etymology: From minority + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: And the birth of nations implies many artifices: Not only are they constituted in an active struggle against the imperial or evolved systems, the feudal systems, and the autonomous cities, but they crush their own "minorities," in other words, minoritarian phenomena that could be termed "nationalitarian," which work from within and if need be turn to the old codes to find a greater degree of freedom.
ref: 1987, Deleuze & Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus, page 456:
text: "Other minoritarian voices were at work challenging and rethinking other dimensions of Jewishness in the United States."
ref: 2012, Alan T. Levenson, The Wiley-Blackwell History of Jews and Judaism:
glosses: Of, or related to minoritarianism.
minoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minoritarians
Etymology: From minority + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: "First it argues that becoming with the outside does not fetishise minoritarians, such as woman or animal."
ref: 2011, Frida Beckman, editor, Deleuze and Sex:
glosses: One who is in minority.
minoritarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minoritarian
apalis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apalises
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of birds in the genus Apalis.
infantilizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infantilizers
Etymology: From infantilize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: "Don't worry your pretty little head about it," an infantilizer I knew used to say to his wife. When she would ask about the family finances, his answer was always the same: "You wouldn't understand."
ref: 1992, Victoria Felton-Collins, Suzanne Blair Brown, Couples and Money, page 55:
glosses: A person who infantilizes others.
Hypernyms: patronizer
ill-fortune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ill-fortunes
form: ill fortune
Etymology: From ill + fortune.
Senses: examples: text: They certainly had their moments and will complain of ill-fortune, about a suspicion of handball before Tielemans' goal and those magnificent saves from Schmeichel but this was a stuttering Chelsea, not the smooth machine that saw off Real Madrid with such comfort in the Champions League semi-final second leg at Stamford Bridge.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Bad luck; misfortune
hyperlexics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperlexic
infantilizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infantilizer
anthropomimetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anthropo- + mimetic.
Senses: examples: text: While both musculoskeletal robotic hardware and neural control software have existed for decades, a scalable approach that could be used to build and control an anthropomimetic human-scale robot has not been demonstrated yet.
ref: 2016, Christoph Richter, Sören Jentzsch, Rafael Hostettler, Jesús A. Garrido, Eduardo Ros, Alois C. Knoll, Florian Röhrbein, Patrick van der Smagt, Jörg Conradt, “Scalability in Neural Control of Musculoskeletal Robots”, in arXiv:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
mechanical-engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
robotics
sciences
glosses: Mimicking human physical movements at a structural level.
self-righted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-right
cocompactness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cocompact + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This note is an exposition of different proofs of cocompactness for Sobolev-type embeddings, which employ methods of classical PDE, potential theory, and harmonic analysis.
ref: 2016, Cyril Tintarev, “Four proofs of cocompacness for Sobolev embeddings”, in arXiv:
glosses: The property of being cocompact.
erraticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erraticities
Etymology: From erratic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: erraticness
erraticities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erraticity
noncontacting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + contacting.
Senses: examples: text: We have shown that fast sampling is possible using noncontacting laser probing, and we have presented a working preliminary configuration for the sensor.
ref: 2016, Mirco Imlau, Hauke Bruening, Kay-Michael Voit, Juliane Tschentscher, Volker Dieckmann, “Riblet Sensor -- Light Scattering on Micro Structured Surface Coatings”, in arXiv:
glosses: Not making contact.
subtheory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtheories
Etymology: From sub- + theory.
Senses: examples: text: We recover the system of Bonchi et al as a subtheory in the prime power dimensional case, but the more general theory does not arise from a distributive law.
ref: 2016, Ross Duncan, Kevin Dunne, “Interacting Frobenius Algebras are Hopf”, in arXiv:
glosses: A theory forming part of a larger theory.
Related terms: subtheoretical
subtheories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtheory
isospinorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isospinor + -ial.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an isospinor.
amygdalocortical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amygdala + -o- + cortical.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the amygdala and the cerebral cortex.
biofidelity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + fidelity.
Senses: examples: text: Two-dimensional human cell culture models of HCM are species-specific but lack biofidelity and do not measure contractility.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Human Engineered Cardiac Tissues Created Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Reveal Functional Characteristics of BRAF-Mediated Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The degree of faithfulness of a model to the real biological system it is based on.
Related terms: biofidelic
bivariately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From bivariate + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Interestingly, in our analyses higher pre-treatment shame–as a central emotion in social anxiety–was substantially related to worse outcome (endstate, remission) bivariately, but in the regression models shame explained only an insignificant portion of variance in addition to pre-treatment social anxiety.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Do Patient Characteristics Predict Outcome of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy for Social Anxiety Disorder?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: In a bivariate manner.
multivariately
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From multivariate + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multivariate manner.
hemiretinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛtɪnəl
Etymology: From hemi- + retinal.
Senses: examples: text: However, it is not yet well understood how these hemiretinal differences develop and progress following a bright light insult.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Retinotopic Distribution of Structural and Functional Damages following Bright Light Exposure of Juvenile Rats”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Relating to a hemiretina.
hemiretinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemiretina
heterotransplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterotransplants
Etymology: From hetero- + transplant.
Senses: examples: text: The histology of subcutaneous tumor heterotransplants produced by these transformed isolates displayed histologic features of human urothelial carcinoma with areas of squamous differentiation.
ref: 2016 January 20, “SPARC Expression Is Selectively Suppressed in Tumor Initiating Urospheres Isolated from As +3 - and Cd +2 -Transformed Human Urothelial Cells (UROtsa) Stably Transfected with SPARC”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Synonym of heterograft.
synonyms: word: heterograft
heterotransplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterotransplants
form: heterotransplanting
form: heterotransplanted
form: heterotransplanted
Etymology: From hetero- + transplant.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xenotransplant
synonyms: word: xenotransplant
Related terms: heterotransplantation
heterotransplants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heterotransplant
foresex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fore- + sex.
Senses: examples: text: "It was he who started the foresex romance. She responded unenthusiastically. He fondled her breast and ran his right hand along her entire trunk terminating at her buttocks. He cupped his fingers over her bouncing breasts.
ref: 1991, Joe Butias, A Bachelors' Night Entertainment - Page 22:
text: In some of the United States, intercourse other than in the vagina is illegal. But many religious authorities consider any kind of foresex permissible, as long as the ejaculation itself takes place within the vagina, so that even panorganas, women who enjoy all kinds of organic stimulation, can remain in good standing.
ref: 2011, Eric Berne, Sex in Human Loving - Page 14:
glosses: Activity, often sexual in nature, prior to or leading up to sexual intercourse; foreplay
immunospot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunospots
Etymology: From immuno- + spot.
Senses: examples: text: The brown colored immunospots corresponding to the cells secreting IFN-γ and IL-4 were counted manually under a dissection microscope.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Oral Administration of Silkworm-Produced GAD65 and Insulin Bi-Autoantigens against Type 1 Diabetes”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Any of the spots resulting from a biochemical assay used to monitor cellular immune responses.
immunospots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immunospot
indigoidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A blue pigment found in Vogesella indigofera and certain other bacteria.
intercorneocyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + corneocyte.
Senses: examples: text: One important function of granular keratinocytes is secretion of lamellar bodies (LB) content, including precursors of the intercorneocyte matrix and their processing enzymes, enzymes involved in desquamation (and their inhibitors), antimicrobial peptides, and corneodesmosin, a protein that reinforces desmosomes.
ref: 2016 January 20, “TMEM45A Is Dispensable for Epidermal Morphogenesis, Keratinization and Barrier Formation”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Between corneocytes.
kobresia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kobresias
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Alpine meadows, primarily composed of Sichuan kobresia (Kobresia setchwanensis) made up a smaller proportion of the tree-line mosaic.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Effects of Supplementary Feeding on the Breeding Ecology of the Buff-Throated Partridge in a Tibetan Sacred Site, China”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Kobresia of plants in the sedge family.
kobresias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kobresia
multinodularity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multi- + nodularity.
Senses: examples: text: Another very important issue is the overestimation of false-negative results, which can occur in the case of multinodularity of the thyroid gland.
ref: 2016 January 20, “Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy as a Preoperative Procedure in Patients with Malignancy in Solitary and Multiple Thyroid Nodules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: The property of being multinodular.