cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
departmentalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: departmentalizes
form: departmentalizing
form: departmentalized
form: departmentalized
Etymology: From departmental + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To organize something into departments
Derived terms: departmentalization
undepartmentalized
Doreen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɔːriːn/
ipa: /dɔːˈriːn/
Etymology: From Dora + -een.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
depersonalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depersonalizes
form: depersonalizing
form: depersonalized
form: depersonalized
form: depersonalise
Etymology: From de- + personalize.
Senses: examples: text: These "Eternal Ones of the Dream" are not to be confused with the personally modified symbolic figures that appear in nightmare and madness to the still tormented individual. Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamics of the psyche.
ref: 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 19:
text: A new language is infecting the culture of American medicine. It is the language of the marketplace, of the tradesman, and of the cost accountant. It is a language that depersonalizes both patients and physicians and describes medical care as just another commodity.
ref: 1982 April 8, Rashi Fein, “What Is Wrong with the Language of Medicine?”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 306, number 14, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 863–864:
text: In some places priests who appear always in Roman collar are suspected of aspiring to higher offices. It is taken so because usually the bishops appear in this official dress. The wearing of Roman collar can potentially depersonalize someone.
ref: 2011, Jordan Nyenyembe, African Catholic Priests: Confronting an Identity Problem, page 74:
glosses: To remove a sense of personal identity or individual character from something; to anonymize.
examples: text: Quantification (or statisticalization) is a set of scientific practices that transforms text statements into numerical ones, depersonalizing and decontextualizing them[…]
ref: 2008, Susan Greenhalgh, Just One Child: Science and Policy in Deng's China, page 109:
glosses: To present (something) as an impersonal object.
examples: text: He's depersonalizing right now, so he's considering checking himself into the hospital.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: To suffer an episode of depersonalization.
Derived terms: depersonalizer
Related terms: depersonalization
depersonalization disorder
depilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɪlətəɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɪlətɹi/
Forms: form: more depilatory
form: most depilatory
Etymology: From French dépilatoire.
Senses: examples: text: You can do anything with electrolytic, depilatory creams and a little patience.
ref: 1913, Gaston Leroux, translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, Balaoo, Book 2:
glosses: That removes hair
depilatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɪlətəɹi/
ipa: /dɪˈpɪlətɹi/
Forms: form: depilatories
Etymology: From French dépilatoire.
Senses: examples: text: When Bilkis Queen of Sheba discovered her legs by lifting her robe (Koran xxvii.), Solomon was minded to marry her, but would not do so till the devils had by a depilatory removed the hair.
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume IV, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC:
text: Depilatories were used for all hirsute parts of the body.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 81:
glosses: A preparation that removes hair from the body.
depolarize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈpəʊləɹaɪz/
ipa: /diˈpoʊləɹaɪz/
Forms: form: depolarizes
form: depolarizing
form: depolarized
form: depolarized
Etymology: From de- + polarize.
Senses: glosses: To remove the polarization from something.
glosses: To demagnetize.
Derived terms: depolarizer
nondepolarizing
photodepolarize
subdepolarizing
Eloise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛləʊˈiːz/
ipa: /ˈɛlə.wiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Forms: form: Eloïse
Etymology: From French Éloïse, from the Medieval Latin and French forms that gave rise to its doublet Heloise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Heloise, A female given name from French.
Eloïse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, variant of Eloise.
Quechuan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛt͡ʃwən/
/ˈkɛt͡ʃəwən/
Etymology: From Quechua + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Quechua people or language.
Quechuan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛt͡ʃwən/
/ˈkɛt͡ʃəwən/
Forms: form: Quechuans
Etymology: From Quechua + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Quechua
glosses: A member of the Quechua people.
Quechuan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈkɛt͡ʃwən/
/ˈkɛt͡ʃəwən/
Etymology: From Quechua + -an.
Senses: synonyms: Quechua
glosses: Quechua, the language spoken by the Quechua people.
glosses: Such languages considered as a family.
Related terms: Quechan
depolarizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depolarizers
Etymology: From depolarize + -er.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance added to the electrolyte of a battery that produces hydrogen in order to combine with the liberated hydrogen and prevent the build-up of pressure.
Derived terms: photodepolarizer
Ernestine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French [in turn from the Germanic languages], masculine equivalent Ernest.
Ernestine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to Ernest, Elector of Saxony or his line of succession
Eveline
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Evelyn.
glosses: A township and historic settlement in Charlevoix County, Michigan, United States.
glosses: Former name of Halls, Missouri.
Evie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ēvē
enpr: ĕvē
enpr: ĕvā
ipa: /ˈiːviː/
ipa: /ˈɛ.viː/
ipa: /ˈɛ.veɪ/
Forms: form: Evvie
Etymology: Diminutives + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Eva, Eve, Evelyn, or Evangeline.
glosses: A female given name of formal usage.
Felicia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /fəˈliʃə/
Forms: form: Felisha
Etymology: From Middle English Felicia, from Latin Fēlīcia, from fēlīcia (literally “happy things”), the neuter plural of fēlīx, which often occurred in the phrase tempora fēlīcia (“happy times”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, masculine equivalent Felix.
depoliticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dēpə-lĭt'isīz
ipa: /diːpəˈlɪtɪsaɪz/
Forms: form: depoliticizes
form: depoliticizing
form: depoliticized
form: depoliticized
Etymology: From de- + politicize.
Senses: glosses: To remove something from political influence.
Derived terms: depoliticization
depositor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: depositors
Etymology: From deposit + -or.
Senses: glosses: A person who makes a deposit, especially a deposit of money in a bank.
Derived terms: nondepositor
dramatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: By providing opportunities, time, and props, teachers can help children achieve the theatre standards of participating in sociodramatic playgroups and taking on roles of others in creative dramatics.
ref: 2005, Carol Seefeldt, How to Work with Standards in the Early Childhood Classroom:
glosses: The art of acting and stagecraft.
synonyms: histrionics
glosses: Dramatic behaviour.
Derived terms: sociodramatics
dressmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dressmakings
Etymology: From dress + making.
Senses: glosses: The craft of making custom clothing for women, such as dresses, blouses, and evening gowns.
Related terms: dressmaker
deprecatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛpɹɪkəˌtɔɹi/
enpr: dĕp'-rĭ-kə-tō'rē
ipa: /ˈdɛpɹɪkət(ə)ɹi/
enpr: dĕp'-rĭ-kə-tə-rē
enpr: dĕp'-rĭ-kə-trē
Forms: form: more deprecatory
form: most deprecatory
Etymology: From deprecate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Apologetic.
glosses: Disparaging.
glosses: Tending to avert evil by prayer.
Derived terms: deprecatorily
deprecatoriness
self-deprecatory
Related terms: deprecative
driblet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driblets
form: dribblet
Senses: glosses: A small portion or part.
glosses: A small or petty sum.
driller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drillers
Etymology: From drill (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who drills.
glosses: A person in charge of a drilling rig.
Derived terms: directional driller
driller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹɪlɚ/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: drillers
Etymology: From drill (noun) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A performer of drill music.
Elena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Elenas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Elena, cognate to English Helen.
Senses: examples: text: Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday defended the code of conduct the Supreme Court created last year, but conceded there needs to be a way to enforce the rules for it to be more effective.
ref: 2024 July 25, Devan Cole, “Justice Elena Kagan says Supreme Court’s code of conduct needs an enforcement plan. Takeaways from her wide-ranging comments.”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Italian, Spanish, or Ancient Greek.
glosses: A surname originating as a matronymic.
Related terms: Santa Elena
Gabriela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, a latinate feminine form of Gabriel.
Related terms: Gabriella
depressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛs.ə/
ipa: /dɪˈpɹɛs.ɚ/
rhymes: -ɛsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: depressors
form: depressores
topics: anatomy
Etymology: From depress + -or.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Anything that depresses:
Any of several muscles whose contraction pulls down a part of the body.
antonyms: levator
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
physiology
sciences
glosses: Anything that depresses:
A nerve or nerve fiber that decreases the activity or the tone of the organ or the part it innervates, such as lowering the blood pressure.
glosses: Anything that depresses:
An instrument used to push something out of the way during an examination.
Derived terms: depressor septi
Gabriella
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡæbɹiˈɛlə/
rhymes: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew from the Italian feminine form of Gabriel.
drillmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drillmasters
Etymology: From drill + master.
Senses: glosses: One who trains others in something.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who instructs in marching drill.
derisiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: derisivenesses
Etymology: From derisive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being derisive
glosses: Derisive behaviour
Gianna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Gianna and Greek Γιάννα (Giánna). Doublet of Jane.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Italian or Greek.
nutbar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nut + bar.
Senses: examples: text: Have Duncan and Richie been back together since Duncan went nutbar on us and tried for Richie's head?
ref: 1996 May 9, Sue & Mil Garrett, “First question ever”, in alt.tv.highlander (Usenet):
text: > information. At which point Aaron went nutbar. […]
ref: 1999 December 3, Aaron R. Kulkis, “Did Aaron finaly lose his Flash.net account?”, in alt.romance (Usenet):
text: He's almost as nutbar as that, um, other guy.
ref: 2001 October 10, Dan Hartung, “Ariel Sharon Declares War On USA”, in alt.true-crime (Usenet):
text: It seems that at least some of them did not entirely relish what they perused, for they went nutbar and the rest is history.
ref: 2006 September 18, Jaime M. de Castellvi, “Killfile the following people”, in rec.arts.tv (Usenet):
glosses: Crazy, eccentric.
Synonyms: sense: crazy
word: loony
word: nutty
word: potty
word: insane
sense: eccentric
word: kooky
word: odd
word: pixilated
word: eccentric
nutbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nutbars
Etymology: From nut + bar.
Senses: examples: text: If I’m alone and a warnik nutbar attacks me, so be it. But I will not sit idly by and watch as this country and the world are hijacked by the ultimate domestic terrorists in Washington.
ref: 2003 May 9, Frank Gubasta, “I’m Disgusted”, in Marie Spike, Charles Reskin, David Reskin, compilers, Outcry: American Voices of Conscience, Post-9/11, Boca Raton, Fla.: Universal Publishers, published 2005, →ISBN, chapter 7 (Scientists and Other Professionals), page 183:
glosses: A crazy, eccentric person.
Synonyms: sense: crazy person
word: loony
word: nut
word: whackjob
word: mad person
sense: eccentric person
word: kook
word: odd duck
word: weirdo
word: strange person
Related terms: nut
nutbag
nutjob
nutty
Gracie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɹeɪsi/
Forms: form: Gracy
Etymology: From Grace + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Grace was his mom’s actual name, but everyone only ever called her Gracie, which felt like a cutesy form of grace, or meaning, only with some grace, like grace-ish, which Sean felt like grace needed to be full to be true grace, didn’t it?
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, pages 133-134:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Grace.
glosses: A surname.
desalinize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desalinizes
form: desalinizing
form: desalinized
form: desalinized
Etymology: From de- + saline + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater.
Derived terms: desalination
Haylee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Hayley.
describer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: describers
Etymology: From describe + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who describes.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
glosses: A person who describes.
A person who scientifically describes a new taxon.
Isobel
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: My name Isobel / Married to myself / My love Isobel / Living by herself
ref: 1995, “Isobel”, in Post, performed by Björk:
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Isabel.
desegregate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈsɛɡɹəɡeɪt/
Forms: form: desegregates
form: desegregating
form: desegregated
form: desegregated
Etymology: From de- + segregate.
Senses: examples: text: What was the goal of the "swim-ins" held in St. Augustine? In 1964, black Americans were eager to desegregate Florida beaches. They targeted St. Augustine during the city's 300th year celebration.
ref: 2005, James J. Raciti, Ask about Florida, page 86:
text: During the 1960 Christmas vacation holiday, John and I decided on our own to desegregate a Greyhound bus in Nashville. That was before the Freedom Rides.
ref: 2020 July 18, Bernard Lafayette Jr., “The First Time John Lewis and I Integrated the Buses”, in New York Times:
glosses: To end the segregation of (something).
Iva
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name of Slavic origin, recorded in the United States since 1900.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana.
glosses: A town in Anderson County, South Carolina.
destabilization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: destabilizations
Etymology: From de- + stabilization or destabilize + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of destabilizing.
Jillian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: jĭl′yən
ipa: /ˈjɪljən/
homophone: gillion
homophone: Gillian
homophone: jillion stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -ɪljən
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, variant of Gillian.
Derived terms: Jill
destructibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being destructible
Juliana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Middle English Juliana, from Latin Iūliāna.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin, Latin feminine form of Julianus, derivative of Julius.
Derived terms: Gillian
Jill
Jillian
Julian
Related terms: Juliana Republic
Julianna
detainment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈteɪn.mənt/
rhymes: -eɪnmənt
Forms: form: detainments
Etymology: From detain + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being detained; detention.
Jaclyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from French, one of the 20th-century spelling variants of Jacqueline.
determent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: determents
Etymology: From deter + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of deterring; deterrence.
determinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more determinable
form: most determinable
Etymology: From determine + -able.
Senses: glosses: able to be determined or limited
topics: law
glosses: able to be decided or settled by law
topics: law
glosses: Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.
Derived terms: determinableness
determinablism
fee simple determinable
predeterminable
term of years determinable
Related terms: determinability
determinably
determinable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: determinables
Etymology: From determine + -able.
Senses: examples: text: It is certainly not a Moorean fact that there could have been other determinables or combinations of determinables than those that there actually are.
ref: 2007 September 5, David Denby, “Generating possibilities”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 141, number 2, →DOI:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states
Jada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Jada Pinkett Smith found herself at the center of conflict when her husband Will Smith slapped comedian Chris Rock at the Oscars ceremony March 27. Rock joked about Pinkett Smith’s shaved head – a look she has said is more than a style preference.
ref: 2022 June 1, Kristen Rogers, “What causes alopecia, a ‘devastating’ hair loss condition affecting Jada Pinkett Smith”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name, a 2000s variant of Jade.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A male given name, David's second cousin five times removed according to 1 Chronicles 2.
Jada
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A local government area of Adamawa State, Nigeria.
Jodie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Jody in its female senses.
raster graphics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A data file or structure representing a generally rectangular grid of pixels, or points of colour, on a computer monitor, paper, or other display medium.
Related terms: vector graphics
Julissa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: John said Julissa used scissors to cut the tape he had placed around an electrical socket to protect the children. He thought she was trying to give the scissors to John Stephan to cause him to electrocute himself.
ref: 2016, Laura Tillman, The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City:
glosses: A female given name from Spanish recently borrowed from Spanish.
Jordyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Jordan.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew, a rare modern spelling variant of Jordan.
Janis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒænɪs/
rhymes: -ænɪs
Etymology: Variant of Janice, q.v.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Janice, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Sian, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
drip-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From drip + dry.
Senses: glosses: Made of a fabric that does not wrinkle when hung dripping wet for drying.
drip-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: drip-dries
Etymology: From drip + dry.
Senses: glosses: A clothing item that can be washed and drip-dried.
drip-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drip-dries
form: drip-drying
form: drip-dried
form: drip-dried
Etymology: From drip + dry.
Senses: glosses: To dry by hanging up wet.
fine-tuned universe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fine-tuned universes
Senses: glosses: A universe whose parameters (fundamental constants) are within a very narrow range, enabling chemically-based life to exist.
necrosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of necrose
necrosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of necrose
gonadoblastomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonadoblastoma
gonadoblastomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gonadoblastoma
contraindications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contraindication
homeschooling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: home schooling
form: home-schooling
Etymology: Compound of home + schooling.
Senses: examples: text: A German family that claims it will be persecuted for homeschooling if sent back, lost its asylum request Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court and could be deported.
ref: 2014 March 3, Bill Mears, “Homeschooling family loses asylum appeal”, in CNN:
synonyms: home education
glosses: Teaching children at home instead of sending them to school.
Related terms: homeschool
homeschooler
overbearingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overbearingly
form: most overbearingly
Etymology: From overbearing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overbearing manner.
staccati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of staccato
overcrowding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overcrowd
overcrowding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overcrowdings
Senses: examples: text: […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.
ref: 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:
text: An extra rush-hour train has eased overcrowding of the former 5.39 p.m. to Salisbury; this now leaves at 5.43 and an additional electric service to Alton departs at 5.39 p.m.
ref: 1961 October, “The winter timetables of British Railways: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 593–594:
text: Department for Transport statistics show that since 2010 overcrowding in the morning peak at 11 cities has risen by 48%, to reach 280,000 standing passengers daily.
ref: 2019 October 23, Industry Insider, “Continued rail growth”, in RAIL, page 72:
text: Stops at Fareham, Havant and Chichester add to the cattle-like conditions aboard, although as the door nearest me is blocked by prams and suitcases, my coach is protected from the worst overcrowding.
ref: 2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55:
glosses: The situation where a space holds more occupants than it can comfortably accommodate.
overcrowds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overcrowd
night blindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night blindnesses
Senses: synonyms: moon blindness
glosses: The optic condition nyctalopia, the inability to see clearly in faint light, as at night.
Derived terms: night-blind
tune-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tune-ups
Senses: glosses: A series of adjustments to an engine in order to improve its performance
glosses: A series of preparations for vigorous exercise; a warm-up
glosses: A match or race (frequently one exhibition in nature) contested as preparation for a match or race of high stakes.
Related terms: tune up
outstandingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outstandingly
form: most outstandingly
Etymology: From outstanding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an outstanding manner.
outspokenly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outspokenly
form: most outspokenly
Etymology: From outspoken + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an outspoken manner.
outrageously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outrageously
form: most outrageously
Etymology: From Middle English outrageously, equivalent to outrageous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The hotel was wonderful, but the food was outrageously expensive.
text: […] John Currin moved from painting yearbookish images of anonymous girls to painting outrageously goofy pictures of women with ridiculously oversize breasts.
ref: 2009 January 25, Ken Johnson, “The Image Is Erotic. But Is It Art?”, in New York Times:
glosses: In an outrageous manner; to an outrageous degree.
outlandishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more outlandishly
form: most outlandishly
Etymology: From outlandish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.
ref: 2022 April 7, Oliver Milman, “I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: In an outlandish manner.
open-mindedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more open-mindedly
form: most open-mindedly
Etymology: From open-minded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an open-minded manner.
operatically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more operatically
form: most operatically
Etymology: From operatic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.
ref: 1988 May 1, Allan Kozinn, “Debuts; Flutist Chooses Program of Rarities”, in The New York Times:
text: There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.”
ref: 2013 September 27, Steven Heighton, “Fire and Ice”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an operatic manner.
operationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From operational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an operational manner; in accordance with an operation.
Derived terms: intraoperationally
opportunely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒp.ə.tjuːn.li/
ipa: /ˈɒp.ə.tʃuːn.li/
ipa: /ˌɒp.əˈtjuːn.li/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˈtun.li/
ipa: /ˌɑ.pɚˈtjun.li/
Forms: form: more opportunely
form: most opportunely
Etymology: From Middle English oportunely, equivalent to opportune + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:
glosses: In a manner suitable for some particular purpose.
glosses: In a manner convenient or advantageous at some particular time.
Related terms: opportune
opportunistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more opportunistically
form: most opportunistically
Etymology: From opportunistic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: Guided by the Earth’s magnetic field, starlight and other biocompasses that scientists have yet to fully divine, the birds wheel over land and sea, alighting opportunistically en route to rest, preen and refuel.
ref: 2007 September 18, Natalie Angier, “Songs and Sojourns of the Season”, in The New York Times:
glosses: In an opportunistic manner.
oppositely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oppositely
form: most oppositely
Etymology: From opposite + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an opposite manner.
Samogitian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsa.mə(ʊ)ˈɡiː.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.moʊˈɡi.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.məˈɡi.ʃən/
Etymology: From Samogitia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to the region of Samogitia, or its people.
Synonyms: Žemaitian
Samogitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsa.mə(ʊ)ˈɡiː.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.moʊˈɡi.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.məˈɡi.ʃən/
Forms: form: Samogitians
Etymology: From Samogitia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from Samogitia or someone descended from such people.
Synonyms: Žemaitian
Samogitian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌsa.mə(ʊ)ˈɡiː.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.moʊˈɡi.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌsæ.məˈɡi.ʃən/
Etymology: From Samogitia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A Baltic language spoken in Samogitia.
Synonyms: Žemaitian
Related terms: alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/sgs
word: sgs
word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Samogitian terms
word: Aukštaitian
overbid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvə-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌbɪd/
enpr: ō'vər-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvər-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌbɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: overbids
form: overbidding
form: overbid
form: overbid
Etymology: From over- + bid.
Senses: glosses: To make an excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
glosses: To outbid.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: To announce a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
Derived terms: overbidder
overbid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvə-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌbɪd/
enpr: ō'vər-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvər-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌbɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Forms: form: overbids
Etymology: From over- + bid.
Senses: glosses: An excessively high offer to pay or accept a price.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: The announcement of a goal, before starting play, that exceeds the goal actually achieved.
overbid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ō'və-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌəʊvəˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvə-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈəʊvəˌbɪd/
enpr: ō'vər-bĭdʹ
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈbɪd/
enpr: ōʹvər-bĭd'
ipa: /ˈoʊvɚˌbɪd/
rhymes: -ɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbide
overbids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overbid
overbidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbid
overbidding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbiddings
Senses: glosses: An overbid; an excessively high offer.
irrhythmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From irrhythmic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an irrhythmic manner; not rhythmically.
forced labor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced labour
Senses: examples: text: The power which the government possesses, by means of forced labour, of at once opening good roads throughout the country, has been, I believe, one main cause of the early prosperity of this colony.
ref: 1839, Robert FitzRoy, Phillip Parker King, Charles Darwin, chapter XIX, in Narrative of the Surveying Voyages of His Majesty’s Ships Adventure and Beagle, between the Years 1826 and 1836, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: Strategic sites in even the remotest regions of the kingdom were swiftly fortified using forced labour.
ref: 1999, Linda Flavell, Roger Flavell, “1066[:] The Normans Begin to Erect Castles”, in dictionary of english down through the ages[:] words & phrases born out of historical events great & small, 2005 edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited, →ISBN, page 17:
text: The outcry over forced labor is a serious blow to the ruling Communist Party.
ref: 2007 June 23, David Lague, “China Tries to Contain Scandal Over Slave Labor With Arrests and Apology”, in New York Times:
glosses: Work which one is compelled to perform against one's will, especially in a condition of involuntary servitude as a prisoner or slave.
spankers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spanker
forced labour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of forced labor.
plonkers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plonker
antiquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiquers
Etymology: From antique + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who finishes furniture or objects so they have the appearance of an antique, either for decoration or to perpetrate a fraud.
glosses: A person who browses for antiques.
antiquer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From antique + -er.
Senses: glosses: comparative form of antique: more antique
antiquers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiquer
self-perpetuating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-perpetuating
form: most self-perpetuating
Etymology: From self- + perpetuating.
Senses: examples: text: The committee was self-perpetuating: all it did was hold a meeting to decide when the next meeting was, and consume funds to do so.
text: It's a self-perpetuating error, now that we've made it, we can't fix it without breaking things that depend on it.
glosses: Causing itself to continue to exist.
Related terms: sense: self-perpetuation
word: n
self-fulfilling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + fulfilling.
Senses: examples: text: The prediction of poor turnout for the event was self-fulfilling: once people heard the turnout would be bad, they didn't come.
text: Whether or not we believe in astrology is irrelevant; the question is, did the Magdalenians? If so, then in a self-fulfilling prophecy they may have been organizing their lives according to a religious belief system, and not simply an economic or ecological one.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 130:
text: The big question, I believe, is whether the Italian and maybe Spanish crises are the kind of thing that might be brought under control by ECB bond purchases. This is often phrased in terms of whether they are facing liquidity or solvency problems; but I think it’s better phrased in terms of the possibility of self-fulfilling crises, a la Obstfeld. […] So there is a reasonable case that what we’re seeing in Italy is a self-fulfilling crisis trying to happen, in which fear of default is precisely what leads to default.
ref: 2011 August 7, Paul Krugman, “A Self-Fulfilling Euro Crisis? (Wonkish)”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 11 Jul 2022:
glosses: Describing a prediction that causes itself to occur as predicted.
Derived terms: self-fulfilling prophecy
self-proclaimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + proclaimed.
Senses: examples: text: He was self-proclaimed king of the mountain. Since it was a mountain of garbage, nobody else wanted the title anyway.
text: The small town of Pitlochry is the self-proclaimed gateway to the Scottish Highlands and the Cairngorms National Park.
ref: 2020 April 8, Anthony Lambert, “National parks: rail can keep the cars away”, in Rail, page 52, photo caption:
text: “The end of the traffic light coalition is a liberation for our country. The end of the self-proclaimed ‘progressive coalition’ that took Germany to the brink of economic ruin was more than overdue,” Weidel wrote on X.
ref: 2024 November 7, Sophie Tanno, Sebastian Shukla and Olesya Dmitracova, “Germany’s normally stable government has collapsed. Here’s why”, in CNN:
synonyms: self-styled
self-appointed
self-professed
self-ordained
soi-disant
wannabe
tryhard
glosses: Announced by oneself, usually without recognition by others.
self-induced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + induced.
Senses: examples: text: His indigestion was self-induced. If he didn't eat so much it wouldn't hurt.
glosses: Caused by the action of the person which it affects.
self-induced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From self- + induced.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of self-induce
flukes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluke
semitropical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪkəl
Etymology: From semi- + tropical.
Senses: glosses: Intermediate between temperate and tropical.
semiofficial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəl
Forms: form: semi-official
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of semi-official.
self-propelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + propelling.
Senses: examples: text: Self-propelling baggage car, converted from a passenger vehicle, for operation over Liverpool electrified lines
ref: 1954 March, “Electric Baggage Cars on Liverpool Suburban Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 197, image caption:
glosses: Self-propelled.
self-restraint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + restraint.
Senses: examples: text: His lack of self-restraint led to several ugly scenes of debauchery and violent outburst.
text: Sovereigntism means a country doing what it wants to do within only the limits of what it can do. It means the end of self-restraint within a framework of mutual restraint.
ref: 2025 February 4, Bret Stephens, “Is This the End of Pax Americana?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2025:
hypernyms: self-regulation
glosses: Self-control, control over one's emotions, passions and actions.
Synonyms: temperance
self-respecting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-respecting
form: most self-respecting
Etymology: From self- + respecting.
Senses: examples: text: No self-respecting man would tolerate such an insult.
text: Now, when you awfulize you go beyond that and tell yourself, instead “It's horrible, awful and terrible!” You then mean several things, all of which are clearly unprovable and which any self-respecting Martian with an IQ of 100 could easily see through.
ref: 2010, Michael E. Bernard, Rationality and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Legacy of Albert Ellis:
glosses: Having self-respect; having pride or knowledge of one's own worth.
self-respect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + respect.
Senses: examples: text: […] he wished he had been a William Price, distinguishing himself and working his way to fortune and consequence with so much self-respect and happy ardour, instead of what he was!
ref: 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXIV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
text: In the little chaos of Pearl's character there might be seen emerging[…]an uncontrollable will—sturdy pride, which might be disciplined into self-respect—and a bitter scorn of many things which, when examined, might be found to have the taint of falsehood in them.
ref: 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:
text: Would any woman have behaved like that—if a man had said he didn’t want her? We’ve too much self-respect; we’re infinitely finer than they are.
ref: 1915, Virginia Woolf, chapter XIX, in The Voyage Out:
text: “To hold Arrakis,” the Duke said, “one is faced with decisions that may cost one his self-respect.” He pointed out the window to the Atreides green and black banner hanging limply from a staff at the edge of the landing field. "That honorable banner could come to mean many evil things."
ref: 1965, Frank Herbert, Dune (Science Fiction), New York: Ace Books, →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: The knowledge of one's own worth.
Related terms: dignity
self-esteem
self-worth
cyclothem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyclothems
Etymology: From cyclo- + Ancient Greek θέμα (théma, “a deposit”). Coined by American scientists Harold R. Wanless & J. Marvin Weller in 1932.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A vertical stratigraphic sequence caused by repeated flooding by the sea
Derived terms: megacyclothem
cyclothemic
stratigraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌstɹætɪˈɡɹæfɪk/
rhymes: -æfɪk
Etymology: From stratum + -graphic c. 1830.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the arrangement of stratigraphy or strata.
Derived terms: allostratigraphic
aminostratigraphic
archaeostratigraphic
biostratigraphic
chemostratigraphic
chronostratigraphic
climatostratigraphic
cryostratigraphic
cyclostratigraphic
geostratigraphic
hydrostratigraphic
lithostratigraphic
macrostratigraphic
magnetostratigraphic
microstratigraphic
morphostratigraphic
pedostratigraphic
phylostratigraphic
stratigraphically
tephrostratigraphic
cytochalasin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cytochalasins
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύτος ("a vessel") + χαλαρός ("to slacken, loosen').
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several related fungal metabolites that have an effect on cytokinesis while not affecting karyokinesis
overawe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əʊvəˈɹɔː/
ipa: /oʊvɚˈɔ/
note: of Canada
ipa: /oʊvɚˈɑ/
note: of the US
ipa: /oʊvɚˈɒ/
ipa: /əʉvəˈɹoː/
ipa: /ɐʉvəˈɹoː/
ipa: /ɐʉvəˈɹoː/
rhymes: -ɔː
Forms: form: overawes
form: overawing
form: overawed
form: overawed
form: over-awe
Etymology: From over- + awe.
Senses: examples: text: None doe you like, but an effeminate Prince, Whom like a Schoole-boy you may ouer-awe.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: His free and easy carriage evinced, that though acknowledging my assumptions, he was no way overawed by them; treating me as familiarly, indeed, as if I were a mere mortal, one of the abject generation of mushrooms.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, “ch. 57”, in Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, volume I:
text: He kept the biggest estates, and where he lacked troops to overawe the natives he evicted the natives and made a game reserve.
ref: 2000, Alasdair Gray, The Book of Prefaces, Bloomsbury, published 2002, page 61:
glosses: To restrain, subdue, or control by awe; to cow.
Derived terms: overawer
nye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
homophone: nigh
Forms: form: nyes
Etymology: Probably from French nid (“nest, brood”), from Latin nidus (“nest”). Doublet of nidus and nest.
Senses: glosses: A brood or flock of pheasants.
phenomenologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phenomenological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There is no question that, phenomenologically considered, the experience of perceiving and the experience of having a hallucination are sufficiently similar that, on the strength of what proves to be a hallucination, one may sincerely claim to have (veridically) perceived something.
ref: 1969, Joseph Margolis, “Existential Import and Perceptual Judgments”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 66, number 13, page 404:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In a manner characteristic of phenomenology or of phenomenological philosophy.
examples: text: The DSM may be viewed as a behavioristically, phenomenologically oriented nosology which often groups unlike disease states together into categories, and in its behaviorist approach, can ignore distinctions between pathophysiological processes within the brain and normal human response to stressors. Because of this and the modern access, via the techniques of molecular biology, to molecular processes in the human brain and other bodily systems, there is growing call in the psychiatric community to reformulate the mental health nosology, basing it rather upon the pathophysiological processes which may, or may not, underlie problematic behavioral phenomena.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: In a manner which places primary or undue reliance upon subjective criteria such as signs, symptoms and behaviors, while ignoring objective etiologies in the formulation of diagnoses and in the compilation of a formal nosologies.
Derived terms: postphenomenologically
dishtowel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dishtowels
form: dish towel
Etymology: From dish + towel.
Senses: examples: text: A child of the Great Depression, Grandma would never throw away a dishtowel until it had more holes than thread.
synonyms: dishcloth
tea towel
tea cloth
coordinate_terms: dishcloth
glosses: A towel or any similar cloth used to dry dishes.
Related terms: washcloth
dishtowels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishtowel
dizzying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dizzying
form: most dizzying
Senses: examples: text: The salesman presented me with a dizzying array of choices, and I was hard pressed to choose between them.
text: The organisation fills many gaps left by the state, operating a dizzying array of services, including homes for victims of domestic violence, food banks and a shelter for stray animals.
ref: 2017 April 6, Samira Shackle, “On the frontline with Karachi’s ambulance drivers”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Tending to make one (actually or metaphorically) dizzy or confused, as of great speed or height.
Synonyms: sense: tending to make one dizzy or confused
word: vertiginous
sense: tending to make one dizzy or confused
word: bewildering
sense: tending to make one dizzy or confused
word: excessive
sense: tending to make one dizzy or confused
word: heady
sense: tending to make one dizzy or confused
word: intoxicating
Derived terms: dizzyingly
dizzying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dizzy
airdate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airdates
Etymology: From air + date.
Senses: glosses: The date on which a television or radio program is broadcast.
cotylosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cotylosaurian
form: most cotylosaurian
Etymology: From cotylosaur + -ian.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to cotylosaurs.
glosses: Having characteristics of a cotylosaur.
cotylosaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cotylosaurs
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A member of the Cotylosauria, a synonym of the family †Captorhinidae, the earliest group of true reptiles from the Carboniferous through the Permian.
Derived terms: cotylosaurian
cotylosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cotylosaur
rescale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rescales
form: rescaling
form: rescaled
form: rescaled
Etymology: From re- + scale.
Senses: glosses: To alter the scale of a drawing or project; to change the physical proportions.
glosses: To change the scope of a business or project to meet a change in demands.
glosses: To scale again