cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Polacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Polack
aldeas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldea
alluvial fans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alluvial fan
fogos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fogo
damassé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈmæseɪ/
Forms: form: damassés
form: damasse
Etymology: Borrowed from French damassé, past participle of damasser (“to make (like) damask”), from damas (“damask”).
Senses: glosses: A fabric which is woven figured like damask.
ceos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ceo
fruit of one's loins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruit of one's loins
form: fruits of one's loins
Senses: examples: text: Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David . . . being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 2:29-30:
text: "Come into the yard with me, Micah," quoth my father. ". . . [I]f I am old and worn, there is the fruit of my loins to stand in my place and to wield the same sword in the same cause. You shall go in my place, Micah."
ref: 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 6, in Micah Clarke:
text: And behind the mare, or beside her, or else cavorting ahead, came a slim black colt, the fruit of her loins, without bridle or rope.
ref: c. 1950, Kay Boyle, “Adam's Death”, in Fifty Stories, 1992 edition, →ISBN, page 541:
glosses: One's child or, collectively, one's children or descendants.
Synonyms: issue
offspring
progeny
it's not what you know but who you know
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Forms: form: it's not what you know but whom you know
Senses: examples: text: Eighty-four students referred to political influence as a disadvantage of federal employment with such remarks as: "There are too many political connections necessary . . . it's not what you know but who you know—in spite of apparent merit systems."
ref: 1951, G. P. Bush, L. H. Hattery, “Federal Recruitment of Junior Engineers”, in Science, volume 114, number 2966, page 456:
text: "In Hollywood, it's not what you know but who you know," said Cross, who added that the awards ceremony was the perfect place to make connections.
ref: 1993 August 25, Heidi Gruber, “Cross film earns recognition in Hollywood”, in Ellensburg Daily Record, retrieved 19 Jun 2009:
text: "It's not what you know but who you know," Shelby said, as she rummaged through a bag to find the business card he'd handed her.
ref: 2008, Natasha Davies, Webc@m Girl, →ISBN, page 53:
glosses: For success, and especially to obtain employment, one's knowledge and skills are less useful and less important than one's network of personal contacts.
Related terms: friends in high places
to be honest
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I don't mind, to be honest.
text: To be honest, he has a bit of a body odor problem, but we haven't yet had an opportunity to tell him gently and privately.
synonyms: TBH
tbh
;
if I'm honest
in all honesty
I can't lie
qualifier: sentence adverb
glosses: Frankly, honestly.
examples: text: I tried to be honest but still no one believed me.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see to, be, honest.
Related terms: for sure
to be fair
to be frank
to be sure
Mérida
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Spanish, from the third word of the Latin name “colōnia Augusta Ēmerita”, from the feminine of ēmeritus (“veteran”), referring to the Iberian city being founded as an imperial veterans’ colony.
Senses: glosses: A city in Spain’s western region Estremadura, in Badajoz province
glosses: Latin American cities named after the above:
in Mexico, capital of Yucatán state
glosses: Latin American cities named after the above:
in Venezuela, an eponymous district capital in Guzman province
hydrochoric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrochoric
form: most hydrochoric
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having seeds that are dispersed by water
toss juggling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A form of juggling that involves throwing props in the air and catching them, in contrast to contact juggling.
supposively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From a mishearing.
Senses: examples: text: People from other planets have supposively visited Earth in flying saucers.
glosses: supposedly
hydrochory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + -chory.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The dispersal of seeds, spores, or fruit by water.
Coordinate terms: anemochory
zoochory
Related terms: hydrochoric
hydrodegradation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + degradation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: chemical degradation by water
hydroextractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroextractors
Etymology: From hydro- + extractor.
Senses: glosses: A machine that uses a rotating drum to remove excess water from textiles.
hydrogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + -gamy.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: pollination by means of water
reverse cascade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reverse cascades
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pattern performed with an odd number of props where each prop is caught by the opposite hand and thrown over the incoming prop, in contrast with the traditional cascade where the prop is thrown under.
Related terms: French cascade
shower
columns
Mills Mess
box
crispation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crispations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of curling, or the state of being curled.
examples: text: crispation of the muscles
text: crispation of the stomach
text: Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations.
ref: 1887, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Our Hundred Days in Europe:
text: THE NYMPH: (Loftily.) We immortals, as you saw today, have not such a place and no hair there either. We are stonecold and pure. We eat electric light. (She arches her body in lascivious crispation, placing her forefinger in her mouth.).
ref: 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:
glosses: A slight twitch of a muscle.
crispations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crispation
hydrogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hydrogamous
form: most hydrogamous
Etymology: From hydro- + -gamous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to hydrogamy
permissibleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From permissible + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: permissibility
glosses: The state of being permissible; legitimacy; allowableness.
allowability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allowabilities
Etymology: From allow + -ability.
Senses: synonyms: allowableness
glosses: The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
coronides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: kŏrōʹnĭdēz
ipa: /kɒˈɹəʊnɪdiːz/
Senses: examples: text: It has previously been noticed that D makes constant use of a filling-mark at the ends of lines, which is never used by A and very rarely by B, and that B is conspicuous for his extremely illiterate spelling; and to these the authors add a new criterion, that of the style of the coronides at the ends of books, of which facsimiles are given.
ref: 1938, Journal of Theological Studies, volumes 39-40, Macmillan, page 410:
glosses: plural of coronis
quietage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quiet + -age.
Senses: examples: text: Instead thereof sweet peace and quiet-age / It doth establish in the troubled mynd.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Quietness; stillness, peace.
arboreous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑɹˈbɚ.iəs/
Etymology: From Latin arbor (“tree”).
Senses: examples: text: 1684, Thomas Browne, “Observations upon Several Plants Mention’d in Scripture” in Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearne, pp. 28-29,
For the Parable may not […] imply any or every grain of Mustard, but point at such a grain as from its fertile spirit, and other concurrent advantages, hath the success to become arboreous, shoot into such a magnitude, and acquire the like tallness.
text: […] the continental climate, that is, having a colder winter and warmer summer, capable of producing considerable vigour of arboreous vegetation, and not so favourable to the generating of […] peat-moss […]
ref: 1831, Patrick Matthew, On Naval Timber and Arboriculture, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Part 4, Chapter 6, p. 288:
text: 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Out of Time’s Abyss in The Complete Works of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hastings, UK: Delphi Classics, 2014, Chapter 1,
dense forests of eucalyptus and acacia and giant arboreous ferns with feathered fronds waving gently a hundred feet above their heads
synonyms: ligneous
woody
antonyms: herbaceous
glosses: Having the characteristics of a tree. (of a plant)
examples: text: But among Authours, we meet with nothing more frequent, and indeed more celebrated, than those Arboreous amenities and Plantations of Woods, which they call’d Luci;
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, chapter 35, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber, 2nd edition, London, page 226:
text: The country was no longer plain-land, but an arboreous wilderness interspersed with small fields and fruit orchards.
ref: 1974, Richard Adams, Shardik, New York: Simon and Schuster, Book 4, Chapter 35, p. 329:
synonyms: wooded
glosses: Covered or filled with trees.
examples: text: And those fruites whiche Galene calleth arboreous, are those growing vppon trees.
ref: 1575, John Banister, A Needefull, New, and Necessarie Treatise of Chyrurgerie, London: Thomas Marshe, page 88:
text: Mushromes are either terrestrial, which grow out of the earth, or arboreous, which adhere to the stocks of trees;
ref: 1657, Jean de Renou, translated by Richard Tomlinson, A Medical Dispensatory, London, Book 1, Section 2, Chapter 8, p. 258:
glosses: Growing on trees.
examples: text: The arboreous ramification of the Meditallium of the Cerebellum appearing, being cut right downwards.
ref: 1695, Humphrey Ridley, The Anatomy of the Brain Containing its Mechanism and Physiology, London: S. Smith and B. Walford, Chapter 17, figure 7:
text: 1698, William Cowper, The Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Oxford: S. Smith and B. Walford, Table 56,
[…] [the] Internal Concave Surface [of the Placenta Uterina] next the Amnios, Appears Cover’d with the Chorion; under which the Arboreous Disposition of its Blood-Vessels are elegantly Exprest.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: dendritic
glosses: Having a tree-like, branching structure.
Related terms: arboreal
arborous
quietsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quietsome
form: most quietsome
Etymology: From quiet + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Let no false treason seek us to entrap, / Nor any dread disquiet once annoy / The safety of our joy; / But let the night be calm and quietsome, / Without tempestuous storms or sad affray, / Like as when Jove with fair Alcmena lay, …
ref: 1810 (original 1595), Edmund Spenser, John Aikin, Hymns. Visions. Elegiac poems
glosses: Characterised or marked by quietness; calm; still; tranquil
Synonyms: stillsome
Indi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: enpr: ĭn′dī
ipa: /ˈɪn.daɪ/
ipa: /ˈɪn.dʌɪ/
ipa: /ˈɪn.dʌi/
ipa: /ˈɪn.dəi/
ipa: /ˈɪn.dɑe/
ipa: /ˈən.daɪ/
ipa: /ˈɪn.ɖaj/
rhymes: -ɪndaɪ
Senses: glosses: An electoral division in Victoria, Australia.
dolefull
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of doleful.
Lupi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A municipality of Camarines Sur, Philippines.
feare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feares
Senses: examples: text: Revenge and Malice were as two violent oppugners on the one ſide, but Honeſty, Religion, Feare of God, with-held him on the other.
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Of the Will”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 1, member 2, subsection 11, page 44:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fear.
feare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feares
form: fearing
form: feared
form: feared
Senses: examples: text: Who when ſhe ſaw Dueſſa ſunny bright, / Adornd with gold and iewels ſhining cleare, / She greatly grew amazed at the ſight, / And th’vnacquainted light began to feare: For neuer did ſuch brightnes there appeare, / And would haue backe retyred to her caue, […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 66:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of fear.
theyr
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of their.
Pegasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pegasus.
astrologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From astrological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an astrological manner.
glosses: With regard to astrology.
helpe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of help.
helpe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helpes
form: helping
form: helped
form: helped
Senses: examples: text: For iff the patient be aſhamed to diſcloſe his wounde to the phyſician which knoweth it not, phyſicke can not helpe him.
ref: 1565, Thomas Stapleton, A Fortresse of the Faith: First Planted Amonge Vs Englishmen, and Continued Hitherto in the Vniuersall Church of Christ. The Faith of Which Time Protestants Call, Papistry., Antwerp: […] Ihon Laet, […], part 2, folio 112, recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of help.
helpelesse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of helpless.
evill
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of evil.
evill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of evil.
mischivous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of mischievous.
Tauri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Taurī, from Ancient Greek Ταῦροι (Taûroi).
Senses: examples: text: Who these Tauri were is a question of some difficulty. Strabo calls them a Scythian people, but Herodotus clearly distinguishes the Tauri from the Scythians, as being a different nation.
ref: 1850, Charles Anthon, “Chersonēsus Taurica”, in A System of Ancient and Mediæval Geography for the Use of Schools and Colleges, page 238:
synonyms: Taurians
glosses: An ancient people who inhabited the Crimean Mountains.
Related terms: Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima
oule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oules
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of owl.
oules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oule
darke
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dark.
darke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of dark.
lightspeed lag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightspeed lags
Senses: glosses: A delay in communications or information processing caused by a signal propagation being limited by the speed of light.
filé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fɪˈleɪ/
ipa: /fiːˈleɪ/
homophone: filet
Etymology: From French filé (“threaded”), after the way sassafras is processed.
Senses: glosses: A spicy herb made from the dried and ground leaves of the North American sassafras tree (Sassafras albidum) and used in Louisiana Creole cooking.
fainéant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fainéants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of faineant.
galère
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galères
Etymology: Borrowed from French galère, from Latin galea (“galley”). Originally referred to a type of ship, then metaphorically to difficult situations or unpleasant groups of people.
Senses: glosses: An undesirable, difficult, or burdensome situation.
glosses: A group of people regarded as troublesome or unwelcome.
bewonder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewonders
form: bewondering
form: bewondered
form: bewondered
Etymology: From be- + wonder. Compare Dutch bewonderen (“to admire”), German bewundern (“to admire”), Swedish beundra (“to admire”).
Senses: glosses: To wonder about; wonder over; wonder at; regard wonderingly; admire.
examples: text: The other seeing his astonishment, / How he bewonder'd was, and how he far'd […]
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xvii
synonyms: forwonder
glosses: To fill with wonder or admiration; amaze.
wonderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wonderous
form: most wonderous
Etymology: From wonder + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Wondrous.
smiler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smilers
Etymology: From Middle English smyler, smylere; equivalent to smile + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Jenny hadn’t been a natural hugger, but she’d been a smiler, a handholder.
ref: 2012, Joy Dettman, Wind in the Wires, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 28:
glosses: Someone who smiles.
examples: text: You're asking for a punch in the smiler!
glosses: The mouth.
styler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stylers
Etymology: From style + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who styles (especially hair), a stylist.
smileless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smile + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a smile, unsmiling.
Joycian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Joycian
form: most Joycian
Etymology: From Joyce + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joycean.
Joycian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Joycians
Etymology: From Joyce + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Joycean.
simple interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: interest paid only on the principal.
Related terms: compound interest
super-compound interest
simple pendulum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple pendulums
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical pendulum consisting of a weight suspended by a weightless string.
agnomina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agnomen
butterwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butterworts
Etymology: From butter + wort: perhaps from the ability of the leaves to coagulate milk, or from their peculiar sliminess.
Senses: examples: text: As he climbed up through the golden gorse he would look for orchids amongst the commoner cotton grass, bog asphodel and butterwort[.]
ref: 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 20:
glosses: Any plant of the insectivorous genus Pinguicula.
glosses: common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris)
Hellespont
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪ.spɒnt/
ipa: /ˈhɛl.ɪs.pɑnt/
Forms: form: the Hellespont
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Ἑλλήσποντος (Hellḗspontos).
Senses: examples: text: That he who has the time should lack the force, that she who has the force should lack the time! That a trifling and in all probability tractable obstruction of some endocrinal Bandusia, that a mere matter of forty-five or fifty minutes by the clock, should as effectively as death itself, or as the Hellespont, separate lovers.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.
Synonyms: Dardanelles
Dardanelles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɑː.dənˈɛlz/
ipa: [ˌdɑː.dənˈɛɫz]
ipa: /ˌdɑɹ.dənˈɛlz/
ipa: [ˌdɑɹ.dənˈɛɫz]
Forms: form: the Dardanelles
Etymology: Named after Ottoman forts spanning the strait, the Dardanelles, themselves likely named after Dardanus, an ancient city on the Asian shore of the strait, itself said to take its name from Dardanus, the son of Zeus and Electra.
Senses: glosses: The strait connecting the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea to the west.
Synonyms: word: Hellespont
Related terms: Bosphorus
Dardanelle
disciplic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disciplic
form: most disciplic
Etymology: From disciple + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to disciples or discipleship.
hydro-geothermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + geothermal.
Senses: glosses: That employs water heated geothermally
medicolegal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medico- + legal.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, both medicine and law, as for example with the legal implications of a medical decision (such as when to stop attempting resuscitation, or when not to prescribe a certain medication or surgery.
Derived terms: medicolegally
medievalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medievalisms
form: mediaevalism
Etymology: From medieval + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: It is striking, and quite in character with the man, that he [Sir Walter Scott], who had popularised a romantic notion of the Middle Ages, should be a convinced supporter of the railway, which was effectively to destroy the few traces of medievalism that had survived into the society of his time.
ref: 1951 February, Michael Robbins, “Sir Walter Scott and Two Early Railway Schemes”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
glosses: The state of being medieval.
glosses: The study of the Middle Ages.
glosses: A custom or belief from the Middle Ages.
Derived terms: Hispanomedievalism
Related terms: medievalist
medievalisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medievalism
pump-jet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pump-jets
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A marine system that creates a jet of water for propulsion of watercraft.
Hypernyms: alt: waterjet
word: water jet
Coordinate terms: oar
paddle
propeller
sail
screw
medievalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: medievalizes
form: medievalizing
form: medievalized
form: medievalized
form: mediaevalise
form: mediaevalize
form: medievalise
Etymology: From medieval + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: We may notice the 3rd, 6th and 7th examples, designed by Mr. W. T. Sams, especially the first named, a lumpy and mediævalized Town Hall.
ref: 1861 April 6, The Athenaeum, number 1745, page 470:
text: I don't mean that you are to Grecianize their dress, any more than medievalize it.
ref: 1885, Charles Kingsley: His Letters and Memories of His Life, letter dated January 23 1859, page 290:
text: The "Mort d' Arthur," on the contrary, has become the plaything of medievalizing folk in modern England.
ref: 1888, John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy, page 247:
text: In the former we find erotic poems that medievalize classical Latin verse under the guidance of Neoplatonic rhetoric, to produce mannered, pedantic play with poetic language and form that takes advantage of erotic situations for grammatical and rhetorical ends.
ref: 2004, Thomas C. Moser, A Cosmos of Desire: The Medieval Latin Erotic Lyric in English Manuscripts, page 13:
glosses: To make medieval.
medifurca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medifurcae
Senses: glosses: mesofurca
Derived terms: medifurcal
mesofurca
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesofurcae
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The internal skeletal element of the mesosternum.
Synonyms: word: medifurca
Derived terms: mesofurcal
mesofurcae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesofurca
mesofurcal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mesofurca + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the mesofurca.
mesosternum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɜː(ɹ)nəm
Forms: form: mesosterna
Etymology: From meso- + sternum.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.
topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax.
Derived terms: mesosternal
mediglacial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From medio- + glacial.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Between two glaciers.
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Formed between glaciers.
Medinan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Medinan
form: most Medinan
Etymology: From Medina + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, or from, Medina.
Medinan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Medinans
Etymology: From Medina + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Medina.
Medinans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Medinan
mediocrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mediocrists
Etymology: From mediocre + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A mediocre person.
mediocrely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mediocrely
form: most mediocrely
Etymology: From mediocre + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a mediocre way.
mediocral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mediocral
form: most mediocral
Senses: glosses: mediocre
Derived terms: mediocrally
diffusibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusibilities
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
synonyms: diffusibleness
glosses: A measure of the speed of diffusion.
raw_tags: of a gas or other fluid
glosses: Capacity for spreading.
Related terms: diffusate
diffuser
diffusible
diffusive
diffusivity
meditational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meditation + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, meditation.
glosses: Used as a means for meditation.
Mediterranean flour moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean flour moths
Senses: glosses: Any of species Ephestia kuehniella of moths that feeds on grain.
Synonyms: sense: Ephestia kuehniella
word: Indian flour moth
sense: Ephestia kuehniella
word: mill moth
Hypernyms: flour moth
Mediterranean fruit fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean fruit flies
Senses: synonyms: medfly
glosses: A fruit fly of species Ceratitis capitata, capable of wreaking extensive crop damage.
medjidie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medjidies
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish مجیدیه (mecidiye), most likely through French medjidié, the adjectival form of the personal name Mecid, from Arabic مَجِيد (majīd, “glorious”)
Senses: glosses: A coin of the Ottoman Empire, worth twenty piasters.
spreadability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spreadabilities
Etymology: From spread + -ability.
Senses: glosses: Ease of spreading or of being spread.
S wave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S waves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of S-wave.
discoursive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkɔː(ɹ)sɪv/
Forms: form: more discoursive
form: most discoursive
Etymology: From discourse + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The epic is everywhere interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.
ref: 1668, John Dryden, Essay of Dramatick Poesie:
glosses: Synonym of discursive.
synonyms: word: discursive
Derived terms: discoursively
discoursiveness
semiodiscoursive
medlure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medfly lure.
Senses: glosses: An insect attractant, used to attract the medfly.
Médoc
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The common noun is derived from the name of the region.
Senses: glosses: A grape-growing region in the south of France.
Médoc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Médocs
Etymology: The common noun is derived from the name of the region.
Senses: glosses: A Médoc AOC wine.
s.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: without year (from Latin sine anno)
s.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Initialism of semiannual.
glosses: Initialism of subject to approval.
s.a.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sex appeal.
medrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medricks
Senses: glosses: A species of tern, especially the common tern or Arctic tern.
medricks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of medrick
middelmannetjie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌmanəki/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌmanətʃi/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌmænəki/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌmænət͡ʃi/
ipa: /ˈmɪd(ə)lˌmʌnəki/
Forms: form: middelmannetjies
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans middelmannetjie (“little man in the middle”) (analysable as middel (“middle”) + man (“man”) + -etjie (“diminutive suffix”)), from Dutch middel (“middle”) + mannetje (“a short man”) (from man (“man”) + -etje, a variant of -tje (diminutive suffix)).
Senses: examples: text: Spoor [of a hippopotamus] […] Well-worn paths, some 20 cm wide, lead up from rivers, the four-toed tracks running parallel, and clearly indicating a ‘middelmannetjie’.
ref: 1996, Clive Walker, Signs of the Wild, 5th edition, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, →ISBN, page 141:
text: An old Ford was going down a road that had a formidable middelmannetjie (hump down the middle). This middelmannetjie was so high that the front axle of the car caught on it, the car somersaulted, and Trichardt and his passenger, a man called Van Niekerk, were flung out and broke their necks.
ref: 2005, Shirley Bell, The Happy Warrior: The Story of T. C. Robertson, Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: T. C. Robertson Trust, →ISBN, page 23:
text: The farm road with the high middelmannetjie finally came out at a big farmhouse with a lot of chickens running around.
ref: 2005, Graham [K.] Jooste, Rugby Stories from the Platteland, Johannesburg: 30° South Publishers, →ISBN, page 36:
text: [T]he two tracks made by four-wheel-drive vehicles with high clearances left a never-ending high point in the middle – the middelmannetjie as known to local whites. I had to keep either the right or the left wheels on it.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Lawley, Beyond the Malachite Hills: A Life of Colonial Service and Business in the New Africa, London; New York, N.Y.: I.B. Tauris, →ISBN:
text: [Y]ou are riding at 80 km/h on a typical Karoo dirt road, with clear two lane tyre tracks, and a middelmannetjie – that collection of sand, pebbles and dust dividing the 'lanes'. You are looking at the herd of springbok to your right, and you stray onto the middelmannetjie. The back wheel starts hunting and swerving.
ref: 2013, Deon Meyer, Dirt Busters: A Guide to Adventure Motorbiking, Cape Town: Tafelberg, →ISBN:
glosses: A ridge between ruts made by wheels in a dirt or gravel road.
wikipedia: Illinois
discoursively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more discoursively
form: most discoursively
Etymology: From discoursive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a reasoning manner; by way of conversation or discourse.
glosses: Discursively.
medrinaque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: medrinaques
Senses: glosses: A type of fabric from the Philippines, made from the abaca tree.
medspeak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From med + -speak.
Senses: glosses: The jargon used by the medical community.
dimorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈmɔːfəs/
Etymology: From di- + morph + -ous or di- + -morphous.
Senses: glosses: Dimorphic; occurring or existing in two different forms.
Synonyms: word: bimorphic
english: the least common of the four synonyms
translation: the least common of the four synonyms
word: bimorphous
english: the most common of the four synonyms
translation: the most common of the four synonyms
word: dimorphic
Derived terms: isodimorphous
Related terms: Dimorphos
medullar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French médullaire and its etymon Latin medullāris. By surface analysis, medulla + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of medullary.
Derived terms: cerebromedullar
corticomedullar
juxtamedullar
perimedullar
supramedullar
Proto-Bantu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Bantu.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical protolanguage of the Bantu languages.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Bantu terms
medusahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From medusa + head.
Senses: glosses: A type of bristly grass native to Europe, Taeniatherum caput-medusae
mee krob
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mee grob
form: mi krop
Etymology: Borrowed from Thai หมี่กรอบ (mìi-grɔ̀ɔp, literally “crisp noodles”).
Senses: glosses: A type of crispy rice noodles from Thailand, normally served with a sweet sauce.
S.Dak.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of South Dakota.
éclaircissement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: éclaircissements
Etymology: Borrowed from French éclaircissement.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eclaircissement.
meemaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meemaws
form: meema
form: memaw
Etymology: Probably an affectionate alteration of mama or reduplication of maw (“mother”).
Senses: examples: text: “Let's celebrate with drinks at Tipsy River.” “Uh, I don't want to go to Tipsy River. I don't want to bother my meemaw while she's working.” “Let's not push it. He's embarrassed of his country-ass grandma.” “Don't be embarrassed of your meemaw, Wayne. She's fun.”
ref: 2021 April 18, Christy Stratton & Erin Wagoner, “Hoot 'N Haw” (3:29 from the start), in Bless the Harts, season 2, episode 18, spoken by Wayne Edwards (Ike Barinholtz):
text: “Captain, we are in orbit of Brekka.” “Dr. Migleemo, you have the conn.” “Ba-ha-ha. A feast of opportunities to make you proud, Captain.” “Keep it together, Doctor. You'll do fine.” “[sniffles] It's really happening.” “Orders, sir?” “Yes. Initiate a subspace communication link to my meema. I want her to see her special boy being the captain!” “Yes, sir.”
ref: 2022 October 20, Ben M. Waller, “Trusted Sources” (17:12 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 3, episode 9, spoken by Dr. Gabers Migleemo (Paul F. Tompkins):
glosses: Synonym of mamaw (“grandmother”).
synonyms: word: mamaw
extra: grandmother
Coordinate terms: peepaw
meemaw
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meemaws
form: meemawing
form: meemawed
form: meemawed
Etymology: Possibly related to maw (“mouth; opening”).
Senses: examples: text: On working days weavers who had jobs were already meemawing across the racket of looms as the van delivered and in hot weather, with weaving shed doors open, the sound bombarded the streets.
ref: 2011, Ernest Dewhurst, Pennine Childhood, →ISBN:
text: Bill, who had nudged the other customer out of the shop and locked the door, meemawed at him to wait.
ref: 2013, Nick Oldham, Critical Threat, →ISBN:
text: Basically, you meemawed anything you didn't want people to overhear, even when there was no one around to listen in.
ref: 2013, Lisa Riley, Never Judge a Book by its Cover: The Autobiography, →ISBN:
glosses: To mouth words so that they can be heard over noise (or later so that they cannot be overheard), originally in the cotton industry of Lancashire.
meemaw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: meemaws
Etymology: Possibly related to maw (“mouth; opening”).
Senses: examples: text: Be still, says th'chap: un then fixin his een on th' dug's, un givin his buddy some spasmoddical twitches, un jertin his neck as if his yed wur a burden to it, un he wanted t'throw it off, he begun to make aw sorts o' meemaws wi his honds.
ref: 1860, Bobby Shuttle, James Taylor Staton, Bobby Shuttle un his Woife Sayroh's Visit to Manchester:
text: “Nor me noather,” replied Ben. “They'n too mony meemaws abeawt 'em for me.”
ref: 1878, Publications - Volume 11 - Page 191:
text: Indeed, the human voice could not make itself heard amidst the terrible din, and the labourers soon developed a system of signs and meemaws, whilst the foremen spoke the language of the strap.
ref: 2010, Anne Finger, “Our Ned”, in Call Me Ahab: A Short Story Collection, →ISBN, page 156:
glosses: Alternative form of mee-maw.
screaming meemie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: screaming meemies
Senses: synonyms: moaning Minnie
glosses: The Nebelwerfer, a type of German mortar used in World War Two.
Related terms: screaming meemies
meetable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meetable
form: most meetable
Etymology: From meet + -able.
Senses: glosses: Possible to meet face to face.
raw_tags: of a person
qualifier: goal etc
glosses: Reachable, able to be met or reached.
raw_tags: of a target
Derived terms: unmeetable
megabook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megabooks
Etymology: From mega- + book.
Senses: glosses: An extremely large book.
S meter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: S meters
Etymology: Short for "signal strength meter".
Senses: glosses: An indicator used to measure the strength of the radio signal, often provided on communications receivers.
Related terms: signal strength
megacephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more megacephalic
form: most megacephalic
Etymology: From mega- + -cephalic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having an extremely large head.
Related terms: megacephalous
megacephaly
chuckleheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chuckleheaded
form: most chuckleheaded
Etymology: From chuckle + headed.
Senses: examples: text: In one of these chuckleheaded essays about the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Martin Amis complains about the use of the shorthand 9/11: “My principal objection to the numbers is that they are numbers,” he writes in “The Second Plane.”
ref: 2008 April 8, Michiko Kakutani, “Novelist’s Crash Course on Terror”, in New York Times:
synonyms: word: addlebrained
word: addlepated
word: airheaded
word: bee-brained
word: beef-witted
word: beefheaded
word: beetle-headed
word: birdbrained
word: blockheaded
word: Boeotian
word: boneheaded
word: boofheaded
word: brainless
word: bubbleheaded
word: buffle-headed
word: bullet-headed
word: cerebrally challenged
word: childish
word: chowderheaded
word: chuckleheaded
word: crackbrained
word: cretinous
word: dense
word: dented
word: dim-bulb
word: dim-headed
word: dim-witted
word: dim
word: doltish
word: dopey
word: dozy
word: drowsy
word: dull-headed
word: dull-minded
word: dull-witted
word: dull
word: dumber than a box of rocks
word: dumb
word: dunderheaded
word: empty-headed
word: fatheaded
word: feeble-minded
word: flea-brained
word: foolish
word: fuzzy-headed
word: fuzzy-minded
word: half-brained
word: half-witted
word: hammer-headed
word: idiotic
word: imbecilic
word: inane
word: insipid
word: intellectually challenged
word: knuckleheaded
word: lamebrained
word: lowbrow
word: lumpish
word: lunkheaded
word: mentally challenged
word: mentally retarded
word: mindless
word: monosynaptic
word: moronic
word: muttonheaded
word: nitwitted
word: numbskulled
word: oafish
word: obtuse
word: peabrained
word: pratty
word: pudding-headed
word: puerile
word: purblind
word: quarter-witted
word: retarded
word: rockheaded
word: sharp as a bowling ball
word: sheep-headed
word: simple
word: slow-witted
word: slow
word: smooth-brained
word: stolid
word: stupid
word: thick-skulled
word: thickheaded
word: thickwitted
word: thick
word: unapprehensive
word: unclever
word: unintelligent
word: unsmart
word: vacant
word: vacuous
word: witless
word: wooden-headed
word: wool-headed
word: woolly-headed
word: woolly-minded
word: dumb as a bag of hammers
word: dumb as a box of rocks
word: dumb as a doorknob
word: dumb as an ox
word: dumb as a post
word: dumb as a sack of hammers
word: dumb as dirt
word: dumber than a rock
word: not the sharpest crayon in the box
word: not the sharpest knife in the drawer
word: not the sharpest tool in the shed
word: thick as a brick
word: thick as a plank
word: thick as champ
word: thick as mince
word: thick as two short planks
word: thick as a whale omelette
word: ass-brained
word: fuckwitted
word: shit-for-brains
word: thick as pig shit
glosses: stupid, idiotic
Derived terms: chuckleheadedness
editioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From edition + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Two Palms has a suite of intaglio prints by Chris Ofili (similar to those on view through tomorrow at David Zwirner) and editioned hand-painted collages by Richard Prince, who merges covers of nurse-themed pulp-fiction titles with images clipped from pornographic sources.
ref: 2007 November 2, Karen Rosenberg, “Rembrandt and Modernists at a Weekend Red-Tag Sale”, in New York Times:
topics: art
arts
glosses: Having undergone editioning
editioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From edition + -ing.
Senses: topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
glosses: The process of making a small number of prints available, in order to make the print more lucrative.
saturity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin saturitas.
Senses: glosses: The state of being satiated; fullness, repletion.
buydown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buydowns
form: buy-down
Etymology: From buy + down.
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An accelerated repayment of the principal of a loan.
qualifier: mortgage finance
glosses: A payment by a third-party to a lender to reduce some of all of the payments otherwise required, especially in first few years of the loan, thereby enhancing the apparent quality of the loan.
Synonyms: sense: accelerated repayment of principal
word: prepayment
sense: accelerated repayment of principal
word: accelerated
sense: accelerated repayment of principal
word: lump sum amortization
Related terms: buy down
buydowns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buydown
Saturnalian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saturnalian
form: most Saturnalian
Etymology: From Saturnalia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Saturnalia.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of saturnalian (“riotously merry; dissolute”).
Derived terms: english: Saturnalia
translation: Saturnalia
word: Saturnalians
skysurfing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sky + surfing.
Senses: glosses: A kind of skydiving where the skydiver has a surfboard attached to the feet, and performs surfing-like stunts in midair.
Related terms: skysurfer
skysurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skysurfers
Etymology: From sky + surfer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who does skysurfing.
jabby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒæbi/
Forms: form: jabbier
form: jabbiest
Etymology: From jab + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Its tight, jabby songs, influenced equally by minimalist post-punk and sentimental white soul, end just when you think you’ve figured them out.
ref: 2008 April 4, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
glosses: Short yet vigorous and forceful.
examples: text: Short, jabby movements of the knife.
glosses: Characterized by jab-like rhythms or actions.
Related terms: punchy
relock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: relocks
form: relocking
form: relocked
form: relocked
Etymology: From re- + lock.
Senses: glosses: To lock again.
saturniid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈtɚ.ni.ɪd/
Forms: form: saturniids
Senses: glosses: Any moth of the family Saturniidae
rhythm section
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhythm sections
Senses: glosses: The section of a band maintaining the rhythm, consisting of e.g. drums, bass, keyboard, etc.
-nym
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: See -onym § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of -onym.
Related terms: English terms suffixed with -onym
open and affirming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more open and affirming
form: most open and affirming
Senses: synonyms: affirming
glosses: Of or pertaining to Christian congregations and other Christian groups that accept gay men and women, bisexuals, and transgender people.
Related terms: affirming
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rub in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rubs in
form: rubbing in
form: rubbed in
form: rubbed in
Senses: examples: text: Flattening chicken breast halves serves two purposes: It provides more surface area to rub in the Greek-influenced seasoning, and it ensures that the chicken cooks quickly.
ref: 2006 July 19, “On The Fridge”, in Washington Post:
glosses: To apply by rubbing.
glosses: Of butter, to mix in by rubbing.
examples: text: Postcards from Florida might mean someone is rubbing in the fact he or she has been lounging on the white, sandy beaches
ref: 2003 March 9, Glenn Davis, “U.S. vs. Mexico a day of celebration, opportunity”, in Houston Chronicle:
glosses: To make a point in an irritatingly emphatic manner.
Derived terms: rub it in
boards up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of board up
boarding up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of board up
boarded up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Silverdale: The Furness Line station's community group is interested in restoring the boarded-up Platform 2 building for community use.
ref: 2024 January 24, Howard Johnston, “Network News: North West”, in RAIL, number 1001, page 27:
glosses: simple past and past participle of board up
autos da fé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auto da fé
auto da fé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autos da fé
Senses: examples: text: This was the appointed day for the auto da fé, and streets, balconies, and windows were already alive with eager faces to witness the procession of[…]
ref: 1870, Making of America Project, Harper's Magazine, page 368:
text: I have an autograph letter dated Madrid, 11 July, 1680, which contains a short account of an auto da fé[…]
ref: 1908, William White, Notes and Queries, page 288:
glosses: Alternative spelling of auto da fe.
auto-da-fé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: auto-da-fés
form: autos-da-fé
Senses: examples: text: The taste was of sweetened silt and arabica beans that hadn't been gently roasted so much as charred to death in their very own auto-da-fé.
ref: 2005, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade, page 26:
glosses: Alternative spelling of auto da fe.
autos-da-fé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auto-da-fé
exclusionary rule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclusionary rules
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A doctrine which requires that evidence obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a warrantless search, or continued questioning a witness who has invoked the right of counsel) must therefore be excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial. This rule does not apply in civil proceedings, although statutes sometime specifically provide for exclusion of such evidence.
Related terms: fruit of the poisonous tree
exclusionary rules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclusionary rule