cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tagmemes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tagmeme
pompadoured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pompadour
pompadoured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Pompadoured, pouty would-be teen idols
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page v:
glosses: Styled in a pompadour; (of a person) Having one's hair styled in a pompadour.
raw_tags: of a head of hair
bailsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailsman
bagladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baglady
crystalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of crystallization.
crystalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crystalisation
tahsil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tahsils
form: tahasil
form: tehsil
form: tahseel
form: tehseel
form: tehasil
Etymology: From Hindi तहसील (tahsīl) and Urdu تحصیل.
Senses: synonyms: taluk
coordinate_terms: thana
glosses: An administrative division in India and Pakistan.
Related terms: tahsildar
pathbreaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: path-breaking
Etymology: From path + breaking.
Senses: examples: text: a pathbreaking article
text: To be a pathbreaking leader takes a certain type of personality.
ref: 1986, Clark Kerr, Marian L. Gade, The Many Lives of Academic Presidents, page 69:
glosses: Opening a new path or approach
Synonyms: groundbreaking
revolutionary
Derived terms: pathbreakingly
tahsils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tahsil
cruftier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of crufty: more crufty
postcolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: post-colonial
Etymology: From post- + colonial.
Senses: examples: text: In the postcolonial period, democracy alternated with military rule.
text: The post-1990s retreat of manufacturing industry in many postcolonial cities across the world and the demands of first world capitalism paved the way to financial and service industries, such that the postcolonial city begins to function as a “node of an inter-metropolitan and global network carrying out information processing and control functions.”
ref: 2011, Rashmi Varma, The Postcolonial City and its Subjects: London, Nairobi, Bombay, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Following the end of colonial rule.
examples: text: a postcolonial theory of esthetics
text: There can be no doubt that Derrida's contribution to postcolonialism is not as clearly politicized as that of Fanon, Sartre or Gandhi, but it is nevertheless crucial in its careful consideration of the contrasting ethics and politics that might inform postcolonial thought.
ref: 2014, Jane Hiddleston, Understanding Postcolonialism, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to postcolonialism.
Derived terms: postcolonial anarchism
postcolonialism
postcolonialist
postcoloniality
postcolonially
postcolonial studies
postcolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postcolonials
form: post-colonial
Etymology: From post- + colonial.
Senses: glosses: A person living in a postcolonial society.
talalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin talus (“heel”) + -algia.
Senses: glosses: Pain in the ankle or heel.
talesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talesmen
Etymology: From tale + -s- + man.
Senses: glosses: The (male) author or relater of a tale; storyteller.
talesman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: talesmen
Etymology: From tales + man.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Someone summoned to a jury when a tales is awarded, to make up numbers.
A teams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A team
talesmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of talesman
talipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtælɪpiːz/
Etymology: Modern Latin, from Latin talus (“ankle”) + pes (“foot”).
Senses: examples: text: He had read everything in the library which treated of talipes in its various forms.
ref: 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter 84, in Of Human Bondage:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Clubfoot; the condition of having a clubfoot.
Related terms: taliped
talipedic
talipes equinovarus
crystalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crystalise
crystalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crystalise
crystalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crystalise
Tallin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Tallinn.
A to Zs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of A to Z
crystalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of crystalize
crystalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of crystalize
crystalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of crystalize
lumefantrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An antimalarial drug having the chemical formula C₃₀H₃₂Cl₃NO
Synonyms: benflumetol
taluk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taluks
form: talook
form: talooka
form: taluka
form: taluq
form: taluqa
form: thaluk
Etymology: From Urdu تَعَلُّقَہ (ta'alluqa), from Arabic تَعَلُّق (taʕalluq).
Senses: examples: text: Suvarnapur, Ratnanagari, a few other native states, and seven or eight taluks were under his jurisdiction.
ref: 2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 46
synonyms: tahsil
glosses: A hereditary estate in parts of India; subsequently, an administrative subdivision of a district.
tamari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 溜まり.
Senses: glosses: A type of soy sauce made without wheat, having a rich flavor.
biophotonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + photonics.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the interaction of individual photons with biological structures
Derived terms: nanobiophotonics
Related terms: photonics
nanobiophotonics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + bio- + photonics.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of nanotechnology to biological research; especially the development of advanced imaging systems
nanoscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoscopies
Etymology: From nano- + -scopy.
Senses: topics: biology
engineering
natural-sciences
optics
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The application of nanotechnology to the imaging of objects at nanoscale.
Derived terms: nanoscopic
nanoselective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: nano-selective
Etymology: From nano- + selective.
Senses: glosses: Describing materials that have selective properties at the nanoscale.
trialling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: (Canadian spelling, common) present participle and gerund of trial
trialling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triallings
Senses: examples: text: Barker's proposal to try out new equipment before mass introduction should also have been heeded, because traction components bought without trialling for the Glasgow and Great Eastern schemes gave trouble.
ref: 2020 July 29, David Clough, “AC/DC: the big switch in power supply”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: The process of running a trial; an experiment or pilot.
glosses: The running of trial races, especially for horses or greyhounds.
amphistomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From amphi- + stomatic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having stomata on both sides
raw_tags: of a leaf
Synonyms: amphistomic
oblati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin oblatus. See oblate.
Senses: glosses: plural of oblate
oblata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oblatum
dialogical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɑ.d͡ʒɪ.kəɫ/
ipa: /ˌdaɪ.əˈlɒ.d͡ʒɪ.kəɫ/
Etymology: From dialog + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Our school favors a dialogical approach to learning.
text: The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.
ref: 2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:
glosses: Related to or having the character of dialogue
Derived terms: dialogical analysis
dialogicality
dialogically
secreter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secreters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of secretor.
nawab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəˈwɑːb/
ipa: /nəˈwɔːb/
rhymes: -ɑːb
rhymes: -ɔːb
Forms: form: nawabs
Etymology: From Hindi नवाब (navāb)/Urdu نواب (navāb), from Persian نوّاب (navvâb), ultimately from Arabic نُوَّاب (nuwwāb), plural of نَائِب (nāʔib, “naib”).
Senses: examples: text: Colonel Altamont, the Nawaub of Lucknow’s prime favourite, an extraordinary man, who had, it was said, embraced Mahometanism, and undergone a thousand wild and perilous adventures was at present in this country, trying to negotiate with the Begum Clavering, the sale of the Nawaub’s celebrated nose-ring diamond, ‘the light of the Dewan.’
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 38, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: The nawabs of Bhopal, Ranput, Murshidabad, and Dhaka, along with the nizam of Hyderabad, all affirmed that the sultan has misled Muslims with his “erroneous” call to jihad and insisted that Indian Muslims had a duty to support Great Britain.
ref: 2015, Eugene Rogan, The Fall of the Ottomans, Penguin, published 2016, page 71:
glosses: A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
glosses: Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Polyura (possibly a subgenus of genus Charaxes).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Charaxes agrarius
alt: syn. Polyura schreiber
word: anomalous nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes schreiber
alt: syn. Polyura schreiber
word: blue nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes narcaeus
alt: syn. Polyura narcaeus
word: China nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes athamas
alt: syn. Polyura athamas
word: common nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes eudamippus
alt: syn. Polyura eudamippus
word: great nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes delphis
alt: syn. Polyura delphis
word: jewelled nawab
word: nawabship
taxonomic: Charaxes aria
alt: syn. Polyura aria
word: pallid nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes hebe
alt: syn. Polyura hebe
word: plain nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes dolon
alt: syn. Polyura dolon
word: stately nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes alphius
alt: syn. Polyura alphius
word: Staudinger's nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes cognatus
alt: syn. Polyura cognatus
word: Sulawesi blue nawab
taxonomic: Charaxes pyrrhus
alt: syn. Polyura pyrrhus
word: tailed nawab
Related terms: nabob
naib
denitrifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denitrify
dentaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dentary
derogates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of derogate
derogated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of derogate
desexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desex
desexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desex
desexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desex
macra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: măkʹrə
ipa: /ˈmækɹə/
Etymology: From the Ancient Greek μακρά (makrá), neuter plural form of μακρός (makrós, “long”).
Senses: examples: 1986: Peter V. Jones and Keith C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Grammar, vocabulary and exercises, Introduction — General notes (note 1), page 2 (22ⁿᵈ printing (2007); Cambridge University Press; →ISBN
All vowels are pronounced short unless marked with a ¯ (macron) over them. So observe different vowel length of ‘i’ in, e.g., fīlia, etc. It may be helpful, but is not essential, to mark macra in your exercises.
glosses: plural of macron
desmocytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desmocyte
abortuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abortuary
acetabulums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetabula
Senses: glosses: plural of acetabulum
chubbies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chubby
coeliotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coeliotomy
laparotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laparotomy
cohosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cohost
cohosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cohost
cohosting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cohost
cohosted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cohost
bitstream
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bitstreams
Etymology: From bit + stream.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A stream of bits (binary digits).
bitstream
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bitstreams
form: bitstreaming
form: bitstreamed
form: bitstreamed
Etymology: From bit + stream.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To transmit as a stream of bits (binary digits).
bitstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitstream
bitstreams
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bitstream
timebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timeboxes
Etymology: From time + box.
Senses: topics: management
glosses: The inflexible period of time allotted for a specific task.
Derived terms: timeboxing
timebox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: timeboxes
form: timeboxing
form: timeboxed
form: timeboxed
Etymology: From time + box.
Senses: topics: management
glosses: To assign an inflexible period of time to (a task).
timeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timebox
timeboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of timebox
datahubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of datahub
tabulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The editor may have to reject some schedules entirely, or change non-tabulable entries to read "unknown."
ref: 1930, Edmund de Schweinitz Brunner, Surveying Your Community: A Handbook of Method for the Rural Church:
text: […] however abstractly elegant, were incomplete unless the mathematician either tabulated the solving functions himself or rendered them tabulable.
ref: 1941, Nature:
glosses: That can be tabulated or represented statistically.
dermoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dermoplasty
wackadoo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wackadoo
form: most wackadoo
form: whackadoo
Senses: examples: text: See, it was these wackadoo inventions that finally got to me. That's why I asked for the trial separation.
ref: 1992, Barbara Dillon, Paul Casale, My Stepfather Shrank!:
text: "Betty's driving me wackadoo." "Betty?" I puzzle, stepping out the door behind her. "The wicked stepmother. Betty Crocker."
ref: 2005, Judith Ryan Hendricks, The Baker's Apprentice:
text: Grandmothers go wackadoo over handmade cards. She'll be so happy she'll give you more money on your next birthday.
ref: 2006, Jo-Ann Mapson, The Owl and Moon Cafe:
glosses: Crazy, wacky.
wackadoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wackadoos
form: whackadoo
Senses: examples: text: Still, she felt like a wackadoo sometimes, even if she knew she was too hard on herself; she should cut herself some slack.
ref: 1987, Geoffrey Wolff, Providence:
text: "If you know anything about the wackadoo who cut that girl up, I want to hear it. I'll be inside," he said, and walked away.
ref: 1994, James Elliott, Cold, Cold Heart:
glosses: A crazy person; wacko.
Related terms: wackadoodle
whackadoodle
wackadoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wackadoo
skin graft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skin grafts
Senses: glosses: An operation to graft a piece of skin, moving it from one place to another; a dermoplasty.
glosses: A piece of skin grafted during such a surgery.
skin grafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skin graft
théâtrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theatrophone
Etymology: French théâtrophone
Senses: glosses: An early telephone technology allowing subscribers to listen to live opera and theatre performances.
Derived terms: theatrophonic
theatrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of théâtrophone.
analogue hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analogue holes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of analog hole.
instrumentalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumentalisations
form: instrumentalization
Etymology: From instrumental + -isation.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The treatment of an idea as an instrument that functions as a guide to action.
Related terms: instrumentalism
instrumentalist
analog hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: analog holes
Senses: glosses: The vulnerability in copy protection schemes for non-interactive digital works, whereby the eventual analog output can be copied (as by re-recording music as it plays) even if the digital representation is secure.
instrumentalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumentalisation
instrumentalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instrumentalises
form: instrumentalising
form: instrumentalised
form: instrumentalised
Etymology: From instrumental + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of instrumentalize.
instrumentalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instrumentalise
instrumentalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instrumentalise
instrumentalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instrumentalise
sustainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sustainers
Etymology: From sustain + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] But thy selfe, hast a sustainer bene
Of much affliction in my cause: […]
ref: c. 1611, George Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer, London: Nathaniell Butter, Book 23, p. 320:
text: 1724, Aaron Hill and William Bond, The Plain Dealer, No. 36, 24 July, 1724, London: S. Richardson & A. Wilde, p. 296,
[…] not One in Fifty, of our Men of Fashion, or of Quality, as they call themselves, has an Understanding that is able to go alone. They are forc’d, therefore, to wait ’till they have their Sustainer’s Opinion to lean against, before they dare venture upon the Praise, even of what they are inclinable to think favourably of […]
text: [Bread] constitutes of itself a complete life sustainer, the gluten, starch and sugar which it contains representing ozotized and hydro-carbonated nutrients, and combining the sustaining powers of the animal and vegetable kingdoms in one product.
ref: 1887, Fanny Lemira Gillette, Hugo Ziemann, The White House Cook Book, page 238:
text: What a good lot of people they all were, I was betrayed by their applause and too many pink gins into thinking, the red-jowled sustainers of a great empire and their ladies, quaffers and yarners and players of deck games.
ref: 1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 33, in Earthly Powers, Penguin, published 1981, page 226:
glosses: A person or thing that sustains.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A rocket engine that remains with a spacecraft during its ascent after the separation of the booster engines.
glosses: A person who makes regular donations, especially to a public radio or television station.
examples: text: 21st time this year a sponsor gave the nod to a sustainer: from now on Let’s Pretend, a CBS sustainer for 13 years, will pretend for Cream of Wheat.
ref: 1943 September 6, “Wallflowers Join the Dance”, in Time, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2013:
glosses: A radio program without a commercial sponsor.
sustainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sustainer
switchroom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: switchrooms
Etymology: From switch + room.
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: A room, often an entire floor, containing switching equipment, especially for telephone lines.
switchrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switchroom
telemark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: telemarks
Etymology: From Norwegian Telemark, a county in Norway, from Old Norse Þelamǫrk, from the genitive plural case of þelir (“name of an old Germanic tribe”) + mǫrk (“borderland, march, mark, woodland”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Telemark skiing, a method of skiing using the telemark turn and a binding that only connects the boot to the ski at the toes.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A telemark turn.
qualifier: ski jumping
glosses: A telemark landing.
Synonyms: sense: telemark skiing
word: free-heel skiing
Derived terms: telemarker
telemark skiing
telemark turn
telemark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛləˌmɑɹk/
Forms: form: telemarks
form: telemarking
form: telemarked
form: telemarked
Etymology: From Norwegian Telemark, a county in Norway, from Old Norse Þelamǫrk, from the genitive plural case of þelir (“name of an old Germanic tribe”) + mǫrk (“borderland, march, mark, woodland”).
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: To take part in telemark skiing.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: To perform a telemark turn.
telemark skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after the Telemark region in Norway.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A method of skiing using the telemark turn and using a binding that only connects the boot to the ski at the toes, just as in cross-country skiing.
free-heel skiing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: Telemark skiing.
telemarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telemark
astomatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + stomatic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having no, or very few, stomata
raw_tags: of a leaf
telemark turn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: telemark turns
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skiing
sports
glosses: A turn led with the heel flat on the downhill ski while the uphill ski is pulled beneath the skier's body with a flexed knee and raised heel.
Related terms: telemark skiing
telemark turns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of telemark turn
instrumentalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: instrumentalizations
Etymology: From instrumental + -ization or instrumentalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in the release that “Russia is enabling the instrumentalization of people and guiding them to the Finnish border in harsh winter conditions. Finland is determined to put an end to this phenomenon.”
ref: 2023 November 28, Eve Brennan, “Finland to close last operating checkpoint on Russian border”, in CNN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of instrumentalisation.
Derived terms: deinstrumentalization
instrumentalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of instrumentalization
teatimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teatime
brunchtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brunchtimes
Etymology: From brunch + time.
Senses: examples: text: Our brunchtime conversation was an animated exchange of such ideas.
ref: 1988, Peter Gold, Tibetan Pilgrimage:
text: The English replaced the lentils with cooked or smoked fish, added herbs and cream sauce, and turned peasant fare into an elegant brunchtime delicacy.
ref: 2001, Julie Sahni, Indian Regional Classics:
text: In a restaurant that never closes, in a ship with three shifts, it's always brunchtime. Or dinnertime.
ref: 2007, Robert A Heinlein, Spider Robinson, Variable Star:
glosses: The time at which brunch is eaten.
brunchtimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brunchtime
tamasha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tamashas
form: tomasha
form: tumasha
Etymology: Borrowed from Marathi तमाशा (tamāśā), from Classical Persian تماشا (tamāšā), ultimately from Arabic مَشَى (mašā, “to walk”).
Senses: examples: c.1885, A.L.O.E. The Wondrous Sickle
We had fine clothes, and feasting, and drum-beating, and fireworks let off in our village. It was a grand tamasha!
glosses: A visual art form from Maharashtra, India, involving singing and dancing.
examples: text: I went to a Tamasha, as the Indian troops call these affairs, one fine Sunday afternoon in May. A broad plateau in the middle of the fields had been selected for the sports, and when I arrived an enormous crowd, as picturesque as any I have ever seen, was thronging round the ropes.
ref: 1915, Valentine Williams, With Our Army in Flanders, page 287:
text: This superficial description is all the information the text has on the subject of the Muharram, and it is clear that to the author such activity was to be regarded as a tamasha, an outlandish ceremony of value to the foreign visitor only as a spectacle.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 60:
qualifier: colonial India
glosses: Any traditional indigenous public ceremony.
tameless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tame + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Then seemed it that a tameless hurricane / Arose, and bore me in its dark career / Beyond the sun, beyond the stars that wane / On the verge of formless space […].
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 216:
text: [W]hen the guard came to fetch the tameless convict, they found him on his knees in a corner, sobbing like a child.
ref: 1874, Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life, Penguin, published 2009, page 278:
glosses: Not tamed; not tamable, unable to be tamed; wild.
Adelie penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adelie penguin
Adam's apples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adam's apple
Adélie penguins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adélie penguin
African crakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African crake
African buffalos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African buffalo
African anteaters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African anteater
African Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of African American
Airedale Terriers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Airedale Terrier
access points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of access point
tampan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tampans
form: tampan
Senses: glosses: A type of cloth from Indonesia.
tampan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tampans
Etymology: Etymology obscure, probably from Tswana tampane.
Senses: glosses: Any of many species in the family Argasidae, the soft ticks.
Alice B. Toklas brownies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alice B. Toklas brownie
Andean cats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Andean cat
Aschoff bodies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aschoff body
American Bobtails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American Bobtail
Australian pelicans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian pelican
Australian Shepherds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian Shepherd
Australian cattle dogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australian cattle dog
Australasian pig-nose turtles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Australasian pig-nose turtle
Amsterdam pounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amsterdam pound
Barbary apes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barbary ape
Tanganyikan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tanganyika + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to, Tanganyika
Tanganyikan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tanganyikans
Etymology: From Tanganyika + -an.
Senses: glosses: Someone from Tanganyika.
Barry boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barry boy
Bill Gates' flower flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bill Gates' flower fly
Tanganyikans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tanganyikan
Big Bend patchnose snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Big Bend patchnose snake
tanginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tangy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being tangy.
Black Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Russian
White Russians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of White Russian
Tangier
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: other: /tænˈdʒɪə(ɹ)/
enpr: tănjîrʹ
other: /tænˈdʒɪɹ/
rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Tangiers
form: Tanger
Etymology: Mentioned in Ancient Greek sources as Τίγισις (Tígisis), possibly from Numidian, since it was a Numidian city. Compare Punic 𐤕𐤍𐤂 (tng).
Senses: glosses: A port city, the capital of the region of Tangier-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco, on the Strait of Gibraltar.
glosses: The former international zone surrounding the city; its administration.
Derived terms: Tangierine
Tangerine
Tangerine orange
tangerine
Tangier pea
euchring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of euchre
euchred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From euchre + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of euchre
euchred
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more euchred
form: most euchred
Etymology: From euchre + -ed.
Senses: glosses: exhausted; worn out
Bond villains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bond villain
Bond girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bond girl
tant mieux
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /tɒn mjɜː/
Etymology: From French tant mieux.
Senses: glosses: It's a good thing; so much the better; fortunately; used to express that a chance happening is favorable.
Aboriginal Americans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aboriginal American
tape deck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tape decks
Senses: glosses: tape recorder
tapinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapinoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin tapīnōsis (“depreciation”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ταπείνωσις (tapeínōsis, “lowering”), from ταπεινός (tapeinós, “low”).
Senses: glosses: A figure of speech whereby something is given less importance by the name given it than it merits.
Synonyms: word: abbaser
word: meiosis
tapinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapinosis
tapotement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /təˈpəʊtmənt/
/təpəʊtˈmɒn/
Forms: form: tapotements
Etymology: From French tapoter (“to drum or tap”).
Senses: qualifier: massage
glosses: A form of massage involving hitting the body with various parts of one's hand.
tapotements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapotement
effleurage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: effleurages
Etymology: Borrowed from French effleurage, from effleurer (“to stroke lightly”).
Senses: examples: text: When shampoo is spread on to the hair it is called an effleurage massage movement.
ref: 2003, Stephanie Henderson, Basic Hairdressing: A Coursebook for Level 2, →ISBN, page 97:
text: Starting at the point of shoulder, use muscle squeezings, picking-ups, kneadings and gentle frictions, interspersed with effleurages, over the triceps muscle as well as the fleshy part of the flexor and extensor muscle groups.
ref: 2004, Jean-Pierre Hourdebaigt, Canine Massage: A Complete Reference Manual:
qualifier: massage
glosses: A form of massage involving smooth strokes of the skin with one's hands.
Related terms: efflower
effleurage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: effleurages
form: effleuraging
form: effleuraged
form: effleuraged
Etymology: Borrowed from French effleurage, from effleurer (“to stroke lightly”).
Senses: qualifier: massage
glosses: To gently stroke the skin in a circular motion with the palm of one's hands.
effleurages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of effleurage
effleurages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of effleurage
petrissage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrissages
Etymology: From French pétrir (“to knead”).
Senses: qualifier: massage
glosses: A form of massage involving kneading or wringing the skin with one's fingers, knuckles and thumbs.
tartar sauce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tartar sauces
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tartare sauce.
Tatra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain range on the border of Poland and Slovakia.
Synonyms: Tatra Mountains
Tatras
tattier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tatty: more tatty
tattiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of tatty: most tatty
tauten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tautens
form: tautening
form: tautened
form: tautened
Etymology: From taut + -en.
Senses: examples: text: Tauten the rope.
glosses: To make taut; to taut.
examples: text: The rope tautened.
glosses: To become taut.
tautens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tauten
tautening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tauten
tautening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tautenings
Senses: examples: tautenings of the vocal folds
glosses: The act of making something taut.
tautened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tauten
taxaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From translingual Taxaceae + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the yew trees of the Taxaceae family.
taxonomize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: taxonomizes
form: taxonomizing
form: taxonomized
form: taxonomized
form: taxonomise
Etymology: From taxonomy + -ize.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To assign a taxonomic classification to a particular species.
tbsps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tbsp; tablespoons.
technocracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of technocracy
teeny-boppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teeny-bopper
teinoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teinoscopes
Etymology: Ancient Greek τείνω (teínō, “I extend”) + + -scope.
Senses: glosses: An instrument formed by combining prisms so as to correct the chromatic aberration of the light while linear dimensions of objects seen through the prisms are increased or diminished
Synonyms: prism telescope
teinoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teinoscope
red kangaroos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red kangaroo
gloveless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glove + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The hand which is not concealed by the drapery is gloveless; the arms are bare considerably above the elbow; and a bracelet encircles the right wrist.
ref: 1900, William Carew Hazlitt, The Venetian Republic: Its Rise, Its Growth, and Its Fall 421-1797:
glosses: Without gloves.
Derived terms: glovelessly
glovelessness
ethnocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnocracies
Etymology: From ethno- + -cracy.
Senses: examples: text: In this sense, ethnocracy as a socio-political regime is outcome of ethnonationalism, that brand of nationalism that views the nation as a "natural" and ethnically "pure" community, as opposed to its liberal conceptualisation as a community based on equal rights and duties.
ref: 2005, Paul Dresch, Monarchies and Nations, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A form of government in which a particular ethnic group holds a disproportionate amount of government power.
Related terms: ethnocratic
printing form
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: printing forms
Senses: synonyms: matrix
hyponyms: woodblock
glosses: An object, usually in the shape of a block or a plate, used in printing to apply ink on the printed surface.
Related terms: screen
præponderance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præponderances
Senses: glosses: Obsolete and rare spelling of preponderance.
live wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlaɪv ˈwaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: live wires
form: live-wire
form: livewire
Senses: examples: text: Two boys got electrocuted when a live wire fell on the auto-rickshaw in which they were sitting.
ref: 2006 September 27, “Two boys electrocuted”, in The Hindu, India, retrieved 24 Dec 2008:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An electrical wire through which there is a flow of electrical current.
examples: text: With his thin, eager face and darting hands he was more than a live wire - he was a whole bundle of live wires.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Which Describes an Evening in Strange Company”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
text: Mr. Black is a kindly, gentle, fine individual, but as a leader, an up-to-date fellow, a go-getter—why he just doesn't know the first thing about it. . . . In a growing community like Douglaston we need a live wire.
ref: 1927 December 19, “Will Not Go”, in Time:
text: I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire / Don't touch me, I'm a real live wire
ref: 1977, “Psycho Killer”, in Talking Heads: 77, performed by Talking Heads:
text: She was irresistible—a laughing, chattering live wire, never at a loss for a word.
ref: 2007, Charlaine Harris, Real Murders: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery, →ISBN, page 95:
text: Ellen Page gives a star-making performance as a 16-year-old live wire who decides to go through with her pregnancy and seeks acceptably well-adjusted, wealthy, punk-rock loving parents for the unborn baby.
ref: 2007 September 10, “Review: Jones, Coens, Penn highlight Toronto”, in CNN:
synonyms: go-getter
life of the party
self-starter
glosses: An especially energetic, alert, or vivacious person.
live-wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: live-wires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of live wire.
livewire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livewires
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of live wire.
compass needle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: compass needles
Senses: glosses: A magnetized pointer (usually marked on the North end) within a compass, free to align itself with the Earth's magnetic field.
wedge products
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedge product
compass needles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of compass needle
overdramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdramatic
form: most overdramatic
Etymology: From over- + dramatic.
Senses: examples: text: Start to practice it, and you will be able to replace your overdramatic worldview with a worldview based on facts.
ref: 2018, Hans Rosling, Factfulness, page 16:
glosses: Dramatic to excess.
Synonyms: histrionic
Derived terms: overdramatically
Related terms: drama queen
puericulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French puériculture. Compare agriculture, pisciculture, aquaculture, and so on.
Senses: glosses: The rearing of young children, conceived of as an art or science.
anecdota
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɛkdətə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek, retaining the nominative-plural case ending -a (but in the alternative-spelling sense, misinterpreted as a singular case ending).
Senses: glosses: plural of anecdoton
glosses: plural of anecdotum
anecdotae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] for in Louisiana in general and Natchitoches in particular, Babb encountered a tremendous amount of history, met hundreds of people, absorbed anecdotae, myth and stories by the thousand — he was apt to get a few things wrong.
ref: 1996, Arthur Babb, Neill Cameron, My Sketchbook: Memoirs of Natchitoches and Plaquemine, Louisiana, Northwestern State University Press, →ISBN, page vii, →ISBN:
glosses: plural of anecdota
f/stop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: f/stops
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of f-stop.
indefiniteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From indefinite + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being indefinite.
portionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more portionless
form: most portionless
Etymology: From portion + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ‘Be assured, if the youth were true, his father who is one of the proudest nobles about the court, would prohibit his union with one so humble and portionless as thou.’
ref: 1852, Washington Irving, Tales from the Alhambra:
text: ‘So my child is portionless,’ resumed the earl, with a suppressed sigh.
ref: 1860, Ellen Wood, East Lynne, Penguin, published 2005, page 10:
glosses: Lacking a portion; especially, without a dowry.
denunciatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more denunciatory
form: most denunciatory
Senses: examples: text: He was, at least nowadays, never severe or denunciatory; but sometimes in telling an anecdote he dropped such an expression as "the rascal said to me," or such an epithet as "the vulgar dog."
ref: 1889–1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse […], volume (please specify the page), Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company […], published 7 June 1890, →OCLC:
glosses: Tending to denounce.
Related terms: denounce
denunciation
inevitableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From inevitable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being inevitable; inevitability.
fo' shizzle
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fo shizzle.
anecdotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈnɛkdətəm/
Forms: form: anecdota
form: anecdoton
Etymology: Back-formation from anecdota, reinterpreting the nominative neuter plural case ending -a as a Latin case ending (singular: -um), rather than (as is etymologically-consistent) as an Ancient Greek case ending (singular: -on, from -ον (-on)); perhaps reinforced by Latin anecdotum.
Senses: examples: text: Ang. Mai published it anew by mistake as an anecdotum, under the title, Philonis Judæi de virtute ejusque partibus.
ref: 1837, Friedrich Adolf Ebert, Arthur Browne, A General Bibliographical Dictionary, entry 8,304, page 633:
text: I have not yet quite polished that anecdotum of mine to my satisfaction.
ref: 1965, David Roy Shackleton Bailey, Cicero’s Letters to Atticus, 371 (xiv. 17) — Pompeii, 3 May 44 — cicero to atticus: ¶ 6, page 49 ^〃 (University Press)
glosses: Alternative spelling of anecdote.
semi-quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semi-quotes
form: semiquote
Etymology: From semi- + quote.
Senses: glosses: A single quotation mark, ('). This is often used for a quote within a quote, as in "Tom said 'What?'"
glosses: A punctuation mark to indicate that the text is a semi-quote, i.e. a close paraphrase that uses some of the author's original words.
glosses: A phrase that is a close paraphrase that uses some of the authors original words. For instance: "A fanatic is someone who will not change his mind or the subject of discussion," according to Winston Churchill.
semi-quote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: semi-quotes
form: semi-quoting
form: semi-quoted
form: semi-quoted
form: semiquote
Etymology: From semi- + quote.
Senses: examples: text: Instead of magnifying the damnation of those who follow not the truth (as the village understood it), she was content to semi-quote […]
ref: 2006, Ernest Thompson Seton, Rolf in the Woods:
glosses: To make a close paraphrase of a quotation, using some of its words.
examples: text: To semi-quote Shakespeare...
glosses: To modify a quote, adapting it to different circumstances but preserving the intent.
semi-quoted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of semi-quote
semi-quoting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of semi-quote
absurdists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absurdist
depoliticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: depoliticises
form: depoliticising
form: depoliticised
form: depoliticised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of depoliticize.
depoliticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of depoliticise
depoliticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of depoliticise
depoliticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of depoliticise
depoliticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːpəˌlɪtɪsaɪˈzeɪʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: depoliticizations
Etymology: From de- + politicization or depoliticize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of depoliticizing.