cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
shelduck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɛldʌk/
rhymes: -ʌk
Forms: form: shelducks
form: shelduck
Etymology: From obsolete/dialectal sheld (“variegated”) + duck.
Compare typologically Russian пега́нка (pegánka) (< пе́гий (pégij)).
Senses: glosses: Any of various waterfowl of the genus Tadorna, native to Eurasia, Africa and Australasia.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Tadorna tadornoides
word: Australian shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna cana
word: Cape shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna tadornoides
word: chestnut-breasted shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna tadorna
word: common shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna cristata
word: crested shelduck
taxonomic: Alopochen mauritiana
word: Mauritius shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna variegata
word: paradise shelduck
word: radjah shelduck
taxonomic: Radjah radjah
word: raja shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna ferruginea
word: ruddy shelduck
taxonomic: Tadorna cana
word: South African shelduck
Related terms: sheldgoose
sheldrake
lorikeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /lɒɹɪˈkiːt/
Forms: form: lorikeets
Etymology: Blend of lory + parakeet
Senses: glosses: Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
Derived terms: little lorikeet
rainbow lorikeet
red-collared lorikeet
scaly-breasted lorikeet
Related terms: lory
parakeet
rosella
lory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒɹi/
homophone: lorry
Forms: form: lories
Etymology: From Malay luri, name of kind of parrot, said to be a dialectal variant of Malay nuri. Doublet of lourie. Unrelated to Spanish loro.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small, brightly coloured parrots native to Australasia. They are usually classified in the subfamily Loriinae.
Derived terms: chattering lory
Related terms: lorikeet
modus vivendi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌməʊdəs vɪˈvɛndiː/
ipa: /ˌmoʊdəs vɪˈvɛndiː/
enpr: mōʹdus vivĕnʹdi
Forms: form: modi vivendi
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin modus vīvendī, from modus (“way, manner”) + genitive gerund form of vīvere (“to live”).
Senses: examples: text: One would almost have supposed Henchard to have had policy to see that no better modus vivendi could be arrived at with Farfrae than by encouraging him to become his son-in-law.
ref: 1886 May, Thomas Hardy, chapter XVII, in The Mayor of Casterbridge: The Life and Death of a Man of Character. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The alien beings desire to know mankind more fully, and to have a few of mankind’s philosophic and scientific leaders know more about them. With such an exchange of knowledge all perils will pass, and a satisfactory modus vivendi be established.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
text: The Persians were reviewing the legal systems of the subject peoples to make sure that they were compatible with imperial security, and Ezra had probably worked out a satisfactory modus vivendi between Mosaic and Persian jurisprudence.
ref: 2009, Karen Armstrong, The Case for God, Vintage, published 2010, page 53:
text: For the moment it is impossible to identify a future modus vivendi with Gaza. No deals with Hamas will be trusted but nor is there a certain route to eliminate Hamas.
ref: 2023 October 14, Lawrence Freedman, “No end in sight”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 2:
text: Yet Trump has little to show for his methods: no end to the war in Ukraine, no new modus vivendi with Russia or China, no progress on Middle East peace, no breakthroughs on trade, and certainly no Nobel Peace Prize.
ref: 2025 September 22, Vivek Viswanathan, “The Art of the Decline”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A way of living, especially a working arrangement to allow for peaceful coexistence between two parties in spite of differences or unresolved disputes.
parrakeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parrakeets
Senses: examples: text: Another bird quickly learned to imitate the song of a canary that was mated with it, but as the parrakeet improved in the performance the canary degenerated, and came at last to mingle the other bird's harsh chitterings with its own proper music.
ref: 1870, Shirley Hibberd, Rustic Adornments for Homes of Taste, page 170:
glosses: Alternative spelling of parakeet.
razorbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹeɪzɚˌbɪl/
Forms: form: razorbills
Etymology: From razor + bill.
Senses: glosses: A large black and white auk, Alca torda, native to the north Atlantic.
Synonyms: lesser auk
embosom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embosoms
form: embosoming
form: embosomed
form: embosomed
form: imbosom
Etymology: From em- + bosom.
Senses: glosses: To draw to or into one's bosom; to treasure.
examples: text: [S]uffice it to record, that blessed with a numerous progeny, Emily found herself completely embosomed in domestic bliss: […]
ref: 1826, William Child Green, The Woodland Family, or The Sons of Error and Daughters of Simplicity, A Domestic Tale, London: J. M'Gowan and Sons, →OCLC, page 556:
text: […] and thus mind is reconciled to its own momentary existence and limited vision by the sense of the infinite supplements that embosom it on every side.
ref: 1952 May, George Santayana, “I Like to Be a Stranger”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: To enclose, surround, or protect.
Derived terms: disembosom
imbosom
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbosoms
form: imbosoming
form: imbosomed
form: imbosomed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of embosom.
embosoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: imbosoms
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of embosom
embosoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of embosom
embosomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of embosom
imbosomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imbosom
imbosoming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imbosom
imbosoms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: embosoms
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of imbosom
encamp
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkæmp/
ipa: /ɛn-/
ipa: /ɪŋ-/
ipa: /ɛŋ-/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: encamps
form: encamping
form: encamped
form: encamped
Etymology: From en- + camp.
Senses: examples: text: We spent half an hour on the summit before returning to our camp, where we stuffed the frozen tent and all the gear into our packs and started the long descent of the southwest ridge to rejoin Harish and others who were still encamped on the col at the foot of it.
ref: 1999, Harish Kapadia, “Ascents in the Panch Chuli Group”, in Across Peaks & Passes in Kumaun Himalaya, New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 136:
glosses: To establish a camp or temporary shelter.
examples: text: England were encamped in San Marino territory for the entire game and the only disappointment for manager Gareth Southgate will be the fact their finishing was very poor.
ref: 2021 March 25, Phil McNulty, “England 5-0 San Marino”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: To form into a camp.
Derived terms: encampment
unencamped
encamps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encamp
encamping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encamp
transhumance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈhjuːməns/
Forms: form: transhumances
Etymology: Borrowed from French transhumance, ultimately from Latin trāns (“across, beyond”) + humus (“ground”).
Senses: examples: text: There are rites of spring in the mountains, and this week I followed the transhumance, the annual movement of cattle, from their lower valley winter quarters up to the higher pastures.
ref: 2005 June 17, C. J. Moore, “Meanwhile: With a hop-hop-hop and a bottle of Swiss bubbly”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Aug 2014:
glosses: The seasonal movement of people, with their cattle or other grazing animals, to new pastures which may be quite distant.
Related terms: agropastoralism
herding
nomadism
pastoralism
tips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: plural of tip
qualifier: playground games
glosses: tag (a popular children's chasing game)
tips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪps/
rhymes: -ɪps
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tip
suffixion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈfɪk.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɪkʃən
Forms: form: suffixions
Etymology: From suffix + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The process of adding a suffix to something.
Synonyms: suffixation
Related terms: suffix
irrumation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪ.ɹʊˈmeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: irrumatio
Etymology: Etymology tree
Latin irrumō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin irrumātiōlbor.
English irrumation
Learned borrowing from Latin irrumātiō, from irrumō + -tiō.
Senses: examples: text: In this setting the thought of self-irrumation occurred to him in May, 1923.
ref: 1939, The American Journal of Psychiatry, volume 95, American Psychiatric Association, →OCLC:
text: He had, back in Cambridge, taken one of Jem Follett’s boys for a penny, an envisioned Tom Walsingham in his head like a god and the motion towards irrumation like a prayer.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford:
text: Anal intercourse is reported in between 6-26% of female complainants, but it is important to remember that there may have been a number of different sexual acts performed by the assailant, including irrumation (forced oral penetration) or cunnilingus.
ref: 2006, Steve Baguley, Sunil Kumar, Rajendra Persad, Key Topics in Sexual Health, Taylor Francis, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 56:
glosses: The act of, or an instance of, thrusting the penis into the mouth; active penetration of a mouth.
Related terms: irrumate
irrumator
fellatio
face fucking
throat fucking
skull fucking
pedication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pɛdɪˈkeɪʃən/
Forms: form: paedication
form: pædication
Etymology: From Latin pēdīcāt- (perfect passive participial stem of pēdīcō (“sodomize, assfuck”)) + -ion.
Senses: glosses: Anal sex.
pintel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintels
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pintle.
bobcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒb.kæt/
ipa: /ˈbɔb.kæt/
Forms: form: bobcats
Etymology: From bob (short hair; with reference to its tail) + cat.
Senses: examples: text: In the course of a single month this year, the following news reports emanated from Florida: […]A father from East Orlando punched a bobcat in the face for attacking his daughter’s dog.
ref: 2023 March 27, Helen Lewis, “How Did America’s Weirdest, Most Freedom-Obsessed State Fall for an Authoritarian Governor?”, in The Atlantic:
synonyms: red lynx
glosses: A North American wildcat, Lynx rufus, having tufted ears and a short tail.
Derived terms: blynx
ocebob
bobcat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒb.kæt/
ipa: /ˈbɔb.kæt/
Forms: form: bobcats
Etymology: Genericization of the trademark Bobcat
Senses: glosses: A multi-purpose construction vehicle, akin to a smaller version of a front-end loader or a backhoe (backhoe loader), with a one-man caged control cabin.
Synonyms: skidsteer
Related terms: backhoe
backhoe loader
front-end loader
JCB
shanghaied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shanghai
verily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.əl.i/
ipa: /ˈvɛɹ.ɪ.li/
Etymology: From Middle English verraily, from verray (“true, very”) + -ly. More at very, -ly.
Senses: examples: text: When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, John 13:21:
text: He would weep for hours together, and I verily believe that to the very end this spoilt child of life thought his weak tears in some way efficacious.
ref: 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 218:
text: Are there three or four pleasing poems and are all the rest put in to fill up the book? Nay. verily! The poems in this collection are those that children love.
ref: 1904, Mary Elizabeth Burt, Poems That Every Child Should Know, Preface:
glosses: Truly; doubtlessly; honestly; in truth.
glosses: confidently, certainly
Synonyms: sense: truly
word: soothly
word: truly
word: actually
sense: confidently
word: certainly
sense: confidently
word: confidently
sense: confidently
word: wis
ruffed lemur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ruffed lemurs
Senses: examples: text: Ruffed lemurs inhabit the eastern rain forest from the Masoala Peninsula to just south of Ranomafana (see Figure 2).
ref: 1999, Phyllis Dolhinow, Agustín Fuentes, The Nonhuman Primates, page 128:
text: These ruffed lemur groups engage in loud, barking chorus vocalizations that are regarded as alarm calls, as well as catlike, long, wailing howls that are presumably territorial in nature.
ref: 2007, Friderun Ankel-Simons, Primate Anatomy: An Introduction, page 63:
text: Ruffed lemurs (genus Varecia) are the largest and arguably most impressive members of the Lemuridae family.
ref: 2014, Daniel Austin, Madagascar Wildlife, page 71:
glosses: Any of several nocturnal lemurs of the genus Varecia, from Madagascar that have white ruffs around the face.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Varecia variegata
word: black-and-white ruffed lemur
taxonomic: Varecia rubra
word: red ruffed lemur
right away
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.
glosses: Very soon; quickly; immediately.
examples: text: The locomotive was the now inevitable American 2-8-0, No. 2623. There she stood, effectively blocking the level crossing, simmering gently, massively inert. It was almost dark, and one's final sight was of her high, firelit cab, the enginemen nonchalantly leaning out, waiting for the right-away, while impatient road convoys piled up on both sides of the crossing.
ref: 1945 January and February, “Notes and News: American Locomotives in France”, in Railway Magazine, page 46:
text: As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.
ref: 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
glosses: The traditional call to the driver of a train or other conveyance intimating that it is safe to move off immediately.
Synonyms: at once
forthwith
immediately
instantly
now
right now
straight away
tout de suite
without delay
Derived terms: right-away signal
of late
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: I have not visited them of late, but I hear they are doing well.
glosses: In the recent past; recently; lately.
Synonyms: freshly
late
recently
Related terms: as of late
facemask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfeɪs.mæsk/
ipa: /ˈfeɪs.mɑːsk/
Forms: form: facemasks
form: face mask
Etymology: From face + mask.
Senses: topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
glosses: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
A diving mask.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
A surgical mask.
glosses: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
A mask made of common textiles worn over the mouth and nose, such as a bandana, handkerchief, or scarf.
glosses: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
A dust mask.
glosses: A covering used to protect or disguise the face.
A respirator.
glosses: A facial mask (cosmetic application).
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The part of the helmet that directly covers the face, made of one or more plastic-coated metal bars.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The foul of grasping it during play.
Related terms: facial mask
maskhole
facemasks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facemask
face mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face masks
Senses: examples: text: "Many passengers will welcome the advice to wear a face covering. In Transport Focus's latest survey, over half of people say they wouldn't be happy using public transport unless passengers are required to wear face masks," said Transport Focus Chief Executive Anthony Smith.
ref: 2020 May 20, Richard Clinnick, “More trains... but advice is not to use public transport”, in Rail, page 9:
glosses: Alternative spelling of facemask.
Derived terms: face mask penalty
face masks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face mask
face mask penalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: face mask penalties
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A penalty in American football where one player grabs the face mask of an opposing player. There are two versions of this penalty: incidental face mask penalty and the more serious personal foul face mask penalty.
face mask penalties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of face mask penalty
writs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writ
detection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈtɛk.ʃən/
ipa: /dɪˈtek.ʃən/
rhymes: -ɛkʃən
Forms: form: detections
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin dētēctiōnem. By surface analysis, detect + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: “Why should Eldridge commit murder?[…]There was only one possible motive—namely, he wished to avoid detection as James Selby of Anaconda Ltd.[…]”
ref: 1931, Francis Beeding, “10/6”, in Death Walks in Eastrepps:
glosses: The act or process of detecting, uncovering, or finding out, the discovery of something new, hidden, or disguised.
glosses: Synonym of accusation, the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy.
synonyms: word: accusation
extra: the exposure of concealed information about a crime or heresy
topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act or process of finding or detecting an electrical signal in a carrier wave.
Synonyms: topics: engineering
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
electrical
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
word: demodulation
Derived terms: antidetection
autodetection
biodetection
Canny edge detection
chemodetection
codetection
collision detection
detection comb
detection dog
immunodetection
lie detection
microdetection
misdetection
multidetection
non-detection
nondetection
nuclear hydrogen detection meter
overdetection
photodetection
radiodetection
redetection
serodetection
subdetection
thermodetection
underdetection
spondee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspɒndi/
Forms: form: spondees
form: spondeus
Etymology: From Latin spondēus (“spondee”), from Ancient Greek σπονδεῖος (spondeîos, “associated with a libation”) from σπονδή (spondḗ, “libation”): spondees were often used in melodies sung at libations.
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
Derived terms: spondaic
detections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of detection
detecting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: detectings
Senses: examples: text: Sensations then, are not perceivings, observings or findings; they are not detectings, scannings or inspectings; they are not apprehendings, cognisings, intuitings or knowings.
ref: 2009, Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition, page 194:
glosses: An act of detection.
Related terms: metal detecting
detecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of detect
Derived terms: cycle-detecting
discovering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discover
discovering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dɪsˈkʌvəɹɪŋ/
Forms: form: discoverings
Senses: examples: text: As with all discoverings of the past this is an act that provides useful perspectives.
ref: 1980, Fred E. H. Schroeder, 5000 Years of Popular Culture: Popular Culture Before Printing, page 4:
glosses: A discovery.
discovers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of discover
discovered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvəd/
ipa: /dɪsˈkʌvɚd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of discover
Derived terms: newly-discovered
nondiscovered
undiscovered
PlayStation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpleɪˌsteɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: PlayStations
Etymology: Compound of play + station; coined by American multinational software company Sony Interactive Entertainment.
Senses: examples: text: His dad bought him a Playstation 5 yesterday.
text: Back then, kids didn't have TV or video games, so I guess slaughtering your mom and dad was a bit like the Playstation^([sic]) of its day.
ref: 2003, Cash Peters, Gullible's Travels: The Adventures of a Bad Taste Tourist, page 55:
text: The Everlasting Treat Ball landed like the PlayStation of the pet products world back in 2004.
ref: 2009, Michael Schaffer, One Nation Under Dog, page 150:
text: He was obsessed with bullfighting, which was the PlayStation of the day, only considerably more dangerous; he was soon gored to death.
ref: 2009, Paul Clammer, Alison Bing, Anthony Sattin, Paul Stiles, Lonely Planet Morocco, page 38:
topics: video-games
qualifier: trademark
glosses: A video game console of the "PlayStation" brand.
topics: video-games
qualifier: trademark
glosses: The original PlayStation.
Synonyms: PS
Derived terms: CensorStation
GayStation
PlayStationer
PS
PS1
PS2
PS3
PS4
PS5
PSN
PSP
PSVR
PSX
devalue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈvæljuː/
Forms: form: devalues
form: devaluing
form: devalued
form: devalued
Etymology: From de- + value.
Senses: examples: text: Scotland is beaten only by properties in London, which increase in value by 64% on average when within half a mile of a station - although in some cases in the capital, being near to a station devalues the house.
ref: 2023 January 25, Mel Holley, “Network News: London leads the way on rail-related house price surge”, in RAIL, number 975, page 15:
glosses: To lower or remove the value of something.
glosses: To lose value; to depreciate.
Synonyms: devaluate
Derived terms: devaluer
nondevalued
devalues
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of devalue
devalued
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of devalue
devaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: devaluations
Etymology: From de- + valuation.
Senses: examples: text: According to Braverman's thesis, Taylorism, or scientific management, has been the key feature in the devaluation and dequalification of work.
ref: 2016, Lorraine Giordano, Beyond Taylorism, page 28:
glosses: The removal or lessening of something's value.
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The intentional or deliberate lowering of a currency's value compared to another country's currency or a standard value (e.g. the price of gold).
glosses: Depreciation.
Derived terms: postdevaluation
predevaluation
devaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devaluation
diachrony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daɪˈækɹəni/
Forms: form: diachronies
Etymology: By surface analysis, dia- + chron- + -y; historically, see synchronous § Etymology.
Senses: glosses: The study of change over time, especially changes to language.
Serbo-Croat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊˈkɹəʊæt/
Etymology: From Serbo- + Croat.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.
synonyms: word: Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊˈkɹəʊæt/
Forms: form: Serbo-Croats
Etymology: From Serbo- + Croat.
Senses: examples: text: Of the Serbo-Croats, some are included in the Austrian, some in the Ottoman empire, and two small states govern themselves.
ref: 1865, [Georgina Muir Mackenzie], [Paulina Irby], edited by Humphry Sandwith, Notes on the South Slavonic Countries in Austria and Turkey in Europe […], Edinburg; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 26:
text: The Slovenes, geographically neighbours and linguistically akin to the Serbo-Croats, are very different from them anthropologically, the Nordic element being predominant among them.
ref: 1968, J. Cz., “Slavs: Physical Anthropology”, in Encyclopædia Britannica, volume 20 (Schütz to Speke), Chicago, Ill.: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.; William Benton, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 648, column 1:
text: The place had been haunting him ever since Peggy had left—well, ever since he had got those Serbo-Croats in and moved her out.
ref: 2000, Jonathan Strong, “A September Friday”, in A Circle Around Her, Cambridge, Mass.: Zoland Books, →ISBN, section III, page 246:
glosses: Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.
synonyms: word: Serbo-Croatian
Serbo-Croat
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊˈkɹəʊæt/
Forms: form: more Serbo-Croat
form: most Serbo-Croat
Etymology: From Serbo- + Croat.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Serbo-Croatian.
synonyms: word: Serbo-Croatian
digitisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitisations
Etymology: From digitise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of digitization.
digitization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitizations
form: digitisation
Etymology: From digitize + -ation.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: digitalization
glosses: The conversion of data or information from analog to digital or binary.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Hence, the transformation of a process or system from mainly analogue form to digital form
Derived terms: interdigitization
retrodigitization
Related terms: word: digitation
word: digitize
diglossic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to diglossia.
examples: text: Thus, the prevalence of English in this state-imposed diglossic system has led to a growing concern that ‘English dominance may lead to English monolingualism’, and this may erode the country’s ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 3:
glosses: Using two languages or dialects together.
Derived terms: diglossically
diving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dīvʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, dive + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dive
diving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: dīvʹĭng
ipa: /ˈdaɪ.vɪŋ/
rhymes: -aɪvɪŋ
Etymology: By surface analysis, dive + -ing.
Senses: glosses: That or who dives or dive.
Derived terms: coastal diving bird
diving beetle
diving duck
diving goiter
diving goitre
diving header
diving loop
diving petrel
diving-petrel
diving-pigeon
the Diving Saucer
diving spider
diving-spider
Law's diving-goose
Related terms: diving stone
dodecicosidodecahedron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dodecicosidodecahedra
Senses: glosses: A uniform polyhedron with 44 faces, 120 edges, and 60 vertices.
dodecicosidodecahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dodecicosidodecahedron
doctrinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doctrinaires
Etymology: Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: And he is not above feeling grave and well-contained satisfaction wherever the socialist doctrinaire has been contradicted by men attempting to practise coöperation in the midst of the competitive system, as in Belgium.
ref: 1905 April, Jack London, “A Review”, in War of the Classes, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 212:
text: Or, shall we play the doctrinaire, and hint that at thirty-four the tides of life are calmer and cognizant of many sources instead of but one—as at four-and-twenty?
ref: 1909 April, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “The Renaissance at Charleroi”, in Roads of Destiny, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 274:
glosses: A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.
glosses: In France, in 1815–30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.
Derived terms: doctrinairely
doctrinairism
doctrinarity
nondoctrinaire
undoctrinaire
Related terms: true believer
doctrinaire
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more doctrinaire
form: most doctrinaire
Etymology: Borrowed from French doctrinaire, from doctrine + -aire.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Chapman began to talk in a loud voice about the situation in the House of Commons. He guffawed at his adversaries. The word doctrinaire—word full of terror to the British mind—reappeared from time to time between his explosions.
ref: [1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC:
text: We have been long accustomed to consider growth as applied almost exclusively to size in its various aspects. But Nature, who has no doctrinaire ideas, may equally apply it to concentration.
ref: 1911, Bram Stoker, The Lair of the White Worm, London: William Rider and Son, […], →OCLC:
text: They showed a new and encouraging Parliamentary appreciation that it is time our national transport problems were examined expertly and without doctrinaire prejudice of any sort—or too much attention to the lobbying of some powerful special interests.
ref: 1961 January, “Talking of Trains: Marples out of step”, in Trains Illustrated, page 1:
text: The next government should be patient, and wait for the revenues to begin flowing. The course set by Cameron and Osborne is not just doctrinaire. It is also dangerous.
ref: 2009 October 8, Martin Kettle, “Doctrinaire and dangerous, Cameron's speech could unseal the deal”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: As analysts warned that relying on boosting economic growth to reduce income inequalities could increase disparities, Tory grandees sounded the alarm over what they said risked being an doctrinaire approach.
ref: 2022 September 4, Peter Walker, Rupert Neate, “Truss to push ahead with low-tax economy despite calls for caution”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The widespread use of subtitles felt, to me, like a lurch backward toward the silent-film era. But I didn’t want to be too doctrinaire. Maybe some exceptions could be made.
ref: 2023 June 6, Devin Gordon, “Why Is Everyone Watching TV With the Subtitles On?”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 09 Jun 2023:
glosses: Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
Related terms: docent
docile
doctor
doctorate
doctrinal
doctrine
document
indoctrinate
doctrinaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of doctrinaire
practicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of practicality
practicality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: practicalities
Etymology: From practical + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being practical or feasible.
examples: text: They might acknowledge that such practicalities are necessary to sustain life itself, but they would immediately add that culture gives life a value beyond the scope of the merely practical.
ref: 2012, Carl Freedman, The Age of Nixon: A Study in Cultural Power:
glosses: The practical aspect of something.
Synonyms: practicalness
Derived terms: unpracticality
feasibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfiːzɪˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: feasibilities
Etymology: From Middle English faisible, from Anglo-Norman fesable + English suffix -ity.
Senses: examples: text: DB Cargo is understood to be looking at the feasibility of re-gearing some of its Class 66s to allow them to haul the same tonnages as the Class 60s it has taken out of its fleet in the latter part of 2023.
ref: 2023 December 13, “Network News: GB Railfreight heads for biggest fleet”, in RAIL, number 998, page 18:
antonyms: nonfeasibility
glosses: The state of being feasible or possible.
Synonyms: realizability
feasibilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feasibility
inhibition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnhɪˈbɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪnɪˈbɪʃən/
rhymes: -ɪʃən
Forms: form: inhibitions
Etymology: From Middle English inhibicioun, inhibicione from Old French inibicion, from Latin inhibitio.
Morphologically inhibit + -ion.
Senses: glosses: The act of inhibiting.
examples: text: Often the guests, affected by the wine drinking, released all inhibitions and made erotic overtures, particularly to the slave cup-bearers.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 230:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A personal feeling of fear or embarrassment that stops one behaving naturally.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The process of stopping or retarding a reaction.
topics: law
glosses: A writ from a higher court to an inferior judge to stay proceedings.
topics: law
glosses: A recusal.
Derived terms: angioinhibition
autoinhibition
baroinhibition
cardioinhibition
chemoinhibition
coinhibition
contact inhibition
counterinhibition
cross-inhibition
disinhibition
hyperinhibition
immunoinhibition
mitoinhibition
mixed inhibition
noninhibition
osteoinhibition
overinhibition
phosphoinhibition
photoinhibition
retroinhibition
sympathoinhibition
thermoinhibition
tissue thromboplastin inhibition time
topoinhibition
transinhibition
transmarginal inhibition
uninhibition
Related terms: inhibit
dumbfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdʌmˈfaʊnd/
ipa: /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/
ipa: /ˈdʌm.faʊnd/
Forms: form: dumbfounds
form: dumbfounding
form: dumbfounded
form: dumbfounded
form: dumfound
Etymology: Blend of dumb + confound
Senses: examples: text: A bunch of nice, middle-class women debated on how to "rescue" prostitutes from their "terrible" fate. By invitation, the conference was attended by a number of prostitutes, who dumbfounded those nice, bourgeois ladies by making it clear that they had no desire whatever to be "rescued"
ref: 1989 December 3, Franklin Kameny, “Prostitution: Good, Right, And Desirable”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 21, page 5:
glosses: To confuse and bewilder; to leave speechless.
Synonyms: strike dumb
flabbergast
Derived terms: dumbfounder
dumbfoundment
dumbfounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumfounds
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dumbfound
dumbfounding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dumbfounding
form: most dumbfounding
form: dumfounding
Senses: glosses: Bewildering; astonishing.
Derived terms: dumbfoundingly
dumbfounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumfounding
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dumbfound
dumfound
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumfounds
form: dumfounding
form: dumfounded
form: dumfounded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dumbfound.
dumfounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumbfounds
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dumfound
dumfounding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dumbfounding
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dumfound
dumfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dumbfounded.
dumfounded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of dumbfounded.
graverobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graverobbings
Etymology: From grave + robbing.
Senses: glosses: The practice of illegally removing corpses (or other items) from graves, originally to supply cadavers for medical study.
graverobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From graverob + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of graverob
crab apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crabapple.
Derived terms: alt: Malus ×platycarpa
word: bigfruit crab apple
taxonomic: Malus hupehensis
word: Chinese crab apple
taxonomic: Malus transitoria
word: cutleaf crab apple
taxonomic: Malus sylvestris
word: European crab apple
taxonomic: Malus halliana
word: Hall crab apple
taxonomic: Malus florentina
word: hawthorn-leaf crab apple
word: Japanese crab apple
taxonomic: Malus floribunda
word: Japanese flowering crab apple
alt: Malus ×micromalus
word: kaido crab apple
taxonomic: Malus mandshurica
word: Manchurian crab apple
taxonomic: Malus fusca
word: Oregon crab apple
alt: Malusprunifolia spp.
word: plumleaf crab apple
taxonomic: Malus ioensis
word: prairie crab apple
taxonomic: Malus baccata
word: Siberian crab apple
taxonomic: Malus angustifolia
word: southern crab apple
taxonomic: Malus coronaria
word: sweet crab apple
crab-apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crab-apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crabapple.
B-movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B-movies
Etymology: Analogous to the B-side (i.e. the second side, the primary side being designated A) of a musical recording.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
synonyms: B-picture
glosses: A low-budget motion picture, especially one with poor production values.
Derived terms: B-moviesque
B-movieish
Related terms: midnight movie
mise en scene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mises en scene
form: mise en scenes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mise en scène.
wudu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwuːduː/
/ˈwʊduː/
Forms: form: wudu'
form: wudhu
form: wuzu
form: woodoo
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic وُضُوء (wuḍūʔ).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A ritual washing of the forearms, head, and feet, required after minor impurity, frequently performed immediately before prayer.
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The state of purity that is achieved by this washing.
Synonyms: abdest
ablution
Coordinate terms: ghusl
wazukhana
mise en scène
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmizɑ̃ˈsɛn/
enpr: mizäɴsĕn′
Forms: form: mises en scène
form: mise en scènes
form: mise-en-scène
form: mise en scene
Etymology: Borrowed from French mise en scène (literally “placing on stage”).
Senses: examples: text: The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]
ref: 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: Physical environment; surroundings.
examples: text: Although this mise en scène may sound like a contrived “Twilight Zone” setup, it provides Mr. Powers with the perfect opportunity to show off his virtuosic skills as a writer[…]
ref: 1995 June 27, Michiko Kakutani, “Playing Pygmalion to a Hermeneutic Computer”, in New York Times:
text: For reasons explained in the previous volume, noticeably absent are mises en scène representing productions at the Théâtre-Italien.
ref: 1998: H. Robert Cohen, Original Staging Manuals for Ten Parisian Operatic Premières, 1824–1843, page xiii (Pendragon Press; →ISBN, 0945193610)
text: Dupont interrupts the continuity of the master narrative of lighthouse-keeping and marital and extramarital love with visually arresting mise-en-scènes and mise-en-shots.
ref: 2010, Paul Matthew St, E. A. Dupont and His Contribution to British Film, Pierre: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, page 173:
text: This is also the point at which mise en scène no longer simply describes the passage of a text to the stage, but rather encompasses the autonomous organisation of the theatre work, the 'synthetic' vision of theatre and of mise en scène which is the subject of an accomplished study by Guido Hiss.
ref: 2013, Patrice Pavis, translated by Joel Anderson, Contemporary Mise en Scène, Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pages 9–10:
topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: The arrangement of props and actors on a stage or for film.
Related terms: word: mise en cadre
alt: = mise en cadre
word: mise en shot
woodwose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdwəʊz/
Forms: form: woodwoses
Etymology: Late Old English wuduwāsa.
Senses: examples: text: The young woodwose had now closed his eyes and was stretched out supine on the pool's marble margin; his Tarzan brief had been cast aside on the turf.
ref: 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:
text: 'If the cub has a grievance, let him bring it to the King's judgement,' answered Saeros. 'But the drawing of swords here is not to be excused for any such cause. Outside the hall, if the woodwose draws on me, I shall kill him.'
ref: 2007, J. R. R. Tolkien edited by Christopher Tolkien, The Children of Húrin:
glosses: A wild man of the woods; a faun, a satyr or a representation of such a being in heraldry or other decoration.
whitey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwaɪti/
ipa: /ˈʍaɪti/
rhymes: -aɪti
Forms: form: whitier
form: whitiest
form: whitie
form: whity
form: yt
form: YT
Etymology: From white (“bright and colorless; a white-skinned person”) + -y (“forming diminutives”).
Senses: examples: a whitey-brown colour
glosses: Alternative form of whity.
Derived terms: whitey tighties
wod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wods
Senses: examples: text: They hewe downe a tre in the wod with the hondes of the woꝛke man, and faſhion it with the axe: they couer it ouer with golde oꝛ ſyluer, they faſten it wᵗ nales and hammers, that it moue not.
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Jeremy [Jeremiah] x:[3–4], folio xxviii, verso, column 1:
glosses: Obsolete form of wood.
emigrant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛmɪɡɹənt/
Forms: form: emigrants
Etymology: From Classical Latin ēmigrāns, present participle of ēmigrāre (“to emigrate”).
Senses: glosses: Someone who leaves a country to settle in a new country.
glosses: Any of various pierid butterflies of the genus Catopsilia. Also called a migrant.
Derived terms: economic emigrant
nonemigrant
Related terms: emigration
minstrel show
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minstrel shows
Senses: examples: text: After the barbecue Roosevelt was to attend a minstrel show staged by the polio patients at the Playhouse. Hazel Stephens, a physical therapist and the recreational director, coordinated the production. Betty Brown, also a therapist who helped with the patients, assisted her. The curtain was set to go up at 5:30 P.M.[…]
Graham Jackson, a black recruiting officer in the Coast Guard at Macon, Georgia, was Roosevelt's favorite musician. He had performed for him on numerous occasions and was scheduled to do so again at the minstrel show. He was equally talented playing the accordion or the piano. A moving photograph of a tearful Jackson with his accordion at the Warm Springs ceremonies was circulated worldwide.
ref: 1991 Spring, William Warren Rogers, Jr., “The Death of a President, April 12, 1945: An Account from Warm Springs”, in The Georgia Historical Quarterly, volume LXXV, number 1, →ISSN, →JSTOR, →OCLC, pages 110, 114:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: A variety show performed by minstrels, primarily white people in blackface.
osculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/
Forms: form: osculates
form: osculating
form: osculated
form: osculated
Etymology: From Latin ōsculāt-, past participial stem of ōsculor (“to kiss”), from ōsculum (“kiss”) + -or (verbal suffix), from ōs (“mouth”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). Doublet of oscillate.
Senses: examples: text: And in the Olmsted Hotel in Cleveland he surprised a porter and a maid lasciviously osculating in a stairwell.
ref: 2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections:
glosses: To kiss.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To touch so as to have the same tangent and curvature at the point of contact.
glosses: To make contact.
topics: arithmetic
glosses: To perform osculation.
glosses: To form a connecting link between two genera.
Derived terms: hyperosculate
inosculate
interosculate
osculating
osculator
osculatory
Related terms: osculation
osculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒskjʊlət/
ipa: /ˈɒskjələt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjələt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjulət/
ipa: /ˈɒskjʊˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɒskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjəˌleɪt/
ipa: /ˈɑskjuˌleɪt/
Etymology: From Latin ōsculātus.
Senses: synonyms: osculatory
glosses: Relating to kissing.
anthropophagous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌæn.θɹəˈpɒ.fə.ɡəs/
Etymology: From anthropo- + -phagous.
Senses: examples: text: an anthropophagous tribe
text: The bullet struck her in the back and killed her, and to this day I am glad that it did, for, as it afterwards transpired, she had availed herself of the anthropophagous customs of the Amahagger to organise the whole thing in revenge of the slight put upon her by Job.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
text: Man-eating lions, tigers, and crocodiles have been extensively treated in historical and fictional literature, and elaborate attempts have been made to halt their anthropophagous habits.
ref: 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 16:
glosses: Who practices anthropophagy; cannibalistic.
Derived terms: anthropophagously
Related terms: anthropophagus
diagonalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagonalisations
form: diagonalization
Etymology: From diagonal + -isation.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An argument used in proof by contradiction by constructing a supposedly exhaustive list of all members of a class, and then subsequently constructing a new member which differs from each existing member in at least one place and therefore cannot belong to the list.
kips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kip
kips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kip