cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
episteme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ĕpĭstēʹmĭ
ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈstiː.mi/
ipa: /ˌɛp.əˈsti.mi/
ipa: /ˈɛp.ɪsˌtiːm/
Forms: form: epistemes
form: epistemai
form: epistemé
form: epistêmê
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἐπιστήμη (epistḗmē, “knowledge”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Scientific knowledge; a principled system of understanding; sometimes contrasted with empiricism.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Know-how; compare techne.
examples: 1997: Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault, pages 65 and 71 (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN
An 'episteme' is the “underground” grid or network which allows thought to organize itself. Each historical period has its own episteme. It limits the totality of experience, knowledge and truth, and governs each science in one period.
Classical representation no longer needs a subject like royalty. It can only be made visible by its invisibility — by appearing in the mirror of representation. The true subject is never to be found in the table — or painting — as a historical subject of life, labour and language. The classical episteme did not isolate a specific domain proper to man.
Axiom: In the classical episteme the subject is bound to escape its own representation.
qualifier: specifically Foucaultian philosophy
glosses: The fundamental body of ideas and collective presuppositions that defines the nature and sets the bounds of what is accepted as true knowledge in a given epistemic epoch.
Related terms: epistemic
epistemically
epistemics
epistemological
epistemologically
epistemologist
epistemology
epistemonical
agnoia
phronesis
techne
silica gel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silica gels
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A granular, porous form of silica made synthetically from sodium silicate and used as a desiccant.
American Revolutionary War
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the American Revolutionary War
Senses: glosses: The American Revolution (1775–1783) of the contiguous southern 13 colonies of the British Empire on the east coast of the North American mainland
Synonyms: alt: BrE
word: American War
word: American War of Independence
alt: AmE
word: Revolutionary War
alt: AmE
word: War of Independence
Coordinate terms: Patriot
Loyalist
redcoat
turncoat
escapism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈskeɪpɪzəm/
Forms: form: escapisms
Etymology: From escape + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: “If you look at literature on why people watch reality TV, that’s one of the main reasons: escapism,” said Danielle J. Lindemann, the author of “True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us.”
ref: 2025 July 7, Sadiba Hasan, quoting Danielle J. Lindemann, “Why Is Everyone Watching ‘Love Island USA’?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
glosses: An inclination to escape from routine or reality into fantasy.
glosses: A genre of book, film etc. that one uses to indulge this tendency.
glosses: The performance of an escape artist.
Related terms: word: escapist
word: escapology
word: escapistic
word: displacement activity
sense: more broadly
word: distraction
word: diversion
escritoire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛskɹiˈtwɑː/
ipa: /ˌɛskɹɪˈtwɑːɹ/
Forms: form: escritoires
form: scrutoire
form: scrutore
Etymology: From French, from escrire, obsolete form of écrire + -oire, indicating a tool or object. Doublet of scriptorium.
Senses: examples: text: To surprise him, by finding on his table the books he liked, or the escritoire he had occasion for, gave Louisa the most delightful moments life had hitherto afforded her;...
ref: 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, pages 199–200:
text: Fine promenades, domed saloons, long galleries, sunny balconies, confidential passages, bridal chambers, state-rooms plenty as pigeon-holes, and out-of-the-way retreats like secret drawers in an escritoire, present like facilities for publicity or privacy.
ref: 1857 April 1, Herman Melville, chapter II, in The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, New York, N.Y.: Dix, Edwards & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Rosemary sat at her Public Works Department escritoire, in a sea of fed cats, and tried to write a letter to Vythilingam.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 561:
glosses: A writing desk with a hinged door that provides the writing surface.
Synonyms: bureau
secretary
Related terms: escritorial
run into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: runs into
form: running into
form: ran into
form: run into
Senses: examples: text: He ran into the building.
text: Here we were nearly 8 min. early, and was now a matter of spinning out time, as indeed we did—losing 3 min. from Penrith to Carlisle!—in order not to run into Carlisle more than 5 min. early.
ref: 1957 August 24, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 568:
qualifier: intransitive but with prepositional object
glosses: To enter by running.
examples: text: He lost control of the vehicle and ran into a tree.
text: I've sustained some front-end damage after running into a pothole.
qualifier: intransitive but with prepositional object
glosses: To collide with.
examples: text: He lost control of the vehicle and ran it into a tree.
qualifier: transitive and with prepositional object
glosses: To cause to collide with.
examples: text: I ran into your cousin the other day.
text: Everything was going according to plan until we ran into the legal problems.
text: Japan's revolutionary New Tokaido Line, the 310-mile, 150 m.p.h. route between Tokyo and Osaka that is due to open for passenger traffic in October, has run into the same kind of budgetary trouble that held up our own LMR electrification, though the Japanese Government, unlike our own, has apparently gritted its teeth and allowed the project to go ahead to planned completion.
ref: 1964 July, “Tokaido line trouble”, in Modern Railways, page 52:
qualifier: intransitive but with prepositional object
glosses: To unexpectedly encounter or meet someone or something (literally or figuratively).
examples: 1849, Charles Anthon, A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography, for the Use of Schools and Colleges, Harper & Brothers, Publishers (1871), page 58,
Œāso, on the coast, at the northern extremity of the Pyrenees, where the River Magrăda, now Urumea, runs into the sea.
qualifier: intransitive but with prepositional object
glosses: To reach, to flow into (a body of water).
raw_tags: of flowing water
examples: 2003, Julie M. Crandall and Mary Helen Brown, "The Millennium Waltz: A Story in Three-Quarter Time", Chapter 18 in Robin Patric Clair (ed.), Expressions of Ethnography: Novel Approaches to Qualitative Methods, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 189,
Of course, a show might start at a certain time, and one must place bets at the sports book at the right time, but for the most part, day runs into night and night runs into day without notice or comment.
qualifier: intransitive but with prepositional object
glosses: To blend into; to be followed by or adjacent to without there being a clear boundary.
examples: text: You can use the paintbrush this way to run the colors into each other.
qualifier: transitive and with prepositional object
glosses: To cause to blend into.
examples: text: By the end, the cost of the project ran into the millions of dollars.
glosses: To reach a large figure.
Derived terms: run into the ground
pruina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A white powdery bloom found on some lichens.
Related terms: pruinose
pruinosity
poot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: poots
Etymology: Americanism; probably onomatopoeic, or related to poop (perhaps a blend of poop(y) + toot); compare toot.
Senses: examples: text: all that stretching and bending will often produce an unwitting poot or two.
ref: 2012, Dougie Brimson, Art of Fart, →ISBN:
synonyms: fart
toot
glosses: A fart, perhaps a relatively quiet one.
coordinate_terms: shart
glosses: Wind broken during an urge to defecate, resulting from the bacterial fermentation of accumulated feces in the colon.
poot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Forms: form: poots
form: pooting
form: pooted
form: pooted
Etymology: Americanism; probably onomatopoeic, or related to poop (perhaps a blend of poop(y) + toot); compare toot.
Senses: synonyms: fart
toot
glosses: To fart.
glosses: To expel a poot (sense 2).
poot
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːt/
rhymes: -uːt
Etymology: Americanism; probably onomatopoeic, or related to poop (perhaps a blend of poop(y) + toot); compare toot.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, poot! I missed again," she complained with a pretty pout.
ref: 1994, Pamela Morsi, Runabout, Thorndike, M.E.: G. K. Hall & Co., →ISBN, page 37:
glosses: A mild expression of disgust or frustration.
glosses: The sound of a short fart.
WHINSEC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
sanctimoniously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sanctimoniously
form: most sanctimoniously
Etymology: From sanctimonious + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a sanctimonious manner.
sanctimoniousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sanctimonious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: This kind of smiling, bossy sanctimoniousness was a little too pervasive for Toby, especially among the female members of the sect.
ref: 2009, Margaret Atwood, The Year of the Flood, Virago Press (2020), page 56:
glosses: The property of being sanctimonious.
evading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of evade
et tu, Brute
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ɛt ˈtu ˌbɹuteɪ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin et tū, Brūte (literally “and you, Brutus”). Used figuratively from 1591 (sometimes jocularly) to express shock and sadness at the treachery of a good friend. Although apparently an Elizabethan invention, a “genuine antique reproduction”, it appears to have been well known in England before its use in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Senses: examples: text: [Prince Edward:] Et tu Brute, wilt thou stab Cæsar too? A parlie sirra to George of Clarence.
ref: 1591, William Shakespeare (disputed), “The True Tragedie of Richard Duke of York, and the Death of Good King Henrie the Sixt”, in Alexander Dyce, Robert Dodsley, Thomas Amyot, editors, A Supplement to Dodsley's Old Plays, volume IV, Shakespeare Society, published 1853, page 176:
text: [Casca stabs Cæsar in the Neck. Cæsar catches hold of his Arm. He is then stabbed by several other Conspirators, and at last by Marcus Brutus.]
Cæsar: Et Tu Brute?—Then fall, Cæsar.
[Dies. The senators and people retire in confusion.]
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 119, column 1:
text: And that is the reason why a young buck with an intelligent looking calf's head before him, is somehow one of the saddest sights you can see. The head looks a sort of reproachfully at him, with an “Et tu Brute!” expression.
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
text: “Oh, Gilbert, not you,” implored Anne, in an et-tu Brute tone. “I thought you would understand. Can’t you see how awful it is?”
ref: 1915, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of the Island, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, →OCLC:
text: Barney Custer turned his incredulous eyes upon the lieutenant. “Et tu, Brute?” he cried in anguished accents, letting his head fall back into the girl’s lap. He found it very comfortable there indeed.
ref: 1926, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Mad King:
text: But according to the Oxford editor of Julius Caesar, ‘Et tu, Brute’ had probably already become a popular tag by the time of True Tragedy [see 1591 cite], readily understood by English speakers just as it is today.
ref: [2002, Randall Martin, editor, Henry VI, Part Three, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, footnote, page 112:
text: "Et tu, Brute?" (3.1.76). This familiar but strange, strangely familiar, anachronistic foreign language at the heart of Julius Caesar is the only Latin in all of Shakespeare's so-called Roman plays.
ref: [2006, Maria Wyke, Julius Caesar in Western Culture, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 223:
glosses: "You too, Brutus" or "even you, Brutus"; expressing a recognition of betrayal.
wikipedia: Julius Caesar (play)
Shakespeare's Ghost Writers
Derived terms: et tu
Mandeali
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An Indo-Aryan language of Himachal Pradesh, Mandi District, India. It is closely related to Dogri, Pahari, and Hindi.
Synonyms: Himachali
Mandiali
Pahari Mandiyali
Mandyali
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
form: liming
form: limed
form: limed
Etymology: From Middle English lyme, lym, lime, from Old English līm, from Proto-West Germanic *līm, from Proto-Germanic *līmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Liem (“glue”), Dutch lijm, German Leim (“glue”), Danish lim (from Old Norse lím), Latin limus (“mud”).
Senses: examples: text: If I were you, I'd lime.
ref: 1917, Rudyard Kipling, The Land:
glosses: To treat with calcium hydroxide or calcium oxide (lime).
glosses: To smear with birdlime.
examples: text: URSULA. She's lim'd, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.
HERO. If it prove so, then loving goes by haps:
Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
ref: 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
text: Abraham, like his parents, seemed to have been limed and caught by the ensnaring inn.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 39:
glosses: To smear with birdlime.
To ensnare, catch, entrap.
glosses: To apply limewash.
Derived terms: overlime
relime
unlimed
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
Etymology: Lime (17th c.) and line (16th c.) are alterations of obsolete lind, from Middle English lynde, from Old English lind, from Proto-Germanic *lindijō. The phonetic development is unusual, but it has been suggested that it began in compounds (loss of -d- perhaps before tree, the change to -m- before labials as in bark or wood). Doublet of linden, which see.
Senses: examples: text: The linden or lime tree is the favourite haunt of the Elves and cognate beings; and it is not safe to be near it after sunset.
ref: 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 158:
text: But there was nothing of an ascetic's expression in her bright full eyes, as she looked before her, not consciously seeing, but absorbing into the intensity of her mood, the solemn glory of the afternoon with its long swathes of light between the far-off rows of limes, whose shadows touched each other.
ref: 1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter III, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 38:
glosses: A deciduous tree of the genus Tilia, especially Tilia × europaea; the linden tree.
glosses: The wood of this tree.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
taxonomic: Tilia americana
word: American lime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
taxonomic: Tilia platyphyllos
word: broad-leaved lime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
taxonomic: Veronica spp.
word: brooklime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
word: limelike
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
taxonomic: Erannis tiliaria
word: lime tree looper
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
word: Ogeechee lime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
word: Philippine lime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
word: round lime
sense: terms derived from noun lime (tree)
taxonomic: Tilia tomentosa
word: silver lime
Related terms: linden
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Etymology: From French lime, from Spanish lima, from Arabic لِيمَة (līma), from Persian لیمو (limu). Doublet of lemon.
Senses: glosses: Containing lime or lime juice.
glosses: Having the aroma or flavor of lime.
glosses: Lime-green.
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
form: liming
form: limed
form: limed
Etymology: Either a back-formation of limer or from the derogatory term limey, a term first given to British soldiers but also used by Trinidadians for American soldiers who used to hang out idle in Port of Spain during World War 2.
Senses: glosses: To hang out or socialize in an informal, relaxed environment, especially with friends, for example at a party or on the beach.
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
Etymology: Either a back-formation of limer or from the derogatory term limey, a term first given to British soldiers but also used by Trinidadians for American soldiers who used to hang out idle in Port of Spain during World War 2.
Senses: qualifier: Trinidad & Tobago
glosses: A casual gathering to socialize.
lime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /laɪm/
rhymes: -aɪm
Forms: form: limes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lyam (“a leash”).
Derived terms: limehound
radioactive waste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radioactive wastes
Senses: examples: text: Dealing with all the radioactive waste left on site is a slow-motion race against time, which will last so long that even the grandchildren of those working on site will not see its end. The process will cost at least £121bn.
ref: December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian:
text: For 75 years, it has fulfilled a wide range of roles: producing weapons-grade plutonium for early atomic weapons in the aftermath of the Second World War; the world's first commercial nuclear power station supplying electricity to the National Grid; reprocessing and storage of nuclear fuel; and the processing of lower grades of radioactive waste for off-site storage.
ref: 2023 December 27, Ben Jones, “Inside Sellafield... by rail”, in RAIL, number 999, page 20:
glosses: Waste containing radioactive nuclides.
capillaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capillary
white man's burden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the poem The White Man's Burden (published 1899) by Rudyard Kipling.
Senses: examples: text: Uncle Sam has found his box of tricks heavy, and is having a whiff before going on with his white man's burden to the end.
ref: 1902 January 2, The Evening Telegraph, Charters Towers, page 3, column 2:
text: Germany's appearance as a colonizing power in Africa was greeted in no unfriendly spirit by either France or Great Britain. Each of the latter felt that it was already possessed of about all it could comfortably look after, and both realized that another shoulder under "The White Man's Burden" in the Dark Continent might make the load easier for all.
ref: 1915 October 6, Lewis Ransome Freeman, “Germany's Exit From Africa”, in The World's Work, volume XXX:
text: So into at least one state troops poured, a battalion of decent National Service lads, to continue to carry, posthumously as it must be supposed, the White Man's Burden.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 609:
glosses: The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects.
wikipedia: Rudyard Kipling
The White Man's Burden
play the white man
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plays the white man
form: playing the white man
form: played the white man
form: played the white man
Senses: qualifier: potentially offensive
glosses: To act with honour, decency, and responsibility.
Related terms: english: honourable, fair, decent, kind
translation: honourable, fair, decent, kind
word: white
enterobacteria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiə
Senses: glosses: plural of enterobacterium
enterobacterium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪəɹiəm
Forms: form: enterobacteria
Etymology: From entero- + bacterium.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of very many gram-negative rod-shaped bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae, many of which are pathogenic.
abominable snowmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abominable snowman
cradle cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cradle caps
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of seborrheic dermatitis that occurs on the scalps of infants, causing scaly, flaky, itchy, red skin.
Synonyms: cradle crust
crusta lactea
milk crust
milk scall
salvific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sælˈvɪf.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more salvific
form: most salvific
Etymology: From Late Latin salvificus, from Latin salvus (“saved, safe”) + facio (“make”).
Senses: examples: text: Less well recognized, however, is the central role played in much of early medieval Pure Land Buddhism by deathbed practices and accompanying beliefs about the radical salvific power of one's last nenbutsu, whether understood as the contemplation of the Buddha Amitābha (or Amitāyus, Jpn. Amida) or the invocation of his name.
ref: 2004, Jacqueline I. Stone, “By the Power of One's Last Nenbutsu: Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan”, in Richard K[arl] Payne, Kenneth K[en'ichi] Tanaka, editors, Approaching the Land of Bliss: Religious Praxis in the Cult of Amitābha (Kuroda Institute Studies in East Asian Buddhism; 17), Honolulu, Hi.: University of Hawai‛i Press, →ISBN, page 77:
text: 2012, Magdalen Ross (translator), Athanasius Schneider, 7: Adoration and the Sacred Liturgy, Alcuin Reid (editor), From Eucharistic Adoration to Evangelization, Continuum Books (Burns & Oates), page 84,
The fragrance [of this sacrifice] is the most pleasing perfume, the most holy, the most salvific and the most beautiful; […] .
text: 2017, Boris Jakim (translator), Pavel Florensky, Early Religious Writings, 1903-1909, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, page 149,
[…] participation in the liturgy is more salvific than the reading of the Bible; the performance of cult is more important than charitable giving.
text: 2019, Ernest L. Gibson, Salvific Manhood, University of Nebraska Press, page 93,
Nevertheless, as this love truly begins to show itself, as the men became more salvific for each other, David pulls back.
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
glosses: Able or intending to provide salvation or redemption.
Synonyms: salvative
Derived terms: salvifical
crostata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crostatas
form: crostate
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian crostata.
Senses: glosses: A kind baked tart of Italian origin, made with shortcrust pastry spread over a baking sheet, then covered with a layer of jam and then decorated with thin strips of the same dough, placed crosswise to form diamonds.
crostate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crostata
nightsuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nightsuits
Etymology: From night + suit.
Senses: glosses: Western-style nightclothes
transmission media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmission medium
pagophagia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πάγος (págos, “ice”) + -phagia.
Senses: examples: text: Compulsive consumption of ice (or pagophagia), for example, is often associated with iron deficiency.
ref: 2006 May 27, NewScientist, page 54, column 3:
glosses: The pathological consumption of ice, a manifestation of pica, often resulting from iron or nutritional deficiencies.
transmission medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transmission media
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: any material substance which can propagate waves or energy
entrail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: entrails
form: entrailing
form: entrailed
form: entrailed
Etymology: From en- + trail.
Senses: examples: text: And in the thickest covert of that shade / There was a pleasant arbour, not by art / But of the trees' own inclination made, / With wanton ivy twine entrailed athwart, / And eglantine and caprifole among, / Fashioned above within their inmost part / That neither Phoebus' beams could through them throng / Nor AEolus' sharp blast could work them any wrong.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book III Canto VI:
text: 1598, William Cecil, letter to his son, reprinted in Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, 1824, by John Strype, page 479,
Trust not any with thy life, credit, or estate: for it is mere folly for a man to entrail himself to his friend; as though, occasion being offered, he shall not dare to become his enemy.
text: Himself hid by entrailing foliage, / Betwixt whose leafy meshes he could see / That false pair's dalliance and badinage.
ref: 1885, John Barlas, The Bloody Heart:
glosses: To interweave or bind.
examples: text: A cross entrailed.
text: "Entrailed: outlined, always with black lines. See Adumbration, and Cross entrailed."
ref: 1847, Henry Gough, John Henry Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table ..., Oxford, page 124:
text: "Entrailed, a Cross, P.7, n.20, Lee says, the colour need not be named, for it is always sable."
ref: 1775, Hugh Clark, Thomas Wormull, An Introduction to Heraldry: Containing the Origin and Use of Arms; Rules ..., H. Washbourne, page 122:
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: To outline in black.
entrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛn.tɹeɪl/
/ˈɛn.tɹəl/
Forms: form: entrails
Etymology: From Middle English entraille, from Old French entraille (compare modern French entrailles), from Late Latin intrālia, modification of Latin intrānea, contraction of interāneum (“gut, intestine”), substantive of interāneus (“internal, inward”).
Senses: examples: text: She might even bust an entrail if she went on a little farther in the official code
ref: 1957, Bill Bryson, “They Still Ride 'Em Rough”, in Baseball Digest, volume 16, number 8, page 57:
text: Those blackguards have no more respect for an entrail, or a sinew, or a vital organ, than if they were gutting dog-fish.
ref: 1922-1976, Liam O'Flaherty, “The Post Office”, in Liam O'Flaherty: the collected stories, page 55:
text: Did an entrail-reading priest find something nasty in the offal?
ref: 2006, Robert Ludlum, The Ambler Warning, page 427:
glosses: singular of entrails; an internal organ of an animal.
raw_tags: used in the plural
examples: text: "About her cursed head, whose folds displaid / Were stretcht now forth at length without entraile."
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, page 1.1.18:
glosses: Entanglement; fold.
Synonyms: innard
gut
tharm
intestine
Derived terms: disentrail
cantore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kænˈtɔː(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: cantores
form: Cantore
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch kantoor and its obsolete spelling cantoor, from Middle Dutch contoor, contoir, comptoir, from Middle French contoir, comptoir, from conter, compter (“to count”) + -oir (instrument suffix). Doublet of computer, counter, and kontor.
Senses: examples: 1742, The speech of Borcel, the Dutch embassador at Paris, to the king of France, received and exhibited on the 25th of April 1657, A Collection of the State-papers of John Turloe, Esq., Secretary, First, to the Council of State
But, sire, in the place of all this I am informed, that there is still further and further proceeded every where; and that they are not only not contented with the seizing and arresting of the Netherland ships and goods laden aboard the ships, but besides by an extreme rigour of the execution, they have seized upon all the cantores and warehouses of the merchants at Roan, not only those of the subjects of their H. and M. L. but also of all those, whom they suspected to have any effects in their hands belonging to Netherlanders subjects of my masters; …
Satire, in Two Parts, Upon the Imperfection and Abuse of Human Learning, by Samuel Butler
When all a student knows of what he reads // Is not in 's own, but under general heads // Of common-places, not in his own power, // But, like a Dutchman's money, i' th' cantore, // Where all he can make of it at the best, // Is hardly three per cent. for interest; …
glosses: a Dutch trading post, a branch office of the Dutch merchants
trichobezoar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌtɹɪkəˈbiːzɔɹ/
Forms: form: trichobezoars
Etymology: From tricho- + bezoar.
Senses: glosses: A bezoar composed of hair.
Synonyms: hairball
Related terms: phytobezoar
phytobezoar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phytobezoars
Etymology: From phyto- + bezoar.
Senses: glosses: A bezoar composed of undigestible plant material.
Related terms: trichobezoar
skyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: skywards
Etymology: From sky + -ward.
Senses: examples: text: The rocket shot skyward and exploded in a burst of glittering stars.
text: No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.
ref: 1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 40:
text: If there is a heaven up there, Carl Sagan will be in his element on November 30, when Venus, Jupiter, and the moon align in a facelike formation. Gaze skyward to appreciate this rare triple feature of the brightest planets with a wry grin from the moon.
ref: 2008 January–February, Matt Bean, “Your cultural calendar: 7 things to look forward to this year”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
glosses: At or toward the sky.
skyward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: skywards
Etymology: From sky + -ward.
Senses: glosses: Pointing or facing at or moving toward the sky.
aboricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arboricultural.
aboriculturist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arboriculturist.
arboricultural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From arboriculture + -al.
Senses: examples: text: His arboricultural knowledge stood him in good stead when he planted the olive grove.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the care, planting and maintenance of trees.
Derived terms: arboriculturally
Related terms: arboriculture
arboriculturist
Benedictine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Benedictines
Etymology: From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus, named after Italian 6th century Saint Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae). Recorded in English from the 17th century. By surface analysis, Benedict + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Some of her most interesting remarks on writing appear in her letters to Sister Mariella Gable, a strong-minded Minnesota Benedictine who admired O'Connor greatly. In the fifties, O'Connor tells a friend, when Sister Mariella's bishop ordered her to stop teaching Catcher in the Rye, she defied him and was banished.
ref: 1981 February 14, Peg Cruikshank, “The Warmth Shines Through”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 15:
glosses: A monk or nun belonging to the order founded by Saint Benedict of Nursia.
examples: text: Many liqueurs, among them chartreuse and benedictine, have long been held in great esteem as aphrodisiac aids.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 138:
glosses: A type of liqueur originating from the Benedictine cloister of Fécamp in France, made from cognac together with herb and spice extracts.
Related terms: Black Monk
Benedictine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From French bénédictin, from Latin benedictus, named after Italian 6th century Saint Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiae). Recorded in English from the 17th century. By surface analysis, Benedict + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: Hypothetically, Srinivasan suggests network states for people who eat specific diets (kosher, keto), for people who don’t like FDA regulation, for people who don’t like cancel culture, for people who want to live like Benedictine monks, for people who might want to limit internet use by putting public buildings in Faraday cages.
ref: 2024 February 5, Kaitlyn Tiffany, “Meet Me in the Eternal City”, in The Atlantic, →ISSN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to St. Benedict of Nursia.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Benedictine Order.
bezoar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bēʹzōr
ipa: /ˈbi.zɔɹ/
ipa: /ˈbiː.zɔː/
Forms: form: bezoars
Etymology: From Spanish bezoar and/or French bézoard, based on Arabic بَازَهْر (bāzahr), from Middle Persian pʾtzhl (pādzahr, “bezoar, antidote”), from a compound of words meaning “to protect” and “poison” (literally “killing thing”), thus a bezoar was “that which protects against poison”. In ancient times, bezoars from animals were ground up and ingested as remedies for various maladies and as antidotes to poisons.
Senses: glosses: A mass, usually of hair or undigested vegetable matter, found in a human or animal's intestines, similar to a hairball.
glosses: An enterolith.
Synonyms: bezoar stone
Derived terms: bezoar antelope
bezoardic
bezoar goat
bezoar ibex
bezoar mineral
diospyrobezoar
pharmacobezoar
phytobezoar
pseudobezoar
trichobezoar
enterolith
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛntəɹəˌlɪθ/
ipa: /ɛnˈtɛɹəˌlɪθ/
Forms: form: enteroliths
Etymology: Coined based on Ancient Greek ἔντερον (énteron, “intestine”) + λίθος (líthos, “stone”). By surface analysis, entero- + -lith.
Senses: glosses: A mineral concretion in the intestinal tract.
glosses: A bezoar.
Derived terms: enterolithiasis
microtremor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microtremors
Etymology: From micro- + tremor.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the continuous background movements of the Earth's surface and interior, having a period of 1 to 9 seconds, not associated with any seismic activity
gravitomagnetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gravito- + magnetism.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The property of a spinning mass that twists spacetime.
Synonyms: frame dragging
Related terms: gravitomagnetic
gravitomagnetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: gravimagnetic
form: gravomagnetic
Etymology: From gravito- + magnetic.
Senses: qualifier: relativity
glosses: Describing the component of a gravitational field analogous to the magnetic component of an electromagnetic field
qualifier: relativity
glosses: Of or pertaining to gravitomagnetism
Synonyms: magnetogravitic
Coordinate terms: gravitoelectric
Derived terms: gravitomagnetic field
gyrogravitomagnetic
chafed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chafe
Derived terms: unchafed
strophe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹəʊ.fi/
ipa: /ˈstɹoʊ.fi/
rhymes: -əʊfi
Forms: form: strophes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stropha, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek στροφή (strophḗ, “a turn, bend, twist”). Compare strap and strop.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A turn in verse, as from one metrical foot to another, or from one side of a chorus to the other.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: The section of an ode that the chorus chants as it moves from right to left across the stage.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: A pair of stanzas of alternating form on which the structure of a given poem is based.
Related terms: antistrophe
apostrophe
catastrophe
strophic
ode
stanza
strophes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strophe
galleass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡæli.æs/
Forms: form: galleasses
form: galeas
form: galliass
Etymology: 1540s, from Old French galleasse, from Italian galeaza ‘large galley’, from Latin galea.
Senses: examples: text: The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spanish Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled& regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.
ref: 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 5:
text: [T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.
ref: 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, […]”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London: […] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […], →OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210, page 861:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A type of rowable vessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to a galley but larger, and normally equipped with sails.
galliot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galliots
form: galiot
form: galiote
Etymology: From French galiote, from Italian galeotta, diminutive of galea; see also galley, jolly boat.
Senses: examples: text: Having seen the minutes of the proceedings on the capture of the galliot the Betsy of Washington, North Carolina, captain Reynold Brown, taken the 5th of this month by the French privateer le Poisson Volant (Flying Fish) captain Thomas de Haunot—[…].
ref: 1815, State Papers and Publick Documents of the United States: 1797, page 511:
text: The Holy See received 19 galleys and two galliots, Spain was given 58 galleys and six galliots, while the Venetian share was 39 galleys and four galliots.
ref: 1984, Kenneth Meyer Setton, The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571, page 1059:
text: The galliots averaged about three hundred tons, and their cargo of Japanese silver must have equaled that carried by the Santa Catarina—that is, in excess of 1 million cruzados' worth.
ref: 2007, James C. Boyajian, Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640, page 159:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A light galley.
galiot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galiots
Senses: examples: text: By 1795 five large galleys, each with sails and thirty-two or thirty-four oars, one large and two small cannons, and eight swivel guns; four galiots, each with eight swivel guns; and a gunboat with one cannon were available for duty above New Orleans.
ref: 1998, James Neal Primm, Lion of the Valley: St. Louis, Missouri, 1764-1980, page 67:
text: Most of the state cargo vessels were outfitted as brigs (two-masted, square-rigged ships carrying 150 to 300 tons) and galiots (two-masted, oblique-rigged ships carrying up to 100 tons).
ref: 2011, James R. Gibson, Feeding the Russian Fur Trade, page 103:
text: His opponent Ali Monizindade² emerged to meet the Christian fleet with about 240 galleys and 65 galiots. Most of the galleys and, of course, all the galiots were smaller and lighter than the Holy League ships.
ref: 2011, David S. T. Blackmore, Warfare on the Mediterranean in the Age of Sail: A History, 1571-1866, page 57:
glosses: Alternative spelling of galliot.
mastigophoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαστιγοφόρος (mastigophóros, “whip-bearer, constable”) + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: The remonstraces of Squire Headlong, silence the disputants, but did not mollify the inflexible Galle, nor appease the irritated Nightshade, who secretly resolved that, on his return to London, he would beat his drum in Grub Street, form a mastigophoric corps of his own, and hoist the standard of determined opposition against this critical Napoleon.
ref: 1896, Thomas Love Peacock, Headlong Hall and Nightmare Abbey, page 56:
glosses: Carrying or wielding a whip.
examples: text: Mastigophoric infections, including Giardia lamblia and Trichomonas vaginalis, are endemic and common diagnoses even in the higher socioeconomic strata of developed nations.
ref: 2004, Michael B. Fossel, Cells, Aging, and Human Disease, page 1980:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a flagellum.
raw_tags: of a cell
Snuffleupagus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mr. Snuffleupagus
Etymology: As a mammoth-like creature, he has a long trunk like an elephant's, which is called his snuffle.
Senses: examples: text: CFIDS, even bigger than a medical giraffe, is almost like Sesame Street’s elusive giant puppet Snuffleupagus—witnessed only by believers.
ref: 2000, Peggy Munson, Stricken: Voices from the Hidden Epidemic of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome:
text: Like Big Bird’s Snuffleupagus, Ryan’s “girlfriend” is vividly described, but never seen.
ref: 2001, Ryan Bigge, A Very Lonely Planet: Love, Sex and the Single Guy:
text: “I feel like I’m dating Snuffleupagus.”
ref: 2002, William J. Cobb, The White Tattoo:
text: No sooner than Didomenico would say “Bill?!” his stout potbellied structure would lift out of its seat and turn to face the room, swaying with the grace and agility of Mr. Snuffleupagus.
ref: 2004, Owen C. Bernard, The Abyss Beside My Driveway:
text: Ralph breathed into the phone like Mr. Snuffleupagus.
ref: 2006, Brandilyn Collins, Violet Dawn:
glosses: A fictional character from the television series Sesame Street, resembling a woolly mammoth without tusks, who until the show's 17th season was only visible to Big Bird.
willn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: will + -n't
Senses: glosses: Synonym of won't.
synonyms: word: won't
tuque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tuːk/
ipa: /tjuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: tuques
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French tuque.
Senses: glosses: a knit cap, often woollen but of varying shape, usually conical and topped by a pom-pom.
glosses: Alternative form of toque.
Related terms: El Tuque
La Tuque
humidex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: humidexes
Etymology: Blend of humidity + index
Senses: topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: A measurement used by Canadian meteorologists to reflect the combined effect of heat and humidity, as the apparent temperature felt by a person.
Coordinate terms: english: American English
translation: American English
word: heat index
Related terms: windchill
windchill factor
toques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuques
Senses: glosses: plural of toque
tuques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toques
Senses: glosses: plural of tuque
dekes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deke
dekes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deke
deked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deke
humidexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humidex
patriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of patriate
patriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patriate
patriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of patriate
heeded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiːdɪd/
rhymes: -iːdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of heed
aromas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aroma
gavial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡeɪ.vi.əl/
Forms: form: gavials
Etymology: From Hindi घड़ियाल (ghaṛiyāl). Doublet of gharial.
Senses: examples: text: Cuvier had begun studying the fossils of crocodiles found near Caen and Honfleur in France. (They were, in fact, gavials, fine-jawed crocodiles that are nowadays found in India).
ref: 2002, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Pierre Henry, Jacques Arnould, “Gene Avatars: The Neo-Darwinian Theory of Evolution”, in Tiiu Ojasoo, transl., [1997, Les avatars du gène: La théorie néodarwinienne de l'évolution], page 28:
text: Although human remains and jewelry have been found in their stomachs, gavials are not as fierce as many alligators and crocodiles.
ref: 2006, Lynn Huggins-Cooper, Ravenous Reptiles, page 19:
text: Gavials (or gharials) are found only on the northern Indian subcontinent, where most are riverine, being best adapted to calmer areas in deep fast-flowing rivers.
ref: 2011, Joseph T. Springer, Dennis Holley, An Introduction to Zoology: Investigating the Animal World, page 415:
glosses: Alternative form of gharial.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tomistoma schlegelii
word: false gavial
Meiji
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -eɪdʒi
Etymology: From Japanese 明治 (meiji, “enlightened rule”).
Senses: glosses: Of the Meiji period.
glosses: Of the Emperor Meiji.
Meiji period
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Semi-calque of Japanese 明治時代 (Meiji jidai).
Senses: glosses: The 45-year reign of Emperor Meiji (1868-1912). During this time, Japan started its modernization and rose to world power status.
Related terms: Enlightenment
Mount Fuji
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Japanese 富士山 (ふじさん, Fuji-san), from 富士 (ふじ, Fuji, the name of the mountain; see there for more) + 山 (-さん, -san, suffix for mountains, which has been translated).
Senses: synonyms: word: Fujiyama
word: Fuji
word: Fujisan
glosses: The highest mountain in Japan.
Derived terms: Mount Fuji sign
Related terms: Fujian
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low-budget
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: lower-budget
form: lowest-budget
Senses: antonyms: high-budget
glosses: Achieved with a relatively small financial outlay.
raw_tags: of a project such as a film
muff diving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: muff-diving
Senses: examples: text: Profanity, vile name calling, including "muff diving fink" and manners ordinarily frowned upon […]
ref: 1944, United States National Labor Relations Board, Court Decisions Relating to the National Labor Relations Act:
text: This wasn’t no excursion to some all broads college with me working to get some muff diving professor and her prize pupil back with me to my room.
ref: 2006, Gary Phillips, “The Man for the Job”, in Dublin Noir:
glosses: Performing cunnilingus; that performs cunnilingus.
muff diving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muff-diving
Senses: examples: text: The Archaeology of Muff Diving.
ref: 1991, Charles M. Wilmoth, The Drama Review, volume 35, number 3:
glosses: Cunnilingus.
social housing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: public housing
subsidized housing
housing project
glosses: Rental housing owned and managed by the government, non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, with the aim of providing affordable housing, often focusing on disadvantaged groups such as low-income earners, social-security recipients, the elderly and people with disabilities.
Related terms: affordable housing