cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dakuten
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdækuˌtɛn/
/ˈdɑːkuˌtɛn/
Forms: form: dakuten
Etymology: From Japanese 濁点(だくてん) (dakuten), from Middle Chinese 濁 (ɖæwk, “voiced, turbid”) + 點 (tém, “dot, mark”).
Senses: synonyms: word: tenten
word: nigori
coordinate_terms: handakuten
maru
glosses: A diacritic (゛) used with Japanese kana to mark a consonant as voiced.
transilluminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transilluminators
Etymology: From trans- + illuminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: A device or instrument that projects light, ultraviolet radiation, etc. through a translucent sample for observation or photography
flitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflɪtɪd/
rhymes: -ɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flit
marvelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marvel
superhydrophobicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + hydro- + -phobic + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The key to long [battery] life is a property superhydrophobicity. This occurs when a drop of electorlyte or other liquid sits on top of a roughened nanostructured surface instead of wetting it. Zap the droplet with a burst of electricity or heat, however, and it wets the surface in a matter of milliseconds.
ref: 2006 November, “Batteries that Keep”, in Mechanical Engineering, volume 128, number 11, page 22:
glosses: The quality of being extremely hydrophobic or repellent to water or of not being wetted.
crap out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: craps out
form: crapping out
form: crapped out
form: crapped out
Etymology: From die-rolling in the game craps.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
synonyms: seven out
glosses: To lose a game of craps by rolling a seven.
examples: text: He crapped out as soon as he was challenged.
glosses: To abandon an endeavour or project; to back down.
examples: text: Darn, my car crapped out.
synonyms: break down
glosses: To fail; to stop working.
raw_tags: of a machine
examples: text: The team crapped out in the second half.
glosses: To blunder; to fail massively.
examples: text: The old man crapped out.
glosses: To die; to collapse; to fall asleep.
examples: text: So, recruits fought sleep and slept in the hot classrooms while DIs caught up on their sleep by crapping out on their duty rack in full uniform.
ref: 2002, Wesley L. Fox, Marine Rifleman: Forty-three Years in the Corps, page 104:
text: He planned on being done by the early afternoon and then crapping out for the rest of the day.
ref: 2011, Guy Lennon, Knights of the State Department:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To idle or mess around.
synonyms: shit out
glosses: To give birth.
protreptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈtɹɛptɪk/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɹɛptɪk/
Forms: form: more protreptic
form: most protreptic
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek προτρεπτικός (protreptikós, “hortatory”), from προτρέπω (protrépō, “to urge on”).
Senses: glosses: Serving to instruct; didactic.
Synonyms: protreptical
protreptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəʊˈtɹɛptɪk/
ipa: /pɹoʊˈtɹɛptɪk/
Forms: form: protreptics
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek προτρεπτικός (protreptikós, “hortatory”), from προτρέπω (protrépō, “to urge on”).
Senses: glosses: A didactic speech, book, etc.
baptise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: baptises
form: baptising
form: baptised
form: baptised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard form of baptize.
Derived terms: baptisable
debaptise
rebaptise
unbaptise
fogy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fogies
Senses: examples: text: “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”
ref: 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative spelling of fogey.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Extra pay granted to officers for length of service.
Derived terms: fogydom
fogyish
fogyism
fractiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fractiously
form: most fractiously
Etymology: From fractious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fractious manner.
backhandedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more backhandedly
form: most backhandedly
Etymology: From backhanded + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a backhanded manner.
leased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: least
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lease
leased
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /liːst/
rhymes: -iːst
homophone: least
Senses: examples: text: The resemblance borne by such a land carriage to a ship put under charter-party is, perhaps, closer where the entire business of one railway company, with its tracks, rolling-stock, equipments, and goodwill become leased for a certain term to another company.
ref: 1880, James Schouler, A Treatise on the Law of Bailments, Little, Brown, page 327:
glosses: Transferred under the terms of a lease.
Derived terms: leased access
leased facility
leased fee
leased line
unleased
propadeutic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of propaedeutic.
nulliparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nuliparous
Etymology: From null + -parous.
Senses: glosses: That has never given birth.
raw_tags: of a woman or female animal
glosses: That has never yet laid eggs.
raw_tags: of a mosquito or other female insect
Synonyms: nonparous
nonparturient
nonparturitive
Related terms: nullipara
nulliparity
given birth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of give birth
shoved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃʌvd/
rhymes: -ʌvd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shove
diurnal arc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diurnal arcs
Senses: topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the path followed by a planet, point, or degree from its rising point to its setting point.
transtheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Back-formation from transtheistic, a term coined by Heinrich Zimmer for the theological system in Jainism.
Senses: glosses: Beyond theism or atheism, belief in one or more deities which transcend the universe and yet are also immanent; belief in a panentheistic God.
wikipedia: Heinrich Zimmer
Related terms: pandeism
panendeism
panentheism
pantheism
theopanism
debugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diːˈbʌɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: debuggings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The process of finding and resolving bugs or defects that prevent correct operation of computer software or a system.
Derived terms: confessional debugging
rubber duck debugging
shotgun debugging
time travel debugging
debugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /diːˈbʌɡɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debug
TCM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of traditional Chinese medicine.
synonyms: tcm
coordinate_terms: MCM
BCM
glosses: Abbreviation of thousands of cubic meters.
glosses: Alternative form of tcm (“trillion cubic meters”).
glosses: Abbreviation of trichloromethane.
glosses: Initialism of trellis coded modulation.
glosses: Initialism of transmission control module.
AVM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AVMs
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of arteriovenous malformation.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
ornithology
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of avian vacuolar myelinopathy.
arteriovenous malformation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arteriovenous malformations
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital disorder in which arteries are connected directly to veins rather than through capillaries that distribute oxygen and nutrients. These connections, often called a nidus, can be extremely fragile and prone to bleeding.
Synonyms: Also known by the abbreviation AVM
pre-industrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of preindustrial.
preindustrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-industrial
Etymology: From pre- + industrial.
Senses: examples: text: Civilization has already exceeded a global warming of ~1.0◦C above pre-industrial conditions[.]
ref: 2021 January 13, Corey J.A. Bradshaw et al., “Underestimating the Challenges of Avoiding a Ghastly Future”, in Frontiers in Conservation Science:
text: At last year’s summit in Glasgow, countries agreed to focus on limiting global temperature rises to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels, but recent UN reports have shown that current policies would raise temperatures by about 2.5C.
ref: 2022 November 4, Fiona Harvey, “UN chief warns ‘we will be doomed’ without historic climate pact”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Of or relating to the period before the Industrial Revolution and the global industrialisation that followed.
examples: a preindustrial nation
glosses: Not yet industrialized.
three skips of a louse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: ’Tis not that I value the money three skips of a louse:
But the thing I stand upon is the credit of the house.
ref: 1719, Jonathan Swift, Mrs Frances Haris's Petition:
glosses: The worth of some trifling or insignificant matter; a whit or jot of value.
mitigant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪtɪɡənt/
Forms: form: more mitigant
form: most mitigant
Etymology: From Latin mitigans, p.pr. of mitigare. See mitigate.
Senses: glosses: Tending to mitigate.
mitigant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɪtɪɡənt/
Forms: form: mitigants
Etymology: From Latin mitigans, p.pr. of mitigare. See mitigate.
Senses: glosses: Something that mitigates; a lenitive.
Related terms: mitigation
Smartism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Smarta + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A denomination of the Hindu religion whose adherents follow the Vedas and Shastras, primarily the Advaita Vedanta philosophy of Adi Shankara.
Related terms: Smārta
Smarta Sampradaya
relazione
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relazioni
Etymology: From Italian relazione (“account, report”). Doublet of relation.
Senses: glosses: A report presented by Venetian ambassadors of the social conditions in foreign countries.
apotreptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more apotreptic
form: most apotreptic
Senses: examples: text: The original sacrifice of the lamb in the land of Egypt was chiefly designed...to avert that judgement (viz. the death of the first-born) from the Israelites...but the annual passover...was rather a commemoration of the deliverance of the Israelites from that calamity, than an apotreptic sacrifice.
ref: 1724, John Johnson, A Discourse on the Unbloody Sacrifice, and Altar, Unvailed and Supported, in which the nature of the Eucharist is explained...[full title runs to about 150 words], Robert Knaplock, read in The Theological Works of the Rev. John Johnson, M.A., Vicar of Cranbrook in the Diocese of Canterbury, Volume 1, John Henry Parker (1847), page 176
text: The story of Prometheus provides the introduction to the protreptic part of the poem (the exhortation to work), the story of the world-periods introduces the apotreptic part (the admonition to avoid wrongdoing).
ref: 1985, W. J. (Willem Jacob) Verdenius, A Commentary on Hesiod: Works and Days, VV. 1-382, E. J. Brill, page 76
text: He draws out the purificatory implications of Apollo's apotreptic intervention when an uneasy feeling rises from the mantic spirit within him to meet the voice of the god.
ref: 2006, John Bussanich, Socrates and Religious Experience, read in Sara Ahbel-Rappe, Rachana Kamtekar (editors), A Companion to Socrates, Blackwell, page 207
glosses: Designed to dissuade.
apotreptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apotreptics
Senses: examples: text: The sweeping mock-Catonian attack of Juv. 6, an apotreptic against marriage that quickly turns into a categorical disparagement of women.
ref: 2001, Kirk Freudenburg, Satires of Rome: threatening poses from Lucilius to Juvenal, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 253:
text: Each category [of rhetoric] is sub-divided: symbouliutic into protreptic and apotreptic, dicanic into prosecution and defence..., and epideictic into praise and blame or dispraise.
ref: 2001, Niall Livingstone, A Commentary on Isocrates' Busiris, E. J. Brill,, →ISBN, page 9:
text: The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.
ref: 2003, Keith Sidwell, Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's De curialium miseriis and Peter of Blois, read in Zweder R.W.M. von Martels, Arie Johan Vanderjagt (editors), Pius II, "El Piu Expeditivo Pontefice": selected studies on Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (1405-1464), E. J. Brill, page 103
glosses: Rhetoric designed to dissuade.
chain story
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chain stories
Senses: glosses: A story, each section of which is written by a different author picking up where the previous one left off.
risk equalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
health
insurance
medicine
sciences
glosses: A process that attempts to overcome differences in insurers’ costs due to differing levels of health among members of competing insurance companies.
shang
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shang
Senses: glosses: A Chinese unit of land area equivalent to 15 mu or about one hectare.
quotation marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwəʊˈteɪʃən mɑːks/
ipa: /kwoʊˈteɪʃən mɑɹks/
Senses: glosses: plural of quotation mark
Synonyms: sense: of the plural
word: quotes
word: speech marks
word: inverted commas
Related terms: word: guillemet
alt: '; ’
word: apostrophe
word: curly brackets
word: brace
word: square bracket
word: bracket
alt: :
word: colon
alt: ,
word: comma
alt: ‒; –; —; ―
word: dash
alt: …
word: ellipsis
alt: !
word: exclamation mark
alt: ⁄
word: fraction slash
alt: « »; ‹ ›
word: guillemet
alt: -; ‐
word: hyphen
alt: ·
word: interpunct
alt: ‽
word: interrobang
word: bracket
word: parentheses (US
alt: ( )
word: Canada)
word: full stop
alt: .
word: period
alt: ?
word: question mark
alt: ;
word: semicolon
word: slash
alt: /
word: stroke
alt: ] [
word: space
tell the difference
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tells the difference
form: telling the difference
form: told the difference
form: told the difference
Senses: examples: text: Can you tell the difference between margarine and butter?
glosses: To differentiate similar things.
Purell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The brand name of a brand of a particular alcoholic sanitizing gel.
Senses: examples: text: In the Season 11 premiere of “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” Larry David’s HBO comedy of ill manners, chaos breaks out during a party (specifically, a premature funeral) at Albert Brooks’s house when Larry finds a closet stuffed with Purell, toilet paper and KN95 masks, exposing the “Lost in America” director as having been a “Covid hoarder.”
ref: 2022 January 7, James Poniewozik, “Wondering When the Pandemic Will End? On TV, It Already Has.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A brand of hand sanitizer containing alcohol.
Derived terms: purell
Purell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The brand name of a brand of a particular alcoholic sanitizing gel.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of purell (any alcohol-based hand sanitizer)
plagiarise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plagiarises
form: plagiarising
form: plagiarised
form: plagiarised
Etymology: From plagiary + -ise, ultimately from Latin plagiare (“to kidnap, to abduct”).
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of plagiarize.
Derived terms: plagiarisation
plagiariser
veisalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /veɪsˈæl.d͡ʒɪ.ə/
Etymology: From Norwegian kveis (“uneasiness after debauchery”) + -algia (pain, suffering) (from New Latin -algia, from Ancient Greek ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”)), coined as a medical term by Jeffrey G. Wiese, Michael G. Shlipak, and Warren S. Browner in a 2000 article published in the Annals of Internal Medicine (see the quotation).
Senses: examples: text: There is no consensus definition of veisalgia ("alcohol hangover," from the Norwegian kveis, or "uneasiness following debauchery," and the Greek algia, or "pain"). Most descriptive and experimental studies have identified a set of common symptoms: headache, diarrhea, anorexia, tremulousness, fatigue, and nausea[…]. Perhaps the most alarming feature of veisalgia is its high prevalence. In a study of college students, 25% of students reported experiencing a hangover in the previous week and 29% reported losing school time for hangover recovery.
ref: 2000 June 6, Jeffrey G. Wiese, Michael G. Shlipak, Warren S. Browner, “The Alcohol Hangover”, in Annals of Internal Medicine, volume 132, number 11, →DOI, pages 897–902:
text: Ms. J may be caught in the vicious cycle of headache related to a hangover, drinking more to relieve the headache and tremor (perceived as anxiety), daytime sleeping, and using the alcohol to try and induce sleep at night. The tremulousness, which the patient experiences as anxiety, is also part of the veisalgia syndrome.
ref: 2005, Judith C. Ahronheim, Zheng-Bo Huang, Vincent Yen, Christina M. Davitt, David Barile, “Case 27: Headache”, in Case Studies in Geriatrics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
text: Patients with alcohol hangover or veisalgia (from the Norwegian kveis or "uneasiness following debauchery" and the Greek algia or "pain") suffer from fatigue, insomnia, diarrhea, headaches, dry mouth, malaise, and nausea in addition to autonomic hyperactivity (tremor, sweating, tachycardia, and hypertension)[…].
ref: 2011, Nischita K. Reddy, Ashwani Singal, Don W. Powell, “Alcohol-related Diarrhea”, in Stefano Guandalini, Haleh Vaziri, editors, Diarrhea: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Advances (Clinical Gastroenterology), New York, N.Y.; Dordrecht: Humana Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 385:
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: hangover
glosses: The unpleasant after-effects of the consumption of alcohol; a hangover.
wikipedia: Anchers Hus
Annals of Internal Medicine
Christian Krohg
Skagen
Synonyms: hangover
jokester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒəʊkstə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒoʊkstɚ/
Forms: form: jokesters
Etymology: Derived from joke + -ster.
Senses: examples: text: Our uncle is always being a jokester and cracking jokes about how much he eats and makes messes.
text: Characters commenting on their own predicament as though they were the armchair jokesters of MST3K is almost never as smart as a film’s creative team thinks it is—something for which Urban Legend serves as Exhibit A.
ref: 2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:
glosses: A person who tells jokes; a joker.
glosses: A person who plays practical jokes; a prankster.
glosses: Jester, court jester.
Stratocaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stratocasters
Etymology: A compound of strato- + caster, a clipping of broadcaster.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A popular electric guitar manufactured by Fender.
merfolk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mer- + folk.
Senses: synonyms: merfolks
glosses: Mythical creatures that are human from the waist up and fish from the waist down.
Related terms: mermaid
merman
fraying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fray
fraying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪ.ɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪɪŋ
Forms: form: frayings
Senses: examples: text: Any frayings of rope should be removed.
glosses: Frayed material.
examples: text: For by his slot , his entries , and his port , His frayings , fewmets , he doth promise sport
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd:
glosses: The skin which a deer frays from its horns.
frays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
homophone: fraise
homophone: phrase
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of fray
frays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɹeɪz/
homophone: fraise
homophone: phrase
rhymes: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fray
Black Maria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /blæk məˈɹaɪə/
rhymes: -aɪə
Forms: form: Black Marias
Etymology: Unknown, though such vans were traditionally painted black. First attested in the 1830s.
Senses: examples: text: The Upper Ten Thousand have plenty of cash—
At the Central Park, on the “Drive,” cut a dash;
They have their light wagons, fast horses beside;
In the free “Black Maria” the Lower Ten ride.
ref: 1867, Tony Pastor, “The Upper and Lower Ten Thousand”, in Tony Pastor’s Book of Six Hundred Comic Songs and Speeches:
glosses: A police van for transporting prisoners.
Synonyms: paddy wagon
Related terms: black and white
police vehicle
viron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of virion.
amus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amu
wels catfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Partly from German, see wels.
Senses: glosses: A scaleless fresh-water catfish (Silurus glanis), of much of temperate western Eurasia, recognizable by its broad, flat head and wide mouth.
Synonyms: sheatfish
pisos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piso
straight ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight tickets
Senses: examples: text: Sally voted a straight ticket for her political party.
glosses: A ballot cast for all the candidates of a specific political party.
Related terms: split ticket
split ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: split tickets
Senses: examples: text: Sally voted a split ticket for a Democrat and a Republican.
antonyms: plumper
glosses: A ballot cast for candidates of more than one political party.
Related terms: straight ticket
MIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Analyzable as M- (“mega-, 10⁶x”) + IPS
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: KIPS
glosses: Initialism of million instructions per second.
Derived terms: DMIPS
MIPS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Analyzable as M- (“mega-, 10⁶x”) + IPS
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipelined Stages, a RISC-style instruction set architecture.
Shirley Temple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Shirley Temples
Etymology: Named after Shirley Temple, famous child actress from the 1920s to 1940s. Compare German Schorle.
Senses: glosses: A non-alcoholic cocktail traditionally made with ginger ale, grenadine syrup, and orange juice garnished with a maraschino cherry and slice of lemon. The ginger ale is commonly substituted with lemon-lime soft drink, and the orange juice is commonly left out.
wikipedia: Shirley Temple
Related terms: kiddie cocktail
mocktail
Roy Rogers
Roy Rogers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Roy Rogerses
Etymology: Named after the actor and singer Roy Rogers.
Senses: glosses: A non-alcoholic cocktail made with a cola soda (typically Coca-Cola) and grenadine syrup, garnished with a maraschino cherry.
wikipedia: Roy Rogers
Related terms: kiddie cocktail
mocktail
Shirley Temple
kiddie cocktail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiddie cocktails
Senses: glosses: A non-alcoholic cocktail, particularly one suitable for children.
Hypernyms: mocktail
gulfs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlfs/
rhymes: -ʌlfs
Senses: glosses: plural of gulf
gulfs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡʌlfs/
rhymes: -ʌlfs
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gulf
frequenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frequent
gastronomist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gastronomists
Senses: examples: text: The ancient Roman gastronomists considered the turnip, when prepared in the following manner, a dish fit for epicures: "After boiling, extract the water from them, and season with cummin, rue, or benzoin, pounded in a mortar; afterward add honey, vinegar, gravy, and boiled grapes. Allow the whole to simmer, and serve."
ref: 1892, Ella Eaton Kellogg, “Vegetables”, in Science in the Kitchen: A Scientific Treatise on Food Substances and Their Dietetic Properties, Together with a Practical Explanation of the Principles of Healthful Cookery, and a Large Number of Original, Palatable, and Wholesome Recipes, Revised edition, Michigan: Health Publishing Company, page 240:
glosses: A gastronome
darndest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of darnedest.
darndest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of darnedest.
darnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːndɪst/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹnˌdɪst/
Forms: form: darndest
form: darnest
form: durnedest
form: durndest
Etymology: From darned + -est.
Senses: examples: text: The darnedest thing happened to me today – I saw a man who I know died ten years ago.
glosses: Damnedest; most amazing, consternating, etc.
darnedest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːndɪst/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹnˌdɪst/
Forms: form: darndest
form: darnest
form: durnedest
form: durndest
Etymology: From darned + -est.
Senses: examples: text: I did my darnedest to stay awake.
glosses: Damnedest; one's best effort.
Derived terms: do one's darnedest
geegaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geegaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gewgaw.
gemological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gemmological
Etymology: From gemology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gemology.
Derived terms: gemologically
gemology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒlədʒi
ipa: /d͡ʒɛmˈɑl.ə.dʒi/
Forms: form: gemmology
Etymology: From gem + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The art and science of gems.
Derived terms: gemological
gemologist
gemologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemologists
form: gemmologist
Etymology: From gemology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Sundararajan was among the observers, along with several archeologists and gemologists.
ref: 2012 April 30, Jake Halpern, “The Secret of the Temple”, in The New Yorker:
glosses: An expert in gemology.
generational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From generation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The generational shift Mr. Obama once embodied is, in fact, well under way, but it will not change Washington as quickly — or as harmoniously — as a lot of voters once hoped.
ref: 2012 November 7, Matt Bai, “Winning a Second Term, Obama Will Confront Familiar Headwinds”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2018:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or changing over generations.
glosses: Exceptional; the best of a generation.
glosses: Very good (through semantic bleaching or weakening of the above sense).
Derived terms: bigenerational
cross-generational
extragenerational
generational change
generational conflict
generational curse
generational dynamics
generationally
generational planet
generational wealth
intergenerational
intragenerational
monogenerational
multigenerational
nongenerational
Strauss-Howe generational theory
transgenerational
trigenerational
unigenerational
generousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From generous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being generous; generosity
genially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒiːniəli/
Forms: form: more genially
form: most genially
Etymology: From genial + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: word: joyously
word: mirthfully
word: blessedly
word: bubblingly
word: chearfully
word: cheerfully
word: cheerily
word: cheerly
word: eudaemonically
word: eupeptically
word: gaily
word: gayly
word: genially
word: gladly
word: happily
word: joyfully
word: joyously
word: lightheartedly
word: merrily
word: mirthfully
glosses: In a genial manner; gaily; cheerfully.
examples: text: Some men are genially disposed to some opinions.
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science; […], London: […] E. C[otes] for Henry Eversden […], →OCLC:
glosses: By genius or nature; naturally.
genteelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more genteelly
form: most genteelly
Etymology: From genteel + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [A]nd Rosamund though quite a genteelly brought up young lady had responded to his advances by slapping his face.
ref: 1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 59:
glosses: In a genteel manner.
genitally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more genitally
form: most genitally
Etymology: From genital + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Genitally, he did not in the least resemble those lewd markings on the walls of public conveniences. He was properly and sturdily endowed, normally shaped and without any pecularities.
ref: 1952, Gore Vidal, The Judgement of Paris:
glosses: Concerning the genitals.
Derived terms: extragenitally
genitally mutilate
intragenitally
perigenitally
postgenitally
urogenitally
genteelness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genteelnesses
Etymology: From genteel + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being genteel.
genuineness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛ.nju.ɪn.(n)əs/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛ.nju.ɪn.(n)ɪs/
Forms: form: genuinenesses
Etymology: From genuine + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Together these feelings may adversely affect the genuineness of the feedback.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1085:
synonyms: genuinity
glosses: The quality of being genuine; authenticity.
gestate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɛsˈteɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: gestates
form: gestating
form: gestated
form: gestated
Etymology: Back-formation from gestation on the basis of -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In the early 1960s, a study was conducted in which gestating rats were given diets containing the same mineral content of mineral salts or amino acid chelates.
ref: 2012, H. DeWayne Ashmead, Amino Acid Chelation in Human and Animal Nutrition, CRC Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To carry offspring in the uterus from conception to delivery.
examples: text: Philip wondered at that five-year gap. Perhaps it simply proved that a work of genius takes longer to gestate than a work of mere competent brilliance.
ref: 1986, David Leavitt, The Lost Language of Cranes, paperback edition, Penguin, page 112:
text: Barnett is not currently working on a novel. "Something is gestating in my head," he says, "but I am not yet sure if I have one character or two."
ref: 1990 December 9, Walta Borawski, quoting Allen Barnett, “'Unfortunately, Life Has Followed Art...'”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 7:
glosses: To develop an idea.
Related terms: gestation
gestational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gestation + -al.
Senses: examples: text: gestational diabetes
synonyms: word: gestatory
word: gestative
glosses: Of or pertaining to gestation.
examples: text: Gestational mice were taken from the cage and divided into six groups by the draw lots method.
ref: 1988, Chinese Medical Journal:
text: "When crisis pregnancy pregnancy centers talk to gestational people about choice, that's torture!"
ref: 2022 July 14, Al Goodwyn, “Editorial Cartoon”, in North Side Sun:
glosses: Of a person or animal: pregnant
Derived terms: gestational diabetes
gestationally
gestational sac
midgestational
multigestational
nongestational
perigestational
pregestational
progestational
pseudogestational
gestural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gesture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: One critic [Madeleine Schwartz] recently noted that the politics of Rooney’s novels were largely “gestural,” with airy mentions of Gaza or austerity protests but not much radical substance.
ref: 2019 April 12, Annalisa Quinn, “The Small Rebellions of Sally Rooney’s Normal People”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or using gestures.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Relating to gesturalism.
Derived terms: gesturalist
gesturality
gesturally
gesturalness
intergestural
intragestural
nongestural
visuogestural
Related terms: gesticulate
gesticulation
gesticulative
gesture
gastronomists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gastronomist
bondstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bondstones
Etymology: From bond + stone.
Senses: glosses: A stone for bonding masonry to a similar backing; a stone that reaches a considerable distance into, or entirely through a wall, for the purpose of binding it together.
bondstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bondstone
blackletter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackletters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of black letter.
null path length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: null path lengths
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The path length from a given node to its nearest descendant null node in a binary tree.
path length
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: path lengths
Senses: topics: graph-theory
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The number of edges traversed in a given path in a graph.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The distance travelled by light in a specified context.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The number of text characters in a path (file or resource specifier).
Derived terms: average path length
characteristic path length
null path length
shortest path length
Related terms: mean free path
keyhole lympet hemocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of keyhole limpet hemocyanin.
debridement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /deɪbɹiːdˈmɑ̃/
ipa: /dɪˈbɹiːdmənt/
Forms: form: debridements
form: débridement
Etymology: Borrowed from French débridement.
Senses: examples: text: Originally, debridement of wounds was widely employed so that healing could occur as an acute wound instead of a chronic wound.
ref: 2021, Stephen Andrew Moore, Angela Yen Moore, “The Role of Biofilms and the Microbiome”, in Stephen K. Tyring, Stephen Andrew Moore, Angela Yen Moore, Omar Lupi, editors, Overcoming Antimicrobial Resistance of the Skin (Updates in Clinical Dermatology), Springer Nature Switzerland AG, published 2022, →ISBN, part V (Innovative Therapies on the Forefront), page 209, column 1:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of dead, damaged, or infected tissue to improve the healing potential of the remaining healthy tissue.
topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: The removal of the dental tartar that has accumulated over teeth, typically done using hand tools and ultrasound instruments.
Derived terms: biodebridement
tam o'shanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /taməˈʃantər/
Forms: form: tam o'shanters
form: tam-o’shanter
Etymology: After Tam O’Shanter, from the eponymous poem by Robert Burns.
Senses: synonyms: Scotch cap
tam
tammy
glosses: A type of woolen hat developed in Scotland; a toorie bunnet.
wikipedia: Robert Burns
ovuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovulo
spinier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of spiny: more spiny
spiniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of spiny: most spiny
admixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admix
admixt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of admix; alternative spelling of admixed.
admixing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of admix
adrenocorticotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of adrenocorticotropic.
adrenocorticotropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Forms: form: more adrenocorticotropic
form: most adrenocorticotropic
Etymology: From adreno- + corticotropic.
Senses: glosses: That stimulates the adrenal cortex.
Derived terms: adrenocorticotropic hormone
cysticerci
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cysticercus
cysticercus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cysticerci
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κύστις (kústis, “bladder”) + κέρκος (kérkos, “tail”).
Senses: glosses: The larval stage of any of several tapeworms, having a fluid-filled cyst enclosing a scolex.
Derived terms: cysticercoid
cysticercosis
bridal registry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridal registries
Senses: glosses: A list of gifts, maintained by a department store, that a couple about to be married would like to receive.
Synonyms: wedding registry
wedding registry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedding registries
Senses: glosses: A bridal registry
registry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɛd͡ʒɪstɹi/
ipa: /ˈɹed͡ʒɪstɹi/
Forms: form: registries
Etymology: A variant of registery, from Middle English regestery (“?a record book; ?a bookmark”), partly from Medieval Latin regesterium, registerium and probably also partly formed with -ery. Equivalent to register + -y.
Senses: glosses: A building in which things are registered or where registers are kept.
examples: text: The best — and easiest — way to shop for the "perfect" gift is to consult the couple's wedding gift registry, since these are the items they want and need […]
ref: 2002, Bride's Book of Etiquette (Revised), page 276:
glosses: A record; an account; a register.
examples: text: Regulations may specify the minimum size of lot; the allowable closures for surveys; the types of corner marks to be used; the minimum width of streets, and the procedure for dedicating them; the rules for registry of plats; and other matters.
ref: 1969, Russell C[harles] Brinker, “Boundary Surveys”, in Elementary Surveying (International Textbooks in Civil Engineering), 5th edition, Scranton, Pa.: International Textbook Company, →ISBN, page 409:
glosses: The act of registering; registration.
examples: text: To unregister a DLL and remove the corresponding entries from the registry, add the /u switch to the command […]
ref: 1999, John Papa, C. Caison, Matt Brown, Professional ADO RDS programming with ASP, page 252:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A database of configuration settings etc. maintained by the Microsoft Windows operating system.
Derived terms: animal registry
bridal registry
civil registry
gift registry
metadata registry
port of registry
registry office
wedding registry
Related terms: register
registrar
travelling wave tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travelling wave tubes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of travelling-wave tube.
electron tube
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electron tubes
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several electronic devices that control electron current through vacuum, gas or vapor between electrodes within a sealed container, usually of glass or metal and often designed to be easily installed in and removed from the equipment in which it is used.
Related terms: thermionic tube
vacuum tube
scunners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scunner
scunners
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of scunner
travertine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹavətɪn/
Forms: form: travertines
Etymology: From Italian travertino, earlier tivertino, from Latin tīburtīnus (“Tiburtine”).
Senses: examples: text: [...] imitation travertine, resembling marble, has been used to cover the station exterior, [...].
ref: 1941 January, “Notes and News: The Hitler Station in Rome”, in Railway Magazine, page 33:
text: Halder stopped outside a seven-storey building sheathed in pale travertine marble.
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 191:
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: travertine marble
glosses: A light, porous form of concretionary limestone (or calcite) deposited from solution, and sometimes quarried for building.
tree fern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tree ferns
Senses: glosses: Any of many tropical ferns that have tall trunks topped with fronds, of the orders Cyatheales, Marattiales, and Osmundales, especially families Cyatheaceae, Dicksoniaceae, and Metaxyaceae in Cyatheales.
tremolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tremolites
Etymology: From Tremola San Gottardo in Switzerland, where found, + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A pale grey/green amphibole mineral, a type of asbestos, that is a mixed calcium and magnesium silicate, with the chemical formula Ca₂Mg₅Si₈O₂₂(OH)₂; sometimes used in place of common asbestos.
wikipedia: Tremola San Gottardo
trichroism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From trichroic + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The property of some optically anisotropic crystals of transmitting different colours of light in three different spatial directions.
Related terms: dichroic
trichroic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trichroic
form: most trichroic
Etymology: From tri- + -chroic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or exhibiting trichroism.
trihedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihedra
form: trihedrons
Etymology: From tri- + -hedron.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric figure composed of three planes meeting at a single vertex.
Related terms: trihedral
trihedra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trihedron
trochophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trochophores
Etymology: From trocho- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The free-swimming larva of some invertebrates that have a circlet of cilia
tubeworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tubeworms
form: tube worm
Etymology: From tube + worm.
Senses: glosses: Any of many marine polychaete worms, mostly of the family Serpulidae, which construct permanent calcareous tubes on rocks, ship bottoms etc.
Derived terms: spiny tubeworm
polychaete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒlɪkiːt/
Forms: form: polychaetes
Senses: examples: text: Similar partitioning of microbial food resources was observed for multiple polychaete species within the family Dorvilleidae in methane seep sediments off OR and CA [79 ], and for lepetopsid and lepetodrilid limpets at hydrothermal vents on the east Pacific Rise [80 ].
ref: 2015 July 10, “Biodiversity on the Rocks: Macrofauna Inhabiting Authigenic Carbonate at Costa Rica Methane Seeps”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
text: Our holistic study of these modern-day traces suggests it to be a complex trace arising from domichnial, fodinichnial and possibly pascichnial behavior of polychaetes.
ref: 2015 October 7, “New Insights into Polychaete Traces and Fecal Pellets: Another Complex Ichnotaxon?”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Alternative spelling of polychete.
Derived terms: nectochaete
Related terms: polychaetous
tulip tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tulip trees
form: tuliptree
form: tulip-tree
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A North American tree, Liriodendron tulipifera, that has squarish leaves, cone-shaped fruit and an aromatic odor, of the family Magnoliaceae.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Indian tulip tree, a tropical tree (Thespesia populnea, family Malvaceae).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Nile tulip tree (Markhamia lutea, family Bignoniaceae).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: African tulip tree (Spathodea campanulata, of family Bignoniaceae).
Synonyms: sense: North American tree
word: yellow poplar
sense: North American tree
word: American tulip tree
sense: North American tree
word: tulip poplar
sense: North American tree
word: saddle tree
sense: North American tree
word: whitewood
sense: North American tree
word: fiddle-tree
Hypernyms: tree
Derived terms: American tulip tree
tung tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʊŋ ˌtɹiː/
/ˈtʌŋ ˌtɹiː/
Forms: form: tung trees
Etymology: Borrowed from Chinese 桐 (tóng).
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus Vernicia, especially Vernicia fordii (syn. Aleurites fordii), of east Asian trees or shrubs cultivated for their seeds which are a source of tung oil.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A candlenut tree, of either of the two species of the genus Aleurites, which also yield such oil.
tung oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtʊŋ ˌɔɪl/
/ˈtʌŋ ˌɔɪl/
Etymology: See tung tree and oil.
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
<
vegetable oil
<
oil
coordinate_terms: linseed oil
;
olive oil
palm oil
;
more
glosses: An oil extracted from the seeds of the tung tree and used in paints and varnishes.
tunnel diode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel diodes
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A semiconductor diode that has negative resistance in the forward direction of its operating range due to quantum effects.
turbidite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbidites
Etymology: From turbid + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: As with siliciclastic turbidites, the maximum thickness of an individual bed is commonly not attained in the neighborhood of the source area, but at some distance downcurrent (Fig. 5.16b); then it decreases distally.
ref: 2000, Gerhard Einsele, Sedimentary Basins: Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget, page 221:
text: They are regarded as distal turbidites and are interbedded with bioclastic limestones and massive breccioid limestones containing blocks of coral colonies and intraclasts that are regarded as proximal turbidites.
ref: 2007, Bernhard Hubmann, Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any sedimentary deposit formed by a turbidity current.
Derived terms: calciturbidite
turbiditic
Related terms: turbidity
turbidity current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbidity currents
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A fast-flowing downhill current (of air or water) that carries silt
turbodrill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbodrills
Etymology: From turbo- + drill.
Senses: glosses: A drill used in oil wells etc in which the bit is rotated by a turbine motor within the well.