cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Silvanus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /sɪlˈveɪnəs/
Etymology: From Latin Silvānus, a Latin cognomen, from silva (“forest”). The name Silas, from the early Christian apostle, was Latinized as Silvānus by Paul. Doublet of Silenus.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A god of forests.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A companion of Paul, also called Silas.
glosses: A male given name from Latin
Related terms: Silvia
Sylvia
Silvius
sylph
sylvan
Sylvester
Selwyn
Silas
Sylvanus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin, variant of Silvanus.
Selwyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Middle English form of Latin Silvanus. Also from the Old English given name Selewine, from sel (“hall”) + wine (“friend”). The places are named after bearers of the surname.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A male given name from Old English transferred back from the surname, in quiet use since the 19th century.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
A river in Canterbury, New Zealand, named after Bishop George Selwyn; in full, Selwyn River.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
A small settlement on the south side of the river in Canterbury, New Zealand.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
A territorial authority of Canterbury, New Zealand, named after the river; in full, Selwyn District.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
A locality, formerly a mining town in the Shire of Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, named after the Selwyn Range.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
A township in Peterborough County, Ontario, Canada, renamed from Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield in 2013.
glosses: Any of a number of places in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and US.
An unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States.
qualifier: Cambridge University
glosses: Ellipsis of Selwyn College, Cambridge.
Thibault
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thibaults
Etymology: From French Thibault.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French
door nail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: door nails
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doornail.
simplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simplex
Synonyms: simplices
telematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛləˈmætɪk/
Forms: form: more telematic
form: most telematic
Etymology: Borrowed from French télématique, itself a blend of télécommunication + informatique. By surface analysis, blend of tele- + informatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to telematics.
plenipotentiaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plenipotentiary
trendline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendlines
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trend line.
monetary policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monetary policies
Senses: examples: text: So what’s the Fed to do? It must manage interest rates without a working monetary policy compass.
ref: 2019 August 1, Mark Zandi, “Blame Trump for the Fed’s broken monetary policy compass”, in CNN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The process by which the government, central bank, or monetary authority manages the supply of money, or trading in foreign exchange markets.
Related terms: fiscal policy
trend line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trend lines
Senses: glosses: A line on a graph, drawn through points that vary widely, that shows the general trend of a real-world function; often generated using linear regression
fiscal policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fiscal policies
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Government policy that attempts to influence the direction of the economy through changes in government spending or taxes.
Related terms: monetary policy
signwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sign writing
Etymology: From sign + writing.
Senses: examples: text: Dieter walked along a broad corridor. Each door was clearly labeled in neat German signwriting, but Dieter looked inside anyway.
ref: 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 30:
glosses: Any form of clear lettering designed to be used on signs.
examples: text: Much modern signwriting is also done very cheaply, in the fastest possible way, and creativity is constrained by this commercial pressure as well.
ref: 1991, Anthony John Lewery, Popular art: past and present:
glosses: The art or process of writing signs.
bedsitter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bedsitters
Senses: examples: text: They lived together in a one-room "bed-sitter" — paid for by Halliwell's inheritance — and spent literally years together as Halliwell taught Orton about literature, writing and the classics.
ref: 1987 May 9, Michael Bronski, “Prick Up Your Marriage”, in Gay Community News, page 6:
text: Flick's home was a bedsitter in a big old house in Bayswater.
ref: 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 84:
glosses: bedsit
pip emma
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -ɛmə
Etymology: From pip (“P”) + emma (“M”) in RFC WWI signalese.
Senses: examples: text: On the spot, ready to the last button, at twelve pip emma.
ref: 1938, P.G. Wodehouse, The Code of the Woosters:
glosses: Expansion of p.m.: in the afternoon or evening.
Related terms: ack emma
hello girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /həˈləʊ ˌɡɜːl/
ipa: /hɛ-/
ipa: /hɛˈloʊ ˌɡɝl/
ipa: /hə-/
Forms: form: hello girls
Etymology: From the fact that the telephone operators would greet callers with “Hello” when contacted.
Senses: examples: text: The latest model of the multiple switch-board is in position, and in a few days the "Hello" girls will render complete the inside view of a modern telephone exchange.
ref: 1884 September, “The International Electrical Exhibition at Philadelphia, Sept. 2, 1884”, in F. L. Pope, editor, The Electrician and Electrical Engineer. A Monthly Review of Theoretical and Applied Science, volume III, New York, N.Y.: Electrical Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, page 193, column 2:
text: Surely, we must include the Long-Distance Telephone among the electrical achievements of the year. And if we may add the automatic switch-board, by which the services of the "hello-girl" are to be dispensed with; and if the new company, just formed in Chicago, fulfill its promise to give us telephone service at half the present rates, it will afford us an illustration of "applied science," which I am sure we shall be quick to appreciate.
ref: 1893, J[ohn] T. Pettee, “Annual Address: A Review of the Year 1892 by the President”, in Transactions of the Scientific Association, Meriden, Conn., Meriden, Conn.: Press of E. A. Horton & Co., →OCLC, page 17:
text: The humblest hello-girl along ten thousand miles of wire could teach gentleness, patience, modesty, manners, to the highest duchess in Arthur's land.
ref: 1889, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Sandy’s Tale”, in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, New York, N.Y.: Charles L. Webster & Company, →OCLC, page 177:
text: Now imagine that the main automatic exchange is out of service and all those calls have to be made the old-fashioned way, by hello girls, taking ten times as long.
ref: 2001, Ken Follett, chapter 17, in Jackdaws, London: Macmillan, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Dutton, 2002, →ISBN, page 162:
topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
telephony
synonyms: telephone girl
glosses: A female telephone operator.
wikipedia: Haute-Marne
zero-based budget
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zero-based budgets
Senses: topics: management
glosses: A budget developed disregarding the expenses or costs of the prior year, requiring explicit justification for all expenditures.
Derived terms: zero-based budgeting
Related terms: zero-based review
continental shift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: continental shifts
Senses: glosses: A type of work cycle, most commonly at a manufacturing plant or institution, with shifts worked four days in a row, followed by four days off in a row. It can also commonly be implemented as working four days in a row with three days off, then working three days in a row with four days off; switching every week.
gin and it
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin and its
form: gin and It
form: gin-and-It
Etymology: Short for gin and Italian vermouth.
Senses: glosses: A simple cocktail, similar to an unsophisticated martini, made from gin and sweet vermouth
normal distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnɔɹməl ˌdɪstɹəˈbjuʃən/
Forms: form: normal distributions
Senses: examples: text: φ_(μ,σ²)(x)=1/(σ√),e²)/(2σ²))=1/σφ((x-μ)/σ), x∈ℝ.
text: It begins with the normal distribution, which is the limiting form of the sample sum over an arbitrary population.
ref: 2008, James L. Johnson, Probability and Statistics for Computer Science, Wiley, page 437:
text: The normal distribution is the backbone of traditional statistics. We learn very early in our statistics training that the distribution of sample means, regardless of the shape of the parent distribution, approaches a normal distribution as the sample size increases.
ref: 2012, Larry Pace, Beginning R: An Introduction to Statistical Programming, Apress, page 103:
text: The development of the general theories of the normal distributions began with the work of de Moivre (1733, 1738) in his studies of approximations to certain binomial distributions for large positive integer n > 0.
ref: 2014, Mohammad Ahsanullah, B.M. Golam Kibria, Mohammad Shakil, Normal and Student's t Distributions and Their Applications, Springer (Atlantis Press), page 7:
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
synonyms: word: Gaussian distribution
word: ;
word: Gaussian curve
word: bell curve
glosses: Any of a family of continuous probability distributions such that the probability density function is the Gaussian function
Derived terms: bivariate normal distribution
log-normal distribution
skew normal distribution
standard normal distribution
Related terms: central limit theorem
Gaussian function
standard normal deviate
Gaussian distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gaussian distributions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Synonym of normal distribution.
synonyms: word: normal distribution
Related terms: Gaussian curve
Gaussian function
more at Gaussian § Derived terms
risques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of risque
risques
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of risque
gin-and-It
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gin-and-Its
Senses: examples: text: “I’ll have a gin-and-It, Percy, while you’re buying.”
ref: 2001, Ken Follett, Jackdaws, Dutton, →ISBN, page 138:
glosses: Alternative spelling of gin and it.
cartilege
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartileges
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cartilage.
risquée
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɪskeɪ/
ipa: /ɹɪsˈkeɪ/
note: following the French pronunciation
ipa: /ɹiː-/
ipa: /ɹəˈskeɪ/
ipa: /ɹɪ-/
text: -
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: more risquée
form: most risquée
Etymology: Borrowed from French risquée.
Senses: examples: text: Therefore he placed along with this couple who had become one, Margaret, the gamesome lady's-maid, who is risquée in her talk with her mistress, and has Borachio as a lover—so anxious is [William] Shakespeare for variety of character and of life.
ref: 1913, Stopford A[ugustus] Brooke, “Much Ado About Nothing”, in Ten More Plays of Shakespeare, London: Constable and Company, →OCLC, page 8:
text: The housewives of Siena could not believe that such a woman could be very important in the world; but beyond the limits of her native town, in Florence, in Rome, Catherine was already famous for her gifts of prophecy. A woman of strong will, rough and risquée of speech, she declared herself appointed of God to achieve the great purpose of her time—the return of the Holy See to Rome.
ref: 1927, Vicente Blasco Ibañez, “Two Women Scold a Pope”, in Arthur Livingston, transl., The Pope of the Sea: An Historical Medley, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company, […], →OCLC, part 1 (The City of the Three Keys), page 119:
text: Fashion magazines and advertising photographers usually cast her [Candy Jones] in tweeds, but she prefers long slinky dresses slit to the knee and black lace stockings. "I figure I might as well be gay and risquée while I can," she says, with a little tremor in her boyish voice. "I'll be old soon."
ref: 1943 April 10, Dorothy Kilgallen, “The Magic Moniker”, in Collier’s, volume 111, number 15, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 51, column 1:
text: There was something about Klea that made her different from any other woman Khem and Tiye had met at the Temple. Younger than Taret or Ani, she was more bold and risquée. They sensed that beneath her lighthearted facade was a strong-willed, self-confident initiate who could not be fooled or intimidated.
ref: 2004, Page Bryant, “A Time for Amulet Making”, in The Second Coming of the Star Gods: A Visionary Novel, Charlottesville, Va.: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, →ISBN:
glosses: Used when referring to a woman: feminine of risqué
smoggier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of smoggy: more smoggy
smoggiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of smoggy: most smoggy
cy-près
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cy pres.
like water
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He throws great parties: the beer flows like water.
text: We will invade the village, and the blood will flow like water.
text: In our house we go through paper towels like water.
qualifier: simile
glosses: Abundantly; consumed rapidly or found in great quantity.
Derived terms: spend money like water
isolant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isolants
Etymology: From isolate + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Monodictys austrinia was previously reported as an isolant from soil at McMurdo (Tubaki and Asano, 1965), an obviously contaminated area.
ref: 1972, Antarctic Journal of the United States, volumes 7-8, page 258:
glosses: That which is isolated from something else.
Related terms: isolatee
isolator
cocaïne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Cocaïne is prepared by digesting coca leaves with 85 per cent. alcohol containing a small quantity of sulphuric acid, mixing the expressed mass with milk of lime, neutralising the filtrate with sulphuric acid, evaporating off the alcohol, mixing the residue with water, precipitating the resulting yellow-brown solution with carbonate of sodium, treating the brown precipitate of impure cocaïne with ether, and evaporating. Cocaïne then remains, partly amorphous, partly crystalline, and may be purified by repeated treatment with alcohol.
ref: 1870, Henry Watts, “COCAÏNE”, in A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences, page 1059:
text: Cocaïne.—Let us mention, finally, cocaïne as the most recent mydriatric we possess.
ref: 1886, Edmund Landolt, The Refraction and Accommodation of the Eye and Their Anomalies, page 571:
text: When cocaïne is injected beneath the skin, the filaments of the sensory nerves which ramify throughout its substance lose their power of conduction, and local anesthesia is the result.
ref: 1887, Transactions of the New York Odontological Society, page 57:
text: Cocaïne, in addition to its action as an anæsthetic, produces a very marked change in liver, which is characterised by a great increase in the volume of that organ and a specific degeneration of the liver cells.
ref: 1894, Journal of the Chemical Society, page 394:
text: On account of its use as a local anæsthetic, cocaïne is the best known of the alkaloids present in coca-leaves (Erythroxylon coca).
ref: 1914, Arnold Frederick Holleman, A Textbook of Inorganic Chemistry, page 586:
text: When boiled with water, cocaïne is hydrolyzed into benzoylecgonine, C₁₆H₁₉NO₄, and methylic alcohol.
ref: 1919, Text-book of chemistry, page 427:
text: Cocaïne is used in medicine usually in the form of its hydrochloride, as a rapid local anæsthetic.
ref: 1924, Harry Hepworth, Chemical Synthesis: Studies in the Investigation of Natural Organic Products, page 224:
glosses: Dated form of cocaine.
c u l8r
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cul8r.
Cauchy distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cauchy distributions
Etymology: Named after Augustin Cauchy.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A symmetric continuous probability distribution with fat tails, with probability density function that is
wikipedia: Augustin Cauchy
standard normal distribution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: standard normal distributions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: The normal distribution with a mean of zero and a variance of one.
torchons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torchon
information entropy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
information-theory
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A measure of the uncertainty associated with a random variable; a measure of the average information content one is missing when one does not know the value of the random variable (usually in units such as bits); the amount of information (measured in, say, bits) contained per average instance of a character in a stream of characters.
Synonyms: Shannon entropy
Related terms: variety
information theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A branch of applied mathematics and engineering involving the quantification of information sent over a communication channel, disregarding the meaning of the sent messages, exemplified by the noisy-channel coding theorem.
Derived terms: algorithmic information theory
information-theoretic death
quantum information theory
Related terms: english: contradistinction
translation: contradistinction
word: informatics
english: contradistinction
translation: contradistinction
word: information science
diffusant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diffusants
Senses: glosses: A substance that diffuses through something.
diffusons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diffuson
ajoite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the type locality: New Cornelia mine in Ajo, Arizona, USA
Ajo + -ite
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A turquoise mineral with triclinic crystals, (K,Na)Cu₇²⁺AlSi₉O₂₄(OH)₆·3H₂O.
restant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: remaining; persistent
transportant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: transportants
Etymology: From transport + -ant.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A substance involved in transportation.
home equity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: The monetary value of a home less the value of any encumbrances, such as liens or mortgages.
adamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adamite
culminant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more culminant
form: most culminant
Etymology: From French culminant.
Senses: glosses: being vertical, or at the highest point of altitude
glosses: predominant
horsedrawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of horse-drawn.
shiver me timbers
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shiver my timbers.
glosses: A sarcastic remark that indicates that the speaker is not scared
commodity market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: commodity markets
Senses: topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: A market where raw or primary products are exchanged.
développé
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: développés
Etymology: French développé
Senses: qualifier: ballet
glosses: A movement in which the leg is lifted to cou-de-pied or retiré and then fully extended outward, passing through attitude.
développés
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of développé
aventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aventure
spatial unmasking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The localization of sound by angular sources.
rigole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rigoles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of regal (“type of organ”).
rigoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rigole
arrose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: arroses
form: arrosing
form: arrosed
form: arrosed
Etymology: From French arroser.
Senses: examples: text: The blissful dew of heaven does arrose you.
ref: 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, (please specify the page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
text: Who from the commencement of his reign spared not the kings his enemies, who never saw rest from battle and fight, who crused like hesbet the lands and their rulers; the four cardinal points were arrosed with blood.
ref: 1856, Jules Oppert, On Babylon, page 105:
text: Within that side-board were cake and biscuits, fruits too, in their season, and a decanter of rich port wherewith to arrose them.
ref: 1904, Barry Pain, Lindley Kays, page 17:
glosses: To drench; to besprinkle; to moisten.
arroses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arrose
arrosions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arrosion
growth media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of growth medium
culture media
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of culture medium
douma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doumas
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of duma (“Russian legislative assembly”).
an angel passes
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: an angel passes by
Senses: examples: text: There was a momentary silence. Mrs. Oliver said: "Is it twenty-to or twenty past? An angel passing . . . My feet aren't crossed—it must be a black angel!"
ref: 1936, Agatha Christie, Cards on the Table, →ISBN, page 17:
text: As Case was picking up his beer, one of those strange instants of silence descended, as though a hundred unrelated conversations had simultaneously arrived at the same pause. […] Ratz grunted. “An angel passed.”
ref: 1984, William Gibson, Neuromancer (Sprawl; book 1), New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN, page 4:
glosses: Used to denote an awkward pause.
Related terms: pregnant pause
tumbleweed moment
crickets
impersonification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impersonifications
Etymology: From im- + personification.
Senses: glosses: the act of impersonating; impersonation
glosses: personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form
cogitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒd͡ʒɪtənt/
Forms: form: more cogitant
form: most cogitant
Etymology: From Latin cōgitans, present active participle of cōgitō (“think”).
Senses: glosses: thinking, that thinks
soja
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊdʒə/
Senses: glosses: Dated form of soya.
dayereh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dayerehs
form: doyra
form: dojra
form: dajre
form: doira
form: dajreja
Etymology: From Persian دایره (dâyere), from Arabic دَائِرَة (dāʔira). Doublet of daerah.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A large Central Asian frame drum with jingles attached, a type of tambourine.
schooldays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school days
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolday
schooldays
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: school days
Senses: examples: text: I can hardly remember my schooldays now that I have reached middle age.
text: Baſſ. In my ſchoole dayes, when I had loſt one ſhaft
I ſhot his fellow of the ſelfeſame flight
The ſelfeſame way, with more aduiſed watch
To finde the other forth, and by aduenturing both,
I oft found both. I vrge this child-hoode proofe, […]
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 164:
glosses: The period of one's life when one attends school, particularly, primary school (as opposed to college days); one's youth.
decarbonatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decarbonatizations
Etymology: From de- + carbonatization.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any process that removes carbonate minerals from rock.
impoundment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: impoundments
Etymology: From impound + -ment.
Senses: glosses: A body of water impounded within an enclosure, such as a reservoir.
glosses: The act of impounding.
glosses: The state of being impounded.
insular Spaniard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: insular Spaniards
Senses: examples: text: The first thing the separatists desired was to get rid of the Peninsu[l]ar Spaniard; the next to go would have been the insular Spaniard, then the Spanish mestizo, then the chinee half-caste and the chinee; after which would come the gradual extinction of the various tribes.
ref: 1902, Francis St. Clair, The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune, Amigos del Pais (Manilla)
text: Within the Spanish society, a great difference evolved between the Insular Spaniards, sent over for different periods of time from Spain, to serve as officials, etc., and the "native" Spaniards, the Creoles.
ref: 1969, Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, The Political Systems of Empires, page 76:
glosses: A person of Spanish descent who lives in the Philippines.
subprogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprograms
Etymology: From sub- + program.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hypernyms: program
glosses: A program contained within a larger program
granulocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granulocyte
balise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈliːz/
homophone: Belize (one pronunciation)
Forms: form: balises
Etymology: From French balise.
Senses: examples: text: Akers claims that ETCS signalling renewals are roughly 50% of the cost of conventional renewals. If nothing else, this is an important reason for NR to be keen to switch. "There's no rocket science or magic in that, there's just physically less to deliver," he says. "There are no trackside signals. Yes, you have balises and marker boards, and you still have train detection, but by and large there is simply less to deliver.
ref: 2024 May 29, Philip Haigh, “The digital revolution and the switch to in-cab signalling”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 29:
qualifier: European Train Control System
glosses: An electronic beacon or transponder placed between the rails of a railway.
Hypernyms: transponder
Hyponyms: Eurobalise
infill balise
virtual balise
Related terms: EuroLoop
responsory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: responsories
Etymology: Via Middle English responsori from Late Latin responsorium, from Latin respons (“answered”), from the verb respondeō (“I answer”).
Senses: glosses: A chant or anthem recited after a reading in a church service
glosses: A book of liturgical responses; a responsorial.
responsory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Via Middle English responsori from Late Latin responsorium, from Latin respons (“answered”), from the verb respondeō (“I answer”).
Senses: examples: text: that Reponsory Letter from His Majesty
ref: 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Containing or making answer; answering.
responsories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of responsory
virtueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English vertulees; equivalent to virtue + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking virtue or goodness.
glosses: Lacking efficacy.
descendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: descendences
Etymology: From Old French descendance, or descend + -ence.
Senses: glosses: The act of descending.
I'ma
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Imma.
mockable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒkəbəl
Forms: form: more mockable
form: most mockable
Etymology: From mock + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Mocking the men who hurt us, as mockable as they are, starts to feel like acquiescing to the most condescending of catcalls: “You look better when you smile.”
ref: 2016 May 28, Jessica Valenti, The Guardian:
glosses: Able to be mocked or ridiculed.
examples: text: To run tests on a mockable version of android.jar, you would need to introduce product flavors, which we covered in Chapter 4.
ref: 2016, Murat Yener, Onur Dundar, Expert Android Studio, page 233:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
software
glosses: Of which a mockup or prototype may be made.
Derived terms: mockably
unmockable
murrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murrions
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of morion.
murrion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murrions
Senses: examples: text: The fold ſtands empty, in the drovvned fiend, / And crovves are fatted vvith the murrion flocke.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature B4, verso:
text: [A] red murrion ath thy Iades trickes.
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], signature [C4], recto:
text: VVhat the Murrion care I vvho you are, hold off your Fingers, or Ile cut them vvith this Diamond.
ref: 1604 (first performance), Tho[mas] Dekker; Iohn Webster [i.e., John Webster], West-ward Hoe. […], London: […] [William Jaggard], and to be sold by Iohn Hodgets […], published 1607, →OCLC, Act IV, signature F2, verso:
text: [I]f our freſh vvits cannot turne the plots / Of ſuch a mouldy murrion on it ſelfe; / Rich cloathes, choyſe fare, and a true friend at a call, / VVith all the pleaſures the night yeelds, forſake vs.
ref: c. 1619 (date written), P[hilip] M[assinger], N[athan] F[ield], The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy. […], London: […] Iohn Norton, for Francis Constable, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act III, signature G, recto:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of murrain.
executory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tə.ɹi/
/ɪɡˈzɛk.jʊ.tɹi/
Etymology: From Middle English executory, from Latin execūtōrius. By surface analysis, execute + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: An executory interest is a future interest in a grantee which will not automatically become possessory and which follows a prior estate which will not terminate inevitably.
ref: 2005, Steven Emanuel, Property, page 215:
glosses: Of or pertaining to administration or execution.
topics: law
glosses: Yet to be completed; not fully executed, performed or carried out; lacking in execution, unfulfilled; so, yet to take effect.
Derived terms: executory interest
fee simple subject to executory interest
fee simple subject to executory limitation
nonexecutory
shifting executory interest
springing executory interest
needly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːd.li/
Forms: form: needlier
form: more needly
form: needliest
form: most needly
Etymology: From Middle English needely, neodliche, from Old English nēodlīċe (“eagerly, earnestly, carefully, zealously, diligently, sedulously; greatly”); equivalent to need (“desire”) + -ly. Cognate with Old Saxon niudlīko (“zealously, carefully”), German niedlich (“desirable, appealing, lovely, cute”).
Senses: glosses: Zealously; carefully; earnestly.
needly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːd.li/
Forms: form: needlier
form: more needly
form: needliest
form: most needly
Etymology: From Middle English needely, nedelich, from Old English *nīedlīċe (“necessarily”), from nīedlīc (“necessary”); equivalent to need (“necessity, need”) + -ly. Merged with Etymology 1 above. Cognate with Middle Dutch nodelike, Middle Low German nōtliken, Middle High German nōtliche.
Senses: examples: text: Or if sower woe delights in fellowship,
And needly will be rankt with other griefes
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Necessarily; of necessity.
glosses: Urgently.
needly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈniːd.li/
ipa: /ˈniː.dəl.i/
ipa: /ˈniːd.li/
Forms: form: needlier
form: more needly
form: needliest
form: most needly
Etymology: From needle + -y.
Senses: examples: text: a needly horn
text: needly beard
ref: 1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter XXIII, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Like a needle or needles.
Synonyms: acicular
neglectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more neglectingly
form: most neglectingly
Etymology: From neglecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Carelessly; heedlessly.
nighted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nighted
form: most nighted
Etymology: From night (“noun sense”) + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Queen Gertrude: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
text: To shake off the maddening and wearying limitations of time and space and natural law—to be linked with the vast outside—to come close to the nighted and abysmal secrets of the infinite and the ultimate—surely such a thing was worth the risk of one’s life, soul, and sanity!
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 5, in The Whisperer in Darkness:
glosses: Dark; clouded.
glosses: Overtaken by night; belated.
nighted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From night (“verb sense”) + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of night
monotonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪkli/
note: of Canada
ipa: /ˌmɑnəˈtɑnɪkli/
note: of the US
ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnɪkli/
ipa: /ˌmɔnəˈtɔnɪkli/
ipa: /ˌmɒnəˈtɒnəkli/
ipa: [ˌmɔ̟nəˈtɔ̟nəkli]
rhymes: -ɪkli
Etymology: From monotonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a monotonic manner, pertaining to the Greek system of diacritics which discards the breathings and employs a single accent to indicate stress.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: In a monotonic manner, of a function that either never decreases or never increases as its independent variable increases.
Derived terms: nonmonotonically
nourisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nourishers
Etymology: From nourish + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Another book Kalpadrukosh mentions hornbills as "priyatmaj" meaning nourisher and regaler of his mate.
ref: 2020, Raju Kasambe, Indian Grey Hornbill: Unravelling the Secrets, page 92:
glosses: One who, or that which, nourishes.
nourishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nourisher
oathable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From oath + -able.
Senses: examples: text: You're not oathable, Altho' I know you'll swear Into strong shudders th' immortal gods
ref: c. 1605–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Tymon of Athens”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
glosses: Capable of having an oath administered to one: fit to be sworn.
recursiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recursivenesses
Etymology: From recursive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being recursive.
Synonyms: recursivity
Related terms: recursive
recursion
offendress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: offendresses
Etymology: From offender + -ess.
Senses: glosses: A woman who offends.
offendresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of offendress
opposeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more opposeless
form: most opposeless
Etymology: From oppose + -less.
Senses: glosses: Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible.
otherwhere
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʌðə(ɹ)wɛː(ɹ)/
Etymology: From other + where. Compare German anderswo.
Senses: examples: text: And fared like a furious wyld Beare,
Whoſe whelpes are ſtolne away, ſhe being otherwhere.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 499:
text: Come, Adrian. I think we should be otherwhere.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, “[Prelude to chapter 1]”, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section, page 4:
glosses: Synonym of somewhere else: elsewhere, in or to some other place.
synonyms: word: somewhere else
extra: elsewhere, in or to some other place
Derived terms: otherwhereness
peradventures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of peradventure
pioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shakespearean.
Senses: examples: text: Thy bankes with pioned, and twilled brims
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14:
glosses: A word of disputed meaning; perhaps, abounding in marsh marigolds.
playfellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playfellow
pomewater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomewaters
Senses: glosses: A kind of sweet, juicy apple.
pomewaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomewater
pontic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pontics
Etymology: From Latin pōns (“bridge”).
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: A false tooth that forms part of a dental bridge.
Derived terms: pontic rhododendron
pontic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin pōns (“bridge”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the pons.
presagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presager
pricksong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pricksongs
Etymology: From prick + song.
Senses: examples: text: Well said, wench, and the prick-song we use shall be our husbands'.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, I.1:
glosses: Music that is sung from notation written with dots or points, as opposed to by ear; sheet music.
glosses: A melody performed as a counterpoint to a plainsong.
pricksongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pricksong
proface
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From Middle French bon prou vous fasse (“may [it] do you much good”).
Senses: examples: text: Sweet sir, sit; I’ll be with you anon; most sweet sir, Master Page, good Master Page, sit. Proface! What you want in meat, we’ll have in drink.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
text: Gloria deo, sirs proface,
Attend me now whilst I say grace.
ref: 1602, Thomas Heywood, A pleasant conceited comedie, wherein is shewed, how a man may chuse a good wife from a bad, London: Mathew Lawe:
text: Thankes be giuen for flesh and fishes,
With this choice of tempting dishes:
To which proface: with blythe lookes sit yee,
Rush bids this Couent, much good do’t yee.
ref: 1612, Thomas Dekker, If it be not good, the Diuel is in it, London: John Trundle:
glosses: A familiar salutation or welcome offered by a host before a meal or drinks are served.
game of gotcha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: games of gotcha
Senses: examples: text: Late fees and credit rating are an elaborate game of gotcha.
glosses: A practice intended to ensnare somebody.
radial symmetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial symmetries
Senses: examples: text: A starfish has radial symmetry; a butterfly does not.
glosses: A form of symmetry in which identical parts are arranged in a circular fashion around a central axis.
Synonyms: radiosymmetry
Related terms: symmetry
bilateral symmetry
radial symmetries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radial symmetry
radial tire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial tires
form: radial tyre
Senses: glosses: A kind of vehicle tire incorporating reinforcing cords distributed radially relative to the hub (at 90 degrees to the direction of travel).
radial tires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radial tire
radial tyre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radial tyres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of radial tire.
radial tyres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radial tyre
radiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more radiable
form: most radiable
Senses: glosses: Transparent to radiant energy, especially X-rays. Capable of being penetrated and examined by rays or waves.
radiant energy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiant energies
Senses: glosses: Energy in a form that can radiate, generally electromagnetic energy.
radiant energies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiant energy
rechecking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recheck
rechecking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recheckings
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent checking; reverification.
pendragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pendragon
proditor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹɒ.dɪ.tə/
ipa: /ˈpɹɑd.ɪ.tɚ/
Forms: form: proditors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin prōditor.
Senses: glosses: A traitor.
Related terms: prodition
proditorious
proditory
proditors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proditor
preordinance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preordinances
Etymology: From pre- + ordinance.
Senses: glosses: Antecedent decree or determination; a rule previously established.
preordinances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preordinance
protectorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protectorships
Etymology: From protector + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: c.1754–61, David Hume, The History of England: From the invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688, 1823, Volume 1, page 409,
Henry, being so far recovered from his distemper as to carry the appearance of exercising the royal power; they moved him to resume his authority [1455], to annul the protectorship of the duke, to release Somerset from the Tower,²³ and to commit the administration into the hands of that nobleman.
text: The one Irish provision which would have thrown the most light on Piccolomini's role would have been that to Tuam, the only one of the four metropolitan sees to fall vacant during Piccolomini's protectorship.
ref: 1974, William E. Wilkie, The Cardinal Protectors of England: Rome and the Tudors Before the Reformation, page 73:
text: Yet though Richard was moving quickly on a wide front of action in these first days of his protectorship, his measures reveal almost nothing about the political complexion of the council, about what was going om in the minds of the councilors who on May 5 had rushed with such happy unanimity to harness themselves to the chariot of the protectorship.
ref: 2008, Paul Murray Kendall, Richard the Third, published 2013, unnumbered page:
glosses: The office of a protector or regent; protectorate.
protectorships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protectorship
pulpiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulpiters
Etymology: From pulpit + -er.
Senses: glosses: A preacher.
pulpiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulpiter
questant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: questants
Senses: examples: text: Not to wooe honour, but to wed it, when
The brauest questant shrinkes: finde what you seeke,
[T]hat fame may cry you loud: I say farewell.
ref: c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: Somebody who undertakes a quest.
questants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questant
rackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of racker
raker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rakers
Etymology: From rake + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who uses a rake.
glosses: A machine for raking grain or hay.
glosses: A gun positioned so as to rake an enemy ship with gunfire.
Derived terms: gill raker
go a raker
gully-raker
kennel-raker
rakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of raker
rampallian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rampallians
Senses: examples: text: Away, you scullion! You rampallian! You fustilarian!
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
glosses: A mean wretch; a low person.
rampallians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rampallian
ranker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹæŋkəɹ/
Etymology: From rank + -er (comparative suffix).
Senses: examples: text: As when a lion, rushing from his den,
Amidst the plain of some wide-water’d fen,
(Where numerous oxen, as at ease they feed,
At large expatiate o’er the ranker mead)
ref: 1715, Homer, Iliad, translated by Alexander Pope, Book XV:
glosses: comparative form of rank: more rank