cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
alkapton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alcapton
Etymology: From German Alkapton, coined by Boedeker (1861) as "an admittedly somewhat barbaric combination" of Alkali (“alkali”) + Ancient Greek κάπτον (kápton), neuter present participle of Ancient Greek κάπτω (káptō, “to gulp down”), after the tendency of alkapton to strongly react with oxygen in alkaline solution.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: homogentisic acid
Derived terms: alkaptonuria
alcapton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of alkapton.
nitisinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A drug originally developed as a herbicide but now used to treat hereditary tyrosinemia type 1.
iron-56
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The major stable isotope of iron, ⁵⁶₂₆Fe, having 26 protons and 30 neutrons; it amounts to about 92% of the element in nature
Related terms: iron-54
iron-57
iron-58
iron-57
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of iron, ⁵⁷₂₆Fe, having 26 protons and 31 neutrons; it amounts to about 2% of the element in nature
Related terms: iron-54
iron-56
iron-58
manilles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manille
iron-58
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A minor stable isotope of iron, ⁵⁸₂₆Fe, having 26 protons and 32 neutrons; it amounts to about 0.3% of the element in nature
Related terms: iron-54
iron-56
iron-57
vinney
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈvɪni/
Forms: form: vinny
Etymology: Variant of vinny (“mouldy”) used substantively, from Middle English *vinny, *finny, from Old English fyniġ (“mouldy”); related to vinew.
Senses: qualifier: Dorset
glosses: A traditional blue cheese made in Dorset, England, from skimmed cows' milk.
vinolence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being vinolent; drunkenness.
Synonyms: vinolency
hatchworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatchwork
leg irons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Security is tight inside and outside the building, guarded by a bewildering collection of soldiers, policemen and gendarmes. Relatives watch as prisoners in handcuffs and leg irons shuffle past.
ref: 2014 November 27, Ian Black, “Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A fetter or shackle attached at the ankle.
angle iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angle irons
Senses: examples: text: The homestead […] was of corrugated iron on an angle-iron frame.
ref: 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter VII, in Capricornia, page 92:
glosses: A length of iron or steel, having an L-shaped cross section, used as a structural support
Synonyms: angle section
L-section
steel angle
angle stock
slotted angle
arsenical iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral arsenopyrite.
barking iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barking irons
Senses: examples: 1807, a Society of Gentlemen, The Complete Farmer: Or, General Dictionary of Agriculture 5th edition
With this barking iron, the peeler is enabled to thrust forwards by the operation of both his arms, in separating the strong bark of the bodies of the trees
glosses: A tool used to remove the bark from trees.
synonyms: barker
glosses: A pistol.
bick-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bick-irons
Senses: glosses: the beak (tapered end) of an anvil
land of Nod
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlænd əv ˈnɒd/
ipa: /ˈlænd əv ˈnɑd/
Forms: form: the land of Nod
Etymology: From Genesis 4:16, first used by Jonathan Swift as a play on words for the modern-day meaning. Compare nod off.
Senses: examples: text: Neverout. Why, miss, if you fall asleep, somebody may get a pair of gloves. / Col. I'm going to the land of Nod.
ref: 1731 (date written), Simon Wagstaff [pseudonym; Jonathan Swift], “Dialogue III”, in A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation, […], London: […] B[enjamin] Motte […], published 1738, →OCLC, page 214:
text: From breakfast on through all the day / At home among my friends I stay; / But every night I go abroad / Afar into the land of Nod.
ref: 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Land of Nod”, in A Child's Garden of Verses:
text: […] but she was too tired for anything under heaven to disturb her, and after a moment of wakeful dreaming she was in the land of Nod!
ref: 1892, Wenona Gilman [pseudonym; Florence Blackburn White Schoeffel], chapter XXX, in Leonie, The Typewriter, New York: Norman L. Munro:
glosses: The state of sleep, or an imaginary place that one inhabits when asleep.
wikipedia: Jonathan Swift
subchorionic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + chorionic.
Senses: glosses: Between the chorion (fetal membrane) and endometrium.
contextomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contextomies
Etymology: From context + -tomy.
Senses: examples: text: …saying that the Literary Gazette had committed the Chicago Tribune's habitual crime of contextomy against me.
ref: 1964, Milton Mayer, What can a man do?: A selection of his most challenging writings, page 33:
text: The competent quoteman, no matter how eager he is to outwit his opponent, will have neither the need nor the inclination to stoop to contextomy of the flagrantly mendacious sort.
ref: 1967, Paul F. Boller, Quotemanship: the use and abuse of quotations for polemical and other purposes, page 286:
text: The prosecution would have to prove that audiences were misled by the practice, known as contextomy. Those who break the laws could face fines […]
ref: 2008 May 29, Amol Rajan, “Excellent! Theatres forced to withdraw misleading reviews”, in The Independent:
glosses: The act or practice of quoting somebody out of context, often to give a false impression of what they said.
Synonyms: quote mining
Derived terms: contextomize
contextomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of contextomy
man of straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men of straw
Senses: examples: text: When push came to shove he gave in almost immediately, showing that he was a man of straw after all.
glosses: A weak person.
glosses: One who is financially irresponsible.
synonyms: dummy
coordinate_terms: front man
glosses: A person put in the front of some business, but who is not really responsible.
glosses: A tactic used in debates and arguments where a weaker thesis is substituted for the opponent's real proposition, this thesis then being refuted, thereby creating the illusion of winning the argument against the original proposition.
Synonyms: straw man
men of straw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of straw
E.D. Ark.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Ark.
W.D. Ark.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Ark.
E.D. Ky.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Ky.
W.D. Ky.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Ky.
E.D. Mich.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Mich.
W.D. Mich.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Mich.
E.D. Mo.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Mo.
W.D. Mo.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Mo.
E.D. Okla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, as used in case citations.
Related terms: N.D. Okla.
W.D. Okla.
N.D. Okla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Okla.
W.D. Okla.
W.D. Okla.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Okla.
N.D. Okla.
E.D. Pa.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, as used in case citations.
Related terms: M.D. Pa.
W.D. Pa.
M.D. Pa.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Pa.
W.D. Pa.
W.D. Pa.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Pa.
M.D. Pa.
E.D. Tenn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, as used in case citations.
Related terms: M.D. Tenn.
W.D. Tenn.
M.D. Tenn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Tenn.
W.D. Tenn.
W.D. Tenn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Tenn.
M.D. Tenn.
E.D. Va.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Va.
W.D. Va.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Va.
E.D. Wash.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Wash.
W.D. Wash.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Washington, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Wash.
E.D. Wis.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, as used in case citations.
Related terms: W.D. Wis.
W.D. Wis.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin, as used in case citations.
Related terms: E.D. Wis.
TV sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TV set
C.A.A.F.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.
Vet. App.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, as used in case citations.
Vet.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Abbreviation of veteran, as used in case citations in the United States.
Derived terms: Vet. App.
C.A.F.C.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: law
glosses: United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as used in case citations.
Synonyms: Fed. Cir.
pecuniarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From pecuniary + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She knew of course what he meant—how it had taken his father-in-law's great fortune, and taken no small slice, to surround him with an element in which, all too fatally weighted as he had originally been, he could pecuniarily float....
ref: 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl:
glosses: In a pecuniary manner; in terms of money; financially.
praetorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹiːtəʃɪp/
Forms: form: praetorships
form: prætorship
form: pretorship
Etymology: From praetor + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: The same night, wherein the Pretorship was refused him, he passed over in play.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 28, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The office or term of a praetor.
praetorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praetorship
illuminator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: illuminators
form: illuminatour
Etymology: From illuminate + -or.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of illuminate:
One who illuminates; an explainer.
examples: text: The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
ref: 2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist:
glosses: Agent noun of illuminate:
An artist who adds illustrations and decorations to illuminated manuscriptsᵂ.
Derived terms: endoilluminator
Related terms: illumination
chance one's arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chances one's arm
form: chancing one's arm
form: chanced one's arm
form: chanced one's arm
Senses: glosses: To take a risk.
illuminators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of illuminator
unspiritual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unspiritual
form: most unspiritual
Etymology: From un- + spiritual.
Senses: glosses: Not spiritual; lacking metaphysical significance.
unweariedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unweariedly
form: most unweariedly
Etymology: From unwearied + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He arranges everywhere, struggles unweariedly to arrange, and place on some intelligible footing, the ‘affairs and dues, res ac redditus,’ of his dominion.
ref: 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. X, ’’Government’’”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):
glosses: In an unwearied manner; not weariedly; without being weary.
weariedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more weariedly
form: most weariedly
Etymology: From wearied + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wearied manner; wearily.
unawakened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + awakened.
Senses: glosses: Not awakened; sleeping; unconscious; unaware.
supernaturalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supernaturalisms
Etymology: From supernatural + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The quality or condition of being supernatural.
glosses: A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human events, religious revelation, miracles, etc.
Derived terms: anti-supernaturalism
small r republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small r republicans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of small-r republican.
small "r" republican
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: small "r" republicans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of small-r republican.
small r republicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small r republican (alternative spelling of small-r republicans).
small "r" republicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of small "r" republican (alternative spelling of small-r republicans).
spendthrift trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spendthrift trusts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A trust that is created for the benefit of a person (often because that beneficiary is unable to control spending) that gives an independent trustee full authority to make decisions as to how the trust funds may be spent for the benefit of the beneficiary, thus keeping the funds in the trust beyond the reach of creditors.
spendthrift trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spendthrift trust
didee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: didees
form: didie
Senses: examples: text: "I believe the infant's soiled her didee."
ref: 1999, Lori Copeland, Brides of the West Jumbo Reader:
text: "Fine," his mother said, taking a diaper and laying it in the bottom of his potty. "Poo in your didee — right here." It was all the convincing he needed.
ref: 2001, John Rosemond, John Rosemond's New Parent Power!:
glosses: diaper
gas jars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gas jar
Ndala
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname of East African derivation.
glosses: A place name of several African villages.
rhizoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.zɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪzɔɪd
Forms: form: rhizoids
Etymology: From rhiz- + -oid.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A rootlike structure in fungi and some plants that acts as support and/or aids the absorption of nutrients.
rhizoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹaɪ.zɔɪd/
rhymes: -aɪzɔɪd
Forms: form: more rhizoid
form: most rhizoid
Etymology: From rhiz- + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling the root of a plant.
rhizoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhizoid
didees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of didee
mouthfull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of mouthful.
āśram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: āśrams
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ashram.
āśrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of āśram
panhellenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + Hellenism.
Senses: glosses: The union of the Greeks into a single political body.
relexify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹiˈlɛksəˌfaɪ/
rhymes: -ɛksəfaɪ
Forms: form: relexifies
form: relexifying
form: relexified
form: relexified
Etymology: From re- + lexicon + -ify.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Replace a language's lexicon with another's.
Derived terms: relexification
relexifier
battle axes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battle axe
Karamanov
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Karamanovs
Etymology: Borrowed from Bulgarian Караманов (Karamanov).
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Караманов (Karamanov).
Karaman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Turkish Karaman, Ottoman Turkish قرمان (Karaman), قرامان (Karaman).
Senses: glosses: A province in the Central Anatolia region, Turkey.
glosses: A district of Karaman Province, Turkey.
glosses: A municipality, the capital of Karaman district and Karaman Province, Turkey.
income taxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of income tax
public-sector
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of public sector.
re-elections
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-election
as much as possible
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: As much as is possible.
Related terms: as soon as possible
flenser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛnsə(ɹ)
Forms: form: flensers
Etymology: From Danish flense or Dutch vlensen, perhaps from Proto-Germanic *flintaz-, from Proto-Indo-European *splind- (“to split, cleave”), from *(s)plei- (“to split”)..
Senses: glosses: One who flenses (cuts blubber from a whale carcass)
flensers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: 1968, Bryce Walton, Harpoon Gunner, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, NY (1968), page 77,
"Then the other flensers rushed in, slashing at the blubber."
glosses: plural of flenser
inaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inaurates
form: inaurating
form: inaurated
form: inaurated
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin inaurātus, perfect passive participle of inaurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: to inaurate a chalice
glosses: To cover with gold; to gild.
inaurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin inaurātus, perfect passive participle of inaurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Covered with gold; gilded.
lippen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lippens
form: lippening
form: lippened
form: lippened
form: licken
Etymology: From Middle English lipnen (“to trust”), of obscure origin. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English litnen (“to trust”), of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse hlíta, compare Swedish lita (“to trust, depend, rely on”).
Senses: glosses: To entrust; trust to (someone/something).
examples: text: Do not lippen to him! / I was lippening on you.
text: "And never lippen to what you see from the window," she said. "The eye is deceitful as well as the heart."
ref: 1896, Margaret Oliphant, The Library Window:
glosses: To trust; to expect; to depend or rely (on).
Derived terms: lippening
mislippen
foreseeably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more foreseeably
form: most foreseeably
Etymology: From foreseeable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: “It could foreseeably be admissible,” said Gerald Lefcourt, a defense lawyer with experience in both criminal and celebrity cases.
ref: 2009 October 6, Bill Carter, “Letterman Apologizes on the Air to His Wife”, in New York Times:
glosses: In a manner that could be foreseen.
Panasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From pan- (“all”) and sonic (“relating to sound”).
Senses: glosses: A multinational electronics corporation in Japan.
Clausewitzian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Clausewitzian
form: most Clausewitzian
Etymology: From Clausewitz + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Jominian and Clausewitzian conceptions, with their checkerboard and geometrical analogies, were plausible enough when applied to the medium sized armies operating in the French-German-Italian theatre of the Napoleonic period.
ref: 1916 January, Arthur L. Conger, “Moltke's Plans of Campaign”, in Military Historian and Economist, volume 1, page 297:
text: It was a campaign of disruption, conceived and conducted along classic, Clausewitzian lines.
ref: 1958, Paul Kecskemeti (RAND Corporation), Strategic Surrender: The Politics of Victory and Defeat, Stanford University Press, 31
text: Indeed, I thought it seemed like a waste of time and intelligence even to speak of this war as rational activity, as a Clausewitzian continuation of politics by other means.
ref: 2009, James Der Derian, Virtuous war: mapping the military-industrial-media-entertainment network, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page xxii:
glosses: Adhering to or described by the military theory of Carl von Clausewitz.
sarcode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɑː(ɹ)kəʊd/
Forms: form: sarcodes
Etymology: Ancient Greek σάρξ (sárx, “flesh”) + -ode, coined by Félix Dujardin, French biologist and cytologist.
Senses: topics: homeopathy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A remedy made from healthy living tissue.
examples: text: How a nerve comes to be sensitive to light, hardly concerns us more than how life itself originated; but I may remark that, as some of the lowest organisms, in which nerves cannot be detected, are known to be sensitive to light, it does not seem impossible that certain elements in their tissues or sarcode should have become aggregated and developed into nerves endowed with this special sensibility to its action.
ref: 1866, Charles Darwin, “Difficulties on Theory”, in On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, […], 4th edition, London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 215–216:
text: The amoeba — a mere shapeless mass of moving sarcode — digests rapidly and constantly without a trace of organism! An organism when dead we assume to be chemically the same as the living organism, but we cannot prove it.
ref: 1873, William Lonsdale Watkinson, William Theophilus Davison, The London Quarterly Review, volume 39, page 252:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of protoplasm.
synonyms: word: protoplasm
Related terms: sense: homeopathic remedy
word: nosode
microhistory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microhistories
Etymology: From micro- + history.
Senses: examples: text: The most celebrated works of microhistory are Carlo Ginzberg's The Cheese and the Worms, a difficult but very rewarding, if contentious, exploration of popular belief and the impact of literacy in sixteenth-century Italy[…]
ref: 2003, The New Zealand Journal of History, University of Auckland, page 45:
text: What is certain is that in “The Pattern in the Carpet,” Drabble eschews both chronology and raw autobiographical revelation for a more meandering approach that touches briefly on family pathology and private pain as it crisscrosses the centuries and unfolds the microhistory of jigsaw puzzles, an English invention, circa 1767.
ref: 2009 September 13, Daphne Merkin, “Dame of the British Interior”, in New York Times:
antonyms: macrohistory
glosses: The study of the past on a small scale, such as an individual neighborhood or town, as a case study for general trends.
Derived terms: microhistorian
microhistorical
microhistorically
pinopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinopods
Senses: glosses: Any of various marine bivalves belonging to the suborder Pinopodia.
glosses: One of the progesterone-sensitive nodules in the human uterus thought to be responsible for removal of uterine fluids in early pregnancy.
wear thin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wears thin
form: wearing thin
form: wore thin
form: worn thin
Senses: examples: text: Women and gay people, for example, can start to live more freely with the breakdown of patriarchal and heterosexist institutions, while workers and people of color are able to challenge the economics of poverty and the ideology of racism as the rationales behind those notions continue to wear ever thinner.
ref: 1982 February 6, Lester Strong, “A World Cast Adrift”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 28, page 14:
text: Continuing his recent stern rhetoric, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told reporters in Stockholm that many have worked hard to help Latvia deal with its severe economic recession but that patience is wearing thin.
ref: 2009 October 7, Joel Sherwood, “Pressure on Latvia Builds”, in The Wall Street Journal:
text: [T]he ‘fun’ factor may be in part attributable the novelty of the feedback mechanism, and the sense of fun might wear thin after longer exposure to the feedback method.
ref: 2017, Di Zou, James Lambert, “Feedback methods for student voice in the digital age”, in British Journal of Educational Technology, volume 48, number 5, page 1090:
glosses: To lessen or weaken over time, as from overuse.
malt loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malt loaves
Senses: glosses: A British snack made from malt, with a sweet taste and a chewy texture like heavy, soft bread.
Related terms: granary loaf
pinopods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinopod
voluntaryism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voluntaryisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of voluntarism.
plebians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plebian
badelaires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badelaire
kludgie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklʌd͡ʒi/
rhymes: -ʌdʒi
Forms: form: kludgies
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots [Term?].
Senses: glosses: A toilet.
undelicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪʃəs
Forms: form: more undelicious
form: most undelicious
Etymology: From un- + delicious.
Senses: glosses: Not delicious; disagreeable to the senses.
karri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karris
Senses: examples: text: As an artist keenly attracted to Western Australian gums, specifically karris and tuarts, van Raalte prioritized imaginative figurations of trees, rather than humans, in his etchings.
ref: 2018, John C. Ryan, Forest Family: Australian Culture, Art, and Trees, page 104:
glosses: The tree Eucalyptus diversicolor, native to south-western Western Australia.
glosses: The hard timber of the karri tree.
partible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪbl̩/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪbl̩/
Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin partibilis, from Latin partiō (“to share, divide”).
Senses: examples: text: If souls be not unible, nor partible substances, there is no place for this doubt: if they be, they will be still what they are, notwithstanding any such union with a common soul.
ref: 1683, Richard Baxter, Dying Thoughts:
glosses: Divisible, able to be divided or partitioned.
glosses: Of property: that can be divided between heirs on inheritance.
examples: text: Following the introduction of partible inheritance in 1793, peasants reacted by using systematic birth control for the first time so as to restrict the number of heirs among whom their property would have to be divided – causing a sharp and enduring drop in France's birth-rate.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 562:
glosses: Relating to an inheritance system based on such division.
Derived terms: impartible
tripartible
unpartible
Related terms: gavelkind
℁
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: addressed to the subject, i.e. care of (℅)
enteroscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enteroscopies
Etymology: From entero- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A medical procedure for the direct visualization of small intestine.
Derived terms: gastroenteroscopy
Related terms: enteroscope
enteroscopic
enteroscopically
arbitrage pricing theories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arbitrage pricing theory
skeptopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From skeptic + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Pathological skepticism; an irrational belief that a phenomenon must be false merely because it is unusual or controversial.
teers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teer
comeatable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more comeatable
form: most comeatable
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of come-at-able.
Derived terms: uncomeatable
snackfood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snackfoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of snack food.
snackfoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snackfood
clipcock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clipcocks
Etymology: From clip + cock.
Senses: glosses: A circumcised male.
clipcocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clipcock
triphammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triphammers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trip hammer.
triphammers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triphammer
bounce off the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bounces off the walls
form: bouncing off the walls
form: bounced off the walls
form: bounced off the walls
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: bounce around, jump around, jump about
glosses: To be overly active relative to the enclosed space in which one is.
examples: text: Acme Inc was our best customer, but they're hopping mad now. They're bouncing off the walls over there.
text: These kids need to get outside for recess. They're bouncing off the walls in here.
glosses: To be brimful of agitation from excitement, indignation, or anxiety.
Related terms: off the wall
rubber room
bouncing off the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bounce off the walls
bounces off the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bounce off the walls
bounced off the walls
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bounce off the walls
right and left
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of left and right.
Derived terms: right and left screw
kludgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kludgie
as it happens
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: as it happened
form: as it so happens
form: it so happens
form: it just so happens
Senses: examples: text: I have my guitar with me in the car, as it happens. I’ll go and get it.
text: ―“You won’t know Paris, I suppose.” ―“As it happens, I went to university there!”
text: In the second volume of his autobiography, he writes of a journey up the Padma by paddle steamer (built, as it happens, on the river outside my window), where the dry season had exposed many sandbanks...
ref: 2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian:
glosses: By coincidence, incidentally.
cat's game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cats' games
Senses: glosses: A tie game. Comes from the concept that a cat cannot catch its own tail just like a player in tic-tac-toe cannot win a game that is already tied.
not hardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: hardly, not at all
mud flap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mud flaps
form: mudflap
Senses: glosses: A flap that hangs down behind a vehicle's wheel so that mud and other things kicked up by the wheel will hit the flap instead of a vehicle behind.
mud flaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud flap
Ananda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Sanskrit आनन्द (ānanda) or Pali ānanda.
Senses: glosses: A unisex given name from Sanskrit.
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The foremost disciple of Gautama Buddha.
Related terms: Anand
isonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isonyms
Etymology: From iso- + -onym.
Senses: glosses: A paronym.
Related terms: isonymy
interlunation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interlunations
Etymology: From inter- + lunation.
Senses: glosses: The interlunar period; the dark time between the old moon and new moon phases.
isohexadecane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + hexadecane.
Senses: glosses: isocetane
notoriousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From notorious + -ness.
Senses: glosses: notoriety, infamy
colloquiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colloquialities
Etymology: From colloquial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being colloquial; colloquialness.
glosses: A colloquial term, utterance, etc.; a colloquialism.
colloquialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colloquiality
noyade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nwaˈjaːd/
Forms: form: noyades
Etymology: From French noyade.
Senses: examples: text: By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
text: Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades: perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.
ref: 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 486:
glosses: A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
noyade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /nwaˈjaːd/
Forms: form: noyades
form: noyading
form: noyaded
form: noyaded
Etymology: From French noyade.
Senses: glosses: To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.
noyades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noyade
nonpossessory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nonpossessory
form: most nonpossessory
Etymology: From non- + possessory.
Senses: glosses: not possessory
perfectitude
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From perfect + -itude.
Senses: examples: text: Thus former states cannot be recalled in the happier sphere, although elsewhere it is explicitly set forth that it is essential for perfectitude that they should be.
ref: 1928, Lewis Spence, Mysteries of Britain, page viii. 180:
glosses: Perfection.
VSEPR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of valence shell electron pair repulsion: a model used to predict the shape of individual molecules based upon the extent of electron-pair electrostatic repulsion.
hyperboreans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperborean
nonseptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + septic.
Senses: glosses: Not septic.
nonseptic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonseptics
Etymology: From non- + septic.
Senses: examples: text: Acid-base balance data revealed moderately abnormal metabolic balance for both septics and nonseptics (in either direction) with normal respiratory balance or mild alkalosis.
ref: 1983 May/June, Ivo Giovannini, Giuseppe Boldrini, Marco Castagneto, Gabriele Sganga, Giuseppe Nanni, Mauro Pittiruti, Giancarlo Castiglioni, “Respiratory Quotient and Patterns of Substrate Utilization in Human Sepsis and Trauma”, in Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, volume 7, number 3, →DOI, page 227:
topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: septic
glosses: A person who does not have sepsis.
nonpeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + peptic.
Senses: glosses: Not peptic.
deesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deess
tetrahydrolipstatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tetra- + hydro- + lipstatin.
Senses: glosses: The drug orlistat.
lipstatin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A potent, irreversible inhibitor of pancreatic lipase, first isolated from the actinobacterium Streptomyces toxytricini.
Derived terms: tetrahydrolipstatin
Shekkacho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A regional language of Ethiopia with approximately 70,000 speakers.
penalty kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penalty kick
soccerlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more soccerlike
form: most soccerlike
Etymology: From soccer + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Some carvings show players with padding on their elbows and knees, and it is thought that they played a soccerlike game with a hard rubber ball...
ref: 2004, John Noble, Sandra Bao, Susan Forsyth, Mexico:
glosses: Resembling soccer.
carol singers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carol singer
amor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: amors
Senses: examples: text: Don Ped. That all the care I took of myself should be thrown away—never exposing myself to the night air; never fatiguing myself beyond a gentle perspiration, so careful of my diet, so regular in my hours, so chaste in my amors [originally amours], and after all this, in the evening of my days to have a long spado run through my guts, and look like a blue-breech’d fly with a corking pin sticking in it!
ref: 1775, Robert Jephson, “The Hotel”, in Braganza. A Tragedy. […], Dublin: […] Messrs. Exshaw, Sleater, Potts, Chamberlaine, Williams, Wilson, Husband, Porter, Walker, Jenkin, Flyn, and Hillary, page 41; republished as “The Hotel”, in The English and American Stage, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: […] David Longworth, […], 1807, act II, scene II, pages 31–32:
text: In this manner I succeed in my amors, and would advise thee to take the same method.
ref: 1810 September, “Gil Blas […] a fine gentleman”, in The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane, Abridged, Leominster: […] Salmon Wilder, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., page 70:
text: ‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor’s fee.’
ref: 1845 April, Ned Buntline, “A Night-Adventure in Cuba”, in The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXV, number 4, New York, N.Y.: […] John Allen, […], page 326:
text: But even in the midst of my love affairs I always retained sufficient sense to criticise the moral and intellectual calibre of the women I loved, and I held strong views on the advisability of mental and moral sympathies and congenial tastes existing between people who married. In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.
ref: 1905, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Selection in Man, page 240:
text: The late Queen was a model in this respect about the amors of His Majesty, even allowing his mistresses to become her ladies-in-waiting.
ref: 1981, Katherine Yorke, Falcon Gold, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 247:
text: “Imply once more that I am of that breed who prefer amors with their own sex and I shall blow your head off,” he said levelly.[…]But he was merely an accomplished flirt and she was the impoverished Mrs. Carruthers, married to a drunk and a wastrel, and had spent a precious part of the evening allowing herself to be questioned about the amors of a rake by a silly girl.[…]I do not like to broadcast my amors about the town.
ref: 1991, M. C. Beaton, His Lordship’s Pleasure (The Regency Intrigue Series), New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, published 2011, →ISBN:
text: The years of safe sex and condoms being years hence, we live with a libertine fatalism and I’m too ignorant and horny to calibrate my amors to the female cycle.
ref: 2003, Sting, Broken Music: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: Alternative form of amour.
national revival
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: national revivals
Senses: glosses: A period of romantic nationalism in some European nations.
tardive dyskinesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tardive dyskinesia
dyskinesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dyskinesia
guest worker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guest workers
form: guest-worker
form: guestworker
Senses: glosses: A person with temporary permission to work in another country.
Synonyms: word: migrant worker
word: foreign worker
english: German loanword
translation: German loanword
word: gastarbeiter
Related terms: word: Gastarbeiter
english: term also used in Nazi Germany to refer to foreign slave workers
translation: term also used in Nazi Germany to refer to foreign slave workers
word: Fremdarbeiter
inframarginal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infra- + marginal.
Senses: glosses: inside the margin
guest workers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guest worker
dark-lanterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dark-lantern
garde-robes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garde-robe
koala bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koala bear
tin cans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin can
little boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of little boy
have more chins than a Chinese phone book
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: has more chins than a Chinese phone book
form: having more chins than a Chinese phone book
form: had more chins than a Chinese phone book
form: had more chins than a Chinese phone book
form: have more chins than a Chinese phonebook
form: have got more chins than a Chinese phone book
form: have got more chins than a Chinese phonebook
Etymology: A pun on the word chin and the common Chinese surname Chin. The phrase was likely popularized by the American comic Joan Rivers.
Senses: examples: text: "This woman has more chins than a Chinese phone book," says Comedian Joan Rivers in a not at all funny pay cable television special.
ref: 1981 March 30, Gerald Clarke, “Show Business: The Long Way to Broadway”, in TIME:
text: Our leadoff hitter has more chins than a Chinese phone book.
ref: 1995, Doug Robinson, "How about replacing rosters with these subs?," The Deseret News, Feb 25, 1995, section D
text: My friend, Hank Zona, used to nod his head in someone's direction and whisper, "That guy has more chins than a Chinese phone book."
ref: 2004, Andy Kessler, Running Money: Hedge Fund Honchos, Monster Markets and My Hunt for the Big Score, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 131:
glosses: To be exceedingly fat, especially under the chin (as in a "double chin").
wikipedia: Joan Rivers
Related terms: have more chins than Chinatown
intralingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪŋɡwəl
Etymology: From intra- + lingual.
Senses: examples: text: Intralingual translation involves adapting a text to a new purpose in the same language.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
translation-studies
glosses: Contained within the same language; involving a monolingual process.
clerofascist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clerofascists
Etymology: Blend of clerical + -o- + fascist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of clerofascism.
clerofascists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerofascist
phantasma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æzmə
Forms: form: phantasmata
Senses: examples: text: ...till the 7. of Iune ſhe againe deluded us, after two houres chaſe as a phantaſma vaniſhing towards Goa.
ref: 1638, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some years travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique:
glosses: Alternative form of phantasm.
Derived terms: phantasmal
phantasmata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phantasma
adorabubble
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adorabubble
form: most adorabubble
Etymology: Reduplicative form of adorable, perhaps imitating childish speech, and incorporating bubble.
Senses: glosses: Cute; lovable.
Related terms: delectabubble
incredibubble
Cia-Cia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Cia-Cia 찌아찌아 (“Ciacia”).
Senses: synonyms: Butonese
glosses: An Austronesian language spoken in Buton Island, Indonesia.