cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
fœtid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɛtɪd/
rhymes: -ɛtɪd
Forms: form: more fœtid
form: most fœtid
Etymology: From Latin misspelling ‘foetidus’, corruption of fetidus (“offensive odor”), originally fetere (“to stink”).
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of fetid.
the end justifies the means
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: the ends justify the means
Etymology: Widely attributed to Machiavelli's The Prince, which does not use the phrase in the work. A possible source is Ovid's Heroides (ca. 10 BC), which says exitus ācta probat (“the outcome justifies the deeds”). However, its use there is quite likely to have an opposite meaning of outcome proving means were unjustified, based on its context.
Senses: examples: text: Marxists were often criticized for believing that the ends justified the means, yet these old Cold Warriors were now the ones using ends to justify means—attacking science in the name of freedom.
ref: 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
text: Shepard: You honestly think the experiments you did here are justified?
Maelon: We committed cultural genocide! Nothing I do will ever be justified!
Maelon: The experiments are monstrous... because I was taught to be a monster.
Shepard: Mordin, did you ever perform experiments like this?
Mordin: No. Never taught you this, Maelon.
Maelon: So your hands are clean! What does it matter if the ground is stained with the blood of millions!
Maelon: You taught me that the end justified the means. I will undo what we did, Professor. The only way I know how.
ref: 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Tuchanka:
text: The White House argument is simple: that the end justifies the means.
ref: 2023 July 7, David Smith, “End justifies means for Biden in sending cluster bombs to Ukraine”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Morally wrong actions are sometimes necessary to achieve morally right outcomes; actions can be considered morally right or wrong only by virtue of the morality of the outcome.
wikipedia: Heroides
Machiavelli
Ovid
The Prince
Related terms: by any means
end in itself
means to an end
ways and means
all's fair in love and war
consequentialism
car door
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: car doors
form: car-door
form: cardoor
Etymology: 1863 (US, applied to “railway car”).
Senses: examples: text: We found Jeru to be a pleasant city; with only one fault: the inhabitants will crowd into a car before passengers can get out; consequently the heads of the two columns collide near the car-door, and there is a general choke.
ref: 1863, Gail Hamilton, Gala-Days, Boston: Ticknor and Fields, page 22:
topics: automotive
rail-transport
railways
transport
vehicles
glosses: A door designed for use on a car (whether a railway carriage or an automobile).
Related terms: word: butterfly door
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
word: carriage door
word: dihedral door
word: gull-wing door
word: jackknife door
word: lambo door
word: scissor door
word: sliding door
word: suicide door
word: vertical door
inverted index
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inverted indexes
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An indexing algorithm which indexes a document based on the keywords being searched for.
wild purslane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild purslanes
Senses: glosses: An edible vegetable and invasive plant Portulaca oleracea.
Synonyms: common purslane
purslane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːslən/
ipa: /ˈpɝslən/
Forms: form: purslanes
form: purslain
Etymology: From Old French porcelaine, probably an alteration of Latin porcilaca (“purslane”) (related to portulaca (“purslane”)) to assimilate it with porcelaine (“porcelain”).
Senses: examples: text: ASPARAGUS, cauliflowers, imperial Sileſia, royal and cabbage lettuces, burnet, purſlain, cucumbers, naſturtian flowers, peaſe and beans ſown in October, artichokes, ſcarlet ſtrawberries, and kidney beans.
ref: 1767, A Lady [Hannah Glasse], The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Eaſy […] , page 326:
glosses: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
glosses: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
common purslane or summer purslane (Portulaca oleracea), a widely-grown edible plant
glosses: Any of the family Portulacaceae (order Caryophyllales) of succulent plants.
moss-rose purslane, moss rose (Portulaca grandiflora)
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
winter purslane, miner's lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
pink purslane (Claytonia sibirica)
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
sea purslane
Halimione portulacoides
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
sea purslane
Honckenya peploides
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
shoreline purslane (Sesuvium portulacastrum)
glosses: Any of similar plants in other families in order Caryophyllales
purslane tree (Portulacaria afra)
Synonyms: sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: common purslane
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: garden purslane
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: little hogweed
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: pigweed
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: pusley
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: pussley
sense: Portulaca oleracea
word: verdolaga
Derived terms: word: mud purslane
taxonomic: Portulacaria afra
word: purslane tree
taxonomic: Ludwigia palustris
word: water-purslane
taxonomic: Portulaca oleracea
word: wild purslane
butcherbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butcherbirds
Etymology: From butcher + bird, from its habit of hanging its prey.
Senses: examples: text: A butcher bird has stirred, tuned its flute with a few preparatory notes.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 47:
text: A short way off, two male butcher birds, black and white like magpies, were calling antiphonally across a ravine.
ref: 1987, Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines, Vintage, published 1998, page 224:
glosses: Any of the magpie-like birds in the genus Cracticus, of Australia and New Guinea.
glosses: Any of the shrikes in the genus Lanius.
glosses: The fiscal shrike, Lanius collaris.
Synonyms: Jacky Hanger
Jacky Hangman
red-backed shrike
Derived terms: black butcherbird
Jacky Hanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacky Hangers
Etymology: From its habit of hanging its prey.
Senses: glosses: The fiscal shrike Lanius collaris
Synonyms: butcherbird
Jacky Hangman
Jacky Hangman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacky Hangmen
Etymology: From its habit of hanging its prey.
Senses: glosses: The Fiscal shrike Lanius collaris
Synonyms: Jacky Hanger
butcherbird
jicama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɪ.kə.mə/
/ˈhiː.kə.mə/
Forms: form: jicamas
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish jícama, from Classical Nahuatl xīcama, apocopic form of xīcamatl.
Senses: glosses: The edible root of the yam bean (Pachyrhizus erosus) used in salads in Central America and as a snack in Mexico.
rainbird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rainbirds
Etymology: From rain + bird, from the sound of their call, a beautiful liquid gurgle rising and falling like water pouring from a bottle.
Senses: glosses: Any of the coucal species Centropus supercilliosus, Centropus cupreicadus, Centropus senegalensis.
glosses: A grey warbler (Gerygone igata).
king of six
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kings of six
Etymology: The birds are usually grouped with one male to six females.
Senses: glosses: The pintailed whydah, Vidua macroura.
Wausau
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ojibwe [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A city, the county seat of Marathon County, in north-central Wisconsin, United States.
glosses: A town in Marathon County, in north-central Wisconsin.
bare hand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bare hands
form: bare handing
form: bare handed
form: bare handed
Senses: examples: text: Jones bare hands the bunt and throws to first... out!
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To field the ball without one's glove in one's hand.
bare hand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bare hands
Senses: glosses: An ungloved hand.
Related terms: bare knuckle
with one's bare hands
bateleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌbætəˈlɜː/
Forms: form: bateleurs
Etymology: Borrowed from French bateleur (“juggler”).
Senses: synonyms: bateleur eagle
glosses: A species of eagle, Terathopius ecaudatus, endemic to Africa and Arabia.
Madison
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædɪsən/
Forms: form: Madisons
Etymology: From Middle English Madde (“Maud”) + -son.
Senses: glosses: A particular line dance commonly danced to the Ike & Tina Turner song Nutbush City Limits.
glosses: Alternative spelling of madison.
Nisse
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in Borsele, Netherlands.
owie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ(w)iː/
rhymes: -aʊi
Etymology: From ow + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of ow.
synonyms: word: ow
owie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaʊ(w)iː/
rhymes: -aʊi
Forms: form: owies
Etymology: From ow + -ie (diminutive suffix).
Senses: examples: text: If it's an "owie" that has the child upset, check him from head to toe for injuries.
ref: 1997, K. D. Kuch, The Babysitter's Handbook, Random House, page 58:
text: 2008, May 16, Bil Keane, The Family Circus (daily comic) in the Kokomo Tribune
Daddy! Our car has an owie! [Billy, pointing to a small dent.]
glosses: A painful but minor injury.
Synonyms: boo-boo
ephebi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ephebus
Jacksonian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒækˈsoʊn.i.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Jacksonians
Etymology: From Jackson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: An adherent of Andrew Jackson's politics and policies, or one who admires Jackson as a historical figure.
Synonyms: Jacksonite
Jacksonian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒækˈsoʊn.i.ən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Etymology: From Jackson + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to someone whose last name was Jackson.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the politics and policies of Andrew Jackson.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Jacksonian seizures, characteristic of certain forms of epilepsy (after John Hughlings Jackson).
Derived terms: Jacksonian democracy
Jacksonian Democrat
Jacksonian seizure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jacksonian seizures
Etymology: Eponym, from John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A seizure characteristic of certain forms of epilepsy.
epileptiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a grand mal epileptiform seizure
glosses: Of or pertaining to epilepsy, or resembling epilepsy, particularly in regard to its associated seizures.
Derived terms: antiepileptiform
nonepileptiform
geographic information science
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geographical information science
Etymology: Coined by Michael Goodchild in the early 1990s, and quickly caught on in the academic community.
Senses: glosses: The scientific study of the nature and use of geographic information; the theoretical foundation of geographic information systems.
Related terms: GIScience
booty call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booty calls
form: bootie call
form: booty-call
Etymology: Coined early 1990s, attributed to Bill Bellamy on Def Comedy Jam.
Senses: glosses: A telephone call made to request a sexual encounter.
glosses: A sexual encounter arranged by telephone.
glosses: The recipient of a telephone call requesting a sexual encounter.
examples: text: You left me for another woman and now you're here on a booty call, that's what the matter is.
ref: 2016, Helen Callaghan, Dear Amy, →ISBN, page 25:
text: "My mom gets 2am booty calls. My mom is cooler than me."
ref: 2018, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), 3717: Clinton's Mom Knows How To Party:
text: You up? In most circles, that text would read like a very ineloquently crafted booty call, one that absolutely should not warrant a response.
ref: 2022, Kosoko Jackson, chapter 1, in A Dash of Salt and Pepper, Berkley, →ISBN, page 1:
glosses: An encounter for the purposes of casual sex.
booty call
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: booty calls
form: booty calling
form: booty called
form: booty called
form: bootie call
form: booty-call
Etymology: Coined early 1990s, attributed to Bill Bellamy on Def Comedy Jam.
Senses: glosses: To make a booty call.
Azzurri
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Italian Azzurri.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: the Italy national football team
qualifier: rugby union
glosses: the Italy national rugby union team
album track
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: album tracks
Senses: glosses: Any individual piece of music, normally separated from the others by a short pause, on an LP, CD, etc.
glosses: Any such piece that is perceived to be unsuitable for release as a single.
close captioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: the prison did not have basic assistive devices, including a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), close captioning devices, and visual alarms and signals.
ref: 1992 March-April, Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, volume 16, number 2:
text: Additionally, in a research-film, faces being blurred can ensure confidentiality, voices can be changed, and subtitles or close captioning can be used to disguise the identity of an informant who wants to be anonymous.
ref: 2016 December, April Karen Baptiste, “Can a Research Film Be Considered a Stand-Alone Academic Publication? An Assessment of the Film ‘Climate Change, Voices of the Vulnerable: The Fishers’ Plight.’”, in Area 48, number 4:
text: D/HoH people require close captioning and assistive technologies to access electronic and audio-visual information, including news and current events.
ref: 2018, Bobbie Bushman, “Serving Underserved Populations: Implications from a Model of Successful Services for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children in Public Libraries”, in The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion, volume 2, number 3:
glosses: Alternative form of closed captioning.
rewritable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rewrite + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be rewritten, or written again.
Related terms: writable
erasable
doubting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of doubt
doubting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: doubtings
Senses: examples: text: A believer may be sometimes so overwhelmed with doubtings, that he may not be able to perceive an assurance in himself.
ref: 1811, Walter Marshall, The Gospel-mystery of Sanctification Opened, page 156:
text: Black is night's cope;
But death will not appal
One who, past doubtings all
Waits in unhope.
ref: 1902, Thomas Hardy, In Tenebris I:
text: He had prepared such a fine pedestal for her, draped her in so many beautiful illusions. But if she was an elf, there was no keeping an elf on a pedestal. No sooner had he arranged her there nicely, than off she flopped in her elfish way, scattering the illusions he had attached to her, as it were, a Salome shedding her seven veils. So he fluttered between his beliefs and doubtings.
ref: [1921?], John Cournos, “Circe”, in The Wall, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd.; New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, chapter VIII, section I, page 207:
glosses: A condition of doubt.
doubting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊtɪŋ/
rhymes: -aʊtɪŋ
Forms: form: more doubting
form: most doubting
Senses: examples: text: Indeed, had not I appeared to the world with all possible demonstrations of authority and truth, teaching men a most holy and undeniable doctrine, sufficient to reform their manners and amend their lives, and moreover demonstrating my divine commission, by such proofs as ought to satisfy and convince the most doubting and suspicious minds; they might have had some plea and excuse of ignorance for their unbelief;
ref: 1814, Paul Wright, A Complete Life of Our Blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, page 226:
text: Had Keir been told two years ago that he would be involved in all these domesticities, he would have been more doubting than a doubting Thomas.
ref: 1932, George Warwick Deeping, Smith:
text: Critics, as the name clearly suggests, are very doubting of brand and firm behaviour, yet they appear to be more focused on being critical than on actually acting on their opinions.
ref: 2011, Guy Champniss, Fernando Rodes Vila, Brand Valued, page 42:
glosses: Full of doubt; dubious.
Derived terms: doubtingly
doubtingness
undoubting
creatrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: creatrixes
form: creatrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin creātrīx. By surface analysis, create + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female creator.
Zuñi
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Zuni
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zuni.
Zuñi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Zuni
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Zuni.
Derived terms: Zuñi River
rewriteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rewritable.
radially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more radially
form: most radially
Etymology: From radial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Thallus about 1 cm. in diameter, light gray irregular areoles 0:30,4 mm. in diameter on a black hypothallus, giving a deciussate appearance, marginal areoles slightly radially elongate and very narrowly black margined but not clearly effigurate;
ref: 1965, Nova Hedwigia, volumes 15-16, page 326:
glosses: In a radial manner, outward from a center.
domini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dominus
comprising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kəmˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of comprise
implying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imply
implying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪɪŋ
Forms: form: implyings
Senses: examples: text: Human events are always implyings. What they are includes the implying of further events.
ref: 1991, Bernard D. den Ouden, Marcia Moen, The Presence of Feeling in Thought, page 93:
text: While it was noted above that the interaffecting of the present by the occurrings and implyings of the past provides a means of generating a sense of a personal past through the accumulation of bodily-relevant occurrings and implyings, […]
ref: 2016, Janet Banfield, Geography Meets Gendlin:
glosses: implication
capitals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capital
salts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salt
salts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of salt
neurosurgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurosurgeries
Etymology: From neuro- + surgery.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
surgery
glosses: The surgical discipline focused on treating those central and peripheral nervous system diseases.
topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
surgery
glosses: Any surgical procedure performed on the nervous system, especially the brain.
Derived terms: endoneurosurgery
microneurosurgery
neurosurgeon
neurosurgical
Related terms: neuroimaging
neuroimplant
neurology
neuropathy
neuroright
neuroscience
neurotechnology
Johns Hopkins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Johns Hopkins (1795–1873), American entrepreneur, abolitionist and philanthropist.
Senses: glosses: A university and, in particular, a world-class school of medicine and teaching hospital located in Baltimore, Maryland.
suffixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suffix
hemimegaloencephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hemi- + megaloencephaly.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A condition where one hemisphere of the brain grows faster or larger than the other, causing neurological impairment.
docs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒks
Senses: glosses: plural of doc
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: documentation
BPM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BPM
Senses: examples: text: Tachycardia is a heart rate of more than 100 BPM. If your heart is beating too fast, you may experience chest discomfort, fainting spells, pounding of your heart (palpitations) and shortness of breath during usual activity levels.
ref: 2024 February 13, “Understanding Your Heart Rate”, in Emory Healthcare:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bpm.
topics: management
glosses: Initialism of Business Performance Management.
qualifier: operations management
glosses: Initialism of Business Process Management.
qualifier: systems engineering
glosses: Initialism of Business Process Modeling.
SLA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sealed lead-acid battery.
glosses: Initialism of second language acquisition.
glosses: Initialism of service level agreement.
glosses: Initialism of specific leaf area.
glosses: Initialism of stereolithography apparatus.
topics: government
politics
synonyms: SLM
glosses: Initialism of Sudan Liberation Army.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Symbionese Liberation Army.
QoS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: communications
computing
electrical-engineering
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
telecommunications
glosses: Initialism of quality of service.
topics: lifestyle
sexuality
glosses: Initialism of queen of spades.
mendaciously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɛnˈdeɪʃəsli/
Forms: form: more mendaciously
form: most mendaciously
Etymology: From mendacious + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As a politician, he was very adept at speaking mendaciously in public.
text: I don't think I'm going to buy what she just told me. Her gestures, eye movements, and hesitancy in her tone raised some substantial red flags. Therefore, I have reason to believe she was giving an excuse mendaciously. If you could've witnessed this, you'd know it too!
glosses: In a lying or deceitful manner.
Synonyms: deceitfully
Related terms: mendacious
mendaciousness
decussate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkʌseɪt/
Forms: form: more decussate
form: most decussate
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1825, the verb in 1658; borrowed from Latin decussātus, perfect passive participle of decussō (“to divide crosswise, arrange crosswise or mark with a cross”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from decussis (“a coin worth ten asses; a cross sign (from the cross shape of the Roman numeral for ten carved on the coins)”), from decem (“ten”) + as (“a Roman coin”).
Senses: glosses: Crossed; intersected; resembling a letter X.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having anatomical structures or markings crossing each other, typically in an X shape or at right angles.
examples: text: Juniperites, ju-ne-per-i′tis, s[ubstantive]. A genus of fossil plants, in which the branches are ranged irregularly; leaves short, obtuse, inserted by a broad base, opposite, decussate, and arranged in four rows.
ref: 1849, John Craig, “Juniperites”, in A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language, Embracing All the Terms Used in Art, Science, and Literature, volumes II (Jac–Zyt), London: Published (for the proprietors,) by Henry George Collins, 22 Paternoster Row, →OCLC, page 15:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having opposite leaves arranged alternately at right angles.
examples: a decussated period
glosses: Consisting of two rising and two falling clauses, placed in alternate opposition to each other.
Synonyms: decussant
Derived terms: decussately
hemidecussate
redecussate
decussate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪˈkʌseɪt/
Forms: form: decussates
form: decussating
form: decussated
form: decussated
Etymology: The adjective is first attested in 1825, the verb in 1658; borrowed from Latin decussātus, perfect passive participle of decussō (“to divide crosswise, arrange crosswise or mark with a cross”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from decussis (“a coin worth ten asses; a cross sign (from the cross shape of the Roman numeral for ten carved on the coins)”), from decem (“ten”) + as (“a Roman coin”).
Senses: examples: text: The two trochlears decussate in the anterior medullary velum.
ref: 1949, Herbert Eugene Walter, Leonard Perkins Sayles, Biology of the Vertebrates:
glosses: To form an X or to cross or intersect.
Related terms: decussation
decussative
EIR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EIRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of excess information rate.
topics: law
glosses: Initialism of establishment inspection report: a report issued by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration following the inspection of a facility where goods under the authority of the agency are manufactured, held, or sold.
SDH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SDHs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of synchronous digital hierarchy.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of subdural hematoma.
glosses: Initialism of subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.
menswear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɛnz.wɛɚ/
Forms: form: men’s wear
form: men's wear
Etymology: From men + -s- + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Men's clothing (and accessories), particularly in a retail context.
Coordinate terms: childrenswear
ladieswear
womenswear
shrewish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more shrewish
form: most shrewish
Etymology: From shrew + -ish. Compare Middle English schrewis, shrewessh, shrewyssh (“wicked, malignant”).
Senses: examples: text: “For my own part,” she rejoined, “I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I never could perceive any thing extraordinary. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether, there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable.”
ref: 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter III, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, pages 60–61:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a shrew (a nagging, ill-tempered woman).
glosses: Bad-tempered; ill-natured; obstinate, as a shrew.
Derived terms: shrewishly
shrewishness
methought
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɔːt
Etymology: From Middle English me thoght, from Old English mē ðūhte; equivalent to me + thought.
Senses: examples: text: The clouds methought would open, and ſhew riches / Ready to drop vpon me, that when I wak'd / I cri'de to dreame againe.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12, column 2:
text: Methought I saw my late espoused saint / Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,
ref: 1673, John Milton, Methought I Saw my Late Espoused Saint:
text: Methought I was immersed in a cataleptic trance of more than usual duration and profundity.
ref: 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, The Premature Burial:
text: Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer / Swung by angels whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
ref: 1845 February, — Quarles [pseudonym; Edgar Allan Poe], “The Raven”, in The American Review, volume I, number II, New York, N.Y.; London: Wiley & Putnam, […], →OCLC, page 145:
text: And then methought my dream changed, and two Great Giants with heading-axes came striding over the bed, […]
ref: 1862 February, George Augustus [Henry] Sala, “The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous; a Narrative in Plain English, […] Chapter the Fourth. My Grandmother Dies, and I am Left Alone, without So Much as a Name.”, in George Augustus Sala, editor, Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers, volume IV, London: Office of "Temple Bar," 122 Fleet Street; Ward and Lock, 158 Fleet Street; New York, N.Y.: Willmer and Rogers, →OCLC, page 304:
glosses: simple past and past participle of methinks
northwestern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛstn̩/
ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛst.ə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: more northwestern
form: most northwestern
form: north-western
Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English *norþwesterne, equivalent to north + western, cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Low German nōrtwestern and Old High German nordwestrōni. Compare earlier northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern.
Senses: examples: text: Brittany is located in northwestern France.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the northwest; from or to in such a direction.
glosses: Blowing from that direction.
raw_tags: of wind
Derived terms: northwesterner
northwesternmost
Related terms: north-northwestern
west-northwestern
northwestern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛstn̩/
ipa: /nɔːθˈwɛst.ə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: northwesterns
form: north-western
Etymology: Probably the reflex of Old English *norþwesterne, equivalent to north + western, cognate with or formed similarly to Middle Low German nōrtwestern and Old High German nordwestrōni. Compare earlier northeastern, southeastern, and southwestern.
Senses: examples: text: His most recent novels, published as Five Star Westerns, have been Northwesterns: […]
ref: 1998, Jon Tuska, Stories of the Far North, page 64:
coordinate_terms: northern
western
glosses: A film or other dramatic work set primarily in the late 19th or early 20th century in the northwest of North America.
daguerreotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/
ipa: /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/
ipa: /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)əˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: daguerreotypes
Etymology: From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.
Senses: examples: text: The awakening of science to this new way of seeing the cosmos began with Johann Ritter in 1801. By 1815, scientists found that Ritter's “chemical rays” [ultraviolet rays] darkened not just silver chloride but also many other kinds of metallic salts. Between 1826 and 1837, Nicéphore Niépce, credited with taking the first successful photograph, in 1827, and Louis Daguerre, the most famous photographic innovator of his day, found that silver iodide was especially light sensitive, and they used this discovery as the basis for their early work, which even then had begun to gain international notice. By 1842, others found that when sunlight hit a gelatin emulsion containing silver iodide, soon to be called a daguerreotype plate, it induced a photochemical reaction. Practical photography was born.
ref: 2017, Bob Berman, Zapped: From Infrared to X-rays, the Curious History of Invisible Light, Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver surface which has previously been exposed to either iodine vapor or iodine and bromine vapors; such a photograph.
glosses: The process of making such photographs.
examples: ref: translation, "This objection also seems inappropriate since I never tried to establish a genealogical table of exceptional individuals, nor was I concerned in forming an intellectual daguerreotype of the scholar or naturalist of the seventeenth and eighteenth century.", quoting Michel Foucault, edited by Donald F. Bouchard, Language, counter-memory, practice: Selected essays and interviews, Ithaka, NY, →ISBN, What is an Author? (1969), page 115:
glosses: A faithful or exact representation or description.
Derived terms: daguerreotypist
redaguerreotype
Related terms: daguerreotyper
daguerreotypy
daguerreotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈɡɛɹ.(ɪ.)əʊˌtaɪp/
ipa: /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)oʊˌtaɪp/
ipa: /dəˈɡɛɚ.(i.)əˌtaɪp/
Forms: form: daguerreotypes
form: daguerreotyping
form: daguerreotyped
form: daguerreotyped
Etymology: From French daguerréotype. Named after French artist Louis Daguerre (1787–1851) who announced the process in 1839. Daguerre developed the process after some years of collaborations with French chemist Nicéphore Niépce.
Senses: glosses: To make a photograph using this process, to make a daguerreotype (of).
examples: text: [H]e scanned my countenance with a pair of fierce, blood-shot eyes that I knew would daguerreotype my appearance indellibly^([sic]) and faithfully upon his mind.
ref: 1861, E[lsa] J[ane] Guerin, chapter III, in An Autobiography. Mountain Charley, […], Dubuque, Ia.: […] [F]or the author, →OCLC, pages 19–20:
glosses: To describe or represent exactly or faithfully; depict.
defoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfəʊliː(j)eɪt/
Forms: form: defoliates
form: defoliating
form: defoliated
form: defoliated
Etymology: From de- + foliate.
Senses: examples: text: Agent Orange was used to defoliate jungle vegetation.
text: These leaves are the moth’s only source of food, and if left unchecked, the caterpillars can completely defoliate a single mighty tree.
ref: 2020, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, →ISBN, page 2:
glosses: To remove foliage from (one or more plants), most often with a chemical agent.
Derived terms: defoliant
defoliation
defoliator
nondefoliating
defoliate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfəʊliː(j)eɪt/
Forms: form: more defoliate
form: most defoliate
Etymology: From de- + foliate.
Senses: glosses: Deprived of leaves; defoliated.
defoliant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfəʊlɪənt/
Forms: form: defoliants
Etymology: From defoliate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Agent Orange is a defoliant.
glosses: An agent used to defoliate plants.
delphinium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [dɛɫˈfɪnɪəm]
Forms: form: delphiniums
form: delphinia
Etymology: From the genus name (translingual Delphinium), from Ancient Greek δελφῐ́νῐον (delphĭ́nĭon, “larkspur”).
Senses: examples: text: The engagement photos were set in a leafy bower festooned with pink and white roses, anemones, lilies and delphinium, like something straight out of an enchanted garden.
ref: 2025 August 27, Vanessa Friedman, “The Ralph Lauren Look of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Engagement Photos”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Aug 2025:
glosses: A cultivated plant, belonging to the genus Delphinium, with tall blue-colored spikes containing flowers; a larkspur.
glosses: A shade of blue, named for the flowers.
palmetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmettos
form: palmettoes
Etymology: From Spanish palmito, diminutive of palma (“palm tree”), from Latin palma. Doublet of palmite and palmito.
Senses: examples: text: Broad o'er my Head the verdant Cedar wave, / And high Palmetos lift their graceful Shade.
ref: a. 1749 (date written), James Thomson, “Summer”, in The Seasons, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, and sold by Thomas Cadell, […], published 1768, →OCLC:
text: [O]n the flat coastal swamps of South Florida, where the palmettos once blew over the detritus of a dozen failed booms and the hotels were boarded up six months a year, there has evolved […] a settlement of considerable interest […].
ref: 1987, Joan Didion, Miami, Granta, published 2005, page 13:
glosses: Any of various fan palms of the family Arecaceae, especially Sabal palmetto or the saw palmetto, Serenoa repens.
glosses: A hat made of palmetto leaves.
glosses: A native or resident of the US state of South Carolina.
Coordinate terms: sense: South Carolina native or resident
word: palmetta
Derived terms: taxonomic: Sabal bermudana
word: Bermuda palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal 'Birmingham'
word: Birmingham palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal minor
word: bush palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal palmetto
word: cabbage palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal minor
word: dwarf palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal domingensis
word: Hispaniola palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal mexicana
word: Mexican palmetto
taxonomic: Periplaneta americana
word: palmetto bug
taxonomic: Euphyes arpa
word: palmetto skipper
taxonomic: Sabal mexicana
word: Rio Grande palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal pumos
word: royal palmetto
taxonomic: Chamaerops humilis
word: saw palmetto
taxonomic: Serenoa repens
word: saw palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal etonia
word: scrub palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal uresana
word: Sonoran palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal mexicana
word: Texas palmetto
taxonomic: Sabal gretheriae
word: Yucatán palmetto
palmetto bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: palmetto bugs
Etymology: So called because they are often found on palmetto trees.
Senses: glosses: The American cockroach (Periplaneta americana).
Related terms: cockroach
American cockroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American cockroaches
Senses: synonyms: palmetto bug
glosses: Periplaneta americana, a large species of cockroach which commonly infests buildings and other man-made structures.
rito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The young leaves of the coconut palm, used in traditional weaving in the Pacific.
rito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹitoʊ/
Forms: form: ritos
Etymology: From New Mexico and Colorado Spanish rito, from Spanish río + -ito.
Senses: examples: text: Many small streams and ritos flow down the slopes feeding the Rio Puerco, Chama and Jemez Rivers.
ref: 1961, New Mexico Wildlife, volumes 6-10, page 3:
text: […] to form tiny rills that descended and gathered into larger rititos that rollicked and frollicked as they tumbled down into the ritos that carried the spring run-offs and summer rains across alpine meadows […]
ref: 1994, Roberto Andrés Lucero, Sangre Del Monte, page 125:
text: On this day all the waters of the earth are blessed, the seas, the rivers and the ritos, the clear forest streams and all the muddy acequias meandering through the fields.
ref: 2010, A. Kyce Bello, The Return of the River, page 192:
glosses: A stream in the western US.
German cockroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: German cockroaches
Senses: glosses: Blattella germanica; Croton bug.
Croton bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Croton bugs
Etymology: From the Croton water of New York.
Senses: glosses: Blattella germanica; German cockroach. See cockroach
Oromo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒrəmoʊ/
ipa: /ɔːˈroʊmoʊ/
Forms: form: Oromos
form: Oromo
Etymology: From Oromo oromoo.
Senses: glosses: A member of a people of eastern Africa, Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
Oromo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒrəmoʊ/
ipa: /ɔːˈroʊmoʊ/
Etymology: From Oromo oromoo.
Senses: glosses: The Cushitic language of this people.
Derived terms: Oromia
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Oromo terms
American kestrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American kestrels
Senses: glosses: Any of a species of small falcon, Falco sparverius; a kestrel.
in action
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Seeing a steam engine in action is increasingly rare.
text: After a month in hospital, the reporter is back in action.
synonyms: at play
at work
glosses: In operation; active.
examples: text: He was wounded in action in his second tour.
synonyms: at war
in arms
in country
glosses: In combat.
Derived terms: chose in action
killed in action
lost in action
missing in action
thing in action
hold-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hold-up
hold-ups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Yet the conventions of cheating possess an odd kind of romance, of the love affair perpetually stalled in its first stages, when no one on the platform at Paddington knows you're only wearing hold-ups under your mac and you can briefly return to the drama of being the woman you thought had died of boredom somewhere on the thousand-and-eleventh trip to Waitrose.
ref: 2007 July 8, Lisa Hilton, “I cheated...”, in The Observer:
glosses: Women's stockings designed to be worn without suspenders.
undemonstrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌʌn dəˈmɒn stɹə tɪv/
Forms: form: more undemonstrative
form: most undemonstrative
Etymology: From un- + demonstrative.
Senses: examples: text: It was a godsend when an undemonstrative ewe and demonstrative lamb came in.
ref: 1902, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Bush Studies (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 30:
synonyms: word: frosty
word: standoffish
word: aloof
word: cool
word: distant
word: frosty
word: hankty
word: hard-to-get
word: offish
word: quiet
word: remote
word: reserved
word: standoffish
word: strange
word: thorny
word: touch-me-not-ish
word: unapproachable
word: unbending
word: undemonstrative
word: unimpressionable
word: uninvolved
glosses: Not given to showing emotion or feelings; reserved or distant.
celeriac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈlɛəɹiæk/
ipa: /səˈlɪəɹiæk/
Forms: form: celeriacs
Etymology: From celery + -ac.
Senses: synonyms: celery root
glosses: A form of celery, Apium graveolens, having an aromatic taproot eaten as a vegetable.
corn salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corn salads
Etymology: From corn + salad; plant so called from being commonly found as a weed in grain fields.
Senses: glosses: Any of the small plants in genus Valerianella, used in salads and as a herb, especially Valerianella locusta.
glosses: Any of various types of salad made using corn (maize).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Valerianella radiata
word: beaked corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella texana
word: Edwards Plateau corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella carinata
word: European corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella chenopodifolia
word: goosefoot corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella amarella
word: hairy corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella eriocarpa
word: Italian corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella longiflora
word: longtube corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella stenocarpa
word: narrowcell corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella dentata
word: narrowfruit corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella umbilicata
word: navel corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella nuttallii
word: Nuttall's corn salad
taxonomic: Valerianella ozarkana
word: Ozark corn salad
word: Palmer's corn salad (Valerianella palmeri
taxonomic: Valerianella florifera
word: Texas corn salad
paper tiger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper tigers
Etymology: A calque from Chinese 紙老虎／纸老虎 (zhǐlǎohǔ), a phrase popularized by Mao Zedong, but of pre-modern origin. An English translation first appeared in an book in 1828 by British missionary and lexicographer Robert Morrison.
Senses: examples: text: The League of Nations was by this time scarcely even a paper tiger, devoid of credibility since its divisions and pusillanimity had been so clearly laid bare following Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia in the autumn of 1935.
ref: 2008 August 23, Ian Kershaw, “The twisted road to war”, in The Guardian:
text: Iran is a paper tiger, a postmodern threat: It has many uses but a third Western war against a Muslim country is a bridge too far.
ref: 2010 October 11, Roger Cohen, “Iran, the Paper Tiger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Trump also said Russia’s economy was in big trouble and described its military as a “paper tiger”.
ref: 2025 September 27, Luke Harding, “Putin preparing to attack another European country, Zelenskyy says”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: sheep in wolf's clothing
antonyms: wolf in sheep's clothing
glosses: Something or someone that appears powerful, strong or threatening but is in reality weak, ineffective, or unable to withstand challenge.
wikipedia: Mao Zedong
Related terms: all bark and no bite
one's bark is worse than one's bite
sculd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sculds
form: sculding
form: sculded
form: sculded
form: scould
form: skuld
form: skuild
Etymology: From back-formation of sculding. Related to Norwegian skulding (“accusation”).
Senses: glosses: To accuse (someone) of wrongdoing, especially under the procedure known as sculding.
Related terms: sculding
sculd
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sculds
Etymology: Related to Old Norse skilja (“to divide”).
Senses: glosses: A parting.
incurred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɝd/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of incur
whistled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whistle
heita
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /ˈheɪt(a)/
Forms: form: eh ta
form: eita
form: heit
form: heitha
form: heito
form: het
form: heyitha
form: heyta
form: huit
Senses: examples: text: I can hear the conversation: "Heita, bra. Let's go. We don't need bullets."
ref: 2008, Ben Trovato, Ben Trovato's Art of Survival, page 51:
text: ‘Het ou Pellie!’ I suppose that is the most typical of the popular greetings that belong essentially to Cape Town; but the origin would be hard to trace. One expert thinks it falls into the Malay-Portuguese group.
ref: 1964, w:Lawrence G. Green, Old Men Say, page 61:
text: ‘Heita’ is a popular greeting used by the mapantsula. It simply means ‘hello’. Of course, one can go further by saying ‘Heita hoezet majita?’ (Hello, how are you, friends?).
ref: 1986, T. Thoka, English usage in Southern Africa, University of South Africa, page 20:
glosses: Greeting, hello; hi
bye-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈbaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪbaɪ/
ipa: /bəˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -aɪbaɪ
Forms: form: by-by
form: bye bye
form: buh-bye
Etymology: Reduplication of bye.
Senses: examples: text: Bye bye! Let's play again some time!
ref: 1995, HAL Laboratory, EarthBound, Nintendo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System:
glosses: Goodbye.
bye-bye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /baɪˈbaɪ/
ipa: /ˈbaɪbaɪ/
ipa: /bəˈbaɪ/
rhymes: -aɪ
rhymes: -aɪbaɪ
Forms: form: bye-byes
form: by-by
form: bye bye
form: buh-bye
Etymology: Reduplication of bye.
Senses: glosses: A goodbye.
examples: text: Brush your teeth, it's time to go bye-bye.
text: "[H]e came to the gate of the city; and finding it shut lay him down and went to by-by!"
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXII, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 224:
synonyms: beddy-bye
glosses: Bedtime for a toddler, going to sleep, going to bed.
tag question
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tag questions
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A question inviting the listener to indicate agreement, formed by adding a "tag" word or expression to a statement.
Related terms: question tag