cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
choristoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: choristomas
form: choristomata
Etymology: From chorist- + -oma, from Greek χωριστός (khōristós, “separate”).
Senses: examples: text: adrenal choristoma
glosses: A collection of normal cells in an abnormal location.
Derived terms: choristomatous
cistrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cistromes
Etymology: From cis + trans + -ome. Coined by investigators at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School Technologies.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: The set of DNA segments (cis) of a transacting factor on a genome scale.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: A map of all locations effected by the estrogen receptor.
Derived terms: cistromic
cistromics
subcistrome
edentulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈdɛnt.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /iˈdɛnt.jʊ.ləs/
ipa: /iˈdɛn.t͡ʃʊ.ləs/
Etymology: Latin edentulus, which is in turn derived from the prefix e-, meaning "without", and the word dens, meaning "tooth."
Senses: examples: text: A Malay elder crawled on to the veranda, greeted Crabbe with an edentulous "Tabek!" and then crouched in a dark corner, chewing a quid of sireh with hard gums.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 309:
text: Partial edentulism has traditionally been treated with conventional fixed prosthetics when adequate natural tooth abutments are available to support the edentulous span.
ref: 2000, Patrick J. Stevens et al., chapter 7, in Implant Prosthodontics: Clinical and Laboratory Procedures, →ISBN, page 87:
topics: sciences
antonyms: dentulous
glosses: Toothless.
Derived terms: edentulosity
edentulousness
semiedentulous
battle stations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle station
battle stations
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: An alert aboard a warship, summoning the crew to man all weapons and all stations.
Synonyms: word: general quarters
topics: navy
military
war
government
politics
word: action stations
english: popular culture, i.e. Star Trek
translation: popular culture, i.e. Star Trek
word: red alert
Related terms: word: alarums and excursions
word: beat to quarters
word: panic stations
Chinese Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinese Walls
form: Chinese wall
form: Chinese firewall
Etymology: The expression Chinese Wall comes from the Great Wall of China and became a metaphor of barriers, known to go back to the United States stock market crash of 1929. The U.S. government saw the need to maintain separation (or an information barrier) between investment bankers and brokerage firms, to limit the conflict of interest between the two. The first use of Chinese Wall in the general context of keeping confidentiality is unclear.
Senses: examples: text: I concur in the opinion of Justice Haning, but write separately to comment on the apparently widespread use of the term "Chinese Wall" to describe the type of screening mechanism discussed in this case. While our opinion uses the term "screen," both the parties and the trial court used the term "Chinese Wall," which seems to have become a term of art. I write to express my profound objection to the use of this phrase in this context.
ref: 1988. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. v.Superior Court 200, Cal.App.3d 272, 293-294, 245 Cal.Rptr. 873, 887-888
text: The enthusiasm for handy phrases of verbal shorthand is understandable. Occasionally, however, lawyers and judges use a term which is singularly inappropriate. "Chinese Wall" is one such piece of legal flotsam which should be emphatically abandoned. The term has an ethnic focus which many would consider a subtle form of linguistic discrimination. Certainly, the continued use of the term would be insensitive to the ethnic identity of the many persons of Chinese descent.
ref: 1980. The Chinese Wall Defense to Law Firm Disqualification 128 U.Pa.L.Rev. 677
synonyms: ethical screen
ethical wall
glosses: An information barrier within an organization, designed to ensure internal confidentiality; frequently used to prevent conflicts of interest.
chronic cellular dehydration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The condition of individual cells in a patient suffering from chronic dehydration.
dish bitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dish bitches
Senses: synonyms: dish dog
dish pig
glosses: An employee of a restaurant who washes dishware, typically a minimum wage position where workers are not well-treated.
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A reporter who appears using a satellite connection, and must therefore be close to their satellite dish.
disturbance regime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disturbance regimes
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various modes of widespread floral replacement, e.g., flood, fire, disease or wind.
Empty Quiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The seizure, theft, or loss of a nuclear weapon.
Related terms: Broken Arrow
Bent Spear
Faded Giant
Faded Giant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Faded Giants
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A reporting term to identify an event involving a nuclear reactor or radiological accident.
Related terms: Broken Arrow
Bent Spear
Empty Quiver
dispossess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪspəˈzəs/
Forms: form: dispossesses
form: dispossessing
form: dispossessed
form: dispossessed
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French despossesser. Equivalent to dis- + possess.
Senses: glosses: To deprive someone of the possession of land, especially by evicting them.
examples: text: Though Mars himſelfe the angry God of armes,
And all the earthly Potentates conſpire,
To diſpoſſeſſe me of this Diadem:
Yet wil I weare it in deſpight of them
As great commander of this Eaſtearne world, […]
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act (please specify |act=II or III), scene vii:
glosses: To deprive someone of possession in general.
examples: text: It was Bannan who released Agbonlahor for his goal with a long-range curling pass after Stephen Warnock had dispossessed Mohamed Diame.
ref: 2011 October 1, John Sinnott, “Aston Villa 2 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC Sport:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To take possession of the ball/puck etc. (from someone).
Derived terms: dispossessee
dispossessive
dispossessor
Related terms: dispossession
invertible matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: invertible matrices
Senses: examples: text: 1975 [Prentice-Hall], Kenneth Hoffman, Analysis in Euclidean Space, Dover, 2007, page 65,
It says that, if A is a singular matrix, then every neighborhood of A contains an invertible matrix. In other words, if A is singular, we can perturb A just a little and obtain an invertible matrix.
text: There are certain very simple invertible matrices, and every invertible matrix over a field can be built up out of them.
ref: 1997, Bernard L. Johnston, Fred Richman, Numbers and Symmetry: An Introduction to Algebra, CRC Press, page 199:
text: The space of real square matrices of fixed size is a vector space whose dimension is a perfect square and the invertible matrices constitute a dense open subset of this vector space.
ref: 2013, Mahya Ghandehari, Aizhan Syzdykova, Keith F. Taylor, “A four dimensional continuous wavelet transform”, in Azita Mayeli, editor, Commutative and Noncommutative Harmonic Analysis and Applications, American Mathematical Society, page 123:
topics: linear-algebra
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any n×n square matrix for which there exists a corresponding inverse matrix (i.e., a second (or possibly the same) matrix such that when the two are multiplied by each other, in either order, the result is the n×n identity matrix).
Hyponyms: unitary matrix
butterfly bush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterfly bushes
Senses: glosses: Any of several plants that conspicuously attract butterflies
Any buddleia, of genus Buddleja.
glosses: Any of several plants that conspicuously attract butterflies
Any buddleia, of genus Buddleja.
especially of the species Buddleja davidii and Buddleja globosa.
glosses: Any of several plants that conspicuously attract butterflies
Butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa).
glosses: Any of several plants that conspicuously attract butterflies
Blue butterfly bush (Rotheca myricoides, syn. Clerodendrum ugandense).
polymorphemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Etymology: From poly- + morpheme + -ic.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: monomorphemic
bimorphemic
glosses: Made up of multiple morphemes.
informationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informationalism
Etymology: From information + -ism. This word and informationist (one who practices informationism) are first known to have arisen in the work of a group of Scottish poets in the 1994 book Contraflow on the SuperHighway.
Senses: glosses: A significant ideology that information has power when disseminated.
glosses: The use of information as a weapon.
glosses: The act of countering government propaganda.
glosses: The act of undermining advertising.
glosses: Commitment to the idea that the world is fundamentally composed of, supervenes upon, or reduces to, information of some kind.
glosses: Commitment to the truth of one or another form of informational ontology or informational metaphysics .
glosses: A primary aesthetic quality of the literary and/or fictional works belonging to the literary subgenre (of science fiction) called informationist science fiction, and a primary aesthetic disposition of the authors of those works or texts. Commonly included in the corpus of informationist science fiction literature are such texts as Samuel R. Delany's Babel 17, and Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep
knitting chart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knitting charts
Senses: glosses: A graphical method for depicting a knitted fabric.
extracellular matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extracellular matrices
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
cytology
histology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: All the microscopic fibres and other molecular structures that are produced by a particular type of cell but are not part of it (that is, that lie outside its cell membrane), providing support to the cells and often serving as a co-constituent of the tissue that they constitute, especially a connective tissue.
low decile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A low socio-economic standing (used particularly in schooling to describe students).
nervine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈnɝvin/
/ˈnɝvaɪn/
Etymology: From Latin nervinus.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Having the quality of acting upon or affecting the nerves; quieting nervous excitement.
nervine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈnɝvin/
/ˈnɝvaɪn/
Forms: form: nervines
Etymology: From Latin nervinus.
Senses: glosses: A drug or substance that acts upon the nerves.
paipo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by the surfer Wallace Froiseth, possibly misheard or misspelled from Hawaiian pae + poʻo.
Senses: glosses: Any prone-ridden surf-craft that is neither an inflatable mat nor a traditional finless soft bodyboard.
geological matrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geological matrixes
form: geological matrices
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The fine-grained background material in which crystals, pebbles or fossils are embedded in a sedimentary rock
party puffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party puffers
Senses: glosses: A cylindrical blowing device that consists of a mouthpiece, which may or may not be a whistle, attached to a coiled tube of paper, given to guests and used at large celebrations especially New Year's Eve, or birthdays. When the mouthpiece is blown into, the paper tube unravels and a humorous festive noise is produced.
Synonyms: blow-out
blower
fandoozle
flid-whistle
blow tickler
noisemaker
party blower
party horn
squeaker
tweeter
twizzler
philosopheme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fɪˈlɒsəfiːm/
Forms: form: philosophemes
Etymology: Borrowed from the Ancient Greek φιλοσόφημα (philosóphēma, “syllogism”) via Latin philosophema (“syllogism”). The Greek was formed from φιλοσοφέω (philosophéō, “to philosophize or pursue knowledge”) and the nominalizing suffix -μα (-ma).
Senses: examples: text: This, the most venerable, and perhaps the most ancient, of Grecian mythi, is a philosopheme.
ref: 1825, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Prometheus of Aeschylus:
text: Heidegger makes of distortions of bits of ordinary German — particularly nominalisations of prepositions — and his extensive use of a large number of the obscurer philosophemes (big words) of the tradition.
ref: 1991, Kevin Mulligan, “How Not to Read: Derrida on Husserl”, in Topoi, volume 10, number 2, →DOI:
text: ..in those works by Schelling, the didactic tone passes into one of rebuke: readers are frequently taken to task in advance for their inability to understand. Incomprehensible to the reader of his own philosophemes which arise from want of cleverness in his own thinking.
ref: 1994, Dan Potter, “Real Philosophy minus Pretense: Searle on Schelling”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 1, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophical statement, theorem or axiom.
pick up stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: picks up stitches
form: picking up stitches
form: picked up stitches
form: picked up stitches
Senses: glosses: To add stitches to the knitting needle that were previously bound off, or that belong to the selvage, during the process of knitting or entrelac.
pick up stitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Stitches that were added to the row, during knitting.
playdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌdeɪt/
Forms: form: playdates
form: play date
Etymology: From play + date.
Senses: examples: text: (Bitsy) What's your problem... Mom and Dad threatening you with the potty chair again?
(Marvin) Worse[…]Mom arranged a playdate for me with Cailin from preschool.
ref: 2006 March 20, Tom Armstrong, Marvin (comic):
glosses: The occasion of a child having a friend come over to play at their house, traditionally scheduled by both children's parents.
examples: text: The poodles have regular playdates on weekday mornings.
glosses: The occasion of a child having a friend come over to play at their house, traditionally scheduled by both children's parents.
Any scheduled recreation, especially if not scheduled by those directly involved.
examples: text: Without guaranteed playdates for their films, the studios cut back on production drastically.
ref: 2007, Deron Overpeck, Out of the Dark, page 5:
glosses: The date of a showing of a film.
revenue sharing grant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revenue sharing grants
Senses: glosses: Federal grants distributing a portion of federal tax revenues to state and municipal governments.
Ronbot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ronbots
Etymology: Blend of Ron (from the name of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard) + robot
Senses: glosses: A follower of Scientology with a strict or robotic adherence to its teachings.
wikipedia: L. Ron Hubbard
Sahar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Of Arabic or Persian origin. In Persian, سحر (sahar, “dawn”). (In Hebrew, סַהַר (sáhar, “crescent”).)
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Arabic, used in Arabic countries, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
scrumtrelescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scrumtrelescent
form: most scrumtrelescent
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of scrumtrulescent.
serial interval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serial intervals
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: In epidemiology of communicable (infectious) diseases, the time period between the onset of symptoms with the primary patient and the onset of symptoms with the secondary patient (infected by primary).
shifta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiftas
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili shifta, from Amharic ሽፍታ (šəfta).
Senses: glosses: outlaw, bandit
stair railings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The international building code mandates a standard minimum height for stair railings.
glosses: The angled part of a staircase used for handholding. Usually on both sides of the staircase, sometimes it is put only on one side.
Related terms: balustrade
baluster
newel
base rail
volute
turnout
gooseneck
rosette
wall brackets
sugar coated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sugar coated
form: most sugar coated
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sugarcoated.
talent management
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: This expression gained popularity in the late 1990's as technology companies engaged in a 'war for talent'. McKinsey and company coined the term 'war for talent' following a 1997 study and then it was the title of a book by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod.
Senses: glosses: Human capital management of the entire employee lifecycle. Companies that are engaged in talent management are strategic and deliberate in how they source, attract, select, train, develop, promote, and move employees through the organization. This term also incorporates how companies drive performance at the individual level (performance management).
overused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overused
form: most overused
Etymology: From over- + used.
Senses: glosses: Used too much, or too often.
synonyms: overworked
glosses: Hackneyed or clichéd.
raw_tags: of a word or phrase
overused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From over- + used.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overuse
DOMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of delayed-onset muscle soreness.
bone scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bone scans
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray of bone taken after injection of radioactive material that accumulates there and reveals its structure.
dorsiflex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dorsiflexes
form: dorsiflexing
form: dorsiflexed
form: dorsiflexed
form: dorsiflect
Etymology: From dorsi- + flex.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To flex a limb in a dorsal direction.
overstride
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overstrides
form: overstriding
form: overstrode
form: overstrode
form: overstridden
Etymology: From over- + stride.
Senses: examples: text: Unfortunately, by waiting as long as possible each time before jumping, he lost concentration and then, because of overstriding over the first part of the approach run, he made three no-jumps.
ref: 2002, John Kerr, Counselling Athletes: Applying Reversal Theory, page 72:
glosses: to run or walk with an overly long stride
glosses: to stride (or to stand) over something
glosses: to excel or surpass
overstride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstrides
Etymology: From over- + stride.
Senses: examples: text: Although an overstride was not observed in the diagonal type running walk, a moderate overstride was observed in the lateral type.
ref: 1986, American Society of Animal Science. Western Section. Meeting, Proceedings, volumes 37-38, page 190:
glosses: An overly long stride.
footstrike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: footstrikes
Etymology: From foot + strike.
Senses: glosses: The action of the foot striking the ground when walking or running.
buddleia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌdlɪ.ə/
Forms: form: buddleias
Etymology: From translingual Buddleja, after English naturalist Adam Buddle (died 1715).
Senses: examples: text: At the foot of the garden, behind a clump of gooseberry-bushes, stood an arbour formed of a yellow buddleia.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, Australia Felix:
text: But there is one fly in the ointment, which is only too evident at Queen Street and Central... buddleia. […] It became a popular garden plant in the 20th century, when a Chinese variant (Buddleia Davidii ^([sic])) was introduced. That's when the trouble started. The plant has spread like wildfire since. Its fast-growing invasive nature and survivability is a huge problem for the railways, as (left alone) it can cause serious, expensive damage to structures, block drivers sightlines, or pose a risk to lineside workers.
ref: 2024 November 13, Paul Bigland, “Much to admire... but pockets of neglect”, in RAIL, number 1022, page 49:
glosses: A tree or shrub of the genus Buddleja, especially Buddleja davidii, a large ornamental shrub whose lilac flowers attract butterflies.
wikipedia: Adam Buddle
Synonyms: butterfly bush
wrong number
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wrong numbers
Senses: examples: text: I am sorry. You have the wrong number. — Oh. Is this 555-8986? — No. This is 555-8689. — Oh. Excuse me! — Okay. Bye.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
hypernyms: number
phone number
telephone number
glosses: A telephone number dialled by mistake, for example, by transposing digits.
examples: text: - Who was that on the phone?
- It was just a wrong number.
glosses: A telephone call received from an unfamiliar caller, due to a mistake in the number dialled.
examples: text: Codd said . . . when he had her fixed and tested her a few times he would take me up for a ride.
"You got the wrong number," I says. "I don't feel flighty."
ref: 1920, Ring Lardner, The Big Town:
text: The readers probably expecting me to go on about how Johnny was real nostalgic about some kind of material security. . . . Well, the readers got the wrong number.
ref: 1984, David Homel (translator), Jacques Renaud (author), Broke City (original French edition, Le cassé, 1964), p. 37 (Google preview)
text: His musical system, like the political system he served, would rescue the present moment from crisis and place it at last in productive harmony with history's demands. Boy, did he have the wrong number.
ref: 2005 February 20, Richard Taruskin, “Music: Restoring Comrade Roslavets”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Jun 2014:
synonyms: misapprehension
misinterpretation
misunderstanding
glosses: An incorrect notion or understanding concerning a person or situation.
peevishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more peevishly
form: most peevishly
Etymology: From peevish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: "See / Or shut your eyes," said Nature peevishly, / "It nothing skills: I cannot help my case: / 'Tis the Last Judgment's fire must cure this place, / Calcine its clods and set my prisoners free."
ref: 1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XI:
text: His uncles peevishly claimed the paper.
ref: 1938, Evelyn Waugh, Scoop, book I, ch. 2,1:
text: Seated in a kitchen chair, and rasping at his scorched shoulders, he said peevishly, "By ginger, it gives a man the willies, left alone in a place like this all day."
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 78:
glosses: In a peevish manner.
peevishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpivɪʃnəs/
ipa: /-nɪs/
Forms: form: peevishnesses
Etymology: From Middle English pevyshnesse, equivalent to peevish + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Moreover, it were ungenerous, having bred thee up freakish and fiery, to dismiss thee to want or wandering, for shewing that very peevishness and impatience of discipline which arose from thy too delicate nurture.
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 332:
glosses: The state of being peevish.
eccentric contraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eccentric contractions
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The tensioning of a muscle as it is being lengthened
proponents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proponent
postconsonantal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + consonantal.
Senses: examples: text: […] -able does not attach to verbs ending in a postconsonantal liquid […]
ref: 1999, Ingo Plag, Morphological Productivity, page 86:
text: This reconstructed *fra/umíu could in turn go back to earlier *fla/umíu[…] The distinction between postconsonantal -l- and -r- is only preserved in Baunei, for which this specific word is unfortunately not attested.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 124:
glosses: Following or occurring after a consonant.
Derived terms: postconsonantally
postdoctoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊs(t)ˈdɒkt(ə)r(ə)l/
Etymology: From post- + doctoral.
Senses: examples: text: When Dr. Michael Dugan took his first postdoctoral research appointment in 1985, he considered it a steppingstone to a permanent theoretical physics post on a college faculty.
ref: 2001 August 21, Jennifer 8. Lee, “Postdoc Trail: Long and Filled With Pitfalls”, in The New York Times:
glosses: After receiving a doctorate; especially of academic research or study beyond the level of a doctoral degree.
Hypernyms: doctoral
Derived terms: postdoctorally
postdoctoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəʊs(t)ˈdɒkt(ə)r(ə)l/
Forms: form: postdoctorals
Etymology: From post- + doctoral.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of postdoc.
synonyms: word: postdoc
posthypnotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + hypnotic.
Senses: glosses: after being hypnotized
Derived terms: posthypnotic suggestion
posthypnotic suggestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posthypnotic suggestions
Senses: glosses: A suggestion, given to a hypnotized person, to perform some action after awakening, especially in response to a cue.
postilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɒˈstɪlɪən/
ipa: /pəˈstɪljən/
ipa: /poʊˈstɪljən/
Forms: form: postilions
form: postillion
Etymology: From Middle French postillon, and its likely source, Italian postiglione (“guide for driver of post-coach”), from posta (“post”).
Senses: examples: text: C’est un garcon de bonne fortune, said the landlord, pointing through the window to half a dozen wenches who had got round about La Fleur, and were most kindly taking their leave of him, as the postilion was leading out the horses.
ref: 1768, Mr. Yorick [pseudonym; Laurence Sterne], “Montreuil”, in A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] T. Becket and P. A. De Hondt, […], →OCLC:
text: The postilion seized one of his fat horses by the tail, and swung himself up to his seat again.
ref: 1839, [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow], “Mill-wheels and Other Wheels”, in Hyperion, a Romance. […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: Samuel Colman […], →OCLC, 2nd book, page 164:
text: And now the carriage had fairly left the village; yet the postilions slackened their speed, and drew up gradually before a line of almshouses, […]
ref: 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 227:
text: The rain drove into the bride and bridegroom's faces as they passed to the chariot. The postilions' favours draggled on their dripping jackets.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
text: To play the postilion is not an easy thing. It is a trade by itself—half a gunner's and half a groom's. It has to do with horses—that is bad enough ; but also it involves some knowledge of the road.
ref: 1911, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 6, in The Girondin:
text: A very spirited affair it looked with its red body and yellow wheels, bouncing about on its high C springs [...] with its four horses going full stretch and two postilions in knee-cords and top-boots laying into the horses in a lather of dust and excitement.
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:
glosses: A rider mounted on the near (left) leading horse who guides the team pulling a carriage.
glosses: A post-boy, a messenger boy, a swift letter carrier.
Derived terms: postilioned
postilion sentence
postindustrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postindustrial
form: most postindustrial
Etymology: From post- + industrial.
Senses: examples: text: One hypermodern trend entails technological development, producing a postindustrial, information-infused society. This also leads to globalization...
ref: 2000, Stuart S Nagel, Handbook of global political policy:
antonyms: preindustrial
coordinate_terms: industrialized
deindustrialized
reindustrialized
glosses: Describing the economy of a nation in which manufacturing industry becomes less important and the service and information industries become more important.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of or relating to a genre of music derived from industrial music but with electronic and rock influences.
Derived terms: postindustrially
Related terms: deindustrialization
postindustrialization
reindustrialization
postlude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstluːd/
Forms: form: postludes
Etymology: From post- + Latin lūdus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).
Senses: examples: text: In the Sibelian world of song, then, postludes would inevitably sound redundant or extraneous.
ref: 2023, Gustav Djupsjöbacka, The Songs of Jean Sibelius: Poetry, Music, Performance, page 81:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The final part of a piece; especially music played (normally on the organ) at the end of a church service.
examples: text: This was Nabokov’s postlude to Lolita, where he relates the book’s genesis.
ref: 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 313:
glosses: A concluding passage of text or speech; an epilogue or afterword.
postlude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊstluːd/
Forms: form: postludes
form: postluding
form: postluded
form: postluded
Etymology: From post- + Latin lūdus (“play”) (modelled on prelude).
Senses: examples: text: Mercifully never preceded by a drum-roll or postluded by a curtsey for applause, each poem seemed to arise from the surrounding prose, which Courtenay was successfully endeavouring to make sound as if it was being thought up on the spot.
ref: 2003, Clive James, ‘Larkin Treads the Boards’, The Meaning of Recognition, Picador, published 2005, page 95:
glosses: To form a postlude (to); to end with a postlude.
postmenopausal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + menopausal.
Senses: glosses: Subsequent to the menopause.
raw_tags: of a symptom or condition
glosses: Having experienced menopause.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: postmenopausally
postmeridian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + meridian.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to the afternoon
Related terms: post meridiem
postmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postmistresses
Etymology: From post + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A female postmaster
Derived terms: subpostmistress
postnasal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Etymology: From post- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or located near the posterior of the nasal cavity.
Derived terms: post-nasal drip
postnasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪzəl
Forms: form: postnasals
Etymology: From post- + nasal.
Senses: glosses: The posterior half of a divided nasal scale.
postnatal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊstˈneɪtəl/
ipa: /pəʊstˈneɪtəl/
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *pós
Proto-Indo-European *-ti
Proto-Indo-European *pós-ti
Proto-Italic *posti
Latin poste
Latin post
English post-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁tós
Proto-Italic *gnātos
Latin gnātus
Latin nātus
Proto-Italic *-ālis
Latin -ālis
Latin nātālisbor.
Middle English natal
English natal
English postnatal
From post- + natal. First use appears c. 1831.
Senses: glosses: After being born, of or pertaining to the period immediately after birth (of a baby).
glosses: Of a mother, after giving birth.
Synonyms: sense: give birth
word: postpartum
Derived terms: postnatal depression
postnatally
postpartum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈpɑː(ɹ)təm/
Forms: form: post-partum
Etymology: 1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: A non-hormonal birth control capsule that women can insert just before sex. A rape kit that gives victims more agency and streamlines the evidence collection process. An overhauled design for a 150-year-old tool used in postpartum vaginal tearing.
ref: 2021 June 8, Jacqui Palumbo, “These innovative designs are tackling taboo health issues for women”, in CNN:
synonyms: word: postdelivery
word: childing
word: postnatal
english: of a mother
translation: of a mother
word: postpartal
word: post-partural
antonyms: word: antepartum
word: prepartum
word: postnatal
english: of a child
translation: of a child
hypernyms: peripartum
qualifier: a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc; a symptom; a diagnosis or treatment; etc
glosses: After giving birth (often defined as within 30 days after childbirth).
raw_tags: of a mother
Derived terms: nonpostpartum
postpartum depression
postpartum hemorrhage
Related terms: intrapartum
parous
puerperal
puerperium
postpartum
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈpɑː(ɹ)təm/
Forms: form: post-partum
Etymology: 1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: Nothing surprising there (although one relative of mine unequivocally LOVES being pregnant), but what particularly struck me was her complaint that it had messed up her feet, of all things. They had spread out and flattened under the weight of pregnancy, and hurt. It was getting on for a year postpartum and her poor feet were only just getting back to normal.
ref: 2012 January 10, Amy Fleming, “The mother of all maternity shoes”, in The Guardian:
glosses: After giving birth.
postpartum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpəʊstˈpɑː(ɹ)təm/
Forms: form: post-partum
Etymology: 1844, from Latin post (“after”) + partum (“giving birth”), form of partus, from pariō (“I give birth”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“to bring forth”).
Senses: examples: text: Postpartum was hard. When I first thought about having a baby, postpartum wasn't on my mind at all. I was just excited to have a brand-new baby that I could call mine.
ref: 2019, Maranda Bower, Supported in Postpartum: Stories of Rejuvenating Wisdom, page 54:
glosses: The period immediately following childbirth.
examples: text: Brooke made a face at her. “You've always been disgustingly resilient. I had postpartum with Geoffrey. It was grim. But I know you'll be up and singing Christmas carols by tomorrow morning, checking on the roof project, telling everyone what to do.”
ref: 2014, Christine Rimmer, The Earl's Pregnant Bride, Toronto, ON: Harlequin Enterprises, →ISBN, page 216:
text: When you were two months old … I was having a really hard time. Out-of-my-mind hard. I probably had postpartum and I hadn't dealt with, well anything, regarding the rape. I had dropped out of school, my parents knew I was pregnant but that was all they knew so they were pissed. I was beyond alone.
ref: 2021, Carey Crim, “Never Not Once”, in Lawrence Harbison, editor, The Best Women's Monologues from New Plays, 2020, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 99:
glosses: Ellipsis of postpartum depression.
postoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊstˈɑpəɹətɪv/
ipa: /pəʊstˈɒpəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: post-operative
Etymology: From post- + operative.
Senses: examples: text: The postoperative procedure is as follows.
text: 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139,
She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
coordinate_terms: preoperative
glosses: Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.
Related terms: postoperational
postoperatory
postoperative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /poʊstˈɑpəɹətɪv/
ipa: /pəʊstˈɒpəɹətɪv/
Forms: form: postoperatives
form: post-operative
Etymology: From post- + operative.
Senses: glosses: A transgender person who has undergone gender reassignment surgery.
last orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: A pint of lager, please. - Sorry, mate, you missed last orders.
glosses: A short period of time, which is usually announced by ringing a bell and is between 5 and 15 minutes long, just before closing time. This is normally before the public house is no longer allowed to serve alcoholic beverages due to licensing laws.
Synonyms: word: last call
Related terms: closing time
drinking-up time
stroking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: strōkʹ-ĭnɡ
ipa: /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
other: /ˈstɹoʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
other: /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stroke
stroking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: strōkʹ-ĭnɡ
ipa: /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
other: /ˈstɹoʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
other: /ˈstɹəʊ̯k.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
Forms: form: strokings
Senses: examples: text: I doubt not but with one gentle stroking to wipe away ten thousand tears.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: The act of making strokes or giving a stroke.
topics: business
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: The act of laying small gathers (plaits) in cloth in regular order.
Derived terms: beard-stroking
four-stroking
stroked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a replacement crankshaft with a longer stroke than normal
raw_tags: of a car engine
stroked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stroke
stroker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strokers
Etymology: From stroke + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who strokes.
glosses: Something with which to stroke.
glosses: A four-stroke engine or by extension the vehicle itself; especially a motorcycle, as opposed to a two-stroke motorcycle (smoker).
glosses: A masturbator.
glosses: A loser.
glosses: A criminal, a trickster.
strokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stroker
dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪz/
homophone: dies
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of dye
dyes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪz/
homophone: dies
rhymes: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dye
fondles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fondle
fondles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fondle
fondling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒndlɪŋ/
Forms: form: fondlings
Etymology: From fond + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: Yet were her words and lookes but false and fayned, / To some hid end to make more easie way, / Or to allure such fondlings whom she trayned / Into her trap […].
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: 'How can you say I am harsh, you naughty fondling?' cried the mistress, amazed at the unreasonable assertion.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter 10, in Wuthering Heights, volume I:
glosses: A foolish person.
glosses: A pet or person who is fondled; someone who is much loved.
Related terms: fondler
fondling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒndlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɒnd(ə)lɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɒn.dɫ̩.ɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈfɒndlɪŋ/
Etymology: From fondle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fondle
Derived terms: fondlingly
fondling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɒndlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɒnd(ə)lɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈfɒn.dɫ̩.ɪŋ]
ipa: /ˈfɒndlɪŋ/
Forms: form: fondlings
Etymology: From fondle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: amorous fondling
ref: 1835, Emma Whitehead, Pierce Falcon, the Outcast:
glosses: The act of caressing; manifestation of tenderness.
fondled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fondle
fondler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fondlers
Etymology: From fondle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Freddy is a compulsive fondler: he needs the cuddly cat on his lap whenever his lover is out.
glosses: One who fondles.
Related terms: fondling
fondlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fondler
shero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃiɹoʊ/
ipa: /ˈʃɪəɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Forms: form: sheroes
Etymology: Blend of she + hero.
Senses: examples: text: Packing estrogen and, not infrequently, a pen and a sword, sheroes come in every imaginable shape, size, and color, and manifest their sheroism in infinite ways.
ref: 1998, Varla Ventura, Sheroes: Bold, Brash, and Absolutely Unabashed Superwomen from Susan B. Anthony to Xena, Conari Press, →ISBN, →OL:
text: Every human grouping, whether it's just two people, a family, people in the neighborhood, people in the city, in a nation, a tribe, a species; people live in direct relation to the heroes and the sheroes they have.
ref: 2006 November 30, Dave Chappelle & Maya Angelou (Iconoclasts), season 2, episode 6, Maya Angelou (actor), via Sundance:
text: He talks about how we must remember the unsung heroes and sheroes of the Talahassee boycott, of the movement in general, and finally, he wonders how C. K. Steele would be accepted here.
ref: 2010 April 1, Ana Maria Spagna, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus: A Daughter's Civil Rights Journey, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN:
text: “They are nobodies. They could be silenced tomorrow. They are sheroes, to the world.”
ref: 2012 August 17, Melena Ryzik, quoting Kate Conroy, “In New York, a Show of Solidarity for Russian Punk Band”, in New York Times:
topics: feminism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
synonyms: word: hera
word: heroine
glosses: A female hero.
Related terms: sheroic
fondlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fondlingly
form: most fondlingly
Etymology: From fondling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fondling manner.
kodo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: hureek
koda
glosses: kodo millet, Paspalum scrobiculatum
stoutly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stoutly
form: most stoutly
Etymology: From Middle English stoutely, stouteliche, stoutliche, equivalent to stout + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He stoutly defended himself.
text: He stoutly denied there was anything between them.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: In a stout manner; lustily; boldly; obstinately.
examples: text: He was a stoutly-built and thickly-set man, about the average height, with all the ordinary symptoms of paralysis […]
ref: 1870, Transactions of the Pathological Society of London:
glosses: Of stout build.
Synonyms: proudly
robustly
strongly
torely
holy hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: the hour of fasting and prayer before communion is to be taken.
glosses: the hour between 2.30 pm and 3.30 pm that pubs formerly had to shut to comply with licencing laws.
bilboe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bilboes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bilbo.
opisthodomos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opisthodomoi
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ὀπισθόδομος (opisthódomos, “back room”), from ὄπισθεν (ópisthen) + δόμος (dómos).
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: opisthodome
glosses: A porch at the rear of a temple, set against the blank back wall of the cella.
cloud bank
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud banks
form: cloudbank
Senses: examples: text: The hills were slate under the stacks of black cloudbank.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 6:
text: "Then he wrote: “Sunset threatening, with a low bank of clouds to N. and E. Sky clear overhead.”"
ref: 1919, Joseph Conrad, Typhoon:
glosses: A wall of clouds, rising above horizon or observed from a distance, but not overhead.
Moorish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmʊə.ɹɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈmɔː.ɹɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈmʊɹ.ɪʃ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹ.ɪʃ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪʃ
Forms: form: more Moorish
form: most Moorish
Etymology: From Moor + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: I joy to see you wear around your neck the holy relic I bestowed on you; — but what Moorish charmlet is that you wear beside it?
ref: 1829 May 2, [Walter Scott], Anne of Geierstein; or, The Maiden of the Mist. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Cadell and Co., […]; London: Simpkin and Marshall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Moors or their culture.
examples: text: Mar-a-Lago was quiet three days before Thanksgiving. Donald Trump’s Moorish palace seemed all but deserted late that morning, the seaside estate’s cavernous living room traversed intermittently by a junior staffer or silent aide.
ref: 2024 December 12, Eric Cortellessa, “Donald Trump 2024 TIME Person of the Year”, in Time:
topics: architecture
glosses: Of or pertaining to a style of Spanish and Portuguese architecture from the time of the Moors, characterized by the horseshoe arch and ornate, geometric decoration.
Derived terms: Moorish arch
Moorish Science
morris
Morris
morris dance
muthas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutha
methamphetamine hydrochloride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɛθamˈfɛtəmiːn ˌhaɪdɹə(ʊ)ˈklɔːɹaɪd/
Senses: examples: text: The appropriation artist had been led to believe that he was a former speed addict, intravenous addiction to methamphetamine hydrochloride is what he remembered telling that one,[…]
ref: 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 23:
synonyms: word: crystal
word: crystal meth
word: ice
word: chalk
word: crank
word: crystal
word: crystal meth
word: fire
word: glass
word: go fast
word: go-fast
word: gogo
word: ice
word: jib
word: meth
word: methamphetamine
word: methedrine
word: methylamphetamine
word: poor man's cocaine
word: quartz
word: shabu
word: shards
word: speed
word: T
word: tina
word: tweak
glosses: The hydrochloride of the drug methamphetamine.
alcohols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcohol
lops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lop
lops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lop