cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
religiophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin religiō (“moral obligation, worship”) and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).
Senses: examples: text: Hence it is not necessary for the scientists to develop a sort of religiophobia nor is it necessary for the religious man to develop an attitude of suspicion against science.
ref: 1937, A Chakravarti, Humanism and Indian Thought, G.S. Press, page 2
text: Racial groupthink and "religiophobia"...
ref: 1997, Jim Sleeper, Liberal Racism:
text: In fact he reverses the issue of religiophobia by stating flatly that those who are not against him are for him!
ref: 2003, Ethan Walker, The Mystic Christ:
glosses: A fear or hatred of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organisations.
Related terms: religiophobic
religiophobe
brazeletta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The Governor moreover demanded the fifth part of all the Brazeletta wood.
ref: 1886, Sir John Robert Seeley, Her Majesty's Colonies:
text: ...estimated his losses at 160 hogsheads of tobacco, 30 tons of logwood, 14 tons of Brazeletta (Brazil wood), and 70 tons of oil, in all valued at £2000.
ref: 1988, Donald Shomette, Robert D Haslach, Raid on America: The Dutch Naval Campaign of 1672-1674:
glosses: Wood from the brazilwood tree.
brickmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brick + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of bricks.
brickmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brickmakers
Etymology: From Middle English brekemeker, breke maker, equivalent to brick + maker.
Senses: glosses: A maker of bricks.
brickmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brickmaker
oxlip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxlips
form: oxelip
form: oxslip
Etymology: From Middle English *oxeslyppe, from Old English oxanslyppe (“oxlip”), from oxan, genitive of oxa (“ox”) + slyppe (“paste, slimy substance”). Compare cowslip, of similar formation.
Senses: synonyms: true oxlip
glosses: A plant of species Primula elatior, similar to cowslip (Primula veris) but with larger, pale yellow flowers.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Primula × polyantha
word: false oxlip
taxonomic: Primula elatior
word: true oxlip
bucranium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bucraniums
form: bucrania
Etymology: From Latin būcrānium, from Ancient Greek βουκράνιον (boukránion).
Senses: examples: text: On the second side of the gem, we see the victim, a running goat, and on the third side the symbol of sacrifice, the bucranium.
ref: 1986, Nanno Marinatos, Minoan Sacrificial Ritual:
text: It was also in relation to the funerary world that bucrania were placed at the bottoms of the pits.
ref: 2000, Béatrix Midant-Reynes, The Prehistory of Egypt:
glosses: The depiction of the head of an ox, as ornamental flourishes in architectural works.
bucraniums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucranium
bucrania
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bucranium
lunar eclipses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lunar eclipse
buddy systems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buddy system
doorless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English dureleas, durelease; equivalent to door + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a door.
Derived terms: doorlessness
doomwatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From doom + watch.
Senses: examples: text: […]using linear projections of current high levels of population growth and consumption of raw materials produced doomwatch forecasts.
ref: 1986, W T S Gould, Richard Lawton, Planning for Population Change:
text: Yet however essential it may have been to changing assumptions about energy use, protest and doomwatch activism was never New Alchemy's primary focus.
ref: 2005, Nancy Jack Todd, A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design:
glosses: A pessimistic outlook on the future.
Related terms: doomwatcher
doomwatching
dehorn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhɔːn/
Forms: form: dehorns
form: dehorning
form: dehorned
form: dehorned
Etymology: From de- + horn.
Senses: glosses: To remove the horns from.
Synonyms: poll
Derived terms: dehorner
dehorns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehorn
dehorning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehorn
dehorned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehorn
dehydrogenize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehydrogenizes
form: dehydrogenizing
form: dehydrogenized
form: dehydrogenized
Etymology: From de- + hydrogenize.
Senses: glosses: To dehydrogenate.
dehydrogenizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehydrogenize
dehydrogenizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehydrogenize
dehydrogenized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehydrogenize
dehydrogenise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehydrogenises
form: dehydrogenising
form: dehydrogenised
form: dehydrogenised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dehydrogenize.
dehydrogenising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehydrogenise
dehydrogenises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehydrogenise
dehydrogenised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehydrogenise
computeracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of computer + literacy.
Senses: glosses: Computer literacy.
computerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computerate
form: most computerate
Etymology: Blend of computer + literate
Senses: glosses: computer-literate.
computerese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From computer + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: No Computerese!¶ Let's face it–when there's a task you don't know how to do but you need to get it done in a hurry, or when you're stuck in the middle of a task and can't figure out what to do next, there's nothing more frustrating than having to read page after page of technical background material.
ref: 1997, Jerry Joyce, Microsoft Word 97 At a Glance, Microsoft Press, page 1:
glosses: The jargon associated with computers.
marketizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marketize
marketizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of marketize
marketized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marketize
marketises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of marketise
marketised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of marketise
cyberphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cyberphobic
form: most cyberphobic
Etymology: From cyber- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted by, cyberphobia.
computerphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computerphobic
form: most computerphobic
Etymology: From computer + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted by, computerphobia.
computerphobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computerphobics
Etymology: From computer + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: A computerphobe.
computerphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computerphobes
Etymology: From computer + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted by computerphobia; one who fears or dislikes computers.
computerphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computerphobe
cyberphobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyberphobes
Etymology: From cyber- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: A person afflicted by cyberphobia; one who fears or dislikes computers.
cyberphobes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyberphobe
computerphobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computerphobias
Etymology: From computer + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: As to the Internetphobia from your shop owner, I wonder if it is a fear of losing business to Internet merchants? OTOH, it could be just an extension of the computerphobia many people have.
ref: 1996 April 24, OneMTHead, “Re: Local Store Upset”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), message-ID <4llq1q$hse@newsbf02.news.aol.com>:
glosses: Fear or irrational dislike of computers; cyberphobia.
Related terms: Internetphobia
countrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of countrify
countrifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of countrify
undercook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: undercooks
form: undercooking
form: undercooked
form: undercooked
Etymology: From under- + cook.
Senses: antonyms: overcook
;
scorch
hypernyms: overdo
glosses: To cook insufficiently.
examples: text: Liverpool needed a break and they got it at the beginning of the second half, from, of all things, a misplaced City pass. Aké was the culprit, undercooking his attempt to go back to Ederson and seeing Núñez steal in. He toed it away from the goalkeeper and was promptly cleaned out by him.
ref: 2024 March 10, David Hytner, “Doku involved at both ends as Liverpool and Manchester City share spoils”, in The Guardian:
antonyms: overdo
glosses: To underdo.
undercook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌndɚ.kʊk/
rhymes: -ʊk
Forms: form: undercooks
Etymology: From under- + cook.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: sous-chef, subchef, underchef, chef de partie, station chef, line cook (all sometimes synonymous)
text: Formerly the domain of cooks, undercooks, and scullery maids, it wasn't even a room a householder would lay claim to, much less single out with items of personal interest.
ref: 2002, Helen Thompson, Anna Kasabian, Cooking spaces: designs for cooking, entertaining, and living, page 67:
synonyms: subcook
hypernyms: cook#Noun
coordinate_terms: chef
head chef
chief cook and bottle washer
glosses: A subordinate cook.
undercooks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercook
undercooking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of undercook
computer games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer game
wumpus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌmpəs/
Forms: form: wumpuses
form: wumpi
Etymology: Coined in an early text-based computer game, Hunt the Wumpus (published 1973).
Senses: examples: text: In addition to the Wumpus, other dangers are lurking: namely deadly pits, and bats that grab the player and drop her in a random cave.
ref: 1987, Etienne Wenger, Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems:
text: A scream occurs when the agent shoots an arrow that kills the wumpus.
ref: 2003, Selmer Bringsjord, Michael John Zenzen, Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More:
text: In Hunter, towards the end of the game, the player is tracking the wounded wumpus and finds herself in a room of interconnected caves.
ref: 2008, Andreas Jahn-Sudmann, Ralf Stockmann, Computer Games as a Sociocultural Phenomenon:
glosses: A fictional reclusive monster.
wikipedia: Hunt the Wumpus
wumpuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wumpus
wag-at-the-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the wagging motion of the pendulum.
Senses: glosses: Having an exposed pendulum.
raw_tags: of a wall clock
Synonyms: wag-on-the-wall
wag-on-the-wall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wag-at-the-wall.
unwaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + waged.
Senses: glosses: Without a wage.
examples: 1810?, Eaton Stannard Barrett, Woman
Ambition leaves a favorite war unwaged.
glosses: Not waged, as a war.
Synonyms: unpaid
unsalaried
wageless
wageless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wage + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a wage.
Synonyms: unpaid
unsalaried
unwaged
unsalaried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + salaried.
Senses: glosses: Without a salary.
Synonyms: unpaid
unwaged
wageless
udāttas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of udātta
uxorially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From uxorial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Clerical husbands who have been uxorially driven by wives who wielded their father's croziers, so to say, have been known to jib — nay, to kick out...
ref: 1881, Eustace Clare Grenville Murray, Side-lights on English Society:
text: Every contact with the affairs of the world, save uxorially, was changed...
ref: 1970, Joseph Collins, Idling in Italy:
text: ...her husband may in fact have come as an outside intruder into her already established and maternally and uxorially oriented realm.
ref: 1992, Jean H Hagstrum, Esteem Enlivened by Desire: The Couple from Homer to Shakespeare:
glosses: In an uxorial fashion.
ugglesome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŭg'əlsəm
ipa: /ˈʌɡəlsəm/
rhymes: -ʌɡəlsəm
Forms: form: more ugglesome
form: most ugglesome
form: uglesome
form: uglysome
Etymology: From earlier *uglisome, uglysome, equivalent to ugly + -some.
Senses: examples: text: Hath not dame Nature her ſelfe denied vnto vs her operation, in ſending fooꝛth aboꝛtiues, vntimely births, vggleſome monſters and fearfull miſhapen Creatures of God are angrie with vs and thꝛeaten vs with deſtruction, and yet we are nothing at all amẽded (alas) that ſhal become of vs?
ref: 1583 May 1, Phillip Stubbes, The Anatomie of Abuses: Contayning a Discouerie, or Briefe Summarie of Such Notable Vices and Imperfections, as Now Raigne in Many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: […], London: […] [John Kingston for] Richard Iones, →OCLC, signature Q.ij., verso:
text: […] ſo ſhe dyed miſerably, her body being Metamorphoſed, into blew and blacke colours, moſt vggleſome to behold, and her face (whiche befoꝛe was ſo amoꝛous) became moſte defoꝛmed, and fearefull to looke vpon.
ref: 1584 October 12, Phillip Stubs, The Anatomie of Abuses: Containing a Discouerie, or Briefe Summarie of Such Notable Vices and Corruptions, as Nowe Raigne in Many Christian Countreyes of the Worlde: […], 3rd edition, London: […] Richard Iones, →OCLC, folios 37, verso – 38, recto:
glosses: Ugly, hideous.
comsat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comsats
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: examples: text: Once a comsat is built, its traffic-handling capacity can be utilized […]
ref: 1967, Arthur Charles Clarke, The Coming of the Space Age:
text: […] educating farmers and schoolchildren, according to the social scientists studying it, are sufficient reasons in themselves to purchase a comsat.
ref: 1977, New Scientist:
text: The suborbital, though, had a direct feed to a comsat, and the channel ought to be secure.
ref: 1998, Ian Douglas, Semper Mars:
glosses: A communications satellite.
comsats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comsat
computus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computi
form: compotus
form: conpotus
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin computus. Doublet of conto.
Senses: examples: text: An elaborate bundle of techniques called computus therefore developed around Easter calculations. Computus formed the centerpiece of “scientific” education in the monasteries.
ref: 2008, Ian F. McNeely, Lisa Wolverton, Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet, page 68:
text: Bede's work, which remained in active use for half a millennium, stood at the very center of the university curriculum, because the mastery of computus included many different essential subjects such as astronomy, mathematics, geography, theology, and law; its applications, too, included medicine and agriculture.
ref: 2011, Elisheva Carlbach, Palaces of Time, page 11:
text: The technical problems faced by Western computists when it came to dating the day of Christ's Passion and the year of the world's creation were so persistent and perplexing that only a radical solution could restore the lost coherence of computus and chronography.
ref: 2011, C. Philipp E. Nothaft, Dating the Passion: The Life of Jesus and the Emergence of Scientific Chronology (200-1600), page 103:
glosses: The calculation of the date of Easter in the Christian calendar.
examples: text: 1987, Bruce Eastwood, 5: Plinian astronomical diagrams in the early Middle Ages, Edward Grant, John Emery Murdoch, Mathematics and Its Applications to Science and Natural Philosophy in the Middle Ages, page 149,
This computus also contains only one completed Plinian diagram, that for the planetary harmonic intervals.
text: Prognostics have thus been discovered in computi, in volumes on science or medicine, and in miscellanies which present a host of different text genres.
ref: 2007, László Sándor Chardonnens, Anglo-Saxon Prognostics, 900-1100: Study and Texts, page 25:
glosses: A book of tables for calculating dates of astronomical events and moveable feasts.
Related terms: compute
computist
almanac
comsymp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comsymps
Etymology: Coined by American businessman and political organizer Robert Welch from a blend of Communist + sympathizer.
Senses: examples: text: Personally, I think he's a comsymp. Or close. That's why I never had much enthusiasm for being on it, great as you all seem to think it is.
ref: 1965, Niven Busch, The Gentleman from California:
text: The guard said he wouldn't be surprised to find out that the longhaired comsymp pervos had done it by putting something into the water.
ref: 1990, Stephen King, The Stand: The Complete and Uncut Edition:
text: [L]iberals were committed[…] to convincing America that Democrats were now modern and pragmatic, not wasteful bleeding-heart suckers or childish protesters or comsymp fools.
ref: 2020 August 7, Kurt Andersen, “College-Educated Professionals Are Capitalism’s Useful Idiots”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A Communist sympathizer; a liberal.
comsymps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of comsymp
lallygags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lallygag
lallygagging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lallygag
lallygagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lallygag
conatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From conative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conative manner.
conceiver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceivers
Etymology: From conceive + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Godspell’s original conceiver, and later author of the like-titled book, was one John-Michael Teblak, a Carnegie Tech student who created the work as a requirement for his master's program.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 285:
glosses: One who, or that which, conceives.
conceivers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceiver
spicily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spicily
form: most spicily
Etymology: From spicy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spicy manner.
ujamaa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ujamaas
Etymology: Borrowed from Swahili ujamaa (“brotherhood, extended family”), from jamaa (“family”), from Arabic جَمَاعَة (jamāʕa, “group (of people)”).
Senses: examples: text: On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.
ref: 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7:
text: She told him the gift was in keeping with the spirit of ujamaa, or cooperative economics, one of the seven principles of Kwanzaa.
ref: 2021 January 30, Christina Morales, “A 10-Year-Old GameStop Investor Cashed In. His Return? Over 5,000%”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 22 Feb 2021:
glosses: A socialist ideology of cooperation and collective advancement that formed the basis of socioeconomic policies in Tanzania in the 1960s.
glosses: A village built according to this ideology, with central homes and school surrounded by communal farmland.
ujamaas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ujamaa
villagisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villagisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of villagization.
villagisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villagisation
villagization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: villagizations
form: villagisation
Etymology: From village + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: 1955, R. W. Sorensen, Hansard, Fifth Series, Volume 542, Session 1955-56, 21 June, 1955, p. 1207,
Other developments are taking place in Malaya. Naturally, villagisation is at first often resisted by those who are compelled to live in the new villages; nobody likes being torn up by the roots.
text: In late 1984, the Ethiopian government began a program of villagization which was intended to regroup the scattered homesteads, small hamlets and traditional villages of the entire countryside into a completely new pattern of grid-plan villages, laid out in accordance with central directives.
ref: 1991, Alex de Waal, Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia, New York: Human Rights Watch, page 231:
text: 2012, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter: A Memoir, New York: Knopf Doubleday, 2015, Chapter 13, p. 36,
Villagization, the innocuous name the colonial state gave to the forced internal displacement, was sprung on the Kenyan people in 1955, […] but living within the walls of the school, I had not heard about the agents of the state bulldozing people’s homes or torching them when the owners refused to participate in the demolition.
glosses: Resettlement of citizens into designated villages by governmental or military authorities, often to counter guerrilla activities.
villagizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of villagization
precedences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precedence
associativities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of associativity
concentricly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concentricly
form: most concentricly
Senses: examples: text: Stimulation of scutellaris during ontogeny by high temperature merely reduces the markings concentricly.
ref: 1915, Charles Zeleny, Studies on the Factors Controlling the Rate of Regeneration:
text: Regions grow concentricly, meaning that the adjacent pixels to be merged simultaneously are all those neighboring the current region.
ref: 1997, Ishwar K Sethi, Ramesh Jain, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI:
text: In section III the oracles of doom and the oracles of hope are arranged concentricly.
ref: 2001, Jan A Wagenaar, Judgement and Salvation: The Composition and Redaction of Micah 2-5:
glosses: Alternative spelling of concentrically.
concept art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of illustration whose main goal is to convey a visual representation of a concept which is to be fleshed out or realized in the final work.
conceptualism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptualisms
Etymology: From conceptual + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The art movement towards conceptual art.
examples: text: We have thus returned, then, to that conceptualism of the middle age, which, concentrating truth within the human intelligence, makes the nature of things a phantom of intelligence projecting itself everywhere out of itself[…]
ref: 1853, Victor Cousin, Lectures on the True, the Beautiful, and the Good:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A theory, intermediate between realism and nominalism, that the mind has the power of forming for itself general conceptions of individual or single objects; the doctrine that universals have an existence in the mind apart from any concrete embodiment.
Derived terms: anticonceptualism
neoconceptualism
nonconceptualism
photoconceptualism
postconceptualism
conceptualist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptualists
Etymology: From conceptual + -ist.
Senses: glosses: An artist involved in the conceptualism movement.
examples: text: I have taken no notice of an intermediate sect called Conceptualists ; whose distinguishing tenet is said to have been , that the mind has a power of forming general conceptions
ref: 1792, Dugald Stewart, Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One who maintains the theory of conceptualism.
Derived terms: anticonceptualist
conceptualistic
neoconceptualist
postconceptualist
conceptualists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conceptualist
antirealism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antirealisms
Etymology: From anti- + realism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Any position involving denial of the objective reality of certain entities, or denial that certain general statements are objectively either true or false.
Related terms: quasi-realism
anti-realism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of antirealism.
Klansman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: clansman
Forms: form: Klansmen
form: klansman
form: Clansman
Etymology: From Klan + -s- + man. (Klan's man) (KKK clansman).
Senses: examples: text: Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name
ref: 1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:
hypernyms: Klansperson
Kluxer
Ku Kluxer
coordinate_terms: Klanswoman
glosses: A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
Related terms: whitecapper
nightrider
clansman
Klansmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Klansman
concerningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concerningly
form: most concerningly
Etymology: From concerning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: More concerningly, the major protagonist of this section is not a recognizable character but an archetypal, invisible villain — AIDS.
ref: 1994, Ian Lucas, Impertinent Decorum: Gay Theatrical Manoeuvres:
text: Earlier this week, forecasters warned conditions appear concerningly similar to those responsible for “some of the worst fires in Southern California history.”
ref: 2024 November 7, Karina Tsui, “25 million people in California face ‘life-threatening’ fire warning”, in CNN:
glosses: In a manner that causes concern; worryingly.
suits up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of suit up
suiting up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of suit up
suited up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of suit up
concernedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concernedly
form: most concernedly
Etymology: From concerned + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Portia was still tapping at her arm concernedly.
ref: 2022, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory, Tor, page 270:
glosses: In a concerned manner; worriedly.
concertmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: concertmistresses
Etymology: Possibly a calque of German Konzertmeisterin, corresponding to concert + mistress.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A female concertmaster.
concertmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of concertmistress
concludable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conclude + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be concluded.
Derived terms: inconcludable
unconcludable
concludible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conclude + -ible.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of concludable.
concludingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more concludingly
form: most concludingly
Etymology: From concluding + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Quoted in SIR KENELME DIGBY,—II. His Writings in The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 183 (Volume XXIX New Series, June 1848), page 603, as:
And, … let me recommend to you not onely to examine whether the opinion you meet with in your reading, repugnant to what you were formerly imbued with, be concludingly demonstrated or no, but likewise examine as strictly the reason you have for your own; and when the scale weighs heaviest give your assent.
Quoted by Samuel Johnson in A Dictionary of the English Language (London, 1755) in support of his definition of concludingly as "with uncontrovertible evidence" as:
Examine whether the opinion you meet with, repugnant to what you were formerly embued with, be concludingly demonstrated or not. Digby
This appears to be the basis of many online citation, which fail to identify "Digby" more closely.
ref: Sir Kenelm Digby, Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelme Digby concerning Religion, London, 1651
glosses: In a concluding manner; finally; conclusively.
uncatchable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + catchable.
Senses: glosses: Not catchable; that cannot be caught.
ultrafiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrafiches
Senses: glosses: An ultramicrofiche.
ultrafiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultrafiche
ultramicrofiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultramicrofiches
Etymology: From ultra- + microfiche.
Senses: glosses: A particularly compact microfiche, storing data at significantly higher densities.
ultramicrofiches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ultramicrofiche
waggishness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From waggish + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Waggish behaviour.
wah-wah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: wah wah
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Modifying the resonance of musical notes to produce the effect of a human voice.
Derived terms: wah-wah pedal
wah-wah
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: examples: text: When told during a Fox News segment about a 10-year-old with Down syndrome who was separated from her mother at the southern border, the former campaign manager of President Trump replied, "Wah wah."
ref: 2018 June 20, “Corey Lewandowski Mocks Immigrant Child With Down Syndrome Taken From Mother: 'Wah, Wah'”, in Inside Edition:
synonyms: womp womp
glosses: The sad trombone sound, used to indicate failure or disappointment, often used mockingly.
wah-wah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wah-wahs
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A wavering sound produced by means of a movable mute or by electronic means.
wah-wah
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wah-wahs
form: wah-wahing
form: wah-wahed
form: wah-wahed
Etymology: Imitative.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To make a wah-wah sound.
concyclic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From con- + cyclic.
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: Lying on a common circle.
raw_tags: of a set of points
Synonyms: cocyclic
condemningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more condemningly
form: most condemningly
Etymology: From condemning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a condemning fashion.
condemnatorily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more condemnatorily
form: most condemnatorily
Etymology: From condemnatory + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a condemnatory fashion; condemningly.
non-words
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of non-word
nonword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonwords
Senses: examples: text: We used a nonword naming task to examine how English speakers assign stress to novel phonological forms.
ref: 2000, Zevin and Joanisse, Orthographic and Metrical Cues to English Stress:
text: Trevor quickly challenged my nonword and then cleverly played out with TITIAN
ref: 2004, Commentary on the 2004 African Scrabble Championships:
glosses: Alternative spelling of non-word.
nonwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonword
unspellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspellable
form: most unspellable
Etymology: From un- + spellable.
Senses: examples: text: His masters, the Houyhnhnms of the unspellable and unsayable name, were more than performing horses or uncultured squires.
ref: 1928, Shaun Leslie, The Skull of Swift: An Extempore Exhumation:
text: Their children, with unpronounceable, unspellable names, came to school in tattered clothes, the boys in drab vests and the girls in more colorful ones.
ref: 1992, Hayden Carruth, Suicides and Jazzers:
glosses: Difficult or impossible to spell.
condolatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The affair at the time made much noise in the fashionable world, and formed the subject of the condolatory address in question, from Lord Byron's pen.
ref: 1837, George Gordon N Byron, William Henry L E Bulwer, The Complete Works of Lord Byron:
text: And soon, condolatory messages started to pour in.
ref: 1985, A H Ohiaeri, Behind the Iron Curtain:
glosses: Offering condolence.
userboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of userbox
confabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confab
confabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confab
confabulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confabulators
Etymology: From confabulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who confabulates.
Related terms: word: confabulate § Related terms
word: fraudster
english: not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms
translation: not to be confused; differing neuropsychological mechanisms
word: pathological liar
confabulators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confabulator
executive branch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: executive branches
Senses: glosses: The branch of government that oversees the carrying out of the laws
Synonyms: executive
government
Coordinate terms: judicial branch
legislative branch
gag me with a spoon
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "Gag me with a spoon," I said. He scratched his head.
ref: 1999, Tamar Myers, Baroque and Desperate: A Den of Antiquity Mystery:
text: "Whatever!" I pretend to stick my finger in my mouth and make a choking sound of mock disgust at Beth's compliment. "Like gag me with a spoon!" I laugh.
ref: 2005, Loung Ung, Lucky Child:
glosses: An expression of disgust.
conference call
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conference calls
Senses: glosses: A call between more than two people; a teleconference.
conference calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conference call
confessionalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: confessionalises
form: confessionalising
form: confessionalised
form: confessionalised
Etymology: From confessional + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of confessionalize.
confessionalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confessionalise
confessionalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confessionalise
confessionalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confessionalise
confidence games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confidence game
confidantes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confidante
confiscable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That can be confiscated.
Synonyms: confiscatable
Derived terms: nonconfiscable
unconfiscable
confiscatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From confiscate + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be confiscated.
Synonyms: confiscable
conflagrator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conflagrators
Senses: glosses: One who starts a fire.
conflagrators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conflagrator
tushing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tush
tushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a big-tushed dancer.
glosses: having a particular tush (bottom)
raw_tags: in combinations
tushed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tush
conflictless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From conflict + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without conflict.
Derived terms: conflictlessness
conformability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conformabilities
Etymology: From conform + -ability.
Senses: glosses: conformableness
Derived terms: unconformability
conformabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conformability
antinodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antinode
astroparticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: astroparticles
Etymology: From astro- + particle.
Senses: topics: astrophysics
glosses: A subatomic particle of cosmic origin
astroparticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astroparticle
NNS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: NNSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of non-native speaker.
glosses: Abbreviation of nonsegmented negative-strand.
Derived terms: sense: nonsegmented negative-strand
alt: nonsegmented negative-strand RNA virus
word: NNS RNA virus
Related terms: sense: nonsegmented negative-strand
english: negative-strand
translation: negative-strand
word: NS
free variation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The situation where two or more forms appear in the same environment without a change in meaning, and without either one being considered incorrect.
Related terms: complementary distribution
vaginated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having a sheath.
ultrabasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + basic.
Senses: examples: text: In the process of basification, the top layer of the crust becomes basic, while the lower becomes ultrabasic acquiring the density of the mantle or an even greater density
ref: 1980, A. W. Bally, Dynamics of Plate Interiors, →ISBN, page 49:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: ultramafic
ultrabasic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultrabasics
Etymology: From ultra- + basic.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: ultramafic
formal logics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of formal logic
vainglories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vainglory
vaingloriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vainglorious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: vainglory
confusticates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of confusticate
confusticating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of confusticate
confusticated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of confusticate
confusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confusional
form: most confusional
Etymology: From confusion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The person suffering from a confusional state is not sleeping.
ref: 1978, Henri Ey, Consciousness:
text: Aggressive behavior, for instance, is quite common in a confusional state but is often transient and quickly resolves as confusion clears.
ref: 1994, David C Good, James R Couch, Handbook of Neurorehabilitation:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Characterized by confusion.
valuableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From valuable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: And then our valuableness, strictly speaking, arises from the practice of moral duties, and not from the way and means by which we are led on, or invited to the practice of them.
ref: 1743, Thomas Chubb, A collection of tracts on various subjects (volume 2, part 2, page 47)
glosses: valuability
vampirically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more vampirically
form: most vampirically
Etymology: From vampiric + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: She believed that the seance was an arena in which power was vampirically transferred between medium and spirit.
ref: 1991, Philip Shaw, Peter Stockwell, Subjectivity and Literature from the Romantics to the Present Day:
glosses: In a vampiric fashion.
centrosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From centrosome + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a centrosome or centrosomes
Derived terms: acentrosomal
centrosomally
intercentrosomal
noncentrosomal
nucleocentrosomal
pericentrosomal
subcentrosomal
ultranationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ultranationalisms
Etymology: From ultra- + nationalism.
Senses: glosses: Extreme nationalism, the belief in the superiority of one's nation and of the paramount importance of advancing it.
Related terms: ethnonationalism
hypernationalism
jingoism
congealed salad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: congealed salads
Senses: synonyms: gelatin salad
jellied salad
jello salad
hypernyms: salad
coordinate_terms: aspic
glosses: A salad made with flavoured gelatin and fruit or vegetables.
congealed salads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of congealed salad
dehypnotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈhɪpnətaɪz/
Forms: form: dehypnotizes
form: dehypnotizing
form: dehypnotized
form: dehypnotized
Etymology: From de- + hypnotize.
Senses: glosses: To release from a hypnotic state.
Synonyms: unhypnotize
correlators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of correlator
dehypnotise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dehypnotises
form: dehypnotising
form: dehypnotised
form: dehypnotised
Etymology: From de- + hypnotise.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dehypnotize.
dehypnotises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehypnotise
dehypnotising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehypnotise
dehypnotised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehypnotise
dehypnotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dehypnotize
dehypnotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dehypnotize
dehypnotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dehypnotize
barycenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barycenters
form: barycentre
Etymology: From bary- + center.
Senses: examples: the Earth–Moon barycenter
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The center of a mass; often specifically, the point at which the gravitational forces exerted by two objects are equal
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The centroid, the geometric center of a plane figure
Derived terms: barycentric
barycentrically
barycentricity
barycenter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: barycenters
form: barycentering
form: barycentered
form: barycentered
form: barycentre
Etymology: From bary- + center.
Senses: glosses: To determine such a barycenter
Related terms: orthocenter
terraformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: terraformers
Etymology: From terraform + -er.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A machine that has the capability to terraform.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A person who terraforms.
barycenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barycenter
biodiverse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more biodiverse
form: most biodiverse
Etymology: Back-formation from biodiversity; morphologically, from bio- + diverse.
Senses: glosses: Biotically diverse; having a high degree of biodiversity.
Derived terms: agrobiodiverse
biodiversely
correlator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: correlators
Etymology: From correlate + -or.
Senses: glosses: That which correlates or causes correlation
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A correlation function
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: A type of device used to compare two signals
Derived terms: autocorrelator
cross-correlator
leak correlator
geometrid moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometrid moths
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the various moths of the family Geometridae.
Synonyms: sense: moth in Geometridae
word: geometer moth
sense: moth in Geometridae
word: geometrid
geometer moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geometer moths
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: A geometrid moth of family Geometridae.
spanworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spanworms
Etymology: From span + worm.
Senses: glosses: A measuring worm or inchworm (Lepidoptera, Geometridae)
beamline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: beamlines
Etymology: From beam + line.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The line traveled by a particle beam in an accelerator
pusillanimities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pusillanimity
beamlines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beamline
prorations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proration
buchiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buchiids
Etymology: Back-formation from Buchiidae, from the genus name Buchia.
Senses: examples: text: The buchiids were certainly the most abundant bivalve group in the oceans of British Columbia during the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous.
ref: 1997, Rolf Ludvigsen, Life in Stone: A Natural History of British Columbia's Fossils, →ISBN, page 177:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
malacology
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A bivalve mollusc of the extinct family †Buchiidae.
Hypernyms: mollusc
bivalve
pteriomorph
pectinoid
buchiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buchiid
lappet moth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lappet moths
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: An eggar.