cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oviposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oviposition
Etymology: From oviposit + -ion, from ovi- (“egg”) + Latin pōsitus (“placed”).
Senses: examples: text: If an opsiblastic egg is produced by an individual, it is usually the last oviposition by that animal even if it is also the first.
ref: 1963, Ellsworth C. Dougherty, “Other Disciplines of Comparative Biology”, in The Lower Metazoa: Comparative Biology and Phylogeny, Berkley: University of California Press, page 474:
qualifier: zoology or paraphilia
glosses: The process or instance of ovipositing, laying eggs.
Derived terms: ovipositional
postoviposition
preoviposition
Related terms: ovipositor
scanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scangers
form: skanger
Etymology: According to A Dictionary of Hiberno-English:
: "Much of the influence comes from London where the origins of the word 'skanger' can be found. I'm pretty certain this is a collapsed form of the word "scavenger" from a West Indian word used by the Caribbean community in London."
Dolan's dictionary gives the West Indian slang word "skanker", meaning an untrustworthy or unreliable person, as a possible source of the word.
Originally, in 1980s Dublin, it referred only to women but has become broadened to men in recent years.
Senses: qualifier: Dublin
glosses: A person who is associated with petty criminality and who is seen as strongly identified with brand names in music, clothing, sport, vehicles, and so forth.
Synonyms: word: chav
word: charva
word: charver
word: skobie
word: scobe
word: gurrier
english: in Scotland
translation: in Scotland
word: ned
word: scag
word: skag
word: skeet
word: shams
english: in Northern Ireland
translation: in Northern Ireland
word: spide
word: waa
word: zook
Related terms: langer
paperhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From paper + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Administrative documents and forms.
spide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spides
Etymology: A contraction of “spider men”, referring to individuals with cobweb-like tattoos. Also refers to people who 'hang' around street corners, loitering.
Senses: glosses: A chav.
Synonyms: smick
spide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of spy
Derived terms: unspide
peripheral brain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peripheral brains
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any hardware (i.e. handheld, computer, laptop) containing vast amounts of information, which is in constant flux and is important to the owner but not so important as to be stored in wetware.
verification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌvɛ.ɹə.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: verifications
Etymology: From Middle French vérification, from Medieval Latin verificatio.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of verifying.
glosses: The state of being verified.
examples: text: The detective needs verification of your whereabouts last night.
glosses: Confirmation; authentication.
topics: law
glosses: A formal phrase used in concluding a plea, to denote confirmation by evidence.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The operation of testing the equation of a problem, to see whether it truly expresses the conditions of the problem.
Derived terms: address verification service
criterion of verification
principle of verification
verification criterion
verification principle
Related terms: verificationism
verify
verism
veritable
verity
ecclesiastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌkli.ziˈæ.stə.kəl/
ipa: /əˈkliː.ziˌæ.stɪ.kəl/
Forms: form: more ecclesiastical
form: most ecclesiastical
form: ecclesiasticall
Etymology: From ecclesiastic + -al.
Senses: examples: text: ecclesiastical architecture
text: Sodomy had always been an ecclesiastical offense. The Statute of 1533 (25 Henry VIII, c. 6) made it a felony; and Pollock and Maitland consider that this "affords an almost sufficient proof that the temporal courts had not punished it, and that no one had been put to death for it, for a very long time past."
ref: 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6):
synonyms: word: churchical
word: churchlike
word: churchly
word: ecclesial
word: ecclesiastic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the church.
Derived terms: Ecclesiastical Latin
Ecclesiastical State
unecclesiastical
Related terms: Ecclesiastes
obelisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbəlɪsk/
ipa: /ˈɔbəlɪsk/
ipa: /ˈɑbəlɪsk/
Forms: form: obelisks
form: obelisc
Etymology: From Middle French obelisque, from Latin obeliscus (“obelisk”), from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós, “needle”). Compare obelus.
Senses: examples: text: "The clay envelope is Sumerian. It is from the third millennium B.C. It was dug up from the city of Eridu is southern Iraq. The black stele or obelisk is the Code of Hammurabi, which dates from about 1750 B.C.
ref: 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 200:
text: The Washington Monument is often described as an obelisk, and sometimes even as a "true obelisk," even though it is not. A true obelisk is a monolith, a pylon formed out of a single piece of stone.
ref: 2012 January, Henry Petroski, “The Washington Monument”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, page 16:
topics: architecture
glosses: A tall, square, tapered, stone monolith topped with a pyramidal point, frequently used as a monument.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of obelus.
A symbol resembling a horizontal line (–), sometimes together with one or two dots (for example, ⨪ or ÷), which was used in ancient manuscripts and texts to mark a word or passage as doubtful or spurious, or redundant.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of obelus.
A dagger symbol (†), which is used in printed matter as a reference mark to refer the reader to a footnote, marginal note, etc.; beside a person's name to indicate that the person is deceased; or beside a date to indicate that it is a person's death date.
topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: An RNA structure similar to a viroid, with a rod-like secondary structure, which comprises its own phylogenetic group.
Synonyms: topics: architecture
word: aguilla
topics: architecture
word: pylon
topics: architecture
word: stela
Hypernyms: topics: architecture
word: needle
Meronyms: topics: architecture
word: pyramidion
Derived terms: obeliscal
obeliscoid
obeliskoid
obeliskine
obelisklike
oblin
Related terms: menhir
pillar
obelisk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒbəlɪsk/
ipa: /ˈɔbəlɪsk/
ipa: /ˈɑbəlɪsk/
Forms: form: obelisks
form: obelisking
form: obelisked
form: obelisked
Etymology: From Middle French obelisque, from Latin obeliscus (“obelisk”), from Ancient Greek ὀβελίσκος (obelískos), diminutive of ὀβελός (obelós, “needle”). Compare obelus.
Senses: examples: text: Dragonflies that spend the day in full sun may obelisk to minimize the sunlight striking the body. An obelisking dragonfly looks like it's doing a headstand[…]
ref: 2004, Cynthia Berger, Dragonflies:
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: To adopt the obelisk posture; to point the tip of the abdomen towards the sun.
raw_tags: of a dragonfly
unconformity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconformities
Etymology: From un- + conformity.
Senses: glosses: A lack of conformity.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
antonyms: conformity
glosses: A gap in the stratigraphic record at a site, resulting from erosion having outpaced deposition over the interval in question.
Synonyms: word: discompliance
word: disconformity
word: enormity
word: inconformity
word: noncompliance
word: nonconformance
word: nonconformity
word: transgression
word: uncompliance
word: unconformity
word: unconventionality
word: violation
Hyponyms: word: disobedience
word: rebelliousness
Derived terms: angular unconformity
Related terms: word: disconformity
word: nonconformity
word: nonconform
prokaryote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈkæɹi.əʊt/
ipa: /pɹəʊˈkæɹi.ɒt/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈkæɹi.oʊt/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈkæɹi.ət/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈkɛəɹi.oʊt/
Forms: form: prokaryotes
Etymology: From pro- + karyon + -ote.
Senses: glosses: An organism whose cell (or cells) are characterized by the absence of a nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles.
glosses: In the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).
Synonyms: prokaryota
Hyponyms: archaeon
bacterium
Coordinate terms: eukaryote
Related terms: prokaryon
prokaryotic
DMZ host
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DMZ hosts
Senses: glosses: A single node in a DMZ, typically protected by a firewall, sometimes hidden by NAT. Usually, DMZ hosts accept incoming external connections, but they cannot initiate connections with internal hosts.
NAT
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Abbreviation of National Party.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of North Atlantic Tracks.
topics: education
glosses: Initialism of National Achievement Test.
NAT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NATs
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of nucleic acid test.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: PAT
glosses: Acronym of network address translation (“network address rewriting”).
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of network address translator (“device that implements that network function; a NAT firewall”).
Derived terms: natting
promiscuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈmɪs.kju.əs/
Forms: form: more promiscuous
form: most promiscuous
Etymology: From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).
Senses: examples: text: Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof.
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 379-80:
text: [T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter I, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 4:
synonyms: motley
glosses: Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.
examples: text: A sail caught by a promiscuous wind.
glosses: Made without careful choice; indiscriminate.
examples: text: X spreads false rumours to third parties about X’s spouse being promiscuous. X’s spouse finds out about the rumours and is distressed. X has committed emotional or psychological abuse against X’s spouse.
ref: 2023, Parliament of Singapore, “Women’s Charter (Family Violence and Other Matters) (Amendment) Bill”, in Republic of Singapore Government Gazette^(https://www.parliament.gov.sg/docs/default-source/default-document-library/women's-charter-(family-violence-and-other-matters)(amendment)-bill-18-2023.pdf), page 5:
glosses: Having many sexual partners, especially if indiscriminate in choice of sexual partners.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The mode in which an NIC gathers all network traffic instead of getting only the traffic intended for it.
Synonyms: word: abandoned
word: fast
word: lascivious
word: lewd
word: libidinous
word: licentious
word: loose
word: lustful
word: lusty
word: promiscuous
word: riggish
word: slack
word: unchaste
word: wanton
word: wappened
Hypernyms: word: corrupted
word: debauched
word: decadent
word: depraved
word: dissolute
word: dissipated
word: hedonic
word: immoral
word: incontinent
word: profligate
word: self-indulgent
word: unrestrained
Hyponyms: word: bad
word: Of a woman
word: easy
word: fallen
word: fast-tailed
word: hot to trot
word: meretricious
word: round-heeled
word: skeezy
word: slaggy
word: sluttish
word: slutty
word: tarty
word: whorey
word: whorish
word: Of a man
word: louche
word: raffish
word: rakish
word: sleazy
Derived terms: promiscuity
promiscuousness
Related terms: word: promiscuous man
word: promiscuous woman
word: put out
word: aroused
canned response
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canned responses
Senses: examples: text: I wrote a complaint to the company, but they just sent me a canned response in reply.
glosses: A predetermined or hackneyed response to a common question.
Related terms: boilerplate
enchantment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈt͡ʃænt.mənt/
ipa: /ən-/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪnˈtʃɑːnt.mənt/
ipa: /ən-/
ipa: /ɛn-/
Forms: form: enchantments
form: inchantment
Etymology: From Middle English enchauntement, from Old French enchantement.
Senses: examples: text: I see now that it's all enchantment in this house; for the last time, on this very spot where I am now, I got ever so many thumps and thwacks without knowing who gave them to me, or being able to see anybody; and now this head is not to be seen anywhere about, though I saw it cut off with my own eyes and the blood running from the body as if from a fountain.
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Which Treats of the Heroic and Prodigious Battle Don Quixote had with Certain Skins of Red Wine, and Brings the Novel of ‘The Ill-advised Curiosity’ to a Close”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume II, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 175:
glosses: The act of enchanting or the feeling of being enchanted.
examples: text: Bodin, the medieval demonographer, enumerates various methods of producing anaphrodisiac effects by enchantments.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 89:
glosses: Something that enchants; a magical spell.
Derived terms: disenchantment
neuroenchantment
overenchantment
Related terms: enchant
swab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: swŏb
ipa: /swɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: swabs
Etymology: Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber ("scrubber, mop, swab")
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A small piece of soft, absorbent material, such as gauze, used to clean wounds, apply medicine, or take samples of body fluids. Often attached to a stick or wire to aid access.
glosses: A sample taken with a swab (piece of absorbent material).
glosses: A piece of material used for cleaning or sampling other items like musical instruments or guns.
glosses: A mop, especially on a ship.
examples: text: As for that swab, he's good and dead, he is.
ref: 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter 25, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC:
glosses: A sailor; a swabby.
glosses: A naval officer's epaulet.
Synonyms: sense: sailor
word: swabby
Derived terms: cotton swab
fire swab
swab hitch
swab jockey
swab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: swŏb
ipa: /swɒb/
rhymes: -ɒb
Forms: form: swabs
form: swabbing
form: swabbed
form: swabbed
Etymology: Mid 17th century (in the sense 'mop for cleaning the decks'): back-formation from Middle English swabber (“sailor detailed to swab decks”), from Middle Dutch zwabber, from a Germanic base meaning 'splash' or 'sway', also found as nautical German Schwabber and Volga German Schwabber ("scrubber, mop, swab")
Senses: examples: text: swab the deck of a ship
text: He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To use a swab on something, or clean something with a swab.
Derived terms: swab down
rutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌtə/
ipa: /ˈɹədəɹ/
rhymes: (UK) -ʌtə(ɹ)
rhymes: (US) -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rutters
Etymology: From Middle Dutch ruter, rutter, variants of ruiter, from Middle French routier (“mercenary soldier”), corresponding to route + ier; see rout.
Senses: examples: text: Such a regiment of rutters / Never defied men braver
ref: c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize, Act I, scene iv:
glosses: A horseman or cavalryman, especially a German one, associated with the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries.
rutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌtə/
ipa: /ˈɹədəɹ/
rhymes: (UK) -ʌtə(ɹ)
rhymes: (US) -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rutters
Etymology: From Middle French routier, corresponding to route + -ier.
Senses: examples: text: But a rutter was only as good as the pilot who wrote it, the scribe who hand-copied it, the very rare printer who printed it, or the scholar who translated it.
ref: 1975, James Clavell, Shōgun, Random House, published 2009, page 13:
glosses: A set of instructions for navigating a course at sea; a pilot's book or seaman's guide.
rutter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌtə/
ipa: /ˈɹədəɹ/
rhymes: (UK) -ʌtə(ɹ)
rhymes: (US) -ʌdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rutters
Etymology: From rut + -er.
Senses: glosses: A tool used in peat cutting or for marking off ground.
glosses: A type of plough used by lumberjacks to carve a track for a sleigh.
examples: text: She moved my rutter so that it was not poking into her. We fell asleep.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 321:
glosses: The penis.
Related terms: Rut
photo-degradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of photodegradation.
phytotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytotherapies
Etymology: From phyto- + therapy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of plant extracts for medical purposes.
primary reinforcement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primary reinforcements
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A consequence, such as food or water, that fulfills a primary, unlearned drive, such as hunger or thirst, and thereby reinforces a behavior without dependence on prior learning.
professional politician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: professional politicians
Senses: glosses: A person whose sole employment is political in nature; usually elected to office and paid a salary, but may collect donations from individuals, organizations and corporations.
veracity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /vəˈɹæ.sɪ.ti/
ipa: /vəˈɹæ.sə.ti/
rhymes: -æsɪti
Forms: form: veracities
Etymology: From Middle French véracité, from Old French veracitie, from Medieval Latin vērācitās (“truthfulness”), from Latin vērāx (“truthful, speaking truth”), from vērus (“true, real”). See very.
Senses: examples: text: Of course if you don't accept Conway's story, it means that you doubt either his veracity or his sanity—one may as well be frank.
ref: 1933, James Hilton, Lost Horizon:
glosses: The quality of speaking or stating the truth; truthfulness.
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Something that is true; a truthful statement; a truth.
glosses: Agreement with the facts; accordance with the truth; accuracy or precision.
glosses: Act of being exact and accurate.
glosses: Correctness and carefulness in one's plan of action.
Synonyms: word: veraciousness
word: veridicality
word: for more
word: candor
word: frankness
word: honesty
word: sincereness
word: sincerity
word: truthfulness
word: veracity
Related terms: word: post-truth
word: honest
word: truth
truthfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹuθfəlnəs/
Forms: form: truthfulnesses
Etymology: From truthful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Many hard-working students, alive to the deficiencies of this kind of romance-writing, have grown to distrust not only all historical writing that is romantic, but all historical writing that is vivid. They feel that complete truthfulness must never be sacrificed to color.
ref: 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, History as Literature:
glosses: The quality of being truthful
truthful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: trōōth′fl
ipa: /ˈtɹuːθ.f(ə)l/
rhymes: -uːθfəl
Forms: form: more truthful
form: most truthful
Etymology: From truth + -ful. Piecewise doublet of trothful, from Middle English trouþeful.
Senses: examples: text: someone's truthful nature
text: Mr. Musk was not being truthful, Mr. Rubio said. What about the more than 1,500 State Department officials who took early retirement in buyouts?
ref: 2025 March 7, Jonathan Swan, Maggie Haberman, quoting Marco Rubio, “Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Honest, and always telling the truth.
examples: text: He drew a truthful portrait of the prince.
text: He must be blind indeed who does not perceive the radical and chasmal difference between the truthful and the poetical modes of inculcation.
ref: 1850, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Poetic Principle”, in The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, volume III:
synonyms: factual
veridical
glosses: Accurately depicting what is real.
Derived terms: to be truthful
truthfully
truthfulness
untruthful
marked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːkt/
topics: poetry
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
note: for stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɑː.kɪd/
ipa: /mɑɹkt/
topics: poetry
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
note: for stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: /ˈmɑɹ.kɪd/
topics: poetry
writing
journalism
literature
communications
publishing
media
note: for stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
ipa: -əd
Forms: form: more marked
form: most marked
form: markèd
Etymology: From mark (“sign, characteristic, visible impression”) + -ed.
Less common disyllabic pronunciation (/ˈmɑː.kɪd/) is likely an analogy derived from markedness (explaining its restriction to sense 2).
Senses: glosses: Having a visible or identifying mark.
glosses: Having a visible or identifying mark.
Having a secret mark on the back for cheating.
raw_tags: of a playing card
examples: text: The eighth century BC saw a marked increase in the general wealth of Cyprus.
text: In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:
text: The drop in merchandise and mineral receipts again reflects the fall in steel output, most marked in the North-East; [...].
ref: 1962 October, “Talking of Trains: Little passenger traffic and less freight”, in Modern Railways, pages 220–221:
synonyms: manifest
noticeable
obtrusive
palpable
patent
noted
glosses: Clearly evident; noticeable; conspicuous.
examples: text: "Young" is the marked element of the old/young pair, since the usual way of asking someone's age is "How old are you?".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: singled out
targeted
qualifier: form
glosses: Distinguished by a positive feature.
raw_tags: of a word
examples: text: A marked man.
glosses: Singled out; suspicious; treated with hostility; the object of vengeance.
glosses: In police livery, as opposed to unmarked. (of a police vehicle)
Synonyms: word: distinct
word: marked
word: patterned
Hyponyms: word: question-marked
word: pockmarked
word: Spock-marked
word: discolored
word: variegated
word: banded
word: crisscross
word: lineated
word: plashy
word: ringed
word: speckled
word: spotted
word: streaked
word: striped
Derived terms: fork-marked lemur
handmarked
markedly
markedness
marked-up
nonmarked
premarked
radiomarked
thumbmarked
marked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑːkt/
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ipa: -əd
Etymology: From mark (verb senses) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mark
differences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪf(ə)ɹənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of difference
differences
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪf(ə)ɹənsɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of difference
junk food
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junk foods
Senses: examples: text: The episode begins with a lifetime of junk food, beer and no exercise catching up with Homer in the form of painful heart contractions.
ref: 2012 June 17, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Homer’s Triple Bypass” (season 4, episode 11; originally aired 12/17/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:
text: Junk foods and fast foods such as pizzas, hot dogs, doughnuts, cookies, cakes, and so on increase inflammation, promote insulin resistance, and increase the risk of diabetes and obesity.
ref: 2018, Timothy R. Jennings, The Aging Brain, →ISBN, page 82:
synonyms: unfood
coordinate_terms: health food
glosses: Food with little or no nutritional value; alternatively, food that supplies a large amount of nutrients but also excess calories, excess sugar or starch, and so on.
Related terms: english: partially overlapping
translation: partially overlapping
word: comfort food
word: empty calories
english: partially overlapping
translation: partially overlapping
word: fast food
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: nattier
form: nattiest
Etymology: Originally slang, perhaps related to natural.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, while the creepy-video thing is under way there are also some scenes of Pullman looking very natty and East Village in all-black and jamming on his tenor sax in front of a packed dance floor (only in a David Lynch movie would people dance ecstatically to abstract jazz), […]
ref: 1997, David Foster Wallace, “David Lynch keeps his head”, in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, Kindle edition, Little, Brown Book Group:
text: A natty dresser, especially by congressional standards, Mr. Curtis has turned his penchant for bright socks into an ice-breaker that he says helps constituents feel comfortable in approaching him.
ref: 2025 January 28, Cameron Joseph, “Meet Mitt Romney’s replacement – who could make or break the Trump agenda”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Smart and fashionable.
Derived terms: nattily
nattiness
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: nattier
form: nattiest
Etymology: Variant of knotty.
Senses: examples: text: natty dreadlocks
glosses: Knotty.
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: more natty
form: most natty
form: nattie
Etymology: Clipping of natural + -y.
Senses: examples: text: natty gains
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: particularly bodybuilding
glosses: Natural, as opposed to steroid enhanced.
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: natties
form: nattie
Etymology: Clipping of natural + -y.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
qualifier: particularly bodybuilding
glosses: Someone whose muscle gains are natural and not aided by the use of steroids.
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: more natty
form: most natty
form: nattie
Etymology: Clipping of national + -y.
Senses: glosses: National.
natty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnæti/
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: natties
form: nattie
Etymology: Clipping of national + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I hope my favorite team makes it to the natty this season.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A national championship.
rehearsal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈhɝsl̩/
ipa: /ɹɪˈhɜːsl̩/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)səl
Forms: form: rehearsals
Etymology: From Middle English rehercel, rehersail, rehersall, from rehersen and apparently partly Middle French rehercel. By surface analysis, rehearse + -al.
Senses: examples: text: After modifications had been effected by the builders, a rehearsal of electric operation was held on September 17. A complete day's timetable was run through and apparently all went well, except for insulator trouble with the overhead wires near Anniesland; a further rehearsal was held on the following Sunday.
ref: 1961 November, “Talking of Trains: "Blue trains" run again”, in Trains Illustrated, page 644:
glosses: The practising of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done.
examples: text: The forest fires are just a rehearsal for the devastation that will be caused if climate change continues to worsen.
glosses: A preparatory activity analogous to a rehearsal (sense 1).
examples: text: The prosecution argued that the defendant's exact repetition of his account of the events several times demonstrated the rehearsal of his story.
glosses: The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed.
Derived terms: camera rehearsal
dress rehearsal
Italian rehearsal
parental rehearsal
rehearsal dinner
technical rehearsal
pavilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: pavilions
Etymology: From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Senses: glosses: An ornate tent.
glosses: A light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place.
glosses: A structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc.
examples: text: Only one player has hit a six over the Lord's pavillion.
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals.
glosses: A detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex.
glosses: The lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A flag, ensign, or banner.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A flag, ensign, or banner.
A flag or ensign carried at the gaff of the mizzenmast.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: An ornate tent, used either as a charge or bearing, or surrounding a shield as or atop the mantling.
examples: text: For after the rain when with never a stain, / The pavilion of heaven is bare, […]
ref: 1819 or 1820 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Cloud”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza 6, page 200:
glosses: A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
Synonyms: sense: part of ear
word: auricle
sense: part of ear
word: pinna
Derived terms: pavilionlike
pavilion roof
Related terms: papillon
pavilion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈvɪljən/
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: pavilions
form: pavilioning
form: pavilioned
form: pavilioned
Etymology: From Middle English pavilloun, from Anglo-Norman pavilloun, from Latin pāpiliōnem, form of pāpiliō (“butterfly, moth”) (due to resemblance of tent to a butterfly’s wings), of unknown origin. Doublet of papilio and papillon.
Cognate to French pavillon (“pavilion”) and papillon (“butterfly”), and similar terms in other Romance languages.
Senses: glosses: To furnish with a pavilion.
glosses: To put inside a pavilion.
glosses: To enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour, And girded with praise").
nutritional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /njuːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/
ipa: /nuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/
ipa: /njuˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/
ipa: /njʉːˈtɹɪʃ.ə.nəl/
Forms: form: more nutritional
form: most nutritional
Etymology: From nutrition + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Maroney said she’s also interested in learning about the complete nutritional makeup of the two Lunchable products to determine if they fully meet the current and proposed NSLP nutritional guidelines.
ref: 2023 March 13, Parija Kavilanz, “Lunchables are going to be rolled out directly to students. Here’s what’s in them”, in CNN:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or providing nutrition.
Derived terms: word: antinutritional
word: hypernutritional
word: hyponutritional
word: immunonutritional
word: macronutritional
word: micronutritional
word: nonnutritional
word: nutriceutical
word: nutricosmetic
word: nutritionalist
word: nutritionally
word: nutritional yeast
word: overnutritional
word: supernutritional
word: supranutritional
word: undernutritional
word: unnutritional
Related terms: nutrient
nutritious
Chazal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew חז״ל (khazál), which is an acronym for חכמינו זיכרונם לברכה (khakhaméinu zikhronám livrakhá, “our sages, of blessed memory”).
Senses: glosses: The sages from the time of the Second Temple and afterward, through the sixth century C.E.
Chazal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chazals
Etymology: Borrowed from French Chazal.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
intermittent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/
Forms: form: more intermittent
form: most intermittent
Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: The day was cloudy with intermittent rain.
text: Intermittent bugs are most difficult to reproduce.
text: Also bloudletting is good in feuers, whether they be continual or intermittent […]
ref: 1564, Philip Moore, chapter 13, in The Hope of Health, London:
text: […] the Gift of Prophecy […] was in the mind not as an Inhabitant, but as a Guest; that is, by intermittent Returns and Ecstasies, by Occasional Raptures and Revelations; as is clear from what we read of the Prophets in the Old Testament.
ref: 1698, Robert South, Twelve Sermons upon Several Subjects and Occasions, volume 3, London: Thomas Bennet, page 511:
text: […] Pale through night’s curtain gleam’d
By fits the lunar intermittent ray,
That quiv’ring serv’d to light his lonely steps
ref: 1792, Richard Cumberland, Calvary: or The Death of Christ, London: C. Dilly, Book 5, lines 364-366, p. 164:
text: […] by degrees the talk became as flickering and intermittent as the light of the dying fire, which they were too idle to feed with sticks […]
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 20, in Lud-in-the-Mist, London: Millennium, published 2000, page 193:
text: […] three scruffy-looking young men with intermittent facial hair and starvation-symptom physiques.
ref: 2015, John Irving, chapter 18, in Avenue of Mysteries, New York: Simon and Schuster, page 238:
synonyms: word: periodic
word: periodical
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: broken
word: fitful
word: catchy
word: discontinuous
word: intermissive
word: intermittent
word: patchy
word: spasmodic
word: stop-start
antonyms: steady
constant
continual
glosses: Stopping and starting, occurring, or presenting at intervals; coming after a particular time span.
examples: text: The area has many intermittent lakes and streams.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Existing only for certain seasons; that is, being dry for part of the year.
raw_tags: of a body of water
Derived terms: Charcot intermittent fever
Charcot's intermittent fever
intermittent explosive disorder
intermittent fasting
intermittent lake
intermittently
intermittentness
nonintermittent
unintermittent
Related terms: inter
inter-
intermit
intermittence
intermittency
intermittent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɪntəˈmɪtn̩t/
ipa: /ˌɪntɚˈmɪtn̩t/
Forms: form: intermittents
Etymology: From Middle French intermittent, from Latin intermittens (“sending between”), from prefix inter- (“among, on”) + mittens (“sending”), from mittere (“to send”).
Senses: examples: text: Feuers, and especially those that are called intermittents, discontinuing agues, euen naturally at the beginning and their first inuasion, cause vomits: and at the declining, sweats.
ref: 1592, Nicholas Gyer, chapter 16, in The English Phlebotomy: or, Method and Way of Healing by Letting of Blood, London: Andrew Mansell, page 172:
text: The Bark, which had been ineffectual in the Intermittents of the former Year, was successful in this.
ref: 1733, John Arbuthnot, chapter 6, in An Essay concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies, London: J. Tonson, page 144:
text: In disease, the agency of this system of vessels is an object of attentive study with the pathologist. To its influence in inflammation, we have already alluded; but it is no less exemplified in the more general diseases of the frame, as in the cold, hot, and sweating stages of an intermittent.
ref: 1832, Robley Dunglison, “Circulation”, in Human Physiology, volume 2, Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, page 146:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An intermittent fever or disease.
intermittently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪn.tərˈmɪt.ənt.lɪ/
Etymology: From intermittent + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Hariri-Aoun agreement has shown that Hezbollah can bring the national political system to a halt. This happened in the past several years, and it worsened conditions in sectors such as foreign debt, electricity output, rubbish collection, water delivery, and other essential services, to the discomfort of the majority of Lebanese who have spoken out intermittently against the oligarchy of sectarian leaders who rule the country.
ref: 2016 October 22, Rami G Khouri, “Lebanese oligarchy preserves its interests once again”, in Aljazeera:
glosses: Stopping or starting at intervals.
Synonyms: flakily
sporadically
unreliably
discontinuously
Related terms: intermittent
intermittence
out of the woods
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The patient is feeling a little better, but she's not out of the woods yet.
text: The Slovakian prime minister, Robert Fico, is in a stable condition but “not out of the woods yet”, officials have said, as they appealed for calm after a shooting that laid bare the deep political divisions of recent months.
ref: 2024 May 16, Pjotr Sauer, Ashifa Kassam, “Slovakian PM Robert Fico stable but ‘not out of the woods’ after shooting”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Out of peril; likely to recover or prevail over trouble; finished with the worst or most threatening part of a problem or illness.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see out of, the, woods.
Related terms: halloo before one is out of the wood
good to go
bloodroot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodroots
Etymology: From blood + root.
Senses: glosses: A North American plant, Sanguinaria canadensis, of the poppy family, which has a red root and sap and a single white flower in early spring.
Synonyms: sense: Sanguinaria canadensis
word: bloodwort
sense: Sanguinaria canadensis
word: red puccoon root
sense: Sanguinaria canadensis
word: pauson
sense: Sanguinaria canadensis
word: tetterwort
caster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkæstɚ/
homophone: castor
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: casters
form: castor
Etymology: From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Senses: examples: text: a caster of spells
text: a caster of stones
text: a caster of bronze statuary
text: She’s never seen a hired man without Anna to command him. He’s eerie as a shadow without its caster.
ref: 2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 231:
glosses: Someone or something that casts.
examples: text: Many office chairs roll on a set of casters.
text: I have my own phone, an electric typewriter and a lovely chair with casters. The floor is carpeted, the lighting is very adequate.
ref: 1980 August 30, Nancy Walker, “My Boss Comes Out”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 7:
glosses: A wheeled assembly attached to a larger object at its base to facilitate rolling. A caster usually consists of a wheel (which may be plastic, a hard elastomer, or metal), an axle, a mounting provision (usually a stem, flange, or plate), and sometimes a swivel (which allows the caster to rotate for steering).
examples: text: a set of casters
text: Your waiter having settled that point, returns to array your tablecloth, with a table napkin folded cocked-hat-wise (slowly, for something out of window engages his eye), a white wine-glass, a green wine-glass, a blue finger-glass, a tumbler, and a powerful field battery of fourteen casters with nothing in them; […]
ref: 1860 January 28 – October 13, Charles Dickens, chapter VI, in The Uncommercial Traveller, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1861, →OCLC:
text: She could keep cool and collected while she collected your check, give you the correct change, win your heart, indicate the toothpick stand, and rate you to a quarter of a cent better than Bradstreet could to a thousand in less time than it takes to pepper an egg with one of Hinkle’s casters.
ref: 1910, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Girl and the Habit”, in Strictly Business:
synonyms: cruet
glosses: A shaker with a perforated top for sprinkling condiments such as sugar, salt, pepper, etc.
glosses: A stand to hold a set of shakers or cruets.
examples: text: In addition, caster helps to reduce steering effort and to return the steering wheel to the center position after a turn.
ref: 2008, Ronald G Haefner, The Car Care Book, →ISBN, page 238:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: The angle of the axis around which a car's front wheels rotate when the steering wheel is turned, with a vertical axis being defined as zero caster.
Derived terms: baitcaster
casterless
figure-caster
linecaster
raycaster
runecaster
spearcaster
spellcaster
surf-caster
surf caster
Related terms: caster angle
caster sugar
caster
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkæstə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkæstɚ/
homophone: castor
rhymes: -æstə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɑːstə(ɹ)
Forms: form: casters
form: castering
form: castered
form: castered
form: castor
Etymology: From cast + -er; the wheel sense comes from obsolete cast (“to turn”).
Senses: glosses: To act as a caster
HDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪt͡ʃˌdiːˌdiː/
Forms: form: HDDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of hard disk drive.
qualifier: heating
glosses: Initialism of heating degree day.
sycamore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪkəmoɹ/
ipa: /ˈsɪkəmɔː/
homophone: sycomore
Forms: form: sycamores
form: sycomore
Etymology: Circa 1350 as Middle English sicamour, from Old French sicamor, from Latin sȳcomorus, from Ancient Greek σῡκόμορος (sūkómoros, literally “fig-mulberry”), from σῦκον (sûkon, “fig”) + μόρον (móron, “mulberry”). Possibly influenced by Hebrew שִׁקְמָה (shikmá, “fig-mulberry”).
In the 16th c. applied to the European maple (Acer pseudoplatanus), in the early 19th c. to various plane tree species introduced to North America, perhaps in analogy to their shadiness.
Senses: examples: text: Stars shining bright above you / Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you / Birds singin' in the sycamore trees
ref: 1931, “Dream a Little Dream of Me”, Gus Kahn (lyrics), Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt (music):
text: On his dark face were white sycamore patches.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 408:
synonyms: planetree
plane
glosses: Any of several North American plane trees, of the genus Platanus, especially Platanus occidentalis (American sycamore), distinguished by its mottled bark which flakes off in large irregular masses.
examples: text: The thronged boughs of the shadowy sycamore / Still bear young leaflets half the summer through
ref: 1899, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, “The Day-Dream”, in Pictures & poems:
glosses: A large British and European species of maple, Acer pseudoplatanus, known in North America as the sycamore maple.
synonyms: sycomore
sycomore fig
fig-mulberry
qualifier: originally
glosses: A large tree bearing edible fruit, Ficus sycomorus, allied to the common fig, found in Egypt and Syria.
Derived terms: Arizona sycamore
California sycamore
sycamore lace bug
sycamore maple tree
sycamore tree
Related terms: sycophant
FDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FDDs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: FD
hypernyms: DD
coordinate_terms: HDD
HD
OD
ODD
VDD
VD
RD
RDD
TD
FD
SSD
SSDD
glosses: Initialism of floppy disk drive.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Initialism of feature-driven development.
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
coordinate_terms: FDM
glosses: Initialism of frequency-division duplex.
wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛs.l̩.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈɹɛs.lɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɛslɪŋ
Forms: form: wrestlings
Etymology: From late Old English wræstlung.
Senses: hypernyms: sport
glosses: A sport where two opponents attempt to subdue each other in bare-handed grappling using techniques of leverage, holding, and pressure points.
glosses: Ellipsis of professional wrestling (“act that emulates the sport of wrestling”).
examples: text: […] and the modern reader, who finds that races, boxing-matches, and wrestlings do in truth supply the chief occasions of Pindar's poetry […]
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 4, page 42:
glosses: A wrestling match.
examples: text: I'd count not wearisome / Long toil, nor enterprise, / But strain to reach it; aye, with wrestlings stout / And hopes that even in the dark will grow[…]
ref: 1863, Jean Ingelow, “Honors”, in Poems:
glosses: The act of one who wrestles; a struggle to achieve something.