cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uropygial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /jʊəɹə(ʊ)ˈpɪd͡ʒɪəl/
Etymology: From uropygium.
Senses: examples: text: […] [Aderyn the Bird Queen], on whose face a kind of agitated oil or sweat was spreading thinly, an uropygial secretion.
ref: 1971, Anthony Burgess, M/F, Penguin, published 2004, page 158:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
glosses: Of or pertaining to the uropygium; on the rump.
Derived terms: uropygial gland
uropygium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /jʊəɹəˈpɪd͡ʒɪəm/
Forms: form: uropygia
Etymology: Mediaeval Latin, from Ancient Greek οὐροπύγιον (ouropúgion, “tail feathers”).
Senses: glosses: The posterior part of a bird's body from which the tailfeathers grow.
Derived terms: uropygial
dead men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead man
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see dead, men.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The ends of reefs left flapping instead of being tucked out of sight when a sail has been furled.
examples: text: Remove eyes, dead men (gills), and sand sack if necessary.
ref: 1992 April 26, Nathalie Dupree, “A craving for crabs”, in The Record, Bergen County, NJ, page F1:
text: “I call these the lungs,” says Colleton, pointing to the gills with the dripping, short-handled knife. “The old people call them ‘dead men.’”
ref: 2003 September 26, Michael Gartland, “Drought Forces Awendaw, S.C., Crab Festival to Import from Louisiana”, in Knight Ridder Tribune Business News, page 1:
text: Once the shell is off, the crab’s gills or lungs, variously called “devil’s fingers” or “dead men” are exposed. These are gray-white, feathery-looking parts that are inedible and must be scraped off and thrown away.
ref: 2007 August 3, John Geiser, “Take rusties over jimmies when hunting for good-eatin’ crabs”, in Asbury Park Press, Asbury Park, New Jersey:
synonyms: dead men's fingers
devil's fingers
glosses: The gills of edible crabs.
dead water
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dead waters
form: deadwater
Senses: examples: text: A "deadwater," that is a region occupied by stationary fluid or by gas at suitable pressure, ahead of a concave angle was shown to be possible by Villat.
ref: 1967, David W. Taylor, Report - Naval Ship Research and Development Center, page 295:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The eddying water under a slow-moving ship's counter, or a similar area of stationary fluid or gas in advance of a concave angle, which can occur when there is strong vertical density stratification (due to salinity or temperature or both), and can cause ships to become hard to control.
examples: text: Some of our party went down the deadwater for a short distance in it and came back with three black ducks and one golden eye.
ref: 1905, Acadiensis - Volume 5, page 135:
text: The deadwater region is viewed to be in backmix flow and to be interchanging fluid slowly with the active backmix flow region.
ref: 1964, Advances in Chemical Engineering, page 160:
text: The river is divided into two regions: the main channel and a deadwater zone.
ref: 1981, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NUREG/CR. - Volume 1322, page 4-17:
text: the Deadwaters of the Penobscot River
text: On other days we journeyed as far up the main branch as far as we could, sometimes following small brooks back to their deadwaters.
ref: 2013, Doug Roy, The River Runs Deep, page 99:
glosses: A region in a body of moving water (or similar body of fluid in motion) where the water (fluid) is relatively stationary, or stagnant.
Related terms: dead pool
garden gnome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: garden gnomes
Senses: synonyms: lawn gnome
glosses: A small statue of a gnome used as a garden ornament.
Related terms: gnomophobia
strong personality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong personalities
Senses: examples: text: She is a successful leader because of her strong personality.
glosses: The qualities of self-confidence and assertiveness in a person.
Butt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Butts
form: Butte
Etymology: * As an English surname, from Middle English butte (“target, goal”), from French but (“target, aim”).
* Also as an English surname, from butte (“isolated hill”).
* Also as an English surname, from butt (sense 3) (“cask, bottle”).
* Also as an English surname, from a nickname related to butt (sense 1) (“thick end”).
* As an English and German surname, from butt (sense 4) (“type of flounder”).
* As a Kashmiri surname, spelling variant of Bhatt.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
A surname from English.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from German.
glosses: A surname.
A surname from Kashmiri.
stuff one's face
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuffs one's face
form: stuffing one's face
form: stuffed one's face
form: stuffed one's face
Senses: glosses: To eat excessively.
sendoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sendoffs
form: send-off
Etymology: Deverbal from send off.
Senses: examples: text: We had a sendoff for our departing colleague as he left for a new job.
glosses: A party for a person (e.g. a fellow employee) who is leaving; a farewell party.
glosses: A party to recognize the passing (death) of a friend and allow survivors to reminisce about the person's life.
Related terms: send off
lexical semantics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The study of how the words of a language denote either things in the real world or concepts.
servomotor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: servomotors
form: servo motor
form: servo-motor
Etymology: From French servo-moteur, from Latin servus (“slave”) + motor (“mover”).
Senses: synonyms: servo
glosses: An electric motor in a servomechanism, especially one which incorporates feedback so it accurately positions the device.
sewerage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsuː.ɹɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈsuːə.ɹɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: sewerages
Etymology: From sewer + -age.
Senses: glosses: A network of sewer pipes that geographically transfers wastewater; a sewer system.
examples: text: Mr. Lovick made a similar experiment, to determine accurately the amount of sewerage from 1,200 average sized houses in London, where there was an intermittent supply of water from the different water companies.
ref: 1860, Acts of the Legislature in Reference to Water Supply and Reports of Water Commissioners, With Accompanying Documents, 1851-60, page 276:
text: They put off paedophiles by spraying the child with eight litres of pressurized sewerage.
ref: 2001, Paedogeddon (Brass Eye TV special)
text: About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.
ref: 2010, India Today 5 Apr 17
glosses: Sewage.
Derived terms: simplified sewerage
skin effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin effects
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The tendency of an alternating current to distribute itself in a conductor such that the current density is greater near the surface than near the core.
shakily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more shakily
form: most shakily
Etymology: From shaky + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “Bloody hell,” she moaned. “Bloody hell, bloody hell.” Though her hands were trembling, she managed to reload the crossbow just as Sue had told her; then she began to shakily run towards where she thought the sound had come from.
ref: 2007, L. H. Maynard, M. P. N. Sims, Demon Eyes, page 145:
glosses: In a shaky manner.
ampacity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /æmˈpæsɪti/
Forms: form: ampacities
Etymology: Blend of ampere + capacity
Senses: glosses: The root mean square of the electrical current which a device (usually a wire) can carry within a specific environment (including temperature rating, power loss, heat dissipation, etc.) It is measured in amperes (amps) and is most often used to rate electrical wires and cables.
sharp-eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sharp-eyed
form: most sharp-eyed
Senses: glosses: Having acute vision; having good eyesight.
examples: text: The sharp-eyed detective noticed things the ordinary patrolman missed.
text: Only one mis-step! What is it? “Why, I only gave way to a little ill-temper,” but see the result! The children observed it. Children are sharp-eyed. They are close watchers. They are quick to mark the mis-step, and they have tenacious memories.
ref: 1878 February 6, “ONE MIS-STEP.”, in The Messenger, volume XLVII, number 6 (2262), sourced from Methodist Recorder, →OCLC, page 2, column 2:
glosses: Attentive, given to noticing things, aware.
Related terms: bright-eyed
clear-eyed
steely-eyed
passen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English passen, from Old French passer; equivalent to pass + -en.
Senses: examples: text: In forreine landes, and all which passen by,
Beholding it from far, do thinke it threates the skye.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: They in pleasing passen all.
ref: 1614, William Browne, Thyrsis' Praise of His Mistress:
text: And all his creatures, as they passen by
In goodly pomp, they view with scornfull eye.
ref: 1647, Henry More, Insomnium Philosophicum:
glosses: plural simple present of pass
shot-putter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shot-putters
form: shot putter
form: shotputter
Etymology: From shot put + -er.
Senses: topics: athletics
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An athlete who competes in the shot put.
valence band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valence bands
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The highest range of electron energies in an insulator or semiconductor that can be populated; it corresponds to the valence electrons of the constituent atoms
Related terms: bandgap
conduction band
shrilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more shrilly
form: most shrilly
form: shrillly
Etymology: From shrill + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: [T]he thwarted Hawk circled above, calling shrilly.
ref: 1948, Alec H. Chisholm, Bird Wonders of Australia, page 96:
text: Anyone who denounces violent self-defense against the Jew is a coward. He may know the crimes of the Jew, but subconsciously he knows that ACTUALLY taking action would mean sacrificing the bread and circus. It might mean that he won’t live comfortably anymore. This is one of the reasons cowards so shrilly screech that Brenton Tarrant and Robert Bowers were Mossad false flag operations.
ref: 2019 April 27, John T. Earnest, An open letter [so-called Earnest Manifesto], margin number 33:
glosses: In a shrill manner.
shrilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɹɪli/
rhymes: -ɪli
Forms: form: more shrilly
form: most shrilly
Etymology: From shrill + -y.
Senses: examples: text: The night—its silence—its rest, was rent in twain by a savage, a sharp, a shrilly sound that ran from end to end of Thornfield Hall.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
text: Yet there they sat, as stones, silent and still. / Sudden a voice, a feeble shrilly voice, / Rose from the inner tent […]
ref: 1860, Robert Stafford, Enoch, a Poem in Three Books:
glosses: Somewhat shrill.
conduction band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conduction bands
Senses: examples: text: In a semiconductor material like silicon, something very interesting happens because the current is not only carried by electrons in the conduction band.
ref: 2011, Brian Cox, Jeff Forshaw, The Quantum Universe, Allen Lane, published 2011, page 160:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The range of electron energies in an insulator or semiconductor in which electrons can move freely and transport charge.
Related terms: bandgap
valence band
shrillness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shrillnesses
Etymology: From shrill + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The shrillness of her voice made people's ears hurt.
glosses: The property of being shrill.
glosses: The result or product of being shrill.
bandgap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandgaps
form: band gap
Etymology: From band + gap.
Senses: examples: text: The problem has been the lack of what is known as a bandgap. Semiconductors have bands of higher and lower energies and a point – the bandgap – at which excited electrons can hop from one to the other. This effectively allows switching on and off of the flow of current, so it is either conducting or not conducting, creating the binary system of zeroes and ones used in digital computers. […] Now, Walter de Heer at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and his colleagues have created graphene with a bandgap and even demonstrated a working transistor, an on/off switch that either prevents or allows current to flow through it.
ref: 2024 January 4, Matthew Sparkes, “First working graphene semiconductor could lead to faster computers”, in New Scientist, retrieved 18 Jan 2024:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The energy difference between two allowed ranges of electron energy in a solid; especially the difference between the energies of the valence band and the conduction band.
examples: text: The propagation of an acoustic wave inside a phononic crystal is forbidden in the bandgap frequency range due to Bragg scattering.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A gap in a frequency range in which waves cannot propagate.
valve train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valve trains
form: valvetrain
Senses: glosses: The mechanical system that operates the valves in an internal combustion engine.
Synonyms: valve gear
variable star
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: variable stars
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Any star whose brightness varies.
Synonyms: variable
Hyponyms: cataclysmic variable
Cepheid variable
eclipsing variable
Related terms: binary star
vegetable ivory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The nutlike seed of the South American tagua palm, used to make small items such as buttons.
tagua palm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagua palms
Senses: glosses: A tropical South American palm, Phytelephas macrocarpa, whose seed is used as a substitute for ivory.
Synonyms: sense: Phytelephas macrocarpa
word: ivory palm
sense: Phytelephas macrocarpa
word: ivory-nut palm
Related terms: vegetable ivory
tagua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taguas
Etymology: From Spanish tagua.
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the tagua palm. When dried, it can be carved like ivory, and is used for beads, buttons, etc.
Synonyms: tagua nut
vegetable ivory
tagua nut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tagua nuts
Senses: glosses: The fruit of the tagua palm.
Synonyms: vegetable ivory
Venus' flytrap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venus' flytraps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Venus flytrap.
vesuvianite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vesuvianites
Etymology: From Vesuvian + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow, green or brown mineral, a mixed calcium, magnesium and aluminium silicate sometimes used as a gemstone.
Synonyms: idocrase
Derived terms: vesuvianite jade
Related terms: californite
Rowena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of the daughter of Hengist and wife of Vortigern in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12th century pseudohistorical Latin work Historia regum Britanniae. There have been attempts to connect it to some unattested Old English or Common Brittonic name, but without any real evidence. It was revived after Walter Scott used it in his novel Ivanhoe (1819).
Some places are named after Lady Rowena in the novel.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Early County, Georgia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Russell County, Kentucky.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Redwood County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Audrain County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Wasco County, Oregon.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Minnehaha County, South Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Runnels County, Texas.
glosses: A community in New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A town in Walgett Shire, New South Wales, Australia.
BSEE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
BSEE
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Bureau of Safety and Environment Enforcement
vibrotaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vibro- + taction.
Senses: glosses: The dynamic response of tactile nerve endings in the skin to vibration.
Related terms: vibrotactile
virial theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A theorem in mechanics showing the relationship between the kinetic energy of a system to the virial of Clausius.
insourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of in + outsourcing.
Senses: antonyms: outsourcing
coordinate_terms: vertical integration
glosses: The obtaining of goods or services using existing in-house resources or employees.
glosses: The obtaining of goods or services using domestic resources or employees as opposed to foreign.
Derived terms: regional insourcing
Related terms: vertically integrated
insourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Blend of in + outsourcing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of insource
poptastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poptastic
form: most poptastic
Etymology: From pop + -tastic.
Senses: glosses: Excellent; very good; especially of pop music.
snow drift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snow drifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snowdrift.
appam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˈpɑm/
Forms: form: appams
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil அப்பம் (appam).
Senses: glosses: A thin South Asian pancake made from rice flour and coconut
Derived terms: Pesaha appam
après-skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apres-skiing
form: apres skiing
form: après skiing
Etymology: From après-ski + -ing.
Senses: glosses: après-ski activities
Synonyms: après-ski
après
après-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apres-ski
form: apres ski
form: après ski
Etymology: Borrowed from French après-ski.
Senses: glosses: Entertainment, nightlife or social events that take place at a ski resort, after the skiing.
Synonyms: word: après-skiing
word: après
word: apres
Related terms: english: golf equivalent
translation: golf equivalent
word: nineteenth hole
après-ski
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: apres-ski
form: apres ski
form: après ski
Etymology: Borrowed from French après-ski.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to such events.
gama grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /'ga-mə-/
Forms: form: gama grasses
Etymology: Probably alteration of grama.
Senses: glosses: A tall coarse American grass of species Tripsacum dactyloides, valuable for forage.
Senga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The name was relatively common in West Central Scotland until the 1980s, and is sometimes said to derive from Agnes.
Senses: glosses: A female given name originating as a coinage, of mainly Scottish usage.
Senga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sengas
Etymology: The name was relatively common in West Central Scotland until the 1980s, and is sometimes said to derive from Agnes.
Senses: glosses: A female ned.
Synonyms: word: chav
word: charva
word: ned
word: scally
word: Sharon
word: Shaz
word: Shazza
word: millie
word: yob
Senga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic tribe of Zambia.
regicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From regicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to regicide.
Teddy boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teddy boys
form: teddy boy
Etymology: From Teddy (“Edward”), from their style of clothing, reminiscent of the Edwardian era.
Senses: examples: text: Mitch (Precious Pearl) is a smooth, impassive young man utterly dripping with the ambivalent sensuality of a teddy-boy in tap shoes.
ref: 1991 April 6, Ron Caldwell, “Kind of Stranger”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
synonyms: Ted
glosses: A member of a male youth culture which originated in London in the early 1950s, later associated with American rock and roll music.
Ba'al
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ba'als
form: Ba'alim
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Baʿal.
gradualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradualists
Etymology: From gradual + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Word has it that the DfT and Treasury are considering gradualist tinkering.
ref: 2022 November 30, Anthony Lambert, “Rail fares fit for the 21st century”, in RAIL, number 971, page 41:
topics: biology
government
natural-sciences
politics
glosses: One who believes in gradualism.
Related terms: punctuationist
saltationist
gradualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradualisms
Etymology: From gradual + -ism.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The belief that evolution proceeds at a steady pace, without the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
examples: text: Given enough time, the logic goes, water can cleave solid rock and mountains can be reduced to plains. This "gradualism" now underpins modern geologic thought. ... Maybe we'll find evidence that the rock layers are exposed on the flanks of Mount Sharp [on Mars] not because a river carved through them over millions of years, but because the wind blew against them for billions of years – the ultimate in gradualism.
ref: 2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 37]”, in The New York Times:
qualifier: transferred sense
glosses: The belief that some phenomenon occurs gradually over a long period of time.
topics: government
politics
glosses: The belief that change ought to be brought about in small, discrete increments rather than in abrupt strokes such as revolutions or uprisings.
Derived terms: phyletic gradualism
Related terms: punctuationism
saltationism
punctuationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From punctuation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.
ref: 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: In evolutionary biology, belief that evolution does not proceed at a steady pace, but instead is characterized by periods of stasis, punctuated by brief (within several hundred-thousand years) periods of rapid change.
Related terms: gradualism
saltationism
punctuationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punctuationists
Etymology: From punctuation + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Since most of the life of a species, on the punctuationist view, is spent in unchanging stasis, and since a species has a discrete beginning and end, it follows that, to a punctuationist, a species can be said to have a definite, measurable ‘life span’.
ref: 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: In evolutionary biology, one who believes in punctuationism.
Related terms: gradualist
saltationist
saltationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saltationists
Etymology: From saltation + -ist.
Senses: glosses: In evolutionary biology, one who believes in saltationism.
Related terms: gradualist
punctuationist
saltationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From saltation + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Gould has misled himself by his own rhetorical emphasis on the purely poetic or literary resemblance between punctuationism, on the one hand, and true saltationism on the other.
ref: 1986, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, W. W. Norton & Company, published 2015, →ISBN:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The belief that evolution operates by the sudden development of new species or biological features from one generation to the next.
Related terms: gradualism
punctuationism
evolutionary biology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A subfield of biology concerned with the origin and descent of species and as their evolution, multiplication and diversity over time.
comestible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛstəbl̩/
ipa: /kəˈmɛstɪbl̩/
Forms: form: more comestible
form: most comestible
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French comestible, or its source, Late Latin comestibilis, from Latin comedō (“I eat”), from com- (English com-) + edō (“I eat”) (as in English edible), from Proto-Indo-European (whence also English eat). Cognate with Spanish comestible (“grocery”).
Attested as adjective in late 15th century, from Middle French, but fell from use in the 17th century, thence reintroduced from Modern French in 19th century.
Corresponding terms in various Romance languages, more distant cognates include Portuguese and Spanish comida.
Senses: examples: text: Some herbes are most comestible.
ref: 1536, Thomas Elyot, Castell of Helth:
text: What with freeze-dried chives costing $96 a pound, and those snipped fresh for the omelette from the potted garden on the kitchen ledge almost free, the bountiful begonia has given way in many apartments to more comestible greenery.
ref: 1972 March 6, Richard W. Langer, “Sage, Rosemary and Thyme: Growing Your Own Fresh Herbs”, in New York, page 40:
text: Lestrade raised his mug in a loyal toast while Lady Pauline saw to the more comestible sort for breakfast.
ref: 1993, M. J. Trow, Lestrade and the Sawdust Ring, published 2000, page 112:
text: From the palm nut we derive palm oil, the most comestible oil in our country and in the whole of Africa.
ref: 2007, Rene Simo, The Little Gringo: Love and Martyrdom in Cameroon, page 12:
glosses: Suitable to be eaten; edible.
Synonyms: sense: suitable to be eaten
word: eatable
sense: suitable to be eaten
word: edible
sense: suitable to be eaten
word: esculent
Coordinate terms: drinkable
potable
Derived terms: comestibility
comestibly
noncomestible
comestible
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɛstəbl̩/
ipa: /kəˈmɛstɪbl̩/
Forms: form: comestibles
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French comestible, or its source, Late Latin comestibilis, from Latin comedō (“I eat”), from com- (English com-) + edō (“I eat”) (as in English edible), from Proto-Indo-European (whence also English eat). Cognate with Spanish comestible (“grocery”).
Attested as adjective in late 15th century, from Middle French, but fell from use in the 17th century, thence reintroduced from Modern French in 19th century.
Corresponding terms in various Romance languages, more distant cognates include Portuguese and Spanish comida.
Senses: examples: text: Comestibles of all sorts came to view, and a smell of cooking spread itself among the trees.
ref: 1910, Frank Richards, The Greyfriar′s Picnic:
text: Both serve up, with no fanfare, country comestibles.
ref: 1986 February, Joan Fox, “Restaurants: Just Like Mama Used to Cook”, in Cincinnati Magazine, page 116:
text: For instance, a food ration can be polymorphed into a carrot, a tripe ration, or any other comestible.
ref: June 4ᵗʰ, 1989, “Pete Granger” (username), Hack Tutorial, Part 03/03, rec.games.hack
text: Precisely that, for example, homemade food, craft pottery, rough-hewn wood furniture, and consumption of comestibles in a barn, are not the usual daily experience is the reason it is fun, enticing and a contrast for a person when on holiday.
ref: 2003, Priscilla Boniface, Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink, page 74:
synonyms: word: foodstuff
word: sustenance
word: victuals
word: aliment
word: bait
word: belly-timber
word: chow
word: comestibles
word: cuisine
word: eatables
word: eats
word: edibles
word: feed
raw_tags: for domesticated animals
word: fodder
raw_tags: for domesticated animals
word: foodstuffs
word: food
word: grub
word: kai
word: meals
word: meat
word: munchable
word: nibbles
word: nosebag
word: nosh
word: nourishment
word: om nom nom
word: provender
word: provisions
word: rations
word: scran
word: stodge
word: sustenance
word: tiffin
word: tucker
word: tuck
word: viands
word: victuals
word: vittles
glosses: Anything that can be eaten; food.
Coordinate terms: english: relatively formal term for something intended to be drunk
translation: relatively formal term for something intended to be drunk
word: beverage
chromium dioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A black, semiconducting material, CrO₂, having strong magnetic properties; used in recording tapes.
defusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfjuːʒən/
Etymology: From defuse + -ion, apparently by analogy with fusion etc.
Senses: examples: text: It seemed to us to express the right mixture of urgent concern and bracing responsibility that the middle 1970s require. But as the whole book shows, the megalopolitan time bomb is ticking uncomfortably fast. There is little margin for anyone to take a leisurely defusion course.
ref: 1975, Peter Wilsher, Rosemary Righter, The Exploding Cities, Quadrangle, New York Times Book Co., →ISBN, page 13:
text: The loss of the collections was immediately reported to General Petrov and he detailed a special team of engineers and mine defusion experts to aid the men of the 164th battalion in their search.
ref: 1987, Vladimir Karpov, translated by Y. S. Shurakov and L. Nicholas, The Commander, Brassey's, page 228:
text: 1992, Scott M. Cutlip, “The invasion of public relations' domain by lawyers and marketers”, section 1, Communication World, International Association of Business Communicators
Contrast Exxon's failures with Johnson & Johnson's successful defusion of its Tylenol crisis - that response directed by a seasoned public relations officer - Larry Foster.
text: China’s long border made land mines an essential and legitimate means of defense, and the costs of converting large stockpiles and its productions lines to meet the three criteria in the revised Protocol II (detectability, self-defusion, and self-destruction) would be enormous.
ref: 1999, Elizabeth Economy, Michel Oksenberg, China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects, Council on Foreign Relations,, →ISBN, page 115:
text: The story (as all stories do) ends with the timely interception of the bomb and its defusion.
ref: 20C, R. K. Murthi (translator), Salma Zaidi (author), The Prophecies of Nostradamus, Pustak Mahal, Delhi, page 129
text: 2002 August 1, Sara Powell, “Nuclear-powered animosities. (Human Rights)”, Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, American Educational Trust
Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, executive director of the Kashmiri-American Council, argued that the international community...made a fundamental mistake by making its primary objective the defusion of tension rather than trying to settle the issue of Kashmir.
glosses: The act of defusing.
defusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfjuːʒən/
Forms: form: defusions
Etymology: From de- + fusion.
Senses: examples: text: […] acceptance involves deliteralization: the defusion of the derived relations and functions of events from the direct functions of these events.
ref: 1994, Steven C. Hayes, Content, context, and the types of psychological acceptance, Context Press, →ISBN, page 31:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The separation of an emotion or behavior-provoking verbal stimulus from the unwanted emotional or behavioral response as part of a therapeutic process. A neologism meant to indicate the reversal of thought-emotion-action fusion.
defusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈfjuːʒən/
Senses: examples: text: The duration of the heat radiation from the bomb is so short, just a few thousandths of a second, that there is no time for the energy falling on a surface to be dissipated by thermal defusion; the flash burn is typically a surface effect.
ref: 1946 June 29, David B. Parker, editor, A Bombing Of Hiroshima And Nagasaki, The Manhattan Engineer District, Kessinger Publishing, published 2004, →ISBN, page 27:
glosses: Misspelling of diffusion.
Krista
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A spelling variant of Christa, a modern short form of Christina, partly borrowed from German Christa.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
comestibles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comestible
fors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Only used in fors and againsts
mazement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazements
Etymology: From maze + -ment.
Senses: examples: text: Plesse us awle, why does that sentilman make such unders and mazements at her, I know her not.
ref: c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Night Walker, or The Little Thief:
glosses: A trancelike state; amazement.
illuster
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illuster
form: most illuster
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of illustre.
illustre
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illustre
form: most illustre
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle French illustre (15th c.) (French illustre), from Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”).
The verb is derived from Middle French illustrer (15th c.) (French illustrer), from illūstrāre (“to illustrate”).
Senses: glosses: illustrious
illustre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: illustres
form: illustring
form: illustred
form: illustred
Etymology: The adjective is derived from Middle French illustre (15th c.) (French illustre), from Latin illustris (“bright, shining, brilliant, lustrous; clear, lucid; illustrious, distinguished, famous”), from illūstrō (“to illustrate”).
The verb is derived from Middle French illustrer (15th c.) (French illustrer), from illūstrāre (“to illustrate”).
Senses: examples: text: But, as the Phœnix on my Front doth gliſter, / Thou ſhalt the Finials of my Frame illuſtre.
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His First Week, or Birth of the World: […].] The Fift Daie of the First Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 140:
glosses: To illuminate (something).
glosses: To make (someone) illustrious.
Derived terms: english: made illustrious
translation: made illustrious
word: illustrated
colonnaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more colonnaded
form: most colonnaded
Etymology: From colonnade + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: But the troubles at Credit Suisse — whose colonnaded headquarters in Zurich are more than 5,800 miles from Silicon Valley Bank’s base in California — are separate and largely of its own making.
ref: 2023 March 15, Michael J. de la Merced, Maureen Farrell, “Credit Suisse to Borrow Up to $54 Billion From Central Bank”, in The New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: Having one or more colonnades.
Derived terms: uncolonnaded
trancelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trancelike
form: most trancelike
Etymology: From trance + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He’d been so terrified by the look on his father’s face that he gasped, breaking the trancelike moment.
ref: 2023, Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀, A Spell of Good Things, Canongate Books, page 159:
glosses: Having the characteristics of a trance.
cordless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹd.lɪs/
Etymology: From cord + -less.
Senses: synonyms: wireless
antonyms: corded
glosses: Having no cord; especially using batteries instead of mains electricity.
Derived terms: cordlessly
cordlessness
cordless phone
cordless switchboard
cordless telephone
cordless
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔɹd.lɪs/
Forms: form: cordlesses
Etymology: From cord + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I picked up the cordless from the table next to my chair. It was Dolores. Her voice was thin and brittle.
ref: 1998 November 1, Susan Albert, “five”, in Love Lies Bleeding, New York: Berkley Prime Crime, →ISBN, page 68:
glosses: Clipping of cordless telephone.
preening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːnɪŋ
Forms: form: preenings
Senses: examples: text: Katia Carranza, Jennifer Carlynn Kronenberg and Callie Manning are asked to do standard Hispanic preenings: hands on hips, placing weight on one leg while displaying the other thigh.
ref: 2008 April 1, Alastair Macaulay, “Miami Spice: Saucy Club Crawlers Flirt, Sulk and Spar to a Crossover Beat”, in New York Times:
glosses: A grooming or posturing.
preening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːnɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preen
decider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsaɪdə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -aɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: deciders
Etymology: From decide + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This written and revealed will of God I said was the Judge and Decider of all Questions.
ref: 1667, anon., "George Fox digg'd out of his burrowes, or An offer of disputation on fourteen proposalls...". John Foster, Boston, pp. 89-90
text: The Determination of his Majesty, who is the only proper decider of this Matter.
ref: 1758, Aaron Leaming, Jacob Spicer, The grants, concessions, and original constitutions of the province of New-Jersey, Philadelphia, page 680:
text: The god Adar, which, with its two oft-occurring idiographs Bar and Nin-ib, is preferably designated as the "Decider" (Entschneider).
ref: 1885, Friedrich Delitzsch, "General Notes: The Religion of the Kassites," Hebraica, vol 1 no 3 (Jan), p. 190
text: Although the decider may know any of the principles in the sequence, he cannot know every such principle.
ref: 1967 March 15, David P. Gauthier, “How Decisions are Caused”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 64, number 5, page 151:
text: I have strong confidence in Don Rumsfeld. I hear the voices. And I read the front page. And I know the speculation. But I'm the decider and I decide what is best.
ref: 2006 April 18, George W. Bush, quotee, “President Bush Announces Appointment of New Budget Director”, in Washington Post, →ISSN, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2018:
text: As noted, the frontal cortex is central to executive function. To quote George W. Bush, within the frontal cortex, it's the PFC that is “the decider.”
ref: 2017, Robert Sapolsky, chapter 2, in Behave, Penguin, →ISBN:
qualifier: question; etc; question; etc
glosses: A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides.
raw_tags: of a controversy
examples: text: Four years on, France […] will meet Ireland again in the probable decider for their World Cup pool in September 21 in Paris.
ref: 2007 February 10, William Fotheringham, “France aim to end four years of regret with seven-week sacrifice”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: […] when the Welshman laid on the 74th-minute decider.
ref: 2007 February 22, Kevin McCarra, “Liverpool show of unity recalls old magic”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Tensions threatened to boil over before the defending champion Gerwyn Price eventually overcame Kim Huybrechts in a sudden-death decider to reach the last 16 of the PDC World Championship.
ref: 2021 December 27, “Gerwyn Price beats Kim Huybrechts in fiery clash to keep title defence alive”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
glosses: A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input.
Synonyms: topics: law
word: decisor
word: decisionmaker
wizen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪzən/
rhymes: -ɪzən
Forms: form: more wizen
form: most wizen
form: wizzen
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-West Germanic *wisnōn, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōną, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to consume”). Cognate with Icelandic visna, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (frawisan, “to squander through feasting”).
Senses: examples: text: His face was wizen and wrinkled, his faded blue eyes dim and weak-looking. He was feeble, and his hands were tremulous with a perpetual nervous motion.
ref: 1864, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry Dunbar:
text: Yes, there would be a day when his face would be wrinkled and wizen, his eyes dim and colourless, the grace of his figure broken and deformed. The scarlet would pass away from his lips and the gold steal from his hair.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, “chapter”, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
glosses: Wizened; withered; lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness.
wizen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwɪzən/
rhymes: -ɪzən
Forms: form: wizens
form: wizening
form: wizened
form: wizened
form: wizzen
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian, weosnian, from Proto-West Germanic *wisnōn, from Proto-Germanic *wisnōną, from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to consume”). Cognate with Icelandic visna, Gothic 𐍆𐍂𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃𐌰𐌽 (frawisan, “to squander through feasting”).
Senses: examples: text: After wizening with cold for an hour, we ran down to the hut for breakfast, rejoicing in having brought with us some portable soup ; and after a second visit to the summit, started at eight, when the day seemed already far advanced, along with the Bleiberg party, for the descent.
ref: 1864, Josiah Gilbert Holland, G. C. Churchill, “The Morning Panorama”, in The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola, & Friuli in 1861, 1862, & 1863, London: Longman et al., page 493:
text: Where his suspicions were cast no man knew for certain, but his plump features wizened, and his rosy cheeks grew white, his proud head drooped, and he walked with a piteous uncertainty for so pompous and lofty a man.
ref: 1883, David Christie Murray, Hearts, volume III, London: Chatto & Windus, page 30:
text: 1–2000 solution gave no blackening, the tissues of the apple wizening before any effect was seen.
ref: 1920, G. H. Coons, Genevieve Gillette, “Phenol Injury to Apples”, in Annual Report of The Michigan Academy of Science, volume 21, page 327:
glosses: To wither; to become, or make, lean and wrinkled by shrinkage, as from age or illness.
Hoovercrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hoovercrats
Etymology: From Hoover + -crat.
Senses: glosses: An ally of President Herbert Hoover during his campaign and/or presidency.
Hoovercrats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hoovercrat
paraleipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paraleipsis
paralepses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paralepsis
paralipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: plural of paralipsis
opuscule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpʌs.kjuːl/
ipa: /oʊˈpəs.kjul/
Forms: form: opuscules
form: opuscle
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle French opuscule, from Latin opusculum, diminutive of opus. Compare opuscle, opusculum. Equivalent to opus + -cule.
Senses: glosses: A small or petty work.
Synonyms: opusculum
concretize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: concretizes
form: concretizing
form: concretized
form: concretized
form: concretise
Etymology: From concrete + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: An essence exists if and only if it is actualized or concretized somehow, in some concrete form.
ref: 1962, Charles Hartshorne, “How Some Speak and Yet Do Not Speak of God,”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, volume 23, number 2, page 275:
text: But Ms. Yauger's death concretized these abstract discussions and theories.
ref: 1999, Sherry D. Akins, “Vital Signs: Teaching and Grieving,”, in The American Journal of Nursing, volume 99, number 8, page 88:
text: Rights in this way stem from social conventions that concretize and shape the values that underlie them.
ref: 2003, Larry Alexander, “Is Judicial Review Democratic? A Comment on Harel”, in Law and Philosophy, volume 22, numbers 3-4, page 280:
text: The Russian Ministry of Education has taken additional steps to concretize Russian control over the school system in occupied Ukraine.
ref: 2025 August 28, Karolina Hird, “Russian Occupation Update, August 28, 2025”, in Ukraine Project, Institute for the Study of War:
glosses: To make concrete, substantial, real, or tangible; to represent or embody a concept through a particular instance or example.
examples: text: These expressions of God's concern concretize around the figure of the divine hand or arm.
ref: 2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 1055:
glosses: To be embodied, to have physical representation.
Derived terms: concretizable
unconcretized
Related terms: concretization
concretisation
deliberateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From deliberate + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Of course, Lasker ensured that there was nothing neutral about the commission […] Its members, chosen with exquisite deliberateness, were all Laskerʼs friends, associates, and sympathizers.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 184:
glosses: the state or property of being deliberate.
Related terms: deliberation
simpleminded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more simpleminded
form: most simpleminded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of simple-minded.
literalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: literalisms
Etymology: From literal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Elsewhere, the liturgiologists were said to have "disembowelled the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the Bible" and produced in its place "the bland literalisms of Series 3 and the ASB[.]"
ref: 1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 73:
text: Furthermore, what would otherwise be good points about the sort of selective literalism that renders homosexuality an unpardonable sin but shrugs off Sarah Palin’s biblically forbidden pearl earrings are lost in Eichenwald’s assumption that evangelicals make these decisions “with less care than they exercise in selecting side orders for lunch.”
ref: 2015 January 6, Rachel Held Evans, “What Newsweek gets wrong about evangelicals”, in CNN:
glosses: Literal interpretation or understanding; adherence to the exact letter or precise significance, as in interpreting or translating.
examples: text: The two main forms of literalism are ergism and orthodoxy.
ref: 2015, Søren Kierkegaard, Bruce H. Kirmmse, K. Brian Söderquist, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 2: Journals EE-KK, →ISBN:
topics: art
arts
glosses: The style of art portraying a subject as literally and accurately as possible.
Derived terms: antiliteralism
Related terms: word: literalist
word: letter of the law
english: translation theory
translation: translation theory
word: metaphrase
word: textualism
word: to the letter