cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
as a lamb to the slaughter
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 53:7:
glosses: Alternative form of like a lamb to the slaughter.
golden ticket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golden tickets
Etymology: From golden + ticket; from golden referring to something valuable or desirable and ticket as something necessary for obtaining something. Popularized by the winning tickets in Roald Dahl's 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Senses: examples: text: So the Harvard diploma is now, more than ever, a golden ticket to a certain kind of success.
ref: 1998, Harvard Magazine, Volume 101, page 67:
text: The shiny brass trumpet that Pop bought was his golden ticket out of Poorville and onto the streets of the three F's Fame, Fortune and Freedom.
ref: 2006, Ange Picillo, How I Became the President of the Self-Centered Club for Men, page 2:
text: A staffer handed me the coveted golden ticket, indicating that I had been invited to Hollywood, and I danced out the door.
ref: 2010, Melinda Doolittle, Ken Abraham, Beyond Me, ZONDERVAN, unnumbered page:
glosses: A qualification, person or thing that can provide positive opportunities.
wikipedia: Roald Dahl
non-starter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-starters
Etymology: From non- + starter.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something who was listed to start in a race, but did not start in the race.
examples: text: Whatever is decided, it is clear that Crossrail 2 must be regarded as a non-starter for the foreseeable future.
ref: 2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, in Rail, page 76:
glosses: Something that is destined to fail from the outset; an impractical scheme.
glosses: An idea or argument that cannot be sensibly debated.
Related terms: no go
pinch-hits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pinch-hit
lightsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līt'səm
ipa: /ˈlaɪtsəm/
rhymes: -aɪtsəm
Forms: form: more lightsome
form: most lightsome
Etymology: From Middle English lightsum, equivalent to light (“bright”, adjective) + -some (suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: While in their mothers wombe enclosd they were, / Ere they into the lightsom world were brought, / In fleshly lust were mingled both yfere […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
text: This said, the smoky cloud was cleft and torn, / Which like a veil upon them stretched lay, // And up to open heav'n forthwith was borne, / And left the prince in view of lightsome day.
ref: 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, X, xlix
text: There came a day when he remembered the moment, when he regretted that he had not ridden off into the buoyant midst of these lightsome elements.
ref: 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 105:
text: If any find it incredible that Ida be even outwardly so lightsome that she saw clearly in the night, let them answer this question.
ref: 2006, Goswin (of Bossut.), Martinus Cawley, Send me God
text: The literal sense of the Greek is: “If therefore thy whole body is lightsome, having no part darksome, thy whole body will be lightsome, as when the lamp lightens thee with its flashing.”
ref: 2009, David Rooney, The wine of certitude:
glosses: Characterised by light; luminous; emitting or manifesting light; radiant.
Derived terms: word: lightsomely
word: lightsomeness
lightsome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līt'səm
ipa: /ˈlaɪtsəm/
rhymes: -aɪtsəm
Forms: form: more lightsome
form: most lightsome
Etymology: From light (“not heavy”, adjective) + -some (suffix forming adjectives). Cognate with Middle High German līhtsam, modern German leichtsam.
Senses: glosses: Characterised by lightness of weight, not heavy; nimble, active.
examples: text: Reality is lightsome, that is, light and graceful.... Moreover, the play, the lightsome character of reality, would be misunderstood if this dimension were to be severed from what really makes a play a play, [...]
ref: 1983, Raimon Panikkar, The Vedic experience:
text: When I was of your youth, I was lightsome and quick two years before I was married.
ref: 1999, Thomas Middleton, David M. Bevington, Kathleen McLuskie, Plays on women - Page 69:
glosses: Upbeat; cheery; light graceful.
Derived terms: word: lightsomely
word: lightsomeness
authour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: authours
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of author.
Derived terms: authouress
authourship
mispronounced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispronounce
mispronounced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Pronounced incorrectly.
mispronouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispronounce
mispronouncing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mispronouncings
Senses: examples: frequent mispronouncings of difficult words
glosses: mispronunciation
mispronounces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispronounce
mismeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈmɛʒə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: mismeasures
form: mismeasuring
form: mismeasured
form: mismeasured
Etymology: From mis- + measure.
Senses: glosses: To measure incorrectly or inaccurately.
mismeasure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈmɛʒə(ɹ)/
Etymology: From mis- + measure.
Senses: glosses: mismeasurement
mismeasures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mismeasure
mismeasuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mismeasure
mismeasured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mismeasure
modulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of modulation
mortised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The mortised joint was very strong.
glosses: Having or using a mortise.
Derived terms: unmortised
mortised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mortise
mortising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mortise
mortises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortise
mortises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mortise
mortise-and-tenon joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortise-and-tenon joints
Senses: examples: text: A keyed mortise-and-tenon joint is constructed the same as a doweled mortise and tenon joint except that the tenon projects far enough through the mortise to admit the insertion of a tapering key which draws the mortised piece firmly against the shoulder of the tenon.
ref: 1918, Herman Frederick Rusch, Shop Work, Joinery-cabinet-making-carpentry, Chicago, Illinois, United States: University of Chicago Press, page 56:
topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: A joint made by inserting a projecting tenon into a mortised slot.
mortise-and-tenon joints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mortise-and-tenon joint
librate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: librates
form: librating
form: librated
form: librated
Etymology: First attested in 1623; borrowed from Latin lībrātus, perfect passive participle of lībrō (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from lībra (“a balance”).
Senses: examples: text: The currently observed orbital resonances at the 2:1 mean motion commensurabilities involving Io-Europa and Europa-Ganymede are such that the resonance variables #92;theta#95;1#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;1 and #92;theta#95;3#61;#92;lambda#95;2-2#92;lambda#95;3#43;#92;omega#95;2 librate about 0° and #92;theta#95;2#61;#92;lambda#95;1-2#92;lambda#95;2#43;#92;omega#95;2 librates about 180°, all with small amplitude.
ref: 2002 October 18, S. J. Peale, Man Hoi Lee, “A Primordial Origin of the Laplace Relation Among the Galilean Satellites”, in Science, volume 298, number 5593, →DOI, page 594:
text: Their parts all librate on too nice a beam.
ref: 1796, William Cliffton, The Group:
glosses: To oscillate (like the beam of a balance).
examples: text: Her playful Sea-horse […] His watery way with waving volutes wins, / Or listening librates on unmoving fins.
ref: 1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 138:
glosses: To be poised; to balance oneself.
glosses: To place in a balance; to weigh.
Related terms: libration
librate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlaɪbɹeɪt/
Forms: form: librates
Etymology: From Medieval Latin lībrāta, from Latin lībra (“pound”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of land having a value of one pound per year.
reconnoitring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reconnoitre
reconnoitring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reconnoitrings
Senses: examples: text: Circuits then are always made within the line of the troops, and it is in this particular, that circuits differ from discoveries and reconnoitrings.
ref: 1809, William Duane, The American military library:
glosses: An act of reconnaissance.
motherboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motherboard
reconnoitres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reconnoitre
reconnoitred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reconnoitre
rhombuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhombus
Related terms: rhombi
motored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of motor
motored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: a twin-motored biplane
glosses: Having a motor or motors.
Derived terms: bimotored
multimotored
non-motored
rib-cage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rib-cages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of rib cage.
rib-cages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rib-cage (alternative spelling of ribcages).
mousetraps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mousetrap
mousetraps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mousetrap
ribosomal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ribosomal
form: most ribosomal
Etymology: From ribosome + -al.
Senses: synonyms: ribosomic
glosses: Of or relating to ribosomes.
Derived terms: extraribosomal
multiribosomal
nonribosomal
postribosomal
ribosomally
ribosomal ribonucleic acid
ribosomal RNA
subribosomal
mufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffler
multiplications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplication
multidimensionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multidimensionalities
Etymology: From multidimensional + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: In reality, the multidimensionality of language contact in multilingual environments ensures no such neat compartmentalisation.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “A multitude of ‘lishes’: The nomenclature of hybridity”, in English World-Wide, page 9:
glosses: The property or state of being multidimensional.
multilayered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more multilayered
form: most multilayered
form: multi-layered
Etymology: From multi- + layered.
Senses: examples: text: Nagle explains that the contemporary disapproval of the title is due to a multilayered pejoration inherent in the term Hobson-Jobson.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “A Much Tortured Expression: A New Look At `Hobson-Jobson'”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 27, number 1, page 58:
glosses: Having more than one layer.
Derived terms: multilayeredness
multivaluedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multivalued + -ness.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The property of being multivalued.
murkier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of murky: more murky
mushers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of musher
nanometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanometer
NACA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
supervisory board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supervisory boards
Senses: glosses: A group of people chosen by the shareholders of a company to promote their interests through the governance of the company and to hire and supervise the executive directors and CEO.
futures market
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: futures markets
Senses: topics: business
economics
finance
sciences
trading
glosses: An exchange in which one can trade on commodities or financial instruments at a specified price for delivery at a specified future time.
Synonyms: futures exchange
linseed oil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: linseed oils
Senses: hypernyms: seed oil
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vegetable oil
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oil
coordinate_terms: flaxseed oil[#Usage notes|notes]]>
olive oil
palm oil
;
more
glosses: An oil, extracted from flax seeds (and usually then boiled), used as a drying agent in paints, varnishes, etc.
monoclinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- (“one”) + κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: bisexual.
tropical storm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tropical storms
Senses: examples: text: Janice was a tropical depression 10 days ago, a tropical storm 5 days ago, and a hurricane yesterday and today.
hypernyms: tropical cyclone
<
cyclone
storm
coordinate_terms: word: tropical depression
english: milder
translation: milder
word: ;
english: stronger
translation: stronger
word: hurricane
word: typhoon
word: cyclone
glosses: A cyclone within the tropics that has a certain range of wind speeds, typically having its thunderclouds organized in a spiral shape with wind speeds on the surface between about 30 and 75 miles (60–120 km) per hour.
diclinous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From di- (“two”) + κλίνη (klínē, “bed”) + -ous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: unisexual.
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: diclinic
Related terms: diclinism
monoclinous
twice removed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The cousin of my grandmother is my first cousin twice removed.
glosses: Separated by two generations of descent
raw_tags: of cousins
Royal Air Force
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The air force of the British armed forces
Synonyms: RAF
albinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more albinistic
form: most albinistic
Etymology: From albino + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or affected by, albinism.
annual ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: annual rings
Senses: synonyms: growth ring
tree ring
glosses: The layer of wood, observed as one of many concentric rings when cut, formed during one year of a plant's growth
Liga
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: La Liga
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The highest division of professional football in Spain.
appt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: appts
Senses: related: word: appt.
glosses: Abbreviation of appointment.
appt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: appts
form: appting
form: appted
form: appted
Senses: examples: text: Clevenson has been appted as director of Spring Media Outreach effective Sep 19.
glosses: Abbreviation of appoint.
hoppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An traditional annual fair, usually at Whitsuntide, formerly associated with livestock markets.
hoppings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopping
petty larceny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petty larcenies
form: petit larceny
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A misdemeanor larceny; an act of theft wherein the amount stolen is insufficient to constitute grand larceny.
line dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line dances
form: linedance
form: line-dance
Senses: glosses: A dance in which a group of people perform the same dance moves synchronously while in one or more lines.
petty larcenies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petty larceny
loggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of logger
microfilament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmaɪkrəʊˌfɪləmənt/
Forms: form: microfilaments
Etymology: From micro- + filament.
Senses: synonyms: actin filament
glosses: A thin filament made of the protein actin and found in cells; part of the cytoskeleton.
Related terms: microtubule
microfilaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microfilament
moot points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moot point
midwifes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of midwife
midwiving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of midwife
midwifing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: midwiving
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of midwife
midwived
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of midwife
midwifed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of midwife.
PEMDAS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: An acronym used by mathematics students to remember the order of operations: parentheses, then exponents, then multiplication and division, then addition and subtraction.
Synonyms: please excuse my dear Aunt Sally
BODMAS
BOMDAS
BEDMAS
motets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of motet
multitalented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌmʌltiˈtæləntɪd/
Forms: form: more multitalented
form: most multitalented
Etymology: From multi- + talented.
Senses: examples: text: The multitalented Ben Franklin accomplished enough to have made three men famous.
glosses: Having skill or talent in more than one field.
neater
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of neat: more neat
neatest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of neat: most neat
needfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English nedfulnes; equivalent to needful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being needful or necessary; necessity.
nestlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nestling
nestmate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nestmates
Etymology: From nest + mate.
Senses: examples: text: The baby bird may snuggle with its nestmates for warmth but when food is offered they are strict competitors.
glosses: One with which a nest is shared, such as a baby bird and its siblings or figuratively a child with children it is raised with.
nestmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nestmate
Swiss German
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swiss-German
Senses: examples: text: Today, it is probably true to say that both varieties have positive prestige but for different reasons and to differing extents: attitudes to Swiss German, as the unifying vernacular that gives the German-Swiss their identity, are positive in every respect, while Swiss standard German enjoys widespread prestige only as a written form that enables them to be part of the international German-speaking community […].
ref: 1990, Stephen Barbour, Patrick Stevenson, Variation in German: A Critical Approach to German Sociolinguistics, page 213:
text: We do not intend this book to serve as a complete course in Swiss German; rather, it serves as a supplement to those studying the language in a more formal way.
ref: 2004, Harald Fuchs, Paul G. Schreier, Züritüütsch isch aifach schön, page xi:
glosses: The varieties of Alemannic German spoken in Switzerland.
glosses: Any local form of the German language used in Switzerland; Swiss Standard German.
Swiss German
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss Germans
form: Swiss-German
Senses: glosses: A German-speaking person from Switzerland.
Swiss German
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Swiss German
form: most Swiss German
form: Swiss-German
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to the German-speaking part of Switzerland.
examples: text: Two years ago, there was an uproar in the local media after Coop ran an advertising campaign that used the High German word for "to barbecue", grillen, rather than the Swiss German grillieren.
ref: 2014 February 14, Philip Oltermann, The Guardian:
glosses: Of or relating to one or all of the languages.
Related terms: Alemannic
Swiss Standard German
neurophysiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurophysiologies
Etymology: From neuro- + physiology.
Senses: examples: text: This relationship between language and sexuality, oral and genital, has been elaborated in recent research in neurophysiology.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 17:
topics: medicine
neuroscience
physiology
sciences
glosses: The branch of physiology that deals with the nervous system.
Derived terms: pathoneurophysiology
neurophysiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurophysiologists
Etymology: From neuro- + physiologist.
Senses: glosses: A scientist who studies neurophysiology.
neurophysiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neurophysiologist
newsreels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of newsreel
nippled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nipple + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having (a specific type or number of) nipples.
Derived terms: benippled
unnippled
nomograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nomogram
nomograms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nomogram
nuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nuzzle
nuzzles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nuzzle
nuzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nuzzle
nuzzling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuzzlings
Senses: examples: text: Despite the animals' friendly nuzzlings, Cotter finally chased them off with a broom.
ref: 1995, Rose Houk, Sandra Scott, Tuzigoot National Monument, page 15:
glosses: The act of one who nuzzles.
nuzzled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nuzzle
obtrudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obtrude
obtruding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more obtruding
form: most obtruding
Derived terms: unobtruding
obtruding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obtrude
obtruding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obtrudings
Senses: examples: text: Unless the world be bedlam-mad in proud obtrudings of their own conceits, methinks such a wary, humble man should offend but few, and better keep both his own and the church's peace than others.
ref: 1689, Richard Baxter, A treatise of knowledge and love compared in two parts:
glosses: An obtrusion; the act of something that obtrudes.
obtruded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obtrude
octahedrons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octahedra
Senses: glosses: plural of octahedron
odorizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorizers
form: odoriser
Etymology: From odorize + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device to add odor to a gas.
Related terms: odorize
odoriser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: odorisers
Etymology: From odorise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of odorizer.
odorisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odoriser
secundarius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin secundarius.
Senses: glosses: A lay vicar.
odorizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of odorizer
odorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: odorizes
form: odorizing
form: odorized
form: odorized
Etymology: From odor + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To add an odorant to (especially a gas, so that leaks can be more easily detected).
Synonyms: word: aromatize
word: odorize
word: scent
Hypernyms: word: imbue
word: steep
word: tinge
Hyponyms: word: fume
word: incense
word: musk
word: perfume
Derived terms: reodorize
Related terms: odorization
odorizer
odorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of odorize
odorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of odorize
odorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of odorize
odorized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by addition of an odorant
Derived terms: unodorized
oilrig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oilrigs
Etymology: From oil + rig.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oil rig.
oil rig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oil rigs
Etymology: From oil + rig.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: (broadly synonymous) drill rig, drilling rig, oil platform
related: word: oilrig
glosses: A rig, consisting of platform and machinery, used to drill for oil and other petroleum products like natural gas.
oil rigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oil rig
oilrigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oilrig
omnibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of omnibus
omnibuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of omnibus
new-found
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of newfound.
onesidedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From onesided + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of one-sidedness.
onesided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more onesided
form: most onesided
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of one-sided.
otoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of otoscope
optimality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: optimalities
Etymology: From optimal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The property of being optimal.
Derived terms: nonoptimality
optimality theoretical
optimality theory
Pareto optimality
Schur-optimality
sub-optimality
stay-at-home
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stay at home
Senses: examples: text: stay-at-home dad
text: Ms. Andrews is forthright about her distress. “Jonathan’s eating habits have irritated me for years anyway and have only been exacerbated during the last six or seven weeks of him working from home,” said Ms. Andrews, 53, a stay-at-home parent who lives just outside London, in Surrey.
ref: 2020 May 25, Abby Ellin, “Couples Who Eat Together May Not Stay Together”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2020:
glosses: Of a parent: not employed and rather devoting more time to one's children.
examples: text: stay-at-home orders
text: In April Jenny Rappaport sat down to inspect her calendar because she could not tell how many days had passed since New Jersey’s stay-at-home order took effect.
ref: 2020 May 27, Jackie Rocheleau, “A Monday Is a Tuesday Is a Sunday as COVID-19 Disrupts Internal Clocks”, in Scientific American, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2020:
glosses: Of rules or regulations: forbidding the populace to leave their domicile except under emergency or other special circumstances, especially for purposes of quarantine.
examples: text: the stay-at-home era
text: stay-at-home boredom
glosses: Of or relating to quarantine in the home.
examples: text: He was a seaman, but he was a wanderer too, while most seamen lead, if one may so express it, a sedentary life. Their minds are of the stay-at-home order, and their home is always with them—the ship; and so is their country—the sea.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 195, column 1:
glosses: Not ever travelling or moving far from home.
topics: hobbies
ice-hockey
lifestyle
skating
sports
glosses: Playing very defensively; not leaving the defensive zone early.
world-renowned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Compound of world + renowned.
Senses: examples: text: The feisty wife of a world-renowned Russian sculptor emasculated an armed thug outside her Soho home — saying he “didn’t have the cojones to shoot her,” police sources said yesterday.
ref: 2013 July 10, Daniel Prendergast, “‘You don’t have the cojones’: 54-year-old woman fronts up to would-be muggers who pointed gun at her chest”, in New York Post, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2016:
synonyms: world-famous
glosses: Of worldwide renown; known and respected internationally.
whizzkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whizzkids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whiz kid.
whiz kid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whiz kids
form: whizkid
form: whiz-kid
form: whizz kid
form: whizzkid
Senses: examples: text: “You were always good at literature. No wonder you were the whiz kid copywriter.”
ref: 2018, Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body, Faber & Faber (2020), page 292:
glosses: A brilliant or accomplished young person.
Synonyms: child prodigy
Related terms: quiz kid
unsurpassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsurpassable
form: most unsurpassable
Etymology: From un- + surpassable.
Senses: examples: text: On either side of them, as they glided onwards, the rich meadow-grass seemed that morning of a freshness and a greenness unsurpassable. Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
ref: 1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:
synonyms: insurpassable
glosses: Not surpassable; unable to be surpassed.
surpassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more surpassable
form: most surpassable
Etymology: From surpass + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be surpassed; able to be overcome.
overpoweringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overpoweringly
form: most overpoweringly
Etymology: From overpowering + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overpowering manner.
intenseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intensenesses
Etymology: From intense + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being intense; intensity.
bombardments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombardment
undisguisedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undisguisedly
form: most undisguisedly
Etymology: From undisguised + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undisguised manner; openly.
spiritedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more spiritedly
form: most spiritedly
Etymology: From spirited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a spirited manner; with spirit; enthusiastically.
guilelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡaɪl.lɪs.nɪs/
Etymology: From guileless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: They'd say he was operating behind a screen of guilelessness and was a superhypocrite.
ref: 1987, Saul Bellow, More Die of Heartbreak:
text: You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly impossible task of doing something new with the zombie subgenre. And by blending it with the common YA trope of a young female protagonist who leads the world into a new revolutionary era, they almost get there—largely thanks to newcomer Nanua, who presents her character’s grappling with complex themes of identity and original sin with a childlike guilelessness.
ref: 2017 February 23, Katie Rife, “The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: The characteristic of being guileless; honesty.
foreshortening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: foreshortenings
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A technique for creating the appearance that the object of a drawing is extending into space by shortening the lines with which that object is drawn.
glosses: A similar contracted appearance in film or photography, etc.
foreshortening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of foreshorten
orchestras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orchestra
ordaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ordain
ordains
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ordain
orientations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orientation
origamist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɔɹɪˈɡɑmɪst/
Forms: form: origamists
Etymology: From origami + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who does origami.
origamists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of origamist
outclasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outclass
outclassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outclass
outclassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outclass
outfitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfit
outfitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outfittings
Senses: glosses: A furnishing or accoutrement.
outlives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪvz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outlive
outliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outlive
outperformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outperform
outperforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outperform
outperforms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outperform
outpaced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outpace
outpaces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outpace
outreaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outreach
outreaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outreach
outstrips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outstrip
outstripped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outstrip
overblow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overblows
form: overblowing
form: overblew
form: overblown
Etymology: From over- + blow (“to flower, bloom”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with blossoms or flowers.
overblow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overblows
form: overblowing
form: overblew
form: overblown
Etymology: From Middle English overblowen, equivalent to over- + blow.
Senses: glosses: To blow over or across.
glosses: To blow away; dissipate by or as by wind.
examples: text: if you do print the DUI story and sensationalize and overblow it
ref: 2006, Jock Lauterer, Community Journalism: Relentlessly Local:
glosses: To exaggerate the significance of something.
examples: text: The upper octaves of the flute's compass are produced by overblowing.
ref: 1909, Leander Jan Bekker, Stokes' Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To blow a wind instrument (typically a whistle, recorder or flute) hard to produce a higher pitch than usual.
examples: text: The oboe overblows at the octave; the clarinet at the twelfth.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Of a wind instrument, to move from its lower to its higher register.
examples: text: Finding it was like to overblow, we took in our Sprit-ſail, and ſtood by to hand the Fore-ſail; but making foul Weather, we look'd the Guns were all faſt, and handed the Miſſen.
ref: 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 151:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Of the wind: to blow very hard, often resulting in ships unable to carry full sail.
examples: text: But art thou not drown'd, Stephano? I hope now thou are / not drown'd. Is the storm overblown?
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
glosses: To blow over; pass over; pass away.
Derived terms: overblower
overblows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overblow
overblowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overblow
overblew
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overblow
overdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overdose
overdoses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overdose
overdosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overdose
overdosing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdosings
Senses: examples: text: Much information of this kind lay ready to his hand in the narratives of poisonings and overdosings contained in medical literature.
ref: 1873, Monthly Homoeopathic Review, volume 17, page 690:
glosses: An excessively large dose.
overplays
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overplay
overplaying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overplay
overplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overplay
overplayed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overplayed
form: most overplayed
Senses: glosses: Played too frequently.
overdesigned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overdesigned
form: most overdesigned
Etymology: From over- + designed.
Senses: examples: text: This is the most overdesigned version yet. It can survive a 100-foot fall and can pick up satellite radio; which is kind of overkill for a disposable razor.
text: The book is unquestionably fashionable: the hot pink cover, littered with bell hooksian typography, opens to reveal overdesigned pages full of the trendiest graphics […]
ref: 1999, New Art Examiner, volume 26, numbers 5-10, page 67:
glosses: Having undergone excessive design, leading to complicatedness or an unnecessary degree of capability and durability.
overspray
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌspɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvə(ɹ)ˈspɹeɪ/
Forms: form: oversprays
Etymology: From over- + spray.
Senses: glosses: In spray painting, the spray that goes outside the area being painted (necessary to ensure coverage at the edge).
Derived terms: overspray surface texture
overspray
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoʊvə(ɹ)ˌspɹeɪ/
ipa: /ˌoʊvə(ɹ)ˈspɹeɪ/
Forms: form: oversprays
form: overspraying
form: oversprayed
form: oversprayed
Etymology: From over- + spray.
Senses: glosses: To produce overspray when spray painting.
oversteps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overstep
overspecify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈspɛsɪˌfaɪ/
Forms: form: overspecifies
form: overspecifying
form: overspecified
form: overspecified
Etymology: From over- + specify.
Senses: examples: text: The customer overspecified the requirements and now we're contractually required to build it this way. Does he think he's an engineer?
text: Manufacturers of sponge-rubber products have noted a tendency for designers and other users to overspecify.
ref: 1949, “Sponge Rubber”, in Walter E. Burton, editor, Engineering with Rubber, 1st edition, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 389:
text: First, the study group discovered a tendency in the current system to overspecify a billet. For example, to write a billet for a laboratory technician, one could specify rate and rating, as an HM1, one could specify E-6 and NEC-8506, or one could specify both. Obviously, this sort of procedure creates distribution problems which could compound.
ref: 1975, John Whittet, “We Need NEOCS”, in All Hands, number 698, page 50:
glosses: To specify in excessive detail.
examples: text: As usual the customer overspecified the requirements, it's like asking for a car that seats 20 and fits in a compact car's parking space.
text: Design your mobile water supply apparatus around the chassis that you intend to use. Don’t overspecify or underspecify the unit.
ref: 1991 April 1, Gene P. Carlson, “NFPA 1903: Mobile Water Supply Apparatus”, in Fire Engineering:
glosses: To specify excessive capability.
examples: text: An overspecified truth table contains at least one decision that will never be executed because it is already specified in a previous decision...
text: A noun phrase is overspecified when it is used in a context where a pronoun would have been unambiguous.
glosses: To provide redundant or inconsistent information.
Related terms: overspecification
overspecifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overspecify
overspecifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overspecify
overspecified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overspecify
overstimulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overstimulations
form: over-stimulation
Etymology: From over- + stimulation.
Senses: examples: text: Something has to change
Undeniable dilemma
Boredom's not a burden anyone should bear
Constant over-stimulation numbs me
But I would not want you any other way
ref: 1996, “Stinkfist”, performed by Tool:
glosses: Excessive stimulation.
foreshortens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foreshorten
A/S
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Abbreviation of after service
Senses: glosses: Maintenance service provided after the sale of a product
peccadilloes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peccadillos
Senses: glosses: plural of peccadillo
delineations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delineation
translatorese
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translator + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Stilted or unidiomatic language produced by automated translation.
Synonyms: translatese
translationese
bludgeoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bludgeoners
Etymology: From bludgeon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: If one is stopped on the highway, one would rather hand one's purse over to a courteous knight than to the rough-and-ready bludgeoner.
ref: 1898, Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, The Dial: A Semi-monthly Journal of Literary Criticism, Discussion, and Information, page 8:
text: 2007, New York Post, October 27 Puppy-Killer Gets 9 Months in Cage
An unemployed, coke-abusing dog-bludgeoner was sentenced yesterday to nine months in prison by a Manhattan Supreme Court judge who called the man's 2005 murder of his pet "unimaginable."
glosses: One who bludgeons.
Derived terms: bludger
nitrenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more nitrenoid
form: most nitrenoid
Etymology: From nitrene + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: characteristic of a nitrene
nitrenoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nitrenoids
Etymology: From nitrene + -oid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any molecular entity having the characteristics of a nitrene or acting as a source of nitrenes
tetherin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetherins
Etymology: From tether + -in.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any protein-based tether that causes retention of virions on infected cell surfaces.
phorid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phorids
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Phoridae.
Senses: synonyms: phorid fly
glosses: Any fly of the family Phoridae.
eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eeni meeni mina mo
form: eeny-meeny-miney-mo
Etymology: Compare Dutch iene miene mutte, German ene mene mu.
Senses: examples: text: “...As for this thing”, ... he held up the shuttlecock, contaminated, in his outstretched right [hand], “this idiot tickler, the only thing it's good for is eeny-meeny-miney-mo”.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 3, in A Separate Peace:
text: “Well”, said Lord Galen in some dismay, “I suppose we shall have to cast lots or play at Eeni Meeni Mina Mo?”
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber; (Avignon Quintet), published 2004, page 1252:
text: "Graham's quick reminder was crucial because I couldn't remember what anyone said. It was eeny-meany-miney-moe. Sue was miney."
ref: 2024 May 22, The Guardian, London, page 8, column 4:
qualifier: playground games
glosses: A method of choosing between two or more people or things, used by children. A child points to each item in turn (or alternately), while saying a rhyme starting "Eeny, meeny, miney, moe", moving to the next item after each word. The item pointed to on the last word of the rhyme is the one chosen.
Related terms: ip dip
tinker, tailor
duck, duck, goose
nievie-nievie-nick-nack
neurite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈn(j)ʊɹaɪt/
Forms: form: neurites
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Any projection from the body of a neuron; either a dendrite or an axon
Derived terms: intraneurite
neuritogenesis
neuritogenic
protonophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protonophores
Etymology: From proton + -o- + -phore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any ionophore that transports protons
Related terms: protonophoric