cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
performing arts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: performing art
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: The arts involving performance, such as dance, theatre, music, etc.
Derived terms: performing artist
perinatology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek περί (perí, “around or about”) + Latin natus + -ology.
Senses: glosses: A branch of obstetrics focusing on the medical and surgical management of high-risk pregnancies.
Related terms: perinatologic
perinatological
perinatologist
Persepolis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛpəlɪs/
ipa: /pɜːˈsɛpəlɪs/
ipa: /pɚˈsɛpəlɪs/
Etymology: From Latin Persepolis, from Ancient Greek Περσέπολις (Persépolis), from Πέρσης (Pérsēs, “Persian”) + πόλις (pólis, “city”), from Old Persian 𐎱𐎠𐎼𐎿 (Pārsa, “Persis, Persia, a Persian, Persepolis”) although ancient Greek writers relate a folk etymology that derived the city, country, and people's name from Ancient Greek πέρθειν (pérthein, “to sack, to kill”).
Senses: glosses: The ceremonial capital city of Achaemenid Persia; its ruins in the present day.
Synonyms: word: Chilminar
word: Chelminar
word: Tchelminar
Derived terms: Persepolitan
Nkinora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in the Tiankoura department of Bougouriba province in south-western Burkina Faso.
Tarica
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A district in Huaraz, Peru.
picturegoer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturegoers
Etymology: From picture + goer.
Senses: glosses: Someone who watches a film at a cinema; filmgoer
pigswill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pig + swill.
Senses: examples: text: He came down the slope towards the church at speed, holding his breath against the smell of warmed pigswill from the sty.
ref: 2022, Ian McEwan, Lessons, page 179:
synonyms: hogwash
pigwash
glosses: swill: slops fed to pigs
examples: text: ‘With respect, Professor . . .’
‘Pigswill! You don’t respect me. You fear me, are irritated by me, envy me . . . you everything me, but you do not respect me.[…]’
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 36:
synonyms: hogwash
glosses: nonsense, rubbish
picturegoers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picturegoer
Yehuda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יְהוּדָה (yehudá). Doublet of Judah and Judas.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
PEGylating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pegylating
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of PEGylate
unprophesied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + prophesied.
Senses: glosses: Not prophesied; unforetold.
Yitzchak
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hebrew יִצְחָק
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
box and whiskers plot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: box and whiskers plots
form: box and whisker plot
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A graphical summary of a numerical data sample through five statistics — median, upper quartile, lower quartile, and upper extreme and lower extreme values — by depiction as a box with its edges at the quartile marks and an internal line at the median and with lines protruding from the box as far as the extremal values.
Synonyms: box and whisker diagram
box plot
boxplot
cong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tsɔŋ/
rhymes: -ɒŋ
Forms: form: congs
form: cong
Etymology: From Mandarin 琮 (cóng).
Senses: glosses: A type of carved jade tube made in China starting in the Neolithic.
diatomaceous earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A light soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains and often used as a filtering material or microabrasive.
Synonyms: diatomite
kieselguhr
Hypernyms: sense: hydrated silica (mineral component of siliceous soil)
word: soil consisting of siliceous diatom remains
pretextuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretextualities
Etymology: From pretextual + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pretextual.
driving van trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of driving van trailer
draughtboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draughtboards
form: draughtsboard
Etymology: From draught + board.
Senses: glosses: A checkerboard on which draughts is played, resembling a chessboard but (depending on the game variation) often having a side length of ten squares rather than eight.
Related terms: draft board
draughtboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of draughtboard
keys to the kingdom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: keys of the kingdom
Etymology: Originating from the concept of resources that were the means of obtaining control over an actual kingdom, i.e., a realm under the rulership of a king. Compare also King James Bible Matthew 16:19, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
Senses: examples: text: This fortress, from its strong position, was considered as one of the keys to the kingdom, and had belonged to the Earl of March, a disappointed candidate for the crown, who had now attached himself to the banner of England.
ref: 1830, John Donald Carrick, Life of Sir William Wallace of Elderslie, page 112:
text: The passwords they control are the keys to the kingdom, so what protections should be taken?
ref: 2002 April 8, InfoWorld, volume 24, number 14, page 28:
text: Not many people bother to learn them these days. Everything is so rushed, so many demands on a senator's time. But these rules unlock the power of the Senate. They're the keys to the kingdom.
ref: 2008, Barack Obama (quoting Senator Robert Byrd), The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, page 119
glosses: A resource, usually information or knowledge, the possession of which gives the possessor access to power.
anal bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anal beads
Senses: glosses: Any of the individual small balls making up a form of sex toy. The balls are attached together in series so as to be continuously inserted through the anus into the rectum and then removed with varying speeds depending on the effect desired (most typically at orgasm to enhance climax).
Related terms: anal beads
synthetic lethality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthetic lethalities
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of genetic interaction in which two (or more) mutations which are not lethal when occurring singly in a cell are lethal when they occur together in the same cell.
schout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schouts
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch schout.
Senses: glosses: A municipal officer in the North American Dutch colonies.
linking verbs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of linking verb
wattle-and-daub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of wattle and daub.
use one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses one's head
form: using one's head
form: used one's head
form: used one's head
Senses: examples: text: He never—so they agreed—uses his head. He never—I think I have their phrase correct—stops to think.
ref: 1918, Stephen Leacock, “Back from the Land”, in Frenzied Fiction:
text: When a girl falls in love, after first using her head to find a suitable mate to fall in love with, it is such a wonderful feeling.
ref: 1957 March 13, Joyce Jackson, “Guide to Dating”, in Toledo Blade, page 35:
text: Bound by that commitment, he used his head, channeling his rage into a determination to bring the killers to justice.
ref: 2007 January 23, Chris Thornton, “A Belfast Father's Vindication”, in Time:
glosses: To think carefully, especially as an alternative to being guided by one's emotions.
glosses: To headbutt.
Synonyms: use one's noggin
use one's noggin
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uses one's noggin
form: using one's noggin
form: used one's noggin
form: used one's noggin
Senses: examples: text: The investor is advised to use his noggin considerably when investigating different superannuation programs.
ref: 1984 August 8, “Money: Small Business”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia:
glosses: To think, especially in a careful or clever manner.
Synonyms: use one's head
square centimetres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square centimetre
asylee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əsaɪˈli/
Forms: form: asylees
Etymology: From asylum + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, we must insure adequate legal authority to establish control over immigration: to enable us, when sudden influxes of foreigners occur, to decide to whom we grant the status of refugee or asylee; to improve our border control; […]
ref: 1981 July 31, UPI, “REAGAN'S STATEMENT ON IMMIGRATION”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14 May 2022:
text: "It is quite a novel technique to teach a lesson to any would-be asylees, and also to send a message to the foreign missions."
ref: 1990 July 25, Howard W. French, “ASYLUM-SEEKERS STRAIN CUBA'S TIES”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2024:
text: EMM brings in LGBTQ refugees and asylees in a special federal refugee program started during the Obama administration called “Preferred Communities.”
ref: 2025 January 31, Don Barnett, “Episcopal bishop lectures Trump while earning taxpayer millions to bring migrants into US”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 01 Feb 2025:
glosses: A non-citizen of a country who has been granted asylum in that country.
Related terms: asylum seeker
squad automatic weapons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squad automatic weapon
pikeperch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pikeperches
form: pikeperch
Etymology: From pike + perch.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pike-perch.
Derived terms: Volga pikeperch
mainframelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mainframelike
form: most mainframelike
Etymology: From mainframe + -like.
Senses: examples: text: These systems typically come with multiple high-speed processors and redundant subsystems, offer data storage in the hundreds-of-gigabytes range, and use mainframelike restoral and security techniques.
ref: 2002, Nathan J. Muller, Network manager's handbook, page 179:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a mainframe computer.
flaglike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more flaglike
form: most flaglike
Etymology: From flag + -like.
Senses: examples: text: On a single bush of Warai-gishi one usually can find some few normal single flowers, flowers with flaglike appendages to the otherwise normal anthers, petaloid filaments with traces of anther left, and completely transformed stamens.
ref: 1954 January, FJ HERMANN, A Synopsis of the Genus Arachis (Agriculture Monograph; No. 19), United States Department of Agriculture, page 15:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a flag (cloth emblem).
pilled-up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pilled-up
form: most pilled-up
form: pilled up
Senses: examples: text: The truth is, Johnny wrote that song, while pilled up and drunk, about a certain private female body part.
ref: 2007, Vivian Cash, I Walked the Line: My Life with Johnny, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 294:
text: People are amazed I didn’t say anything to Elvis but what would I have said? ‘Hey, you’re as pilled up as me’?”
ref: 2024 March 4, Garth Cartwright, “‘Elvis was as pilled up as me!’ Dan Penn on writing hits for Aretha, Otis, Dolly and more”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
synonyms: pilled
glosses: Intoxicated on pills.
drapelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more drapelike
form: most drapelike
Etymology: From drape + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a drape or curtain.
pillow talk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Hal's not gonna know. You know, unless you tell him, you know during pillow talk or something. You know, you guys probably don't have pillow talk, he probably has sex with you while he's on the cellular phone.
ref: 2002, Woody Allen, Hollywood Ending (motion picture), spoken by Val (Woody Allen):
text: I was drinkin' coffee / Smokin' weed on the jet / Probably wit' your wifey / In the back for pillow talk
ref: 2015, “Living Right”, in Free Weezy Album, performed by Lil Wayne:
glosses: Conversation shared by bedmates, particularly intimate conversation after or before sexual intercourse.
pikkie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
homophone: piccy
homophone: picky
Forms: form: pikkies
Senses: glosses: child, infant
piccy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪki/
rhymes: -ɪki
homophone: pikkie
homophone: picky
Forms: form: piccies
Etymology: From pic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: […] the first player views the action from immediately behind his car through the letterbox-shaped slot at the top, while player two uses the bottom half of the screen. (When there's only one player the bottom half gets filled up by a nice big piccy of the car.)
ref: 1991, Matt Bielby, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge (video game review) in Your Sinclair issue 61, January 1991
glosses: picture
Synonyms: word: pic
pineland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pinelands
Etymology: From pine + land.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: pinewood
hypernyms: woodland
;
land#Noun
;
area
locale
region
coordinate_terms: scrubland
heathland
moorland
bush
glosses: A forested area with an abundance of pine trees.
pisciculture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪsɪˌkʌlt͡ʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: piscicultures
Etymology: From pisci- + culture.
Senses: synonyms: fish farming
fishculture
glosses: The rearing or cultivation of fish.
Hypernyms: aquaculture
Derived terms: piscicultural
pisciculturist
piss about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses about
form: pissing about
form: pissed about
form: pissed about
Senses: glosses: To joke or play.
glosses: To misbehave; to act foolishly.
Synonyms: fuck about
fuck around
mess about
mess around
piss around
piss around
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses around
form: pissing around
form: pissed around
form: pissed around
Senses: glosses: Synonym of piss about.
synonyms: word: piss about
Pitcairn Island
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The main island of Pitcairn
pizza wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pizza wheels
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pizza cutter (knife)
synonyms: word: pizza cutter
extra: knife
Related terms: pizza stone
pizza oven
pizza pan
placement test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: placement tests
Senses: glosses: A test done before a course, to determine the students' level of ability or knowledge.
pladdy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ædi
Forms: form: pladdies
Senses: glosses: an islet or bank in the middle of a channel.
plankter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplæŋ(k)tə/
ipa: /ˈplæŋ(k)təɹ/
Forms: form: plankters
Etymology: Borrowed from German Plankter, from Koine Greek πλαγκτήρ (planktḗr, “wanderer; one who leads another astray, beguiler”), modelled after German Plankton (“plankton”). Πλαγκτήρ (Planktḗr) is derived from Ancient Greek πλᾰ́ζεσθαι (plắzesthai) (the mediopassive of πλᾰ́ζω (plắzō, “to turn away from (something); to roam, wander”)) + -τήρ (-tḗr, suffix forming masculine agent nouns from verbs).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: plankton
glosses: A single organism of plankton.
Derived terms: phytoplankter
zooplankter
plank spanker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plank spankers
Senses: glosses: guitarist; someone who plays the guitar
acoustic guitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acoustic guitarists
Senses: glosses: someone who plays, or performs on, the acoustic guitar
bass guitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bass guitarists
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays, or performs on, the bass guitar.
Synonyms: bassist
electric guitarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric guitarists
Etymology: From electric guitar + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plays, or performs on, the electric guitar.
plastic surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plastic surgeons
Senses: glosses: A surgeon who performs plastic surgery.
plat du jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌplɑː duː ˈʒʊə/
ipa: /ˌplɑ də ˈʒʊɹ/
ipa: /ˌplɑ du ˈʒʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: plats du jour
Etymology: Borrowed from French plat du jour (literally “dish of the day”). See du jour.
Senses: glosses: the special dish for the day in a restaurant.
plater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: platers
Etymology: From plate + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who plates metal.
glosses: Someone who installs sheet metal and armour plating, particularly on trains, ships, tanks, and similar items.
glosses: A machine for calendering paper.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A device for depositing cells on a plate.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: A horse that runs chiefly in selling plates; hence, an inferior racehorse.
Related terms: electroplater
L-plater
P-plater
selling-plater
tin-plater
vanpooling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vanpool
vanpooled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vanpool
rideshare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rideshares
Etymology: From ride + share.
Senses: examples: text: The neighbors decided on a rideshare to get their kids to school, so that they wouldn't each have to drive every day.
glosses: A ridesharing arrangement in which people travel together.
examples: text: He took an Uber rideshare to the other side of town.
ref: 2022 November 9, S.L. Ditmars, Big Dogs, WildBlue Press, →ISBN:
text: Like a sleepwalker, he got into the rideshare and sat in the back seat, his arms folded around the envelope.
ref: 2024 September 24, Carol Ericson, What Lies Below, Harlequin, →ISBN:
glosses: A taxi or minicab hired through a ridesharing app.
rideshare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rideshares
form: ridesharing
form: rideshared
form: rideshared
Etymology: From ride + share.
Senses: glosses: To participate in ridesharing.
glosses: To work or gig as a rideshare driver.
rideshares
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rideshare
rideshares
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rideshare
cardstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardstocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of card stock.
coverstock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coverstocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cover stock.
cardstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardstock
coverstocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coverstock
card stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: card stocks
form: cardstock
Senses: glosses: A paper stock that is thicker and more durable than normal writing or printing paper, but thinner and more flexible than other forms of paperboard, used for postcards, playing cards, etc.
Synonyms: cover stock
pasteboard
playschool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: playschools
Etymology: From play + school.
Senses: glosses: a nursery school, kindergarten
cover stock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cover stocks
form: coverstock
Senses: glosses: card stock
weird-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more weird-ass
form: most weird-ass
Etymology: From weird + -ass.
Senses: examples: text: And my older brother, he gave me the acronym Weird-Ass Kiddo because, you know, I was a weird-ass kid.
ref: 2009, Joseph G. Schloss, quoting Waaak, Foundation: B-boys, B-girls and Hip-Hop Culture in New York, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Very strange.
strange-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more strange-ass
form: most strange-ass
Etymology: From strange + -ass.
Senses: glosses: very strange
crazy-ass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more crazy-ass
form: most crazy-ass
Etymology: From crazy + -ass.
Senses: glosses: Very crazy.
playschools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of playschool
ridesharer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridesharers
Etymology: From ride + sharer.
Senses: glosses: One who takes part in ridesharing.
ridesharers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridesharer
pledgee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgees
Etymology: From pledge + -ee.
Senses: glosses: someone who receives a pledge
pledger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛdʒə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pledgers
Etymology: From pledge + -er.
Senses: glosses: someone who gives a pledge
Related terms: pledgee
pledgor
pledgees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgee
pledgers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledger
pledgor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pledgors
Etymology: From pledge + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pledger.
topics: law
glosses: One who engages in or makes a pledge to a pledgee.
plonko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plonkos
Etymology: From plonk + -o. See also wino.
Senses: examples: text: Then there's the mob of plonkos who sleep down at the dockside, less than 700 yards from the city's Town Hall.
ref: 1978, Bill Mollison, Coral Everitt, The Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants:
glosses: someone addicted to cheap wine.
Synonyms: boozehound
wino
pledgors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pledgor
plowman's lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowman's lunches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ploughman's lunch.
plum tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plum tomatoes
Etymology: From its resemblance to a plum.
Senses: synonyms: plum tom
hypernyms: tomato
coordinate_terms: cherry tomato
grape tomato
glosses: A type of large tomato.
cherry tomato
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherry tomatoes
Etymology: From its resemblance to a cherry.
Senses: synonyms: cherry tom
hypernyms: tomato
coordinate_terms: plum tomato
grape tomato
glosses: A type of small tomato, the cultivar Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme.
plum tomatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plum tomato
plonkos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plonko
plow on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plows on
form: plowing on
form: plowed on
form: plowed on
Senses: examples: text: If you want to get good grades in the exam, you have to plow on with the book.
glosses: To continue with a menial, tedious, or time-consuming task.
pneumectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛktəmi
Forms: form: pneumectomies
Etymology: From pneum- + -ectomy.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pneumonectomy.
synonyms: word: pneumonectomy
pile on the pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: piles on the pounds
form: piling on the pounds
form: piled on the pounds
form: piled on the pounds
Senses: examples: text: The line is single track as far as Halesworth, but many of the stations retain their original buildings - including refurbished Beccles, which boasts a station cafe and community rooms. The same is true of Wickham Market and Woodbridge stations. You could easily pile on the pounds with a 'cafe crawl' along this line!
ref: 2020 November 18, Paul Bigland, “New infrastructure and new rolling stock”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: Of a person: to gain weight quickly.
let oneself go
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lets oneself go
form: letting oneself go
form: let oneself go
form: let oneself go
Senses: examples: text: Natara lets herself go with a cup of coffee after she helps close the café.
glosses: To relax and enjoy oneself without restraint.
examples: text: Cherrie fell down the tree of ugly and hit branches galore upon letting herself go.
glosses: To cease to care about one's appearance, allowing oneself to become unkempt, overweight, etc.
Related terms: glow-down
pocket-sized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: pocketable
glosses: Small enough to fit into a pocket.
glosses: Small-scale, downsized.
pneumectomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pneumectomy
polish up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polishes up
form: polishing up
form: polished up
form: polished up
Senses: glosses: To polish something to make it shiny.
synonyms: polish up on
glosses: To hone (one's skills).
catproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catproof
form: most catproof
form: cat-proof
Etymology: From cat + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage caused by domestic cats.
catproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catproofs
form: catproofing
form: catproofed
form: catproofed
form: cat-proof
Etymology: From cat + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to damage caused by domestic cats.
dogproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dogproof
form: most dogproof
form: dog-proof
Etymology: From dog + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage caused by dogs.
dogproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dogproofs
form: dogproofing
form: dogproofed
form: dogproofed
form: dog-proof
Etymology: From dog + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to damage caused by dogs.
mouseproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mouseproof
form: most mouseproof
Etymology: From mouse + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage caused by mice.
ratproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ratproof
form: most ratproof
Etymology: From rat + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to damage caused by rats.
pollen count
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pollen counts
Senses: glosses: the measurement of the number of grains of pollen in a cubic meter of air
unwinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unwinking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Certainly Miss Mann had a formidable eye for one of the softer sex: it was prominent, and showed a great deal of the white, and looked as steadily, as unwinkingly, at you as if it were a steel ball soldered in her head; […]
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 261:
text: But Miss Marley had dispensed with the inspirations of reverie, and now composed herself for some rational conversation with Jasper, who sat very erect, with his black beads of eyes fixed unwinkingly on Miss Marley.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 128:
text: As we sped effortlessly along at a steady 75-80 m.p.h., with the three vertical lights of a clear aspect shining unwinkingly on the ground glass of the cab signal, our engineer lolled back in his chair and leisurely lit a huge cigar; [...].
ref: 1961 June, J. Geoffrey Todd, “Impressions of railroading in the United States”, in Trains Illustrated, page 357:
glosses: Without winking; with one's full attention.
deindividuation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + individuation, first described in 1952 by Leon Festinger and colleagues.
Senses: examples: text: Digital media allow almost unlimited opportunity for wilful deindividuation. They almost require it. The implications of those liberties, of the ubiquity of anonymity and the language of the crowd, are only beginning to be felt.
ref: 2011 July 23, Tim Adams, “How the internet created an age of rage”, in The Observer:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: The situation where antinormative behaviour is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals; immersion in a group to the point at which the individual ceases to be seen as such.
wikipedia: Leon Festinger
Related terms: deindividuate
pollenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pollenlike
form: most pollenlike
Etymology: From pollen + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The cake was finished with a fine, pollenlike dusting of icing.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of pollen.
up someone's street
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: This new album should be just up your street.
synonyms: up someone's alley
glosses: Perfectly suitable to someone; matching someone's interests and abilities.
Related terms: up someone's strasse
ECMA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Acronym of European Castor and wheel Manufacturer’s Association.
examples: text: ECMA-262 is managed and evolved by Ecma’s Technical Committee 39 ([…]) (TC39).
ref: 2014, Axel Rauschmayer, “Standardization: ECMAScript”, in Speaking JavaScript: An In-Depth Guide for Programmers, Sebastopol, Calif.: O’Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 45:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Ecma (“Ecma International”).
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: Acronym of European Carton Makers Association.
topics: media
glosses: Acronym of Engineering College Magazines Associated.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Acronym of East Coast Music Association.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Acronym of East Coast Music Awards.
Derived terms: ECMAScript
ES
typeahead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From type + ahead.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A feature of computer software (and some typewriters) that enables the user to continue typing regardless of program or computer operation, the keystrokes being queued as necessary when the system is busy.
blueberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbluːbɹi.ɪŋ/
note: Us
ipa: /ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From blueberry + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The best barrens for blueberrying lay across the harbor.
ref: 1908, Henry James Smith, Amédée's Son, Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1908, page 91:
text: Most joyously recalled is the blueberrying — a pleasure I had not had since my youthful days. Huge ones they, hanging thick and easy; that night when I shut my eyes I saw blueberries, a dense pattern, like wallpaper.
ref: 1935, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography, University of Wisconsin Press, published 1991, →ISBN, page 231:
text: No work except for blueberrying in August, crab picking occasionally, and making pine wreaths in December.
ref: 2008, Carrie Jones, Love (And Other Uses for Duct Tape), Flux, published 2008, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: The act of gathering blueberries.
Related terms: bilberrying
blackberrying
raspberrying
strawberrying
blueberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːbəɹi.ɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈbluːbɹi.ɪŋ/
note: Us
ipa: /ˈbluˌbɛɹi.ɪŋ/
Etymology: From blueberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blueberry
cranberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cranberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The gathering of cranberries.
gooseberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gooseberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The act of gathering of gooseberries.
gooseberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From gooseberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gooseberry
Related terms: bilberrying
blackberrying
raspberrying
blueberrying
strawberrying
goosegogging
euphausiid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphausiids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any member of the taxonomic order Euphausiacea of krill.
euphausiids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphausiid
chessboardlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more chessboardlike
form: most chessboardlike
Etymology: From chessboard + -like.
Senses: examples: text: A large chessboardlike aquarium was made, which contained 25 separate compartments 15 × 15 × 15 cm in size.
ref: 1993, Paul Patrick Gordon Bateson, Peter H Klopfer, Nicholas S Thompson, Behavior and evolution:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a chessboard.
prawnlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prawnlike
form: most prawnlike
Etymology: From prawn + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a prawn.
Synonyms: prawny
gooseberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gooseberrylike
form: most gooseberrylike
Etymology: From gooseberry + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There are gooseberrylike comb jellies, armed with grasping tentacles, and there are the shrimplike euphausiids that strain food from the water with their bristly appendages.
ref: 2003, Rachel Carson, The sea around us:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a gooseberry.
bilberrying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bilberry + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The gathering of bilberries.
Related terms: blackberrying
blueberrying
raspberrying
strawberrying
blueberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blueberrylike
form: most blueberrylike
Etymology: From blueberry + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blueberry.
appendagelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appendagelike
form: most appendagelike
Etymology: From appendage + -like.
Senses: examples: an appendagelike structure
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an appendage.
currantlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more currantlike
form: most currantlike
Etymology: From currant + -like.
Senses: examples: text: I saw some that had long red bunches of currantlike berries ambushed among the foliage.
ref: 1897, Mark Twain, Following the Equator […] , New York: American Publishing Company:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a currant.
blackberrylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blackberrylike
form: most blackberrylike
Etymology: From blackberry + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a blackberry.
Stott
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Stotts
form: Stoate
Etymology: From Middle English stott (“bull”), a nickname or a metonymic occupational surname for a cattleman.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Middle English.
storytimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storytime
cloudlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cloudless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Absence of clouds.
uncloudy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cloudy.
Senses: examples: text: Here, under the marine layer, time and space are illusory, and definition is as hard to come by as an uncloudy day in June.
ref: 2002 July, Los Angeles Magazine, volume 47, number 7:
synonyms: clear
cloudless
noncloudy
unclouded
antonyms: clouded
cloudy
glosses: Not cloudy.
inreconcilable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + reconcilable.
Senses: examples: text: So part of our challenge is reconciling these two seemingly inreconcilable truths -- that war is sometimes necessary, and war at some level is an expression of human folly.
ref: 2009, Barrack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech:
glosses: not capable of being reconciled
Synonyms: word: irreconcilable
word: nonreconcilable
word: unreconcilable
undeletions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of undeletion
tallgrasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tallgrass
reifiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reify + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being reified.
non-disjoint
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + disjoint.
Senses: glosses: Not disjoint.
Synonyms: overlapping
steaklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: stakelike
Forms: form: more steaklike
form: most steaklike
Etymology: From steak + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The fish had a steaklike texture.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of steak.
stakelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: steaklike
Forms: form: more stakelike
form: most stakelike
Etymology: From stake + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a stake (pointed stick).
contro-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: controvert
glosses: against; see contra-.
optic chiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optic chiasms
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The part of the brain where the optic nerves partially cross.
Synonyms: optic chiasma
chiasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪ.æzəm/
Forms: form: chiasms
Etymology: Latin; in sense 1, from chiasma, from Ancient Greek χίασμα (khiasma); in sense 2, from chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χιασμός (khiasmos "crossing, diagonal arrangement"), from χιάζειν (khiázein, “to mark with a chi”), from χ (kh, “chi”)
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chiasma.
glosses: Alternative form of chiasmus.
Derived terms: optic chiasm
chiasms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chiasm
Elo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈiːloʊ/
/ˈɛloʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Élő, from élő. As a rating system, named after its creator Arpad Elo (1903–1992).
Senses: examples: text: In layman’s terms, any player with a higher Elo rating will have a better chance of winning a game of chess against an opponent with a lower Elo rating.
ref: 2022 August 10, “Chess Ranking System: A Complete Guide”, in Square Off, archived from the original on 24 Nov 2022:
glosses: A surname from Hungarian.
Elo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈiːloʊ/
/ˈɛloʊ/
Forms: form: Elos
form: elo
form: ELO
Etymology: Borrowed from Hungarian Élő, from élő. As a rating system, named after its creator Arpad Elo (1903–1992).
Senses: topics: board-games
chess
games
qualifier: other games
glosses: Ellipsis of Elo rating.
glosses: Rating, independent of the underlying algorithm used.
Aire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛː/
rhymes: -ɛː
Etymology: Possibly from Proto-Brythonic; from Proto-Celtic *is- (from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eysh₂- (“to strengthen”)) + *–arā-. However, Old Norse eyjar (“islands”) has also been suggested.
Senses: glosses: A river in Yorkshire, mainly West Yorkshire, England, which flows past Leeds and gives its name to the Airedale.
Derived terms: Airedale
Saltaire
Aire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛː/
rhymes: -ɛː
Senses: glosses: A river in northern France.
unfulfillment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ənfəlˈfɪlmənt/
Forms: form: unfulfillments
Etymology: From un- + fulfill + -ment.
Senses: synonyms: neglection
dissatisfaction
antonyms: fulfillment
execution
consummation
glosses: The failure to fulfill or perform something.
unfulfillments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unfulfillment
on a losing wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Recognize that we are on a losing wicket in Vietnam.
ref: 1995, William Conrad Gibbons, The US government and the Vietnam war, V.4, page 292:
text: I'm sure we're on a losing wicket but we're fighting technology.
ref: 2007 September 3, Helen Pidd, “Pitt happy, but Ridley Scott grumbles”, in The Guardian:
text: Our part-time Defence Secretary is also on a losing wicket over grim milestones.
ref: 2008 June 14, Vicki Woods, “They say milestones, but mean tombstones”, in The Daily Telegraph:
glosses: in a no-win situation.
Ille
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in Brittany, France.
Valli
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Tamil வள்ளி (vaḷḷi).
Senses: glosses: One of the two consorts of Murugan, the god of war.
Black
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Blacks
Etymology: From Middle English blak (“black”). Also a variant of Blake, from Old English blāc (“pale”) and Blanc, from Old French blanc (“white”).
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the nickname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Geneva County, Alabama.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Edwards County, Illinois.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Posey County, Indiana; from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Reynolds County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Somerset County, Pennsylvania; from the surname.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mercer County and Wyoming County, West Virginia.
Derived terms: Blackian
Related terms: Blackie
Blacky
Black
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Capitalized to follow the usual capitalization patterns for ethnic groups (compare e.g. Hispanic, Arab), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is not capitalized outside proper nouns.
Senses: examples: text: It contained an article written by Lacy Banko summarizing the work of Dr. Herbert Hendin, who had done a comparative study on suicide among Black people in the major American cities. Dr. Hendin found that the suicide rate among Black men between the ages of nineteen and thirty-five had doubled in the past ten to fifteen years, surpassing the rate for whites in the same age range.
ref: 1973, Huey P. Newton, J. Herman Blake, Revolutionary Suicide, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 3:
text: A group of Black women came in later but only observed from the sidelines.
ref: 1986, Chaya Shalom, “The only dyke from Israel”, in Off Our Backs, volume 16, number 8, →JSTOR, page 26:
text: Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975^([sic]) but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.
ref: 1999, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes”, in Rebecca S. Wheeler, editor, The Workings of Language, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Hundreds of Seattle protesters came together Saturday to voice the sadness and fury that has spread across the country over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after being pinned beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer for almost nine minutes.
ref: 2020 May 31, “Violence, destruction mar Seattle protests over the death of George Floyd”, in The Seattle Times, page A1:
text: By 2016, however, a divide that started appearing in the preceding few years came into full relief—that year, 29% of nonwhite liberals (28% of nonwhite Democrats) and 38% of Black liberals (34% of Black Democrats), disagreed that “Blacks should work their way up without special favors.”
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 98:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of black (“of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin”).
Derived terms: Black fatigue
Black
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Blacks
Etymology: Capitalized to follow the usual capitalization patterns for ethnic groups (compare e.g. Hispanic, Arab), and also, perhaps, as a way to explicitly distinguish it from the color sense, which is not capitalized outside proper nouns.
Senses: examples: text: By 2016, however, a divide that started appearing in the preceding few years came into full relief—that year, 29% of nonwhite liberals (28% of nonwhite Democrats) and 38% of Black liberals (34% of Black Democrats), disagreed that “Blacks should work their way up without special favors.”
ref: 2022 May 2, Zachary Goldberg, “Explaining Shifts in White Racial Liberalism: The Role of Collective Moral Emotions and Media Effects”, in Georgia State University, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2025, page 98:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of black (“person having dark pigmentation of the skin”).
examples: text: Unless the arbiter decides otherwise, ranks from White to Black shall be given the German numbers.
ref: 2022, “2023 Laws of Chess”, in FIDE, page 24:
topics: board-games
chess
games
coordinate_terms: White
glosses: The player moving the black pieces.
Derived terms: Black liberation
Blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Black
Blacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black
British Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language that uses hands, facial expressions, and other bodily behaviour to communicate both concrete and abstract ideas; some signs are based on English words, but BSL syntax and grammar are not based on English.
Synonyms: BSL
square kilometre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square kilometres
form: square kilometer
Senses: examples: text: Located at the southern end of the exercise area, Wuqiu Dao consists of two islets - Daqiucun [Dachiu-tsun^([sic – meaning Tachiu-tsun])] and Xiaoqiucun [Hsiaochiu-tsun] with each covering approximately one square km.
ref: [1996 March 21 [1996 March 18], Jixiong (0149 2623 7160) He, “There Is a Feeling of Insecurity on Jinmen, Mazu, and Other Islands”, in Daily Report: China, numbers 96-056, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 75, column 2:
glosses: Standard unit of area, symbol km², equal to the area of a square whose sides are one kilometre long; 10⁶ square metres.
square kilometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: square kilometers
Senses: examples: text: When classes start in September, the University of Macau’s new campus — still under construction on about a square kilometer, or roughly 250 acres, on Hengqin Island in southern Guangdong Province — will be “handed over” to Macau governance in accordance with a 2009 bill by the National People’s Congress in Beijing.
ref: 2013 July 14, Joyce Lau, Calvin Yang, “University of Macau Moves Over the China Border”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2013, Asia Pacific:
glosses: US standard spelling of square kilometre.
square kilometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square kilometer
tombaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tombak
baleen whales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baleen whale