cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
parallel text
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parallel texts
Senses: synonyms: bitext
glosses: A text placed alongside its translation or translations. Sometimes called a side-by-side translation.
glosses: A text similar to one being translated.
Related terms: english: alternative text
translation: alternative text
word: alt text
fisherman's knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fisherman's knots
Senses: glosses: A type of bend that is a popular double overhand knot used to join two lines or ropes of equal thickness.
synonyms: fisherman's loop
English knot
Englishman's knot
water knot
waterman's knot
glosses: A loop knot made in the bight, and favored by fishermen as quick and secure.
fisherman's knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fisherman's knot
CCK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of cholecystokinin.
Flemish bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Flemish bends
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of two ropes of similar thickness, based on the figure-of-eight knot.
Flemish bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flemish bend
genophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genophobes
Etymology: From geno- + -phobe.
Senses: examples: text: Genophobes have been informed about the birds and the bees, but they don’t like (or aren’t cocksure about) what they’ve heard and tend to go catatonic when beyond the platonic.
ref: 1986, David Grambs, Dimboxes, Epopts, and Other Quidams: Words to Describe Life’s Indescribable People, Workman Publishing Company, unmarked page
text: Like what happens when the genophobes try to censor video rental stores. THEN people get outraged. And say fuck off.
ref: 1996 July 16, Gary Goodman, "Re: Riefenstahl film on PBS", alt.censorship, Usenet
text: I do think that genophobes like "Anna", and misanthropes like "Zee" are in the minority, zealots who decry any form of sexual expression that is not behind a locked door with the lights out and the covers pulled all the way up.
ref: 2011 January 26, Nudiarist, “Re: Dan Ziegler finally professing what Peter Riden has long been preaching/stating”, rec.nude, Usenet
glosses: A person who has a psychological fear of sexual relations or sexual intercourse
Related terms: genophobia
celibacist
prude
puritan
erotophobe
antisexualist
harness bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harness bends
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of two cords. It can be tied while maintaining tension in the cords.
harness bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harness bend
public service announcements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of public service announcement
erotophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: erotophobes
Etymology: From eroto- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person who has a fear of, or negative attitude towards, sexual activity.
Related terms: erotophobia
erotophobic
pogoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pogoers
Etymology: From pogo + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who dances the pogo.
pogoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pogoer
erotophobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of erotophobe
antisexualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antisexualist
heaving line bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heaving line bends
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join the ends of two lines or ropes of unequal thickness.
Related terms: english: a more commonly used knot for this purpose
translation: a more commonly used knot for this purpose
word: sheet bend
heaving line bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heaving line bend
Hunter's bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hunter's bends
Etymology: Accredited to have been newly invented by Dr. Edward Hunter, thought it was later pointed out that the knot had been published many years before.
Senses: glosses: a type of bend, a double overhand knot used to join the ends of similar types of cord with no slip.
Hunter's bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hunter's bend
draugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughs
Senses: examples: text: There is indeed an exquisite analogy existing between the material and intellectual world and from this philosophical source, Poetry in all ages has drunk some of her richest draughs of inspiration.
ref: 1845, The poetical works of Robert Montgomery, page 559:
glosses: Obsolete form of draught.
draughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draugh
plumbagin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plumbago + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The toxin 5-hydroxy-2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone.
enschedule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enschedules
form: enscheduling
form: enscheduled
form: enscheduled
Etymology: From en- + schedule.
Senses: examples: text: Whose tenors and particular effects / You have, enscheduled briefly, in your hands.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii], line 73:
glosses: To insert into a schedule.
Synonyms: schedule
enscheduling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enschedule
enschedules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enschedule
enscheduled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enschedule
deer-neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deer-necks
Senses: glosses: A thin, ill-formed neck in a horse.
deer-necks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deer-neck
pusley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pusleys
Senses: examples: text: We have had a hard battle with the weeds and their roots in our lawn, the docks and the mullens and the pusley.
ref: 1904, James Power Smith, Brightside Idyls: Every Week of the Year, page 48:
glosses: purslane (Portulaca oleracea)
pusleys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pusley
subsultus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subsulti
form: subsaltus
Etymology: From New Latin subsultus. See subsultory.
Senses: examples: text: subsultus of the stomach
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A twitching, or convulsive motion.
Related terms: subsultus tendinum
Brunswick black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: Japan black
glosses: A solution of asphalt in turpentine.
rolly-pooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of roly-poly (“game in which balls are rolled or bowled into holes”).
champertor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: champertors
Etymology: From French champarteur (“a divider of fields or field rent”). See champerty.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One guilty of champerty; one who purchases a suit, or the right of suing, and carries it on at his or her own expense, in order to obtain a share of the gain.
champertors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of champertor
ambury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amburies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anbury.
amburies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambury
dilly bags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dilly bag
nail knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nail knots
Etymology: The name comes from the use of a nail, needle, or similar object as an aid to form the knot correctly.
Senses: glosses: A type of bend knot used to join two fine lines, commonly used with fishing lines.
nail knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nail knot
Senegambia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Senegal + Gambia
Senses: glosses: The Senegambia Confederation, a loose confederation between the West African countries of Senegal and the Gambia.
glosses: The Senegal-Gambia region; the basins of the Senegal and Gambia rivers.
Related terms: Senegambian
prestigiatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prestigiatory
form: most prestigiatory
Senses: examples: text: wicked spirits deal only in petty, low , and useless prestigiatory tricks, of small consequence and no benefit
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). That Jesus is the True Messias”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
glosses: Relating to prestigiation (conjuring).
pectorally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pectoral + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pectoral manner, i.e. about or through the breast
glosses: in connection with the breast.
severalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: severalizes
form: severalizing
form: severalized
form: severalized
Etymology: From several + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] there is one and the same Church of Christ, however far disterminate in places, however segregated and infinitely severalized in persons, however differing in rites and circumstances of worship, however squaring in by-opinion.
ref: 1624, Bishop Joseph Hall, “Introductory”, in The Peace-Maker, section 3: "On the Fundamental Points of Religion"; republished in Josiah Pratt, editor, The Works of the Right Reverend Father in God Joseph Hall, D.D., volume 8, London: C. Whittingham, 1808, page 49:
text: The scanty and montonous diet of the soldier, the difficult country, hot summer, and miasmata, with the familiar instances of Montpelier and Ehrenbreitstein in our memories, suggest to us a community of cause more then sufficient, and only unsatisfactory from a want of definiteness. But is this amblyopia, as described in medical works, a pathological entity? such opposite causes would seem to indicate difference in morbid seat and condition. Are there two affections? Can science severalize them?
ref: 1863 April 24, “Review XII”, in The British and Foreign Medico-Chirurgical Review, reviewing Elements of Military Hygiene (Elementos de Hygiene Militar) by J[ose] A[ntonio] Marques, 1854, pages 388–389:
text: And before authorship could begin a magic wand must be waved over the assembled products of ten thousand minds, which would severalize what each had said on all important topics and reduce the otherwise rebellious mass to form and system.
ref: 1891, w:Hubert Howe Bancroft|Hubert Howe Bancroft, “A Literary Workshop”, in Literary Industries, page 136:
glosses: To distinguish; to make or treat as several.
Synonyms: differentiate
severalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of severalize
severalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of severalize
severalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of severalize
matrixial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From matrix + -ial.
Senses: examples: text: The third element of the matrixial model is metramorphosis: a process of change that is a result of nonphallic ways of contacting the archaic m/Other.
ref: 2011, Pat Paxson, Art and Intuition: Borderlines and Boundaries:
glosses: Of or relating to a feminist film theory introduced by Bracha L. Ettinger.
racking bend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: racking bends
Senses: glosses: a type of bend knot used to join the ends of two lines or ropes of very different thicknesses. The finer cord is woven between the two stands of a bight or loop of the thicker rope, and pulled tight after each pass. Racking like this forms the basis for many other bends and knots.
racking bends
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racking bend
Senegambian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Senegambian
form: most Senegambian
Etymology: From Senegambia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Senegambia.
Senegambian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Senegambians
Etymology: From Senegambia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Senegambia.
Eurydicean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Eurydicean
form: most Eurydicean
Etymology: From Eurydice + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the mythological Eurydice.
machinic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more machinic
form: most machinic
Etymology: From machine + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to machines.
schizoanalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizoanalytical
form: most schizoanalytical
Etymology: From schizo- + analytical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to schizoanalysis.
schizoanalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more schizoanalytic
form: most schizoanalytic
Etymology: From schizo- + analytic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to schizoanalysis.
transformationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more transformationally
form: most transformationally
Etymology: From transformational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a transformational manner or context.
schizoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizoanalyses
Etymology: From schizo- + analysis, introduced in 1972 by philosopher Gilles Deleuze and psychoanalyst Félix Guattari in their book Anti-Oedipus.
Senses: examples: text: So what can schizoanalysis offer us as a way of responding to the event of film? How does it differ from psychoanalytic methods applied to cinema from the mid-1970s on?
ref: 2008, Ian Buchanan, Patricia MacCormack, editors, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema, A&C Black, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: A form of psychoanalysis addressing perceived shortcomings and oversimplifications in traditional psychoanalysis.
wikipedia: Anti-Oedipus
Félix Guattari
Gilles Deleuze
Guattarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Guattarian
form: most Guattarian
Etymology: From Guattari + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Félix Guattari (1930–1992), French psychotherapist and philosopher who founded schizoanalysis and ecosophy.
ecosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecosophers
Etymology: From ecosophy + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecosophy.
ecosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecosopher
schizoanalytically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more schizoanalytically
form: most schizoanalytically
Etymology: From schizoanalytical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a schizoanalytical manner or context.
ecophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecophilosophies
Etymology: From eco- + philosophy.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ecosophy.
Related terms: ecophilosopher
ecophilosophical
ecophilosophically
laid rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laid ropes
Senses: glosses: Traditionally made twisted rope.
ecosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecosophy
ecophilosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecophilosophy
laid ropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laid rope
ecosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ecosophical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ecosophical manner or context.
ecophilosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From ecophilosophical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an ecophilosophical manner or context.
ecosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecosophical
form: most ecosophical
Etymology: From ecosophy + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ecosophy.
Derived terms: ecosophically
ecophilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ecophilosophical
form: most ecophilosophical
Etymology: From eco- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to ecophilosophy.
Derived terms: ecophilosophically
ecophilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecophilosophers
Etymology: From eco- + philosopher.
Senses: glosses: One who studies ecophilosophy.
ecophilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecophilosopher
schizoanalyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizoanalysts
Etymology: From schizo- + analyst.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practises schizoanalysis.
schizoanalysts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schizoanalyst
shroud knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shroud knots
Senses: glosses: a type of bend knot used to join the ends of laid ropes, by separating the strands and knotting them together individually. Commonly used to join a snapped shroud rope.
copoietic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more copoietic
form: most copoietic
Senses: examples: text: […] an "ideal mother" thread combined with strings of gaze-and-touching in repetition and strings of virtual not-enoughness that supply copoietic energy for repetition-in-difference and for matrixial transference […]
ref: 2006, M. Catherine de Zegher, Eva Hesse, Elisabeth Sussman, Eva Hesse drawing, page 73:
text: […] the meaning of the crossing of trauma in Beauty can be transmitted and clarified only in the desire for a further cobirthing, for a copoietic coming-into-being in a borderline intermediate passage-space within the transference […]
ref: 2007, Hein Viljoen, C. N. Van der Merwe, Beyond the threshold: explorations of liminality in literature, page 129:
glosses: Of or relating to copoiesis.
cobirthing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + birthing.
Senses: examples: text: The interaction of the body-subject and the world, he also said, is a cobirthing of each.
ref: 1994, Delwin Brown, Boundaries of our habitations: tradition and theological construction, page 98:
text: Eckhart never tires of emphasizing this cobirthing of the Son by the Father and the soul in the ground of God and the soul, and the oneness of the two births.
ref: 2007, Hee-Sung Keel, Meister Eckhart: an Asian perspective:
text: […] the meaning of the crossing of trauma in Beauty can be transmitted and clarified only in the desire for a further cobirthing, for a copoietic coming-into-being in a borderline intermediate passage-space within the transference […]
ref: 2007, Hein Viljoen, C. N. Van der Merwe, Beyond the threshold: explorations of liminality in literature, page 129:
glosses: The act of birthing together; simultaneous bringing into being.
liminalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liminality
postscarcity
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-scarcity
Etymology: From post- + scarcity.
Senses: examples: text: Aguilar-Millan et al. published an ambitious flight of fancy which explored the “post-scarcity world” of 2050 in light of technical advancements which they argue will decrease costs to providers until almost everything becomes free to the end user.
ref: 2016, Paul Gooding, Historic Newspapers in the Digital Age, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 183:
text: Forget post-scarcity. Between rising populations, climate change, a dearth of fresh water and stretched bio-capacity, just avoiding widespread famine by the middle of this century would represent an astonishing achievement.
ref: 2020, Aaron Bastani, Fully Automated Luxury Communism: A Manifesto, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 162:
text: A post-scarcity communism that doesn't dispense with all thoughts of the divine and numinous can't be precluded.
ref: 2022, China Miéville, chapter 4, in A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, →OCLC:
glosses: After the elimination of scarcity; in a time when society has sufficient resources.
identitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˌdɛntɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
Etymology: From identity + -arian, coined 1943 by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, from the 1970s onward reinforced by French identitaire, especially after the use of the term ensembliste-identitaire by Cornelius Castoriadis.
Senses: examples: text: "The revolution in the Vendée, where peasants and noblemen had risen against the identitarian terrorists of Paris" (p. 117)
ref: 1943, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large, e.g:
text: It began in May, when Mr. Fiato, a leader of the Italian branch of a European right-wing movement that calls itself identitarian, joined his allies in using an inflatable raft to momentarily delay a ship carrying Doctors Without Borders personnel that was chartered to rescue migrants at sea.
ref: 2017 July 21, Jason Horowitz, “For Right-Wing Italian Youth, a Mission to Disrupt Migration”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Identitarian youth movements have been linked directly to some of the mainstream parties discussed above, as well as to the terrorists in the following chapter. Their politics venerates youth (a common refrain declares a ‘war on the baby boomers’) and blames past generations for ecological crises.
ref: 2022, Sam Moore and Alex Roberts, “Online far-right ecologism and far-right movements”, in The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right, page 73:
glosses: Based on a notion of group identity; relating to the ideology of identitarianism.
examples: text: Sex between men is articulated as a casual act of “being free to be a man” that need not have any troubling gay identitarian consequences.
ref: 2015, Jane Ward, Not Gay, New York University Press, →ISBN, page 129:
glosses: Relating to personal identity; as racial, gender, sexual, etc.
identitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪˌdɛntɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
Forms: form: identitarians
Etymology: From identity + -arian, coined 1943 by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, from the 1970s onward reinforced by French identitaire, especially after the use of the term ensembliste-identitaire by Cornelius Castoriadis.
Senses: examples: text: Recent surveys suggest that roughly 47 percent of Republicans are what you might call conservative universalists and maybe 40 percent are what you might call conservative white identitarians.
ref: 2017 August 29, David Brooks, “How Trump Kills the G.O.P.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: One very clever move these identitarians make — and, it has to be said, this is an exploitable opening provided to them in part by the progressive left — is to cynically proclaim their “whiteness” as just another form of diversity that is in danger of erasure.
ref: 2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: One who supports the theory of identitarianism.
Related terms: identarian
identitarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of identitarian
shroud knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shroud knot
paraclose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paracloses
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of parclose.
paracloses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraclose
sokeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sokemans
form: sokemen
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of socman.
sokemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sokeman
socmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of socman
sokemans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sokeman
transmissivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transmissivity
fascinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfæsɪnəns/
Etymology: See fascinate. Coined by Bracha L. Ettinger.
Senses: examples: text: In this spiral movement, the psyche-spirit of the painter, in itself already an expression of trans-subjective psychic involvment^([sic]), is embroidered by a passionate actively-passive fascinance.
ref: 2009, Bracha Ettinger, Fragilization and Resistance:
text: […]Ettinger's fascinance is a moment that has transformational properties, allowing a working-through of mother–daughter relations[…]
ref: 2011, Halina Brunning, Psychoanalytic Reflections on a Changing World:
qualifier: matrixial theory
glosses: A transformational and creative gaze, contrasted with the Lacanian "fascinum".
wikipedia: Bracha L. Ettinger
faultable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faultable
form: most faultable
Etymology: From fault + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being faulted, or found fault with.
glosses: Liable to faults; having the potential to fail or go wrong.
Derived terms: unfaultable
unfaultable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfaultable
form: most unfaultable
Etymology: From un- + faultable.
Senses: glosses: Not capable of being faulted; with which no fault can be found.
stratoanalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From strato- + analysis.
Senses: glosses: An analytical theory that attempts to understand a subject in terms of stratification, or layers.
eye splice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye splices
Senses: glosses: A permanent loop, or eye, formed at the end of a laid rope by splicing the free end back into the standing part.
eye splices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye splice
foundationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more foundationalistic
form: most foundationalistic
Etymology: From foundational + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to foundationalism.
Mouffean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Mouffean
form: most Mouffean
Etymology: From Mouffe + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Chantal Mouffe (born 1943), Belgian political theorist.
nondeliberative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deliberative.
Senses: glosses: Not deliberative.
rhizomatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The philosophical theory based on rhizomes.
EMTF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EMTFs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of expeditionary mobility task force.
geophilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophilosophers
Etymology: From geo- + philosopher.
Senses: glosses: One who studies geophilosophy.
geophilosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geophilosophical
form: most geophilosophical
Etymology: From geo- + philosophical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to geophilosophy.
Derived terms: geophilosophically
geophilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geophilosopher
geophilosophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more geophilosophically
form: most geophilosophically
Etymology: From geophilosophical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a geophilosophical manner or context.
Simple Simon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Simple Simons
Etymology: From the nursery rhyme of the same name.
Senses: examples: text: Now, will your kind of birth control select out specially for suppression the Simple Simons, the Peeping Toms, the Dumme Lisas? Oh, no, indeed.
ref: 2003, Margaret Sanger, Michael W. Perry, The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective, page 188:
glosses: A fool, or gullible person.
Related terms: Simple Simon over
Simple Simon under
Simple Simons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Simple Simon
jointness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jointnesses
Etymology: From joint + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being joint.
nuncii
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuncius
nuncius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuncii
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nūncius, medieval form of nūntius (“messenger”).
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A nuntius.
recognitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈkɒɡnɪtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: recognitors
Etymology: From Latin recognitor, agent noun of recognosco.
Senses: examples: text: the issue should be tried by a common jury or inquest , and not by recognitors of assise
ref: 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
topics: law
glosses: One of a jury impaneled on an assize.
recognitors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recognitor
geophilosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geophilosophies
Etymology: From geo- + philosophy.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
human-sciences
natural-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: All the philosophical aspects of geology or of geography.
soupe maigre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soupe-maigre
form: soup meagre
Etymology: From French soupe maigre.
Senses: examples: text: I now recollect that all my distemper was returning upon me with irresistible violence—and that in spite of water-gruel and soupe-maigre.
ref: 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
text: Nay, perceiving that he was extremely penurious in his house-keeping, he spoilt many a pot of excellent soup maigre, by slily conveying into it handfuls of salt or soot […].
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume I, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A soup made chiefly from vegetables or fish with a little butter and a few condiments.
soupes-maigres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soupe-maigre
Simple Simon over
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Simple Simon overs
Senses: glosses: a type of bend knot used to join two ropes.
Simple Simon overs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Simple Simon over
Simple Simon under
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Simple Simon unders
Senses: glosses: a type of bend knot used to join two ropes, variation of the Simple Simon over.
Simple Simon unders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Simple Simon under
assientist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assientists
form: Assientist
Etymology: Compare French assientiste, Spanish asentista.
Senses: glosses: A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
examples: text: as England gained the assiento , it was agreed that the agents of the assientists might enter all the ports of Spanish America
ref: 1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC:
glosses: One of the parties to the Assiento contract.
assientists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assientist
disposit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disposits
form: dispositing
form: disposited
form: disposited
Etymology: From Latin dispositus, past participle of dispōnō.
Senses: examples: text: But the method did not become practicable until Liebig discovered a simple chemical process for dispositing a thin film of silver on a glass surface.
ref: 1952, Frank Twyman, Prism and lens making: a textbook for optical glassworkers:
glosses: To deposit.
examples: text: Venus then indirectly disposits all planets in Leo because these planets are disposited by the Sun, ruler of Leo, and Venus disposits the Sun.
ref: 1983, Rose Lineman, Jan Popelka, Compendium of Astrology:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: To be located in the house of the sign ruled by the planet. For example, when a planet is in the house Gemini, it disposits Mercury because Mercury is the ruling sign of Gemini.
disposited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disposit
disposits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disposit
dispositing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disposit
lensmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lens + making.
Senses: examples: text: "We found a level that works for us, and we try to maintain that level," Mr. Probert said. It probably doesn't hurt that no lensmaking competitor advertises.
ref: 1981 March 10, Philip H. Dougherty, “Advertising; Our Hero Dons His New 'Mask'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 24 May 2015:
text: In the preface to Micrographia (1665), Robert Hooke (English, 1635-1703) described one microscope lensmaking technique.
ref: 2016 September 22, Marvin Bolt, “Making microscope lenses in the 1600s”, in Behind the Glass:
glosses: The manufacture of lenses.
Related terms: lensmaker
lensmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lensmakers
Etymology: From lens + maker.
Senses: examples: text: In 1608, the German-Dutch lensmaker Hans Lippershey became the first person to apply for a patent for what we now call the telescope.
ref: 2018 December 8, Don Lincoln, “Giant collisions shake the cosmos”, in CNN:
text: The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.
ref: 2021 March 30, Anton Troianovski, “Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Mar 2021:
glosses: A manufacturer of lenses.
Related terms: lensmaking
lensmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lensmaker
VMA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VMAs
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of vanillylmandelic acid.
examples: text: After Miley Cyrus’s ah, memorable performance at the 2013 VMAs, it seems like everyone suddenly got obsessed with twerking.
ref: 2019 December 31, AJ Willingham, “All the trends we loved and hated in the 2010s”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Video Music Award.
ventrimeson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ventri- + meson.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The ventral edge of the meson.
unswell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unswells
form: unswelling
form: unswelled
form: unswollen
Etymology: From Middle English unswellen, equivalent to un- + swell.
Senses: glosses: To cease from swelling; to become unswollen
unswelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of unswell
unswelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unswell
unswells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unswell
gazee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gazees
Etymology: From gaze + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: In this world of competition over scarce wealth and even scarcer social prestige, Michael has become the envious gazer, coveting the money (and prestige) Johnny Boy withholds from him, while Johnny Boy is the gazee.
ref: 2006, Robert Casillo, Gangster Priest: The Italian American Cinema of Martin Scorsese, page 489:
text: The significance of the gazer-gazee construct has had a profound impact on research in many fields. Almost all institutional settings can […] be conceptualized from a panopticon perspective[…]
ref: 2010, Philip Feifan Xie, Authenticating Ethnic Tourism:
glosses: One who is gazed at or observed.
gazees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazee
interlocutories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of interlocutory
enjoyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more enjoyingly
form: most enjoyingly
Etymology: From enjoying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: There he sat, high above his neighbours, smiling, and nodding his great head enjoyingly, from time to time.
ref: 1860, Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White, page 239:
glosses: With enjoyment.
suggestingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suggestingly
form: most suggestingly
Etymology: From suggesting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to suggest; suggestively.
undercuttingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undercuttingly
form: most undercuttingly
Etymology: From undercutting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: In Boston Opera after the Maeterlincks left town, Russell undercuttingly brought Mary Garden over from Chicago for Pelleas and Melisande to close the third season. Financials showed “a loss slightly above” the previous year.
ref: 2016, Dall Wilson, Alice Nielsen and the Gayety of Nations, page 529:
glosses: So as to undercut.
underminingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more underminingly
form: most underminingly
Etymology: From undermining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to undermine.
saintpaulias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saintpaulia
gesneriaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Gesneriaceae + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the family Gesneriaceae of flowering plants.
restrictionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more restrictionless
form: most restrictionless
Etymology: From restriction + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without restriction.
subcaliber
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: subcalibre
Etymology: From sub- + caliber.
Senses: examples: text: subcaliber cartridge
text: subcaliber gun
text: subcaliber practice
text: The M9101 on the Longsword fires subcaliber projectiles at such speeds that they would immediately begin to burn up from air friction when fired within an atmosphere.
ref: 2017 September 5, Kenneth Peters, Halo: Warfleet – An Illustrated Guide to the Spacecraft of Halo, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 17:
glosses: Smaller than the caliber of a firearm.
subcalibre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + calibre.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of subcaliber.
assecution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assecutions
Etymology: From French assécution, from Latin assequi (“to obtain”), from ad + sequi (“to follow”).
Senses: examples: text: a Benefice is said to be void by the Assecution of a second Benefice which is incompatible with the first
ref: 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani: Or, A Commentary, by Way of Supplement to the Canons and Constitutions of the Church of England. […], London: […] D. Leach, and sold by John Walthoe […], →OCLC:
glosses: acquisition; an obtaining
assecutions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assecution
tarsel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tarsels
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tercel.
tarsels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsel
ribroast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribroasts
Etymology: From rib + roast.
Senses: glosses: A cut of beef from the main rib.
Derived terms: like flies on a rib roast
ribroast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ribroasts
form: ribroasting
form: ribroasted
form: ribroasted
Etymology: From rib + roast.
Senses: examples: text: That done, he rises, humbly bows, / And gives thanks for the princely blows; / Departs not meanly proud, and boasting / Of his magnificent rib-roasting
ref: c. 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
glosses: To beat up vigorously.
Related terms: ribroaster
ribroasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribroast
ribroasted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ribroast
ribroasting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ribroast
stellerid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stellerids
Etymology: Latin stella a star.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A starfish.
stellerids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stellerid
pedomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pedo- (“foot”) + -mancy.
Senses: examples: May 13, 1975, Norman Mailer, letter to William f. Buckley, Jr.
Needless to say, “midden,” if we are to translate, is the stuff through which one is trying to walk in that footless stocking while the editors of National Review are failing to bite the bullet and forsake all squalid pegomancy for pedomancy.
synonyms: podomancy
glosses: Divination by examining the soles of the feet.
illuminize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: illuminizes
form: illuminizing
form: illuminized
form: illuminized
Senses: glosses: To instil the doctrines or principles of the Illuminati.
glosses: To illuminate
illuminized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illuminize
illuminizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of illuminize
illuminizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illuminize
haematophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hematophilia
Etymology: From haemato- + -philia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: haemophilia
examples: text: Of particular interest was the supposed compulsion to kill for blood (to drink). It is thought that such compulsions are linked to a sexual deviation, such as haematophilia or hematolagnia (APA, 2002) or vampirism (Prins, 1985), but Haigh gave no indication of paraphilia of this kind and, indeed, seemed to have no interest in sex.
ref: 2014, Helen Gavin, Criminological and Forensic Psychology, page 306:
glosses: haematolagnia; sexual attraction to blood.
adfluxion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of affluxion.
hematophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of haematophilia.
transmedia
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From trans- + media.
Senses: examples: text: The Star Wars novels, comics, video games, television series, and radio shows created between 1977 and 2012 all constitute an original Expanded Universe (EU) of in-universe history and lore set within the same transmedia franchise.
ref: 2019, Monica Louzon, “Mara Jade, Frontier Woman”, in Melanie A. Marotta, editor, Women's Space, Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Of or relating to more than one form of media.
Derived terms: transmedial
transmediality
estrous cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estrous cycles
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The repeating physiological changes that are influenced by hormones controlling reproduction in placental mammals other than human beings and greater apes.
Related terms: follicular phase
menstrual cycle
alcyonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alcyonic
form: most alcyonic
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of, relating to, or belonging to, the Alcyonaria.
pettitoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petty + toes.
Senses: examples: text: The two caps, reflected on the window-blind, were the respective head-dresses of a couple of Mrs. Bardell's most particular acquaintance, who had just stepped in, to have a quiet cup of tea, and a little warm supper of a couple of sets of pettitoes and some toasted cheese. The cheese was simmering and browning away, most delightfully, in a little Dutch oven before the fire; the pettitoes were getting on deliciously in a little tin saucepan on the hob
ref: 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, “Which Contains a Brief Account of the Progress of the Action of Bardell Against Pickwick”, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:
glosses: pig's trotter, especially as food.
phitoness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phitonesses
Senses: glosses: A pythoness; a witch.
phitonesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phitoness
practisant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹæktɪzənt/
Forms: form: practisants
Etymology: Apparently from practise + -ant; originally modelled on French.
Senses: examples: text: A Pope who asked you the hour and the date and the place of your birth, drew diagrams on paper, and then told you your secret vices and virtues, was a practisant of arts unholy
ref: 1904, Frederick Rolfe, Hadrian the Seventh:
glosses: One who practises something; a practitioner.
examples: text: Here entered Pucelle and her practisants.
ref: 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
glosses: An agent or confederate in treachery.
practisants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practisant
multinominous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multinominous
form: most multinominous
Etymology: From Latin multinominis, from multus (“many”) + nomen, nominis (“name”).
Senses: glosses: Having many names or terms.
Synonyms: multinominal
follicular phase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: follicular phases
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The phase of the estrous cycle which involves the follicular maturation within the ovary and is controlled by the hormone estradiol.
hoglet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hoglets
Etymology: From hog + -let.
Senses: examples: text: At birth, newborn hoglets are pink, blind, and completely helpless.
ref: 2008, Michael Leach, Hedgehog, page 8:
text: In nature, hoglets that age would follow their mother out of the nest and learn from her how to procure food by digging in the ground.
ref: 2018, Massimo Vacchetta, Antonella Tomaselli, A Handful of Happiness: How a Prickly Creature Softened a Prickly Heart, unnumbered page:
text: If the hog parents develop the disease, you can be pretty sure the hoglets will too—even when they’re raised in different places, fed different diets, cared for by different owners.
ref: 2021 August 12, Noelle Mateer, “Looks That Quill: The Dark Side of Hedgehog Instagram”, in Wired:
glosses: A baby hedgehog.
uterine cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uterine cycles
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The cycle of the thickening of the uterine lining in anticipation of an embryo implantation.
trophosperm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trophosperms
Etymology: From tropho- + Ancient Greek σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). Compare French trophosperme.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The placenta.
trophosperms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trophosperm
hoglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hoglet
ovarian cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovarian cycles
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The cycle associated with the maturation of the oocyte and its discharge from the ovary, from where it passes through the oviduct to the uterus.