cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈslæɡi/
Forms: form: slaggier
form: more slaggy
form: slaggiest
form: most slaggy
Etymology: From slag + -y.
Senses: examples: text: 1834, Robert Allan, Abstract of a Paper accompanying a Suite of Volcanic Rocks from the Lipari Islands, Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 12, 531,
Some portions of this obsidian are less compact, and in No, 2. we remark indications of a more slaggy structure, with several white veins intersecting the black surface in a very beautiful manner.
text: From here to the summit the slope steepens to an angle of 20° to 30°, and the rock becomes harder and more slaggy.
ref: 1889, ANZAAS, Report of the First Meeting of the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, volume 1, page 235:
text: 1949, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (N.Z.), New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology: General Research Section, Volume 31, unidentified page,
In the more slaggy parts of the sheet pale yellowish natural porcelain is found both fused to blocks of basalt and as large lumps in the filling.
text: 1983, John P. Lehman, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society, Hazardous Waste Disposal, page 183,
Because of the generally higher process temperature (~l.000°C versus ~800 °C ) and the more homogeneous nature of the input, the residues appear to be more slaggy or sintered.
text: Since all have been exposed by the stripping of less resistant basalt, it is worth noting that much of the Black Cuillin is still basalt because the plutonic rocks were intruded by sheets and dykes of lava, which given such cover had become tougher than the slaggier plateau basalt.
ref: 1987, William Hutchison Murray, Scotland′s Mountains, page 27:
glosses: Resembling or containing slag.
raw_tags: of a material
examples: 2005, Maria Beaumont, MissFit, Arrow Books, UK, page 175,
This evening I′ve been the cheapest, slaggiest slag ever.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a slag; slutty, promiscuous.
claggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæɡi/
Forms: form: claggier
form: claggiest
Etymology: From clag + -y.
Senses: qualifier: tar; glue or the like; tar; glue or the like
glosses: Sticky or tacky.
raw_tags: of mud
topics: business
mining
glosses: Adhesive, having coal clinging to it.
raw_tags: of a roof in a mine
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Having mineralised earth or other deposit adhered to it.
raw_tags: of a coin
Synonyms: sense: sticky
word: agglutinative
word: tenacious
word: adhesive
dictature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatures
Etymology: Borrowed from French dictature.
Senses: examples: text: The impressiveness of the aspect of Edinburgh to its visitors is thus not merely pictorial. […] See the hill-fort defended by lake and forest, becoming "castrum puellarum," becoming a Roman and an Arthurian citadel, a mediaeval stronghold of innumerable sieges, a centre of autocratic and military dictatures, oligarchic governments, at length a museum of the past.
ref: 1905, Sir Patrick Geddes, “Civics: as Applied Sociology”, in B-The Historic Survey Of Cities, Sociological Society, page 109:
text: it was in Lucius Syila, to resigne his Dictature
ref: 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Office of a dictator; dictatorship.
snaggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /snæɡi/
Forms: form: snaggier
form: snaggiest
Etymology: From snag + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered in snags, or similar sharp projections.
examples: text: I couldn't live wi' a snaggy man like him if I was paaid^([sic]) for it.
ref: 1889, English Dialect Society, Publications, numbers 59-64, page 501:
glosses: Bad-tempered; crotchety.
slag off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slags off
form: slagging off
form: slagged off
form: slagged off
Senses: examples: text: There is a lot of copper oxide, but I can remove that by melting everything and slagging it off.
glosses: To purify by melting and removing slag.
examples: text: There’s pressure to be a brand. I’m even locked out of my social media because I just get drunk and slag people off.
ref: 2023 February 24, Michael Segalov, quoting Will Young, “Will Young: ‘I’m locked out of my social media because I get drunk and slag people off’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: The Donald didn’t seem convinced and started slagging off the London mayor, Sadiq Khan. “He’s a friend of mine,” squeaked Starmer.
ref: 2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To talk insultingly to or about someone or something; usually one who is not present.
tippers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tipper
familicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: familicides
Etymology: From family + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: Because of the familicide that wiped out his entire family, he will be charged with six counts of murder.
text: Familicide is the murder of family members by another family member. In other words, familicide is a multiple-victim homicide in which the killer's spouse or partner and one or more children are killed. Although familicide is relatively rare, it is nevertheless the most common form of mass killing.
ref: 2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 204:
glosses: The murder of an entire family by a family member.
examples: text: The popular professional wrestler became the most notorious familicide of 2007.
text: There has also been some recent work focused on diagnostic correlates in aggressive individuals, including a familicide.
ref: 1998, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law Newsletter, volume 23, number 3, page 10:
text: While hiding there under the assumed name Calinda, she nearly falls prey to duke Brianto, a stock character modeled on the salacious predatory Turk (a ‘familicide’ of “beastly appetite,” in league with a dishonest Greek ally) […]
ref: 2019, Lea Puljcan Juric, Illyria in Shakespeare’s England, →ISBN, page 147:
text: His behaviour in Ukraine increasingly resembles that of a familicide, who would rather kill his wife and children than let them go.
ref: 2022 March 30, Joan Smith, “Putin the abuser”, in The Critic:
glosses: The perpetrator of a familicide.
Derived terms: familicidal
Related terms: altruistic filicide
family annihilator
fratricide
homicide
infanticide
parricide
sororicide
suicide
uxoricide
familicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more familicidal
form: most familicidal
Etymology: From familicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to familicide.
uxoricidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From uxoricide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to uxoricide.
infanticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From infanticide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to infanticide.
Derived terms: infanticidally
filicidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From filicide + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to filicide.
sanjo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sino-Korean 散 (scattered) + 調 (melodies).
Senses: glosses: a genre of traditional Korean instrumental music
unsmoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + smoked.
Senses: glosses: not preserved by treatment with smoke and thus retaining more of the original flavour, for example: unsmoked bacon or salmon.
raw_tags: of food
glosses: not lit, not burnt. (of a cigarette, cigar or pipe)
Synonyms: topics: food
lifestyle
word: green
word: nonsmoked
rogatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rogatory
form: most rogatory
Etymology: Borrowed from French rogatoire, from Medieval Latin rogātōrius (“interrogatory”), from rogō (“I ask, enquire”), 1850s.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Seeking information or evidence, especially from a foreign court
Derived terms: rogatory letter
letters rogatory
Related terms: interrogatory
rogation
subrogation
unmalted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + malted.
Senses: glosses: Not malted, ungerminated.
unploughed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unplowed
Etymology: From un- + ploughed.
Senses: glosses: Unturned with a plough, and thus retaining its original vegetation (usually grass).
raw_tags: of a field or land
glosses: Unexplored or unknown.
Streisand effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɹaɪ.sænd əˌfɛkt/
Forms: form: Streisand effects
Etymology: Coined by Mike Masnick in 2005, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.
Senses: examples: text: No matter how effective your rebuttal may seem to be to you, a response will "bump" the problem into greater prominence and relevance in the search engine results, which then turns your headache into a migraine. This is doubly dangerous since "bumping" the negative information potentially introduces the "Streisand Effect" into the equation, which is something to avoid if at all possible. It is commonly defined as a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information on the web backfires, causing greater publicity.
ref: 2009, John W. Dozier, Sue Scheff, Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet, HCI, →ISBN, page 40:
text: Say you discover that people aren't just talking about you, they're bashing you. Should you step in and try to stop them? Again, the answer is absolutely no! Leave them alone – you'll only make the problems worse and create a Streisand Effect if you try to hush them up.
ref: 2009, Kyle Lacy, Twitter Marketing For Dummies, For Dummies, →ISBN, page 215:
text: But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!
ref: 2009 September 11, Jim Emerson, “Teaching the controversy”, Scanners, in Chicago Sun-Times, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2009:
text: Though, the action of the US government was intended to suppress the leaks, the ‘Streisand effect’ made sure that the outcome was exactly the opposite. People all over the world, who hadn’t even heard of the Website, were typing WikiLeaks.org on their keyboards only to find a site-unavailable message, which increased their curiosity. People sympathetic to WikiLeaks, in the meantime, had voluntarily mirrored the website in order to keep it online.
ref: 2010 December 17, K Vaidya Nathan, “Beware the Streisand effect”, in The Indian Express, The Indian Express Limited, retrieved 29 Oct 2012:
glosses: A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.
wikipedia: Barbra Streisand
California Coastal Records Project
Derived terms: Streisand
Related terms: backfire
censorship
epic fail
freedom of speech
blive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪv/
Forms: form: blives
form: bliving
form: blove
form: bliven
Etymology: See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of belive ("to remain").
blive
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /blaɪv/
Forms: form: more blive
form: most blive
form: belive
Etymology: From Middle English blive (“actively, vigorously, eagerly, gladly, quickly, at once”), with unsyncopated alternative form bilive. The adverb is from a contraction of by /bi + live (dative form of lyf, "life"), literally, "by life".
Senses: examples: text: “Perdy, ſir knight,” ſaide then th’ enchaunter blive […]
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18, page 223:
glosses: quickly; forthwith
aboot
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbuːt/
Senses: examples: text: c. 1686, Ed. Halley, “An Hiſtorical Account of the Trade Winds and Monſoons, obſervable in the Seas between and near the Tropicks, with an attempt to aſſign the Phyſical Cauſe of the ſaid Winds”, re-printed in Miſcellanea Curioſa: Containing a Collection of ſome of the Principal Phænomena in Nature, Accounted for by the Greateſt Philoſophers of this Age; Being the Moſt Valuable Diſcourses, Read and Delivered to the Royal Society, for the Advancement of Phyſical and Mathematical Knowledge, As alſo a Collection of Curious Travels, Voyages, Antiquities, and Natural Hiſtories of Countries; Preſented to the ſame Society, second edition, volume I, R. Smith (1708), page 65,
The one is, why, notwithſtanding the narroweſt part of the Sea between Guinea and Brazile be aboot five hundred Leagues over, yet Ships bound to the Southward, ſometimes, eſpecially in the Months of July and August, find a great difficulty to paſs it.
text: Maister Fothergill West and the meenister say that I maun tell all I can aboot General Heatherstone and his hoose, but that I maunna say muckle aboot mysel'.
ref: 1889, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 8, in The Mystery of Cloomber:
text: 1926 August, Zane Grey, “From Missouri”, re-printed in The Lawless West, Dorchester Publishing (2007), →ISBN, page 12,
“Heah he reads in a Kansas City paper aboot a schoolteacher wantin’ a job out in dry Arizonie. And he ups an’ writes her an’ gets her a-rarin’ to come. Then, when she writes an’ tells us she’s not over forty, then us quits like yellow coyotes. […]”
text: ...hoo aboot a raffle...?...
ref: 1972, Scott Dobson, Aald Geordie's Almanack:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of about.
Related terms: aboat
Huế
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The shallowness of the Perfume River, which runs through Huế, and the shifting sandbars at its mouth precluded oceangoing vessels from sailing up the river as far as Huế.
ref: 2010, C. Michele Thompson, “Jean Marie Despiau: Unjustly Maligned Physician in the Medical Service of the Nguyễn”, in Wynn Wilcox, editor, Vietnam and the West: New Approaches (Studies on Southeast Asia; 52), Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program Publications, →ISBN, “Precolonial Encounters (to 1862)” section, page 52:
text: Rice thus needed to be transported to the capital Huế for distribution to the northernmost part of the country, but organizing a convoy was not easy. […] But the rice traffic was so vital to Huế’s economy that the Nguyễn ordered boat owners to transport rice to Thuận Hóa twice a year up to 1714; […]
ref: 2011, Nghia M. Vo, “Gia Định/Saigon, the Royal Capital (1777–1802)”, in Saigon: A History, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 29:
text: My grandmother was a great entrepreneur; in order to support her family, she opened up her front room to sell bún bò huế, the best noodle soup I have ever eaten. It originates from Huế (the city of temples, emperor’s palaces and dynasties in central Vietnam) and is spicy, bold and invigorating.
ref: 2024, Uyen Luu, “Hue noodle soup with beef and pork: bún bò huế”, in Recipes from My Vietnamese Kitchen: Authentic Food to Awaken the Senses & Feed the Soul, London; New York, N.Y.: Ryland Peters & Small, →ISBN, “Feed the Soul: Soups” section:
glosses: Alternative form of Hue.
Hà Nội
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Vietnamese Hà Nội.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hanoi.
delo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delos
Etymology: From delegate + -o.
Senses: glosses: A delegate (representative).
psuedo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of pseudo-.
fals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulus
form: fils
Etymology: From Arabic فَلْس (fals), from Aramaic פילס / ܦܠܣ / פולסא / ܦܘܠܣܐ (/⁠fuləsā, filas⁠/), from Ancient Greek φόλλις (phóllis), from Latin follis. Doublet of follis and fool.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
numismatics
glosses: Medieval copper coin first produced by the Umayyad caliphate beginning in the late 7th century.
common name
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: common names
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: trivial name
text: From the point of view of biology, a bird has both a scientific name and a common name.
ref: 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
taxonomy
synonyms: vernacular name
hypernyms: alias#Noun
coordinate_terms: scientific name
taxonomic name
glosses: The name by which an organism or group of organisms is known to the general public.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
coordinate_terms: trivial name
vernacular name
;
systematic name
glosses: A name that unambiguously identifies a substance but is not the IUPAC systematic name.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see common, name.
nowy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
glosses: Nowed (knotted).
slating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slatings
Senses: glosses: Slates collectively.
glosses: Material for slating.
examples: text: His new book got a real slating.
text: "Ever been to a meeting before, sir?" "No," said Malone. "Don't know much about it, I expect." "No, I don't." "Well, well, we must expect a slating."
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
synonyms: scorcher
glosses: A harsh criticism.
slating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of slate
slackest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of slack: most slack
slacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of slack
punding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: A gerundial noun from the slang term to pund used by addicts, coined by Swedish forensic psychiatrist G. Rylander, in 1968. Folke Sjöqvist, Malcolm Tottie, editor (1969), “Clinical and Medico-criminological aspects of addiction to Central Stimulating Drugs”, in Abuse of central stimulants: Symposium arranged by the Swedish Committee on International Health Relations, Stockholm, November 25-27, 1968, Almqvist & Wiksell, page 257
Senses: examples: text: Punding may consist of activities such as collecting pebbles and lining them up as perfectly as possible, or disassembling doorknobs and putting them back together again.
text: What Pollan is describing here is a mild form of ‘punding’, a phenomenon first described by intravenous amphetamine addicts.
ref: 2021 July, AJ Lees, “Never Mind the Neurobollocks”, in The Literary Review:
glosses: A human activity characterized by compulsive fascination with and performance of repetitive, mechanical tasks, such as assembling and disassembling, collecting, or sorting household objects.
punding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pudding.
Related terms: stimming
tweaking
golf-club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf-clubs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of golf club.
golf-clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golf-club
pooper-scooper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: pooper-scoopers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pooper scooper.
barkometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barkometers
Etymology: From bark + -o- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A hydrometer calibrated to test the strength of tanning liquors used in tanning leather.
desacralization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desacralizations
Etymology: From de- + sacralization.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The reverse of sacralization, and occurs when a formerly dedicated religious structure such as a church or religious school is given over for another purpose outside of the particular religious organization which dedicated it for a sacred purpose.
Related terms: desacralize
geru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An earthy red color, used in India to paint flowerpots and tree bases.
geru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more geru
form: most geru
Senses: glosses: Of an earthy red color.
modesty panel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modesty panels
Senses: glosses: A thin screen of wood or metal attached to the front of a desk, organ, etc. to provide privacy for the person seated behind it, as it covers the upper part of the legs and cabling, and to provide structural support for the legs of the furniture.
contravening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of contravene
genitive-accusative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genitive-accusatives
Senses: examples: The term "genitive-accusative" refers to the use of genitive form in accusative function. It is a phenomenon that has grown and been generalized from a special distinction in old Russian to the broad category of animateness in modern Russian. Genitive-Accusative in the Laurentian Primary Chronicle, Orrin Frink, The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Summer, 1962), pp. 133-137, doi:10.2307/3086099
The paper deals with a long-standing problem of Slavic Historical Linguistics, which is the question why in the history of Old East Slavic (OESl) there occurred a substitution of the Adjective by the Genitive case of a noun as a means of expressing possession. The main postulate is that there existed a previously unnoticed connection between this substitution, on the one hand, and the rise of a new syncretic Accusative case form, known as Genitive-Accusative, on the other. It is suggested that the missing link underlying both processes is the intolerance of the language to Subject-Object ambiguity. The Rise of the Genitive-Accusative and Genitive of Possession in Old East Slavic, Elena Bratishenko, University of Calgary, 2007
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The use of genitive as a case of the grammatical object; exists at least in several Slavic and Finnic languages.
baseload
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baseloads
form: base load
Etymology: From base + load.
Senses: glosses: The minimum load on a power station over a standard period.
budburst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: budbursts
Etymology: From bud + burst.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The emergence of new leaves on a plant at the beginning of each growing season
electrostriction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrostrictions
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The mechanical deformation of a dielectric (insulator) in the presence of an electric field
Related terms: electrostrict
electrostrictive
exchanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exchangers
Etymology: From exchange + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Over the stretch of single line track to Ballymena, the fireman had a busy time, dividing his attention between the fire and the acrobatics necessitated by loading and unloading the automatic tablet exchanger as we sped through the sections.
ref: 1950 December, E. M. Patterson, “An Ulster Round Trip”, in Railway Magazine, page 804:
glosses: A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A person or thing that exchanges one thing for another.
An antiporter.
Derived terms: heat exchanger
nonexchanger
heat exchanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heat exchangers
Senses: examples: text: The transmission oil is cooled in a heat exchanger through which the cooling water is circulated, to assist rapid warming of the engine system and to bring engine and transmission into their true interdependence.
ref: 1960 June, “The N.B. Loco. Co. diesel-hydraulic Type "2" locomotive”, in Trains Illustrated, page 345:
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any device (such as a radiator) that transfers heat from one fluid to another via a separating wall.
secular progressivism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An alleged movement in the United States with the ostensible goal of removing religion from the public sphere.
Related terms: secularism
progressivism
OTR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of old-time radio.
glosses: Initialism of one-touch recording.
OTR
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of off the record.
glosses: Initialism of over-the-road.
glosses: Initialism of on the road.
glosses: Initialism of on the rocks.
glyphosate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡlɪfəseɪt/
/ˈɡlaɪfə-/
/ɡlaɪˈfɒseɪt/
Forms: form: glyphosates
Etymology: Blend of glycine + phosphonate.
Senses: examples: text: Two-thirds of Europeans support a ban on glyphosate, the most widely used agricultural chemical in the world’s history, according to a new Yougov poll.
ref: 2016 April 11, Arthur Neslen, “Two-thirds of Europeans support ban on glyphosate - poll”, in The Guardian:
text: France led the opposition to allowing the use of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and in weed killers made by other companies.
ref: 2017 November 27, Danny Hakim, “Glyphosate, Top-Selling Weed Killer, Wins E.U. Approval for 5 Years”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: N-phosphonomethyl glycine, the active ingredient of several herbicides that inhibit a plant growth enzyme.
glosses: Any of several herbicides based on it, such as Roundup.
neurobehavioral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: neurobehavioural
Etymology: From neuro- + behavioral.
Senses: examples: text: Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) authored the law, which bans Red Dye No. 40, Yellow Dye No. 5, Yellow Dye No. 6, Blue Dye No. 1, Blue Dye No. 2 and Green Dye No. 3. The chemicals have been found to cause neurobehavioral problems in some children.
ref: 2024 September 28, Iris Myers, “California leads the nation with first ban on six harmful food dyes in school food”, in Environmental Working Group:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the assessment of a person's neurological state by observation of their behavior.
Related terms: neurobehaviorally
nonlinearity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æɹɪti
Forms: form: nonlinearities
Etymology: From non- + linearity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being nonlinear.
glosses: A deviation from linearity.
processionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more processionary
form: most processionary
Etymology: From procession + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or used in a procession
processionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processionaries
Etymology: From procession + -ary.
Senses: glosses: Any of several moths or caterpillars of the subfamily Thaumetopoeinae
Derived terms: word: oak processionary
taxonomic: Thaumetopoea processionea
word: oak processionary moth
taxonomic: Thaumetopoea pityocampa
word: pine processionary
word: processionary caterpillar
word: processionary moth
overwinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwin
zygapophyseal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the zygapophysis.
Derived terms: infrazygapophyseal
interzygapophyseal
postzygapophyseal
prezygapophyseal
getteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: get + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of get
ariseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: arise + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of arise
airwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: airwaves
Etymology: From air + wave.
Senses: examples: text: Vander Meer’s no-hitter at Ebbets Field on June 15 was a witness-only event, unheard on any airwave.
ref: 2008 December 23, Richard Sandomir, “On Old Cassette, Barber's Voice Brings to Life Game He Missed”, in The New York Times:
glosses: singular of airwaves; thus often "radio" or "frequency".
CONOPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CONOPSs
Etymology: Abbreviation of concept of operations.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A statement or diagram describing how a military operation is to be carried out using the available resources.
glosses: A document describing the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of the people who will use it.
operating concept
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: operating concepts
Senses: glosses: A description, usually graphical, showing the major participants or components in a system and their interrelationships.
Synonyms: OpCon
OPCON
OpCon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: OpCons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OPCON.
OPCON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Acronym of operational control, command authority that may be exercised by commanders at any echelon at or below the level of combatant command.
cheese curl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheese curls
Senses: glosses: A puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders.
Synonyms: word: cheese doodle
word: cheese puff
word: cheesy puff
word: cheezie
forcast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forcasts
form: forcasting
form: forcast
form: forcast
Etymology: From Middle English forcasten (“to cast away, reject”), equivalent to for- + cast. Cognate with Swedish förkasta (“to reject”). Compare forcasten.
Senses: glosses: To cast away; reject.
glosses: Misspelling of forecast.
forcast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English forcast, variant of forecast.
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of forecast.
rebell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rebells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rebel.
ajaeng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 아쟁 (ajaeng).
Senses: glosses: A bowed zither used in Korean traditional and classical music.
kkwaenggwari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kkwaenggwari
Etymology: Borrowed from Korean 꽹과리 (kkwaenggwari).
Senses: glosses: A small brass gong used in Korean folk music
ratholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rathole
ratholing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: the surreptitious or premature removal of chips during a poker game.
glosses: the emptying of material only in the center of a hopper or silo, leaving behind circumferential material.
backstabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backstab
backstabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of backstab
cyclones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclone
curvier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of curvy: more curvy
rabbet joint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rabbet joints
Senses: topics: arts
business
carpentry
construction
crafts
hobbies
lifestyle
manufacturing
woodworking
glosses: See definition at rabbet.
curviest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of curvy: most curvy
daredevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of daredevil
damming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪŋ/
homophone: damning
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dam
damming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmɪŋ/
homophone: damning
Forms: form: dammings
Senses: glosses: The installation of a dam (structure to block flow).
dammed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dæmd/
rhymes: -æmd
homophone: damned
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dam
ratholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rathole
ratholes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rathole
ratholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rathole
pavonazzetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pævənætˈsɛtəʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian pavonazzetto, from pavonazzo + -etto.
Senses: examples: text: “Pavonazzetto,” Replevin said, “also known as Phrygian marble, once believed to take its coloring from the blood of the Phrygian youth Atys, the one you see right there, in fact […].”
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 688:
glosses: A type of variegated marble.
decreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decree
decreeing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: decreeings
Senses: glosses: The giving out of a decree.
koumiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈkuːmɪs/
Forms: form: koumisses
form: koumis
form: koumys
form: koumyss
form: kumis
form: kumiss
form: kumisz
form: kumys
form: kymys
form: kymyz
Etymology: Via French koumis, German Kumiss, from Russian кумы́с (kumýs), borrowed from a Turkic source. Compare Tatar кымыз (qımız), Kazakh қымыз (qymyz), Kyrgyz кымыз (kımız), Northern Altai кымыс (kïmïs), Turkish kımız, Azerbaijani qımız.
Senses: examples: text: [Of a Persian wine] One name for this wine was 黑水晶 "black crystal"; it has also been confused with koumiss.
ref: 1898, Herbert Allen Giles, A Chinese Biographical Dictionary, page 12:
text: Here, for example—a Scythian koumiss vessel, third century B.C. You can clearly see the Greek influence, especially in the friezework.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, page 688:
glosses: A fermented drink made from mare's milk, common among peoples of the Central Asian steppes.
deactivates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deactivate
dishcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dishcloth
duos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of duo
return ace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: return aces
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
tennis
glosses: A point made by the opponent returning the ball in such a way that the server does not make contact
pilsner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɪlznə/
Forms: form: pilsners
form: Pilsener
form: pilsener
form: Pilsner
Etymology: From German Pilsner, from Pilsen, the Bohemian city where the beer was first developed.
Senses: synonyms: pils
glosses: A pale, light lager beer.
wikipedia: Pilsner Urquell
pilsners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pilsner
return aces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of return ace
perplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perplex
whinier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of whiny: more whiny
whiniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of whiny: most whiny
prore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prores
Etymology: From Latin prora (“prow”). Doublet of prow.
Senses: examples: text: These in twelve galleys with vermilion prores
Beneath his conduct sought the Phrygian shores..
ref: 1715, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book II”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume I, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: As the tall ship, whose lofty prore / Shall never stem the billows more […]!
ref: 1810, The Lady of the Lake, Walter Scott, 6.XIII:
synonyms: bow
stem
forestem
prow
antonyms: stern
aft
poop
glosses: The front part of a ship.
gasifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gasifiers
Etymology: From gasify + -er.
Senses: glosses: An apparatus used to perform gasification.
quartetto
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quartettos
form: quartetti
Etymology: From Italian quartetto.
Senses: glosses: A quartet.
quattrino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quattrinos
form: quattrini
Senses: glosses: A former very small Italian coin.
quintale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintales
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quintal, particularly in Italian contexts.
nexuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nexus
blags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blag
zhooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zhoosh
Tezcatlipoca
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Classical Nahuatl Tezcatlipoca.
Senses: glosses: An Aztec god.
acentromeric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From a- + centromeric.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a centromere
dekle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dekles
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: Alternative form of deckle.
yestereve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yestereves
Etymology: From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).
Senses: examples: text: Only yestereve, you wot, one of Lord de Grey's men-at-arms came limping to us with the news of the awful carnage the foul fiend had wrought on his master's household.
ref: 1927, Edgar Rice Burrows, The Outlaw of Torn, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2008:
synonyms: yestereven
yesterevening
yestreen
last night
yesternight
yesterday night
glosses: Yesterday evening.
yestereve
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English yester even, yistreven, alteration of yestereven (“last night, yesterday evening”), from Old English ġiestranǣfen (“yesterday evening”), equivalent to yester- + eve (“evening”).
Senses: synonyms: yestereven
yesterevening
yestreen
last night
yesternight
yesterday night
qualifier: During
glosses: yesterday evening.
Related terms: yesterday
yesteryear
mingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪndʒi/
Forms: form: mingier
form: mingiest
Etymology: Uncertain. Perhaps a blend of mean + stingy.
Senses: examples: text: 'And weren't you happy as an officer and a gentleman, when your Colonel was dead?'
'No! They were a mingy lot.' He laughed suddenly. 'The Colonel used to say: Lad, the English middle classes have to chew every mouthful thirty times because their guts are so narrow, a bit as big as a pea would give them a stoppage. They're the mingiest set of ladylike snipe ever invented: full of conceit of themselves, frightened even if their boot-laces aren't correct, rotten as high game, and always in the right. That's what finishes me up. Kow-tow, kow-tow, arse-licking till their tongues are tough: yet they're always in the right. Prigs on top of everything. Prigs! A generation of ladylike prigs with half a ball each--'
ref: 1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XV, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC:
text: The dark girl tossed her hat on the bed and hastily produced a packet of cigarettes from her bag, lighting and inhaling one with a deep exhalation of relief, saying, "Thank God for a cigarette! It's the only thing I will thank the mingy old blighter for."
ref: 1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 2:
text: After the Liberation Mrs Crewe kept on being as mingy as before with the food; and wouldn't let Harold buy any new clothes.
ref: 1974, GB Edwards, The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, New York, published 2007, page 298:
text: Now all that, in its mingy way, is logical enough.
ref: 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 413:
glosses: Mean, miserly, stingy.
Synonyms: niggardly
Derived terms: mingily
minginess
educationist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educationists
Etymology: From education + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And there was Talbot's great diseased appetite to corroborate a belief that expatriate educationists ate hoggishly.
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 318:
text: In the 1970s, no educationist would have predicted the explosion in universal written communication caused by the personal computer, the internet and the key-pad of the mobile phone.
ref: 2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, pages 16–17:
glosses: A specialist in the theory of education.
Synonyms: educationalist
educationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: educationalists
Etymology: From educational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: a specialist in the theory of education.
Synonyms: educationist
rhetorical induction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: reasoning from specific examples to general laws
Marxism-Leninism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian марксизм-ленинизм (marksizm-leninizm). By surface analysis, Marxism + Leninism.
Senses: examples: text: Meanwhile, “Mao Zedong Thought”, which originated in the 1930s, continues rhetorically to be recognised as one of the party’s guiding principles, an extension of Marxism-Leninism tweaked for China.
ref: 2012 November 6, John Ruwitch, Benjamin Kang Lim, Ben Blanchard, Adam Jourdan, “As China enters new era, how much of Mao will stay?”, in Raju Gopalakrishnan, editor, Reuters, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2023, World News:
topics: communism
government
human-sciences
ideology
philosophy
politics
sciences
glosses: A communist ideological stream that emerged as the mainstream tendency amongst the Communist parties in the 1920s as it was adopted as the ideological foundation of the Communist International during Stalin's era, and was later adopted by the People's Republic of China, Cuba, Vietnam, and several other nations.
Synonyms: word: Bolshevism
Derived terms: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Marxist-Leninist
Related terms: Marxism
Leninism
Maoism
Juche
rhonchus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹɒŋ.kəs/
ipa: /ˈɹɑŋ.kəs/
Forms: form: rhonchi
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin rhonchus (“snoring”), from Ancient Greek ῥόγχος (rhónkhos) (Caelius Aurelianus), of imitative origin.
Senses: examples: text: “You have poisoned yourself again!” Humfried emitted an alarming rhonchus.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 699:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A dry rattling sound heard during breathing, due to deposits in the bronchial tubes.
Derived terms: rhonchial
sibilant rhonchus
Northman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Northmen
Etymology: From north + man. From Old English Norþmann, from norþ+mann. Doublet of Norman.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Norse.
synonyms: word: Norse
Coordinate terms: Norseman
Related terms: Norman
Eastman
Westman
kental
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quintal.
unbalance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈbæləns/
Forms: form: unbalances
form: unbalancing
form: unbalanced
form: unbalanced
Etymology: From un- + balance.
Senses: examples: text: If you put that weight on the edge of the tray, it will unbalance it and dump all of the dishes on the floor.
text: Or, finally, might our awful situation prey upon and unbalance our minds? A group of insane folk upon a dead world!
ref: 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: To cause to be out of balance.
unbalances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unbalance
unbearded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English *unberded, from Old English unġeberded, unġebearded, unġebeardede, unġebearde, equivalent to un- + bearded.
Senses: glosses: Not having a beard, beardless.
unbearded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unbeard
underwool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underwools
Etymology: From under- + wool.
Senses: glosses: The short, wooly underfur of certain animals, especially sheep.
undisputable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more undisputable
form: most undisputable
Etymology: From un- + disputable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of indisputable.
unemotionality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + emotionality.
Senses: examples: text: His unemotionality was great when he wanted a poker face but prevented him from truly enjoying the happy occasions of life.
glosses: The state or quality of being without emotion.
uncandid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncandid
form: most uncandid
Etymology: From un- + candid.
Senses: glosses: Not candid; duplicitous, concealing or secretive.
Derived terms: uncandidly
uncandidness
uncarved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncarved
form: most uncarved
Etymology: From un- + carved.
Senses: glosses: Not having been carved or shaped with knife or other tool.
glosses: Natural, unmodified, pristine.
unbury
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unburies
form: unburying
form: unburied
form: unburied
Etymology: From Middle English unburien, unbirien, from Old English *unbyrġan (compare Old English unbyrġed (“unburied”)), equivalent to un- + bury.
Senses: glosses: To dig up, to remove from the ground.
Related terms: unburial
unbridle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unbridles
form: unbridling
form: unbridled
form: unbridled
Etymology: From un- + bridle.
Senses: glosses: To remove the bridle, and other tack, from (a horse or other animal).
examples: text: If we unbridle our greed and lust we will be nothing but animals.
glosses: To remove restraint from.
unbridling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unbridle
ayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ə/
/ˈɑːjə/
Forms: form: ayahs
Etymology: From various Indian languages (e.g. Hindi आया (āyā, “dry nurse, nanny”)), from Portuguese aia (“nurse, governess”), from Latin avia (“grandmother”).
Senses: examples: text: She manufactured the Station scandal, and talked to her ayah.
ref: 1888, Rudyard Kipling, “Watches of the Night”, in Plain Tales from the Hills (fiction):
text: […] a cot of iron had to be manufactured for [Bhim] after he had demolished two wooden cribs with a lusty kick of his foot; and a succession of bruised ayahs had finally to be replaced by a male attendant, a former Hastinapur all-in wrestling champion.
ref: 1989, Shashi Tharoor, The Great Indian Novel, New York: Arcade Publishing, published 2011, Book 4:
glosses: A South Asian female servant, maid or nanny, historically, often one working for Europeans in South Asia.
Related terms: amah
ayah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaɪ.ə/
/ˈɑːjə/
/ˈaɪ.(j)ɑː/
/ˈaɪ.ə/
/ˈɑːjə/
Forms: form: ayahs
form: ayat
form: ayat
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic آيَة (ʔāya, “sign, token”).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
synonyms: ayat
glosses: A verse in the Quran.
uncaused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + caused.
Senses: glosses: Without any precedent cause; self-existent.