cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uninhabitable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʌnɪnˈhæbɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more uninhabitable
form: most uninhabitable
Etymology: From un- + inhabitable.
Senses: examples: text: The earthquake left many homes in the area uninhabitable.
text: Though this island seem to be desert,— […]
Uninhabitable and almost inaccessible,—
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 II, scene i]:
text: Then there is the misery of leaking roofs and oozing walls, which in winter makes some rooms almost uninhabitable.
ref: 1937, George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, Penguin, published 1962, Part 1, Chapter 4, p. 53:
synonyms: word: unlivable
word: unoccupiable
word: unhabitable
antonyms: inhabitable
glosses: Not fit for people (or other living things) to live in; not able to be inhabited.
Derived terms: uninhabitably
uninhibited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninhibited
form: most uninhibited
Etymology: From un- + inhibited.
Senses: examples: text: The university should be an open forum for uninhibited exchange of ideas.
ref: 1990 December 23, Chris neaton, quoting Brian Arbogast de Hubert-Miller, “Activists Protest Homophobic Comic”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 23, page 2:
antonyms: inhibited
glosses: Not inhibited; having no inhibitions.
Derived terms: uninhibitedly
uninhibitedness
uninstructed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninstructed
form: most uninstructed
Etymology: From un- + instructed.
Senses: examples: text: like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], Peveril of the Peak. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Not instructed
examples: the uninstructed poor
glosses: Uneducated.
unlovable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlovable
form: most unlovable
Etymology: From un- + lovable.
Senses: examples: text: After you get finished betraying all your friends, how long do you think it will be before you're all alone? You will age and die all alone. You are attractive but unloving and unlovable. You're the worst louse I have met in a long time. I hope you get what you deserve.
ref: 1983 December 17, “GDMFSOB (personal advertisement)”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 22, page 17:
glosses: Not lovable.
unlit
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Etymology: From un- + lit.
Senses: glosses: Not lit
unlikable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unlikable
form: most unlikable
form: unlikeable
Etymology: From un- + likable.
Senses: antonyms: likable
glosses: Not likable.
Derived terms: unlikableness
Related terms: unlikability
unpersuaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpersuaded
form: most unpersuaded
Etymology: From un- + persuaded.
Senses: glosses: Not persuaded
unshorn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shorn.
Senses: examples: text: Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morne / Upon her wings presents the god unshorne. / See how Aurora throwes her faire / Fresh-quilted colours through the aire; / Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see / The dew bespangling herbe and tree.
ref: 1648, Robert Herrick, “Corinna’s Going a Maying”, in Hesperides, or The VVorks both Humane & Divine, London: Printed for John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, […], →OCLC; republished in The Poetical Works of Robert Herrick, London: William Pickering, […], 1825, →OCLC, pages 91–92:
glosses: Not shorn.
Synonyms: unsheared
unskillful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unskillful
form: most unskillful
form: unskilful
Etymology: From un- + skillful.
Senses: synonyms: unskilled
hypernyms: incompetent
noncompetent
uncompetent
coordinate_terms: untalented
unexperienced
glosses: Not skillful.
Related terms: word: unskilled
word: unskillfully
unsold
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + sold.
Senses: glosses: Not sold
unspecific
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭn′spĭ-sĭf′ĭk
ipa: /ˌʌn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɐn.spɪˈsɪf.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɐn.spəˈsəf.ək/
ipa: /ˌan.spiˈsif.ik/
rhymes: -ɪfɪk
Forms: form: more unspecific
form: most unspecific
Etymology: From un- + specific.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of nonspecific (“not specific”).
synonyms: word: nonspecific
extra: not specific
unspectacular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspectacular
form: most unspectacular
Etymology: From un- + spectacular.
Senses: examples: text: Cod, thought by some misguided souls to be a common and therefore unspectacular fish, was delightful in this dish with its buttery, flaky texture and sweet flavor.
ref: 1985 April 27, Sue Hyde, “Formal Dining Pleasure”, in Gay Community News, page 13:
glosses: Not spectacular.
unwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + woven.
Senses: glosses: Not woven.
unwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + woven.
Senses: glosses: past participle of unweave
telekinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tele- + kinetic.
Senses: examples: text: Some magicians claim to have telekinetic powers.
glosses: Of or pertaining to telekinesis.
telekinetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telekinetics
Etymology: From tele- + kinetic.
Senses: glosses: One who has telekinetic abilities.
Synonyms: teek
Related terms: telekinetics
unblinking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unblinking
form: most unblinking
Etymology: From un- + blinking.
Senses: glosses: Not blinking.
Synonyms: blinkless
sememe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛmiːm/
Forms: form: sememes
Etymology: Ultimately from Ancient Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, I mean”) + -eme. Compare morpheme.
Senses: examples: text: Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe.
ref: 1995, Louise Schleiner, Cultural Semiotics, Spenser, and the Captive Woman, Lehigh University Press, page 71:
text: Since sememes are enhanced in the sememe network (as shown in Fig. 3), both a topic and an article analysis can rely on the sememe network instead of explicit term matching.
ref: 2007, Edward H. Y. Lim, Raymond S. T. Lee, “iJADE Infoseeker: On Using Intelligent Context-Aware Agents for Retrieving and Analyzing Chinese Web Articles”, in Raymond S. T. Lee, Vincenzo Loia, editors, Computational Intelligence for Agent-based Systems, Springer, page 138:
text: HowNet organizes all the sememes into several trees, and each sememe is considered a node of a tree.
ref: 2014, Jia-Fei Hong, Verb Sense Discovery in Mandarin Chinese—A Corpus based Knowledge-Intensive Approach, Springer, page 58:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.
Derived terms: sememic
sememically
sememics
Related terms: monoseme
semantic
seme
entification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: entifications
Senses: examples: text: Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses.
ref: 1960, Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object:
text: Where, therefore, are we to locate the mediating element... which is the conflict-free sphere, which thus becomes the mythical locus of the most incredible reaction entifications?
ref: 1993, Jacques Lacan, translated by Russell Grigg, The Psychoses: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book III:
glosses: The action of giving objective existence to something
Related terms: entify
face-value
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face-values
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of face value.
figures of speech
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figure of speech
logification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: logifications
Senses: glosses: The application of a logical framework to a concept
glosses: The invention of a set of logical rules in an attempt to explain something
nonvocalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vocalic.
Senses: glosses: Not vocalic; not used as a vowel
glosses: nonverbal or nonvocal
sleepful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sleepful
form: most sleepful
Etymology: From Middle English slepeful, slepful, equivalent to sleep + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Everything sleepful. Shoemakers and embroiderers who had ceased work were dozing in their little dens, and as I trudged wearily onward, […]
ref: 2019, William Le Queux, Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara:
synonyms: word: hypersomnolent
word: nodding off
word: adrowse
word: bedroomy
word: dozy
word: dopey
word: dragging one's tail
word: drowsy
word: eyelids at half-mast
word: nodding off
word: oscitant
word: out of steam
word: sleepbound
word: sleepish
word: sleepy
word: slombry
word: snoozy
word: slumberful
word: slumberous
word: slumbersome
word: slumbery
word: somniculous
word: somnolent
word: somnolescent
word: tired
glosses: very sleepy; strongly wanting or needing to sleep
examples: text: a sleepful night
glosses: Marked by sleep
Derived terms: sleepfully
sleepfulness
unsleepful
every which where
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: everywhere
Related terms: every which way
renitent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛnɪtənt/
Forms: form: more renitent
form: most renitent
Etymology: From Latin renītēns, present participle of renītor (“resist, struggle”).
Senses: examples: text: […]I could see the renitent surface under my feet and the mossy walls about me[…]
ref: 1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 38:
glosses: resistant to physical pressure; unyielding
glosses: resistant to compulsion; recalcitrant
hyperspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to hyperspace.
glosses: Of or pertaining to multi-dimensional geometry.
glosses: Of or with a spatial resolution below 1 meter remote sensing.
bocconcini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bocconcino
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian bocconcini, plural of diminutive of boccone (“mouthful”).
Senses: glosses: Small pieces of mozzarella cheese.
glosses: Small chunks of any suitable foodstuff.
discreetness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discreet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being discreet.
discreteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discretenesses
Etymology: From discrete + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being discrete, separated or distinct.
Related terms: discretion
discontinuity
continuity
discretiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discretive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being discretive.
discursiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From discursive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being discursive.
disdainfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disdainful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disdainful.
disengagedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disengaged + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Though it was the aim of Sir Howard ever to appear the polished gentleman, yet he was often betrayed into a littleness of thought, an illiberality, the offspring of narrow prejudice; whilst the other, in his apparent humility and disengagedness from the affairs of life, manifested at times an enlargement and comprehension of intellect unbounded.
ref: 1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter III, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 27:
glosses: The state or quality of being disengaged.
disgracefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disgraceful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disgraceful.
disgustingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disgusting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The disgustingness of it! As if a huge bluebottle fly has landed on his shoulders.
ref: 2019, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, “Christmas is Coming”, in Manchester Happened, Oneworld Publications (2020), pages 27-28:
glosses: The state or quality of being disgusting.
dishonestness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dishonest + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dishonest.
disingenuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disingenuity
Etymology: From disingenuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disingenuous.
disinterestedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disinterested + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: She forgot she had married from desperation rather than disinterestedness.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 219:
glosses: The state or quality of being disinterested.
diskindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diskindnesses
Etymology: From dis- + kindness.
Senses: glosses: unkindness
examples: text: 1849 Southey's common-place book. Ed. by J.W. Warter
To do another man a diskindness merely because he has done me one, serves to no good purpose, and to many ill ones.
text: it was in his power to do me great diskindnesses, if he should take a fancy to it.
ref: 1988 John Chardin - Travels in Persia, 1673-1677
glosses: An unkind act.
dislikeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dislike + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disliked.
abnormal psychology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abnormal psychologies
Senses: glosses: The academic study of persons whose psychological characteristics deviate from the norm, such as neuroses, psychoses, and other disorders.
glosses: An instance of a person having psychological characteristics that deviate from the norm.
abnormal psychologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abnormal psychology
psychologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈkɑləd͡ʒiz/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒiz
Senses: glosses: plural of psychology
disloyalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disloyal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disloyal.
panvitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan-vitalism
Etymology: From pan- + vital + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief that all things are part of a single living universe.
glosses: Belief that all things in the universe are alive.
Related terms: hylozoism
pandeism
panpsychism
pan-spiritualism
pantheism
dismalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dismalnesses
Etymology: From dismal + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dismal.
pan-vitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of psyche that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see theion) that is the legacy of the Milesians.
ref: 1967, Francis E. Peters, Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, page 169:
text: As opposed to this the essentially possible interpretation of the world-ground in the sense of a theistic (deifying) pan-vitalism breaks down at the "phenomenon of death" both for Dostoyevsky and Solovyev.
ref: 1975, Helmut Dahm, Vladimir Solovyev, Max Scheler, Attempt at a Comparative Interpretation : a Contribution to the History of Phenomenology, page 154:
text: And unless the universe is thought of as essentially lifeless, might there not be a regressive return to pre-scientific pan-vitalism?
ref: 2006, John F. Haught, Is Nature Enough? Meaning and Truth in the Age of Science, page 72:
glosses: Alternative spelling of panvitalism.
dismayedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dismayed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dismayed.
disorderliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disorderly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disorderly.
dispassionateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispassionate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being dispassionate.
dispersedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dispersed + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Such is the dispersedness of these rules and directions, that it seems a compilation of the kind could not be made with a reasonable degree of completeness.
ref: 1840, Samuel Higgs Gael, A Practical Treatise on the Analogy between Legal and General Composition, London: Butterworth, page 233:
text: NATO's PGM militia will be protected from artillery fire and air attack primarily by their own dispersedness.
ref: 1987, Alvin M. Saperstein, “An Enhanced Non-Provocative Defense in Europe”, in Journal of Peace Research, volume 24, number 1, page 52:
text: The dispersedness of knowledge is a driver of uncertainty.
ref: 2004 Aug, Markus C. Becker, “Organizational Routines: a review of the literature”, in Industrial and Corporate Change, volume 13, number 4, Oxford, page 647:
glosses: The state or quality of being dispersed.
panpsychism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /panˈsʌɪkɪz(ə)m/
ipa: /pænˈsaɪ(ˌ)kɪz(ə)m/
Forms: form: panpsychisms
form: pampsychism
Etymology: From pan- + psychism, a calque of German Panpsychismus (1874), from Latin pampsychia (1591). Cognate with Ancient Greek πάμψυχος (pámpsukhos, “in full life”) and (modern) Greek παμψυχισμός (pampsychismós, “panpsychism”).
Senses: examples: text: As we shall see in chapter 3, the Tiantai school of Buddhism advocated a version of panpsychism without such beliefs, and this demonstrates that the panpsychist thesis stands on its own, and is logically independent of the claim that mentality can somehow be attributed to the universe as a whole.
ref: 2004, “Introduction”, in D. S. Clarke, editor, Panpsychism, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Generally speaking, elements of panpsychism in phenomenology are faint at best. In [Graham] Harman's opinion, "It's safe to say that there is no panpsychist strain anywhere in the phenomenological movement."
ref: 2005, David Skrbina, Panpsychism in the West, The MIT Press (Bradford Books), →ISBN, page 182:
text: Panpsychism is a family of views whose basic principles are that the mental is both fundamental and ubiquitous.[…]Panpsychism can be usefully contrasted with the opposing doctrine of *emergentism: the view that certain attributes apply to complex systems which do not apply to the system's constituents.
ref: 2014, “panpsychism”, in Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken, editors, The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 500:
text: [Anne Conway's] treatise, the first philosophical paper published by a woman, was one of the first modern articulations of panpsychism, the idea that consciousness is fundamental to the natural world.
ref: 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The doctrine that all matter has a mental aspect.
examples: text: Whitehead devised such a conception, which to my mind definitely supersedes the panpsychisms of the history of metaphysics.
ref: 1961, Victor Lowe, “The Approach to Metaphysics”, in Ivor Leclerc, editor, The Relevance of Whitehead, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), published 2013, →ISBN, page 207:
text: The genius of modern panpsychisms has proved to be their capacity to incorporate rather than reject the mechanistic point of view.
ref: 1975, John Howie, Thomas O. Buford, editors, Contemporary Studies in Philosophical Idealism, C. Stark, →ISBN, page 75:
text: This seems to be due to one factor that they all—the various idealisms, phenomenalisms, positivisms, and panpsychisms—have in common: They reject, or at least fail to endorse, the idea of “matter.”
ref: 1997, David Ray Griffin, Parapsychology, Philosophy, and Spirituality: A Postmodern Exploration, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 111:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: Any specific doctrine or system of panpsychism.
Related terms: panpsychist
emergentism
with bated breath
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /wɪð ˈbeɪtɪd ˈbɹɛθ/
Forms: form: with 'bated breath
form: with baited breath
Etymology: From the verb bate, alteration by aphesis of the verb abate (“to reduce; lessen”). Coined by William Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, see quotations.
Senses: examples: text: Shall I bend low, and in a bond-mans key / With bated breath, and whiſpring humbleneſſe, / Say this:
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii], page 166, column 2:
text: […] with parted lips and bated breath the audience hung upon his words, taking no note of time, rapt in the ghastly fascinations of the tale.
ref: 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXIII, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 187:
text: Speak gently, Ο my son, speak gently now / With 'bated breath^([sic]), speak low.
ref: 1878, Edward Hayes Plumptre, transl., Philoctetes, lines 845–846:
text: The Professor, the master, the supreme chief, he who had to be addressed with bated breath sat with half-opened mouth and staring eyes, leaning forward in his chair, while in front of him the slight young woman shaking her mop of brown hair and wagging an admonitory forefinger, spoke to him as a father speaks to a refractory child.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “In which Challenger Meets a Strange Colleague”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: With reduced breath.
examples: text: We are waiting with bated breath for the release of the new version.
glosses: Eagerly; with great anticipation.
Related terms: breathholding
don't hold your breath
hold one's breath
corp2corp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of corporation-to-corporation.
Senses: glosses: Contract positions offered to technical programmers and other skilled personnel; subcontracting.
adnexal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the property of being adnexed.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the adnexa.
Derived terms: nonadnexal
periadnexal
hylism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē) + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Materialism: the theory that there is nothing beyond matter.
Synonyms: hylicism
Related terms: hylist
hylogenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hylo- + -genesis.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The origin of matter.
hylogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “matter”) + -geny from γένεσις (génesis, “birth”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hylogenesis.
thraneen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thraneens
Etymology: Borrowed from Irish tráithnín (“a stem of dried grass”).
Senses: glosses: An insignificant amount; a trifle
in-service
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: To sensitize their staffs, ASOs can offer in-service trainings about incest and its impact on unsafe sex and other high-risk behavior, both to professionals and to peer-educators.
ref: 1991 December 8, Liz Galst, “Gay Male Incest Survivors, Safer Sex, and AIDS”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 21, page 10:
glosses: Taking place when one is an employee.
raw_tags: of training etc.
examples: text: We offer both in-service and full-time employee training.
glosses: Relating to or being a full-time employee.
Derived terms: INSET day
ISE
Related terms: teacher workday
in-service
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: in-services
form: in-servicing
form: in-serviced
form: in-serviced
Senses: examples: text: She spends most of her time in-servicing teachers in helping struggling students.
text: Nor are reflection and dialogue possible when someone in-services and someone else is in-serviced.
ref: 1994, Thomas J. Sergiovanni, Building Community in Schools, page 154:
glosses: To train or educate (someone) while they are working; to give on-the-job training to.
in service
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Employed as a domestic servant.
examples: text: About 20,600 Vélib’ bicycles are in service here, with more than 1,450 self-service rental stations.
ref: 2008 July 13, Steven Erlanger, “A New Fashion Catches on in Paris: Cheap Bicycle Rentals”, in New York Times:
glosses: Available for use; operational.
Related terms: in-service
ideation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌaɪ.diˈeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: ideations
Etymology: From ideate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: suicidal ideation
text: Natural language is fuzzy mostly because human ideation is fuzzy.
ref: 2012, Jerf, comment on Hacker News
text: And there are risks [to transgender children] to not using these [hormone therapy] treatments, including the risk - in some cases, the near certainty - of anxiety and depression and even suicidal ideation.
ref: May 30, 2023, Judge Robert L. Hinkle, Doe v. ladapo, Case No. 4:23cv114-RH-MAF, Federal District Court, Northern District of Florida
glosses: The conceptualization of a mental image.
topics: business
glosses: The synthesis of ideas.
Derived terms: ideational
suicidal ideation
-osis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /-əʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /-oʊ.sɪs/
ipa: /-əʉ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: oses
Etymology: Learned borrowing from New Latin -ōsis, from Ancient Greek -ωσις (-ōsis, “state, abnormal condition, or action”), from -όω (-óō) stem verbs + -σις (-sis).
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: functional disease or condition such as hepatosis
glosses: process, action such as phagocytosis
glosses: formation, increase such as leukocytosis
Related terms: word: -exia
word: -iasis
word: -itis
word: -otic
alt: Infectious · Parasitic disease
word: Template:Helminthiases
phiran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɹən/
rhymes: -ɪɹən
Forms: form: phirans
form: pheran
Etymology: From Kashmiri پھؠرَن (phyaran), from Sanskrit परिधान (paridhā́na, “wrap, clothing”).
Senses: examples: text: She was wearing a dark kerchief around her head and a full-length dark phiran over a long dark shirt.
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 54:
glosses: A long cloak or robe worn by women and men in Kashmir.
kangri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkæŋɡɹi/
rhymes: -æŋɡɹi
Forms: form: kangris
form: kanger
Etymology: Borrowed from Kashmiri کانٛگٕر (kāngụr).
Senses: examples: text: Under the phiran her little kangri of hot coals sent long fingers of heat across her stomach.
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 54:
glosses: A small wicker-covered clay pot containing hot coals, worn under clothing in Kashmir to warm the skin.
charas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charras
form: churrus
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani चरस / چرس (caras).
Senses: examples: text: She had not smoked the charas to abdicate responsibility but to be sure of seizing her opportunity
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 61:
glosses: Cannabis resin, used as an intoxicant in India.
alalia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈleɪliə/
ipa: /eɪˈleɪliə/
Etymology: From a- (“without”) + -lalia (“speech”).
Senses: examples: text: A striking case of amnesic alalia was that of Lordat, a French physician, who thus described his malady: "I find myself deprived of the value of all words.[…]"
ref: 1886, Edward P. Davis, “Disorders of Speech”, in William Pepper, Louis Starr, editors, A System of Practical Medicine, Volume 5, Lea Brothers & Co., page 569:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The loss of the ability to speak, especially due to paralysis of the vocal cords.
examples: text: The other major exception, characters with Down syndrome (a condition that often includes among its symptoms alalia, or speech delay), are usually played by actors with Down syndrome[…].
ref: 2013, Jason Loviglio, Michele Hilmes, editors, Radio's New Wave, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), unnumbered page:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Speech delay, a delay in the development or use of the mechanisms that produce speech.
Related terms: alalic
dyslalia
paralalia
aphasia
aphemia
aphonia
dysarthria
amitriptyline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æmɪˈtɹɪptɪliːn/
Forms: form: amitriptylines
form: amitryptiline
form: amitryptyline
Etymology: From ami(no-) + tri- + (he)ptyl + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: ‘They were in very low concentrations, only fifteen per cent of the total. The remaining eighty-five per cent was made up of a powerful tranquillizer, amitryptiline.’
ref: 2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 327:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antidepressant drug; a tablet containing this drug.
Derived terms: amitriptylinoxide
maprotiline
Related terms: protriptyline
anthurium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthuriums
form: anthuria
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Anthurium.
Senses: examples: text: A huge vase of scarlet anthuria and poinsettias, arranged with ferns, stood in the center.
ref: 1943, Alice Northrop Snow, The Story of Helen Gould, Daughter of Jay Gould, Great American, volume 1, New York, N.Y.; London; Edinburgh: Fleming H. Revell Company, page 124:
text: He can already smell the anthuria and imagine the confetti of butterfly wings on his cheeks.
ref: 2008, Randall Peffer, Southern Seahawk: A Novel of the Civil War at Sea, Bleak House Books, →ISBN, page 204:
text: The first thing I see is a sympathy bouquet from the Dean of New College—white roses, anthuria and orchids in a crystal vase next to the sink.
ref: 2019, Helen Marshall, The Migration, Titan Books, →ISBN:
text: They gather the bouquets — pink gingers, yellow tiger lilies and white anthuriums they cut from the garden in the hills — and she follow him to a grave with a shiny new headstone.
ref: 2022, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, When We Were Birds, Hamish Hamilton, page 271:
glosses: Any of several tropical American evergreen plants, of the genus Anthurium, grown for their ornamental leaves and spathes.
Synonyms: sense: plants in Anthurium
word: tailflower
sense: plants in Anthurium
word: flamingo flower
sense: plants in Anthurium
word: pigtail
panchayat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /panˈt͡ʃʌɪət/
ipa: /pənˈt͡ʃɑjət̪/
Forms: form: panchayats
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पंचायत (pañcāyat, “panchayat (originally a council of five)”).
Senses: examples: text: He called a panchayat of the village and asked them if they objected to having a mill go up next to their village.
ref: 2004, Khushwant Singh, Burial at Sea, Penguin, published 2014, page 58:
text: “You're in the panchayat,” she said. “So couldn't you make that official?”
ref: 2005, Salman Rushdie, Shalimar the Clown, Vintage, published 2006, page 233:
glosses: A village council or local government.
Derived terms: panchayat town
Related terms: gram panchayat
nagar panchayat
panchayati raj
sarpanch
arborization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arborizations
form: arborisation
Etymology: From arborize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Any branching, treelike shape or formation.
glosses: The formation of such a shape or formation.
arthrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: är-thrō′-sĭs
ipa: /ɑɹˈθɹoʊ.sɪs/
rhymes: -əʊsɪs
Forms: form: arthroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint, articulation”), + -osis.
Senses: glosses: Any articulation (joint) in an animalian body.
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: arthropathy
hypernyms: disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
<
condition#Noun
glosses: Any degenerative disease of such a joint, e.g. osteoarthritis.
Derived terms: amphiarthrosis
coxarthrosis
cyclarthrosis
diarthrosis
discarthrosis
gonarthrosis
hemarthrosis
hip joint arthrosis
hydrarthrosis
lipohemarthrosis
nearthrosis
osteoarthrosis
polyarthrosis
pseudarthrosis
pseudoarthrosis
synarthrosis
Related terms: arthritis
arthrodesis
arthroscopy
dysarthrosis
ankylosis
monetary impotence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The inability of GDP to respond to a change in the money supply or in interest rates
KD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: KDs
Senses: hypernyms: cloth#Noun
fabric#Noun
<
textile#Noun
<
material#Noun
glosses: Abbreviation of khaki drill, a form of British military uniform made of cotton.
hypernyms: depredator#Noun
<
criminal#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: Initialism of known depredator: a category of criminal.
qualifier: Unicode
glosses: Initialism of compatibility decomposition.
examples: text: Lots of people who grew up eating KD keep a box in their cupboard just in case. You never know when you'll need comfort and convenience.
ref: 2010, Margaret Meikle, How Much Does Your Head Weigh?, page 159:
hypernyms: dinner#Noun
<
meal
;
food#Noun
glosses: Initialism of Kraft Dinner: a packaged dry macaroni and cheese mix.
topics: business
law
manufacturing
glosses: Initialism of knockdown (“collection of parts to assemble a product”).
hypernyms: disease#Noun
disorder#Noun
malady#Noun
<
condition#Noun
glosses: Initialism of kidney disease.
Hypernyms: mac and cheese
Derived terms: sense: Compatibility Decomposition
word: NFKD
Related terms: sense: in Unicode
word: C
sense: in Unicode
word: D
sense: in Unicode
word: KC
sense: in Unicode
word: NF
word: BD
eastern red cedar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eastern red cedars
Senses: glosses: A species of juniper, Juniperus virginiana, of eastern North America.
Synonyms: Virginia red cedar
bocconcino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bocconcini
Senses: glosses: singular of bocconcini
chthonians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chthonian
quirister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quiristers
form: quirrister
Senses: examples: text: Upon the highest spray of every mounting pole,
Those Quirristers are pearcht with many a speckled breast.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 214:
text: 'You are a tweake, aren't you, Nantwich?' said Morgan, a fat, ugly, Welsh quirister, reviled by the others but being allowed, too, into the menacing conpiracy against me.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 110:
glosses: Alternative form of chorister.
polyglossy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: polyglossia
polyglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + -glossia.
Senses: glosses: The coexistence of multiple languages in the same geographic area.
Derived terms: polyglossic
polyglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyglossic
form: most polyglossic
Etymology: From polyglossia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting polyglossia
polypiarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Polypiaria + -ian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the hydroid cnidarians of class Polypiaria.
polypiarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypiarians
Etymology: Polypiaria + -ian
Senses: glosses: A hydroid cnidarian of class Polypiaria.
hydroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroids
Etymology: From hydro- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Any of many colonial coelenterates that exist mainly as a polyp; a hydrozoan
Derived terms: tubular sponge hydroid
hydroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to such creatures
polypide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypides
Senses: glosses: The internal contents of a bryozoan; includes the digestive and muscular systems.
Derived terms: polypide bud
polyacanthous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyacanthous
form: most polyacanthous
Etymology: From poly- + acanthous.
Senses: glosses: Having many thorns
raw_tags: of a plant
polyglottal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more polyglottal
form: most polyglottal
Senses: examples: text: She was surprisingly polyglottal, with native fluency in twelve Asian languages.
glosses: polyglot
Derived terms: polyglottally
polyglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒtɪk
Forms: form: more polyglottic
form: most polyglottic
Etymology: From poly- + glottic.
Senses: glosses: polyglot
Derived terms: polyglottically
polyglottery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polyglot + -ery.
Senses: glosses: polyglotism
polyglottism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of polyglotism.
polyglottology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The use of many languages
emancipator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɚ/
Forms: form: emancipators
Etymology: From Late Latin ēmancipātor, from Latin ēmancipō (“to emancipate”). By surface analysis, emancipate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: US President Abraham Lincoln was called the Great Emancipator after issuing the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
glosses: A person who emancipates.
Derived terms: emancipatress
Related terms: emancipate
emancipation
emancipatory
emancipatrix
emancipatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪˈmænsɪpəˈtɔɹi/
Etymology: From emancipate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to emancipation or to an emancipator.
Derived terms: nonemancipatory
embitterment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embitterments
Etymology: From embitter + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The state of being embittered
glosses: Something which embitters
Derived terms: post-traumatic embitterment disorder
posttraumatic embitterment disorder
embosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embossers
Etymology: From emboss + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who or a thing which embosses
embraceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more embraceable
form: most embraceable
form: embracable
Etymology: From embrace + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Embrace me, / My sweet embraceable you. / Embrace me, / You irreplaceable you. / Just one look at you - my heart grew tipsy in me. / You and you alone bring out the gypsy in me.
ref: 1928 George Gershwin - Embraceable You (lyrics)
text: Lesbian, 29, overinvolved in being competent, seeks casual, affectionate relationship with embraceable GF.
ref: 1980 December 13, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 21, page 22:
glosses: Able or suitable to be embraced
Derived terms: embraceability
embraceably
embroiderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embroiderers
Etymology: From embroider + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who embroiders
Related terms: embroideress
embroideress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embroideresses
Etymology: From embroider + -ess.
Senses: glosses: female embroiderer
embroilment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embroilments
Etymology: From embroil + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being embroiled in something; an imbroglio or entanglement.
embryologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: embryologists
Etymology: From embryology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An expert or specialist in embryology
Derived terms: neuroembryologist
emotionalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: emotionalizes
form: emotionalizing
form: emotionalized
form: emotionalized
Etymology: From emotional + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To give (something) an emotional quality.
glosses: To make an emotional display.
Related terms: emote
emotionalization
employe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: employes
Senses: examples: text: the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes
text: In his endeavor to justify a radical action, the employe often carries his grievance so far that an element of the ridiculous enters into his arguments [...].
ref: 1859, Transactions of the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies, the Chicago Homeopathic Medical Society, page 156:
text: For that clerk, in the eyes of the people who come to you for service, is not merely an employe.
ref: 1920, Conference proceedings of the National Electric Light Association Convention, National Independent Meat Packers Association, the University of Georgia College of Agriculture, page 103:
text: Bring the same relationship we used to enjoy in the firm of 50 years ago when the employe used to kick the boss's door open and say: 'Joe, I just discovered [...]'.
ref: 1922, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace, De Witt Wallace, The Readers Digest, The Readers Digest Association, page 86:
text: As soon as a qualified substitute can be obtained, he should, upon the request of an employe, recommend him for release from his contract.
ref: 1935, Education Digest, page 16:
glosses: Dated form of employee.
emptily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more emptily
form: most emptily
Etymology: From empty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an empty manner
empty-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more empty-handed
form: most empty-handed
Senses: examples: text: United looked on course to end the season empty-handed as well as missing out on Champions League football when substitute Jason Puncheon's powerful far-post finish put Palace ahead with 12 minutes left.
ref: 2016 May 22, Phil McNulty, “Crystal Palace 1-2 Manchester United”, in BBC:
glosses: Alternative form of emptyhanded.
Derived terms: empty-handedly
empty-handedness
emulative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more emulative
form: most emulative
Etymology: First attested in 1593; borrowed from New Latin emulatīvus, by surface analysis, emulate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: It took four men, all four ablaze with gorgeous decoration, and the Chief of them unable to exist with fewer than two gold watches in his pocket, emulative of the noble and chaste fashion set by Monseigneur, to conduct the happy chocolate to Monseigneur's lips.
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Having a tendency to emulate others; imitative.
Derived terms: emulatively
nonemulative
unemulative
displeasedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From displeased + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being displeased.
disposedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disposed + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: disposition
inclination
propensity
glosses: The state or quality of being disposed
Related terms: well-disposedness
assay-dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assay-dishes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of assay dish.
disproportionateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disproportionate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disproportionate or out of proportion.
Related terms: disproportionableness
out of proportion
disputableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disputable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disputable or arguable; disputability.
assay dish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: assay dishes
Senses: glosses: A small, square glass or plastic dish, having ruled orientation lines that is used in biological experiments such as agar diffusion assays, propagation of bacteria and fungi, culture and screening of bacteria and yeast colonies.
disputatiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disputatious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disputatious or argumentative; contentiousness.
Related terms: argumentativeness
quarrelsomeness
belligerence
babouche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈbuːʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: babouches
Etymology: From French babouche, from Arabic بَابُوش (bābūš), from Persian پاپوش (pâpuš, “slipper”).
Senses: examples: text: BABOUCHE, S. F. (soulier des Turcs, & autres peuples orientaux,) a Shoe worn by the Turks, and other Oriental Nations.
ref: 1729, Abel Boyer, The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and French Extracted from the Writings of the Best Authors in Both Languages, London: J. and J. Knapton:
text: Everything that the reader of the Arabian Nights expects to find is here: […] the tunnelled passages where indolent merchants with bare feet crouch in their little kennels hung with richly ornamented saddlery and arms, or with slippers of pale citron leather and bright embroidered babouches; […]
ref: 1920, Edith Wharton, In Morocco:
synonyms: harem slipper
glosses: A Turkish or Moroccan slipper having no heel.
juvenescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʒuvəˈnɛsənt/
rhymes: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more juvenescent
form: most juvenescent
Etymology: From Latin juvenescens, present participle of juvenesco; by surface analysis, juven(ile) + -escent.
Senses: glosses: Becoming juvenile or young.
raw_tags: of one's mind or spirit
glosses: Catachresis for juvenile.
Derived terms: semperjuvenescent
Related terms: word: juvenescence
word: juvenility
persifleur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: persifleurs
Senses: glosses: One who participates in light, playful talk or banter or persiflage.
persifleurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of persifleur
ex facie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin ex facie (“out of the face”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: From the face or appearance.
topics: law
antonyms: in facie
glosses: Of contempt of court, not committed directly in court in the presence of the judge.
Synonyms: indubitably
self-evidently
without a doubt
certainly
speed bumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speed bump
dolly-boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly-boys
Senses: examples: text: He meant, because of Wagner, though he can't have been unaware of the discreetly homosexual style of the whole place, the waiters in tails with long white aprons, the rich older men treating their bored and flirtatious young dolly-boys.
ref: 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 118:
glosses: A toyboy; a gigolo.
glosses: The person (e.g. an apprentice) tasked with holding a rivet dolly in an Australian World War 2 aircraft factory.
disquietness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disquiet + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disquiet or disturbed; troubledness.
Related terms: intranquility
uneasiness
restlessness
perturbedness
disreputableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disreputable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disreputable or disgraceful; disreputability.
Synonyms: ignominiousness
disgracefulness
disreputability
disrespectfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disrespectful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being disrespectful; disrespect; disregard.
Synonyms: disregard
disrespect
discourtesy
flippancy