cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
allowable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈlaʊ.əbəl/
Forms: form: allowables
Etymology: From Middle English allowable, alowable, a borrowing from Old French alouable (Modern French allouable), from allouer, equivalent to allow + -able.
Senses: glosses: A permitted amount or activity.
allowably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more allowably
form: most allowably
Etymology: From allowable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an allowable manner.
allowableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allowable + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: allowability
glosses: The state of being allowable; legitimacy; permissibleness.
intellectually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more intellectually
form: most intellectually
Etymology: From intellectual + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And just because the intellectuals are mostly intellectually honest it is inevitable that they should follow their own convictions whenever they have discretion and that they should give a corresponding slant to everything that passes through their hand.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 421:
text: Nevertheless intellectually, ideologically and politically he identified with industrialists whom he, just like Smith, saw as the usherers of progress.
ref: 2002, Yanis Varoufakis, Foundations of Economics: A Beginner's Companion, page 25:
glosses: In an intellectual manner.
Derived terms: intellectually challenged
intellectually disabled
reported
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔɹtɪd/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpɔːtɪd/
ipa: /ɹəˈpoːtəd/
note: rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpo(ː)ɹtɪd/
note: non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
ipa: /ɹɪˈpoətɪd/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of report
Derived terms: reportedly
reported speech
macilent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmas.ɪ.lənt/
Forms: form: more macilent
form: most macilent
Etymology: From Latin macilentus (“lean, thin, meagre”), from Latin maciēs (“leanness; poverty”), from Latin macer (“meager; poor”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂ḱrós. Cognate with English emaciate and meagre.
Senses: examples: text: It ought not to be doubted but that there will yet be a time of so copious an effusion of the Holy Spirit, as will invigorate it afresh and make it spring up, out of its macilent withered state, into its primitive liveliness and beauty.
ref: c. 1675–1702, John Howe, “The Living Temple”, in The Works of John Howe, M.A., volume 3, Religious Tract Society, published 1870, page 469:
glosses: Lean; thin; emaciated
Synonyms: scrawny
fabulously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfæb.jʊ.ləs.li/
ipa: /ˈfæb.jʊ.lɪs.li/
Forms: form: more fabulously
form: most fabulously
Etymology: From fabulous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: That girl is fabulously beautiful.
synonyms: fantastically
fashionably
glamorously
glosses: In a fabulous manner.
In a fashionable or glamorous manner.
examples: text: Burying its head in the sand is fabulously attributed to the ostrich.
synonyms: fantastically
apocryphally
mythically
legendarily
glosses: In a fabulous manner.
In an apocryphal or mythical manner; in fables.
fabulousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulousnesses
Etymology: From fabulous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fabulous or fictitious; fabulosity.
glosses: The state of being fabulous or wonderful.
macrobiotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrobiotic
form: most macrobiotic
Etymology: From macro- + -biotic.
Senses: examples: text: You let somebody move in with you, you make all these little compromises to smooth things along, and the next thing you know, you're on some macrobiotic diet, you're listening to Joni Mitchell!
ref: 1999, Shana Larsen, 200 Cigarettes (motion picture), spoken by Kevin (Paul Rudd):
glosses: Of a lifestyle incorporating a dietary regimen including locally grown, seasonal, natural foods, or of the diet itself.
glosses: Long-lived.
Derived terms: macrobiotically
nonmacrobiotic
macrobiotics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmækɹoʊˌbaɪˈɑtəks/
ipa: /ˌmæk.ɹəʊˈbaɪ.ɒt.ɪks/
Etymology: From macro- + biotics.
Senses: glosses: The art or science of prolonging life, of living a long life.
glosses: The use of a macrobiotic diet.
fabulosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fabulosities
Etymology: From Latin fabulositas.
Senses: glosses: Fabulousness; the quality of being fabulous; fictitiousness; mythical character.
glosses: A fabulous thing; a fable.
macrocephalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + -cephalous.
Senses: glosses: Having a large head.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.
fabricable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fabricable
form: most fabricable
Etymology: From late Latin fabricabilis.
Senses: glosses: Able to be shaped into a finished product.
Derived terms: fabricability
fictitiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fictitious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being fictitious.
fabricability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being fabricable.
macrocosmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macrocosm + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the macrocosm (universe).
Derived terms: macrocosmically
macrodactyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodactyls
Senses: glosses: One of a former group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.
macrodactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrodactylous
form: most macrodactylous
Senses: synonyms: macrodactylic
glosses: Having long toes.
examples: text: macrodactylous digit
text: macrodactylous toe
glosses: long (of a toe)
macrodiagonal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodiagonals
Etymology: From macro- + diagonal.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: brachydiagonal
glosses: The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism.
macrodome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrodomes
Etymology: From macro- + dome.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal
Related terms: macrodomatic
macrodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrodont
form: most macrodont
Etymology: From macro- + -odont.
Senses: glosses: Having large teeth.
examples: text: macrodont molar
glosses: Large
raw_tags: of teeth
Derived terms: macrodontism
macroglossia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + -glossia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue; an excessively large tongue.
Derived terms: macroglossic
macrognathic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrognathic
form: most macrognathic
Etymology: From macro- + gnathic.
Senses: examples: text: macrognathic fish
text: macrognathic skulls
text: macrognathic syndrome
glosses: Long-jawed.
Related terms: longirostrine
longjaw
macrology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrologies
Etymology: From macro- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: verbose meaningless talk
Derived terms: macrological
macrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrometers
Etymology: From macro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant
Related terms: macrometric
macropetalous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + petalous.
Senses: glosses: Having long or large petals.
macrophyllous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macrophyllous
form: most macrophyllous
Etymology: From macro- + phyllous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having long or large leaves.
macropinacoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropinacoids
Etymology: From macro- + pinacoid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
macropod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macropods
Etymology: From macro- + -pod, after Latin Macropodidae. Compare micropod.
Senses: glosses: A marsupial of the family Macropodidae, which includes the kangaroos, wallabies, tree kangaroos and pademelons.
Derived terms: macropodian
Related terms: euro
joey
wallaroo
macropodal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macropodal
form: most macropodal
Etymology: From macro- + -podal.
Senses: synonyms: macropodous
glosses: Having long or large feet
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a long stem.
Related terms: macropod
macropodous
macropodia
bunnyhug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bunnyhugs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bunny hug.
propagation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɹɒpəˈɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /pɹɑpəˈɡeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: propagations
Etymology: From Middle French propagation, from Old French propagacion, from Latin propagatio. Morphologically propagate + -ion.
Senses: examples: text: plant propagation
glosses: The multiplication or natural increase in a population.
examples: text: The farmer specialized in the propagation of rare orchids.
glosses: The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The dissemination of something to a larger area or greater number.
The winning of new converts.
examples: text: Radio propagation varies with atmospheric conditions.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The act of propagating, especially the movement of a wave.
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The elongation part of transcription.
Derived terms: backpropagation
micropropagation
propagation constant
propagation delay
propagation mode
propagation time
wave packet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wave packets
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a collection of waves, travelling together
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: a probability wave
fricassee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌsi/
ipa: /fɹɪ.kəˈsiː/
ipa: /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌseɪ/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: fricassees
form: fricassée
Etymology: From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb).
Senses: examples: text: I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal:
glosses: Meat or poultry cut into small pieces, stewed or fried and served in its own gravy.
fricassee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌsi/
ipa: /fɹɪ.kəˈsiː/
ipa: /ˈfɹɪ.kəˌseɪ/
rhymes: -iː
Forms: form: fricassees
form: fricasseeing
form: fricasseed
form: fricasseed
form: fricassée
Etymology: From French fricassée (noun), from fricassée, past participle of fricasser (verb).
Senses: examples: text: Just now I'm waiting for Tony Goodwin [the publisher] to arrive, casseroling a rabbit, fricasseeing it actually, listening to Revolver on the record player and the gale stripping the olive trees outside, and answering my correspondence, when […]
ref: 1999, Peter Craven, The Best Australian Essays 1999, Black Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: To cook meat or poultry in this manner.
autocratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætɪk
Forms: form: more autocratic
form: most autocratic
Etymology: From autocrat + -ic, equivalent to auto- + -cratic.
Senses: examples: text: In recent years, the prime minister has become increasingly autocratic.
text: Within democracies, nationalist leaders with autocratic impulses – from outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil to presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen in France – have seen defeats in recent months.
ref: 2022 December 1, John Avlon, “Opinion: The tide is turning against autocracy”, in CNN:
glosses: Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.
examples: text: Despite his lack of actual authority, his autocratic demeanour annoyed many of his colleagues.
text: Donna became autocratic the day Daniel born, and she realized she had absolute power over another human being.
ref: 2013, Bernardine Evaristo, Mr Loverman, Penguin Books (2020), page 213:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the manner of an autocrat.
Synonyms: sense: political system
word: authoritarian
word: despotic
word: dictatorial
word: monocratic
word: tyrannical
sense: fig.
word: bossy
Derived terms: autocratically
nonautocratic
Related terms: autocracy
autocrat
autocratical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more autocratical
form: most autocratical
Etymology: From autocrat + -ical.
Senses: glosses: autocratic
autofecundation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autofecundations
Etymology: From auto- + fecundation.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of self-fertilization.
synonyms: word: self-fertilization
autogamous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From auto- + -gamous.
Senses: examples: text: autogamous fertilization
text: autogamous species
glosses: self-fertilizing
Derived terms: autogamously
hydroautogamous
postautogamous
Related terms: autogamy
autogamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: autogamies
Etymology: From auto- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.
glosses: Sologamy, marriage to oneself.
Derived terms: autogamous
hydroautogamy
macropodous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more macropodous
form: most macropodous
Etymology: From macro- + -podous.
Senses: glosses: Having long or large legs, feet, or fins.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a leaf) Having a long stalk.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a plant embryo) Having a large hypocotyl.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: (of a plant embryo) Having a large radicle.
Synonyms: macropodal
macroprism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroprisms
Etymology: From macro- + prism.
Senses: glosses: A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
Synonyms: macropyramid
macropterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /məˈkraptərəs/
Forms: form: more macropterous
form: most macropterous
form: macropteran
Etymology: From macro- + -pterous.
Senses: glosses: Having long wings or fins; especially used in zoological or entomological contexts to describe animals (often insects) that possess well‑developed wings.
Related terms: apterous
enbrachypterous
macroscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From macro- + -scopic.
Senses: examples: text: The direct, evident, and macroscopic effects of freezing on foods are the phase transition of liquid components, which crystallize and solidify.
ref: 2016, Giovanna Cortellino, chapter 18, in Da-Wen Sun, editor, Handbook of Frozen Food Processing and Packaging, CRC Press, →ISBN, page 435:
glosses: Visible to the unassisted eye.
examples: text: ...it appears to be a small step from (1) and (2) to the identification of a sufficiently large mass with a macroscopic mass and, by analogy, to the consideration as macroscopic any system having sufficiently large quantum numbers associated with it...
ref: 2014 September 24, Gregg Jaeger, “What in the (quantum) world is macroscopic?”, in American Journal of Physics, volume 82, pages 896–905:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having an appreciable mass.
Synonyms: naked-eye
Derived terms: cryomacroscopic
macroscopically
macroscopicity
semimacroscopic
submacroscopic
Related terms: telescopic
microscopic
macroscopical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪkəl
Senses: glosses: macroscopic
macrosporangium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrosporangia
Etymology: From macro- + sporangium.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
antonyms: microsporangium
glosses: A megasporangium; sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores.
macrospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrospores
Etymology: From macro- + spore.
Senses: glosses: One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
Derived terms: macrosporic
macrosporogenesis
macrosporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macrospore + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: macrosporic fungus
text: macrosporic massulae
text: macrosporic
glosses: Of or pertaining to macrospores.
macrozoospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macrozoospores
Etymology: From macro- + zoospore.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; found in certain green algae.
mactation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mactations
Etymology: From Latin mactātiō, from mactō (“I sacrifice, slaughter”).
Senses: glosses: The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
mactra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mactras
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any marine bivalve shell of the numerous known species of genus Mactra and allied genera, some of which are used as food, for example the European clam Mactra stultorum.
Synonyms: trough shell
duck clam
surf clam
maculate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈmækjʊlət/
rhymes: -ækjʊleɪt
rhymes: -ækjʊlət
Forms: form: maculates
form: maculating
form: maculated
form: maculated
Etymology: First attested during the last quarter of the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English maculaten (“to spoil, polute”), borrowed from Latin maculātus, perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: they wolde nat maculate the honour of their people with suche a reproche
ref: 1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC:
text: There was a fresh smell in the air. Sidewalks began to be maculated with spreading areas of dryness
ref: 1918, Louis Joseph Vance, “Chapter 21”, in The False Faces:
glosses: To spot; to stain; to blur.
examples: text: That the honour of verteous gentil men, be nocht maculat vitht the vice ande inciuilite of vicius pretendit gentil men.
ref: c. 1550, The Complaynt of Scotland:
glosses: past participle of maculate
Derived terms: bimaculate
maculism
Related terms: immaculate
macula
maculate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmækjʊleɪt/
ipa: /ˈmækjʊlət/
rhymes: -ækjʊleɪt
rhymes: -ækjʊlət
Forms: form: more maculate
form: most maculate
Etymology: First attested during the last quarter of the 15th century, in Middle English; inherited from Middle English maculaten (“to spoil, polute”), borrowed from Latin maculātus, perfect passive participle of maculō (“to spot”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Marked with spots or maculae; blotched.
examples: text: [Les Misérables is] about the struggle of a mistreated man as he rises to the top, along with a mortal conflict between this maculate virtuous man and an immaculate pursuing demon.
ref: 1998 May 25, The New Republic:
glosses: Defiled, impure.
maculated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of maculate
maculated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maculated
form: most maculated
Senses: examples: text: 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “Chickamauga” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 48,
[The light] fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
text: She lifts the pen from the maculated blotter.
ref: 2002, Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, Canongate Books (2010), page 731:
synonyms: maculate
glosses: Having spots or blotches.
Derived terms: maculated fever
trimaculated
maculation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /măk′yə-lā′shən/
Forms: form: maculations
Senses: examples: text: I speak not ‘be thou true,’ as fearing thee,
For I will throw my glove to Death himself,
That there’s no maculation in thy heart:
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iv]:
text: 1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Holy Terror” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, p. 218,
He could make out a mottled pattern on the hollow cheeks—the maculations of decay.
glosses: The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.
examples: text: Females [of the species Speyeria nokomis] are cream above with heavy black maculation accompanied by much dark suffusion.
ref: 1975, William H. Howe, editor, The Butterflies of North America, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, page 217:
text: 1990, Mason E. Hale, A Synopsis of the Lichen Genus Xanthoparmelia (Vainio) Hale (Ascomycotina, Parmeliaceae), Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, p. 195,
[This lichen] species […] is recognized by […] more or less distinct maculation on the upper surface, and pale brown lower surface.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A pattern of spots.
Derived terms: emaculation
solar maculation
Related terms: immaculate
maculatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maculatory
form: most maculatory
Senses: glosses: Causing a spot, stain or damage
Related terms: immaculate
macula
macule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ækjuːl
Forms: form: macules
form: mackle
Etymology: From Middle French macule, from Latin macula. Doublet of macchia, macula and, with a suffix, maquis.
Senses: glosses: A spot.
glosses: A blur or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little during printing.
Derived terms: maculiferous
maculopapular
macule
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ækjuːl
Forms: form: macules
form: maculing
form: maculed
form: maculed
form: mackle
Etymology: From Middle French macule, from Latin macula. Doublet of macchia, macula and, with a suffix, maquis.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: To blur or be blurred; especially to blur or double an impression from type.
Rutgers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rutgerses
Etymology: Dutch patronymic surname from the given name Rutger, the same as Roger and Rodgarus.
Senses: glosses: An American surname from Dutch.
glosses: Rutgers University
maculose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maculose
form: most maculose
Senses: topics: biology
botany
geography
geology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having spots on the surface; spotted
colander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɒləndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɑləndɚ/
ipa: /ˈkɔləndɚ/
Forms: form: colanders
form: cullender
form: collinder
Etymology: From Middle English colyndore, coloundour, colonur, variants of Middle English culdor, culdore, culatre, ultimately from Latin cōlātōrium, from Latin cōlum. Cognates include Italian colino and Spanish colador.
Senses: examples: text: An electric fire came next, followed by an umbrella and then a colander. "This bowl will carry no water," he muttered. "Some loon hath pierced it with holes."
ref: 1971, Richard Carpenter, Catweazle and the Magic Zodiac, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, page 67:
hypernyms: sieve
sile
strainer
glosses: A bowl-shaped kitchen utensil with holes in it used for draining food that has been cooking in water, such as pasta.
Derived terms: sea colander
Related terms: coulee
percolate
madderwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madderworts
Etymology: From madder + wort.
Senses: glosses: Rubia tinctorum (common madder)
glosses: Any plant of the same family (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
maddish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ædɪʃ
Etymology: From mad + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 1642, Thomas Morton, The Presentment of a Schismaticke, London: R. Whitaker & S. Brown, p. 6,
I have reserved for the last place a Character which maketh his case most desperate, called by Auusten maddish obstinacy […]
text: 1815, Charles Lamb, letter to William Wordsworth dated 28 April, 1815, in The Letters of Charles Lamb, Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1905, Volume 4, p. 39,
Excuse this maddish letter: I am too tired to write in forma.
text: He is small and thin, and has glasses and large teeth and the maddish smile of genuine intellectual passion.
ref: 1964, Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man, London: Vintage, published 2010:
glosses: Somewhat mad.
Madecassee
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Madagascan
Madecassee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Madecassees
Senses: glosses: Madagascan
Madecassee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Madagascan
madefy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: madefies
form: madefying
form: madefied
form: madefied
Etymology: From Middle French madéfier, borrowed from Latin madefaciō.
Senses: glosses: To make wet or moist.
Related terms: madefaction
madge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mæd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ædʒ
Forms: form: madges
Etymology: See the etymology at magpie for a related discussion.
Senses: glosses: The barn owl.
glosses: The magpie.
madhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædˌhaʊs/
Forms: form: madhouses
Etymology: From mad + house.
Senses: examples: text: The palace, the night-cellar, the jail, the madhouse: the chambers of birth and death, of health and sickness, the rigid face of the corpse and the calm sleep of the child: midnight was upon them all.
ref: 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
text: The king experienced his first attack in autumn 1788, and as his condition worsened and the physicians-in-ordinary proved unable to cope or cure, the Reverend Dr Francis Willis (1717–1807), a clergyman doctor who ran a madhouse in Lincolnshire, was called in.
ref: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 263:
text: He is almost a tourist of his own book. There is a hint of the fad a couple of centuries ago for visiting madhouses in search of the exotic.
ref: 2002 February 27, Richard Eder, “BOOKS OF THE TIMES; When the Impostor Tries To Do the Job in Earnest”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: insane asylum
word: mental hospital
word: bedlam
word: bin
word: booby-hatch
word: booby house
word: bughouse
word: crazy house
word: cuckoo's nest
word: funny farm
word: happy hotel
word: insane asylum
word: laughing academy
word: loony bin
word: lunatic asylum
word: madhouse
word: mental asylum
word: mental home
word: grippy sock vacation
word: mental health center
word: mental health hospital
word: mental hospital
word: mental institution
word: nutfarm
word: nuthouse
word: psych
word: psych hospital
word: psychiatric hospital
word: psychopathic hospital
word: psychiatric ward
word: psych ward
word: special hospital
word: Tanjung Rambutan
word: whack shack
glosses: A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum.
examples: text: This taut, soldierly, professional story is something of a stranger among American novels about war making. Angry civilians have writ ten most of the best fiction on the subject, from “Three Soldiers” through “Catch‐22,” to make the point (with a good deal of literary overkill) that wars are mass insanity and that armies are madhouses.
ref: 1970 September 13, Robie MacAuley, “The Army as one of life's awful necessities”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A chaotic, uproarious, noisy place.
Madia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Madias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Madia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
madid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more madid
form: most madid
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin madidus.
Senses: examples: text: Many a dampened face and madid eye did justice to departed merit.
ref: 1852, John Sartain, Sartain's Union Magazine of Literature and Art:
glosses: Wet; moist.
Synonyms: drenched
saturated
sodden
wet
madjoun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of majoun.
madly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmædli/
rhymes: -ædli
Forms: form: madlier
form: more madly
form: madliest
form: most madly
Etymology: From Middle English madly, madli, medliche, equivalent to mad + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I'm madly in love with you.
text: But his cries were heard, as he madly grappled with the knives which stabbed him.
ref: 1854, George Lippard, New York: Its Upper Ten and Lower Million - Issue 2, E. Mendenhall, page 122:
text: If Austria had not madly invaded Piedmont in 1859, France could not have fought. If, the Pope had not been madly obstinate in rejecting the reforms pressed on him by France, he must have been sustained as a temporal ruler.
ref: 1861, Henry Theodore Tuckerman, The Rebellion, Its Latent Causes and True Significance: In ..., J.G. Gregory, page 23:
text: It is the fact that, for the time, he is bereft of his senses; he is a man who has gone mad. He spends his money madly, he treats his friends madly, he treats himself madly. Those who would love him best if he were not mad are now afraid of him, and often hide themselves from him, and well they may. For this man, in his madness, may hurt them, strike them, kill them.
ref: 1878, Benjamin Ward Richardson, The Temperance Lesson Book: A Series of Short Lessons on Alcohol and Its Action on the Body. Designed for Reading in Schools and Families, National Temperance Society and Publication House, page 266:
text: Consider, for the love of Heaven, to what you run madly: will you take this viper into your bed?
ref: 1879, Francis Beaumont, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: The Text Formed from a New Collation of the Early Editions, Volume 1, D. Appleton, page 350:
glosses: In a mad manner
without reason or understanding; wildly.
examples: text: Diane screamed madly down the phone to the prank caller.
glosses: In a mad manner
angrily
examples: text: In a way the better procedures you have I think, bizarrely and madly it actually serves to increase rather than decrease the problem
ref: 2016, Lizzie Barmes, Bullying and Behavioural Conflict at Work:
glosses: In a mad manner
extremely surprisingly or unexpectedly
madnep
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madneps
Etymology: From mad + variant of neep.
Senses: glosses: The masterwort (Peucedanum ostruthium).
madrague
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madragues
Etymology: From French madrague.
Senses: topics: fishing
hobbies
lifestyle
glosses: A large fish pound used for the capture of tuna in the Mediterranean, now a forbidden practice in places.
madrepore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmædɹɪpɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: madrepores
Etymology: From French madrépore, from Italian madrepora (from madre (“mother”)), from Latin mater + poro (“pore”), from Latin porus.
Senses: examples: text: The beauty of the madrepores and corallines, of which the finest specimens are found in the recesses of the Bay of Tappanuli, is not to be surpassed in any country.
ref: 1811, William Marsden, The History of Sumatra:
text: The rocks of Gonye are reddish gray sandstone, nearly horizontal, and perforated by madrepores, the holes showing the course of the insect in different directions.
ref: 1873, David Livingstone, Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa:
glosses: A coral of the genus Madrepora or of the order Madreporaria.
examples: text: This bay is approached from the choir by the first marble step which is in Frosterley, a marble with beautiful madrepores of light colour on a dark ground.
ref: 1926, W.D. Sweeting, The Cathedral Church of Peterborough:
glosses: Any stony coral.
Derived terms: madreporiform
madreporite
madreporic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From madrepore + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: madreporic island
text: madreporic tube
glosses: Resembling, or pertaining to, the madrepores (corals of the genus Madrepora).
madreporiform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From madrepore + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: madreporiform form
text: madreporiform plate
text: madreporiform body
glosses: Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.
madreporite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmædɹəˈpɔɹaɪt/
Forms: form: madreporites
Etymology: From madrepore + -ite; the echinoderm sense is in reference to how it resembles the coral.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A calcareous opening in the body of echinoderms which connects the water vascular system to the environment.
examples: text: a similar Madreporite deposite is noticed a few feet above the coal seam
ref: 1839, Report of the progress of the Geological Survey for the year 1839:
text: Whether madreporite occurs naturally in Spain, I do not know
ref: 1943, “Publications of the Folklore Society (Great Britain)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), page 138:
text: Madreporite was regarded as a variety of calcite and anthraconite a lamellar variety of madreporite
ref: 1989, Society for the Bibliography of Natural History (Great Britain), Archives of Natural History, page 199:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A fossil stony coral, or a deposit composed of the same.
Derived terms: madreporitic
azotemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæzəʊˈtiːmɪə/
ipa: /ˌæzoʊˈtimiə/
Forms: form: azotemias
Etymology: From azote + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
synonyms: hyperazotemia
hyperuremia
uremia
glosses: The accumulation in the blood of nitrogen-bearing waste products (such as urea) that are usually excreted in the urine.
Derived terms: azotemic
hyperazotemia
nonazotemia
Related terms: azotometry
madrigalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: madrigalists
Etymology: From madrigal + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The 'Prince of Venosa' referred to in the letter to Albani is the famous archlutist and madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo, and 'Stella' is Gesualdo's protégé, Scipione Stella, who […]
ref: 2002, Richard E. Spear, From Caravaggio to Artemisia: Essays on Painting in Seventeenth-century Italy and France:
text: A group of composers, variously known as the madrigalists, the lutenists, or the virginalists (depending on the medium for which they were writing), produced vast quantities of attractive music, mostly for amateur consumption.
ref: 2003, Edward L. Kottick, A History of the Harpsichord, page 200:
glosses: A composer of madrigals.
glosses: A singer or interpreter of madrigals.
Synonyms: madrigaler
estivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: estivations
Senses: examples: text: On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aestivation.
IDF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: IDFs
Senses: examples: text: A finer point to observe is that the sample implementation provided in Example 7-4 adjusts the IDF score by adding a value of 1.0 to the logarithm calculation, for the purposes of illustration and because we're dealing with a trivial document set.
ref: 2011, Matthew Russell, Mining the Social Web, page 215:
text: The idea behind inverse document frequency (IDF) is that all words in the corpus are not equally important.
ref: 2014, Manas A. Pathak, Beginning Data Science with R, page 147:
text: Inverse document frequency, or IDF, is your window through Zipf in topic analysis.
ref: 2019, Hobson Lane, Cole Howard, Hannes Max Hapke, Natural Language Processing In Action […] , Shelter Island: Manning, →ISBN:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Initialism of inverse document frequency.
Derived terms: TF-IDF
IDF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Iceland Defense Force.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Irish Defence Forces.
examples: text: The IDF spokesperson provided no comment on whether it had halted the practice, or the reported use of white phosphorus in Gaza, a densely populated area and home to more than 2 million people.
ref: 2023 October 9, Ruth Michaelson, Ben Doherty, “Israel ‘going on the offensive’ after retaking territories overrun by Hamas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Alright, but have you heard this one though? Death, death to the IDF!
ref: 2025 June 30, Bob Vylan, quotee, Bob Vylan chants "death to the IDF", Islam Channel:
text: Firearms were taken from IDF personnel and passengers disabled at least one by removing the ammunition from it.
ref: 2011 September 24, Álvaro Uribe, Joseph Ciechanover, and Süleyman Özdem Sanberk, “The Use of Force on the Mavi Marmara”, in Sir Geoffrey Palmer, Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Inquiry on the 31 May 2010 Flotilla Incident, page 57:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of Israel Defense Forces.
preparatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɛp(ə)ɹətɔɹi/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛɹ-/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpæɹ-/
ipa: /ˈpɹɛp(ə)ɹət(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpæɹ-/
ipa: /pɹɪˈpɛəɹ-/
Etymology: From Middle English preparatori, from Late Latin praeparatorius. By surface analysis, prepare + -atory.
Senses: examples: text: I will conduct some preparatory research before choosing the new restaurant's location.
text: A butcher bird has stirred, tuned its flute with a few preparatory notes.
ref: 1934, Henry G. Lamond, An Aviary On The Plains, page 47:
glosses: Of or pertaining to preparation, having the purpose of making something or someone ready, preparative.
Derived terms: word: preparatorily
sense: Expressions
english: = anticipatory it
translation: = anticipatory it
word: preparatory it
sense: Expressions
word: preparatory school → prep school
sense: Expressions
word: preparatory subject
parodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parody
parodies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of parody
white bread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white breads
form: white-bread
form: whitebread
form: whitebread
Senses: examples: text: Yes—just become a Communist, and things get all right. Deny your Christ and they will give you white bread in plenty and clothes to wear—" He would hold his breath, would wonder and question: "What is white bread? And who is Christ?"
ref: 1933, Edith Almedingen, “White Bread for Creeds”, in The Catholic World, volume 136:
text: At one time, when the commandant felt especially indebted, he sent the other officers out of his office and opened the safe. There it was, securely hidden, an entire loaf of white''' bread. He cut a large slice, wrapped it in newspaper and, beaming, handed this precious gift to Ildikó. "Just for you. I, as the commandant, am entitled to some white bread," he said proudly. Ildikó was touched, not by the value of the gift but by the realization of the Russians' grave poverty.
ref: 1998, Csaba Teglas, chapter VII, in Budapest Exit, page 73:
coordinate_terms: brown bread
light bread
pain de mie
wholemeal bread
glosses: Bread made from white flour.
examples: text: Teyshawn wanted to yell whitebreads did it—fucking whitebreads.
ref: 2006, Michael Soltys, The Grass Is Green, section 296:
text: evelyn. Fuck you, white bread.
vincent. Oh, I'm white?
evelyn. You don't act black.
vincent. (smiling) And yet, people still treat me like I'm black.
ref: 2011, Kathryn Grant, The Good Counselor, act I, scene ii:
synonyms: word: whitey
word: Caucasian
word: ang moh
word: Angrez
word: balanda
word: béké
word: bule
word: Caucasian
word: cracker
word: cumskin
word: farang
word: firangi
word: gringo
word: gora
word: gussuk
word: gweilo
word: haole
word: honky
word: hoogie
word: hoojah
word: ice monkey
word: ivory
word: joganosh
word: kabloona
word: laowai
word: leucoderm
word: mayo
word: mayonnaise face
word: melanin-challenged
word: migaloo
word: mlungu
word: mzungu
word: ofay
word: oyinbo
word: paddy
word: Pakeha
word: paleface
word: pigskin
word: pinky
word: roundeye
word: saltine
raw_tags: for cracker
word: snow bunny
word: toubab
word: umlungu
word: vazaha
word: white
word: white bread
word: white devil
word: whiteface
word: white man
word: whitey
word: wigger
word: wonderbread
word: Yankee
glosses: A white person, a person of European descent, a person who 'acts white'.
white bread
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more white bread
form: most white bread
form: white-bread
form: whitebread
form: whitebread
Senses: examples: text: She's been living in her white bread world / As long as anyone with hot blood can / And now she's looking for a downtown man
ref: 1983, Billy Joel, “Uptown Girl”:
text: This is our chance to make a name for ourselves; to show that we're not just some piss-ant white-bread mountain town.
ref: 1997 August 20, Trey Parker, Matt Stone, “Weight Gain 4000”, in South Park, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Mayor McDaniels:
text: He’s always thought of himself as boring, “a white-bread suburban househusband.”
ref: 2022 May 11, Alexandra Alter, quoting Kim Stanley Robinson, “A Sci-Fi Writer Returns to Earth: ‘The Real Story Is the One Facing Us’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: conventional
word: bourgeois
word: wonderbread
word: banal
word: beat
word: blah
word: bland
word: boring
word: cold
word: colourless
word: drab
word: dreich
word: drowsy
word: dull
word: dull as dishwater
word: flat
word: ho-hum
word: humdrum
word: insipid
word: lackluster
word: lame
word: languid
word: lifeless
word: longsome
word: monotonous
word: mundane
word: no fun at parties
word: plain
word: plodding
word: prosaic
word: prosy
word: pedantic
word: pedestrian
word: static
word: straightforward
word: snoozeworthy
word: soporific
word: tedious
word: uncool
word: wan
word: weaksauce
word: wooden
word: uninteresting
word: stodgy
word: vapid
word: vanilla
word: bland
word: cardboard
word: flaggy
word: flavorless
word: ingustible
word: intastable
word: savorless
word: insipid
word: tame
word: gustless
word: sapidless
word: mawkish
word: smackless
word: tasteless
word: unsavory
word: untasteable
word: wallowish
word: watery
word: waugh
word: wearish
word: wersh
glosses: Bland, boring; flavorless.
examples: text: [Rudy] Giuliani is hedging a bit, but he's not the white-bread cop so many blacks expect him to be.
ref: 1993 November 15, Eric Pooley, “Can Giuliani Pull It Together?”, in New York, volume 26, number 45, page 53:
synonyms: Caucasian
wonderbread
glosses: Of or relating to white people.
aestival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -aɪvəl
Forms: form: more aestival
form: most aestival
Etymology: From Latin aestivalis.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of estival.
Derived terms: preaestival
azotaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azotaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of azotemia.
aestivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌiːstɪˈveɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: aestivations
form: æstivation
form: estivation
Etymology: Derived from Latin aestīvō, aestīvāre (“to spend or pass the summer in a place”), from aestīvus (“of or pertaining to summer”), from aestās (“summer”) + -īvus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A state of inactivity and metabolic depression during summer: the summer version of hibernation.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The arrangement (vernation) of the parts of a flower inside a bud; prefloration.
examples: text: On the Vnder Story, tovvards the Garden, Let it be turned to a Grotta, or Place of Shade, or Eſtiuation.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Building. XLV.”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 263:
glosses: The spending or passing of a summer.
Related terms: word: aestivate
sense: inactivity
word: torpor
Jena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈjeɪnə/
/ˈd͡ʒiːnə/
Etymology: From German Jena.
Senses: glosses: An independent city in Thuringia, Germany.
glosses: A town, the parish seat of LaSalle Parish, Louisiana, United States, which was named after the German city.
Derived terms: Jena glass
Jena
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjeɪnə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːnə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛnə/
homophone: Gena
homophone: Jenna
ipa: /ˈjeɪnə/
ipa: /ˈd͡ʒiːnə/
Senses: glosses: A female given name of rare usage, variant of Gina.
specific heat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specific heats
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: An obsolete term for specific heat capacity.
graviera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A type of cheese used in Greek cuisine.
orally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɔːɹəli/
Etymology: From oral + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This medicine is taken orally. Swallowing a pill sure beats getting a shot every day.
text: Pleasure your partner orally and manually.
text: But methadone is a dangerous drug. If taken orally by a nonaddict, it can cause euphoria or even death.
ref: 1971 March 19, Richard Severo, “Addiction: Chemistry Is the New Hope, but Degree of Its Effectiveness Is Still Disputed”, in The New York Times:
glosses: By mouth.
examples: text: I took the make-up test orally because my arm is still in a cast.
glosses: Spoken as opposed to written.
Derived terms: extraorally
orally disintegrating tablet
periorally
documents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏkʹyəmənts
ipa: /ˈdɑkjəmənts/
enpr: dŏkʹyo͝omənts
ipa: /ˈdɒkjʊmənts/
Senses: glosses: plural of document
documents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dŏkʹyəmĕnts
ipa: /ˈdɑkjəmɛnts/
enpr: dŏkʹyo͝omĕnts
ipa: /ˈdɒkjʊmɛnts/
Senses: examples: text: He documents everything he does, He can always prove it was done correctly.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of document
Related terms: word: docs
raw_tags: of documents
word: dox
english: slang - phonetic respelling of docs
translation: slang - phonetic respelling of docs
word: doxx
end-effector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: end-effectors
Senses: examples: "The system integrates a single camera into the robot's end-effector, and adds a specialized, durable lighting unit that moves with the robot to illuminate the parts." — "Eyes on the Line," Mechanical Engineering, August 2005.
glosses: Any attachment on the end of a robot that interacts with the environment, such as a device to lift parts.
glosses: The terminal moving part of a limb that interacts with the environment.
skivvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skivvy