cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
wateriness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterinesses
Etymology: From Middle English watrynesse, equivalent to watery + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being watery.
Derived terms: milk-and-wateriness
meffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meff
schizogony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schizogonies
Etymology: From schizo- + -gony.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Asexual reproduction of protozoans etc characterized by multiple divisions of the nucleus and cell.
Hyponyms: merogony
sporogony
gametogony
Related terms: schizogonic
schizogonous
mystifying
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mystifying
form: most mystifying
Senses: glosses: Very hard to understand; baffling.
Derived terms: mystifyingly
unmystifying
mystifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mystify
absentia epileptica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɛn.ʃi.ə ˌɛp.əˈlɛp.tɪ.kə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absentia (“absence”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A momentary lapse of consciousness; a minor epileptic seizure.
Synonyms: absence seizure
petit mal seizure
telo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “end”). Compare teleo-.
Senses: glosses: end
glosses: complete; completion; finished
Derived terms: teloblast
telocentric
telocoel
telodendrion
telogen
telolecithal
telomerase
telomere
telopeptide
telophase
telotaxis
telotroch
Related terms: atel-
atelo-
periastron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɛɹɪˈæstɹən/
Forms: form: periastrons
form: periastra
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around”) + ἄστρον (ástron, “star”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: That point of the orbit of a celestial body which is closest to the star around which the body is orbiting.
Related terms: periapsis
telomere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləmɪəɹ/
ipa: /ˈtiːləmɪəɹ/
Forms: form: telomeres
Etymology: From telo- (“end”) + -mere (“part”).
Senses: examples: text: 2004, Peter M. Lansdorp, 11: Telomeres and Telomere Regulation, Robert Paul Lanza (editor), Handbook of Stem Cells, Volume 2: Adult and Fetal Stem Cells, page 127,
Chromosome ends or telomeres are composed of guanine-rich repeat sequences and associated proteins. A minimum number of repeats is essential for proper telomere function and to avoid sustained activation of DNA damage pathways that may result in replicative senescence or cell death.
text: It has been known for some time that when cells divide, causing chromosomes to duplicate, telomeres get shorter. The more a cell divides, then, the shorter the telomeres become.
ref: 2005, Cara Birrittieri, What Every Woman Should Know about Fertility and Her Biological Clock, page 51:
text: Previous studies have examined telomere lengths as an indirect measure of aging in cloned animals. Sheep were reported to have shorter telomeres suggestive of premature aging while cattle had either age-appropriate or longer telomeres.
ref: 2007, Peter Sutovsky, Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer, page 78:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Either of the sequences of DNA at each end of a eukaryotic chromosome.
Related terms: telomerase
telomeric
telomerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /teˈlɑməɹeɪs/
ipa: /teˈlɒməɹeɪz/
Forms: form: telomerases
Etymology: From telomere + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An enzyme in eukaryotic cells that adds a specific sequence of DNA to the telomeres of chromosomes after they divide; gives the chromosomes stability over time.
teloblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teloblasts
Etymology: From telo- + -blast.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: In annelids etc., a large cell at the growing end of many embryos that produces many smaller cells.
Derived terms: ectoteloblast
teloblastic
telocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telo- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: (of a chromosome) having the centromere at one end
telocentric
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telocentrics
Etymology: From telo- + -centric.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chromosome of this kind.
telocoel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telocoels
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A cavity in the telencephalon of an embryo.
telodendrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telodendrions
form: telodendron
Etymology: From telo- + δένδρον (déndron, “tree”) + -ion (suffix used for neo-classical compounds, compare -ιον (-ion)). Attested from the 1890s.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The terminal branching of an axon; a telodendron.
telodendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telodendrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of telodendrion.
telogen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telogens
Etymology: From telo- + -gen.
Senses: topics: dermatology
medicine
sciences
glosses: A resting phase of the follicle in the cycle of hair growth.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An active-chain transfer agent used in the telomerization process.
Coordinate terms: anagen
catagen
exogen
Derived terms: telogen effluvium
telogenic
telolecithal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From telo- + lecithal.
Senses: glosses: having the yolk at one end
raw_tags: of an egg
telophase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telophases
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τέλος (télos, “completion”) + New Latin phasis, from Ancient Greek φάσις (phásis, “an appearance”), from φάω (pháō, “to shine”).
Senses: examples: text: This separateness is most easily observed in the telophase of each division, though in some cleavage cells it may be seen in the prophase also, or even throughout the resting period.
ref: 1901 June 24, Edward. G. Conklin, “The individuality of the germ nuclei during the cleavage of the egg of Crepidula”, in Biological Bulletin, volume 2, number 6:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The final stage of mitosis or meiosis during which the daughter chromosomes move towards opposite ends of the nuclear spindle
Derived terms: anatelophase
telotaxis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telotaxes
Etymology: From telo- + taxis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: movement of an organism either toward or away from a stimulus
telotroch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telotrochs
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: a posterior tuft of cilia in a trochophore larva
kistvaen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkɪstvaɪn/
Forms: form: kistvaens
form: cistvaen
Etymology: From Welsh cistfaen, from cist (“chest”) + maen (“stone”).
Senses: examples: text: It was man of the New Stone Age who first peopled this upland, leaving remains of his hut-dwellings, his pounds, dolmens, and menhirs, his kistvaens and his cooking-holes.
ref: 1913, Arthur L. Salmon, Dartmoor:
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.
Related terms: cist
telopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telopeptides
Etymology: From telo- + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: an amino acid sequence, (normally at one or more ends), that have a function in building or conforming a protein and are proteolytically removed at maturity
Related terms: telopeptidyl
hership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhɜːʃɪp/
Etymology: From here (“army”), or the stem of Old English herġan (“harry”), + -ship.
Senses: glosses: Pillaging, devastation, plunder.
prestes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Then entred Satan into Judas, whose syr name was iscariot (which was of the nombre off the twelve) and he went his waye, and commened with the hye prestes and officers, how he wolde betraye hym vnto them.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Luke:
glosses: plural of preste
El Nino
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: El Ninos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of El Niño.
presumes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of presume
avenged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈvɛndʒd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of avenge
principia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: principium
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin prī̆ncipia.
Senses: examples: text: 1776, Thomas Pownall, in a letter to the economist Adam Smith
I do really think, that your book […] might become an institute, containing the principia of those laws of motion, by which the system of the human community is framed and doth act […]
text: They were her principia, her rudiments; the elementary atoms; the little steps by which she pressed forward to perfection.
ref: 1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barbara S⁠——”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 116:
glosses: First principles; elementary material.
Related terms: principial
privado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɪˈveɪdəʊ/
ipa: /pɹɪˈvɑːdəʊ/
Forms: form: privados
form: privadoes
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish privado, from Latin privatus.
Senses: examples: text: But Lanfrank, being a privado to the pope's projects […]might antedate this objection against Thomas , using it for the present as a rub to retard him
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: A trusted friend; a confidant.
privilegiado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privilegiados
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish privilegiado.
Senses: examples: text: Cubans, except for priviligiados ^([sic]), were forgidden ^([sic]) to shop in the hotel stores, which featured Western merchandise and Eastern propaganda.
ref: 1983 April 16, John Kyper, “Cuba: A Little Sex, No Drugs, and Lotsa Rock 'n Roll”, in Gay Community News, page 8:
glosses: One who has special privileges.
proceded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of procede
procedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of procede
procede
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: procedes
form: proceding
form: proceded
form: proceded
Senses: examples: text: [T]here is no thynge with outt a man that can diffyle hym when hitt entreth in to hym⸝ but thoo thyngꝭ [things] which procede out of a mã [man] are thoſe which defyle a mã.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Gospell off S. Marke vij:[15], folio liiij, recto:
text: For this cauſe that when he [the pawn] can procede so well in warre, as to arriue at the laſte rancke of hys enemies, he is choſen and made the beſt piece of the playe, to wit, he is the Quene.
ref: 1562, Damiano da Odemira, translated by Iames Rowbothum, The Pleasaunt and Wittie Playe of the Cheasts Renewed, with Instructions Both to Learne It Easely, and to Play It Well, London, page A7v:
text: […] thither [to Douai] he went, where after a yeres great diligence and many excerciſes done booth in houſe and publike ſcholes, he proceded bachilier of diuinitie, […]
ref: 1582, W. Allen, Briefe Hist. Glorious Martyrdom, sig. d3
glosses: Obsolete spelling of proceed.
glosses: Misspelling of proceed.
proclame
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: proclames
form: proclaming
form: proclamed
form: proclamed
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of proclaim.
proclames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of proclame
dout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aʊt
Etymology: From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of doubt.
glosses: Misspelling of doubt.
dout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aʊt
Forms: form: douts
form: douting
form: douted
form: douted
Etymology: Blend of do + out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.
Senses: examples: text: Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
ref: 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:
text: The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.
ref: 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:
glosses: To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
Related terms: douter
a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke
propale
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: propales
form: propaling
form: propaled
form: propaled
Senses: examples: text: When Mr. Wood's testimony came to be propaled, the primate raged terribly, and caused summon Mr. Carstairs, Mr. Tullidaff, and the notary, before the high commission court.
ref: 1862, John Henderson Thomson, William M'Gavin, The Cloud of Witnesses for the Royal Prerogatives of Jesus Christ:
glosses: To disclose.
propales
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of propale
propine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
Forms: form: propines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of propyne.
propine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
ipa: /pɹəˈpaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
Forms: form: propines
form: propining
form: propined
form: propined
Etymology: From Latin propinō, from Ancient Greek προπῑ́νω (propī́nō, “to drink to someone's health”).
Senses: examples: text: The lovely sorceress mix'd, and to the prince
Health, peace and joy propin'd.
ref: 1752, Christopher Smart, “The Hop-Garden”, in Poems:
text: He cheerly passes, quaffs the social glass,
Propines the winds, or toasts some blooming lass.
ref: 1818, Archibald Johnston, The Mariner: A Poem in Two Cantos, page 15:
glosses: To pledge; to offer as a toast in the manner of drinking, that is, by drinking first and passing the cup.
glosses: To give in token of friendship.
examples: text: we would propine, both our selues, and our cause, vnto open and iust derision.
ref: 1622, Martin Fotherby, Atheomastix:
glosses: To give, or deliver; to subject.
Related terms: propination
propine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
ipa: /pɹəˈpaɪn/
rhymes: -aɪn
ipa: /ˈpɹəʊpaɪn/
Forms: form: propines
Etymology: From Latin propinō, from Ancient Greek προπῑ́νω (propī́nō, “to drink to someone's health”).
Senses: glosses: A pledge.
glosses: A gift or gratuity.
propines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of propine
propulse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹəˈpʌls/
rhymes: -ʌls
Forms: form: propulses
form: propulsing
form: propulsed
form: propulsed
Etymology: From Latin propulso.
Senses: examples: text: all succours were clerely estopped and propulsed from them
ref: 1550, Edward Halle, The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre and Yorke:
glosses: To repel; to drive off or away.
glosses: To propel; to drive forward.
pugne
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pugnes
form: pugning
form: pugned
form: pugned
Senses: glosses: To fight
pules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pule
pules
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pule
pulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of palas.
malverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malverse
form: most malverse
Senses: examples: text: [B]e what set of men they will, who would adventure to befriend and patronize such a malverse course […].
ref: 1776, Josiah Hunter, An Inquiry Concerning the Scriptural Order, page 199:
text: Never was fellow so pestered with malverse accidents as I am; and all of my own contriving!
ref: 1792, Thomas Holcroft, Anne St. Ives, vol. II, letter 36:
text: It has been well remarked, that a little learning, and a little power, are apt to be more productive of mischief than of advantage to their possessors, and that this malverse propensity has been most particulary^([sic]) efficient , when such attainments and possessions have been rare and splendid.
ref: 1815, David Laurie, A Treatise on Finance, page 933:
glosses: Unfavourable, untimely; perverse.
puntee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: puntees
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of punty.
puntees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puntee
queme
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: quemes
form: queming
form: quemed
form: quemed
Etymology: From Middle English quemen (“to please”), from Old English cwēman (“to gratify, satisfy, please”) (compare pleasant, agreeable, acceptable and cwēmnes (“pleasure, satisfaction, mitigation”)), from Proto-West Germanic *kwāmijan, from Proto-Germanic *kwēmijaną (“to please, be convenient, suit”), from *kwemaną (“to come”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷem- (“to go, come”). Compare obsolete Swedish kväma, Danish kvemme. Related to Old English cuman (“come”), English come. Compare also quim.
Senses: examples: text: Of body she was right avenant, Of fair colour, with sweet semblant. Her attire full well it seem'd, Marvellich the king she quemed.
ref: 1801, George Ellis, Specimens of the early English poets:
text: On fair Corea's shellèd stream, My fancy floats without restraint; Pagodas, wrought in porcelain, teem On every side, of fabric quaint. While genii pleased my sense to queme, the blue-foamed Yang-ste-Kiang, faint Before my gaze depict in dream, Ebbing its ripples with my plaint.
ref: 1892, Francis Saultis, Dreams After Sunset:
text: Nothing Jesus Christ more quemeth (pleaseth) Than love in wedlock where men it yemeth (keepeth);
ref: 1906, William Henry Schofield, English Literature:
glosses: To please, to satisfy.
quemes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of queme
quites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quite
mamad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mamads
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew ממ״ד.
Senses: glosses: A reinforced safe room in an Israeli building.
mamo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪməʊ/
Forms: form: mamos
Etymology: Borrowed from Hawaiian mamo.
Senses: examples: text: In 1907, when a well-known collector named Alanson Bryan realised that he had shot the last three specimens of black mamos, a species of forest bird that had only been discovered the previous decade, he noted that the news filled him with ‘joy’.
ref: 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, published 2003, page 421:
text: The plaintive whistle of the Hawai‘i mamo, a shy bird then found only on Hawai‘i Island, was heard only rarely by the mid-1880s, as cattle ranching and plantations altered the forest canopies where this nectar-loving finch once thrived.
ref: 2012, Julia Flynn Siler, Lost Kingdom, Grove Press, page 76:
glosses: Either of two extinct species of Hawaiian honeycreepers of the genus Drepanis.
mamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mama
manes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäʹnāz
ipa: /ˈmɑːneɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːneɪz
Etymology: From Latin manes (“spirits of the dead”).
Senses: examples: text: this was the Ustrina or place of burning their bodies, or some sacrificing place unto the Manes
ref: 1658, Sir Thomas Browne, Urne-Burial, Penguin, published 2005, page 9:
text: Still may the manès of thy children rise
To chase calm slumber from thy wearied eyes;
Still may their voices on the haunted air
In fearful whispers tell thee to despair,
ref: 1819, Felicia Hemans, The Wife of Asdrubal, Tales and Historic Scenes, page 171:
text: At this instant the trappings of his attire caught the glaring eye-balls of a dying yeoman, who exerted his wasting strength to sacrifice one more worthy victim to the manes of his countrymen.
ref: 1869, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, “Moral Tales and Sketches § Battle of Bunker Hill”, in H. A. Cleveland, editor, Golden Sheaves Gathered from the Fields of Ancient and Modern Literature: A Miscellany of Choice Reading for the Entertainment of the Old and the Young in Hours that Are Lonely and Weary, Zeigler, McCurdy & Co., page 24:
glosses: The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence, or of other deceased relatives.
Related terms: manism
manist
manes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: mäʹnāz
ipa: /ˈmɑːneɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːneɪz
enpr: mānz
ipa: /meɪnz/
rhymes: -eɪnz
enpr: mäʹnāz
ipa: /ˈmɑːneɪz/
rhymes: -ɑːneɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of mane
mancha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish mancha (“stain”).
Senses: glosses: A high-quality grade of Spanish saffron.
manches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manche
mandara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandaras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandarah.
mandaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mandara
margines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of margo
marinas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marina
marinaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marinara
marre
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: marres
form: marring
form: marred
form: marred
Senses: examples: text: For commonlie, many scholemasters, some, as I haue seen, moe, as I haue heard tell, be of so crooked a nature, as, when they meete with a hard witted scholer, they rather breake him, than bowe him, rather marre him, then mend him.
ref: 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of mar.
marres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marre
matas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mata
matriculas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of matricula
matricula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matriculas
form: matriculae
Etymology: From Latin matricula (“register”).
Senses: examples: text: It shall be the office of the Registrar, to keep the matricula, or register, in which the names of all persons who shall be admitted members of the University shall be inrolled; to attend the Convocation as secretary, and to keep registers, in which all degrees conferred, and other proceeding of the Convocation, shall be entered.
ref: 1803, The Statutes, Rules, and Ordinances of the University of King's College at Windsor, in the Province of Nova-Scotia:
text: The Bachelor in Arts shall be entitled to this Degree after his name shall have been seven years at least on the matricula, and he shall have paid his Library and other fees.
ref: 1847, Nova Scotia. House of Assembly, Journals and Proceedings of the House of Assembly of the Province of Nova Scotia:
text: Depending on the university, up to three different fees could be payable: fees for registration in the general rectoral matricula, in the faculty matricula, and, if there were university nations, in their matriculae as well — this being payment for the documentary and social act of admission to the university and its sectional parts.
ref: 2003, Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Walter Rüegg, A History of the University in Europe, →ISBN, page 235:
glosses: A register of students who are enrolled.
examples: text: To graduate, if in arts, the student must, for a bachelor's degree, have obtained two matriculas, that is, he must have attended lectures two years, and must, at the public examination, have been twice approved; and to be master of arts, he must have gained three matriculas.
ref: 1792, Joseph Townsend, A Journey Through Spain in the Years 1786 and 1787:
glosses: A document indicating that a student has passed a course of study.
examples: text: Safeguards are not in place to prevent multiple issuance of matriculas to the same individual; in fact, the INS has already reported finding multiple cards in different names issued to the same person.
ref: 2003, Backgrounder:
text: I happen to agree completely with Mr. Gallegly that really the only people, or certainly the largest number of people, who could possibly benefit by the use of the matricula in the United States are those people living here illegally. Otherwise, you have identification that this government offers to you when you come in.
ref: 2003, The Foreign Relations Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2004 and 2005 (State Department Authorization); and the Sense of Congress that the U.N. Should Remove the Economic Sanctions Against Iraq Completely and Without Condition, →ISBN, page 370:
text: After that, I had to give my matricula accompanied by my special number, proving who I was.
ref: 2011, Juan Rodriguez, The Congo: Where Men Are Eaten, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: An identification card issued by the Mexican consulate.
mello
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mellos
Senses: qualifier: marching band
glosses: Clipping of mellophone.
mermen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of merman
waterlily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterlilies
Senses: examples: text: Even the beloved paintings of the slowly evolving garden and lily ponds at his home in Giverny might have started out as rudimentary pencil and crayon studies, as a comparison of a blackish green, purple and blue painting of waterlilies, on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with a black crayon study from the sketchbooks suggests.
ref: 2007 August 10, Benjamin Genocchio, “Inside His Sketchbooks, Clues to Monet”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of water lily.
waterproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of waterproof
waterproofing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterproofings
Senses: glosses: The treatment of something to make it waterproof.
examples: text: One hundred thirty-one small, highly permeable masonry wall specimens built of concrete blocks or of bricks were treated with cement-water paints or with other waterproofings.
ref: 1948, Publications of the National Bureau of Standards, page 213:
glosses: A waterproof material.
Derived terms: positive side waterproofing
meted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mete
Derived terms: unmeted
metas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meta
water-repellent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water-repellent
form: most water-repellent
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: water-resistant
synonyms: hydrophobic
glosses: That does not absorb water or that prevents the absorption of water.
water-repellent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-repellents
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of water repellent.
water-resistant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more water-resistant
form: most water-resistant
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: waterproof, water-repellent
glosses: That slows the penetration of water (but is not necessarily fully watertight).
waterside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watersides
Etymology: From Middle English water-syde, water side, equivalent to water + -side.
Senses: glosses: The land bordering a body of water.
waterside
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English water-syde, water side, equivalent to water + -side.
Senses: examples: text: Nearer the coast, the land becomes markedly more marshy, with long, winding channels striking inland from the sea, making access to some of the waterside villages rather difficult.
ref: 1950 December, R. C. J. Day and R. K. Kirkland, “The Kelvedon & Tollesbury Light Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 838:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or situated on a waterside.
Derived terms: waterside worker
mimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mime
mimes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mime
mino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
homophone: minnow
Forms: form: mino
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 蓑 (mino).
Senses: glosses: A traditional Japanese raincoat made from straw.
mino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
homophone: minnow
ipa: /ˈmaɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmaɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
ipa: /ˈmɪnoʊ/
ipa: /ˈmiːnəʊ/
homophone: minnow
Forms: form: minos
Etymology: Presumably originally a hypercorrection of myna under the assumption that it had been subjected to the reduction of unstressed final /əʊ///oʊ/ common in nonstandard English varieties (compare fella, winda; in thorough and (-)borough such reduction is standard as these words are often unstressed).
Senses: examples: text: He is a native of East India and its adjacent islands, but the high estimation in which the Mino is held amongst the natives, and the ready sale which promising specimens realise (the equivalent of £2 being often paid in India) render it difficult to obtain a really good bird in England except at an extravagant price.
ref: 1877, C. W. Gedney, Foreign cage birds, volume 2, page 195:
glosses: Archaic form of myna (“type of bird”).
Derived terms: mino bird
minas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mina - myna (bird)
miro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miros
Etymology: From Maori miro.
Senses: examples: text: “The only thing I don't bloody know is where you'd find a miro tree round here.”
ref: 1983, Keri Hulme, The Bone People, Penguin, published 1986, page 349:
glosses: A large conifer of New Zealand, Pectinopitys ferruginea (syn. Prumnopitys ferruginea), with narrow leaves and reddish fruit; the wood of this tree.
glosses: A portia tree (Thespesia populnea), of dark, durable, attractive wood.
stimulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stimulators
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin stimulātor.
Senses: glosses: A person, device or substance that stimulates.
Derived terms: trade stimulator
water-skier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water-skiers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of waterskier.
waterskier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterskiers
Etymology: From water + skier.
Senses: glosses: a person who water-skis
mondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of monde
montes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɒntiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of mons
glosses: plural of monte
moran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: morans
form: moran
form: ilmoran
Etymology: Borrowed from Maasai il-múrràn (“warriors”).
Senses: glosses: An unmarried Maasai or Samburu warrior.
Derived terms: moranhood
Related terms: morani
murata
moran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of moron, sometimes intentional.
motivo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: motivos
form: motivi
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian motivo. Doublet of motif and motive.
Senses: examples: text: By the repetition, transposition, inversion, and combination of different motivos, the extended series of sounds is formed[…]
ref: 1853, Adolf Bernhard Marx, The universal school of music, translated by A. H. Wehrhan, page 165:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A motif.
mutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mute
mutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mute
muten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mutens
form: mutening
form: mutened
form: mutened
Etymology: From mute + -en.
Senses: examples: text: The passage of auditory cues was also prevented by cutting off the wings of the males, i.e. by “mutening” the males.
ref: 1988, Annales Zoologici Fennici, volume 25, page 258:
text: The silent, twin-fanged fury of its king
On mutened men, who have no voice to sing.
ref: 2009, W. B. Baker, The Lion and the Falcon, page 137:
glosses: To make or become mute or muted.
muten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mutens
form: mutening
form: mutened
form: mutened
Etymology: From Middle French mutiner.
Senses: glosses: To mutiny.
mutase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mutases
Etymology: From mutate + -ase?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomerase that catalyzes the shifting of a functional group from one position to another within the same molecule
Derived terms: aldoketomutase
aminomutase
bisphosphoglycerate mutase
glucomutase
hypermutase
oxomutase
phosphoacetylglucosamine mutase
phosphoenolpyruvate mutase
phosphofructomutase
phosphoglucomutase
phosphoglucosamine mutase
phosphoglycerate mutase
phosphoglyceromutase
phosphomutase
mutases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mutase
nade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: nād
ipa: /neɪ̯d/
ipa: /næɪ̯d/
ipa: /ned/
ipa: /neːɖ/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: nades
Etymology: Clipping of grenade.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: A grenade.
nade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: nād
ipa: /neɪ̯d/
ipa: /næɪ̯d/
ipa: /ned/
ipa: /neːɖ/
rhymes: -eɪd
rhymes: -eɪd
Forms: form: nades
form: nading
form: naded
form: naded
Etymology: Clipping of grenade.
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: To use a grenade.
nades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nade
nades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nade
narras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narra
narra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narras
Senses: examples: text: The narra grows in Luzon, Mindanao, Panay and Samar.
ref: 1906 August 2, Miss Lilian O'Connell, “With Pan in the Forests of Luzon”, in The New York Observer, volume 84:
glosses: Any of the pantropical genus Pterocarpus of trees in the family Fabaceae, but especially Pterocarpus indicus.
Derived terms: narrawood
nomina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomen
novelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of novela
novela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: novelas
Senses: glosses: A Latin American soap opera.
Related terms: telenovela
guerrilla television
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Proposed in 1971 by former Time Life correspondent Michael Shamberg.
Senses: glosses: The use of television to spread countercultural propaganda.
obsequie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obsequies
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of obsequy.
anthelminthic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anthelminthic
form: most anthelminthic
Etymology: From ant- + helminth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthelmintic.
anthelminthic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anthelminthics
Etymology: From ant- + helminth + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anthelmintic.
operad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operads
Etymology: A portmanteau of "operation" and "monad".
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A set of operations, each one having a fixed finite number of arguments and one output, which can be composed with others.
Derived terms: cooperad
dioperad
operadic
properad
opere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of opera
opines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of opine
origines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of origo
orlo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orlos
Etymology: From Spanish orlo.
Senses: glosses: A Spanish wind instrument, possibly a crumhorn.
orle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔːl/
rhymes: -ɔːl
Forms: form: orles
Etymology: From Old French (also modern) orle, from orler (“to hem”), or from Vulgar Latin *orula, a diminutive of Latin ora (“edge”), probably from os, oris (“mouth”).
Senses: examples: 1819, In his hand he bore that singular “abacus”, or staff of office, with which Templars are usually represented, having at the upper end a round plate, on which was engraved the cross of the Order, inscribed within a circle or orle, as heralds term it. — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: A bordure that runs around the outline of a shield without touching the edge.
topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: torse
wreath
glosses: The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest; a torse.
topics: architecture
glosses: A fillet under the ovolo of a capital.
orles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orle
orné
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orné
form: most orné
form: ornee
form: ornée
Etymology: French past participle of orner. Doublet of ornate.
Senses: glosses: ornamental
Võro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈvɔːɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəʊ
Etymology: From Võro Võro.
Senses: glosses: A language belonging to the Finnic branch of the Uralic languages. It is sometimes considered a dialect of Estonian.
Võro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɜːɹəʊ/
ipa: /ˈvɔːɹəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəʊ
Forms: form: Võros
Etymology: From Võro Võro.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of historical Võrumaa, a region in southeastern Estonia.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Võro terms
Estonian
wire fu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪə(ɹ)ˈfuː/
rhymes: -uː
Forms: form: wirefu
form: wire-fu
Etymology: Blend of wire + kung fu
Senses: glosses: A style of Hong Kong action cinema that combines traditional kung fu with wirework techniques.
Dirty Harry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dirty Harrys
Etymology: After Dirty Harry, a fictional police detective who (in the film) tells his partner that he is called Dirty Harry because he gets all the dirty jobs.
Senses: glosses: A police officer who is reckless, disregards practices and policies, or who practices vigilantism or uses excessive force.
Synonyms: vigilante
loose cannon
oses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The various sugars ending in -ose, such as sucrose, lactose, glucose, and fructose.
glosses: plural of osar
ostenta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ostent
ovulo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ovulos
form: ovuli
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovolo.
ovula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovulum
ovules
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ovule
oxides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxide
overpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpower
overpowered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpowered
form: most overpowered
Senses: examples: text: The engine seemed overpowered for such a small car.
text: Players complained that some of the characters in the game were overpowered and hard to defeat.
synonyms: OP
glosses: Overly powerful.
Derived terms: unoverpowered
radiad
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From radio- + -ad.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Toward the radius.
rajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raja
rajas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit रजस् (rajas). Doublet of Erebus.
Senses: coordinate_terms: sattva
tamas
glosses: One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are active, excitable, or passionate.
Derived terms: rajasic
rapo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rapos
Etymology: From rape + -o.
Senses: examples: text: Chomos and rapos, as prisoners referred to child molesters and rapists, were often accorded a prison justice far swifter and more violent […]
ref: 2006, Rita Rudner, Turning the Tables, page 105:
text: […] politicians, characters, and prison toughs are considered upper middle class, square johns the middle class, and prison queens, rapos, and punks the lower class (Silverman, 2001).
ref: 2008, Jacqueline B. Helfgott, Criminal Behavior: Theories, Typologies and Criminal Justice:
glosses: A rapist.
rasgueado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌrɑsɡeɪˈɑdoʊ/
Forms: form: rasgueados
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:rasgueo.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A rhythmical strumming technique commonly associated with flamenco guitar music.
Related terms: rasgueo
rasgueo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rasgueos
Etymology: From Andalusian Spanish rasgueo, regional form of rasgueado, from the verb rasguear (“strum”). Attested in English from the 20th century (see quotations below).
Senses: examples: text: The prominent rhythm is ♩♫♩, with the first note receiving stress through an agogic or dynamic accent, by being arpeggiated rapidly, or with an upward movement of the rasgueo.
ref: 1981, Robert Edwin Fogal, Traditional Music and the Middle Class: A Case Study of Mercedes, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dissertation, Indiana University, page 189:
text: There’s no denying that flamenco guitar with its machine-gun speed picking riffs and dizzying helicopter-like ‘rasgueo’ hand strums is physically punishing.
ref: 2011 March 14, Ciaran Giles, “Spaniards eat up Cdn guitarist; Flamenco guitar traditionally an area dominated by men”, in Trail Times, Trail, British Columbia, page 8:
text: His technique on the instrument mainly consists of medium-tempo strums and is somewhat rudimentary—compared to the virtuosic rasgueos of Los Sumac Huaynas’ Chocni López (briefly discussed in Chapter 3)
ref: 2020, Fernando Rios, Panpipes and Ponchos : Musical Folklorization and the Rise of the Andean Conjunto Tradition in la Paz, Bolivia, page 157:
text: There are several factors that contribute to the variety of options open to the guitar player when dealing with rasgueo. If a chord is held down by the left hand, the attack will sound differently depending on whether the fingers on the right hand thrust down, aided by gravity and the extension of the fingers, or are drawn up across the strings in a gripping action.
ref: 2021, Robin Foggo, “Flamenco: Musical Structure and the Practice of Improvisation”, in Musicologist, volume 5, →DOI, page 54:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A strumming technique associated with flamenco guitar playing; rasgueado.
examples: text: On a larger structural level, there are semi-independent musical units or blocks, which, when placed within a compás and assembled, create a piece. These components include rasgueos (here I refer to the structural unit, which is comprised of the technique mentioned above), falsetas, llamadas (Eng. call), cierres and remates.
ref: 2021, Robin Foggo, “Flamenco: Musical Structure and the Practice of Improvisation”, in Musicologist, volume 5, →DOI, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A passage within a song featuring guitar played with the technique.
heterochromia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heterochromias
Etymology: From hetero- + -chromia.
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: An anatomical condition in which multiple pigmentations or colorings occur in the eyes, skin or hair.
Derived terms: heterochromia iridium
Related terms: heterochromatic
heterochromic
heterochromous
rasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪʒə/
Forms: form: rasures
Etymology: From Middle English rasure, from Anglo-Norman rasure, Middle French rasure, from Latin rāsūra (“scraping, shaving”), from the participle stem of rādere (“to scrape, shave”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Scraping the surface of a parchment etc. in order to erase something from the document; erasure, more generally.
glosses: Obliteration, destruction.
glosses: Shaving the head, or an instance of this; a tonsure.
rasures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rasure
ratee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ratees
Etymology: From rate + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Or, to put it bluntly: users could assign a star rating and feedback to anyone they knew, positive or negative, and the ratee could do very little about it.
ref: 2015 October 6, Alex Hern, “Peeple rating app goes from most contentious to most boring”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who receives a rating.
ratees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratee
rayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raya
vetivert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vetiver (commonly the oil sense)
no longer with us
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dead; deceased.
glosses: No longer employed at a company, of someone who resigned or was terminated.
rebase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rebases
form: rebasing
form: rebased
form: rebased
Etymology: From re- + base.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: To replace the base of a denture.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To modify core data from which other data is derived in such a way that the final meaning is unchanged.
examples: text: When a DLL must be loaded at an address different from its preferred address (because the preferred address is unavailable), the kernel must rebase the DLL, which consists of updating (fixing up) all addresses in the DLL so that they refer to its new location in memory.
ref: 2006, Raymond Chen, The Old New Thing:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To change the base address of.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: source control
glosses: To integrate changes by appending them to another commit or branch, rather than pulling or merging in changes from a branch.
rebases
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebase
rebato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebatos
form: rebatoes
Senses: examples: text: Why do they crown themselves with gold and silver, use coronets and tires of several fashions, deck themselves with pendants, bracelets, ear-rings, chains, girdles, rings, pins, spangles, embroideries, shadows, rebatoes, […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: Alternative form of rabato.
rebates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rebate
rebates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebate