cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
112
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Selected by the European Union as the 3-digit number fastest to dial on cellular and rotary phones without the likelihood of accidental dialing caused by hanging up a landline telephone, sometimes interpreted by phone networks as a 1.
Senses: examples: text: When you call 112 in the United Kingdom, the call is automatically rerouted to 999 operators.
glosses: The telephone number for emergency services on all GSM cell phones and in the EU, Russia, United Kingdom, India, Indonesia, Turkey, Ukraine, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome, the Seychelles, Uganda, East Timor, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, North Macedonia, Vatican City, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Saint Vincent.
glosses: The telephone number for ambulance services in Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Bhutan, Burundi, and Burkina Faso.
glosses: The telephone number for law enforcement in South Korea, Norway, Colombia, Serbia, Lebanon, Syria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Papua New Guinea, and Mauritius.
glosses: The telephone number for firefighting assistance in Equatorial Guinea and Nauru.
Hyponyms: E112
Coordinate terms: word: 000
sense: Mongolia
word: 105
word: 110
word: 111
word: 119
word: 911
word: 999
Derived terms: E112
European 112 Day
000
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /trɪpəl.əʊ/
ipa: /trɪpəl.zɪə.ɹəʊ/
ipa: /trɪpəl.zɛd/
Etymology: A variant of the British 999, originally selected as an appropriate number for rotary-dial telephones and adapted in Australia because of the need to dial an initial 0 from remote exchanges to connect to the main trunk lines.
Senses: examples: text: When you call 000, the Telstra operator usually answers the phone with "Emergency. Police, fire, or ambulance?"
glosses: The telephone number for emergency services in Australia.
Synonyms: Triple O
Triple Zero
000 Emergency
Coordinate terms: sense: Mongolia
word: 105
word: 110
word: 111
word: 112
word: 119
word: 911
word: 999
tatty bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Phrase made popular by comedian Ken Dodd in the 1970s, but persisting in the language.
Senses: glosses: goodbye
zhe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʒiː/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: zhes
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian же (že).
Senses: glosses: The letter Ж, ж.
informal logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: informal logics
Senses: glosses: That branch of logic whose task is to develop non-formal standards, criteria, procedures for the analysis, interpretation, evaluation, criticism and construction of argumentation in everyday discourse.
bicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bicolour.
Derived terms: bicolor goatfish
bicolor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicolors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bicolour.
brazil nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brazil nuts
form: Brazil nut
Senses: synonyms: word: nigger toe
word: Pará nut
glosses: Bertholletia excelsa, a tree native to tropical South America.
glosses: The nut produced by this tree.
macrocarpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrocarpas
Etymology: From Latin macrocarpa (“large-fruited”).
Senses: examples: text: From Ulverstone, the road dipped and rose through potato fields and lines of towering macrocarpa […] .
ref: 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 216
glosses: The Monterey cypress, Cupressus macrocarpa.
Cook's tour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cook's tours
Etymology: From Thomas Cook, considered to be the world's first travel agent, running guided tours of Europe and the Middle East in the mid-1800s.
Senses: examples: text: The detour meant that we had to go on a twenty-mile Cook's tour to get home.
glosses: A long or complicated journey, an indirect route.
minimi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimus
nandu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nandus
form: nandou
form: nandow
Etymology: From French nandou from Spanish ñandú from Guaraní ñandu guasu.
Senses: glosses: rhea (large, flightless birds)
margherita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margheritas
Senses: examples: text: Their nearest approach to a classic pie is their margherita, with a sauce that incorporates sweet, juicy garlic and some fermented tomatoes.
ref: 2015 October 20, Pete Wells, “Restaurant Review: Bruno in the East Village”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Margherita.
rupi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rupis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rupee.
semblable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmbləbəl/
Forms: form: more semblable
form: most semblable
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French [Term?], from Old French sembler (“to be like”) + -able.
Senses: glosses: similar
glosses: apparent
glosses: conformable
Derived terms: semblability
semblance
semblable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmbləbəl/
Forms: form: semblables
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French [Term?], from Old French sembler (“to be like”) + -able.
Senses: examples: text: […] but in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul
of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness
as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his
mirror, and who else would trace him his umbrage,
nothing more.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 115-120:
glosses: something similar; likeness; representation
filmi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi फ़िल्मी (filmī), ultimately from English film.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: filmy song
glosses: Music written especially for Bollywood films.
Derived terms: filmi geet
sweetish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswiːtɪʃ/
homophone: Swedish stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -iːtɪʃ
Forms: form: more sweetish
form: most sweetish
Etymology: From sweet + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: At the church sociables he used to hop around among them, chipping and chirping like a dicky-bird picking up seed; and he was a great hand to play the piano, and sing saddish, sweetish songs to them.
ref: 1903, George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son, page 46:
text: Up half the night, nearly 'til dawn, I can almost see the light in a love that can't go wrong, It's just another sweetish love song.
ref: 2009, Jeffrey Poppy, Jeff, the Roofer, Reflections of a Double Negative Life:
text: Pine Nuts are sweetish in flavor, warming, and lack poison.
ref: 2013, Paul. D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson, Soup For The Qan:
glosses: somewhat sweet (all senses)
superstitiously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more superstitiously
form: most superstitiously
Etymology: From superstitious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a superstitious manner.
superfine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfine
form: most superfine
Etymology: From super- + fine.
Senses: examples: text: The bulk of Mankind have not leisure for Learning and Logick, and superfine distinctions of the Schools.
ref: 1695, [John Locke], The Reasonableness of Christianity, as Delivered in the Scriptures, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchil, […], →OCLC:
synonyms: extrafine
glosses: Extremely subtle or refined; extremely sensitive to slight impressions or perceptions.
examples: text: But this I knovv, ſhould Jupiter agen / Deſcend from heaven, to re-converſe vvith men; / The Romane Language full and ſuperfine, / If Iove vvo'd ſpeake, he vvo'd accept of thine.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “To His Learned Friend, M. Jo[hn] Harmar, Phisitian to the Colledge of Westminster”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], →OCLC, page 357:
text: This place, with regard to superfine visitors, fills slowly and the season is expected not only to be late, but thin, of company, from the many families that are rambling abroad.
ref: 1815, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 498:
text: Ask her if she would exchange her brave husband for one of those superfine niceties, who suing for favor at her feet, had at the same time lined their vows of love and constancy with the yellow dust, which had they known the strong chest to have been at their backs, while in this humble posture, it were uncertain to which might have been made an apology,—the fair lady or her dowry.
ref: 1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:
glosses: Extremely refined or sophisticated; very elegant.
examples: text: Some recipes call for superfine sugar because it dissolves easier.
text: Twelve years ago they made only course ^([sic]) Cloth, but now they weave superfine, and fine Cloth.
ref: 1726, The Political state of Great Britain, page 370:
glosses: Having an especially fine size or texture; made of very small particles or threads.
examples: text: With respect to the matter of the medals, we must observe that, for the generality, they are made of pure gold or silver, without the allay of any other metal. Some indeed are struck on superfine copper.
ref: 1799, The laboratory; or, School of arts, page 225:
text: This set contains 97 pieces of superfine china and 24 pieces of etched Belgian glassware
ref: 1932 August 26, “Combination Dinner Set / Of 121 Pieces for 27.50”, in Calgary Daily Herald:
glosses: Of a very high or pure grade or quality.
glosses: Very good, excellent.
Derived terms: word: super
superstore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superstores
Etymology: From super- + store.
Senses: synonyms: megastore
glosses: An extremely large store; a hypermarket.
glosses: A big box.
Related terms: big-box store
hypermarket
ĕ
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the DRESS vowel
ō
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A dictionary transcription for the GOAT vowel
GIYF
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: giyf
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Google is your friend.
Related terms: JFGI
FGI
STFW
LMGTFY
goose up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gooses up
form: goosing up
form: goosed up
form: goosed up
Senses: glosses: To take steps to make something appear more attractive or compelling.
glosses: To boost or increase something's power (especially an engine).
malted milk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malted milks
Senses: examples: text: The diet was also changed to malted milk — from one-half to one ounce given at a feeding. The careful diet, stomach-washing with doses of one grain of cerium oxalate in one-half drachm of chalk mixture, given hourly, were ineffectual.
ref: 1892, E. B. Treat, Archives of Pediatrics, volume 9, page 88:
text: Malted milk powder is essentially a nutritional supplement, but it has a sweet, toasty milk flavor (think malt balls and malted milkshakes) that makes it a popular partner for chocolate.
ref: 2008, Charity Ferreira, Brittles, Barks, and Bonbons, page 53:
text: Some milkshake recipes included malted milk powder, which would eventually become known as “malteds”. The only difference was the addition of the malted milk which was an early food supplement manufactured by Horlicks.
ref: 2009, Darcy S O′Neil, Fix the Pumps, page 44:
glosses: A powder made by mixing malted barley, flour and milk, the mixture then being dried by evaporation; initially developed as a nutritional supplement, later used as a flavouring.
glosses: A hot beverage made from a mixture of malted barley, flour, and milk.
examples: text: More dispensers fail with malted milk than with any one drink that I know about. There seems to be less knowledge of what a good malted milk should taste like than there is concerning any other drink.
ref: 1918, Irving P. Fox, The Spatula, volume 24, page 146:
text: One of the committee′s many marketing environment studies concerned malted milk consumption. The study revealed that while malted milk was a popular drink among young persons, virtually all of the consumption of the product took place outside the home.
ref: 1979, William F. O'Dell, Andrew C. Ruppel, Robert H. Trent, Marketing Decision Making: Analytic Framework and Cases, page 207:
text: Now that would be worth travelling half way 'round the country to see. Matty and Trev sharing a malted milk together!
ref: 2003 February 25, DAVO, “**Exclusive** Big Brother 3 details”, in aus.tv (Usenet):
text: Another example of this method comes from my youth, when we would go to a soda fountain for a malted milk. The soda clerk′s job was to sell eggs with the malted milk. If he didn′t have the skills, he would shyly say, “You probably don′t want an egg with your malted milk do you?” The answer would be a quick no. If he knew what you know now, he would hold an egg in each hand and say, “Which do you prefer, one egg or two in your malted milk?”
ref: 2009, J. R. Parrish, You Don′t Have to Learn the Hard Way: Making It in the Real World: A Guide for Graduates, page 33:
synonyms: malted
glosses: A milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavour.
Related terms: milk bar
nine ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nine-ball.
brickfielder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickfielders
Etymology: From the location name Brickfield Hill, after the hill in Surry Hills (now in inner Sydney) from the direction of which a hot wind blew into Sydney in its early days. The term spread to Melbourne by circa 1850, and to central Australia by circa 1900, then to Western Australia.
Senses: examples: text: Returning home, he discovers that the house is full of sand ; that the brickfielder has even insinuated itself between the leaves of his books ; that at dinner he will probably find that his favourite dish has been spoiled by the brickfielder.
ref: 1845, J. O. Balfour, A Sketch of New South Wales, page 5:
text: A southerly buster would blow — a Sydney brickfielder;[…].
ref: 1914, Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Harper's Magazine, volume 129, page 508:
text: Then he had to concentrate his efforts on a smooth descent through the swirling gusts of the brickfielder.
ref: 1986, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, volume 106, numbers 1-4, page 60:
text: Hot spells many days in duration, with temperatures daily exceeding 100°F. (38°C), often take place while the brickfielder blows.
ref: 2005, Ajay Kumar Ghosh, Dictionary of Geography, page 45:
glosses: A hot, dry, dusty wind of southern or central Australia.
Darwin stubby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Darwin stubbies
form: Darwin stubbie
Etymology: From Darwin, the Australian city where such bottles have been sold since 1958, + stubby (“small bottle of beer”), intended ironically.
Senses: examples: text: 2003, Our Own Little Kakadu, Janette Turner Hospital, North of Nowhere, South of Loss, page 102,
It was a steamy Sunday night, and Jug, guzzling from a large Darwin stubby of tarblack bitter, was weaving by the chapel′s open door on the esplanade when the Lord shouted at the top of His Almighty lungs: “Jug Wilkins, it is required of you this night to be a juggernaut for God.”
text: The stake now meant the winner got two hundred pounds, and the money was handed over the bar.
I told him, “Wait here while I get the stubbies”
I went out and got a Darwin Stubby out of the truck. When I went back inside I was holding it behind my back, but the ones who saw what I had were having trouble hiding their laughter.
ref: 2007, Leslie P. Richards, Truckin′ Tales, page 31:
text: 2011, "bottle sizes", entry in Tom Colicchio, Charles Bamforth, George Philliskirk, Keith Villa, Wolfgang Stempfl, Patrick Hayes, The Oxford Companion to Beer, page 152,
In the Northern Territory of Australia the “Darwin stubby” is a 2-l beer bottle, originally four Imperial pints (2.27 l), sold to capitalize on the region′s reputation for beer consumption.
glosses: A 2.25 litre bottle of beer, today made principally as a tourist novelty.
Balearic Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An archipelago, autonomous community, and province off the east coast of Spain, formed by the four major islands Mallorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera and several smaller islands.
Synonyms: Balearic Isles
Balearics
Related terms: Balearic
Elbasan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Elbasan, itself likely from Ottoman Turkish ايلبصان.
Senses: glosses: The fourth largest city in Albania, located in the center of the country on the river Shkumbin; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
glosses: A county of Albania.
glosses: A municipality of Albania.
glosses: A mid 18th-century alphabet created for the Albanian language Elbasan Gospel Manuscript.
Gjirokastër
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Gjirokastër, from Greek Αργυρόκαστρον (Argyrókastron, literally “silver castle”), from άργυρος (árgyros, “silver”) and κάστρον (kástron, “castle”) (from Latin castrum (“fort”)).
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Albania, located in the Drino valley east of the mountain of Gjerë; it is the seat of its eponymous county and municipality.
glosses: A county of Albania.
glosses: A municipality of Albania.
Related terms: Gjirokastrit
Gjirokastritas
Gjirokastrite
Gjirokastritase
earth closet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth closets
Senses: synonyms: word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
coordinate_terms: water closet
glosses: An outhouse or lavatory which uses a cesspit rather than a flush toilet and plumbing.
Derived terms: word: EC
Himarë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /hiˈmaɹə/
Forms: form: Himare
Etymology: From the indefinite form of Albanian Himarë.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Himara.
Sarandë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /səˈɹændə/
/səˈɹɑːndə/
Forms: form: Saranda
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Sarandë, from Greek Άγιοι Σαράντα (Ágioi Saránta, “forty saints”), which refers to the ruined Forty Saints Monastery (named after the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste) which overlooked the town.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in extreme southern Albania that is an important tourist attraction due to its coastal access and Mediterranean climate, located at the southern end of the Albanian Riviera on a slope by a gulf of the Ionian Sea 14 km east of the island of Corfu's northern end; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality and municipal unit.
glosses: A municipality in the county of Vlorë, Albania.
glosses: A municipal unit of the municipality of Sarandë in the county of Vlorë, Albania.
Synonyms: english: former name
translation: former name
word: Porto Edda
Related terms: Delvinë
Tepelenë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Tepelenë, which is probably ultimately from Ottoman Turkish تپه دلن (Tepedelen), the name of the city during Ottoman era. Alternatively from Albanian Tepe e Lenës or Illyrian *Antibylyne.
Senses: glosses: A city in southern Albania, located on a plateau on the left bank of the river Vjosa about three kilometres downstream from its confluence with the river Drino; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality and the former seat of its now defunct eponymous district.
glosses: A municipality of the county of Gjirokastër, Albania.
glosses: An administrative unit of the municipality of Tepelenë in the county of Gjirokastër, Albania.
glosses: A now defunct district of Albania.
diverticulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑɪ.vɜːˈtɪ.kjə.ləm/
Forms: form: diverticulums
form: diverticula
form: diverticuli
Etymology: From Latin dīverticulum, alternative form of dēverticulum (“byroad; deviation”), from dēvertō (“turn away, turn aside”).
Senses: examples: text: Diverticula are small, light-bulb-shaped pouches in the bowel wall, resulting from the tissue in the gut bulging outwards under pressure.
ref: 2015, Giulia Enders, translated by David Shaw, Gut, Scribe, published 2016, page 16:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A small out-pouching of an organ wall such as the large intestine or urinary bladder.
Derived terms: diverticular
diverticulectomy
diverticulitis
diverticulogram
diverticulopexy
diverticulosis
Meckel's diverticulum
pancreatic diverticulum
pseudodiverticulum
Zenker's diverticulum
pie floater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pie floaters
Senses: synonyms: floater
glosses: A meat pie served floating in a bowl of thick green pea soup.
party pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: party pies
Senses: glosses: A small meat pie intended as a party snack.
Related terms: party pastie
party pasty
party sausage roll
mommy track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mommy tracks
Senses: glosses: A career path involving working arrangements provided for mothers and prospective mothers, generally more flexible and allowing shorter hours.
Coordinate terms: fast track
cymene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cymenes
Etymology: Probably from Ancient Greek κύμινον (kúminon), the root of cumin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric naturally occurring terpenoid hydrocarbons; a constituent of a number of essential oils, most commonly the oil of cumin and thyme.
Derived terms: cymenol
oxycymene
paracymene
genophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genophores
Etymology: From geno- + -phore. In the bacterial sense, coined by Hans Ris.
Senses: examples: text: This switch from actin-based genophore partition to a tubulin-based mechanism generated a transition period during which both types of cytoskeleton contributed to fidelity of chromosome segregation.
ref: 2007, A. Villasante, J. P. Abad, M. Méndez-Lago, “Centromeres were derived from telomeres during the evolution of the eukaryotic chromosome”, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, →DOI:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The DNA of a prokaryote.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The genetic behavior and correlated DNA fibrils of bacteria.
vesperal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: vesper; evening
vesperal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesperals
Senses: glosses: A book containing details of the chants and rituals associated with vespers.
autotrophic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + -trophic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to the production of organic compounds from carbon dioxide as a carbon source, using either light or reactions of inorganic chemical compounds, as a source of energy.
Derived terms: autotrophically
chemoautotrophic
chemolithoautotrophic
lithoautotrophic
nonautotrophic
organoautotrophic
photoautotrophic
thioautotrophic
Related terms: autotroph
Korean War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Korean War
Senses: glosses: A war fought in the Korean Peninsula from 1950–1953 between the Soviet Union-backed Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the United Nations-backed Republic of Korea.
qualifier: pedantic
glosses: A situation of formal war that is de jure in progress since the 1950s on the Korean Peninsula, that has not had a formal resolution and peace treaty, but only has a longstanding armistice in place.
Derived terms: First Korean War
Second Korean War
mesentery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛs.ən.təɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.ən.tɹi/
ipa: /ˈmɛz.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
ipa: /ˈmɛs.ənˌtɛɹ.i/
Forms: form: mesenteries
Etymology: From Late Latin mesenterium, from Ancient Greek μεσεντέρῐον (mesentérĭon), from μέσος (mésos, “middle”) + ἔντερον (énteron, “gut”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The membrane that attaches the intestines to the wall of the abdomen, maintaining their position in the abdominal cavity, and supplying them with blood vessels, nerves, and lymphatics.
Derived terms: mesenteric
mesenteritis
mesenterectomy
slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slicings
Senses: examples: text: Working on a monumental scale the artist Gordon Matta-Clark, from whose work the gallery takes its name, similarly redefined architecture in the 1970s, using massive slicings and excisions to suggest, among other things, the instability of the concept of property and the ephemerality of what we call real estate.
ref: 2009 April 3, Holland Cotter, “Art in Review”, in New York Times:
glosses: The action of the verb to slice.
Derived terms: salami slicing
slicing cucumber
slow slicing
thin-slicing
time-slicing
top-slicing
slicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slice
gry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪ̯/
Forms: form: gries
form: grying
form: gried
form: gried
Etymology: From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.
Senses: glosses: To have a slight bout or fit of ague (chills or shaking due to cold or fever).
gry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪ̯/
Forms: form: gries
Etymology: From Middle English gryen (“to shudder, shake, or convulse”). Compare grue.
Senses: glosses: A fit of ague.
gry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪ̯/
Forms: form: gries
Senses: glosses: A small amount.
glosses: One hundredth of an inch in the decimal system of measurement devised by John Locke
gry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪ̯/
Forms: form: grys
form: gry.
Etymology: Abbreviation of gray.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of gray or grey (color).
gry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɡɹaɪ̯/
Forms: form: gry.
Etymology: Abbreviation of gray.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of grey or gray (color).
ship's bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The strokes on a ship's bell, every half hour, to mark the passage of time. In each of the day's six watches of four hours, one bell marks the end of the first half hour, eight bells marks the end of the watch.
Unitarian Universalism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A religion which encourages theological liberalism and an individual search for truth and the adherents of which draw on many different theological sources and have a wide range of beliefs and practices.
Synonyms: UUism
Related terms: Unitarian Universalist
UUer
UUist
climacteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌɪmakˈtɛɹɪk/
ipa: /klʌɪˈmaktəɹɪk/
Forms: form: more climacteric
form: most climacteric
Etymology: From Latin clīmactēricus, from Koine Greek κλιμακτηρικός (klimaktērikós, “scale, progression, gradation”), from κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr).
Senses: examples: text: Closely parallel to the belief in unlucky days was the notion of climacteric years, those periodic dates in a man's life which were potential turning-points in his health and fortune.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 596:
text: Asari pass through three climacteric life stages, marked by biochemical and physiological changes. The Maiden stage begins at birth and is marked by the drive to explore and experience. Most young asari are curious and restless. The Matron stage of life begins around the age of 350, though it can be triggered earlier if the individual melds frequently. This period is marked by a desire to settle in one area and raise children. The Matriarch stage begins around 700, or earlier if the individual melds rarely. Matriarchs become active in their community as sages and councilors, dispensing wisdom from centuries of experience.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Asari: Biology Codex entry:
glosses: Pertaining to any of several supposedly critical years of a person's life.
examples: text: The seeds of a climateric insurrection against the hypocrisy of cultural norms.
ref: 1991 May 4, Mary Dowd, “Risky Business”, in Gay Community News, page 7:
glosses: Critical or crucial; decisive.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to a period of physiological change during middle age; especially, menopausal.
glosses: Climactic.
Derived terms: nonclimacteric
postclimacteric
preclimacteric
climacteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌɪmakˈtɛɹɪk/
ipa: /klʌɪˈmaktəɹɪk/
Forms: form: climacterics
Etymology: From Latin clīmactēricus, from Koine Greek κλιμακτηρικός (klimaktērikós, “scale, progression, gradation”), from κλιμακτήρ (klimaktḗr).
Senses: examples: text: It is your lot, as it was mine, to live during one of the grand climacterics of the world.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
text: Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since, p. 66-67.
[H]e was in his grand climacterick, with a florid brow, and a step like youthful agility. Sigourney, Lydia.
text: I should hardly yield my rigid fibers to be regenerated by them; nor begin, in my grand climacteric, to squall in their new accents, or to stammer, in my second cradle, the elemental sounds of their barbarous metaphysics.
ref: 1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A critical stage or decisive point; a turning point.
glosses: A period in human life in which some great change is supposed to take place, calculated in different ways by different authorities (often identified as every seventh or ninth year).
examples: text: Once women have traversed the turmoil of the climacteric years and reached the hormonal steady-state of the post-menopause, there is almost certainly no increase in the incidence of depression.
ref: 1998, Roger N J Smith, John W. W. Studd, The Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, page 8:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The period of life that leads up to and follows the end of menstruation in women; the menopause.
Derived terms: grand climacteric
great climacteric
Related terms: menopausal
companionate marriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: companionate marriages
Senses: glosses: A marriage in which the partners decide not to have children, and to reserve the right to divorce amicably with mutual consent.
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
qualifier: social history
glosses: A conception of marriage where complicity, communication and support between spouses are considered important, rather than purely material questions of inheritance etc.
companionate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more companionate
form: most companionate
Etymology: From companion + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Designating a proposed type of marriage (or other partnership) in which the partners plan to have no children and take on no legal obligations to one another.
glosses: Friendly, companionable.
examples: text: Gradually it evolved from an economic enterprise to a companionate one—a free-choice engagement between two individuals, based not on duty and obligation but on love and affection.
ref: 2017, Esther Perel, The State of Affairs:
glosses: Pertaining to a (chiefly romantic) relationship that emphasises companionship and mutual respect.
Derived terms: companionate marriage
stultifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stultify
stultifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stultifying
form: most stultifying
Senses: examples: text: Was it just me or did you find everyone in high school stultifying?
ref: 2016, 35:54 from the start, in Carrie Pilby, spoken by Carrie Pilby (Bel Powley):
text: Indeed, the government’s stultifying response betrays an attitude reminiscent of the old mission vicar: only we know what’s really good for them (see Scullion above).
ref: 2017 October 27, Paul Daley, “The whole recognition process has a deep colonial resonance”, in The Guardian:
text: The Judge was from an era when a person could get away with being larger than life — unlike the present day, when so much of our stultifying public discourse has come to be about joining in unearned moral superiority to look down our noses.
ref: 2021 July 14, Stephen L. Carter, “What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: useless
ineffective
glosses: Tending to stultify.
Derived terms: self-stultifying
Markov jump process
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Markov jump processes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A time-dependent variable that starts in an initial state and stays in that state for a random time, when it makes a transition to another random state, and so on.
undulant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʌnd͡ʒʊlənt/
Forms: form: more undulant
form: most undulant
Senses: glosses: Having the characteristics of a wave; wavelike
Derived terms: undulant fever
Related terms: undulate
undulant fever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: brucellosis
insinuations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of insinuation
chilblains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chilblain
examples: text: Though I had desired so much to see London, when I arrived in it I was unfortunately unable to gratify my curiosity; for I had at this time the chilblains to such a degree that I could not stand for several months, and I was obliged to be sent to St. George's Hospital.
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano:
glosses: The condition of having chilblains.
multivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multivalent
form: most multivalent
Etymology: From multi- + -valent.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having more than one valency or having a valency greater than 3; polyvalent.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis.
topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Having more than one attachment site for an antibody or antigen.
examples: text: This procedure can be justified by considering the difficult word or compound as a separate part of a sentence of which the (verbal) adjective is the multivalent predicate, i.e. able to bind more than one part of speech.
ref: 1993, Vienna Journal of South Asian Studies - Volume 37, page 83:
text: In general terms, each of the causative suffixes derives a multivalent verb having the meaning 'to cause/make to V', where V is a variable standing for the verbal action of the base.
ref: 2016, Chris Rogers, The Use and Development of the Xinkan Languages, →ISBN, page 125:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Able to bind to different parts of speech.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Having many kinds of value.
glosses: Having many meanings.
Derived terms: multivalently
Related terms: multivalence
multivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multivalents
Etymology: From multi- + -valent.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any multivalent chromosome.
made man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: made men
Senses: examples: text: I had no money, but if I could only find workable country, I might stock it with borrowed capital, and consider myself a made man.
ref: 1872, Samuel Butler, chapter 1, in Erewhon […] , London: Trübner & Co., →OCLC:
text: What with the shock of him going in this awful rash way, and thinking myself a made man by that chance, I was nearly off my chump for a week.
ref: 1899 September – 1900 July, Joseph Conrad, chapter VI, in Lord Jim: A Tale, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1900, →OCLC:
glosses: A man whose fortune has been made.
glosses: A person who has been through an induction ceremony into the Mafia or similar organisation.
Related terms: friend of ours
have it made
missalette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missalettes
Etymology: From missal + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small missal, especially one published periodically.
missal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsəl/
homophone: missile
Forms: form: missals
Etymology: From Old French messel (“book of the Mass”).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prayer book; a church service (book).
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prayer book; a church service (book).
A book containing the prayers and responses needed when celebrating the Roman Catholic Mass throughout the year.
Derived terms: missalette
overling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overlings
Etymology: From over + -ling on analogy with underling, or as a revived or dialectal term from Middle English overling (“a superior”), equivalent to over + -ling.
Senses: examples: text: But the idle-minded overlings who quibbled while they died, …
ref: 1917, Rudyard Kipling, Mesopotamia (poem)
text: Reflex laughs from the underlings present, though only grim smiles from the overlings.
ref: 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
glosses: A superior.
glosses: A ruler; master.
hustle alarm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hustle alarms
Senses: glosses: An audible warning, on some trains, that the automatic doors are about to close.
blanket stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanket stitches
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A strong stitch, similar to a buttonhole stitch, used to finish and reinforce the edges of blankets etc.
glosses: A similar, more decorative stitch.
Related terms: blanket-stitch
running stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: running stitches
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
sewing
textiles
glosses: A simple embroidery stitch in which the needle is passed in and out of the fabric in a series of even stitches in a straight row.
CAG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CAGs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
politics
transport
war
glosses: Initialism of commander of the air group.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of compound annual growth.
glosses: Initialism of Comptroller and Auditor General.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of coronary artery graft.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The nucleobase coding triplet cytosine (C), adenine (A), guanine (G).
glosses: The Church of Almighty God
binitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From binitarian + -ism.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: The belief, particularly among some Christian churches (also called cults, denominations, or sects) that God is two personae (persons), two individuals, or two aspects in one Godhead (or God), these being God the Father and God the Son (Jesus Christ).
Related terms: binitarian
bitheism
deism
ditheism
duotheism
henotheism
monotheism
polytheism
quadrinitarianism
septarianism
septenarianism
theism
trinitarianism
tritheism
triunitarianism
unitarianism
trinitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trinitarianisms
form: Trinitarianism
Etymology: From trinitarian + -ism.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
synonyms: triunitarianism
Triunitarianism
tri-unitarianism
Tri-unitarianism
Tri-Unitarianism
glosses: The monotheistic Christian doctrine that defines God as three divine persons or hypostases: the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit.
Related terms: antitrinitarianism
nontrinitarianism
trinitarian
Trinitarian
Trinity
trinity
Tri-Unitarian
Tri-unitarian
tri-unitarian
Triunitarian
triunitarian
tri-unity
Triunity
triunity
Tri-unity
Tri-Unity
binitarianism
Binitarianism
monotheism
Monotheism
quadrinitarianism
Quadrinitarianism
Septarianism
septarianism
septenarianism
Septenarianism
Theism
theism
unitarianism
Unitarianism
unitarianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unitarianisms
Etymology: From unitarian + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Some New England congregations embraced Unitarianism (the belief in a unitary God as opposed to a holy trinity), and some of those moved on to Unitarian Universalism[.]
ref: 2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 15, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN:
glosses: The belief in a single God, not divided into any aspects, particularly when presented as a contrast to Christian trinitarianism.
Derived terms: unitarian
unitarianistic
unitarianistical
unitarianistically
unitarians
Related terms: binitarianism
monotheism
polytheism
trinitarianism
triunitarianism
kinhin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kinˈhin/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: 經行; Japanese: kinhin or kyōgyō, Chinese: jingxing
Senses: glosses: In Zen practice, the walking meditation practiced between zazen sessions.
blanket-stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blanket-stitches
form: blanket-stitching
form: blanket-stitched
form: blanket-stitched
Senses: glosses: To sew (something) using a blanket stitch
horse blankets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horse blanket
horse blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horse blankets
Senses: examples: text: They used to take a big horse-blanket and sit on the grass a little to the left of the lower end, where there is a dip in the ground, and where the occupied graves stop short and the ready-made ones are not ready.
ref: 1889, Rudyard Kipling, “At the Pit's Mouth”, in Under the Deodars, Boston: The Greenock Press, published 1899, page 52:
glosses: A blanket placed underneath the saddle of a horse.
glosses: A blanket worn by a horse (saddled or unsaddled) in cold weather.
examples: text: And then he had those great big, what they used to call "horse blankets." You know those bills? Yeah, that's what the young man gave him.
ref: 1986, William Schneider, Moses Cruikshank, The Life I've Been Living:
text: Right now, I am teaching my daughter about "horse blankets" and that "money used to be this big". Who knows? Maybe she will tell her kids how she can remember when dollars didn't have holes for the blind...
ref: 2006: BooBooBillQueen, Treasury ordered to make bills recognizable to blind people on Collectors Universe Forums http://forums.collectors.com/messageview.cfm?catid=23&threadid=553831&STARTPAGE=1
text: https://web.archive.org/web/20070409012812/http://www.brokencc.com/buyfaq1.php
Typically your small size (the same physical size as regular money, as opposed to the old horse blankets) silver certificate is worth about 5% more than face.
glosses: currency in the 1800s consisting of large size notes/bills.
rubbishy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rubbishier
form: rubbishiest
Etymology: From rubbish + -y.
Senses: glosses: Strewn with litter.
examples: text: We pointed out last April, for instance, that Mr. [Alfred Russel] Wallace pronounced the most wonderful panegyric on the eloquent spiritual teachings of “mediums” of whose utterly stilted and unmeaning verbiage we gave our readers some specimens, and we could not help doubting the calmness of a judgment which was evidently so intoxicated with the class of marvels with which it had been dealing, that it could seriously see beauty and power in tall talk of the rubbishiest, the most vulgar, and the most ungrammatical description.
ref: 1875 January 16, “‘Levitation’”, in The Spectator. […], volume XLVIII, number 2429, London: John Campbell, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 76, columns 1–2:
text: “Every little bit helps,” the queen whispers, recalling the mantra of the original settlers. A whole life lived in a hole in the ground. Rubbish. Sacrifice for future generations. Rubbish. The Orthocracy? Rubbish. The CorpComs? Rubbishier rubbish. She is going to ehange all of that. A little more time. A few more raids.
ref: 2010, David Macinnis Gill, chapter 4, in Black Hole Sun, New York, N.Y.: Greenwillow Books, →ISBN, pages 31–32:
glosses: Of little or no value; worthless.
rubdown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rubdowns
Etymology: Deverbal from rub down.
Senses: glosses: A quick, energetic massage.
topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: Synonym of dry transfer.
synonyms: word: dry transfer
ruffly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌf.əl.i/
Forms: form: rufflier
form: ruffliest
Etymology: From ruffle + -y.
Senses: glosses: Having many ruffles.
Related terms: ruffle
ruffled
ruggedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ruggedly
form: most ruggedly
Etymology: From Middle English ruggedli, ruggidly, equivalent to rugged + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a rugged manner.
ruggedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruggednesses
Etymology: From rugged + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being rugged, or degree to which something is rugged.
examples: text: The surface of which […] could not nevertheless hide a multitude of holes and scratches and ruggednesses from being discover'd by the Microscope to invest it […].
ref: 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section I:
glosses: A rugged or irregular feature.
Derived terms: ruggedness number
rumply
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: rumplier
form: more rumply
form: rumpliest
form: most rumply
Etymology: From rumple + -y.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: crumply, crumpled
glosses: Rumpled.
runabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: runabouts
Etymology: Deverbal from run about.
Senses: examples: text: The door being open, Stranleigh walked in unannounced. A two-seated runabout[…]stood by the window, where it could be viewed by passers-by. Further down the room rested a chassis, […]
ref: 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 2, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
glosses: Any of several small vehicles, especially a small motor car for use on short journeys.
glosses: A motor car having a single row of seats.
glosses: A light, open, American horse-drawn vehicle with four large wheels.
glosses: A gadabout or vagabond.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A small, relatively maneuverable spacecraft or shuttlecraft.
Related terms: run-around
runaround
tourabout