cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
purple-crowned fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple-crowned fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus coronatus of fairywrens, of central and northern Australia.
purple-crowned fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of purple-crowned fairywren
emperor fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emperor fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus cyanocephalus of fairywrens, of New Guinea.
emperor fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emperor fairywren
lovely fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lovely fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus amabilis of fairywrens, of Cape York Peninsula.
lovely fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lovely fairywren
splendid fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splendid fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus splendens of fairywrens, of outback Australia.
splendid fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splendid fairywren
superb fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superb fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus cyaneus of fairywrens, of south-eastern Australia and Tasmania.
superb fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superb fairywren
white-winged fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-winged fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus leucopterus of fairywrens, of inland Australia.
white-winged fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-winged fairywren
red-backed fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red-backed fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus melanocephalus of fairywrens, of northern Australia.
red-backed fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red-backed fairywren
white-shouldered fairywren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white-shouldered fairywrens
Senses: glosses: Any of species Malurus alboscapulatus of fairywrens, of New Guinea.
white-shouldered fairywrens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of white-shouldered fairywren
maenorau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maenor
nebels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nebel
citharæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin citharae, plural of cithara.
Senses: examples: text: In the last voice of Hebrew prophecy, the citharæ were struck by the white-robed elders in the heavenly temple, and as the smoke of the incense ascended from the golden censer, the angels which had the trumpets prepared themselves to sound.
ref: 1874, “The Temple Ritual”, in The Congregationalist, volume III, London: Hodder and Stoughton, “No. V”, page 298:
text: Two nebels were always to be played in the daily services of the Temple, and the number might not exceed six. But of the citharæ nine was the smallest number, and any number was admissible.
ref: 1879, Francis Roubiliac Conder, Claude Reignier Conder, “Part I”, “Chapter VIII. Art and Science among the Israelites”, in A Handbook to the Bible: Being a Guide to the Study of the Holy Scriptures; Derived from Ancient Monuments and Modern Exploration, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 167:
text: After him followed the Augustians and a choir of singers, bearing citharæ, lutes, and other musical instruments.
ref: 1897, Jeremiah Curtin, transl., Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, translation of Quo vadis. Powieść z czasów Nerona by Henryk Sienkiewicz, page 355:
glosses: plural of cithara
brandy snap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandy snaps
Senses: glosses: A type of confectionery or dessert, made from a thin, crisp gingerbread biscuit rolled into a tube and filled with cream.
brass rubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass rubbings
Senses: glosses: The technique of making a paper copy of a brass-plate engraving by placing a sheet of paper over the plate and rubbing with a crayon.
glosses: A copy so created.
algebraic K-theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Algebraic cycles are typically studied by imposing one of several equivalence relations. The equivalence relation most relevant for algebraic K-theory is rational equivalence.
ref: 1999, E. M. Friedlander, “Lecture VII. Beilinson's vision”, in H. Bass, A. O. Kuku, C. Pedrini, editors, Algebraic K-theory And Its Applications, World Scientific, page 61:
text: Algebraic K-theory has two components: the classical theory which centers around the Grothendieck group K#95;0 of a category and uses explicit algebraic presentations and higher algebraic K-theory which requires topological or homological machinery to define.
ref: 2013, Charles A. Weibel, The K-book: An Introduction to Algebraic K-theory, American Mathematical Society, page ix:
text: 2014, Daniel Scott Farley, Ivonne Johanna Ortiz, Algebraic K-theory of Crystallographic Groups, Springer, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 2113, page 1,
Algebraic K-theory is a branch of algebra dealing with linear algebra over a general ring R instead of a field. […] Algebraic K-theory plays an important part in many areas of mathematics, especially number theory, algebraic topology and algebraic geometry.
topics: algebraic-geometry
geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: K-theory studied from the point of view of algebra.
Derived terms: higher algebraic K-theory
Related terms: K-theory
topological K-theory
K-group
Waikaia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori, originally named Switzers.
Senses: glosses: A small town in the back country of Southland, New Zealand.
theofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more theofascist
form: most theofascist
Senses: topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to theofascism; theocratically fascist.
theofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theofascists
Senses: topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A proponent of theofascism; a theocratic fascist.
theofascism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: fascism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: Theocratic fascism.
quasi-fascist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: quasifascist
Senses: glosses: Synonym of para-fascist.
synonyms: word: para-fascist
quasi-fascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-fascists
form: quasifascist
Senses: glosses: Synonym of para-fascist.
synonyms: word: para-fascist
Stixwould
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A small village in Stixwould and Woodhall parish, East Lindsey district, Lincolnshire, England (OS grid ref TF1766).
Bradford assay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bradford assays
Etymology: Named for its inventor, scientist Marion M. Bradford.
Senses: qualifier: molecular biology
glosses: An assay that quantifies protein concentration using color changes.
wikipedia: Marion M. Bradford
Nind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Adair County, Missouri, United States.
Augustian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Augustian
form: most Augustian
Senses: examples: text: LU’THERANISM, the Opinions and Doctrines of Martin Luther, vvho being an Auguſtian Friar, ſeparated from the Church of Rome about A.C. 1115. vvrote againſt its Errors, and began the Reformation.
ref: 1735, N[athan] Bailey, “LU’THERANISM”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], 7th edition, London: […] J. J. and P. Knapton, […], →OCLC, column 1:
text: If I did not know him (continued Mr. Grattan), to be a Christian clergyman, by his works, I should suppose him to be a Philosopher of the Augustian age.
ref: 1868, “The Editor’s Preface”, in The Works of Rev. Arthur O’Leary, Boston: Patrick Donahoe, page 26:
text: The strategic location and the local topography of the ditch system tend to favour its classification as a camp of a vexillation of Augustian or early Tiberian legionary troops.
ref: 2005, Jean Bourgeois, Marc Meganck, editors, Aerial Photography and Archaeology 2003: A Century of Information, Ghent, Belgium: Academia Press, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: Alternative form of Augustan.
Augustian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Augustians
Senses: examples: text: Semblably rode he into ANTIVM, and from thence into ALBANVM and ſo forward into ROME. But he entred ROME in the very ſame Chariot, wherein ſometime Augustus had rode in triumph, clad in a purple cloke, and the ſame garniſhed with ſtarres embrodered in golde: wearing upon his head the Olympicke Coronet, and bearing in his right hand the Pythisk: with a pompe and gallant ſhewe of the reſt before him, together with their titles and inſcriptions teſtifying, where? and whom? in what kinde of ſonge or fabulous argment, hee had wonne: not without a traine alſo of (a) Applauders following his Chariot, after the manner of thoſe that ride ovant in petie Triumph ſetting up a note, and crying with a lowde voice, That they were Augustians, and the ſouldiers of his triumph.
ref: 1606, Caius [i.e., Gaius] Suetonius Tranquillus, “The Historie of Nero Claudius Cæsar”, in Philêmon Holland, transl., The Historie of Twelve Cæsars Emperours of Rome. […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes and George Snowdon] for Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, section 25, page 190:
text: For when Edilfred, King of the Northumbrians, and Executioner of Auguſtine’s wrath, had committed ſo great a ſlaughter upon the innocent Monks of Bangor at Leiceſter, and was triumphally making haſte to deſtroy their remains with their famous Monaſtery, there met him three Britiſh Princes, the revengers of God’s anger, who confounded the Northumbrian King with his whole Army, reeking in the blood of thoſe poor Innocents, they killed ten thouſand and threeſcore, and put the wounded King with ſome others to fright, as God ſeemed to come down into the Army againſt thoſe Auguſtians in behalf of thoſe innocent Monks of Bangor, and to have taken vengeance for their blood.
ref: 1676, Aylett Sammes, “The Converſion of the Engliſh-Saxons”, in Britannia Antiqua Illustrata: or, the Antiquities of Ancient Britain, Derived from the Phœnicians: […], volume first, London: Tho. Roycroft, for the Author, page 512:
text: 10th. Feast of St. William, special among the Augustians.
ref: 1852 February, Battersby’s Registry for the Whole World, with the Complete Ordo, or Catholic Directory, Almanac and Registry, for 1852, page 46:
text: Who was that Vinicius? An Augustian, a soldier, a courtier of Nero![…]After him followed the Augustians and a choir of singers, bearing citharæ, lutes, and other musical instruments.
ref: 1897, Jeremiah Curtin, transl., Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero, translation of Quo vadis. Powieść z czasów Nerona by Henryk Sienkiewicz, pages 219, 355:
glosses: Alternative form of Augustan.
Augustian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Augustians
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Augustians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Augustian
bully-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bully-offs
Senses: synonyms: bully
qualifier: field hockey
glosses: A method of starting or restarting a game whereby two opposing players face off with the ball between them, clash sticks three times, and then attempt to be first to the ball.
bully off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bullies off
form: bullying off
form: bullied off
form: bullied off
Senses: qualifier: field hockey
glosses: To begin or restart a game by means of a bully-off.
bum-sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: arse-licking
brown-nosing
glosses: Obsequious behaviour.
bum-sucking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsequious.
Related terms: bum-sucker
bum-sucker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum-suckers
Senses: glosses: An obsequious person; a toady.
Related terms: bum-sucking
Woodchester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref SO8402).
Nailsworth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town and civil parish with a town council in Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST8499).
glosses: A suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
drop a clanger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a clanger
form: dropping a clanger
form: dropped a clanger
form: dropped a clanger
Senses: examples: text: I dropped a clanger when I mentioned how well Mary's mother had been looking recently. I didn't know that she died two days ago.
glosses: To commit a conspicuous and embarrassing blunder or gaffe, for example by saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.
Lowdham
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Newark and Sherwood district, Nottinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SK6646).
Hightown
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Congleton, Cheshire East district, Cheshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8762).
glosses: A village in Ringwood parish, New Forest district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU1604).
glosses: An outer suburb in east Southampton, Hampshire (OS grid ref SU4711).
glosses: A village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside, England (OS grid ref SD3003).
glosses: A village near Liversedge, Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE1824).
glosses: A suburb of Castleford, Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, West Yorkshire (OS grid ref SE4125).
glosses: A suburb of Wrexham, Wrexham borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SJ3449).
glosses: An unincorporated community in Highland County, Virginia, United States.
Related terms: High Town
radius of action
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radii of action
form: radiuses of action
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: maximum distance a ship, vehicle, etc. can travel away from its base without refueling
lo mein loophole
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: "Lo Mein Loophole: How U.S. Immigration Law Fueled A Chinese Restaurant Boom [...] Some Chinese business owners in the U.S. could get special merchant visas that allowed them to travel to China, and bring back employees. Only a few types of businesses qualified for this status. In 1915, a federal court added restaurants to that list. Voila! A restaurant boom was born."
ref: 2016 February 22, “Lo Mein Loophole: How U.S. Immigration Law Fueled A Chinese Restaurant Boom”, in National Public Radio, retrieved 18 Jun 2023:
glosses: A loophole in early-1900s American immigration law that allowed Chinese people to enter the country if they managed a Chinese restaurant, resulting in a greater-than-average increase of those establishments over several decades.
WPA2
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Wi-Fi
glosses: Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access II.
Hypernyms: WPA
WPA3
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: qualifier: Wi-Fi
glosses: Initialism of Wi-Fi Protected Access 3.
Hypernyms: WPA
chalk-eating weasel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalk-eating weasels
Senses: topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A bettor who regularly wagers on the favorite.
cat in hell's chance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a cat in hell's chance
Senses: examples: text: There isn't a cat in hell's chance that any jury will convict him.
glosses: A negligibly small chance; used primarily in negative constructions to express the idea of 'not even the smallest chance'.
Related terms: a snowball's chance in hell
snowflake's chance in hell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Variant of snowball's chance in hell.
angrified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of angrify
Helhest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Danish helhest.
Senses: glosses: A three-legged supernatural horse associated with death or Hel in Danish folklore.
Northern Kurdish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)dɪʃ
Senses: synonyms: Kurmanji
glosses: The Kurdish language with the largest number of speakers, spoken in Turkey, Syria, northernmost Iraq, and parts of Iran and Central Asia.
Related terms: word: Central Kurdish
word: Sorani
alt: Kermanshani/Kermanshahi
word: Southern Kurdish
word: Zazaki
Ovenden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ovendens
Etymology: From the dative form of the Old English personal name Ofa + denu (“valley”).
Senses: glosses: A suburban village in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, West Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE0727).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Southern Kurdish
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Kurdish language spoken in western Iran, and to a small extent in Iraq. Kalhuri (Kermashani), Feili (Ilami) and Laki are divided into the southern dialect subgroup.
Related terms: Northern Kurdish
Kurmanji
Central Kurdish
Sorani
amusement ride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amusement rides
Senses: glosses: A mechanical device or structure that moves people to create enjoyment.
Related terms: amusement park
hooden
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hood + -en or a reduced form of hood-end(s).
Senses: examples: text: By means of a diver a bad place was found in the after hooden ends, and the vessel was dipped by the head to bring it out of the water.
ref: 1872, The London and China Telegraph, page 48:
text: Show by a sketch how the tenons in the body-post of a screw ship should be placed in relation to the rabbet of the hooden ends. Give the reason for so placing them.
ref: 1882, Great Britain. Education Department. Department of Science and Art, Examination Papers for Science Schools and Classes, page 21
text: Judging by the greatness of the leake, it must have been some Butt or Hoodens end started her lying swadling with her lee Gunnhill in the Sea, & almost ungovernable by her helm, and that it was impossible to keep her up long enough to get ...
ref: 1929, Madras (India), Diary and Consultation Book, 1672-1756
text: But for deep and narrow vessels you must line your hooden-ends wider to get up faster, and consequently the lower ends of the after-hoods will come round, […]
ref: 1940, Lauchlan McKay, Richard Cornelius McKay, The Practical Ship-builder, page 62:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Pertaining to a hood (end of a plank, which fits into the rabbet).
hooden
Language: English
Part of speech: particle
Etymology: Unclear; see hooden horse, hoodening.
Senses: glosses: Only used in hooden horse
try the veal
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Stereotypically uttered by a stand-up comedian working in a venue that sells meals.
Senses: glosses: Said after making a joke.
Synonyms: I'm here all week
mechanical bull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mechanical bulls
Senses: hyponyms: bucking bronco
glosses: An amusement ride consisting of a device that replicates the sensation of riding a bucking animal, such as a rodeo bull or horse.
hypergalaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypergalaxies
form: hyper-galaxy
Etymology: From hyper- + galaxy.
Senses: examples: text: This system we call the Hypergalaxy or second-order Galaxy.
ref: 1965, Kirill Fedorovich Ogorodnikov, Dynamics of Stellar Systems, Pergamon Press, page 91:
text: The term hypergalaxies is applied to galaxies plus their massive coronas and all objects moving in the coronas.
ref: 1978, J. Einasto, The Large Scale Structure of the Universe; Proceedings of the Symposium, Tallin, Estonian SSR, September 12-16, 1977, page 51:
text: A typical hypergalaxy is approximately three to five times more massive than its central galaxy.
ref: 1987, L. E. Gurevich, A. D. Chernin, The Magic of Galaxies and Stars, Mir Publishers Moscow, page 175:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A system that consists of an enormous galaxy accompanied by multiple, smaller satellite galaxies, often elliptical, such as the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy.
hypergalaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypergalaxy
hypergalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a hypergalaxy.
-nidipine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪd.ɪp.iːn/
ipa: /ˈnɪd.əˌpiːn/
Forms: form: -dipine
Etymology: From contraction of nifedipine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of nifedipine derivatives used as calcium channel blockers.
-grel
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɛl/
Etymology: Probably related to platelet aggregation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of platelet aggregation inhibitors.
-grel-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: /ɡɹɛl/
Etymology: Probably related to platelet aggregation.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of platelet aggregation inhibitors.
Kennedynomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of Kennedy + economics, equivalent to Kennedy + -nomics.
Senses: examples: text: Kennedy also championed what is now called Reaganomics. He cut taxes, increased government spending and borrowed money to finance it, all in the name of stimulating the economy. If you don’t like Reaganomics, you wouldn’t like Kennedynomics.
ref: 1988 December 6, Rusty Denton, “The fundamentals of life: Kennedy: The truth behind the man, the myth, and the legend”, in The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, page 9:
text: I don’t understand Reaganomics and never have. Of course I never understood Carternomics, Fordonomics, Nixonomics, Johnsonomics, or Kennedynomics either. The best I have been able to figure out is that you just send all you can to Washington and hope to get a little in return.
ref: 1992, Bo Whaley, “Section 1: Things I Just Don’t Understand”, in Why the South Lost THE War ...and Other Things I Don’t Understand, Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, →ISBN, “A Few Things I Don’t Understand”, page 20, column 2:
text: Clinton practices reverse Kennedynomics.
ref: 1993 November 22, New Bern Sun Journal, page 6:
text: Bush kept pushing tax-cutting as a panacea a la Reaganomics and Kennedynomics.
ref: 2002 August 2, Robert Cohen, “Recession started on Clinton's watch”, in alt.politics.economics (Usenet):
text: > II love Reaganomics. It worked fabulously under Reagan., and if it / > hadn't of been for politics everyone would see that. / > / > But Reaganomics alone won't cover the cost of this war in my opinion, / > / Then raise taxes, stall economic activity and reduce tax revenue, get some socialist democrats on the job. / Or, we can practice Kennedynomics. Those who want higher taxes can voluntarily increase their tax rate.
ref: 2006 October 29, TexasLurk, “What a hoot”, in dfw.singles (Usenet):
topics: government
politics
glosses: Economic policies associated with the administration of John F. Kennedy, 1961–1963.
close with a buck
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: closer with a buck
form: closest with a buck
Senses: examples: text: And even with a personal fortune worth upward of $700 million, Buffett is still close with a buck; once urged by other members of his golfing foursome to double their bet of $1 a hole, he prudently replied: "Based on the way we're playing today, it wouldn't be a good bet."
ref: 1985, April 1, "Omaha's Plain Dealer," Newsweek (republished from Newsweek Archives, August 17, 2017) (retrieved 22 Nov 2020)
text: Warhol […] was famously close with a buck, but prints he made as part of fundraisers for the 1983 Olympics and in advance of the 2000 millennium indicate he had some heart for causes.
ref: 2012 June 2, Lennie Bennett, “Warhol prints from Cochran Collection pop at Leepa-Rattner Museum”, in Tampa Bay Times, retrieved 22 Nov 2020:
text: Most of his time was spent building a new house on the Stockholm outskirts, serving as an ambassador for last year’s world championships in Sweden and — always close with a buck — dabbling in cautious financial investments.
ref: 2014 November 16, Rosie DiManno, “Mats Sundin thankful for those Swedes that paved the way”, in The Star, retrieved 22 Nov 2020:
glosses: Prudent in the expenditure of money; frugal; parsimonious.
Synonyms: frugal
Alim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aleem
Etymology: Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Edward Lane (1801–1876), orientalist. Partly from Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim, “scholar, (specifically) expert in Islamic law and theology”), use as noun of the active participle of عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”), and partly from Arabic عَالِم (ʕālim, “knowing, learned, also (as noun) scholar”) from عَلِمَ (ʕalima, “to know”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
-onidine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒn.ɪ.diːn/
ipa: /ˈɑn.ɪˌdin/
Etymology: From clonidine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of clonidine derivatives used as antihypertensives.
-serpine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɜː.piːn/
ipa: /ˈsɝːˌpiːn/
Etymology: From reserpine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of derivatives of Rauwolfia alkaloids.
-dralazine
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɹæl.ə.ziːn/
rhymes: -iːn
Etymology: From hydralazine.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of hydrazinophthalazine derivatives used as antihypertensives.
-dil
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /dɪl/
Forms: form: dil-
form: -dil-
form: -dyl
Etymology: From vasodilator.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of vasodilators.
-pamil
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pə.mɪl/
Etymology: From verapamil.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of verapamil derivatives used as calcium channel blockers.
-pril
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pɹɪl/
Etymology: From captopril.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.
Derived terms: -prilat
bye-election
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bye-elections
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of by-election.
cable stitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A fancy type of knitting stitch that creates the effect of a braided or twisted rope.
Evolution Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Evolution Days
Etymology: From evolution + day. From being the anniversary day of the day that On Origin of Species by Charles Darwin was originally published in 1859. From On Origin of Species being the seminal work that introduced biological evolution as the origin of the diversity of life on Earth.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
qualifier: holidays; celebrations; holidays; celebrations
glosses: November the 24th; the day that celebrates the publication of On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, and evolutionary biology, evolution science.
wikipedia: en:Charles Darwin
en:On Origin of Species
Related terms: Arbor Day
Darwinian evolution
day
evolution
evolutionary biology
evolutionary science
Pi Day
siloisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silo + -isation.
Senses: examples: text: He called for the end of 'siloisation' of data between different parts of the rail industry.
ref: 2020 November 18, “Network News: Better access for the supply sector”, in Rail, page 9:
glosses: Alternative form of siloization.
Augustins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Augustin
-prilat
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /pɹɪl.ət/
Etymology: From -pril (“angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor”) + -ate (“salt”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of diacid analogs of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors.
Related terms: -pril
-kiren
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəɹ.ən/
ipa: /ˈkaɪ.ɹən/
Etymology: From aliskiren.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of renin inhibitors.
-prost-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒst/
ipa: /pɹɑst/
Etymology: From prostaglandin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prostaglandins.
-prost
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒst/
ipa: /pɹɑst/
Etymology: From prostaglandin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of prostaglandins.
Central Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Central Asiatic
form: most Central Asiatic
Senses: examples: text: The Central Asiatic race, the Mongol, the Tartar, when pure, revelled in tents and arms; plunder and the pomp of war was their whole aim.
ref: 1850, Robert Knox, “Appendix”, in The Races of Men: A Fragment, Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, “Section I.—Origin, Civilization, Extinction of the Dark Races of Men”, page 302:
text: The principal sets of Central Asiatic manufactures are Bokhara, Karshi, Yenghi Ürgendj, Khokand, and Namengan.
ref: 1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter XXII.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 472:
text: Ṭāq-i Bustān lies just east of Kirmānshāh, a town in western Irān on the so-called High Road that led from Mesopotamia through the central Zagros Mountains to Khurāsān, the crucially important Central Asiatic frontier of Arab conquest.
ref: 2004, Garth Fowden, Quṣayr ʿAmra: Art and the Unmayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria, University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 109, 300:
glosses: Synonym of Central Asian.
synonyms: word: Central Asian
Central Asiatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Central Asiatics
Senses: examples: text: Will the Central Asiatics avail themselves of the communications opened for them in Europe? Will they accept, through the agency of Russia, the products of civilization, which we have neglected to convey to them, by the Indus and their own streams?
ref: 1840 August, Adolphus Slade, “Slade’s Travels in Germany and Russia”, in Sylvanus Urban, editor, The Gentleman’s Magazine, volume XIV, London: William Pickering; John Bowyer Nichols and Son, pages 130–131:
text: My friend was obliged positively to force me to enter a booth, and, after the precious shivin (a kind of tea) was poured out, wishing to profit by the ecstatic feeling in which he found me, he asked me, chucklingly, “Now, then, what do you say to Bokhara Sherif (the noble)?” “It pleases me much,” I replied; and the Central Asiatic, although from Khokand, and an alien enemy, as his nation was at that moment at war with Bokhara, was nevertheless delighted to find that the capital of Turkestan had made such a conquest of me, and gave me his word that he would show me its finest features in the course of the following days.
ref: 1865, Arminius Vámbéry, “Chapter X.”, in Travels in Central Asia; Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand. Performed in the Year 1863., New York: Harper & Brothers, page 210:
text: By describing him as a “Scythian shepherd,” Marlowe seizes the idea of the near contemporary Mongolians in the relatively unracialized image of the classical Scythians (who were neither Central Asiatics nor “shepherds,” though they were nomads).
ref: 2006, Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., Patrick Cheney, Andrew Hadfield, editors, Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 42:
glosses: Synonym of Central Asian.
synonyms: word: Central Asian
Central Asiatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Central Asiatic
weighing up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of weigh up
caesium clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caesium clocks
form: cesium clock
Senses: glosses: A type of highly accurate atomic clock that is regulated by a resonance frequency of caesium atoms (the same frequency, 9,192,631,770 Hz, on which the precise scientific definition of the second is based).
sringa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sringas
Senses: glosses: An ancient Indian horn shaped like a C or S.
Related terms: ransingha
sweet mother of pearl
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Of unknown origins. Attested from the late 19th century.
Presumably a euphemism for sweet mother of God or sweet mother of Jesus, using mother-of-pearl.
Senses: glosses: Good gracious; good heavens.
Synonyms: wow
Darién
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Darien
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Darién, from Cueva.
Senses: glosses: A province of Panama.
Derived terms: Darién Gap
Veraguas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Veraguas.
Senses: glosses: A province of Panama.
Loosley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Loosleys
form: Lowsley
Etymology: From Old English hlōse + lēah (“clearing with a pigsty”); see also Loosley Row.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Related terms: Loosley Row
stop the bleeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stops the bleeding
form: stopping the bleeding
form: stopped the bleeding
form: stopped the bleeding
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stop, the, bleeding.
glosses: To recover by interrupting a string of losses, disappointments, etc.
Ñuble
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region in Chile.
glosses: A former province in Chile.
Los Ríos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A place name, including:
A region in Chile, one of 16.
glosses: A place name, including:
A province in Ecuador. Capital: Babahoyo.
Loosley Row
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Recorded as Losle 1241, from Old English, see Loosley for more.
Senses: glosses: A village in Lacey Green parish, Buckinghamshire, England (OS grid ref SP8100).
Aysén
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Spanish Aysén.
Senses: glosses: A state of Aysén, Chile.
glosses: A region of Chile.
Derived terms: territory of Aysén
Arica y Parinacota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A region of Chile.
Tocopilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A commune and city in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Copiapó
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Atacama region, northern Chile.
glosses: A city and commune, the capital of Copiapó province and Atacama region, Chile.
Los Andes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and province in Valparaiso Region, Chile.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Petorca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: f
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Petorca.
Senses: glosses: A town in Petorca, Chile.
glosses: A province of Valparaiso, Chile.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Petorca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: m
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Petorca.
Senses: glosses: Petorca (a river in Petorca, Chile).
Quillota
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A commune and city in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A province of Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Diguillín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Ñuble region, Chile.
Cautín
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Araucanía region, Chile.
Malleco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Araucanía region, Chile.
Llanquihue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province in Los Lagos region, Chile.
glosses: A city and commune in Llanquihue province, Chile.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Derived terms: Llanquihue Lake
territory of Llanquihue
Osorno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Osornos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Osorno, possibly related to Basque osoren (“complete”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
glosses: A city and commune, the capital of Osorno province, Chile.
glosses: A province in Los Lagos region, Chile.
glosses: A volcano situated between Osorno province and Llanquihue province, Chile, named after the city.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
cameo ware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cameo wares
Senses: glosses: A type of decorated ceramic ware, featuring embossed (or sometimes stencilled) figures or motifs in contrasting colour on a plain ground.
Palena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Palena.
Senses: glosses: A province of the Los Lagos region, Chile.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
cap it all
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caps it all
form: capping it all
form: capped it all
form: capped it all
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cap it all off.
Maipo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Chilean Spanish Maipo.
Senses: glosses: A province in Santiago metropolitan region, Chile.
glosses: A town in Buin commune, Maipo province, Chile.
glosses: A volcano in the Andes, on the border between Chile and Argentina.
glosses: A former department of Chile.
glosses: A river in Chile, Río Maipo.
Related terms: Maipo River
San José de Maipo
Talagante
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A commune and city in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A province in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Melipilla
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A commune, provincial capital, and city in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A province in Chile.
head_nr: 2
glosses: A former department of Chile.
Chacabuco
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Chacabuco.
Senses: glosses: A city in Buenos Aires province, Argentina.
glosses: A department of San Luis province, Argentina.
glosses: A department of Chaco province, Argentina.
glosses: A province in central Chile.
long odds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: That sense of overcoming long odds probably explained why, despite our differences in age and experience, Harry and I hit it off.
ref: 2020, Barack Obama, A Promised Land, Crown:
glosses: poor chances; unlikeliness, improbability
subsubdomains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subsubdomain
elotero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eloteros
form: elotera
Etymology: From Spanish elotero.
Senses: glosses: A man who runs a Latin American corn on the cob (elote) food cart.
elotera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eloteras
form: elotero
Etymology: From Spanish elotera.
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of elotero.
cap it off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: caps it off
form: capping it off
form: capped it off
form: capped it off
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cap it all off.
Sovietwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Soviet + -wave.
Senses: glosses: A synthwave subgenre with elements of melodies that listeners associate with the Soviet Union.
wikipedia: Sovietwave
Fernhill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Bury, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD8011).
glosses: A suburban area in Wootton Bridge parish, Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5391).
glosses: A hamlet in Crawley borough, West Sussex, England, formerly in Surrey (OS grid ref TQ3041).
glosses: A southern suburb of Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS6159).
glosses: A village in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0399).
glosses: A rural community of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
glosses: A suburb of Queenstown, Otago, New Zealand.
glosses: A locality near Albany, north of Auckland, New Zealand.
Derived terms: Fernhill Heath
rhathymia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹeɪˈθaɪmiə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῥᾳθῡμία (rhāithūmía, “easiness of temper”), from ῥᾴθυμος (rhāíthumos, “easy-going”), from ῥᾶ (rhâ, “easily”) (see ῥᾴδιος (rhāídios)) + θυμός (thumós, “soul, mind”)).
Senses: examples: text: rhathymia scale
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A carefree and extroverted personality factor.
fight IQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fight IQs
Senses: examples: text: More importantly, the unbeaten New York native showed an uncanny ability to adjust his gameplan on the fly and stun unsuspecting opponents. It’s a product not only of Evans’ growing experience and his work with Greg Jackson, but of a fighting IQ that is becoming second to none.
ref: 2008 December 28, Thomas Gerbasi, “The Highly Unofficial 2008 UFC Awards - The Fighters”, in UFC:
text: George St. Pierre is also a very good example. He utilizes his fight IQ to negate his opponent's advantages and impose his will. He prevented Matt Hughes from taking him down, took Matt Serra down right away, and clinched BJ Penn till his arms were too tired to be effective.
ref: 2009 June 17, Jay Bandu, “What It Takes to Be a Real Fighter Pt 3: Mental Aptitude”, in Bleacher Report:
text: Jackson expressed surprise at the levels reached by some of the vitriolic personal attacks he received, discussed Rashad Evans' physical capabilities as he enters his thirties, contrasted the wrestling styles of Evans and Jon Jones, discussed how he and his camp manage Jones' training as he grows in size and tried to make sense of why Jones' fight IQ is underrated.
ref: 2012 April 19, Luke Thomas, “Greg Jackson Contends Jon Jones Has Underrated Fight IQ”, in MMA Fighting:
glosses: A combat sports athlete's ability to adjust their movements during a bout in order to exploit momentary defensive openings or overall technical weaknesses found in an opponent's moveset.
Hyponyms: counterpunch
ringcraft
Wootton Bridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England (OS grid ref SZ5491).
membranæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin membrānae, plural of membrāna.
Senses: glosses: plural of membrana
-profen
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊ.fən/
ipa: /pɹəf.ən/
ipa: /ˈpɹoʊ.fən/
ipa: /pɹəf.ən/
Etymology: From ibuprofen.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of ibuprofen derivatives used as anti-inflammatory agents.
-metacin
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈmɛt.əs.ɪn/
Etymology: From indometacin.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of indometacin derivatives used as anti-inflammatory agents.
subtemple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtemples
Etymology: From sub- + temple.
Senses: qualifier: Asian English
glosses: A partly autonomous temple within the grounds of a larger religious complex.
subtemples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtemple
sengon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sengons
Senses: glosses: A tall tree, Paraserianthes falcataria, native to the Moluccas, New Guinea, and the Solomons, but widely cultivated elsewhere for its timber.
sengons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sengon
-clofenac
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkləʊ.fən.æk/
ipa: /ˈkloʊ.fəˌnæk/
Etymology: From chlo(ro)- + -fenac.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of ibufenac derivatives used as anti-inflammatory agents.
-zolac
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /zə.læk/
Etymology: From (pyra)zol(e) + -ac (“acetic acid”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of anti-inflammatory agents.
tall reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tall reeds
Senses: synonyms: tropical reed
glosses: A tall species of reed, Phragmites karka, native to tropical Africa, Asia, and Australasia.
tall reeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tall reed
tropical reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical reeds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of tall reed.
synonyms: word: tall reed
tropical reeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tropical reed
-coxib
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒk.sɪb/
ipa: /ˈkɑk.sɪb/
Etymology: Contraction of COX inhibitor.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of selective cyclo-oxygenase inhibitors.
wikipedia: COX-2 inhibitor
Water Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Water Hemisphere
Senses: glosses: The hemisphere of the Earth which is almost completely covered in water.
Coordinate terms: Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
Land Hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Land Hemisphere
Senses: glosses: The hemisphere of the Earth in which most of the continents are gathered.
Coordinate terms: Eastern Hemisphere
Western Hemisphere
Northern Hemisphere
Southern Hemisphere
Water Hemisphere
northern hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: northern hemispheres
Senses: antonyms: southern hemisphere
hypernyms: hemisphere
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Northern Hemisphere.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see northern, hemisphere.
southern hemisphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern hemispheres
Senses: antonyms: northern hemisphere
hypernyms: hemisphere
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Southern Hemisphere.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see southern, hemisphere.
-trexate
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɛk.seɪt/
Etymology: From methotrexate.
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of folic acid analogs.
criminophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The fear of being a victim of crime
-umab
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /jʊm.æb/
ipa: /əm.æb/
ipa: /jəˌmæb/
ipa: /əˌmæb/
Etymology: From hu(man) + -mab (“monoclonal antibody”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Used to form names of monoclonal antibodies derived from a human source.
Related terms: english: See that entry for full paradigm.
translation: See that entry for full paradigm.
word: -mab is the base suffix common to all monoclonal antibodies
Cwmbach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Welsh.
Senses: glosses: A village and community in Rhondda Cynon Taf borough county borough, Wales (OS grid ref SO0201).
glosses: A hamlet in Llanwinio community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN2525).
glosses: A hamlet in Glasbury community, Powys, Wales (OS grid ref SO1639).
n0rp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pr0n
form: prawn
Etymology: A respelling of porn with the middle letters transposed and o replaced with zero, and then spelled backwards.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of porn.
doxasphere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doxaspheres
Senses: glosses: The arena of public opinion.