cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
deicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [deɪ(j)ɪˈsaɪdəɫ]
Etymology: From deicide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Early Christian doctrine professed that the Jews were a deicidal people, condemned by God to dispersion and suffering.
ref: 2000, Malka Hillel Shulewitz, The forgotten millions: the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands, page 47:
text: "How do you like that, you deicidal maniac? Huh? HUH? Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."
ref: 2006, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues, page 275:
text: 'Jerusalem overawes me' declared François-René, Vicomte de Chateaubriand, even though this 'deicidal city' was 'a heap of rubbish' with the 'confused monuments of a cemetery in the middle of a desert'.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 382:
glosses: Of or pertaining to deicide.
above water
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: above-water
Senses: antonyms: under water
underwater
;
insolvent
glosses: Out of difficulty, especially financially.
Related terms: keep one's head above water
dintcha
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of didn't you.
on one's mind
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more on one's mind
form: most on one's mind
Senses: examples: text: With my mind on my money
And my money on my mind
ref: 1993, “Gin and Juice”, in Doggystyle, performed by Snoop Dogg:
text: Oh, Ophelia
You've been on my mind, girl, like a drug
Oh, Ophelia
Heaven help a fool who falls in love
ref: 2016 February 5, Wesley Schultz and Jeremy Fraites, “Ophelia”, in Cleopatra, performed by The Lumineers:
text: Don't think I've left you all behind
Still love you and Tennessee
You're always on my mind
ref: 2020 April 3, Chappell Roan, Dan Nigro, “Pink Pony Club”performed by Chappell Roan:
glosses: In one's thoughts, especially persistently or recurrently.
glosses: Causing worry or preoccupation.
Synonyms: sense: in one's thoughts
word: on the brain
backhanded compliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backhanded compliment
back-handed compliments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back-handed compliment
ryme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rymes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rhyme.
rymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ryme
gonio-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γωνία (gōnía, “angle”).
Senses: examples: text: He had turn’d the same covetous Angles as the Welshman,– tho’ perhaps never as many, for Shelby seem’d seiz’d with Goniolatry, or the Worship of Angles, defining tracts of virgin Land by as many of these exhilarating Instrumental Sweeps, as possible.
ref: 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 587:
glosses: angle.
Related terms: gon
smear tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smear test
Pap smears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pap smear
gono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gon-.
cervical smears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervical smear
Pap tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pap test
68-95-99.7 rule
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The rule stating that a normal distribution will have 68% of its observations within one standard deviation of the mean, 95% within two, and 99.7% within three.
partocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partocracy
Hader
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Haders
Etymology: Borrowed from German Hader.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States.
strict implications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strict implication
Erebuni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Erebouni
Etymology: From Urartian 𒌷𒅕𒁍𒌑𒉌 (ᵁᴿᵁer-bu-u₂-ni /⁠Er(e)buni⁠/).
Senses: glosses: a fortification and city of the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located on the hill Arin Berd in modern-day Yerevan, capital of Armenia; founded in 782 BC by king Argishti I
Related terms: Urartu
Yerevan
Erebouni
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Erebuni.
gravi-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: gravity
sphenic numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sphenic number
big band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big bands
Senses: hyponyms: hot band
sweet band
glosses: A large dance or jazz band of 10 to 30 musicians usually featuring improvised solos by lead players, but otherwise playing orchestrated music.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music produced by a jazz big band.
salivarium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sælɪˈvɛɹiːəm/
Forms: form: salivaria
Etymology: From New Latin salīvārium, from Latin salīva + -ārium.
Senses: glosses: A small pocket, inside the oral cavity of an insect, which contains the opening of the salivary duct
Related terms: salivarian
salivous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈlaɪvəs/
Forms: form: more salivous
form: most salivous
Etymology: From saliva + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, like or resembling saliva; made up of saliva.
sallee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sæliː/
Forms: form: sallees
form: sally
Etymology: Transferative use of sally, dialectal variant of sallow (“willow”).
Senses: glosses: Any of various wattles (acacia trees).
examples: text: 2006, D. J. Boland, M. I. H. Brooker, G. M. Chippendale, N. Hall, B. P. M. Hyland, R.D. Johnston, D. A. Kleinig, M. W. McDonald, J. D. Turner, Forest Trees of Australia, CSIRO, page 556,
Black sallee is most common adjacent to creeks and flats in mountainous, tableland country.
text: In colder regions, mountain gums and white sallees – the beautiful twisted snow gums – occur.
ref: 2009, Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia, page 136:
glosses: Any of various eucalypts.
raw_tags: used in combination
Derived terms: taxonomic: Eucalyptus stellulata
word: black sallee
taxonomic: Eucalyptus mitchelliana
word: Buffalo sallee
word: sallee wattle
alt: Eucalyptus moorei or Eucalyptus pauciflora
word: white sallee
sallowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsæloʊwɪʃ/
Forms: form: more sallowish
form: most sallowish
Etymology: From sallow + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Slightly sallow.
chess players
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chess player
salivaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salivarium
big bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big band
dither
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪðə/
ipa: /ˈdɪðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dithers
form: dithering
form: dithered
form: dithered
Etymology: Variant of didder, from Middle English dideren (“to tremble”). Compare Middle English bididren, bididdren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to deceive, trick”).
Alternatively, perhaps with expressive voicing from *titeren, from Proto-Germanic *titrōną. If so, then a doublet of teeter and cognate with Old High German zittarōn (German zittern) and Old Norse titra (Faroese titra, Icelandic titra). Alternatively an unrelated reduplicative onomatopoeia.
Senses: examples: text: Presently he came running out of the scullery, with the soapy water dripping from him, dithering with cold.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 8”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To tremble, shake, or shiver.
examples: 2012, The Economist, Sept. 22nd issue, "Indian Reform: At Last"
The dithering Mr Singh of recent times may worry that his reform proposals are already too bold. The reforming Mr Singh of yore would see them as just the start.
glosses: To be uncertain or unable to make a decision; to vacillate, hesitate, or delay.
glosses: To do something nervously.
examples: text: Look at how pixelly this wall texture is. You almost don't even notice the dithering when driving by quick. Up close though, it's real chunky.
ref: 2023, Preston "Pretzel", 4:34 from the start, in Familiar and Unfamiliar Areas in Lego Island:
topics: business
computer-graphics
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
technology
glosses: To apply an algorithm to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:
To use dot patterns in an image or graphic to simulate colors or shades not in the system palette.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
technology
glosses: To apply an algorithm to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:
To intentionally add noise to a signal to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
Derived terms: adither
ditherer
dithering
ditheringly
dithery
nondithering
Related terms: dodder
dither
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪðə/
ipa: /ˈdɪðɚ/
rhymes: -ɪðə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dithers
Etymology: Variant of didder, from Middle English dideren (“to tremble”). Compare Middle English bididren, bididdren (“to seduce, deceive”), from Old English bedidrian, bedyderian (“to deceive, trick”).
Alternatively, perhaps with expressive voicing from *titeren, from Proto-Germanic *titrōną. If so, then a doublet of teeter and cognate with Old High German zittarōn (German zittern) and Old Norse titra (Faroese titra, Icelandic titra). Alternatively an unrelated reduplicative onomatopoeia.
Senses: glosses: Trembling, shaking, or shivering.
examples: text: Everyone was in a dither; either in it or about to get in it or just climbing out of it. Naturally, the Madam was not in a dither. Dither was a foreign concept to her.
ref: 2002, Thomas P. Glynn, A Child's Christmas In Chicago, page 59:
glosses: A state of nervous excitement.
glosses: The state of being undecided; indecision; vacillation.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
technology
glosses: Any algorithm applied to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:
A form of noise intentionally added to remove artifacts caused by digitization.
topics: business
computer-graphics
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
technology
glosses: Any algorithm applied to digital data to minimize the effects of quantization:
The use of dot patterns in an image or graphic to approximate colors not available in the system palette.
Derived terms: dither fish
in a dither
water aerobics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: aqua aerobics
aquaerobics
aquagym
aquabics
glosses: A form of aerobics done while in water.
paper cut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper cuts
form: papercut
Etymology: From paper + cut.
Senses: glosses: A wound caused by a piece of paper or any thin, sharp material which can slice through a person's skin.
examples: text: The muscle hurried around to stand in front of Gregor. Jonah held up a hand. “Hey, easy there. Your boss isn't in any danger, unless he's prone to paper cuts.” Gregor rolled his eyes and stepped through the security guards.
ref: 2015, Steven Savile, David Sakmyster, NDE: The Lazarus Inititiative:
text: You'd think a nurse would want to get blood on her uniform to show people she did something useful with her day instead of just saving schoolboys from paper cuts.
ref: 2013, Scott Blagden, Dear Life, You Suck, page 86:
text: Investors do cope with more challenges than paper cuts as they count cash
ref: 2010, J. B. Loewen, Money Magnet: How to Attract Investors to Your Business:
text: You are totally gaga over your husband of thirty years, the handsome and athletic CEO of a non-profit that's dedicated to finding a cure for disease, world hunger, and paper cuts.
ref: 2009, Jill Milligan, Grandma Rules: Notes on Grandmotherhood, the World's Best Job:
text: While this too may appear painfully obvious, it is amazing how easy it is to sometimes overlook the little things. (As someone used to say, “It's the paper cuts that kill you!”)
ref: 2009, Rick Balsiger, Branding You Marketing You: A Guide to Maximizing Job Search Success:
text: They range from gaping wounds— Mexico's Copper Canyon, for example—to mere paper cuts like Willis Creek Canyon
ref: 2008, Kathy Copeland, Craig Copeland, Hiking from Here to WOW: Utah Canyon Country: Utah Canyon Country:
text: Where every day is devoted to minimize the mental and emotional paper cuts of fear and helplessness.
ref: 2004, Karen Haber, Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present, page 203:
glosses: Any minor harm.
qualifier: film and video editing
glosses: A text-based description of the cuts to be made in raw footage to make finished video.
glosses: A decorative ornament made by artful cutting of paper, as into silhouettes.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: a paper cut bug: a bug which causes harm and would be easy to fix.
Derived terms: death by a thousand paper cuts
iatro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ῑ̓ᾱτρο- (īātro-), combining form of ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”).
Senses: glosses: Medical treatment; doctor; physician.
Synonyms: english: sometimes synonymous
translation: sometimes synonymous
word: medico-
Coordinate terms: clinico-
icono-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Equivalent to icon + -o-. From Ancient Greek εἰκών (eikṓn), as in terms such as εἰκονοκλάστης (eikonoklástēs).
Senses: glosses: Forms terms relating to images or to icons
calabozos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calabozo
bliks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blik
blondines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blondine
blondines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blondine
ICYMI
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: icymi
Senses: examples: text: Billy Joel on the Onion (ICYMI)
The other day when I was bored I browsed the archive of The Onion and had another chuckle at this dandy.
ref: 2000 July 20, ElwoodCuse, “Billy Joel on the Onion (ICYMI)”, in alt.music.billy-joel (Usenet), message-ID <167565cc.467d6937@usw-ex0102-084.remarq.com>:
text: ICYMI: What guys REALLY think on Shake Well Before Use - http://tiny url.com/ypcljm
ref: 2007 March 27, Ariel Waldman (@arielwaldman), Twitter, retrieved 14 Aug 2014:
text: ICYMI, leopard print is the trend for fall 2024, so you basically can't go wrong nabbing this chic leopard-print phone case for your bestie.
ref: 2024 October 9, Hannah Oh, Samantha Jones, “Amazon Has So Many Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Initialism of in case you missed it.
come under
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes under
form: coming under
form: came under
form: come under
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you come under my umbrella? There's plenty of room.
glosses: To come underneath (something).
examples: text: To sympathisers, though, all of his crimes came under the general heading of misdemeanors.
glosses: To be included or classified under (a title, specified class etc.).
examples: text: Eventually I was promoted, and a small team of recruits came under my authority.
glosses: To be subjected to, be under the auspices of.
cleptomaniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cleptomaniacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kleptomaniac.
pray in aid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prays in aid
form: praying in aid
form: prayed in aid
form: prayed in aid
Senses: glosses: To resort to the help (of); to call on the support (of), especially to help prove an argument.
examples: text: Other, smaller craters in the North Sea and Ukraine have been prayed in aid of this theory.
ref: 2009 October, The Economist, page 84:
topics: law
glosses: To ask for the help of (someone or something) in pleading a case; to make use of, adduce (something) in defence of a case, argument etc.
Related terms: prayee
Vilnian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Vilnians
Etymology: From Vilnius + -an.
Senses: glosses: A person from, or an inhabitant of, Vilnius.
Vilnian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Vilnius + -an.
Senses: glosses: From Vilnius
Cracovian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/
Etymology: Formed as Latin Cracōvia (“Krakow”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives with the sense “of or pertaining to”). Equivalent to the Latin Cracōviānus.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city of Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
Cracovian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹəˈkəʊvɪən/
Forms: form: Cracovians
Etymology: Formed as Latin Cracōvia (“Krakow”) + English -an (suffix forming adjectives with the sense “of or pertaining to”). Equivalent to the Latin Cracōviānus.
Senses: examples: text: Being used to horses from their childhood, the Cracovians are excellent riders.
ref: 1921, National Polish Committee of America, Geography and ethnography of Poland:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Krakow, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A clerical convenience in solving systems of linear equations by hand.
Varsovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Varsovian
tril
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of trillion.
Wroclavian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or from Wroclaw.
Klos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Albanian Klos.
Senses: glosses: A town in north-central Albania, located in the Mat river valley with mountains to the east and west; it is the seat of its eponymous municipality.
glosses: A municipality in north-central Albania.
caterwaulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caterwauler
cleptomaniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cleptomaniac
St. George's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A red cross on a white background, also called the Cross of St George. This pattern has been associated with Saint George since medieval times.
St. Andrew's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A white saltire on a blue background, also called the Cross of St. Andrew. This pattern has been associated with Saint Andrew since medieval times.
St. Andrew's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: St. Andrew's Crosses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Saint Andrew's cross.
St. Patrick's Cross
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Saint Patrick's Cross
Senses: glosses: A red saltire on a white background, also called the Cross of St. Patrick. This pattern has been associated with Saint Patrick since the 18th century.
Memphite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Memphite
form: most Memphite
Etymology: From Middle English Memphyte, from Classical Latin Memphītis. By surface analysis, Memphis + -ite.
Senses: synonyms: Memphian
Memphitic
glosses: Of, from or pertaining to Memphis, Egypt.
Memphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Memphites
Etymology: From Classical Latin Memphītēs, from Ancient Greek Μεμφῑ́της (Memphī́tēs).
Senses: synonyms: Memphian
glosses: A native or inhabitant of Memphis, Egypt.
kwashiorkor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kwɒʃ.iˈɔː.kɔː/
ipa: /kwæʃ.iˈɔː.kɔː/
ipa: /ˌkwɑʃ.iˈɔɹ.kɚ/
ipa: /ˌkwɑʃ.i.ɔɹˈkɔɹ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)kə(ɹ)
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Forms: form: kwashiorkors
Etymology: From Ga kwašiɔkɔ, kwàṣìɔkɔ́ (“the sickness the older child gets when the next baby is born”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A form of malnutrition, found in children, caused by dietary insufficiency of protein in combination with a high-carbohydrate diet.
Derived terms: kwashiorkored
kwashiorkoric
Sister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sisters
Senses: examples: text: At the convent, Sister Grace supervises the kitchen.
text: Please welcome Sister Smith as she moves from her former congregation to her new congregation.
text: Could you say a prayer for me, Sister?
glosses: Title of respect for an adult female member of a religious order.
examples: text: Sister Huerta was to have been our initial speaker this morning. However, we received word later this morning that Sister Huerta would be unable to attend our convention.
ref: 1983, Official Proceedings, Resolutions, Constitution and Merger Agreement of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Convention:
glosses: Title of respect for an adult female member of a fraternal/sororal organization, or comrade in a movement, or even a stranger using fictive kin.
examples: text: Native American leader Chief Seattle urged ecological responsibility, referring to Brother Eagle and Sister Sky in his purported 1854 speech.
glosses: A title used to personify or respectfully refer to concepts or animals.
Synonyms: Sis.
Sr.
Ss.
Coordinate terms: brethren
Brethren
brother
Brother
brotherhood
Brotherhood
Father
Mother
Related terms: sister
sisterhood
Sisterhood
sistren
Sistren
Miss
Sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Deschutes County, Oregon.
Sisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sister
immunoprophylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + prophylactic.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to immunoprophylaxis
immunoprophylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunoprophylactics
Etymology: From immuno- + prophylactic.
Senses: glosses: An immunoprophylactic vaccine
nontransitively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nontransitive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nontransitive manner.
chemoprophylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + prophylactic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to chemoprophylaxis.
chemoprophylactic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chemoprophylactics
Etymology: From chemo- + prophylactic.
Senses: glosses: A chemoprophylactic drug.
chemoprophylactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chemoprophylactic
tetrazzini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛtɹəˈziːni/
rhymes: -iːni
Etymology: After Luisa Tetrazzini, Italian opera singer.
Senses: glosses: An American dish usually including a non-red meat and a white sauce over spaghetti or some similar pasta.
wikipedia: Luisa Tetrazzini
Cracovians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cracovian
nondialysable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nondialyzable.
dentitionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From dentitional + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The report for 1909 showed that 42 per cent. of the children's months were defective dentitionally.
ref: 1913, The Dental Surgeon, volume 9, page 331:
text: However, this may be said of external pressure only when it is applied to an arch that is dentitionally complete.
ref: 1964, Thomas H. Forde, The principles and practice of oral dynamics, page 87:
text: These features can probably be considered the minimal characteristic complex for the great ape and human clade, and suggest that they were, at least partly, hard-object feeders, dentitionally most similar to later Sivapithecus, Ouranopithecus, Australopithecus and early Homo.
ref: 2011, Mario Vaneechoutte, Was Man More Aquatic in the Past? Fifty Years After Alister Hardy - Waterside Hypotheses of Human Evolution:
glosses: With regard to dentition.
Thespians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Thespian
exploratively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploratively
form: most exploratively
Etymology: From explorative + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stones had escaped detection in 9% of the 132 cases with contrast-medium passage to the duodenum both pre- and post-exploratively.
ref: 1973, J. E. Jorpes, V. Mutt, Secretin, cholecystokinin, pancreozymin and gastrin:
glosses: In an explorative way or fashion.
Synonyms: exploratorily
nonriverine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + riverine.
Senses: glosses: Not riverine.
noncoastal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coastal.
Senses: glosses: Not coastal.
nonencrypted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + encrypted.
Senses: glosses: Not encrypted; unencrypted.
exploratorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more exploratorily
form: most exploratorily
Etymology: From exploratory + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thereupon his first act was to pass his hand exploratorily over his head, when there came away a mass of hair not smaller than the first quantity.
ref: 1874, Glasgow and West of Scotland Medical Association, Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 6, page 509:
synonyms: exploratively
glosses: In an exploratory manner.
complementariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From complementary + -ness. Piecewise doublet of complimentariness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being complementary; complementarity.
complementarities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of complementarity
metaperspective
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaperspectives
Etymology: From meta- + perspective.
Senses: examples: text: The husband's metaperspective is his view of his wife's view of her relationship with him.
ref: 1981, Dennis R Smith, Lewis Keith Williamson, Interpersonal communication: roles, rules, strategies, and games:
text: Psychoethics is also seen as a guide in identifying problems with disciplines from the eagle's point of a metaperspective and in the interest of helping in decision making .
ref: 1994, Mary Lou Rubert, Psychoethics, America's Perestroika, page 5:
text: The metaperspective aims to assess the degree to which one relationship member can accurately infer the other member's closeness, commitment, and complementarity.
ref: 2007, Sophia Jowett, David Lavallee, Social psychology in sport:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The perspective that one believes another person to attribute to him or her.
Hypernyms: perspective
Derived terms: metaperspectival
metaperspectives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaperspective
childcarer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: childcarers
Etymology: From child + carer.
Senses: glosses: One who works in childcare.
clothesmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clothesmakers
Etymology: From clothes + maker.
Senses: glosses: One who makes clothes.
childcarers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of childcarer
clothesmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clothesmaker
exploratoriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From exploratory + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And further it also appears that at the height of hunger, the exploratoriness is specifically directed towards food.
ref: 1949, Edward Chace Tolman, Purposive behavior in animals and men:
glosses: The state or condition of being exploratory; inclination to explore.
purposively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more purposively
form: most purposively
Etymology: From purposive + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When the vows are purposively made, Why is there a curse of mistrade?
ref: 2003, Chaka S. Thomas, In the Midst of Love and Desires, page 41:
text: Howard [...] walked purposively to the front door.
ref: 2005, Zadie Smith, On Beauty, Penguin Books (2006), page 206:
glosses: In a purposive manner.
purposiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɜː(ɹ)pəsɪvnəs/
Forms: form: purposivenesses
Etymology: From purposive + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: 1853, William Benjamin Carpenter, Principles of Human Physiology, Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 5th American and 4th Enlarged London Edition, Chapter 14, p. 675,
These reflex actions of the Spinal Cord have much more regularity and apparent purposiveness in the lower Vertebrata, approaching in this respect to the reflex actionso fhte ganglionic column of Articulata, than they have in Man.
text: The majestic spectacle of this blind, inarticulate purposiveness thrusting its way upward and ever upward in an endless unity of differentiated achievements towards an ever-increasing complexity of organisation, towards spontaneity and spirituality, swept away all my old conception of a duty to Man as such.
ref: 1943, C. S. Lewis, chapter 7, in Perelandra, London: The Bodley Head, page 102:
text: 1963, Walter Cerf (translator), Analytic of the Beautiful from The Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, Third Moment, § 10, p. 24,
If the concept of an object is regarded as the cause of the object (as the real source of its possibility), then that object is a purpose; and purposiveness […] is the causality of a concept with respect to its object.
text: We do not regard uranium as having any in-built purpose, or in-built drives or tendencies, at least not in the way that animals have; organisms, on the other hand, have a purposiveness, and death puts an end to such purposiveness.
ref: 1995, Gerald J. Hughes, chapter 5, in The Nature of God, London: Routledge, page 129:
synonyms: purposivity
glosses: The state or condition of being purposive.
metaphilosopher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metaphilosophers
Etymology: From meta- + philosopher.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who is involved in metaphilosophy.
metaphilosophies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphilosophy
metaphilosophers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metaphilosopher
nonexploratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + exploratory.
Senses: glosses: Not exploratory.
nonexperimentally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From nonexperimental + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a nonexperimental manner.
nontheft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + theft.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to theft.
nonfire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fire.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to fire.
nonwater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + water.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to water.
nonlighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lighted.
Senses: glosses: Not lighted; unlit.
nonmerchantable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + merchantable.
Senses: glosses: Not merchantable.
Related terms: nonmerchantability
nonmarketable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + marketable.
Senses: glosses: Not marketable.
nongoods
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + goods.
Senses: examples: text: Nongoods sectors include transportation; communications; electric, gas, and sanitary services; trade; finance, insurance, and real estate services[…]
ref: 1988, Bruce R Guile, James Brian Quinn, Technology in services: policies for growth, trade, and employment:
topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: Not of or pertaining to goods.
noninsurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noninsurers
Etymology: From non- + insurer.
Senses: glosses: A person or organization that is not an insurer.
noninsurance
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + insurance.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to insurance.
noninsurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noninsurer
nonsweet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + sweet.
Senses: examples: text: The complex sweet-salty-bitter taste of concentrated (0.25 M) sodium saccharin was represented appropriately between the sweet and nonsweet stimuli.
ref: 1994, I Robin A Barraco, Nucleus of the solitary tract:
glosses: Not having a sweet taste.
Related terms: savoury
savory
noncapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + capped.
Senses: examples: a noncapped container
glosses: Not capped.
nonstolen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + stolen.
Senses: glosses: Not stolen.
nonweather
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + weather.
Senses: examples: text: For instance, such nonweather factors as insects, disease, errors of management, accidents, and other factors may not be considered controllable […]
ref: 1961, American Farm Economic Association, Journal of Farm Economics:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to weather.
calicheamicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: calicheamicins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of enediyne antibiotics derived from the bacterium Micromonospora echinospora, extremely toxic to all living cells and used in targeted therapy against cancer.
calicheamicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calicheamicin
esperamicin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esperamicins
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of bacterium-derived chromoprotein enediyne antibiotics that are potent antitumour agents.
esperamicins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of esperamicin
enediyne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enediynes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any compound that has a double bond and two triple bonds.
glosses: Any of a class of bacterial products characterized by nine- or ten-membered rings containing two triple bonds separated by a double bond, many of which are highly toxic to DNA and used as antitumour agents.
Related terms: enediynyl
hackwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hackworks
Etymology: From hack + work.
Senses: examples: text: During those fifteen months, he cannot have earned more than $10 a month from writing, mostly from the worst sort of hackwork
ref: 1978, Andrew Sinclair, Jack. A Biography of Jack London., page 56:
text: Early on, the film even blunders into outright hackwork, employing laughably literal-minded needle drops.
ref: 2019 July 3, Mike D'Angelo, “Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’s Triple Frontier”, in AV Club, archived from the original on 21 Nov 2019:
glosses: Work that is usually of a professional nature, either repetitive or following a certain formula.
glosses: Any type of work that is dull or unoriginal.
enediynes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enediyne
chromoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromoprotein
neocarzinostatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /niːəʊˈkɑː(ɹ)zɪnəʊˌstætɪn/
Senses: glosses: A macromolecular chromoprotein enediyne antibiotic secreted by Streptomyces macromomyceticus.
neocarzinostatins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neocarzinostatin
tofuburger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tofuburgers
Etymology: From tofu + -burger.
Senses: examples: text: I want to expand my tofu kit business and start tofuburger restaurants around the country, just like McDonalds.^([sic])
ref: 1981, Michael Phillips, Salli Rasberry, Honest business: a superior strategy for starting and managing your own business:
text: Karen Aileron looks distractedly out the window, a tofuburger sizzling in the skillet on the stove.
ref: 1997, Gilbert Sorrentino, Pack of lies:
glosses: A vegetarian burger using tofu in place of meat.
tofuburgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tofuburger
shallowish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shallow + -ish.
Senses: examples: shallowish waters
glosses: Somewhat shallow.
deepish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈdiːpɪʃ/
Etymology: From deep + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: deepish waters
glosses: Somewhat deep.
undentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dentable.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Plick was an inventor and had invented a noiseless garbage pail with undentable sides.
ref: 1933, Robert Earle Galbraith, These our moderns:
glosses: Not dentable; impossible to dent.
rodentproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rodentproof
form: most rodentproof
Etymology: From rodent + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to rodents.
Related terms: rodentproofed
rodentproofing
nondeniable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + deniable.
Senses: glosses: Not deniable; that cannot be denied.
shabono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shabonos
form: shapono
Etymology: Borrowed from Yanomamö shapono.
Senses: glosses: A communal hut built by the Yanomamo, traditionally of thatched palm leaves and wood and divided into areas for different family units.
Synonyms: yano
shabonos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shabono
shapono
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shaponos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shabono.
shaponos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shapono
tongue depressor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tongue depressors
Senses: glosses: A long narrow smooth piece of wood designed to depress the tongue, to allow for examination of the rear of the oral cavity.
glosses: Any device used to depress the tongue.
tongue depressors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tongue depressor
nonbereaved
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + bereaved.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Not bereaved.
religiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of religiosity
Sundaylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sundaylike
form: most Sundaylike
Etymology: From Sunday + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the un-Sundaylike demeanor of the procession, for few towns hold it more unseemly to stand and stare at passers-by, especially on the Sabbath.
ref: 1905, Harper's magazine:
text: In riding through these counties, the stranger is painfully impressed with the Sundaylike stillness that everywhere prevails...
ref: 1865, The Rebellion record: a diary of American events:
text: We drive sleepily into London along broad thoroughfares where to eyes fresh from New York the traffic seems sparse and Sundaylike.
ref: 1947 September 29, LIFE:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a Sunday, especially in terms of the religious observances and abstinence from work of the Christian Sabbath.
Synonyms: Sundayish
Sundayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Sunday + -ish.
Senses: glosses: On or around Sunday.
Sundayish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Sundayish
form: most Sundayish
Etymology: From Sunday + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Sundaylike
unprostituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prostituted.
Senses: glosses: Not having been prostituted.
Brontean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Brontean
form: most Brontean
Etymology: From Brontë + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to any or all of the Brontë sisters, English writers of the 1840s and 1850s, or to their works or style.
noncritic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncritics
Etymology: From non- + critic.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a critic.
nonmonarchic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monarchic.
Senses: glosses: Not monarchic.
noncritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncritic
ununderstandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ununderstandable
form: most ununderstandable
Etymology: From un- + understandable.
Senses: examples: text: Cameron was for closing the discussion as useless and ununderstandable.
ref: 1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 139:
text: But to report an item or sequence of behaviour as radically ununderstandable is to say that it is so inaccessible to any possible explanation[…]
ref: 1983, Walter Garrison Runciman, A treatise on social theory:
synonyms: word: incomprehensible
word: nonunderstandable
word: abstruse
word: Chinese
word: dense
word: enigmatic
word: fathomless
word: Greek
word: inapprehensible
word: incognizable
word: incomprehensible
word: ineffable
word: inenubilable
word: inexplicable
word: impenetrable
word: insensible
word: inscrutable
word: insoluble
word: insolvable
word: mysterious
word: nonunderstandable
word: obscure
word: retruse
word: thick
word: undecipherable
word: undiscoverable
word: unexplainable
word: unfathomable
word: ungraspable
word: unintelligible
word: unknowable
word: ununderstandable
glosses: Not understandable; that cannot be understood.
sporteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sport + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sport
nonunderstandable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + understandable.
Senses: glosses: Not understandable.
Synonyms: incomprehensible
ununderstandable
nonunivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + univalent.
Senses: glosses: Not univalent.
cradlelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cradlelike
form: most cradlelike
Etymology: From cradle + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a cradle.
nonpoliced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + policed.
Senses: glosses: Not policed.
nonmonitored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + monitored.
Senses: glosses: Not monitored.
nonsupervised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + supervised.
Senses: glosses: Not supervised.
minimin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer
computing
economics
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
qualifier: decision theory
glosses: A strategy or algorithm that seeks to minimize the minimum possible result.
death throes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɛθ θɹoʊz/
Senses: glosses: plural of death throe
mnemonization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mnemonizations
Etymology: From mnemonize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of mnemonizing.
mnemonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mnemonization
macrofaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of macrofauna
microfaunas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfauna
megafish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megafishes
form: megafish
Etymology: From mega- + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any fish belonging to the megafauna.
morphophonological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒ(ɹ).foʊˌfɒn.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪk.əl/
Forms: form: morphonological
form: morpho-phonological
Etymology: From morpho- + phonological.
Senses: examples: text: These scholars identify well-defined irregular correspondences recurring in words found across the (northern) European branches of Indo-European. On the basis of these, they posit clearly formulated ideas on some of the morphophonological properties of a hypothetical pre-Indo-European language that could be the source of these words.
ref: 2025, Cid Swanenvleugel, The Pre-Roman Elements of the Sardinian Lexicon, page 35:
glosses: Of or pertaining to morphophonology.
Derived terms: morphophonologically
morphophonologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˌmɒ(ɹ).foʊˌfɒn.əˈlɒd͡ʒ.ɪk.li/
Etymology: From morphophonological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a morphophonological manner.
patrifocal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more patrifocal
form: most patrifocal
Etymology: From patri- + focal.
Senses: glosses: patriarchal
Derived terms: patrifocality
patrifocally
patrifocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From patrifocal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being patrifocal; patriarchy.
matrifocality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From matrifocal + -ity.
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state or condition of being matrifocal.
unbelted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + belted.
Senses: glosses: Not belted; without a belt.
orchestrational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orchestrational
form: most orchestrational
Etymology: From orchestration + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to orchestration.
norks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nork
unlikability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlikeability
Etymology: From un- + likability.
Senses: examples: text: Kathryn Walat, a playwright who attended, said, “Most startling was the reaction to women writing — and I think of my own work — about female protagonists and the unlikability of those characters.”
ref: 2009 June 24, Patricia Cohen, “Rethinking Gender Bias in Theater”, in New York Times:
synonyms: unlikeableness
glosses: The quality of being unlikable.
Javalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Javalike
form: most Javalike
Etymology: From Java + -like.
Senses: examples: text: In contrast, C# is C++ extended with Javalike features, including automatic memory and object lifetime management...
ref: 2000 September 4, Infoworld, volume 22, number 36:
text: For just-in-time (JIT) compilation for Javalike systems, register allocation is also critical...
ref: 2003, Y N Srikant, Priti Shankar, The compiler design handbook: optimizations and machine code generation:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Resembling the Java programming language or some aspect of it.
javalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more javalike
form: most javalike
Etymology: From java + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I sipped the coffee, tasted copper and dishwater and something vaguely javalike […]
ref: 2005, Jonathan Kellerman, Rage:
glosses: Resembling java coffee or some aspect of it.
stewlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stewlike
form: most stewlike
Etymology: From stew + -like.
Senses: examples: text: “My mom likes to soak,” Quintana agreed, before allowing that for a more stewlike dish, a meatier article, the canned red kidney beans would more than suffice — and save loads of time besides.
ref: 2009 June 28, Sam Sifton, “Comida Central”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling stew.
yeastily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more yeastily
form: most yeastily
Etymology: From yeasty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a yeasty manner.