cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ecu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecus
form: ECU
Etymology: From the initial letters of European currency unit; simultaneously an allusion to the historical currency écu.
Senses: glosses: The European Currency Unit (symbol ₠), a currency used in the European Community before the euro.
slinging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sling
stressing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stress
dozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozers
Etymology: From doze + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who dozes.
dozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dozers
Etymology: Clipping.
Senses: glosses: A bulldozer.
Derived terms: tankdozer
tank-dozer
tank dozer
opposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: opposers
Etymology: From oppose + -er.
Senses: examples: text: For example, after the opposer had objected to the opposee's plan to drive the car, the opposee suggested, "We can take turns driving the car."
ref: 1984, Catherine Garvey, Children's Talk, page 145:
synonyms: opponent
antonyms: supporter
proponent
proposer
glosses: One who opposes, one who shows opposition.
flunked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flunk
flunker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flunkers
Etymology: From flunk + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who has flunked: failed in an examination, been kept back to repeat a grade, or flunked out of school.
Related terms: word: flunkey
word: flunky
english: possibly false cognate
translation: possibly false cognate
word: flunkie
string band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: string bands
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A music group consisting solely of stringed instruments.
decker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)
homophone: deca (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: deckers
Etymology: From deck (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a table decker
glosses: One who, or that which, decks or adorns; a coverer.
Derived terms: table-decker
decker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɛkə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɛkə(ɹ)
homophone: deca (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: deckers
Etymology: From deck (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: We traveled in a double-decker bus.
glosses: Something having a certain number of levels.
raw_tags: used in conjunction with a number
Derived terms: double-decker
single-decker
three-decker
triple-decker
two-decker
Related terms: upper decker
dosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dossers
Etymology: From doss + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Illustrating the strength of feeling, some said Dorries was “never here and is as useful as a chocolate teapot”, while “Dosser Dorries” posters appeared in the area.
ref: 2023 October 20, “Labour takes Nadine Dorries’ former seat in Mid Bedfordshire byelection”, in The Guardian, UK:
synonyms: word: shirker
word: bum
word: couch potato
word: dawdler
word: deadbeat
word: dogfucker
word: do-naught
word: do-nothing
word: dosser
word: idler
word: idleton
word: faineant
word: flaneur
word: footler
word: get-nothing
word: goldbricker
word: goof-off
word: lallygag
word: lollygagger
word: laggard
word: layabout
word: lazy ass
word: lazybones
word: lazy louse
word: lidderon
word: lie-abed
word: loafer
word: loiter-sack
word: lounge lizard
word: lounger
word: morepork
word: poop
word: ragabash
word: shirker
word: slacker
word: slow belly
word: slugabed
word: slug-a-bed
word: slugabug
word: sluggabed
word: sluggard
word: sofa spud
word: tarrier
word: truant
glosses: Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work.
examples: text: Formerly they endeavoured to occupy all the seats, but the lynx-eyed Metropolitan Police declined to allow any such proceedings, and the dossers, knowing the invariable kindness of the City Police, made tracks for that portion of the Embankment which, lying east of the Temple, comes under the control of the Civic Fathers.
ref: 1890, William Booth, chapter 3, in In Darkest England and the Way Out:
glosses: A homeless and jobless person.
glosses: One who lodges in a doss-house.
dosser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɒsə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: dossers
form: dorsel
form: dorser
Etymology: Late Latin dosserum, or French dossier (“bundle of papers, part of a basket resting on the back”), from Latin dorsum (“back”). See dorsal.
Senses: examples: text: To hire a ripper's mare, and buy new dossers.
ref: 1626 February 13 (licensing date), Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Noble Gentleman”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act V, scene i:
glosses: A pannier or basket.
glosses: A hanging tapestry; a dorsal.
dozily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dozily
form: most dozily
Etymology: From dozy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dozy manner.
sleepest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: sleep + -est
Senses: examples: ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of sleep
inculpable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more inculpable
form: most inculpable
Etymology: From in- + culpable.
Senses: glosses: Not culpable; immune from liability.
Derived terms: inculpableness
inculpably
polarimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From polarimetry + -ic.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Of or pertaining to polarimetry, or measured using a polarimeter
Derived terms: fluoropolarimetric
photopolarimetric
polarimetrically
spectropolarimetric
polarimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polarimetries
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The measurement of the polarization of electromagnetic radiation
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Analysis using a polarimeter
Derived terms: fluoropolarimetry
polarimetric
spectropolarimetry
inbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inbreed
inbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iːdɪŋ
Forms: form: inbreedings
Senses: examples: text: Inbreeding can result in handicapped children.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Breeding between members of a relatively small population, especially one in which most members are related.
Synonyms: incest
Derived terms: inbreeding depression
incidentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incidental
incidentals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Small items of expenditure that are not individually identified.
inclemency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inclemencies
Etymology: From inclement + -cy. From Latin inclementia.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being inclement; lack of clemency.
examples: text: with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather
ref: 1729, Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal:
text: They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather.
ref: 1849, Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California:
text: There had been rain, squalls mingled with snow, hailstorms, gusts of wind, but these inclemencies did not last.
ref: 1874, Jules Verne, The Mysterious Island:
text: The cry of the suffering and dying rings in our ears, as they are dragged from their beds, to be exposed to the inclemencies of the ice-covered sea in an open boat.
ref: 1922, Charles Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5:
glosses: Something that is inclement.
incommensurate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incommensurate
form: most incommensurate
Etymology: From in- + commensurate.
Senses: examples: text: In the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi we saw a commensurate relationship between the two, a marriage of Heaven and earth, but now in the fall of Inanna into hell, the relationship becomes incommensurate.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179:
glosses: Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
Derived terms: incommensurately
incommensurateness
incommunicable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incommunicable
form: most incommunicable
Etymology: From in- + communicable.
Senses: glosses: That cannot be communicated or transmitted
raw_tags: of a disease etc
glosses: Who does not communicate freely; uncommunicative or reserved
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: incommunicableness
incommunicably
Related terms: incommunicability
incriminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incriminatory
form: most incriminatory
Etymology: From incriminate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: That incriminates.
Derived terms: nonincriminatory
incrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: incrusts
form: incrusting
form: incrusted
form: incrusted
Etymology: By surface analysis, in- + crust.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of encrust.
Derived terms: incrustant
incrustment
nonincrusting
inculcation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inculcations
Senses: glosses: The teaching of something by using frequent repetition
Related terms: inculcate
inculpate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: inculpates
form: inculpating
form: inculpated
form: inculpated
Etymology: From Late Latin inculpo.
Senses: examples: text: “In a way that appears suspicious? That seems to inculpate me, perhaps?”
ref: 2007, Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, 4th Estate (2010), page 140:
topics: law
glosses: To imply the guilt of; to blame or incriminate.
Related terms: culpable
culpate
culprit
disculp
disculpate
exculpate
mea culpa
Joselyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, of modern usage, variant of Jocelyn.
grind one's gears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: grinds one's gears
form: grinding one's gears
form: ground one's gears
form: ground one's gears
Etymology: As an analogy to a state in a multispeed internal combustion engine in which improperly synchronized inputs and outputs in the transmission during a gear shift (as by driver error or a mechanical fault) lead to literal grinding of gears against each other as they're forced to mesh at different speeds from one another. The noise produced is harsh and grating, and damage to the transmission can accumulate with repeated occurrences.
Senses: examples: text: It really grinds my gears when inconsiderate people litter.
text: Yes it has a clickbaity title, and yes, this show will grind the gears of thousands – but it should. It will open everyone’s eyes to the segregated world of dating[.]
ref: 2017 July 17, Charlie Brinkhurst-Cuff, “Is Love Racist? The TV show laying our biases bare”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: chap someone's hide
word: get someone's goat
word: aggravate
word: annoy
word: rankle
word: ruffle
word: sting
word: antagonize
word: bother
word: disgruntle
word: botherate
word: bug
word: get
word: grate
word: burn up
word: bedevil
word: cheese off
word: devil
word: exasperate
word: frustrate
word: get up
word: grotch
word: hack off
word: hassle
word: irk
word: irritate
word: jazz
word: molest
word: mommick
word: nark
word: nerve
word: pee off
word: peeve
word: persecute
word: pique
word: piss off
word: provoke
word: rile
word: rile up
word: roil
word: storm
word: test someone's patience
word: tick off
word: trouble
word: try one's patience
word: vex
word: wind up
word: Idioms:
word: boil someone's piss
word: chap someone's hide
word: get on someone's nerves
word: get on someone's tits
word: get on someone's wick
word: get someone's back up
word: get someone's dander up
word: get someone's goat
word: get someone's Irish up
word: get someone's nanny
word: get someone's nanny-goat
word: get under one's goat
word: get under someone's skin
word: give someone the shits
word: grind one's gears
word: harsh one's mellow
word: put someone's back up
word: raise someone's hackles
word: rub someone the wrong way
word: rub up the wrong way
word: ruffle someone's feathers
word: tee off
word: torque off
glosses: To annoy or irritate one.
man on the street
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men on the street
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: layman, everyman
text: Such was the airy way with which, not an illiterate man on the street, but a brilliant woman of the world disposed of a tremendous historical fact.
ref: 1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 173:
text: "When do the Olympics begin?" a reporter from a Nagano television station asks me in a man-on-the-street interview.
ref: 2004, Steve Rushin, The Caddie Was a Reindeer: And Other Tales of Extreme Recreation, Atlantic Monthly Press,, →ISBN, page 214:
text: It is not only the man on the street who is characterized by taking one's own system of relevance for granted. This holds true for the expert,....
ref: 2005, Hisashi Nasu, “Between the Everyday Life-World and the World of Social Scientific Theory—Towards an “Adequate” Social Thory”, in Martin Endress, George Psathas, Hisashi Nasu, editors, Explorations of the Life-World: Continuing Dialogues with Alfred Schutz, Springer, →ISBN, page 136:
synonyms: man in the street
man on the Clapham omnibus
;
Joe Average
John Q. Public
glosses: An ordinary member of the general public, especially one who lacks special expertise.
Related terms: pub test
vox populi
photosite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photosites
Etymology: From photo- + site.
Senses: glosses: An individual light-sensitive element in a digital image sensor.
photosites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photosite
seafloor spreading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seafloor spreadings
form: sea-floor spreading
Senses: examples: text: However, the recognition of sea-floor spreading made sense of continental splitting without having to invoke earth expansion.
ref: 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 143:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outward movement of the seafloor from central underwater ridges as a result of plate tectonics; the major cause of continental drift.
wheelwrights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelwright
meningocele manqué
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of meningocele manque (in medicine)
West Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Friesland.
glosses: Of or pertaining to West Friesland.
raw_tags: in the Netherlands
West Frisian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: synonyms: Western Frisian
glosses: A language spoken mostly in the province of Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands; one of the Frisian languages (or language varieties).
glosses: A Dutch dialect spoken in West Friesland in the province of North Holland, historically influenced by Frisian.
raw_tags: in the Netherlands
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of West Frisian terms
narsty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of nasty.
turkey vultures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turkey vulture
indictable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈdaɪtəbəl/
Forms: form: more indictable
form: most indictable
Etymology: From indict + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Do not then charge men as too strict or precise, when they endeavour to abstain from idle thoughts and idle words, that they dare not give themselves that licence which others take, for these are indictable as well as great sins;
ref: 1658, Anthony Burgess, “A Demonstration of the Day of Judgment”, in A Treatise of Self-Judging, London: T. Underhill, page 61:
text: Stoppage of streets, by coaches standing at places of entertainment, &c. &c. are public nusances, and indictable.
ref: 1786, John Trusler, The London Adviser and Guide, London: for the author, page 132:
text: In fact, ‘insult’ is hardly the word for what even I have heard you say; let me warn you, madam, that you have sailed pretty close to the wind already in the way of indictable slander.
ref: 1902, E. W. Hornung, chapter 16, in The Shadow of the Rope, New York: Scribner, page 216:
text: The Sherlock Holmes stories […] are not all murders, and some of them do not even deal with an indictable crime.
ref: 1944, George Orwell, “Raffles and Miss Blandish”, in Dickens, Dali & Others, New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, published 1946, page 208:
glosses: Subjecting one to an indictment. (of an act)
examples: text: […] for Lords, Judges, and Justices of all sorts may, and too often do transgress the laws, as other men, and so of equals or Superiours, become subject to the justice of their associats in Commission […] being transfigured from Superiour Judges of the Law, to Inferiour Trespassers against it, Indictable by their Peers,
ref: 1653, John Jones, Lawyers Unmask’d, London: Thomas Matthewes, pages 5–6:
text: 1973, Raoul Berger, Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems, Harvard University Press, Appendix B, p. 307,
In order to sustain his argument in the impeachment of Justice Samuel Chase, Luther Martin, his leading counsel, maintained that judges were indictable for violation of their official duties.
synonyms: chargeable
glosses: Able or deserving to be indicted. (of a person)
Derived terms: indictability
indictable offence
indictably
nonindictable
unindictable
bosom friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bosom friends
form: bosomfriend
form: bosom-friend
Etymology: Compound of bosom + friend. Compare typologically Russian напе́рсник (napérsnik), akin to Proto-Slavic *pьrsь, Russian закады́чный друг (zakadýčnyj drug), akin to кады́к (kadýk)).
Senses: examples: text: I pour you the farewell wine as you set out from the capital—
Soon I shall be left behind here by my bosom-friend.
In your sail-boat of sweet cinnamon-wood
You will float again toward your own thatch door
ref: 1982, Witter Bynner, The Chinese Translations, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: A very close friend.
Synonyms: sense: very close friend
word: Synonyms: bosom buddy
word: cater-cousin
word: intimate
word: ace boon coon
AK
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Alaska: a state of the United States.
Derived terms: AKACDL
AKDT
AkLA
AKLP
AKNPS
AKPM
AKST
GPAK
AK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AKs
Senses: glosses: an AK-47, AK-74, or related assault rifle (Avtomat Kalasnikova or Kalashnikov)
examples: text: Cops got AKs, y'all only got pumps, that shit's just dumb.
ref: 2001, “That's How”, in Denaun Porter (lyrics), Marshall Bruce Mathers III and Denaun Porter (music), Devil's Night, performed by D12, New York: Shady Records:
glosses: Any assault rifle or machine gun.
Related terms: AR
panic rev
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panic revs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: In motocross, the revving of the airborne engine, if the front wheel of the bike is too low after executing a jump. The purpose is to accelerate the rotation of the rear tire, thereby raising the front end of the bike.
partage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑːtɪd͡ʒ/
ipa: /ˈpɑɹtɪd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: partages
Etymology: From Middle French partage, from partir (“to share”).
Senses: glosses: A part, portion or share.
examples: text: looke into our Royall house, where so many partages [tr. partages], so many surnames, and so many severall titles have so encumbred us, that the originall of the stocke is utterly lost.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 46, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: Division, sharing; the act of portioning out or dividing up.
topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The formerly standard practice of dividing up artifacts between archaeologists, their patrons, and the host territory.
physiologic pH
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The pH that normally prevails in the human body. It is approximately 7.4.
sensactor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sensactors
Etymology: From sensor and actuator.
Senses: glosses: A device that acts as a sensor or/and as an actuator.
mouse wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mouse wheels
Senses: examples: text: He was a mouse-wheel virtuoso, scrolling and zooming with ease.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A hard plastic or rubbery disc on a computer mouse, rotated by the user in order to scroll the display.
Synonyms: scroll wheel
bare-arse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: barearse
Etymology: From bare + arse.
Senses: glosses: With the buttocks exposed, as for a spanking or a mooning.
examples: text: So he's pounding them off and is away over the hill in sweet dreams, and Clarice tippy-toes into the bedroom as quiet as fog coming off a millpond, and she takes off her clothes and stands there bare-arse looking out the window in the moonlight.
ref: 1969, John Gould, The Jonesport Raffle, and Numerous Other Maine Veracities, Little, Brown and Company, page 25:
text: "I sleep bare-arse, Mrs. Bayram, always have, which you can come and check out any time you like."
ref: 1990, Daniel Pollock, Lair of the Fox, HarperCollins, published 1990, →ISBN, page 304:
text: "You exchanged vows bare-arse naked in front of an archangel?"
ref: 2012, Sandra Hill, Kiss of Pride, HarperCollins, published 2012, →ISBN:
glosses: Stark naked.
Synonyms: bareass
bare-bum
bare-butt
onesie-twosie
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Diminutive forms of one and two + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Why don't you prepare a whole stack of handouts in advance rather than getting out the supplies each time, onesie-twosie?
glosses: Individually or in very small groups, rather than in larger batches.
onesie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwʌn.zi/
Forms: form: onesies
Etymology: From the Gerber Childrenswear brand name Onesies. The name became generic and was reinterpreted as a plural, hence the new singular and decapitalized "onesie". Equivalent to one + -sie.
Senses: examples: text: It was once considered taboo to even suggest that new motherhood was not all sunshine onesies and rainbow mobiles, and “Baby Ruby” arrives on a welcome wave of contemporary movies exploring how the joys of child rearing can commingle with misery.
ref: 2023 February 2, Natalia Winkelman, “‘Baby Ruby’ Review: Enfant Terrible”, in The New York Times:
text: The Fever shared a video of the meeting on X (formerly known as Twitter), where an excited Clark got to hold the young baby and sign the youngster's onesie.
ref: 2024 August 16, Natasha Dye, “Caitlin Clark Signs Indiana Fever Fan's 2-Week-Old Baby: 'So Cute'”, in People:
glosses: Any of various one-piece attires
glosses: Any of various one-piece attires
A one-piece garment for an infant or small child, generally worn over a diaper.
glosses: Any of various one-piece attires
One-piece adult loungewear jumpsuit.
glosses: Any of various one-piece attires
One-piece fashionable streetwear worn mostly by teenagers.
Synonyms: sense: a one-piece baby garment
word: romper
sense: a one-piece baby garment
word: romper suit
Derived terms: onesied
Related terms: onesie-twosie
metabolic rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolic rates
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The speed of metabolism.
basal metabolic rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basal metabolic rates
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: The amount of energy expended while at rest in a neutrally temperate environment, in the post-absorptive state.
indecorous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more indecorous
form: most indecorous
Etymology: By surface analysis, in- + decorous; or, Latin indecōrus.
Senses: examples: text: Fact is that papers being locked away for 50-plus years is indecorous.
ref: 2021, Gabe Roth, quoted in: Tony Mauro, The Marble Palace Blog: Seven Years of Trying to Fix the Supreme Court, in: The National Law Journal, December 15 2021
glosses: Improper, immodest, or indecent.
Derived terms: indecorously
indecorousness
metabolic pathway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metabolic pathways
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: A series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell.
Hypernyms: topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: metabolism
topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: anabolism
topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: catabolism
Hyponyms: topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: cycle
topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: synthesis
topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: biosynthesis
topics: physiology
medicine
sciences
word: interconversion
beef to the hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: beef to the hock
Senses: glosses: fat, chubby, particularly with fat legs.
raw_tags: said of a woman
sinuose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sinuose
form: most sinuose
Senses: examples: text: Hymenium contorted sinuose anastomosing
ref: 1828, John Claudius Loudon, An Encyclopaedia of Plants:
glosses: sinuous
simple sentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple sentences
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sentence that contains one independent clause and no dependent clause.
Coordinate terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: compound sentence
topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: complex sentence
simple sentences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of simple sentence
diablotin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diablotins
Senses: glosses: The black-capped petrel, Pterodroma hasitata, of Caribbean waters.
Panchen Lama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Panchen Lamas
Etymology: Tibetan པན་ཆེན་བླ་མ (pan chen bla ma). From Sanskrit पण्डित (paṇḍita, “scholar”) + Tibetan ཆེན་པོ (chen po, “big”) + Tibetan བླ་མ (bla ma).
Senses: examples: text: Hastings sent two embassies to Tibet, those of George Bogle in 1774-5 and Samuel Turner in 1783. Both envoys went to the Panchen Lama’s residence near Shigatse (Jihkatse), but neither visited the Dalai Lama at Lhasa.
ref: 1985, Alastair Lamb, “Introduction”, in India and Tibet, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page v:
topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: Tashi Lama
glosses: The second-highest-ranking lama of the Gelug sect of Tibetan Buddhism, after the Dalai Lama.
jetted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛtɪd/
rhymes: -ɛtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jet
Transnistria
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɹænzˈnɪsˌtɹi.ə/
enpr: trănz-nĭsʹtrē'ə
Forms: form: Transdniestria
form: Trans-Dniester
Etymology: From Romanian Transnistria, from Latin trans + Romanian Nistru (“Dniester”) + Ancient Greek -ία (-ía): literally “beyond the river Dniester”. Analyzable as trans- + Romanian Nistru + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A former governorate of Romania during World War II, established in 1941 and captured by Soviet forces in 1944.
glosses: A geographic region and de-facto independent but unrecognized country in Eastern Europe that claims statehood as the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic; internationally considered an autonomous territorial unit within Moldova.
Synonyms: Pridnestrovie
Derived terms: Transnistrian
Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈveɪɡəs/
Etymology: Clipping of Las Vegas.
Senses: examples: text: I'm of two minds about Vegas. I think Vegas is strange, and I don't know where their water comes from. But as a town and a place for an entertainer, there's . . . no other place you can go to where you can just sit and do six weeks at a time and have your band and your staff be so happy.
ref: 2006 May 19, Richard Zoglin, “10 Questions for Bette Midler”, in Time:
glosses: Las Vegas, a city in Nevada, USA.
glosses: Gambling, especially sports betting.
Derived terms: Vegas Strip
what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas
Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈveɪɡəs/
/ˈveɪɡəz/
/ˈveɪɡəs/
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: plural of Vega
Las Vegas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɑs ˈveɪɡəs/
note: hyperforeign, non-US
ipa: /lɒs ˈveɪɡəs/
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish las vegas (“the fertile meadows”).
Senses: examples: text: Meronym: The Strip
text: It is projected that the ride from Los Angeles to Las Vegas on such a supertrain would take 75 minutes.
ref: 2018, Michael G. Zey, Seizing the Future: Dawn of the Macroindustrial Era:
text: “This pertains to employees in DC, NY, Las Vegas and Orlando. TFG continues to pay chefs and restaurants managers responsible for operating the community kitchens,” the company said.
ref: 2020 May 15, Parija Kavilanz, “Why this chef keeps showing up at disaster zones”, in CNN:
synonyms: Vegas
Sin City
glosses: A desert city, the county seat of Clark County, Nevada, United States, known for its large hotels, extravagant entertainment and dining, and gambling.
glosses: A city, the county seat of San Miguel County, New Mexico, United States.
Derived terms: Brisvegas
Las Vegan
Las Vegas rule
Vegas rule
what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas
pistillation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin pistillum + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: [They] are so far from breaking hammers, that they submit unto pistillation, and resist not an ordinary pestle.
ref: 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Book II, ch. 5:
glosses: The action of pounding with a pestle.
greys
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of grey
greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: glosses: plural of grey
greys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪz
Senses: examples: text: There was a clatter at the back of the gallery, a sharp word from a warder, and the men marched in in their prison greys, jackets too large, trousers too small.
ref: 1955, The Bedside "Guardian", page 40:
text: 'No one told me that I had to be dressed in Greys not Blues! When I appeared before the BOV I was told that I could not go in and see them because I was improperly dressed.'
ref: Quoted in 1982, Geoff Coggan, Martin J. Walker, Frightened for My Life: An Account of Deaths in British Prisons (page 110)
text: “Drop your trousers!” I loosened the clasp on my prison greys and my trouser dropped to my ankles.
ref: 2013, Constantine Buller, Operation Dolby, page 266:
glosses: Grey trousers and/or jackets worn by prisoners on relatively formal occasions.
undergraduates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undergraduate
Japetus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Iapetus.
Derived terms: Japetian
dance-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dance-offs
Etymology: From dance + -off.
Senses: glosses: An informal dance competition between two or more dancers.
Tijuana
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɪˈ(h)wɑːnə/
ipa: /tiˈ(h)wɑnə/
ipa: /tiəˈ(h)wɑnə/
rhymes: -ɑːnə
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Tijuana, possibly from Kumeyaay Tiwan (literally “by-the-sea”).
Senses: examples: text: You're a drug addict lying on your back / In a Tijuana hotel room
ref: 2016, “Jesus Alone”, in Skeleton Tree, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
synonyms: word: TJ
alt: abbreviation
glosses: The largest city in Baja California, Mexico, by the American border with San Diego.
Derived terms: San Diego-Tijuana
Tijuana Bible
Tijuanan
prolificness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prolific + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being prolific.
Jilly
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutives with -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Jill and Jillian.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Julia.
silly billy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silly billies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Silly Billy.
Touretter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Touretters
Etymology: From Tourettes + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Less frequently, Touretters may also perform obscene actions suchas making sexual gestures (copropraxia) or writing obscene material (coprographia) (Freeman et al., 2009).
ref: 2012, Nick Haslam, Psychology in the Bathroom:
text: Touretters also occasionally suffer from copropraxia, which involves obscene gestures such as giving the finger or crotch grabbing, and coprographia, the urge to make obscene drawings.
ref: 2013, Melissa Mohr, Holy Sh*t: A Brief History of Swearing:
glosses: A person who has Tourette syndrome.
drinkless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English drinkeles, drynkeles, equivalent to drink + -less.
Senses: examples: text: In 1938-1939, while I may have been no better off in time than in 1954, I should at least have had the use of a Pullman car in which to obtain a meal, instead of having to spend over 2½ hr. on a foodless and drinkless journey of no more than 77½ miles.
ref: 1954 December, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, pages 853-854:
glosses: Without a drink, without drinks.
Derived terms: drinklessness
Pahari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈhɑːɹi/
Forms: form: Paharis
form: Pahari
form: Paharee
Etymology: From Hindi पहाड़ी (pahāṛī).
Senses: glosses: In South Asia, someone from the hills or mountains, a hillman; specifically a member of any of various peoples living in the Himalayan regions of India and Nepal.
Pahari
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /pəˈhɑːɹi/
Etymology: From Hindi पहाड़ी (pahāṛī).
Senses: glosses: Any of various Indo-European languages spoken by the Paharis, including Nepali; this group of languages or dialects considered as a whole.
Pahari
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pəˈhɑːɹi/
Etymology: From Hindi पहाड़ी (pahāṛī).
Senses: examples: 1899: The Kotgarh Chaplain christened her Elizabeth, and ‘Lispeth’ is the Hill or pahari pronunciation. — Rudyard Kipling, ‘Lispeth’, Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 7)
glosses: Pertaining to the Paharis or a Pahari language.
go off at score
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes off at score
form: going off at score
form: went off at score
form: gone off at score
Senses: glosses: To break suddenly into a gallop.
raw_tags: of a horse
examples: text: Bremmil went off at score after the baby's death and the general discomfort that followed, and Mrs Hauksbee annexed him. She took no pleasure in hiding her captives.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Three and-an Extra”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 12:
glosses: To suddenly say or do something impetuous.
ekka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛkə/
Forms: form: ekkas
form: ecka
form: ekha
Etymology: From Hindi एक्का (ekkā).
Senses: examples: text: He said that he was ‘going to shoot big game’, and left at half-past ten o'clock in an ekka.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Thrown Away”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Folio Society, published 2005, page 19:
text: Throughout India the ekka is the ordinary vehicle in which the natives travel, and until recent times was the only one available to Europeans.
ref: 2007, J.A. Hammerton, Peoples of All Nations: Their Life Today and Story of Their Past (in 14 Volumes), page 2779:
glosses: A small vehicle used in India, pulled by a single horse.
Eostre
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ēostre
Etymology: A learned borrowing from Old English Ēostre, the Northumbrian variant of West Saxon Ēastre (“a word referring to "the rising dawn" to indicate the season of Spring”) and ēastre (“Easter”), from Proto-West Germanic *austrā, from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ (“Easter, springtime”). Doublet of Easter.
Senses: examples: text: There were also Nature deities, Hrede, the personification of the brightness of Summer, and Eostra, the radiant creature of the Dawn. It will be remembered that it was the worship, not of Balder, but of Eostra, which the Christian missionaries found so deeply imbedded that they adopted her name and transferred it to Easter.
ref: 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals, London: Longmans, Green and Co., page 3:
glosses: A hypothesised West Germanic goddess, supposedly of the spring season, but of uncertain provenance.
topics: lifestyle
paganism
religion
glosses: A neopagan festival celebrated either in March or April to welcome the Spring, also called Ostara or Easter.
ashames
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ashame
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃən ˈsɒvi.ət ˈfɛd(ə)ɹətɪv ˈsəʊʃəlɪst ɹɪˈpʌblɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹʌʃən ˈsoʊvjət ˈfɛdɚˌɹeɪtɪv ˈsoʊʃəlɪst ɹəˈpʌblɪk/
ipa: /ˈɹɐʃən ˈsɐʉviːət fedəɹətɪv ˈsɐʉʃəɫɪst ɹəˈpɐbɫɪk/
Forms: form: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
form: Russian SFSR
form: RSFSR
Senses: glosses: The official name for modern-day Russia under the Communist Party from 1936 to 1991 (from 1918 to 1937, according to the Constitution of the RSFSR, called the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic). Part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991.
pairs of compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pair of compasses
compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compass
compasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of compass
gumbo limbos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gumbo limbo
sakkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sakkoses
form: sakkoi
form: saccos
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek σάκκος (sákkos). Doublet of sac, saccus, sack, and saco.
Senses: examples: text: When in 1411 Emperor John VIII Palaeologos married a daughter of Vasilii II, Grand Prince of Muscovy, he sent Moscow a splendid specimen of the liturgical vestment known as a sakkos as a gift for Metropolitan Photios.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 515:
qualifier: Eastern Orthodoxy
glosses: A richly decorated vestment worn by Orthodox bishops, instead of a priest's phelonion (chasuble in western church).
Coordinate terms: alb
epigonation
epimanikion
epitrachelion
maniple
omophorion
rhason
sticharion
zone
nerve fibres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve fibre
nerve fiber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve fibers
form: nerve fibre
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: An axon.
nerve fibers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nerve fiber
batchelor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batchelors
Senses: examples: text: […] could Richard have anticipated that his elder brother, Sir Everard, taking to heart an early disappointment, would have remained a batchelor at seventy-two.
ref: 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic spelling of bachelor.
revalidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: revalidations
Etymology: From re- + validation.
Senses: glosses: The act of revalidating
bearded mussel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bearded mussels
Senses: glosses: A coastal mussel of Britain, Modiolus barbatus.
Synonyms: sense: Modiolus barbatus
word: horse mussel
sense: Modiolus barbatus
word: bearded horse mussel
Related terms: bearded clam
Mossie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mozzie
Etymology: Diminutive of Maurice + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Maurice.
Mossie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mossies
form: Mozzie
Etymology: Form of mossie (“diminutive of mosquito”).
Senses: examples: text: He leaned into the electric gunsight, aiming the Mossie at the left wingroot between engine and fuselage, where he knew there were fuel tanks — his right thumb mashed the control-column firing button.
ref: 1983, John Kelly, The Wooden Wolf, page 142:
text: The Mossies were still able to land before the bombers were over the Channel.
ref: 1993, Air League of the British Empire, Air Pictorial: Journal of the Air League, volume 55, page 8:
text: Almost 8,000 Mossies were built in Great Britain, Canada and Australia.
ref: 2003, Harold A. Skaarup, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Warbird Survivors 2003: A Handbook on Where to Find Them, page 97:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A de Havilland Mosquito.
periostracum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: periostraca
Etymology: Literally "surrounding shell", from peri- + ostracum.
Senses: topics: biology
malacology
natural-sciences
glosses: The proteinaceous outer sheath of many molluscan shells.
Derived terms: periostracal
revalidate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: revalidates
form: revalidating
form: revalidated
form: revalidated
Etymology: From re- + validate.
Senses: glosses: To validate again.
Related terms: reval
revalidation
manqués
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑnˈkeɪ/
Senses: examples: text: Party functionaries at all levels are essentially dilettantes who may have diplomas or study certificates but not real competence. Basically, they are educational failures: engineers manqués, journalists manqués, scientists manqués.
ref: 1991, Ilya Zemtsov, Encyclopedia of Soviet Life, page 221:
text: None of these papers had much chance of getting past a journal referee. Few of the writers had much hope of even getting into graduate school. They may not have wanted to. The letters were mostly a cri de cœur from isolated and solitary physicists manqués all over the world.
ref: 2004, Emanuel Derman, My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance, page 14:
text: The classics master is a quick literary shortcut to encapsulating a lonely, highly intelligent man dedicated to his subject, and often to his pupils. They are never in fiction — and rarely in real life — female. They are often dons manqués — men who, due to a personality fault, or an unfortunate incident with a boy, never made it as academics. And so they become, life Dr Rutherford, substitute dons at school, keen on building up one-to-one relationships with the pupils and dismissive of their contemporaries in the school common-room.
ref: 2006, Harry Mount, Amo, Amas, Amat... and all that: How to become a Latin lover (ISBN: 1–904977–54–5, 978–1–904977–54–4), chapter 6: To all the Sirs I’ve loved Before — Latin teachers I have known, page 97
glosses: plural of manqué
good Lord
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: Good Lord! You should really clean out that fridge!
text: R. Jeeves: In my experience, ladies who spell Gladys with a W are seldom noted for their reliability, sir. It gives them romantic notions.
B.W. Wooster: With a W, Jeeves? No, no, no, no. You spell it with a G.
R. Jeeves: If I might draw your attention to the signature on the portrait, sir.
B.W. Wooster: Good Lord! G-W?
R. Jeeves: I blame Alfred Lord Tennyson and his Idylls of the King. It also accounts for Kathryn, Ysabel, and Ethyl, all spelt with a Y, but Gwladys is a particularly virulent form, sir.
ref: 1993 May 16, “Return to New York”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
glosses: An exclamation of amazement or disapproval.
Synonyms: wow
ready-made
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ready-mades
form: readymade
Etymology: From Middle English redye made, equivalent to ready + made.
Senses: glosses: A ready-made object.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Synonym of found object.
synonyms: word: found object
reaffirmation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reaffirmations
Etymology: From re- + affirmation.
Senses: examples: text: We mark solstices and equinoxes by festivals rooted in myths. It doesn't matter which myths. What matters is that certain days are elevated out of the ordinary for special commemoration, celebration, participation, and the reaffirmation of our pledges of affection and devotion to ourselves, our friends, our families and our best beloved.
ref: 1980 December 20, Nancy Walker, “Happy Holidays”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 16:
glosses: An act of reaffirming; a second or subsequent affirmation.
real-life
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more real-life
form: most real-life
Senses: examples: text: He was a real-life detective before playing one in the movies.
text: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
ref: 2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
text: In addition, as far as we were aware, there were no published data that quantified real-life speech practices in Singapore beyond census reportage, but we had no reason to conclude a priori that the distribution of languages spoken at NIE would match census data.
ref: 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 7:
text: “How to hide, survive and use the urban environment as a sanctuary was a challenge but the soldiers adapted to the real-life challenges,” ETG Commander Col. Toby Till explained.
ref: 2023 October 26, Rojoef Manuel, “British Army Trials Situational Awareness Technologies in Urban Warfare Training”, in The Defense Post, archived from the original on 17 Jul 2024:
glosses: As happens in real life; not fictional or theoretical; actual as opposed to believed or assumed.
reallocation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reallocations
Etymology: From re- + allocation.
Senses: examples: text: Since the war there has been a reallocation of output from pitheads in the North Staffordshire coalfield, resulting in a flow of coal northwards; [...].
ref: 1962 September, “Remodelling of Basford Hall Yard, Crewe”, in Modern Railways, page 189:
glosses: The act of reallocating; a second or subsequent allocation.
Derived terms: gender reallocation surgery
reanimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: reanimations
form: re-animation
Etymology: From re- + animation.
Senses: glosses: The act of reanimating; a second or subsequent animation.
reapplication
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reapplications
Etymology: From re- + application.
Senses: glosses: The act of reapplying; a second or subsequent application.