cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
twelfth grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twelfth grades
Senses: topics: education
glosses: The period in school that comes after eleventh grade and, rarely in the US, before thirteenth grade.
Synonyms: word: grade twelve
word: grade 12
word: senior
Derived terms: twelfth grader
Related terms: word: grade thirteen
word: grade 13
1st grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 1st grades
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of first grade.
Derived terms: 1st grader
2nd grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of second grade.
Derived terms: 2nd grader
3rd grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3rd grades
Senses: glosses: Third grade.
Derived terms: 3rd grader
4th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fourth grade.
Derived terms: 4th grader
5th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fifth grade.
Derived terms: 5th grader
6th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sixth grade.
Derived terms: 6th grader
7th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of seventh grade.
Derived terms: 7th grader
8th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eighth grade.
Derived terms: 8th grader
9th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ninth grade.
Derived terms: 9th grader
10th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tenth grade.
Derived terms: 10th grader
11th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eleventh grade.
Derived terms: 11th grader
12th grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of twelfth grade.
Derived terms: 12th grader
blow dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blow dryers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of blow-dryer.
hand dryer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand dryers
Senses: examples: text: There is no automatic hand dryer, which is no great loss as I've yet to find one that works well on a train - they are either pathetically weak or wildly over-enthusiastic.
ref: 2019 October 23, Pip Dunn, “The next king of Scotland”, in Rail, page 53:
glosses: An electric-powered device in a restroom to dry hands with a stream of warm air.
double-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-crosses
form: double-crossing
form: double-crossed
form: double-crossed
Etymology: First recorded in 1834 from thieves' slang cross (or on the cross) to refer to something dishonest, a play on straight/square: a crook going back on his partners would therefore be crossing the crossers, or double-crossing.
Senses: examples: text: If you double-cross us, we'll track you down and kill you.
glosses: To betray or go back on; to deceive someone after having gained their trust and led them to believe that they were being aided.
qualifier: plant breeding; animal breeding; plant breeding; animal breeding
glosses: To cross twice in hybridization, as (A × B) × (C × D); for example, in commercial hybrid seed corn, A through D are classically inbreds, and their grandoffspring is the seed for sale.
Derived terms: double-crosser
double-cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-crosses
Etymology: First recorded in 1834 from thieves' slang cross (or on the cross) to refer to something dishonest, a play on straight/square: a crook going back on his partners would therefore be crossing the crossers, or double-crossing.
Senses: glosses: An instance of betrayal of one who had been led to believe that the betrayer was assisting them.
qualifier: plant breeding; animal breeding; plant breeding; animal breeding
glosses: The hybrid product of double-crossing.
offer affordances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: offers affordances
form: offering affordances
form: offered affordances
form: offered affordances
Senses: examples: text: The two sides, the political and the erotic, necessarily obscure and misrepresent each other - but in ways that offer important and shifting affordances to all parties in historical gender and class struggle.
ref: 1985, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Columbia University Press, page 15:
glosses: To give elbow room or leeway (for something to happen).
multiculturally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more multiculturally
form: most multiculturally
Etymology: From multicultural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a multicultural manner.
irreclaimably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more irreclaimably
form: most irreclaimably
Etymology: From irreclaimable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an irreclaimable manner.
connotatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more connotatively
form: most connotatively
Etymology: From connotative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We use words either denotatively or connotatively; denotatively when a word is used as a mere mark or sign to point out which thing of all possible things we mean to speak of, and connotatively when it is used to point out a supposed characteristic of the thing denoted.
ref: 1878, Shadworth Hollway Hodgson, The philosophy of reflection, volume 1, page 9:
synonyms: connotationally
antonyms: denotatively
denotationally
glosses: In a way that connotes; concerning connotation.
academically disadvantaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more academically disadvantaged
form: most academically disadvantaged
Senses: glosses: Uneducated; lacking access to an education; lacking resources required to receive an education.
grading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of grade
grading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪdɪŋ/
Forms: form: gradings
Senses: examples: text: He had no fear of Keefer's higher military rank. He was sure the communicator laughed at such gradings.
ref: 1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny:
text: No matter how dubious, or even fictitious, examination gradings may sometimes be, they make judgements possible on educational progress and on the maintenance of standards.
ref: 2003, Peter Jarvis, Colin Griffin, Adult and Continuing Education: Liberal adult education (part 1):
glosses: A rank or grade.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Gradation.
glosses: The act of reshaping the contour of the landscape so as to provide rainwater drainage around buildings, create lawns and gardens, prepare roadbeds, and so on.
examples: text: Today is my first grading exam.
topics: education
glosses: Ellipsis of grading period.
Derived terms: color grading
multigrading
Related terms: grader
Geo.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of George.
motorcycler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motorcyclers
Etymology: From motorcycle + -er.
Senses: glosses: A motorcyclist.
motorcyclers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motorcycler
abyssopelagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌbɪs.oʊ.pəˈlæ.d͡ʒɪk/
rhymes: -ædʒɪk
Forms: form: abyssalpelagic
Etymology: From abyss (“abyss”) + pelagic (“open ocean”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the depths of the ocean; of the open waters of the abyssal zone.
Derived terms: abyssopelagic water
monohull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monohulls
Etymology: From mono- + hull.
Senses: glosses: A boat that has a single hull.
Derived terms: monohulled
Related terms: twinhull
catamaran
trimaran
outrigger canoe
choo choo train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choo choo trains
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of choo-choo train.
choo-choo train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choo-choo trains
form: choo choo train
Senses: glosses: A railway train.
examples: text: Here comes the choo-choo train! Open wide!
glosses: A spoonful of food (when encouraging a spoon-fed child to eat).
choo choo trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choo choo train
acrologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the naming of hieroglyphic symbols by the first phonetic sound of the picture they represent
glosses: Of or pertaining to acronyms
Related terms: acrology
choo-choo trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of choo-choo train
aeropleustic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: ref: 1827, George Pocock, The Aeropleustic Art or Navigation in the Air by the use of Kites, or Buoyant Sails:
glosses: Of or pertaining to aerial navigation.
aeruginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aeruginous
form: most aeruginous
form: eruginous
form: æruginous
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French erugineux, from Latin aerūginōsus (“rusty”).
Senses: examples: text: There was definitely some aeruginous material on that door handle.
text: It is not possible to adequately discuss aeruginous (copper rust) corrosion products without introducing several principles of corrosion and descriptions of minerals.
ref: 2002, David A. Scott, Copper and Bronze in Art: Corrosion, Colorants, Conservation, Getty Publications, →ISBN, page 11:
synonyms: verdigris
glosses: Pertaining to copper rust; in particular, resembling the (bluish-)greenish colour of copper rust.
agravic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + gravic.
Senses: examples: text: Astronauts frequently recount their agravic experiences.
text: Spherical shaped agravic and oval shaped hypogravic forms of burning fuel, (n-heptane) droplets created in a falling chamber as gravitational gradient effects on natural convection.
ref: 2013, Geoffrey H. Bourne, Medical and Biological Problems of Space Flight:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the condition of zero gravity.
soccer field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soccer fields
Etymology: Compound of soccer + field.
Senses: synonyms: football pitch
soccer pitch
glosses: A playing field on which the game of soccer is played.
agrestic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡresˈtɪk/
Forms: form: more agrestic
form: most agrestic
form: agrestick
Etymology: From Latin agrestis (“rustic, boorish, wild”) (from ager (“a field, a farm”)) + -ic
Senses: examples: text: The author's early days were filled with agrestic surroundings.
text: With agrestic charm / It’s humid in the midwest
ref: 2019, Vansire, “Metamodernity”, in Metamodernity:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the fields; rural; rustic, unpolished
Coordinate terms: ruderal
Related terms: agricultural
rural
rustic
alaudine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Alauda + -ine
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to skylarks.
basketball court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basketball courts
Senses: glosses: An outdoor or indoor area on which the game of basketball is played.
atrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪtɹəs/
Forms: form: more atrous
form: most atrous
Etymology: From Latin āter (“dark, black”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Male atrous leadcolourd^([sic]) on the upper side, under side a mixture of whitish and ferruginous with cuspidate fasciae ;
ref: 1830, Jonathan Stokes, Botanical Commentaries- Volume 1:
text: Head atrous, viridescent on lateral frontal spaces and occiput, gulae, basal part of mentum on each side of median tooth brightly viridescent; prothorax atrous, with viridescent tints on disc and wide brassy-green basal and lateral margins.
ref: 1917, Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales:
text: Perithecia sparse, innate, then erumpent for apical portion, subglobose, atrous, with ostiollar portion a little enlarged.
ref: 1968, Iconographia Mycologica - Issues 22-27:
text: An imposing portrait of a Caucasian male holding an atrous book with a sheepish smile hung ominously over the bed.
ref: 2013, DB Angel, The Gift, page 13:
text: The throng shouted, female Eligor flung flowers from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of iron-shod riding beasts came clearer, and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, atrous streets that curved round the spired Grand Union of Imperial Opal.
ref: 2014, Mark Alan Lindsley, Future Earth, page 405:
glosses: jet-black in color.
Related terms: atrocious
atrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪtɹəs/
/əˈtɹuː/
/ˈeɪtɹəs/
Etymology: From French à trous (“with holes”).
Senses: examples: text: Atrous convolution allows us to explicitly control the resolution.
text: The new approach is executed by using atrous and gabor wavelets that work effectively on image and video.
ref: 2008, Sharon Priya, A. Srinivasan, “Image and Video Denoising by Sparse 3-D Transform Domain Using Atrous and Gabor Wavelets”, in Proceedings Second International Conference on Information Processing, page 87:
text: In order to further illustrate the effect of "atrous" convolution, we compare it with standard convolution using a simple example in Figure 4.
ref: 2019, Qi Wang, Learning to Understand Remote Sensing Images, page 158:
text: As the frameworks based on atrous convolution and ASPP module have proved their success, we implement an encoder with similar structure of [5], using a pretrained ResNetV2 as backbone network.
ref: 2019, Guanhong Zhang, Muyi Sun, Xiaoguang Zhou, “Sub-pixel Upsampling Decode Network for Semantic Segmentation”, in Artificial Intelligence, page 18:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: dilated (used when describing convolutions) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.00915.pdf
aurulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː(ɹ).jʊ.lənt/
ipa: /-jə-/
ipa: /ˈoɹ.jʊ.lənt/
ipa: /-jə-/
other: /ˈɑɹ-/
rhymes: -ɔːɹjʊlənt
Forms: form: more aurulent
form: most aurulent
Etymology: From Latin aurulentus (“golden”).
Senses: glosses: Gold in color.
cutting off one's nose to spite one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cut off one's nose to spite one's face
propertied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more propertied
form: most propertied
Etymology: From property + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The Bolsheviks organized unity and class solidarity of the workers and peasants in the oppressed and oppressing nations to fight the propertied classes that exploited their labor.
ref: 2004 August 12, Leslie Feinberg, “Scientific, not utopian”, in Workers World:
antonyms: unpropertied
hypernyms: rich
wealthy
glosses: Owning property, especially land or real estate that yields an income.
Derived terms: unpropertied
Related terms: landlord
landowner
prophesier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prophesiers
Etymology: From prophesy + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] the Welshemen gat firste the West hill, hopyng to haue recouered the East hil: whiche if thei had obteined, the victory had been theirs, as their vnwise Prophesiers promised them before.
ref: 1548, Edward Hall, “The prosperous reigne of Kyng Edward the fourthe, The eight yere”, in The Union of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre [and] Yorke, London: Richard Grafton:
text: Come, bring forth this counterfeit module, he has deceived me, like a double-meaning prophesier.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: 1811, George Canning, “On the Report of the Bullion Committee,” speech given on 8 May, 1811, in Robert Walsh (editor), Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning, Philadelphia: Crissy & Markley, 1853, p. 141,
Never did the wildest and most hostile prophesier of ruin to the finances of this country venture to predict that a time should come, when, by the avowal of Parliament, nominal amount in paper, without reference to any real standard value in gold, would be the payment of the public creditor.
text: He had four chattering daughters who were always prophesying the end of the world and seemed to have little time for the work of the household. Still, Philip’s fat wife cooked well and they would all have eaten a pleasant meal together—the daughters, when not prophesying, were good silent trencherwomen—if another regular prophesier had not called, well remembered from Antioch, his name Agabus.
ref: 1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 3, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, New York: Arbor House, page 237:
glosses: A person who makes prophecies or foretells the future; a prophet.
prophetical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prophetical
form: most prophetical
Senses: examples: text: Why la; I knew't, this Propheticall tongue of mine never faild me; my mother was halfe a witch, never any thing that ſhe foreſpake, but came to paſſe: […]
ref: 1612–1613, Nathan Field, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Honest Mans Fortune”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act IV, scene i, page 166, column 1:
glosses: prophetic
pro-lifer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pro-lifers
form: prolifer
Etymology: From pro-life + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person with pro-life views, or who advocates such policies
Synonyms: word: antiabortionist
word: antichoicer
word: fetus fetishist
word: forced-birther
word: right-to-lifer
Related terms: pro-choicer
prolapse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹoʊlæps/
Forms: form: prolapses
form: prolapsing
form: prolapsed
form: prolapsed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prolapsus.
Senses: glosses: To move out of place; especially for an internal organ to protrude beyond its normal position.
prolapse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹoʊlæps/
Forms: form: prolapses
form: prolapsus
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prolapsus.
Senses: glosses: A moving out of place, especially a protrusion of an internal organ.
internal organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: internal organs
Senses: examples: text: The salarians at first thought the krogan were confused about the nature of Kruban's environment; the planet is named for a krogan mythological paradise in which honorable warriors feast on the internal organs of their enemies. In fact, krogan astronomers had correctly deduced the nature of Kruban in the years before the global holocaust.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Kruban:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
antonyms: external organ
glosses: An organ, such as the heart or colon, that is entirely within the confines of the body.
projectionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: projectionists
Etymology: From projection + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who operates a film projector, especially one who does so as an occupation at a movie theatre or drive-in theatre.
glosses: One who subscribes to the philosophy of projectionism.
prohibitory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prohibitory
form: most prohibitory
Etymology: From prohibit + -ory.
Senses: glosses: That serves to prohibit or forbid
prohibitionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prohibitionists
Etymology: From prohibition + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who agrees with, or advocates a prohibition, especially the outlawing of the sale of alcoholic beverages
Related terms: prohibitionism
temperance movement
prognathous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈprɑɡnəθəs/
/prɑɡˈneɪθəs/
Forms: form: more prognathous
form: most prognathous
Etymology: From pro- + -gnathous.
Senses: examples: text: A huge brute with thick lips and prognathous jaw stood at her shoulder. He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly.
ref: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter VIII, in The Land That Time Forgot:
text: Phycosecids are small, ovate, convex beetles with a prognathous head, partly covered by a semicircular projection of the pronotum and a dorsal vestiture of whitish scales or scalelike setae.
ref: 2013, Adam Slipinski, Australian Beetles Volume 1: Morphology, Classification and Keys:
glosses: Having jaws that project forward more than is usual, or being such a jaw.
Related terms: hyperprognathous
prognathia
prognathic
prognathism
professionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: professionalizes
form: professionalizing
form: professionalized
form: professionalized
form: professionalise
Etymology: From professional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make something professional
glosses: To advance an occupation to the level of a profession.
Related terms: professionalization
unadvisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unadvisedly
form: most unadvisedly
Etymology: From unadvised + -ly or un- + advised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unadvised manner.
Synonyms: ill-advisedly
inadvisedly
unwisely
unaffectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unaffectedly
form: most unaffectedly
Etymology: From unaffected + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Quite innocent, this prolonged inspection, so unaffectedly rude it was.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 19:
text: 2007 Nov. 7. Alfred Hickling review of The Adoption Papers in The Guardian.
Lisa Livingstone as Molly gives the kind of unaffectedly natural performance you would happily watch until the cows come home.
glosses: In an unaffected manner; sincerely and genuinely.
unashamedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌʌnəˈʃeɪmɪdli/
Forms: form: more unashamedly
form: most unashamedly
Etymology: From unashamed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unashamed manner.
unassumingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unassumingly
form: most unassumingly
Etymology: From unassuming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unassuming manner.
unattractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unattractively
form: most unattractively
Etymology: From unattractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unattractive manner.
unavailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnəˈveɪlɪŋli/
Forms: form: more unavailingly
form: most unavailingly
Etymology: From unavailing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Shepperton guns spoke this time unavailingly.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 104:
text: With her own dried tongue, she bent to moisten into relaxation its indrawn blue lips, and breathing on the clenched, congested hands, tried as unavailingly to lessen their terrible tension.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 281:
text: diplomatic efforts to secure his release continued through the good offices of the Turks and others, albeit unavailingly.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 208:
glosses: In an unavailing manner; without successful results; to no avail.
Related terms: avail
unavoidably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unavoidably
form: most unavoidably
Etymology: From unavoidable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The task was made trebly difficult, however, by the badly run-down condition in which the railways of Britain had been unavoidably left at the end of the war in 1945, […].
ref: 1958 January 24, 'Borderer', “Ten Years of British Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 12:
glosses: In an unavoidable manner.
Synonyms: sense: in an unavoidable manner
word: inevitably
unbecomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbecomingly
form: most unbecomingly
Etymology: From unbecoming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unbecoming manner.
unblushingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unblushingly
form: most unblushingly
Etymology: From unblushing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Recording contracts were unblushingly slanted in the company's favor.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page vi:
glosses: In an unblushing manner, without shame, or shamelessly
uncannily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ʌŋˈkænɪli/
Forms: form: more uncannily
form: most uncannily
Etymology: From uncanny + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncanny manner.
uncertainly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsɜːtən.li/
ipa: /-lɪ/
ipa: /ʌnˈsɜɹ.tən.li/
Forms: form: more uncertainly
form: most uncertainly
Etymology: From Middle English uncerteynliche, uncertanlye. By surface analysis, uncertain + -ly or un- + certainly.
Senses: examples: text: "No — don't you get it?" said Rimmer. ¶ "Get what?" said Kryten, uncertainly.
ref: 1990, Grant Naylor, Better Than Life:
text: I sketch the place of others, pinning them down with objective confidence within an institutional, urban, or rural landscape, yet only failingly, uncertainly, imagine where I really belong[…]
ref: 2007, Edward F. Mooney, On Søren Kierkegaard, page 195:
antonyms: certainly
glosses: In an uncertain manner.
uncharitably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncharitably
form: most uncharitably
Etymology: From uncharitable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an uncharitable manner.
uncomplainingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more uncomplainingly
form: most uncomplainingly
Etymology: From uncomplaining + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Then she would walk for hours, and though she had often to do so, Palmer would uncomplainingly draw rein, and slacken the horses' speed to her pace.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 255:
glosses: In an uncomplaining manner.
Yannick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yannicks
Etymology: From French Yannick, from Breton Yannig.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from French.
circumambulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɝ.kəmˌæm.bjuˈleɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Forms: form: circumambulations
Etymology: From circum- + ambulation, borrowed from Latin circumambulātiō.
Senses: glosses: The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.
Related terms: circumambulate
circumambulatory
give someone the heave-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the heave-ho
form: giving someone the heave-ho
form: gave someone the heave-ho
form: given someone the heave-ho
form: give somebody the old heave-ho
Senses: examples: text: I'm looking for work again because they gave me the heave-ho.
text: I accused her in set terms of giving me the heave-ho in order that she could mercenarily marry a richer man.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
glosses: To fire, expel or break up with someone.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To eject a player or manager from the game.
Synonyms: give the axe
give the elbow
give someone the boot
lay off
give someone the old heave-ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone the old heave-ho
form: giving someone the old heave-ho
form: gave someone the old heave-ho
form: given someone the old heave-ho
Senses: examples: text: Possibly a lot of them gained entry because there were so many other strange bees in the hive, but once they started to load up and run, the natives joined with the old ones and gave them the old heave-ho.
ref: 1947, Gleanings in Bee Culture v.75, A. I. Root Co., page 467:
text: Now I won't have to explain to her what sort of friend you really were and why I gave you the old heave-ho.
ref: 1968, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., “Fortitude”, in Playboy:
text: I think maybe that's why they gave me the old heave-ho from the convent.
ref: 1985, William M. Hoffman, As Is, Dramatists Play Service, Inc., published 1999, →ISBN, page 13:
text: The least she could do was crawl back into her severely stylish shell, so she wouldn't look pitiful when he gave her the old heave-ho.
ref: 1997, Linda Howard, Shades of Twilight, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 156:
text: So, she gave him the old heave ho!
ref: 2003, Garrison Flint, The Case of the Twisted Twins Murders: A Raymond Masters Mystery, G. F. Hutchison Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Alternative form of give someone the heave-ho.
Synonyms: give the axe
give the elbow
give someone the boot
lay off
Jonny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Johnny
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Jonathan.
Joni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -əʊni
Etymology: Commonly used as a diminutive of Joan.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
Juha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Joha.
autodrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autodromes
Etymology: From auto- + -drome.
Senses: glosses: A circuit used for motor sports events, but not for high-speed racing
human chorionic gonadotropin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hCG
form: HCG
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone, produced during pregnancy, that prevents the breakdown of the corpus luteum and maintains progesterone production.
malocchio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊkiəʊ
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian malocchio. Doublet of maloik.
Senses: glosses: evil eye
evaporates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of evaporate
hypothecate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪˈpɒθɪkeɪt/
Forms: form: hypothecates
form: hypothecating
form: hypothecated
form: hypothecated
Etymology: From Latin hypothecatus, past participle of hypotheco, hypothecare. This was in turn derived from Ancient Greek ὑποθήκη (hupothḗkē, “pledge”), from the verb ὑποτίθημι (hupotíthēmi, “to pledge as surety”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘My husband, Jasper Murdock, provided in his will that no part of his collection might be sold, loaned or hypothecated during my lifetime.’
ref: 1943, Raymond Chandler, The High Window, Penguin, published 2005, page 12:
glosses: To pledge (something) as surety for a loan; to pawn, mortgage.
examples: text: The levy needed primary legislation and permission from the Treasury to hypothecate the proceeds back into the new line. It meant that the Greater London Authority could borrow against future income from the levy.
ref: 2022 November 30, Peter Plisner, “Can land value capture set projects free?”, in RAIL, number 971, page 51:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To designate a new tax or tax increase for a specific expenditure.
examples: "Levying customs duties and excises on necessities also ensured a relatively secure source of revenue. Revenues were generally hypothecated in an attempt to draw support from the public, for example funding an orphanage, gaol, hospital equipment and building works around Sydney." A brief history of Australia's tax system; Sam Reinhardt and Lee Steel; 04 September 2006
glosses: To designate in advance the specific purpose of expenditure for government revenues (especially taxes).
Derived terms: word: hypothecable
word: hypothecatable
word: hypothecatee
word: hypothecation
word: hypothecator
alt: rehypothecation
word: rehypothecate
word: unhypothecated
Related terms: hypothec
hypothecation
hypothalamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in brain studies that purport to find the origins of sexual orientation, gay men are said to have hypothalamic nuclei that are smaller than a straight mans and closer in size to a womans, and thus they are attracted to men.
ref: 1999 March 20, Natalie Angiers, The Guardian:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hypothalamus.
Derived terms: corticohypothalamic
extrahypothalamic
geniculohypothalamic
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical
intrahypothalamic
mesohypothalamic
nonhypothalamic
perihypothalamic
retinohypothalamic
septohypothalamic
mangel-wurzel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangel-wurzels
Senses: examples: text: Wheat and barley, oats and hay,
Clover, beans, and mangel-wurzels
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of mangelwurzel.
metastate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastates
Etymology: From meta- + state.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A metastable isomer
qualifier: statistical mechanics
glosses: A probability measure on the space of all thermodynamic states of a system
metastable isomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metastable isomers
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An excited state of an isotope, often having different a spin quantum number (designated with an m)
Synonyms: metastate
hypotensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypotensive
form: most hypotensive
Etymology: From hypo- + tensive.
Senses: examples: text: hypotensive patients
glosses: Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure).
Having hypotension.
coordinate_terms: normotensive
nonhypertensive
examples: text: hypotensive medications
text: Further experiments are needed to elaborate the exact mechanisms of the hypotensive and diuretic effects of diterpene kaurenoids.
ref: 2016, Maurice M. Iwu, Food as Medicine: Functional Food Plants of Africa:
glosses: Relating to hypotension (low blood pressure).
Producing hypotension.
synonyms: antihypertensive
Derived terms: antihypotensive
equihypotensive
nonhypotensive
subhypotensive
supine hypotensive syndrome
hypotensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypotensives
Etymology: From hypo- + tensive.
Senses: examples: text: a hypotensive agent such as an opioid
glosses: Any drug that lowers the blood pressure.
examples: text: a hypotensive agent such as an ARB or an ACEI
synonyms: antihypertensive
glosses: A drug that lowers the blood pressure as its principal intended effect; a drug taken to treat hypertension.
glosses: A person with hypotension.
high court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high courts
Senses: examples: text: But if the eyes of people could be opened in regard to the evils and delusions of war, would it not be easy to form a confederacy of nations, and organize a high court of equity, to decide national controversies?
ref: 1833, Noah Worcester, A solemn review of the custom of war, page 7:
text: The judicial power is vested in three high courts consisting of four judges each, and having concurrent jurisdiction in all civil matters; and in a great number of inferior municipal courts.
ref: 1840, Samuel Perkins, The World as it is: Containing a View of the Present Condition of Its Principal Nations:
text: Compared with most Latin American courts, on paper the Argentine judiciary is among the most insulated high courts in the region.
ref: 2004, Gretchen Helmke, Courts under Constraints: Judges, Generals, and Presidents in Argentina:
text: The prince was appearing at the high court to give evidence against the publisher of the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and People tabloids.
ref: 2023 June 6, Jim Waterson, Kiran Stacey, “Britain’s government and press at rock bottom, Prince Harry tells court”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: At the High Court in Aberdeen in September, NR pleaded guilty to a series of failings, including failing to tell the driver that it was unsafe to drive the train at the 75mph line speed.
ref: 2023 October 18, “Network News: Carmont: NR pays nearly £1m in out-of-court settlements”, in RAIL, number 994, page 15:
topics: law
synonyms: court of last resort
glosses: A supreme court; a court to which final appeals may be taken.
glosses: A superior court; a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases.
qualifier: In some countries
glosses: a provincial or state supreme court
high courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high court
reflectance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectances
Etymology: From reflect + -ance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio of the flux reflected to that incident on a surface.
Hyponyms: albedo
Derived terms: bireflectance
photoreflectance
thermoreflectance
Related terms: reflectivity
hypoplasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypoplasias
Etymology: From hypo- + -plasia.
Senses: examples: text: 1995, William M. Thurlbeck, 2. Lung Growth and Development, William M. Thurlbeck, Andrew Churg (editors), 2nd edition, Thieme Medical Publishers, Pathology of the Lung, page 56,
Since the renal system and the lung develop at the same time, there has been repeated speculation that pulmonary hypoplasia and renal anomalies may be linked by a common developmental defect.
text: 2022, Robert A. Foster, Christopher Premanandan, Chapter 19: Male Reproductive System, James F. Zachary (editor), Pathologic Basis of Veterinary Disease, 7th edition, Elsevier, page 1320,
Hypoplasia of the testes is a common condition and DSD.
text: This complex etiology suggests that individual life histories should be interpreted carefully since enamel hypoplasias could reflect stressors experienced by an individual's parents and individual genetic susceptibility. Additionally, enamel hypoplasias may be more indicative of acute episodes of stress instead of long, chronic periods of stress.
ref: 2024, Anne E. Austin, Healthmaking in Ancient Egypt, Koninklijke Brill, page 64:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: hypoplasty
hypoplasticity
glosses: Underdevelopment or incomplete development of a tissue or organ, especially when caused by an inadequate or below-normal number of cells.
Derived terms: cartilage-hair hypoplasia
hypoplasic
pontocerebellar hypoplasia
Related terms: hypoplasic
hypoplastic
supreme court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supreme courts
Senses: examples: text: Many observers believed that the tribunal will consciously or unconsciously be influenced by the November elections. It is an old saying that the supreme court watches the polls.
ref: 1934 October 13, “Is the U.S. Supreme Court Swayed by Politics?”, in The China Weekly Review, volume 70, number 7, →OCLC, page 216, column 1:
glosses: A court of law which represents the highest legal authority within a jurisdiction.
examples: text: After the establishment of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, the original Supreme Court was renamed as the Senior Courts.
glosses: A superior court; a court of general competence which typically has unlimited jurisdiction with regard to civil and criminal legal cases.
glosses: In certain provinces, a superior court of original jurisdiction, which however is inferior to the province's court of appeals.
Synonyms: high court
court of last resort
supreme courts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supreme court
en rapport
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French en rapport.
Senses: examples: text: Each man may vote according to his conception of a candidate's character, and hence it comes to pass that councillors well represent the wishes of ratepayers, and, being daily brought in contact with them, they are always en rapport with their requirements and wishes.
ref: 1897, Warren Bert Kimberly, “Alfred Frederick Lee”, in History of West Australia:
glosses: In agreement; harmonious.
ultrahazardous activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrahazardous activities
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An activity that is so dangerous that any person engaging in it will be held strictly liable for harm caused by engaging in the activity, no matter what precautions were taken to prevent harm; common examples include using explosives, radiation, and poisonous chemicals, and handling wild animals.
ultrahazardous activities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrahazardous activity
ultrahazardous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultrahazardous
form: most ultrahazardous
Etymology: From ultra- + hazardous.
Senses: glosses: Extremely hazardous.
Derived terms: ultrahazardous activity
Fitz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [fɪts]
rhymes: -ɪts
homophone: fits
Forms: form: Fitzs
form: Fitzes
Senses: glosses: A village in Shropshire, England.
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
public office
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpʌblɪk ˈɔfɪs/
ipa: /ˈpʌblɪk ˈɒfɪs/
Forms: form: public offices
Etymology: From public + office.
Senses: examples: text: My son finished law last month, and now aspires to public office.
topics: government
glosses: A position or occupation established by law or by the act of a government body, for the purpose of exercising the authority of the government in the service of the public.
Related terms: public officer
public offices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public office
double cross
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double crosses
form: double crossing
form: double crossed
form: double crossed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-cross.
double cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double crosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double-cross.
cute as a button
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cute, as, a and button.
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Very cute.
Related terms: cute as a bug in a rug
cute as a bug's ear
cute as a pin
public officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: public officers
Senses: glosses: One who holds public office; an official or employee of the government.
Synonyms: government officer
government official
public official
state authority
public officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public officer
Caribbean Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Caribbean Sea
Senses: synonyms: the Caribbean
glosses: A tropical sea in the Western Hemisphere, part of the Atlantic Ocean, southeast of the Gulf of Mexico.
viricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viricides
form: virucide
form: viruscide
Etymology: From virus + -icide.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any substance that destroys or inactivates viruses.
Related terms: virucidal
viricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viricides
Etymology: From Latin vir + -icide.
Senses: glosses: The act of killing one's husband.
Synonyms: mariticide
Coordinate terms: uxoricide
Related terms: viricidal
impanels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impanel
impaneling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impanel
impaneled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impanel
lactations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lactation
duodene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdjuːəʊdiːn/
Forms: form: duodenes
Etymology: From mediaeval Latin duodena (“dozen”), from duodeni.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A schematic group of twelve notes.
examples: text: He saw where the beer was, crated duodenes of it stacked between counter and wall, and went to help himself.
ref: 1963, Anthony Burgess, Honey for the Bears, Norton, published 1996, page 86:
glosses: A group of twelve.
go to seed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to seed
form: going to seed
form: went to seed
form: gone to seed
Senses: examples: text: Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.
ref: 1911, Jack London, Adventure:
glosses: To pass from flowering or ripening to the formation of seeds.
raw_tags: of a plant
examples: text: But the "frump" will let herself and all her surroundings go to seed, not from humbleness of mind or an overwhelming sense of her own unworthiness, but in pure complacent conceit.
ref: 1898, Eliot Gregory, Worldly Ways and Byways:
text: But suppose I hang about till eighty and die a childish old gentleman with a mind all gone to seed.
ref: 1919, Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary:
text: […] if this total Taliban takeover and collapse was one of the contingencies that […] President [Joe] Biden had foreseen, then how come this plan […] went to seed so rapidly?
ref: 2021 August 19, 27:45 from the start, in NewsHour (television production), Peter Meijer (actor), Public Broadcasting System:
text: I found that slick and graceful enough at 25. Now, with marriages going to seed all around me, it is the insight, the penetration, that makes me smile/wince.
ref: 2023 May 28, Janan Ganesh, “Right on the money”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
glosses: To deteriorate; to decline into an unkempt or debased condition.
meliorate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmiːli.əɹeɪt/
Forms: form: meliorates
form: meliorating
form: meliorated
form: meliorated
Etymology: First attested in 1542; borrowed from Late Latin meliorātus, perfect passive participle of meliorō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from melior (“better”).
Senses: examples: text: They offered some compromises in an effort to meliorate the disagreement.
text: Nature by art we nobly meliorate.
ref: 1648, John Denham, Cato Major:
text: June 8, 1783, George Washington, Circular to the States
[…] and the pure and benign light of revelation have had a meliorating influence on mankind.
glosses: To make better; to improve; to solve a problem.
glosses: To become better.
Synonyms: ameliorate
improve
Derived terms: meliorable
meliorater
melioration
meliorative
meliorator
Related terms: ameliorate
habitability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: habitabilities
Etymology: From habitable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: We derive rotation periods, photometric activity indices, flaring energies, mass loss rates, gyrochronological ages, X-ray luminosities and consider implications for the planetary magnetospheres and habitability.
ref: 2015, D. J. Armstrong, C. E. Pugh, A.-M. Broomhall, D. J. A. Brown, M. N. Lund, H. P. Osborn, D. L. Pollacco, “The Host Stars of Keplers Habitable Exoplanets: Superflares, Rotation and Activity”, in arXiv:
text: The findings shed light on the geological history of Mars and offer valuable insights into how rocky planets across the solar system evolve. In addition, the discovery offers key implications for understanding the habitability of rocky planets, the researchers said.
ref: 2025 September 3, Julia Jacobo, “What are the mysterious blobs on Mars? Astronomers may have figured it out”, in ABC News:
glosses: The property of being habitable.
hairsplitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hairsplitters
form: hair-splitter
Etymology: From hair + splitter.
Senses: glosses: A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).
Related terms: hairsplitting
split hairs
hairsplitters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hairsplitter
berime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: berimes
form: beriming
form: berimed
form: berimed
Etymology: From be- + rime.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of berhyme.
berhyme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪm
Forms: form: berhymes
form: berhyming
form: berhymed
form: berhymed
form: berime
Etymology: From be- + rhyme.
Senses: glosses: To compose rhymes about; celebrate in rhyme; make poetry about someone.
glosses: To lampoon.