cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
representamen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹɛp.ɹə.zɛnˈteɪ.mən/
enpr: rĕp'-rə-zĕn-tāʹ-mən
rhymes: -eɪmən
Forms: form: representamens
form: representamina
Etymology: From Latin repraesentamen.
Senses: examples: text: The Leibnitzio-Wolfians distinguish three acts in the process of representative cognition: — 1° the act of representing a (mediate) object to the mind; 2° the representation, or, to speak more properly, representamen, itself as an (immediate or vicarious) object exhibited to the mind; 3° the act by which the mind is conscious, immediately of the representative object, and, through it, mediately of the remote object represented.
ref: 1861, Sir William Hamilton, The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton, page 318:
text: A sign, or representamen, is something which stands to somebody for something in some respect or capacity.
ref: circa''' 1897: Charles Sanders Peirce [aut.] and Justus Buchler [ed.], Philosophical Writings of Peirce, chapter 7: “Logic as Semiotic: The Theory of Signs”, § 1: “What is a Sign? Three Divisions of Logic”, page 99 (from a circa 1897 manuscript (CP 2.227–9), first published in the 1940 selection The Philosophy of Peirce: Selected Writings, and later reprinted sic in 1955 by Dover Publications, Inc., New York; →ISBN, 9780486202174)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semiotics
glosses: A representation; a thing serving to represent something.
Related terms: represent
representable
representant
representation
representative
sign
Guggenheim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Jewish surname, from Gougenheim in Alsace or Jugenheim in Hesse. The first element could be from the Germanic personal name Gogo(n); the second element is from Old High German heim (“home”).
Senses: examples: text: A museum in Venice is dedicated to Peggy Guggenheim's work.
glosses: A surname.
examples: text: While we were in Biarritz, we decided to make an excursion to the Bilbao to visit the Guggenheim.
glosses: Any of several museums named after members of the Guggenheim family.
jammy Arab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jammy Arabs
Senses: synonyms: lucky devil
glosses: an extremely lucky person.
bonfire society
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonfire societies
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A group of people who celebrate Bonfire Night by moving in procession through the streets of their town or village, and also participate in other smaller events throughout the rest of the year.
bonfire societies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonfire society
torchmaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From torch + making.
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: The communal work carried out by bonfire society members in September, October and early November to prepare for Bonfire Night, especially by making torches.
outfire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: outfires
Etymology: From out- + fire.
Senses: examples: Are you going to any outfires this year? Yes, Barcombe and Glynde I think.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A visit by one bonfire society to join in with the celebrations of another.
outfire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: outfires
form: outfiring
form: outfired
form: outfired
Etymology: From out- + fire.
Senses: examples: text: Outfiring the newest Nazi weapon four to one, an automatic, pneumatic gun developed by a Los Angeles inventor pours out 12,000 rounds a minute...
ref: 1943 April, Popular Mechanics, volume 79, number 4:
text: It had outfired the weapons of their forefathers.
ref: 1995, Albert Wendt, Nuanua: Pacific writing in English since 1980:
glosses: To fire farther or better than.
kohai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kohais
form: kohai
form: kōhai
form: kouhai
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.
Senses: examples: text: Juniors may forget their obligation to be in turn good seniors. Seniors may demand too much of their juniors. Some kohai are ungrateful. The system of interrelationship, however, continues to follow the form set by the ideal of unselfish sympathy and involvement.
ref: 1974, Thomas P. Rohlen, For Harmony and Strength: Japanese White-Collar Organization in Anthropological Perspective, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 125:
text: The students always sit in order of seniority, both in and out of the training hall, and the kohai are always at the beck and call of the senpai.
ref: 1989, Intersect, PHP Institute, →ISSN, page 7:
text: Whereas kohai are often expected to obey their sempai at some cost to their personal welfare, sempai assume a corresponding obligation.
ref: 2015, Koichi Togashi, Amanda Kottler, Kohut’s Twinship Across Cultures: The Psychology of Being Human, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32:
glosses: A junior member of a group in Japanese arts; mentee.
topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: An underclassman or younger student.
cueballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cueball
bostal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bostals
Senses: examples: text: When the practice was over it was still light, and Robert and Bessie turned inevitably along the little bostal that trickles through the fields […]
ref: 1916, Sheila Kaye-Smith, Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight:
text: […] up the chalky bostals over the Downs from the secluded villages and hamlets […]
ref: 1965, Geoffrey Jules Marcus, Before the lamps went out:
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of borstal.
bostals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bostal
outfired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of outfire
outfires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outfire
outfiring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outfire
village green
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: village greens
Senses: examples: text: On May Day, the villagers used to dance around a maypole on the village green.
text: Georgian and Regency houses cluster picturesquely around the sloping village green, which in springtime is carpeted with daffodils.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 194, about Gainford, Co. Durham:
glosses: A patch of land at the centre of a village that is open to the public at all times.
common land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common lands
Senses: examples: text: The common land up at Chailey's always good for a walk.
synonyms: common#Noun
commons
commonage
glosses: an area of land in the United Kingdom or Ireland that is open to the public at all times and until the 18th century would have been land that was free for anybody to graze their animals on.
examples: text: I've always grazed my animals on the common land and I'm not going to stop now.
glosses: collectively, all the common land in one of those two countries.
Related terms: enclosure
pasturage
pastureland
fambly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: famblies
Etymology: From family.
Senses: examples: text: Lawd, no, suh, de fambly did n' die out — 'deed dey did n' die out! dey ain't de kind er fambly ter die out! But it's mos' as bad, suh — dey's moved away.
ref: 1905, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Colonel's Dream:
text: But there's a right smart chance of middle-aged famblies and even a few toler'ble new famblies in this here community.
ref: 1915, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb, Old Judge Priest:
text: You don't want to mess with the fambly of Nick. Because Nick he is a fambly man.
ref: 2005, Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black:
glosses: A family.
famblies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fambly
uncoop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uncoops
form: uncooping
form: uncooped
form: uncooped
Etymology: From un- + coop.
Senses: glosses: To release from a coop.
uncoops
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of uncoop
uncooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uncoop
uncooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of uncoop
uncooped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not cooped; not kept in a coop.
poultryman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poultrymen
Etymology: From poultry + -man.
Senses: glosses: A male poulterer.
poultrywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poultrywomen
Etymology: From poultry + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female poulterer.
poultrywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poultrywoman
poultrymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of poultryman
shit bird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shit birds
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A person who regularly gets into trouble; a screw-up.
shit birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shit bird
hueless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hue + -less; see hīewlēas.
Senses: glosses: Without hue or colour; colourless.
Derived terms: huelessness
trafficless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From traffic + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He crossed the trafficless street.
glosses: Without traffic.
vivaing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of viva
vivaed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of viva
oversulfated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From over- + sulfated.
Senses: glosses: Overly sulfated.
Derived terms: oversulfated chondroitin sulfate
criterionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From criterion + -less.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Without criteria or the use of criteria; undiscerning, arbitrary.
Derived terms: criterionlessness
tbyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtiː.baɪt/
Forms: form: tbytes
Etymology: Short for ten byte.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: An 80-bit (10-byte) integer.
tbytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tbyte
bonfire boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bonfire boys
Senses: qualifier: Sussex
glosses: A male who participates in bonfire celebrations.
TBYTE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TBYTEs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tbyte.
torch runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: torch runners
Senses: glosses: A torchbearer, as in the Olympics.
qualifier: Sussex
glosses: One who collects used torches for a bonfire society on Bonfire Night.
Glyndebourne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Lewes district, East Sussex, England (OS grid ref TQ4510).
glosses: the opera house located there.
glosses: the opera that takes place there.
lifeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From life + -ness.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state or quality of having a life.
animateness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From animate + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being animate.
Related terms: animacy
animation
orvet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orvets
Etymology: From French orvet.
Senses: glosses: The slowworm.
orvets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orvet
blessed event
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blessed events
Senses: examples: text: Alexander Loudon, Netherlands Minister to the U.S., when asked if the blessed event was in prospect, hedged: "A royal child born on the soil of freedom-loving America would be both a blessing and a good omen."
ref: 1940 June 24, “Good Omen”, in Time:
text: Soon we come to the mother-to-be-any-minute-now in the delivery room, and there is some question about whether the father can/will/wants to get to the hospital in time for the blessed event.
ref: 2007 November 5, Laura Capitano, “I hate . . . TV birth plotlines”, in Florida Times-Union, retrieved 12 May 2009:
glosses: The birth of a baby.
examples: text: Mr. Spenlow told me this day week was Dora's birthday, and he would be glad if I would come down and join a little picnic on the occasion. . . . I think I committed every possible absurdity in the way of preparation for this blessed event.
ref: 1850, Charles Dickens, chapter 33, in David Copperfield:
text: There was a time not so long ago when a company poised to go public would invite a reporter inside to memorialize the moments leading up to the blessed event.
ref: 2004 September 26, Gary Rivlin, “Quiet, Please! Suddenly, the S.E.C. Is Listening”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 May 2009:
qualifier: sometimes humorous or ironical
glosses: An occurrence or occasion which is particularly noteworthy and enjoyable.
turn the air blue
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns the air blue
form: turning the air blue
form: turned the air blue
form: turned the air blue
Senses: examples: text: ... he then relieved his feelings by kicking the lot, collectively and separately, swearing continuously in a strain calculated to turn the air blue all around him.
ref: 1893, Isabella Castelar, The Spanish Treasure: A Story of Love and the Love of Gold, page 228:
glosses: To speak a stream of bad language; to curse and swear.
bosals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bosal
Esmerelda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Esmeralda.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
tally ho
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: “Tally ho!” cried old Fezziwig, skipping down from the high desk with wonderful agility.
ref: 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
glosses: Alternative spelling of tallyho.
tally ho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tally hos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tallyho.
tally ho
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tally hos
form: tally hoing
form: tally hoed
form: tally hoed
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tallyho.
Atikamekw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ətɪkəˈmɛk/
Forms: form: Atikamekw
Etymology: Borrowed from Atikamekw atikamekw (“whitefish”); recorded as Atikamegouékhi in early documents.
Senses: glosses: Any of the indigenous inhabitants of the area they refer to as Nitaskinan ("Our Land") in Saint-Maurice, Quebec.
Atikamekw
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ətɪkəˈmɛk/
Etymology: Borrowed from Atikamekw atikamekw (“whitefish”); recorded as Atikamegouékhi in early documents.
Senses: glosses: Their language, part of the Cree subgroup of Algonquian.
jeofails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jeofail
bonfire boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonfire boy
torch runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torch runner
strongpoint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: homophone: strong point
Forms: form: strongpoints
Etymology: From strong + point.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A fortified position; a stronghold.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A heavily defended square on the chessboard.
strong suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: strong suits
Etymology: Referring to card games in which players may hold more or less of a given suit.
Senses: examples: text: That area isn't my strong suit, but I can give it a shot.
glosses: A field in which, or task at which, one is quite capable.
Synonyms: forte
strongpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of strongpoint
parkette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parkettes
Etymology: From park + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A small urban park
blades of grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blade of grass
razor blades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of razor blade
razor blades
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of razor blade
trenchcoats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trenchcoat
goalscoring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From goal + scoring.
Senses: examples: a perfect goalscoring opportunity
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The scoring of goals.
hypersomnia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersomnias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Excessive sleepiness.
Derived terms: hypersomniac
idiopathic hypersomnia
Related terms: insomnia
chiclet keyboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chiclet keyboards
Etymology: From Chiclets (itself from chicle), a brand of chewing gum bearing some resemblance to the keys.
Senses: examples: text: At the best of times it's difficult to type on a chiclet keyboard.
ref: 1984 February, Popular Mechanics, volume 161, number 2:
text: The chiclet keyboard and single-line LED display do not permit rapid data entry and text editing...
ref: 1985, Linda Gail Christie, The Simon and Schuster guide to computer peripherals:
text: […] clamshell-like devices with a tiny chiclet keyboard, a stylus for selecting and pointing, and a black-and-white Windows 95-like user interface.
ref: 2002, Paul B Thurrott, Windows XP home networking:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various early computer keyboards having an array of small, flat rectangular or lozenge-shaped rubber or plastic keys.
Trotskyist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Trotskyists
Etymology: From Trotsky + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Trotskyism.
Synonyms: word: Trot
word: trot
word: Trotskyite
Trotskyists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Trotskyist
representamina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of representamen
charros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charro
algum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: almug
Etymology: From Hebrew אַלְגּוּמִּים (algumím).
Senses: examples: text: And the seruants also of Huram, and the seruants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought Algume trees and, precious stones.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Chronicles 9:10:
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A tree or wood mentioned in the Bible, possibly juniper or red sandalwood.
Derived terms: algumwood
overloop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overloops
Senses: examples: text: In extremity, we carry our ordnance better than we were wont, because our nether overloops ( u ) , are raised commonly from the water, between the lower part of the port, and the sea .
ref: 1785, John Campbell, Biographia Nautica:
text: After the accident with the Mary Rose, occasioned by the lowness of her ports, and by the fact of the guns being unbreeched, as was the custom, they raised both the gun-decks, or overloops, as Sir W. Raleigh calls them, and fitted breechings to the guns.
ref: 1860, Royal Institution of Naval Architects, Transactions of the Institution of Naval Architects - Volume 1, page 150:
glosses: Obsolete form of orlop.
examples: text: I almost signed, and then luckily I noticed that my boss Abelardo's tall and horizontally compressed conquistador signature, with lots of overloops and proud flourishes, was located one petal over on the very same flower I had chosen.
ref: 1992, Jeremy Lewis, The Chatto Book of Office Life, Or, Love Among the Filing Cabinets, page 336:
text: It was not until November 1978 that Levine seriously began pursuing the utilitarian application of his sculptures, when a friend, G. Duff Bailey, a bicycle buff and author of numerous articles about urban cycling, was at Levine's home and informed him that the sculptures would make excellent bicycle racks, permitting bicycles to be parked under the overloops as well as on top of the underloops.
ref: 2002, Graeme B. Dinwoodie, William O. Hennessey, Shira Perlmutter, International and Comparative Patent Law, page 200:
glosses: A loop that occurs above something.
examples: text: Well , they certainly didn't know about loops yet, much less closed loops and overloops.
ref: 1998, Dan Parkinson, The Whispers, page 133:
text: In contrast to the loop-based construction, the overloop-based algorithm (Algo.2) suppresses this problem completely.
ref: 2011, Béatrice Bouchou-Markhoff, Pascal Caron, Jean-Marc Champarnaud ·, Implementation and Application of Automata, page 174:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An outer loop; A loop that contains an inner loop.
overloop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overloops
form: overlooping
form: overlooped
form: overlooped
Senses: examples: text: I sometimes form the fabric by passing the weft thread over alternate loops, as, for example, first, the thread a³ overloops in one row, and then that indicated by a⁴ overloops in the next row; this will produce a change in the figure from a square to a diamond in form, and this is done in one way by setting the wheels C on alternate needles.
ref: 1871, English Patents of Inventions, Specifications: 1870, 2301 - 2330, page 9:
text: The torpedo consisted of a cylindrical copper case held in a scoop at the end of the spar and so overlooped by a line that it could be thrown out of the scoop when desired.
ref: 1896, Frank Marion Bennett, Robert Weir, The Steam Navy of the United States, page 481:
text: Matt unbuttoned the thin black strap which overlooped the base of the CB's fat black antenna, slid the radio from its holster and clicked a switch at its top.
ref: 2012, Nicholas Grabowsky, The Everborn, page 180:
text: Follow green and purple lines – ride a 'curvy' serpentine (one which overloops and has no straight sections) between the poles.
ref: 2017, Claire Lilley, 200+ School Exercises with Poles:
text: From the warmth of the car, what is visible through a veil of rain on the windshield is the endless interstate and the busy, increasing traffic that nips in and out as double lanes become triple lanes for the descent down the west side of the Cascades, triple lanes and access lanes and underpasses and loops and whorls buzzing with traffic, past towns with names that used to have meanings, Snoqualmie, Issaquah, only a blur, until finally there's the skyline of Bellevue on the east shore of Lake Washington, great glass and steel towers completely surrounded by residential developments and featureless strips and malls and parking garages and apartment complexes beyond complexes beyond complexes, all looped and overlooped by freeways meeting freeways, freeways passing over and under freeways, serpentine and circumferencing freeways.
ref: 2020, Mary Clearman Blew, This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir:
glosses: To loop over.
examples: text: Lonely atrium mutants, for example, have no distinguishable ventricles, and overlooped embryos have abnormally positioned heart chambers.
ref: 1997, The Journal of NIH Research, page 5:
text: He had absorbed too much stale water and overlooped a bit.
ref: 2014, Thorne Smith, The Stray Lamb, page 183:
glosses: To loop too much.
timespan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timespans
form: time span
Etymology: From time + span.
Senses: antonyms: timepoint
coordinate_terms: timeline
timeframe
glosses: An interval of time.
timespans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timespan
charra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charras
Etymology: Compare the less offensive char ou, which is said to derive from Hindi अचार (acār) (Urdu اچار (acār)) and Afrikaans ou. Indians in South Africa often sold spicy pickles; the combination would simply mean "pickle guy".
Senses: examples: text: The fact that you call a person a ‘coolie‘ or a ‘charra‘ or a ‘curry-muncher’ doesn't, naturally, stop you looking for bargains in his shop.
ref: 1993, Jenny Hobbs, The Sweet-smelling Jasmine:
glosses: An Indian.
charras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
ref: 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive:
glosses: Alternative form of churrus.
seize upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: seizes upon
form: seizing upon
form: seized upon
form: seized upon
form: seize on
Senses: examples: text: The child seized upon the cat's tail as soon as it was within reach.
glosses: To grasp or take hold of (an object) suddenly, forcibly, or tightly.
examples: text: I heard her ideas and seized upon them immediately.
text: The committee seized upon the new plan at once.
text: Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.
ref: 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To take up, embrace, enact, or turn eagerly to (a plan, idea, ideology, cause, practice, method, etc.); to grasp, understand, and accept quickly; to adopt wholeheartedly or vigorously.
examples: text: After the controversy of her public statement, she has been the darling of right-wing groups who have seized upon her as the poster child of their cause.
glosses: To take possession of or claim (an idea, person, event, etc.) as one's own; to assimilate, absorb, annex, co-opt.
Synonyms: sense: take hold of
word: fasten on
sense: take hold of
word: hook on
sense: take hold of
word: latch on
Related terms: seize up
nappiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nappy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: You wonder about your own hair’s nappiness. You wonder who can’t bring you home.
ref: 2022, Jonathan Escoffery, If I Survive You, 4th Estate (2023), page 11:
glosses: The state or condition of being nappy.
aucubas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aucuba
xiphosurans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of xiphosuran
Xtian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The ritual and tradition are of course rather absurd, but the principle is good and the ethics are identical with Xtian ethics.
ref: 1915 October, Aldous Huxley, Letter:
text: By the way, my Xtian Behavior, if suited for anyone (of which I'm no judge) is quite as suitable for 16-year-olds as for anyone else.
ref: 1956 February 16, C. S. Lewis, Letter to Philinda Krieg:
glosses: Abbreviation of Christian.
Xtian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xtians
Senses: examples: text: And because of the hauteur of Portagoose prelates, they drove the Xtians out of Japan till were none of that sect in the Island
ref: 1940, Ezra Pound, Cantos LII-LXXI:
glosses: Abbreviation of Christian.
Related terms: Xian
Xtianity
beltlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beltlike
form: most beltlike
Etymology: From belt + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a belt (article of clothing).
unlocker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unlockers
Etymology: From unlock + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, unlocks.
unlockers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unlocker
quasihemidemisemiquavers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasihemidemisemiquaver
quickliming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of quicklime
quicklimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of quicklime
quickhatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quickhatch
quickwitted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkwɪkˈwɪt.ɪd/
ipa: /ˌkwɪkˈwɪt.ɪd/
ipa: [ˌkwɪkˈwɪɾ.ɪd]
Forms: form: more quickwitted
form: most quickwitted
form: quick-witted
Etymology: Compound of quick + witted.
Senses: examples: text: She was far too quick-witted to miss the implications of what he was saying.
synonyms: word: quick on the uptake
word: sharp-witted
word: astute
word: brainy
word: bright
word: brilliant
word: clever
word: educated
word: genius
word: gifted
word: ingenious
word: intellectual
word: intelligent
word: keen
word: knowledgeable
word: piquant
word: quick
word: quick-witted
word: rational
word: sagacious
word: savvy
word: scholared
word: sharp
word: smart
word: talented
word: whip-smart
word: wise
antonyms: word: slow-witted
word: slow on the uptake
word: intelligent
glosses: Mentally keen and alert.
Derived terms: quickwittedly
quickwittedness
quickwittedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more quickwittedly
form: most quickwittedly
Etymology: From quickwitted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quickwitted way.
quickwittedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quickwitted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being quickwitted.
unlimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + limed.
Senses: glosses: Not limed; not treated with lime.
quixotries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quixotry
quizmistress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quizmistresses
Etymology: From quiz + mistress.
Senses: glosses: A female quizmaster.
quizmistresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quizmistress
midswing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From mid- + swing.
Senses: examples: text: The photograph caught him in midswing.
glosses: The midpoint of a swinging motion.
midswing
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From mid- + swing.
Senses: glosses: At such a midpoint.
nonjail
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + jail.
Senses: examples: text: The criminal received a nonjail sentence.
glosses: Not of, or pertaining to, jail.
unjailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + jailed.
Senses: glosses: Not jailed; unincarcerated.
cutlass bearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cutlass bearings
Senses: examples: text: When you replace a drive shaft on your boat, it is also a good idea to replace the cutlass bearing where the drive shaft exits the boat.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A bearing on the drive shaft of a vessel, usually made of brass with an inner grooved rubber lining that is lubricated by the surrounding water entering the grooves as it rotates. It is a variant of the stave bearing.
minivacation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minivacations
Etymology: From mini- + vacation.
Senses: glosses: A short or minor vacation.
Synonyms: minibreak
minivacations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minivacation
shrieky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈʃɹiːki/
Forms: form: shriekier
form: shriekiest
Etymology: From shriek + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I can't wait for the neighbours' shrieky kids to go back to school.
glosses: Inclined to shriek, or characterised by shrieks.
postbreakup
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + breakup.
Senses: glosses: Occurring after a breakup.
trihexyphenidyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɹʌɪ.hɛk.sɪˈfɛn.ɪ.dʌɪl/
ipa: /ˌtɹʌɪ.hɛk.sɪˈfɛn.ɪ.dɪl/
ipa: /ˌtɹʌɪ.hɛk.sɪˈfiː.nɪ.dʌɪl/
ipa: /tɹaɪˌhɛk.sɪˈfɛn.ɪˌdɪl/
Etymology: From tri- + hexy(l) + pheny(l) + -dyl (“vasodilator”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: An antimuscarinic drug that has an antispasmodic action on smooth muscle and is used to treat parkinsonism and some other movement disorders.
Synonyms: benzhexol
ultralean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultralean
form: most ultralean
Etymology: From ultra- + lean.
Senses: glosses: Especially lean; streamlined.
underloved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underloved
form: most underloved
Etymology: From under- + loved.
Senses: examples: text: Having been underloved for all his short life, he’d learned not to attract his mother’s attention in any negative way.
ref: 2020, Tayari Jones, Silver Sparrow, Oneworld Publications, pages 121-122:
glosses: Insufficiently loved; neglected.
unperformable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unperformable
form: most unperformable
Etymology: From un- + performable.
Senses: examples: text: The avant-garde play was said to be unperformable.
glosses: Not performable; that cannot be performed.
ballotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: That undergoes a chemical reaction when quickly subjected to extreme pressure.
ballotechnic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ballotechnics
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A material of this kind.
red mercury
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A supposed substance for use in the creation of nuclear bombs and other weapons, about which there are various conspiracy theories.
madeiras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madeira
coldbloodedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cold-bloodedness.
enjoyability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From enjoy + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being enjoyable.
Derived terms: unenjoyability
knuckleheadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From knuckleheaded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being knuckleheaded; foolishness or ineptitude.
lipsticky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lipsticky
form: most lipsticky
Etymology: From lipstick + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She gave me a lipsticky kiss on the cheek.
glosses: Resembling, or characterised by, lipstick.
mantralike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more mantralike
form: most mantralike
Etymology: From mantra + -like.
Senses: examples: text: By the time of their second album, The Fugs (which actually made the top forty), the group had evolved into a kind of primitive clatter marked by lustful evocations and mantralike prepsychedelic trance-Rock.
ref: 2002, Joe S. Harrington, Sonic Cool: The Life & Death of Rock 'n' Roll, →ISBN, page 173:
glosses: Resembling a mantra; fervent and often repeated.
smithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English smethyng; equivalent to smith + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a smith; the forging of metal.
Derived terms: blacksmithing
coppersmithing
goldsmithing
metalsmithing
silversmithing
swordsmithing
tinsmithing
weaponsmithing
whitesmithing
silversmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From silver + smithing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a silversmith; the forging of silver.
goldsmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From gold + smithing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a goldsmith; the forging of gold.
coppersmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From copper + smithing.
Senses: glosses: The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
boylike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more boylike
form: most boylike
Etymology: From boy + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a boy.
Derived terms: unboylike
imprescindible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more imprescindible
form: most imprescindible
Senses: examples: text: It is imprescindible that the actor—in his lay mind—visualize the execution of an act which bears all the elements that are required by a statutory crime definition.
ref: 1971, Helen Silving, Criminal Justice, volume II, →ISBN, page 1003:
text: Courage to be unpopular means in criminal law punishing only in cases where punishment is imprescindible in the interest of social protection.
ref: 1972, Modern Law and Society, page 17:
text: The fattest example of this mistake has been the political exaltation of manual work, simply because it is imprescindible.
ref: 1997, John Thomas Graham, Theory of History in Ortega y Gasset: “The Dawn of Historical Reason”, University of Missouri Press, →ISBN, page 345:
glosses: Indispensable, essential, imperative, vital.
nonanswer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonanswers
form: non-answer
Etymology: From non- + answer.
Senses: glosses: The lack of an answer.
glosses: An answer that is so vague or noncommittal as to be worthless.
nonanswers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonanswer
nonjazz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + jazz.
Senses: examples: Nonjazz musicians play classical music.
An example of a nonjazz workout is a hip-hop aerobics DVD.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Not jazz music, not jazz dance.
jazzlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jazzlike
form: most jazzlike
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of jazz-like.
Derived terms: unjazzlike
oughties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Perhaps from nought and eighties.
Senses: glosses: A decade running from the first year of a century to the tenth.
Synonyms: 2000s (21st century)
noughties
paradelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paradelike
form: most paradelike
Etymology: From parade + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a parade.
tablike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tablike
form: most tablike
Etymology: From tab + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a tab (protruding flap or strip).
antishoplifting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + shoplifting.
Senses: glosses: That serves to counter shoplifting.
nonblacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonblack
nonmagical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + magical.
Senses: examples: text: In any other way, is Magic decadent when there are more magic acts on the stage today than there ever were before; and there are more amateurs, more magic supply houses, and even editors of nonmagical magazines, thinking magic very interesting, spend their time and money in publishing tricks and ilinsions for their readers?
ref: 1923, The Billboard 1923-09-22: Volume 35, Issue 4, Prometheus Global Media, page 52:
text: These doubtless have a natural nonmagical basis — the necessity of making good crops and protecting private property would be recognized everywhere, and would call forth legal enactments ; but it was inevitable, in certain communities, that such enactments should be strengthened by supernatural sanctions such as those offered by the conception of taboo..
ref: 1924, Crawford Howell Toy, Introduction to the History of Religions, Harvard University Press, page 247:
text: He can be given new habits and new values, aimost, I was going to say, a new personality. His tensions will be resolved in the nonmagical sense of being subjected to analysis, intellectualization, dramatic objectification, and most important of all, they will be eased off by a redistribution of the objects of attention. Variety of interest, flexibility in thinking, an absorption in life, the cultivation of more humor, will be so many psychological vehicles for carrying off and systematically redistributing his original funds of hysterically concentrated tension. The analyst will also become an important object of attention and to a large extent of the transference of tensions.
ref: 1929, The Psychoanalytic Review 1929-01: Volume 16, Issue 1, Guilford Publications, pages 36-37:
text: We must also remember that Seneca has just given, rather elaborately and rhetorically, a sample of the way in which Socrates could have conferred a benefit on Archelaus by explaining to him the perfectly natural, nonmagical, character of an eclipse of the sun.
ref: 1954, University of California, University of California Publications in Classical Philology, Berkeley and Los Angeles University of California Press, page 28:
glosses: Not magical.
Derived terms: nonmagically
undetectably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undetectably
form: most undetectably
Etymology: From undetectable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undetectable way.
warrenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more warrenlike
form: most warrenlike
Etymology: From warren + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a warren; mazelike, labyrinthine.
ethnocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ethnocidal
form: most ethnocidal
Etymology: From ethnocide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or inclined to, ethnocide.
foodwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From food + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Living with a master chef, we led a charmed life, foodwise.
glosses: In terms of food.
agrifood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agrifoods
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agri-food.
agrifoods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrifood
mezuza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezuzas
form: mezuzot
form: mezuzoth
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mezuzah.
mezuzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mezuza
microbusiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microbusinesses
Etymology: From micro- + business.
Senses: synonyms: microenterprise
glosses: A very small business or enterprise.
microbusinesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microbusiness
nanobioelectronics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From nano- + bioelectronics.
Senses: glosses: Bioelectronics on a nanoscale.
below the radar
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Synonym of under the radar.
synonyms: word: under the radar
CDO-squareds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CDO-squared
tolah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tolahs
form: tola
form: tole
Senses: glosses: tola (unit of mass)
tolas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tola
tolahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tolah
Jewish piano
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Jewish pianos
Etymology: From the row of keys on a cash register and the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.
Senses: synonyms: Jewish typewriter
glosses: A cash register.
troy grain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troy grains
Etymology: Morphologically, from Troyes, town in Northern France + grain, unit of mass
Senses: synonyms: grain
hypernyms: grain
coordinate_terms: troy ounce
troy pound
glosses: A unit of mass, equal to 1/24 of a pennyweight or 1/480 of a troy ounce, fixed at 0.064 798 91 grams under the metric system.
take out the trash
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes out the trash
form: taking out the trash
form: took out the trash
form: taken out the trash
Senses: glosses: Often used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take out, trash.
glosses: To forcefully remove undesirable people from a place.
glosses: To announce something, hoping it will not get much publicity, at a time when it is not likely to be noticed by the news media, for instance on election day or late on Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend.
hemopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemopathies
Etymology: From hemo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any disorder or disease of the blood
Synonyms: hematopathy
Related terms: hemopathic
glycosuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycosurias
Etymology: From glycose + -uria.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The presence of sugars (especially glucose) in the urine, often as a result of diabetes mellitus
Synonyms: glucosuria
carbohydraturia
Derived terms: aglycosuria
glycosuric
glossodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glosso- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: burning mouth syndrome
hyponyms: burning tongue syndrome
glosses: A burning sensation on the lips, tongue, or entire mouth.
gonadotrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gonadotropes
Etymology: From gonado- + -trope.
Senses: glosses: A basophil that produces gonadotropin
glosses: A gonadotropic material
United Statesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: United-Statesian
Etymology: From United States + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: For this blue-book is a sort of school primer, intended to teach the Danes how to pronounce the United-Statesian language, and perhaps we English may have a lesson, too.
ref: 1867, John MacGregor, The Rob Roy on the Baltic: a canoe cruise through Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Sleswig, Holstein, The North Sea, and the Baltic, 2nd edition, page 76:
text: There's a real United-Statesian bigness to some of the things Whitman says.
ref: 2005, Greg Scott, editor, Cowboy Poetry: Classic Poems & Prose by Badger Clark, page 400:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the United States of America.
United Statesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: United Statesians
form: United-Statesian
Etymology: From United States + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: To those of us who know […] such entries are more amusing than inconvenient; but to an outsider, say a Frenchman or a United-Statesian, they would cause a great expenditure of useless labour.
ref: 1892, William White, Notes and queries, volume 86 (August 20), page 146:
text: If I was, through my father, a first-generation United Statesian, I found I was, through him, an eleventh-generation North American.
ref: 2004, David Plante, American ghosts, page 175:
glosses: An inhabitant or citizen of the United States of America.
Synonyms: United Statian
US-American
Usonian
American
US-ian
Usanian
hypersplenism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersplenisms
Etymology: By surface analysis, hyper- + splen(o)- + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: hypersplenia
hypernyms: malfunction
;
condition
glosses: A disorder in which abnormal spleen activity destroys blood cells.
Related terms: word: hypersplenic
word: hypersplenomegaly
word: splenomegaly
hyperstatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + static.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: statically indeterminate
hyperstaticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + staticity.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The condition of being hyperstatic
hypersthene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypersthenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An inosilicate that is an orthorhombic pyroxene.
Derived terms: clinohypersthene
hypersthenic
hypersthenite
tanyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tanyards
Etymology: From tan + yard.
Senses: glosses: A tannery, or a yard of a tannery.
Derived terms: big dog of the tanyard
tanyards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tanyard
timber yards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timber yard
'naner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'naners
Etymology: Aphetic form of banana with intrusive rhotacism.
Senses: examples: text: Banana pudding was another Elvis favorite, which he called ’naner pudding.
ref: 2005, Jane Stern, Two for the Road: Our Love Affair with American Food:
glosses: banana
Related terms: 'mater
tater