cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
schipperke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schipperkes
Etymology: From Belgian Dutch (Flemish), but unclear at the word level.
* Conventionally taken to be schipper (“skipper”) + -ke (“diminutive suffix”), allegedly alluding to a role as watchdog and/or rodent catcher on canal boats.
* Alternatively, a mutation of scheperke, a diminutive of scheper (“shepherd, sheepdog”), referring to the breed's purported descent from an extinct larger breed of sheepdogs.
Related to the etymological debate is a longstanding informal one about whether the dog itself should be regarded as a spitz or a miniature sheepdog.
For more, see Schipperke § History on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A small breed of dog developed in Belgium, sometimes used as a watchdog on boats.
wikipedia: Flemish
Merriam-Webster
transthyretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænsˈθaɪ.ɹət.ɪn/
Forms: form: transthyretins
form: TTR
Etymology: From trans- (“denoting change or transfer”) + thyr(oxine) + ret(inol) + -in (“protein”).
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: prealbumin
glosses: a protein found in human blood serum and cerebrospinal fluid that functions as a carrier of the thyroid hormone thyroxine and the retinol-binding protein
kelpie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kelpies
form: kelpy
Etymology: The dog breed derives from the name shared by the first two breeding bitches (dam and pup), which name derives from the mythological spirit.
Senses: examples: text: He was a boy in form, and an antediluvian in feature. Some thought he was a mule, between a Jew and an ape; some a wizard, some a kelpie, or a fairy, but most of all, that he was really and truly a Brownie.
ref: 1828, James Hogg, The Brownie of the Black Haggs:
qualifier: Celtic mythology
glosses: A malevolent shapeshifting spirit, most often in the form of a horse, believed to haunt the rivers and lochs of Scotland.
examples: text: There was no sound but the endless noise of forest and river, and the sleep-whimper of his kelpie.
ref: 1979, Thea Astley, Hunting the Wild Pineapple, Nelson, page 28:
text: Gulls scatter before the blur of my insane kelpie.
ref: 1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 4:
glosses: An Australian breed of sheepdog.
lead-free
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leadfree
Etymology: From lead + -free.
Senses: glosses: Containing no lead.
glosses: Containing no tetraethyl lead; unleaded.
raw_tags: of petroleum
do the nasty
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does the nasty
form: doing the nasty
form: did the nasty
form: done the nasty
form: do the nasties
Senses: examples: text: HILDA. But do you remember what you wanted me to do? The nasty—thing I thought was nasty? […] BERT. No, Hilda. Go like you came. Leave this place with your various virginities intact.
ref: 1968, Gus Weill, To Bury a Cousin: A Two Act Play, →ISBN, page 59:
text: "Right now she's doing the nasty with an ex-bartender who thinks he's this generation's answer to James."
ref: 1995, Jackie Collins, Hollywood Kids, →ISBN, page 61:
text: A bunch of Puritan girls saying the town biddies were witches, just so that one of them could do the nasty with a married man and not have to worry about his loser of a wife finding out.
ref: 2001, Jodi Picoult, Salem Falls, →ISBN, page 120:
text: They go from strip club to strip club, make a lot of money. […] Most people think they're getting a bundle to do the nasty on video.
ref: 2004, Michael Connelly, The Concrete Blonde, →ISBN, page 216:
glosses: To engage in sexual intercourse.
Synonyms: bump nasties
do it
do the deed
copulate
stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stackings
Senses: examples: text: the number of possible stackings of eight boxes
glosses: The act by which something is stacked.
glosses: Sport stacking.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A stacked arrangement of often aromatic molecules, adopted due to interatomic interactions.
glosses: Making claims for a single incident on multiple insurance policies.
topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: An image processing technique to reduce noise or add special effects.
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A technique for keeping a captive audience by grouping together programs with similar appeal.
Derived terms: antistacking
branch stacking
case stacking
cup stacking
modal stacking
speed stacking
wet stacking
stacking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stack
varios
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vario
dandle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændəl/
ipa: [ˈdændəɫ]
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: dandles
form: dandling
form: dandled
form: dandled
Etymology: Compare Scots dandill (“to dander; go about idly; move uncertainly; trifle”), English dialectal dander (“to wander about; talk incoherently; rave”), Middle Dutch dantinnen (“to trifle”) (from French dandiner (“to swing; waddle”)), German dändeln, tändeln (“to trifle, dandle”), Middle Dutch and Provincial German danten (“to do foolish things; trifle”), German Tand (“trifle, prattle”).
Senses: examples: text: the young mother sat [the infant] upright in her lap, and[…]dandled it with a gloomy indifference.
ref: 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles:
text: You will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her knees.
ref: 1978, Bible, New International Version, Isaiah 66:12
text: Hands grasped me like a doll, and as I dandled thus between the meretrices of Abaia, I was lifted from my broad-armed chair in the inn of Saltus; yet still, for perhaps a hundred heartbeats more, I could not rid my mind of the sea and its green-haired women.
ref: 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter VIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: To move up and down on one's knee or in one's arms, in affectionate play, usually said of a child.
examples: text: [T]hey have put me in a silk night-gown and gaudy fool's cap, and make me now and then stand in the window with it. I am ashamed to be dandled thus, and cannot look in the glass without blushing to see myself turned into such a pretty little master.
ref: 1711 August 1 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, July 21, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 113; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
text: The book, thus dandled into popularity by bishops and good ladies, contained many pieces of nursery eloquence.
ref: 1807 April, Francis Jeffrey, “Forbe's Life of Dr. Beattie”, in The Edinburgh Review:
glosses: To treat with fondness or affection, as if a child; to pet.
examples: text: captaines, who notwithstanding that they are specially imployed to make peace thorough strong execution of warre, yet they doe so dandle their doings, and dallie in the service to them committed
ref: 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande […], Dublin: […] Societie of Stationers, […], →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland […] (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: […] Society of Stationers, […] Hibernia Press, […] [b]y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:
glosses: To play with; to wheedle.
Synonyms: sense: to treat with fondness
word: pamper
word: fondle
Derived terms: undandled
dandle board
dandler
dandle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdændəl/
ipa: [ˈdændəɫ]
rhymes: -ændəl
Forms: form: dandles
Etymology: Compare Scots dandill (“to dander; go about idly; move uncertainly; trifle”), English dialectal dander (“to wander about; talk incoherently; rave”), Middle Dutch dantinnen (“to trifle”) (from French dandiner (“to swing; waddle”)), German dändeln, tändeln (“to trifle, dandle”), Middle Dutch and Provincial German danten (“to do foolish things; trifle”), German Tand (“trifle, prattle”).
Senses: qualifier: Rhode Island
glosses: A teeter-totter; a seesaw.
Related terms: dander
main memory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: main memories
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Volatile memory forming most of a computer’s primary storage, not including cache memory (central processing unit cache) and secondary storage (mass storage).
rigadoon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigadoons
Etymology: Anglicized from French rigaudon. Ultimate origin unknown; perhaps related to Hebrew ריקודים or Arabic رقص.
Senses: topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A quickstep dance for two people.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The music for this dance.
glosses: Formerly in the French army, the beat of a drum while culprits were being marched to punishment.
vetture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vettura
Leroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈliːˌɹɔɪ/
Forms: form: LeRoy
form: Le Roy
form: Leroi
form: LeRoi
form: Le Roi
form: Leeroy
form: LeeRoy
form: Lee Roy
Etymology: Transferred from the common French surname Leroy since the nineteenth century, for no apparent reason except its transparent meaning, le roi "the king".
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A surname from French, borne by English speakers.
glosses: A census-designated place in Alabama.
glosses: A town in Saskatchewan.
glosses: A city in Texas.
Related terms: Elroy
Elroy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈɛl.ɹoɪ/
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, a pseudo-Spanish variant of Leroy.
Derived terms: Cruise Elroy
Related terms: McElroy
LeRoy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A common spelling variant of Leroy.
Senses: glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A surname from French.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A township in Lake County, Ohio.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Jackson County, West Virginia.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dodge County, Wisconsin.
Lester
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɛstɚ/
rhymes: -ɛstə(ɹ)
homophone: Leicester
Forms: form: Lesters
Etymology: * As an English surname, from the placename Leicester.
* Also as an English surname of Norman origin, from Lestre in Normandy, from Old French Lestra, from Medieval Latin Laxtra, perhaps from extera (“exterior (part of a property)”).
* As an English and Scottish surname, variant of Lister.
* Also as an English surname, variant of Laster.
* As a Scottish and Irish surname, shortened from McLester.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English derived from the English place name Leicester.
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname, of 19th century and later usage.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Limestone County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mitchell County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Lyon County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Black Hawk County, Iowa.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tinicum Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in King County, Washington.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Raleigh County, West Virginia.
Micheal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Anglicised form of Irish Mícheál or Scottish Gaelic Mìcheil. Also a spelling variant of Michael, generally considered erroneous.
Senses: examples: text: The spelling “M i c h e a l” is not a mistake. This spelling is Irish (Gaelic spelling). As a Canadian-born son of an Irishman, Micheal was entitled to Irish citizenship which he claimed. The government ID with the correct spelling is shown below.— Sharon
ref: 2020, Melissa Hemingway, “Micheal John O’Brien”, in Feminine-Perspective Magazine, Toronto, Ont.: The RINJ Foundation, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Oct 2021:
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: Misspelling of Michael.
query language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: query languages
Senses: topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: Any of several generalized computer languages in which users may extract data from selected records in a database.
Hypernyms: sense: Hypernyms of query language
word: computer language
sense: Hypernyms of query language
word: language
Hyponyms: JPQL
JQL
PL/SQL
SPARQL
SQL
T-SQL
Ronnie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ronny
Etymology: Shortening of Ronald or Veronica + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: At a subsequent meeting on Oct. 24, Wei Wai Kum Elected Chief Coun. Chris Roberts appeared as part of a delegation alongside We Wai Kai Elected Chief Coun. Ronnie Chickite, and said the comments were "worrisome."
ref: 2024 November 2, Maryse Zeidler, “Hereditary chiefs slam Vancouver Island city council for remarks on restoring Indigenous place names”, in CBC News:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ronald.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Veronica.
Sergius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A saint's name, from Latin Sergius. Doublet of Sergey.
Senses: examples: text: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:7:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
Related terms: Sergey
asili
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swahili asili (“origin”); introduced in this sense by Marimba Ani.
Senses: examples: text: Law, religion and worldview emerge from the chrysalis of the asili. In western culture, the asili is characterised by separation and universalism.
ref: 2002, Susan Hawthorne, Wild Politics: Feminism, Globalisation, Bio/diversity, page 381:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The central seed or "germinating matrix" of a culture.
wikipedia: Marimba Ani
quinticlave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinticlaves
Etymology: From Latin quīnque (“five”) + clavis (“key”), formed as a calque of French quinte à clef.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An alto ophicleide.
tona
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tonal (“animal companion”).
reportable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From report + -able.
Senses: glosses: That must be reported to the proper authorities; notifiable
raw_tags: of a disease etc
examples: reportable data elements
glosses: Capable of being reported on.
examples: text: Journalists often point to the truism that the fact that all airplanes that took off today landed safely does not produce reportable news — another way of explaining why a disproportionate amount of what gets reported as news is bad news.
ref: 2005, Terry Francke, The CalAware Guide to: Open Meetings in California, page 144:
glosses: Worth reporting on; constituting news.
bum crack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bum cracks
form: bumcrack
Senses: synonyms: arse crack
ass crack
butt crack
crack
glosses: The space between the buttocks.
diffusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfjuːsɪv/
Forms: form: more diffusive
form: most diffusive
Etymology: From post-classical Latin diffusivus (“tending to spread; expansive”) (13th century), from participle stem of Latin diffundere (“diffuse, disperse”).
Senses: glosses: That is spread or dispersed across a wide area or among a large number of people.
examples: text: I can never forget the delight with which that diffusive and ingenious orator was heard by all sides of the House, and even by those whose existence he proscribed.
ref: 1791, Edward Gibbon, Memoirs of My Life, Penguin, published 1990, page 182:
glosses: Involving or employing many words; expansive, discursive; (in negative sense) long-winded.
glosses: That diffuses something; disseminating.
topics: sciences
glosses: Pertaining to diffusion.
Derived terms: biodiffusive
diffusive equilibrium
diffusively
diffusiveness
diffusivity
electrodiffusive
hyperdiffusive
nondiffusive
pseudodiffusive
rotodiffusive
subdiffusive
superdiffusive
undiffusive
maximization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maximizations
Etymology: From maximize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Monopolies engaging in profit maximization will produce at the quantity where its marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
glosses: The act of raising something to its greatest value or extent.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of finding the maximum value of a function.
Related terms: minimization
minimization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.mɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ə.mɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪ.mɪˈzeɪʃən/
ipa: /ˈmɪn.ɪˌmɑɪˈzæɪʃən/
Forms: form: minimizations
Etymology: From minimize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: companies should engage in risk minimization
glosses: The act of lowering something to its smallest value or extent.
examples: text: the minimization of racial experiences by peers
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The tendency to present events as trivial or unimportant; trivialization
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The process of finding the minimum value of a function.
Derived terms: subminimization
Related terms: maximization
minimalization
for ever
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: The death of my ſon betiding while my ſoul was under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but reſigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the ſight of mankind.
ref: 1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter III, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 107–108:
text: 'You probably won't understand what he's talking about at first, but don't ever say so, or he'll go on and on for ever, and you still won't understand any better.'
ref: 1956 [1880], Johanna Spyri, Heidi, translation of original by Eileen Hall, page 66:
text: That Mr Stink had saved up all his pennies to buy her something meant the whole world to her. “I will treasure this for ever, I promise.”
ref: 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], “Little Star”, in Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN, page 263:
glosses: Alternative form of forever.
for ever more
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: for evermore
Senses: glosses: forever
for evermore
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "My third command to the Winged Monkeys," said Glinda, "shall be to carry you to your forest. Then, having used up the powers of the Golden Cap, I shall give it to the King of the Monkeys, that he and his band may thereafter be free for evermore."
ref: 1900, L. Frank Baum, chapter 23, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz:
glosses: Alternative form of forevermore.
electroosmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: electro-osmotic
Etymology: From electro- + osmotic.
Senses: glosses: of, pertaining to, or caused by electroosmosis
Derived terms: electroosmotically
electro-osmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of electroosmotic.
electroosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electro-osmosis
form: electroösmosis
Etymology: From electro- + osmosis.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the migration of ions in a solvent through the capillaries of a membrane under the influence of an applied electric field
electro-osmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: As it was necessary to reconstruct the culvert close to the original position, the hazards of tunnelling through clay in an unstable condition, due to the absorption of water, had to be reduced by the application of electro-osmosis to dry out the material.
ref: 1950 October, “Completion of Flood-Damage Repairs, East Coast Main Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 709:
glosses: Alternative form of electroosmosis.
mud pie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud pies
form: mud-pie
Senses: glosses: A mass of mud shaped into the form of a pie, especially by children.
Derived terms: mud pie argument
Mud Pie Island
Related terms: Mississippi mud pie
dénouements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dénouement
denouements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of denouement
mass medium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: măs mēʹdē-əm
Forms: form: mass mediums
form: mass media
Etymology: From mass (“bulk”, noun) + medium (“agency of conveyance”, noun).
Senses: examples: text: The Inquirer seems to be the morning paper that reaches the greatest number of the masses, but touches the classes hardly at all. The North American is second as a mass medium, perhaps, and Philadelphia authorities credit it with considerable circulation among women on account of its fashion news, furnished through the Wanamaker store.
ref: 1904 July 6, “Daily Newspaper Investigations”, in Printers' Ink, volume 48, number 1, page 8:
text: It is obviously impossible to sell the average technical product to the several million readers of a big mass medium because they have neither the means nor the need for it.
ref: 1923, S. M. Fechheimer, “Class Appeal in Mass Media”, in Noble T. Praigg, editor, Advertising and Selling, by 150 Advertising and Sales Executives, Garden City, NY: Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, chapter 5, page 238:
text: Newspaper advertising is the backbone of our whole sales program. We look upon newspapers as a mass medium having practically universal acceptance by the public.
ref: 1940, ——, quoting Wesley I. Nunn (Advertising Manager, Standard Oil Company of Indiana), The Newspaper as an Advertising Medium; a Handbook of the Newspaper in North America: Its Beginnings, Its Development, Its Services to the Public, and Its Usefulness to Buyers of Advertising, New York: Bureau of Advertising, American Newspaper Publishers Association, page 113:
text: The movie is to dramatic representation what the book was to the manuscript. It makes available to many and at many times and places what otherwise would be restricted to a few at few times and places. The movie, like the book, is a ditto device. TV shows to 50,000,000 simultaneously. Some feel that the value of experiencing a book is diminished by being extended to many minds. This notion is always implicit in the phrases “mass media,” “mass entertainment”—useless phrases obscuring the fact that English itself is a mass medium.
ref: 1960, Marshall McLuhan, “Classroom Without Walls”, in Explorations in Communication, Boston: Beacon Press:
glosses: Any means of public communication that reaches a large audience.
amable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more amable
form: most amable
Etymology: From Middle English amable, amabully, amebill, partly from Middle French amable (modern aimable) and partly from its etymon, Latin amābilis. Doublet of aimable (“likeable”).
Senses: examples: text: What vtilite is ther, in the carnall bewtye of man? Is not man as drye as hay? And dothe * not his goodly beutye vanyshe awaye, as dothe the shadowe? And when death cōmeth, I pray you tell me, what goodlynesse shall remayne in the bodie? whē ye shall se his body swollē, and turned into all fylthy stynche, and sauer, shall ye not then stop your noose from such vnsauery sauer? And from suche a styn∣kynge bodye? Tell me I praye you where shall his goodly and his amable face be then?
ref: [1545], S[aint] Bernard, translated by Thomas Paynell, “Of fornication the .xxiij. chap.”, in A Compẽdius & a Moche Fruytefull Treatyse of Well Liuynge, Cõtaynyng the Hole Sũme and Effect of Al Vertue, London: […] Thomas Petyt, folios lxxxix, verso – xc, recto; republished in Early English Books Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: Text Creation Partnership, p. 2011:
text: But I muſt ſay, that however amable theſe Men, or any of them, may, poſſibly, appear, in their private Capacities, yet, as Aldermen, they are profeſſed Slaves, to the Miniſtry, and Tyrants, to the CITIZENS.
ref: 1748 August 18, C[harles] Lucas, To the Free Citizens, and Free-Holders, of the City of Dublin, Dublin: […] James Kelburn, […], page 7:
text: “That shows that parson’s heart be in the right place,” nodded the farmer. “He gives us all to understand at a glance that he reads the words ’cause they are set down for him in the solemn Prayer-book, and hopes that there’s none among his hearers who will hold him responsible as a man for their ungentility.” / “True, sir, true; parson’s an amable gentleman, always ’cepting when the cock he has hatched from the noblest game strain fails him in the first main,” said the blacksmith.
ref: 1907, Frank Frankfort Moore, chapter II, in The Messenger, London: Hodder and Stoughton, page 12:
text: Bimeby they chucked me in here where I learns from this poor gang o’ red pals that the amable intention is to let me rot on quarter rations.
ref: 1920, Richard Barry, “The Desperado’s Story”, in Fruit of the Desert, Garden City, N.Y.; London: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 96:
glosses: Friendly, pleasant.
ENCODE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: 2017, Franziska Denk, "Don’t let useful data go to waste", Nature, 543:7, 2 March 2017, doi:10.1038/543007a.
Many scientists have used some of those resources, such as the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) launched by the US National Human Genome Research Institute.
glosses: Abbreviation of Encyclopedia of DNA Elements; a catalogue of all the functional elements, encoded in the human genome.
Casimir force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Casimir forces
Etymology: After Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: A physical force of attraction between very closely separated objects, due to random quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field in a vacuum; it is inversely proportional to the fourth power of the distance of separation
wikipedia: Hendrik Casimir
Synonyms: Casimir effect
Casimir effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Casimir effects
Etymology: After Hendrik Casimir, Dutch physicist.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
quantum-field-theory
glosses: The effect of the Casimir force.
wikipedia: Hendrik Casimir
electromagnetic field
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electromagnetic fields
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: EMF
glosses: The field of force that is due to the interaction of electric and magnetic forces of charged bodies.
stiction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: stictions
Etymology: Blend of static + friction
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The static friction that needs to be overcome to enable relative motion of stationary objects in contact.
Derived terms: stictional
DNase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DNases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of deoxyribonuclease.
deoxyribonuclease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deoxyribonucleases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of several enzymes that catalyze the cleavage of DNA.
Synonyms: DNase
Derived terms: endodeoxyribonuclease
what's the crack
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of what's the craic.
decouple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: [diːˈkʌpəɫ]
ipa: [diːˈkʊpəɫ]
Forms: form: decouples
form: decoupling
form: decoupled
form: decoupled
Etymology: From French découpler.
Senses: examples: text: radiation decoupled from matter
text: to decouple a spent rocket stage
text: Wild said in a previous project update that Bond Street had been "decoupled from the opening of the railway" and that it is not yet clear if it will open as part of the initial Elizabeth Line opening this spring.
ref: 2022 February 9, Paul Stephen, “Network News: Crossrail's Canary Wharf the ninth station to transfer to TfL”, in RAIL, number 950, page 15:
synonyms: uncouple
unpair
;
dispair
hypernyms: separate
;
disassociate
disjoin
disunite
coordinate_terms: derisk
glosses: To unlink; to take apart or come apart.
examples: text: Smaller explosions and decoupled tests would be permitted. Further, the United States proposed that the three powers should start intensive research on the improvement of methods for detection and identification of underground explosions […]
ref: 1961, Hans Albrecht Bethe, Edward Teller, The Future of Nuclear Tests, page 18:
text: Decoupled tests would be nuclear explosions set off in massive underground caverns, a site that would greatly reduce the seismic waves caused by the explosion.
ref: 1993, Sam Marullo, Ending the Cold War at Home, page 55:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: To muffle the seismic waves of (a nuclear explosion) by performing it underground.
Derived terms: decouplable
decouplement
decoupler
Related terms: word: decoupling
coelurosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coelurosaurians
Etymology: Coelurosauria + -ian
Senses: glosses: Any dinosaur of the taxonomic group Coelurosauria
coelurosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more coelurosaurian
form: most coelurosaurian
Etymology: Coelurosauria + -ian
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling such a creature
theropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθiɹ.ə.pɑd/
Forms: form: theropods
Senses: glosses: Any bipedal carnivorous dinosaur, of the suborder Theropoda, from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
peplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛpləm/
Forms: form: peplums
form: pepla
Etymology: From Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλον (péplon), neuter of πέπλος (péplos).
Senses: qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A peplos, an Ancient Greek garment formed of a tubular piece of cloth folded back upon itself halfway down so that the top of the tube is worn around the waist, and the bottom covers the legs down to the ankles; the open top is then worn over the shoulders, and draped, in folds, down to the waist. Compare the Roman palla.
examples: text: And this was Neith, or Athena, that God thus described, "I am all that was, is, and shall be, and my peplum or veil, no mortal could ever uncover." […] Peplum is properly a womanish pall or veil, embroidered all over and consecrated to Minerva.
ref: 1837: Ralph Cudworth, D. D., The True Intellectual System of the Universe (First American Edition, with references and an account of the author by Thomas Birch, M. A. F. R. S.)
text: 1838: The North American Review, volume XLVII
The outer garment was called the peplum, and was used more for occasions of ceremony than for ordinary convenience, as it was very long and ample, and, from the manner of putting it on, must have been inconvenient to the wearer. It was sometimes wound double round the body, […]
text: Over this they adopted the Greek peplum, under the name of palla. This garment, however, was exclusively confined to the gentler sex, and was never worn, as was the peplum among the Greeks, by men.
ref: 1904, G. Woolliscroft Rhead, The Treatment of Drapery in Art:
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: A kind of women's outer garment in ancient Greece; a veil.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A short overskirt cut in such a way that the sides form points.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A short overskirt attached to the waist of a garment; a basque.
Derived terms: peplumed
Related terms: peplos
palla
exomis
himation
chlamys
chiton
peplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛpləm/
Forms: form: peplums
form: pepla
Etymology: From French péplum, from Latin peplum, from Ancient Greek πέπλων (péplōn), neuter of πέπλος (péplos).
Senses: glosses: A genre of Italian films based on historical or biblical epics.
examples: text: […] there were hastily produced B movies, such as the peplums, the spaghetti westerns, the detective stories, the horrors.
ref: 2006, Pierluigi on Cinema:
text: While it does offer a lighter tone than most peplums, and spotlights a hero who relies more on his wits than his biceps […]
ref: 2013, Bryan Senn, The Most Dangerous Cinema: People Hunting People on Film:
glosses: An individual film in this genre.
Synonyms: sense: film genre
word: sword-and-sandal
gigantoraptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gigantoraptors
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: A gigantic birdlike theropod dinosaur, Gigantoraptor erlianensis, from the late Cretaceous period of China
thank goodness
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: thank goodness !
Etymology: Form of thank God without mentioning God: thus, a secular counterpart.
Senses: synonyms: thank God
;
see others there, including thank heavens
glosses: Expression of relief or gratitude.
rurality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruralities
Etymology: From rural + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being rural.
glosses: A rural characteristic.
galleta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galletas
Senses: glosses: Any of various grasses of the genus Hilaria (curly mesquite), of the southwestern US and northern Mexico.
in so many words
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In so many words, he asked me to give him the answers to the test.
text: He said he liked you. At least, not in so many words, but that was the idea.
text: I said so in so many words.
text: "I never asked you to get that drug," he said.
"Not in so many words," she said.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well, a fat lot of fun we were going to have without it."
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: Verbatim; using exactly the given words.
Related terms: or words to that effect
morbidezza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɔː(ɹ)bɪˈdɛtsə/
Etymology: From Italian morbidezza.
Senses: examples: text: Yea, when we forge its image in hir excellencie, we deck it with epithets of sickish and dolorous qualities: languor, effeminacy, weaknesse, fainting and Morbidezza, a great testimony of their consanguinity and consubstantiality.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 20, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Softness, smoothness; also in a negative sense, weakness, effeminacy.
topics: art
arts
glosses: A naturalistic delicacy in flesh tones.
jaspis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: These following bodies do not draw: smaragd, achates, corneolus, pearl, jaspis, chalcedonius, alabaster, porphyry, coral, marble, touchstone, haematites, or bloodstone […]
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: Obsolete form of jasper.
differently able
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: differently abled
Senses: examples: text: Illogical pedestrian crossings, inaccessible pavements and inconvenient public transport make it rather hostile for its differently abled citizens.
ref: 2022 May 24, “Is Chennai convenient for its Differently-abled citizens?”, in The Hindu:
text: "We are Not Disabled; We are Differently-Abled"
ref: 2021, Various, “'We are Not Disabled; We are Differently-Abled': A Study on The Lived Experiences of Person with Disability in the Workplace”, in Dangal Research Journal, volume 3, number 1:
qualifier: often humorous or pejoratively so except India and Philippines
glosses: Disabled or handicapped.
nogoodnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈɡʊdnɪk/
ipa: /noʊˈɡʊdnɪk/
Forms: form: nogoodniks
form: no-goodnik
Etymology: From no good + -nik. Likely influenced by, evolved from, or borrowed directly into Yiddish from the Russian негодник (negodnik, “worthless person, reprobate, ne'er-do-well”)
Senses: examples: text: Then at the last minute Harris was brought aboard as Dr. Zachary Smith, initially an authentic, lip-curling nogoodnik who, it was presently discovered, could be better used for laughs played off Mumy and a sober-sided robot (“You bubbleheaded booby,” sneers Harris. “That does not compute,” returns the robot dryly).
ref: 1966 September 24, TV Guide, Radnor, Pa., page 25, column 1:
text: Lorne's role was that of Gary, the nogoodnik father.
ref: 1984, Martin Amis, Money, Vintage, published 2005, page 182:
glosses: A ne'er-do-well; a person who is no good.
Synonyms: bad guy
no-good
loser
miscreant
scoundrel
Related terms: kibbutznik
nudnik
-nik
nogoodniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nogoodnik
testiculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more testiculate
form: most testiculate
Etymology: From testicle + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: synonyms: testiculated
glosses: Resembling a testicle.
glosses: Testicular.
abdabs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.dæbz/
Forms: form: ab-dabs
form: habdabs
Etymology: Unknown. Possibly imitative of the spluttering speech of one who is extremely nervous or anxious.
Senses: glosses: Extreme nervousness or anxiety; terror; heebie-jeebies.
Derived terms: screaming abdabs
disabused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disabuse
zis
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of this.
zis
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Forms: form: zese
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of this.
zis
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Pronunciation: ipa: /zɪs/
rhymes: -ɪs
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of this.
thermopile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermopiles
Etymology: From thermo- + pile.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electronic device that converts thermal energy into electrical energy. Usually constructed using a series-combination of thermocouples
thermopiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thermopile
stupendousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stupendousnesses
Etymology: From stupendous + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The stupendousness of the parade was a source of civic pride.
glosses: The state, condition, or quality of being stupendous.
heat engines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heat engine
feedwater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feedwaters
form: feed water
Etymology: From feed + water.
Senses: glosses: Water added to a boiler to replace that lost during operation.
Derived terms: feedwater heater
obeisant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obeisant
form: most obeisant
form: obeisaunt
form: obeysant
form: obeysaunt
Senses: glosses: Courteously deferential and respectful.
Related terms: obeisance
obeisancy
obeisantly
obeisaunce
ob-gyn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ob-gyns
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of OB-GYN.
obscurantist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obscurantists
Etymology: From obscurant + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The ego thinks that his local time and space is all there is to reality, and that the busy affairs of state and trade are more important than a lot of obscurantist hocus-pocus.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 180:
text: Muzzling Kelly also elevates a semi-professional obscurantist to the status of free speech martyr, and that invites a cacophonous pile-on from the rightwing bobble heads who screech about the left’s obsession with identity politics while shovelling identity politics at their audiences.
ref: 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
glosses: A practitioner of obscurantism; an obscurant.
Derived terms: obscurantistic
obscurantist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From obscurant + -ist.
Senses: synonyms: obscurantistic
glosses: Of or relating to obscurantism.
obsessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obsessional
form: most obsessional
Etymology: From obsession + -al.
Senses: glosses: Marked by obsession
Derived terms: obsessionalism
obsessionality
obsessionally
obsessive-compulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obsessive-compulsive
form: most obsessive-compulsive
Senses: examples: text: Barry is... well, what? Borderline autistic and obsessive-compulsive, with serious anger management issues and a dangerous behavioural disorder that in the real world would get him a one-way ticket to the rubber room.
ref: 2003 July 2, Peter Bradshaw, “Punch-Drunk Love”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 07 Aug 2014:
glosses: Characterized by obsessions and compulsions, especially by the need to perform repetitive tasks.
Derived terms: obsessive-compulsive disorder
obsessive-compulsive neurosis
obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
obsessive-compulsive personality
obsessive compulsive spartanism
OCD
OCPD
obsolesce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbsəˈlɛs/
ipa: /ɑbsəˈlɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: obsolesces
form: obsolescing
form: obsolesced
form: obsolesced
Etymology: From Latin obsolescere (“to wear out, fall into disuse, grow old, decay”), inceptive of obsolere (“to wear out, decay”) (rare), apparently from ob (“before”) + solere (“to be wont”); or else from obs-, a form of ob- + olere (“to grow”) (compare adolescent).
Senses: glosses: To become obsolete.
Synonyms: elden
go by the wayside
superannuate
to age
Related terms: obsolescence
obsolescent
obsolete
dairy farming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: dairying#Noun
glosses: A class of animal husbandry enterprise producing dairy products.
Related terms: dairy cattle
dairy cow
dairy farm
dairy farmer
trundles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trundle
trundles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of trundle
trundling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trundlings
Etymology: From trundle + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he inmates of the coach, by numerous hard, painful joltings, and ponderous, dragging trundlings, are suddenly made sensible of some great change in the character of the road.
ref: 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVI. First Night of Their Arrival in the City.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section I, pages 312–313:
glosses: gerund of trundle: the motion of something that trundles.
trundling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From trundle + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trundle
trundled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trundle
covenanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: covenanters
Etymology: From covenant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a covenant.
triller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: trillers
Etymology: From trill + -er.
Senses: glosses: A small passerine bird of the genus Lalage belonging to the cuckooshrike family Campephagidae, so called because of the loud trilling calls of the male birds.
glosses: One who or that which trills.
examples: text: When the left hand is the triller, it might seem more difficult to stabilize with the right, which is mostly off the flute.
ref: 2010, Michel Debost, The Simple Flute: From A-Z, page 255:
glosses: A musical ornament consisting of a rapid alternation between two adjacent notes.
domainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: domainers
Etymology: From domain + -er.
Senses: glosses: An individual or company that engages in the buying, selling, marketing, monetization and publishing of Internet domain names.
nobilissimus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nobilissimi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin nōbilissimus, superlative of nōbilis (“noble”).
Senses: examples: text: Changing my manner somewhat, I began with gentle censure of the Nobilissimus.
ref: 1979. Michael Psellus. Fourteen Byzantine Rulers..., p. 146
glosses: A senior title of nobility conferred on members of the Roman and Byzantine imperial families.
herpetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more herpetological
form: most herpetological
Etymology: From herpetology + -ical.
Senses: synonyms: herpetologic
glosses: Of or relating to herpetology, the study of reptiles.
Derived terms: herpetologically
palaeoherpetological
unleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unleafs
form: unleafing
form: unleafed
form: unleafed
Etymology: From un- + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unleave.
glabrous skin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Skin normally devoid of hair.
unleave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unleaves
form: unleaving
form: unleaved
form: unleaved
Etymology: From un- + leave.
Senses: glosses: To remove the leaves from.
glosses: To lose leaves.
Derived terms: unleaved
unleaving
waterleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterleafs
form: waterleaves
form: water-leaf
Etymology: From water + leaf.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
examples: text: ‘I like how the onions and waterleaf are slightly raw. They spice the egusi nicely, very nicely.’
ref: 2023, Stephen Buoro, The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa, Bloomsbury Circus, page 19:
glosses: A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
topics: architecture
glosses: A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
qualifier: paper technology
glosses: An absorbent unsized paper, somewhat like blotter paper.
Synonyms: sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: cariru
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: Ceylon spinach
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: Florida spinach
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: Lagos bologi
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: potherb fameflower
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: Philippine spinach
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: Surinam purslane
sense: tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable
word: sweetheart
Derived terms: ballhead waterleaf
ball-headed waterleaf
blunt-leaf waterleaf
bluntleaf waterleaf
Brown's waterleaf
dwarf waterleaf
Fendler's waterleaf
great waterleaf
largeleaf waterleaf
Pacific waterleaf
Virginia waterleaf
waterleaf capital
western waterleaf
hardcover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑːdˌkʌvə/
ipa: /ˈhɑɹdˌkʌvɚ/
ipa: /ˈhɐːdˌkɐvə/
Forms: form: hardcovers
Etymology: From hard + cover.
Senses: glosses: A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather.