cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Bordelais
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bordelais
form: most Bordelais
Etymology: From French Bordelais/bordelais.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
Bordelais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bordelais
Etymology: From French Bordelais/bordelais.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France.
aromatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aromatic
detournement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detournements
form: détournement
Etymology: Borrowed from French détournement.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The reuse of elements of mainstream media to produce a subversive message.
irrecuperable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English irrecuperable, from Old French.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being recuperated
Synonyms: unrecuperable
Derived terms: irrecuperably
tamandua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmænduə/
ipa: /təˌmænduˈɑ/
Forms: form: tamanduas
Etymology: From the genus name, from Tupian. Doublet of tamanoir.
Senses: examples: text: Tamanduas eat many kinds of ants as well as termites and bees. They tend to shy away from army ants and ponerine ants, both of which give nasty stings. When threatened, a tamandua may sit up on its hind legs and brandish its sharp curved claws.
ref: 1999, John C. Kricher, A Neotropical Companion: An Introduction to the Animals, Plants, and Ecosystems of the New World Tropics, 2nd edition, page 307:
text: The tamandua is easily separated from the giant anteater by its smaller size, its coloration, and the shape of its tail. Most tamanduas in southern South America are golden brown with a black vest covering the dorsum and venter, crossing the shoulders in a black band, but on some individuals the vest may be greatly reduced or even absent.
ref: 2000, John F. Eisenberg, Mammals of the Neotropics, volume 3, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, page 93:
text: They have coarse tan or brown pelage, and in the northern tamandua (Tamandua mexicana) and in southern specimens of the southern tamandua (T. tetradactyla) black fur forms a “vest” (figure 15.8B). Tamanduas have a prehensile tail that aids in climbing.
ref: 2007, George A. Feldhamer, Lee C. Drickamer, Stephen H. Vessey, Joseph F. Merritt, Carey Krajewski, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, 3rd edition, page 307:
glosses: An anteater of the genus Tamandua.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tamandua mexicana
word: northern tamandua
taxonomic: Tamandua tetradactyla
word: southern tamandua
Darian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /ˈdɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Darien
Etymology: A 20th-century invention, possibly based on Darius or Dorian.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name originating as a coinage.
w/v
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: weight per volume, i.e. specific weight
Related terms: w/w
v/v
smidge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsmɪd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪdʒ
Forms: form: smidges
Senses: glosses: Synonym of smidgen.
synonyms: word: smidgen
spectate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɛkˈteɪt/
Forms: form: spectates
form: spectating
form: spectated
form: spectated
Etymology: Back-formation from spectator.
Senses: glosses: To attend an event as a spectator; to observe.
jackleg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: jacklegged
Etymology: From jack + leg. Compare blackleg (“a person who replaces striking workers; a cheater”) and such expressions as jack of all trades, every man jack.
Senses: examples: text: 1841, Letter to the editor, The Southern Planter, Volume I, No. 1, January 1841, p. 12,
The next year I had a projecting kind of jack leg carpenter, from Hanover, living with me in the capacity of overseer […]
text: 1941, Martha Colquitt, Interview published in Slave Narratives, Library of Congress Project, Volume 4: Georgia Narratives, Part 1,
Grandma didn’t think chillun ought to see funerals, so de first one I ever seed, wuz when ma died two years atter de War wuz done over. A jackleg colored preacher talked, but he didn’t have sense ’nuff to preach a sho’ ’nuff sermon.
text: 1957, Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth, Wolfbane, Chapter 11, in Galaxy Science Fiction,
He was a doer, not a thinker; his skills were the skills of an artisan, a tinkerer, a jackleg mechanic.
text: At the gas station on the corner, a jackleg work crew was attaching plywood to the windows.
ref: 2010, Jabari Asim, “Day Work”, in A Taste of Honey, New York: Broadway Books, page 189:
glosses: Amateur, untrained; incompetent.
examples: text: The little nosy reporter with the hair was fair crazy to come, but McGinty gets a jackleg doctor to examine him an’ swear that he’s sufferin’ from spatulation o’ the medulla oblongata, housemaid’s knee, and the hives.
ref: 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 14, in Captain Scraggs or The Green-Pea Pirates, New York: Grosset & Dunlap:
text: Villard’s great fortune should not be allowed to “dangle” in plain sight of “jack-leg lawyers,” while he, Parkins, awaited final results of the proceedings.
ref: 1921, Sumner Charles Britton, chapter 4, in Dreamy Hollow, New York: World Syndicate Company, pages 49–50:
text: When I went to the so-called authorities for help I ran into jackleg politicians, wheeler-dealers, henchmen, finaglers and wire-pullers.
ref: 1988, Joyce Carol Thomas, chapter 1, in Journey, New York: Scholastic, page 27:
glosses: Dishonest, unscrupulous.
examples: text: The train is late […]. ¶ “Well, if I come to such a place as this I must expect a jackleg railroad […].”
ref: 1889, John McGovern, chapter 12, in David Lockwin: The People’s Idol, Chicago: Donohue:
text: “With the first good rain the entire jackleg contraption might collapse around my ears […]”
ref: 1989, Jack Vance, chapter 7, in Madouc, Novato, California: Underwood-Miller, page 168:
text: 2005, William Hoffman, Lies, Montgomery, Alabama: River City Publishing, Chapter 23, p. 226,
Driving the secondhand Chevy pickup, he visits not only major car dealerships but also every jackleg garage he happens upon in dusty sun-blasted towns of the Deep South.
text: […] he went first to the barn […] and made a jackleg bed with hay and an old mule blanket.
ref: 2012, Stephen King, The Wind Through the Keyhole, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 176:
glosses: Ineptly built or operated; makeshift.
jackleg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jacklegs
form: jacklegged
Etymology: From jack + leg. Compare blackleg (“a person who replaces striking workers; a cheater”) and such expressions as jack of all trades, every man jack.
Senses: glosses: A type of drill operated by means of compressed air.
examples: text: […] I, gentlemen and ladies, are a rale Scientificky! I ain’t none of your jack-legs.
ref: 1846 July, Editor’s Table, The Knickerbocker, volume 28, number 1, page 87:
text: Would the reader care to know something about the story which I pulled out? He has been told many a time how the born-and-trained novelist works; won’t he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jack-leg does it?
ref: 1894, Mark Twain, The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins, Hartford, Connecticut: American Publishing Company, page 311:
text: “Lady,” he said, jerking his short arm up as if he could point with it to her house and yard and pump, “there ain’t a broken thing on this plantation that I couldn’t fix for you, one-arm jackleg or not […].”
ref: 1955, Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1977, page 58:
text: 1999, David Horsley, Into the Wind, Houston, Texas: Winedale Publishing, “Tops for Trees,” p. 180,
If it were up to me, we’d have a city ordinance against incompetent pruning of trees. You need a permit to unclog a sewer or fix a light switch, but any jackleg with a chainsaw can climb up a ladder and undo in five minutes what Mother Nature took decades to accomplish.
glosses: An amateur; an untrained or incompetent person.
examples: text: “[…] we ain’t called on to believe every smooth-talking jackleg who wanders in here.”
ref: 1985, Wesley Ellis, chapter 9, in Lone Star and the California Oil War, New York: Jove, page 121:
text: “Guess what th’ low-down jackleg has done now.”
ref: 1997, Jan Karon, chapter 7, in Out to Canaan, New York: Viking, page 113:
glosses: A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person.
Derived terms: jackleg fence
scare quotes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scare quote
scare quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scare quotes
form: scare-quote
Etymology: Coined by British analytic philosopher G. E. M. Anscombe in 1956 in her essay “Aristotle and the Sea Battle”. Originally spelt with a hyphen as scare-quotes.
Senses: examples: text: One other important figure in postmodern thought is Richard Rorty, who might be characterized as master of the scare quote
ref: 2001 January 1, “The Retreat From Inquiry and Knowledge in Special Education.”, in Journal of Special Education:
text: He is inordinately fond of the scare quote, a sign that he is not really sure of what he's talking about.
ref: 2004, P Timms, What's Wrong with Contemporary Art?:
text: An incidental pleasure is his witty mastery of the scare quote and the square bracket.
ref: 2006 September 6, “Where Hairsplitting Can Become High Drama”, in New York Sun:
text: I put the relevant pronouns in scare quote because Bundy’s interviewers succeeded in getting Bundy to talk about his crimes only by allowing him to describe them in the third person
ref: 2008, D Jeske, “Friendship and the grounds of reasons”, in papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca:
synonyms: shudder quote
sneer quote
glosses: A quotation mark deliberately used to provoke a reaction or to indicate that the author does not approve of a term or clause, rather than to identify a direct quotation.
Related terms: air quote
quote unquote
gnossienne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gnossiennes
Etymology: From French gnossienne.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any of several compositions having a dance-like quality
pitapat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pitapats
form: pitapatting
form: pitapatted
form: pitapatted
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat.
pitapat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitapats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat.
pitapat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pit-a-pat.
air pollutant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air pollutants
Senses: glosses: Any substance that gives rise to air pollution
pit-a-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: pit a pat
form: pitapat
form: pit-pat
form: pitpat
form: pitter-pat
form: pitterpat
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, the bullets kept falling and stirring up little puffs of dust on the open ground in front of the zeriba.
ref: 1900 May, Frederic Villiers, “Twenty Years on the War Path. […] VII.—“My Friend Corporal Tonbar.””, in The Canadian Magazine of Politics, Science, Art and Literature, volume XV, number 1, Toronto, Ont.: The Ontario Publishing Co., Ltd., page 40, column 2:
text: “Pit-a-pat! Pit-a-pat!”—On go the thousands of feet; on to the movie and on to the dance; on to the office, the club and the bank.
ref: [1921], Aimee Semple McPherson, Divine Healing Sermons, [Los Angeles, Calif.], →OCLC, page thirteen:
text: Pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, pit-a-pat, / He danced on the whiskery nose.
ref: 2004, Julia Donaldson, “The Mouse and the Lion”, in Crazy Mayonnaisy Mum, Macmillan Children’s Books, published 2005, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Representing a series of quick tapping sounds.
pit-a-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pit-a-pats
form: pit-a-patting
form: pit-a-patted
form: pit-a-patted
form: pit a pat
form: pitapat
form: pit-pat
form: pitpat
form: pitter-pat
form: pitterpat
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: To make a series of quick tapping sounds; to palpitate
pit-a-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pit-a-pats
form: pit a pat
form: pitapat
form: pit-pat
form: pitpat
form: pitter-pat
form: pitterpat
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: glosses: A series of quick tapping sounds
pit-a-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: pit a pat
form: pitapat
form: pit-pat
form: pitpat
form: pitter-pat
form: pitterpat
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: “Only a scraping of shoes on the mat? / “Anything like the sound of a rat / “Makes my heart go pit-a-pat!”
ref: 1842–1845, Robert Browning, “[Dramatic Romances and Lyrics.] The Pied Piper of Hamelin; a Child’s Story. […].”, in Poems […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1849, →OCLC, stanza IV, page 308:
glosses: With a quick tapping sound
pit-a-pat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pit a pat
form: pitapat
form: pit-pat
form: pitpat
form: pitter-pat
form: pitterpat
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: The chesnut ringlets were speedily twitched from the confining paper, her Sunday hat, gown, and neckerchief bustled on in a moment, and wondering what he would say, and how she should feel and behave on the trying occasion, she descended with a pit-a-pat heart, and a cheek covered with burning blushes.
ref: 1810, [anonymous] […], chapter XXVII, in Splendid Follies. A Novel, […]. Founded on Facts., volume III, London: […] J[ames] F[letcher] Hughes, […], →OCLC, page 109:
text: The pit-a-pat heart of a susceptible girl of sixteen, tells her that a gentleman is a tall fellow with a fine military cap on his head; […]
ref: 1830 February 4, The Maryland Gazette, volume LXXXV, number 5, Annapolis, Md.:
text: Dear Hannah—you learn from your aunt to conceal / The things that your parents do bid you reveal— / ’Tis true, I am Henry, and Anderton, too, / But that’s not an answer expected from you— / You, yesterday, called me a very dear name, / Which set my poor pit-a-pat heart in a flame: / Speak! am I your “uncle?” The truth I would know; / I wonder who taught you to speak to me so!
ref: a. 1856, Henry Anderton, “To the same [Little Hannah]”, in The Temperance and Other Poems of the Late Henry Anderton, […], Preston, Lancs: […] W. and J. Dobson, […], published 1863, page 97:
glosses: Characterized by quick tapping sounds; palpitating.
Related terms: pitapatation
pitter-patter
furriner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furriners
Senses: examples: text: 1853, John Greenleaf Whittier, Yankee Gypsies,
I took this 'ere paper, you see, to help a poor furriner, who could n't make himself understood any more than a wild goose.
text: Thar ain't no place whar you haven't as much right to go ez any other man; thar ain't any man, furriner or Amerykan, young or old, dyed or undyed, ez hev got any better rights.
ref: 1885, Bret Harte, By Shore and Sedge:
text: Just fancy ME bein' talked over by any God-forsaken furriner!
ref: 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel:
qualifier: Now chiefly derogatory
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of foreigner.
Related terms: furrin
piteousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piteousnesses
Etymology: From piteous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being piteous
pithiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pithinesses
Etymology: From pithy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pithy.
pitilessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitilessnesses
Etymology: From pitiless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being pitiless
placatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pləˈkeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: more placatory
form: most placatory
Senses: examples: text: While placatory on the hostages, Raja'i dismissed any possibility of a ceasefire in the war.
ref: 1980 October 27, Marguerite Johnson et al., “Trying to Tighten the Noose”, in Time:
glosses: That placates; pacifying.
Synonyms: placative
placekick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placekicks
Etymology: From place + kick.
Senses: glosses: A kick of the ball from a stationary position.
raw_tags: in several forms of football
placekick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: placekicks
form: placekicking
form: placekicked
form: placekicked
Etymology: From place + kick.
Senses: glosses: To kick the ball from a stationary position, especially as a means of scoring extra points.
raw_tags: in several forms of football
Related terms: placekicker
placekicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placekickers
Senses: glosses: A player who takes a placekick
raw_tags: in several forms of football
Related terms: place-kick
place-kick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: place-kicks
form: place-kicking
form: place-kicked
form: place-kicked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of placekick.
placidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pləˈsɪd.ə.ti/
Forms: form: placidities
Etymology: From placid + -ity, from Latin placiditās (“mildness, placidity”).
Senses: examples: text: And how could she bear such behaviour! Composure with a witness! to look on, while repeated attentions were offering to another woman, before her face, and not resent it.—That is a degree of placidity, which I can neither comprehend nor respect.
ref: 1815, Jane Austen, Emma, volume III, chapter 10:
text: Thus, in rapid succession, passed the thoughts of Rosilia, who, endeavouring to assume placidity, once more essayed to express her thanks to Mrs. Melbourne for her kind attentions,[…]
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVI, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 207:
text: The swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 200:
glosses: The state of being placid; peacefulness.
Synonyms: sense: state of being placid
word: composure
sense: state of being placid
word: peacefulness
sense: state of being placid
word: serenity
Related terms: placid
placidly
placidness
plagiarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plagiarizers
Etymology: From plagiarize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who plagiarizes
plagiary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/
Forms: form: plagiaries
form: plagiarie
Etymology: From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).
Senses: examples: text: accounted Plagiary
ref: 1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC:
text: Plagiarie had not its nativity with printing; but began in times when thefts were difficult, and the paucity of books ſcarce wanted that invention.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of Adherence unto Antiquity”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 16:
glosses: The crime of literary theft; plagiarism.
examples: text: He [Ben Jonson] vvas not onely a profeſſed Imitator of Horace, but a learned Plagiary of all the others; you track him every vvhere in their Snovv: […]
ref: 1668, John Dryden, Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay, London: […] [Thomas Newcombe] for Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: Without Invention a Painter is but a Copier, and a Poet but a Plagiary of others.
ref: 1695, John Dryden, “Preface of the Translator, with a Parallel, of Poetry and Painting”, in C[harles] A[lphonse] du Fresnoy, De Arte Graphica. The Art of Painting, […], London: […] J[ohn] Heptinstall for W. Rogers, […], →OCLC, page xxxiv:
glosses: A plagiarist.
glosses: A kidnapper.
Derived terms: plagiarise
plagiarism
plagiarist
plagiaristic
plagiary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪdʒ(ɪ)əɹi/
Forms: form: plagiarie
Etymology: From Latin plagiārius (“kidnapper, plagiarist”), from plagium (“kidnapping”), probably from plaga (“a net, snare, trap”).
Senses: examples: text: The busy bee is his classical device, and the simile confesses and justifies his plundering propensities; but the plagiary poet who steals ideas is represented by another insect, […]
ref: 1863, The Home and Foreign Review, number 5, page 87:
glosses: plagiarizing
plainness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plainnesses
Etymology: From plain + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence
And here choose I. Joy be the consequence!
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Yet her beauty clung to her like an identity she was trying to deny and her plainness kept slipping like a bad disguise.
ref: 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:
glosses: The condition of being plain (in all senses)
glosses: The product or result of being plain
Synonyms: sense: condition of being plain—ordinary
word: normalcy
word: normaldom
word: normality
word: normalness
Derived terms: unplainness
planeload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planeloads
Etymology: From plane + load.
Senses: glosses: As much, or as many, as a plane can carry
plantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plantlike
form: most plantlike
Etymology: From plant + -like.
Senses: glosses: Having characteristics of a plant
Synonyms: phytoid
Derived terms: unplantlike
readibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of readability.
cumulative effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cumulative effects
Senses: glosses: The state in which a series of repeated actions have an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects; noted especially in the repeated administration of drugs or repeated consumption of trace elements or chemicals that show no immediate effect.
longsuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more longsuffering
form: most longsuffering
Etymology: From long + suffering.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of long-suffering.
longsuffering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From long + suffering.
Senses: examples: text: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Galatians 5:22-23:
glosses: Long, patient endurance of insult, abuse or mistreatment; longanimity
back catalogue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: back catalogues
form: back catalog
Senses: glosses: A listing of all the works of a specific artist, or all the books, records etc of a specific publisher, including works that are no longer available.
examples: text: The packed opening night of Twain’s first UK tour since 2004 is an impressively barnstorming, thigh-slapping, eye-searing revue that marries her bulletproof back catalogue with a cautious sprinkle of new material.
ref: 2018 September 20, Graeme Virtue, “Shania Twain review – barnstorming, thigh-slapping spectacular”, in The Guardian:
text: The 21st-century troubadour has to carve out a profile in the digital realm, where they must compete with today’s megastars and the back catalogues of yesterday. The next Dylan has to win audiences over from the original Dylan. Anyone hoping to top British charts in December has to compete with Last Christmas by Wham!, first released in 1984.
ref: 2025 January 17, “The Guardian view on musical tastes: beware the algorithm comfort zone”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The works themselves.
Synonyms: backlist
Related terms: english: library catalog
translation: library catalog
word: library catalogue
english: card catalog
translation: card catalog
word: card catalogue
cytometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytometries
Etymology: From cyto- + -metry.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The measurement or the counting and classification of cells
Derived terms: flow cytometry
fluocytometry
fluorocytometry
hematocytometry
histocytometry
immunocytometry
phosphocytometry
Related terms: cytometer
cytometric
cytometrist
cytometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + -metric.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytometry
Derived terms: cytometrically
flowcytometric
fluorocytometric
haematocytometric
haemocytometric
hematocytometric
hemocytometric
immunocytometric
phosphocytometric
sack race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sack races
Senses: examples: text: There's something for the whole family with events including cow pat throwing, sack races, three-legged races and more.
ref: 2021 December 24, The Road Ahead, Brisbane, page 27, column 3:
topics: games
glosses: A race in which competitors stand in sacks or similar items and try to be the first to jump to the finish line.
sackable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sackable
form: most sackable
Etymology: From sack + -able.
Senses: examples: text: This follows the confirmation that Gilruth personally ordered the cancellation of engineering works in Fife last year, which is thought to have been the final straw for Gibb […]. Because her Fife constituency was materially affected by the cancellation, Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross, who raised Gibb's departure at First Minister's Questions on May 18, described the incident as a "clear-cut sackable offence".
ref: 2023 May 31, “Network News: Micro-management prompted Gibb to quit ScotRail”, in RAIL, number 984, page 25:
glosses: Sufficiently severe to warrant the perpetrator being sacked.
raw_tags: of an act
advertizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advertizers
form: advertiser
Etymology: From advertize + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who advertizes.
reappointment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappointments
form: reäppointment
Etymology: From re- + appointment.
Senses: glosses: An act of reappointing.
unavailability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unavailabilities
Etymology: From un- + availability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being unavailable
baddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baddies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of baddie.
baddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baddie
unbearably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unbearably
form: most unbearably
Etymology: From unbearable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unbearable manner, not bearably, in a way unable to be borne
centralisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: centralisations
Etymology: From French centralisation, or centralise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of centralization.
Derived terms: democratic centralisation
recentralisation
cytometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒmɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: cytometers
Etymology: From cyto- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A graduated microscope slide or similar small vessel used for counting or measuring cells
glosses: An automated device used for the same purpose
Derived terms: flow cytometer
fluorocytometer
haemocytometer
hemocytometer
Related terms: cytometry
Christmases
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: I spent the last two Christmases abroad, so it's good to be at home this Christmas.
glosses: plural of Christmas
Christmases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Christmas
jasmonate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jasmonates
Etymology: From jasmonic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several esters of jasmonic acid that act as plant hormones; they are the main component of the smell of jasmine.
Derived terms: methyl jasmonate
uncleanliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uncleanlinesses
Etymology: From uncleanly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being unclean or dirty.
Synonyms: uncleanness
clubber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clubbers
Etymology: From club + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I'd rather go with my clubber friend Brandon than to have Catherine sleep in my room.
synonyms: clubgoer
coordinate_terms: pubber
pubgoer
glosses: One who partakes in clubbing: one who frequents nightclubs.
glosses: One who clubs, who hits objects with a club.
jasmonic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An oxylipin lipid, containing a cyclopentanone ring, related to the prostaglandins; its esters, the jasmonates, are responsible for the smell of jasmine and act as plant hormones
oxylipin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxylipins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: oxygenated natural products which are formed from fatty acids by pathways involving at least one step of dioxygen-dependent oxidation; many of them have physiological importance
Related terms: jasmonic acid
eicosanoid
unconditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + conditioned.
Senses: glosses: Without conditions; absolute.
glosses: Not having been conditioned.
examples: text: unconditioned hair
glosses: Not treated with hair conditioner.
Derived terms: unconditioned reflex
unconditioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncondition
cyclopentanone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclopentanones
Etymology: From cyclopentane + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cyclic ketone derived from cyclopentane by formal replacement of two hydrogen atoms by an oxygen atom; any derivative of this compound
depts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dept
undiscussed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʌst
Forms: form: more undiscussed
form: most undiscussed
Etymology: From un- + discussed.
Senses: glosses: Not discussed, not having been put under discussion.
trick shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trick shots
Senses: topics: ball-games
billiards
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An unconventional shot of the balls to show off or pot an otherwise impossible ball.
topics: video-games
glosses: a type of shot, often performed with a sniper rifle, to show off a player's skill
bulle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bulles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of bull.
disyllabicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disyllabic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of having two syllables.
Related terms: polysyllabicity
learnèd
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more learnèd
form: most learnèd
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of learned.
Derived terms: learnèd borrowing
learnèdly
learnèdness
dolphinarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɒl.fɪˈnɛəɹ.i.əm/
ipa: /dɑl.fɪˈnɛəɹ.i.əm/
Forms: form: dolphinariums
form: dolphinaria
Etymology: From dolphin + -arium.
Senses: examples: text: Within these dolphinaria there is a fluctuating population of approximately 57 dolphins.
ref: 1973, Universities Federation for Animal Welfare, The Welfare and Management of Wild Animals in Captivity, page 72:
text: The dolphinarium's scientific research results added to its international reputation and resulted in a 1992 award by the International Marine Animal Trainers Association (IMATA).
ref: 2001, Catharine E. Bell, Lester Fisher, Laura Mizicko, Encyclopedia of the World's Zoos, volume 1, page 1215:
glosses: An aquarium that houses dolphins.
quantum ferrofluid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantum ferrofluids
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A superfluid quantum gas composed of polarized electric or magnetic dipoles
axoneme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: axonemes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄξων (áxōn, “axis”) + νῆμα (nêma, “thread”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bundle of nine microtubules forming the internal scaffolding of a cilium, with two extra central microtubules connecting the others if the cilium is motile
Derived terms: axonemal
polyaxoneme
isotope signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotope signatures
Senses: glosses: An isotopic signature
isotopic signature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isotopic signatures
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of ratios of the abundances of different isotopes of specified elements in a sample, used as a diagnostic test of the sample's origin, or of its age
thrombectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombectomy
thrombocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thrombocyte
thrombosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thrombose
thrombosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of thrombose
emboli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embolus
embolisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embolism
auguries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The auguries, to be frank, are not good. The theme of the conference is “opportunity”.
ref: 2018, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in Guardian:
glosses: plural of augury
auguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of augur
augured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of augur
arachnomancer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arachnomancers
Etymology: From arachno- + -mancer.
Senses: glosses: One who practices arachnomancy.
arachnomancers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arachnomancer
futsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfʊtsæl/
Forms: form: footsal
Etymology: From Portuguese futsal, a blend of futebol de salão (literally “hall football”).
Senses: glosses: A form of soccer played indoors, with five players per team.
Related terms: five-a-side football
indoor soccer
Lù
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Mandarin 陸／陆 (Lù).
Senses: examples: text: An ancient tea tree and Lù Yǔ, the author of Chá by a goatherd.
ref: 2006, Jie Jack Li, Laughing Gas, Viagra, and Lipitor: The Human Stories behind the Drugs We Use, page 131:
text: As Lù Xíxìng puts it, 'as for phonophores, Chữ Nôm appears rather lax, and allows graphic simplification, rather like the “graphs with simplified phonetic” (shěngshēngzì 省聲字) in Chinese.'
ref: 2013, David Holm, Mapping the Old Zhuang Character Script, page 768:
text: Lù Xiàngshān 陸象山 (1139–1193) was a contemporary of Zhu Xi, as well as an influential philosophical rival.
ref: 2014, Justin Tiwald, Bryan W. Van Norden, Readings in Later Chinese Philosophy: Han to the 20th Century, page 231:
text: Zhū's critique of his contemporary Lù Xiàngshān 陸象山 was similar to the way he treated Hú Hóng (胡宏 1105–55), the principal figure of the Húnán school. Zhū always considered Lù’s teaching as Chánnist, because he saw him as pursuing a transcendent, immediate enlightenment and neglecting the cultivation of “principle” that could only come from protracted and gradual moral practice.
ref: 2015, Halvor Eifring, Meditation and Culture: The Interplay of Practice and Context, page 82:
glosses: A surname from Chinese, from Mandarin, see 陸／陆 (Lù).
ignorer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ignorers
Etymology: From ignore + -er.
Senses: examples: text: THESE days it seems to me, a passionate ignorer of football, that all anyone can talk about around here are the Green Bay Packers.
ref: 2008 January 20, Lauren Fox, “Political Football”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who ignores.
legionaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of legionnaire.
sternutatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜːˈnjuː.təˌtɔːɹ.i/
ipa: /stɝːˈnuː.təˌtɔːɹ.i/
Forms: form: more sternutatory
form: most sternutatory
Etymology: From Latin sternūtātōrius, from sternuō (“sneeze”).
Senses: examples: text: When the gut protrudes and will not remain in its place, scrape the finest and most compact silphium (assafoetida?) into small pieces and apply as a cataplasm, and apply a sternutatory medicine to the nose and provoke sneezing
ref: 1800s, Francis Adams, transl., On Fistulae, translation of original by Hippocrates:
glosses: That causes or induces sneezing; sternutative.
Synonyms: sense: that causes sneezing
word: sternutative
sense: that causes sneezing
word: errhine
sternutatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɜːˈnjuː.təˌtɔːɹ.i/
ipa: /stɝːˈnuː.təˌtɔːɹ.i/
Forms: form: sternutatories
Etymology: From Latin sternūtātōrius, from sternuō (“sneeze”).
Senses: glosses: Any substance that causes sneezing; a sternutator
Related terms: sternutative
sternutator
throwe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throwes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of throw.
throwe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of throw.
dead or alive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From usage in wanted posters in the 19th century American West and, especially in popular drama about the American West in that period.
Senses: glosses: Either dead or alive.
examples: text: Wanted: dead or alive.
glosses: Used to indicate someone is being sought for some kind of punishment or reprimand, and that (s)he may be killed in the process of finding, as if this was reasonable punishment.
Derived terms: wanted dead or alive
Related terms: more dead than alive
compassionate conservativism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misconstruction of compassionate conservatism.
obovate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ŏb-ōʹvāt
Forms: form: more obovate
form: most obovate
Etymology: From ob- (“inverse”) + ovate (“egg-shaped”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Shaped like an egg, with the broad extremity located away from the base.
Derived terms: obovately
open letter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open letters
Senses: examples: text: For months, Dati warned she would refuse to stand aside. Now she has stunned the political class with an open letter to Fillon in Le Monde, a scathing character assassination accusing him of the "lone ambition" of a disillusioned political elite, of doing politics in a way that "never favoured women" and stopping ethnic-minority candidates from progressing at elections. She said he was committing "a sad mistake" in trying to run in Paris.
ref: 2011 December 14, Angelique Chrisafis, “Rachida Dati accuses French PM of sexism and elitism”, in Guardian:
text: More than 60 rail supply business leaders signed an open letter to Rishi Sunak on May 9 urging him to bring forward the bill which would formally establish GBR.
ref: 2023 May 31, Tammy Samuel, Fergus McLaverty, “The political picture: what lies ahead for Britain's railways?”, in RAIL, number 984, page 30:
glosses: A letter addressed to one person, or more, but published (as for example in a newspaper) for the public to read.
Hyponyms: letters patent
Related terms: epistle
suicide watch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suicide watches
Senses: examples: text: Previously, Bob had mentioned that they had 14 clients on 'suicide watch' (where volunteers make regular contact with the men involved).
ref: 2021 March 10, Paul Bigland, “They can leave their problems at the gate”, in RAIL, number 926, page 60:
glosses: A period of monitoring of someone, especially a prisoner deemed likely to commit suicide, to ensure they do not attempt suicide.
royal family
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: royal families
Senses: glosses: The family of the ruling sovereign of a country or state.
Montpelier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɔntˈpiliɚ/
ipa: /mɒntˈpiːlɪə/
note: US, Vermont
ipa: /mɑntˈpɪljɚ/
Etymology: .
Senses: glosses: A number of places in the United States:
The capital city of Vermont, and the county seat of Washington County.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Bear Lake County, Idaho.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Blackford County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township and census-designated place in Muscatine County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Adair County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in St. Helena Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Clay County, Mississippi.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Stutsman County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A village in Williams County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Charles City County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Hanover County, Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin.
glosses: A village in Saint James parish, Jamaica.
glosses: A village in north-east County Limerick, Ireland (Irish grid ref R 6666).
glosses: A suburb of Bristol, England (OS grid ref ST5974).
glosses: An area of Brighton, East Sussex, England.
picturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of picture
picturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturings
Senses: examples: text: Time fleeted on; but time ne'er dimmed / The picturings of the heart.
ref: c. 1832, William Motherwell, The Madman's Love:
glosses: depiction
admiralcy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: admiralcies
Etymology: From admiral + -cy.
Senses: examples: text: The grant of the hereditory Admiralcy diverted his energies to a barren field.
ref: 1892, Edward John Payne, History of the New World Called America, Clarendon Press, Page 155
text: He was impresed by the Governor's governorship and the admiral's admiralcy (Carter had been an ensign in World War 1)...
ref: 1955, John O'Hara, Ten North Frederick, Random House, Page 32
text: But because of your bravery at Cummaná and your good management at Cartagena I convert your courtesy admiralcy to a permanent appointment as Admiral.
ref: 1989, James Albert Michener, Caribbean, Random House, Page 101
text: [of Henri, duc de Montmorency] After being stripped of his admiralcy he fought ashore, and in 1630 won a victory at Avigliana in Piedmont, and was made a Marshal of France
ref: 2004, Alastair Wilson and Joseph F. Callo, Who's Who in Naval History: From 1550 to the Present, Routledge, Page 116
glosses: The rank of admiral.
chipolata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌt͡ʃɪpəˈlɑːtə/
Forms: form: chipolatas
Etymology: From French chipolata, from Italian cipollata (“onion confit”), itself from cipolla (“onion”).
Senses: glosses: A type of sausage from Europe, typically of seasoned coarsely ground pork.
double-crosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-crossers
Etymology: From double-cross + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who double-crosses; a traitor.
Related terms: double agent
double-dealer
double-crossers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of double-crosser
haggish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhæɡɪʃ/
Forms: form: more haggish
form: most haggish
Etymology: From hag + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Like a hag.
Derived terms: haggishly
haggishness
handclasp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handclasps
Etymology: From hand + clasp.
Senses: glosses: A handshake.
handclasps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of handclasp
harelipped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From harelip + -ed.
Senses: glosses: having a harelip
huskiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huskinesses
Etymology: From husky + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: I strove vainly to force my fingers down on the triggers, and vainly I strove to say something.
"Why don't you shoot?" he asked.
I cleared my throat of a huskiness which prevented speech.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 32, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
glosses: The property of being husky.
humaneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humanenesses
Etymology: From humane + -ness. Piecewise doublet of humanness.
Senses: examples: text: So, K’ung-tzu says: 'To master oneself and return to propriety is humanity' (Bk 12.1).
We see, in this view, that humaneness was a quality which K’ung-tzu believed to be embodied in li, tradition and custom.
ref: 1991, A Southern African Guide to World Religions, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 109:
glosses: The property of being humane.
Synonyms: humanity
hued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hue + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Ruby is a red-hued gemstone.
glosses: Colored; having a hue.
Derived terms: multihued
rose-hued
unhued
varihued
huffiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From huffy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being huffy.