cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
angerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more angerly
form: most angerly
Etymology: From Middle English angerly; equivalent to anger + -ly (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: v[erse] 6. ſad] the Greek tranſlateth, troubled: & so the Hebrue importeth an angerly diſcontent, and fretfull trouble of mind, Prov[erbs] 19. 3. with a ſad and lowring countenance, […]
ref: 1616, H[enry] A[insworth], chapter 40, in Annotations upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis. […], [Amsterdam]: [Giles Thorp], →OCLC, verse 6, signature Ee, recto, column 1:
text: For the manner of ſpeech, either in approuing, or reprouing any thing; they may not directly command their husbands, but intreate: nor reproue with chiding and anger, but gently by exhortation, auoyding vnaduiſed and raſh ſpeech: as that of Rahel to Iacob, Gen[esis] 30. 1. angerly and ſhrewiſh ſpeech: as, Iezabel to Ahab, 1 King[s] 2. 17.
ref: 1630, [William Gouge], “Ephesians 5. Ver[ses] 22, 23, &c.”, in An Exposition of Part of the Fift and Sixt Chapters of S. Paules Epistle to the Ephesians, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes, Robert Young, and John Beale] for Iohn Bartlett, […], →OCLC, page 23:
text: [U]nless a woman one likes is in the way, it is some years since I felt a long anger. […] ** was angerly, but tried to conceal it.
ref: 1814 February 26, Lord Byron, “Letter CLXVIII. To Mr. [Thomas] Moore.”, in Thomas Moore, editor, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: With Notices of His Life, […], volume I, London: John Murray, […], published 1830, →OCLC, page 534:
text: Do not look angerly now, Jack, but let me tell you three things: I must do so, as a friend.
ref: 1972, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 10, in Post Captain (The Aubrey/Maturin Novels; 2), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1998, →ISBN, page 323:
text: ‘[…] But Jack, you look angerly.’ ‘I am angerly. I am in fact so exceedingly out of temper that I can scarcely command my mind and keep it steady to its paper-work,’ said Jack, and Stephen, with a sinking heart, saw that he was if anything understating the case.
ref: 1991, Patrick O’Brian, chapter 10, in The Nutmeg of Consolation (Aubrey-Maturin; 14), London: HarperCollinsPublishers, published 1993, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: Feeling or characterized by anger; angry.
aerophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerophone
chordophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chordophones
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Any musical instrument that produces sound from one or more vibrating strings; a string instrument.
Synonyms: string instrument
stringed instrument
Derived terms: chordophonic
chordophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chordophone
anestrus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anestri
form: anoestrus
form: anœstrus
Etymology: From an- + estrus.
Senses: examples: text: 1993, R. E. Larsen, S. C. Denham, J. F. Boucher, E. L. Adams, Chapter 13: Breeding Season Length Versus Calving Percentage in Beef Cattle Herds, Michael J. Fields, Robert S. Sand (editors), Factors Affecting Calf Crop, CRC Press, page 191,
Duration of postpartum anestrus is the period from calving to the first estrus. This anestrus period is recognized as being a major factor in controlling the proportion of cows conceiving each breeding season (Wiltbank et al., 1961).
text: During anestrus the size range and numbers of ovarian antral follicles were similar to those seen during the breeding season.
ref: 2008, Sabine Meinecke-Tillmann, Burkhard Meinecke, “Chapter 14: Ultrasonography in Small Ruminant Reproduction”, in Heide Schatten, Gheorghe M. Constantinescu, editors, Comparative Reproductive Biology, Blackwell Publishing, page 352:
text: 2011, Carole C. Miller, Carla L. Carleton (consulting editor), Anestrus, Jean-Pierre Lavoie, Kenneth William Hinchcliff (editors), Blackwell's Five-Minute Veterinary Consult: Equine, 2nd Edition, Wiley, page 75,
Treating a mare with progesterone while she is in anestrus/early vernal transition will suppress ovarian activity.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
synonyms: anaestrum
anœstrum
anestrum
anestrous phase
glosses: In female placental mammals—excluding humans and great apes—a phase of the estrous cycle during which the sexual cycle rests.
Derived terms: anestrous
Related terms: word: diestrus
word: estrus
alt: =diestrus
word: metestrus
word: proestrus
chump-change
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We don't have much money, but we can at least pay some of these chump-change bills.
text: 2002, Barbara Quint, "The Digital Library of the Future." Information Today, vol 19 iss 7, July/Aug 2002. Retrieved 19 May 2007.
For a chump-change price of $2,000, any library could gain both the tools to create its own 24/7 digital reference service and access to a Global Reference Network of colleagues.
text: 2004, Leigh Thompson and Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, "Why negotiation is the most popular business school course," Ivey Business Journal, Jul/Aug 2004, p. 3.
These key principles apply nicely to nearly any negotiation, whether it is an international high-finance deal or a chump-change haggle.
glosses: Of or pertaining to something of little monetary value.
chump-change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chump change.
aphenphosmphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unknown element(s) + -phobia. The initial aphe- element is likely based on Ancient Greek ἁφή (haphḗ, “touch”), the same root as haphephobia. There is no Greek root φοσμ- (phosm-) or φωσμ- (phōsm-), and φῶς (phôs, “light”) can be eliminated on semantic grounds, so the middle element is probably a fanciful invention or error.
Senses: examples: text: "What have you been treating Maureen for?"
"Aphenphosmphobia. She is...she was scared of having her throat touched."
ref: 2005, Christine Spindler, Faces of Fear, an Inspector Terry Mystery, Hard Shell Word Factory, page 65:
text: Since the stabbing she had struggled most with aphenphosmphobia, a morbid fear of physical contact with other human beings.
ref: 2011, Craig Russell, The Carnival Master, page 107:
synonyms: haphephobia
glosses: A morbid fear of being touched.
homewrecker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homewreckers
Senses: examples: text: Amber later branded Kim a 'homewrecker'.
ref: 2017, Eve Buckland, “Amber Rose Claims ex Kanye West has 'BULLIED her for 10 years' Since Their Acrimonious Split as she Brands Star a 'Narcissist' and Slams him for 'Slut-shaming Her'”, in Mail Online:
text: “Everyone is talking about how LIZ UY is a slut, a homewrecker, calling her names which is NOT OKAY,” wrote one netizen (@bashafierce) today.
ref: 2018, Cody Cepeda, “Liz Uy Introduces Baby Xavi to the World; Netizens Speculate if she’s ‘Third Party’ in a Marriage”, in The Philippine Daily Inquirer:
text: My mother is no longer alive, but I still hear her voice: “Homewrecker.”
ref: 2019, Mira T. Lee, “From ‘Homewrecker’ to Caretaker”, in The New York Times:
text: “Let’s not glorify mistresses. I love Liz Uy’s creativity, but being an elite doesn’t give her a VIP ticket to destroy another woman’s family. Put the most expensive ring on her finger but she cannot deny the fact that she was a homewrecker,” one user said.
ref: 2020, Catalina Ricci S. Madarang, “Liz Uy’s Engagement to Long-time Partner Raymond Racaza Opens up Old Wounds Online”, in Interaksyon:
text: Most of all, I think the choice we’ve been offered in the past year — between lawless A.I. homewreckers and censorious A.I. drones — is a false one.
ref: 2024 February 14, Kevin Roose, “The Year Chatbots Were Tamed”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of home wrecker.
map of Tassie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maps of Tassie
Senses: examples: text: 2001, Mark Brandon “Chopper” Read, 2012, 10.5: The Popcorn Gangster, unnumbered page,
Then we would start a massive international ad campaign to lure tourists and rich old settlers.
Something like . . . ‘Come and bury yourself in the map of Tassie.’
Could just work.
text: If this were elsewhere in Australia, say the Apple Isle, my start would probably have come in the form of a kitsch pair of undies tastelessly plastered with an invitation to view my map of Tassie.
ref: 2012, Roxy Jacenko, Strictly Confidential: A Jazzy Lou Novel, page 4:
text: Her skirt was rucked up to her map of Tassie as she rested, soaking up the last of the afternoon′s heat.
ref: 2012, Margareta Osborn, Bella′s Run, page 223:
glosses: Synonym of map of Tasmania (“pubic hair”).
synonyms: word: map of Tasmania
extra: pubic hair
fuss-budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuss-budgets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fussbudget.
yperite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ēʹpərīt
ipa: /ˈiːpəɹaɪt/
Forms: form: yperites
Etymology: From the French ypérite.
Senses: examples: text: In the pre-war years the production of yperite was prepared at 6 plants in Moscow, Chapaevsk, Stalingrad, Dzerzhinsk, Berezniki and Stalinogorsk.
ref: 2012, F.W. Holm, Mobile Alternative Demilitarization Technologies, page 217:
glosses: Synonym of mustard gas.
synonyms: word: mustard gas
Derived terms: yperitic
kill the goose that lays the golden eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: kills the goose that lays the golden eggs
form: killing the goose that lays the golden eggs
form: killed the goose that laid the golden eggs
form: killed the goose that laid the golden eggs
Etymology: From the Aesop's fable The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, in which a married couple own a goose that lays one golden egg every day. Because of greed, they decide to kill the goose to obtain all the gold they suppose to be present in its body. Once opened, the goose proves to be like any normal goose inside.
Senses: examples: text: Have the increases in ordinary fares begun to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?
ref: 1962 December, “Talking of Trains: Passenger traffic declining”, in Modern Railways, page 364:
synonyms: take the short view
glosses: To seek short-term gain at the sacrifice of long-term profit.
wikipedia: The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs
Related terms: golden goose
passata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈsɑːtə/
Forms: form: passatas
Etymology: From Italian passata.
Senses: glosses: Sieved raw tomatoes.
Synonyms: word: strained tomatoes
Coordinate terms: canned tomatoes
crushed tomatoes
diced tomatoes
puréed tomatoes
pureed tomatoes
strained tomatoes
tomato juice
tomato paste
tomato purée
tomato puree
tomato sauce
tomato water
pide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpiːdeɪ/
note: spelling pronunciation
ipa: /paɪd/
rhymes: -iːdeɪ
rhymes: -aɪd
homophone: pied
Forms: form: pides
Etymology: From Turkish pide, from Ottoman Turkish پیده (pide), پیته (pite), from Ancient Greek πίτα (píta), possibly from Aramaic פִּיתָּא (pītā, “piece of bread”). Doublet of pita and pizza.
Senses: glosses: Traditional Turkish flatbread.
glosses: The bread combined with various toppings cooked to form a common Turkish meal; Turkish pizza.
Synonyms: sense: bread
word: Turkish bread
sense: meal
word: Turkish pizza
World Bank
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of five financial organizations whose purpose is economic development and the elimination of poverty.
Related terms: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes
International Development Association
International Finance Corporation
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
ghoti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: fĭsh
ipa: /fɪʃ/
ipa: /fəʃ/
rhymes: -ɪʃ
homophone: fish
homophone: phish
enpr: gō′tē
ipa: /ˈɡəʊ̯.tiː/
ipa: /ˈɡoʊ̯.ti/
ipa: /ˈɡəʉ̯.tiː/
ipa: /ˈɡɐʉ̯.tiː/
ipa: /ˈɡo.ti/
ipa: /ˈɡoː.ʈiː/
rhymes: -əʊtiː
Forms: form: ghoti
form: ghoties
Etymology: A jocular spelling of fish (/fɪʃ/) used to illustrate irregularities in English spelling:
* gh, /f/ as in rough, /ɹʌf/;
* o, /ɪ/ as in women, /ˈwɪm.ɪn/; and
* ti, /ʃ/ as in nation, /ˈneɪ̯.ʃən/.
Though frequently reported to be a coinage of George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), this term dates back to at least 1855.
Senses: examples: text: Robinson suggested to me that William Ollier could have come up with ghoti in a parlor game of Ellis-inspired silly spellings.
ref: 2010 June 25, Ben Zimmer, “2010-06-25”, in The New York Times Magazine, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jul 2018:
glosses: A constructed word said to be an alternative spelling of fish.
wikipedia: George Bernard Shaw
bleed dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleeds dry
form: bleeding dry
form: bled dry
form: bled dry
Senses: examples: text: Slaughtered livestock is usually bled dry prior to butchering.
glosses: To wait until all the blood of (a slaughtered animal) has drained off.
glosses: To take all of someone's money or resources; to bleed white.
bleed white
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bleeds white
form: bleeding white
form: bled white
form: bled white
Senses: synonyms: exsanguinate
glosses: To drain of blood extensively.
examples: text: France had been bled white by the war.
ref: 1948, Winston Churchill, The Gathering Storm, Houghton Mifflin, published 1948, page 11:
glosses: To cause life-threatening hardship through deprivation of essential resources.
shortalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of short + overalls
Senses: glosses: An overall, particularly with short-cut legs, like a pair of shorts.
foresightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From foresighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of having foresight
glosses: The prudent exercise of common sense when planning for the future
forestation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɒɹɪsˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: forestations
Etymology: From forest + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act of planting a forest.
glosses: The conversion of a habitat to forest.
Derived terms: deforestation
disforestation
reforestation
forevermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɛv.ə.mɔː/
ipa: /fɔːɹˈɛv.ɚ.mɔːɹ/
Etymology: Blend of forever + evermore.
Senses: examples: text: Poor Pope; and I am told he is fast growing bankrupt too; and will, in a measurable term of years (a great way within the ‘three hundred’), not have a penny to make his pot boil! His old rheumatic back will then get to rest; and himself and his stage-properties sleep well in Chaos forevermore.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. I, Phenomena”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):
text: A frozen sun forevermore the same.
ref: 1922, Clark Ashton Smith, Eidolon:
text: Cause girl I love you more than words can show / My love is pure / I, I'll walk a thousand miles, sail a thousand seas / Nothing will discourage me / And I pray that you will be always there for me forevermore
ref: 1990, After 7, “Ready Or Not”, in After 7:
glosses: At any or all times in the future; forever.
Synonyms: evermore
eternally
forever
in perpetuity
forgather
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɡaðə/
ipa: /fɚˈɡæðɚ/
Forms: form: forgathers
form: forgathering
form: forgathered
form: forgathered
form: foregather
Etymology: From Scots forgather, foregather (“to gather up, assemble”), equivalent to for- + gather. Cognate with Dutch vergaderen (“to assemble”), German vergattern (“to assemble; to assign duty”).
Senses: examples: text: Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, chapter 9, in On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC, part 2:
text: “And she caught you?” “Not once, but twice.” [...] “Half-way under the dressing-table, were you?” “The second time. When we first forgathered, I was sitting on the floor with a chair round my neck.”
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: “I can tell you where to find them,’ she said, ‘with a fair degree of certainty; they foregather almost every evening about this time at a rather disreputable old pub.’
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 725:
text: They found themselves obliged to forgather in Perugia, where few of them wished to be – least of all the French cardinals who would have preferred not to be in Italy at all.
ref: 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge, published 2008, page 8:
glosses: To assemble or gather together in one place, to gather up; to congregate.
Synonyms: collect
begather
assemble
forgivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more forgivable
form: most forgivable
Etymology: From forgive + -able. Partially displaced non-native Middle English pardonable (“capable of being pardoned, forgivable”) from Old French pardonable (“forgivable”).
Senses: examples: text: It's even forgivable here when the band sometimes sounds as though they've phoned in the Stonesy swagger, because when they're on, the Hellacopters sound like the best garage rock/bar band in the world.
ref: 2004, CMJ New Music Report, number 872, page 6:
text: In retrospect, the misunderstanding about the plan was forgivable […]
ref: 2016, Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
synonyms: excusable
pardonable
venial
antonyms: unforgivable
unvenial
glosses: Able to be forgiven; worthy of forgiveness.
topics: business
finance
glosses: Of a loan, or a portion of it: such that repayment may be deferred for a period, or canceled, by the lender, if the borrower meets certain obligations.
Derived terms: forgivableness
forgivably
forgiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgivers
Etymology: From forgive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Take second best, put me to the test. / Things off your chest you’d need to confess. / I will deliver, you know I’m a forgiver.
ref: 1989, “Personal Jesus”, in Martin L. Gore (lyrics), Personal Jesus, performed by Depeche Mode:
glosses: A person who forgives.
forgoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgoers
Etymology: From forgo + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who forgoes
Related terms: foregoer
forlornly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more forlornly
form: most forlornly
Etymology: From forlorn + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her arms lay on the table in front of her, her head rested on them, with her hair straying over the littered pages of the novel. She was weeping forlornly, steadily.
ref: 1953, John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes, page 163:
glosses: In a forlorn manner.
aliquote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aliquot.
unsphere
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈsfɪə/
rhymes: -ɪə
Forms: form: unspheres
form: unsphering
form: unsphered
form: unsphered
Etymology: From un- + sphere.
Senses: examples: c 1594–1611: Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale
You put me off with limber vows; but I,
Though you would seek t’ unsphere the stars with oaths,
Should yet say ‘Sir, no going.’
glosses: To remove from a sphere, as in celestial bodies; to remove from the heavens.
contributive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contributive
form: most contributive
Etymology: From contribute + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: I'm just looking for ways to be contributive," Kilmer told the Associated Press last week. "
ref: 2009 February 9, “K.d. lang a no-show”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Tending to contribute; making a contribution
Derived terms: contributively
contributiveness
contributivity
noncontributive
prorogate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prorogates
form: prorogating
form: prorogated
form: prorogated
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: to prorogue
pensioni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pensione
conglutination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conglutinations
Etymology: From con- + glutination.
Senses: examples: text: The cause is a temperate conglutination; for both bodies are clammy and viscous, and do bridle the deflux of humours to the hurts, without penning them in too much
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
text: In his own vitals, nucleant, he knew them clasped, the men that were not men's, that were not women's men. And Mrs. Gorman was doubtless the theatre of a similar conglutination.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: An adhesion, or gluing together.
glosses: The agglutination of an antigen, antibody and complement by the addition of a serum agent.
FOD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
qualifier: particularly on an aircraft carrier's deck
glosses: Initialism of foreign object debris.
FOD
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of fuck off and die.
conodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conodonts
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”) + -odont.
Senses: examples: text: Remains of conodonts, which may be invertebrates or primitive vertebrates, have also become known from the tuffites and bituminous slates of Monte San Giorgio, which became famous for their fish and marine reptile remains.
ref: 2012, Winand Brinkmann, Kenneth De Baets, editors, Paleontological Museum of the University of Zürich: Exhibition Guide, Paleontological Institute and Museum of the University of Zürich, →ISBN, page 30:
text: The appearance of tiny teeth elements of an eel-like jawless animal called a conodont, specifically Hindeodus parvus, is the technical herald of the age of the dinosaurs according to the ICS.
ref: 2018 May 2, Mark Carnall, The Guardian:
text: The beginning and the end of the Permian are both defined by the first appearances of particular conodont species.
ref: 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherlands, Penguin, published 2023, page 245:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: Any of several extinct fish-like chordates having cone-like teeth.
glosses: A microfossil tooth of such an animal.
overrides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of override
overrides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of override
overriding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of override
overriding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: overridings
Senses: glosses: The act or process by which something is overridden.
overriding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈɹaɪdɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪdɪŋ
Forms: form: more overriding
form: most overriding
Senses: examples: text: Our overriding concern is the safety of the children.
text: The overriding fear among the APPRG [All-Party Parliamentary Rail Group] was that the Treasury's micro-management of the rail industry would mean that it determines Great British Railway's future moves, rather than the DfT.
ref: 2022 January 12, Tom Allett, “MPs concerned at Treasury's influence on rail industry”, in RAIL, number 948, page 13:
glosses: Superior, of supreme importance in the case.
Derived terms: overridingly
isolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isoline
intercalates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of intercalate
intercalating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of intercalate
intercalating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That intercalates
Derived terms: bisintercalating
nonintercalating
intercalated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: See intercalate.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intercalate
intercalated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: See intercalate.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Interleaved, formed in distinctly alternating layers.
Derived terms: deintercalated
nonintercalated
unintercalated
mulleins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mullein
mudflat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudflats
form: mud flat
form: mud-flat
Etymology: From mud + flat.
Senses: examples: text: The Chapman lighthouse, a three-legged thing erect on a mud-flat, shone strongly.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
glosses: A muddy expanse of flat land, especially such land as a riverbed exposed at low tide.
Hyponyms: flat
mudflats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mudflat
form: mud-flats
form: mud flats
Senses: glosses: plural of mudflat
glosses: Synonym of bottomland: lowland plains and/or farms.
synonyms: word: bottomland
extra: lowland plains and/or farms
trachytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trachyte
deplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplane
deplaning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deplane
deplaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deplane
schists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schist
limestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of limestone
dissonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪsənənt/
Forms: form: more dissonant
form: most dissonant
Etymology: From Middle French dissonant.
Senses: examples: text: The music was filled with dissonant chords.
synonyms: discordant
;
cacophonic
cacophonous
antonyms: accordant
concordant
consonant
;
harmonious
;
melodious
qualifier: literal
glosses: Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing; not harmonizing or melodizing.
raw_tags: of sounds or music
examples: text: Alaudinov's framing of himself, and by extension of the Chechen forces under his command, as a capable defensive body is also dissonant with the widespread perception of the efficacy of Chechen forces within the wider Russian information space.
ref: 2024 August 14, Nicole Wolkov, Karolina Hird, Grace Mappes, Davit Gasparyan, George Barros, “Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, August 14, 2024”, in Ukraine Project, The Institute for the Study of War:
topics: behavior
human-sciences
psychology
sciences
synonyms: discordant
disharmonious
inharmonious
antonyms: accordant
concordant
consonant
harmonious
coordinate_terms: dissident#Adjective
qualifier: or social interaction
glosses: Exhibiting dissonance; not agreeing or harmonizing.
raw_tags: of ideas
Derived terms: dissonancy
dissonantly
undissonant
dissonances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dissonance
granodiorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: granodiorites
Etymology: From grano- + diorite.
Senses: examples: text: The dominant intruding rocks into the metamorphosed rocks of the Oban massif are granodiorites (Fig. 1).
ref: 1996, Bart N. Ekwueme, Alfred Kröner, “Emplacement Age of the Uwet Granodiorite and Implications for the Technothermal Evolution of the Oban Massif Southeastern Nigeria”, in R. Chandra, R.K. Srivastava, editors, Magmatism in Relation to Diverse Tectonic Settings, page 346:
text: Of the high-silica, coarse-grained, quartz-rich igneous rocks, granodiorites are quantitatively the most important.
ref: 2009, George Rapp, Archaeomineralogy, page 51:
text: Most of the rocks in the calc-alkaline association are granitoids, that is they are granites, granodiorites and tonalites all containing >20% quartz, with feldspar, mica and amphibole in various combinations (Chapter 3, Figures 3.10 and 3.11).
ref: 2011, Dougal Jerram, Nick Petford, The Field Description of Igneous Rocks, unnumbered page:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
petrology
glosses: An intrusive igneous rock similar to granite, but containing more plagioclase than potassium feldspar.
Derived terms: granodioritic
tonalite-trondhjemite-granodiorite
granodiorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granodiorite
pyroxenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroxene
amphiboles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of amphibole
magnetites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetite
clades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clade
silicifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silicification
concretions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concretion
ophiolitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ophiolitic
form: most ophiolitic
Etymology: From ophiolite + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The shore of Newfoundland displays many ophiolitic deposits.
glosses: Of or pertaining to sections of the oceanic crust and the subjacent upper mantle that have been uplifted or emplaced to be exposed within continental crustal rocks
Related terms: ophiophagy
parcellates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parcellate
ampulla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmˈpʊlə/
Forms: form: ampullas
form: ampullae
Etymology: From Latin ampulla.
Senses: glosses: An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
examples: text: Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8:
glosses: A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The dilated end of a duct.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The spongiole of a root.
Derived terms: ampullaceous
ampulla of Lorenzini
ampulla of Vater
ampullar
ampullary
ampullate
ampullectomy
ampullofugal
Related terms: ampoule
parcellating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parcellate
parcellated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of parcellate
parcellated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: divided into sections or parcels
Derived terms: unparcellated
ampullae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ampulla
pashaliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pashalik
philosophemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philosopheme
press agents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of press agent
brisé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brisés
Etymology: French brisé (literally “broken”)
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A jump consisting of an assemblé with an extra beat that "breaks" the jump in its travel.
Related terms: style brisé
Le Mans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: LeMans
form: leMans
form: le Mans
form: Lemans
form: Mans
Etymology: From French Le Mans.
Senses: glosses: A city, the capital of Sarthe department, Pays de la Loire, France.
glosses: The 24 Hours of Le Mans, an annual 24-hour motor race held near the city of Le Mans.
Derived terms: Le Mans car
curiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin cūriātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Whereupon having received the Senates Decree, viz. That Camillus, being by the curiate aſſembly recalled from Baniſhment, ſhould by order of the People be immediately declared Dictator, and that the Soldiers ſhould have whom they pleaſed for their General;
ref: 1686, The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius. With the Supplements of the Learned John Freinshemius, and John Dujatius. From the Foundation of Rome to the Middle of the Reign of Augustus., London: […] Awnsham Churchill, page 148:
text: I have stated what I consider compelling reasons why the Hortensian Law(s) would have best served their purpose if they were curiate.
ref: 1956, Historia: Einzelschriften, page 39:
text: Although lacking the tight kinship focus evident in the gentilicial organization of the aristocracy, the settled population did still maintain internal divisions, as evidenced by the curiate system in Rome.
ref: 2016, Jeremy Armstrong, “Rome in the sixth century”, in War and Society in Early Rome: From Warlords to Generals, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 55:
glosses: Of or relating to a curia.
Synonyms: curial
browbeats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of browbeat
browbeating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of browbeat
browbeating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: browbeatings
Senses: glosses: A scolding.
Chernobyl
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/
ipa: /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/
ipa: /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: Chornobyl
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ).
Senses: examples: text: A couple of oil shocks, a Chernobyl meltdown, and a Gulf War later, his basic message - the need to emphasize efficiency and renewable resources over oil and nuclear power - is still a minority view,[…]
ref: 1991 July 26, Brad Knickerbocker, “Think Tank on the Efficient Energy Trail”, in Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: A partially abandoned city and ghost town in northern Ukraine, known as the site of a nuclear disaster.
examples: text: After Chernobyl, very few nuclear power plants were built for years.
glosses: The 1986 nuclear accident which resulted in the abandonment of the aforementioned city.
Derived terms: word: Chernobyl syndrome
word: Chernobylian
word: Chernobylic
english: the mineral
translation: the mineral
word: chernobylite
english: a person from Chernobyl
translation: a person from Chernobyl
word: Chernobylite
Chernobyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tʃɜːˈnɒbəl/
ipa: /tʃɜːˈnəʊbəl/
ipa: /t͡ʃɚˈnoʊbəl/
rhymes: -ɒbəl
rhymes: -əʊbəl
Forms: form: Chernobyls
form: Chornobyl
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian Черно́быль (Černóbylʹ).
Senses: examples: text: Many secret cities were Chernobyls in slow motion.
ref: 1994 August, “Nuclear chaos”, in Popular Science, volume 245, number 2, page 54:
text: The effects of a Chernobyl disaster in my community would probably be barely noticeable.
ref: 1999 May 6, Terence Scully, “When cell phones kill our brain waves, we will worry less”, in The Record (Kitchener, Ont.):
text: So those would be a lot of Chernobyls that the ecosystem would have to deal with.
ref: 2007 September 7, “Imagining a World Without Humans”, in NPR_TalkNation:
text: It has to be handled properly with great accuracy and no room for mistakes, because if we do have like a Chernobyl catastrophe, God forbid, it could wipe out our entire people.
ref: 2010 March 10, Ben Garcia, “Many Kuwaitis yet to be convinced on nuke energy”, in Kuwait Times:
glosses: A major nuclear-energy accident.
Related terms: Bhopal
Fukushima
Hiroshima
Tet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese Tết.
Senses: examples: text: 1981, Mimi Holtzman, TET: celebrating the Vietnamese New Year, Voices in Educational Transition, 114
text: 2004, Ngọc Bích Nguyễn, Tet!: the Vietamese New Year, East Coast U.S.A. Vietnamese Pub. Consortium, 141
ref: 1994, Dianne M. MacMillan, Tet: Vietnamese New Year, Enslow Publishers, section 48:
glosses: Vietnamese New Year celebration, occurring during the first seven days of the first month of the lunar calendar.
glosses: The Tet Offensive, in the Vietnam War.
Tet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tets
Senses: examples: text: To develop the higher mind one must first lower himself to raise the serpent, or set up the Tet pillar of Osiris.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 222:
glosses: An ancient Egyptian symbol of the god Osiris, in form a small pillar with a number of flat sections towards the top.
nuoc mam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /nʌk mɑm/
/nək mɑm/
Forms: form: nuoc mams
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese nước mắm (“salted fish sauce”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:nuoc mam.
glosses: A fish sauce used in Vietnamese cookery.
Related terms: alt: nước nhút
word: nuoc nhut
word: nam pla
pho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ/
ipa: /fɜː/
ipa: /fʌ/
ipa: /foʊ/
ipa: /fʌ/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -ɜː
rhymes: -ʌ
homophone: faux
homophone: foe
Forms: form: phos
form: phở
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese phở.
Senses: examples: text: PHO is the name of an Annamese soup held in high esteem. It is made with beef, a veal bone, onions, a bayleaf, salt, and pepper, and a small teaspoon of nuoc-man, a typically Annamese condiment which is used in practically all their dishes.
ref: 1935: Marcelle "Countess" Morphy, Recipes of All Nations, p. 802 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924003591769;view=1up;seq=816
text: 2003: Frank Browning, "73106: Lemongrass on the Prairie", National Geographic, vol. 203, issue 3 http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0303/feature6/
Ten minutes away from the intersection, the heart of Little Saigon, you can easily walk to five restaurants specializing in pho (the classic Vietnamese beef broth soup), two Asian supermarkets, and several Chinese barbecue cafés.
glosses: A Vietnamese soup with a beef base, typically served with rice noodles and optionally beef or chicken.
Derived terms: pho-men
pho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəʊ/
ipa: /fɜː/
ipa: /fʌ/
ipa: /foʊ/
ipa: /fʌ/
rhymes: -əʊ
rhymes: -ɜː
rhymes: -ʌ
homophone: faux
homophone: foe
Forms: form: foh
form: phoh
Senses: examples: text: 'She is come!' said the old gentleman, laying his hand upon his heart. 'Cormoran and Blunderbore! She is come! All the wealth I have is hers if she will take me for her slave. Where are grace, beauty, and blandishments, like those? In the Empress of Madagascar? No. In the Queen of Diamonds? No. In Mrs Rowland, who every morning bathes in Kalydor for nothing? No. Melt all these down into one, with the three Graces, the nine Muses, and fourteen biscuit-bakers' daughters from Oxford Street, and make a woman half as lovely. Pho! I defy you.'
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby:
glosses: Expressing dismissive contempt.
Synonyms: feh
pfaugh
pish
pshaw
bah
seethed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of seethe
ao dai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈaʊˈdaɪ]
[ˈaʊˈzaɪ]
Forms: form: ao dais
Etymology: Borrowed from Vietnamese áo dài.
Senses: examples: text: While the ao dai first took off in Tonkin, southern women in Saigon were the ones to make it famous and those Vietnamese who were overseas after 1975 ensured that it remained a symbol of national elegance until it made a comeback in post-communist Vietnam.
ref: 2016, Christopher Goscha, The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam, Penguin, published 2017, page 382:
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: A two panelled dress, worn by Vietnamese women as a national costume.
half-truths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-truth
acrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more acrophobic
form: most acrophobic
Etymology: From acro- + -phobic.
Senses: examples: text: Leave the non-hikers at the picnic area below a classic Gorge waterfall and take a stroll along the horizontal Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail, or head three-quarters of a mile up a narrow trail to an overlook with acrophobic views similar to those in the first “Twilight” movie.
ref: 2014 March 4, Melissa Coleman, “36 Hours in Hood River, Ore.”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or pertaining to or suffering from acrophobia.
acrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acrophobics
Etymology: From acro- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: A person who has acrophobia.
instrumental width
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumental widths
Senses: topics: engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The width of a fringe formed in monochromatic light.
net lease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: net leases
Senses: topics: business
glosses: An agreement that requires the tenant to pay, in addition to the fixed rent, all of the property expenses which normally would be paid by the owner. For US real property these include real estate taxes, insurance, maintenance, repairs and utilities.
novum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novums
form: nova
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin novum.
Senses: examples: text: we find among the cultured devotees a tendency to idealize a foreign civilisation — a novum in Chinese history.
ref: 1959, Erik Zürcher, The Buddhist conquest of China, volume 1, page 266:
glosses: A new feature, a novelty.
examples: text: In his book Metamorphoses of Science Fiction (1979), Suvin introduced a number of ideas that remain central in sf criticism: cognitive estrangement, the novum and sf's genetic link with utopia.[…]Even more influential in sf theory than cognitive estrangement is Suvin's concept of the novum.[…]Suvin adopts the concept of the novum from the work of Ernst Bloch, for whom the term refers to those concrete innovations of lived history that awaken human collective consciousness out of a static present to awareness that history can be changed. The novum thus inspires hope for positive historical transformations.
ref: 2003, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., “7: Marxist theory and science fiction”, in Edward James, Farah Mendlesohn, editors, The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction, Cambridge University Press, page 118:
text: It seems that this ‘point of difference’, the thing or things that differentiate the world portrayed in science fiction from the world we recognise around us, is the crucial separator between SF and other forms of imaginative or fantastic literature. The critic Darko Suvin has usefully coined the term ‘novum’, the Latin for ‘new’ or ‘new thing’, to refer to this ‘point of difference’ (the plural is ‘nova’). An SF text may be based on one novum, such as [...]. More usually it will be predicated on a number of interrelated nova, such as [...]. This ‘novum’ must not be supernatural but need not necessarily be a piece of technology.
ref: 2006, Adam Roberts, Science Fiction, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 6–7:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
narratology
publishing
science-fiction
sciences
glosses: An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is afforded plausibility by the assumption that the fictional setting is scientifically consistent.
examples: text: Abate throw at novum, and the whole world again
Cannot pick out five such, take each one in his vein.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], lines 540–541:
glosses: A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.
Related terms: nova
novel
mucilaginous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmjuːsɪˈlædʒɪnəs/
Forms: form: more mucilaginous
form: most mucilaginous
form: mucilagenous
Etymology: From New Latin mūcilāginōsus from Late Latin mūcus.
Senses: examples: text: Appa [...] forked down his throat the mucilaginous scrambled eggs.
ref: 2008, Preeta Samarasan, Evening is the Whole Day, Fourth Estate, page 303:
synonyms: viscid
mucous
mucousy
glosses: Of or pertaining to mucilage; of, pertaining to, or resembling mucus; slimy and viscous.
Derived terms: mucilaginously
mucilaginousness
nonmucilaginous
Related terms: mucilage
all sizzle and no steak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Her latest novel is all sizzle and no steak.
text: 1999, "Nonprofit community increasing nervousness about Year 2000" by Gary M. Grobman. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing, vol 4 issue 2.
Y2K may be the equivalent of the Kohotek comet—all sizzle and no steak.
glosses: A thing or person which fails to measure up to its description or advance promotion.
Synonyms: all hat and no cattle
all talk and no action
arachibutyrophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊbiə
Etymology: From Latin arachis (“peanut”) + butyro- (“butter”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: Odds and ends I've come across in the course of an education: That arachibutyrophobia is an unnatural fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. I have no idea how many people suffer from this.
ref: 1977 March 31, Ball State Daily News, page 4:
text: Her ARACHIBUTYROPHOBIA had been getting worse lately. She finally chose a jar of creamy style peanut butter, knowing it would never be opened once she got it home.
ref: 1981, John E. Readence, Thomas W. Bean, R. Scott Baldwin, Content Area Reading: An Integrated Approach, →ISBN, page 67:
text: Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia? Or does peanut butter just freak you out?
ref: 2003, Richard Waters, Phobias: Fear and Loathing Revealed and Explained, →ISBN:
text: He took a bite of sandwich, chewed, and grinned at her. "Arachibutyrophobia. Look it up."
ref: 2005, Lawana Blackwell, A Table By the Window, →ISBN:
text: Look, if people can suffer from arachibutyrophobia, which is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth, then I have no doubt there's a clinical name for being afraid to leave your baby with a sitter for a half hour while you run to 7-Eleven.
ref: 2006, Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay: And Other Things I Had to Learn as a New Mom, →ISBN, page 88:
text: Imagine the situation had this bear suffered from arachibutyrophobia!
ref: 2012, Manish Gupta, English Bites!, →ISBN:
text: Similarly, arachibutyrophobia, the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth, can probably be dealt with by not eating peanut butter, or just eating it carefully.
ref: 2013, John Connolly, The Creeps: A Samuel Johnson Adventure, →ISBN, page 51:
text: Arachibutyrophobia—fear of peanut butter being stuck to the top of your mouth. [...] Trust me when I say there is a fear of everything.
ref: 2015, James Egan, 100 Ways to Stop Sabotaging Your Life, →ISBN, page 70:
glosses: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
religioso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: religiosos
form: religiosi
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece intended to be played with religious devotion.
glosses: A religious person or zealot.