cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
dartos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑɹˌtɑs/
ipa: /ˈdɑɹ.təs/
Forms: form: dartos fascia
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δαρτός (dartós, “flayed”), from δέρω (dérō, “to skin, to flay”) + -τός (-tós, adjectival suffix).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A thin layer of vascular contractile tissue that contains smooth muscle fibers but no fat and is situated directly beneath the skin of the scrotum or beneath that of the labia majora.
Derived terms: dartoic
dartoid
dartos muliebris
legals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legal
antapices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antapex
wakenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: waken + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of waken
sulphostannic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance forming a well-known series of salts.
scribblement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scribblements
Etymology: From scribble + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: I am tired of this endless scribblement. Adieu!
Yours, W. C.
ref: 1784 October 20, William Cowper, a letter to the Rev. William Unwin:
glosses: A scribble; bad or hasty writing.
scribblements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scribblement
mezzo-rilievo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezzo-rilievos
Etymology: Italian mezzorilievo
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: half-relief; a middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief
topics: art
arts
glosses: sculpture in this kind of relief
Related terms: alto-rilievo
mezzo-rilievos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezzo-rilievo
sulpharsenious acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hypothetical sulphacid analogous to arsenious acid, and known only in its salts.
Synonyms: thioarsenious acid
molluscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more molluscoid
form: most molluscoid
Etymology: From Mollusca + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: belonging to the former phylum Molluscoidea, which somewhat resembled mollusks.
molluscoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molluscoids
Etymology: From Mollusca + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the Molluscoidea.
molluscoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of molluscoid
siderated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more siderated
form: most siderated
Etymology: From Latin sideratus, past participle of siderari (“to be blasted by a constellation”), from sidus, sideris (“a constellation”).
Senses: glosses: planet-struck; blasted.
siderated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Latin sideratus, past participle of siderari (“to be blasted by a constellation”), from sidus, sideris (“a constellation”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of siderate
bouts-rimés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbuː ɹiːˈmeɪ/
Etymology: French bout (“end”) + rimé (“rhymed”).
Senses: glosses: A game in which someone is given rhyming words as the ends of verses of a poem, which need to be filled out.
semined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmɪnd/
Etymology: As if from a verb *semine, ultimately from Latin sēminō (“I plant, sow”), from sēmen (“seed”, whence English semen) + -ō. Doublet of semé and seminate.
Senses: examples: text: Her garments blue, and semined with stars.
ref: 1606, Ben Jonson, Hymenaei:
text: To receiue this Duke for the Dutchie of Guyen, and Earledome of Ponthieu, Philip de Valoys sate crowned in violet veluet, semined with golden lillies […]
ref: 1623, John Speed, The Historie of Great Britaine under the Conquests of the Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans, 2nd edition, London, page 695:
text: Next to her sitteth a person representing Peace; a Lady all in White, semined with Stars […]
ref: 1672, Thomas Jordan, London triumphant: Or, the City in Jollity and Splendour, London, page 6:
text: He [Aldous Huxley], too, has a passion for […] immense erudition, immense fancy, incessant wit, and a verbal surface richly semined (to borrow his method) with oddities that smell of camphor.
ref: 1925, Conrad Aiken, “[Review] Aldous Huxley: Those Barren Leaves”, in The Criterion, volume 3, number 11, quoted in Aldous Huxley: The Critical Heritage, edited by Donald Watt, London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, page 126:
qualifier: largely obsolete
glosses: Thickly covered or sown, as if with seeds.
penicil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: penicils
Etymology: From Latin penicillum, penicillus (“a painter's brush, a roll of lint, a tent for wounds”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
glosses: A brush made from hair.
penicils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penicil
penicilliums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penicillium
penillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penillion
pangulu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pangulus
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pengulu.
pangulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pangulu
pleochromatism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: pleochroism
pleochroisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleochroism
propylaea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propylaeum
glosses: plural of propylaeon
propylaeums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propylaeum
physostomous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See English physostome.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a duct to the air bladder.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Relating to the former grouping of fish Physostomi.
Related terms: physostome
pallah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pallahs
Senses: glosses: the impala
Synonyms: roodebok
pallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pallah
roodebok
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roodeboks
Senses: glosses: A South African antelope, the pallah.
roodeboks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roodebok
heavenhood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heaven + -hood.
Senses: glosses: Heavenly quality or character; fitness for heaven; sanctification.
glosses: Heavenliness.
heavenish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heavenish
form: most heavenish
Etymology: From Middle English hevenish, from Old English heofonisċ (“heavenly”), equivalent to heaven + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or characteristic of the sidereal heavens.
Derived terms: heavenishly
bonyad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonyads
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian بنیاد (bonyâd, “foundation”).
Senses: glosses: A kind of charitable trust in Iran.
bonyads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonyad
petaurist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petaurists
Etymology: From Latin petaurista (“a ropedancer, acrobat”), from Ancient Greek πετευριστής (peteuristḗs), from πετευρίζομαι (peteurízomai, “dance on a rope”), from πέτευρον (péteuron, “a pole, a stage for ropedancers”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: flying phalanger
glosses: Any flying marsupial of the order Phalangeriformes, such as those in genera Petaurista, Phalanger, Acrobates.
Related terms: flying squirrel
Phalangeriformes
petaurists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petaurist
sapajou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sapajous
Etymology: Borrowed from French sapajou, borrowed from Old Tupi sapaîu.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of South American monkeys of the genus Cebus, with long prehensile tails.
Related terms: sajou
sapajous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sapajou
arreption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin arripere, arreptum (“to seize, snatch”), from ad + rapere (“to snatch”). See rapacious.
Senses: examples: text: This arreption was sudden.
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: The act of taking away; removal
Related terms: arreptitious
inmove
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inmoves
form: inmoving
form: inmoved
form: inmoved
Etymology: From in- + move.
Senses: glosses: To move inwardly, or in the mind; to affect with emotion.
innew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: innews
form: innewing
form: innewed
form: innewed
Etymology: From in- + new.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ennew.
phalangid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phalangids
Senses: topics: arachnology
biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any harvestman of the order Opiliones (syn. Phalangida) or its constituents.
phalangids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phalangid
cannabin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cannabis + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The resin extracted from hemp (Cannabis sativa, variety Indica), responsible for the narcotic effects of hashish.
Hebreish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Hebreish
form: most Hebreish
form: hebreish
Etymology: From Middle English Hebreisch, from Old English Hebrēisc, Ebrēisc (“Hebrew”), equivalent to Hebrew + -ish. Cognate with Middle High German Hebrēisch (“Hebrew”).
Senses: glosses: Hebrew.
salutiferously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more salutiferously
form: most salutiferously
Etymology: From salutiferous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a salutiferous or healthy manner.
inneth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English inneth, from Old English inneþ, innaþ, innoþ (“the inner part of the body, inside; entrails, stomach, womb, belly; the intestines, bowels, gut; breast, heart; seat of appetite”), cognate with Old Saxon innethron (“bowels, gut”), Old High German innodi (“belly, bowels”), Old High German innodili (“bowels”).
Senses: glosses: The interior of the body; the inside; womb.
squiry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squyry
Etymology: From Middle English squierie, that from Old French escuierie, esquierie. See also squire.
Senses: examples: text: It was nedefull for them within to make good defence, for against them was the floure of chyvalry and squyry.
ref: 1525, Jean Froissart, translated by John Bourchier, Lord Berners, Les Chroniques de Froissart [The Chronicle of Froissart], volume 5, published 1902, page 409:
english: The Chronicle of Froissart
translation: The Chronicle of Froissart
text: The squiry, too, that mass of base loggerheads, joined in the resolution to support the fraud with all their might.
ref: 1819 April 10, William Cobbett, “To the Governor and Company of the Bank of England”, in Cobbett's Weekly Political Register, volume 34, number 29, page 909:
text: Squire: A species of animal belonging to the aldermanic genus. Authors are not exactly agreed what constitutes the generic difference betwixt squireens (the Irish abbreviation for squire), and the next inferior order of bipeds. The Liverpool squiry are distinguished from the mobility of the town by the former selling a hundred weight and the latter a pound weight of tobacco.
ref: 1821, John Wade, A Political Dictionary, page 105:
glosses: The body of squires, collectively; squirarchy.
supinators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supinator
myogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myograms
Etymology: From myo- + -gram.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A graphical depiction of a contracting muscle, made using a myograph.
Derived terms: electromyogram
mechanomyogram
phonomyogram
vibromyogram
myograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myogram
myoglobinuric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From myoglobinuria + -ic.
Senses: examples: myoglobinuric renal failure
glosses: Relating to myoglobinuria.
myoglobulins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myoglobulin
corporified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of corporify
corporifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of corporify
corporify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: corporifies
form: corporifying
form: corporified
form: corporified
Etymology: From Latin corpus (“body”) + -fy. Compare French corporifier.
Senses: examples: text: The Water I us’d to nourish this Plant was not shifted nor renewed; and I chose Spring-water rather than Rain-water, because the latter is more discernably a kinde of πανσπερμια, which, though it be granted to be freed from grosser Mixtures, seems yet to Contain in it, besides the Steams of several Bodies wandering in the Air, which may be suppos’d to impregnate it, a certain Spirituous Substance, which may be Extracted out of it, and is by some mistaken for the Spirit of the World Corporify’d, upon what Grounds, and with what Probability, I may elsewhere perchance, but must not now, Discourse to you.
ref: 1661, Robert Boyle, The Sceptical Chymist:
text: During its first week of life the human blastula creases and double-folds into a pudgy caterpillar; its main sectors are a bent, protruding head lump; a meager body-stalk bearing, like a pregnant lizard, a pericardial bulge; and a thick umbilical trunk corporifying from the underbelly of its curled-in hind.
ref: 2000, Richard Grossinger, Embryogenesis: Species, Gender, and Identity, page 591:
text: Clearly Lacan's theory is a radically new idea, proposing that speech (or writing) carry desire or the weight of the real that corporifies language for jouissance effects.
ref: 2015, Ellie Ragland, Jacques Lacan and the Logic of Structure: Topology and Language in Psychoanalysis:
glosses: To form into a body.
corporifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of corporify
be-all
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: be-alls
Senses: examples: text: That but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all!
ref: a. 1606, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 1, scene 7, lines 4–5:
text: Bowen also spoke of […] teaching her daughter to rely not just on a mother, but on a community. "No one person should try to be the be-all to another person. We must surround our children with people they can count on."
ref: 1988 February 14, Louise Rice, quoting Angela Bowen, “Confronting The Mythology Of Motherhood”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 30, page 11:
text: […] to be happy with their lot in life, content with things as they are, things that may once have been be-alls and absolute end-alls but that lost their intoxication after five years, put them on automatic pilot after ten and became a prison after fifteen.
ref: 2007, Kirbyjon H. Caldwell, Be In It to Win It:
glosses: The whole; all that is to be.
Derived terms: be-all and end-all
end-all and be-all
ISHYGDDT
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of I seriously hope you guys don't do this: indicating disapproval of some habit previously mentioned.
rearly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rearly
form: most rearly
Senses: examples: text: Broth: I'll bring it to-morrow. / Daugh: Do, very rearly; I must be abroad else, / To call the maids, and pay the minstrels
ref: 1613–1614, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, “The Two Noble Kinsmen”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: early
circocele
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circoceles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cirsocele.
circoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circocele
Hebrewdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hebrew + -dom.
Senses: glosses: The Hebreish community.
glosses: The spirit or quality of the Hebrew people.
-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: text: Belgium, with Chelsea-bound Eden Hazard and a host of Premier League talent in their line-up, dominated territory for long spells but once again England demonstrated admirable resolve to ensure they leave for their Krakow base this week with another win to accompany them.
ref: 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Moving or travelling towards.
glosses: Confined or restricted to a certain place; unable to move in certain conditions; -ridden
bishop's-wort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bishopwort
Senses: glosses: Betony (Stachys officinalis or Betonica officinalis, syn. Stachys betonica)
glosses: Devil-in-the-bush or fennel flower (Nigella damascena)
Synonyms: sense: Stachys officinalis
word: purple betony
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: bishopwort
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: wild hop
sense: Stachys officinalis
word: common hedgenettle
lightmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightmeters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of light meter.
lightmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightmeter
chinse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /tʃɪns/
Forms: form: chinses
form: chinsing
form: chinsed
form: chinsed
form: chintze
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To thrust oakum into (seams or chinks) with a chisel, the point of a knife, or a chinsing iron; to calk slightly.
chinsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chinse
chinses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of chinse
chinsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chinse
bead proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it, and later by more accurate meters.
glosses: A degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as shown by beads or small bubbles remaining on its surface, or at the side of the glass, when shaken.
lithotrities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lithotrity
lithotrity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotrities
Etymology: From litho- + Latin terere, tritum (“to rub, grind”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: lithotripsy
Derived terms: lithotritize
Related terms: lithotrite
superinjection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superinjections
Etymology: From super- + injection.
Senses: examples: text: […] by the introduction into test sites of histamine with the production of a wealing reaction or the superinjection of saline into the test site.
ref: 2012, G. Dick, Immunological Aspects of Infectious Diseases:
glosses: An injection succeeding another.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A condition in which the injected carrier concentration in a heterojunction exceeds the carrier concentration of the emitter
Related terms: superinject
superinjected
superinjections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superinjection
clarichord
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clarichords
Etymology: From Latin clarus (“clear”) + chorda (“string”). See chord.
Senses: glosses: An old musical instrument similar to a spinet, manichord or clavichord.
clarichords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarichord
culverkey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkʌlvə(ɹ)ki/
Forms: form: culverkeys
Etymology: From culver + key?
Senses: examples: text: a girl cropping culverkeys and cowslips, all to make garlands
ref: 1653, Iz[aak] Wa[lton], The Compleat Angler or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation. Being a Discourse of Fish and Fishing, […], London: […] T. Maxey for Rich[ard] Marriot, […], →OCLC; reprinted as The Compleat Angler (Homo Ludens; 6), Nieuwkoop, South Holland, Netherlands: Miland Publishers, 1969, →ISBN:
glosses: An English meadow plant, perhaps the columbine or the bluebell squill (Hyacinthoides non-scripta).
culverkeys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culverkey
areometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of areometer
ectental
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛntəl
Etymology: From ecto- + endo- + -al.
Senses: examples: text: the ectental line, or line of juncture of the two layers in the segmentation of the ovum
text: It is essential to notice that the blastodermic rim (ectental line) divides into two portions
ref: 1897, Charles Sedgwick Minot, Human Embryology:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Relating to, or connected with, the two primitive germ layers, the ectoderm and endoderm.
ectocervices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectocervix
ectocarpoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ectocarpoid
tetel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetels
Senses: glosses: A large African antelope (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora) with widely divergent, strongly ringed horns.
Synonyms: Tora hartebeest
tetels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetel
martel de fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martels de fer
Etymology: Old French, hammer of iron.
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the sword and spear , the warrior occasionally wielded the martel-de-fer , a weapon combining a hammer and pick , and which did great execution among the armed knights , in breaking or dragging off the rings of the hauberk
ref: 1846, Frederick William Fairholt, Costume in England: History:
glosses: A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed, used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armour.
martels de fer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of martel de fer
chebec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chebecs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of xebec.
chebec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛk
Forms: form: chebecs
Etymology: Imitative of its call.
Senses: glosses: A small American bird (Empidonax minimus); the least flycatcher.
chebecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chebec
Boyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Bóinn.
Senses: glosses: A river in County Kildare, County Offaly, County Meath and County Louth, Ireland.
Boyne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Boynes
Etymology: Perhaps a modern form of Irish Mac Baoithin (“son of Baoithin”), a nickname from baoth (“foolish”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
acceleration of gravity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The acceleration of freely falling bodies under the influence of terrestrial gravity; 980.665 cm/sec², denoted g.
acceleration principle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A theory in economics that states that an increase or decrease in income induces a corresponding but magnified change in investment.
Dodder
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Ireland, a tributary of the Liffey.
wobble board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wobble boards
Senses: hypernyms: balance board
glosses: An item of exercising equipment which challenges the sportsman to balance his weight on it as it could tilt in any direction.
glosses: A musical instrument consisting of a flat board which is held in the hands and shaken so that the board flexes in order to produce a rhythmic "whoop-whoop" noise.
Miura
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Miuras
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 三浦 (Miura).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Japanese.
accent mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: accent marks
Senses: examples: text: Written Spanish uses acute accent marks very precisely, to show where the stress falls whenever it does not follow the default patterns; this practice is part of the highly phonemic nature of Spanish orthography.
text: The name of the French painter Paul Cézanne is written with an acute accent mark.
text: The Italian word è (which means "is") is written with a grave accent mark.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: diacritic#Noun
diacritical mark
qualifier: strictly
glosses: A diacritical mark or character used in writing to indicate the place of stress (spoken accent), or to indicate the nature or quality of the vowel marked (such as long vowel versus short vowel).
examples: text: Student: Why does the word Čech have an accent mark on it?
Teacher: That mark is called a háček or caron. It tells the reader that the letter sounds like [ch] as in "church", not like [k] as in "carrot" or [s] as in "celery".
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: diacritic#Noun
diacritical mark
glosses: Any diacritical mark.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark used to represent specific stress on a note.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A mark placed after a letter designating a note of music to indicate the octave in which it occurs.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A prime symbol.
accent marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accent mark
acceptingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From accepting + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The ability or desire to accept.
community languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community language
snap cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap caps
Senses: examples: text: 1187. B. Lilly. Improvements in the construction of "snap caps" or "nipple protectors" for firearms. Dated May 12, 1863.
ref: 1863 December 18, The Mechanics' Magazine, page 889:
text: Snap caps are dummies (no powder, no primer, no projectile) shaped like the ammunition for a particular gun. They're supposed to provide something for the firing pin to hit during dryfiring, so the gun's lockwork doesn't have to absorb this impact. It's a fine idea, but not all snap caps are made right.
ref: 2012, Silvio Calabi, The Gun Book for Boys:
text: However, it does no harm (and may prevent damage) to use snap caps - dummy rounds which are inserted into the chamber to soften the impact of the firing pin.
ref: 2014, MAssad Ayoob, Gun Safety in the Home, page 124:
topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A dummy round of ammunition used to check ammo feed and other mechanical problems.
examples: text: Development of the snap cap for Bufferin pinpoints the Bristol-Myers Products approach to these problems.
ref: 1966, Package Engineering, volume 11, page 66:
text: After centrifugation, the top dense band (out of three formed following ultracentrifugation) contained the purified oocysts, which were removed using a pipette and placed in 15 mL polypropylene snap cap tubes.
ref: 1997, Gordon R. Finch, Effect of Various Disinfection Methods on the Inactivation of Cryptosporidium, page 10:
text: The shampoo bottle closures included a screw cap closure considered to be the most vulnerable during use, a flip or snap cap with a circular orifice considered to offer the greatest degree of protection, and a flip cap with a slit orifice whose protective abilities were unknown at the time.
ref: 2011, Nava Dayan, Formulating, Packaging, and Marketing of Natural Cosmetic Products:
glosses: A cap or cover that snaps into place.
somewhereness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From somewhere + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: For politics is defined by its somewhereness, its concrete historicity in the real world of human beings.
ref: 1984, Benjamin R. Barber, Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: The state or quality of being in, occurring in, or belonging to a specific place.
examples: text: […] Mary Merris had found it good to shed tears in this little, funny old room, wherein an old man who had looked on life had brought into being a beautiful faith in the essential somewhereness of God.
ref: 1928, Warwick Deeping, Old Pybus, Alfred A. Knopf, published 1928, page 230:
glosses: The state or quality of existing in a place that is unknown or cannot be pinpointed.
examples: text: Comparing them is an ideal lesson in California wine somewhereness.
ref: 2004, Matt Kramer, New California Wine: Making Sense of Napa Valley, Sonoma, Central Coast, and Beyond, Running Press, →ISBN, page 334:
glosses: The unique characteristics imparted on a wine by the conditions of the place in which it was grown.
Synonyms: topics: wine
oenology
beverages
food
lifestyle
word: terroir
hemovore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːməvɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: hemovores
form: haemovore
Etymology: From hemo- + -vore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An organism that ingests blood as the main part of its diet; examples of hemovores include leeches, fleas, ticks, mosquitos, vampire bats, and the vampire ground finch.
Synonyms: vampire
Related terms: haematophagy
hematology
hematophagia
hematophagy
hemoglobin
hemotoxin
carnivore
folivore
frugivore
herbivore
entomophagy
insectivore
omnivore
Gewürztraminers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gewürztraminer
terroirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terroirists
Etymology: From terroir + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: This should be a caveat to those inveterate terroirists who are inclined to disparage the ripe, fruity, floral and cereal aromas of very young California Chardonnay, […]
ref: 1998, The Wine Spectator, volume 22, page 34:
glosses: A person who believes in the usage of the terroir, especially one whose production or selection of wine is influenced by this concept.
terroirists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of terroirist
science park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: science parks
Senses: glosses: An area with a collection of buildings dedicated to scientific research on a business footing.
Related terms: business park
industrial park
industrial park
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: industrial parks
Senses: examples: text: 2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china
Pacing off on average 25 kilometers a day, month after month, we two-stepped around roaring superhighways, under bullet-train bridges, through megacities of 22 million that took a week to traverse, as well as past dams, mines, airports, and industrial parks—a buzzing tableau you’d expect from China’s reputation as the “factory of the world.”
synonyms: industrial estate
glosses: An area zoned and planned for the purpose of industrial development.
Related terms: business park
science park
swim lane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swim lanes
form: swimlane
Senses: glosses: A lengthwise division of a swimming pool or other swimming arena.
glosses: A horizontal or vertical division of a process flow chart, typically used to visually separate the tasks of different actors.
swimlane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swimlanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of swim lane.
mullard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mullards
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mulard.
radiocassette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiocassettes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of radio cassette.
acra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀ̆κρᾰ (ăkră), probably back-formed from German Akren as this is more easily encountered and even the English is most likely found in books written by Germans.
Senses: examples: text: The principal differential diagnostic considerations in the case of nevi situated at the acra are atypical nevus and melanoma and, occasionally Spitz nevus/tumor.
ref: 2004 August 1, Raymond L. Barnhill, Michael Piepkorn, Klaus J. Busam, Pathology of Melanocytic Nevi and Malignant Melanoma, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 89:
text: The surface area to volume ratio requires that the surface temperature in the nearly cylinder-shaped body parts should be lower the smaller their radius is. Consequently skin temperatures drop toward the ends of the extremities. A quicker cooling of the acra compared to head or trunk also occurs.
ref: 2014 July 29, Sandra Ückert, Cold Application in Training & Competition: The Influence of Temperature on Your Athletic Performance, Meyer & Meyer Verlag, →ISBN, page 52:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The vascular areas of the body most removed from the heart.
Related terms: acral
radionavigation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌəʊnævɪɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈɹeɪdiˌoʊnævɪɡeɪʃən/
Forms: form: radio navigation
Etymology: From radio- + navigation.
Senses: examples: text: In Region 2, the use of the band 435-495 kHz by the aeronautical radionavigation service is limited to non-directional beacons not employing voice transmission.
ref: 2020 December 18, Federal Communications Commission, “FCC ONLINE TABLE OF FREQUENCY ALLOCATIONS: 47 C.F.R. § 2.106”, in fcc.gov, archived from the original on 17 Jan 2021, page 71:
glosses: Radio navigation; navigation using radio signals to provide positional information.
radiophare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiophares
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: radio beacon
go out like a light
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes out like a light
form: going out like a light
form: went out like a light
form: gone out like a light
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: To fall asleep quickly.
raisonneur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raisonneurs
Etymology: French
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A person in a play or book embodying an author's viewpoint.
MTCN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MTCNs
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: Initialism of Money Transfer Control Number, a ten-digit number used by Western Union for money transfer.
Angajala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Angajalas
Etymology: Borrowed from Telugu అంగజాల (aṅgajāla, “sentinel”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Telugu.
Kuchipudi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh, from which the Indian classical dance form Kuchipudi originated.
glosses: A classical dance originating from the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.
tick bite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tick bites
Etymology: * tick + bite
Senses: glosses: A bite from a tick that can pass various illnesses to the bitten host.
tick bites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tick bite
at the latest
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: We need to make a decision by Friday at the latest.
antonyms: at the earliest
glosses: not later than
meiome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meiomes
Etymology: From meio- (“meiosis”) + -ome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The complete set of messenger RNA molecules (transcripts) produced in a cell that is undergoing meiosis.
Related terms: transcriptome
knitting needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knitting needle
raphia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raphias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of raffia.
rascasse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rascasses
Etymology: From French rascasse.
Senses: glosses: Scorpaena scrofa, the red scorpionfish.
SNTP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Simple Network Time Protocol.
Related terms: NTP
raticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: raticides
form: ratticide
Etymology: From rat + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: "Why don't you use a raticide?" his friend suggested.
"But, what is a raticide?" asked Kartar innocently.
"It is a material which helps the rat to commit suicide," his friend told him, his eyes showing humour for a minute.
ref: 1964, V. Balu, Day Dreams, page 93:
text: Raticides are covered by the provisions of the Law on pesticides of 1961 (item (d) of Section 1).
ref: 1970, World Health Organization, Control of Pesticides: A Survey of Existing Legislation, page 40:
text: For the second time that morning, Philippe led the way through the house to the cellar, a large canister of raticide under one arm, a stack of cartons, folded flat, under the other.
ref: 2009, Peter Mayle, The Vintage Caper, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 214:
text: Red squill is the principal raticide.
ref: 2010, Anil Kumar, Medicinal Plants, page 23:
glosses: rat poison.
rationaliser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rationalisers
Etymology: From rationalise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rationalizer.
ratissage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹatɪˈsɑːʒ/
Forms: form: ratissages
Etymology: From French ratissage, from ratisser (“to rake”).
Senses: examples: text: The army […] subjected suspect Muslim villages to systematic ratissage – literally a ‘raking-over’, a time-honoured word for ‘pacifying’ operations.
ref: 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 26:
text: A second group of security men had appeared from within the museum, and lashed out with their clubs like warriors in a battle scene from a Kurasawa epic. […] ‘It's another ratissage. A special action.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 220:
glosses: A raid (especially violent) carried out by the police or military, originally and chiefly carried out by the French in Algeria. and, prior to that, by the Milice (Vichy Government counter-terror police) in 1943-44.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A monetary device whereby national reserves are temporarily given up to a central bank.
multinodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multinodal
form: most multinodal
Etymology: From multi- + nodal.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to multiple nodes.
multinode
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + node.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to multiple nodes.
thoroughbass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thoroughbasses
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Synonym of figured bass.
synonyms: word: figured bass
promerit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: promerits
form: promeriting
form: promerited
form: promerited
Etymology: From Latin promeritus, past participle of promerere (“to deserve”), from pro (“before”) + merere (“to merit”).
Senses: examples: text: O God, while thou dost thus promerit us by thy Providence, let us not wrong thee by distrust
ref: 1612–1626, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in [Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume (please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London, →OCLC:
glosses: To oblige; to confer a favour on.
examples: text: Beneficence and communication do not forget, for with such hostes God is promerited.
ref: 1582, Gregory Martin, transl., The New Testament of Jesus Christ, Translated Faithfully into English, Reims: John Fogny, Hebrews 13:
glosses: To deserve; to procure by merit.
promerited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of promerit
promeriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of promerit
promerits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of promerit
thighing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Etymology: From thigh + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Grinding and thighing are not fornication, and since they are not fornication they do not have the same punishment, and no one is entitled to set punishments according to his opinion[…]
ref: 2012, Samar Habib, Female Homosexuality in the Middle East:
glosses: masturbation by rubbing the penis between another's thighs
pubwards
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pub + -wards.
Senses: examples: text: Lin went home to relieve the child-minder, cook for the brats and swap e-mails with her would-be admirers, and I headed pubwards with the other two.
ref: 2010, Jemma Harvey, Wishful Thinking:
glosses: Towards a public house.
paraplanner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paraplanners
Etymology: From para- + planner. Compare paralegal, paramedic.
Senses: glosses: An assistant to a financial planner.
paraplanners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraplanner
refuelable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From refuel + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of refuellable.
refuellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: refuelable
Etymology: From refuel + -able.
Senses: examples: an aircraft that is refuellable in flight
glosses: Capable of being refuelled.
paraplanning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + planning.
Senses: glosses: The work of a paraplanner; assistance with financial planning.
topbar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topbars
Etymology: From top + bar.
Senses: topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: One of a set of parallel bars, at the top of a beehive, to which the bees attach their comb.
topbars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topbar
dithiatopazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From its resemblance to topaz.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a stable 1,2-dithietane formed by intramolecular photodimerization of a dithiocarbonyl compound
radiocassettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiocassette
radiophares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiophare
raisonneurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raisonneur
zwiebelane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zwiebelanes
Etymology: From German Zwiebel (“onion”) + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a series of 1,3-dithietane compounds obtainable from the onion.
zwiebelanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zwiebelane
margate fish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: margate fishes
Senses: glosses: A white margate, an edible fish of the west Atlantic.
Synonyms: margate grunt
Margaret fish
Margaret grunt
margate fishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margate fish
melodrame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: melodrames
Etymology: From French mélodrame.
Senses: examples: text: Ratisbon is the city from which our voyager starts, and many are the legends which he has picked up of castles and monasteries, enough for six tragedies and sixty melodrames.
ref: 1828, John Scott, John Taylor, The London Magazine, page 128:
text: The Englishwoman diffuses over a whole day what the French reserves for a few hours. Effect there is the summing up. In great, as in little things, the French are a nation of actors—life is to them a great melodrame.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: Obsolete form of melodrama.
melodrames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of melodrame
nadiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nadir
nadired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nadir
unadvisability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inadvisability.
dousing-chock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dousing-chocks
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: One of several pieces fayed across the apron and lapped in the knightheads.
dousing-chocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dousing-chock
unadvisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unadvisably
form: most unadvisably
Etymology: From unadvisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inadvisably.
inadvisably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more inadvisably
form: most inadvisably
form: unadvisably
Etymology: From inadvisable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an inadvisable or ill-advised manner; against better advice; rashly.
soho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /səʊˈhəʊ/
rhymes: -əʊ
Etymology: From so + ho!.
Senses: examples: text: Proteus: Run, boy, run, run, and seek him out.
Launce: Soho, soho!
Proteus: What seest thou?
Launce: Him we go to find […]
ref: c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: He then began to beat about, in the same language and in the same manner as if he had been beating for a hare; and at last cried out, "Soho! Puss is not far off. Here's her form, upon my soul; I believe I may cry stole away."
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
glosses: ho; halloo; a word used in calling from a distant place.