cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
autofill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autofills
form: autofilling
form: autofilled
form: autofilled
Etymology: From auto- + fill.
Senses: examples: text: If you type in "couns", it autofills to "counseling".
glosses: To fill by autofill.
topoisomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: topoisomers
Etymology: From topo- + isomer.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An isomer of a biological macromolecule that has a distinct topology
Related terms: topoisomerization
redhaired
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of red-haired.
topoisomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of topoisomer
redgums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redgum
state house
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: state houses
form: statehouse
Senses: glosses: A state legislature (of one of the fifty United States), or government generally.
synonyms: capitol
glosses: The building that houses it.
synonyms: social housing
glosses: A house built and operated by the government, usually of relatively low price and lived in by people on low incomes.
state houses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of state house
topoisomeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From topoisomer + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a topoisomer.
towage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: towages
Etymology: From tow + -age.
Senses: glosses: The act of towing.
glosses: A charge for towing.
washability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: washabilities
Etymology: By surface analysis, wash + -ability, or, by surface analysis, washable + -ity.
Senses: hypernyms: cleanability
glosses: The property of being washable.
towages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of towage
towardliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of towardly: most towardly
warclub
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warclubs
form: war club
Etymology: From war + club.
Senses: examples: text: Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.
ref: 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:
glosses: A club used as a weapon of war by various indigenous peoples.
warclubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warclub
trendify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: trendifies
form: trendifying
form: trendified
form: trendified
Etymology: From trend + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To give a trendy appearance.
Related terms: trendification
netsurfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netsurfers
Etymology: From net + surfer.
Senses: examples: text: Netsurfers can visit the Pentax University, with its history of the company and a list of photo tips, subscribe to either of two Pentax mailing lists, or consult the online explanation of the company's warranty policy...
ref: 1996, Bruce Judson, How your business can profit from the online revolution:
text: Students of our faculty are considered frequent netsurfers. The language centre of our University offers them the opportunity to communicate freely in English with other foreign students using the equipment in the self-access area.
ref: 2009, Isabel González-Pueyo, Teaching Academic and Professional English Online:
glosses: One who surfs the Internet.
Synonyms: cybersurfer
surfer
websurfer
netsurfers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of netsurfer
trendoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trendoids
Etymology: From trend + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: “Maybe a quarter of these people have been up all night,” says one of the Boogie Buffet’s organizers, a handsome trendoid named Paul Lamb, 30, whose vintage Moto Guzzi road bike is parked out front.
ref: 1993 August 24, Cynthia Robins, “Cyn City: They’re percolating at the Boogie Buffet: Breakfast crowd is not your lazy Sunday brunch bunch”, in San Francisco Examiner, 129th year, number 63, San Francisco, Calif., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B-3, column 1:
text: Eager to make amends and fed up with the cheap noodleries, Chinese restaurants and pricey, trendoid Thai places that all claim to serve good food from that enchanted land but don’t, I returned to this old haunt with a favourite adventureress.
ref: 2001 March 30, Ashok Chandwani, “Thailande a sure track to spicy bliss”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., page D 12:
text: In the states, 99 per cent of my critics were socially conservative, right-wing people, who said I had a gay agenda, or that cities couldn't be built by `yuppies, sophistos, trendoids and gays,'" says Richard Florida.
ref: 2009 June 27, Murray Whyte, “Why Richard Florida's honeymoon is over”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: A person who follows fashion trends blindly.
trendified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of trendify
trendifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of trendify
nontrendy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + trendy.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, worthy but nontrendy calls for needed services and equipment are washed aside in a wasteful flood of pseudo-innovation...
ref: 2000, Jane M. Healy, Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds:
glosses: Not trendy; unfashionable.
trendoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trendoid
backslidden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of backslide
exessive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
homophone: excessive
Etymology: From ex- (“out of”) + essive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, or relating to the grammatical case that in some languages indicates the transition away from a state.
exessive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪkˈsɛsɪv/
rhymes: -ɛsɪv
homophone: excessive
Forms: form: exessives
Etymology: From ex- (“out of”) + essive.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The exessive case, or a word in that case.
unprotectable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + protectable.
Senses: examples: text: It is true, of course, that a combination of unprotectable elements may qualify for copyright protection. But it is not true that any combination of unprotectable elements automatically qualifies for copyright protection. Our case law suggests, and we hold today, that a combination of unprotectable elements is eligible for copyright protection only if those elements are numerous enough and their selection and arrangement original enough that their combination constitutes an original work of authorship.
ref: 2018 August 21, U.S. Copyright Office Review Board, “Second Request for Reconsideration for Refusal to Register Vodafone Speechmark”, in United States Copyright Office, page 3:
glosses: Impossible to protect; ineligible for legal protection.
Synonyms: unprotectible
countryship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From country + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: His name was Henderland; he spoke with the broad south-country tongue, which I was beginning to weary for the sound of; and besides common countryship, we soon found we had a more particular bond of interest.
ref: 1886 May 1 – July 31, Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped, being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751: […], London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 1886, →OCLC:
glosses: nationality
exessive case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exessive cases
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: a form of declension that indicates a change away from a state; the Estonian language and some dialects of Finnish have such a case
philibegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philibeg
philabeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: philabegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of philibeg.
filabeg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filabegs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of philibeg.
philabegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of philabeg
filabegs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filabeg
teatless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From teat + -less.
Senses: examples: a teatless rubber condom
glosses: Without a teat.
Synonyms: nippleless
conflictingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conflictingly
form: most conflictingly
Etymology: From conflicting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conflicting fashion.
squintingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈskwɪntɪŋli/
Forms: form: more squintingly
form: most squintingly
Etymology: From squinting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While squinting.
unheedingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unheedingly
form: most unheedingly
Etymology: From unheeding + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without heeding.
unreasoningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreasoningly
form: most unreasoningly
Etymology: From unreasoning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Be content with the knowledge that, ere the voyage had ended, both she and I were desperately and unreasoningly in love with one another.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 10:
glosses: Without reasoning; blindly, thoughtlessly.
bigotedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bigotedly
form: most bigotedly
Etymology: From bigoted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bigoted manner.
bigotedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bigoted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being bigoted.
Synonyms: bigotry
unrepentingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unrepentingly
form: most unrepentingly
Etymology: From unrepenting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without repenting.
unshrinkingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unshrinkingly
form: most unshrinkingly
Etymology: From unshrinking + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without shrinking; courageously.
untremblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more untremblingly
form: most untremblingly
Etymology: From un- + tremblingly or untrembling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without trembling; courageously.
wailingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wailingly
form: most wailingly
Etymology: From wailing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a wailing sound.
wheedlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more wheedlingly
form: most wheedlingly
Etymology: From wheedling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a wheedling manner.
whiningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whiningly
form: most whiningly
Etymology: From whining + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a whining sound.
whirlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more whirlingly
form: most whirlingly
Etymology: From whirling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a whirling motion.
tinklingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more tinklingly
form: most tinklingly
Etymology: From tinkling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a tinkling sound.
droningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more droningly
form: most droningly
Etymology: From droning + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a droning sound.
tinglingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɪŋ.ɡəl.ɪŋ.li/
ipa: /ˈtɪŋ.ɡlɪŋ.li/
Forms: form: more tinglingly
form: most tinglingly
Etymology: From tingling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Once, long before, […] he had experienced the strangeness of faculties singularly, tinglingly acute.
ref: 1912 January, Zane Grey, chapter 18, in Riders of the Purple Sage […], New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers Publishers, →OCLC:
glosses: With a tingling sensation.
Related terms: tingle
tingling
tingly
yo mama
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of yo momma.
unreflectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unreflectingly
form: most unreflectingly
Etymology: From unreflecting + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: For it is quite possible that his father will not simply and unreflectingly save the thing he loves.
ref: 2000, Zadie Smith, White Teeth, London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 525:
glosses: Without mental reflection.
moaningly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more moaningly
form: most moaningly
Etymology: From moaning + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The wind swept moaningly through the trees.
glosses: With a moaning sound.
rumblingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rumblingly
form: most rumblingly
Etymology: From rumbling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Three languages rapped, fumbled or rumblingly oozed all the while.
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 129:
glosses: With a rumbling sound; in a rumbling manner.
mopingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more mopingly
form: most mopingly
Etymology: From moping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: While moping; sulkily.
teemingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more teemingly
form: most teemingly
Etymology: From teeming + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In great numbers; crowdedly.
roaringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roaringly
form: most roaringly
Etymology: From roaring + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: roaringly angry; roaringly drunk
text: The train came roaringly out of the tunnel.
glosses: With, or as if with, a roaring sound.
examples: text: a roaringly popular marketplace
glosses: With lively success.
Related terms: rip-roaringly
slashingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slashingly
form: most slashingly
Etymology: From slashing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a slashing motion.
stimulatingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stimulatingly
form: most stimulatingly
Etymology: From stimulating + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a stimulating manner.
titteringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more titteringly
form: most titteringly
Etymology: From tittering + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The dirty joke was passed titteringly around the room.
glosses: With titters.
rustlingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more rustlingly
form: most rustlingly
Etymology: From rustling + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With a rustling sound.
reflectingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reflectingly
form: most reflectingly
Etymology: From reflecting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With mental reflection; thoughtfully.
reelingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more reelingly
form: most reelingly
Etymology: From reeling + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Jeff staggered reelingly out of the pub and tried to remember which way was home.
glosses: With a reeling motion.
fortifyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fortifyingly
form: most fortifyingly
Etymology: From fortifying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a manner that fortifies.
Synonyms: strengtheningly
nonstraightened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + straightened.
Senses: glosses: Not straightened.
nonstraight
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + straight.
Senses: examples: a nonstraight line
glosses: Not straight (devoid of curves or deviations).
examples: text: Nevertheless, arguments that nonstraight people are sick or evil still abound...
ref: 2001, Lois Tyson, Learning for a diverse world:
glosses: Not straight (heterosexual).
straightenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From straighten + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being straightened.
nonstraightenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + straightenable.
Senses: glosses: Not straightenable.
unstraightenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + straightenable.
Senses: glosses: Not straightenable.
strengthenable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From strengthen + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being strengthened.
strengthenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: strengthen + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of strengthen
unwearyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unwearyingly
form: most unwearyingly
Etymology: From unwearying + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without growing weary; tirelessly.
fumarylacetoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate in the metabolism of tyrosine.
maleylacetoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An intermediate in the metabolism of tyrosine.
seamark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seamarks
form: sea mark
Etymology: From sea + mark. Compare landmark.
Senses: glosses: Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners, such as a hill or steeple.
examples: text: Like a great sea-mark, standing every flaw, / And saving those that eye thee!
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], line 74:
glosses: A beacon, buoy, etc. placed in the sea to aid navigation.
seamarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seamark
oviraptorosaurs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oviraptorosaur
nodosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nodosaurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the ankylosaurian dinosaurs of the family †Nodosauridae.
nodosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nodosaurid
hypsilophodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypsilophodonts
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any of the genus †Hypsilophodon of small ornithopod herbivorous dinosaurs.
hypsilophodonts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypsilophodont
antipet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antipet
form: most antipet
Etymology: From anti- + pet.
Senses: examples: text: More extreme antipet people are crazed by paranoia over the possibility of contracting some disease from an animal.
ref: 1980, Michael W. Fox, Returning to Eden: animal rights and human responsibility:
text: Antipet liberationists and some moral vegans are in effect endorsing this categorical position.
ref: 2007, Tzachi Zamir, Ethics and the beast: a speciesist argument for animal liberation:
glosses: Opposed to pets.
ankylosauruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankylosaurus
ankylosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ankylosaurids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the dinosaurs of the family Ankylosauridae.
ankylosaurids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ankylosaurid
tarsometatarsi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarsometatarsus
nonportal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + portal.
Senses: examples: nonportal cirrhosis
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: not of or pertaining to the portal vein
nostalgies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nostalgy
nostalgie de la boue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌnoʊstɑlˈʒiː də lɑ ˈbuː/
Etymology: Borrowed from French nostalgie de la boue (literally “nostalgia for mud”).
Senses: examples: text: You’re one of those half-insane, perverted women who must run after depravity, the nostalgie de la boue.
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XIX, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 358:
text: Politics, like Rock, Pop and Camp, has its uses; but to put one's whole status on the line for nostalgie de la boue in any of its forms would be unprincipled.
ref: 1970 June 8, Tom Wolfe, “Radical Chic: That Party at Lenny's”, in New York Magazine:
text: The fastidious and solitary public-schoolboy [George Orwell] dosses down with tramps and tarts and forces himself to endure bedbugs and chamberpots and lockups. The extraordinary thing about this nostalgie de la boue is that it is undertaken with a humorous self-consciousness and without a tinge of religious abjection or mortification.
ref: 2002, Christopher Hitchens, Why Orwell Matters, New York: Basic Books, →ISBN, page 10:
text: Mr. Smith [Shane Smith] called the appeal of the trailer-park aesthetic purveyed by Vice the latest twist on bohemia's old nostalgie de la boue.
ref: 2003 September 28, Vanessa Grigoriadis, “The Edge of Hip: Vice, the Brand”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A yearning for something base or vile.
moneywise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From money + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Quitting stock-market speculation was the greatest decision I ever made, moneywise.
glosses: In terms of money; monetarily; financially.
Related terms: dollarwise
penny-wise
penny wise and pound foolish
depalatalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌpælətəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: depalatalizations
Etymology: From de- + palatalization.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of depalatalizing.
depalatalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of depalatalization
Hussites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hussite
overseership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overseerships
Etymology: From overseer + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The role or office of overseer.
overseerships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overseership
tomato concentrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tomato concentrates
Etymology: The standard of identity is from 21CFR155.191.
Senses: qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: Any food obtained from the liquid of ripe tomatoes, strained, with any of: ingredients to regulate pH, water, salt, lemon juice, acid, sodium bicarbonate, spices, and flavoring.
trichomonad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichomonads
Senses: glosses: Any of many flagellate protozoans of the genus Trichomonas, most of which are parasitic
trichopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trichopterans
Etymology: Trichoptera + -an
Senses: glosses: Any insect of the order Trichoptera.
Synonyms: caddis fly
trichopteran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more trichopteran
form: most trichopteran
Etymology: Trichoptera + -an
Senses: glosses: trichopterous
trichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪˌkɹəʊm/
Etymology: From tri- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: Like the Mumuye and Chamba examples they have a trichrome system of decoration in which red (ochre) and white (chalk) accents are set against an opaque and granular black (soot) background.
ref: 1994, David Zeitlyn, “Mambila figurines and masquerades: Problems of interpretation”, in African Arts, volume 27, number 4:
glosses: trichromatic (involving three colours)
examples: text: To summarize: it is possible to make reasonable predictions about the type of force to which connective tissues are subjected by examination of the morphological and biochemical features of[…]the histological staining reaction of the collagen fibers by the Masson trichrome stain[…]
ref: 1995, Joan E. Sanders, Barry S. Goldstein, Daniel F. Leotta, “Skin response to mechanical stress: Adaptation rather than breakdown--A review of the literature”, in Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, volume 32, number 3:
text: Mitochondrial content was estimated based on visualization of the modified Gomori's trichrome stain.
ref: 2011, Colleen A. McMullen et al., “Chronic Stimulation-Induced Changes in the Rodent Thyroarytenoid Muscle”, in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, volume 54, number 3:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Staining three different tissues three different colours.
raw_tags: of a stain
trichrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪˌkɹəʊm/
Forms: form: trichromes
Etymology: From tri- + -chrome.
Senses: examples: text: The stains used were hematoxylin and eosin (H&E), Masson's trichrome, and Verhoeff's stain. Sections stained with hematoxylin and eosin have nuclei that were stained blue, cartilage and calcium deposits stained dark blue, cytoplasm and other constituents stained shades of red, and blood stained bright red.
ref: 2001, Laura E. Edsberg, Joseph R. Natiella, JoAnn Earle, “Microstructural characteristics of human skin subjected to static versus cyclic pressures”, in Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, volume 38, number 5:
text: Muscle sections stained with modified Gomori's trichrome demonstrated that thyroarytenoid muscles from both the 1- and 2-week chronic nerve-stimulated rats contained fibers with mitochondrial accumulations.
ref: 2011, Colleen A. McMullen et al., “Chronic Stimulation-Induced Changes in the Rodent Thyroarytenoid Muscle”, in Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research, volume 54, number 3:
text: Segmental sections 5 μm thick were prepared and stained with hematoxylin and eosin, and Masson’s trichrome and analyzed by the senior pathologist using a light microscope (Olympus BX-50, Olympus, Japan).
ref: 2012, Kamuran Zeynep Sevim, Ozlem Silistreli, Metin Gorgu, Osman Sevim, Bekir Ergur, “Short-term vasculoprotective effects of imatinib mesylate on intimal hyperplasia of arterial anastomosis: An experimental study using a rabbit model”, in Plastic Surgery, volume 20, number 4, →PMID:
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A combined stain that stains three different tissues three different colours.
trickish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹɪkɪʃ/
Forms: form: more trickish
form: most trickish
Etymology: From trick + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: It often happens that a person who knows very well how to milk cannot get milk from certain cows. Some are delicate in this respect, others are trickish: the former can only give their milk to certain persons; the latter will only do so to those that excite them in a certain manner.
ref: 1819, The London Medical and Physical Journal, page 201:
synonyms: tricksical
glosses: Using tricks or trickery.
triclad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triclads
Senses: examples: text: Planarians (freshwater triclads) are turbellarian flatworms widely used in experimental biology.
ref: 1991, E. A. Kabotyanski, L. P. Nezlin, D. A. Sakharov, “8: Serotonin neurones in the planarian pharynx”, in D. A. Sakharov, W. Winlow, editors, Studies in Neuroscience: Simpler Nervous Systems, Manchester University Press, page 138:
text: The triclads Dugesia, Polycelis and Planaria have been encountered (Durrenfeldt 1978) though Minckley (1963) mentions the avoidance of Dugesia in carbonate-depositing areas.
ref: 2005, Allan Pentecost, Travertine, page 187:
text: The body length of adult triclads (Tricladida) chiefly exceeds 6 mm.
ref: 2014, György Kriska, Freshwater Invertebrates in Central Europe: A Field Guide, Springer, page 36:
glosses: Any of the turbellarian flatworms of order Tricladida.
Synonyms: sense: member of order Tricladida
word: planarian
Related terms: polyclad
plain flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plain flours
Etymology: plain (“regular”) + flour.
The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: word: all-purpose flour
glosses: A wheat flour with a medium gluten content, suitable for general use.
qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: exact synonym of flour
Coordinate terms: strong flour
wheat flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈwiːt ˌflaʊə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈʍiːt ˌflaʊə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: wheat flours
form: wheatflour
Etymology: From Middle English weth-floure, equivalent to wheat + flour.
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: wheatmeal (broadly synonymous), wheat starch
hypernyms: flour
meal
coordinate_terms: cornflour
cornmeal
cornstarch
oatmeal
maizemeal
rice flour
ricemeal
barleymeal
glosses: Flour made from wheat.
qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: exact synonym of flour
Related terms: wheat paste
white flour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: white flours
Etymology: The U.S. standard of identity comes from 21CFR137.105.
Senses: glosses: Refined flour made solely of the endosperm of wheat, i.e. with most of the germ and bran removed through the milling process, often chemically whitened.
qualifier: US standards of identity
glosses: exact synonym of flour
wispiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From wispy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Victorian wispiness of the enchanted wood, with its scantily-clad fairies
ref: 1986 February 1, Nicholas Deutsch, “7th Annual New York Gay Film Festival”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 28, page 9:
glosses: The state of being wispy.
unpromisingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unpromising + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being unpromising; lack of promise or apparent potential.
metadramatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meta- + dramatic.
Senses: glosses: Being or pertaining to metadrama.
metadramas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of metadrama
unpromised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + promised.
Senses: examples: text: But in the very act of saying he will pay the unpromised debt Hal makes a promise to Shakespeare's audience — or Shakespeare makes it through Hal...
ref: 1979, James L. Calderwood, Metadrama in Shakespeare's Henriad: Richard II to Henry V:
glosses: Not promised.
unpromised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + promised.
Senses: glosses: past of unpromise
democratization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: democratizations
form: democratisation
Etymology: From democratiz(e) + -ation.
Senses: qualifier: strictly
glosses: The introduction of democracy, its functions or principles, to an area or country which did not have democracy previously.
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The spread of democracy as a concept.
qualifier: strictly
glosses: The making more democratic of a political system.
glosses: The broadening of access to something, especially for the sake of egalitarianism.
Derived terms: redemocratization
democratisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: democratisations
Etymology: From democratise + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: Finance is seldom romantic. But the idea of peer-to-peer lending comes close. This is an industry that brings together individual savers and lenders on online platforms.[…]Banks and credit-card firms are kept out of the picture. Talk to enough people in the field and someone is bound to mention the “democratisation of finance”.
ref: 2013 June 1, “End of the peer show”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 71:
glosses: Alternative spelling of democratization.
tony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: tonier
form: toniest
form: toney
Etymology: From tone + -y.
Senses: examples: text: “He’d scorn it. You heard what he said to-night,” answered Ben. “Never mind that. He’s got tony notions, but he isn’t a pamby, for all his talk.[…]”
ref: 1890 March 29, Vi Van Duzen, “The Strike of the Q. Q.’s”, in Lucy Stone, H[enry] B[rowne] Blackwell, Alice Stone Blackwell, editors, The Woman’s Journal, volume XXI, number 13, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 103, column 1:
text: He bought it for a song in 1984 compared with what his fellow financiers were spending on tonier Park and Fifth Avenues.
ref: 2013 August 16, Robin Finn, “A Former Madoff Penthouse Goes Back on the Market”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Meanwhile, on another plane entirely, “Another Period” (Comedy Central, recently renewed for Season 2) is a send-up of crunchy-gravel dramas, set in tony Rhode Island in 1902.
ref: 2015 October 1, Hank Stuever, “In the hunt for a new favorite show, 'when' might be as crucial as 'what'”, in Washington Post:
text: My host gained national notoriety after her high-profile arrest in 1993 on charges connected with running L.A.'s toniest prostitution ring.
ref: 2017, David Friend, The Naughty Nineties:
text: The meaty and more familiar parts of Anna’s story — passing as a German heiress, ripping off tony hotels, brazenly exploiting narcissistic machers and star-struck working women — are told in flashback as Vivian reports her article.
ref: 2022 February 10, Mike Hale, “‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: swank
glosses: Stylish, high-toned, upscale.
tony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtəʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: tonies
form: toney
Etymology: From the name Tony.
Senses: examples: text: it would have serv'd for a Caution to People how they trifle and play the Tonies betwixt Jeft and Earnest
ref: 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:
text: A pattern and companion fit / For all the keeping tonies of the pit.
ref: 1677 (first performance), John Dryden, All for Love: Or, The World Well Lost. A Tragedy, […], [London]: […] Tho[mas] Newcomb, for Henry Herringman, […], published 1678, →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: A simpleton.
fraining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a questioning
fraining
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of frain
cuntfaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuntface
belives
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belive
beliving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belive
ubiquitarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈbɪkwɪˈtɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /juˈbɪkwəˈtɛɹi.ən/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: ubiquitarians
Etymology: From ubiquity + -arian.
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: Any of a group of Lutherans who held that the body of Christ was present everywhere at all times.
Related terms: ubiquitism
ubiquitous
ubiquity
unaccustomedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unaccustomed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He felt unaccustomedly bold and light-hearted; the arrival of Elisha had caused his mood to change.
ref: 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Penguin Classics (2001), page 60:
glosses: In an unaccustomed manner.
unadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + adapted.
Senses: glosses: Not adapted.
unadapted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unadapt
underemphasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underemphases
Etymology: From under- + emphasis.
Senses: glosses: Insufficient emphasis.
Related terms: underemphasize
underswell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underswells
Etymology: From under- + swell.
Senses: glosses: An undercurrent.
examples: text: Something had altered the normal perspectives of the room. Trying to focus on the grey underswell of the ceiling, I listened for footsteps outside. Sure enough, the corridor wall began to retract.
ref: 1963, J. G. Ballard, Passport to Eternity:
glosses: A swelling undersection.
undertenant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: undertenants
form: under-tenant
Etymology: From under- + tenant.
Senses: topics: law
property
synonyms: word: subtenant
word: sublessee
word: underlessee
word: subtenant
glosses: Synonym of subtenant.
unescapable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + escapable.
Senses: synonyms: word: inescapable
word: ;
word: avoidless
word: certain
word: fatal
word: foregone
word: impreventable
word: ineluctable
word: inescapable
word: inevitable
word: inexorable
word: irresistible
word: necessary
word: predictable
word: unavoidable
word: unforestallable
word: unescapable
word: unpreventable
antonyms: escapable
;
avoidable
evitable
glosses: Impossible to avoid or escape.
Derived terms: unescapably
Related terms: escapability
escapable
escapably
inescapability
inescapably
unescapability
uninucleate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uni- + nucleate.
Senses: synonyms: uninucleated
glosses: Having a single nucleus
uninvoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + invoked.
Senses: glosses: Not invoked
unpossessed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + possessed.
Senses: glosses: Not possessed; not owned by anybody.
examples: text: […] the master exorcist, the gem among them all, the ocean of virtues, seemed to be the only sane person unaffected and unpossessed.
ref: 1985, Antu Praharaj, Indian Literature, volume 28, page 151:
glosses: Not subject to possession by a spirit.
examples: an eligible man unpossessed of a wife
glosses: Not in possession of.
dry drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dry drunks
Senses: examples: text: Denise called Frank a "dry drunk." He no longer drank but he continued to indulge in "the same wild, erratic behavior binges" without the "excuse of alcohol" in his system.
ref: 2013, Kate Maloy, Margaret Jones Patterson, Birth Or Abortion?: Private Struggles in a Political World, →ISBN:
text: "I think Big Jed's dad may be a dry drunk. He seems to have all the problems of an alcoholic, just not the drinking.[…]"
ref: 2020, M. D. Linville M. Meadows, A Spiritual Pathway to Recovery from Addiction, A Physician's Journey of Discovery, →ISBN:
glosses: A recovering alcoholic who is not drinking alcohol, but has relapsed mentally and emotionally;
examples: text: Family members frequently report that a dry drunk is as difficult to live with as a "wet drunk." After all, it is not the drinking and drugging that bothers family members but the abusive, unpredictable behavior that comes with it.
ref: 1991, Philip St. Romain, Freedom from Codependency, →ISBN, page 60:
text: One of the best ways out of a "dry drunk" is to work with another still-suffering alcoholic.
ref: 1995, Hamilton B., Getting Started in AA, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: A recovering alcoholic who is not drinking alcohol, but has relapsed mentally and emotionally;
Such a relapse.
examples: text: Abstinence leaves me without nicotine, but still living with the old beliefs and behaviors that cry for the drug—in short, living a "dry drunk."
ref: 1990, Ellen Walker, Smoker: Self-portrait of a Nicotine Addict, →ISBN:
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: Any substance addict who has quit using, but remains psychologically dependent.
dry drunk
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But more interestingly, they distinguish between being "dry drunk"—being on the wagon, but still wanting to drink—and being "sober," neither drinking nor wanting to.
ref: 2017, The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two, →ISBN:
glosses: Being a recovering alcoholic who has quit drinking alcohol, but remains psychologically dependent.
uphaul
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uphauls
form: uphauling
form: uphauled
form: uphauled
Etymology: From Middle English uphalen, equivalent to up- + haul.
Senses: glosses: To haul upwards.
traunce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traunces
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of trance.
vicariate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/
Forms: form: vicariates
Senses: examples: text: His next was to claim, in virtue of this vicariate, the mediatorial “power in heaven and in earth”
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). A Treatise of the Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The office, authority, or district of a vicar.
examples: text: Upon ye late remove of our patriarch's vicar there hath fallen vacant a benefice annexed to ye vicariat.
ref: 1611, Sir D. Carleton, Letter in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I.:
text: Vigilius gave his Vicariate to this Arch-Bishop in the Provinces.
ref: 1725, Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C.:
text: St. Charles established a vicariat, that things might be done with deliberation and counsel, which many other bishops imitated.
ref: 1773, A. Butler, Lives of Saints:
glosses: The office, authority, or district held by a person as deputy for a bishop, or similar ecclesiastical authority.
examples: text: If he should chance to fayle, the vicariate of Upper Germany must neades fall upon the Palatin.
ref: 1619, F. Cottington, Letters in Eng. & Germ.:
text: He has accepted and taken upon him‥his part of the Vicariate of the Empire during the present Vacancy.
ref: 1711, London Gazette:
text: The vicariat of that part of Germany which is governed by the Saxon laws, devolved to the elector of Saxony.
ref: 1769, Robertson, Chas. V, ii. Wks.:
glosses: The office, authority, or district managed by someone appointed as deputy to a secular political leader.
Derived terms: apostolic vicariate
vicariate forane
vicariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /vaɪˈkɛəɹi.ət/
Forms: form: more vicariate
form: most vicariate
Senses: examples: text: To the Bishops of Arles had the Holy See deputed a vicariate power there.
ref: 1849, Daniel Rock, The Church of Our Fathers:
glosses: delegated; relating to a representative; vicarious.
whitleather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From whit(e) + leather.
Senses: examples: text: A buttrice,^([hoof-parer]) and pincers, a hammer and nail,
And apron, and scissars for head and for tail,
Whole bridle and saddle, whitleather, and nall,
With collars and harness, for thiller and all.
ref: 1573, Thomas Tusser, “Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie”, in William Mavor, editor, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, published 1812, page 10:
text: Wounds that require ſtitching, muſt be done with a fine ſhred of whitleather, which is much better than either ſilk or thread; the former will not cut the fleſh and ſkin, as the latter does.
ref: 1783, Francis Clater, Every Man His Own Farrier, 6th edition, published 1793, page 86:
text: 1836, "the author of The Book of the Seasons", Days at My Grandfather’s, Mrs. Alaric Watts (editor), The New Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir, page 83,
So to keep him out there was a loop of whitleather fastened to the latch, which when hung on the catch let the door stand open about three inches.
glosses: A soft, pale leather prepared by tawing with alum and salt.
Derived terms: tough as whitleather
trance music
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
synonyms: trance
glosses: A style of dance music with fast beats, short melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and down throughout a track, often played in nightclubs.
Hyponyms: acid trance
ambient trance
big room trance
classic trance
dream trance
electro trance
eurotrance
Goa trance
hard trance
Ibiza trance
progressive trance
psytrance
tech trance
uplifting trance
vocal trance
Derived terms: trancester
withstander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: withstanders
Etymology: From Middle English withstonder, equivalent to withstand + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The ordinary theme and argument of history is war; which may be defined the exercise of violence under sovereign command against withstanders; force, authority, and resistance, being the essential parts thereof.
ref: 1650, Walter Raleigh, “A Discourse of the Original and Fundamental Cause of Natural, Customary, Arbitrary, Voluntary and Necessary War”, in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., volume VIII (Miscellaneous Works), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1829, page 253
text: Remember what I told you, this wealthy Franklin is proud, fierce, jealous, and irritable; a withstander of the nobility, and even of his neighbours, Reginald Front-de-Bœuf and Philip Malvoisin, who are no babes to strive withall.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter II, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 38:
text: Confidently expecting that you will comply with this request, which is the sequence of your expressed desire, I remain, sir, yours, with the respect offered to a sincere withstander, RUFUS LYON.
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter XV, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: A person who withstands or resists; an opponent.
alant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of alaunt.
speres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spere
Shover
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Shovers
Senses: glosses: A surname.
leatherless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From leather + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without leather.
inhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of in-house.
palmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From palm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without palm trees.
examples: palmless gloves
glosses: Without a palm (part of the hand).
unbutchered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + butchered.
Senses: examples: text: If a carcass remains unbutchered for more than two days the accumulated gases can cause it to explode and spray decomposed entrails over a wide area.
ref: 1971, George L. Small, The blue whale:
glosses: Not butchered.
swordsmithing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sword + smithing.
Senses: glosses: the making of swords
refiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: refillers
Etymology: From refill + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, refills.
refillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of refiller
balmless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From balm + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without balm.
roofscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roofscapes
Etymology: From roof + -scape.
Senses: glosses: A landscape above ground formed by roofs of buildings.
roofscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of roofscape
crushee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crushees
Etymology: From crush + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The crush may be embarrassing to the crushee, but it was found to be such far less frequently than not.
ref: 1955, Elizabeth Bergner Hurlock, Adolescent development:
glosses: The person on whom one has a crush (infatuation).
Synonyms: crush
crushees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crushee
powerpop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of power pop.