cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
uniparentality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The condition of being uniparental
ursene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpene present in the chestnut Castanea sativa
boundary four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boundary fours
Senses: examples: text: It meant England were crowned world champions by virtue of having scored more boundary fours and sixes - 26 to New Zealand's 17 - in the entire match.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A four scored by hitting the ball past the boundary (rather than an all-run four)
unicamerate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + camerate.
Senses: synonyms: unilocular
glosses: Having a single chamber or loculus.
Related terms: unicameral
mid-wicket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-wickets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of midwicket.
boundary fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boundary four
wild goat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild goats
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see wild, goat.
glosses: Capra aegagrus, a species or goat believed ancestral to and including the domestic goat.
unriddleable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnˈɹɪdələbəl/
/ʌnˈɹɪdləbəl/
Forms: form: more unriddleable
form: most unriddleable
Etymology: From un- + riddle + -able.
Senses: examples: 6 December, 1647, John Evelyn, letter to Sir Richard Browne
O Heavens! we are now more in the dark than ever, and I protest unto you things were never more unriddleable than at this instant of time, after so many fair and promising expectations.
glosses: Unable to be solved or explained.
all-run four
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: all-run fours
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A four scored by the two batsmen running four times between the wickets
Related terms: boundary four
all-run fours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of all-run four
Black Cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Black Caps
Senses: examples: text: New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.
The value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player for the New Zealand national cricket team
wild potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wild potato
come to bat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to bat
form: coming to bat
form: came to bat
form: come to bat
Senses: examples: text: In that case, the player who was called out for failure to come to bat properly is charged with having been put out, and whatever happened that resulted in the improper batter being put out goes into the scoring box of the batter who failed to bat in proper turn.
ref: 2015, Andres Wirkmaa, The Complete Baseball Scorekeeping Handbook, →ISBN:
text: New Zealand stuck doggedly to a plan that centred on batting patience. Henry Nicholls' 55, and 47 from Tom Latham, held things together in the face of some probing England bowling.
The value of the Black Caps' pragmatism in reaching 241-8 was shown when England came to bat.
ref: 2019 July 14, Stephan Shemilt, “England win Cricket World Cup: Ben Stokes stars in dramatic finale against New Zealand”, in BBC Sport, London:
topics: ball-games
baseball
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To have one's turn at bat.
examples: text: Unfortunately, if anybody above [the manager] or around her cared, they didn't come to bat for me.
ref: 2012, Leslie Neal-Boylan, Nurses With Disabilities: Professional Issues and Job Retention, →ISBN:
glosses: To argue in defense of.
unsingled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + singled.
Senses: examples: text: When left unsingled the crop usually contains more dry matter and fibre but less protein than when it is singled.
ref: 1956, Stephen John Watson, Alexander Martin Smith, Silage, page 57:
text: Most kale is therefore sown thinly and left unsingled.
ref: 1962, James Anderson Scott Watson, James Antony More, James A. McMillan, Agriculture: The Science and Practice of Farming, page 337:
topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: Not singled.
unswingled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + swingled.
Senses: glosses: Not swingled.
come home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊm
Forms: form: comes home
form: coming home
form: came home
form: come home
Etymology: The sport usage was popularised by the 1996 song "Three Lions", which contains the phrase "it's coming home", referring to the UEFA Euro 1996 championship hosted in England, the birthplace of association football.
Senses: glosses: To return to one's house, or to any place of origin.
examples: text: It was only when I heard the police sirens that the seriousness of what I had done came home to me.
text: It finally came home to me that I was wrong.
synonyms: hit home
glosses: To touch a person's interests or feelings closely; to be fully understood or realised.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To drag or slip through the ground.
raw_tags: of an anchor
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To achieve success (typically by winning an international competition) in the country in which the sport was invented.
raw_tags: of a sport
Derived terms: come home to roost
rollercoasterish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rollercoasterish
form: most rollercoasterish
Etymology: From rollercoaster + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characteristic of a rollercoaster; having many ups and downs, or violent changes.
rollerdrums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rollerdrum
tartanillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tartanilla
tartanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tartaned.
unkilt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unkilts
form: unkilting
form: unkilted
form: unkilted
Etymology: From un- + kilt.
Senses: glosses: To loosen (a skirt) so that it is no longer gathered up around the body.
unkilting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unkilt
unkilts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unkilt
unbankrupt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + bankrupt.
Senses: glosses: Not bankrupt.
rosewater philosophy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I subscribed most heartily to this rosewater philosophy. Certainly, if Jessie had had her way, there would have been no heartaches in the world; no poverty, no sickness, no rags, no rainy days.
ref: 1870, Benjamin Leopold Farjeon, Jessie Trim:
text: This is interpreting Christianity as a rosewater philosophy to make a comfortable atmosphere for nice peope^([sic]). But nice people have no cutting edge. Nor have they any answers for the problems that beset our world.
ref: 1971, Catherine Marshall, Beyond Our Selves, page 194:
glosses: A sentimental belief system, ignoring harsh realities.
rose knot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rose knots
Senses: glosses: A rosette of ribbon or other soft material.
rose knots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rose knot
rough-footed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of a bird: having feathered feet.
Related terms: rough-footed mud turtle
harmonic proportion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harmonic proportions
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The relation of three quantities in harmonic progression, with the second being a harmonic mean between the first and third, as in the three numbers 2, 3, and 6.
harmonic proportions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of harmonic proportion
Jamaica train
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jamaica trains
Senses: glosses: A series of sirops or kettles used for the gradual concentration of sugar juice into crystalline form.
Jamaica trains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Jamaica train
wring-staff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wring-staves
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wring-stave.
wring-stave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wring-staves
form: wring-staff
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: One of the strong pieces of wood used in applying wringbolts.
wring-staves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wring-staff
glosses: plural of wring-stave
roundstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From round + stone.
Senses: examples: text: 45,000 feet of edgestones have been set, and 27,571 yards of roundstone have been repaved; […]
ref: 1869, Boston (Mass.). City Council, Documents of the City of Boston (volume 1, issues 1-40, page 35)
glosses: Small stones used for paving.
blockstone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From block + stone.
Senses: glosses: Bricks used for paving.
Rule 30
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named because 30 is the smallest Wolfram code that describes its rule set.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule displaying aperiodic, chaotic behaviour.
Rule 184
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named because 184 is the rule's Wolfram code.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A one-dimensional binary cellular automaton rule, notable for solving the majority problem as well as for its ability to simultaneously describe several, seemingly quite different, particle systems.
Rule 90
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: So named because 90 is the rule's Wolfram code.
Senses: topics: cellular-automata
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An elementary cellular automaton based on the exclusive-or function.
Gould's sequence
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Henry W. Gould.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integer sequence that counts the odd numbers in each row of Pascal's triangle.
rock chuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rock chucks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rockchuck.
rock chucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rock chuck
rockchuck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockchucks
form: rock chuck
Senses: glosses: The yellow-bellied marmot, Marmota flaviventris.
rockchucks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockchuck
of all places
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They had a Jacuzzi on the deck, which was usually crowded, but I did manage to squeeze in once between two couples from Yakima, Washington, of all places.
ref: 2016, O Bod, Of All Places: Sometimes It's the Journey, →ISBN:
glosses: Surprisingly.
raw_tags: used as a sentence adverb
Related terms: of all people
of all things
kathas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of katha
conscriptee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conscriptees
Etymology: From conscript + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: […] the conscriptee must reduce the real cost of the army. The reason is, while the military values the conscriptee's services equally with the volunteer's, in order to make it worthwhile for the conscriptee to have the volunteer take his place, the conscriptee must value his nonmilitary opportunities more than the volunteer does.
ref: 1974, Jack Ochs, Public Finance:
text: Perhaps it is implausible or simply false to say that the unwilling conscriptee drafted to serve in a foreign war has “consented” to the draft law in any even minimally meaningful sense.
ref: 1995, Michigan Law Review:
text: SYNOPSIS: The adventures of a young conscriptee named Marion Hargrove at an army training camp (Fort Bragg) in North Carolina.
ref: 2005, John Reid, HOLLYWOOD 'B' MOVIES: A Treasury of Spills, Chills & Thrills, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 137:
glosses: One who is conscripted.
conscriptees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conscriptee
Malabarish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Malabarish
form: most Malabarish
Etymology: From Malabar + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Of, from, or pertaining to Malabar.
on the rails
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: To The wineplace.com and Chris, Marshy and Chris for keeping me on the rails.
ref: 2000, Paul Clarke, Learning Schools, Learning Systems, →ISBN, page vii:
text: Logic is nothing other than methods we have learned that keep thinking on the rails.
ref: 2001, Frederick Ferre, Living and Value: Toward a Constructive Postmodern Ethics, →ISBN, page 4:
text: Menin Road got the offensive back on the rails but conditions, which had been deplorable before, favoured the outcome.
ref: 2012, Peter Pedersen, ANZACS on the Western Front, →ISBN:
glosses: In working order, functioning properly.
examples: text: For several Saturdays after he'd seen a film about men who lived on the rails, he left home with a Spam sandwich in a paper bag, a compass and a ball of twine (though he wasn't sure why he included the twine).
ref: 2005, Dan Gerber, A Voice from the River: A Novel, →ISBN, page 14:
text: And then over two months of hitch-hiking' and trekking in Banff and Jasper National Parks, and a few hundred miles on the rails.
ref: 2012, Meynardie Blanchard, Rails Trails and Other Tales, →ISBN, page 31:
text: Nevertheless, he loved traveling on the rails and became a lifelong railroad buff.
ref: 2014, Jeri Quinzio, Food on the Rails: The Golden Era of Railroad Dining, →ISBN, page 12:
glosses: In a train or on trains.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: Racing toward the inside, near the fence that bounds the track.
examples: text: The larger the wheels, the less will any dust, twigs, or inequalities on the rails affect them.
ref: 1830, Thomas Earle, A Treatise on Railroads and Internal Communications, etc, page 54:
text: Now we lounged on the decks all the time, feet up on the rails while a string band played for us.
ref: 2013, Reg Twigg, Survivor on the River Kwai, →ISBN:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, rail.
American white ibis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American white ibises
Senses: glosses: A wading bird of species Eudocimus albus, in family Threskiornithidae of ibises, which occurs along the coastal areas of Gulf of Mexico as well as throughout the Caribbean and has a predominantly white plumage with pink facial skin, long downcurved bill and bright red-orange legs.
American white ibises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of American white ibis
out of wind
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: In riding up hill the horse is always to be favoured, by bearing him hard, for fear of running him out of wind; but in running down hill, if the horse's feet and shoulders will bear it, and the rider dares venture his neck, he may have a full loose.
ref: 1819, Abraham Rees, The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Volume 29:
text: Scroggins came to the scratch much distressed and out of wind.
ref: 1824, Pierce Egan, Boxiana; Or, Sketches of Ancient and Modern Pugilism:
text: And I was the one had to blow on it to keep it goin' he was plumb out of wind.
ref: 2006, Elmer Kelton, The Raiders: Sons of Texas, →ISBN:
glosses: Synonym of out of breath.
synonyms: word: out of breath
over the rainbow
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: So when we landed in Rosedale that Saturday the 28th of June, we weren't in Toronto anymore, but only Grandma was over the rainbow to see us.
ref: 2006, Dorothy Palmer, When Fenelon Falls, →ISBN, page 54:
text: It practically called out to me, and when I saw the three dollar price tag, I was over the rainbow for it.
ref: 2007, Martin H. Greenberg, Jean Rabe, Pandora's Closet, →ISBN:
text: She was beyond happiness, she was over the rainbow.
ref: 2010, Linda Lecuona, Uri: A Donkey's Tale of the Cross, →ISBN, page 18:
glosses: Extremely happy; thrilled.
examples: text: Somewhere over the rainbow
 My son waits for me,
There in the presence of our Heavenly Father
 He's as happy as can be.
ref: 2012, Linda Hussey, Diamond in the Sky, page 56:
text: Knowing that these would be my final moments with my son, I told him that if he needed to go, it would be all right. And with my cheek against his, I whispered in his ear, “I'll meet you just over the rainbow, tomorrow.”
ref: 2012, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Chicken Soup for the Soul Children with Special Needs, →ISBN:
text: One thing for sure, I won't know until I die. And it looks like we don't let the ones left behind know what is over the rainbow.
ref: 2013, Gary Fish, Yes, Men Do Cry: A Journal, →ISBN, page 194:
text: I mean the man I'm based on is dead and gone. His soul rose up over the rainbow and is headed for an existence way beyond what we are.
ref: 2015, Walter Mosley, Inside a Silver Box: A Novel, →ISBN, page 229:
glosses: The afterlife or the path a soul takes to reach the afterlife.
examples: text: Even if it is finished and we have no souls, there may still be some higher order of intelligence out there, somewhere over the rainbow, or in a parallel universe we cannot see.
ref: 2010, G.R. Pafumi, Is Our Vision of God Obsolete?, →ISBN:
text: Where is the pot of gold over the rainbow here?
ref: 2012, Bonnie Kaye, Doomed Grooms: Gay and Bisexual Husbands in Straight Marriages, →ISBN:
text: Some of these dreams have always felt “over the rainbow” while others appeared to almost be in our grasp.
ref: 2015, Grant D. Fairley, William S Cook Jr., Your Third Act: A Guide to a Great Retirement, →ISBN:
glosses: Beyond one's grasp; impossible to reach or achieve.
orthosomnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of ortho- + insomnia.
Senses: examples: text: Orthosomnia is a psychological condition recently identified by Baron et al. [3], who analyzed the behavior of fitness trackers users who used these devices to track their sleep.
ref: 2018 April, Linda Anticoli, Marco Basaldella, “Shut Up and Run: the Never-ending Quest for Social Fitness”, in WWW '18: Companion Proceedings of the The Web Conference:
text: Orthosomnia, the “perfectionistic quest for the ideal sleep in order to optimize daytime function”, is sadly becoming more prevalent, arguably due to increased sleep tracker use [73].
ref: 2018, Megan Roberts, Why Your Ketogenic Diet Isn't Working Part 2: Sleep and Circadian Rhythm:
text: In our view, this is an exercise of diminishing returns, and may actually impair quality of their sleep and cause orthosomnia, a condition where a person has a perfectionist quest to achieve perfect sleep. (Baron et al, 2017).
ref: 2019, Captain Allison Brager, Meir Kryger, A New Approach: Integrating Sleep Science and Consumer Wearables to Improve Access and Drive Greater Engagement, page 10:
text: The sleep-tracking function tempts many people into thinking too much about sleep, which is the sort of thing that can make it hard to drift off. There's a term of art, “orthosomnia”. It means that you're losing sleep because you're worried that your sleep tracker is judging you.
ref: [2025 September 13, Tim Harford, “The remorseless rule of my fitness tracker”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 19:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: An unhealthy obsession with achieving the correct amount and type of sleep.
grammatical aspect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatical aspects
Senses: examples: text: While lexical aspect presents information about the inherent lexical properties of the verb and verb phrase, grammatical aspect, on the other hand, signals the boundaries of an event.
ref: 2010, Miren Hodgson, Telicity and the Syntax-Semantics of the Object and Subject, page 11:
text: Within the framework of a distinction between grammatical and lexical aspect, the category grammatical aspect, which is usually realized in the morphology of the verb, includes the imperfective and the perfective aspect, whereas the lexical aspect concerns the situation types (Aktionsarten) of the verb, i.e. it is inherent to the semantics of the verb.
ref: 2014, Barbara Meisterernst, Tense and Aspect in Han Period Chinese, page 15:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
antonyms: lexical aspect
aktionsart
glosses: The aspect of a verb phrase (verb group) or other predicate – its temporal structure or relationship to the time of use – marked through any of various grammatical elements, as distinguished from lexical aspect.
overauthor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overauthors
form: overauthoring
form: overauthored
form: overauthored
Etymology: From over- + author.
Senses: examples: text: In most cases, it is better to "overauthor" in team publications than to "underauthor", to include an individual if there is...
ref: 1982, Miscellaneous Publication - Issues 18-19, page 47:
text: Articles were not then overauthored or overreferenced: the mean number of authors per original article was 1-5 (range 1-4) in 1926, compared with 3-3 (range 1-12) in 1985;
ref: 1986 October, SP Lock, “For wrapping the fish and chips”, in Archives of disease in childhood, volume 61, number 10:
text: Overauthoring and Failure to Acknowledge
ref: 2008, RL Ballard, An ethnographic and philosophical investigation into patrol officers: Communication ethics as critical work:
glosses: To add too many names to the list of authors on a work produced by a team.
examples: text: In 1817, which marks the first appearance of The Ancient Mariner as a work by Coleridge, the poem is, by contrast, almost overauthored.
ref: 1994, Jack Stillinger, Coleridge and Textual Instability, →ISBN:
text: The problem that Benjamin identifies with this impulse, however, is the opportunity to overauthor the world; in the same essay Benjamin castigates the practice of photography as artistic production, stating that this art form merely 'succeed[s] in transforming even abject poverty—by apprehending it in a fashionably perfected manner—into an object of enjoyment.'
ref: 2010 Fall, Sheila Liming, “Of Anarchy and Amateurism: Zine Publication and Print Dissent”, in The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association, volume 43, number 2, page 137:
text: Caught between the plan and the non-plan the city-as-text vacillates between being overauthored and unauthored.
ref: 2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan, →ISBN, page 137:
text: Whilst there are many aspects of both the interview data and their analysis that I could choose to focus on here, it may lead to a thin, possibly falsely chronological and over-simplistic/over-authored narrative.
ref: 2010, Ann-Marie Bathmaker, Penelope Harnett, Exploring Learning, Identity and Power through Life History and Narrative Research, →ISBN:
glosses: To continue revising a work past the point where the revisions improve the work.
overauthors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overauthor
overauthoring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overauthor
overauthored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overauthor
counterphrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterphrases
Etymology: From counter- + phrase.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musical phrase that complements or responds to another phrase.
counterphrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterphrase
overselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overselects
form: overselecting
form: overselected
form: overselected
Etymology: From over- + select.
Senses: examples: text: In another study, Gianakos and Subich (1988) found a relationship of sex and sex-role orientation in the way both men and women choose a college major. In their study, women overselected the traditionally feminine-type areas of study.
ref: 2015, Virginia N. Gordon, George E. Steele, The Undecided College Student:
glosses: To select (something) more than would be expected.
underselect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underselects
form: underselecting
form: underselected
form: underselected
Etymology: From under- + select.
Senses: glosses: To select (something) less than would be expected.
overselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overselect
overselects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overselect
underselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + selection.
Senses: glosses: The selection of something less often or by fewer people than would be expected.
Related terms: underselect
overselection
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + selection.
Senses: glosses: The selection of something more often or by more people than would be expected.
Related terms: overselect
underselecting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underselect
underselects
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underselect
underselected
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underselect
semiseptate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + septate.
Senses: glosses: Half-partitioned.
semiglobose
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + globose.
Senses: glosses: semiglobular
preselectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From preselect + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be preselected.
reselectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Able to be reselected.
Asiatic Vespers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Asian Vespers
form: Ephesian Vespers
form: Vespers of 88 BC
Etymology: Alternative version of a calque of French Vèpres éphésiennes (“Ephesian Vespers”), coined 1890 by historian Théodore Reinach by analogy with Sicilian Vespers. Ephesus was one of the towns where the massacre occurred.
Senses: examples: text: Long before that year the Romans had had dealings with Mithridates²⁷ but they firmly held to the view that the first of their wars with the king was actually that inaugurated with the Asiatic Vespers and it was to that that they gave the title of First Mithridatic War.
ref: 1995, Historia, Franz Steiner Verlag, page 34:
glosses: An incident in 88 BCE, in which a coordinated massacre of Roman citizens in various towns in Anatolia was undertaken at the behest of King Mithridates VI of Pontus, which served as casus belli for Rome to instigate the First Mithridatic War.
wikipedia: Ephesus
Sicilian Vespers
Théodore Reinach
green junglefowl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green junglefowl
form: green junglefowls
Senses: glosses: A species of junglefowl, Gallus varius, native to Java and several islands near it to the east.
green junglefowls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of green junglefowl
Bekisar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bekisars
Etymology: Borrowed from Javanese bekisar, from Kangean bekisar.
Senses: glosses: An Eastern Javan hybrid between a green junglefowl and either the local subspecies of red junglefowl, Gallus gallus bankiva, or a domestic chicken.
Bekisars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bekisar
risk aversion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see risk, aversion.
glosses: Tendency of a decision-maker to prefer a certain payoff to one of greater expected value but more uncertainty.
vestibulolingual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vestibulo- + lingual.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the vestibule (of the ear) and the tongue
vestibulolingually
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From vestibulo- + lingually.
Senses: glosses: In a vestibulolingual manner
videotranslation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From video- + translation.
Senses: glosses: The translation of television dialogue, the translated text being shown as subtitles
visuoverbal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From visuo- + verbal.
Senses: glosses: visual and verbal
peachish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more peachish
form: most peachish
Etymology: From peach + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Roughly peach in color.
Guat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Guats
form: guat
Etymology: Clipping of Guatemalan.
Senses: glosses: A Guatemalan.
Guats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Guat
square-toed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more square-toed
form: most square-toed
Senses: glosses: stuffy; precise
Related terms: squaretoes
track-road
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: track-roads
Etymology: From track (“to tow”).
Senses: examples: text: The principal object of this invention is to do away with the expense of horse-labour, and reparation of the towing-paths or track-roads.
ref: 1822, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, page 66:
glosses: A towpath.
track-roads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of track-road
clypeastroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clypeastroid
abyssochrysid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abyssochrysids
Etymology: Clipping of translingual Abyssochrysidae
Senses: glosses: Any sea snail of the family Abyssochrysidae
abyssochrysids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abyssochrysid
acceptibility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of acceptability.
acraldehyde
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of acrolein.
synonyms: word: acrolein
aerotriangulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aerotriangulations
Etymology: From aero- + triangulation.
Senses: examples: text: From the cartographer's point of view, the accuracy of these aerotriangulations is equivalent to having all model pass points located and leveled by high-order field surveys.
ref: 1962, W. D. Harris, Analytic Aerotriangulation, page 20:
glosses: The assigning of coordinates to points on the ground by use of aerial photographs.
aerotriangulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aerotriangulation
aesthenopia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of asthenopia.
aetosaurian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aetosaurians
Senses: glosses: Any aetosaur of the order †Aetosauria
aetosaurians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aetosaurian
aldosamine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aldosamines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any aldose form of an amino sugar
aldosamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aldosamine
allogamously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an allogamous manner
allohormonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From allo- + hormonal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to allohormones
allosamidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of allosamidin.
flammably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more flammably
form: most flammably
Etymology: From flammable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a flammable manner.
allosyndesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allosyndeses
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The meiotic pairing of nonhomologous chromosomes from an allopolyploid individual
Related terms: allosyndetic
allosyndetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to allosyndesis
alveograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alveographs
Senses: glosses: A device that measures the strength of flour by measuring the elasticity of dough made from it in a standard procedure
Related terms: alveographic
alveographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alveograph
Inaccessible Island rail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Inaccessible Island rails
Etymology: After Inaccessible Island in the Tristan Archipelago in the isolated south Atlantic.
Senses: synonyms: Inaccessible rail
glosses: Atlantisia rogersi, a small flightless bird of the rail family.
wikipedia: Inaccessible Island
Tristan Archipelago
Inaccessible Island rails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Inaccessible Island rail
ametoctradin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A particular triazolopyrimidine fungicide
amicrofilaraemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + microfilaraemic.
Senses: glosses: Not microfilaraemic
amoebazoan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of amoebozoan.
angrographolide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of andrographolide.
anhydroprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anhydro- + protectant.
Senses: glosses: That protects from the effects of dehydration
anhydroprotectant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anhydroprotectants
Etymology: From anhydro- + protectant.
Senses: glosses: Such a material, typically a sugar
anhydroprotectants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhydroprotectant
anisodiametrically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From an- + isodiametrically or aniso- + diametrically.
Senses: glosses: In an anisodiametric manner
anomocytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anomo- + -cytic.
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Having anomalous (irregularly shaped) cells
antecostal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ante- + costal.
Senses: glosses: Relating to an antecosta
antecosta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antecostas
form: antecostae
Senses: glosses: An internal ridge, near the anterior margin of a dorsal or ventral plate of the primitive segment of an arthropod, to which muscles are attached
Related terms: antecostal
Oprahesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Oprahesque
form: most Oprahesque
Etymology: From Oprah + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Oprahish.
synonyms: word: Oprahish
air puff test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air puff tests
Senses: glosses: A test that measures intraocular pressure (and hence glaucoma risk) by blowing a puff of air at the patient's cornea.
air puff tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air puff test
interimperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-imperialist
Etymology: From inter- + imperialist.
Senses: examples: text: Table 1 provides a picture of the interimperialist scramble in Korea at the turn of the century.
ref: 1976, Ellen Brun with Jacques Hersh, chapter I, in Socialist Korea: A Case Study in the Strategy of Economic Development, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, section 1, page 32:
text: After the Second International collapsed following its surrender to the inter-imperialist chauvinism of World War I, German revolutionary elements joined the Communist Party.
ref: 2004 July 1, Leslie Feinberg, “Sexual freedom vs. fascism in Germany”, in Workers World:
glosses: Between imperialists.
unpeaked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + peaked.
Senses: examples: an unpeaked cap
glosses: Not having a peak.
like an explosion in a paint factory
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Riotously colorful.
zoomingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more zoomingly
form: most zoomingly
Etymology: From zooming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With rapid or sudden motion or growth.
gristleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gristleless
form: most gristleless
Etymology: From gristle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from gristle.
barbedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more barbedly
form: most barbedly
Etymology: From barbed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a barbed manner.
barbedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From barbed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being barbed.
codeswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of codeswitch
clout chaser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clout chasers
Senses: examples: text: [To Daniel Lurie] You are very active on short-form video apps, such as Instagram, Reels, and TikTok. You post more Instagram Reels than a Gen Z clout chaser. And honestly, they’re pretty good.
ref: 2025 June 27, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, “Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: clout goblin
glosses: A person who attempts to gain political or social power and influence, especially through association or conflict with public figures.
Related terms: cloud chaser
Portrush
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Irish Port Rois.
Senses: glosses: A coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
attritionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From attritional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: By means of attrition.
unjovial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unjovial
form: most unjovial
Etymology: From un- + jovial.
Senses: glosses: Not jovial.
pipe-stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pipe-sticks
Senses: glosses: The wooden tube used as the stem of some tobacco pipes.
pipe-sticks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pipe-stick
phosphorylysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Besides hydrolysis another way is now known—phosphorylysis. Hydrolysis appears to be the chief means of splitting polysaccharides in digestion, and phosphorylysis the chief means of tissue disintegration of glycogen in animals and fungi and of starch in some plants—for example, in the germinating grains of some species of the pea.
ref: 1943, Henry Ernest Sigerist, American Review of Soviet Medicine - Volume 1, page 512:
text: Next phosphorylysis of the deoxy sugar takes place with the formation of 2-deoxy-α-D-glucose phosphate under restitution of the primer.
ref: 2005, K. F. Gotlieb, A. Capelle, Starch Derivatization: Fascinating and Unique Industrial Opportunities, →ISBN:
text: PNP (purine nuceloside phosphorylase) catalyzes the phosphorylysis of inosine, guanosine and their deoxycompounds.
ref: 2013, Chris H. De Bruyn, Purine Metabolism in Man-IV, →ISBN:
glosses: The breakdown of glucose-glucose bonds by the enzyme phosphorylase.
pupillate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pupillated
Etymology: From pupil + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: […] the anterior segments being dilated and having a large pupillate spot on either side representing the eye of the snake.
ref: 1870, The Zoologist, page 1988:
text: […] pupillate gray rings.
ref: 1971, The Moths of America North of Mexico, Including Greenland, page 129:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having a central spot of another color, like the pupil of the human eye.
phosphorylytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In principal there are two metabolic routes for the degradation of transitory starch: an amylolytic and a phosphorylytic pathway.
ref: 1997, Christine Foyer, A Molecular Approach To Primary Metabolism In Higher Plants, →ISBN:
text: There seems to be no general way, as yet, by which one can predict whether a reaction will proceed by a phosphorylytic or a pyrophosphorylytic split.
ref: 2012, Modern Methods of Plant Analysis, →ISBN:
text: Of particular significance to our discussion has been the recent discovery of the phosphorylytic cleavage of the nucleotide phosphodiesters of RNA.
ref: 2013, F. M. Burnet, W. M. Stanley, General Virology: Biochemical, Biological, and Biophysical Properties, →ISBN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Relating to phosphorylysis.
spider fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider flies
Senses: glosses: The louse fly or ked.
spider flies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spider fly
sol-faism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sol-fa + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practice of singing by syllables; solmisation.
sol-faist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sol-faists
Etymology: From sol-fa + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A teacher or advocate of sol-faism.
sol-faists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sol-faist
pen spinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You may be an ace with a Rubik's cube, or even a yo-yo champion, but have you mastered that other geek hobby? You know, pen spinning?
ref: 2008 February 1, Asami Novak, “Mastering the Art of Pen Spinning”, in Wired:
text: According to the SpinZ press releases, pen spinning is the latest craze sweeping Europe, Asia and other places where you are not.
ref: 2008, Geek Monthly - Volumes 17-22, page 80:
text: She was currently repeatedly spinning a blue pen around in her left hand, while her innocent-looking eyes were focused on the teacher, indicating that she was so proficient and used to the act of pen spinning, that not only did it seem like she could do it effortlessly, but she appeared to not even notice herself doing it at all.
ref: 2016, Lance Lichtengel, Purity Before Existence, →ISBN:
glosses: The trick of spinning a pen on the knuckles of one hand without touching it with the other hand.
pep rally
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pep rallies
Senses: examples: text: Students, whether they liked football or not, looked forward to Friday afternoons. Regular seventh period classes were let out early to hold a mass pep rally to support the team.
ref: 2010, Douglas E. Foley, Learning Capitalist Culture: Deep in the Heart of Tejas, →ISBN, page 28:
text: It was at the pep rally for UNA's first football game, their freshman year, when Mary Beth and Dwayne met.
ref: 2012, Monty Newport, Tuff Guy: The Story of a Lost and Found Dog in Alabama, →ISBN, page 31:
text: At a pep rally we were screaming and stuff and he was, “Guys quiet down or there's not going to be another pep rally”.
ref: 2017, Jane Wilkinson, Laurette Bristol, Educational Leadership as a Culturally-Constructed Practice, →ISBN:
text: The scene is Nirvana performing at a high school pep rally. The kids watching from the bleachers are the kind of kids who really hate pep rallies.
ref: 2022, Chuck Klosterman, The Nineties, New York: Penguin Press, →ISBN:
glosses: An extracurricular school activity in which students gather to express support for the school sports team before a game.
examples: text: When a service improvement process is first rolled out, the training sessions can be somewhat of a pep rally to get employees excited about the effort.
ref: 2009, Dennis Snow, Teri Yanovitch, Unleashing Excellence: The Complete Guide to Ultimate Customer Service, →ISBN:
text: In Little Old New York, there is a political pep rally at the front steps of the Bank of New York.
ref: 2010, Robert McLaughlin, Frank R. Adamo, Freedomland, →ISBN:
text: You will be amazed at how creative a small group of outstanding people can actually make the pep rally meeting more than just another staff meeting.
ref: 2010, Gary J. Borgstede, The Make It Happen Journey, →ISBN:
text: The 2004 pep rally, a company activity where employees are entertained and encouraged to do more for the company, featured a company fashion show.
ref: 2018, Veronica Manlow, Designing Clothes: Culture and Organization of the Fashion Industry, →ISBN:
glosses: A meeting or gathering for the purpose of instilling enthusiasm and motivation in attenders.
pep rallies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pep rally
-physis
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Forms: form: -physes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φύσις (phúsis, “growth, I bring forth”).
Senses: glosses: Growth or growing.
glosses: Form or structure.
-physes
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: plural of -physis
posthypophyses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of posthypophysis
EDCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EDC
my learned friend
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Senses: topics: law
synonyms: my friend
glosses: A barrister on the opposing side of a dispute; a member of opposing counsel.
Derived terms: m'learned friends
skullish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more skullish
form: most skullish
Etymology: From skull + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Moonlight caught the skullish face, became a hot flooding wax that pooled into gopher-hole eye sockets and flowed over bone and tooth, sluiced along jawline and spilled into cadaverous oblivion.
ref: 2002, Cathy Buburuz, Side Show: Tales of the Big Top and the Bizarre, page 27:
glosses: Characteristic of or somewhat resembling a skull.
Appenines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Apennines.
Appenine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Apennine.
antiphytopathogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + phytopathogenic.
Senses: glosses: That counters phytopathogens
antithermogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + thermogenic.
Senses: glosses: That counters thermogenesis
anueploid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of aneuploid.
anueploids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anueploid
anural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ʊəɹəl
Senses: glosses: Lacking a tail
glosses: Relating to the anurans
arcobacteriosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From arcobacter + -osis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A disease caused by infection with an arcobacter.
arthopod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arthropod.
arthospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arthrospore.
arthothelin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of xanthenones, based on 2,4,5-trichloro-1,3,6-trihydroxy-8-methylxanthen-9-one, present in lichen.
xanthenone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xanthenones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The compound 9-oxo-xanthene that is the basis of many natural products and insecticides
arthrocopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of arthroscopic.