cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oxylith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyliths
Etymology: From oxy- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A substance, containing sodium peroxide and other salts, which releases oxygen upon contact with water.
Synonyms: oxygen stone
oxygen stone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: oxylith
bring home the bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: brings home the bacon
form: bringing home the bacon
form: brought home the bacon
form: brought home the bacon
Senses: examples: text: I am going to do my bit, Corky, and it may be that my bit will turn out to be just the trifle that brings home the bacon.
ref: 1924, P.G. Wodehouse, The World of Ukbridge:
text: Brown had pushed the champion very hard for first place the previous year, and to many of his supporters, this year he could "bring home the bacon".
ref: 2002, Joseph Andre Ryan, The Tely 10: A History of Newfoundland's Premier Road Race, 1922-2000:
synonyms: triumph
walk off with
glosses: To win or succeed.
examples: text: It's just that I think I'm going to lose my job at the studio and am damned scared of not being able to bring home the bacon.
ref: 2005, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul:
text: No one brought home the bacon better than Stevens.
ref: 2008 November 22, “In Alaska, Stevens' long reign is over”, in Los Angeles Times:
text: I have to say I like being the man, bringing home the bacon.
ref: 2009 October 21, Stuart Jeffries, “Why don't more dads work part-time?”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: bring home the bacon
word: carry one's weight
word: earn a living
word: earn one's corn
word: earn one's crust
word: earn one's keep
word: keep the home fires burning
word: put bread on the table
word: put food on the table
glosses: To have employment which provides remuneration to satisfy the basic needs of oneself and one's family.
Synonyms: put bread on the table
put food on the table
make ends meet
Related terms: keep the home fires burning
keep the lights on
keep the wolf from the door
oxyproline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxyprolines
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a lactam of glutamic acid
Synonyms: pyroglutamic acid
make a living
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a living
form: making a living
form: made a living
form: made a living
Senses: examples: text: You found paradise in America. You had a good trade, made a good living.
ref: 1972 March 14, Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather, spoken by Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando), Paramount Pictures:
synonyms: earn a living
glosses: To earn enough income to support oneself and, if applicable, one's family.
glosses: To manage to find enough food to survive.
raw_tags: of animals
Synonyms: word: bring home the bacon
word: carry one's weight
word: earn a living
word: earn one's corn
word: earn one's crust
word: earn one's keep
word: keep the home fires burning
word: put bread on the table
word: put food on the table
Hyponyms: word: get along
word: get by
word: keep body and soul together
word: keep the lights on
word: keep the wolf from the door
word: make do
word: make ends meet
word: muddle through
word: scrape along
word: scrape by
word: scratch a living
word: scratch by
word: coin it
word: kill it
word: make a bundle
word: make a fortune
word: make a killing
word: make a mint
word: make bank
word: make money
word: rake it in
word: turn an honest penny
Related terms: word: living wage
word: daily bread
word: pay the bills
word: pay the rent
swim with sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: swims with sharks
form: swimming with sharks
form: swam with sharks
form: swum with sharks
Senses: glosses: To operate among dangerous people.
swimming with sharks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of swim with sharks
hexoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexoxides
Etymology: From hex- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any oxide containing six oxygen atoms in each molecule
Derived terms: annulene hexoxide
arsenic hexoxide
chlorine hexoxide
dichlorine hexoxide
divanadium hexoxide
pentaphosphorus hexoxide
phosphorus hexoxide
tetraarsenic hexoxide
tetranitrogen hexoxide
tetraphosphorous hexoxide
titanium hexoxide
whatever floats your boat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: The earliest evidence hints that figurative use of the phrase originated among pleasure boaters in the USA.
Senses: examples: text: You can achieve a non-ordinary or altered state with drugs, drumming, dancing, fasting, meditation, whatever floats your boat—floats it into the beyond, that is.
ref: 2025 May 17, James Parker, “Return of the Shaman”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
text: You can fill your life with love / You can fill your life with owt / You can fill your lifе with food and drink / Or whatever floats your boat
ref: 2025, “The Hymn of the North”, in Jarvis Cocker (lyrics), More, performed by Pulp:
synonyms: suit yourself
glosses: Do whatever makes you happy or stimulates you.
Derived terms: whatever butters your biscuit
whatever butters your biscuits
whatever butters your bread
whatever butters your muffin
whatever butters your toast
whatever humps your camel
whatever melts your butter
whatever sizzles your bacon
whatever tickles your pickle
whatever winds your clock
Related terms: float someone's boat
whatever helps you sleep at night
you do you
octoxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octoxides
Etymology: From oct- + oxide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any oxide having eight oxygen atoms in each molecule or unit cell
Derived terms: dichlorine octoxide
tetraphosphorus octoxide
trisulfur octoxide
triuranium octoxide
uranium octoxide
whatever creams your twinkie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Related to the Twinkie brand of cream-filled snack cake.
Senses: examples: 1998: “Gidget”, alt.support.marriage (Google group): Why NOT Get Married?, the 3ʳᵈ day of November at 9 o’clock a.m.
I guess the thrill is in the conflict, not in the need to know. Hey, whatever creams your twinkie, Binky.
2001: “Armin Scheans”, rec.motorcycles (Google group): Buell M2 Cyclone vs Honda VTR 1000, the 23ʳᵈ day of November at 2:53pm
Of course, you can’t ride a stat sheet and there are more to bikes than just numbers. Get whatever creams your twinkie.
2003: “johnny dupe”, alt.music.pink-floyd (Google group): AMPF Official drunk thresad NPFR, the 25ᵗʰ day of January at 9:10am
I’m whacked on antidepressants and Diet Coke, and i’m willing to bet my buzz is better.
But whatever creams your twinkie.
glosses: Do what you will, whatever makes you happy.
Synonyms: whatever floats your boat
American Dream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the American Dream
form: American Dreams
form: American dream
Etymology: Of unknown origin. First attested in the 1910s. Popularized by American writer and historian James Truslow Adams in 1931.
Senses: examples: text: They are not racists or sick; they are not guilty of the crime that plagues the land. They are black and they are white —they're native born and foreign born—they're young and they're old. […] They give drive to the spirit of America. They give lift to the American Dream.
ref: 1968 August 8, Richard Nixon, Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech, Miami Beach, Florida:
text: If America has stood for anything unique in the history of the world, it has been for the American dream, the belief in the common man and the insistence upon his having, as far as possible, equal opportunity in every way with the rich one.
ref: 1931, James Truslow Adams, The Epic Of America, Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, page 135:
text: But there has been also the American dream, that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for every man, with opportunity for each according to his ability or achievement.
ref: 1931, James Truslow Adams, The Epic Of America, Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, Epilogue, page 404:
text: “The whole notion of the American dream,” said Frank Levy, an M.I.T. economist, “described a mass upward mobility that is just a lot harder to achieve right now.”
ref: 2012 October 24, David Leonhardt, quoting Frank Levy, “Standard of Living Is in the Shadows as Election Issue”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Now, a new crop of Republican candidates and elected officials are using the phrase in a different way, invoking the same promise but arguing in speeches, ads and mailings that the American dream is dying or in danger, threatened by what they see as rampant crime, unchecked illegal immigration, burdensome government regulations and liberal social policies.
ref: 2022 August 21, Jazmine Ulloa, “How a Storied Phrase Became a Partisan Battleground”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Our confidence is back. And the American dream is surging —bigger and better than ever before.
ref: 2025 March 5, Naomi Lim, quoting Donald Trump, “Trump to say America’s ‘momentum’ is back after Biden’s ‘mess’”, in Washington Examiner:
glosses: The ideal stressing egalitarianism and that every citizen of the United States should have an equal opportunity to achieve material prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.
Related terms: American way
DREAMer
Manifest Destiny
upward mobility
Chinese Dream
oxidimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxide + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of volumetric analysis using an oxidizing agent such as potassium permanganate.
Derived terms: oxidimetric
Related terms: iodometry
oxidise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oxidises
form: oxidising
form: oxidised
form: oxidised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oxidize.
Derived terms: antioxidise
deoxidise
oxidisable
oxidisation
oxidiser
reoxidise
oxidable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oxide + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: capable of being oxidized, or converted into an oxide
Derived terms: unoxidable
Related terms: oxidizable
oxidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oxidates
form: oxidating
form: oxidated
form: oxidated
Etymology: From oxide + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To oxidize.
Derived terms: antioxidating
deoxidate
disoxidate
nonoxidating
oxidative
oxidator
unoxidated
Related terms: oxidation
oxidize
oxide
oxidate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidates
Etymology: From oxide + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxide.
darken someone's doorstep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darkens someone's doorstep
form: darkening someone's doorstep
form: darkened someone's doorstep
form: darkened someone's doorstep
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darken someone's door.
ace up one's sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aces up one's sleeve
Etymology: From the dishonest hiding of a high-value ace card for use during play, e.g. in the game of poker.
Senses: examples: text: SCP-7450 is an apocalyptic scenario where the Foundation has to resort to an ace up their sleeves and belief in a higher power solves the problem, but not in the way anyone would expect.
ref: 2023 October 14, “Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7450 - L is for Lamentations” (0:49 from the start), in The Exploring Series, archived from the original on 14 Oct 2023:
glosses: A surprise advantage of which others are not aware.
Synonyms: word: ace in the hole
word: trick up one's sleeve
of age
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He's of age now: he can make his own decisions.
text: Once one is of age 16, one's horizons broaden; once on is of age 21 one's horizons are limitless.
antonyms: under age
glosses: Old enough to be considered an adult (in law, or by society generally).
examples: text: One must be 18 years (of age) to be an eligible voter in most countries.
topics: law
glosses: Having existed for a certain period of time; used in referring to a person's age.
Derived terms: come of age
corridors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corridor
WM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WMs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: Initialism of watermark.
glosses: Initialism of woman marine.
glosses: Initialism of walking mattress.
coordinate_terms: WF
glosses: Initialism of white male.
raw_tags: in personal ads
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
coordinate_terms: DM
DE
glosses: Initialism of window manager.
glosses: Initialism of Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
bodig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈboʊ.dɪɡ/
Senses: examples: text: Only by degrees did it become clear to them, and him, that this was an organic malady, an all-too-familiar one, the bodig.
ref: ´1997, Oliver Sacks, The Island of the Colorblind
text: Often lumped with lytico owing to clinical, familial, and pathological associations, is the parkinsonism-dementia complex of Guam (PDCG), known locally as bodig; 40% of patients with bodig also have lytico. PDCG has its onset in middle[…]
ref: 2011 March 10, Carlo Colosimo, David E. Riley, Gregor K. Wenning, Handbook of Atypical Parkinsonism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 108:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical condition prevalent on Guam, or an aspect of Lytico-Bodig disease, which causes dementia.
Derived terms: lytico-bodig
hysterokinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhɪstəɹəʊkɪˈnɛtɪk/
Etymology: From hystero- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: The PIE word for ‘father’ was hysterokinetic: nominative singular *ph₂-tér-s, genitive *ph₂-tr-és.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of Indo-European nouns, characterised by having an accent on the suffix in strong cases, which shifts to the ending in weak cases.
Synonyms: hysterodynamic
Coordinate terms: acrostatic
amphikinetic
proterokinetic
circumferentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumferentors
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
surveying
glosses: An instrument used to measure horizontal angles, consisting of a brass circle and an index, all of one piece.
Related terms: semicircumferentor
appraisee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appraisees
Etymology: From appraise + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: This form of classroom observation calls for more confidence in the process on the part of the appraisee than more general observation.
ref: 1991, Howard Bradley, Staff Development:
glosses: One who is appraised; one undergoing an appraisal.
kick-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kick-offs
form: kickoff
Etymology: Deverbal from kick off.
Senses: examples: text: The atmosphere at Upton Park before kick-off reflected the palpable tension surrounding the club right now
ref: 2011 January 11, Jonathan Stevenson, “West Ham 2 - 1 Birmingham”, in BBC:
text: Alcohol consumption following football matches is fuelling domestic abuse in the hours after a game, according to new evidence suggesting that changing kick-off times could help reduce violence.
ref: 2021 July 4, Michael Savage, “Early kick-offs linked to more alcohol abuse and violence in the home”, in The Observer:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The opening kick of each half of a game of football.
examples: text: Duffy, 26, began a campaign for the 9th Suffolk district […] The crowd of approximately 50 people at his kickoff party was overwhelming composed of other young, white gay men.
ref: 1990 February 4, Laura Briggs, “Gay Republican To Oppose Black Rep”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 3:
text: Darbishire glanced at the first manuscript. "This one’s pretty ribby for a kick-off. It’s Binns’ famous effort.”
ref: 1952, Anthony Buckeridge, Jennings and Darbishire:
glosses: The opening sequence of any event.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The opening sequence of notes in a song, usually played by the song's main instrument, to indicate the beginning of the song.
kurgan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kʊəˈɡɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Forms: form: kurgans
form: kurhan
Etymology: From Russian курга́н (kurgán), from a Turkic language.
Senses: examples: text: The kurgans and the burials they contain are consistent with the early IE burial practices outlined above, and the late Lithuanian archaeologist Marija Gimbutas proposed that the kurgan peoples were in fact early Indo-Europeans.
ref: 2004, Benjamin Fortson, Indo-European Language and Culture, Blackwell, published 2005, page 41:
text: A broad scatter of kurgan graves in the steppes contained imported Tripolye C2 pots (among other imported pot types) and a few, like Serezlievka, also contained Tripolye-like schematic rod-headed figurines.
ref: 2007, David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language, Princeton: Princeton University Press, page 498:
text: In 1897 N. I. Veselovskii excavated the very large, nearly 11 meter high Oshad kurgan or barrow in the town of Maikop in the Kuban region near the foothills of the northwestern Caucasus (the present-day capital of the Adygei Republic).[…]This discovery stimulated the excavation of other large kurgans located in the same general region, some of which seemed royal-like in their dimensions and, when not robbed in antiquity, in their materials.
ref: 2009, Philip L. Kohl, “Chapter 6: The Maikop Singularity: The Unequal Accumulation of Wealth on the Bronze Age Eurasian Steppe?”, in Bryan K. Hanks, Katheryn M. Linduff, editors, Social Complexity in Prehistoric Eurasia: Monuments, Metals and Mobility, page 91:
text: Even in the middle Volga region some kurgans have central graves containing adult females, as at Krasnosamarskoe IV.[…]The appearance of adult females in one out of five kurgan graves, including central graves, suggests that gender was not the only factor that determined who was buried under a kurgan.
ref: 2010, David W. Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, page 329:
glosses: A prehistoric burial mound once used by peoples in Siberia and Central Asia.
Synonyms: burial mound § Synonyms
Related terms: english: a city in Russia
translation: a city in Russia
alt: Курган – Kurgán
word: Kurgan
set piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: set pieces
form: setpiece
form: set-piece
Senses: glosses: A piece of freestanding stage scenery.
examples: text: set-piece battle
glosses: Any carefully planned sequence of operations, especially as part of a military operation.
examples: text: What’s so great about the episode is it takes its time. The first 30 minutes of this 79-minute behemoth—a model for season eight’s reportedly extended run-times—are a single set piece, the big parlay in the Dragon Pit at King’s Landing.
ref: 2017 August 27, Brandon Nowalk, “Game Of Thrones slows down for the longest, and best, episode of the season (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: The message is that Hynkel is not a brilliant strategist or a mighty leader. He is an overgrown adolescent – as demonstrated in the sublime set piece in which he dances with an inflatable globe, dreaming of being "emperor of the world".
ref: 2021 February 5, Nicholas Barber, “The Great Dictator: The film that dared to laugh at Hitler”, in BBC:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
video-games
glosses: An elaborate and interesting scene in a movie or video game, usually the most important and visually iconic scene in the work.
examples: text: Roberto Carlos is deadly from set pieces.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Any planned strategy that a team uses after play is restarted with a free kick, penalty kick, corner kick, goal kick, throw-in or kickoff.
Related terms: dead ball
wingback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wingbacks
Etymology: From wing + back.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A player who doubles on either side of the center as a defender when their team is defending, and a winger when they are attacking.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A running back who is in formation near the line of scrimmage and outside the tackles, a slotback.
glosses: One of the projecting side pieces on a wingback chair.
glosses: A wingback chair.
torporific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɔː(ɹ)pəˈɹɪfɪk/
Forms: form: more torporific
form: most torporific
Etymology: From torpor + -ific.
Senses: synonyms: word: tedious
word: tiresome
word: drudgerous
word: irksome
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: tedious
word: torporific
word: wearing
word: tiresome
word: wearisome
glosses: Inducing torpor; tending to cause apathy or lethargy.
show one's true colors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows one's true colors
form: showing one's true colors
form: showed one's true colors
form: shown one's true colors
form: showed one's true colors
form: show one's true colours
Etymology: Nautical origin. The word colors (or colours) refers to the flag or ensign which every ship is obliged to fly at sea. It was once a common deception of pirates to “sail under false colours” and fly a friendly flag in order to get within close range of potential targets (other ships) without exciting suspicion. Only when the pirate ship reached close quarters would it unfurl its true colours.
Senses: glosses: To reveal how one really is, as opposed to how one has been portrayed or after having been deceptively and deliberately misleading.
Synonyms: break cover
show one's true stripes
true colors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: American spelling of true colours
oxi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Obsolete spelling of oxy-.
oxal-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: oxalo-
glosses: derived from, or related to oxalic acid
Derived terms: oxalacetic
oxaluria
oxalo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: derived from, or related to oxalic acid
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: containing the radical -CO-COOH derived from oxalic acid by removal of a hydroxyl
Synonyms: oxal-
Derived terms: oxaloacetate
oxalocrotonate
oxalosuccinate
oxalotrophic
oxine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: 8-hydroxyquinoline when used to form complexes with metal ions in inorganic analysis.
Derived terms: oxinate
planetary gear train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planetary gear trains
Senses: glosses: An assembly of meshed gears consisting of a central (sun) gear, a coaxial internal gear-wheel and one or more intermediate pinions supported on a revolving carrier.
Related terms: epicyclic gear train
gear train
planetary gear
plasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplazmɒn/
Forms: form: plasmons
Etymology: From plasma + -on.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The quantum of waves produced by the collective effects of large numbers of electrons when disturbed from equilibrium.
Derived terms: magnetoplasmon
plasmonic
surface plasmon
Related terms: phonon
photon
plasmonics
plasmon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplazmɒn/
Forms: form: plasmons
Etymology: From (cyto)plasm + -on.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: All the genetic material outside the cell nucleus.
Derived terms: homoplasmon
plate girder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plate girders
Senses: glosses: A beam built of steel plates and shapes welded or bolted together to form a deep beam larger than could be produced by a rolling mill.
pleochroic halo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleochroic halos
form: pleochroic haloes
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A microscopic spherical region in which there is a change in color from the surrounding mineral, due to radiation damage from alpha particles.
Panendeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of panendeism.
popover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: popovers
Etymology: pop + over
Senses: glosses: A light hollow muffin, resembling an individual Yorkshire pudding.
glosses: A pop-up element that is rendered over the current web page rather than opening a new tab or window.
glosses: A kind of versatile wraparound dress.
PanenTheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of PanenTheist (alternative spelling of panentheists).
pan-en-theist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan-en-theists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panentheist.
Pan-en-theist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pan-en-theists
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panentheist.
pan-en-theists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan-en-theist
PanenTheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PanenTheists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of panentheist.
brattle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹætəl/
rhymes: -ætəl
Forms: form: brattles
form: brattling
form: brattled
form: brattled
Etymology: Apparently imitative, probably under influence of break + rattle.
Senses: examples: text: Him too I hate, the same as I hate these brainless budding trees, these brattling birds.
ref: 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 6:
glosses: To rattle; to make a scampering noise.
gewgawed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡjuːɡɔːd/
Forms: form: more gewgawed
form: most gewgawed
Etymology: From gewgaw + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The inside walls would be beautifully painted and hung with tapestries, and every cross-timber or falcon's perch was carved and gewgawed with toads, snakes, dragon shapes, deer, cows, pigs, trees, trolls.
ref: 1972, John Gardner, Grendel, London, page 31:
glosses: Covered in or decorated with gewgaws.
commission de bene esse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commissions de bene esse
Etymology: From Latin de bene esse (“for the good cause”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A commission appointed to take evidence by deposition where the deponent is unwilling or unable to come to court and the court cannot compel the witness/deponent.
spot-on
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more spot-on
form: most spot-on
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of spot on.
unrelenting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unrelenting
form: most unrelenting
Etymology: From un- + relenting.
Senses: examples: text: There’s faith in their unrelenting woes, / There’s Life in the Old Land yet!
ref: 1908, James Ryder Randall, “There’s Life in the Old Land Yet”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md.; New York: John Murphy Company, page 23:
synonyms: unyielding
brutal
hard
harsh
stern
cruel
glosses: Not relenting; not yielding in strength, severity, or determination.
examples: text: Tears may not bring again Sardathrion. But this the gods may do who have seen, and seen with unrelenting eyes, the sorrows of ten thousand worlds—thy gods may weep for thee.
ref: 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods, London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 5:
glosses: Having no pity; not being or becoming lenient, mild, gentle, or merciful
Synonyms: relentless
Related terms: relent
unrelentingly
unrelentingness
unrelentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrelentingly
form: most unrelentingly
Etymology: From unrelenting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unrelenting manner, as:
Unceasingly.
raw_tags: of undesirable events
glosses: In an unrelenting manner, as:
Rigidly; cruelly.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: relentlessly
continuously
rigidly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪd.li/
Forms: form: more rigidly
form: most rigidly
Etymology: From rigid + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: What could have been done by such a machine downhill can only be conjectured, for the maximum speed was restricted rigidly to 80 m.p.h.
ref: 1952 December, 'Mercury', “Modern French Locomotive Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:
glosses: In a rigid manner; stiffly.
unrelentingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unrelenting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: It plausibly pressed upon him, that as all the evidences of his mother's dying unrelentingness toward him were negative; and the only positive evidence—so to speak—of even that negativeness, was the will which omitted all mention of Pierre […]
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, page 213:
glosses: The quality of being unrelenting.
inflexibly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inflexibly
form: most inflexibly
Etymology: From inflexible + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a firmness that resists all importunity or persuasion; in an inflexible, unyielding or immovable manner; relentlessly.
Palauan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Belauan
Etymology: From Palau + -an.
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in the Pacific, in the Republic of Palau. It is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, and is considered to be one of two languages in Micronesia belonging to the Western Austronesian group, all others considered to be members of the Oceanic subgroup.
Palauan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Palauans
form: Belauan
Etymology: From Palau + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Palau.
Palauan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Belauan
Etymology: From Palau + -an.
Senses: glosses: From or relating to Palau.
sweeter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of sweet: more sweet
inflexibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inflexible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: inflexibility
rigidity
firmness
glosses: The quality or state of being inflexible
glosses: Obstinacy of will or temper; firmness of purpose that will not yield to importunity or persuasion; unbending pertinacity.
inflexibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inflexibilities
Etymology: From French inflexibilité, from Old French inflectibilité. Equivalent to in- + flexibility or inflexible + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: inflexibleness
rigidity
obstinacy
glosses: The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness
rigidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈd͡ʒɪdɪti/
Forms: form: rigidities
Etymology: From rigid + -ity, from Latin rigiditas.
Senses: examples: text: moral rigidity
text: The metal’s rigidity made it hard to bend.
text: She disliked the rigidity of the rules.
glosses: The quality or state of being rigid; lack of pliability; the quality of resisting change of physical shape
examples: text: structural rigidity
glosses: The amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form.
examples: text: speak with excessive rigidity
glosses: Stiffness of appearance or manner; want of ease or elegance.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: stickiness (of prices/wages etc.). Describing the tendency of prices and money wages to adjust to changes in the economy with a certain delay.
Synonyms: rigidness
Derived terms: Born rigidity
modulus of rigidity
rigidity modulus
malleability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malleabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being malleable.
glosses: The property by virtue of which a material can be extended in all directions without rupture by the application of load; a material's ability to be bent, formed, or shaped without cracking or breaking.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a property of a cryptographic algorithms in which an adversary can alter a ciphertext such that it decrypts to a related plaintext
Derived terms: unmalleability
malleably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more malleably
form: most malleably
Etymology: From malleable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a malleable manner; flexibly.
malleableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From malleable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being malleable.
friability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: friabilities
Etymology: From French friabilité.
Senses: antonyms: nonfriability
glosses: The quality of being friable, or easily broken, crumbled, or reduced to powder; friableness.
friableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From friable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being friable; friability.
friably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more friably
form: most friably
Etymology: From friable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a friable manner.
brittleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brittlenesses
Etymology: From brittle + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: [David] Riesman did his best, in prefaces to two subsequent editions of the book (at great length in 1961, and, with some brittleness about having to do it once more, in 1969), to correct this reading—to insist that he never meant to suggest that Americans now were any more conformist than they ever had been, or that there's even such a thing as social structure without conformist consensus.
ref: 2013 May 7, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, “Yelp and the Wisdom of "The Lonely Crowd"”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Aug 2023:
text: These vignettes often have the flavor of case studies, with interlocking themes related to the brittleness of the body and the complicated work of mourning.
ref: 2018 August 14, Parul Sehgal, “Fables Leap Back and Forth Through Time in 'Flights'”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Apr 2023:
text: In Scotland, the Tay [bridge] fell (in part) as textbook testament to the brittleness of cast iron.
ref: 2022 July 27, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Bridge disasters that spanned an Empire”, in RAIL, number 962, page 58:
synonyms: word: brittility
glosses: The state of being brittle (in various senses).
Hyponyms: software brittleness
fragility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹəˈd͡ʒɪlɪti/
rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Forms: form: fragilities
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French fragilité, from Latin fragilitās. Doublet of frailty. Morphologically fragile + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: The condition or quality of being fragile; brittleness; frangibility.
glosses: Weakness; feebleness.
glosses: Liability to error and sin; frailty.
Derived terms: antifragility
black fragility
fragility test
infragility
osmofragility
skin fragility syndrome
white fragility
frailty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪ(ə)lti/
Forms: form: frailties
Etymology: From Middle English frelete, frailte, from Old French fraileté, from Latin fragilitās. By surface analysis, frail + -ty. Doublet of fragility.
Senses: examples: text: the limitations and restraints of civil government, and a legal constitution, may be defended, either from reason, which reflecting on the great frailty and corruption of human nature, teaches, that no man can safely be trusted with unlimited authority ;
ref: 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral., London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 36, n. 1:
text: For all their frailty at the back, Arsenal possessed genuine menace in attack and they carved through Chelsea with ease to restore parity nine minutes before half-time. Aaron Ramsey's pass was perfection and Gervinho took the unselfish option to set up Van Persie for a tap-in.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: frailness
infirmity
glosses: The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally; weakness of resolution; liability to be deceived.
glosses: A fault proceeding from weakness; foible; sin of infirmity.
Derived terms: prefrailty
Related terms: frail
frailness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frailnesses
Etymology: From frail + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being frail; frailty; weakness.
frailly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more frailly
form: most frailly
Etymology: From frail + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a frail manner; weakly; infirmly.
infirmly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more infirmly
form: most infirmly
Etymology: From infirm + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an infirm manner; feebly.
feebleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feeblenesses
Etymology: From Middle English feblenesse; equivalent to feeble + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
unchaste
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈt͡ʃeɪst/
homophone: unchased
rhymes: -eɪst
Forms: form: more unchaste
form: most unchaste
Etymology: From Middle English unchaste, unchaast, unchast, equivalent to un- + chaste.
Senses: synonyms: libidinous
lewd
glosses: Not chaste; not continent
Derived terms: unchastely
unchasteness
unchastity
unchasteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unchaste + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Lack of chastity; the state of being unchaste; unchastity.
unchastely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unchastely
form: most unchastely
Etymology: From Middle English un-chastely; equivalent to un- + chastely or unchaste + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unchaste manner.
unchastity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈtʃastɪti/
Forms: form: unchastities
Etymology: From Middle English unchastite; equivalent to un- + chastity.
Senses: examples: text: Unchastity had to be penalized because, as the Bible showed, it was highly offensive to God.
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 31:
glosses: The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; sexual impropriety.
Synonyms: unchasteness
pliability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pliabilities
Senses: examples: text: A man with less worldly shrewdness would never have seen how things really stood; a man with less pliability could never have adapted himself to them. It must always be remembered, that his whole administration was one long struggle: he had to maintain his master on the throne, and himself in the ministry; and this was done by sheer force of talent.
ref: 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Interview”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 245:
glosses: The quality or state of being pliable; flexibility; pliableness.
pliableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pliable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being pliable; pliability.
zoochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zoochores
Etymology: From zoo- + -chore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A plant whose seeds, spores, or fruit are dispersed by animals.
Related terms: zoochoric
zoochorous
zoochory
privation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹaɪˈveɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: privations
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English privacioun, from Middle French privation, privacion, from Old French privacion, from Latin prīvātiō; compare French privation. See private.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of being deprived of or lacking an attribute formerly or properly possessed; the loss or absence of such an attribute.
examples: text: His [the Native American's] nature is stern, simple and enduring; fitted to grapple with difficulties, and to support privations.
ref: 1820 July, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “Traits of Indian Character”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., 1st UK edition, volume II, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 213:
text: For Yen Hsüeh-mei, the Shanghai-bred nurse, life in northern Hupei must have represented a striking change. Lao-ho-k'ou was the headquarters of General Li Tsung-jen, commander of the Fifth War Area.[…]If the General lived in such humble quarters, it is safe to say that the quarters to which Chiang Kuei brought his wife were plainer yet. But physical privation was nearly universal and in many ways Lao-ho-k'ou was an interesting place to be.
ref: 1974, Timothy A. Ross, Chiang Kuei, New York: Twayne Publishers, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 59:
text: Mr. McCarthy wrote for many years in relative obscurity and privation.
ref: 2023 June 13, Dwight Garner, “Cormac McCarthy, Novelist of a Darker America, Is Dead at 89”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: The state of being very poor, and lacking the basic necessities of life.
glosses: The act of depriving someone of such basic necessities; deprivation.
examples: text: Refinement and amusement, like knowledge, are so diffused now-a-days, that an exile from the royal circle would be a nominal punishment; but it then included every species of privation. The theatre—at that era such a resource—balls, fêtes, &c., to say nothing of worldly influence, were all forfeited by a banishment from court, the centre of all the pleasures, variety, and ambition of society.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 299:
glosses: Degradation or suspension from an office.
oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oriented
form: most oriented
form: orientated
Senses: examples: text: During assembly, keep the tab oriented toward the slot that it will later enter.
glosses: Having a specific orientation (positioning or direction).
examples: text: They are now oriented with the main campus.
text: I am no expert in geometry, but I am suitably oriented in it.
glosses: Having had an orientation (an introduction to a topic or place).
raw_tags: with with or in
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: In any of various technical senses, admitting or being equipped with a notion of handedness (i.e. of distinguishing clockwise and anticlockwise). See Orientability on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
synonyms: focused
glosses: Having (something) as a primary concern or guiding principle; focused on (something).
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: agent-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: aspect-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: attribute-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: component-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: customer-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: data-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: document-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: language-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: message-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: object-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: process-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: project-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: prototype-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: result-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: role-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: service-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: sexually-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: solution-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: subject-oriented
sense: Hyponyms of oriented
word: task-oriented
Derived terms: adult-oriented rock
album-oriented radio
album-oriented rock
album-oriented soul
bioriented
block-oriented terminal
cell-oriented programming
contraoriented
disoriented
goal-oriented
maloriented
misoriented
monooriented
nonoriented
oriented graph
oriented knot
oriented link
oriented matroid
orientedness
oriented surface
preoriented
prototype-oriented programming
return-oriented programming
role-oriented language
search-oriented architecture
service-oriented architecture
tourist-oriented destination sign
unoriented
oriented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: orientated
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of orient
perforation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌpɚfəˈreɪʃən/
ipa: /ˌpəːfəˈreɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: perforations
Senses: glosses: The act of perforating or the state of being perforated.
glosses: Any opening in a solid object.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An abnormal opening in an organ, such as a rupture.
glosses: A series of holes punched through something in order to assist in separating parts.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That portion of a surface that remains after an open disk is removed from it.
Derived terms: imperforation
microperforation
misperforation
multiperforation
nanoperforation
perforation gauge
perforation plate
reperforation
perforation gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perforation gauges
Senses: examples: text: The perforation-gauge is surrounded by a neat border, and inscription indicating the price — one shilling — and the publisher's address.
ref: 1872, The Stamp-collector's magazine, volume 10, page 110:
text: We desperately need starter materials such as stamps, albums, perforation gauges, hinges or mounts, and magnifying glasses — any materials that a novice collector requires to get started.
ref: 2001, The American Philatelist, volume 115, page 686:
text: It is far easier to use a perforation gauge which for a few dollars can be found on eBay.
ref: 2014, Adam Gregory Koch, Philatelic Philosophy: Stamp Collecting Wisdom & Opportunity:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
philately
glosses: A device for measuring the number of perforations per 2 centimetre distance along the edge of a postage stamp.
Synonyms: odontometer
Antony
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈæntəni/
Senses: examples: text: Demetrius. Is Caesar with Antonius priz'd so slight?
Philo. Sir, sometimes, when he's not Antony,
He comes too short of that great property
Which still should go with Antony.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:
glosses: A male given name from Latin, a mostly British spelling variant of Anthony.
glosses: A civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4054).
glosses: A civil parish in east Cornwall, England (OS grid ref SX4054).
A village in the civil parish, east Cornwall, England.
Related terms: Tony
ling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lĭng
ipa: /lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: lings
form: ling
Etymology: From Middle English lenge, lienge, from Middle French leynge (compare French lingue), from Middle Dutch *lenge (modern Dutch leng). Cognate with Old Norse langa. Probably related to long.
Senses: examples: text: Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish.
ref: 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Any of various marine food fish, of the genus Molva, resembling the cod.
glosses: A common ling (Molva molva).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Molva dypterygia
word: blue ling
word: lingcod
taxonomic: Molva molva
word: common ling