cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
racked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rack
metallogeny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + -geny.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The branch of geology concerned with the study of the formation of mineral deposits
racks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæks/
homophone: rax
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: plural of rack
examples: text: The issue already hit the racks. We can't edit it.
glosses: publication, distribution (of a magazine)
racks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹæks/
homophone: rax
rhymes: -æks
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rack
retraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of retrace
devolved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: "Subject to the decision of our members, we have successfully negotiated significant pay increases for our members with the governments of the devolved nations," said ASLEF General Secretary Mick Whelan. "Sadly, this is in stark contrast with the response from the Westminster government.
ref: 2023 May 31, Mel Holley, “Network News: ASLEF recommends £71,000 pay deal for TfW drivers”, in RAIL, number 984, page 20:
glosses: simple past and past participle of devolve
tentacled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tentacled
form: most tentacled
Etymology: From tentacle + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The eight-tentacled octopus swam through the water.
glosses: Having tentacles.
Derived terms: tentacled snake
thoughtlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: thôt’lĭs-lǐ
ipa: /ˈθɔt.lɪs.li/
Forms: form: more thoughtlessly
form: most thoughtlessly
Etymology: From thoughtless + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He thoughtlessly invited her to come jogging, as he knew she hated exercise.
text: The railway ran through the resort's narrow streets up to Weymouth Quay station, with thoughtlessly parked vehicles sometimes having to be bumped out of the way.
ref: 2023 December 27, Stephen Roberts, “Bradshaw's Britain: the way to Weymouth”, in RAIL, number 999, page 55:
glosses: Done without thinking.
frequent flyer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frequent flyers
form: frequent flier
Senses: examples: text: As he flew home every weekend, he considered himself a frequent flyer.
glosses: A person who flies frequently on commercial airliners.
examples: text: Drunks tend to be the most common frequent flyers.
text: The police who arrested them -- and were later forced to release them by the DA -- said these criminals were "frequent flyers." We didn't want to leave SF -- we love it there -- but we have a young kid and it seemed irresponsible to stay in a place where drug addicts commit home invasions to the point where they are called "frequent flyers."
ref: 2023 April 8, @natfriedman, Twitter (post):
glosses: Someone who is habitually a nuisance.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A patient who frequents a health facility, with minor or malingering-type presentations.
frictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From friction + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The large frictional forces made dragging it impossible.
glosses: Relating to, or caused by, friction.
Synonyms: frictive
frictious
Derived terms: antifrictional
frictional blight
frictionally
frictional unemployment
magnetofrictional
freewheeling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹiːˌ(h)wiːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌfɹiːˈ(h)wiːlɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈfɹiˌ(h)wilɪŋ/
Forms: form: free-wheeling
Etymology: From freewheel + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freewheel.
funnyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: funnymen
form: funny man
Etymology: From funny + -man.
Senses: examples: text: To get the party started a professional funnyman was hired.
text: From 1970 to 1974 he was one of the most familiar funnymen in Chicago: by day a heavily promoted personality journalist, by night a "sit-down comic" with a devoted following.
ref: 1988 December 16, Albert Williams, “Club Dates: Bruce Vilanch returns from Hollywood”, in Chicago Reader:
text: As for Jones’s performance as Mandy Cohen, it united two leading facets of the funnyman’s repertoire: his fondness for female impersonation, and his passion for historical revisionism.
ref: 2020 January 22, Stuart Jeffries, “Terry Jones obituary”, in The Guardian:
glosses: comedian
Related terms: funnywoman
headman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headmen
Senses: examples: text: The headman entered the neighbor's house with his dog, and all the women ran into the rooms and closed the doors, and some of the curious little boys who wanted to see the headman's dog with their own eyes wisened up after the dag walked in, and they hurried up the yard's trees like cats.
ref: 2023, Mahdi Kazemian, The Headman's Dog, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of head man.
examples: text: But then Nash speaks to the school headman on Josie's behalf and persuades him to admit my youngest son.
ref: 1995, Evelyn Wilde Mayerson, Miami, page 203:
text: The Headman and the Principal of the school have taken care that the children do not learn anything and that education does not make any progress in this region.
ref: 2005, Narain Roop Sonker, Poisonous Roots, page 20:
text: Teachers were in the playground and our school Headman, Mrs. Rupali Chandra was on the stage.
ref: 2015, Piyush Arora, My Childhood Love Story, page 38:
glosses: headmaster
examples: text: My headman cast me in a blissful swoon, His axe cut off my cares from cumbered breast.
ref: 2007, Decease Release, “Decease Release”, in Robert S. Miola, editor, Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources, page 197:
text: The execution was horribly botched by a clumsy headman: 'You're hurting me,' cried the victim as the executioner hacked at his neck sixteen times until he just climbed onto the unfortunate's back and sawed through his spinal column as if he was sacrificing a sheep.
ref: 2011, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Jerusalem: The Biography – A History of the Middle East, page 428:
text: Their axe was a replica of one which belonged to Magdeburg's headman —famous executioner Wilhelm Riedel.
ref: 2020, Beata Gontarczyk-Krampe, Notmsparker's Second Berlin Companion:
glosses: An executioner who beheads people.
Derived terms: headmanship
heatproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heatproof
form: most heatproof
Etymology: From heat + -proof.
Senses: examples: text: For safety always use Bunsen burners on heatproof mats.
glosses: insulating and incombustible
heatproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heatproofs
form: heatproofing
form: heatproofed
form: heatproofed
Etymology: From heat + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make insulating and incombustible.
hematite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhiː.məˌtaɪt/
ipa: /ˈhɛm.əˌtaɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
Forms: form: hematites
form: hæmatite
form: haematite
Etymology: From Middle French hematite, from Latin (lapis) haematites, from Ancient Greek αἱματίτης (haimatítēs) λίθος (líthos, “blood-red stone”), from αἷμα (haîma, “blood”). By surface analysis, hemat- + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
hypernyms: iron ore
coordinate_terms: magnetite
glosses: An iron ore, mainly peroxide of iron, Fe₂O₃: iron(III) oxide.
Derived terms: word: hematitic
word: hydrohematite
Related terms: black diamond
intrigued
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more intrigued
form: most intrigued
Derived terms: unintrigued
intrigued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intrigue
miglio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miglios
form: miglia
Etymology: From Italian miglio.
Senses: glosses: The Italian mile.
miglia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of miglio
mindshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mindshares
form: mind share
Etymology: From mind + share.
Senses: glosses: The share (portion) of one's mind or headspace that has been garnered by a concept; the amount of attention or awareness that a concept gets in one's mind, especially in competition with the many other potential objects of attention, given the limits and opportunity cost of one's attention.
glosses: The share (portion) of one's mind or headspace that has been garnered by a concept; the amount of attention or awareness that a concept gets in one's mind, especially in competition with the many other potential objects of attention, given the limits and opportunity cost of one's attention.
A consumer's awareness of a particular brand or product compared to that of its rivals.
qualifier: most especially
mind share
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mindshare.
jenkem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jekem
Etymology: From Genkem (itself from General Chemical), a brand of glue similarly sniffed as a drug in South Africa.
Senses: examples: text: When they cannot afford glue or are too scared to steal petrol, these youngsters turn to Jenkem as a way of getting high.
ref: 1999 July 30, Ishbel Matheson, “Children high on sewage”, in BBC News:
text: The hotel garden shrieked with bird life, and there were crocodiles in the courtyard pond; the fountains on either end of Cairo Road blustered with fresh water, and the street children were mad-eyed (those who can afford it sniff glue or gasoline, and those who can't sniff jenkem, fermented human sewage kept in a plastic bag for a week or so until it gives off intoxicating fumes).
ref: 2005 September, Alexandra Fuller, “We Just Want Enough”, in National Geographic, →ISSN:
text: Billy: You want some Jenkem? It'll make you all better. Sure, it's a natural remedy! Huff on this!
Stan: What's in it?
Billy: My body waste, silly.
ref: 2012 March 25, Less Money, Mo' Problems (American Dad!), season 8, episode 15:
glosses: A purported hallucinogenic inhalant made from fermented sewage.
contig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contigs
Etymology: Clipping of contiguous (as in contiguous sequence of DNA).
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of overlapping DNA segments, derived from a single source of genetic material, from which the complete sequence may be deduced.
Derived terms: haplotig
metacontig
minicontig
supercontig
ultracontig
supercontig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercontigs
Etymology: From super- + contig.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ordered and oriented set of contigs that still contains some gaps. See also scaffold.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A set of joint contigs from the individuals of a study group or population.
Related terms: ultracontig
ultracontig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultracontigs
Etymology: From ultra- + contig.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: An ordered and oriented set of supercontigs obtained by use of supporting evidence
tunable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːnəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: more tunable
form: most tunable
Etymology: From tune + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Then doe all with a tunable voice of shouting bid him welcome.
ref: 1624, John Smith, Generall Historie, Kupperman, published 1988, pages 147–8:
text: she rather chose to follow the Fortunes of a Wheel-Barrow, than those of a Distaff; daily, charming the Ears of the Publick with the Tuneable and Melodious Cry, of, Come who throws here? Who ventures for an ORANGE?
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisabury, section I:
glosses: Harmonious, melodic, tuneful.
glosses: Able to be tuned.
tunable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtjuːnəb(ə)l/
Forms: form: tunables
Etymology: From tune + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If you are working with TCP, some specific tunables are also available. By default, some TCP tunables have a value that is too low.
ref: 2013, Sander van Vugt, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Administration: Real World Skills for Red Hat Administrators:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A setting that can be configured.
fratricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fratricidal
form: most fratricidal
Etymology: From fratricide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Taizong's failure fooled no one. Indeed, one of Taizong's own sons may well have been unhinged by his father's obvious fratricidal and nepoticidal actions. These personal considerations directly affected Taizong's policy decisions, and thus warrant some discussion.
ref: 2008, Peter Lorge, “The Great Ditch of China and the Song-Liao Border”, in Don J. Wyatt, editor, Battlefronts Real and Imagined: War, Border, and Identity in the Chinese Middle Period, New York, N.Y.: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, pages 59–74 at 67:
text: At the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, which commemorates the president who urged a fratricidal nation to go forward “with malice toward none, with charity toward all,” the Olipa family debated what’s happened to leadership in America.
ref: 2023 March 31, Christa Case Bryant, Henry Gass, Story Hinckley, Sophie Hills, “Sobering moment: Americans reflect on Trump indictment”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
glosses: Of or pertaining to fratricide.
Derived terms: fratricidally
frazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of frazzle
frazzled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frazzled
form: most frazzled
Senses: examples: text: Everyone believes that Thomas would…plant the frazzled banner of the distillers in its place.
ref: 1895 June 23rd, Nebraska State Journal, page 3/1:
glosses: Frayed at the edges.
examples: text: George Smith this cool morning, hungover, mouth dry, head throbbing.
"I just asked for the time."
"Twelve thirty."
"Thank you. Don't come in. I'm indelicate. Utterly frazzled. After being vaguely champion. I think. Last night. O God."
ref: 1963, J P Donleavy, A Singular Man, published 1963 (USA), pages 251, 252:
text: “These are extreme measures people are taking because they’re frazzled by what’s happening in the industry,” he said.
ref: 2022 June 17, Allan Chernoff, quoting Ian Drury, “Soaring US car prices compel buyers to travel thousands of miles for deals”, in The Guardian:
text: "Of course it's me, who else would it be?" The voice sounded only half-certain. "Who else would still be here? Unless you're one of the ones who's still here. Is that when you are? OKAY. Stop talking. Stop talking. Speak only when spoken to, so we can get through this. Who. Are. You."
ref: 2023 September 22, HarryBlank, “Off Track”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 25 May 2024:
glosses: Stressed and exhausted (either physically or emotionally).
Derived terms: frazzledness
unfrazzled
patch-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpæt͡ʃˌʌp/
Forms: form: patch-ups
form: patch up
Etymology: patch + up
Senses: glosses: The act of patching or repairing.
glosses: An instance of patching or repairing.
glosses: A hastily performed repair job; a quick fix.
reflectin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reflectins
Etymology: From reflect + -in.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A protein, found in certain squids, that self-organizes into a film of regularly spaced stripes, the separation of which functions as a tunable diffraction grating to produce a range of reflective colours in the animal's skin
muck around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mucks around
form: mucking around
form: mucked around
form: mucked around
Senses: glosses: To muck about.
muck out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mucks out
form: mucking out
form: mucked out
form: mucked out
Senses: examples: text: Could you muck out Toby's stable, please?
hypernyms: clean out
clear out
glosses: To clean the excrement and other rubbish from the area where an animal is kept, such as a horse stable or a dog kennel.
keen-witted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keen-witted
form: most keen-witted
form: keenwitted
Etymology: From keen + witted.
Senses: glosses: Quickwitted.
Derived terms: keen-wittedness
for heaven's sake
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: for Heaven's sake
Senses: examples: text: Don't ever use the hood on your anorak; and, if you do, for heaven's sake don't pull the string tight so that you peep out like a little baby in a siren suit.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
text: Labour frontbencher Louise Haigh (Shadow Transport Secretary for heaven's sake!) initially lambasted TOCs before the handful of specialist rail commentators fell on her tweets and she changed her tune, refocusing her fire on Government.
ref: 2023 August 9, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Disinterested and dishonest”, in RAIL, number 989, page 3:
glosses: Expresses frustration, exasperation, annoyance, or the urgency of an instruction.
examples: text: Well, for heaven's sake! Look who's here! Good to see you again!
glosses: Expresses surprise, sometimes pleasant.
overthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overthrusts
Etymology: From over- + thrust.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A form of thrust fault from beneath a hanging wall of rock.
overthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overthrusts
form: overthrusting
form: overthrusted
form: overthrusted
form: overthrust
form: overthrust
Etymology: From over- + thrust.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of a body of rock: to force itself over another.
overthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + thrust.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Belonging to earlier strata, pushed by faulting over later and higher strata.
embrighten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛmˈbɹaɪtə̆n/
Forms: form: embrightens
form: embrightening
form: embrightened
form: embrightened
Etymology: From bright + em- -en.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:embrighten.
glosses: To brighten; to vivify.
embrightens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embrighten
embrightening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embrighten
embrightened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embrighten
Sermon on the Mount
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Sermon on the Mount
Senses: glosses: A well-known public discourse given by Jesus in the first year of his ministry, around 30 CE.
Related terms: eye for an eye
turn the other cheek
Lord's prayer
monadnock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /məˈnædˌnɒk/
Forms: form: monadnocks
Etymology: From the name of Mount Monadnock in New England, which derives from an Abenaki word, perhaps menonadenak, menonadenek (“smooth mountain”) or menadenak, menadenek (“isolated mountain”), from aden (“mountain”).
Senses: examples: text: Eastward from the White Mountains, the open sea of the upland country comes right to the monadnock shore, with hardly an outlying island; southward the upland is covered for miles by an archipelago of monadnock groups and peaks.
ref: 1901, Philip Emerson, “Notes on the New England Upland about the White Mountains”, in Appalachia, volume IX, page 57:
glosses: A hill or mountain standing isolated above a predominantly flat plain.
wikipedia: Mount Monadnock
Synonyms: inselberg
Related terms: nunatak
enchasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈt͡ʃeɪsən/
ipa: /ɛnˈt͡ʃeɪsən/
Forms: form: enchastens
form: enchastening
form: enchastened
form: enchastened
Etymology: From en- (intensifying prefix) + chasten (“to chastise, subdue, or render chaste”).
Senses: examples: text: And shall it e’er be said, that a poor hind,
Nursed in the lap of Ignorance, and bred
In want and labour, glows with nobler zeal
To laud his Maker’s attributes, while he
Whom starry Science in her cradle rock’d,
And Castaly enchasten’d, with its dews,
Closes his eyes upon the holy word,
And, blind to all but arrogance and pride,
Dares to declare his infidelity,
And openly contemn the Lord of Hosts?
ref: a. 1807, Henry Kirke White, “Time: A Poem”, in The Remains of Henry Kirke White, of Nottingham, […], volume II, London: J[ohn] G[eorge] Barnard, […] for William Clark, […], published 1825, page 87:
text: I am the Child that motherless must weep,
 To hallow and enchasten all the land;
And I am motherhood that cannot sleep,
 Without the pressure of a tiny hand. […]
ref: 1907, Harry Houdini Collection, The Arena, page 134:
glosses: To render chaste.
enchastens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enchasten
enchastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enchasten
enchastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enchasten
discipleship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discipleships
Etymology: From disciple + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: followership; apprenticeship, tutelage
text: The weaknesses of the many make the leader possible—and the man who craves disciples and wants followers is always more or less of a charlatan. The man of genuine worth and insight wants to be himself; and he wants others to be themselves, also. Discipleship is a degenerating process to all parties concerned. People who are able to do their own thinking should not allow others to do it for them.
ref: 1927, Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook of Elbert Hubbard: Mottos, Epigrams, Short Essays, Passages, Orphic Sayings and Preachments: Coined from a Life of Love, Laugher and Work, William H. Wise and Company, page 197:
coordinate_terms: apostleship
glosses: The condition of being a disciple.
coordinate_terms: apprenticeship
glosses: The period during which a person is a disciple.
obscurely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more obscurely
form: most obscurely
Etymology: From obscure + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I vvill this Night, / in ſeuerall Hands, in at his VVindovves throvv, / As if they came from ſeuerall Citizens, / VVritings, all tending to the great opinion / That Rome holds of his Name: vvherein obſcurely / Cæſars Ambition ſhall be glanced at.
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 112, column 2:
glosses: In an obscure manner.
encolden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkəʊldən/
ipa: /ɛnˈkəʊldən/
Forms: form: encoldens
form: encoldening
form: encoldened
form: encoldened
Etymology: From cold + en- -en.
Senses: glosses: Render cold; chill.
encoldens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encolden
encoldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encolden
encoldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encolden
endarken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈdaɹkɪn/
ipa: /ɪnˈdɑːkən/
ipa: /ɛnˈdɑːkən/
Forms: form: endarkens
form: endarkening
form: endarkened
form: endarkened
Etymology: From en- + darken (see en- (“intensifying prefix”)), modelled on enlighten.
Senses: examples: text: Suffer not Satan to endarken your consciences; let brawlings cease, and let unity be seen.
ref: 1711, John Strype, Life and Acts of Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury:
text: […] moral education cannot be […] purely enlightened and enlightening […] it cannot be simply a matter of teaching [people] to calculate the long term profit and the loss, while leaving […] desires to develop independently. It must involve an endarkened and endarkening component, by which [people] are taught precisely to cease [their] calculations, to regard certain paths as forbidden, as places where neither profit nor loss has authority.
glosses: To render dark or darker.
glosses: To becloud, obscure, to obfuscate; to confound.
Derived terms: endarkenment
endarkens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of endarken
endarkening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of endarken
endarkened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endarken
damaru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damarus
Etymology: From Sanskrit डमरु (ḍamaru), and Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ (ḍa ma ru).
Senses: glosses: A drum having two heads opposite one another, commonly used in the Hindu and Buddhist religions.
alt-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: synonyms: alt#Adjective
glosses: alternative
cambiata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cambiatas
Etymology: From Italian cambiata.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: changing note
glosses: A pattern in a homophonic or polyphonic (and usually contrapuntal) setting of a melody where a note is skipped from (typically by an interval of a third) in one direction (either going up or down in pitch) followed by the note skipped to, and then by motion in the opposite direction, and where either the note skipped from is distinguished as a dissonance or the note skipped to is distinguished as a non-harmonic or non-chordal tone.
enfasten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈfæsə̆n/
Forms: form: enfastens
form: enfastening
form: enfastened
form: enfastened
Etymology: From fast + en- -en.
Senses: examples: c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace
Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!
I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
I, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence
In the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —
Ah! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —
Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her.
glosses: To fasten, to bind tightly.
enfastens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enfasten
enfastening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enfasten
enfastened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enfasten
varia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛəɹi.ə/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹi.ə/
rhymes: -ɛəɹi.ə
Etymology: From Greek βαρεία (vareía).
Senses: examples: text: The oxia and varia are represented using the regular acute and grave accent characters, the dialytika with the regular diaeresis character, and the psili and dasia are represented using the regular combining-comma-above and combining-reversed-comma-above characters.
ref: 2003, Richard Gillam, “The Greek Alphabet”, in Unicode Demystified: A Practical Programmer’s Guide to the Encoding Standard, Boston, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, →ISBN, part II (Unicode in Depth: A Guided Tour of the Character Repertoire), chapter 7 (Scripts of Europe), page 240:
text: In Morton Smith’s writings we can see that he is trying to follow the grammatical rules, as his accent marks are always carefully placed, specially^([sic]) the oxia and varia with their right or left slant.
ref: [2009?], Venetia Anastasopoulou, Experts Report Handwriting Examinations, [Washington, D.C.]: [Biblical Archaeology], →OCLC, page 17:
text: The remaining three diacritics, oxia ( ΄ ), varia ( ` ), and perispomeni ( ˜ ), are used in the text to indicate primary stress.
ref: 2010 August 12, Rey Romero, “A Greek transliteration of Judeo-Spanish: Notes on a poem from Trikala (1885)”, in Ianua: Revista Philologica Romanica, volume 10, Romania Minor, →ISSN, →OCLC, chapter 5 (Diacritics), page 102:
text: [T]he author thought of using the Greek small letter iota with psili and varia (ἲ) and ἵ small letter iota with psili and oxia which the author found as the only current fitting option for use here.
ref: 2023, Mahmud Mohammed Momoh, “Vowels and the Igala Language Resources”, in Rooweither Mabuya, Don Mthobela, Mmasibidi Setaka, Menno Van Zaanen, editors, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), Dubrovnik: Association for Computational Linguistics, →DOI, section 2 (Vowels and Words in Igala Language), pages 109–110:
glosses: Alternative form of baria (“Greek diacritic”).
Related terms: varia lectio
variate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.ɪt/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪt/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.i.eɪt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvæɹ.i.ɪt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvæɹ.i.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈveː.ɹi.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈveː.ɹi.æɪt/
Forms: form: variates
Etymology: From Latin variatus, past participle of variare. See vary.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Random variable.
glosses: A measurable quantity capable of taking on a number of values.
glosses: A variable, often the set of x values plotted on a graph.
glosses: The measured magnitude of a variable.
variate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈvɛə.ɹi.ɪt/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.i.ɪt/
note: General American, Canada, Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.i.eɪt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvæɹ.i.ɪt/
note: without the Mary–marry–merry merger
ipa: /ˈvæɹ.i.eɪt/
ipa: /ˈveː.ɹi.ɪt/
ipa: /ˈveː.ɹi.æɪt/
Forms: form: variates
form: variating
form: variated
form: variated
Etymology: From Latin variatus, past participle of variare. See vary.
Senses: glosses: To alter; to vary; to make or become different.
Related terms: word: variable
word: bivariate
word: multivariate
word: univariate
sense: distinguish
word: varriated
Chinggisid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chinggisids
head_nr: 1
form: Chingisid
form: Genghisid
Etymology: From Chinggis + -id.
Senses: head_nr: 2
glosses: A descendant of Genghis Khan, or one of his lineage or patrimony.
Chinggisid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Chinggisid
form: most Chinggisid
form: Chingisid
form: Genghisid
Etymology: From Chinggis + -id.
Senses: glosses: Of, or relating to, the history and career of Genghis Khan or his lineage.
glosses: Of, or displaying the supposed standards, character, manner or conduct of Genghis Khan or his descendants.
glosses: Of the style of architecture or furnishings of Genghis Khan or his era.
looser
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsə/
ipa: /ˈlusɚ/
Senses: examples: text: Her new T-shirt was just a little bit looser than the old one.
text: The law is too strict; it should be made looser.
glosses: comparative form of loose: more loose
looser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsə/
ipa: /ˈlusɚ/
Forms: form: loosers
Etymology: From loose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore we cannot but infer that they did not understand the promise of their Lord as uttered in a sense at variance with the established forms of language, as conveying the doctrine which the clerical binders and loosers of later ages teach.
ref: 1844, John Wesley, The Magazine of the Wesleyan Methodist Church:
text: Loosers of topsails and courses, and men stationed at boom tricing-lines, […]
ref: 1884, Stephen Bleecker Luce, Aaron Ward, Text-book of Seamanship:
glosses: One who looses, who sets loose or frees.
looser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈluːsə/
ipa: /ˈlusɚ/
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of loser.
engladden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡlædə̆n/
Forms: form: engladdens
form: engladdening
form: engladdened
form: engladdened
Etymology: From en- + gladden; see en- (“intensifying prefix”).
Senses: glosses: To gladden, to render glad.
glosses: To gladden, to become glad.
engladdens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engladden
engladdening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engladden
engladdened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engladden
engolden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡəʊldə̆n/
Forms: form: engoldens
form: engoldening
form: engoldened
form: engoldened
Etymology: From en- (“an intensifying verbal circumfix”) + golden.
Senses: glosses: To render golden.
glosses: To improve; to ameliorate.
engoldens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engolden
engoldening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engolden
engoldened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engolden
engreaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɡɹeɪtə̆n/
Forms: form: engreatens
form: engreatening
form: engreatened
form: engreatened
Etymology: From great + en- -en, intensifying verbal circumfix.
Senses: glosses: Make great; aggravate (an offence); compare greaten.
engreatens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of engreaten
engreatening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of engreaten
engreatened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of engreaten
greaten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹeɪtən/
Forms: form: greatens
form: greatening
form: greatened
form: greatened
Etymology: From Middle English gretnen (“to become great, be pregnant”), equivalent to great + -en.
Senses: glosses: To become great or large; increase; dilate.
glosses: To become great with child; become pregnant.
examples: text: one studies how how to please his prince, the other how to greaten and secure him.
ref: 1685, Thomas Ken, sermon preached […] at Whitehall:
text: No blushes! all my body's blood / Has gone to greaten this poor heart, / That, loving, we may part.
ref: 1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Parting Lovers:
glosses: To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
Related terms: engreaten
greatens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of greaten
greatening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of greaten
greatened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of greaten
enharden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈhɑːdə̆n/
ipa: /ɛnˈhɑɹdən/
Forms: form: enhardens
form: enhardening
form: enhardened
form: enhardened
Etymology: From en- + harden, with en- as an intensifying prefix.
Senses: glosses: To harden; to render hard.
glosses: To fortify against adversity.
enhardens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enharden
enhardening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enharden
enhardened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enharden
enhearten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈhɑːtə̆n/
ipa: /ɛnˈhɑɹtən/
Forms: form: enheartens
form: enheartening
form: enheartened
form: enheartened
Etymology: From en- + heart + -en.
Senses: examples: text: But the victory did little to enhearten the captains.
ref: 1954, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Vol 3, Houghton Mifflin Co., page 164:
glosses: To comfort and embolden, encourage, animate, hearten.
enheartens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enhearten
enheartening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enhearten
enheartened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enhearten
enlengthen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈlɛŋθə̆n/
Forms: form: enlengthens
form: enlengthening
form: enlengthened
form: enlengthened
Etymology: From en- + lengthen; see en- (“intensifying prefix”).
Senses: examples: text: However, recent trends in mortality and changes in social attitudes tend to depress the proportion of widows, enlengthen the exposure period […]
ref: 1971, Arun Mukhopadhyay et al, Agricultural Extension: A Field Study, page 6:
synonyms: word: elongate
word: draw out
word: elongate
word: enlengthen
word: extend
word: lengthen
word: produce
word: prolong
word: protract
word: stretch
hypernyms: enlarge
;
embiggen
coordinate_terms: widen
enwiden
;
thicken
glosses: To lengthen: to render or become longer.
enlengthens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlengthen
enlengthening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlengthen
enlengthened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlengthen
enlessen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈlɛsə̆n/
Forms: form: enlessens
form: enlessening
form: enlessened
form: enlessened
Etymology: En- (an intensifying prefix) + lessen (to reduce, to diminish).
Senses: examples: text: PLEASE it your highness to be advertised that this present morning came unto prior Thomas unto his cell wherein I am lodged, the emperor’s great ambassador, accompanied with a great many gentlemen of Spayne, and demanded of him how he durst be so bold to take upon him to intermeddle in so great and weighty a matter, the which did not only enlessen and elevate the pope’s authority, but also was noyful and odious to all realms Cristenyd.
ref: c 1527–1533 (published in 1870): Nicholas Pocock, Records of the Reformation: The Divorce 1527–1533, p330
glosses: to belittle, to denigrate; to weaken; to lessen.
enlessens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enlessen
enlessening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enlessen
enlessened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enlessen
blander
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of bland: more bland
milden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mildens
form: mildening
form: mildened
form: mildened
Etymology: From mild + -en.
Senses: glosses: To make or become mild or milder.
Derived terms: enmilden
mildens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of milden
mildening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of milden
mildened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of milden
enmildens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enmilden
electrophylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of electrophilic.
moorland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moorlands
Etymology: From Middle English morelond, equivalent to moor + land. Compare Old Norse mýrlendi (“moorland”).
Senses: examples: text: The completely-industrialised outskirts of Newcastle gradually give place to rural surroundings, and the Tyne becomes a moorland river with a boulder-strewn bed.
ref: 1955 September, H. A. Vallance, “The Border Counties Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 593:
text: Troutbeck station, 10 miles from Keswick, in the heart of wild moorland, is the most isolated on the line.
ref: 1961 October, 'Voyageur', “The Cockermouth, Keswick & Penrith Railway”, in Trains Illustrated, page 601:
glosses: Open land that has an acidic peaty soil and is mostly covered with heather or bracken.
Synonyms: moor
Hypernyms: land
Derived terms: moorlander
Staffordshire Moorlands
snooze button
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snooze buttons
Etymology: A feature introduced in the General Electric "Snooz-Alarm" line of alarm clocks, trademarked in 1958.
Senses: glosses: A button on an alarm clock which, when pressed, silences the alarm temporarily, granting a few more minutes of sleep before the alarm sounds again.
rumbled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rumble
bullied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlid/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bully
bullied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbʊlid/
Forms: form: more bullied
form: most bullied
Senses: glosses: Having been a victim of a bully.
Derived terms: nonbullied
unbullied
deep-sixed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deep-six
enquicken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈkwɪkə̆n/
Forms: form: enquickens
form: enquickening
form: enquickened
form: enquickened
Etymology: From en- + quicken.
Senses: examples: text: How much more ought we, WITH OUR BLESSED MOTHER THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AT ALL CHASTENINGS [CHRISTENINGS] PRESUME that Sacramental grace doth like a soul enquicken the body of the outward element, and receive those for our true fellow-members of Christ, who have been made partakers of the same laver of regeneration?
ref: circa 1623–1635, Dr. John Mayer D.D., Commentary on the Short Catechism set forth in the Book of Common Prayer, etc., page 7
text: […] Let some, my Lord, of thy bright Glories beams,
Flash quickening Flames of Glory in mine eye
T’enquicken my dull Spirits, drunke with dreams
Of Melancholy…
ref: 1989, Edward Taylor, The Poems of Edward Taylor, page 206:
text: Lord make thy beams my frost bit heart to warm.
 Ride on these Rayes into my bosom’s till
And make thy Glory mine affections Charm.
 Thy rapid flames my Love enquicken will.
 Then I in Glories Tower thy Praise will sing
 On my Shoshannim tun’d on ev’ry string.
ref: 2003, Edward Taylor, Edward Taylor’s Gods Determinations and Preparatory Meditations: A Critical Edition, page 343:
glosses: Imbue with divine vitality.
enquickens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enquicken
enquickening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enquicken
enquickened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enquicken
enripen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈɹaɪpən/
Forms: form: enripens
form: enripening
form: enripened
form: enripened
Etymology: From en- + ripen.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:enripen.
glosses: To ripen; develop from incipiency to maturity; bring to perfection.
incipiency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈsɪpɪənsi/
Forms: form: incipiencies
Senses: glosses: A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.
incipiencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incipiency
nascency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪsənsi/
Forms: form: nascencies
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin nāscentia. Doublet of nascence.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e are, therefore, sure in advance, of being right, if we say of any perception that first it didn't exist, and that then there was a mere suggestion and nascency of it, which grew more definite, until, at last, the thing itself was fully established.
ref: 1889, William James, James Ward, “The Psychological Theory of Extension”, in Mind, volume 14, number 53, page 108:
text: Basically the reaction of the animal and the reaction of man are precisely similar. The only difference is that man, by virtue of his greater capacity for cerebral action, is capable of extending and elaborating this basic personification. It may be stated that, in its nascency at any rate, worship (the first stage in the elaboration of a system of religion) exists in the mind of the animal exactly as in the mind of man.
ref: 1941, George Ryley Scott, Phallic Worship: A History of Sex and Sex Rites in Relation to the Religions of All Races from Antiquity to the Present Day, London: T. Werner Laurie, page 8:
glosses: A state of incipiency; a quality of nascence.
nascencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nascency
enripens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enripen
enripening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enripen
enripened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enripen
ensweeten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈswiːtə̆n/
Forms: form: ensweetens
form: ensweetening
form: ensweetened
form: ensweetened
Etymology: From sweet + en- -en.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:ensweeten.
qualifier: metaphorical
glosses: Render sweeter or more pleasant.
ensweetens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensweeten
ensweetening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensweeten
ensweetened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensweeten
enwiden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈwaɪdə̆n/
Forms: form: enwidens
form: enwidening
form: enwidened
form: enwidened
Etymology: From en- + widen. Compare English enlengthen.
Senses: examples: text: […] seeking not so much to extend its dominion as to enwiden its markets and civilizing influence.
ref: 1929, Stephen Henry Roberts, The History of French Colonial Policy, 1870–1925, published 1963, page 340:
text: During the very decade, when the League of Nations went bankrupt as a political agency for international peace and security, i.e. the ‛thirties, the organization through its secretariat, various specialized commissions, and expert committees, kept on doing much useful technical work in the economic, social, and humanitarian fields and also rendered it more feasible for the League to enwiden its collaboration in those fields with the nations outside the League.
ref: 1945, Utrikespolitiska Institutet, Peace and Security After the Second World War, The Swedish Institute of International Affairs, page 174:
text: 2. To enwiden, increase and enlarge the knowledge, the intelligence and the consciousness of the people…
ref: 1953, Indonesia Djawatan Pendidikan Masjarakat, Mass Education in Indonesia, Indonesia: Ministry of Education Instruction and Culture, page 117:
glosses: Broaden; diversify.
Synonyms: sense: broaden
word: broaden
word: widen
alt: diversify
word: variegate
word: vary
enwidens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enwiden
enwidening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enwiden
enwidened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enwiden