cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Hewes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hews
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hew
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hews
Etymology: Variant of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
gryfon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gryfons
Senses: examples: text: So th'one for wrong , the other strives for right :
As when a gryfon , seized of his pray ,
A dragon fiers encountreth in his flight
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete form of griffin.
gryfons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gryfon
infumed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dried in smoke; smoked.
Mexicanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Mexicanizes
form: Mexicanizing
form: Mexicanized
form: Mexicanized
Etymology: From Mexican + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Mexicanizing a recipe isn't as simple as covering it in peppers and guacamole!
glosses: To make Mexican.
examples: text: US businesses have met with mixed results in attempting to Mexicanize.
glosses: To become Mexican.
Mexicanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Mexicanize
Mexicanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Mexicanize
Mexicanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Mexicanize
microsporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From microspore + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: microsporic embryo
text: microsporic tissue
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to microspores.
induciae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A grace period.
Hewitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhjuː.ɪt/
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Todd County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in McLennan County, Texas.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Marathon County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Wood County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of West Milford township in Passaic County, New Jersey.
Derived terms: Cooper Hewitt lamp
Hewett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A town in Clark County, Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A suburb in Light regional council area, north of Gawler, South Australia.
Hewat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A locality in the Shire of Carpentaria, northern Queensland, Australia, probably named after Alfred William Howitt.
Howlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hollett
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hulett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hewetson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hewertson
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Hewison
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howatson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howieson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huetson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huitson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive of Hugh + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hugh + -s.
* (surname): From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huws
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hugh + -s.
* (surname): From Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: plural of Huw
lubet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You must believe me that on this street, neither in the houses which line it, nor the cobblestones which pave it, nor the elevated structure which cuts it atwain, neither in any creature that bears a name and lives thereon, neither in any animal, bird or insect passing through it to slaughter or already slaughtered, is there hope of “lubet,” “sublimate” or “abominate.”
ref: 1939, Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn, Grove Press, published 1962, page 295:
synonyms: delight
joy
glosses: pleasure.
microsat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microsats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: microsatellite
minisat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minisats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: minisatellite
microsats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsat
minisats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minisat
Hudd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English given name derived from Hugh and probably merged with an Old English given name Hūda.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Related terms: Huddle
Huddy
Hudson
Hutson
Hudd
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened form of Huddersfield created by taking all the letters of the first syllable and the first consonant of the second syllable.
Senses: glosses: University of Huddersfield, used especially following post-nominal letters indicating status as a graduate.
raw_tags: after a qualification
Huddle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Hudd.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Huddy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Huddys
Etymology: Two main origins:
* A pet form of the medieval personal name Hudde.
* Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó hUada (“descendant of Uada”), a personal name of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Hutson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌt.sən/
rhymes: -ʌtsən
Forms: form: Hutsons
Etymology: From Hudd + -son. Doublet of Hudson.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Howey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A village in Disserth and Trecoed community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO0558).
Hulance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Middle English diminutive form of Hugh + patronymic suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
common names
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of common name
keercheef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keercheefs
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of kerchief.
cannakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannakins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canakin.
cannikin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cannikins
Senses: examples: text: Well, we had our breakfast of ship's bread and molasses, washed down with cannikins of something liquid - but not lovely.
ref: 1907 February 2, The Chronicle, Adelaide, page 50, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of canakin.
kannakin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kannakins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of canakin.
puck-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of puckout.
whilend
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more whilend
form: most whilend
Etymology: From Middle English whilende, whilwende, from Old English hwīlende, hwīlwende (“transitory, temporary, temporal”), from hwīl (“time, while”) + -wende (“moving, going about, turning”, suffix), equivalent to while + wending.
Senses: glosses: Passing; temporal; temporary; not lasting; not permanent; transient; transitory; not eternal.
wokou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Mandarin 倭寇 (wōkòu, “Japanese pirates”).
Senses: glosses: Pirates of a mixture of ethnicities who raided the coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th to 16th centuries.
brain cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain cramps
form: brain-cramp
Senses: examples: text: "I can't remember. I've got a cramp of the brain. Do you mind hitting me over the head?"
"What for?"
"To make me forget the last two minutes, and take away my brain cramp."
ref: 1944, D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence, The First Lady Chatterley (original version of Lady Chatterley's Lover, 2005 reprint), ch. 20, p. 264
text: Don't think too fast at the start. You can get a brain cramp, which is how marathon ruminations are lost.
ref: 1991 November 3, Robert Lipsyte, “Sports: Backtalk—Imaginations Running Wild Through the City”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Nov 2011:
text: I had a brain-cramp there for a minute, the smile said, but now sanity has reasserted itself.
ref: 2009, Stephen King, Under the Dome, online preview edition
text: Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry suffered through a cringe-inducing brain cramp during a recent prime-time television debate and was unable to name the third agency of government that he, as president, would eliminate.
ref: 2011 November 18, Kent Ward, “Thankful for things to be thankful for”, in Bangor Daily News, USA, retrieved 30 Nov 2011:
glosses: A temporary mental lapse, such as an inability to remember something, to focus one's attention, to understand something, or to perform some other mental task of which one would ordinarily be capable.
Coordinate terms: brain fart
draw a blank
fire on all cylinders
thinko
brain-cramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brain-cramps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of brain cramp.
whinnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whinnocks
Etymology: From whine + -ock or from whin, wheen (“small amount or number”) + -ock.
Senses: glosses: The smallest pig in a litter; the runt.
glosses: A milk-pail.
unstableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unstablenesses
Etymology: From unstable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unstable; instability
impetiginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin impetīginōsus.
Senses: examples: text: impetiginous ulcer
text: impetiginous vessels
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or suffering from, impetigo.
hydroferrocyanic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + ferrocyanic.
Senses: glosses: Only used in hydroferrocyanic acid
anisodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aniso- + -dactyl + -ous.
Senses: glosses: anisodactyl
beduck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beducks
form: beducking
form: beducked
form: beducked
Etymology: From be- + duck.
Senses: glosses: To duck or immerse thoroughly; submerge.
hunting lodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hunting lodges
Senses: glosses: A building used for the recreational use of hunting.
outmode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outmodes
form: outmoding
form: outmoded
form: outmoded
Etymology: From out- + mode.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, in this age of ideological convergence and the outmoding of rigid doctrine, a new pragmatic [relationship] of immense importance seems to be developing here.
ref: 1971 February 26, C. L. Sulzberger, “FOREIGN AFFAIRS”, in The New York Times:
text: Every aspect of Renaissance realism seemed calculated to outmode the medieval illuminators' pictorial vocabulary with its miniature dimensions - two-dimensional patterning and conventionalizations of natural forms.
ref: 1983 December 25, John Canaday, “TREASURES OF ILLUMINATION”, in The New York Times Magazine:
text: This implies a difference in living in the country versus the city in the Robots universe. At the hardware store, upon receiving the news that Fender is outmoded and destined for the Chop Shop, after initially agreeing with Piper, Casey immediately asks what they can get for him.
ref: 2020 August 31, Kelsey Dickson, “So How DOES Death Work in the Robots Universe Anyway?”, in CBR:
glosses: To render (something) no longer fashionable.
outmode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outmodes
Etymology: From out- + mode.
Senses: examples: text: Encouraged by, for some reason, his clanky, fire-breathing mother, Ratchet wants to take replacement parts off the market and offer expensive "upgrades" instead. The broken-down "outmodes" who cannot afford to remake themselves will be swept off the street and sent to Ma Ratchet's underground furnace.
ref: 2005 March 11, A.o. Scott, “Machines That Rage Against Other Machines”, in The New York Times:
text: Which brings us to what happens after a robot perishes. As the Rusties explain, "outmodes"-- robots who can no longer get spare parts to be repaired -- are swept up by Sweepers and taken to the Chop Shop, where they're melted down into something else.
ref: 2020 August 31, Kelsey Dickson, “So How DOES Death Work in the Robots Universe Anyway?”, in CBR:
glosses: Something that is unfashionable or obsolete.
præsidial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more præsidial
form: most præsidial
Senses: examples: text: After the death of Constantine the Great, disturbances were revived in North Britain, and from the time of dividing the country into two consular provinces— Maxima Cæsariensis and Valentia— and into three præsidial districts— Britannia Prima, Britannia Secunda, and Flavia Cæsariensis (Lancashire being included in the first‐named province and in the last‐named district)— the power of the Romans rapidly declined ; further, the northern part, at any rate, of the empire was menaced with desolation by the Continental barbarians.
ref: 1892, James Christopher Scholes, chapter IV, in History of Bolton: with Memorials of the Old Parish Church, page 26:
glosses: Obsolete form of presidial.
SWOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Could you do a SWOT analysis of the business proposal I sent you?
topics: business
glosses: Acronym of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats.
outmodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outmode
outmodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outmode
outmoding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outmode
outmoding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outmodings
Senses: examples: text: And these outstrippings and outmodings, they assert, were necessary and desirable, considering the internal limitations of the lyric form.
ref: 1994, Herbert A. Leibowitz, Parnassus: Twenty Years of Poetry in Review, page 320:
glosses: The act or process of something becoming outmoded.
hunting lodges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hunting lodge
pneumatic trough
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pneumatic troughs
Senses: examples: text: The pneumatic trough used at Calne was larger than that he had used in Leeds, and fresh water was not so conveniently at hand.
ref: 2004, Robert E Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, Pennsylvania State University, published 2004, page 94:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of laboratory apparatus, consisting of a vessel filled with liquid (generally water or mercury), used for collecting gases.
side puck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side pucks
Senses: qualifier: hurling
glosses: A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line.
sideline cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sideline cuts
Senses: examples: text: In the first half we had a sideline cut, and as the ball was dropping in I could tell the Tipp player in front of me was gone up too early for it and wasn't going to get to it.
ref: 2010, Dan Shanahan, Dan Shanahan - If you don't know me, don't judge me, →ISBN:
text: Tipp took a quick sideline cut, worked it up the field and engineered an overlap, Peter Kelly had to come, Séamus Callanan slipped the ball through to Bubbles, who drove it past Noley, who nearly stopped it.
ref: 2014, Anthony Daly, Dalo: The Autobiography, →ISBN:
qualifier: hurling
glosses: A penalty shot awarded against a player who runs over the sideline with the ball. The opponents take a free puck from where the ball crossed the line; side puck.
examples: text: In the sideline-and-up pass, both the receiver and the passer are faking the sideline cut.
ref: 1958, Donald E. Fuoss, Quarterback generalship and strategy, page 96:
text: Here, the receiver combines the sideline-flag pattern with a second sideline cut.
ref: 1993, Bud Wilkinson, Football: Winning Offense, →ISBN, page 68:
text: The l, 2, and 4 players run picks; the picks are set to free up the 1 player for a sideline cut.
ref: 2006, Jill Prudden, Coaching Girls' Basketball Successfully, →ISBN, page 123:
text: The second passing option for O5 presents itself when O1 is unable to get open on the sideline cut.
ref: 2013, Winning Basketball Fundamentals, →ISBN, page 237:
topics: American-football
ball-games
basketball
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A sudden change of direction and run for the sideline.
examples: text: If it is too far back he can't get as sharp a downward angle or sideline cut.
ref: 1959 September, “Volleyball is a Rugged Game”, in Boys' Life, volume 49, number 9, page 56:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: A shot where the ball is angled sharply toward the sideline, just barely in bounds.
I'm easy
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: following a proposal
glosses: I have no strong feelings one way or another but I am ready to comply.
reviviscent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reviviscent
form: most reviviscent
Etymology: From Latin reviviscens, present participle of reviviscere (“to revive”), from re- (“re-”) + viviscere, verb inchoate from vivere (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: representing the reviviscent plants
ref: 1781, J. Aikin, An Essay on the Plan and Character of Thomson's Seasons:
glosses: Able or disposed to revive; reviving.
gather dust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gathers dust
form: gathering dust
form: gathered dust
form: gathered dust
Senses: examples: text: Since he bought the book, it's just been sitting on the bookshelf and gathering dust.
text: As we contemplate the half-finished arterial roads and electrification plans of our own age, and the town-planning schemes that gather dust in the public libraries, we can admire the drive and action of the railway pioneers.
ref: 1951 December, Michael Robbins, “John Francis's "History of the English Railway"”, in Railway Magazine, page 800:
glosses: To remain unused for a long period of time.
higher intermediate point
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher intermediate points
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
qualifier: fare construction
glosses: A place on an itinerary to which there is a higher fare than the destination or next fare break point.
higher intermediate fare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher intermediate fares
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel-industry
qualifier: fare construction
glosses: An airfare that is higher at a midpoint than the destination or next fare break point.
embassadour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embassadours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of ambassador.
flare angel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flare angels
Etymology: From the similarity to angels' wings.
Senses: glosses: A geometric design caused by the vortices of an aircraft swirling the smoke from its anti-missile flares.
saddle reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle reefs
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral deposit associated with the crest of an anticlinal fold and following the bedding planes, usually found in vertical succession, especially the gold-bearing quartz veins of Australia.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An opening at the crest of a sharp fold in sedimentary rocks, occupied by ore.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: saddle
glosses: A saddle-shaped bedded mineral (usually gold-bearing quartz) vein occurring along the crest of an anticline or (less common) a syncline (an inverted saddle).
Synonyms: saddle back reef
saddle vein
saddle reefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle reef
saddle back reef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle back reefs
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A saddle reef: a saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle).
saddle back reefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle back reef
saddle vein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle veins
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A saddle-shaped bedded mineral vein in the form of an anticline or a syncline (an inverted saddle).
Synonyms: saddle reef
saddle veins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saddle vein
synclines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syncline
cupidities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cupidity
crystalographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crystallographic.
idempotents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idempotent
lengthscales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lengthscale
lengthscale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lengthscales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of length scale.
length scale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: length scales
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A particular length or distance whose value is determined to one order of magnitude (or to very few orders of magnitude)
lensings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lensing
lightclock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightclocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light clock.
light clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: light clocks
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical clock, used to show time dilation, that would count the journeys of a single photon between two parallel mirrors.
magnetoimpedance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + impedance.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The analogy to impedance in an alternating magnetic flux
palindromization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From palindrome + -ization.
Senses: glosses: The conversion of a word (or other string of characters) into a palindrome
Related terms: palindromize
saddlepoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddlepoints
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saddle point.
semicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a polygon that is inscribed within a circle and has one of its sides being the diameter
sequentiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sequential + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being sequential.
superpolynomials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superpolynomial
superweakly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From superweak + -ly.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Via superweak particles.
shagged out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shagged out
form: most shagged out
Senses: glosses: exhausted (as if with sexual activity)
febriculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more febriculose
form: most febriculose
Etymology: From Latin febrīculōsus.
Senses: examples: text: In the beginning of the first stage , the effects of the increased action upon the sensorium are perhaps not great : even when the disease is so far advanced that the patient is febriculose, averse to light, sick , disturbed in urine varies so much[…]
ref: 1808, John Cheyne, An Essay on Hydrocephalus Acutus:
glosses: Somewhat feverish.
quadragintireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadragintiremes
Senses: examples: text: As to the Quadragintiremes, or vessels usually described as having forty ranks or tiers of oars, we cannot reconcile the report to our understandings, except by supposing them nothing more than galleys fitted with as many oars in each rank.
ref: 1799, The Naval Chronicle, volume 1, page 132:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A vessel with 40 rows of oars.
Lake Wobegon effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lake Wobegon effects
Etymology: From the fictional place Lake Wobegon in Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion, “where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average”.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s the Lake Wobegon effect,” said Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, senior author and a professor of medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago. “If you have more than 50 percent of patients saying their chances are better than average of avoiding some harm or obtaining some benefit, they are being unrealistically optimistic because you can’t say that most people are above average.”
ref: 2011 March 3, Pauline W. Chen, quoting Daniel P. Sulmasy, “When Optimism Is Unrealistic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021:
glosses: Illusory superiority, that is, the belief that a majority of people are or can be above average.
wikipedia: A Prairie Home Companion
Related terms: Dunning-Kruger effect
Colonel Sanders
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After Colonel Harland Sanders, the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken
Senses: glosses: a KFC restaurant.
Derived terms: chickens for Colonel Sanders
diamond lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diamond lanes
Etymology: Usually painted with a white diamond or lozenge.
Senses: glosses: A freeway lane designated for sole use by high occupancy vehicles.
diamond lanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond lane
union high school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: union high schools
Senses: glosses: A high school or high school district that serves students from more than one elementary school district.
might-be
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: might be
Etymology: From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.
Senses: examples: text: "There is a might-be particle called a 'magnetic monopole' that was suggested by certain theories of Dirac and others but had never been observed.
ref: 1998, John Cramer, Einstein's Bridge:
glosses: That might be or occur; possible; potential; hypothetical.
might-be
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: might-bes
form: might be
Etymology: From might + be. Compare might-have-been, would-be.
Senses: examples: text: In the Biology Teachers'" Handbook (Wiley, 1963), Schwab writes: A hypothesis is a "might be", a possibility which we intend to test . . . one of the values of a hypothesis consists in the fact that it can be made to point like an arrow [...]
ref: 1973, Institute of Biology, Journal of biological education:
text: Firstness comprises anything capable of being described without contradiction (2.667), it is a might-be, in other words, pure possibility, which Peirce calls "quality": "mere quality, or suchness, is not in itself an occurrence, as seeing a red object is; it is a mere may-be.
ref: 1983, Tasso Borbé, Semiotics unfolding:
text: It is a might be, a mere possibility from the tossing ocean of pure chance.
ref: 1991, Floyd Merrell, Signs becoming signs: our perfusive, pervasive universe:
text: Context two is a 'might be' and is futural and nameable as 'the desired'.
ref: 2010, Tony Fry, Design as Politics:
glosses: That which might be or happen; a possibility.
varsoviana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varsovianas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of varsovienne.
varsovianas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varsoviana
clustered index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clustered indices
form: clustered indexes
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a type of database index that physically sorts the data in a table on the disk to match the criteria specified by the index.
Related terms: nonclustered index
packed lunches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of packed lunch
side orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of side order
nonclustered index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonclustered indices
form: nonclustered indexes
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: a type of database index that contains a series of sorted pointers pointing to the physical data rows, which are organized either in a heap or in the sort order specified by a clustered index, on the disk
Related terms: clustered index
-le
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əl/
/l̩/
Forms: form: -el
Etymology: From Middle English -elen, -len, -lien, from Old English -lian (frequentative verbal suffix), from Proto-West Germanic *-lōn, from Proto-Germanic *-lōną (frequentative verbal suffix).
Cognate with West Frisian -elje, Dutch -elen, German -eln, Danish -le, Norwegian Bokmål -le, Norwegian Nynorsk -la, Swedish -la, Icelandic -la. Compare -er.
Senses: examples: assle, buzzle, crackle, cuddle, dazzle, draggle, drawl, dribble, drizzle, fumble, gamble, grapple, handle, jostle, kissle, maddle, mingle, nestle, nuzzle, prattle, quible, ramble, rattle, ripple, scribble, sile, sizzle, sniffle, snuggle, startle, stopple, suckle, tattle, tickle, topple, waggle, whemmle, wiggle, wrestle
glosses: A frequentative suffix of verbs, indicating repetition or continuousness
-le
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əl/
/l̩/
Forms: form: -el
Etymology: From Middle English -el, -le (adjectival), from Old English -el, -ol, from Proto-Germanic *-ulaz and *-ilaz (adjective suffixes). Cognate with West Frisian -el, Dutch -el, Low German -el, German -el, Icelandic -ill.
Senses: examples: battle, breakle, brittle, fickle, forgettle, little, newfangle, nimble, wankle
glosses: Forming adjectives from verbs with the meaning of "prone to", "tending to", "apt to", "capable of"; compare -ative
-le
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /əl/
/l̩/
Forms: form: -el
Etymology: From Middle English -el (agent suffix), from a combination of two suffixes:
* Old English -el, -il (diminutive suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (diminutive suffix).
* Old English -el, -ol, -ul (agent suffix), from Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (agent suffix). Cognate with West Frisian -el, Dutch -el, Low German -el, German -el.
Senses: examples: text: dump + -le → dimple
text: dung + -le → dingle
text: hatch + -le → hatchel
text: hose + -le → hosel
text: howf + -le → hovel
text: gome + -le → gomeral
text: corn + -le → kernel
text: new + -le → newel
text: nose + -le → nozzle
text: puck + -le → puckle
text: turd + -le → treddle
coordinate_terms: -ling
glosses: Forming diminutives from other nouns.
examples: beadle, beetle, bridle, bundle, cripple, fettle, girdle, ladle, losel, runnel, shovel, spindle, spittle, steeple, stile, stopple, thimble, tool, towel, trundle
glosses: Forming agent nouns from verbs
Derived terms: dottle
piffle
immediable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The immediable conflict between England and France led to a series of bloody wars.
glosses: Unable to be mediated; irresolvable.
laitand
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laitand
form: most laitand
Etymology: From Middle English laitande, present participle of laiten (“to seek, look for”), equivalent to lait + -and.
Senses: glosses: Seeking; inquiring.
bestep
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: besteps
form: bestepping
form: bestepped
form: bestepped
form: bestept
form: bestept
Etymology: From Middle English bisteppen, from Old English besteppan (“to tread upon, step, go, enter”), from Proto-Germanic *bistapjaną (“to enter”), equivalent to be- + step. Cognate with Dutch bestappen.
Senses: examples: text: And also it is using non-necessary spiritual attentions, because we see the dog in the way and we say "excuse me," and we notify a piddle in the street and we are worried not to bestep it.
ref: 1966, State University of New York College at Fredonia. Dept. of English-Speech, Drama and theatre:
glosses: To step on; step over, tread upon.
examples: text: One wintry day up drove the stage And out bestepped Miss Nancy Page, […]
ref: 1919, Daniel Leavens Cady, Rhymes of Vermont rural life:
glosses: To step; take steps; walk.
infaring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infare (“to enter”).
Senses: examples: text: Tell me; had there been a spark of love for me in her heart, would she have treated me as the dust beneath her feet on that long infaring from the western mountains?
ref: 1902, Francis Lynde, The master of Appleby:
text: The number of the functionaries not subject to confirmation has grown greatly since the infaring of President Roosevelt.
ref: 1914, Traffic Service Corporation, Traffic world:
glosses: A faring or entering in; entrance; entry.
Hero
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ/
ipa: [ˈhɪə.ɹəʊ~ˈçɪə.ɹəʊ]
ipa: /ˈhɪɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhiɹ.oʊ/
ipa: /ˈhɛɹ.oʊ/
rhymes: -ɪəɹəʊ
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἡρώ (Hērṓ).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any of a number of legendary men and women, including the priestess loved by Leander.
examples: text: You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb man; I would have you think so; but on my allegiance mark you this, on my allegiance: he is in love. With who? now that is your Grace's part. Mark how short his answer is: with Hero, Leonato's short daughter.
ref: ,Scene 1
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek of English-speakers.
Heron
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English and French surname, from heron.
* As an English surname, from Harome in Yorkshire, from Old English harum, dative plural of hær (“stone”)
* As an Irish surname, from O'Heron, from Ó hUidhrín (literally “descendant of Uidhrín”), from odhar (“swarthy”).
* As an Irish surname, from Ó hEaráin; see Haren.
* As an Irish surname, from Mac Giolla Chiaráin (literally “son of the servant of Ciarán”); see Kieran.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A census-designated place in Sanders County, Montana, United States.
tænia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tænias
form: tæniæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of taenia.
tænias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tænia
tæniæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tænia
Germanically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more Germanically
form: most Germanically
Etymology: From Germanic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that is Germanic.
tæniasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tæniases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of taeniasis.
darkles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of darkle
darkled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of darkle
tænicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tænicides
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of taenicide.
fæcally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From fæcal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of fecally.
fucivorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪvəɹəs
Forms: form: more fucivorous
form: most fucivorous
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φῦκος (phûkos, “seaweed”), + -vorous.
Senses: examples: a common species of fucivorous sea turtle
glosses: Feeding primarily on seaweeds.
Related terms: fucivore
sanitary wares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sanitary ware
slow-walk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slow-walks
form: slow-walking
form: slow-walked
form: slow-walked
form: slow walk
Etymology: Attested since 1973 in Southern dialects of American English; prominent since the late 1990s. Thought by William Safire to derive from a Tennessee term for the walking gait of the Tennessee Walking Horse, which is generally called "flat walk", but sometimes a "slow walk".
Senses: examples: text: many of the men were simply standing around and were purposely ‘slow-walking’ the project […] to stretch out the term of employment.
ref: 1973, testimony in United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit case (regarding labor dispute)
text: Since assuming office, Trump has issued many private demands to aides that have either been slow-walked or altogether ignored.
ref: 2019 May 15, Elaina Plott, “Ignoring Trump’s Orders, Hoping He’ll Forget”, in The Atlantic:
text: Mr. Pulte argued that Mr. Siebert was slow-walking the James case in order to get confirmed by the Senate for a job in a state with two Democratic senators, according to people briefed on the conversation.
ref: 2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: government
politics
synonyms: drag one's feet
slow roll
glosses: To delay a request or command, to drag one's feet, to stall, to obstruct, to drag out a process.
slow-walk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slow-walks
form: slow-walking
form: slow-walked
form: slow-walked
Etymology: Attested since 1962 in Southern (North and South Carolina) dialects of American English; of unknown origin.
Senses: glosses: To punish, to chastise.
animatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animatrice
pupæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pupa
Tœufles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune that is located in north France.
Argœuves
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Somme department, Hauts-de-France, in northern France.
Estrébœuf
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune that is located in north France.
Lesbœufs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune that is located in northern France.
Neuville-lès-Lœuilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune that is located in northern France.
Lœuilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune that is located in northern France.
Pœuilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A commune of Somme department, Hauts-de-France, in northern France.
œnochoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: œnochoes
form: œnochoæ
Senses: examples: text: Most of the finest vases with black figures, consisting of hydriæ, amphoræ, and œnochoæ, many of large size and of finest drawing and colour, have been found at Vulci.
ref: 1858, Samuel Birch, History of Ancient Pottery, volumes II (Greek, Etruscan, and Roman), London: John Murray, […], page 144:
text: ‘Among them may be noticed the following:—Two very beautiful Greek painted vases, œnochoæ with red figures of a fine style;[…]’
ref: 1870, Edward Edwards, Lives of the Founders of the British Museum; with Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors. 1570—1870., part II, London: Trübner and Co., […], page 714:
text: We here find lions standing on their hind legs holding œnochoæ, and clothed in fishes’ scales, like the god Anu in Assyro-Chaldæan symbolism.
ref: 1889, Ernest Babelon, translated and enlarged by B[asil] T[homas] A[lfred] Evetts, Manual of Oriental Antiquities, Including the Architecture, Sculpture, and Industrial Arts of Chaldæa, Assyria, Persia, Syria, Judæa, Phœnicia, and Carthage, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons; London: H. Grevel & Co., page 292:
text: Between these objects and the body was a bronze vessel of the shape called by the Greek œnochoe, which enables the date of the burial to be fixed about the Fourth century B.C.¹ (Fig. 285).
ref: 1915, Ernest Albert Parkyn, chapter XI, in An Introduction to the Study of Prehistoric Art, page 273:
glosses: Obsolete typography of oenochoe.
tuchun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tuːˈt͡ʃʊn/
Forms: form: tuchuns
form: tuchun
Etymology: From the Wade–Giles romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 督軍／督军 (dūjūn, “military governor; warlord”).
Senses: examples: text: He planned to shift the appointment of Ts’ai Ao from Yunnan to the post of tuchün [title of military governor of a province] of Hunan so that Ts’ai Ao, who wished to go home, could superintend affairs in his native province.
ref: 1956, Chien-nung Li, “The Struggle Between the Kuomintang and the Peiyang Military Clique”, in The Political History of China 1840-1928, D. Van Nostrand Company, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 301–302:
glosses: A Chinese military governor or warlord.
Derived terms: tuchunate
tuchunism
minour
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minour
form: most minour
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of minor.
minour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of minor.
bimas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bima
limping iamb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: limping iambs
Senses: glosses: An iambic verse in which the last foot is a spondee or trochee instead of an iambus
Synonyms: scazon
choliamb
iambi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iambus
opening statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opening statements
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by a party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
Synonyms: word: opening argument
alt: U.K.
word: opening speech
opening argument
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opening arguments
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: opening statement
opening speech
hypernyms: argument
glosses: In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
opening speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opening speeches
Senses: topics: law
glosses: In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by either party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.
Synonyms: opening statement
opening argument
opening statements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opening statement
opening arguments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opening argument
opening speeches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opening speech
APGAR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Backronym, from Apgar score.
Senses: topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, respiration (used to remember how to give a newborn an Apgar score)
Apgar score
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Apgar scores
Etymology: Named after Virginia Apgar, who developed it in 1952.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A zero- to ten-point score given to newborns based on their APGAR vitals.
wikipedia: Virginia Apgar
Apgar scores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Apgar score
nk.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nks.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of neck.
impact statement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impact statements
Senses: examples: text: The lawyer for a teenager at the center of Lawrence Taylor's sexual misconduct case says the girl will make an impact statement at the former football star's sentencing.
ref: 2011 March 22, “Ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor's sentencing today”, in USA Today, retrieved 02 Dec 2011:
topics: law
glosses: Testimony, either oral or written, provided during a proceeding in a court of law which describes the harmful effects produced by the actions of an accused or convicted party and suffered by the victim or others, offered especially for consideration by the court in deciding an appropriate punishment.
examples: text: Before closing or phasing out a school, the schools chancellor must prepare a detailed impact statement that describes, among other things, changes in how the building would be used, the effects on the surrounding community and the ability of other schools in the area to absorb new students.
ref: 2010 April 1, “Editorial: This Time, Listen”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Dec 2011:
glosses: An analysis or study which describes the expected effects of a policy, project, or action being contemplated by a business or government organization.
Derived terms: environmental impact statement
victim impact statement