cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Dahurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daurian.
Dahurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dahurians
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Daurian.
Dahuria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dauria.
exoglucanase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoglucanases
Etymology: From exo- + glucanase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any glucanase / cellulase that is active outside of the organism that produced it
Related terms: endoglucanase
grandifloras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandiflora
haematologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hematologic.
Derived terms: oncohaematologic
immunomorphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + morphological.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Related to immunomorphology
julolidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic aromatic organic compound with the formula C₁₂H₁₅N.
immunomorphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + morphology.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The study of the relationship between form and function of immunological species such as antigens
isoscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoscapes
Etymology: Blend of isotope + landscape.
Senses: glosses: The geographic distribution of isotope ratios.
wighteone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An isoflavone extracted from hedgeapple, Maclura pomifera.
Related terms: isowighteone
lupiwighteone
stepwell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepwells
Etymology: From step + well.
Senses: glosses: A well in which the water can be reached by descending a set of steps.
Synonyms: baoli
barav
bawdi
kalyani
pushkarani
vaav
satyrisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsatɪɹɪsk/
Forms: form: satyrisks
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek σατυρίσκος (saturískos), the diminutive form of σάτῠρος (sátŭros, “satyr”).
Senses: examples: text: Heron also…mentions Satyrisks with wine-skins.
ref: 1850, John Leitch (translator), Karl Otfried Müller (author), Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (editor of the German second edition), Ancient Art and Its Remains; or, A Manual of the Archæology of Art, § 386, page 500
qualifier: Greek Antiquities
glosses: A little satyr.
hermeticism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həːˈmɛtɪsɪzm̩/
Forms: form: hermeticisms
Etymology: From hermetic + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the old tradition of the spiritual quest, reinforced by the influence of Renaissance hermeticism, could still capture the imagination of highly religious persons.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 262:
glosses: Hermetic philosophy or practice; hermetics.
Synonyms: hermetism
hermeticist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈmɛtɪsɪst/
ipa: /hɚˈmɛtɪsɪst/
Forms: form: hermeticists
Etymology: From hermetic + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The two leading mid-seventeenth-century hermeticists […] had both been Anglican clergymen.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 262:
glosses: A hermetic philosopher; an adherent of hermeticism.
hermeticists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hermeticist
nautiliniellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nautiliniellids
Senses: glosses: Any polychaete of the family Nautiliniellidae
vacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vac
vacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vac
semienclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + enclosed.
Senses: examples: text: the equations that describe the circulation in an enclosed or semienclosed basin
ref: 2010, Arnoldo Valle-Levinson, Contemporary Issues in Estuarine Physics, page 125:
glosses: Partly enclosed.
obturaculum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obturacula
Etymology: From Latin obturo.
Senses: glosses: A plug of connective tissue separating the hemocoels of the head and thorax of some lice
Related terms: obturacular
obturacula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obturaculum
phyllodocid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phyllodocids
Senses: glosses: Any polychaete of the order Phyllodocida
albiet
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of albeit.
quadripole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadripoles
Etymology: From quadri- + pole.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical circuit that has two pairs of external terminals.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: four poles disposed in a square fashion.
Synonyms: two-port network
voicedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From voiced + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The state or property of being uttered in a voiced manner.
Habsburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Habsburg
Hapsburgs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hapsburg
world picture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: world pictures
Etymology: From world + picture, probably after German Weltbild.
Senses: examples: text: Astrology was thus less a separate discipline than an aspect of a generally accepted world picture.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 275:
text: But painting a world picture of good and evil rather than trying understand and reconcile different races and religions is only going to make things worse.
ref: 2006 December 20, Jackie Ashley, The Guardian:
glosses: A particular conception or idea of life; a worldview.
decumbitures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decumbiture
Gaugamela
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌɡɔɡəˈmilə/
Etymology: From Latin Gaugamēla, from Ancient Greek Γαυγάμηλα (Gaugámēla).
Senses: glosses: a village in Assyria, where in 331 BC Alexander the Great defeated the Persians under Darius III
Derived terms: Battle of Gaugamela
Hidjaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hejaz.
Hijaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Hejaz:
A mountainous geographic area in northwest Saudi Arabia which gave rise to early Islam and which contains the sites of many holy places
glosses: Alternative form of Hejaz:
A former kingdom in modern Saudi Arabia, existing between 1924 and 1932, when it merged with Najd to form the present state of Saudi Arabia
stoloniferan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stoloniferans
Etymology: From Stolonifera + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any octocoral of the suborder Stolonifera.
stoloniferans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stoloniferan
Heligoland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛlɪɡə(ʊ)ˌlənd/
ipa: /ˈhɛlɪɡoʊlænd/
Forms: form: Helgoland
Etymology: Second element is land, first element of disputed origin:
* From German heilig (“holy”), as in Middle High German Heiligland (“holy land”)
* From the North Frisian for high, similar to Hallig; hinted by the Heligolanders' self-designation of Halunder.
* Related to the legendary hero Helgi, identical to the Old Norse name Helgi.
More at Heligoland.
Senses: glosses: A small island of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany in the North Sea.
Derived terms: Heligoland trap
stroupach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stroupachs
Senses: examples: text: At six I dressed, and went down to the kitchen to light the fire, thinking to surprise Cordelia by bringing her stroupach up to her in bed on Harvest-morn. But I found that I was not the only one to be up betimes.
ref: 1944, Catherine Macdonald Maclean, Farewell to Tharrus, page 88:
text: The trick, my dear madam, is to ensure that the sun is shining on the flowers as you pick them and never to pause, yea even for a stroupach, between picking and starting the mulching process.
ref: 1992, John Maxwell, “A few ruffled feathers over champagne and duck breast”, in Herald Scotland:
text: With a ‘stroupach’ (cup of tea) in the church hall afterwards (and, as we said the last time, this is one of the best ‘stroupachs’ in London – with a cuppa, cake and a chat in Gaelic or English!).
ref: 2009, LUNNAINN NAN GÀIDHEAL:
glosses: a cup of tea.
Synonyms: stroupan
Related terms: stroup
stroopie
inverted commas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inverted comma
unfreakish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfreakish
form: most unfreakish
Etymology: From un- + freakish.
Senses: examples: text: But how may spirit quick and deep / A constancy unfreakish keep?
ref: 1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XV. The Fountain.”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part II (The Wilderness), page 190, lines 48–49:
glosses: Not freakish.
unfreaky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfreaky
form: most unfreaky
Etymology: From un- + freaky.
Senses: glosses: Not freaky.
dentialveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dentoalveolar
Etymology: From denti- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth.
dentialveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːələ(ɹ)
-əʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dentialveolars
form: dentoalveolar
Etymology: From denti- + alveolar.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A speech sound that is articulated with a flat tongue against the alveolar ridge and upper teeth.
dentoalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dento- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: dentialveolar
dentoalveolar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dentoalveolars
Etymology: From dento- + alveolar.
Senses: glosses: dentialveolar
saccharinely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more saccharinely
form: most saccharinely
Etymology: From saccharine + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Switching the bulletin immediately, Mother recounts some observations of mine as if I’ve spent the entire morning mouthing extraordinarily brilliant, saccharinely sweet and fetchingly naive remarks.
ref: 1988, Bapsi Sidhwa, Ice-Candy Man, Daunt Books (2016), page 85:
glosses: In a saccharine manner.
saccharinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saccharinities
Etymology: From saccharine + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: [Potatoes] are raised with studious attention to prolific varieties, but with surpassingly little regard to either farina, saccharinity, or flavour; and they hence consist, to an enormous proportion, of a watery and nauseous variety called the lumper […]
ref: 1844, The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland, Dublin: A. Fullarton, Volume 3, Introduction, p. lxvii:
text: No fair exhibitress ever should persuade us that her Dorkings were “sweet things” until we had eaten a slice to prove their saccharinity […]
ref: 1857 February 7, “The Art of Poultry Keeping, Considered from an Aldermanic point of view”, in Punch, volume 32, page 60:
text: I took advantage of the interval to hand him one of those most loved lollipops of Yankee youngsterhood, a plump, hard ball of toothsome saccharinity called—obviously from its resistant resiliency—an “All-Day Sucker.”
ref: 1919, Lewis R. Freeman, chapter 2, in Sea-Hounds, New York: Dodd, Mead, page 48:
text: […] even an undefined and never-spoken engagement survived, speaking well for the postulation that they did love one another, since during that two days mere romance would have perished, died of sheer saccharinity and opportunity.
ref: 1936, William Faulkner, chapter 4, in Absalom, Absalom!, New York: Modern Library, published 1951, page 104:
glosses: The quality of being saccharine: (extreme or excessive) sweetness (literal and figurative senses).
saccharinities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharinity
saccharimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From saccharimetry + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or measured by means of, saccharimetry.
saccharines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharine
saccharins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saccharin
nonprecursor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonprecursors
Etymology: From non- + precursor.
Senses: glosses: That which is not a precursor.
nonprecursors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonprecursor
saccharifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saccharify
saccharified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saccharify
saccharified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Converted into simple sugars
saccharifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saccharify
Persianate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Persianate
form: most Persianate
Etymology: From Persian + -ate (adjective-forming suffix); attributed to Marshall Hodgson.
Senses: glosses: Based on, or strongly influenced by, the Persian language or culture.
wikipedia: Marshall Hodgson
air tight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more air tight
form: most air tight
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of airtight.
chevauchee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevauchees
form: chevauchée
form: chevauchie
form: chevachie
form: chivachie
form: chivachye
form: chivache
form: chevache
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English chyvachie, from Old French chevauchie, chevauchée, from Medieval Latin caballicāta; the modern form is after modern French chevauchée. Doublet of cavalcade.
Senses: examples: text: Montrose led his army in an extended chevauchee through the heart of the Campbell country.
ref: 2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, page 60:
glosses: A military raid by cavalry through enemy territory, designed to disrupt rural communities and weaken an opponent.
chevauchees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevauchee
chevache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chevauchee.
chivache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of chevauchee.
chevauchie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chevauchies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chevauchee.
chevauchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chevauchie
antistalking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + stalking.
Senses: glosses: Counteracting stalking (the crime of following and harassing a person).
Dacca District
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the seventeen districts in the Dacca Division of the former East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
baby vamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby vamps
Senses: glosses: An attractive and popular young woman.
glosses: A young vampire.
Synonyms: sense: attractive young woman
word: vampette
sense: young vampire
alt: f
word: vampette
Agra Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Allahabad Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
vampette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vampettes
Etymology: From vamp + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: Instead the erotic threat to Harker emanates from three insatiable vampettes who appear to embody his normative fantasy of being consumed in group sex.
ref: 1997, Deborah Steinberg, Debbie Epstein, Richard Johnson, Border Patrols, page 270:
glosses: A young female vampire.
glosses: An attractive and popular young woman.
glosses: A female fan of the pop group The Vamps.
Synonyms: sense: young female vampire
word: vampirette
sense: attractive young woman
word: baby vamp
Hypernyms: sense: young female vampire
word: vampiress
Azamgarh
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi आज़मगढ़ (āzamgaṛh).
Senses: glosses: A city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
vampettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vampette
pseudonormality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pseudo- + normality.
Senses: glosses: An abnormal state that resembles normality.
Basti Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
nonsomatizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + somatizing.
Senses: glosses: Not somatizing.
Chitrakoot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi चित्रकूट (citrakūṭ).
Senses: glosses: A large city, district, and division of Uttar Pradesh, India.
glosses: A nagar panchayat in Madhya Pradesh, India.
Devipatan Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Headquarters: Gonda.
Faizabad Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Lucknow Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Meerut Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
banana oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: banana oils
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps Miss Fisher has the last word when she says, "What a load of banana oil!"
ref: 1979, The New York Times Theater Reviews, page 270:
glosses: Nonsense.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical substance isoamyl acetate.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see banana, oil.
Related terms: snake oil
Kizzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kizzie
Etymology: From a pet form of Kezia. Explained as a Mandinka name by Alex Haley in Roots (1976).
Senses: examples: text: In Mandinka it meant, "You stay here". [ - - - ] Bell was indignant when she heard the name. "Kizzy! Ain't nobody never heared of dat name! Ain't gon' no nothin' but stir up trouble." But Kunta explained its meaning, and she relented.
ref: 1976 Alex Haley, Roots, Reader's Digest:Treasury of Great Books, volume 110 (1977), page 164
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Kizzie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, variant of Kizzy.
barney-mugging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of barneymugging.
Kizzies
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kizzy
glosses: plural of Kizzie
Saharanpur Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Varanasi Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Burdwan division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of West Bengal, India.
Jalpaiguri division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of West Bengal, India.
Presidency division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A division of West Bengal, India.
Lower Assam Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India.
Upper Assam Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the subdivisions of the state Assam, Republic of India.
Garhwal Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Kumaon Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Patna Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Tirhut Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Saran Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Darbhanga Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Kosi Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Purnia Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Bhagalpur Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Munger Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Magadh Division
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: One of the administrative divisions of the Republic of India
Warangal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city and district of Telangana, India.
c**t
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: c**ts
Senses: glosses: Censored spelling of cunt.
glosses: Censored spelling of clit.
ice-cream headache
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-cream headaches
Senses: examples: text: Swallowing a cold drink or ice cream can evoke a sudden pain in the palate, throat, or forehead. Such “ice-cream headaches” are more common in people prone to migraines.
ref: 2003, Floyd E. Bloom, M. Flint Beal, David J[erome] Kupfer, editors, The Dana Guide to Brain Health, The Free Press, →ISBN, page 547:
text: An ice pick of cold stabbed into the back of Jason’s left eye. “Now I know what Madame Rosa’s warning meant,” he gasped, shoving his mint-chip milk shake away. “What?” Dani demanded. “I shouldn’t have sucked that down so fast. I’ve got a killer ice-cream headache now,” Jason explained, toying with the half-empty cup.
ref: 2007, Alex Duval, Ritual (Vampire Beach), Simon Pulse, →ISBN, page 17:
text: She’d finished her milkshake so fast that Michael was surprised she didn’t have an ice-cream headache.
ref: 2011, Lisa Tucker, The Winters in Bloom, Washington Square Press, published 2012, →ISBN, page 199:
glosses: Alternative form of ice cream headache.
it's snowing
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: it’s snowing
Senses: glosses: Snow is falling.
emergency physician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emergency physicians
Senses: glosses: A physician (or doctor) who works at an emergency department to care for acutely ill patients.
Synonyms: word: A & E doctor
word: accident and emergency doctor
word: emergency doctor
word: ER doctor
word: ER physician
Related terms: word: emergency department
word: emergency medicine
alt: EMS
word: emergency medical service
word: emergency room
word: emergency ward
word: emergency worker
dialkenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dialkene
Dogberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒɡbəɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɔɡˌbɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɑɡˌbɛɹi/
Forms: form: Dogberries
Etymology: From Dogberry, the name of a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1600).
Senses: examples: text: It would be interesting to know how many village Dogberries there were like Thomas Law, the constable of Quendon, Essex, whose reaction in 1651 on being informed of a robbery was to call on the astrologer, William Hills, ‘with an intent to hear what he might say, so that he might make his search accordingly’.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 333:
glosses: A pompous, foolish or self-important official.
wikipedia: Dogberry
Derived terms: Dogberryism
Dogberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dogberry
plantane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plantanes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of plantain.
prognosticatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒɡˈnɒstɪkətəɹi/
ipa: /pɹɑɡˈnɑstɪkətɔɹi/
Forms: form: more prognosticatory
form: most prognosticatory
Etymology: From prognosticate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: Most of the almanac-makers had gone over to Copernicanism by this time, but it made no difference to their prognosticatory activities.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 339:
synonyms: prognosticant
glosses: That prognosticates or makes predictions about the future; predictive.
voice onset time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voice onset times
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The amount of time that passes between the release of a stop consonant and the onset of voicing.
Synonyms: VOT
VoT
voice onset times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voice onset time
VOT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VOTs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of voice onset time.
VOTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of VOT
judicial astrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A brief Declaration against Judicial Astrologie.
ref: 1650, John Raunce, (title)
text: Similarly in Cambridge it was maintained in 1603 that judicial astrology was a mere imposture.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 340:
glosses: The supposed divination of human affairs based on the motions of the stars and planets (as opposed to natural astrology).
apoptopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of apoptotic.
bicyclobutane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicyclobutanes
Etymology: From bi- + cyclobutane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of two separate cyclobutane rings joined by a single bond.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A highly strained bicyclic hydrocarbon consisting of two fused cyclopropane rings.
dichloroiodate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dichloroiodates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The interhalogen anion ICl₂⁻
prodiginine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prodiginines
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of pigmented oligopyrrole antibiotics with medicinal potential as immunosuppressants and antitumour agents
prodiginines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prodiginine
oligopyrrole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oligopyrroles
Etymology: From oligo- + pyrrole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of compounds based on a short string of pyrrole rings joined together
cobblestone ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Lumps of ice mixed with sand and salt accumulated on highways
time stretch analog-to-digital converter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time stretch analog-to-digital converters
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A device for digitizing analog signals of very high bandwidth, effectively slowing down the original signal in time (or compressing its bandwidth) before it can be digitized by a slow electronic ADC.
Vietka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Vetka.
Vetka
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vietka
Senses: glosses: A town in Belarus near Gomel.
-h-
Language: English
Part of speech: interfix
Senses: examples: text: fuck! + -h- → fuhuck!
text: damn! + -h- → dahamn!
glosses: Emphasises obscenities.
examples: text: beer + -h- → bheer
text: boy + -h- → bhoy
text: god + -h- → ghod
text: good + -h- → ghood
topics: lifestyle
glosses: Indicates a fannish context or an association with science fiction fandom.
serial time-encoded amplified microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A very fast real-time optical imaging technique.
Synonyms: STEAM
rational selfishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Objectivist ethics proudly advocates and upholds rational selfishness—which means: the values required for man’s survival qua man—...
ref: 1961, Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics”, in The Virtue of Selfishness, Penguin Group:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Objectivist position that, in order to promote one's own life, the morally proper beneficiary of one's own rational actions should be oneself.
examples: 1870, Francis A Walker, An Oration at the Soldiers' Monument Dedication in North Brookfield, Goddard & Nye.
[Society] has arranged all its parts and offices on the principle that a rational selfishness is the best preservative of peace, and the most efficient agent of progress; ...
glosses: The conviction that it is moral to act for one's own good and that this is rationally in line with a greater good.
Synonyms: rational egoism
figure-caster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡə ˌkɑːstə/
Forms: form: figure-casters
Senses: examples: text: From the later Middle Ages onwards a figure-caster discovered plying his trade among the people could expect to be brought before a church court for correction.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 352:
glosses: Someone who draws up astrological figures; an astrologer.
glosses: Someone who adds up figures.
figure-casters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figure-caster
Behmenist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Behmenist
form: most Behmenist
Senses: glosses: Relating to the theosophical ideas of the 17th-century German mystic Jakob Böhme.
Behmenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Behmenists
Senses: examples: text: Between 1644 and 1662 the whole of the writings of the German mystic Jacob Boehme were translated into English, and the sect of ‘Behmenists’ was picked up by Richard Baxter as one of the significant religious groups of the Interregnum period.
ref: 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 360:
glosses: A supporter or adherent of the ideas of Jakob Böhme.
Behmenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Behmenist
abjugation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abjugations
Senses: glosses: The act of abjugating. An unyoking, freeing, or uncoupling.
examples: text: The proof of secularism of Hindus that is demanded by many Muslim leaders makes one feel sometimes that nothing short of abjugation of Hindu religion by its followers will satisfy them!
ref: 1986, Sameeksha Trust, “Economic and Political Weekly”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 21, number 3, published 1986, page 1692:
glosses: Alternative form of abjuration A repudiation, abandonment, or renunciation by or upon oath.
Derived terms: english: see Oath of Abjuration
translation: see Oath of Abjuration
word: oath of abjugation
Related terms: abrogation
abnegation
abdication
inboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of inbox
inboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inbox
dougher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -əʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: doughers
form: dower
Etymology: From Middle English dower, equivalent to dough + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Among the ordinances of the Bakers of Exeter, is a provision that all 'dowers' (doughers or bakers) of the city and suburbs should grind at the city mills, and nowhere else; […]
ref: 1871, Sydney Smith, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:
text: Among the archives of the Pillsbury A mill is the following, which was recently found spread over a pine board in hieroglyphics by some unknown and nailed on the door of the dougher's room.
ref: 1881, The Northwestern Miller - Volume 12, page 294:
text: The ovens are heated by electricity, and the dougher, when he wants the ovens warm, just turns a switch throwing the current on, and in a few minutes the temperature is exactly what he wants, and is under perfect control.
ref: 1889, The Electrical Journal - Volume 22, page 518:
text: That "deye" meant originally a dougher or maker, then a dairymaid, and lastly a farm hand, as in Scott's novels, he is not told.
ref: 1915, The Journal of Education - Volume 47, page 667:
glosses: A baker.
Hindu-Kush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hindu Kush.
Hindukush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hindu Kush
Granicus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡɹəˈnaɪkəs/
Etymology: From Latin Granicus, from Ancient Greek Γρανικός (Granikós).
Senses: glosses: A river in northwestern Anatolia, where Alexander the Great defeated the forces of the Persian Empire under Darius III
dotel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dotels
Etymology: From dote + -el (agent suffix). Compare doter.
Senses: glosses: A dotard.
Synonyms: sense: dotard
word: dodipole
word: mimmerkin
word: dotard
nonconducive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + conducive.
Senses: glosses: Not conducive.
Dorpat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Dorpat, from older Estonian Tarbatu.
Senses: glosses: Former name of Tartu.
genius hominis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genii hominis
Etymology: A borrowing of Latin genius hominis (“tutelary deity of a person”), from the nominative possessive form of homo (“person”).
Senses: glosses: The tutelary deity or spirit watching over a particular person.
Synonyms: word: genius
word: demon
word: daimon
english: Greek contexts
translation: Greek contexts
word: daemon
english: as a benevolent spirit in monotheistic contexts
translation: as a benevolent spirit in monotheistic contexts
word: guardian angel
Hypernyms: genius
tutelary deity and Thesaurus:spirit
places of articulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of place of articulation
Mahdavism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Mahdavia
Mahdavia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Islamic sect that considers Muhammad Jaunpuri to have been the Mahdi.
Mahdavi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mahdavis
Senses: glosses: An adherent of Mahdavia
Zikri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zikris
Senses: glosses: Mahdavi
Zikris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zikri
Mahdavis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mahdavi
paradelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paradelles
Etymology: Coined by Billy Collins circa 1997; believed to be from a blend of parody + villanelle.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A ridiculously restrictive poetic form consisting of four sestets that must repeat lines and reuse all previous words according to a fixed pattern.
wikipedia: Billy Collins
paradelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paradelle
unglottalized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + glottalized.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Not glottalized.
bluebucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bluebuck
bluebuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bluebucks
Senses: examples: text: Almost all of these antelope communities have been reduced to scattered remnants by excessive hunting in the past and loss of habitat to agricultural development, but the bluebuck is the only antelope species which has been exterminated.
ref: 1989, J. L. Anderson, R. D. Carr, A. J. Hall-Martin, S. C. J. Joubert, M. E. Keep, P. H. Lloyd, S. Vrahimis, “Chapter 10: South Africa”, in Rod East, editor, Antelopes: Southern and South-Central Africa, page 58:
text: The blaubok, or bluebuck, was an antelope of the same genus as the roan and the sable; it was eliminated before 1800, primarily because the settlers took over the animal's grazing land for their cattle.
ref: 1993, Raymond Bonner, At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, page 45:
text: The bluebuck, or blue antelope, was the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times. Bluebuck numbers began dropping about 2000 years ago and the species was already rare by the 1700s.[…]The last bluebuck was reportedly killed in 1799.
ref: 2008, United Nations Environment Programme, Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, page 26:
glosses: An extinct mammal, †Hippotragus leucophaeus, the first large African mammal to become extinct in historical times (circa 1800).
glosses: The nilgai.
Synonyms: sense: Hippotragus leucophaeus
word: blaubok
sense: Hippotragus leucophaeus
word: blauwbok
sense: Hippotragus leucophaeus
word: bloubok
sense: Hippotragus leucophaeus
word: blue antelope
sense: Hippotragus leucophaeus
word: bluebok
inkalimeva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In a short time, the coney fell asleep, when the inkalimeva (a fabulous animal) went in and ate all the fat.
ref: 1907, George McCall Theal, History and Ethnography of Africa South of the Zambesi: From the Settlement of the Portuguese at Sofala in September 1505 to the Conquest of the Cape Colony by the British in September 1795, volume 1, page 143:
text: Various animals are tricked by a fabulous creature, an inkalimeva. They are meant to guard a pool created by the animals. With its musical instrument, an inkingi, a stringed instrument, it lulls the guards into a deep sleep, and then the inkalimeva drinks the water. Finally, a tortoise turns the tables on the inkalimeva.
ref: 2006, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, Ndumiso Bhotomane, South African Voices: A Long Time Passed, volume 1, page 139:
glosses: A "fabulous animal" that features in Xhosa folk tales. It is often described as a jackal-like creature with a multi-coloured coat.
desert rose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈzɜːt ɹəʊz/
ipa: /dɪˈzɝt ɹoʊz/
Forms: form: desert roses
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see desert, rose.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a flowering plant
A flowering plant of species Adenium obesum, native to Africa and the Middle East; a common ornamental.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a flowering plant
A star rose, gooseberry rose (Rosa stellata), a rose native to North America.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: a flowering plant
Sturt’s desert rose (Gossypium sturtianum), of Australia.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rosette of gypsum or barite crystals formed under certain conditions.
glosses: An attractive women found in an arid environment
strictly speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more strictly speaking
form: most strictly speaking
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: technically, stricto sensu
text: This recipe calls for three kinds of fruit: strawberries, cherries, and rhubarb. Well, strictly speaking, rhubarb is a vegetable.
antonyms: roughly speaking
glosses: Saying something as precisely as possible; using a strict sense of a word.
Related terms: autohyponym
subsense
Kala Kato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Quranic movement based in Niger and Nigeria.
type site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type sites
form: type-site
form: typesite
Etymology: From type + site.
Senses: examples: text: The Late Bronze Age assemblage to which the type site offers no significant parallel.
ref: 1935, Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1 6:
text: Bambata is the type site for the Stillbay Culture in Rhodesia.
ref: 1959, J.G.D. Clark, Reflections on the significance of prehistoric cultural influences in South West Africa, VI 159:
text: A ‘type-site’ is, in archaeological jargon, the site after which a culture is named, often the site at which it was first discovered or recognized as distinct.
ref: 1981, P. Salway, Roman Britain, section 7:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An archaeological site considered the representative example of a particular culture, frequently its first discovery and frequently used as its eponym
examples: text: Each interglacial is named after a type site or area where deposits of that stage occur.
ref: 1975, J.G. Evans, The Environment of Early Man on the British Isles, I 8:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geologic site considered the representative example or first discovery of a stratographic level or other feature
Related terms: Clovis
La Tène
type sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type site
type-site
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: type-sites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of type site.
type-sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of type-site
typesite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: typesites
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of type site.
typesites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of typesite
raster burn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: screenburn
examples: text: Raster burn threatened to end this session. A night's rest is what he needed, but in another two hours he could break the bank's password.
ref: 2001, Ronald Maier, The Enemy Inside, page 131:
glosses: computer vision syndrome
flipped classroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flipped classrooms
Senses: glosses: A classroom that uses the flipped learning system of education.
formylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From formyl + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A positively-charged cation with the formula HCO⁺, related to formaldehyde, aldehydes, and formyl.
Synonyms: formyl cation
Coordinate terms: formaldehyde
aldehyde
formyl
Related terms: formaldehyde
formyl
Longshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: Lung-shan
form: Lung Shan
form: Mount Long
form: Mount Lung
Etymology: From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 龍山 /龙山 (Lóngshān) (Lóngshān, lit. "Dragon Mountain")
Senses: examples: text: Many identified the Yangshao culture, or the Painted Pottery culture, as the remains of the Xia nation; and the Longshan culture, or the Black Pottery culture, as the remains of the Shang nation.
ref: 2004, Xiaoneng Yang, “Introduction”, in New Perspectives on China's Past: Chinese Archaeology in the Twentieth Century, volume 1, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:
text: Han Chinese, who make up more than 90 per cent of the population of China, are genetically closer to the Longshan people, who are known to have farmed rice, the study said.
ref: 2020 June 5, Stephen Chen, “Prehistoric ancestors of modern-day Chinese favoured rice over millet, study says”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Jun 2020, Science:
text: The Lungshan culture of Shantong^([sic – meaning Shantung]) was spread around the middle and east of Shantong^([sic – meaning Shantung]) Province, and the Huaibei area in Jiangsu Province, 4,500 to 4,000 years ago.[…]From archaeological information we know that society in the Lungshan culture period had a clear hierarchy, and a special craftsman was in charge of pottery making.
ref: [n.d., “Longshan black pottery stem cup”, in Digital Taiwan - Culture & Nature, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2024:
glosses: A neolithic culture along the Yellow River in China, named for its type site
glosses: Various mountains in China
examples: text: Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, sponsored by the Ministry of Education organized "Friendly Taiwan - foreign student homestay development program," in cooperation with Longsan community in Chiku District, Tainan.
ref: [2015 October 2, “"Friendly Taiwan - foreign student homestay development program" is full of goodwill: 26 students travelled to explore the beauty of Langshan in Chiku District.”, in Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2022:
glosses: Various placenames in China and Taiwan
glosses: Various placenames in China and Taiwan
A district of Liaoyuan, Jilin, China.
examples: text: Among the specific incidents the report cites was one in Xinning County, Hunan Province, where a resisting farmer cut off the ear of a township party official trying to collect fees. In Longshan County, also in Hunan, two officials died in a clash with protesters.
ref: 2001 June 3, Erik Eckholm, “China's Inner Circle Reveals Big Unrest, and Lists Causes”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, Section 1, page 14:
glosses: Various placenames in China and Taiwan
A county of Xiangxi, Hunan, China.
Longshan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -æn
Forms: form: Lung-shan
form: Lung Shan
form: Mount Long
form: Mount Lung
Etymology: From the pinyin romanization of Mandarin 隴山 /陇山 (Lǒngshān).
Senses: glosses: A mountain in China.
glosses: Various placenames in Gansu, named for the mountain
potassium formate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt of formic acid, formula CHKO₂.
Mount Long
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A partial translation of the pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese 龍山 /龙山 (Lóngshān) (Lóngshān, lit. "Dragon Mountain") or 隴山 /陇山 (Lǒngshān)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Longshan.
Mount Lung
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A partial translation of the Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin Chinese 龍山 /龙山 (Lóngshān) (Lóngshān, literally "Dragon Mountain") or 隴山 /陇山 (Lǒngshān)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Longshan.