cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
publicizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more publicizable
form: most publicizable
Etymology: From publicize + -able.
Senses: examples: text: There are many more publicizable authors, authors are more in demand, and more clients are looking.
ref: 2007 June 4, Celia Mcgee, “A Way to Give Authors a Lucrative Second Platform”, in New York Times:
glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being publicized.
rewinded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rewind + -ed
Senses: examples: text: “I rewinded that play like 30 times,” Butler said.
ref: 2007 June 4, Thayer Evans, “A Linebacker’s Legend Is Growing in Kansas”, in New York Times:
glosses: rewound
superfabulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superfabulous
form: most superfabulous
Etymology: From super- + fabulous.
Senses: examples: text: He must be expecting an onslaught, because Mr. Wainwright, 33, the singer-songwriter-rhinestone-lover, has been superfabulous lately.
ref: 2007 June 4, Melena Ryzik, “The Superfabulous World of Rufus Wainwright”, in New York Times:
text: With a few simple ingredients and a minimal amount of effort, these nuts will go from ordinary to superfabulous!
ref: 2008, Elizabeth Karmel, Bob Blumer, Pizza on the Grill: 100 Feisty Fire-Roasted Recipes for Pizza & More, page 111:
glosses: Very fabulous; great, fantastic, wonderful.
Y-fronted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Y + fronted.
Senses: examples: text: Underneath he was wearing white Y-fronted underpants.
ref: 1975, George MacBeth, The Samurai, page 54:
glosses: Having a Y-shaped seam, as Y-fronts do.
examples: text: Squeezing open the kitchen door, Amy came face to face with Greg's baggy Y-fronted backside. 'Greg! Amy's here!' shouted Sophie, too late.
ref: 2007, Jackie Clune, Man of the Month Club, page 18:
glosses: Wearing Y-fronts.
rechalk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rechalks
form: rechalking
form: rechalked
form: rechalked
Etymology: From re- + chalk.
Senses: examples: text: The snooker player rechalked his cue nervously between shots.
glosses: To chalk again or anew.
rechalks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rechalk
rechalking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rechalk
rechalked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rechalk
decongestive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈdʒɛstɪv/
Forms: form: more decongestive
form: most decongestive
Etymology: From de- + congest + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The preferred therapy for lymphedema, called complete decongestive therapy, involves a time- and labor-intensive gentle massage technique to stimulate new pathways for the lymphatic fluid.
ref: 2007 June 5, Roni Caryn Rabin, “A Painful Lymph Illness Often Follows Cancer”, in New York Times:
glosses: Serving to decongest.
decongestive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˈdʒɛstɪv/
Forms: form: decongestives
Etymology: From de- + congest + -ive.
Senses: glosses: A decongestant.
diverticuli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The presumption was that tiny seeds or partly chewed nuts might lodge in the pouches in the outer wall of the colon, called diverticuli, leading to irritation, inflammation and infection, called diverticulitis.
ref: 2007 June 5, C. Claiborne Ray, “Dangerous Nuts?”, in New York Times:
glosses: Misconstruction of diverticula.
embroiderings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embroidering
aegrotant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aegrotants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of aegrotat.
aestuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: aestuates
form: aestuating
form: aestuated
form: aestuated
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of estuate.
intersonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: sounding between
Seljuq
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seljuk, Seljuk Bey.
Derived terms: Seljuqian
Seljuqid
Seljuq
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Seljuqs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Seljuk, a member of the Seljuk dynasty or person of their empire.
Seljuq
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: These scholars seemed more oriented towards Seljuq than Ottoman studies in their research, and even the curricula at the universities emphasized the former. The Ottoman cultural heritage had been rejected at a very recent date, and […]
ref: 2000 February 29, Stephen Vernoit, Discovering Islamic Art: Scholars, Collectors and Collections, 1850-1950, I.B. Tauris:
text: […] (where four or five features of the layout are distinctly different), and on his theory that the guard stripes in which geometrical motifs dominate are carved than sculptural and more “Seljuq” than “Mongol” […]
ref: 1936, Iranian Institute of America, Bulletin:
glosses: Alternative form of Seljuk, of or related to Seljuk, his dynasty, their empire, or their period of rule.
Seljuqs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Seljuq
perennialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: perennializes
form: perennializing
form: perennialized
form: perennialized
Etymology: From perennial + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I recommend spending your bulb budget on bulbs that will perennialize in the garden, and if you need big tulips, purchase a bunch from the local florist.
ref: 2000, Tom Peace, Sunbelt Gardening: Success in Hot-Weather Climates, page 64:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To return year after year as a perennial.
examples: text: The quest here is one of several around the world, to perennialize everything from sorghum to chickpeas to sunflowers.
ref: 2007 June 5, Jim Robbins, “A Perennial Search for Perfect Wheat”, in New York Times:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: To make perennial.
Derived terms: perennialization
perennializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perennialize
perennialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perennialize
perennializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perennialize
nonperennial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + perennial.
Senses: glosses: Not perennial.
nonperennial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonperennials
Etymology: From non- + perennial.
Senses: glosses: Any plant that is not a perennial.
nonperennials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonperennial
stitchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stitching
undersensitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undersensitive
form: most undersensitive
Etymology: From under- + sensitive.
Senses: examples: text: They remain oversensitive, continually recoiling from the world, or undersensitive, banging into things, duck-walking through the day as if not entirely aware of their surroundings.
ref: 2007 June 5, Benedict Carey, “The Disorder Is Sensory; the Diagnosis, Elusive”, in New York Times:
glosses: Insufficiently sensitive.
undershell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undershells
Etymology: From under- + shell.
Senses: glosses: The plastron of a turtle or tortoise.
undershells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undershell
unmalleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unmalleable
form: most unmalleable
Etymology: From un- + malleable.
Senses: examples: text: If location photography meant better-looking backgrounds than the painted flats or rear-projection screens of the studios, it also meant that filmmakers had to curtail their creative urges in the face of unmalleable reality.
ref: 2007 June 5, Dave Kehr, “New DVDs: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not malleable.
antevolate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ăntĭʹvŏlāt
ipa: /ænˈtɪvɒleɪt/
enpr: ăntĕʹvŏlāt
ipa: /anˈtɛvɒleɪt/
enpr: ăntĕʹvŏlāt'
ipa: /ænˈtɛvɑˌleɪt/
Forms: form: antevolates
form: antevolating
form: antevolated
form: antevolated
Etymology: From antevolāt-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin antevolō (“I fly before”), from ante (“before”, “in front of”) + volō (“I fly”).
Senses: examples: text: Several scouts antevolated the main column to ensure its security by gathering reconnaissance data from the terrain ahead.
glosses: To fly before or in front of.
nondesignative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + designative.
Senses: glosses: Not designative.
designable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: more designable
form: most designable
Etymology: From design + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being designed.
Derived terms: undesignable
designable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /dɪˈzaɪnəbəl/
/ˈdɛzɪɡnəbəl/
/ˈdɛzəɡnəbəl/
/ˈdɛs-/
/dɪˈzaɪnəbəl/
Forms: form: more designable
form: most designable
Etymology: Borrowed from Medieval Latin dēsignābilis, from dēsignō (“to indicate, designate”).
Senses: glosses: Capable of being designated; designatable.
redesignable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more redesignable
form: most redesignable
Etymology: From redesign + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being redesigned.
flipness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flip + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: No flipness is intended; one man profiled in the program, which chronicles the rehabilitation of several American soldiers severely wounded in Iraq, makes a similar observation himself.
ref: 2007 June 6, Neil Genzlinger, “The Wounded Return Home, and Another Battle Begins”, in New York Times:
glosses: The quality of being flip.
minimarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minimarket
oleocanthal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He, Dr. Breslin and several collaborators confirmed that the pungent substance in olive oil is a phenolic chemical, which they named oleocanthal.
ref: 2007 June 6, Harold Mcgee, “Extra Virgin Anti-Inflammatories”, in New York Times:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A tyrosol ester isolated from extra-virgin olive oil, with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
overpopularized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overpopularized
form: most overpopularized
Etymology: From over- + popularized.
Senses: examples: text: “As soon as something becomes overpopularized, I don’t want to serve it anymore,” Mr. Birsh said.
ref: 2007 June 6, Katherine Wheelock, “Dinner at the Foodies’: Purslane and Anxiety”, in New York Times:
glosses: Popularized to too great an extent.
perfusionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pə(ɹ)ˈfjuːʒənɪst/
Forms: form: perfusionists
Etymology: From perfusion + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: The doctors were joined several hours later by two perfusionists, Richard Chenault II and Richard Lapensee, and all four sped to Willow Run Airport, a cargo terminal in Ypsilanti, Mich., about 15 miles east of the hospital.
ref: 2007 June 6, Nick Bunkley, “Transplant Team Dies in Jet Crash; Mechanical Problems Suspected”, in New York Times:
glosses: A trained clinician who operates the heart-lung machine during cardiac and other surgeries.
perfusionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfusionist
toothachingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more toothachingly
form: most toothachingly
Etymology: From toothaching + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Sweeter still — almost toothachingly so — are chongos zamoranos, a curious confection invented in Zamora in which milk, sugar and spices are boiled for about five days then laid away in syrup.
ref: 1972, R. B. Read, Gastronomic Tour of Mexico:
text: While this last could be eliminated for my taste, the overall effect is not as toothachingly sweet as some of these cereals can get.
ref: 1974, New York Magazine:
text: I recall the taste of the rain, sweet and toothachingly cold; the tiny blows of drops striking my eyelids; my halfbrother's laughter rippling in my ears.
ref: 2004, Kij Johnson, Fudoki:
text: These two truths coexisted in my mind without overlapping until I bit into a piece of crumb cake so texturally perfect (soft sliver of cake topped by a deep layer of grape-size crumbs), yet so toothachingly sweet that the only antidote was sucking on the lemon in my seltzer.
ref: 2007 June 6, Melissa Clark, “Sweet and Sour Sit Down to Dessert”, in New York Times:
text: It's why McDonald's finally downsized its portions, why you can now bake a gluten-free version of the same Betty Crocker toothachingly sweet cake mix you enjoyed as a child.
ref: 2015, Jax Peters Lowell, The Gluten-Free Revolution:
glosses: So as to cause toothache.
examples: text: A college teacher (that makes the heart sink to begin with), he has a literary reputation about which he is agreeably modest (toothachingly), and, since Seymour committed suicide in 1948, Buddy is, at forty, the eldest Glass child.
ref: 1962, The New Republic:
text: 1991: The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks, by Donald C. Farber and Robert Viagas
The critics complained that the show was toothachingly darling, though the consensus among its creators is that the show was removed from its open-stage concept and placed in a traditional proscenium environment, breaking the important connection between actor and audience.
glosses: Overly in possession of an otherwise positive trait.
examples: text: Have you ever wondered how it is possible for someone to drive a motorised vehicle so toothachingly, nerverenderingly slow?
ref: 2011, Ben Jeapes, Jeapes Japes:
glosses: Painfully, irritatingly.
applejacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of applejack
numbers racket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: numbers rackets
Senses: glosses: Synonym of numbers game.
synonyms: word: numbers game
bicheiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bicheiros
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese bicheiro.
Senses: examples: text: Today it is played everywhere in Brazil, including remote corners of the Amazon, but continues to be controlled from Rio by about a dozen bosses, called bicheiros.
ref: 2007 June 7, Larry Rohter, “Brazilian Numbers Game Ties Officials to Mobsters”, in New York Times:
glosses: One who runs an illegal numbers game in South America.
bicheiros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bicheiro
chitchatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chitchat
chitchatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chitchat
hypertufa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + tufa.
Senses: examples: text: There are weight restrictions on rooftops and terraces, of course, and fiberglass is a lot lighter than tufa, the limestone rock used in alpine gardens, or the mix of cement, peat and sand that makes up hypertufa, the artificial stone used for troughs.
ref: 2007 June 7, Anne Raver, “Above Midtown, a Lilliputian Universe”, in New York Times:
glosses: An anthropic rock made from aggregates bonded with Portland cement, intended as a substitute for natural tufa.
laptoplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more laptoplike
form: most laptoplike
Etymology: From laptop + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The Icon weighs about 7.4 ounces, but carries a laptoplike price tag; it sells for $1,395 at www.levelstar.com and can also be ordered by calling toll free at (800) 315-2305.
ref: 2007 June 7, J. D. Biersdorfer, “Where a Screen Isn’t an Option, a Hand-Held Uses Audio”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a laptop.
myopias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of myopia
nonscreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + screaming.
Senses: examples: text: WANTAGH, N.Y., June 5 — It was a breezy Tuesday night here at the Nikon at Jones Beach Theater, and the stands were filled with screaming teenagers and a few nonscreaming parents.
ref: 2007 June 7, Kelefa Sanneh, “Heartthrob Swooning and Concert T-Shirts”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not screaming.
active vocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: active vocabularies
Senses: examples: text: Joan's active vocabulary consists of over ten thousand words.
synonyms: working vocabulary
coordinate_terms: passive vocabulary
glosses: The collection of words and phrases that someone commonly uses in speech and writing.
devisen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /dəˈviːzən/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Devisen.
Senses: examples: text: […] in February there was a moderate decline in its holdings of devisen, and in March there was a loss of both devisen and gold.
ref: 1930, The Execution of the Experts’ Plan: Fifth Annuity Year and Transition Period, September 1, 1928 to May 17, 1930, page 110:
text: […] the fall in the value of Hungary’s exports in 1930 had already driven the Government to use up a large proportion of its reserves in gold and devisen.
ref: 1956, Carlile Aylmer Macartney, October Fifteenth: A History of Modern Hungary, 1929–1945, volume 1, page 91:
text: The central monetary powers were obligated to maintain existing parities and convertibility of their currencies by contracting their domestic money supply and shipping gold if under pressure and by offering credits, intervening on foreign exchange markets, and refraining from liquidating devisen to support other currencies under pressure.
ref: 1992, Kenneth A. Oye, Economic Discrimination and Political Exchange, →ISBN, page 107:
topics: business
finance
glosses: Foreign currency.
annates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of annate
gaillardia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡeɪˈlɑː(ɹ)dɪə/
Forms: form: gaillardias
Etymology: From the genus name. Named after Maître Gaillard de Charentonneau, an 18th-century French magistrate and an enthusiastic botanist.
Senses: glosses: Any of several New World flowering plants of the genus Gaillardia
Synonyms: blanket flower
geopark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: geoparks
Etymology: From geo- + park.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of several official sites of geological importance, often also of archaeological, ecological or cultural value
countable additivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: The following property of a measure: that the measure of a countable union of disjoint sets is equal to the sum of their measures.
Synonyms: σ-additivity
glocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɡləʊ.kə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌɡloʊ.kə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: glocalizations
Etymology: Blend of global + localization.
Senses: glosses: The global distribution of a product or service that is tailored to local markets
greenstuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: greenstuffs
form: green-stuff
Etymology: From green + stuff.
Senses: examples: text: There was no roof visible, the greenstuff extending upwards apparently without limit.
ref: 1957, Sydney J. Bounds, The Robot Brains, London: Digit Books, page 91:
glosses: Vegetation; greenery.
glosses: Green vegetables used as food.
hallstand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hallstands
Etymology: From hall + stand.
Senses: examples: text: He showed Nicol into the kitchen and stowed the letter in the hallstand drawer alongside the other unopened envelopes.
ref: 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 16:
glosses: A piece of furniture, near to an outside door, on which hats and coats are hung, and umbrellas are stored.
handroll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handrolls
form: hand roll
Etymology: From hand + roll.
Senses: synonyms: temaki
glosses: A piece of sushi in the form of a cone of seaweed filled with rice, fish, vegetables etc.
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A piece of material placed in a patient's hand as an anticontracture measure.
passive vocabulary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: passive vocabularies
Senses: examples: text: John's passive vocabulary seems to encompass most of the words in the Collegiate Dictionary!
coordinate_terms: active vocabulary
glosses: The words and phrases, collectively, that someone understands in speech and writing but does not commonly use.
extended real number system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real number systems
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The real number system adjoined with two extra symbols: ∞ and −∞, inheriting the ordering of the real number system, and defining −∞ to be less than any real number, and ∞ to be larger than any real number.
splo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of explosion, suggesting its effects when consumed.
Senses: examples: text: Packed in one-gallon plastic milk jugs, it's shipped to eastern cities such as Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Miami and New York. Once there, the splo (short for the explosion in one's head after drinking some) sells in shot houses by the glass at enormous profit.
ref: 2007, Matthew B. Rowley, Moonshine!, Sterling Publishing Company, page 70:
text: He originally learned to play music in a splo house (an illegal bar with a still in the basement) spending many weekends playing till the sun came up or the cops came, whatever happened first.
ref: 2003, Amberjack Rice, New Roots, Album notes from the CD
text: Maybe two or three times a month we get a call from someone who says they've heard there's a secret subterranean city beneath Gay Street, that it's perfectly preserved with turn-of-the-century storefronts, that homeless people, drug dealers, and sundry gnomes live down there and drink splo and shoot dice, and that Metro Pulse should look into it.
ref: 1999, Jack Neely, “Not So Tall Tales”, in Weekly Wire:
text: Smoking shacks yellow with coal-oil light and areek with the sweetmold smell of splo whiskey.
ref: 1993, Cormac McCarthy, chapter 1, in The Orchard Keeper, Vintage Books, page 29:
glosses: Illegally produced liquor; moonshine.
real number system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real number systems
Senses: examples: text: As we have mentioned before, the structure of Euclidean geometry, as formalized through the axioms of Hilbert, produces an archimedean ordered field. To com- plete the story, one can add to these axioms the further requirement that this field is maximal in the sense that it cannot be embedded inside any larger archimedean ordered field. It turns out then that any such ordered field is isomorphic to any other, and thus there is essentially one such ordered field. This ordered field is the real number system R.
ref: 2008 November, Ambar N. Sengupta, “Notes in Introductory Real Analysis”, in www.math.lsu.edu, retrieved 13 Jul 2012:
text: The real number system is a complete, linearly ordered field #92;mathcal#123;R#125;#61;(#92;mathbb#123;R#125;,#43;,#92;cdot,lt;).
ref: 2010 April 16, Lindsay Keegan, “The Ghosts of Departed Quantities”, in www.math.ufl.edu, archived from the original on 30 Sep 2011:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The complete Archimedean ordered field (of real numbers).
Hypernyms: Archimedean ordered field
Derived terms: extended real number system
Related terms: real number line
standard topology
brinner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɪnɚ/
rhymes: -ɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: brinners
Etymology: Blend of breakfast + dinner, on the pattern of brunch.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:brinner.
glosses: An evening meal consisting of breakfast food; breakfast for dinner.
Synonyms: word: brupper
Related terms: brunch
linner
lupper
brupper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹʌpɚ/
ipa: /ˈbɹʌpə/
rhymes: -ʌpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bruppers
Etymology: Blend of breakfast + supper, on the pattern of brunch. From at least 1949.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:brupper.
glosses: A meal consisting of a fusion of breakfast (one’s first meal upon awakening) and supper.
Related terms: word: brinner
word: brunch
word: linner
word: lupper
episodical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more episodical
form: most episodical
Etymology: From episode + -ical.
Senses: glosses: episodic.
real number line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real number lines
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A geometric representation of the real number system.
Synonyms: real line
real function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: real functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose range is a subset of the set of real numbers.
Synonyms: real-valued function
Hypernyms: function
Hyponyms: positive real function
Related terms: complex function
complex function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: complex functions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function whose range is a subset of the set of complex numbers.
Hyponyms: simple function
Related terms: real function
snap judgment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snap judgments
form: snap-judgment
form: snap-judgement
form: snap judgement
Etymology: From snap + judgment.
Senses: glosses: A decision made without deliberation or in excessive haste.
glosses: Making decisions without deliberation or in excessive haste.
σ-algebra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɡ.mə ˈæl.dʒɪ.bɹə/
Forms: form: σ-algebras
form: sigma-algebra
form: Σ-algebra
Senses: examples: text: Consider all the sigma-algebras that contain #92;mathcal#123;F#125; and take their intersection, which we call #92;Sigma, i.e., a subset A#92;subset#92;Omega is in #92;Sigma if and only if A is in every sigma-algebra containing #92;mathcal#123;F#125;. It is easy to check that #92;Sigma is indeed a sigma-algebra.
ref: 2001, Elliott H. Lieb, Michael Loss, Analysis, American Mathematical Society, page 4:
text: Consider all the σ'''-algebras on [0,1] containing all intervals from that segment (there is at least one such σ'''-algebra, for the collection of all the subsets of a given set clearly forms a σ'''-algebra).
ref: 2013, Alexandr A. Borovkov, Probability Theory, Springer, page 15:
text: Denote by #92;mathcal#123;F#125; the set of subsets of [the sample space] Ω which are considered events. #92;mathcal#123;F#125; is called the space of events. In rigorous probability theory, #92;mathcal#123;F#125; is required to be a sigma-algebra on Ω.
ref: 2017 February 4, Marco Taboga, Lectures on Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics, 2nd edition, San Bernardino, CA, USA, →ISBN, §10.5.1, page 75:
topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A collection of subsets of a given set, such that the empty set is part of this collection, the collection is closed under complements (with respect to the given set) and the collection is closed under countable unions.
Synonyms: sense: collection of subsets that obeys certain conditions
word: σ-field
Hypernyms: sense: collection of subsets that obeys certain conditions
word: field of sets
sense: collection of subsets that obeys certain conditions
word: set algebra
Hyponyms: sense: collection of subsets that obeys certain conditions
word: Borel σ-algebra
sense: collection of subsets that obeys certain conditions
word: μ-completion
Meronyms: measurable set
Related terms: σ-ring
measurable set
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measurable sets
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A subset of a given measurable space which is a member of the σ-algebra of that space.
Zanzy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortened from Zanzibar.
Senses: glosses: Zanzibar.
open ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: open balls
Senses: topics: mathematical-analysis
mathematics
sciences
topology
qualifier: restricted to metric spaces
glosses: The set of all points in a metric space whose distance from a given point ("the open ball's center") is less than a given length ("the open ball's radius").
iatrophysics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iatro- + physics.
Senses: glosses: The physics of medicine or of medical and surgical treatment.
glosses: The treatment of diseases by physical or mechanic means.
Synonyms: iatromechanics
iatrophysical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iatro- + physical.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a 17th-century school of medical thought that explained all physiological and pathological phenomena by the laws of physics; opposed to the iatrochemical school.
skipworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skipworthy
form: most skipworthy
Etymology: From skip + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: His Froissart and De Comines novels are skipworthy, but when he comes to Catharine de Medici and Henri Quatre he is a magician.
ref: 1919, Living Age, volume 303:
glosses: Worthy of being skipped.
sirenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of siren
mill-race
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mill-races
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mill race.
weroance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weroances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of werowance.
disregardful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disregardful
form: most disregardful
Etymology: From dis- + regardful.
Senses: glosses: inconsiderate, thoughtless, heedless, regardless
Derived terms: disregardfully
disregardfulness
influentials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of influential
marrowfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marrowfats
Etymology: From marrow + fat.
Senses: examples: text: Peas are scarce; good marrowfats are in better demand.
ref: 1842, Charles Mason Hovey, Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 319:
glosses: A large variety of pea that is often processed and sold in tins/cans.
microphage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microphages
Etymology: From micro- + -phage.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A small phagocyte, especially a polymorphonuclear leucocyte (a granulocyte)
Related terms: microphagous
mottlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mottling
orthoptera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orthopteras
Senses: glosses: Any of very many four-winged insects, of the order Orthoptera, such as grasshoppers, crickets and locusts
orthoptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ortho- + optics.
Senses: glosses: The study and treatment of muscular irregularities of the eye.
Related terms: orthoptical
orthoptist
outsail
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsails
form: outsailing
form: outsailed
form: outsailed
Etymology: From out- + sail.
Senses: glosses: To sail faster or further than.
outshop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outshops
form: outshopping
form: outshopped
form: outshopped
Etymology: From out- + shop.
Senses: examples: text: Just over 50 years ago, in September, 1910, Eastleigh locomotive works outshopped their first newly constructed locomotive, Class S14 0-4-0 motor tank No. 101.
ref: 1961 March, C. P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 159:
glosses: To send a railway vehicle out from a workshop or factory after construction or overhaul.
examples: text: Wayland, Simpson and Kemmerer's research (2000) suggested that a majority of students outshopped through the Internet and/or catalog while at school […]
ref: 2014, Harlan E. Spotts, Marketing, Technology and Customer Commitment in the New Economy:
glosses: To purchase goods outside of one's local area.
examples: text: Speaking of the mall, I'm here to tell you that no one on the planet can outshop Mrs. Jane Presley.
ref: 2015, Norah Wilson, Heather Doherty, Dix Dodd Mysteries Box Set 1:
glosses: To surpass in shopping; to shop more or better than.
outsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outsings
form: outsinging
form: outsang
form: outsung
Etymology: From out- + sing.
Senses: glosses: To sing better, longer or louder than.
pakamac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pakamacs
form: pacamac
Etymology: Originally a trademark "Pack-a-Mack".
Senses: glosses: A lightweight mackintosh that can be folded up into a small pack when not in use.
paragraphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From paragraph + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or written in paragraphs.
Derived terms: paragraphically
pipewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipeworts
Etymology: From pipe + wort.
Senses: glosses: Any of several aquatic plants of the genus Eriocaulon.
pistacite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistacites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A green variety of epidote that is rich in iron
carmelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of carmelize
carmelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of carmelize
carmelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of carmelize
pithead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪtˈhɛd/
Forms: form: pitheads
form: pit head
Etymology: From pit + head.
Senses: examples: text: Since the war there has been a reallocation of output from pitheads in the North Staffordshire coalfield, resulting in a flow of coal northwards; [...].
ref: 1962 September, “Remodelling of Basford Hall Yard, Crewe”, in Modern Railways, page 189:
glosses: The area around the top of the mineshaft of a coal mine.
glosses: A hoverfly of the genus Pipiza.
pitot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pitots
Etymology: After Henri Pitot.
Senses: glosses: A pitot head/pitot tube.
wikipedia: Henri Pitot
Derived terms: pitometer
pittosporum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈtɒspərəm/
ipa: /pɪtəˈspɔrəm/
Forms: form: pittosporums
Etymology: A genericization of translingual Pittosporum, from New Latin pittosporum, from Ancient Greek πίττα (pítta, “pitch”) + σπόρος (spóros, “seed, spore”), from the sticky resin surrounding its seeds.
Senses: examples: text: Crimson and orange chats whistled from the heath of spinifex, pittosporums, mulga and eremophila scrubs growing along the sides of the lake.
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 190:
glosses: Any plant of the genus Pittosporum, various Old World shrubs and trees.
pityriasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpɪtəˈɹaɪəsɪs/
Forms: form: pityriases
Etymology: From New Latin pityriasis, from Koine Greek πιτυρίασις (pituríasis), from Ancient Greek πίτῡρον (pítūron, “bran”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘This patch is pityriasis, you see, it's coffee-coloured. The things we use for the other troubles will cure that too.’
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 137:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Any of several varieties of skin diseases characterized by the shedding of flakes or scales, such as dandruff.
Derived terms: pityriasis rosea
pityriasis versicolor
pixelate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪksəleɪt/
Forms: form: pixelates
form: pixelating
form: pixelated
form: pixelated
form: pixellate
Etymology: From pixel + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: In a fittingly modern use of mosaic tile, Tord Boontje pixelates his signature floral designs in a new collection of storage furniture for Bisazza Home.
ref: 2009 August 19, Andreas Kokkino, “Best in Show”, in New York Times:
text: I could have used the camera's digital zoom, but digital zooms tend to soften and pixelate an image.
ref: 2011, Rick Sammon, Confessions of a Compact Camera Shooter, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 26:
glosses: To divide an image into pixels, or to display an image in pixels.
examples: text: Fox TV has decided to pixelate a bare derriere in a cartoon series, The Family Guy, which was originally broadcast five years ago with no complaints.
ref: 2005 January 18, Dominic Timms, “Fearful US TV networks censor more shows”, in The Guardian:
text: Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have reached a settlement with Mail Online that includes an agreement to pixelate photos of their children.
ref: 2017 August 25, Mark Sweney, “Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis settle legal dispute with Mail Online”, in The Guardian:
hypernyms: blur
glosses: To transform an image (or a portion thereof) into large pixels, especially in order to hide details.
Synonyms: pixelize
Derived terms: depixelate
pixelation
preconize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹiːkənaɪz/
Forms: form: preconizes
form: preconizing
form: preconized
form: preconized
form: preconise
form: praeconise
Etymology: From Latin praecō (“herald”) + -ize or Latin praecōnizō.
Senses: examples: text: The song grew louder, with more insistent, magical tones, surging and falling in unearthly modulations, the very speech of incantation; and the drum beat madly, and the pipe shrilled to a scream, summoning all to issue forth, to leave their peaceful hearths; for a strange rite was preconized in their midst.
ref: 1922, Arthur Machen, The House of Souls:
text: On one hand, the Church preconizes transformation from above, that is to say, through Governments, international organizations, responsible leaders at all levels, and the conversion of the rich, the powerful and the educated.
ref: 1982, John Desrochers, The Social Teaching of the Church, page 678:
glosses: To proclaim in public; especially (of the Pope) to announce the appointment of a bishop.
Related terms: preconization
pyxidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyxidia
Etymology: From New Latin, from Ancient Greek πυξίδιον (puxídion), diminutive of πῠξῐ́ς (pŭxĭ́s, “box”).
Senses: examples: text: Key to Species of Cariniana Inflorescence predominantly terminal and subterminal; pyxidium without teeth at line of opercular dehiscence.
ref: 1979, Organization for Flora Neotropica, New York Botanical Garden, Flora Neotropica: Issue 21, Part 1, p. 221
text: The pyxidium has the trigonoidly cylindrical or obconical form of that of Couratari, but it is much thicker, heavier, and more solid in substance.
ref: 1924, Samuel James Record, Clayton Dissinger Mell, Timbers of Tropical America, page 467:
text: The capsule of gold−beater's skin, in which the grubs of the Cione are enclosed, divides itself, at the moment of liberation, into two hemispheres "of a regularity so perfect that they recall exactly the bursting of the pyxidium when the seed is distributed".
ref: 1913, Georges Victor Legros, Fabre: Poet of Science, page 176:
text: A fruit of this kind is sometimes termed a pyxidium; that is, a little chest.
ref: 1836, Asa Gray, Elements of Botany, page 221:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A seed capsule in the form of a box, the seeds being released when the top splits off.
rainfast
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rainfast
form: most rainfast
form: rain-fast
Etymology: From rain + fast (“fixed firmly”, adjective, as in fast asleep).
Senses: glosses: That is not washed off by the rain
raw_tags: of a surface coating or chemical spray
reconvict
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reconvicts
form: reconvicting
form: reconvicted
form: reconvicted
Etymology: From re- + convict.
Senses: glosses: To convict again
resemblant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɹɪˈzɛm.blənt/
Forms: form: more resemblant
form: most resemblant
Etymology: From Old French resemblant, present participle of resembler (Modern French ressembler).
Senses: glosses: Having a resemblance (to).
reviewal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reviewals
Etymology: From review + -al.
Senses: examples: text: The work itself, which is formally summoned for reviewal, is dismissed in twenty lines savoring of his disappointment; […]
ref: 1822 July, Granville Penn, “Remarks on the Examination of the Primary Argument of the Iliad; and on the History of the Æolic Digamma”, in The Classical Journal, volume XXVI, London: […] A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], page 168:
glosses: the act or process of reviewing
ringneck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringnecks
Etymology: From ring + neck.
Senses: glosses: Any of several unrelated birds that have a ringed neck.
Derived terms: ringneck dove
ringneck snake
Related terms: ring-neck
ringsider
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ringsiders
Etymology: From ringside + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person occupying a ringside seat
rottenstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rottenstones
Etymology: From rotten + stone.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A soft, friable limestone, used in polishes.
rottenstone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rottenstones
form: rottenstoning
form: rottenstoned
form: rottenstoned
Etymology: From rotten + stone.
Senses: glosses: To polish with rottenstone.
Middle Armenian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Middle period of the Armenian language, written down in the 11-17th centuries. Developed from Old Armenian, replaced by modern Armenian.
Synonyms: Cilician Armenian
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Middle Armenian terms
alt: SIL
urls: https://iso639-3.sil.org/code/axm
word: axm
pruta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prutas
form: prutot
form: prutoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of prutah.
rad.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of radian.
shopping centres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shopping centre
velar nasal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velar nasals
Etymology: From velar + nasal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A nasal consonant voiced, as the sound of "ng" in English "sing", represented with ŋ in the IPA phonetic alphabet.
marrowfats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marrowfat
ringsiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringsider
rottenstones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rottenstone
pipeworts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipewort
pitheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pithead
reviewals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reviewal
Spanish Arabic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Andalusian Arabic (a language).
whale watching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The practice of observing whales and other cetaceans in their natural habitat.
verbum sat
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: A shortening of Latin verbum (sapienti) sat est (“a word is enough (to a wise man)”). Compare verbum sapienti.
Senses: examples: text: For there one learns—'t is not for me to boast, / Though I acquired—but I pass over that, / As well as all the Greek I since have lost: / I say that there 's the place—but ‘Verbum sat.’
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: Used to bring something to a conclusion, implying that further comment is unadvisable or unneeded.
Synonyms: verbum sapienti
verbum sapienti sat est
verbum sat est
verbum sat sapienti
verbum sat sapienti est
Related terms: word: est
word: sapienti
word: sat
word: verbum
word: nullius in verba
word: word to the wise
epilates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of epilate
epilating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of epilate
epilated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of epilate
epilators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epilator
inter nos
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin inter nos (“between us”). Cognate with Italian inter nos, French entre nous and Spanish entre nos.
Senses: examples: text: Never could she survive that common loss; / But just suppose that moment should betide, / I only say suppose it—inter nos. / (This should be entre nous, for Julia thought / In French, but then the rhyme would go for naught.)
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: between ourselves
roups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roup
roups
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of roup
rouping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roup
rouped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of roup
rouped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Affected with roup; roupy.
John Does
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of John Doe
Jane Does
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jane Doe
tellin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛlɪn/
Forms: form: tellins
Etymology: From New Latin Tellina, from Ancient Greek τελλίνη (tellínē, “a small bivalve shellfish”)
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A marine bivalve mollusc, of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where it siphons detritus.
Hypernyms: tellinid
Derived terms: tellinid
tellins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tellin
picture box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picture boxes
Senses: examples: text: Visual Basic has a picture box control in its toolbox, represented by a cactus (the same icon as is used by Developer Studio to represent a bitmap resource).
ref: 1998, Mike Collins, Windows NT infrastructure design, page 325:
text: Displaying images on a form is very simple with a picture box. Just set the image property to a file on your hard drive.
ref: 2004, Kate Gregory, Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003: kick start, page 65:
topics: computing
engineering
graphical-user-interface
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A user interface control for displaying an image.
nete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netes
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Latin nētē, from Ancient Greek νήτη (nḗtē, literally “lowest [string]”). It was "lowest" in the sense of being the farthest from the player and physically below the other strings, but was the highest in pitch. Compare the high E string in a modern guitar, which is farthest from the player.
Senses: qualifier: musical pitch
glosses: In Ancient Greek musical theory, the highest-pitched fixed note in the farther tetrachord on a lyre, always pitched a perfect fourth above the paramese, with two movable notes between them, the trite (lower in pitch) and the paranete (higher in pitch). The paramese was higher-pitched than the mese (the highest-pitched fixed note in the nearer tetrachord on a lyre) by a ratio of 9:8.
night wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night winds
Senses: examples: text: 'T is sweet to listen as the night-winds creep / From leaf to leaf; 't is sweet to view on high / The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky.
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, section I:
glosses: A wind that blows at night.
Bacchanal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bacchanal
form: most Bacchanal
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bacchanal.