cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
myrmicine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɜː(ɹ)mɪsaɪn/
ipa: /ˈmɚmɪsin/
Forms: form: myrmicines
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Myrmicinae.
Senses: examples: text: Subfamily Myrmicinae
[…]Species of myrmicines are most likely to be confused with species of Leptanilla or Tetraponera because of the two-segmented petiole.
ref: 1999, Steven O. Shattuck, Australian Ants: Their Biology and Identification, volume 3, page 122:
text: The other dominant ant subfamilies were also present but with lesser importance (fig. 1.4). Toward the end of the ponerine expansion (Early Eocene), the myrmicines began to radiate, surpassing the ponerines in biomass and diversity.
ref: 2007, Victor Rico-Gray, Paulo S. Oliveira, The Ecology and Evolution of Ant-Plant Interactions, page 12:
text: The pseudomyrmecines can only be mistaken for myrmicines, but in the former there is always a fully developed promesonotal suture that is fully articulated and flexible in fresh specimens—a character that is always absent from myrmicines.
ref: 2016, Brian L. Fisher, Barry Bolton, Ants of Africa and Madagascar: A Guide to the Genera, page 56:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae.
melezitose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melicitose
Etymology: From French mélèze (“larch”) and melitose.
Senses: examples: text: Melezitose can be partially hydrolyzed to glucose and turanose.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A non-reducing trisaccharide sugar produced by many insects that consume plant sap.
Related terms: melezitase
melicitose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of melezitose.
additiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From additive + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: additivity
subtractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From subtractive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being subtractive.
mucksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mucksy
form: most mucksy
Senses: examples: text: it was all so soaked and sodden, and as we call it, 'mucksy,' that to meddle with it in any way was to do more harm than good.
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XLVI, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of muxy.
enswathement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enswathements
Etymology: From enswathe + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of enswathing.
glosses: The state of being enswathed.
enswathements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enswathement
ferk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ferks
form: ferking
form: ferked
form: ferked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of firk.
ferk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ferks
form: ferking
form: ferked
form: ferked
Senses: glosses: To rummage, in order to search for something; to dig amongst articles or move things aside in order to try and find something.
gymnoplast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnoplasts
Etymology: From gymno- + -plast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, such as a white blood corpuscle.
gymnoplasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnoplast
vermicast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vermicasts
Senses: glosses: wormcast
unrestingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrestingly
form: most unrestingly
Etymology: From unresting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without rest; unceasingly, perpetually.
transcendingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transcendingly
form: most transcendingly
Etymology: From transcending + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to transcend.
repellingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more repellingly
form: most repellingly
Etymology: From repelling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to repel.
persistingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more persistingly
form: most persistingly
Etymology: From persisting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With persistence.
prowlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more prowlingly
form: most prowlingly
Etymology: From prowling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He rose and began to pace, prowlingly, about the room.
glosses: In a prowling manner.
boy meets girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boy-meets-girl
Senses: examples: a story of boy meets girl
a boy meets girl movie
glosses: A romantic story in which a boy gets to know a girl and begins to love her.
ilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ility
geocoordinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geocoordinates
Etymology: From geo- + coordinate.
Senses: examples: text: The lost mountaineer was easily rescued because his phone transmitted his geocoordinates to the emergency services.
glosses: A geospatial coordinate.
geocoordinates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geocoordinate
geocomposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geocomposite
theiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: translingual Thea (“tea, the tea plant”) + -form (compare French théiforme)
Senses: examples: text: A warm theiform drink, taken from a quarter to three quarters of a litre at a dose, increases the pulse from six to twelve beats[…]
ref: 1832, London medical and surgical journal: Volume 1, page 671:
text: All raw vegetable juices, all spices, all essences, all odours, all perfumes, all theiform infusions, all that can by any possibility be supposed to exercise the slightest influence over the organism[…]
ref: 1835, Thomas Roupell Everest, Amos Gerald Hull, A popular view of homoeopathy, page 60:
glosses: Similar to tea.
facular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From facula + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: facular granules
text: facular atmosphere
text: facular brightening
text: While we were still far from the place of explosion, and intent on the study of the great facular waves which were passing swiftly beneath us, we suddenly heard a series of explosions so tremendous that we imagined a new eruption was commencing close by.
ref: 1873, Richard A. Proctor, The Borderland of Science: A Series of Familiar Dissertations on Stars, Planets, and Meteors:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the faculae.
funebrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: funebral
Etymology: From Latin funebris (“belonging to a funeral”), from funus (“funeral”).
Senses: examples: text: intended for funebrial purposes
text: they [garlands] were convivial, festival, sacrificial, nuptial, honorary, funebrial
ref: c. 1683 (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the page)”, in [Thomas Tenison], editor, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: […] Charles Mearn, […], published 1683, →OCLC:
glosses: Pertaining to a funeral or funerals; funereal.
Ironsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ironside
dynamographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dynamograph
signiorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signiorships
Etymology: From signior + -ship.
Senses: glosses: State or position of a signore.
signiorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of signiorship
retrogressively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more retrogressively
form: most retrogressively
Etymology: From retrogressive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: retrogressively altered pyrope
glosses: In a retrogressive manner.
draffy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more draffy
form: most draffy
Etymology: From draff + -y.
Senses: examples: text: the dregs and draffy part
ref: c. 1619–1621, John Fletcher, “The Island Princesse”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act III, scene i:
glosses: consisting of, or worthy of, the dregs, i.e. worthless
cotarnine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French cotarnine, from narcotine, by anagramming.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white crystalline substance, allegedly with the
rarification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rarifications
Senses: examples: text: As soon as the manometer of the pump indicated the maximum of rarification, the apparatus was inclined […]
ref: 1872, The American Journal of Science:
glosses: Alternative form of rarefaction.
overtower
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overtowers
form: overtowering
form: overtowered
form: overtowered
Etymology: From over- + tower.
Senses: glosses: To tower above or over.
glosses: To soar too high.
overtowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overtower
overtowering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overtowering
form: most overtowering
Etymology: From overtower + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: And ſurely this humiliation was both wholeſome and neceſſary for him. […] Wherefore this miſcarriage came very ſeaſonably to abate their over-towring conceits of him; and perchance his own of himſelf.
ref: 1639, Thomas Fuller, The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck, one of the printers to the Universitie of Cambridge [and sold by John Williams, London], →OCLC, book II, page 83:
glosses: That towers above or over; that overtowers.
overtowering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From overtower + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overtower
overtowers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overtower
cyamelide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white amorphous substance, regarded as a polymeric modification of isocyanic acid.
control tower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: control towers
Senses: examples: text: As he taxied out to the far side of the field, 38-year-old Captain Benton R. ("Lucky") Baldwin was cleared for takeoff. The control tower gave him his choice of two runways—No. 13 or No. 18.
ref: 1947 June 9, “National Affairs: Holocaust at LaGuardia”, in Time:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An airport building from which the air traffic control unit monitors and directs the movement of aircraft on and around the airport.
examples: text: Ned Newton stood beside Tom in the control tower of the great tank as she started on her homeward way.
ref: 1918, Victor Appleton, chapter 12, in Tom Swift And His War Tank:
text: In a railway control tower at Dunkirk, Ohio, Operator Cliff Schwartzkopf waited for the Pennsylvania's Pennsylvanian, eastbound from Chicago to New York.
ref: 1941 November 17, “Catastrophe: Crash at Dunkirk”, in Time:
text: From the control tower high above the sprawling container port here, Danny Law helps manage the relentless loading and unloading of cargo, day and night.
ref: 2006 January 29, Thomas Fuller, “China trade unbalances shipping”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jan 2012:
glosses: An enclosed, raised structure occupied by one or more persons who operate or exercise control over railway traffic, ship movement, a racetrack, machinery, etc.
Related terms: nontowered
aerocraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerocrafts
form: aerocraft
Etymology: From aero- + craft.
Senses: examples: text: An aerocraft having independent slidable weights for steering the same in horizontal and vertical directions
ref: 1918, United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 248:
glosses: An aircraft.
aerocrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerocraft
trackmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trackmasters
Etymology: From track + master.
Senses: glosses: One who is in charge of a railroad track.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A person or system responsible for overseeing and managing the various components of a music track during the recording and mixing process.
Synonyms: roadmaster
trackmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trackmaster
piddler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piddlers
Etymology: From piddle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who piddles; a trifler or time-waster.
glosses: One who urinates.
examples: text: Many piddlers use the craft shop as a way of improving their quality of life while in prison. They make just enough money to buy food, to gamble, and to occasionally mail something home.
ref: 2002, Jorge Antonio Renaud, Behind the Walls, page 88:
glosses: A prisoner who works in a craft shop.
piddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piddler
relaxative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From relax + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Having the quality of relaxing; relaxing or laxative.
relaxative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relaxatives
Etymology: From relax + -ative.
Senses: examples: text: you are troubled with some ligatures i' th' neck of your vesica[…]therefore you must use relaxatives
ref: 1632 (first performance), Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “The Magnetick Lady: Or, Humors Reconcil’d. A Comedy […]”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
glosses: A relaxant.
relaxatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of relaxative
anthraciferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more anthraciferous
form: most anthraciferous
Etymology: From anthracite + -iferous.
Senses: examples: text: anthraciferous sandstone
text: anthraciferous strata
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Yielding anthracite.
unofficered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + officer + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the destruction of property by unofficered soldiers
glosses: Without an officer.
schooldame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schooldames
Etymology: From school + dame.
Senses: glosses: A schoolmistress.
schooldames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schooldame
unprinced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prince + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Deprived of the state or authority of a prince; without princely qualities.
monogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From monogeny + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Despite those demonstrations of a monogenist embryological development, opponents continued their advocacy of polygenist views by focusing instead on nerve regeneration: after a nerve is cut the processes peripheral to the injury first degenerate and later regenerate.
ref: 2001, Joseph D. Robinson, Mechanisms of Synaptic Transmission, page 23:
glosses: Having a common origin; exhibiting monogenesis.
monogenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monogenists
Etymology: From monogeny + -ist.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who maintains that all members of the human race belong to a single species.
Coordinate terms: polygenist
Related terms: monogenesis
monogenetic
monogenetically
monogenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monogenist
manifestness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From manifest + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
bilifuscin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin bilis (“bile”) + fuscus (“dark”) + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A brownish-green pigment, derived from bilirubin, found in human gallstones and in old bile.
Related terms: biliprasin
fuscin
mesobilifuscin
restringency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the juice being pressed out is immediately pleasant in caste , without any thing of that restringency which it had when incorporated with the meat , or flesh of the Apple
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Quality or state of being restringent.
Synonyms: astringency
nidget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nidgets
form: nigeot
form: nigget
Etymology: Compare French nigaud (“a booby, fool”), Old French niger (“to play the fool”).
Senses: examples: text: in signification it signifieth, as it seemeth, no more than abject, base-minded, falſe-hearted, coward or nidget
ref: 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
text: Nigeur: m. A midget, fup, trifler.
ref: 1650, Randle Cotgrave, A French-Engliſh dictionary, Compil'd by Mr Randle Cotgrave: with Another in English and French., London: Luke Fawne:
glosses: A fool or idiot.
glosses: A coward.
nidgets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nidget
roadmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadmasters
Etymology: From road + master.
Senses: examples: text: Railwaymen may travel by free pass to their homes by applying to the Roadmaster.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XIII, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 222:
glosses: One who is in charge of a railroad track.
Synonyms: word: trackmaster
roadmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadmaster
substantivally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From substantival + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a substantival manner.
hamzated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the past participle of the verb to hamzate, from hamza + -ate.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: unhamzated
glosses: Having a hamza (ء (ʔ)) as one of its radicals, which may be realised as ء (ʔ) (stand-alone hamza), أ (ʔ), آ (ʔā), إ (ʔ), ؤ (ʔ) or ئ (ʔ) in writing, depending on the surrounding vowels and consonants. The exact orthography is determined by the rules of the seat of hamza.
raw_tags: of a verb or root
Derived terms: unhamzated
infusories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infusory
infusory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infusories
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the Infusoria, a former class of microscopic animals.
infusory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: infusorial; of or related to infusoria
casked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cask
casking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cask
gadbee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gadbees
Senses: glosses: The gadfly.
gadbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gadbee
endogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endogens
Etymology: From endo- + -gen: compare French endogène.
Senses: examples: text: The endogens constitute one of the great primary classes of plants, and include all palms, true lilies, grasses, rushes, orchids, the banana, pineapple, etc.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant which increases in size by internal growth and elongation at the summit, having the wood in the form of bundles or threads, irregularly distributed throughout the whole diameter, not forming annual layers, and with no distinct pith.
Derived terms: endogenic
endogenous
Related terms: exogen
oxogen
endogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endogen
tunicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunicins
Etymology: From tunic + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of animal cellulose present in the mantle, or tunic, of the tunicates.
at-grade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: An at-grade intersection may require a traffic-control device such as a stop sign, traffic light or railway signal to manage conflicting traffic.
glosses: Describing a junction or intersection where two or more transport axes cross at the same level (or grade).
Coordinate terms: overgrade
undergrade
precollegiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + collegiate.
Senses: glosses: Before college.
antiastrology
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiastrology
form: most antiastrology
Etymology: From anti- + astrology.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, this little antiastrology sermon is being preached to the converted; most literate readers disdain astrology already.
ref: 1992, Lawrence B. Slobodkin, Simplicity and complexity in games of the intellect, page 10:
text: First, this is an antiastrology message. The stars do not control our destiny and are not to be feared. Christ is the Lord who holds the stars in his hand.
ref: 2000, Christopher A. Davis, Revelation, page 121:
glosses: Opposing astrology.
unstreamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unstreamlined
form: most unstreamlined
Etymology: From un- + streamlined.
Senses: examples: text: The cars, which are of pleasing but somewhat squarish outline, are unstreamlined.
ref: 1963 August, W. Shepherd, “Stockholm's modern underground railway”, in Modern Railways, page 96:
glosses: Not streamlined.
Synonyms: nonstreamlined
unstreamlined
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From unstreamline + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unstreamline
porchway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: porchways
Etymology: From porch + way.
Senses: glosses: A porch.
porchways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porchway
adulterize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adulterizes
form: adulterizing
form: adulterized
form: adulterized
form: adulterise
Etymology: From adultery + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: ca 1644, John Milton, "The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce", Book II, Chap. 18.
Nevertheleſs, as I find that Grotius on this place hath obſerved the Chriſtian emperors, Theodoſius the IId and Juſtinian, men of high wiſdom and reputed piety, decreed it to be a divorcive fornication, if the wife attempted either againſt the knowledge, or obſtinately againſt the will of her huſband, ſuch things as gave open ſuſpicion of adulterizing, as the wilful haunting of feaſts, and invitations with men not of her near kindred, the lying forth of her houſe, without probable cauſe, the frequenting of threatres againſt her huſband's mind, her endeavour to prevent or deſtroy conception.
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: To commit adultery.
glosses: To adulterate.
Related terms: adulterate
adulterized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of adulterize
adulterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of adulterize
adulterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of adulterize
geoslavery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geo- + slavery, coined by Jerome Dobson and Peter Fisher in 2003 and refined in 2007.
Senses: examples: text: Images of antebellum plantation society aside, geoslavery has become an accepted practice among employers wary of misuse of company vehicles — whether the worker who disappears for an hour is pursuing an extramarital affair or monopolizing a stool at the donut shop[…]
ref: 2010, Mark S. Monmonier, No dig, no fly, no go: how\ maps restrict and control, page 181:
text: As a worst-case scenario, some scholars have also contemplated the possibility of geoslavery in this age of ubiquitous computing[…]
ref: 2011, Timothy L. Nyerges, Robert B. McMaster, The SAGE Handbook of GIS and Society, page 511:
glosses: The use of geolocation and geosurveillance technologies to monitor and control individuals in a coercive or surreptitious manner, with the control being overpowering and uncompensated.
third gender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: third genders
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: third sex
glosses: A category (a gender), present in societies which recognize three or more genders, which is neither male nor female; in some societies, the category may contain individuals who are intersex or androgynous, while other societies may categorize transgender people into it. (Compare fourth gender.)
Related terms: agender
bigender
ambigender
cisgender
genderfluid
genderqueer
non-binary
transgender
two-spirit
sworn virgin
third genders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of third gender
hameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In a hameless horse-collar, the combination of the two sides […]
ref: 1885, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, page 19:
text: […] hameless horse collars made by the well known and reliable firm of Johnston-Slocum Co.,[…]
ref: 1915, Poultry Success, page 42:
glosses: Not having a hame (part of a horse collar).
delivery room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delivery rooms
Senses: examples: text: Too many expectant mothers go to the delivery room terrified of what may be about to happen.
ref: 1951 January 1, “Medicine: Without Fear”, in Time:
text: When the mothers and their babies are brought out of the delivery room, “the postpartum nurse greets them at the desk and starts the ‘oohs’ and ‘ahhs,’ and how lucky they were to have the nurse in the delivery,” Ms. Callahan said.
ref: 2011 November 7, Jordan Rau, “Test for Hospital Budgets: Are the Patients Pleased?”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jan 2012:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An operating theatre or similar room in a hospital or other medical facility, furnished with suitable equipment and staffed by physicians, surgeons, or other medical workers, for the purpose of assisting mothers with the births of their babies.
transposant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transposants
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any organism that has a transposon in its genome
soft shoulder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft shoulders
Senses: glosses: A road shoulder made of gravel rather than asphalt or concrete.
Related terms: hard shoulder
acquiescement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acquiescements
Etymology: Borrowed from French acquiescement, equivalent to acquiesce + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Though this set a muttering all whose fists had not been greased; yet those who had been paid for backing this proposal, being men of too good a conscience not to earn their hire, stickled so powerfully for their necessitated sovereign, and represented in such colors the desirable happiness and advantage of being once more honored with the title of his loyal vassals, that the acquiescement became general.
ref: 1851, William Starbuck Mayo, Romance Dust From the Historic Placer, New York, N.Y.: Geo. P. Putnam; London: Richard Bentley, page 276:
glosses: Acquiescence (assent, submission).
rebats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebat
rebat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebats
form: rebatting
form: rebatted
form: rebatted
Senses: examples: text: Having determined the complete plan of the roof, all that is required is to develop the side by rebatting it upon the eaves line as hinge.
ref: 1904, Technics: A Magazine to Aid Technical Progress:
topics: engineering
mechanical-engineering
mechanics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform a rebatment; to rotate one orthographic view into the plane of another orthographic view along the line of intersection between the two planes.
multipunctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + punctate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having many spots, points or punctures
conjugate acids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conjugate acid
two-way streets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of two-way street
line outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line out
imagesetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imagesetter
cecina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cecinas
Etymology: From Spanish cecina, from Vulgar Latin *siccīna (“jerky”), from Latin siccus (“dry”).
Senses: glosses: Salted, dried meat.
cecinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cecina
aurantia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An orange coal-tar dye that is an ammonium salt of hexanitrodiphenylamine.
Rydberg molecule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Rydberg molecules
Etymology: Named after the Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A molecule, especially one consisting of two atoms of the same element, that has a permanent dipole because one of the atoms is in a very high excited state.
wikipedia: Johannes Rydberg
Related terms: Rydberg atom
Rydberg constant
Rydberg formula
Rydberg matter
Rydberg state
Vitoria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Álava, Basque Country, Spain; the capital city of the Basque Country.
Teruel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Teruels
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Teruel.
Senses: glosses: A city, the provincial capital of Teruel, Spain.
glosses: A province of Aragon, Spain.
glosses: A habitational surname from Spanish.
Gerona
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /həˈɹoʊnə/
Etymology: From Spanish Gerona.
Senses: glosses: A city in northeastern Catalonia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Catalonia, Spain.
segetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: That grows in cornfields.
shear-cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shear-cakes
Senses: topics: business
mining
glosses: A counterweighted refractory slab used as a gate or door to a small furnace or oven.
shear-cakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shear-cake
shooting rights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The right to enter upon land and make a geophysical survey.
Las Vegas algorithm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Las Vegas algorithms
Etymology: Named in contrast to a Monte Carlo method.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A randomized algorithm that always gives a correct result rather than merely giving a probably correct result.
Related terms: Monte Carlo method
special delivery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: special deliveries
Senses: examples: text: The pick of the output of the French and German toymakers was rushed by special delivery to the mansion; but Rachel refused to be comforted.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Compliments of the Season”, in Strictly Business:
text: So, before he slept, he sent his sister a special-delivery letter knowing she would receive it in the morning.
ref: 1919, Grace S. Richmond, “The Time of His Life”, in The Brown Study:
text: Then, as though he could hurry the trains East, he put a special delivery stamp on it.
ref: 1922, Mary Roberts Rinehart, chapter 22, in The Breaking Point:
glosses: A kind of postal service in which, for an extra fee, letters and packages are delivered in a highly expedited manner by a special courier.
examples: text: Late in the afternoon arrived a special delivery, mailed from some small New Jersey town.
ref: 1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, (please specify |book=1, 2, or 3):
text: The post office arranged special deliveries every half-hour to handle the flood of greetings.
ref: 1972 November 6, “People”, in Time:
glosses: A particular posted letter or package which is delivered in this manner; a particular act of conveying such letters or packages to one or more recipients.
examples: text: “Special delivery for Mr. Graham,” said the uniformed sheriff. He grinned as he stepped aside. “Hi, honey,” said the woman standing there.
ref: 1998, Lisa Scottoline, Rough Justice, →ISBN, page 181:
text: “He might be God's special delivery for us. The reward we've been waiting for.”
ref: 2008, Jerry B. Jenkins, John Perrodin, Seclusion Point, →ISBN, page 83:
text: “I have a special delivery for you from the president,” Harvath continued. He lowered his weapon, took aim, and shot the finger of Fawcett's right hand.
ref: 2011, Brad Thor, Brad Thor Collectors' Edition #1, →ISBN:
glosses: Something—whether desirable or undesirable—which is intentionally given to a specific individual or which an individual receives rapidly and unexpectedly; the personalized, direct quality of the transmission of such an item.
Hypernyms: delivery
NSN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of Nokia Siemens Network.
NSN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NSNs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of National Stock Number.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of NATO Stock Number.
Zlín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Zlín.
Senses: glosses: A city in southeastern Moravia, Czech Republic, on the Dřevnice River.
Pardubice
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and region of the Czech Republic.
Karlovy Vary
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Karlovy Vary.
Senses: glosses: A spa city, district, and administrative region located in western Bohemia, Czech Republic; formerly known as Karlsbad.
con women
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of con woman
freedwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freedwoman
begift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: begifts
form: begifting
form: begifted
form: begifted
Etymology: From Middle English bigiften (“to entrust”), equivalent to be- + gift. Cognate with Dutch begiften (“to endow”), German begaben (“to endow”), Swedish begåva (“to endow, dower”).
Senses: examples: text: I suspect, for instance, that Bill Gates might not have wanted to begift such a program with the Microsoft name.
ref: 2005, Philip R. Sullivan, The World According To Homo Sapiens:
glosses: To entrust; endow.
examples: text: They are harangued, bedinnered, begifted,[...]
ref: 1838, Thomas Carlyle, The French revolution: a history:
text: Mr. EH Cooper protests against the extravagant manner in which the children of the well-to-do are "amused" and begifted at Christmas: [...]
ref: 1905, William Thomas Stead, The Review of reviews:
text: If you are an occasional reader and would like to receive the magazine regularly — or if you are a subscriber and would like to begift a friend, colleague or relative — use the form below.
ref: 1974, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
glosses: To give a gift or gifts to; bestow or present with gifts.
glosses: To give as a gift.
Derived terms: begifted
begifter
begifting
Related terms: begive
Děčín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Děčín
Senses: glosses: A city in the northern Czech Republic, on the River Elbe.
Karviná
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Czech Karviná.
Senses: glosses: A city and district (Karviná District) in the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic.
Giant Mountains
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range located in the north of the Czech Republic and the south-west of Poland.
Kolín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.
wikipedia: + District
Kolín
Náchod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Náchod.
Senses: glosses: A town and district of Hradec Králové, Czech Republic.
Havířov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Havířov.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Czech Republic.
Steiner point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Steiner points
Etymology: Named after Jakob Steiner.
Senses: examples: text: I created a Steiner point in my layout design at the point where I want my net's routing to branch.
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: One vertex of a Steiner tree.
topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: An extra vertex that is not a member of the input.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The point on the circumcircle of a triangle that lies at the intersection of three lines through the vertices of the triangle, where those lines are parallel to the corresponding sides of the first Brocard triangle.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The geometric centroid of the system obtained by placing a mass equal to the magnitude of the exterior angle at each vertex of the system.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of the 20 points located at the 3 by 3 intersections of the 60 Pascal lines which are produced by extending the triplets on opposite sides of a conic section in Pascal's theorem for all permutations of verices.
begifting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From begift + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Just as she knows that she has every right to expect begifting and support, so he knows that he can expect sexual favors.
ref: 1977, Deborah Pellow, Women in Accra: options for autonomy:
text: The more heinous and violent the crime, the greater the gifts. In this manner the perpetrator was once more urged to become a member of the community. He was absorbed back through this elaborate process of begifting.
ref: 1994, Jenifer Levin, Water dancer:
text: Good music can hold us enwrapped as with a begifting as well. One gets the more involved in listening to music, mostly classical, when it seeps in to you to the very soul.
ref: 2011, Elsa De Visser, Interlinked:
glosses: The act or process of giving or bestowing gifts; endowment.
begifting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From begift + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: With bitterness then, he blamed the Texan and the young law students, accusing them of causing the university more than $600000 worth of damage and discouraging others from begifting it.
ref: 1974, Ronnie Dugger, Our invaded universities:
glosses: present participle and gerund of begift
melas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μέλας (mélas, “black”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of leprosy, particularly contagious forms causing dark spots on the skin.
synonyms: word: leprosy
word: particularly contagious forms causing dark spots on the skin
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of melasma.
synonyms: word: melasma
Coordinate terms: sense: leprosy
word: alphos
sense: leprosy
word: leuce
melas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mela
pound town
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pound Town
Senses: examples: text: I love it when Rick and I go to pound town but I wish we made love once in a while too.
text: How was last night? Too much pound town and not enough necking, ya know?
text: Hey, it's not like I wouldn't take the guy to Pound Town myself if I was single, but he's messing with a married man.
ref: 2011, John Simpson, Robert Cummings, The Rent Boy Murders, page 113:
text: But the thought of her drugdealer boyfriend taking her to Pound Town in front of our potential child was, let's just say, out of my comfort zone.
ref: 2012, Dan Bucatinsky, Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad, page 38:
text: My friend leaned back, pulling eight inches out of her and went to pound town using incredibly long thrusts.
ref: 2013, Damian Swiss, Daphne Simons, Dangerous Games: Sex and Slavery, page 185:
glosses: A place or setting for vigorous, often rough sexual activity.
Derived terms: take to pound town
Přerov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Přerov.
Senses: glosses: A city and district in Olomouc Region, Czech Republic.
Opava
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Czech Opava.
Senses: glosses: A city in the Czech Republic.
glosses: A river in the Czech Republic.
freety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more freety
form: most freety
form: fretty
form: freity
Etymology: From freet + -y.
Senses: glosses: Superstitious; belonging to or pertaining to superstitions.
Pétainism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: After chief of state of Vichy France Philippe Pétain, + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Secondly, Pétainism was identified with common sense and realism. No argument against Pétain could start from a sound basis: it was made to look absurd, and people who objected to his leadership were 'flying in the face of fact'.
ref: 1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Occupied France: collaboration and resistance, 1940-1944, Wiley-Blackwell, page 19:
text: In such ways the favoured status of Pétainism within Nazi-Occupied Europe limped on until the Allied invasions of 1944.
ref: 1985, Harry Roderick Kedward, Roger Austin, Vichy France and the Resistance: culture & ideology, Taylor & Francis, page 236:
text: Giraud's escape from the Koenigstein prison camp did not mark a break with Pétainism; on the contrary, it was helped by elements of the Vichy intelligence service.
ref: 2006, Richard Vinen, The unfree French: life under the occupation, Allen Lane, page 209:
glosses: The political ideology associated with Philippe Pétain.
Synonyms: Vichyism
Related terms: Pétainist
freshmanhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: from freshman + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or period of being a freshman.
chicken-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chickenheartedness
Etymology: From chicken-hearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: hen-heartedness
word: cowardice
word: fearfulness
word: pusillanimity
word: cowardliness
word: poltroonery
word: chicken-heartedness
word: hen-heartedness
glosses: The quality of being chicken-hearted; cowardice.
chickenheartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chicken-heartedness.
hen-heartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hen-hearted + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: word: chicken-heartedness
word: cowardice
word: fearfulness
word: pusillanimity
word: cowardliness
word: poltroonery
word: chicken-heartedness
word: hen-heartedness
glosses: The quality of being hen-hearted; cowardice.
henhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more henhearted
form: most henhearted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hen-hearted.
byhearted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of byheart
corpswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpswomen
Etymology: From corps + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female corpsman.
corpswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corpswoman
ahau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ahaus
form: ajaw
Etymology: Borrowed from Yucatec Maya ajaw, ultimately from Proto-Mayan *ajahw.
Senses: glosses: Among the ancient Maya people, a member of the leading class of nobles in a particular polity.
performing art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performing arts
Senses: glosses: singular of performing arts
okeh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.
Senses: examples: text: "Look it up in the latest dictionary," suggested the President. And here is part of what was found: O.K.—a humorous or ignorant spelling of what should be "okeh," from the Choctaw language meaning, "It is so" ...
ref: 1918, The Clothier and Furnisher, reprint edition, volume 93, page 87:
text: … how deeply the progressive element in the Democratic party throughout the country might misunderstand and even resent his putting his "okeh" on the candidacy of the Illinois leader for the senatorship, …
ref: 1921, Joseph P. Tumulty, “Chapter XIV, Wilson and the Old Guard”, in Woodrow Wilson as I know Him, Reprint edition, Echo Library, published 2006, →ISBN, page 67:
text: "Well, since Ron ain't goin, why don't you come on and go along with us two, Susie?" / "Okeh," Susie grinned. "Why not?"
ref: 1967, James Jones, Go to the Widowmaker, Reprint edition (fiction), Random House, published 1979, →ISBN:
glosses: Dated form of OK.
okeh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: okehs
form: okehing
form: okehed
form: okehed
Etymology: Sometimes said to be from Choctaw oke, okeh (“it is so”). Probably simply a variant of OK.
Senses: examples: text: "Once the public knows that all 'good' securities must be 'okehed' by a state official of the state wherein they are offered to the public, and the okeh verified by a local banker, …
ref: 1919, Journal of the American Bankers Association: Volume 11, Reprint edition, University of Minnesota, published 2011, page 631:
glosses: Dated form of OK.
Nader's raider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nader's raiders
Etymology: From the name of US lawyer, author, politician, and social activist Ralph Nader (born 1934).
Senses: examples: text: Nader's Raiders struck again last week. This time their target was the Federal Food and Drug Administration, which they tore apart in what may well be the most devastating critique of a U.S. Government agency ever issued.
ref: 1970 April 20, “Agencies: Up Against the Wall, FDA!”, in Time:
text: [S]he was overshadowed by her intensely competitive siblings, especially her brother Bruce, a graduate of Harvard’s law and business schools who went from being a Nader’s Raider, a left-wing consumer advocate, to a Master of the Universe, a leveraged buyout billionaire.
ref: 2011 August 28, “Biography: Wendy’s secrets”, in Miami Herald, retrieved 16 Jan 2012:
topics: government
politics
glosses: An associate or assistant of Ralph Nader and of organizations led by him, who participates in Nader's legal, political, and social activitism.
wikipedia: Ralph Nader
shikumen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 石库门 (shíkùmén).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: An architectural style found in Shanghai, China, consisting of two or three floors and a front yard protected by high walls.