cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Aranese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Given that Aranese has only until very recently enjoyed any kind of institutional support, it is by far the most socially marginalized language.
ref: 2004, Ryan Furness, “Sociolinguistics and dictionary-making”, in Paz Battaner, Janet Ann DeCesaris, editors, De Lexicografia, Documenta Universitaria, →ISBN, page 408:
glosses: Gascon Occitan dialect spoken in Val d'Aran, a small area in northern Catalonia.
decora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A Japanese fashion style of the late 20th century, characterized by bold, bright colours and numerous accessories.
decora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decorum
decore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decores
form: decoring
form: decored
form: decored
Etymology: From de- + core.
Senses: examples: text: to decore a cabbage or an apple
glosses: To remove the core from.
Derived terms: decorer
decore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decores
form: decoring
form: decored
form: decored
Etymology: Compare French décorer. See decorate.
Senses: examples: text: To decore and illustre thesame assembly.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
glosses: To decorate; to beautify.
decores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decore
defraude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: defraudes
form: defrauding
form: defrauded
form: defrauded
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of defraud.
degrades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of degrade
delate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈleɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: delates
form: delating
form: delated
form: delated
Etymology: From Latin delātus, perfect passive participle of deferō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of defer (Etymology 2). See also infer, collate and confer, relate and refer, as well as prelate and prefer among others.
Senses: examples: text: Try exactly the time wherein sound is delated.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
glosses: To carry; to convey.
examples: text: when the crime is delated or notorious
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Rule of Conscience:
glosses: To carry abroad; to spread; to make public.
examples: text: As men were delated, they were marked down for such a fine.
ref: a. 1716 (date written), [Gilbert] Burnet, edited by [Gilbert Burnet Jr.], Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Thomas Ward […], published 1724, →OCLC:
synonyms: accuse
denounce
glosses: To carry or bring against, as a charge; to inform against.
examples: text: His vvarlike vvife Simeramis, her huſband being dead, / And ſonne in nonage, faining him ſhe ruled in his ſtéede: / Delating in a males attire the Empire nevve begonne: / The vvhich, his yeares admitting it, ſhe yealded to her ſonne.
ref: 1586, William Warner, “The First. Chapter I.”, in Albions England. Or Historicall Map of the Same Island: […], London: […] George Robinson [and R. Ward] for Thomas Cadman, […], →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: To carry on; to conduct.
delate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈleɪt/
ipa: /dɪˈleɪt/
rhymes: -eɪt
Forms: form: delates
form: delating
form: delated
form: delated
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of dilate.
delates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delate
littlest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɪtl̩əst/
ipa: [ˈlɪɾl̩əst̚]
Senses: glosses: superlative form of little: most little
deplores
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deplore
billboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: billboards
Etymology: From bill + board.
Senses: examples: text: He could see it like a printed sentence, fullborn and already dead God loves me too like the faded and weathered letters on last year's billboard God loves me too
ref: 1932, William Faulkner, chapter 5, in Light in August, [New York, N.Y.]: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, →OCLC; republished London: Chatto & Windus, 1933, →OCLC, page 98:
text: The land refuses to change. The more he drives the more the region resembles the country around Mt. Judge. The same scruff on the embankments, the same weathered billboards for the same products you wondered anybody would ever want to buy.
ref: 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 31:
text: All America was on the verge of spring and the countryside was coming to glory, what we could see of the countryside through the smoke and billboards.
ref: 1971, Don DeLillo, Americana, Penguin, published 2006, Part 1, Chapter 5, p. 111:
text: Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera’s eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.
ref: 1977, Susan Sontag, “Melancholy Objects”, in On Photography, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 71:
glosses: A very large outdoor sign, generally used for advertising.
examples: text: When a show leaves New York, it carries posters wherewith to embellish each fence and bill board in the land [...]
ref: 1902, “The Casual Club”, in The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2, 28 May, 1902:
text: Toward the end of April, the billboards, which I watched anxiously in those days, bloomed out one morning with gleaming white posters on which two names were impressively printed in blue Gothic letters: the name of an actress of whom I had often heard, and the name “Camille.”
ref: 1918, Willa Cather, My Ántonia, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, Book 3, Chapter 3, p. 308:
text: Until the recent rash of North London line maps appeared on station billboards in the London area of BR, the service undoubtedly suffered from meagre and ineffectual publicity.
ref: 1964 July, “News and Comment: The Broad Street-Richmond line”, in Modern Railways, page 17:
glosses: A flat surface, such as a panel or fence, on which bills are posted; a bulletin board.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A piece of thick plank, armed with iron plates, and fixed on the bow or fore-channels of a vessel, for the bill or fluke of the anchor to rest on.
examples: text: The closing billboard features Como as the spokesman.
ref: 1975, Television/Radio Age, volume 22, page 52:
text: […] the opening billboard identifying Chase as the sponsor […]
ref: 1981, Broadcasting, volume 100, page 22:
topics: broadcasting
media
radio
television
glosses: An opening or closing portion of a program, often including credits and sponsors' names.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A sprite that always faces the screen, no matter which direction it is viewed from.
Derived terms: antibillboard
billboard antenna
billboarded
Billboardese
billboardesque
billboarding
billboardless
billboardlike
human billboard
billboard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: billboards
form: billboarding
form: billboarded
form: billboarded
Etymology: From bill + board.
Senses: examples: text: The upcoming concert was billboarded all over the city.
glosses: To advertise on a billboard.
deposite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deposites
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of deposit.
deposite
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deposites
form: depositing
form: deposited
form: deposited
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of deposit.
deposites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deposite
depraves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deprave
deprimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present of deprime
deprime
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deprimes
form: depriming
form: deprimed
form: deprimed
Etymology: From de- + prime.
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: to remove the (remnant) primer from a cartridge casing (from the brass).
Derived terms: deprimed
depriming
Related terms: deprimed
depriming
prime
primed
primer
priming
downplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downplays
form: downplaying
form: downplayed
form: downplayed
Etymology: Synthetic form of the phrase play down. By surface analysis, down- + play.
Senses: examples: text: He would sometimes downplay his Princeton education by saying simply that he went to school in New Jersey.
glosses: To de-emphasize; to present or portray as less important or consequential.
wikipedia: Synthetic language
Synonyms: play down
trivialize
understate
Derived terms: downplayer
depure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depures
form: depuring
form: depured
form: depured
Etymology: From French dépurer. See depurate.
Senses: examples: 1532-1533, Thomas More, Confutation of Tyndale's Answer
be depured and clensed byfore that he shall be layed vppe for pure golde in the treasours of god
glosses: to depurate; to purify
Related terms: depurant
depurative
depuratory
galt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gault.
fetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feti
Senses: glosses: plural of fetus
sitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Forms: form: sittin
Etymology: From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
Senses: examples: text: For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]
ref: 1810, Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church:
glosses: past participle of sit; alternative form of sat.
sitten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Forms: form: more sitten
form: most sitten
form: sittin
Etymology: From Middle English siten, seten, from Old English seten, ġeseten, past participle of sittan (“to sit”). Equivalent to sit + -en (past participle). Cognate with Dutch gezeten, German gesessen.
Senses: examples: text: The tailȝeour was no thing weill sittin, He left the sadill.
ref: a1513, W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155
text: He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.
ref: c1560, A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38
glosses: Seated.
examples: text: Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten-up professours.
ref: 1671, J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15:
glosses: Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
Derived terms: well-sitten
sitten-up
sitten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪtən
Forms: form: sittin
Etymology: From Middle English sitten, equivalent to sit + -en (plural present).
Senses: examples: text: Such merimake holy saints doth queme,
But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.
ref: 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender:
text: This were as good as curds for our Jone, / When at a night we ſitten by the fire.
ref: 1593, Michael Drayton, “The Eighth Eglog”, in Idea the Shepheards Garland, […], London: […] [T. Orwin] for Thomas Woodcocke, […], →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Idea the Shepheards Garland, [London]: [Privately printed], 1870, →OCLC, page 64:
text: While as they sitten soft in the sweet rayes
Or vitall vest of the lives generall,
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, Book I, Canto IV:
text: Then listen, Thenot, to my mournful lay,
As wee these willows sitten here emong;
ref: 1738, Rev. John Whalley, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: plural simple present of sit
foetuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foetus
foeti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foetus
foetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From foetus + -al, the former from Latin foetus, alternative form of fētus, and the latter from Latin -alis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fetal.
Derived terms: foetalization
foetally
maternofoetal
multifoetal
phoetal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of fetal.
sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
homophone: syncs
homophone: cinques
Senses: glosses: plural of sink
sinks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪŋks/
rhymes: -ɪŋks
homophone: syncs
homophone: cinques
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sink
hybridism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybridisms
Etymology: From hybrid + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The state of being hybrid.
glosses: The production of hybrids by cross-breeding.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The formation of a hybrid, a word from elements of different languages.
hybridize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaɪ.bɹɪd.aɪz/
Forms: form: hybridizes
form: hybridizing
form: hybridized
form: hybridized
form: hybridise
Etymology: From hybrid + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Brainstorming methods other than the KJ technique will be mentioned later, but to come up with new ideas, it is easier to merge different ideas, or in other words, to cross-fertilize or hybridize ideas and improve upon them.
ref: 2008, Akira Ishikawa, Creative Marketing for New Product and New Business Development:
glosses: To form a mixture of any kind.
glosses: To cross-breed animals or plants to form hybrids.
glosses: To produce hybrid offspring; to interbreed.
glosses: To construct a hybrid word from elements of different languages.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To combine atomic orbitals mathematically to form hybrid orbitals.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To combine complementary subunits of multiple biological macromolecules.
Derived terms: autohybridize
cohybridize
crosshybridize
dehybridize
hybridizability
hybridizable
hybridizer
mishybridize
nonhybridized
posthybridized
prehybridize
rehybridize
unhybridized
oxidoreductases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxidoreductase
hydraulically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydraulic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using hydraulics.
ribonucleases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ribonuclease
hydrocephaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrocephalies
Senses: glosses: hydrocephalus
polymerases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polymerase
desease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deseases
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of disease.
examples: text: Kannibalism is not such a wise habit for human beings, because of resulting afflictions like Creutzfeldt-Jakob desease.
ref: 2006 January 28, Richard Smol, “Re: Atheism provides a green light for abortion and queerdom”, in alt.atheism (Usenet), retrieved 22 May 2022:
qualifier: non-native speakers' English
glosses: Misspelling of disease.
hybrid orbital
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hybrid orbitals
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An orbital formed by the combination of multiple atomic orbitals on the same atom
Related terms: LCAO
molecular orbital
hydroelectrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydroelectric + -ally.
Senses: glosses: Using hydroelectric power.
hydroelectricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + electricity.
Senses: glosses: Electricity that is produced from the energy of moving water.
Related terms: hydroelectric
hydrometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + -metry.
Senses: examples: text: A thorough understanding of the hydrometry and meteorology of the South is a long-term goal, and immediate steps must be taken to achieve it.
ref: 2007, Benaiah Yongo-Bure, Economic Development of Southern Sudan, page 90:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The branch of hydrostatics dealing with the measurement of specific gravity using hydrometers
Related terms: hydrometric
hydrometrical
hydroponically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydroponic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: using hydroponics
hydrotherapy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrotherapies
Etymology: From hydro- + therapy.
Senses: examples: text: Radio-active baths are said to act favourably in a sexual direction. So too with arsenical springs, cold water treatment, and hydrotherapy.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 156:
topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of various techniques that use water, either externally or internally, for the treatment of disease and for the soothing of pain.
hygienically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hygienically
form: most hygienically
Etymology: From hygienic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hygienic manner.
glosses: In relation to hygiene.
hygienist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hygienists
Etymology: From hygiene + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person skilled in hygienics, but especially a dental assistant who cleans teeth etc
Derived terms: dental hygienist
hyperhygienist
Related terms: hygiene
hygienic
hygienics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hygiene + -ics.
Senses: glosses: The science of hygiene
designado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designados
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: In some Latin American countries, a person designated to succeed the vice president.
designe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designes
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of design.
designes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of designe
lachanophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlækənəˈfəʊbɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάχανον (lákhanon, “greens, vegetables”) + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: All in all, I'd like to state that it was lachanophobia that sparked this.
ref: 2007, Clarence Cheong, “Food Fiesta on Sun (11 Nov)”, in west cell (Usenet):
text: “I thought recovered memories were traumatic. What's traumatic about citrus fruit?”
“Lachanophobia,” he says. “That's the fear of vegetables. It stands to reason that there's one for the rest of the food pyramid, too.”
ref: 2007, Jodi Picoult, Vanishing acts:
text: She suffers from a fear known as lachanophobia, which leaves her sweating and stricken with panic attacks at the merest sight of a sprout or a pea.
ref: 2009 November 9, “Woman diagnosed with fear of vegetables”, in The Telegraph:
text: “[…] ‘lachanophobia,’ which appears to be an irrational fear of vegetables.” He leaned forward conspiratorially. “I must confess that, on occasion, I have used it as a way to avoid broccoli.”
ref: 2013, John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 145:
glosses: An irrational fear of vegetables.
Related terms: lachanophobe
lachanophobic
hying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hie
hying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: haste
hymeneal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪməˈniːəl/
Forms: form: more hymeneal
form: most hymeneal
Etymology: From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.
Senses: examples: text: I consider these more as the privileges of age, than as part of the hymeneal dowry.
ref: 1806, Jane West, Letters to a Young Lady, volume I:
text: It seems to me that girls ought to be early taught to discriminate, between the characteristic of a hymeneal connexion and of a dishonourable one apparently resembling it.
ref: 1831, Anna Maria Winter, Thoughts on the Moral Order of Nature, vol. III, IV.3.vii
text: "My dear Copperfield," said Mr. Micawber. "This is luxurious. This is a way of life which reminds me of the period when I was myself in a state of celibacy, and Mrs. Micawber had not yet been solicited to plight her faith at the "Hymeneal" altar."
ref: 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, “Mr. Micawber’s Gauntlet”, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC, page 290:
text: Mrs. Gereth evidently thought in these days of little but things hymeneal; for she broke out with sudden rapture in the middle of the week: "I know what they'll do: they will marry, but they'll go and live at Waterbath!"
ref: 1897, Henry James, The Spoils of Poynton:
text: In the fulness of time there was an eruption of the merry-makers to the sidewalk. The uninvited guests enveloped and permeated them, and upon the night air rose joyous cries, congratulations, laughter and unclassified noises born of McGary's oblations to the hymeneal scene.
ref: 1906 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “From the Cabby’s Seat”, in The Four Million, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co, →OCLC, page 165:
text: Is it so difficult to wait until you are out of the register office to exchange some home-made vows and a selection of inspiring hymeneal ditties - To His Coy Mistress, for instance, or some lines from The Hollow Men?
ref: 2005 June 23, Catherine Bennett, The Guardian:
glosses: Pertaining to marriage.
examples: text: Although the whole earth, not we alone, is moved by passions hymeneal, and everything terrestrial has come into being by the one common road, yet there is that ridiculous tendency to close the eyes and turn away the head as if there were something unclean in nature itself.
ref: 1911, Theodore Dreiser, chapter XI, in Jennie Gerhardt:
glosses: Pertaining to sexual relations.
examples: text: ‘It doesn't seem to qualify as a haemorrhage,’ he said, with his usual cocky certainty. ‘Just heavy hymeneal bleeding, I'd say.’
ref: 1978, AS Byatt, The Virgin in the Garden, page 422:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the hymen.
Derived terms: hymeneally
unhymeneal
Related terms: matrimonial
nuptial
hymeneal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌɪməˈniːəl/
Forms: form: hymeneals
Etymology: From Latin hymenaeus (from Ancient Greek ὑμεναῖος (humenaîos, “matrimonial”)) + -al. Compare hymen.
Senses: examples: text: For her white virgins hymeneals sing, / To sounds of heav'nly harps she dies away, / And melts in visions of eternal day.
ref: 1717, Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard:
glosses: A hymn, song or poem in honour of a wedding.
hymeneals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hymeneal
hymeneals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: “Indeed she will have to do without me,” he added, thinking rather of his studies in Carrara, than of his Barchester hymeneals.
ref: 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers, Volume the Second, →ISBN, page 165:
text: To this he wrote an answer as short, expressing his ardent wishes that those winter hymeneals might produce nothing but happiness, and saying that he would not be in town many days before he knocked at the door of No. 52, Grosvenor Place.
ref: 1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, the Irish Member, 2006 Gutenberg eBook Edition:
glosses: Nuptials.
commit suicide
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commits suicide
form: committing suicide
form: committed suicide
form: committed suicide
Senses: synonyms: suicide
kill oneself
glosses: To kill oneself intentionally; to take one's own life. (This entry is a translation hub.)
Synonyms: word: an hero
word: catch the bus
word: commit hara-kiri
word: commit seppuku
word: commit sudoku
word: end one's life
word: kill oneself
word: off oneself
word: rope
word: ropemaxx
word: self-delete
word: self-kill
word: suicide
word: take one's own life
word: top oneself
Related terms: word: suicidee
hymnbook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymnbooks
form: hymn-book
form: hymn book
Etymology: From hymn + book.
Senses: glosses: A book containing a collection of hymns.
Derived terms: sing from the same hymnbook
Related terms: psalter
hymn-book
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hymn-books
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hymnbook.
hyperactivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperactivities
Etymology: From hyper- + activity.
Senses: examples: text: Having attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, is associated with a shorter life expectancy and a greater risk of mental health issues, according to a new study of more than 30,000 people with the disorder in the United Kingdom.
ref: 2025 January 23, Kristen Rogers, “People with ADHD have shorter life expectancy and higher risk of mental health issues, study finds”, in CNN:
glosses: The quality of being hyperactive; excessive and pathological movement and restlessness.
Derived terms: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder
sympathetic hyperactivity
Related terms: hyperactive
hypercritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypercritically
form: most hypercritically
Etymology: From hypercritical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a hypercritical manner
mease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meases
Etymology: The English Dialect Dictionary suggests Old Norse meiss (“wooden box, as would be used for counting fish”) as a source; The Century Dictionary suggests that the term comes via Old French from a Latin word *mesa (“barrel”). One can also compare German Mass (“measure”) and indeed measure itself.
Senses: examples: text: a mease of herrings
text: The weekly returns will show a great falling off in the herring fishing which it may be said was a complete failure—and consequently caused a falling off of the revenues of the Harbour. There were only 521 mease of herrings sold at an average price of £1 2s 7¾d., or total £590.
ref: 1894, [British] Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908, volume 24, page 70:
text: During the past few days large quantities of herrings have been caught at Clovelly. One fisherman, James Small, brought in about twenty mease (mease, 600). The prices realised have fallen so low as 5s. per mease.
ref: 1895 November 23, Western Morning News:
text: At Portavogie a few mease of herring were landed in June by some twenty-five boats.
ref: 1905, Report on the Sea and Inland Fisheries of Ireland, page xviii:
glosses: A measure of varying quantity, often five or six (long or short) hundred, used especially when counting herring.
mease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meases
Etymology: Variant of mess / mese.
Senses: examples: text: I want my mease of milk when I go to my work.
ref: 1590, Thomas Lodge, Robert Greene, A Looking Glass for London and England:
text: they shal have [...] every mease of two dishes, one with pottage & boiled meate, the other roste (if it be no fasting day.) And if it be a fish daye, then they shal have two like meases of white meate & fish.
ref: 1779, Francis Peck, Desiderata Curiosa: Or, A Collection of Divers Scarce and Curious Pieces:
glosses: A mess, a mese: a meal.
mease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meases
Etymology: Presumably related to messuage.
Senses: examples: text: 1628, July 15, was a Gild new erected by four young bachelors of the town, and kept at the college-house, of above twenty meases of persons, and the poor then well relieved.
ref: 1805, An Essay Towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk:
text: William Raynshaw, of Hulme, in the county of Lancaster, complains that whereas Hamnett Bent was seised in his demesne as of fee of certain meases of land, meadow, and pasture with appurtenances in Hulme […]
ref: c. 1541, William Ranshaw versus John Hayward and Others re Title to Goods and Chattels at Hulme, reported in the Pleadings and Depositions in the Duchy Court of Lancaster, time of Henry VIII (1897), volume 35, page 134
glosses: A dwelling or messuage.
mease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meases
Etymology: From mesh?
Senses: examples: text: In the records of the series of trials which began soon afterwards, the following interesting description of a Mount's Bay seine in the seventeenth century is given: "Saynes are very long and deep nets, of a close or narrow mease, and lengthened at each end by sleeves of a larger mease, and are used in this anner, viz.: […]
ref: 1972, Cyril Noall, Cornish Seines and Seiners: A History of the Pilchard Fishing Industry, page 70, quoting an older work
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mesh (of a fishing net).
mease
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meases
form: measing
form: meased
form: meased
Etymology: From mesh?
Senses: examples: text: ( […] and except also fish meased in the sleeves of certain nets, called seynes), of which no tithes are demanded; […]
ref: 1798, Hutton Wood, Great Britain. Court of Exchequer, A Collection of Decrees by the Court of Exchequer in Tithe-causes: From the Usurpation to the Present Time. [1650-1798], page 285
text: […] and also the customary payment for all pilchards taken in seynes (except meased pilchards); but they insisted that they ought not to pay any tithe or other thing in lieu thereof for lobsters or pilchards caught in driving nets […] or were meased in the sleeves of seynes […]
ref: 1826, Francis King Eagle, Edward Younge, A Collection of the Reports of Cases, the Statutes, and Ecclesiastical Laws, Relating to Tithes: With a Copious Analytical Index, page 529:
text: […] except only such fish as have been used for bate to catch other fish, and also fish meased (or caught by the head) in the sleeves of certain nets called saynes.
ref: 1900, The English Reports: House of Lords (1677-1865), page 1055:
text: Those fish 'meased', i.e., enmeshed in the sleeves of the seines, usually few, also belonged to the workers.
ref: 1974, James Whetter, Cornwall in the 17th Century: An Economic History of Kernow:
glosses: To catch or enmesh (fish) by the head in a seine.
hypermedia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -iːdiə
Etymology: From hyper- + media, coined by American information technologist, philosopher, and sociologist Ted Nelson in 1965.
Senses: examples: text: From the `70s onwards, Muffler, de Sola Pool and other gurus attempted to prove that the advent of hypermedia would paradoxically involve a return to the economic liberalism of the past.
ref: 1995 September, Richard Barbrook, Andy Cameron, “The Californian Ideology”, in Mute, volume 1, number 3, →ISSN:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The use of text, data, graphics, audio and video as elements of an extended hypertext system in which all elements are linked so that the user can move among them at will.
Related terms: multimedia
hypersensitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypersensitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being hypersensitive.
hypertensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + tensive or hypertension + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The recorded causes of kidney disease were as follows: diabetic nephropathy (in 21% of the patients), nephroangiosclerosis and glomerulonephritis (18%), interstitial nephropathy (7%), hypertensive nephropathy (5%), polykystosis (5%) and other recorded diagnoses (hereditary disease, solitary kidney, dysglobulinemia, and systemic disease) (22%).
ref: 2015 July 17, “The Addition of Vascular Calcification Scores to Traditional Risk Factors Improves Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension.
Derived terms: antihypertensive
counterhypertensive
hypertensively
nonhypertensive
prehypertensive
prohypertensive
hypertensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypertensives
Etymology: From hyper- + tensive or hypertension + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A person with hypertension.
glosses: A drug or substance that increases blood pressure.
hyperthyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɹɔɪd
Etymology: From hyper- + thyroid.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to hyperthyroidism
hyperthyroidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌhaɪ̯pəˈθaɪ̯ɹɔɪ̯ˌdɪzəm/
Forms: form: hyperthyroidisms
Etymology: From hyper- + thyroid + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The excessive production of hormones by the thyroid.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
antonyms: hypothyroidism
hypernyms: dysthyroidism
glosses: The pathological condition resulting from these excess hormones.
hypnoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypnosis
hypnotically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypnotic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hypnotic manner.
glosses: By using hypnotism.
Derived terms: posthypnotically
hypocritically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hypocritically
form: most hypocritically
Etymology: From hypocritical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a hypocritical manner
hypothalami
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothalamus
hypothyroid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪɹɔɪd
Etymology: From hypo- + thyroid.
Senses: examples: text: Outcome measures included visual analog scales assessing well-being (the primary endpoint) and hypothyroid symptoms, quality of life instruments (General Health Questionnaire 28, Short Form 36, and Thyroid Symptom Questionnaire), cognitive function tests, and treatment preference.
ref: 2006 July, J. P. Walsh et al., “Small Changes in Thyroxine Dosage Do Not Produce Measurable Changes in Hypothyroid Symptoms, Well-Being, or Quality of Life: Results of a Double-Blind, Randomized Clinical Trial”, in The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 91(7):2624-2630:
text: It is concluded that hypothyroid condition protects against As(III) toxicity.
ref: 2007, T. Allen, S. V. Rana, “Effect of n-propylthiouracil or thyroxine on arsenic trioxide toxicity in the liver of rat”, in Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 21(3):194-203:
glosses: of or pertaining to hypothyroidism
examples: text: Carl Lewis is hypothyroid.
text: Four groups of rats were studied: Control (CT), sham operated animals; hypothyroid (HTX), rats subjected to thyroidectomy; ischemia and reperfusion (IR), rats submitted to IR; and HTX+IR, rats subjected to HTX plus IR.
ref: 2005, Verónica M. Tenorio-Velázquez et al., “Hypothyroidism attenuates protein tyrosine nitration, oxidative stress and renal damage induced by ischemia and reperfusion: effect unrelated to antioxidant enzymes activities”, in BioMed Central Nephrology, 6:12:
glosses: Having hypothyroidism
Derived terms: hypothyroidy
nonhypothyroid
hysteric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: more hysteric
form: most hysteric
form: hysterick
Etymology: From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).
Senses: examples: text: Yes, my dravving-room is an abſolute regiſter-office for candidate actors, and poets vvithout character;—then to be continually alarmed vvith Miſſes and Ma'ams piping hiſteric changes on Juliets and Dorindas, Pollys and Ophelias; […]
ref: 1781, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic: Or A Tragedy Rehearsed […], London: […] T[homas] Becket, […], →OCLC, Act I, scene i, pages 4–5:
text: We also find gamblers of this type among some frigid hysteric women, who seem to treat gambling as they treat men, coldly and spongingly.
ref: 1969, Edmund Bergler, Selected Papers of Edmund Bergler, 1933-1961, page 697:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Hysterical; relating to hysteria.
Derived terms: homohysteric
hystericize
hystericky
hysteric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɪsˈtɛɹɪk/
rhymes: -ɪk
Forms: form: hysterics
form: hysterick
Etymology: From Latin hystericus, from Ancient Greek ὑστερικός (husterikós, “suffering in the uterus, hysterical”), from ὑστέρα (hustéra, “womb”).
Senses: examples: text: “Which girl was it now?” he asks a second time. ¶ “Oh, you know, the hysteric,” Eleanor says, “the one who was parading her bazooms in your face.”
ref: 1956, Norman Mailer, The Man Who Studied Yoga:
glosses: A hysterical person.
Related terms: hysteria
hysterical
hysterically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hysterically
form: most hysterically
Etymology: From hysterical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hysterical manner; showing signs of hysteria.
glosses: With, or causing, very much laughter.
rocket aircraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket aircraft
Senses: glosses: An aircraft with rocket propulsion, including a rocket pack, a rocket plane, etc.
rocket pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket packs
form: rocket-pack
form: rocketpack
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A jet pack using a rocket engine.
Synonyms: rocket belt
jet pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jet packs
form: jetpack
form: jet-pack
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of equipment that may be strapped to a person’s back and generate vertical thrust by a downward discharge of jet fluid, thereby rendering the person capable of flight.
Hyponyms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: rocket pack
Related terms: topics: aviation
aeronautics
aerospace
engineering
business
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: rocket belt
rocket-pack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket-packs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rocket pack.
rocketpack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocketpacks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rocket pack.
gymnasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin gymnasia.
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnasium
gymnasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γῠμνᾰ́σῐᾰ (gŭmnắsĭă).
Senses: glosses: plural of gymnasion
gymnastically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more gymnastically
form: most gymnastically
Etymology: From gymnastic + -ally or gymnastical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The Nicholas Brothers had a unique talent for being gymnastically athletic in their dancing while they maintained an elegance and sense of humor that was thrilling.
ref: 2008, Thomas S. Hischak, The Oxford Companion to the American Musical:
glosses: In a gymnastic manner.
gynecologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynecologic
form: most gynecologic
form: gynaecologic
form: gynæcologic
Etymology: From gynecology + -ic.
Senses: glosses: gynecological
gynecological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gynecological
form: most gynecological
form: gynaecological
form: gynæcological
Etymology: From gynecology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to gynecology.
Derived terms: gynecologically
nongynecological
urogynecological
gyrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: gyrators
Senses: glosses: anything that gyrates
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electric circuit that introduces a phase shift of 180° in one direction, but none in the opposite direction
eye-catcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-catchers
form: eyecatcher
Etymology: From eye + catcher.
Senses: glosses: an eye-catching person or thing
ingenuitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪnd͡ʒəˈn(j)uːətɪv/
Forms: form: more ingenuitive
form: most ingenuitive
Etymology: From ingenuity + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: 1999 April 28, Eugene Chiaramonte, “The Auxer Group, Inc. Announces the Acquisition of Hardyston Distributors”, Business Wire, Business Wire Newswire
"Hardyston Distributors is a solid small but growing company. Mr. Ernest DeSaye Jr. is an enthusiastic and ingenuitive individual who has worked extremely hard in developing a nice niche in the marketplace...."
text: 2003 June 1, Ben Connor, ‘Good Buddha & tzu: "middle-class wiggers from the underside". (Peer Reviewed Paper)’, Youth Studies Australia, Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies
First, hip hop originated in the ghettos as a cheap and ingenuitive means of entertainment: it was the instrumental side of a record...with a guy on a microphone talking to the crowd.
text: The local building restrictions, and existing site conditions, ...are not available to allow for ingenuitive or passive design features
ref: 2003 August, Sue Roaf, Ecohouse 2, Architectural Press, page 377:
text: The ingenuitive men soon found a large archway leading to the outside of the cave.
ref: 2004 November, Cristian Macavei, A Series of Robbing Thieves, Virtualbookworm Publishing, page 180:
text: Not to be overly ingenuitive, but “him” is exactly, verbally equidistant between “baby” and “John”
ref: 2006 February, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-paper, Ohio University Press, page 111:
text: 2015, Lin Manuel Miranda, Hamilton, Act I, “Guns and Ships”
'Cause he knows what to do in the trench, ingenuitive, and fluent in French,'
glosses: Possessing ingenuity; ingenious.
eye-catching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eye-catching
form: most eye-catching
Senses: examples: text: The substitute then scored again when the ball broke to him following another jagged run by Walcott, who saved his most eye-catching contribution for stoppage time, when he turned up on the left wing and scampered into the area before showing splendid composure to ignore a foul and dink the ball over Krul.
ref: 2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal's Theo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: catching
glosses: Visually attractive.
glosses: That attracts the attention; attention-grabbing.
Derived terms: eye-catchingly
eyedropper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyedroppers
form: eye dropper
form: eye-dropper
Etymology: From eye + dropper.
Senses: glosses: A dropper for administering eyedrops.
Derived terms: eyedropperful
eye-drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye-drops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyedrop.
eye-drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyedrops
form: eye drops
Senses: glosses: a saline liquid, used to administer medication to the eye
understrength
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more understrength
form: most understrength
Etymology: From under- + strength.
Senses: glosses: Lacking in number (of a military unit, sport team, etc.)
glosses: Lacking in strength or durability (of a material or structure)
eyeful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyefuls
form: eyesful
form: eye-full
Etymology: From eye + -ful.
Senses: glosses: A full or complete view; a good look.
glosses: A remarkable sight or a very attractive person.
examples: text: I could barely see through two eyefuls of dust.
text: an eyeful of tears
glosses: Enough material to fill one's eye.
examples: text: We pulled our heavy overcoats tightly around us, shivering, and put our heads down as the din of fighting stopped for a while to grab an eyeful of sleep.
ref: 2021, Will Fey, Armor Battles of the Waffen-SS: 1943–45, page 272:
glosses: A brief period of sleep; forty winks.
eyeful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyeful
form: most eyeful
form: eye-full
Etymology: From eye + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: With this, he hung them up aloft, upon a tamrick bough, As eyeful trophies [...]
ref: 2000, Homer, Iliad and the Odyssey:
glosses: Filling or attractive to the eye; visible; remarkable.
eyeglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪˌɡlæs/
Forms: form: eyeglasses
Etymology: From eye + glass.
Senses: glosses: An artificial lens, especially one of a pair.
glosses: A monocle.
glosses: An eyepiece.
examples: text: Ha' not you seen, Camillo? / (But that's past doubt; you have, or your eye-glass / Is thicker than a cuckold's horn)
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: The lens of the eye.
examples: an eyeglass repair kit
glosses: Attributive form of eyeglasses.
Derived terms: eyeglassed
eyeopener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyeopeners
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eye-opener.
eyeopening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyeopening
form: most eyeopening
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eye-opening.
eyestrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyestrains
Etymology: From eye + strain.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: Tiredness or pain in the eyes, sometimes accompanied by headache, caused by excessive or improper use of the eyes, or by uncorrected defects of vision.
Synonyms: asthenopia
eyewash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyewashes
Etymology: From eye + wash.
Compare typologically Russian глаз замы́лился (glaz zamýlilsja) (akin to мы́ло (mýlo), мыть (mytʹ)).
Senses: examples: text: an eyewash station on every floor of the building
text: a bottle of eyewash
glosses: The washing out of the eyes with copious solution (usually water alone) to quickly remove an irritant, as for example in laboratories and industrial plants; the washing solution itself.
glosses: A soothing medicated lotion for the eyes.
examples: text: Near-synonyms: whitewash, window dressing
text: Talking of being eaten by dogs, there's a dachshund at Brinkley who when you first meet him will give you the impression that he plans to convert you into a light snack between his regular meals. Pay no attention. It's all eyewash. […] He wouldn't hurt a fly, but he has to put up a front because his name's Poppet. One can readily appreciate that when a dog hears himself addressed day in and day out as Poppet, he feels he must throw his weight about. His self-respect demands it.
ref: 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter XI, in Jeeves in the Offing:
glosses: Camouflage; disguise; false front; pretense; nonsense.
Related terms: word: eye bleach
word: eyecare
word: eyedrops
eyewash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eyewashes
form: eyewashing
form: eyewashed
form: eyewashed
Etymology: From eye + wash.
Compare typologically Russian глаз замы́лился (glaz zamýlilsja) (akin to мы́ло (mýlo), мыть (mytʹ)).
Senses: glosses: To fool with nonsense or flattery.
examples: text: But others said that eyewashing was a standard security practice that had been in existence for decades.
ref: 2016 January 31, “‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: intelligence
glosses: To keep information secret by sending false information to many people in one's own organization, and correct information to a select few.
Related terms: eyebath
eyebath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyebaths
Etymology: From eye + bath.
Senses: synonyms: eyecup
glosses: a cup-shaped vessel used to apply eyewash
Derived terms: eyebathful
eyecup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyecups
Etymology: From eye + cup.
Senses: glosses: An eyebath.
glosses: Raccoon eyes.
glosses: A shield surrounding the eyepiece of a camera.
Derived terms: eyecupful