cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪt/
rhymes: -ætʃɪt
Forms: form: hatchets
Etymology: From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”). Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba (“reaper, sickle”), German Hippe (“billhook”), Dutch heep, hiep (“billhook”), and Ancient Greek κοπίς (kopís). Mostly displaced native Old English handæx, whence Modern English hand axe.
Senses: examples: text: “It must be admitted, Nick, you are a very literal logician—‘dog won't eat dog,’ is our English saying. Still the Yankee will fight the Yengeese, it would seem. In a word, the Great Father, in England, has raised the hatchet against his American children.”
ref: 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 117:
text: Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
ref: 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:
text: The fellow was armed with a stone-shod spear, a stone knife and a hatchet. In his black hair were several gay-colored feathers.
ref: 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter III, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, part I, number 11, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, February 1927, →OCLC, book I, page 1158:
glosses: A small, light axe with a short handle; a tomahawk.
examples: text: to bury the hatchet
text: hatchet job
text: “Dat true as missionary! What a soldier do, cap'in, if so much peace? Warrior love a war-path.”
“I wish it were not so, Nick. But my hatchet is buried, I hope, for ever.”
ref: 1843, [James Fenimore Cooper], Wyandotté, or The Hutted Knoll. […], volume I, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, →OCLC, page 42:
text: The savagery with which Michael Hofmann can wield a hatchet has earned him unlikely fans outside the literary circuit. A recent issue of Viz ran a cartoon of the critic, poet and translator urinating all over a phone booth, while two donnish FR Leavis types nodded appreciatively from a safe distance.
ref: 2016 April 9, Philip Oltermann, “Michael Hofmann: ‘English is basically a trap. It’s almost a language for spies’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Belligerence, animosity; harsh criticism.
Derived terms: bury the hatchet
hatchetation
hatchet face
hatchet-faced
hatchetfish
hatchet job
hatchetlike
hatchet man
hatchet wound
hatchety
sling the hatchet
take up the hatchet
throw the hatchet
hatchet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhæt͡ʃɪt/
rhymes: -ætʃɪt
Forms: form: hatchets
form: hatcheting
form: hatchetting
form: hatcheted
form: hatcheted
form: hatchetted
form: hatchetted
Etymology: From Middle English hachet, a borrowing from Old French hachete, diminutive of hache (“axe”), from Vulgar Latin *happia, from Frankish *happjā, from Proto-Germanic *hapjǭ, *habjǭ (“knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *kop- (“to strike, to beat”). Cognate with Old High German happa, heppa, habba (“reaper, sickle”), German Hippe (“billhook”), Dutch heep, hiep (“billhook”), and Ancient Greek κοπίς (kopís). Mostly displaced native Old English handæx, whence Modern English hand axe.
Senses: glosses: To cut with a hatchet.
comedogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comedogenic
form: most comedogenic
Etymology: From comedo + -genic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Tending to produce acne, i.e. comedones
Derived terms: anticomedogenic
comedogenically
comedogenicity
noncomedogenic
comedogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedogenics
Etymology: From comedo + -genic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A substance that tends to produce acne, such as by clogging pores on the skin
Synonyms: sense: substance that tends to produce acne
word: comedogen
comedolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comedolytic
form: most comedolytic
Etymology: From comedo + -lytic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Preventing acne.
comedolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedolytics
Etymology: From comedo + -lytic.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: An agent capable of resolving comedones or preventing the formation of new comedones.
Related terms: comedolysis
comedone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comedones
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of comedo.
Derived terms: closed comedone
microcomedone
open comedone
heterograft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterografts
Etymology: From hetero- + graft.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xenograft.
synonyms: word: xenograft
heterograft
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heterografts
form: heterografting
form: heterografted
form: heterografted
Etymology: From hetero- + graft.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of xenograft.
synonyms: word: xenograft
polio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpəʊljəʊ/
ipa: /ˈpoʊlioʊ/
ipa: /-ljoʊ/
rhymes: -əʊljəʊ
Forms: form: polios
Etymology: First element of polio(myelitis).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of poliomyelitis.
examples: text: They don't need social service workers running back and forth every month or two to see if the polios are playing stickball in the street because they never will.
ref: 1977, United States. Congress. House. Welfare Reform Subcommittee, Administration's Welfare Reform Proposal: Joint Hearings..., page 223:
text: The “polios” (as they called themselves) in Warm Springs didn't deny the seriousness of their health issues or the impairments to their physiology. But their most critical struggle, they claimed, involved healing sorely wounded spirits.
ref: 2008, Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, George Weisz, Healing the World's Children, page 141:
glosses: A person who has poliomyelitis.
Derived terms: antipolio
DPT
nonpolio
postpolio
heterokaryon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterokaryons
Etymology: From hetero- + karyon.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cell having two or more genetically different nuclei
Derived terms: heterokaryonic
heterokaryosis
heterokaryotic
heterologous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterologous
form: most heterologous
Etymology: By surface analysis, heterologue + -ous, or, by surface analysis, heterology + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Having different relationships or different elements
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to different species
Synonyms: heterogeneous
Coordinate terms: homoeologous
Derived terms: heterologous desensitisation
heterologous desensitization
heterologously
Related terms: heterological
heterolysin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterolysins
Etymology: From hetero- + lysin.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A haemolysin produced in the bloodstream when blood cells of a different species are introduced
Related terms: heterolysis
heterolytic
heterolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlɪsɪs
Forms: form: heterolyses
Etymology: From hetero- + -lysis.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: In organic chemistry, the splitting of a molecule to form a pair of oppositely charged ions
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The disruption of blood cells by a heterolysin, or by enzymes from another species
Derived terms: heterolytic
luser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluː.zə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -uːzə(ɹ)
homophone: loser
Forms: form: lusers
Etymology: Blend of loser + user.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An incompetent computer user.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user (especially in IRC) who disobeys the rules of the servers that they are using and usually resorts to disruptive or offensive behavior.
Related terms: LART
cluebat
n00b
heteromorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteromorphic
form: most heteromorphic
Etymology: From hetero- + -morphic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having different forms in different stages of the life cycle
glosses: Differing in size or structure from the normal
Derived terms: heteromorphism
heteromorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteromorphisms
Etymology: From hetero- + -morphism.
Senses: glosses: A diversity of form.
glosses: A feature that is heteromorphic.
heteronuclear
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteronuclear
form: most heteronuclear
Etymology: From hetero- + nuclear.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: On different rings of a polycyclic organic molecule
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having atoms or nuclei of different type
heteronym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛt.əɹ.ə(ʊ).nɪm/
ipa: /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹoʊ.nɪm/
ipa: /ˈhɛt.ə.ɹə.nɪm/
Forms: form: heteronyms
Etymology: Coined around 1900, either from hetero- (“different”) + -onym (“name”) or from Ancient Greek ἑτερώνυμος (heterṓnumos), or perhaps both.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: heterophone, homograph
text: The word lead (/ˈlɛd/), for the metal, and lead (/ˈliːd/), for a leash, are heteronyms.
text: The word agape, "astonished" or "wide open," is a heteronym of agape, "Christian love."
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
coordinate_terms: capitonym
glosses: A word having the same spelling as another but a different meaning, and, often, a different pronunciation.
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A fictitious character created by an author for the purpose of writing in a different style.
Derived terms: heteronymic
heteronymous
Related terms: word: homonym
alt: a letter [or combination of letters] that can be pronounced in two or more different ways, such as 長 / 长 in Chinese, pronounced [cháng] in the sense of ’long’ and [zhǎng] in the sense of ’to grow’
word: polyphone
word: identical
word: same
word: homophone & homograph
english: category
translation: category
word: homophone
word: different
word: homophone & heterograph
word: alternative spelling
word: synonym
word: heterophone & heterograph
word: heterophone & homograph
word: alternative pronunciation
word: distinct
heteronymous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteronymous
form: most heteronymous
Etymology: From heteronym + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to a heteronym.
glosses: Being different words, but having a common relationship, as in the case of brother and sister, which denote siblings.
topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)
Derived terms: heteronymously
Related terms: heteronymic
heteronymy
squinch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: squinches
Etymology: Alteration of earlier scunch (“back part of the side of an opening”), short for scuncheon.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A structure constructed between two adjacent walls to aid in the transition from a polygonal to a circular structure, as when a dome is constructed on top of a square room.
squinch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɪntʃ
Forms: form: squinches
form: squinching
form: squinched
form: squinched
Etymology: Uncertain. Probably blend of squint + pinch. Compare squink-eyed, variant of squint-eyed, so perhaps it is at least partly an altered form of squint.
Senses: examples: text: The president squinched his face and bit his lip and seemed too antsy to stand still.
ref: 2008 March 15, Gail Collins, “George Speaks, Badly”, in New York Times:
glosses: To scrunch up (one's face, etc.).
Related terms: english: possibly etymologically related
translation: possibly etymologically related
word: squinch owl
torpor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɔːpə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈtɔɹpɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)pə(ɹ)
Forms: form: torpors
form: torpour
Etymology: From Latin torpor (“numbness”), from torpeō (“I am numb”).
Senses: glosses: A state of being inactive or stuporous.
examples: text: She knew that she was the cause of her husband's utter ruin; and she strung herself to bear the consequences. The reproaches which agony extorted; or worse, cureless, uncomplaining depression, when his mind was sunk in a torpor, not the less painful because it was silent and moveless.
ref: 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter VII, in The Last Man. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: lethargy
sluggishness
languor
torpidity
glosses: A state of apathy or lethargy.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
coordinate_terms: hibernation
aestivation
cold sleep
hypersleep
suspended animation
glosses: A state similar to hibernation characterised by energy-conserving, very deep sleep.
Derived terms: daily torpor
torporific
Related terms: torpidity
torpid
torpidness
torpedo
enhance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɑːns/
ipa: /ɪnˈhæns/
ipa: /ɛnˈhæns/
rhymes: -ɑːns
rhymes: -æns
Forms: form: enhances
form: enhancing
form: enhanced
form: enhanced
form: inhance
form: enhaunce
form: inhaunce
Etymology: From Middle English enhauncen, anhaunsen, from Anglo-Norman anhauncer (“enhance, raise”), from Vulgar Latin *inaltiāre (“raise”), derived from Latin in + altus (“high”). The /h/ in Old French was taken from haut (“high”), where it resulted from Frankish influence.
Senses: examples: text: nought aghast, his mightie hand enhaunst: / The stroke down from her head vnto her shoulder glaunst.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: To lift, raise up.
examples: text: They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.
ref: 1831, Robert Southey, Sir Thomas More: Or Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, page 214:
text: A hereditary monarch relies on pomp and ceremony, which enhance the respect for the institution
ref: 2000, Mordecai Roshwald, Liberty: Its Meaning and Scope, page 155:
glosses: To augment or make something greater.
examples: text: A pom-pom to top off a stocking cap, a fringe to feather the edge of a shawl, tassels to define the points of an afghan, these are just a few of the delightful little goodies that enhance handknit things.
ref: 1986, Maggie Righetti, Knitting in Plain English, page 192:
text: The only silver lining for businesses and local residents was that there was at least an end in sight, and that the new station, once built, would enhance the area and provide improved east-west access for pedestrians.
ref: 2025 February 19, Chris Howe, “Euston: a work in progress”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 45:
glosses: To improve something by adding features.
examples: text: A debt enhances rapidly by compound interest.
glosses: To be raised up; to grow larger.
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: To take up contrast agent (for an organ, tissue, or lesion).
Synonyms: heighten
Derived terms: bioenhance
enhanceable
enhancement
enhanceosome
enhancer
enhancive
hyperenhance
hypoenhance
isoenhance
photoenhance
primal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪməl/
rhymes: -aɪməl
Forms: form: primals
Etymology: Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al.
Senses: glosses: A primal cut (of meat).
primal
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹaɪməl/
rhymes: -aɪməl
Forms: form: primals
form: primaling
form: primalling
form: primaled
form: primaled
form: primalled
form: primalled
Etymology: Probably partly from Medieval Latin prīmālis, from Latin prīmus (“first”) + -ālis, and partly from prime + -al.
Senses: examples: text: One of my patients told me of an acquaintance who primaled in the shopping center. Janov described a patient who primaled on the tennis court. Apparently, once initiated, patients primal in any place at any time for the rest of their lives.
ref: 1979, The Journal of Orgonomy, volume 13, number 1, page 108:
text: Primaling on the infant level seems so genuinely babyish that the unsophisticated observer may mistake it for psychotic behavior.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Edwin Abt, Irving R. Stuart, The Newer Therapies: A Sourcebook, page 369:
glosses: To take part in primal therapy.
willing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: more willing
form: most willing
Etymology: * (adjective): Old English willende, present participle of willan
* (noun): Old English willung, from willian
By surface analysis, will + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: If my boyfriend isn't willing to change his drinking habits, I will split up with him.
text: In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: "Of course, the ventilation is awful. We pump the air down, but two-hour shifts are the most the men can do - and they are willing lads too."
ref: 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
text: Coal-eaters they may have been, but a more willing or harder working Atlantic engine was never designed.
ref: 1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, pages 3, 5:
text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
text: Typically for the 'get-on-with-it' era, the railway and military worked like demons to restore the vital rail link. The crater was rapidly filled in and the earth tamped solid, the wreckage was removed by breakdown trains, new rails and sleepers were rushed forward by willing hands, and US Army bulldozers piled in. By 2020 on the same day, both tracks were open for traffic again where there had been a gaping pit just hours before.
ref: 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
glosses: Ready to do something, particularly something that requires change or effort; not objecting.
Synonyms: agreeable
agreeing
consenting
voluntary
Derived terms: Abraham's willing
Barkis is willing
coalition of the willing
ill-willing
Lord willing
Lord willing and the creek don't rise
show willing
the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
well-willing
willing horse
willingly
willingness
willing suspension of disbelief
willing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Forms: form: willings
Etymology: * (adjective): Old English willende, present participle of willan
* (noun): Old English willung, from willian
By surface analysis, will + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The execution of a will.
willing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪlɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪlɪŋ
Etymology: * (adjective): Old English willende, present participle of willan
* (noun): Old English willung, from willian
By surface analysis, will + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of will
heteropathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropathies
Etymology: From hetero- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Unusual or abnormal sensitivity to stimuli.
glosses: The normal method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself.
Synonyms: sense: The normal method of treating disease with remedies that produce effects differing from those produced by the disease itself.
word: allopathy
Derived terms: heteropathic
heterophemy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterophemies
Senses: glosses: The use of one word or phrase when another is meant
Derived terms: heterophemist
Related terms: malapropism
pigfucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɡˌfʌkɚ/
Forms: form: pigfuckers
form: pig-fucker
form: pig fucker
Etymology: From pig + fucker.
Senses: examples: text: That pigfucker broke my vase!
text: Take that Book of Mormon and shove it so far up your righteous asses that you choke, you soul-soliciting pigfuckers. There.
ref: 1997 September 6, 1:29 from the start, in Orgazmo:
glosses: Term of abuse.
glosses: One who has sex with overweight women.
glosses: A police informant.
Related terms: pigfucking
pigfuck
squint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: squints
form: squinting
form: squinted
form: squinted
Etymology: Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Senses: examples: text: The children squinted to frighten each other.
text: “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To look with the eyes partly closed, as in bright sunlight, or as a threatening expression.
glosses: To look or glance sideways.
glosses: To look with, or have eyes that are turned in different directions; to suffer from strabismus.
examples: text: Yet if the following sentence means anything, it is a squinting toward hypnotism.
ref: 1887, The Forum:
glosses: To have an indirect bearing, reference, or implication; to have an allusion to, or inclination towards, something.
glosses: To be not quite straight, off-centred; to deviate from a true line; to run obliquely.
examples: text: to squint an eye
glosses: To turn to an oblique position; to direct obliquely.
Synonyms: skelly
Derived terms: squint-a-pipes
squinting modifier
squint like a bag of nails
squint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Forms: form: squints
Etymology: Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Senses: glosses: An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
examples: text: He looks handsome although he's got a slight squint.
glosses: The look of eyes which are turned in different directions, as in strabismus.
glosses: A quick or sideways glance.
examples: text: —And here she is, says Alf, that was giggling over the Police Gazette with Terry on the counter, in all her warpaint.
—Give us a squint at her, says I.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A short look; a peep.
glosses: A hagioscope.
qualifier: radio transmission
glosses: The angle by which the transmission signal is offset from the normal of a phased array antenna.
topics: architecture
glosses: An opening, often arched, through an internal wall of a church, providing an oblique view of the altar.
Derived terms: leper's squint
squintless
squinty
squint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /skwɪnt/
rhymes: -ɪnt
Etymology: Derived from asquint (“obliquely, with a sidelong glance”).
Senses: glosses: Looking obliquely; having the vision distorted.
glosses: askew, not level
Derived terms: squint-eyed
squintly
Related terms: cross-eyed
strabismus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /stɹəˈbɪzməs/
Forms: form: strabismuses
Etymology: Borrowed from New Latin strabismus, from Ancient Greek στραβισμός (strabismós), from στραβίζω (strabízō, “to squint”), from στραβός (strabós, “squinting”) (whence the synonymous Latin strabus).
Senses: glosses: A defect of vision in which one eye cannot focus with the other on an object because of imbalance of the eye muscles; a squint.
Synonyms: cast-eye
Derived terms: pseudostrabismus
strabismic
strabismal
hagioscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hagioscopes
Etymology: From hagio- (“saint”) + -scope (“viewing instrument”).
Senses: examples: text: It appears that Drs. Jones and Freeman account for the arch over the hagioscope at St. David's by saying, though without citing authorities, that there was a door there originally.
ref: 1886, Miss M. A. R. Tucker, “St. David's”, in Walford's Antiquarian: A Magazine & Bibliographical Review:
topics: architecture
synonyms: leper's squint
lychnoscope
squint
glosses: A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the high altar.
Derived terms: hagioscopic
heterophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: heterophil
Etymology: From hetero- + -phile.
Senses: antonyms: homophile#Adjective
homophil#Adjective
glosses: Able to react immunologically with material from another species.
raw_tags: of an antibody
Derived terms: heterophilic
Related terms: heterogenetic
heterologous
heterophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterophiles
form: heterophil
Etymology: From hetero- + -phile.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
antonyms: homophile#Noun
homophil#Noun
glosses: A heterophilic antibody.
heterophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: hĕtərŏʹfənĭ
ipa: /hɛtəˈɹɒfəni/
Forms: form: heterophonies
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἑτεροφωνία (heterophōnía). By surface analysis, hetero- + -phony.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The simultaneous performance by a number of singers or musicians of two or more versions of the same melody.
Related terms: heterophone
heterophonic
heterophonous
polyphony
heterophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hetero- + -phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having leaves of different types upon the same plant
Derived terms: heterophylly
heteroplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroplasms
Etymology: From hetero- + plasm.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Tissue growing in a part of the body where it does not normally occur.
Related terms: heteroplasia
heteroplasmic
heteroplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æstɪk
Forms: form: more heteroplastic
form: most heteroplastic
Etymology: From hetero- + plastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to heteroplasm
topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Of a graft between individuals of different species
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of cells possessing plastids from two or more parent cells or organisms.
heteroplastide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroplastides
Etymology: From hetero- + plastide.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism composed of different types of tissue (as most animals and plants)
heteroplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroplasties
Etymology: From hetero- + -plasty.
Senses: glosses: The grafting of tissue between different individuals of the same or different species
heteroploid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteroploid
form: most heteroploid
Etymology: From hetero- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
heteroploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroploids
Etymology: From hetero- + -ploid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism having a chromosome number that is neither the haploid nor the diploid number normal in the species.
heteropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropods
Senses: glosses: Any member of the Heteropoda (any sense).
heteropod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteropod
form: most heteropod
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Heteropoda (any sense).
heteropolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heteropolar
form: most heteropolar
Etymology: From hetero- + polar.
Senses: glosses: Of an electric generator that produces alternating current
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Formed by ions of opposite charge
heterosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteroses
Etymology: From hetero- + -osis.
Senses: examples: text: Hybridisation can also result in heterosis - the scientific term for the production of ʽsuper fit’ hybrid individuals - many examples of which come from agriculture. Heterosis can be thought of as the opposite of inbreeding depression, the phenomenon whereby the offspring of individuals that are genetically too similar - for example, brother and sister - can suffer from debilitating maladies.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 159:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The tendency of cross-breeding to produce an animal or plant with a greater hardiness than its parents; hybrid vigour.
Related terms: heterotic
heterotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heterotopic
form: most heterotopic
Etymology: From hetero- + -topic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Occurring in an abnormal anatomical location.
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring in different habitats.
Derived terms: heterotopically
Related terms: heterotopia
heterotroph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛt(ə)ɹə(ʊ)tɹəʊf/
ipa: /hɛt(ə)ɹə(ʊ)ˈtɹɒf/
ipa: /ˈhɛtəɹəˌtɹoʊf/
ipa: /-ˌtɹɒf/
Forms: form: heterotrophs
Etymology: From hetero- (“other”) + -troph (“nutrition”).
Senses: examples: text: Woody detritus is an important component of forested ecosystems. It can reduce erosion and affects soil development, stores nutrients and water, provides a major source of energy and nutrients, and serves as a seedbed for plants and as a major habitat for decomposers and heterotrophs.
ref: 2009, Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann, Old-Growth Forests: Function, Fate and Value, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 159:
text: It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.
ref: 2013 March 24, Harold J. Morowitz, “The Smallest Cell”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 2, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2017, page 83:
topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism which requires an external supply of energy and nutrients under the form of food containing organic carbon as it cannot synthesize its own.
Synonyms: topics: biology
natural-sciences
word: consumer
Coordinate terms: autotroph
Derived terms: chemoheterotroph
heterotrophic
heterotrophy
lithoheterotroph
microheterotroph
myco-heterotroph
organoheterotroph
photoheterotroph
idiosyncratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
ipa: /-ˌsɪŋ-/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌɪd.i.oʊ.sɪŋˈkɹæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /-ˌsɪŋ-/
ipa: /ˌɪd.i.əʉ.sɪŋˈkɹæt.ɪk/
ipa: [ˌɪd.i.əʉ.sɪŋˈkɹæɾ.ɪk]
ipa: /-ˌsɪŋ-/
ipa: /ˌəd.i.ɐʉ.səŋˈkɹɛt.ək/
ipa: [ˌəd.i.ɐʉ.səŋˈkɹɛɾ.ək]
ipa: /-ˌsəŋ-/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more idiosyncratic
form: most idiosyncratic
Etymology: From idiosyncrasy + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic, personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
ref: 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 9, in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
text: It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
ref: 1891, George MacDonald, chapter 12, in The Flight of the Shadow:
text: British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
ref: 1982 April 26, Michael Walsh, “Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles”, in Time:
text: I’m not saying that Kaufman’s film will be enshrined as a classic, as those Kubrick films are. It’s too idiosyncratic and demanding for that: many viewers will be thinking of ending it halfway through
ref: 2020 September 1, Nicholas Barber, “Five stars for I'm Thinking of Ending Things”, in BBC:
glosses: Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
Derived terms: idiosyncratical
idiosyncratically
idiosyncraticity
idiosyncratic reaction
nonidiosyncratic
unidiosyncratic
Related terms: idiosyncrasy
heterozygote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterozygotes
Etymology: From hetero- + zygote. Coined by English biologists William Bateson and by Edith Rebecca Saunders in 1902, in a paper titled "The facts of heredity in the light of Mendel’s discovery".
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A diploid individual that has different alleles at one or more genetic loci.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A bacteriophage that has two different copies of its genetic material and so produces two types of offspring.
Derived terms: transheterozygote
Related terms: heterozygous
heterozygosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterozygoses
Etymology: From hetero- + zygosis.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The fusion of two genetically different gametes
Derived terms: heterozygotic
heterozygous
barbette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɑːˈbɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: barbettes
Etymology: Borrowed from French barbette.
Senses: examples: text: Cleverly camouflaged with grey felt, which exactly matched the colour of the walls, it led upwards to a barbette, or platform, perched beside the gate.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 276:
glosses: A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.
examples: text: The belted cruiser Pamiat Azova or Remembrance of Azoff, is 377 feet long. She is an improved Dmitri Dontskoi, and carries her two 8-inch guns in sponsoned barbettes on either broadside
ref: 1899, John Scott-Keltie, editor, Statesman's Year-Book 1899:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The inside fixed trunk of a warship's gun-mounting, on which the turret revolves. It contains the hoists for shells and cordite from the shell-room and magazine.
Derived terms: barbette carriage
barbette gun
en barbette
in barbette
psychic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkɪk/
rhymes: -aɪkɪk
Forms: form: psychics
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.
Senses: glosses: A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance, and telepathy, or who appears to be susceptible to paranormal or supernatural influences.
topics: parapsychology
pseudoscience
glosses: A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
topics: Gnosticism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused on intellectual reality (the other two being hylic and pneumatic).
psychic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaɪkɪk/
rhymes: -aɪkɪk
Forms: form: more psychic
form: most psychic
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ψυχικός (psukhikós, “relative to the soul, spirit, mind”). Earlier referred to as "psychical"; or from Ancient Greek ψυχή (psukhḗ, “soul, mind, psyche”). First appeared (as substantive) 1871 and first records 1895.
Senses: examples: text: You must be psychic—I was just about to say that.
text: She is a psychic person—she hears messages from beyond.
text: Having exhausted the sporting adventures of this terrestrial globe, he is now turning to those of the dim, dark and dubious regions of psychic research.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
examples: text: In the following pages I shall demonstrate that there is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and that on the application of this technique every dream will reveal itself as a psychological structure, full of significance, and one which may be assigned to a specific place in the psychic activities of the waking state.
ref: 1913, Abraham Brill, transl., The Interpretation of Dreams, translation of original by Sigmund Freud:
text: A pathological process called 'psychiatrosis' may well be found, by the same methods, to be a delineable entity, with somatic correlates, and psychic mechanisms […]
ref: 1967, R. D. Laing, The Politics of Experience and the Bird of Paradise:
text: Merely by comprehending this, the lack of support that black feminists have for being black feminists, white women might be able to give at least psychic and preferably practical support to black women who they know and not assume that it means the same thing for us to be feminists and lesbians as it does for them to be feminists and lesbians.
ref: 1979 August 25, Barbara Smith, “Black Feminists”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 6, page 4:
glosses: Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.
Derived terms: allopsychic
antipsychic
archeopsychic
auditopsychic
autopsychic
biopsychic
ethnopsychic
exteropsychic
extrapsychic
galvanopsychic
geopsychic
interpsychic
intrapsychic
metapsychic
neopsychic
neuropsychic
nonpsychic
panpsychic
parapsychic
polypsychic
psychically
psychic cost
psychic death
psychic driving
psychic expenditure
psychic income
psychicism
psychicist
psychicity
psychicly
psychicness
psychic numbing
psychic photography
psychic prayer
psychic surgeon
psychic surgery
psychic vampire
psyker
somatopsychic
telepsychic
unpsychic
visuopsychic
Related terms: psychical
psychological
land line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: land lines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of landline.
credit union
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: credit unions
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A financial cooperative similar to a bank but owned and controlled by its members, often restricted to a local area or sometimes to a single profession.
double-blind test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double-blind tests
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: A form of scientific testing in which some information is withheld from two different parties. Most commonly, neither the tester nor the subjects tested know which are the control items and which are the test items.
Related terms: test double
intangible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bl̩]
ipa: /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: more intangible
form: most intangible
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.
Senses: synonyms: tangible
glosses: Incapable of being perceived by the senses; incorporeal.
Derived terms: intangible asset
intangible cultural heritage
intangibleness
intangibly
intangible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bəl/
ipa: [ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒɪ.bl̩]
ipa: /ɪnˈtæn.d͡ʒə.bəl/
Forms: form: intangibles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French intangible, from Medieval Latin intangibilis, from Late Latin tangibilis, from Latin tango.
Senses: examples: text: Diaghilev's love for Nijinsky was as deep and as sincere and reliant as a bond could be, it being based on all those intangibles of love that cannot be enumerated.
ref: 1980 April 5, Aaron Cohen, “Save the Last Dance for Me”, in Gay Community News, page 12:
glosses: Anything intangible.
topics: law
glosses: Incorporeal property that is saleable though not material, such as bank deposits, stocks, bonds, and promissory notes.
hull breach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hull breaches
Senses: examples: text: The hull breach incapacitated the ship.
glosses: The breaking or puncturing of a ship's surface.
hunky dory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: hŭng'kidôʹri
ipa: /ˌhʌŋkiˈdɔːɹi/
Forms: form: more hunky dory
form: most hunky dory
form: hunky-dory
form: hunkydory
form: hunkidory
form: hunky dorey
form: hunky-dorey
form: hunkydorey
Etymology: American English, 1860s. From hunky (“in good condition”, “safe and sound”) + dory (origin and meaning unknown).
Senses: examples: text: Now that I’ve found my missing book, everything’s hunky-dory again.
text: It was no easy job, I can tell you. We worked like beavers to get the cave the way we wanted it; but when it was done, it was what you may call hunky-dory.
ref: 1880 January 6, Mrs. Frank McCarthy, “How Aunt Pam Became a Smuggler”, in Harper's Young People:
text: But you just go on lovin' him, and leanin' on his judgement—he's no fool—and you'll be all hunky-dory.
ref: 1913 October, Jack London, The Valley of the Moon, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC:
text: But you seem to be feeling all hunky-dory again, and why don’t you come join us in the Good Citizens’ League, old man?
ref: 1922, Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, →OCLC:
text: “OK, it’s associated with a specific tumor type, but does that just mean that it’s living hunky-dory with the tumor, or is it actually causing the tumor to get bigger and progress?” Dr. Galloway-Peña asked. “You just don’t know at this point.”
ref: 2022 September 29, Carl Zimmer, “A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2022:
text: “There’s always got to be a period of adjustment. You can’t expect everything to be hunky dory straight away. I don’t disagree with it [Brexit]^([sic]) but we need to get in charge and sweep out the political class.”
ref: 2023 May 28, James Tapper, quoting woman approaching middle age, “‘We should be closer to Europe’: Brexit regrets simmer in leave-voting Boston”, in The Observer, →ISSN, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2023:
synonyms: alright
fine
tickety-boo
right as rain
glosses: Satisfactory, fine.
point duty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: point duties
Senses: glosses: Traffic control by a police officer stationed at an intersection.
categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkætəˌɡɔɹiz/
ipa: /ˈkætɪɡ(ə)ɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of category
authors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.θəz/
ipa: /ˈɔ.θɚz/
ipa: /ˈɑ.θɚz/
Senses: glosses: plural of author
authors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔː.θəz/
ipa: /ˈɔ.θɚz/
ipa: /ˈɑ.θɚz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of author
subjects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭbʹjĕkts
ipa: /ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkts/
Etymology: See subject (noun).
Senses: glosses: plural of subject
subjects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: sŭbʹjĕkts
ipa: /ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkts/
enpr: səb-jĕktsʹ
ipa: /səbˈd͡ʒɛkts/
ipa: /sʌbˈd͡ʒɛkts/
rhymes: -ɛkts
enpr: sŭbʹjĕkts
ipa: /ˈsʌb.d͡ʒɛkts/
Etymology: See subject (verb).
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of subject
machines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃiːnz/
ipa: /məˈʃinz/
Senses: glosses: plural of machine
machines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈʃiːnz/
ipa: /məˈʃinz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of machine
sales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /seɪlz/
homophone: sails
rhymes: -eɪlz
Senses: glosses: plural of sale
examples: text: He's likable and motivated: perfect for a career in sales.
text: We have a sales training program beginning this Monday.
glosses: The activities involved in selling goods or services.
examples: text: Sales were up 12% over last year.
glosses: The amount or value of goods and services sold.
Derived terms: word: aftersales
word: book sales club
word: e-sales
word: goods and sales tax
word: gross sales
word: in the sales
word: net sales
word: nonsales
word: postsales
word: presales
word: sales advisor
word: sales agent
word: sales assistant
word: sales associate
word: salesbook
word: salesbot
word: salesboy
word: saleschild
word: sales clerk
word: salesclerk
word: salescritter
word: sales engineer
word: sales floor
word: salesfloor
word: sales force
word: salesforce
word: salesgirl
word: saleslady
word: sales-lady
word: sales ledger
english: see for more
translation: see for more
word: salesman
word: salesmarketer
word: salesmaster
word: sales order
word: salesperson
word: salespersonship
word: sales pitch
word: salespoint
word: sales profit
word: sales rep
word: sales representative
word: sales resistance
word: salesrobot
word: salesroom
word: sales slip
word: sales talk
word: sales tax
word: sales team
word: sales volume
word: saleswise
word: saleswoman
word: saleswomanship
word: salesy
word: salesyard
word: system sales
word: telesales
word: telesalesperson
word: volume sales
sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: plural of set
glosses: Set theory.
sets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛts/
rhymes: -ɛts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of set
legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of leg
topics: bingo
games
glosses: Eleven.
examples: text: Wine enthusiasts cherish the ritual of sniffing and swirling, scrutinizing a wine’s “legs” as they sluice down the sides of the glass, before sipping and looking for a wine’s varietal characteristics.
ref: 2023 March 24, Laura Reiley, “Could nonalcoholic wine be the toast of the town?”, in The Washington Post:
topics: beverages
food
lifestyle
oenology
glosses: Viscous streaks left on the inside of the glass when certain wines are swirled around before tasting.
Derived terms: land legs
sea legs
legs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɛɡz/
rhymes: -ɛɡz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of leg
face lift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face lifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of facelift.