cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
gleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: gleanings
Senses: glosses: Something learned by gleaning.
glosses: The act of collecting leftover crops from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: The catching of insects and other invertebrates by plucking them from within foliage, or sometimes from the ground. It may also be applied to where prey is picked off, or from within, natural and man-made surfaces such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses.
glosses: Dumpster diving.
Derived terms: garbage gleaning
gleaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɪŋ/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glean
gleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡliːnd/
rhymes: -iːnd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glean
gleaners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gleaner
gleanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɪŋz/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋz
Senses: glosses: plural of gleaning (“act of harvesting leftover crops”)
gleanings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡliːnɪŋz/
rhymes: -iːnɪŋz
Senses: glosses: the crops leftover from farmers' fields after they have been commercially harvested, or on fields where it is not economically profitable to harvest
go to the mat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to the mat
form: going to the mat
form: went to the mat
form: gone to the mat
form: go to the mats
Etymology: A reference to wrestling.
Senses: examples: text: He was ready to go to the mat to keep the old color scheme.
glosses: To continue to struggle or fight until either victorious or defeated.
Related terms: go to the mattresses
go to the wall
Cairns
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɛənz/
ipa: /kɛɹnz/
homophone: cairns
ipa: /kæːnz/
homophone: cans
rhymes: -ɛənz
rhymes: -ɛɹnz
rhymes: -æːnz
Forms: form: Carnes
form: Carns
Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.
glosses: A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.
convolvulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convolvuluses
form: convolvuli
Etymology: From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).
Senses: examples: text: Toward it the torrent raced furiously, fed from above, where, down the left bank, transformed abruptly into a great wall of vegetation, water was spouting into the stream through thickets festooned with convolvuli on a higher level than the topmost trees of the jungle.
ref: 1947, Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano, New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 318:
text: In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.
ref: 1994, Edmund Swinglehurst, The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites: A Compilation of Works from the Bridgeman Art Library, Parragon Book Service Limited, “Stages of Cruelty · 1856–90 · Ford Madox Brown”, page 38/2
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
examples: 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51,
Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
Synonyms: bindweed
morning glory
belle laide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: belles laides
Etymology: From French, belle (“beautiful woman”) + laide (“ugly”).
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps her looks were not considered downright repulsive. But she was not even what in those years was called une belle laide, being neither feminine, nor soft, nor submissive.
ref: 1979, Peter Drucker, The Man Who Invented Kissinger, John Wiley, published 1997, page 143:
glosses: A woman who is attractive despite not being conventionally beautiful.
congresscritter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congresscritters
Etymology: From congress + critter.
Senses: examples: text: There are a number of Congresscritters who'd like nothing better than to convert the Shuttle into benefits for their own districts.
ref: 1979, Jerry Pournelle, A Step Farther Out, Ace, page 43:
text: Shaw whistled respectfully at that. "All that for one senator and one congresscritter?"
ref: 1991, Tom Clancy, The Sum of All Fears:
text: Lobbyist Alice can transfer digital cash to Congresscritter Bob so that newspaper reporter Eve does not know Alice's identity.
ref: 1996, Bruce Schneier, Applied Cryptography, John Wiley & Sons, page 139:
text: You don't have to be a Fortune 500 firm's chief economist (heck, you don't even need to know any more economics than a Congresscritter, ie, virtually none), to see that these spreads had to change [...]
ref: 2003, S.A. Johnston, Trading Options to Win, John Wiley & Sons, page 254:
glosses: A congressperson.
screeder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screeders
Etymology: From screed + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who lays floor screeds
consignor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consignors
Etymology: From consign + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Catalogues for evening auctions frequently devote a section to art consigned from one collection, with several pages praising the consignor.
ref: 2010, Don Thompson, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark, Aurum Press Limited, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of consigner.
consolidator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolidators
Etymology: From consolidate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Anyone who or anything that consolidates.
topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: a business which groups different orders into one shipment.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
lifestyle
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
tourism
transport
travel
glosses: a business which buys air travel tickets in bulk, then sells them at discounted prices.
constrictive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪktɪv
Forms: form: more constrictive
form: most constrictive
Etymology: From constrict + -ive.
Senses: glosses: That constricts, or is accompanied by constriction.
Derived terms: bronchoconstrictive
constrictively
constrictive pericarditis
vasoconstrictive
construable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more construable
form: most construable
Etymology: From construe + -able.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: portrayable
antonyms: inconstruable
nonconstruable
unconstruable
glosses: That may be construed.
Derived terms: word: construably
word: inconstruable
word: nonconstruable
word: unconstruable
Related terms: construal
whys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: related: word: why's
word: whies
glosses: plural of why
Derived terms: whys and wherefores
whys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of why
constructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more constructionist
form: most constructionist
Etymology: From construction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: According to the constructionist approach that dominates queer scholarship, homosexuality and heterosexuality are not essential aspects of the self (biological or otherwise), but culturally and historically specific classifications used to explain and regulate sexuality and to produce docile sexual subjects.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or advocating constructionism.
constructionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructionists
Etymology: From construction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Aristotle claimed that people were by nature political animals, thus inaugurating the essentialist argument for the state. The constructionists similarly believe that the modern state is an overriding necessity, a built-in impulse that cannot be resisted any more than the St. Laurence River making its way to the sea.
ref: 1988 April 9, Charley Shively, “Canada, Oh Canada!”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: An advocate of constructionism.
examples: text: a strict constructionist; a broad constructionist
glosses: One who puts a certain construction upon some writing or instrument, such as the United States Constitution.
examples: text: The gap that remains in the interior will no doubt be eventually bridged over by railway communication; and thus the great continent will no longer be a terra incognita to the general world, who have hitherto only heard of the splendid country through which the railway will pass, from the reports of telegraph constructionists and overlanding parties.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 242:
glosses: One who works in construction.
Derived terms: social constructionist
strict constructionist
mundaneness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mundanenesses
Etymology: From mundane + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being mundane; ordinariness; worldliness.
Related terms: mundanity
constructionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: constructionisms
Etymology: From construction + -ism.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A strict interpretation of the actual words and phrases used in law, rather than any underlying intent.
examples: text: But is it one constructionism in many guises, or a variety of quite different constructionisms, or merely old issues dressed up in new jargon,
ref: 1997, Derek Edwards, Discourse and Cognition, page 51:
text: The futility of dismissing social constructionism in favor of some "real," authentic nature outside the social and linguistic.
ref: 2018, Nicole Seymour, Bad Environmentalism, page 134:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
glosses: The idea that people learn about, or perceive the world by constructing mental models.
Derived terms: loose constructionism
social constructionism
strict constructionism
Related terms: constructionist
constructivism
originalism
textualism
constructor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kənˈstɹʌktɚ/
ipa: /kənˈstɹʌktə/
Forms: form: constructors
Etymology: From Medieval Latin cōnstrūctor, from Latin cōnstruō (“to build”). By surface analysis, construct + -or.
Senses: examples: text: All this time the great work over which South Australia was spending large sums of money, aided by unceasing efforts on the part of her telegraph constructors, was going on.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 134:
text: It's a big help in solving cryptograms if you know how a cryptogram is constructed. The constructor normally uses two alphabets, one for plaintext, one for the substitute cipher letters.
ref: 1981, Norma Gleason, Cryptograms and Spygrams, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 7:
antonyms: destructor
glosses: A person who, or thing that, constructs.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A company which, or individual who, builds racing vehicles. In Formula One, constructor status is strictly defined by the rules, but in other motorsports the term is merely a descriptor. Depending on the racing rules, some constructors (e.g. Cosworth) may provide vehicles to racing teams who are not themselves constructors, while others are both teams and constructors (Ducati Corse, Scuderia Ferrari).
antonyms: destructor
qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: A class method that creates and initializes each instance of an object.
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A person who creates crossword puzzles.
Hyponyms: sense: object-oriented programming
word: copy constructor
sense: object-oriented programming
word: default constructor
sense: object-oriented programming
word: empty constructor
sense: object-oriented programming
word: nullary constructor
Derived terms: bioconstructor
Related terms: sense: object-oriented programming
word: constructorless
initialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɪʃəlaɪz/
Forms: form: initializes
form: initializing
form: initialized
form: initialized
form: initialise
Etymology: From initial + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To assign initial values to something.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To assign an initial value to a variable.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To format a storage medium prior to use.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To prepare any hardware (such as a printer or scanner) for use.
glosses: To reduce (a phrase) to an initialism, or a word to its initial.
Derived terms: deinitialize
initializable
initialization
initializer
noninitialized
preinitialize
reinitialize
uninitialize
uninitialized
landmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of landmark
landmarks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of landmark
widescale
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more widescale
form: most widescale
form: wide-scale
Etymology: From wide + scale.
Senses: glosses: Large enough to affect or involve all or most of the relevant area.
traverso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traversos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian traverso (or flauto traverso). Doublet of transverse.
Senses: examples: text: The historical range will be confined basically to the 17th and 18th centuries, Mr. Polisi added, because the Baroque and Classical repertory allows students to transfer their skills between instruments, with, say, conventional string players adapting to gut strings and Baroque bows, and modern flutists to wooden traversos.
ref: 2007 October 29, James R. Oestreich, “Early-Music Maestros Juilliard Plans”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A transverse flute of the Baroque period, made in three or four sections with a conical bore from the head joint down.
supersnoop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supersnoops
Etymology: From super- + snoop.
Senses: glosses: Someone who or something which can obtain large amounts of private or classified information, especially undetected.
underreport
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underreports
form: underreporting
form: underreported
form: underreported
Etymology: From under- + report.
Senses: examples: March 9, 2007, Lara Jordan, Associated Press, Audit Slams FBI Use Of Patriot Act
The FBI underreported its use of the USA Patriot Act to force businesses to turn over customer information in suspected terrorism cases, according to a Justice Department audit.
glosses: To report a number falsely, making it smaller than it ought to be, especially to do so intentionally
examples: text: Women tend to underreport rape.
antonyms: overreport
glosses: As a group, to report something less frequently than it actually occurs
tetradecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + decimal.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Based on the number 14; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C and D.
Synonyms: topics: arithmetic
computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: base 14
word: quadrodecimal
word: quattuordecimal
tetradecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetradecimals
Etymology: From tetra- + decimal.
Senses: glosses: A fourteenth
harnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ).nəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of harness
harnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ).nəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of harness
pentadecimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From penta- + decimal.
Senses: examples: text: Kleene [13] uses a similar approach, based on Turing machine encodings over an alphabet of fifteen symbols, which are then translated into pentadecimal numbers.
ref: 1980 April, Norman H Cohen, “Gödel numbers: a new approach to structured programming”, in ACM SIGPLAN Notices:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Based on the number 15; using the digits 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D and E.
Synonyms: sense: based on 15
word: base 15
word: quindecimal
magnesiothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From magnesio- + thermic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Using a combination of heat and magnesium.
Derived terms: magnesiothermic reduction
magnesiothermic reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reduction reaction that uses magnesium at an elevated temperature; used, for instance, to reduce the silica of diatoms to silicon whilst retaining the complex shapes.
carbothermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: carbothermal
carbothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From carbo- + thermal.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Using a combination of heat and carbon
Derived terms: carbothermal reduction
carbothermal reduction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carbothermal reductions
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reduction reaction that employs carbon at high temperatures
pluralistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pluralistic
form: most pluralistic
Etymology: From plural + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: In those days she had admired his pluralistic openness of mind, and struggled, in her kitchen, towards a parallel eclecticism, learning to cook the dosas and uttapams of South India as well as the soft meatballs of Kashmir.
ref: 1988, Salman Rushdie, chapter V, in The Satanic Verses, page 255:
antonyms: unpluralistic
glosses: Characteristic of pluralism.
Derived terms: antipluralistic
hyperpluralistic
nonpluralistic
pluralistically
pluralistic ignorance
rhinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪn.əl/
rhymes: -aɪnəl
Etymology: From rhin- + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the nose; nasal
glosses: Of or pertaining to those parts of the brain concerned with the sense of smell
Derived terms: birhinal
ectorhinal
endorhinal
enthorhinal
entorhinal
entorhinal cortex
holorhinal
monorhinal
monorhinally
perirhinal
postrhinal
prorhinal
rhinal fissure
rhinalgia
rhinal sulcus
schizorhinal
suprarhinal
transentorhinal
statisticians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statistician
-istical
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Combination of the adjective suffixes -istic (-ist + -ic) and -al.
Senses: glosses: Used to form adjectives meaning of or relating to corresponding nouns ending in -istic or -ist; most often redundant with respect to the latter which can also become adjectives through the addition of -ic alone, or with no change to the root noun. Hence, theist, theistic and theistical can all be used as the adjective form of theism.
Derived terms: atavistical
deistical
pantheistical
statistical
theistical
-istically
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: Alternately -istical (“adjective suffix”) + -ly (“adverb suffix”) or -istic (“adjective suffix”) + -ally (“adverb suffix”). In either case, ultimately -ist + -ic + -al + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “It goes without saying,” said McFee, the filled-up philosopher, funistically inclined, “that aside from baseball players and ice men, the professional prophet for profit makes more of it than any other man”.
ref: 1916, Artemes Ward Utting, The Judge, page 377:
text: Horns, trumpets, and trombones, both soloistically and sectionally, became central to the orchestral concept... His highly subtle orchestration elevates woodwinds, more often scored soloistically than sectionally.
ref: 2003, Don Michael Randel, The Harvard Dictionary of Music, page 598:
glosses: Used to form adverbs describing action in the manner of the root adjective; use is identical irrespective of whether the root adjective ends with -istic or -istical.
Derived terms: artistically
characteristically
communistically
deistically
heuristically
inartistically
monotheistically
pandeistically
pantheistically
paternalistically
polytheistically
realistically
statistically
theistically
uncharacteristically
unrealistically
realistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more realistically
form: most realistically
Etymology: From realistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The dream of a junkless, truly functional workspace is one fantasy you can realistically fulfill. It's downright exciting just to think about it!
ref: 2005, Don Aslett, The office clutter cure: get organized, get results:
glosses: In a realistic manner.
unrealistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrealistically
form: most unrealistically
Etymology: From unrealistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: “It’s the Lake Wobegon effect,” said Dr. Daniel P. Sulmasy, senior author and a professor of medicine and ethics at the University of Chicago. “If you have more than 50 percent of patients saying their chances are better than average of avoiding some harm or obtaining some benefit, they are being unrealistically optimistic because you can’t say that most people are above average.”
ref: 2011 March 3, Pauline W. Chen, quoting Daniel P. Sulmasy, “When Optimism Is Unrealistic”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2021:
glosses: In an unrealistic manner.
communistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more communistically
form: most communistically
Etymology: From communistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a communistic manner.
ectorhinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ecto- + rhinal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the exterior of the nose
glosses: Of or pertaining to that part of the brain exterior to the entorhinal cortex
Synonyms: entorhinal
entorhinal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ento- + rhinal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to that part of the brain within the rhinal cortex, or to the entorhinal cortex.
Derived terms: transentorhinal
Related terms: ectorhinal
entorhinal cortex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entorhinal cortexes
form: entorhinal cortices
form: EC
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A part of the brain which, together with the hippocampus, is important to memory functions
loos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oz
ipa: /luːz/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: lose
Senses: glosses: plural of loo
loos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: lo͞oz
ipa: /luːz/
rhymes: -uːz
homophone: lose
Forms: form: lose
form: los
Etymology: From Middle English loos, lōs (“reputation, renown, fame, infamy, rumor, news”), from Old French los, from Latin laus (“praise, glory, fame, renown”). Doublet of laud.
Senses: examples: text: That much he feared, leaſt reprochfull blame / VVith foule diſhonour him mote blot therefore; / Beſides the loſſe of ſo much loos and fame, / As through the world thereby ſhould glorifie his name.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 12, page 510:
glosses: Praise; fame; reputation.
at issue
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The point at issue is whether we can afford to take on a new employee.
glosses: Under discussion.
glosses: In disagreement.
Related terms: in question
at stake
lardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹ.doʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian lardo. Doublet of lard.
Senses: glosses: A type of salumi made by curing strips of fatback with rosemary and other herbs and spices.
lardo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑɹ.doʊ/
Forms: form: lardos
Etymology: From lard + -o.
Senses: glosses: An overweight person.
Synonyms: sense: overweight person
word: butterball
sense: overweight person
word: chubster
sense: overweight person
word: fatso
sense: overweight person
word: fatty
sense: overweight person
word: jellyroll
sense: overweight person
word: lardass
sense: overweight person
word: thunder thighs
café noir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: café noirs
form: cafés noirs
Etymology: From French café noir.
Senses: examples: text: One night when he had no money for a room he spent the night in the Café du Dôme—buying only two cafés noirs—and he made thirty-three sketches of the stemmed goblet in which the coffee was served.
ref: 1947, Scott Graham Williamson, The Fiesta at Anderson’s House, Henry Holt and Company, page 161:
coordinate_terms: café au lait
caffè latte
glosses: A cup of black coffee.
wikipedia: Oxford University Press
polytopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From polytope + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a polytope
glosses: Occurring in two or more areas
Derived terms: polytopic membrane protein
Related terms: polytopism
polytopy
pillow case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pillow cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pillowcase.
pillow cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pillow case
widerspread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of widespread: more widespread
oathbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oath + bound.
Senses: glosses: Bound by an oath.
oathbreaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oathbreakers
Etymology: From oath + breaker.
Senses: glosses: Someone who breaks an oath; a perjurer.
chairbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chairbound
form: most chairbound
Etymology: From chair + bound.
Senses: glosses: Unable to leave one's chair, or confined to a wheelchair
Synonyms: chairfast
chairfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chairfast
form: most chairfast
Etymology: From chair + fast.
Senses: glosses: Unable to leave one's chair, for some reason.
Synonyms: chairbound
multivitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multivitamins
Etymology: From multi- + vitamin.
Senses: examples: text: Taking a daily multivitamin might be associated with improved brain function in older adults, a new study says, and the benefit appears to be greater for those with a history of cardiovascular disease.
ref: 2022 September 14, Jacqueline Howard, “Study finds potential link between daily multivitamin and improved cognition in older adults”, in CNN:
text: “It goes with my mantra of there is ‘no magic pill’ to prevent cognitive decline,” said Isaacson, who was not involved in the new study. “At my clinic, we check nutritional blood measures and personally tailor interventions, and in doing so we don’t tend to recommend multivitamins since we address the individual deficiencies.”
ref: 2023 May 24, Sandee LaMotte, “Can a daily multivitamin slow cognitive aging? Maybe”, in CNN:
glosses: A mixture of vitamins.
glosses: A preparation containing such a mixture.
multivitamin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + vitamin.
Senses: glosses: Containing or relating to multiple vitamins.
screenbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From screen + bound.
Senses: glosses: Presented on, or limited to, a screen (display of television etc.).
Vormsi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Fourth largest island in Estonia, located between Hiiumaa and the continent.
Naissaar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Island near Tallinn in northern Estonia, on the southern coast of Gulf of Finland.
Osmussaar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Island in northwest Estonia, on the southern coast of Gulf of Finland.
Kihnu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the Gulf of Riga, the seventh largest island of Estonia.
Ruhnu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island in the middle of the Gulf of Riga, belonging to Estonia.
Prangli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island on the southern coast of Gulf of Finland, belonging to Estonia.
bycatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bycatches
form: by-catch
Etymology: From by- + catch.
Senses: examples: text: Some offer him bags of bycatch—fish too small or net-mangled to sell, rays and seahorses few will want, and so on.
ref: 2022, N. K. Jemisin, The World We Make, Orbit, page 107:
glosses: Any fish (or other creatures) that are not targeted as a catch but are unintentionally caught, and often discarded back into the sea.
glosses: Any person, animal, or thing, captured unintentionally on camera or film.
Coordinate terms: trash fish
bycatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bycatches
form: bycatching
form: bycaught
form: bycaught
form: by-catch
Etymology: From by- + catch.
Senses: glosses: To catch unintentionally while fishing for something else.
medically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛd.ɪ.kli/
ipa: /ˈmed.ɪ.kli/
Forms: form: more medically
form: most medically
Etymology: From medical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This drug should be used medically rather than recreationally.
glosses: For medical purposes.
examples: text: medically speaking
glosses: In a medical manner or context.
Derived terms: telemedically
Piirissaar
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Estonian island located in Lake Peipus.
Abruka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Estonian island located in the Gulf of Riga, off the coast of Saaremaa.
semi-official
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: semiofficial
Etymology: From semi- + official.
Senses: examples: text: We are indebted to these correspondents for correcting these errors, based on semi-official statements, which have been published many times.
ref: 1954 March, Editor's comment, “Letters to the Editor”, in Railway Magazine, page 209:
glosses: Having some degree of official authority.
roadeo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roadeos
Etymology: Blend of road + rodeo
Senses: glosses: A driving competition for the drivers of road vehicles, such as buses.
roadeos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roadeo
boa constrictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boa constrictor
seeing eye ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seeing eye balls
Senses: examples: text: Jones hit a seeing eye ball between third and short for a single his last time up.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A batted ball that gets between several fielders.
shoestring catch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shoestring catches
Senses: examples: text: Jones races in... and makes a fine shoestring catch in shallow center.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A fielding play, typically made by an outfielder, who catches a ball near his shoes, often after a long run.
squeeze play
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squeeze plays
form: squeeze-play
Senses: examples: text: The squeeze play is on! Jones bunts, and Smith scores from third.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The tactic of bunting the ball to help a runner at third base score.
examples: text: This "squeeze play" is only one of many battles between Wead and liberals on Bush's staff.
ref: 1990 August 31, John Zeh, “Bush Aide Fired For Anti-Gay Stance”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 7, page 6:
glosses: An instance of 'squeezing' someone: a use of pressure or force to achieve one's goal.
examples: text: Squeeze play is an important part of the endgame.
topics: bridge
games
glosses: The tactic of running a suit to compel another player to waste potentially winning cards.
topics: card-games
poker
glosses: The tactic of reraising a raiser and a caller to compel one or both to fold, often as a bluff.
Synonyms: sense: all
word: squeeze
Related terms: topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: safety squeeze
topics: baseball
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: suicide squeeze
fungo bat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fungo bats
Etymology: See fungo.
Senses: examples: text: The fielding coach used his fungo bat to help Jones work on his first step.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A specially designed small-diameter bat used to hit fly balls for fielding practice.
anaphylatoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anaphylatoxins
Etymology: Blend of anaphylaxis + toxin
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several toxic substances that trigger anaphylaxis
Related terms: anaphylatoxic
retrotransposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrotranspositions
Etymology: From retro- + transposition.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The reverse transposition of an RNA intermediate.
Related terms: retromobile
retrotransposon
retrotransposon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrotransposons
Etymology: From retro- + transposon.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A transposable fragment of a genome that can undergo retrotransposition.
transversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transversions
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A point mutation in which a purine is replaced with a pyrimidine, or vice versa
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: The changing from prose into verse, or verse into prose.
Related terms: transition
point mutation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point mutations
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mutation that involves the replacement, addition or deletion of a small number of bases (especially just one) at a specific site within a gene.
holandric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From holo- + andro- + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Encoded by genes on the Y chromosome and thus transmitted from father to son.
raw_tags: of a trait
overfamiliar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overfamiliar
form: most overfamiliar
Etymology: From over- + familiar.
Senses: glosses: Common or repeated to the point of being unnoticed or annoying.
qualifier: Used with “with”
glosses: So acquainted with something, that one doesn't notice it, or is annoyed by it.
glosses: Overly friendly or intimate.
Derived terms: overfamiliarly
overfamiliarity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overfamiliarities
Etymology: From over- + familiarity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being overfamiliar.
overfamiliarly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overfamiliarly
form: most overfamiliarly
Etymology: From overfamiliar + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overfamiliar way
Amerikkka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈmɛɹ.ɪ.k(ə).k(ə).kə/
Forms: form: AmeriKKKa
Etymology: Blend of America + KKK.
Senses: examples: text: In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.
ref: 1970 July, “White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization”, in Black World/Negro Digest, volume 19, number 9, page 83:
text: We have said […] that one of the greatest dangers of the continuance of the Vietnam war was that […] it would lead to an inevitable rise of fascism at home. Now that the U.S. is spreading the aggression in Indo-China the danger is coming icily close. The Black Panthers believe this is already a Fascist Amerikkka; we can understand this view from the black ghetto. We happen to hold that many Americans will resist, and there may be a Civil War in which thousands, if not millions, will die. Feeling thus, it is hard to get enthused about cleaning up the Hudson. There is a strong suspicion that Earth Day was a diversion, for at that very moment plans were being put in operation in Washington to spread death and destruction to Cambodia.
ref: 1970 June, Broadside, volume 107, page 7:
text: And get mad, mad 'cause I'm the nigga that flaunt it / AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted
ref: 1990, “AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted”, in AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, performed by Ice Cube:
text: […] it's so obscene and Amerikkka and greedy, but pleasing to the eye […]
ref: 2002, Courtney X, Lasting Visions, page 202:
text: Ben Caldwell recalls the scene as follows:
Life as we know it is about to change
I smell it within the air the weather is getting strange
Drugged up sedated and numb from the pain
The sickness in Amerikkka has spread to her brain [...]
ref: 2009, Marcyliena H. Morgan, The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect, page 161:
synonyms: Merikkka
'Murikkka
glosses: The United States of America, generally used in depicting the country as fascist or racist.
Derived terms: Amerikkkan
disparagement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disparagements
Etymology: From Old French desparagement.
Senses: examples: text: His disparagement of his opponent failed to dissuade voters.
synonyms: insult
put-down
ridicule
glosses: The act of disparaging, of belittling.
Derived terms: nondisparagement
Related terms: disparage
belittlement
denigration
disparagements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disparagement
reducer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈdusɚ/
Forms: form: reducers
Etymology: From reduce + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If a floorboard has deep risers, you should use an entrance reducer in winter, to help keep out mice […]
ref: 2018, Andrew Matheson, Murray Reid, Practical Beekeeping in New Zealand: The Definitive Guide, page 35:
glosses: Something or someone that reduces.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reducing agent.
topics: engineering
hydraulics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydraulic device for reducing pressure and hence increasing movement, used to transmit the load from the hydraulic support of the lower shackle to the lever weighing apparatus in some kinds of heavy testing machine.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A liquid used in the process of developing a negative to reduce its darkness.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
plumbing
glosses: A component used to connect two pipes of different bores.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: A function that takes state and action as arguments and returns the next state of the app.
examples: text: Koulibaly flattens Steven Bergwijn with a reducer from behind but avoids a booking. Bergwijn gets to his feet and blows his cheeks in frustration. I think that really hurt but he doesn’t want to show it.
ref: 21 November 2022, Barry Glendenning, Live Feed: Senegal v Netherlands, The Guardian
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The reduction of the contribution to a football game of a more talented opponent by intimidation using a brutal tackle.
Derived terms: entrance reducer
Farmer's reducer
reducers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reducer
tangential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tænˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡ʃəl/
ipa: /tænˈd͡ʒɛn.t͡ʃəl/
Forms: form: more tangential
form: most tangential
Etymology: From tangent + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The meteor came in on a tangential orbit and exploded about 8 or 10 miles above the earth's surface, just south of the Arctic Circle.
ref: 2002, Edward Teller, Memoirs: A Twentieth Century Journey in Science and Politics, page 560:
text: A doorknob of whatever roundish shape is effectively a continuum of levers, with the axis of the latching mechanism—known as the spindle—being the fulcrum about which the turning takes place. Applying a force tangential to the knob is essentially equivalent to applying one perpendicular to a radial line defining the lever.
ref: 2012 March 24, Henry Petroski, “Opening Doors”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, pages 112–3:
glosses: Referring to a tangent, moving at a tangent to something.
examples: text: The archoplasm divides and forms a very large spindle which first lies tangential to the surface of the nucleus.
ref: 1898, Gary Nathan Calkins, Mitosis in Noctiluca miliaris and its bearing on the nuclear relations of the Protozoa and Metazoa, Ph.D. Thesis, page 3
glosses: Merely touching, positioned as a tangent.
examples: text: That subject is tangential to our discussion, and we cannot let it distract us.
glosses: Only indirectly related.
Derived terms: tangential triangle
tangential velocity
tangentially
Related terms: tangent
Aichi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 愛(あい)知(ち) (Aichi).
Senses: glosses: A prefecture in south-central Japan.
dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒd͡ʒ.ə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈdɑ.d͡ʒɚ/
rhymes: -ɒdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dodgers
Etymology: From dodge + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who dodges (avoids something by quickly moving).
glosses: A person full of tricks or street smarts.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A frame-supported canvas over the companionway (entrance) of a sailboat providing the on-deck crew partial cover from the splashes of the seas that break against the hull of the boat.
glosses: An advertising leaflet; a flyer.
glosses: Bread.
Synonyms: sense: companionway cover
word: sprayhood
Derived terms: artful dodger
bath dodger
coffin dodger
corn-dodger
devil dodger
draft dodger
fare dodger
fare-dodger
jammy dodger
oven dodger
salad-dodger
salad dodger
soap-dodger
soap dodger
superdodger
tax dodger
todger dodger
dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodger
draft dodger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draft dodgers
Senses: examples: text: During the Vietnam War, thousands of draft dodgers fled to Canada to avoid serving.
synonyms: draft evader
coordinate_terms: conscientious objector
glosses: A person who illicitly seeks to avoid compulsory military service (the draft).
Related terms: draft-dodge
illicitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more illicitly
form: most illicitly
Etymology: From illicit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an illicit manner; illegally, immorally, or inappropriately.
lonesomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We can deal with this all by our lonesomes, we got enough gas.
ref: 2004, Ted Bell, Assassin: A Novel, page 269:
text: You and me is headin' north and west, all by our lonesomes.
ref: 2002, Charles G. West, Savage Cry, page 192:
glosses: plural of lonesome
immorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more immorally
form: most immorally
Etymology: From immoral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Noticing the fiver that fell out his friend's pocket, he was reluctant to behave immorally.
glosses: In an immoral manner, not morally, wrongly.
Related terms: amorally
licitness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From licit + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being licit, legalness, appropriateness.
legalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From legal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The legalness of the act does not change its immorality, only whether you can be arrested for it.
glosses: The state of being legal, or within the law.
Synonyms: lawfulness
legality
canon law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canon laws
Senses: examples: text: Canon law determines who is declared a saint.
text: Ah, well here comes Lucifer with his canon law
ref: 2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
glosses: The law of the church, religious law.
examples: text: The canon law on this matter conflicts with several other canon laws.
glosses: A regulation in church law.
Derived terms: canon lawyer
draft dodgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draft dodger
counterattack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterattacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-attack.
counterattack
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterattacks
form: counterattacking
form: counterattacked
form: counterattacked
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of counter-attack.
Derived terms: counterattacker
counterattacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
counterattacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterattack; alternative spelling of counter-attacks.
counter-attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counter-attack
counter-attacks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counter-attack
cockles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cockle
Derived terms: hot cockles
warm the cockles of someone's heart
cockles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cockle
lousier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of lousy: more lousy
lousiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of lousy: most lousy
fam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fæm/
rhymes: -æm
homophone: Pham
Forms: form: fams
Etymology: Abbreviations
* (family, term of endearment): Clipping of family
* (familiarization): Clipping of familiarization
Senses: examples: text: I'm gonna visit the fam.
glosses: Clipping of family.
examples: text: Hey fam, how you doin'? / Safe mate, safe.
text: Gotta get more organised, 'cah fam, I hate rushing
ref: 2019, “Going Through It” (track 6), in Ignorance Is Bliss, performed by Skepta:
text: “Yo, Audre, so content warning: My mama is wearing booty shorts—or pum-pum shorts, whatever you call it—doing yoga in the backyard. She is very comfortable with herself and her body and all a that, so you been warned, fam.”
ref: 2019, Junauda Petrus, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, Penguin, →ISBN, page 77:
qualifier: chiefly African-American Vernacular
glosses: A term of endearment between friends; derived from "family" but not used between relatives.
examples: text: The tourist board organized fam junkets for travel agents.
text: She arranged back-to-back fams and took her boyfriend.
qualifier: hospitality industry
glosses: Clipping of familiarization.
Derived terms: famalam
fam-bam
fam flight
fam trip