cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nimbility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nimble + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Management teams must act locally with nimbility and corporately with strength, to greater effect than people working individually.
ref: 2004, Clive Reading, Strategic Business Planning:
text: I was surprised to find I soon lost enthusiasm for the project: my back hurt, my fingers lost “nimbility,” and the hair gave me the creeps.
ref: 2009, Marilyn Meberg, What to Do When the Roof Caves In:
text: Whichever delivery is used [for a missile] should be gauged to the athleticism and nimbility of the target.
ref: 2017, Jim Currie, Saddam's Parrot, page 49:
glosses: nimbleness
syllabling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of syllable
syllabled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of syllable
syllabled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: ten-syllabled poetic couplets
glosses: Having a specified number of syllables.
tussores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussore
tussahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tussah
vortilon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔː(ɹ)tɪlɒn/
Forms: form: vortilons
Senses: glosses: A small attachment mounted under the wing of an aeroplane to induce vortices to aid stability in flight.
vortilons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vortilon
collocant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: collocants
Senses: examples: text: Such verbs may come to encapsulate the meaning of the collocant, in which case the body-part may be omitted. The degree to which this occurs varies : 'ațraqa (=he bowed his head) , but not *šammara (he bared […])
ref: 1991, Journal de linguistique arabe:
text: It seems natural to assume that a deviant collocation should be corrected by changing the collocant rather than the base word, but some of the non-native speaker examples cited by Howarth (1998: 177–85) should probably be corrected ...
ref: 2003, D. J. Allerton, Stretched Verb Constructions in English, Routledge, →ISBN, page 248:
text: In (13), for example, the learners failed to recognize the collocant baked and compensated for that with another verb (cooked / produced) which share with baked the feature of making food on fire / heat.
ref: 2001, Dirasat: Human and social sciences:
text: Annotated screenshot of the web-based DiaCollo user interface displaying a dynamic tag-cloud visualization of the 10 best common noun collocates per 50- year epoch for the collocant Revolution over the interval 1600–1899.
ref: 2018, Richard J. Whitt, Diachronic Corpora, Genre, and Language Change, John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: A word which collocates with another.
collocator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: collocators
Senses: examples: text: The collocator is familiar to the speaker of English who is not aware of its idiomaticity, while for the foreign language learner it is unpredictable, because his/her mother tongue privileges another word.
ref: 2014, Rufus Gouws, Dictionaries. An International Encyclopedia of Lexicography: Supplementary Volume: Recent Developments with Focus on Electronic and Computational Lexicography, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 497:
glosses: A word which often or regularly collocates with another word.
diboron hexahydride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diborane.
mental health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: This makes greater efforts to promote wellbeing and to look out for colleagues not just a moral imperative, but a financial one, too. The cost of inaction was recently outlined in a report by Deloitte, which estimated that poor mental health costs employers in the UK up to £45 billion per year.
ref: 2020 July 1, Paul Stephen, “Vital Connections”, in Rail, page 41:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
related: word: MH
glosses: One's emotional well-being, especially with reference to one's outlook on life, ability to cope with stress or the absence of a mental disorder.
Derived terms: telemental health
Related terms: mental hygiene
derogant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛɹəɡənt/
Forms: form: more derogant
form: most derogant
Etymology: From Latin derogans.
Senses: examples: text: arrogant in man and derogant to God
ref: 1629, Thomas Adams, Sermons:
glosses: derogatory
laborate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laborates
form: laborating
form: laborated
form: laborated
form: labourate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin labōrātus, perfect passive participle of labōrō (“to labor, toil”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: So astonishing do we know the effects of electricity to be, combined with the gases, that I rather incline to suppose these massive stones to be 'laborated,' as a chemist would say, in the vast regions of the air; not by the aid of bungling blacksmiths, Charlotte, but by the 'Great First Cause, least understood,' to whose goodness and wisdom we owe all our enjoyments, especially that surpassing happiness of being able to adore Him, and to admire His beautiful creation.
ref: 1830, [Isabella Jane Towers], The Wanderings of Tom Starboard; […], London: John Harris, page 152:
text: The presence of moisture is doubtless required, because by its elements (hydrogen and oxygen) new and opposite electric agencies are elicited, which acting by induction, produce a play of affinities among the organic elements of the manure, that again reciprocate icith the vital principle of the plants, laborate the matter termed raw sap, and propel it into the spongioles of the roots.
ref: 1854 February, J. Towers, “The London Drainage—Its Value and Use”, in The Farmer's Magazine, volume the fifth (third series), London: Rogerson and Tuxford, page 100, column 2:
text: In the first station he continued until his private affairs demanded his resignation; but in the last, he laborated affectionately for its promotion to the end of his days.
ref: 1895, Thomas G. Morton, “Biographical Sketches of Former Managers”, in The History of the Pennsylvania Hospital: 1751–1895, Philadelphia, P.A.: Times Printing House, page 412, column 1:
glosses: To produce or develop (something).
Related terms: elaborate
labour
pinotage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinotages
Senses: glosses: A South African grape variety
glosses: A red wine made from these grapes
vorant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:vorant.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: ingulphant
glosses: Devouring something.
raw_tags: of an animal
inclinator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnklɪˌneɪtə/
ipa: /ˈɪnklɪˌneɪtəɹ/
Forms: form: inclinators
Etymology: Blend of incline + elevator
Senses: examples: text: The push button or other car switch control for operating the inclinator in both directions oftravelshall be magnetically controlled and shall be properly fused being provided with a device for protecting the motor from overload.
ref: 1939, Los Angeles Board of mechecanicalengineers, Elevator Code Providing for the Construction, Inspection, Maintenance and Operation of Elevators: Ordinance, Issue 81; Issue 827, 54.233 INCLINATOR — CONTROLLER, page 107:
text: The Valley Station features accessible parking near the entrance and access to the station via a funicular-like lift device called an inclinator.
ref: 2007, Candy Harrington, “Escape to the Springs”, in 101 Accessible Vacations: Travel Ideas for Wheelers and Slow Walkers, →ISBN:
text: Unlike an elevator, which would require its own vertical shaft, an inclinator could share an inclined shaft with the standard escalators, thus simplifying construction and keeping down expense.
ref: 2008, Zachary M. Schrag, “The Builders, 1972-1976”, in The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: An elevator that ascends an incline rather than in a vertical shaft.
examples: text: The problem in this tax case is whether under the particular facts the cost of an inclinator should be considered a medical expense within Section 23(x) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939.
ref: 1955, Federal Tax Service, volume 4, Prentice-Hall, Incorporated, page 411:
text: I could hear the soft whir of the inclinator and, along with it, my great-aunts' delighted soft laughter.
ref: 1980, Lois Lowry, Autumn Street, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Since residential elevators are both very expensive and require extra space, the chairlift or inclinator was invented.
ref: 2011, Norbert M. Lechner, Plumbing, Electricity, Acoustics: Sustainable Design Methods for Architecture, →ISBN:
glosses: A stairlift
Synonyms: chairlift
stairlift
primeur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primeurs
Senses: glosses: new wine (such as Beaujolais nouveau)
glosses: fruit and vegetables that are available early in the season
dedicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛdɪkənt/
Forms: form: dedicants
Senses: glosses: One who dedicates something.
professorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professorates
Etymology: From professor + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office). Compare French professorat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of professoriate.
duplicant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duplicants
Etymology: From the same root as duplicate + -ant?
Senses: examples: text: It is to be expected that such duplicants would become differentiated in the course of time and thus often permit mutation at one step. It has long been evident that inversions of various lengths are common in the course of evolution.
ref: 1984, Sewall Wright, Evolution and the Genetics of Populations, Volume 1: Genetic and Biometric Foundations, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 28:
text: Complexes containing all subunit duplicants have been purified from whole plants and characterized by MS (Yang et al., 2004; Book et al., 2010). It is not known yet whether duplicants are inserted into the 26S proteasome randomly or […]
ref: 2015, Harvey Millar, Nicolas L Taylor, Sub-cellular Proteomics, Frontiers E-books, →ISBN, page 41:
glosses: Something or someone which duplicates something else; a duplicate.
prosaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosaists
Senses: glosses: A person who writes prose.
glosses: A prosaic or commonplace person.
duplices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin duplicēs.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the A and B forms of DNA, there is a third form (C-DNA). It is essentially very similar to B-DNA but the duplices are packed differently in the fibre and moreover the number of base pairs per full turn of the helix is not an integer (Marvin, Spencer, Wilkins and Hamilton, 1961).
ref: 1972, John Howard Parish, Principles and Practice of Experiments with Nucleic Acids, New York, N.Y.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 328:
text: Hypochromicity studies have shown that these duplices are less stable than either the totally complementary duplex or those containing A.C. and G.T mismatches.
ref: 1984, Biotechnology Research Abstracts, CSA, page 2:
text: Nucleic acid duplices can be reversibly dissociated into single strands and several parameters may drive the de/renaturation one way or the other.
ref: 1993, P. Tijssen, Hybridization with Nucleic Acid Probes (Laboratory Techniques in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 24), part I (Theory and nucleic acid preparation), Elsevier, →ISBN, page 26:
text: These polymer chains are not typically found as paired duplices, but rather as complex forms that comprise paired segments and loops that are often stabilized by metal ions.
ref: 2002, Douglas T. Gjerde, Christopher P. Hanna, David Hornby, DNA Chromatography, Wiley-VCH, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: plural of duplex
Related terms: heteroduplices
homoduplices
plotland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plotlands
Etymology: From plot + land.
Senses: examples: text: To cater for the new army of motorists, a sprawling infrastructure of petrol stations, motels and car parks crept across Britain. So did a new landscape of unauthorised plotlands.
ref: 2009 February 16, Tristram Hunt, “Clarkson's philistines would appal these pootling pioneers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Land that is used by itinerant people for the construction of temporary dwellings.
plotlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plotland
Bacchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bacchic
form: most Bacchic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bacchic.
rasper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raspers
Etymology: From rasp + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or thing that, rasps or scrapes.
glosses: One who speaks with a rasping voice.
examples: text: When a horse becomes blown, on approaching a fence, you should pause for a second, and turn him round: it will greatly relieve him, and you stand a much better chance of getting over: and indeed, it is generally preferable to turn the horse round at a rasper, or large jump.
ref: 1833, The Sportsman's Cabinet, and Town and Country Magazine:
glosses: A fence that is challenging for a horse to jump over.
spirem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spirems
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spireme.
redbush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque of Afrikaans rooibos, red + bush.
Senses: examples: text: Sitting in her ocher-walled office with its tin roof and itinerant chickens, Mma Ramotswe sips redbush tea and ponders the ethics of her cases: the wife who wants the detective to steal back the car her husband has stolen; the grief-stricken mother who, with Mma Ramotswe's deft application of a little blackmail, might be reunited with a young grandson.
ref: 2002 January 27, Alida Becker, “Miss Marple of Botswana”, in The New York Times:
text: I'm thinking I'm in for a sermon on decaffeinated redbush, or the antioxidant properties of organic camomile.
ref: 2014, Paula Daly, Keep Your Friends Close:
text: Herbal teas: redbush, rosehip tea, peppermint etc.
ref: 2015, Sarah Myhill, Sustainable Medicine: whistle-blowing on 21st century medical practice:
glosses: rooibos tea
examples: text: In the Cape region of South Africa the leaves of the wild redbush [Aspalathus linearis (Burm. f.) R. Dahlgr.] are collected by farmers for export as Rooibos tea.
ref: 2006, Fary Peterson, Dryland agriculture, page 893:
text: I shall not write about the estimable maté, Ilex paraguayensis, which is a holly, nor of rooibos, redbush (Aspalathus linearis), of the pea family, nor of any of the flowery infusions from camomile to hibiscus which have usurped the name of tea.
ref: 2007, John Charles Griffiths, Tea: The Drink that Changed the World, page 9:
text: One of the few foodstuffs of the indigenous Khoikhoi and San people that European colonists adopted with any enthusiasm was a tea made from the dried, fermented leaf tips of a scrubby bushveld plant, Aspalathus linearis, known as redbush or rooibos.
ref: 2010, Will Sellick, The Imperial African Cookery Book: Recipes from English-speaking Africa:
glosses: rooibos (shrub of genus Aspalathus)
castigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: castigants
Etymology: Ultimately from Latin castīgāns, present active participle of castīgō (“I castigate”). By surface analysis, castigate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: He first took up the historical religious manifestations of mental disease, such as the performances of the castigants, who have their latter-day imitators in the penitentes of Arizona and New Mexico[…]
ref: 1899, The Los Angeles Times 1899-11-01:
glosses: One who is castigated.
rejectee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejectees
Etymology: From reject + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who has been rejected
Related terms: reject
raspers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasper
rejectees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rejectee
rejectest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reject + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of reject
unblameworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblameworthy
form: most unblameworthy
Etymology: From un- + blameworthy.
Senses: glosses: Not blameworthy.
interrogant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interrogants
Senses: glosses: One who interrogates; a questioner.
austenitic steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: austenitic steels
Senses: glosses: a steel that has nickel in it
revoker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revokers
Etymology: From revoke + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who revokes
aggregant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggregants
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any drug that promotes the aggregation of platelets.
ripsnorting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ripsnorting
form: most ripsnorting
Senses: glosses: Strong; intense.
glosses: Excellent (very good).
Related terms: ripsnorter
rip-snorting mad
rip-and-tear
roughy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ʌfi
Forms: form: roughies
form: roughie
Etymology: From rough + -y.
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: A fish in family Trachichthyidae
The orange roughy, Hoplostethus atlanticus.
glosses: A fish in family Trachichthyidae
Any of several marine fish of the related genus Trachichthys, which have rough and spiny scales.
Synonyms: sense: fish in Trachyichthyidae
word: slimehead
sense: fish in Trachyichthyidae
word: redfish
laxator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laxators
Etymology: From Latin laxare, laxatum (“to loosen”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A muscle whose contraction loosens some part.
Related terms: lax
laxative
laxity
levator
santonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsæntənɪn/
Forms: form: santonins
Etymology: From santon(ica) + -in.
Senses: examples: text: An a aphrodisiac, it results in santonin poisoning, followed by coma and death.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An anthelmintic found in santonica and related plants.
go to Putney on a pig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to Putney on a pig
form: going to Putney on a pig
form: went to Putney on a pig
form: gone to Putney on a pig
Senses: qualifier: minced oath
glosses: go to hell; be off with you
Related terms: go to the devils
go to hell
alternat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French.
Senses: glosses: The custom, among diplomats, of rotation in precedence among representatives of equal rank, sometimes determined by lot and at other times in regular order. The practice obtains in the signing of treaties and conventions between nations.
torturings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torturing
demophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demophile
attenuant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more attenuant
form: most attenuant
Etymology: From Latin attenuans, present participle of attenuare: compare French atténuant. See attenuate.
Senses: examples: text: attenuant substance
glosses: archaic Making thin; diluting or thinning; rendering less dense and viscid.
attenuant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: attenuants
Etymology: From Latin attenuans, present participle of attenuare: compare French atténuant. See attenuate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any medicine that thins or dilutes the fluids; a diluent.
hell's teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: an exclamation of surprise or anger
complicator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complicators
Etymology: From complicate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which complicates.
scalpellum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalpella
Etymology: From Latin scalpellum. Doublet of scalpel.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: One of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects.
terebras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terebra
terebrant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/
ipa: /-ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin terebrantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of terebrāns, the present active participle of terebrō (“to bore through, perforate, pierce”), from terebra (“instrument for boring, borer, gimlet”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Terebra is derived from ter(ō) (“to rub; to wear away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”)) + -bra (suffix denoting an instrument, forming nouns).
The noun is either derived from the adjective, or is a back-formation from Terebrantia (“suborder of thrips”).
Senses: examples: text: The other terebrant hymenoptera feed in the same state either on larvæ, caterpillars particularly, of which they gnaw the interior, without attacking the essential principle of life at first, or on nymphs or eggs of insects, bodies in which they have been deposited under this last form by the mother.
ref: 1832, Edward Griffith, Edward Pidgeon, “Supplement on the Hymenoptera”, in Baron Cuvier [i.e., Georges Cuvier], translated by [Edward Griffith], The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization […], volume 15 (The Class Insecta, volume 2), London: […] [Gilbert & Rivington] for Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 395:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of an insect: that bores (“makes holes”); specifically, belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of pain: resembling the sensation of being bored into or pierced.
terebrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/
ipa: /-ɹɪ-/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹəbɹənt/
Forms: form: terebrants
Etymology: The adjective is a learned borrowing from Latin terebrantem, the accusative masculine or feminine singular of terebrāns, the present active participle of terebrō (“to bore through, perforate, pierce”), from terebra (“instrument for boring, borer, gimlet”) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs). Terebra is derived from ter(ō) (“to rub; to wear away”) (from Proto-Indo-European *terh₁- (“to drill, pierce; to rub; to turn”)) + -bra (suffix denoting an instrument, forming nouns).
The noun is either derived from the adjective, or is a back-formation from Terebrantia (“suborder of thrips”).
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An insect that bores (“makes holes”); a borer; specifically, one belonging to the Terebrantia suborder of thrips which bore using their ovipositors.
terebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terebras
form: terebrae
Etymology: From Latin terebra (“a borer”).
Senses: glosses: The ovipositor of a female hymenopteran, that pierces.
glosses: An Ancient Roman engine for making a breach in a wall.
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A type of trepan.
terebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbɹət/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbɹeɪt/
Etymology: From Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.
Senses: glosses: Provided with a borer.
terebrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbɹət/
ipa: /ˈtɛɹɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: terebrates
form: terebrating
form: terebrated
form: terebrated
Etymology: From Latin terebratus, past participle of terebrare.
Senses: examples: text: the threefold effect of Jupiter's trisulk , to burn , discuss , and terebrate
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To bore or perforate.
scalprum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scalpra
Etymology: From Latin scalprum.
Senses: examples: text: After making the incision, the pericranium must be raised a little from the bone with the edge of the knife, to clear the bone, and the scalprum employed.
ref: 1819, Bartholomew Parr, The London Medical Dictionary:
glosses: A toothed raspatory used in trephining and in removing carious bone.
glosses: A large strong scalpel.
speedboarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of speed + skateboarding, equivalent to speedboard + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Sophomore Jason Pennell started longboarding, and like Lund, it eventually led him to speedboarding. Pennell loves racing with others and welcoming new riders to the sport.
ref: 2007 November 28, Nick Kolich, “Speedboarders fly down hills”, in The Beacon:
text: Speedboarding involves leaping onto long skateboards and zipping down steep public streets and canyon roads at speeds of more than 40 mph.
ref: 2009 February 25, Noam Friedlander, “Dangerous sport of speedboarding banned from Malibu streets”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: An extreme sport which involves racing on a streamline skateboard down steep hills, often on public roads.
scamorza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Italian scamorza.
Senses: glosses: An unfermented cow's-milk cheese from southern Italy.
speedboarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speedboarders
Etymology: From speedboard + -er
Senses: examples: text: Senior Adam Lund started riding a longboard as an easier way to get around school. His friends enticed him to ride down hills, foreshadowing his future as a speedboarder. […] People often assume that speedboarders are disrespectful lawbreakers.
ref: 2007 November 28, Nick Kolich, “Speedboarders fly down hills”, in The Beacon:
text: Most speedboarders wear helmets, knee and elbow pads, and occasionally all-in-one aerodynamic suits, to protect themselves.
ref: 2009 February 25, Noam Friedlander, “Dangerous sport of speedboarding banned from Malibu streets”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: A person who practices the extreme sport of speedboarding.
speedboarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speedboarder
schizogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizogenous
form: most schizogenous
Etymology: From schizo- + -genous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or formed by schizogeny.
glosses: Of or pertaining to schizogony.
scriptorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skɹɪpˈtɔːɹɪəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl
Senses: examples: text: the scriptorial dwindling оf three common Russian words to metrical nothings
ref: 1964, Vladimir Nabokov, Notes on Prosody […] (Bollingen Series; LXXIIa), New York, N.Y.: Bollingen Foundation, →OCLC, pages 46–47:
glosses: Of or pertaining to writing
serositis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serosites
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a serosa (serous membrane), or of multiple serosae.
Hyponyms: hyaloserositis
panserositis
polyserositis
Coordinate terms: mucositis
sibilator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sibilators
Senses: glosses: One who sibilates; a hisser.
agglomerant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That causes agglomeration
Derived terms: antiagglomerant
sewellel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewellels
Etymology: From Chinook sewellel, shewellel (“mountain beaver pelt robe”).
Senses: synonyms: boomer
sewellel beaver
glosses: The mountain beaver (Aplodontia rufa).
sewin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sewins
form: sewen
Etymology: Borrowed from Welsh sewin, siwin.
Senses: glosses: Sea trout, a subspecies of brown trout (Salmo trutta morpha trutta).
agglomerator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agglomerators
Senses: glosses: A device that agglomerates material.
shamal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shamals
form: shimaal
Etymology: Arabic شَمَل (šamal).
Senses: glosses: A hot, dry wind that blows across the Persian Gulf during the summer
solera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soleras
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish solera.
Senses: glosses: A method of producing sherry in which small amounts of younger wines stored in an upper tier of casks are systematically blended with the more mature wine in the casks below
glosses: A large wine cask, on the bottom tier in this system, that contains the oldest wine
crappest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of crap: most crap
aggravator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggravators
Etymology: From aggravate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who or that which aggravates.
examples: text: An aggravator, or love curl, of a delicate roundness, hung low upon the imperial forehead, […]
ref: 1848, William Evans Burton, Waggeries and Vagaries, page 57:
glosses: Synonym of Newgate knocker (“a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear”).
synonyms: word: Newgate knocker
extra: a lock of hair worn twisted back toward the ear
solidago
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsɒlɪˈdeɪɡəʊ/
ipa: /ˌsɑlɪˈdeɪɡoʊ/
ipa: /ˌsɑlɪˈdɑɡoʊ/
rhymes: -eɪɡəʊ
Forms: form: solidagos
form: solidagoes
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: The goldenrod, or any of various similar plants in the genus Solidago.
solifuge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solifuges
Etymology: From Latin solifuga.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of camel spider.
synonyms: word: camel spider
divulger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divulgers
Etymology: From divulge + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who divulges something.
divulgator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: divulgators
Etymology: From divulgate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Good journalists can be important divulgators of knowledge
text: In the tongue wherein Christ spake these words, namely the Syriac, the fittest word that He could find to signify the devil’s name, is a word that signifies divulgator
ref: 1841, Lancelot Andrews, Ninety-six Sermons by The Right Honourable and Reversed Father in God, John Henry Parker, page 482:
text: In short, when his total activity is weighed, his role as a literary divulgator and mentor must be taken into consideration.
ref: 1970, Martin S. Stabb, Jorge Luis Borges (quotation in English; overall work in English), New York: Twayne Publishers, page 57:
glosses: Alternative spelling of divulgater.
fuges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuge
soundholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundhole
soundhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soundholes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sound hole.
aberrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aberrators
Senses: examples: text: Plexiglass aberrators
In this experiment we wanted to test the ability of the system to compensate for high order aberrations. We placed a plexiglass sheet halfway between the transmitter and the receiver.
ref: 1999, Gordon D. Love, Adaptive Optics For Industry And Medicine - Proceedings:
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device that simulates aberration in an image.
spreite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreites
form: spreiten
Etymology: Borrowed from German Spreite.
Senses: examples: text: The upper part of bivalve-generated burrows includes the siphon trace (one or two siphons) that extends from the body cavity to the sediment/water interface, and any protrusive spreiten above the shell.
ref: 2012, Dirk Knaust, Trace Fossils as Indicators of Sedimentary Environments, page 278:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A sedimentary lamina caused by animal behaviour.
spreiten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spreite
assiduate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assiduate
form: most assiduate
Etymology: From Latin assiduātus, past participle of assiduō (“to apply constantly”).
Senses: examples: text: […] the queen made assiduate labour for the delivery of the king, her husband, promising he would surrender the whole land into her possession […]
ref: 1641, Thomas Heywood, The Life of Merlin Surnamed Ambrosius:
glosses: unremitting, requiring a lot of effort
glosses: assiduous
partial fractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partial fraction
synodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Synonym of synodic.
synonyms: word: synodic
taedium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 3) Die Langeweile — , to beguile ennui, the taedium or dullness [of a place &c.] with playing;
ref: 1845, J. L. Hilpert, A Dictionary of the English and German, and the German and English Language, volume II, Carlsruhe: Th. Braun, page 777, column 1:
text: The procession along the sacred road from Athens to Eleusis (see Wordsworth’s Greece, p. 145) used to wile the taedium of the journey with these banterings, as the ‘Canterbury Pilgrimage’ in the time of Chaucer appears to have done.
ref: 1877, F. A. Paley, Aristophanis Ranae. The ‘Frogs’ of Aristophanes, a Revised Text with English Notes, and a Preface, Cambridge: Deighton, Bell and Co. London: George Bell and Sons, pages 39–40, columns 2–1:
text: Yet if the cure of physical maladies is beyond the physicians prescriptions, we may at least recreate and relieve the mind from the effects of the taedium and ennui arising from the sameness of routine life by transferring ourselves to epochs of thought differing from our own.
ref: 1886 September, Prof. Bloombergh, “La Chanson de Roland”, in The Lafayette, volume XII, page 79, columns 1–2:
text: Other men I have known to whom a round of Golf was so casual and frivolous a pass-time that they would seek to relieve the taedium of the game (and perhaps entertain you!) by the narration between strokes of interminable and pointless anecdotes.
ref: 1904, Arnold Haultain, “The Mystery of Golf”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 94, page 90:
text: In the following year it was even rumored in Edinburgh that Waverly was written by Jeffrey “to lighten the taedium of his transatlantic voyage.”
ref: 1941, The New England Quarterly, page 316:
text: Vanished was the taedium that killed the July Monarchy (“France is bored!”), the listlessness, the shrugging of weary shoulders, the raising of sceptical eyebrows, that were to beset the Third Republic—and the Fourth.
ref: 1954, The American Society Legion of Honor Magazine, volume 25, page 354:
glosses: Alternative form of tedium.
Related terms: taedium vitae
exact sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exact sequence
immolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immolators
Etymology: Latin [Term?]
Senses: glosses: One who offers in sacrifice.
glosses: One of a sect of Russian fanatics who practised self-mutilation and sacrifice.
Related terms: immolate
self-immolator
long exact sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long exact sequences
Senses: glosses: An exact sequence with countably infinitely many terms.
tectonostratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tectonostratigraphy + -ic, by surface analysis, tectono- + stratum + -graph + -y + -ic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to tectonostratigraphy.
tectonostratigraphy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tectono- + stratigraphy.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The stratigraphy of large-scale strata caused by tectonic activity.
Related terms: tectonostratigraphic
long exact sequences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of long exact sequence
devirginate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
ipa: /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/
ipa: /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪneɪt/
ipa: /diːˈvɜː(ɹ)dʒɪnət/
Forms: form: devirginates
form: devirginating
form: devirginated
form: devirginated
Etymology: First attested in 1583; borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, perfect passive participle of dēvirginō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: a profligate Christian attempted to devirginate a Maid, but the Mother being present, resisted him, and endeavouring to free her from his intended Rape, whereat the Spaniard enrag'd, cut off her Hand with a short Sword, and stab'd the Virgin in several places, till she Expir'd
ref: 1552, Bartolomé de las Casas, “Chapter 11”, in A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies:
text: The Troians retire to their walls, and the Grecians to their Camp, when Achilles at a feſtivall relates the wonderfull story of Cygnus; which is paralell'd by Neſtor with another of Ceneus, once a maid, then called Cænis and devirginated by Neptune […]
ref: 1621-1626, George Sandys, Upon the twelfth book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, in Metamorphosis (Translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses):
glosses: To deprive of virginity; to deflower.
devirginate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: First attested in c. 1470, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English devirginat(e), borrowed from Latin dēvirginātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more.
Senses: examples: text: Fair Hero, left devirginate,
 Weighs and with fury wails her state:
But with her love and woman wit
She argues, and approveth it.
ref: 1598, George Chapman, “Third Sestyad”, in Christopher Marlow[e], George Chapman, edited by S[amuel] W[eller] Singer, Hero and Leander. A Poem. […] (Select Early English Poets; VIII), Chiswick, London: […] C[harles] Whittingham, […], published 1606 (republished 1821), →OCLC, page 44:
glosses: Deprived of virginity.
Derived terms: indevirginate
vicibus
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: vĭʹsĭbəs
ipa: /ˈvɪsɪbəs/
Etymology: From the Latin vicibus, the ablative plural form of vicis (“change”, “alternation”, “turn”; “succession”).
Senses: qualifier: chiefly occurring in phrases in law
glosses: By turns; in succession; alternatim.
Derived terms: alternis vicibus
diversis diebus et vicibus
diversis diebus & vicibus
diversis vicibus
partitis vicibus
yote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: yotes
form: yoting
form: yoted
form: yoted
Etymology: From Middle English yoten, yeten (“to pour”), from Old English ġēotan (“to pour”), from Proto-West Germanic *geutan, from Proto-Germanic *geutaną (“to pour”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰewd- (“to pour”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian joote (“to pour”), West Frisian jitte (“to pour”), Dutch gieten (“to pour”), German gießen (“to pour”), Danish gyde (“to pour”). Related to gush, geyser.
Senses: glosses: To pour water on; pour in.
examples: Chapman
My fowls, which well enough
I, as before, found feeding at their trough
Their yoted wheat.
glosses: To steep.
Related terms: ingot
yote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊti/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊti
ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Forms: form: yotes
Etymology: From coyote.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of coyote.
yote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊti/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊti
ipa: /ˈjoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊti/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊti
Senses: glosses: simple past of yete
yote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊti/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊti
ipa: /ˈjoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
ipa: /ˈjəʊti/
rhymes: -əʊt
rhymes: -əʊti
ipa: /ˈjoʊt/
rhymes: -əʊt
Senses: glosses: simple past of yeet
flagrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /fləˈɡɹeɪt/
Forms: form: flagrates
form: flagrating
form: flagrated
form: flagrated
Etymology: First attested in 1756; borrowed from Latin flagrātus, perfect passive participle of flagrō (“to burn”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: This Lamp moreover stands on the Foot of an Eagle or Hawk, thereby, says Kircher, to represent how Typhon’s destructive and flagrating Power lying hid in the Sun, was made more temperate by a Humour which Silenus, the Page of the aforesaid Bacchus, had the Command of
ref: 1705, Thomas Greenhill, Νεκροκηδεία or The Art of Embalming:
glosses: To burn.
timberman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timbermen
Etymology: From timber + -man.
Senses: glosses: A lumberman.
glosses: A timber dealer.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A person who installs timbers in a mine.
glosses: A longhorn beetle, of genus Acanthocinus, of European pine forests.
titanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From titanium + -ous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to titanium, especially trivalent titanium.
Related terms: titanic
diagram chase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagram chases
Senses: examples: text: To prove the five lemma, just use a diagram chase.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A proof in stages, each of which, in general, depends on the previous stages and can be visualized by means of a diagram of morphisms.
Related terms: diagram chasing
diagram chasing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: To prove the five lemma, just use diagram chasing.
text: Category theory also contributes new proof techniques, such as diagram chasing or arguments by duality; Steenrod called these methods “abstract nonsense.”³ The aim of this text is to introduce the language, philosophy, and basic theorems of category theory. A complementary objective is to put this theory into practice: studying functoriality in algebraic topology, naturality in group theory, and universal properties in algebra.
ref: 2016, Emily Riehl, Category Theory in Context (Aurora: Dover modern math originals), New York: Dover, →ISBN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Dec 2019, page x:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Proof in stages, each of which, in general, depends on the previous stages and can be visualized by means of a diagram of morphisms.
Related terms: diagram chase
abstract nonsense
diagram chases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagram chase
interpellator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interpellators
Etymology: From interpellate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who interpellates.
dihydrocapsaicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + hydro- + capsaicin.
Senses: glosses: A capsaicinoid and analog and congener of capsaicin in chili peppers.
Derived terms: nordihydrocapsaicin
tourn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tourns
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman. Doublet of turn.
Senses: glosses: A circuit made by a medieval English sheriff to the courts of his shire.
timbermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timberman
timberless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From timber + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The country is barren, sterile, and timberless.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 33:
glosses: Without timber.
urnfield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urnfields
Etymology: From urn + field.
Senses: glosses: Ground used as a cemetery in Bronze Age Europe, in which the ashs of cremations were buried in cinerary urns.
wearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wearingly
form: most wearingly
Etymology: From wearing + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Though their leading ladies are of different sexes, “Sister Act” and “Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” are remarkably (and wearingly) similar.
ref: 2009 July 8, Ben Brantley, “London’s Musicals: Intimate or Outsize”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a wearing (tiring) manner
wintertide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪntə(ɹ)taɪd/
ipa: /ˈwɪntɚtaɪd/
ipa: [ˈwɪɾ̃ɚtaɪd]
Forms: form: wintertides
Etymology: From Middle English wintertid, wyntertyde, from Old English winter + tid (“time”). By surface analysis, winter + -tide. Cognate to Dutch wintertijd (“winter time”).
Senses: examples: text: Shut out the flower-time, / Sunbeam and shower-time; / Make way for our time, / The winter-tide.
ref: 1867 February 16, Algernon C[harles] Swinburne, “Child's Song in Winter”, in Eliakim Littell, editor, Littell's Living Age, volume IV, number 46 (4th series; volume XCII, number 1185, from the beginning), Boston, Mass.: Littell and Gay, →OCLC, page 472:
text: O winter tide, O winter tide, / Thy coming brings us sadness; / Afar are those we hold most dear, / Here men are strange, and skies are drear; […]
ref: 1891, Robert S. Littell, editor, Littell's Living Age, volume CLXXXVIII, Boston, Mass.: T. H. Carter & Company, →OCLC, page 194:
text: Thaw follows frost; hard on the heel of spring / Treads summer sure to die, for hard on hers / Comes autumn with his apples scattering; / Then back to wintertide, when nothing stirs.
ref: 1936, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “Diffugere Nives [translation of Horace, Odes, IV.vii]”, in More Poems, London: Jonathan Cape, →OCLC, V, lines 9–12:
text: […] Figure Skating was actually the very first winter sport included at the summer Olympic games in London 1908. Its wintertide equivalence was eventually introduced in 1924.
ref: 2014 February 6, “Sochi 2014: A Nottingham skater's ice dream”, in Impact: The University of Nottingham's Official Student Magazine, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2014:
text: So, grab yourself a spot of tea or a boozy hot chocolate, and celebrate the beginning of winter with these wintertide-inspired quotes.
ref: 2014 December 18, Emily Kelley, “14 winter quotes to make the freezing cold weather seem a little less terrible”, in Bustle:
glosses: wintertime
wikipedia: Eero Järnefelt
abiuret
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪˌbi.jə.ɹɛt/
Etymology: From a- (“not”) + biuret, from bi- (“two”) + uret (“urea”).
Senses: glosses: Not giving the biuret reaction; showing that it does not contain biuret.
abiurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiurers
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of abjurer.
apologem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologems
Etymology: Blend of apology + gem, calque from Japanese 詫(わ)び石(いし) (wa bi ishi).
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Consolation item distributed to players after a service disruption.
apologer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologers
Etymology: From apologue + -er.
Senses: glosses: A teller of apologues.
nondetected
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + detected.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of non-detected.
determinisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of determinism
nonrejection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrejections
Etymology: From non- + rejection.
Senses: glosses: Lack of rejection; acceptance or validation.
nonrejections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonrejection