cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
corner kick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corner kicks
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A kick awarded to the attacking team when the ball leaves the field of play by wholly crossing the goal line without a goal having been scored, having last touched a player from the defending team. For the kick, the ball is placed within the corner arc closest to where it went out of play.
Synonyms: corner
Related terms: corner throw
short-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more short-handed
form: most short-handed
Senses: examples: text: His final goal was short-handed and came with less than two minutes left.
ref: 1997, John Davidson, John Steinbreder, Hockey for Dummies, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 239:
text: Pearl, holding down the hostess station, explained: “Amy's helping in the kitchen—short-handed back there. Short-handed everywhere in 7.
ref: 2003, Max Allan Collins, Cold Burn, →ISBN, page 135:
text: Short-handed games are not made for beginners. If you're contemplating taking a seat in a short-handed game, the very most important thing you need to know is exactly what the skill levels are of the players.
ref: 2003, Ken Warren, Ken Warren Teaches Texas Hold'em, →ISBN, page 374:
glosses: Alternative form of shorthanded.
short-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more short-handed
form: most short-handed
Senses: examples: text: The present Section, where the vessel sails short-handed, permits the payment of shorthand pay, but there is a clause in that contract which hoists it if the vessel sailing short-handed is due to the misconduct of any crew member.
ref: 1953, The Labour Gazette - Volume 53, Issue 10, page 1481:
glosses: Alternative form of shorthanded.
interrupting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: I didn't know I was interrupting his nap.
glosses: present participle and gerund of interrupt
Books of Moses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Books of Moses
form: Five Books of Moses
Etymology: From the traditional view that the Pentateuch was authored by Moses, now rejected by most scholars.
Senses: glosses: The first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
Synonyms: the Law
Pentateuch
Torah
Hyponyms: Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
embarras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒmbəˈɹɑː/
Forms: form: embarras
Etymology: From French embarras.
Senses: examples: text: I […] envy & sympathise—being in all sorts of embarrass now, myself, over the finish of many things.
ref: 1906, Henry James, letter, 17 November
glosses: Embarrassment; confusion, uncertainty.
examples: text: [O]ne day in his way to the opera, his chariot was stopped by an embarras in the street, occasioned by two peasants, who having driven their carts against each other, quarrelled, and went to loggerheads on the spot.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
glosses: An embarrassment; an obstacle or hindrance.
glosses: Embarrassment; intense social awkwardness.
glosses: A clump of driftwood obstructing a waterway.
to the gills
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: He came in with a suitcase, packed to the gills with samples and demonstration products.
text: It’s a film that is utterly maximalist, stuffed to the gills with gadgets, gimmicks, ideas both good and bad. An exhausting, exhilarating watch.
ref: 2017 September 19, Gwilym Mumford, “Kingsman: The Golden Circle review – spy sequel reaches new heights of skyscraping silliness”, in the Guardian:
synonyms: word: all the way
word: from soup to nuts
word: in excelsis
word: to the backbone
word: to the bone
word: to the brim
word: to the core
word: to the fullest
word: to the full
word: to the gills
word: to the gunnels
word: to the hilt
word: to the max
word: to the nines
word: to the nth degree
word: to the tonsils
word: to the top of one's bent
word: top to bottom
word: up to eleven
glosses: Entirely or extremely; to the greatest degree possible.
Derived terms: sloshed to the gills
pyromucic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: furoic acid
furfural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɝfjəˌɹæl/
ipa: /ˈfɝfəˌɹæl/
Forms: form: furfurals
Etymology: From Latin furfur (“bran”) + -al.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A heterocyclic aldehyde derivative of furan, obtained commercially from bran, with several industrial uses.
Derived terms: furan
furfuraldehyde
hydroxymethylfurfural
pyrosulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosulphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrosulfate.
Levi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈliː.vaɪ/
Forms: form: Levy
Etymology: Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew לֵוִי (Leví), of uncertain origin. Doublet of Lewi.
Senses: examples: text: Now the sons of Jacob were twelve: ²³ The sons of Leah; Reuben, Jacob's firstborn, and Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Zebulun: ²⁴ The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin: ²⁵ And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali: ²⁶ And the sons of Zilpah, Leah's handmaid; Gad, and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, which were born to him in Padan-aram.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 35:22b-26:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The third son of Jacob, by his wife Leah.
examples: text: But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance: the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 13:33:
glosses: One of the Biblical tribes of Israelites, supposedly descended from Levi, the tribe from which priests were selected.
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
glosses: A Jewish surname from Hebrew.
Derived terms: Levi-Civita field
Levi-Civita symbol
Levite
Levitical
Leviticus
Related terms: Levin
Levine
Levinson
Levison
Levite
Lewi
pyrosulfate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosulfates
form: pyrosulphate
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
pyrosulphuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of pyrosulfuric acid.
pyrosulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrosulphuric acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid, H₂S₂O₇, formed by the reaction of sulfur trioxide with sulfuric acid; used in the manufacture of explosives etc.
Synonyms: fuming sulfuric acid
oleum
Related terms: pyrosulfate
fuming sulfuric acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fuming sulphuric acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid; it contains pyrosulfuric acid, and is used in the manufacture of nitroglycerine etc.
Synonyms: oleum
oscular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oscular
form: most oscular
Etymology: From Latin ōsculum + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the mouth.
Derived terms: oscularly
Related terms: osculate
osculum
catchword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkat͡ʃwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈkæt͡ʃwɚd/
Forms: form: catchwords
Etymology: From catch + word.
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: A word under the right-hand side of the last line on a book page that repeats the first word on the following page.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: The last word of a speech, serving as a cue for the next speaker.
examples: text: One could give a long list of such intellectual fashions and catchwords which in the course of two or three generations have in turn dominated the thinking of the intellectual.
ref: 1949, F. A. Hayek, “The Intellectuals and Socialism”, in University of Chicago Law Review, volume 16, number 3, Chicago: University of Chicago, →DOI, page 424:
text: The war itself has several names, including "the famine war" (ḥarb al-majā'a) and seferberlik, a Turkish word, meaning "travel by land," that began its wartime career as a reference to "military conscription" but quickly became a catchword for all the calamities and suffering experienced by civilians.
ref: 2014 November, Najwa al-Qattan, “When mothers ate their children”, in International Journal of Middle East Studies, volume 46, number 4, →JSTOR, pages 719–736:
glosses: A word or expression repeated until it becomes representative of a party, school, business, or point of view.
Synonyms: sense: word under right-hand side
word: guide word
sense: word under right-hand side
word: custos
sense: word repeated to become representative
word: watchword
oleum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /oʊliəm/
Forms: form: oleums
Etymology: From German Oleum, from Latin oleum (“olive oil”), from Ancient Greek ἔλαιον (élaion, “olive oil”). Doublet of oil.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A solution of sulfur trioxide in sulfuric acid.
Synonyms: fuming sulfuric acid
Derived terms: oleone
Related terms: Olea
pyrosulfuric acid
sulfur trioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulphur trioxide
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A corrosive liquid, SO₃, which forms sulfuric acid on contact with water; made commercially by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide.
sulphur trioxide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of sulfur trioxide.
moiré pattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mwaˈɹeɪ ˈpætɚn/
Forms: form: moiré patterns
Etymology: From moiré + pattern.
Senses: glosses: an optical effect formed when one family of curves is superposed on another, the lines of the overlapping figures crossing at an ange less than about 45°; the moiré lines are then the locus of the points of intersection
molecular cloud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molecular clouds
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A large and relatively dense cloud of cold gas and dust in interstellar space from which new stars are formed
Hypernyms: nebula
interstellar cloud
Coordinate terms: intergalactic cloud
solar nebula
dark nebula
absorption nebula
Herbig-Haro object
Related terms: molecular core
molybdenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: molybdenites
Etymology: From molybdenum + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A mineral, molybdenum disulfide MoS₂, that is the principal ore of molybdenum; it is structurally similar to graphite and has a similar look and feel.
hemline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛmˌlaɪn/
Forms: form: hemlines
form: hem-line
Etymology: From hem + line.
Senses: glosses: The line formed by the bottom edge of a skirt, dress, or coat; hem.
examples: text: above-knee hemline
glosses: The height of this line, measured from the floor.
Coordinate terms: neckline
waistline
Derived terms: hemlined
hemline theory
monazite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monazites
Etymology: From German Monazit, from Ancient Greek μονάζω (monázō, “be solitary”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a range of reddish-brown minerals that are mixed phosphates of the lighter rare earth elements lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium and yttrium
Derived terms: monazitic
monoamine oxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: monoamine oxidases
form: MAO
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Either of two enzymes, found in the outer membrane of mitochondria, that degrade biogenic amines and are thus responsible for the destruction of transmitter substances at neuronal synapses.
oxidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidases
Etymology: From oxide + -ase introduced by Gabriel Bertrand.
Senses: examples: text: The effects of hemoglobin in anemia and chlorosis, and even in tuberculosis, are due to its triple action; it acts opotherapeutically, through the blood oxydases, which it contains when properly prepared.
ref: 1915, “Hemoglobin in Anemia”, in American Medicine, volume 21, page 22:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of many enzymes which catalyze oxidation reactions, especially ones using molecular oxygen.
Derived terms: aldehyde oxidase
aminocyclopropanecarboxylate oxidase
antioxidase
catechol oxidase
dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase
ferroxidase
flavooxidase
monoamine oxidase
monoxidase
oxidasic
phenoloxidase
phenol oxidase
photooxidase
polyamine oxidase
protoporphyrinogen oxidase
xanthine oxidase
cacodemon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kækəˈdiːmən/
Forms: form: cacodemons
form: cacodaemon
form: cacodæmon
form: kakodæmon
form: kakodaimon
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κακοδαίμων (kakodaímōn, “ill-starred”, from κακός (kakós, “bad”) + δαίμων (daímōn, “genius, divinity”)).
Senses: glosses: An evil or malevolent spirit.
glosses: The twelfth astrological House, from which only evil prognostics are alleged to proceed.
Derived terms: cacodemonomania
Related terms: cacodaemoniacal
cacodaemonic
cacodemonic
daemon
daemonic
demon
demonic
eudaemon
pyromorphite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyromorphites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: green lead ore
glosses: A yellowish-green mineral, a mixed phosphate and chloride of lead with the chemical formula Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl that is sometimes mined as an ore.
pyromorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + -morphous.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: changing form when heated, especially forming crystals
raw_tags: of a mineral
pyromucate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyromucates
Etymology: From pyromucic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of pyromucic acid.
pyronine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyronines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from German pyronin. By surface analysis, pyrone + -ine.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of xanthene dyes used to stain RNA, especially in electrophoresis.
xanthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzænθin/
homophone: xanthine
homophone: xanthein
Forms: form: xanthenes
Etymology: Internationalism reflecting New Latin combining forms: xanth- + -ene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of tricyclic heterocycles (dibenzopyrans) that are the basis for a range of dyes such as fluorescein and eosin.
wikipedia: classical compound
Derived terms: xanthene dye
pyrophanous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- (“heat”) + -phanous.
Senses: glosses: made transparent or translucent when heated
pyrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pyrophobic
form: most pyrophobic
Etymology: From pyro- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Suffering from pyrophobia; afraid of fire.
pyrophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophobics
Etymology: From pyro- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: A person who is afraid of fire.
pyrophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophones
Etymology: From pyro- + -phone.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by flames of gas in tubes of different length
pyrophoric iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: finely powdered iron, which ignites spontaneously in air
pyrophyllite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrophyllites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A soft, pale aluminosilicate mineral, somewhat resembling talc.
pyroscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroscopes
Etymology: From pyro- + -scope.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An early form of pyrometer used to measure high temperatures.
brindled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪndəld/
Forms: form: more brindled
form: most brindled
Etymology: An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.
Senses: examples: text: The palace in a woody vale they found,
High raised of stone; a shaded space around;
Where mountain wolves and brindled lions roam,
(By magic tamed,) familiar to the dome.
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 10”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
text: All round me were tokens of a divided empire. The old grass and the new grass were striving together. In the low wet swales the verdure peeped out in vivid green ; beyond, on the mountains, lay light patches of snow, strangely relieved against their russet sides; all the humped hills looked like brindled kine in the shivers.
ref: 1853, Melville, Cock-A-Doodle-Doo!:
text: And there, in the middle of it was the man himself—his face twisted like a lost soul in torment, and his great brindled beard stuck upwards in his agony.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 982:
text: Some brindled curs hurried from beneath the houses to sniff at Flo […]
ref: 1934, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Burmese Days:
synonyms: brindlish
glosses: Of a brownish, tawny or gray colour, with streaks or spots; streaky, spotted.
Derived terms: brindled gnu
brindled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹɪndəld/
Etymology: An alteration of brinded, probably by association with speckled, grizzled etc.
Senses: examples: text: Apples, these I mean, unspeakably fair [...] - some brindled with deep red streaks like a cow, or with hundreds of fine blood-red rays running regularly from the stem-dimple to the blossom-end, like meridional lines, on a straw-colored ground, [...]
ref: 1862, Thoreau, Wild Apples: The History of the Apple Tree:
glosses: simple past and past participle of brindle
pyrouric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + uric.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: cyanuric
pyroxanthin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroxanthins
Etymology: From pyro- + xanth- + -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow, crystalline substance obtained from creosote etc; it seems to be a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon.
creosote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːəˌsəʊt/
ipa: /ˈkɹiːəˌsoʊt/
Forms: form: creosotes
Etymology: Coined in 1832 by Carl Reichenbach as German Kreosot, a learned formation from Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas, “flesh”) + σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “preserver”), after the substance's antiseptic quality. Adopted in English by 1835.
Senses: glosses: A pale yellow oily liquid, containing phenols and similar compounds, obtained by the destructive distillation of wood tar, once used medicinally.
glosses: A similar brown liquid obtained from coal tar used as a wood preservative.
examples: text: On Shaw Butte, as elsewhere in the Phoenix area, creosotes are abundant, producing a plethora of small yellow flowers in late March and April.
ref: 1994, John Alcock, Sonoran Desert Summer, page 88:
glosses: The creosote bush.
glosses: A flammable black porous brittle glassy byproduct of wood burning, typically formed inside chimneys.
Derived terms: creosol
creosotelike
cresol
creosote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹiːəˌsəʊt/
ipa: /ˈkɹiːəˌsoʊt/
Forms: form: creosotes
form: creosoting
form: creosoted
form: creosoted
Etymology: Coined in 1832 by Carl Reichenbach as German Kreosot, a learned formation from Ancient Greek κρέας (kréas, “flesh”) + σωτήρ (sōtḗr, “preserver”), after the substance's antiseptic quality. Adopted in English by 1835.
Senses: examples: text: As the fence is exposed he will creosote it for protection.
text: Agnes was leaning over the creosoted garden gate …
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, III [Uniform ed., p. 45]
glosses: To apply creosote.
Derived terms: creosoter
uncreosoted
Related terms: creosote bush
pyroxenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyroxene + -ic.
Senses: glosses: of, relating to, or containing pyroxene
pyroxenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroxenites
Etymology: From pyroxene + -ite.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A heavy, dark igneous rock consisting mostly of pyroxene minerals with smaller amounts of olivine and hornblende.
stickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: stickles
Etymology: From Middle English *stikel, *stykyl (in compounds), from Old English sticel (“a prickle, sting, goad”), from Proto-Germanic *stiklaz, *stikilaz (“sting, stinger, peak, cup, goblet”), related to the verb *stikaną (“to stick”). Cognate with Dutch stekel, Icelandic stikill, Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌹𐌺𐌻𐍃 (stikls) (whence Russian стекло́ (stekló, “glass”), Polish szkło (“glass”), Lithuanian sti̇̀klas, Romanian sticlă).
Senses: glosses: A sharp point; prickle; a spine
Derived terms: stickleback
stickly
stickle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: more stickle
form: most stickle
Etymology: From Middle English stikel, from Old English sticel, sticol (“high, lofty, steep, reaching great heights, inaccessible”), from Proto-Germanic *stikulaz, *stikkulaz (“high, steep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stick; peak”).
Senses: glosses: Steep; high; inaccessible.
glosses: High, as the water of a river; swollen; sweeping; rapid.
stickle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪk(ə)l/
rhymes: -ɪkəl
Forms: form: stickles
Etymology: From Middle English stikel, from Old English sticel, sticol (“high, lofty, steep, reaching great heights, inaccessible”), from Proto-Germanic *stikulaz, *stikkulaz (“high, steep”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to stick; peak”).
Senses: examples: text: He swam through the plying poles of the stickle, and ran over the shallow, reaching safe water before the pack came down. He was young and fast and strong.
ref: 1927, Henry William Williamson, Tarka the Otter, Chapter 19:
glosses: A shallow rapid in a river.
examples: text: [P]atient Anglers ſtanding all the day / Neere to ſome ſhallovv ſtickle or deepe bay.
ref: 1616, William Browne, “The Fifth Song”, in Britannia’s Pastorals. The Second Booke, London: […] Thomas Snodham for George Norton, […], →OCLC, page 143:
glosses: The current below a waterfall.
Cornish wrestling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of wrestling, similar to judo, traditionally practised in Cornwall.
Related terms: stickle
stickler
GUT
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GUTs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
coordinate_terms: TOE
glosses: Initialism of grand unification theory or grand unified theory.
Haupt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /haʊpt/
rhymes: -aʊpt
Etymology: German and Jewish surname, from the noun Haupt (“head”). Compare Houpt.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
brewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Etymology: From Middle English brewynge; equivalent to brew + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brew
brewing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹuːɪŋ/
rhymes: -uːɪŋ
Forms: form: brewings
Etymology: From Middle English brewynge; equivalent to brew + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The production of alcoholic beverages, such as beer, by fermentation; the process of being brewed.
glosses: The business or occupation of a brewer.
examples: text: The four last brewings, in which the quantity of yeast added was smaller than in the six first, took place during the month of May, when the heat is apt to make the fermentation run to excess.
ref: 1824, Encyclopaedia Britannica:
glosses: The quantity of a brew made in a single batch.
glosses: The forming of a storm or the gathering of clouds.
Derived terms: cabrewing
microbrewing
nonbrewing
Pfeffer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Derived terms: Pfeffer's solution
higgledy-piggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡəldiˌpɪɡəldi/
Forms: form: more higgledy-piggledy
form: most higgledy-piggledy
form: higgledypiggledy
form: hoggledy-piggledy
form: hoggledy-poggledy
form: huggledy-piggledy
Etymology: A reduplicated rhyming compound. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to pig, since the animals huddle in irregular groups, but notes that the connection is uncertain. First use appears c. 1598. The first part of the old alternative form, hoggledy-piggledy, may derive from the archaic Welsh hogldy, a hovel.
Senses: examples: text: I can't find your memo since my desk is all higgledy-piggledy.
text: The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew.
ref: 1911, H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind:
text: For many years we have all known that the executive and administrative departments of the Government in Washington are a higgledy-piggledy patchwork of duplicate responsibilities and overlapping powers.
ref: 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fireside Chat, 12 October:
text: The world is a higgledy-piggledy place, with things pleasant and unpleasant occurring in no particular sequence.
ref: 1930, Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness:
text: Breyer was not so direct, but was plainly uncomfortable with the state’s “higgledy-piggledy” reading, which he compared unfavorably to Gallardo’s request that the court interpret the provisions “consistently with the whole spirit of the thing, which is to leave the money with the Medicaid victim.”
ref: 2022, Ronald Mann, “Justices debate state’s right to take tort recoveries from Medicaid beneficiaries”, in SCOTUSblog, 01-11:
glosses: In utter disorder or confusion; mixed up.
Synonyms: sense: in disorder
word: disordered
sense: in disorder
word: disorderly
sense: in disorder
word: hugger-mugger
sense: in disorder
word: jumbled
sense: in disorder
word: topsy-turvy
sense: in disorder
word: raggle-taggle
Derived terms: higgledy
Related terms: hodgepodge
higgledy-piggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡəldiˌpɪɡəldi/
Forms: form: more higgledy-piggledy
form: most higgledy-piggledy
form: higgledypiggledy
form: hoggledy-piggledy
form: hoggledy-poggledy
form: huggledy-piggledy
Etymology: A reduplicated rhyming compound. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to pig, since the animals huddle in irregular groups, but notes that the connection is uncertain. First use appears c. 1598. The first part of the old alternative form, hoggledy-piggledy, may derive from the archaic Welsh hogldy, a hovel.
Senses: examples: text: There is no kind of arrangement as regards the buildings they are erected "higgledy-piggledy;" backs to fronts, anyhow, with narrow passages between.
ref: 1881, James Greenwood, chapter 11, in Low-Life Deeps:
glosses: In a confused, disordered, or random way.
Synonyms: sense: in a disordered way
word: willy-nilly
higgledy-piggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡəldiˌpɪɡəldi/
Forms: form: higgledy-piggledies
form: higgledypiggledy
form: hoggledy-piggledy
form: hoggledy-poggledy
form: huggledy-piggledy
Etymology: A reduplicated rhyming compound. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests a possible link to pig, since the animals huddle in irregular groups, but notes that the connection is uncertain. First use appears c. 1598. The first part of the old alternative form, hoggledy-piggledy, may derive from the archaic Welsh hogldy, a hovel.
Senses: examples: text: A Higgledy-Piggledy of Controversies and Opinions on various intereſting Subjects
ref: 1779, Thomas Medley, The Shandymonian, subtitle:
glosses: A disordered jumble; a confusion.
Synonyms: hodgepodge
higgledy-piggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɪɡəldiˌpɪɡəldi/
Forms: form: higgledy-piggledies
form: higgledypiggledy
form: hoggledy-piggledy
form: hoggledy-poggledy
form: huggledy-piggledy
Etymology: Self-reference to the form of the word higgledy-piggledy.
Senses: examples: text: Higgledy-piggledies are more sophisticated than clerihews: they comprise double dactyls and rhymes and aren't always biographical.
ref: 1980, Gyles Brandreth, The Joy of Lex, page 123:
glosses: A double-dactyl; a short poem with eight lines in dactylic meter.
examples: text: The games are a bit archaically presented, but they include palindromes, acrostics, higgledy-piggledies, anagrams, etc.
ref: 1994, Herbert Kohl, Masters' Word Game Collection, page 249:
glosses: Any of various word games using rhyming compounds or dactylic words or phrases.
higgledypiggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more higgledypiggledy
form: most higgledypiggledy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of higgledy-piggledy.
higgledypiggledy
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more higgledypiggledy
form: most higgledypiggledy
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of higgledy-piggledy.
explaining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of explain
explaining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explainings
Senses: examples: text: You've got some explaining to do!
text: Among these various explainings there is one set which it is comparatively easy to distinguish. I call it semantic explanation: making clear a meaning.
ref: 1973, Abraham Kaplan, The conduct of inquiry, page 327:
glosses: explanation
Derived terms: mansplaining
straightsplaining
unexplaining
womansplaining
naively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /naɪˈivli/
Forms: form: more naively
form: most naively
form: naïfly
form: naïvely
Etymology: From naive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a naive manner.
naïvely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more naïvely
form: most naïvely
Etymology: From naïve + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I do not want to spend long in examining the arguments for this general deprecation of sense-perception or the intellectual motives for denying all credentials to sense-perception in order to enhance those of calculation, demonstration or religious faith. I want to get quickly to the much thornier briar-patch, the place, namely, where scientific accounts of perception seem to issue in the consequential doctrine that observers, including the physiologists and psychologists themselves, never perceive what they naïvely suppose themselves to perceive.
ref: 1954, Gilbert Ryle, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures, 1953, dilemma vii: Perception, page 94 (The Syndics of the Cambridge University Press)
text: 2005 September: John H. Jenkins, The Dao of Unihan, International & Text Group, Apple Computer, Inc.
Users should not naïvely assume that learning to pronounce an East Asian language is all about learning to pronounce the individual ideographs […]
glosses: Alternative form of naively.
death toll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death tolls
Senses: examples: text: Food, clothing, bedding, and fire, were supplied in sufficient proportions to maintain life and health; and the three years of severe suffering passed over the cotton districts without any sensible increase of disease, and without increasing the frequency of the death toll.
ref: 1866, John Watts, The Facts of the Cotton Famine, page 232:
text: Fascinated by the fact that the death toll of this singular storm was the fifth highest on record as regards overall effects/death tolls for a natural disaster in the United States in the 20th century […]
ref: 2011, Angela Mason, Death Rides the Sky: The Story of the 1925 Tri-State Tornado:
glosses: The number of dead as a result of a war, natural disaster or other incident.
defeater
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈfiːtə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: defeaters
Etymology: From defeat + -er.
Senses: examples: defeater of the rebel hordes
glosses: One who defeats.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: a belief which, if proved to be true, would imply outright or indirectly that another belief were false.
pyrosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyroses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek πύρωσις (púrōsis, “burning”), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”) + -σις (-sis, verbal noun suffix).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A burning sensation in the chest due to reflux of stomach contents in the esophagus.
Synonyms: cardialgy
heartburn
reflux
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.flʌks/
Forms: form: refluxes
Senses: examples: text: […] after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco […]
ref: 1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:
synonyms: backflow
backflux
hypernyms: flow
flux
glosses: The backwards flow of any fluid.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus.
Derived terms: acid reflux
gastric reflux
gastric reflux disease
gastroesophageal reflux
hepatojugular reflux
nonreflux
refluxate
reflux condenser
yo-yo reflux
Related terms: retrograde
reflux
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiː.flʌks/
Forms: form: refluxes
form: refluxing
form: refluxed
form: refluxed
Senses: examples: text: the refluxing tide
synonyms: backflow
backflux
hypernyms: flow
flux
glosses: To flow back or return.
glosses: To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.
health warning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: health warnings
Senses: examples: text: The law requires a health warning on packets of cigarettes.
glosses: An official edict that a particular substance or activity is dangerous, or an expression of such an edict.
examples: text: As I am a member of that political party, my views must come with a health warning.
synonyms: disclaimer
glosses: An indication or admission that an opinion, statistic, etc. is to be treated with doubt or scepticism.
golf clap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf claps
Etymology: Reference to the practice, among spectators of golf, of applauding quietly so as to not distract the players.https://www.mprnews.org/story/2016/09/30/history-golf-clap
Senses: glosses: A sarcastic or humorous form of applause performed by lightly and rapidly clapping the fingers of one hand against the palm of the other, used to show indifference or disdain, or to show polite or quiet appreciation.
slave driver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slave drivers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of slave-driver.
tantalus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtæntələs/
Forms: form: tantaluses
Etymology: From Latin Tantalus, from Ancient Greek Τάνταλος (Tántalos, “Tantalus”), a Phrygian king in Greek mythology who was condemned to stand in a pool of water which receded every time he tried to drink, and with overhanging branches of fruit which pulled back whenever he tried to eat. Doublet of Tantalus.
Senses: glosses: A stork of the genus Mycteria (formerly Tantalus), especially the American wood stork, Mycteria americana.
examples: text: Yes, there was a tantalus containing brandy and whisky on the sea-chest.
ref: 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Black Peter, Norton, published 2005, page 984:
text: “A small boy, sir. Said I was to be sure and see you got it most particular.” He unlocked a cupboard near the window and produced a tantalus. “Whisky, sir, or cocktail?”
ref: 1920, Herman Cyril McNeile, chapter 1, in Bulldog Drummond:
text: And stockrooms heavy with the Tantalus
on which the family fortune has been made
ref: 1960, John Betjeman, Summoned by Bells, John Murray, page 10:
glosses: A stand in which to lock up drink decanters while keeping them visible.
examples: text: Over all, there brooded the shadow of his injuries and the tantalus of their slow healing.
ref: 1953, Ian Fleming, Casino Royale, Penguin Classics, published 2004, page 149:
glosses: Something of an evasive or retreating nature, something consistently out of reach; a tantalising thing.
Related terms: tantalize
tantalium
tantalum
Tantalus
decanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈkæntə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: decanters
Etymology: From decant + -er.
Senses: glosses: A vessel for decanting liquor.
examples: text: Pour wine into the decanter, and cork. Let the decanter down, drawing the loops out and laying them on the table top. Have a tray of small glasses alongside the decanter. When ready to introduce the experiment, step to the table, remove the glass stopper, pick up the decanter with the right hand and pour the wine into the glasses on the tray.
ref: 1902, Henry Ridgely Evans, Magic and Its Professors, page 149:
text: A decanter filled with smoke from smouldering incense.
ref: 1980 December 20, Michael Anderson, “Gays & the Occult”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 22, page 11:
glosses: A receptacle for decanted liquor, especially a crystal bottle with a stopper.
Derived terms: decanterful
electrodecanter
gross income
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gross incomes
Senses: glosses: Income generated before deducting expenses, taxes, insurance, etc.
glosses: In United States tax law, income that is subject to taxation under the Internal Revenue Code (see Internal Revenue Code 61).
Related terms: net income
my gosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: my God
my God
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: my God !
Senses: examples: text: My God! He’s only the most intelligent man in the Bible, that’s all! Who isn’t he head and shoulders over? Who? Both Testaments are full of pundits, prophets, disciples, favorite sons, Solomons, Isaiahs, Davids, Pauls — but, my God, who besides Jesus really knew which end was up?
ref: 1961, J.D Salinger, Franny and Zooey, page 170:
glosses: Alternative form of oh my God.
oh my gosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oh my gosh !
form: oh, my gosh
form: ohmygosh
form: omigosh
Senses: glosses: oh my God!
fatness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfætnəs/
rhymes: -ætnəs
Forms: form: fatnesses
Etymology: From Middle English fatnesse, fattenesse, from Old English fǣtnes (“fatness, the richest part of anything”), equivalent to fat + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Bread made of Pannick nouriſheth little, and is cold and dry, verie brittle, hauing in it neither clammineſſe, nor fatneſſe; and therefore it drieth a moiſt belly.
ref: 1597, John Gerarde [i.e., John Gerard], “Of Panick”, in The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. […], London: […] Edm[und] Bollifant, for Bonham and Iohn Norton, →OCLC, book I, page 79:
text: As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “19. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 508:
text: This fatness was Kartar Singh: it was the flesh singing, in bulging cantilenas and plump pedal-notes, a congenital and contented stupidity, a stupidity itself as positive as the sun.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 284:
glosses: The state, quality, or condition of being fat.
Derived terms: fatfluencer
Related terms: obesity
abiding place
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abiding places
Senses: examples: text: [H]e determined (with an eye rather to heart-interests than to increasing his professional practice) to make, as before, the castle itself his office, studio, and chief abiding place till the works were fairly in progress.
ref: 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter VII, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the third (De Stancy), page 143:
glosses: Alternative form of abiding-place.
pyrostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrostats
Etymology: From pyro- + -stat.
Senses: glosses: A thermostat designed to operate at high temperatures.
glosses: An automatic draught-regulator for chimney-stacks, smoke-pipes, etc.
pyroxylic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pyro- + xylic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Created by the destructive distillation of wood.
Derived terms: pyroxylic spirit
leftism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leftisms
Etymology: From left + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Belief in the principles of left-wing politics.
Derived terms: anarcho-leftism
Islamo-leftism
regressive leftism
ultraleftism
pyrrhotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪɹətaɪt/
Forms: form: pyrrhotites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A weakly magnetic ferrous sulfide mineral, FeS.
Synonyms: magnetic pyrites
Hypernyms: pyrite
pyrrhicist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrhicists
Etymology: From pyrrhiche + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who danced the pyrrhiche.
raw_tags: in Ancient Greece
longboats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longboat
pyrrolidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrolidines
Etymology: From pyrrole + -olidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of heterocyclic amines having a saturated five-membered ring; especially the parent compound of this class, C₄H₉N.
Derived terms: bepridil
ceftobiprole
glyclopyramide
piracetam
pyrovalerone
pyrrolidinium
pyrrolidinone
pyrrolidinopentiophenone
pyrrolidinyl
pyrrolidone
rolicyclidine
rolitetracycline
pyrrolidone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪɹəlɪˌdəʊn/
Forms: form: pyrrolidones
Etymology: From pyrrolidine + -one.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: any of a class of heterocyclic ketones derived from a pyrrolidine; especially 2-pyrrolidone, the simplest γ-lactam
Derived terms: polyvinyl pyrrolidone
pyrroline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pyrrolines
Etymology: From pyrrole + -ine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of three isomeric monounsaturated heterocycles having a five-membered ring and one nitrogen atom C₄H₇N; any derivative of these compounds
Derived terms: pyrrolysine
monounsaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mono- + unsaturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: having a single double or triple bond
raw_tags: of an organic compound
pyrrolysine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of pyrroline + lysine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amino acid found in methanogenic bacteria.
methanogenic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From methano- + -genic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a methanogen or to methanogenesis
glosses: Capable of producing methane
Derived terms: antimethanogenic
electromethanogenic
nonmethanogenic
left-winger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-wingers
Etymology: From left-wing + -er.
Senses: topics: government
politics
synonyms: word: leftist
word: leftie
word: lefty
word: ;
word: leftoid
antonyms: word: right-winger
word: rightist
word: rightie
word: righty
word: ;
word: rightoid
word: reich winger
word: RWNJ
hypernyms: partisan#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A person who espouses left-wing political views.
synonyms: word: leftist
word: leftie
word: lefty
word: ;
word: leftoid
antonyms: word: right-winger
word: rightist
word: rightie
word: righty
word: ;
word: rightoid
word: reich winger
word: RWNJ
hypernyms: partisan#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A member of the left wing of a party or group.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
hypernyms: player#Noun
athlete#Noun
<
person#Noun
glosses: A person who plays the position of left wing.
Related terms: left wing
left-wing
wingnut
pysanka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪsəŋkə/
Forms: form: pysankas
form: pysanky
form: pisanka
Etymology: Borrowed from Ukrainian пи́санка (pýsanka), from писа́ти (pysáty, “to write”), referring to writing on an egg with a stylus in a wax-resist dyeing process, from Proto-Slavic *pьsati, related to *pьstrъ (“feathered”), + feminine ending -ка (-ka).
Senses: synonyms: Ukrainian Easter egg
glosses: A hand-decorated Ukrainian Easter egg with intricate designs.
left-hander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: left-handers
form: lefthander
Senses: synonyms: lefty
southpaw
antonyms: right-hander
glosses: One who is left-handed.
glosses: A blow struck with the left hand.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A bend or turn to the left; a left-hand corner.
dowser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdaʊzə/
rhymes: -aʊzə(ɹ)
Forms: form: dowsers
Etymology: From dowse + -er.
Senses: synonyms: divining rod
dowsing rod
coordinate_terms: doodlebug
glosses: A divining rod used in searching for water, ore, etc.; a dowsing rod.
examples: text: Interestingly enough, John Mullins, the celebrated English dowser, was able to do this experiment using a forked twig, rather than a pendulum. He claimed to be able to locate nothing but water with his dowsing rod.
ref: 1996, Richard Webster, Dowsing for Beginners: The Art of Discovering Water, Treasure, Gold, Oil, Artifacts, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:
text: The instrument a dowser uses is called a dowsing rod, dowsing stick, doodlebug (when used to locate oil), or divining rod. Almost any item can be used for this purpose: a birch twig, a whalebone, and even a hanger.
ref: 2002, Michael Shermer, The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Google Cayce and you will find “coolhunter,” and if you look closely you may see it suggested that she is a “sensitive” of some kind, a dowser in the world of global marketing.
ref: 2003, William Gibson, Pattern Recognition (Bigend cycle; book 1), New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, page 2:
synonyms: rhabdomantist
rhabdomancer
radiesthesist
water diviner
waterfinder
glosses: One who uses the dowser or divining rod. A diviner.
Related terms: rhabdomancy
imposters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imposter
unilateral contract
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unilateral contracts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: An agreement in which an offeror's offer can be accepted only by the performance of an act by the offeree; a "promise for a performance".
gate receipts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The amount of money earned by selling tickets for a concert or a sports event.