cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nontrespasser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nontrespassers
Etymology: From non- + trespasser.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a trespasser.
Related terms: nontrespass
nontrespassing
nontrespassers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nontrespasser
tourisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tourism
multiarmed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multiarmed
form: most multiarmed
Etymology: From multi- + armed.
Senses: glosses: Having several arms or projections.
Related terms: multi-armed bandit
nontrespassing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + trespassing.
Senses: examples: text: Under the common law a possessor of a domestic animal (cattle, dogs, cats) is liable for harm caused by the nontrespassing animal only if the possessor knows of an abnormally dangerous propensity of the animal.
ref: 1987, Robert Joseph Janosik, Encyclopedia of the American judicial system:
text: The streambed itself offers the only nontrespassing route.
ref: 2005, William H. Skelton, Cherokee National Forest Hiking Guide:
glosses: Not trespassing.
handraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hand-raised
Etymology: From hand + raised.
Senses: examples: handraised wolves
glosses: Brought up and cared for by a human being.
raw_tags: of an animal
foamingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foamingly
form: most foamingly
Etymology: From foaming + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As we sat there, twenty feet above the rolling waves, which raged foamingly at our side, and looked down into a stream, three hundred feet in depth...
ref: 1844, Charles Sealsfield, Life in the New world, or, Sketches of American society:
glosses: With foam.
foamings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foaming
shriekingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shriekingly
form: most shriekingly
Etymology: From shrieking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a shrieking sound.
habdabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abdabs.
hold a torch for
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: holds a torch for
form: holding a torch for
form: held a torch for
form: held a torch for
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carry a torch for.
Huon pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Huon pines
Senses: synonyms: Macquarie pine
glosses: Lagarostrobos franklinii, a conifer native to the wet southwestern corner of Tasmania, Australia; not a true pine.
huperzines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huperzine
infinitism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From infinite + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that knowledge may be justified by an infinitely long chain of reasoning.
wikipedia: infinitism
Related terms: infinite
infinitist
infinitistic
infinitistically
infinity
inextirpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inextirpable
form: most inextirpable
Etymology: From in- + extirpable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being extirpated or rooted out; ineradicable.
Derived terms: inextirpableness
Kimothy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: An American 20th century coinage. Blend of Kim + Timothy?
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name originating as a coinage.
lint-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lintfree.
lubok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luboks
form: lubki
Etymology: From Russian лубок (lubok).
Senses: glosses: A Russian popular print, characterized by simple graphics and narratives derived from literature, religious stories and popular tales, traditionally used as decoration in houses and inns.
luboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubok
lubki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lubok
TfL
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Christian Wolmar, the transport historian and prospective Labour mayoral candidate, gives qualified approval to the idea that TfL is a hotbed of innovation.
ref: 2014 August 13, Gwyn Topham, “Open data and driverless buses: how London transport heads to the future”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Initialism of Transport for London.
Related terms: TfW
only daughters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of only daughter
only sons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of only son
locute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locutes
form: locuting
form: locuted
form: locuted
Etymology: Back-formation from locution. The first sense could also be directly derived from Latin locut-, perfect active participial stem of loquor (“talk, speak”).
Senses: examples: text: And 'tis strange that Reverend Body shou'd not find out in several Years, that he who cannot Locute will never Prolocute well.
ref: 1709, John Oldmixon, The History of Addresses, volume 1, page 240:
text: […]and P. Bateson ("Behavioural development and evolutionary processes") pointedly locutes what R. Dawkins ("Replicators and vehicles") only circumlocutes—that he (Dawkins) has wisely changed his language to clarify the fact that the direct action of selection is on phenotypes, not genes.
ref: 1983, Mary Jane West-Eberhard, “Review: Current Problems in Sociobiology: An Adaptationist Review”, in Evolution, volume 37, pages 1325–1326:
text: "God's a pervert[…]" He locutes with double rows of gold teeth, in the bland guise of an argument.
ref: 2014, J. Robert Lennon, “Five Stories”, in Diagram 14.6, retrieved 01 May 2023:
glosses: To speak; to say; to utter.
examples: text: The translator locutes propositions, but illocutes nothing at all.
ref: 2011, David Braun, “Implicating Questions”, in Mind and Language, volume 26, pages 574–595:
text: By contrast, for Grice, one who for instance speaks ironically makes as if to illocute, rather than making as if to locute.
ref: 2020, The Oxford Handbook of Assertion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 367:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
philosophy
pragmatics
sciences
glosses: To utter a meaningful sentence; to perform a locutionary act.
raw_tags: with the utterance as object
Related terms: illocute
perlocute
discitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disc + -itis.
Senses: glosses: An infection in the intervertebral disc space.
Derived terms: spondylodiscitis
verbalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of verbalist
entomoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entomoid
form: most entomoid
Etymology: From entomo- + -oid.
Senses: synonyms: insectoid
glosses: Resembling an insect.
shake a cloth in the wind
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shakes a cloth in the wind
form: shaking a cloth in the wind
form: shook a cloth in the wind
form: shaken a cloth in the wind
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To be tipsy (but not really drunk).
take a grab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a grab
form: taking a grab
form: took a grab
form: taken a grab
Senses: examples: text: Even in his gallop he would occasionally take a grab at the point of Russell's foot ; and, had he caught it, would have torn the boot ruthlessly from his leg.
ref: 1883, Edward William L. Davies, A memoir of the rev. John Russell, and his out-of-door life, by the author of 'Dartmoor days',, page 194:
text: Ahead on the white road, plain in the moonlight, lay something black, so I swung down my arm in passing, and took a grab. "What d'ye make of this, eh, Pederson ?" / "A silk mask," says he."
ref: 1905, Roger S. Pocock, Curly: a tale of the Arizona desert, Little, Brown, and Company, page 110:
text: He had only to be startled into losing his balance, you might say, and he might take a grab at something, manage only a heavy fall, and go tumbling down, staircase and all.
ref: 2002, Michael Innes, The Ampersand Papers, House of Stratus, page 145:
text: He drew near enough to take a grab at her foot. The grip failed to hold.
ref: 2010, Michael Cogdill, She-Rain: A Story of Hope, Wordclay, page 104:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, grab.
examples: text: Solidly built, he was nevertheless extremely quick, could take a grab, and kicked beautifully with both feet.
ref: 2008, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion,, page 122:
text: Footyheads supporting a variety of clubs actually breathed a sigh of relief knowing that the game didn’t have to stop for seven minutes seventeen seconds every time Matthew took a grab within kicking distance.
ref: 2008, H.G. Nelson, Sprays: a collection of verbal touch-ups, Pan Macmillan Australia, page 139:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: to mark the football, especially overhead
Related terms: make a grab
give weight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives weight
form: giving weight
form: gave weight
form: given weight
Senses: examples: text: … merely observing that if you were to give weight to such an objection, there is not a panel who would not be entitled to the same benefit …
ref: 1817 A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations, Volume 23, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, p706
text: Mr. Bailey: Well, I man, that's the opinion of an adversary, if it's a sincere opinion, which I question. I wouldn't give it much weight.
ref: 1996 January 23, “Simpson Attorney F. Lee Bailey Discusses O.J. Simpson and the Civil Suits Against Him”, in CBS Morning:
text: There certainly are some cases in which a person's failure to give weight to his or her future interests is irrational.
ref: 1998, Thomas Scanlon, What we owe to each other, Harvard University Press, page 30:
text: Requiring concrete suggestions or motivations beyond those actually needed by a person of ordinary skill in the art, and failing to give weight to suggestions implicit from the prior art as a whole [...] errs on the side of issuing patents to obvious inventions [...]"
ref: 2003, To promote innovation: the proper balance of competition and patent law and policy : a report by the Federal Trade Commission, DIANE Publishing, page 15:
glosses: To attach importance to.
examples: text: What were these 250 men to come for? – I imagined it was to give weight to the petition.
ref: 1816, “Fabirgas vs Mostyn”, in A complete collection of state trials and proceedings for high treason and other crimes and misdemeanors from the earliest period to the year 1783, with notes and other illustrations, volume 20, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, page 133:
text: The next question is, we are told that this sham Estimate – for there is no intention of making it a real Estimate – is to give weight to this country in the approaching Conference.
ref: 1878 The Parliamentary debates (Authorized edition), Volume 237, H. M. Stationery Office, p773
text: We soldiers don’t hate one another when the war is over, and maybe the fact that I’ve fought through it will give weight to my words.
ref: 1916, Joseph A. Altsheler, The Tree of Appomattox, Appleton, page 76:
text: He started the Jerusalem Foundation to raise money for the city, seeking to give it cultural weight to match it's historical importance. The Israel Museum and the Biblical Zoo were among his pet projects.
ref: 2007 January 6, Ravi Nessman, “Jan. 3 Kollek Obituary Story”, in Associated Press:
glosses: To improve the credibility or legitimacy of.
pack a punch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: packs a punch
form: packing a punch
form: packed a punch
form: packed a punch
Senses: examples: text: Memphis Bill was known to pack a punch.
ref: 1930 June, Victor R. Daly, “Private Walker Goes Patrolling”, in The Crisis, volume 37, number 6, page 199:
text: If gorillas do fight, injuries can be very serious as these animals have long canine teeth and silverbacks pack a punch estimated at eight times stronger than a heavyweight boxer.
ref: 2009, Mary Fitzpatrick, Lonely Planet East Africa, Lonely Planet, page 77:
glosses: To be capable of throwing a strong punch.
examples: text: They go in for statements, slogans, cartoons, pictures, and posters that "pack a punch."
ref: 1942, Robert Allen Griffin, School of the citizen soldier: adapted from the educational program of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Ben Lear, commanding, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 500:
text: Second, prepare the choices as one-liners. Each one should pack a punch and be so polished that it will jump off the screen into the minds of the audience and create a funny picture.
ref: 2003, Ronald A. Berk, Professors are from Mars, students are from Snickers: how to write and deliver humor in the classroom and in professional presentations, Stylus Publishing, LLC., page 30:
text: It was a poignant scene that packed quite a punch with both champions — and plenty of observers — in tears as Federer called it a career.
ref: 2023 May 18, Christopher Clarey, “Even as He’s Out, Rafael Nadal Will Always Be a Part of the French Open”, in The New York Times:
glosses: To be capable of having a swift and powerful effect.
Synonyms: sense: able to throw a punch
word: pack a wallop
sense: have a powerful effect
word: pack a wallop
airband
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airbands
Etymology: From air + band.
Senses: glosses: The band of radio frequencies used by civil aviation
aschelminth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aschelminths
Senses: glosses: Any of many pseudocoelomates of the former phylum Aschelminthes.
brigalow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brigalows
form: brigalow
form: briglow
Etymology: Perhaps from Gamilaraay burrii + plural suffix.
Senses: glosses: Any of various Australian acacia trees, especially Acacia harpophylla of New South Wales and Queensland.
Derived terms: brigalow scrub
brightish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bright + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat bright
deterritorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌdiːtɛɹɪˌtɔːɹiəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deterritorializations
Etymology: From de- + territorialization.
Senses: glosses: The eradication of social, political, or cultural practices from their native places and populations.
feathertail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feathertails
Etymology: From feather + tail.
Senses: glosses: A species of possum, (Distoechurus pennatus).
Derived terms: feathertail glider
highlandman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highlandmen
Etymology: From highland + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male highlander
highlandmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highlandman
knaidel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkneɪdl̩/
ipa: /kəˈneɪdl̩/
Forms: form: knaidels
form: knaidlach
form: knaidloch
form: knaidl
form: knaydl
form: kneidl
form: kneydl
form: knaydel
form: kneidel
form: kneydel
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish קניידל (kneydl), cognate to German Knödel (“dumpling”). Doublet of quenelle.
Senses: examples: text: There she tests the offending knaydl. Once again the golf ball scoots around the bowl.
ref: 1982, Bernard Harper Friedman, “Choosing a Name”, in Coming Close: A Novella and Three Stories as Alternative Autobiographies, page 168:
text: What is real chicken soup without Jewish matzoh balls, also known as knaidlach, made from matzoh meal?
ref: 2000, Beth Hensperger, Fluffy Knaidlach: The Best Quick Breads, unnumbered page:
text: I checked the date on the receipt and it was only a few days beforehand – that is to say, Davidov had been in London immediately before coming to France. And paying cash for smoked salmon followed by mehren tzimmes with knaidel.
ref: 2009, L. C. Tyler, Ten Little Herrings, unnumbered page:
text: Once asked on a radio show about the derivation of knaidlach, I explained that the original knaidlach were actually rock hard, and created by Azhkenazic housewives as a weapon of self-defence.[…]The real origin of the knaidel, according to author John Cooper, is the south German Knödel, or dumpling—popular in German cuisine since the Middle Ages.
ref: 2011, Phyllis Glazer, Miriyam Glazer, The Essential Book of Jewish Festival Cooking, page 21:
text: If knaidl is dark in the center, ascertain whether this is the horseradish filling or an uncooked part. Don't overcook the knaidlach or they will fall apart.
ref: 2012, Jayne Cohen, Jewish Holiday Cooking, unnumbered page:
text: Auntie Gussie would bring her tsimmes, sugared diced carrots baked with meat, and knaidel, a kind of matzo ball.
ref: 2012, Sue Boggio, Mare Pearl, A Growing Season, unnumbered page:
glosses: A type of dumpling made of matzo eaten by Ashkenazi Jews during Passover.
Synonyms: matzo ball
landplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landplanes
Etymology: From land + plane.
Senses: glosses: An aircraft that is designed to take off from, and land on, land (rather than water or snow).
landrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: landrails
Etymology: From land + rail.
Senses: glosses: The corncrake, Crex crex.
mornay
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Debated. Named after the French commune Mornay, or perhaps after Philippe, duc de Mornay (1549–1623), Governor of Saumur and seigneur du Plessis-Marly, writer and diplomat; but Béchamel sauces had not yet been developed in his lifetime.
Senses: examples: text: eggs mornay
glosses: Served with a white sauce containing cheese.
wikipedia: Mornay, Saône-et-Loire
Philippe de Mornay
reflecter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflecters
Senses: examples: text: This all leaves me wondering why Audi denies that the reflecter infers the conclusion of reflection from the beliefs of reflection.
ref: 2007, Mark Timmons, John Greco, Alfred R. Mele, Rationality and the Good, page 25:
glosses: Alternative form of reflector.
siderostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: siderostats
Etymology: From sidero- + -stat.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A heliostat that may be used with stars as well as the sun.
specky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: speckier
form: speckiest
Etymology: From speck + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 19thC, John Ruskin, in 1909, The Works of John Ruskin, Volume 37, page 116,
Far mightier, he, than any planet ; burning with his own planetary host doubtless round him ; and, on some speckiest of the specks of them, evangelical persons thinking our sun was made for them.
text: 1976, National Association of Dental Laboratories (U.S.), NADL Journal, Volume 23, page 99,
Nor did anyone even remotely suspect that an atom was anything but an atom and therefore the very speckiest particle of matter in existence.
text: She said it in her up-and-lilting accent, looking at me steady as a nurse is steady, not the tiniest, speckiest dust of self-confidence lacking, even though she'd told me nothing new.
ref: 2008, Beth Kephart, House of Dance, page 77:
glosses: Resembling a speck, minuscule.
examples: text: The window panes grow speckier hour by hour, / The parlour dust is thickening inch by inch.
ref: 1912, J. A. Stanley Adam, Bernard C. White, Parodies and Imitations Old and New, page 305:
text: Plaintiff′s manager, Murphy, on October 31st answered, saying the samples received “are somewhat speckier than the paper we ordinarily run,” but that he did not think much of that would be found, or that defendant would have any trouble in marketing the paper;[…].
ref: 1918, The Southwestern Reporter, volume 201, page 585:
text: 1952, National Research Council of Canada Associate Committee on Grain Research, Collected Papers of the Associate Committee on Grain Research, Volume 8, page 413,
[…] macaroni from the larger size fractions was orange in color and somewhat speckier, while that from the smaller sizes was increasingly brownish and opaque.
glosses: Marked with specks; speckled.
specky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛki
Etymology: Clipping of spectacular + -y.
Senses: glosses: Spectacular.
specky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: speckies
Etymology: Clipping of spectacular + -y.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Snake was just talking about you, said you take a mean specky,’ she said.
Adam felt his face colour. His marking skills weren′t that great.
ref: 2008, Beth Montgomery, Murderer′s Thumb, page 159:
qualifier: Australian rules football
glosses: Synonym of spectacular mark.
synonyms: word: spectacular mark
specky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛki
Forms: form: speckies
Etymology: Clipping of spectacles (“eyeglasses”) + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I am also honorary president of the SPFG (Society for People who are Famous for their Glasses). […] Our latest idea is 'outing' - putting up posters to force people to admit they're secret speckies. Our first target is the Queen, who only ever sneaks hers on to read the Opening of Parliament.
ref: 1991, Punch, volume 300, page 205:
text: Still, there’s other fish. There's a stewardess I'd gie one tae, but Bladesey's on the outside and instead of getting a decko at her bum he's thumbing through the in-flight journal like the specky wee cunt that he is.
ref: 1998, Irvine Welsh, “Our cover is blown”, in Filth, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 150:
text: During the long summer-evening games of football on the “rec”, a Specky always ended up being “selected” to play in goal where his glasses wouldn′t get knocked off and broken.
ref: 2001, Fred Butler, Up the Snicket: Shoddy Town Tales, page 22:
text: 2010, Dick Lynas, Pies Were for Thursdays, AuthorHouse UK, page 138,
It was bad enough having to wear a satin suit for one day when I made my First Communion. There was no chance of me being seen in those NHS specs and accordingly being mocked as a ‘specky four eyes’ so I took every chance I could not to wear them.
text: 2011, John Sugden, Scum Airways: Inside Football′s Underground Economy, Mainstream eBooks, unnumbered page,
Then turning to his mate next to me at the bar, he explains, ‘I only took his specks off because he was with his girlfriend. Then when he′s surrounded by security, he has another go, don′t he! Well, he′s just cost the speckies of the world thousands, cos next time a specky has a go I′ll smash his glasses all over his face.’
text: “Say something, you specky turd,” Krull screamed. The captain did not wear glasses so he idly wondered who the specky turd was.
ref: 2011, Jim Cunningham, Starballs in Space, page 45:
text: It isnae healthy a lassie reading all the time the way ye do. Ye'll end up wi' glasses, then a' the lads will ca'ye Specky – d'ye hear me? Ye'll wear yer eyes oot!
ref: 2013, Sandra Brown, Where There Is Evil, page 31:
glosses: One who wears spectacles.
swingby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swingbys
form: swing-by
Etymology: From swing + by.
Senses: glosses: An interplanetary flight in which the gravitational attraction of a planet is used to provide acceleration and a change in course.
wordings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wording
wunderfull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of wonderful.
anthropically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more anthropically
form: most anthropically
Etymology: From anthropic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an anthropic manner
Derived terms: synanthropically
extra pair of hands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extra pairs of hands
Senses: examples: text: Compadres visit each other frequently, usually several times a week, and assist each other with labor whenever an extra pair of hands is needed.
ref: 1970, Margaret Clark, Health in the Mexican-American culture: a community study, University of California Press, page 159:
text: We needed an extra pair of hands. So Marcus Sandford became our extra pair of hands.
ref: 1999, Melina Marchetta, Looking for Alibrandi, Scholastic Inc., page 165:
text: Do you need an extra pair of hands to help you pass out slices of cake and to clean up after the party is over?
ref: 2008, Amy Jean Peters, How to Start a Home-Based Children's Birthday Party Business, Globe Pequot, page 118:
glosses: The assistance of another person.
astrometrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From astrometric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an astrometric manner; by means of astrometry.
axioelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the interaction of axions and electrons
bromochlorofluoromethane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bromochlorofluoromethanes
Etymology: From bromo- + chloro- + fluoro- + methane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A halogenated hydrocarbon, CHBrClF, that is used in some fire extinguishers; its chirality is the basis of the Cahn-Ingold-Prelog rules.
cryptophanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptophane
cryptophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptophanes
Etymology: From crypto- + phane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of large, cage-like compounds that can encapsulate smaller molecules
hypermap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypermaps
Etymology: From hyper- + map, introduced by Laurini and Millert-Raffort (1990).
Senses: examples: text: Since the hypermap does not impose integrity constraints or planar enforcement of geometry in its design, there is a flexibility in the implementation that is attractive when the overall size of the multimedia database is not too great.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Raper, Multidimensional Geographic Information Science, page 190:
glosses: A georeferenced multimedia map.
georeferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of georeference
georeferenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Whose position is referenced by a coordinate system
hypermaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypermap
interelectrode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + electrode.
Senses: glosses: Between electrodes
magnetogranulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magneto- + granulation.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The formation of magnetic granules (sunspots) in the sun's atmosphere
Brueghelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brueghelian
form: most Brueghelian
form: Bruegelian
form: Breughelian
Etymology: From Brueghel + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Brueghelian world of the peasantry was attacked for its promotion of licentiousness, drunkenness, laziness, and ungodliness.
ref: 1977, David Levine, Family Formation in an Age of Nascent Capitalism, Academic Press, →ISBN, page 130:
text: What lies outside may or may not be a zombie dystopia with well-placed hints of Brueghelian hellfire. The home fires, meanwhile, aren’t much more comforting.
ref: 2017 October 29, Guy Lodge, “DVD reviews: It Comes at Night, My Cousin Rachel, The Villainess and more”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to any of the Dutch/Flemish painters of the Brueghel line (also spelled Bruegel or Breughel).
Bruegelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bruegelian
form: most Bruegelian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brueghelian.
Breughelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Breughelian
form: most Breughelian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Brueghelian.
photoblinking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + blinking.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Alternating fluorescence and photobleaching
pseudorandomly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pseudorandom + -ly or pseudo- + randomly.
Senses: glosses: In a pseudorandom manner
simulational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From simulation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to simulation
spectroastrometric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spectro- + astrometric.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to spectroastrometry
spectroastrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spectro- + astrometry.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A combination of spectroscopy and astrometry
descension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɛnʃən/
rhymes: -ɛnʃən
Forms: form: descensions
Etymology: From Middle English descencioun, from Old French descension, from Latin dēscēnsiō, dēscēnsiōnem.
Senses: examples: text: Death is followed by either ascension into a higher plane or descension into a lower plane.
text: From a God to a Bull? a heavy descension. It was Jove's case.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: Descent; the act of descending.
examples: text: For in regard of time (as we elsewhere declare) the stars do vary their longitudes, and consequently the times of their ascension and descension.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, VI.3:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The descent below the horizon of a celestial body.
Derived terms: descensional
descensions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of descension
cowboying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cowboy
cowboyed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowboy
Scotchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Scotchwomen
Etymology: From Scotch + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman from Scotland.
Scotchwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Scotchwoman
scoters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scoter
superorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Etymology: From super- + orbital.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the orbit of an eye
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a period greater than an orbital period
acetylglucosaminidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acetylglucosaminidase
cowgirling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cowgirl
cowgirled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cowgirl
acetylglucosaminidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetylglucosaminidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of terminal 2-acetamido-2-deoxy-beta-glucose residues in chitobiose and in glycoproteins
chitobiose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitobioses
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A disaccharide amino sugar composed of two glucosamine residues.
Derived terms: chitobiase
chitobioside
aflastatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A polyketide that inhibits the production of aflatoxin
appendicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendiculae
Senses: glosses: Synonym of appendicle.
synonyms: word: appendicle
appendicula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appendiculas
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Appendicula.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: Any orchid of the genus Appendicula; stream orchids.
aqabamycin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑkəbəˈmaɪsɪn/
enpr: ä'kə-bə-mīʹsĭn
rhymes: -aɪsɪn
Forms: form: aqabamycins
Etymology: From Aqaba on the Red Sea, where the bacteria were found, + -mycin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of nitro derivatives of maleimides, isolated from a bacterium of the genus Vibrio, whose metabolites have antibacterial and cytotoxic properties
Kara Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌkɑːɹə ˈsiː/
Senses: glosses: A part of the Arctic Ocean in north Russia. It is separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya.
Laptev Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located between the eastern coast of Siberia, the Taimyr Peninsula, the Severnaya Zemlya and the New Siberian Islands. The Kara Sea lies to the west, the East Siberian Sea to the east.
East Siberian Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. This sea is bordering on the Laptev Sea in the West and the Chukchi Sea in the East.
unstart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unstarts
Etymology: From un- + start.
Senses: examples: text: Jim Eastham, one of the original SR-71 test pilots, vividly remembers unstarts: “An unstart demands your full and undivided attention,” he recalls.
ref: 1988 November, T. A. Heppenheimer, quoting Jim Eastham, “Mach 5 spy plane”, in Popular Science, volume 233, number 5, →ISSN, page 114:
text: An unstart was usually a very unpredictable and violent manoever of the aircraft. […] At altitudes above 75,000 feet, aileron control may in ineffective in controlling the roll during an unstart unless the Angle of Attack is immedicately reduced. the instant an unstart occurs, the pilot's first action is to arrest any pitch-up motion of the aircraft.
ref: 1996, Richard H. Graham, “Technical Features of the SR-71”, in SR-71 Revealed: The Inside Story, Zenith Imprint, →ISBN, Unstarts and Aerodynamic Disturbances (ADs), page 56:
text: At supersonic speeds, adverse interactions between shock waves and boundary layers can increase drag and cause engine unstart.
ref: 2006, National Research Council (U.S.). Steering Committee for the Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics,, Decadal Survey of Civil Aeronautics: Foundation for the Future, National Academic Press, →ISBN, Appendix A: R&T Challenges for Aerodynamics and Aeroacoustics, page 73:
glosses: A sudden compressor stall that can occur in the jet engines of supersonic aircraft.
antioncogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antioncogenic
form: most antioncogenic
Etymology: From anti- + oncogenic.
Senses: glosses: Inhibiting the formation of tumours.
glosses: Relating to an antioncogene
Raelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Raelian
form: most Raelian
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Raëlian.
Raelian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raelians
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Raëlian.
Raelians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Raelian
Raëlian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Raëlian
form: most Raëlian
form: Raelian
Etymology: From Raël + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Raëlism.
Raëlian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Raëlians
form: Raelian
Etymology: From Raël + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of the Raëlism movement.
Raëlians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Raëlian
Raëlism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The movement was founded in the 1970s by "Raël" (Claude Vorilhon). Hence, Raël + -ism. Raël coming from Israel.
Senses: examples: text: Raëlism differs from Deistic Christianity.
ref: 2001, Twonky, “Which one? (WARNING God stuff)”, in alt.paranormal.crop-circles (Usenet):
text: In fact, it is only size itself that separates Raëlism from Christianity or any other accepted religion. Absurdity of beliefs clearly doesn't distinguish a cult.
ref: 2003, Boris Ryser, “Relians^([sic]).... Things that are not believable”, in alt.religion.raelian (Usenet):
text: In December 2002, Clonaid, the medical arm of a religion called Raëlism, who believe that aliens introduced human life on Earth, claimed to have successfully cloned a human being.
ref: 2010, Savasan Yurtsever, Psalms Code, page 61:
glosses: A UFO religion with liberal sexual views, holding that all life on Earth was created in scientific laboratories by extraterrestrials.
wikipedia: Claude Vorilhon
Synonyms: Raelianism
Hypernyms: UFO religion
Related terms: Raëlian
erminelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more erminelike
form: most erminelike
Etymology: From ermine + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of ermine.
minklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minklike
form: most minklike
Etymology: From mink + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mink or its fur.
call letters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I left my smartphone on the kitchen counter alongside a notepad on which I scribbled in pen: Got called away for work. I love you. I signed it with my call-letter nickname, Echo.
ref: 2020 [2019 September 17], Edward Snowden, Permanent Record (autobiography; paperback), Pan Books, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Call sign.
unstarts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unstart
Baikonur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbaɪ.kəˈnɪɚ/
Etymology: From Kazakh Байқоңыр (Baiqoñyr, literally “wealthy brown”), i.e. "fertile land with many plants".
Senses: glosses: A city in Kazakhstan, rented and administered by Russia, constructed to service Baikonur Cosmodrome, since 1995 also called Baikonur.
Synonyms: word: Leninsk
word: Tyuratam
english: Star City
translation: Star City
word: Zvezdograd
aqabamycins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aqabamycin
ascomycetous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ascomycete + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
mycology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the ascomycetes.
Derived terms: hemiascomycetous
balearica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balearicas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any crowned crane of the genus Balearica.
illaqueation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illaqueations
Etymology: From Latin illaqueare + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: And even that the Hebrews used this present way of hanging, by illaqueation or pendulous suffocation, in public justice and executions, the expressions and examples in Scripture conclude not, beyond good doubt.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21:
glosses: Trapping or entangling someone or something in a noose, snaring; hanging.
glosses: A snare; a trap.
glosses: The process of pulling away an inverted eyelash by passing a loop of thread behind it.
crowned crane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crowned cranes
Senses: synonyms: Balearic crane
glosses: Either of two species of crane of the genus Balearica (Black Crowned Crane, Balearica pavonina and Grey Crowned Crane, Balearica regulorum) from sub-Saharan Africa.
crowned cranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crowned crane
carotenogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more carotenogenic
form: most carotenogenic
Etymology: From carotene + -o- + -genic.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to carotenogenesis
carotenogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From carotene + -genesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The biosynthesis of carotenoids.
Derived terms: carotenogenic
photocarotenogenesis
patibulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪbjʊləɹi
-ɪbjʊlɛəɹi
Forms: form: more patibulary
form: most patibulary
Etymology: From Latin patibulum + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: Masius […] conceiveth thereby some kind of crucifixion, at least some patibulary affixion after he was slain, and so represented unto the people until toward the evening.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.21:
text: And then, when he had finished his supper, he would get out his collection of patibulary treasures, […] the various bits of gallows rope […]
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 18, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
glosses: Pertaining to the gallows or hanging.
chitinolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chitinolytic
form: most chitinolytic
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chitinolysis
Derived terms: endochitinolytic
chitinolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From chitin + -o- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The enzymatic hydrolysis of chitin into chitobiose
Derived terms: endochitinolysis
colorogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: colourogenic
Etymology: From color + -o- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: That produces colour (under particular conditions)
copiotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copiotrophs
Etymology: From copio- + -troph.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any organism that thrives in an environment rich in organic matter
Related terms: copiotrophic
copiotrophy
deglucosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈɡluːkəsɪɫ]
Etymology: From de- + glucosyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Used to form the names of compounds formed from others by the loss of a glucosyl moiety
deglucosylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more deglucosylated
form: most deglucosylated
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: From which one or more glucosyl groups have been removed
dereplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dereplicated
form: most dereplicated
Etymology: From de- + replicated.
Senses: glosses: From which replication has been removed
dereplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From de- + replicated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dereplicate
diapolycopene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + apo- + lycopene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of lycopene found in some bacteria.
diarylmaleimide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarylmaleimides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any diaryl derivative of maleimide
dicyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈsaɪklɪk/
Etymology: From di- + cyclic.
Senses: glosses: bicyclic
representment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: representments
Etymology: From represent + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: we shall not urge such representments; we could spare the Holy Lamb for the picture of our Saviour, and the dove or fiery tongues to represent the Holy Ghost.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.22:
glosses: A depiction or representation.
dihydrolase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dihydrolases
Etymology: From di- + hydrolase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any hydrolase that catalyzes a reaction involving two hydrolyses
endobacterial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + bacterial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to endobacteria
endomycorrhizal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From endo- + mycorrhizal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to endomycorrhiza
piss in a quill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses in a quill
form: pissing in a quill
form: pissed in a quill
form: pissed in a quill
Etymology: Reflective of a pirate's lack of interest in formalizing a strict plan, where piss, or urine is filling the quill, or pen, and their perceived worthlessness of a written or signatory agreement.
Senses: examples: text: He is mad to think all men can't piss in a quill, nor see with his spectacles.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To reach an agreement on a plan.
arsy versy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: arsey versey
form: arsy versey
form: arsey versy
form: arsy varsy
Etymology: Alteration of arsa versa, a blend of an alteration of arse + vice versa, modeled on vicey versey.
Senses: examples: text: 1548, Nicholas Udall (translator), The Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testamente, London: Edward Whitchurch, Volume 1, Luke 16,
Who would not haue iudged that same ryche man to haue been a perfecte exaumple and paterne of most welthie and happy state: and this poore Lazare man to be a paterne of vtter miserie? But felicitie is in nowyse to be measured by such thinges as fortune geueth to men in this lyfe. But in the matter that we nowe speake of, altogether was sodainly turned in and out clene arsie versy.
text: Dost thou not know that from the beginning the world goes arsie-versie.
ref: 1612, Benvenuto, The Passenger of Benvenuto:
text: […] the estate of that flourishing towne was turned arsie versie, topside the otherwaie, and from abundance of prosperitie quite exchanged to extreame penurie.
ref: 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., “The Description of Ireland”, in Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande, page 26:
text: “You put your back up in the wrong place and you’re passive in the wrong place. You’ve got everything arsy-versy. […]”
ref: 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York: Viking, page 457:
text: Us going in on foot and then the equipment being airlifted in is about as arsy-versy as you can get.
ref: 1989, Julian Barnes, chapter 8, in A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, New York: Knopf, page 194:
glosses: Tumbling upside down; head over heels; backwards.
Synonyms: sense: backwards
word: ass over teakettle
sense: backwards
word: ass backwards
sense: backwards
word: back-asswards
vicey versey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of vice versa.
wormcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormcasts
form: worm cast
Etymology: From worm + cast.
Senses: glosses: A small pile of sand or soil, the end product of the breakdown of organic matter by an earthworm.
Synonyms: vermicast
Related terms: vermicompost
wormcasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormcast
appearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appearers
Etymology: From appear + -er.
Senses: examples: text: That owls and ravens are ominous appearers, and presignifying unlucky events, as Christians yet conceit, was also an augurial conception.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
glosses: Someone who or something which appears.
glosses: Someone who or something which appears.
One who makes an appearance in court.
Derived terms: nonappearer
preominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preominates
form: preominating
form: preominated
form: preominated
Etymology: From pre- + ominate.
Senses: glosses: To feel foreboding about; to prophesy.
examples: text: Because many ravens were seen when Alexander entered Babylon, they were thought to preominate his death; and because an owl appeared before the battle, it presaged the ruin of Crassus.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
glosses: To be a portent or omen of.