cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
buttonquail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌtɜnˌkweɪl/
Forms: form: buttonquails
form: button-quail
Etymology: From button + quail.
Senses: synonyms: hemipode
glosses: Any of several species of small terrestrial birds, principally in the genus Turnix of the family Turnicidae.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Turnix suscitator
word: barred buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix melanogaster
word: black-breasted buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix hottentottus
word: black-rumped buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix olivii
word: buff-breasted buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix castanotus
word: chestnut-backed buttonquail
word: common buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix sylvaticus
word: Kurrichane buttonquail
taxonomic: Ortyxelos meiffrenii
word: lark buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix velox
word: little buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix nigricollis
word: Madagascar buttonquail
alt: †Turnix varius novaecaledoniae
word: New Caledonia buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix varius
word: painted buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix maculosus
word: red-backed buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix pyrrhothorax
word: red-chested buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix sylvaticus
word: small buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix ocellatus
word: spotted buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix everetti
word: Sumba buttonquail
alt: †Turnix sylvaticus suluensis
word: Tawitawi small buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix worcesteri
word: Worcester's buttonquail
taxonomic: Turnix tanki
word: yellow-legged buttonquail
buttonquails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buttonquail
button-quail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buttonquail.
fascias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascia
fasciae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæʃ.i/
ipa: /ˈfæʃ.iˌi/
Senses: related: word: fasciæ
glosses: plural of fascia
hypomelanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + melanistic.
Senses: glosses: Having less than the normal amount of melanin pigment in the skin.
Related terms: albino
hypomelanism
melanistic
stone curlews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stone curlew
stone-curlew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stone-curlews
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of stone curlew.
thick-knee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθɪk.niː/
Forms: form: thick-knees
Etymology: From thick + knee.
Senses: synonyms: stone curlew
stone-curlew
glosses: Any of several species of large terrestrial birds in the stone-curlew family Burhinidae.
Derived terms: beach thick-knee
bush thick-knee
double-striped thick-knee
Burhinus bistriatus
Eurasian thick-knee
great thick-knee
Peruvian thick-knee
Burhinus superciliaris
Senegal thick-knee
Burhinus senegalensis
spotted thick-knee
Burhinus capensis
water thick-knee
Burhinus vermiculatus
thick-knees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thick-knee
hangable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hang + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Duench whips out bowls with expandable tops, hangable onion holders, portion control plates.
ref: 2009 March 2, Nancy J. White, “In tough times, folks turn to Tupperware”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Able to be hung or suspended.
examples: text: a hangable offence
glosses: Punishable with execution by hanging.
Derived terms: unhangable
Related terms: hanger
hang
BWV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BWVs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of bodyworn video
odontologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odontologists
Etymology: From odontology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: “If you say that this bite fits this person and nobody else in the world, and if you use the bite mark as the only piece of physical evidence linking an attacker to his victim, that’s not science — that’s junk,” said Dr. Richard Souviron, chief forensic odontologist at the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office.
ref: 2007 January 28, Fernanda Santos, “Evidence From Bite Marks, It Turns Out, Is Not So Elementary”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who studies teeth.
odontologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odontologist
pistou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French pistou.
Senses: examples: text: On a November morning, the other side of the 12-foot-long cooking area featured metal organizers filled with endive, bread crumbs, almond butter, mushrooms, shallots, chorizo, chives, purée of purple potatoes, parsley pistou, chestnuts, dried tomatoes and other items that allow the chef to riff at high speed.
ref: 2007 January 28, Christine Muhlke, “Bistronomy”, in New York Times:
glosses: A Provençal cold sauce made from cloves of garlic, fresh basil, and olive oil, similar to pesto.
Coordinate terms: persillade
pesto
ibisbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪbɪs.bɪl/
Forms: form: ibisbills
Etymology: From ibis + bill.
Senses: glosses: Ibidorhyncha struthersii, a species of wading bird inhabiting the shingle riverbanks of the high plateau of Central Asia and the Himalayas.
ibisbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ibisbill
chytrids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chytrid
finnan haddock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: finnan haddocks
Etymology: From the fishing village Findon near Aberdeen, but sometimes confused with the Scottish river and village of Findhorn.
Senses: glosses: haddock cured with the smoke of green wood, turf or peat.
Synonyms: finnan haddie
Findon haddock
cantatrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantatrice
cantatrici
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cantatrice
Turing degree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Turing degrees
Etymology: Named after Alan Turing.
Senses: topics: computer
computing
engineering
human-sciences
logic
mathematics
natural-sciences
philosophy
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A measure of the level of algorithmic unsolvability of the decision problem of whether a given set of natural numbers contains any given number.
wikipedia: Alan Turing
Related terms: Turing equivalent
Peano arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Peano arithmetics
Etymology: Named after Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano (1858–1932).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, addition and multiplication, including a first-order schema of induction.
Related terms: Presburger arithmetic
Presburger arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Introduced in 1929 by Mojżesz Presburger.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A set of axioms of first-order logic for the natural numbers specifying the operations of zero, successor, and addition, including a first-order schema of induction, without multiplication.
wikipedia: Mojżesz Presburger
Related terms: Peano arithmetic
class breaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of class break
Copernicus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Copernicus.
Senses: glosses: Nicolaus Copernicus, a mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
Derived terms: Copernican
copernicium
wrybill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹaɪ.bɪl/
Forms: form: wrybills
Etymology: From wry + bill.
Senses: glosses: Anarhynchus frontalis, a species of small bird in the plover family Charadriidae, unique in having a beak that is bent sideways, endemic to New Zealand.
Synonyms: word: crookbill
word: wry-billed plover
Aristarchus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἀρίσταρχος (Arístarkhos).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, of historical use only in English.
wrybills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrybill
Kepler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer.
glosses: Kepler space telescope, a stellar transit tracker used for finding exoplanets
Derived terms: sense: Johannes Kepler
word: K1
sense: Johannes Kepler
word: K2
sense: Johannes Kepler
english: a prefix used for the Kepler space telescope astronomical catalogue
translation: a prefix used for the Kepler space telescope astronomical catalogue
word: Kepler-
sense: Johannes Kepler
word: Keplerian
sense: Johannes Kepler
word: KOI
knowability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knowabilities
Etymology: From know + -ability.
Senses: examples: text: Accordingly, with respect to their knowability or opinability, Socrates makes no distinction among the sensibles between natural things and artifacts (510a5–6); both are relegated to the realm of opinion. Hence, there is no Socratic-Platonic biology.
ref: 2018, Richard F. Hassing, Final Causality in Nature and Human Affairs (page 4)
glosses: The quality or state of being knowable.
unknowability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unknowabilities
Etymology: From un- + knowability.
Senses: examples: text: At the end of her book we feel we know these couples as intimately as if we were part of their circle, but the ultimate nature of each relationship is left inviolate in its unknowability.
ref: 2007 June 24, Tina Brown, “Couples”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality or state of being unknowable.
reed bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reed beds
Senses: glosses: A place where reeds grow.
barrel vault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barrel vaults
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A simple roof having a curved, often semicircular cross section; used to span large distances in railway stations, churches, etc. Usually supported on columns.
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
roofing
glosses: A building profile featuring a rounded profile to the roof on the short axis, but with no angle change on a cut along the long axis.
Related terms: barrel roof
barrel vaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel vault
barrel roofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrel roof
CASEVAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CASEVACs
form: casevac
Etymology: Blend of casualty + evacuation; compare MEDEVAC.
Senses: examples: 2001, Kent B. Pandolf, R. E. Burr, Medical Aspects of Harsh Environments, Volume 2, Office of the Surgeon General (US), page 1156,
Rehearsal of representative CASEVACs is invaluable in refining both operating techniques with the CASEVAC assets and coordination with the receiving MTF.
2011, Robby Carpenter, Shawn Carpenter, Ramiro Bujeiro, Force on Force: Modern Wargaming Rules, Ambush Alley Games, Osprey Publishing, page 53,
If a force has CASEVAC assets available (medevac choppers, ambulances, an on-table aid station, etc.), then a unit may hand off its Casualties (and the associated penalties) by moving into contact with the CASEVAC asset.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The emergency patient evacuation of injured people (civilians or soldiers) from a combat zone.
Related terms: MEDEVAC
evac
CASEVAC
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: CASEVACs
form: CASEVACing
form: CASEVAC'd
form: CASEVAC'd
form: casevac
Etymology: Blend of casualty + evacuation; compare MEDEVAC.
Senses: examples: text: Sadly, two days later we are back at the hospital again, initially to casevac a patient down to a fixed wing aircraft at the airfield. […] It has been decided to casevac him to Andrew Fleming hospital in Salisbury.
ref: 2018, Mike Borlace, Spider Zero Seven, Kibworth Beauchamp, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 123:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To perform the emergency evacuation of (an injured person) from a combat zone.
MEDEVAC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MEDEVACs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medevac.
MEDEVAC
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: MEDEVACs
form: MEDEVACing
form: MEDEVACed
form: MEDEVACed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medevac.
Liebercrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Liebercrats
Etymology: Blend of Lieberman + Democrat, from Joseph Lieberman, a US Senator from Connecticut who left the Democratic Party after being defeated in the party primary in 2006.
Senses: examples: text: JMS, you really need to figure out who you support. I seem to recall you giving a thumbs-up to McCain, but you now seem to come across as a Liebercrat - a decent person who has been corrupted by Clinton/Gore.
ref: 2000 December 18, Sean Ormond, “Re: OK, I'm expecting an announcement about the formation of”, in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated (Usenet):
text: As result, Mr. Lambert is being called a "Liebercrat" after Sen. Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, who won re-election as an independent after losing in the 2006 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont.
ref: 2007 March 21, Seth McLaughlin, “Virginia Democrat faces blog ire for Allen support”, in Washington Times, archived from the original on 02 Jul 2010:
text: The protesters referred to Amann as an "arrogant Liebercrat," noting that he voted against civil unions and calling him a DINO, a "Democrat in name only."
ref: 2008 January 31, Frank Juliano, “Amann officially wants to be governor”, in Connecticut Post, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
topics: government
politics
glosses: A Democrat whose politics resemble those of Joseph Lieberman; in recent use, often specifically a Democrat who acts like a Republican
Related terms: Blue Dog
DINO
Republicrat
RINO
piano nobile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piano nobiles
form: piani nobili
Etymology: From Italian piano nobile (“noble floor”).
Senses: topics: architecture
synonyms: bel étage
glosses: The floor of a building where the principal bedrooms and main reception rooms are found, very often on the first or second floor in older buildings.
bossage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bossages
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A rough, unfinished stone block, which is left projecting from the wall of a building to be later sculpted.
bossages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bossage
paino nobiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piano nobile
PMDD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Initialism of premenstrual dysphoric disorder.
Related terms: topics: pathology
medicine
sciences
word: PMS
atajos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atajo
unspecifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspecifiable
form: most unspecifiable
Etymology: From un- + specifiable.
Senses: examples: text: The development of an account of the biological underpinnings of behavior will be like the development of the atomic theory, a mixture of experimental, observational/clinical, and theoretical work that progressively reduces the number of unspecifiable parameters.
ref: 2009 January 23, Helen Longino, “Perilous thoughts: comment on van Fraassen”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 143, number 1, →DOI, pages 25–32:
glosses: Unable to be specified.
Related terms: unspecifiability
specifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From specify + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being specifiable.
unspecifiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unspecifiable.
describableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From describable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being describable.
Synonyms: word: describability
indescribableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indescribable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being indescribable.
Synonyms: undescribableness
indescribability
undescribability
pluronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to pluronic acid or its derivatives
pluronic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluronics
Senses: glosses: Any form of pluronic acid or similar block copolymer of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide
pluronic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A nonionic surfactant used in biochemical research.
describability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˌskɹaɪbəˈbɪlɪti/
Etymology: From describe + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being describable.
Synonyms: word: describableness
postassembly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-assembly
Etymology: From post- + assembly.
Senses: glosses: After assembling
undescribability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + describability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being indescribable.
Synonyms: indescribableness
undescribableness
indescribability
postfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-fusion
Etymology: From post- + fusion.
Senses: glosses: Following fusion
postglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more postglobular
form: most postglobular
form: post-globular
Etymology: From post- + globular.
Senses: glosses: Following a globular stage
Related terms: preglobular
postinvasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-invasive
Etymology: From post- + invasive.
Senses: glosses: Following invasion.
postmigratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-migratory
Etymology: From post- + migratory.
Senses: glosses: Following migration.
postnucleation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-nucleation
Etymology: From post- + nucleation.
Senses: glosses: Following nucleation.
postprenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-prenylation
Etymology: From post- + prenylation.
Senses: glosses: Following prenylation.
prenylation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenylations
Senses: glosses: isoprenylation
postreplicative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-replicative
Etymology: From post- + replicative.
Senses: glosses: Following replication
postreproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-productive
Etymology: From post- + reproductive.
Senses: glosses: Following a productive stage.
postseismic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-seismic
Etymology: From post- + seismic.
Senses: glosses: Following a seismic event.
postselection
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-selection
Etymology: From post- + selection.
Senses: glosses: Following selection.
postsemester
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-semester
Etymology: From post- + semester.
Senses: glosses: Following a semester.
poststimulus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-stimulus
Etymology: From post- + stimulus.
Senses: glosses: Following a stimulus.
posttransfer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-transfer
Etymology: From post- + transfer.
Senses: glosses: Following transfer
posttransition
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-transition
Etymology: From post- + transition.
Senses: glosses: Following transition.
posttreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-treatment
Etymology: From post- + treatment.
Senses: glosses: Following treatment.
posttreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: posttreatments
form: post-treatment
Etymology: From post- + treatment.
Senses: glosses: A treatment carried out after some earlier process.
posttumor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-tumor
form: post-tumour
form: posttumour
Etymology: From post- + tumor.
Senses: glosses: Following (removal of a) tumor.
postorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: post-orbital
Etymology: From post- + orbital.
Senses: examples: text: the postorbital scales of some fishes and reptiles
glosses: Behind the orbit of the eye.
Derived terms: frontopostorbital
squamosopostorbital
postorbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪtəl
Forms: form: postorbitals
form: post-orbital
Etymology: From post- + orbital.
Senses: examples: example
glosses: A postorbital bone or scale.
postsuborbital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-suborbital
Etymology: From post- + suborbital.
Senses: glosses: Behind the suborbital part of the eye.
postsynaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From postsynaptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a postsynaptic manner
postzygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + zygapophyseal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the postzygapophysis
Derived terms: centropostzygapophyseal
infrapostzygapophyseal
interpostzygapophyseal
intrapostzygapophyseal
spinopostzygapophyseal
postzygotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + zygotic.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Following a zygotic stage
Derived terms: postzygotically
Related terms: prezygotic
pickable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pickable
form: most pickable
Etymology: From pick + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be picked.
Derived terms: nonpickable
pickability
unpickable
pickability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pick + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pickable.
potentiator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potentiators
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A reagent that enhances sensitization of an antigen.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that enhances the response to another.
glosses: A flavour enhancer.
Derived terms: immunopotentiator
preassociation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preassociations
form: pre-association
Etymology: From pre- + association.
Senses: glosses: Prior association.
preequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-equilibrium
Etymology: From pre- + equilibrium.
Senses: glosses: Before equilibrium
preequilibrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preequilibria
form: pre-equilibrium
Etymology: From pre- + equilibrium.
Senses: examples: text: The decomposition of peroxydisulfate to sulfate radical ions was taken to be a rapid preequilibrium, and was postulated to be followed by the rate-determining reaction of a sulfate radical ion with MG to produce a radical intermediate, I.
ref: 1992, International journal of chemical kinetics, page 1110:
text: In cases involving multiple preequilibria (e.g., multiple substrates, induced conformational change), K.,, reveals little about each of these steps individually. In the case of allosteric interaction, characteristic kinetic behavior is...
ref: 2009, Stephen J. Lippard, Current Research Topics in Bioinorganic Chemistry, Volume 18:
glosses: The initial stage of a chemical reaction when the different chemicals are beginning to interact but have not yet reached equilibrium.
prechordal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + chordal.
Senses: synonyms: prochordal
glosses: In front of the notochord
precessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From precession + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to precession.
allomother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæləˌmʌðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæləˌmʌðɚ/
Forms: form: allomothers
Etymology: From allo- + mother.
Senses: examples: text: Within hours of birth, baby langurs are spirited away from their mothers. They spend up to 50 percent of daylight hours passed from allomother to allomother
ref: 2000, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and how They Shape the Human Species, page 162:
text: Among the !Kung foragers of the Kalahari, babies are held by a father, grandmother, older sibling or some other allomother maybe 25 percent of the time.
ref: 2009 March 3, Natalie Angier, “In a Helpless Baby, the Roots of Our Social Glue”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A human or other creature that provides some maternal care for the young born of another.
Synonyms: othermother
Related terms: allomaternal
allomother
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæləˌmʌðə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈæləˌmʌðɚ/
Forms: form: allomothers
form: allomothering
form: allomothered
form: allomothered
Etymology: From allo- + mother.
Senses: glosses: To provide maternal care for another creature's young.
preclamping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-clamping
Etymology: From pre- + clamping.
Senses: glosses: clamping before another operation
precleaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-cleaned
Etymology: From pre- + cleaned.
Senses: glosses: cleaned in advance
allomothers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of allomother
precleared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-cleared
Etymology: From pre- + cleared.
Senses: glosses: cleared in advance
precloacal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-cloacal
Etymology: From pre- + cloacal.
Senses: glosses: In front of the cloaca
preconformational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-conformational
Etymology: From pre- + conformational.
Senses: glosses: Before a conformation has been adopted.
Related terms: preconformation
precritical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-critical
Etymology: From pre- + critical.
Senses: glosses: Before a critical stage.
glosses: Prior to the critical philosophy of Immanuel Kant.
predictand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: predictands
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: That which is to be predicted.
transshipments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transshipment
prefill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prefills
form: prefilling
form: prefilled
form: prefilled
form: pre-fill
Etymology: From pre- + fill.
Senses: glosses: To fill in advance.
pregalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-galactic
Etymology: From pre- + galactic.
Senses: glosses: Before formation of a galaxy.
preimpact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-impact
Etymology: From pre- + impact.
Senses: glosses: Before an impact.
preincubating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-incubating
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preincubate
preincubating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-incubating
Senses: glosses: incubating in advance
preinitiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preinitiations
form: pre-initiation
Etymology: From pre- + initiation.
Senses: glosses: initiation in advance or too soon
preinvasive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-invasive
Etymology: From pre- + invasive.
Senses: glosses: Before an invasion.
prelife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-life
Etymology: From pre- + life.
Senses: glosses: Before the start of life
woodshop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodshops
Etymology: From wood + shop.
Senses: glosses: A woodworking workshop.
examples: text: When he visited, Mr. Jaye learned that New Jersey ’s vocational schools have evolved from their woodshop roots into powerhouse math and science magnets that rival the elite schools like Stuyvesant and routinely send graduates to the Ivy League.
ref: 2009 March 3, Winnie Hu, “Vo-Techs Are a New Elite, Local Districts Complain”, in New York Times:
glosses: A vocational course or class in woodworking.
woodshops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodshop
prenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prenyls
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: isoprenyl
Derived terms: decaprenyl
heptaprenyl
hexaprenyl
nonaprenyl
octaprenyl
oligoprenyl
polyprenyl
prenylchalcone
prenylcitpressine
prenylflavanone
prenylflavone
prenylflavonoid
prenylflavonol
prenylome
prenyltransferase
isoprenyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isoprenyls
Etymology: From isoprene + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical -CH₂CH=C(CH₃)₂ (C₅H₉) derived from isoprene (C₅H₈).https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1934578X0900400115 Also called prenyl.
Derived terms: isoprenylation
isoprenylcysteine
polyisoprenyl
snowshoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowshoer
prenylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːnɪˌleɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: isoprenylated
Derived terms: oxyprenylated
preplating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-plating
Etymology: From pre- + plating.
Senses: glosses: plating in advance of another process
snowshoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowshoers
Etymology: From snowshoe + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Where downhill skiers have slopes illuminated by flood lamps to boost their vertical mileage, snowshoers and cross-country skiers rely on moonshine.
ref: 2007 January 28, Elaine Glusac, “It’s Night. Shall We Snorkel, Cycle or Hike?”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who traverses snow wearing snowshoes.
kisaeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kisaengs
form: kisaeng
form: gisaeng
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 기생(妓生) (gisaeng).
Senses: examples: text: These raw emotions and unpolished behaviors are placed against the seductive, perfected armor of the kisaeng, whose skill as the ultimate purveyors of fantasy is belied by the almost caustic loneliness threading through their poems.
ref: 2009 March 3, Claudia La Rocco, “Currents of Desire, With an Assist From the Audience”, in New York Times:
glosses: A member of a traditional Korean caste of female entertainers, whose work often included prostitution.
preprophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preprophases
Etymology: From pre- + prophase.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A phase of plant mitosis before prophase.
prereplication
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-replication
Etymology: From pre- + replication.
Senses: glosses: Before replication
presenilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: presenilins
Etymology: From presenile + -in, since they were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's disease.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of transmembrane proteins
Derived terms: presenilinase
preshock
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-shock
Etymology: From pre- + shock.
Senses: glosses: Before a shock (seismic event)
prespin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-spin
Etymology: From pre- + spin.
Senses: glosses: Before a spin stage.
prestimulus
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-stimulus
Etymology: From pre- + stimulus.
Senses: glosses: Before a stimulus.
pretectal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pretectal
form: most pretectal
Etymology: From pre- + tectal.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the pretectum.
pretectum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretecta
Etymology: From pre- + tectum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: A region of neurons between the thalamus and the midbrain.
pretumor
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pre-tumor
form: pre-tumour
form: pretumour
Etymology: From pre- + tumor.
Senses: glosses: Before (development of) a tumor.
prezygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + zygapophyseal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Situated in front of the zygapophyseal joint.
Derived terms: centroprezygapophyseal
interprezygapophyseal
intraprezygapophyseal
laminoprezygapophyseal
spinoprezygapophyseal
supraprezygapophyseal
presynaptically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From presynaptic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a presynaptic manner
rhetorical mode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhetorical modes
Senses: glosses: One of the several ways of writing that include variety, conventions, and purposes of writing, such as exposition, argumentation, description, and narration.
Synonyms: mode of discourse
mode of discourse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modes of discourse
Senses: glosses: A rhetorical mode.
arc-boutants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arc-boutant
modelly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modelly
form: most modelly
Etymology: From model + -y.
Senses: examples: text: A modelly black babe in a high-fashion white dress and a modelly white babe in a high-fashion black dress sit in the corner of the Pit deepthroating each other
ref: 2008, David Henry Sterry, Master of Ceremonies, page 43:
text: The cleaning lady turns out to be a self-assured, modelly looking Ukrainian who destroys Trish’s fragile pretensions.
ref: 2009 March 2, Janet Maslin, “Having It All, Including Many Failings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a fashion model.
brise soleil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɹiːz.soʊˈleɪ/
Forms: form: brise soleils
Etymology: Borrowed from French brise-soleil, from briser (“to break”) + soleil (“sun”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A type of structural sunshade with slats, holes, etc, to keep sunlight from striking fully on a building.
brise soleils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbɹiːz.soʊˈleɪz/
/ˌbɹiːz.soʊˈleɪ/
Senses: glosses: plural of brise soleil
incarnational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From incarnation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to incarnation, particularly the incarnation of Jesus Christ.
bressummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bressummers
form: breastsummer
form: bressemer
form: bressumer
form: brestsummer
form: breastsommer
form: bressomer
Etymology: Alteration of breastsummer, from breast (“front or forward part”) + summer (“beam”).
Senses: examples: text: Once the floor joists were in position, the framing of the next storey could continue, with a bressummer laid along their ends.
ref: 1986, R. J. Brown, Timber-Framed Buildings of England, London: R. Hale, →ISBN, page 63:
text: East Lodge at Queen's Park, Crewe, dates from 1887-1888. Its bressummer inscription commemorates the Jubilee of Queen Victoria and the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Grand Junction Railway.
ref: 2022 September 7, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railway towns and a social revolution”, in RAIL, number 965, page 56, photo caption:
topics: architecture
glosses: A large, horizontal supporting beam which bears the weight of a wall starting on a first or higher floor, particularly when exposed or used to support a jetty (timber-frame overhang construction).
Hypernyms: english: horizontal beam
translation: horizontal beam
word: summer
breastsummer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastsummers
Senses: examples: text: […] warehouses and dwellings of solid brick and carved stone, with doors, window-frames, and breastsummers of stout oak, replaced irregular though not unpicturesque habitations; […
ref: 1885, Jospeh Fitzgerald Molloy, chapter XIX, in of Royalty Restored; Or, London Under Charles II:
topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative spelling of bressummer.
breastsummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastsummer
bressumer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bressumers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bressummer.
bressummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bressummer
autohagiography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒɡɹəfi
Forms: form: autohagiographies
Etymology: From auto- + hagiography.
Senses: glosses: An autobiography of a saint.
glosses: An autobiography that flatters the subject.
autohagiographies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autohagiography
timbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timberings
Etymology: From timber + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The timbering and centring used for the construction of the main arch were exceptionally massive, and were acclaimed as masterpieces of joinery in contemporary reports on the progress of the work.
ref: 1949 May and June, “Notes and News: Construction of the Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
glosses: Any structure, partial structure, or other item made from timber.
Derived terms: half-timbering
timbering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From timber + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of timber
timberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timbering
half-timbering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-timberings
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A method of construction using heavy timber beams, usually joined by tenon and mortice joints pegged together. The spaces between the posts and beams is infilled with material such as wattle and daub, bricks or stones.
Hypernyms: timber framing
timber framing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A method of construction using heavy timber beams, usually joined by tenon and mortice joints pegged together.
present sense impression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: present sense impressions
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A statement made by a person (the declarant) that conveys his or her sense of the state of an event or the condition of something, made spontaneously while the person was perceiving (i.e. contemporaneous with) the event or condition, or immediately thereafter.
cancellus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancelli
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin cancellus (“little crab”). Doublet of chancel.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
carphology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of carphologia.
clerihew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklɛɹɨˌhjuː/
enpr: klĕrʹĭ-hyo͞o'
ipa: /ˈklɛɹɪ̈ˌhju/
Forms: form: clerihews
form: Clerihew
Etymology: Named after English humourist and novelist Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956), who invented the rhyme.
Senses: examples: text: CLERIHEW CONTEST. CNV announces a clerihew contest, with the best examples to be published in this newsletter.
ref: 1984, Cum Notis Variorum: The Newsletter of the Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif.: Music Library, University of California, Berkeley, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 115:
text: He [Peter Warlock] was the writer of brilliant limericks and clerihews and had a fine line in barbed invective.
ref: 2002, Trevor Hold, “Peter Warlock (1894–1930)”, in Parry to Finzi: Twenty English Song-composers, Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 330:
text: A clerihew must contain the subject's name in the first line, be four lines in length, consist of two sets of rhyming couplets, have third and fourth lines longer than the first and second, and take a whimsical rather than cynical view of its subject.
ref: 2008, Christopher Foyle, Foyle’s Further Philavery: A Cornucopia of Lexical Delights, Edinburgh: Chambers, →ISBN, page 38:
text: Among other clerihew writers one can find the name of J[ohn] R[onald] R[euel] Tolkien, the author of The Hobbit and the most famous at present trilogy The Lord of the Ring[s] widely read and enjoyed by adults and children alike.
ref: 2009, Иностранные языки в школе [Inostrannyje jazyki v škole, Foreign Languages at School], Moscow: Гос. учебно-педагог. изд-во Министерства просвещения РСФСР [Gos. učebno-pedagog. izd-vo Ministerstva prosveščenija RSFSR, Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
english: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
roman: Inostrannyje jazyki v škole
translation: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
text: This form was initiated by Edmund Clerihew Bentley who throughout his life kept churning out Clerihews, the name they ultimately became known by; he had published three collections under the name E. Clerihew.
ref: 2009, Paul Joel Freeman, “Perverse”, in Wit in English, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 256:
text: Warner Allen's own creation, the wine merchant William Clerihew, had appeared in 'Tokay of the Comet Year', a short story published in 1930, and also in the book Mr. Clerihew: Wine Merchant three years later. […] The Clerihew name was a hat-tip to [Edmund Clerihew] Bentley, who had, long before, devised the humorous four-line verse form known as the clerihew.
ref: 2017, E[dmund] C[lerihew] Bentley, H. Warner Allen, “Introduction”, in Trent’s Own Case (The Detective Club), London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN:
glosses: A humorous rhyme of four lines with the rhyming scheme AABB, usually regarding a person mentioned in the first line.
wikipedia: Christopher Wren
Clifford's Inn
Related terms: higgledy-piggledy
limerick
clinquant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋkənt/
Forms: form: more clinquant
form: most clinquant
Etymology: From French clinquant, from clinquer (“to clink”), from Dutch klinken (“to sound, ring, clink”), from Middle Dutch clinken, clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound, ring”). Cognate with German klingen (“to sound”).
Senses: examples: text: Today the French, / All clinquant, all in gold, like heathen gods, / Shone down the English;
ref: 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 18–20:
glosses: Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery.
clinquant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈklɪŋkənt/
Etymology: From French clinquant, from clinquer (“to clink”), from Dutch klinken (“to sound, ring, clink”), from Middle Dutch clinken, clingen, from Old Dutch *clingan, from Proto-West Germanic *klingan, from Proto-Germanic *klinganą (“to sound, ring”). Cognate with German klingen (“to sound”).
Senses: glosses: Dutch metal.
examples: text: Harrison came that day in a scarlett coate and cloake, both laden with gold and silver lace, and the coate so cover'd with clinquant, that scarcely could one discerne the ground,
ref: 1806 [a. 1681], Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, 3rd edition, volume 2, Longman, Hurst, Bees, and Orme, published 1810, page 177:
text: Lely supplied the want of taste with clinquant; his nymphs trail fringes and embroidery through meadows and purling streams.
ref: 1762, George Vertue, Horace Walpole, Some Anecdotes of Painting in England, volume 2, published 1849, page 442:
glosses: Tinsel; glitter.
cockamamie
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɒk.əˈmeɪ.mi/
ipa: /ˌkɑ.kəˈmeɪ.mi/
ipa: /ˌkɔk.əˈmæɪ.mi/
rhymes: -eɪmi
Forms: form: more cockamamie
form: most cockamamie
form: cockamamy
form: cockamammy
Etymology: Possible corruption of French décalcomanie (“process of transferring designs onto surfaces using decals”); sometimes erroneously claimed to derive from Yiddish.
Senses: examples: text: Do not give any more cockamamie reasons for failing to complete your assignment.
text: Anyone arguing against even the most cockamamie idea, so long as that idea is supposed to benefit conservation, is viewed with suspicion, at best.
ref: 2004, William Dritschilo, Earth Days: Ecology Comes Of Age As A Science, page 271:
text: And I dare say it’ll get even more cockamamie.
ref: 2005, George D. Schultz, Returning: Can One Ever Go Back?, page 8:
text: Cowboys & Aliens has without any doubt the most cockamamie plot I’ve witnessed in many a moon.
ref: 2012, Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert’s Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition, page 113:
text: Notions didn’t come more cockamamie than this one, but one unrepressed chortle and Delbert would be furious, or feel like a fool.
ref: 2007, Suzann Ledbetter, Halfway To Half Way, published 2012, unnumbered page:
text: Zelensky apparently feels he has no choice but to sign some kind of cockamamie minerals deal, even though Trump is demanding three times or four times the roughly $120 billion the United States has given Ukraine in military, humanitarian and other financial aid[…].
ref: 2025 February 25, Thomas L. Friedman, “The Disturbing Question at the Heart of the Trump-Putin Drama”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: goofy
word: sappy
word: unreasonable
word: asinine
word: balmy
word: barmy
word: bedaft
word: loony
word: daft
word: derpy
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dopey
word: dull-headed
word: dull-witted
word: dumb
word: duncical
word: fatuous
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: gauvison
word: goofy
word: idiotic
word: idle
word: insipient
word: mookish
word: naive
word: silly
word: simple
word: slight
word: slow-witted
word: softheaded
word: soft in the head
word: sottish
word: stupid
word: thick
raw_tags: not of action
word: unsage
word: unwise
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: crackpot
word: dense
word: absurd
word: cockamamie
word: cockeyed
word: farcical
word: foolish
word: full of it
word: irrational
word: preposterous
word: inconsistent
word: incongruous
word: laughable
word: ludicrous
word: nonsensical
word: ridiculous
word: skimble-skamble
word: unreasonable
glosses: Foolish, ill-considered, silly, unbelievable.
glosses: Trifling.
cohobation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cohobations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The boiling of a material in a liquid with the repeated return of the distillate.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The concentrated distillate so formed.
Related terms: cohobate
pronk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pronks
form: pronking
form: pronked
form: pronked
form: prong
Etymology: From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.
Senses: examples: text: Like stotting, pronking is a signal of medium excitation and is performed more often by fawns than by adults (1, 16).
ref: 1991, Richard Estes, The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates, Univ of California Press, →ISBN, page 83:
text: Why do Springbok pronk? Pronking is the jumping up in the air they are famous for. Various theories exist, equating pronking to fitness displays. Most of the pronking is done by young animals and […]
ref: 2004, Sean Nicholson, Namibian Wildlife - An Alternative Guide for the Traveller on Safari, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 14:
synonyms: stot
leap
glosses: To jump with all four limbs at once.
raw_tags: of a quadruped
pronk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronks
form: prong
Etymology: From Afrikaans pronk (“to show off, strut, or prance”), from Dutch pronken (“to show off, be flamboyant”). See also prank.
Senses: glosses: A gait or a leap in which all four legs are used to push off the ground at once.