cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
spotted dick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spotted dicks
Etymology: Spotted refers to the dried fruits (that resemble spots). Dick is a dialectal term for "pudding". It may be related to dough, duff (meaning "dough" or "pudding") and Old English dāg (“dough”). Alternatively, it may be a corruption/contraction of the last syllable of pudding, or from German dick (“thick, viscous”).
Senses: examples: text: These English aristos will eat spotted dick in August and demand strawberries in January. Why not give them what they want? Take their shekels, my son, praising Allah, is my philosophy.
ref: 1996, Amy Myers, chapter 4, in Murder in the Motor Stable (An Auguste Didier whodunnit; 9), Long Preston, North Yorkshire: Magna Large Print Books, published 1997, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: A steamed suet pudding containing dried fruit, usually currants; traditional in England.
memorability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: memorabilities
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being memorable.
up the ante
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ups the ante
form: upping the ante
form: upped the ante
form: upped the ante
Senses: examples: text: With three aces and two jacks, he thought it was safe to up the ante.
topics: card-games
poker
synonyms: raise the ante
raise the stakes
glosses: To raise the stakes of a hand of poker.
glosses: Of a dispute, to take an action that raises the stakes, i.e. that increases the chances of conflict.
examples: text: When runners cross-train for events, they often up the ante by running on sand.
text: At the same time, leaders of the sport have continued to up the ante, organizing harder and longer races. Many last several days and hundreds of miles and include both high-altitude climbs and extreme temperatures.
ref: 2021 May 25, Matthew Futterman, “‘I Am So Freaked Out. I Can’t Even Get My Mind Around It.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2021:
glosses: To render something more difficult.
examples: text: The school system cannot raise teachers' salaries, so they are providing better benefits as an effort to up the ante.
text: After a slow start, it was the home side who began to up the ante. Gokdeniz Karadeniz caused Spurs problems with his raids down the right and Alan Kasaev fired narrowly over from one of his pull-backs.
ref: 2011 November 3, Chris Bevan, “Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021:
synonyms: sweeten the pot
glosses: To render something more desirable.
put one's mind to it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts one's mind to it
form: putting one's mind to it
form: put one's mind to it
form: put one's mind to it
Senses: examples: text: You can do anything, if you put your mind to it.
glosses: To apply oneself; to exert a directed effort.
Related terms: buckle down
make a go of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a go of
form: making a go of
form: made a go of
form: made a go of
Senses: examples: text: He quit his regular job and tried to make a go of it as an artist.
text: They made a go of the new business.
text: They had to sell farm; after three consecutive crop failures, they just couldn’t make a go of it.
text: Look, I came up to make a go of this. To stop running away from the best thing I've had. To stop you running away.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 202:
glosses: To succeed in (something); especially, to succeed in making a living.
Related terms: give it a go
kere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keri
form: k'ri
form: qere
form: qeri
form: q'ri
Etymology: Borrowed from Aramaic קְרֵי (qəre, “to be read”).
Senses: glosses: A reading that in the traditional Jewish mode of reading the Hebrew Bible is substituted for one actually standing in the consonantal text, with the consonants of the word or phrase to be read being usually given in the margin and the vowel points being inserted in the text (if the text is vocalized).
gonotyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonotyls
Etymology: From gono- + Ancient Greek τύλη (túlē, “swelling”).
Senses: glosses: A sucker surrounding the genital opening and often intimately associated with the acetabulum of certain trematode worms.
xanthene dye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthene dyes
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of brilliant fluorescent yellow to pink to bluish red dyes characterized by the presence of the xanthene nucleus, known sometimes in colorless as well as colored forms, and used chiefly in dyeing textile fibers, in coloring paper, in producing fluorescent effects, and as organic pigments.
xanthine oxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthine oxidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A crystallizable flavoprotein enzyme containing iron and molybdenum that promotes the oxidation especially of hypoxanthine and xanthine to uric acid and of many aldehydes to carboxylic acids and that is obtained usually from milk or liver.
Synonyms: xanthinoxidase
xanthism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ξανθισμός (xanthismós), by surface analysis, xantho- + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A yellowish colouring of pigments in hair, skin, feathers, etc.
irredentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪst/
Forms: form: irredentists
Etymology: From Irredentist.
Senses: examples: text: As the assassination of Sadat proved, the Arab irredentists, like the Zionist ultras, have always been unerring in picking off any incipient mediators.
ref: 2007, Clive James, Cultural Amnesia, pages 630–1:
glosses: Someone who calls for the seizure or recovery of territories or states currently subject to other countries; an adherent of irredentism.
irredentist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɹɪˈdɛntɪst/
Forms: form: more irredentist
form: most irredentist
Etymology: From Irredentist.
Senses: examples: text: In 1885, a Bulgarian irredentist movement seized control of neighbouring Ottoman-ruled Eastern Roumelia and announced the creation of a Greater Bulgaria.
ref: 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 126:
glosses: Of or relating to irredentists or their policies.
Related terms: irredentism
irredentistic
xanthophylls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xanthophyll
xanthomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From xanthoma + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to xanthoma or xanthomatosis.
xenocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xenocentric
form: most xenocentric
Etymology: From xeno- + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The semi-secret watching of Italian television produced a xenocentric fascination for Western countries and their consumer lifestyles, denied to Albanians for so long[…]
ref: 2011, Russell King, Nicola Mai, Out of Albania: From Crisis Migration to Social Inclusion in Italy, page 42:
glosses: Of, relating to, or advocating xenocentrism.
xenoglossy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌziːnəˈɡlɒsi/
/ˌzɛnəˈɡlɒsi/
Forms: form: xenoglossies
Etymology: From xeno- + -glossia, borrowed from French xénoglossie.
Senses: examples: text: The most well-documented case of xenoglossy, however, concerned Swiss Medium Hélène Smith (1861-1929), who falsely claimed to speak the Martian language.
ref: 2007 September 1, J. Gordon Melton, The Encyclopedia of Religious Phenomena, Canton: Visible Ink, →ISBN, →OL, keyword “xenoglossy”, page 359:
synonyms: xenoglossia
glosses: Knowledge of a language one has never learned.
glosses: Glossolalia.
Derived terms: xenoglossic
xenoglossically
Related terms: xenoglossophobia
xenocryst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenocrysts
form: xenocrystal
Etymology: xeno- + -cryst
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An isolated crystal having a different origin than the igneous rock in which it is found; the mineralogical equivalent of a xenolith.
xenophora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xenophoras
form: xenophorae
Etymology: From the genus name Xenophora.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any mollusk of the genus Xenophora.
Related terms: xenophore
gorgonin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gorgonian + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A complex protein frequently containing appreciable quantities of iodine and bromine that makes up the horny skeleton of typical gorgonians.
carrion crow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrion crows
Etymology: From its habit of feeding on carrion.
Senses: glosses: The common European black crow Corvus corone.
glosses: The American black vulture Coragyps atratus.
gordiaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or being a member of the Nematomorpha
gorillian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From gorilla + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Barton was gorillian of build, all of it muscle, and Churchillian of jaw, all of it stubborn, but for all that amazingly good at not trampling over the authority of village elders.
ref: 1998, Dana Stabenow, Fire and Ice, page 77:
text: […] the voices of animals begin to open to the dramaturgical. The gorilla's visual (chest pounding) and auditory (roaring) gestures are simultaneously posturing and actions, creating the aura that is distinctively gorillian.
ref: 2012, Don Ihde, Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound, Second Edition:
glosses: of, relating to, or resembling a gorilla.
Gorevan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in Azerbaijan.
Gorevan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gorevans
Senses: glosses: A style of Persian carpet used as furnishing.
Synonyms: Heriz
molasses grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molasses grasses
Senses: synonyms: capim-gordura
Efwatakala grass
gordura grass
honey grass
stinkgrass
glosses: A spreading perennial forage grass, Melinis minutiflora, native to tropical Africa, that is covered with hairs which exude a sweet substance having the odour of molasses.
gorcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gorcocks
Senses: glosses: The red grouse.
head off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heads off
form: heading off
form: headed off
form: headed off
Senses: examples: text: We will head off on our holidays tomorrow.
glosses: To begin moving away.
examples: text: The cavalry will head off the bandits at the pass.
text: Spurred by her early successes and lack of reprisal, AB has now gone beyond her original stance against gays as teachers and is now advocating a federal law to outlaw gays […] And she just may succeed if we do not move now in a way that we have never moved, to head her off.
ref: 1978 February 11, Donald Cameron Scot, “Controversy and Boycott Must Continue”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 31, page 5:
synonyms: cut off
glosses: To intercept.
examples: text: The government took steps to head off summertime shortages of gasoline.
text: Theresa May will use a speech to the Scottish Conservative conference on Friday to try to head off growing nationalists’ demands for a second independence referendum.
ref: 2017 February 27, Mure Dickie, Henry Mance, “Theresa May’s speech to head off Scottish independence poll”, in Financial Times:
text: Although the deal, announced hours before the deadline for registering coalitions expired, is intended to head off a split vote and to galvanise leftwing voters against the conservative People’s party (PP), which is leading the polls, there are enduring differences and tensions between Podemos and Sumar.
ref: 2023 June 9, Sam Jones, “Podemos and leftist alliance Sumar agree to run jointly in Spain’s snap election”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To avoid the undesirable consequences of; to prevent.
examples: text: Perseus, St. George, Hercules, Jonah, and Vishnoo! there’s a member-roll for you! What club but the whaleman’s can head off like that?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 82, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 405:
glosses: To start out.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To turn away from the wind.
Derived terms: head off at the pass
Related terms: off-heading
Gorki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gorky
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Horki (a town in Belarus)
xylenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xyl- + -ene + -yl.
Senses: glosses: Xylyl.
Qatabanian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.təˈbɑ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -ɑniən
Forms: form: more Qatabanian
form: most Qatabanian
form: Qatabānian
form: Qatabanic
form: Qatabānic
Etymology: From Qataban + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the culture of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban.
Qatabanian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.təˈbɑ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -ɑniən
Forms: form: Qatabanians
form: Qatabānian
form: Qatabanic
form: Qatabānic
Etymology: From Qataban + -ian.
Senses: glosses: a native or inhabitant of the ancient South Arabian kingdom of Qataban
Qatabanian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkæ.təˈbɑ.ni.ən/
rhymes: -ɑniən
Forms: form: Qatabānian
form: Qatabanic
form: Qatabānic
Etymology: From Qataban + -ian.
Senses: glosses: the extinct Old South Arabian language of the Qatabanians
kaimakam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaimakams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kaymakam.
Qashqai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gashgai
form: Ghashghai
form: Kashgai
form: Khashgai
form: Qashgai
form: Quashgai
form: Quashqai
Etymology: From Persian قشقایی, from the name in Qashqai, قشقایی.
Senses: examples: text: The Quashgai men were lean, hard-mouthed, weatherbeaten and wore cylindrical caps of white felt.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 182:
glosses: A tribal confederation of clans of Turkic origin in the Shiraz region of Iran.
Qashqai
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gashgai
form: Ghashghai
form: Kashgai
form: Khashgai
form: Qashgai
form: Quashgai
form: Quashqai
Etymology: From Persian قشقایی, from the name in Qashqai, قشقایی.
Senses: glosses: The language spoken by such clans.
Q-Celtic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Due to these languages retaining the phoneme /*kʷ/, as opposed to P-Celtic in which it changed to /*p/.
Senses: glosses: The Goidelic language group.
glosses: More generally, any Celtic language (such as Celtiberian) where Proto-Celtic *kʷ became [k] or remained as
xylostroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylostromata
Etymology: From xylo- + stroma.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The felted stroma of various wood-destroying fungi.
Derived terms: xylostromatoid
xylotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + -tomy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The art of preparing sections of wood (as by means of a microtome) for microscopic examination.
Related terms: xylotomic
xystus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈzɪstəs/
Forms: form: xysti
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ξυστός (xustós, “smooth; scraped”), from ξύω (xúō, “scrape”), referring to its polished floor.
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: xyst
xystum
glosses: A long and open portico within the gymnasium.
raw_tags: in Ancient Greece
Related terms: Xystus in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
xylometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylometers
Etymology: From xylo- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument used to determine the specific gravity of wood.
xylopyrography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Etymology: From xylo- + pyrography.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The art of burning pictures onto wood.
xylomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zīʹ-lō-măn'-sē
ipa: /ˈzaɪ.loʊˌmæn.si/
other: /ˈzaɪ.loʊˌmæn.si/
other: /ˈzaɪ.ləʊˌmæn.si/
rhymes: -aɪləʊmænsi
Etymology: From xylo- + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: Divination by means of examining or burning pieces of wood.
Related terms: xylomancer
xylobalsamum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The dried twigs or fragrant wood of balm of Gilead (or balsam of Mecca).
xylocaine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From xylo- + -caine.
Senses: glosses: Lidocaine.
wood parenchyma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The vertical and usually axially arranged parenchyma of the xylem that is believed to function chiefly in carbohydrate storage.
xylary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: Economic Geology
Wax does not seem to be secreted […] in the xylary tissues of plants.
glosses: Of or relating to wood and especially xylem
Derived terms: interxylary
intraxylary
Xty
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Christianity.
X-ray absorbing glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-ray absorbing glasses
Senses: glosses: glass (having a high lead content) that resists the penetration of X-rays and gamma rays
X-stretcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-stretchers
Etymology: From the resemblance to the letter X.
Senses: glosses: A pair of flat or curved stretchers, on a chair etc., that often have a knob at the intersection
roentgenotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roentgentherapy
Senses: glosses: The therapeutic use of X-rays.
Related terms: roentgenotherapeutic
roentgenotherapist
X-stool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: X-stools
Senses: glosses: A simple stool having an X-shaped frame, often one that folds
xiphioid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more xiphioid
form: most xiphioid
Etymology: From ξιφία (xiphía), from ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or related to the genus Xiphias (swordfish).
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Resembling or related to the family Xiphiidae (a group of fish).
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Sword-shaped; ensiform.
xiphioid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xiphioids
Etymology: From ξιφία (xiphía), from ξίφος (xíphos, “sword”) + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the genus Xiphias or family Xiphiidae.
Spanish iris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Spanish irises
Senses: synonyms: small bulbous-rooted iris
xiphium iris
glosses: A bulbous iris, Iris xiphium, from the western Mediterranean; it has violet-purple flowers with a short perianth tube.
xiphidiocercaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /zəˌfɪdi.oʊ.sɝˈkɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From xiphidio- + cercaria.
Senses: glosses: A cercaria having a stylet in the anterior rim of its oral sucker with which it actively penetrates its host.
xiphisternal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the xiphisternum.
Jicaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jicaques
form: Jicaque
Senses: glosses: A member of an Indian people of northern Honduras.
Jicaque
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The language of these people.
xeromorph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeromorphs
Etymology: From xero- + -morph.
Senses: glosses: Any plant, with xeromorphic leaves, that is adapted to a dry atmosphere; a xerophyte.
xerogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerogels
Etymology: From xero- + gel.
Senses: glosses: A solid formed by the dehydration of a gel.
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: quats
Senses: glosses: A pustule.
examples: text: I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry.
ref: 1565, William Shakespeare, Othello:
glosses: An annoying, worthless person.
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: quats
form: quatting
form: quatted
form: quatted
Senses: examples: 1757, Samuel Foote, The Author, Act II, Scene ii, 1765, The Dramatic Works, Volume 1, page 28,
Mrs. Cad. Well, come, begin and ſtart me, that I may come the ſooner to quatting——Huſh ! here′s Siſter ; what the deuce brought her !
glosses: To satiate.
examples: text: Ye hae grown proud since ye quatted the begging. — Scottish proverb, said satirically.
text: 'Mang mis'ry's posts, whar I did sit, My tongue took sic a faltrin' fit, I thought the wee remains o' wit I had, was quat me
ref: 1813, Hugh Porter, Poetical attempts, page 35:
text: They seem to our ears indeed to have "quat their roaring play."
ref: 1868, John Wilson, Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2:
glosses: To relinquish, forsake, give up.
examples: text: Tho' B-lt-n, quatted in the hall, Her jolly r-mpfs display'd, The size of it amaz'd them all, and Hector quite dismay'd.
ref: 1700, Ta Paidia Tēs Kythereias; Or, King's Place In An Uproar, page 10:
text: This cows' courant so excited the tinners' curiosity that they went up the hill till they saw the two men wrestling, with the women looking on; then they quatted (stooped) down in a brake of furze to watch the play without being seen.
ref: 1870, William Bottrell, Traditions and Hearthside Stories of West Cornwall:
text: Tarka quatted on the ledge ; he knew that Deadlock would follow hiin wherever he swam in water.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
text: She quatted down next to him and rubbed his shoulder.
ref: 2013, R. M. Lienau, The Truchas Light: A Novel, →ISBN, page 155:
qualifier: Wales and Southwest England
glosses: To squat or crouch down.
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Senses: examples: text: My word, I gie him nae encouragement ! I canna bide the sicht o' him, and wad gie the best gown I hae to be quat o' him."
ref: 1838, Chambers's Journal, page 134:
text: There it is, sir—Im blythe to be quat of it; pitch it from ye furder than I can see.
ref: 1861, Mrs. Oliphant, The House on the Moor:
text: HECH me, but I'm weary, I'm heart-sick and sad ; O' my kinsfolk I've got quite a wamefu', I wush I was quat o' the d — nable squad — Forgi'e me for sweerin' sae shamefu'.
ref: 1895, William Stewart, Lilts and Larks Frae Larkie, page 177:
glosses: Free; no longer involved with; quit.
raw_tags: with "of"
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: quats
Etymology: Clipping of quaternary.
Senses: examples: text: “Because quats are positively charged, and skin proteins have a slightly negative charge, quats like to attach themselves to skin,” said Greg Nole, a manager at Unilever, the parent company of Vaseline and Dove.
ref: 2009 October 1, Hilary Howard, “New Ways to Moisturize for Less”, in The New York Times:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A quaternary ammonium cation or compound.
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Etymology: Clipping of quaternary.
Senses: glosses: Quaternary.
quat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒt/
ipa: /kwɑt/
rhymes: -ɒt
Forms: form: quats
Etymology: See khat.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of khat.
quatreble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quatrebles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A voice pitched a fifth above treble.
quasquicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a period of 125 years.
quasquicentennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A 125th anniversary.
glosses: A celebration to mark such an anniversary.
quasi-reorganization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-reorganizations
Etymology: From quasi- + reorganization.
Senses: glosses: A corporate accounting procedure in which recapitalization is achieved by the elimination of the existing deficit and the establishment of a new earned surplus account for future earnings only.
quasi partner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi partners
Senses: glosses: a nominal partner
Related terms: quasipartnership
quasi-rent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi-rents
Etymology: From quasi- + rent.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The income earned, in excess of post-investment opportunity cost, by a sunk cost investment.
quaruba
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarubas
Etymology: Probably from Portuguese quaruba; further etymology unknown.
Senses: glosses: Any tree of the genus Vochysia, of the tropical Americas.
glosses: Wood from these trees.
quartz schist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartz schists
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A metamorphosed schist composed mostly of quartz with some mica and/or tourmaline.
quartz mining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the mining of gold-bearing quartz
quartzitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quartzite + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to, or containing quartzite.
QRS complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: QRS complexes
Senses: topics: cardiology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A series of graphical deflections on a typical electrocardiogram that represents the electrical changes generated by the depolarization of the heart ventricles.
Meronyms: Q wave
R wave
S wave
Related terms: P wave
T wave
qto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of quarto.
qtr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qtrs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of quarter.
qtr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of quarterly.
quackle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quackles
form: quackling
form: quackled
form: quackled
Etymology: From quack + -le?
Senses: glosses: To choke.
glosses: To make a quacking sound.
quadrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒd.ɹæt/
Forms: form: quadrats
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 2 below.
Senses: topics: sciences
glosses: An area of land, marked for studying its plants, animals, soil, natural processes, etc.
Derived terms: photoquadrat
subquadrat
Related terms: transect
quadrat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒd.ɹæt/
Forms: form: quadrats
form: quadratting
form: quadratted
form: quadratted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadrātum. Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 2 below.
Senses: glosses: To place a quadrat, or divide into quadrats.
quadrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkwɒd.ɹæt/
Forms: form: quadrats
Etymology: Attested since 1683. Possibly from French cadrat or Italian quadrato (“square”), from Latin quadrātum (“square”). Doublet of quadrate and of etymology 1 above. So called because the basic quadrat, the em quadrat, has a square face, having the same width as the height of a line of type.
Senses: examples: text: If his Title be ſhort, he Sets it in the middle of the Line, by Setting Quadrats on both ſides: If his Title be long, he Sets the middle Line in the middle: If it make three or more Lines, he Indents the firſt with an m Quadrat, and the other with two m Quadrats.
ref: 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises: Or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works. Applied to the art of Printing., volume 2, pages 222–23:
text: The footsticks may be a trifle shorter than the width of two pages and the gutter; for as there should always be a line of quadrats, or a reglet cut to measure, at the foot of each page, the footstick may be a pica shorter without danger, on this account, of any thing falling out, when the form is lifted and it thus prevents the side and foot sticks from binding when locked up.
ref: 1841, William Savage, A Dictionary of the Art of Printing, page 330:
topics: letterpress-typography
media
publishing
typography
synonyms: quad
space
glosses: A quad; a blank metal block used to fill space in lines of type.
topics: Egyptology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A virtual rectangular subdivision of a line or column of hieroglyphs within which a group of hieroglyphs is arranged.
Derived terms: quad
quadrant plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrant plates
Senses: glosses: A slotted plate for carrying the gears of a lathe.
glosses: A Petri dish, divided into four, and containing agar and other materials, used in the identification of bacteria.
quadrans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrantes
Etymology: From Latin quadrāns. Doublet of quadrant.
Senses: glosses: A bronze coin of the Roman republic worth one quarter of an as.
quadrature of the circle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The problem, proposed by ancient Greek geometers, of using a finite ruler-and-compass construction to make a square with the same area as a given circle.
Synonyms: squaring the circle
tetragonism
quadratus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒˈdreɪ.təs/
ipa: /kwɑˈdreɪ.təs/
rhymes: -eɪtəs
Forms: form: quadrati
Etymology: From Latin quadratus, perfect passive participle of quadro (“I make square”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several roughly square or rectangular muscles, e.g. in the abdomen, thigh, and eye socket.
Derived terms: pronator quadratus
quadratus femoris
quadratus lumborum
quadratus plantae
quadrigamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrigamists
Etymology: From quadrigamy + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has four spouses at the same time.
Related terms: quadrigamy
bigamist
trigamist
Lycra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: [ˈlaɪkɹə]
Forms: form: Lycras
form: lycra
Etymology: Marketing coinage.
Senses: glosses: A type of synthetic elastic fabric and fibre (spandex) used for tight-fitting garments, such as swimming costumes.
glosses: Clothing made from such materials, especially with reference to cycling shorts.
examples: text: Being a gym bunny is simply unbecoming. Not as unbecoming, perhaps, as the bicycle bunnies, with their helmet hair, their strangely padded Lycras that suggest a degree of sexual depravity and those ridiculous clacky shoes. But we’re not very pleasing to behold.
ref: 2017 November 16, Jo Ellison, “Help: the gym has turned us into slobs”, in Financial Times:
glosses: A tight-fitting garment made of Lycra.
Derived terms: Lycra lout
quadrille paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrille papers
Etymology: Calque of French papier quadrillé.
Senses: glosses: Paper marked out with squares.
Synonyms: graph paper
quadriparous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + -parous.
Senses: examples: text: Quadriparous patients had more sufficient samples than others. None of the patients were nuliparous.
ref: 2004, F. Behnamfar et al., "Diagnostic Value of Endometrial Sampling with Pipelle Suction Curettage for Identifying Endometrial Lesions in Patients with Abnormal Uterine Bleeding", Journal of Research in Medical Sciences 3:21-23
text: Six young nulliparous (6-month-old) and 6 old multiparous (tri- or quadriparous, 2-year-old) female Japanese white rabbits (body weight 3.0 kg) were killed by […]
ref: 1993, Sohei Tokunaka et al., “Proportions of fiber types in the external urethral sphincter of young nulliparous and old multiparous rabbits”, in Urological Research:
glosses: Having given birth to four offspring.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Laying four eggs.
quadriporticus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadriporticus
form: quadriportici
Etymology: From Latin quadriporticus, from Latin quattuor (“four”) + Latin porticus (“colonnade, portico”).
Senses: glosses: A nearly square courtyard surrounded by colonnaded porticoes.
quadrireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒd(ʒ)rɪriːm/
ipa: /ˈkwɑdrəˌrim/
Forms: form: quadriremes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadrirēmis via Middle French quadrirème, equivalent to quadri- (“four”) + remus (“oar”).
Senses: examples: text: The Romanes hauing gained this prise, & ioyned hir to the Quadrireme bothe well furnished of all necessaries, kept them continnally in the entraunce, prohibiting withoute any difficultie the easie entrance of their enimies into Lilybeum.
ref: 1568, Polybius, translated by Christopher Watson, The hystories of the most famous and worthy cronographer Polybius […] , London: Thomas Hacket, page 60:
text: During three decades of peace the Venetian battle fleet had stagnated, but soon, once again, reserve galleys were pushing out of the Arsenal. A colossal quadrireme constructed by the scholar-turned-shipwright Vettor Fausto was loaded with batteries of cannon.
ref: 1980, Colin Thubron, Seafarers: The Venetians, page 121:
glosses: A galley with four banks of oars, each rowed by two oarsmen.
Related terms: unireme
monoreme
bireme
trireme
quinquereme
pentere
polyreme
quadrivoltine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + -voltine.
Senses: glosses: Having four broods or litters in one year.
quadruple thread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruple threads
Senses: glosses: a screw or worm gear having four equal threads and thus capable of being started in four places
quail hawk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quail hawks
Senses: glosses: The New Zealand falcon, Falco novaeseelandiae, formerly also Hieracidea novae-hollandiae.
quakerbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quakerbirds
Senses: glosses: the sooty albatross
qualified fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: qualified fees
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An estate which has an annexed qualification; a base fee.
qualified property
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Ownership that is not absolute and complete.
examples: text: A famous example of qualified property can be found in most wildlife preserves.
synonyms: special property
glosses: Property whose subject matter is by nature not permanent (as wild animals reduced to possession but not in captivity).
topics: law
glosses: The right that a bailee has in the chattel transferred to him by the bailment.
quality magazine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quality magazines
Senses: coordinate_terms: quality newspaper
glosses: A magazine designed to appeal to readers of superior education or culture.
cover-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover-ups
form: coverup
Etymology: From the verb cover up.
Senses: examples: text: Truthfulness means no lies and no cover-ups. Compassion means being kind and helpful to others. Forbearance means being able to tolerate and suffer, and not fight back.
text: [War metaphors] are used, either consciously or unconsciously, for specific effect and purpose. They are used, not so much as descriptions, but rather to convey additional moral, imaginative or judgmental information. The ubiquitous "war between the sexes" is, in fact, a cover-up of the fact that men, generally, have social power over women.
ref: 1991 February 4, Michael Bronski, “Are We Having A War, Or What?”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 28, page 9:
text: Mona: Oh, of course, a cover-up! You know, the whole town would panic if they knew a misunderstood Frankensteinosaurus was on a bloodthirsty rampage! Your secret's safe, Officer. I don't want to cause an international panic any more than you do.
ref: 1999, Mona the Vampire, "Jurassic Parking Lot" (season 1, episode 3b)
text: These divine qualities migrated to Mary because of deficiencies in the theology of God, in Christology and in pneumatology. It makes no lasting sense to retain this as a permanent status quo, using Mary as a cover-up for defective notions of the divine.
ref: 2000 June 17, Elizabeth A. Johnson, “Mary of Nazareth: Friend of God and Prophet”, in America, volume 182, number 21:
text: Many supporters believed Donald Trump would finally expose government cover-ups once he returned to power. But more than six months into his new term, those much-hyped conspiracy theories have either been debunked or quietly fallen apart.
ref: 2025 July 10, Jesus Mesa, “'We've Been Played': MAGA Faces Its Own Disappointment With Trump”, in Newsweek:
glosses: An attempt to conceal or disguise something, especially a wrongdoing or a mistake.
examples: text: The women usually wore bikini tops with shorts, swimsuits underneath cover-ups or just swimsuits. Men came in various types of trunks, from traditional boxers, to Speedos, to G-string trunks that showcased their packages.
ref: 2013, Velvet Carter, Blissfully Yours, page 93:
glosses: An item of clothing to be worn over a swimsuit while not in the water.
qualitied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒlɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more qualitied
form: most qualitied
form: qualited
Etymology: From quality + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: I wot not well, whether my selfe should not much rather desire to beget and produce a perfectly-well-shaped, and excellently-qualited infant, by the acquaintance of the Muses, than by the copulation of my wife.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Endowed with (usually specified) qualities; especially, having good qualities.
qualityless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quality + -less.
Senses: glosses: lacking quality or qualities
quantic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quantics
Etymology: From Latin quantus (“how much”).
Senses: examples: text: When the two quantics are the first derived functions of the same quantic of any odd order, the lineo-linear invariant does not vanish, but it is not an invariant of the single quantic.
ref: 1858, Arthur Cayley, “A Fourth Memoir on Quantics”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 148, published 1859, page 421:
text: 74. The discriminant of a binary quantic, or the eliminant of a system of binary quantics, is an invariant.
We can see a priori that this must be the case, for if a given quantic has a square factor, it will have a square factor still when it is linearly transformed; or if a system of quantics have a common factor, they will still have a common factor when the equations are transformed.
ref: 1859, George Salmon, Modern Higher Algebra, page 52:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A homogeneous polynomial in two or more variables.
quarantine flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarantine flags
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A black and yellow flag (signal flag LIMA) formerly hoisted by a ship to show that it has contagious or infectious disease aboard, or by a ship that has been quarantined. This use was listed in Brown’s 1916 code of signals, but this use is no longer listed in contemporary editions of the International Code of Signals.
quantum unit of spin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A constant used as a unit of measurement for particle spin, equal to Planck's constant divided by 2π.
quantum valebant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "as much as they were worth".
Senses: glosses: A lawsuit to recover payment for goods that have been sold and delivered.
quantum meruit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin as much as is deserved.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An inference that the defendant has promised to pay the plaintiff for the plaintiff's work or labor as much as he should deserve.
quarantiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɒɹəntiːnə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: quarantiners
Etymology: From quarantine + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who quarantines.
synonyms: quarantinee
glosses: One who is quarantined.
Quapaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quapaws
form: Quapaw
Senses: glosses: Any member of a Native American people who once lived in the Arkansas river valley.
Quapaw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: The Dhegihan language spoken by these people.
head_nr: 1
glosses: A town in Oklahoma.
quare clausum fregit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin, meaning "wherefore he broke the close".
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ for land trespass.
quarry light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarry lights
Senses: glosses: a diamond-shaped pane of glass designed to be set in leads
quarry water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The moisture content of freshly quarried porous stone; the water held in the pores of stone.
quarterage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterages
Etymology: From quarter + -age.
Senses: glosses: A quarterly payment or allowance, tax, pension, or wage paid or received.
glosses: The provision of quarters (as for troops), or the cost of it.
quarter belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter belts
Senses: glosses: A belt connecting pulleys whose axles are at right angles; a quarter turn belt.
quarter blanket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter blankets
Senses: glosses: a blanket used under the saddle of a horse
quarter crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter cracks
Senses: glosses: A crack in a horse's forefoot; a sand crack.
quarter light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter lights
form: quarterlight
Senses: glosses: Synonym of quarter glass.
synonyms: word: quarter glass
quarterly court
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterly courts
Senses: glosses: a county court held every three months.
Related terms: quarter day
quarter-phase
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quarter + phase.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Differing in phase by a quarter of a cycle; two-phase.
quarter nettings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Hammock nettings along a ship's quarter rails.
money belt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: money belts
Senses: glosses: A belt concealed under clothing, having a pocket for money or documents.
quarter waiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter waiters
Etymology: Three months is a quarter of a year.
Senses: glosses: A gentleman usher on duty in the English court for three months of each year.
quarter-wave plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarter-wave plates
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A sheet of birefringent material whose thickness is such that the light associated with the larger refractive index is retarded in phase by 90° with respect of that associated with the smaller refractive index; used to convert linearly polarized light into circularly polarized light.
quarter-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quarter + witted. Used as an intensified version of half-witted.
Senses: glosses: Having or displaying half the mental capacity of a half-wit.
Related terms: half-witted
quartz-crystal clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartz-crystal clocks
Senses: glosses: a clock which is regulated by a quartz crystal
quartz-diorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartz-diorites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any form of diorite containing appreciable amounts of quartz.
Quartodeciman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Quartodecimans
Etymology: From the Latin Quārtadecimānī, from quārta decima for the fourteenth day of the first month of the Jewish calendar, which is Nisan.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of early Christians (especially in Asia Minor, Syria, and Jerusalem) who observed Pascha (Christian Passover or Easter) on Nisan 14 of the Hebrew calendar, the day Jesus was crucified according to the Gospel of John, and the day before the beginning of Jewish Passover (also called the Feast of Unleavened Bread (מַצּוֹת (matsót)), which began on Nisan 15.
Quartodeciman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the Latin Quārtadecimānī, from quārta decima for the fourteenth day of the first month of the Jewish calendar, which is Nisan.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to these people.
Related terms: Quartodecimanism
xylophage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xylophages
Etymology: From xylo- + -phage.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any living organism that feeds on wood.
Related terms: xylophagy
xylophagous
Aalborg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɑːlbɔːɡ/
ipa: /ˈɔlˌbɔɹɡ/
ipa: /ˈɑlˌbɔɹɡ/
Forms: form: Ålborg
Senses: glosses: A port city, the capital of North Jutland, Denmark; the fourth-largest city in Denmark.
A & E
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A&E.
A & R
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of A&R.
Aarau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɑːɹaʊ/
Senses: glosses: A municipality and town, the capital of Aargau canton, in northern Switzerland; capital of the Helvetic Republic between 1798 and 1803.
excelsior
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛkˈsɛl.si.ɔː/
ipa: /ɛkˈsɛl.si.ɚ/
ipa: /ɪk-/
Etymology: From Latin excelsior, comparative of excelsus (“high”). The name of the stuffing material was originally a trademark. As an exclamation, originating in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem Excelsior (1841), based on the New York state motto. Popularized in the comic book fandom by Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee, who chose the term to sign off his columns as it was an obscure term and would confound competing publishers who imitated his style.
Senses: examples: text: There was with him a whole host of moral heroes, who, conscious of their power to win the victory , and quickened by the inspirations which they received from that higher state of being, were striving, by the excelsior movement of the soul, to attain to those glory-encircled heights from whence they could look calmly down upon the plane of their earthly existence.
ref: 1865, Lizzie Doten, Poems from the Inner Life, page 154:
text: At this crisis, reverberating among the pines, rang out more distinctly the voice of the excelsior man , urging me to come on. "Oh! I'm all right down here," I answered, gasping for breath.
ref: 1890, Henry Brainard Kent, Graphic Sketches of the West, page 69:
text: All we know for certain is that our tree, now approaching a hundred years old, was excelsior – loftier than any other ash in the vicinity.
ref: 2017 October 5, John Lister-Kaye, Song Of The Rolling Earth: A Highland Odyssey, Hachette UK, →ISBN:
glosses: Loftier, yet higher, more elevated; ever upward.
examples: text: It was clear from the first three paragraphs that the language employed by Mr Tolkien was excelsior. He was brilliant.
ref: 2004, Sean Astin, Joseph Layden, There and Back Again: An Actor's Tale : a Behind-the-scenes Look at the Lord of the Rings, →ISBN:
text: Without comparisons, the beautiful is neither felt nor understood, so that it is the excelsior of the normal type, it is the true + x; it is the splendour of the true.
ref: 2008 February 16, Paolo Mantegazza, Physiology of Love and Other Writings, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 489:
text: ... many people feel that having plastic surgery is a kind of rebirth. I think she felt that every time she had it, it was reinventing herself. It was excelsior, it was higher, it was better.
ref: 2016 July 12, Gerri Hirshey, Not Pretty Enough: The Unlikely Triumph of Helen Gurley Brown, Macmillan + ORM, →ISBN:
glosses: More surpassing, more excelling.