cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
agra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈɡɹɑː/
Forms: form: a ghrá
form: agrah
Etymology: From Irish a (vocative particle) + lenited form of grá (“love”).
Senses: examples: text: Kathleen, agra, […] bring me a glass of sperrits, will you?
ref: 1847, Anthony Trollope, The Macdermots of Ballycloran:
text: But their mother sent our one notes. Give that to your mam a ghrá.
ref: 2013, Eimear McBride, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Faber & Faber, published 2014, page 21:
glosses: Dear, darling (as a term of endearment).
semifictional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + fictional.
Senses: examples: text: As emotionally powerful as this is, there is a slight disconnect here: he is describing events in Vietnam that actually happened (stunning, little-remembered details about the American evacuation, including the story of the last two Americans to die, in John Kerry ’s words, “for a mistake”), but the events in Michigan — his father’s drunkenness and isolation, the disintegration of his parents’ marriage — are a semifictional, if plausible, recreation of what Bissell imagines his father to have been like during that time.
ref: 2007 March 4, Joe Klein, “Nam and Pop”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partially but not entirely fictional
preapproved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + approved.
Senses: examples: text: Even that will require wary monitoring, particularly of a provision that would allow members preapproved day trips for speeches, with travel paid by non-lobbying groups.
ref: 2007 January 4, “New Congress, Leftover Challenge”, in New York Times:
glosses: Approved in advance.
Related terms: preapproval
preapproved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pre- + approved.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preapprove
nonkosher
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + kosher.
Senses: examples: text: Admirers of Israel’s kosher and nonkosher wines need the 2007 edition of “Rogov’s Guide to Israeli Wines” (Toby Press, $19.95).
ref: 2007 January 14, Howard G. Goldberg, “A Tour of Israel, Bottle by Bottle”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 30 Jun 2013:
text: Remember kosher wine gets you just as drunk as the nonkosher stuff; so chug away, fellow Jews, chug away.
ref: 2010, Carin Davis, Life, Love, Lox: Real-World Advice for the Modern Jewish Girl:
glosses: Not kosher.
Related terms: fleischig
milchig
noncontact
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-contact
Etymology: From non- + contact.
Senses: examples: text: Stephon Marbury (sore left knee) participated in noncontact drills and is expected to play tomorrow.
ref: 2007 February 2, Howard Beck, “Ariza Is Gone, but Trade Continues to Confound Knicks”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not involving physical contact.
noncontact
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncontacts
form: non-contact
Etymology: From non- + contact.
Senses: glosses: A potential respondent to a survey etc. who fails to make contact.
nonfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + family.
Senses: examples: text: In a letter to nonfamily Times directors last month, Mr. Elmasry wrote: […]
ref: 2007 February 3, Katharine Q. Seelye, “Assets Shifted by Family That Controls Times Co.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not a member of the family
nonfamily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonfamilies
Etymology: From non- + family.
Senses: glosses: A social grouping that is not a family.
nonconsensual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Researchers who exploit African-Americans,” Washington writes, “were the norm for much of our nation’s history, when black patients were commonly regarded as fit subjects for nonconsensual, nontherapeutic research.”
ref: 2007 February 18, Ezekiel Emanuel, “Unequal treatment”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of non-consensual.
machinelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more machinelike
form: most machinelike
Etymology: From machine + -like.
Senses: examples: text: She achieved the movement by propelling herself through a series of balances, her arms and legs moving slowly and continuously, almost machinelike.
ref: 1988 July 1, Laura Molzahn, “Private Puritan”, in Chicago Reader:
text: The latter, for example, are overheard dismissing the former as mere “quantoids”—as if quantitative methods turn those who deploy them into machinelike expellers of numeric waste.
ref: 2015, Immanuel Wallerstein, Carlos Aguirre Rojas, Charles C. Lemert, Uncertain Worlds: World-systems Analysis in Changing Times:
glosses: Resembling a machine; mechanical in form
Synonyms: mechanical
linebacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From line + backing.
Senses: examples: text: “He has the ability to play all three linebacking positions and we’re happy to add him to our defense.”
ref: 2007 March 27, The Associated Press, “Eagles Boost Defense With Deal for Spikes”, in New York Times:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Playing as a linebacker
fungoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fungo
firefront
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefronts
form: fire-front
form: fire front
Etymology: From fire + front.
Senses: examples: text: “A section of the firefront was stopped when it ran into that part of the forest where all of the light fuel had been burned a few months before,” Mr Dalton said.
ref: 2009 January 22, Matthew Schulz, Anne Wright, “Towns of Woodend, Malmsbury and Taradale under urgent threat from fire”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 02 Mar 2009:
glosses: The leading edge of a wildfire.
dancerly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dancerly
form: most dancerly
Etymology: From dancer + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Finally, Similar Orbits, choreographed by Lynn Brown and set to Talking Heads' "Listening Wind," was the most "dancerly" piece of the evening.
ref: 1988 July 22, Justin Hayford, “Dance and More for $1.98”, in Chicago Reader:
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Proper to or characteristic of a dancer
Derived terms: dancerliness
undancerly
counterplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterplays
Etymology: From counter- + play.
Senses: glosses: A game move made as a response.
examples: text: Milov might have tried 15 ... b4 to give himself some counterplay on the queenside.
ref: 2007 January 7, Dylan Loeb Mcclain, “After a Detour, Nakamura, 19, Is Back to His Winning Ways”, in New York Times:
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: A counterattack in a different part of the board.
examples: Near-synonym: playing off meta — colloquial
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
video-games
hyponyms: griefing
glosses: A subversive style of gameplay in which a player attempts to overturn the usual rules and conventions of the game.
counterplay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterplays
form: counterplaying
form: counterplayed
form: counterplayed
Etymology: From counter- + play.
Senses: examples: text: I knew that, with this arrangement, unless I should counterplay, they would soon fleece me.
ref: 1844, Jonathan H. Green, Gambling Unmasked! […], page 191:
text: In these wars of theirs for the heritage of the whole world, continents will be staked, India, China, South Africa, Russia, Islam called out, new technics and tactics played and counterplayed.
ref: 1928 [1922], Oswald Spengler, translated by Charles Francis Atkinson, The Decline of the West, volume 2, Perspectives of World-History, page 429:
text: Ironically, therefore, Deng shrewdly counterplayed his “American card” against the Soviet Union in order to forestall Soviet military retaliation against China for the invasion of their Vietnamese ally.
ref: 1985, Francis Anthony Boyle, World Politics and International Law, →ISBN:
glosses: To make a counterplay; to play in response.
examples: text: Yürük weaving generally comprises a rich burnt apricot, particularly in the borders; a mulberry-red filling large areas of the field; lighter reds used to counterplay against a deep, dark crimson […]
ref: 1997, Brian W. MacDonald, Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black Tent, page 60:
text: Self-reflections on hope are counterplayed by the grim reality in the camp, reminiscent of a lost home, and the agony for the future.
ref: 2019, Natasha Remoundou, “Intercultural Performance Ecologies in the Making: Minor(ity) Theatre and the Greek Crisis”, in Charlotte McIvor, Jason King, editors, Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?, →ISBN, page 296:
text: At 3:37, two simultaneous vocal tracks begin to counterplay each other in Bono’s struggle with the range of the pain he is channeling […]
ref: 2021, Bradley Morgan, U2’s The Joshua Tree: Planting Roots in Mythic America, →ISBN, page 38:
glosses: To counter; to contrast or contradict.
Derived terms: counterplayer
firefronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firefront
churchlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more churchlike
form: most churchlike
Etymology: From church + -like. Compare Scots kirklyk, kirklike (“ecclesiastical”).
Senses: examples: text: The new part, containing the schoolroom and dormitory, was lit by mullioned and latticed windows, which gave it a church-like aspect […]
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 5, in Jane Eyre:
text: The court was filled. Some people even stood behind the churchlike benches in the rear.
ref: 1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 13, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 69:
text: There are churchlike or synagoguelike chapels and leaders who deliver Sunday sermons, perform pastoral duties, and conduct "services," though without prayer to a deity.
ref: 1991 September 24, Paul Kurtz, “The Two Humanisms in Conflict: Religious vs. Secular”, in Free Inquiry, volume 11, number 4, page 49:
text: This is […] a break with the practice at American diamond stores, where shopping for engagement rings is a solemnized and somewhat stressfully churchlike experience of awe and trembling before the altar of massive debt.
ref: 2009 January 29, Cintra Wilson, “These Jewels Look Smaller in France”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: churchical
churchly
churchy
ecclesiastical
glosses: Resembling or befitting a church or a worship service.
Derived terms: unchurchlike
guitarlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more guitarlike
form: most guitarlike
Etymology: From guitar + -like.
Senses: examples: text: His harmonica work has the breezy lightness and sensuality one would expect from a musician who spent several years with Slim Harpo, but he's also capable of a full-bodied tone, bending notes with a guitarlike intensity […].
ref: 1988 September 9, David Whiteis, “Stuff enough: Raful Neal and the bluesman's dilemma”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Resembling a guitar
antimonarchicalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antimonarchical + -ness.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: The state or quality of being antimonarchical.
antipreparedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + preparedness.
Senses: glosses: Opposition to heightened preparations for war.
antiqueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antique + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being antique.
antisensuous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antisensuous
form: most antisensuous
Etymology: From anti- + sensuous.
Senses: glosses: not being sensuous.
Derived terms: antisensuousness
antisensuousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From antisensuous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being antisensuous.
anywhereness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anywhere + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being anywhere.
decisionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪʒənɪzəm/
Etymology: From decision + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The doctrine that moral or legal precepts are the product of decisions made by political or legal bodies
examples: text: The decisionism of today's SBC is problematic, but many of us remain unconvinced that dropping decision from our evangelistic vocabulary is a necessary response […].
ref: 2008, Chuck Lawless, “Southern Baptist Non-Calvinists—Who Are We Really?”, in E. Ray Clendenen, Brad J. Waggoner, editors, Calvinism: A Southern Baptist Dialogue, page 166:
text: The sinner's prayer is an example of a wrong presupposition that plagues much of modern evangelism. It comes from the errant notion that a sinner's decision to receive Christ is the determining factor in salvation. The sinner's prayer is an offshoot of this concept of decisionism, despite the fact that it utterly removes the idea that it is actually God who draws people to Himself.
ref: 2011, John MacArthur et al., Evangelism: How to Share the Gospel Faithfully, page 134:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.
Synonyms: topics: Christianity
word: decision theology
Related terms: decisionist
decisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪʒənɪst/
Forms: form: more decisionist
form: most decisionist
Etymology: From decision + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to decisionism.
Synonyms: decisionistic
decisionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈsɪʒənɪst/
Forms: form: decisionists
Etymology: From decision + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of decisionism.
Maghrebin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maghrebin
form: most Maghrebin
form: Maghrebi
Etymology: From Maghreb + -in.
Senses: glosses: of, or relating to the Maghreb or its people
magiric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more magiric
form: most magiric
form: mageiric
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαγειρικός (mageirikós, “culinary”), from μάγειρος (mágeiros, “a cook”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic: forming adjectives”).
Senses: examples: text: The magiric science, therefore, began in the year of the world 1656.
ref: 1853, Alexis Soyer, The Pantropheon, page 173:
glosses: Synonym of culinary: Of or related to cooking.
synonyms: word: culinary
extra: Of or related to cooking
Derived terms: magirics
magirist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magirists
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μάγειρος (mágeiros, “a cook”) + -ist (suffix forming agent nouns).
Senses: examples: text: ...Magists, Magirists... Geoponists, Hygiests, Prophylactists, Remedists.
ref: 1716, Myles Davies, “Diss. Physick”, in Athenae Britannicae, volume III, page 12:
text: To their Magirists was given an appointment of culinary artists.
ref: 1814, School of Good Living, page 53:
glosses: Synonym of chef: A skilful or learned cook.
synonyms: word: chef
extra: A skilful or learned cook
Derived terms: magiristic
magirology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μάγειρος (mágeiros, “a cook”) + -logy (“science of, study of”).
Senses: examples: text: From the very first appearance of magirology in Greece, it produced effects absolutely magical.
ref: 1814, The School for Good Living, page 59:
glosses: The art of cooking.
glosses: The science or study of cooking.
Synonyms: culinary art
Derived terms: magirological
magirologist
Related terms: mageiricophobia
magirist
magistrand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmæd͡ʒɪstɹænd/
Forms: form: magistrands
Senses: glosses: A student in the fourth year of a Masters degree.
magistrands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magistrand
magistricide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magistricides
Etymology: From Latin magister + -cide.
Senses: examples: text: I believe this approach is especially appropriate for many of our students in Hong Kong and, perhaps, in Taiwan as well, to offset their subservient attitude to the authority of their teachers or the printed word of commentators. In fact, I find myself recommending that students consider perpetrating a kind of metaphorical magistricide to offset the licensed manipulation of the minds which goes under the name of much conventional education.
ref: 1991, Tamkang Review, volumes 22-23, page 128:
text: It was nonetheless precisely over a book review that YM and I came to a parting of the ways. I presumed to criticize in print a work of his, an action which he labeled, in a characteristically pedantic term, as "magistricide."
[…]
In all the time I knew YM, both before and after my "magistricide," I never once saw him at a typewriter.
ref: 1998 September 22, Jerry R. Craddock, Peter F. Dembowski, Samuel G. Armistead, Edward F. Tuttle, Barbara De Marco, “Yakov Malkiel, 1914-1998”, in Romance Philology:
glosses: The killing of one's master or teacher.
examples: text: "4. In another room below I saw the statue of Seneca bleeding to death. It is of a black stone like jet; than which nothing can be blacker but the crimes of Nero the magistricide, who put this rare man his master to death. […]
ref: 1831, Thomas Roscoe, The Tourist in Italy, Robert Jennings and William Chaplin, page 219:
glosses: A person who kills their master or teacher.
Maglemosian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maglemosians
Etymology: Named for the archaeological site in Denmark Maglemose + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Stone Age people who lived in modern-day Scandinavia and Northern Europe.
Maglemosian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Maglemosian
form: most Maglemosian
Etymology: Named for the archaeological site in Denmark Maglemose + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to these people.
conditionalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conditionality
magnascope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnascopes
Etymology: From Latin magna (“great”) + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A large optical instrument used to get a close-up of small objects.
Related terms: magnascopic
microscope
magnet school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnet schools
Senses: examples: text: By age 11, curiosity got the better of me. I joined the neighborhood baseball league, and transferred to Kenwood Academy, a public magnet school.
ref: 1994 July 7, William Upski Wimsatt, “Wigger”, in Chicago Reader:
synonyms: focus school
specialist school
glosses: A public school with specialized courses.
magnetify
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: magnetifies
form: magnetifying
form: magnetified
form: magnetified
Etymology: From magnet + -ify.
Senses: glosses: To magnetize.
Related terms: magnetification
magnetimeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetimeters
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of magnetometer.
magnetimeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetimeter
magnetod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: magnetism
magnetoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: magnetoids
Etymology: From magnet + -oid.
Senses: examples: text: A young black hole formed in the center of galaxy can develop into the cocooned black hole or, as extreme possibility, into a magnetoid with a black hole inside.
ref: 1981, Victor J. Stenger, Dumand-80, page 194:
topics: astrophysics
glosses: a supermassive rotating highly magnetized star at the center of a compact galactic nucleus.
magnetoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of magnetoid
magnetology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From magnet + -ology.
Senses: glosses: The study of magnets and magnetic forces.
Derived terms: magnetological
dining rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dining room
rec rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rec room
family rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of family room
family room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family rooms
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: rec room, den, playroom
hypernyms: room#Noun
<
place#Noun
space#Noun
coordinate_terms: living room
living-room
lounge
sitting room
parlor
parlour
front room
sunroom#Noun
Florida room#Noun
Arizona room#Noun
;
library#Noun
study#Noun
;
dining room
kitchen
dinette
bedroom
glosses: A comfortable room in a dwelling, for frequent leisure use.
EIKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EIK
EIK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: EIKs
Etymology: Abbreviation of eat-in kitchen.
Senses: topics: advertising
business
marketing
real-estate
glosses: A kitchen with room for a table and chairs, or with a counter meant for eating on and room for barstools.
smatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smatches
Etymology: From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”),
Norwegian smak (“a taste”),
Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).
Senses: glosses: A smack or taste.
examples: text: Thy life hath had some smatch of honour in it
ref: 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
glosses: A trace quantity; a smattering or smidgeon.
smatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smatches
form: smatching
form: smatched
form: smatched
Etymology: From Middle English smacchen, smecchen (“to taste”), from Old English smæċċan (“to taste”), from Proto-West Germanic *smakkijan (“to taste”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *smeh₂g- (“to taste”). Cognate with West Frisian smeitse, smeitsje (“to taste”), Dutch smaken (“to taste”), German schmecken (“to taste”), Danish smage (“to taste”), Norwegian smake (“to taste”),
Norwegian smak (“a taste”),
Lithuanian smagù (“cheerful, enjoyable, pleasant”).
Senses: glosses: To have a taste; to taste (something).
examples: text: Allowing his description therein to retain and smatche of veritie
ref: 1578, John Banister, The Historie of Man, from the most approved Authorities in this Present Age:
glosses: To have a feeling; to smack (of something).
stelliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stelliform
form: most stelliform
Etymology: Latin stelliformis, from stella (“star”), + -iform.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a star.
lucky dips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lucky dip
writing desks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of writing desk
bonheurs du jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bonheur du jour
bonheur du jour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɒˌnɜː d(j)uː ˈʒʊə/
ipa: /bəˌnɝ d(j)u ˈʒʊɹ/
ipa: /bəˌnɝ də ˈʒʊɹ/
rhymes: -ʊə(ɹ)
Forms: form: bonheurs du jour
Etymology: Borrowed from French bonheur-du-jour (literally “daytime delight”), conjectured to be from its sudden rise in popularity.
Senses: topics: furniture
lifestyle
glosses: An 18th- and 19th-century lady's portable writing desk with a raised back.
plug-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plug-in
ragpickers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragpicker
office chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of office chair
loli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɒl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɔl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɑl.i/
ipa: /ˈlɔl.i/
homophone: lolly
Forms: form: lolis
Etymology: From Japanese ロリ (rori), itself from English lolita or a clipping of lolicon.
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: shota
topics: fiction
lifestyle
literature
media
publishing
glosses: A childlike female character, particularly in the lolicon genre.
Derived terms: lolibait
lolicore
lolisho
oppai loli
Related terms: lolibaba
lolicon
lolita
Lolita complex
moe
ACWV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Advisory Committee on Woman Veterans.
square dances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of square dance
square dances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of square dance
lolis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loli
lolitas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lolita
ragpicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragpickers
form: rag-picker
Etymology: From rag + picker.
Senses: glosses: A person who collects and sells unwanted household items such as rags and other refuse for a living, a rag and bone man (UK) or ragman (US).
occludin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: occludins
Etymology: From occlude + -in?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of plasma-membrane proteins located at tight junctions
Related terms: zonula occludens
tight junction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tight junctions
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: An intercellular junction between epithelial cells whose membranes join together to form a virtually impermeable barrier to fluid.
Synonyms: zonula occludens
ocelli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ocellus
octaethyleneglycol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The dihydroxy polyether formed from eight molecules of ethylene glycol.
octylglucoside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: octylglucosides
form: octyl glucoside
Etymology: From octyl + glucoside.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A glycoside of glucose and octanol, used as a specialist surfactant
antitorture
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitorture
form: most antitorture
Etymology: From anti- + torture.
Senses: examples: text: To be sure, Mr. Panetta emphasized that the president could not bypass antitorture statutes, as Bush lawyers claimed.
ref: 2009 February 18, Charlie Savage, “Obama’s War on Terror May Resemble Bush’s in Some Areas”, in New York Times:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Acting against or opposing torture.
bustiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bustier
misformat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misformats
form: misformatting
form: misformatted
form: misformatted
Etymology: From mis- + format.
Senses: glosses: To format incorrectly.
skullet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskʌlɪt/
Forms: form: skullets
Etymology: Blend of skull + mullet
Senses: examples: text: John was, thankfully, no longer sporting the skullet from his Facebook profile.
“So what was the deal with that?” I asked.
John just laughed. “It was a contest Christian Student Fellowship put on last year to see who could grow the best mullet. I won.”
“I’m sure.”
“And then when we left for our mission trip to Africa, I had to take it up a notch, so I went for the skullet.”
How beautiful is the skullet of him who brings good news.
ref: 2010, Chad Gibbs, God & Football: Faith and Fanaticism in the SEC, page № unknown:
glosses: A more extreme form of the mullet hairstyle, in which the hair at the back is kept long, whilst the hair on the top and the sides is shaven in a buzzcut or skinhead style.
misformatted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misformat
misformatting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misformat
misformats
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misformat
kurta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kurtas
form: khurta
form: kurti
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi कुरता (kurtā)/Urdu کرتا (kurtā), from Classical Persian کرته (kurta).
Senses: examples: text: Now her fingers began to unbutton the ivory studs that ran slantwise across the chest of his kurta.
ref: 2008, Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies, Penguin, published 2015, page 44:
glosses: A traditional article of clothing worn in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, consisting of a loose, collarless, long-sleeved, knee-length shirt worn by both men and women.
khurta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khurtas
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kurta.
designatum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: designata
Senses: examples: text: I am inclined to hold that if there is a plurality of objects that fall under the designatum of a term, then that should be sufficient (though not necessary) to conclude that that is a general term, even when it has a singular occurrence in a sentence.
ref: 2007, Ilhan Inan, “Rigid general terms and essential predicates”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 140, number 2, page 225:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: That which is named or designated by a linguistic term.
Synonyms: referent
rangement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rangements
Etymology: Compare French rangement.
Senses: examples: text: general abstract ideas, common measures and receptacles formed by the mind, for the better lodgment, rangement, and adjustment of our other ideas
ref: 1734, Daniel Waterland, A Dissertation upon the Argument A Priori for Proving the Existence of a First Cause in a letter to Mr. Law:
glosses: arrangement
rangements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rangement
claquer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: claquers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of claqueur.
aet
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of a.e.t..
carabaos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carabao
batrachomyomachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batrachomyomachian
form: most batrachomyomachian
Etymology: From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek βάτραχος, frog, μῦς, mouse, and μάχη, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species.
Senses: examples: text: ...sounded throughout to my own ears as a Batrachomyomachian battle between the croaks and the squeaks...
ref: 1933, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Earl Leslie Griggs, Philip Hamilton McMillan, Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
text: The batrachomyomachian cure for the superhuman ego is to chop it off at the knees and cut it down to a human, preferably humane, level.
ref: 1971, Edwin Harrison Cady, The Light of Common Day: Realism in American Fiction:
glosses: Petty (chiefly of a quarrel).
photolithographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From photolithographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of, or by means of, photolithography.
allelically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From allelic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In terms of alleles.
Derived terms: interallelically
syrupier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of syrupy: more syrupy
syrupiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of syrupy: most syrupy
polyfluorene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyfluorenes
Etymology: From poly- + fluorene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of electroluminescent aromatic polycyclic hydrocarbons consisting of many fluorene units attached end-to-end
Related terms: oligofluorene
polyfluorenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyfluorene
proscience
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proscience
form: most proscience
Etymology: From pro- + science.
Senses: glosses: In favour of science or its methods or the scientific establishment.
Gauss guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gauss gun
bootlegger reverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bootlegger reverse
scatterer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatterers
Etymology: From scatter + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, scatters.
scatterers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scatterer
resiquimod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɹəˈzɪkwɪmɒd/
Senses: glosses: A chemical analogue of imiquimod, potentially useful in treating skin cancer.
resorbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of resorb
provirus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proviruses
Etymology: From pro- + virus.
Senses: topics: biology
microbiology
natural-sciences
virology
glosses: A virus genome, such as HIV, that integrates itself into the DNA of a host cell so as to be passively replicated along with the host genome.
proviruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of provirus
shatterbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatterboxes
Etymology: From shatter + box.
Senses: glosses: A device for mechanically pulverizing a sample of material, used by scientists.
shatterboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shatterbox
shatter box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatter boxes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of shatterbox.
shatter boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shatter box
storability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: storabilities
Etymology: From storable + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Treatments to enhance storability of legume seeds under ambient storage.
ref: 2010, Arun Arya, Analía Edith Perelló, Management of Fungal Plant Pathogens, page 334:
glosses: The property of being storable.
storabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of storability
pyroclastic flows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyroclastic flow
poxviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pox + viral.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to poxvirus.
Derived terms: antipoxviral
processability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: processabilities
Etymology: From process + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being processable.
processabilities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of processability
sclerite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerites
Etymology: From sclero- + -ite.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A hardened body part, especially in arthropod exoskeletons.
Derived terms: scleritic
sclerites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerite
recombinases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recombinase
pronase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pronases
Senses: glosses: A mixture of proteinases isolated from the extracellular fluid of the bacterium Streptomyces griseus.
pronases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pronase
tetrakosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetrakosanes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetracosane.
structural formulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of structural formula
structural formulae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of structural formula
tetrakosanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetrakosane
tetracosane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tetracosanes
Etymology: From tetracosa- + -ane.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An alkane hydrocarbon with the structural formula CH₃(CH₂)₂₂CH₃.
tetracosanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tetracosane
sclerotize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sclerotizes
form: sclerotizing
form: sclerotized
form: sclerotized
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sclerotise.
sclerotizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sclerotize.
sclerotizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sclerotize.
sclerotized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sclerotize.
sclerotization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerotizations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sclerotisation.
sclerotisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sclerotisations
Senses: glosses: The act or process of sclerotising.
sclerotizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerotization
sclerotisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sclerotisation
antigambling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antigambling
form: most antigambling
Etymology: From anti- + gambling.
Senses: examples: text: Both Djokovic and Haase attended an antigambling session during the tournament in Miami this past March, conducted by a former member of organized crime, Michael Franzese.
ref: 2007 August 29, Ray Krueger, “Players Are Getting Bigger and Better”, in New York Times:
glosses: Acting against or opposing gambling.
leasable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more leasable
form: most leasable
Etymology: From lease + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The Brooklyn Navy Yard has had a 98 percent occupancy rate for leasable space for the last five years and has gone from net cash flow of $700,000 in 2001 to $5.5 million in the fiscal year that ended June 30, because of annual rents that can be more than $20 a square foot.
ref: 2007 August 29, Jane L. Levere, “Brooklyn Navy Yard, a Roomy Haven for Industry, Once Again Is Booming”, in New York Times:
glosses: Able to be leased.
Derived terms: nonleasable
unleasable
ratafia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɹætəˈfiːə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: ratafias
Etymology: Borrowed from Creole French ratafia, from the Latin phrase rata fiat (conventio) (“the deal is made”), a drinking toast expression to celebrate a deal or an agreement. Or, sharing an Arabic origin with arak.
Senses: examples: text: “Stop that there infernal screeching!” said a couple of ladies, who were sipping ratafia in company with two pretty fellows.
ref: 1839, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine: A Story:
text: Steeped cucumber ratafia with Pimm's and Sprite is garnished with a squash blossom at T'afia in Houston.
ref: 2007 August 29, Pete Wells, “Bottling the Bounty of the Season”, in New York Times:
glosses: A liqueur or cordial flavored with peach or cherry kernels, bitter almonds, or other fruits.
examples: text: Mrs. Chaloner ordered wine-biscuits and olives, and gave Mr. Freely to understand that she should find his shop a great convenience. So did the doctor’s wife, and so did Mrs. Gate, at the large carding-mill, who, having high connexions frequently visiting her, might be expected to have a large consumption of ratafias and macaroons.
ref: 1864, George Eliot, chapter II, in Brother Jacob:
synonyms: ratafia biscuit
glosses: A kind of biscuit made with ratafia essence and almond or apricot kernels.
ratafias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ratafia
hondas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honda
tautog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɔːtɒɡ/
Forms: form: tautogs
Etymology: Borrowed from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.
Senses: examples: text: The fish he found were nothing unusual: cunner and tautog, small fish generally found around pilings or rocky shores, and one weakfish.
ref: 2007 August 22, Ellen Barry, James Estrin, “Like Ducks and Penguins, With Nervous Stomachs”, in New York Times:
glosses: A fish of the wrasse family found in salt water off of eastern North America from Nova Scotia to South Carolina (Tautoga onitis).
Synonyms: sense: Tautoga onitis
word: blackfish
sense: Tautoga onitis
word: black porgy
sense: Tautoga onitis
word: oyster-fish
sense: Tautoga onitis
word: tog
adumbral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more adumbral
form: most adumbral
Senses: examples: text: To cheerless and adumbral Applebee’s
ref: 2007 August 20, “Dear Diary”, in New York Times:
glosses: Dark, shady.
Related terms: umbral
huzzas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: White flags waved from the windows; flowers were flung down in profusion; not a voice was raised but in huzzas—not a hand but in applause.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 108:
glosses: plural of huzza; alternative spelling of huzzahs.
huzzahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of huzzah
huskie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huskies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of husky.
Inner Mongolia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From inner (near, seen from China proper) + Mongolia.
Senses: examples: text: Inner Mongolia has no lakes of any importance, and those of the Kalkas are small; but Kobdo is a country of lakes, as well as of mountains.
ref: 1832 August, “Ta-tsing wan-neen yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—“A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever.” By Le Ming-che Tsing-lae.”, in The Chinese Repository, volume 1, number 4, Canton, page 120:
text: The twenty-four tribes, or Aimaks, in Inner Mongolia constitute forty-nine standards or Khochoun,—Ke, in Chinese.
ref: 1834, Charles Gutzlaff, A Sketch of Chinese History, volume 1, page 12:
text: The Chinese Communist regime has drastically reduced the size of Inner Mongolia and greatly boosted Chinese immigration there in an effort to reduce the Russian threat on the Mongolian border.[…]
With the heavy concentration of Soviet troops along the borders of Inner Mongolia, Peiping fears that the Mongolians might rise to pave the way for a Russian invasion, the report said.
By cutting up Inner Mongolia and reducing the Mongolian population, the Chinese Communists hope to make their tight control of the Mongolians easier in face of the Russian threat, the report said.
ref: 1973 February 4, “Size of Inner Mongolia reduced”, in Free China Weekly, volume XIV, number 5, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:
text: Temperatures in Yakeshi in Inner Mongolia (內蒙古) dropped to minus 28 degrees Celsius yesterday, while Harbin (哈爾濱) in Heilongjiang (黑龍江) province experienced minus 19 degrees.
ref: 2016 January 21, Alice Yan, Lai Ying Kit, Mimi Lau, “Incredible scenes as mainland shoppers strip supermarket shelves ahead of big chill”, in South China Morning Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Jan 2016, China:
text: As elsewhere in China, Xinjiang has been stepping up efforts to banish ethnic-minority languages from schools—a policy that has recently triggered protests by parents in Inner Mongolia, a northern region.
ref: 2020 October 17, “Orphaned by the state”, in The Economist, volume 437, number 9216, page 37:
text: The Shenzhou 13 space capsule landed in the Gobi desert in the northern region of Inner Mongolia, shown live on state TV.
ref: 2022 April 16, “Chinese astronauts land after 6 months on space station”, in AP News, archived from the original on 16 Apr 2022:
text: The number of deaths due to a collapse of a mine in northern China’s Inner Mongolia region climbed to six as rescue efforts to locate the 47 missing continued, state media reported Friday.
ref: 2023 February 24, “China mine collapse death toll climbs to 6”, in EFE, archived from the original on 24 Feb 2023:
glosses: An autonomous region of China, south of Mongolia, with closely related native Mongolian population, mostly north of the Great Wall. Capital: Hohhot.
Synonyms: word: Nei Mongol
sense: from Mandarin Chinese
word: Nei Menggu
word: Southern Mongolia
Derived terms: Inner Mongolian
Stahlhelm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Stahlhelms
form: Stahlhelme
Etymology: German Stahlhelm (“steel helmet”)
Senses: synonyms: coal scuttle helmet
coal scuttle
glosses: A distinctive steel helmet fielded by the German Reich and some other nations during the World Wars, and by some modern-day bikers.
perceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perceptors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin perceptor.
Senses: examples: text: Only by deliberate effort of will, only by deliberately jamming his perceptor set, could he turn them off […]
ref: 1967, Scott Symons, Combat Journal of Place D'Armes: A Personal Narrative:
text: […] secondary energy (e.g., sound, chemical, mechanical) excites the energy of the perceptor cells before sensation can occur.
ref: 2002, The Journal of Orgonomy, Volume 36, Issue 1:
glosses: That which perceives.
Derived terms: graviperceptor
Related terms: ceptor
perception
perceptiveness
receptor
blogpost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blogposts
form: blog post
Etymology: From blog + post.
Senses: glosses: An entry posted to a blog.
blogpost
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: blogposts
form: blogposting
form: blogposted
form: blogposted
Etymology: From blog + -post.
Senses: qualifier: 4chan slang
glosses: To make a winding, diary-like post.
coastguards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coastguard
deglobalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + globalisation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of deglobalization.
deglobalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˌɡləʊbəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: deglobalisation
Etymology: From de- + globalization or deglobalize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: “We have entered the age of deglobalisation, where global supply chains are replaced by regional ones,” said Liu Meng-chun, an expert on the Chinese economy and cross-Strait economic relations at the Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research, a government think-tank in Tapei.
ref: 2023 October 28, Kathrin Hille, quoting Liu Meng-chun, “China Foxconn crackdown calls Gou's bluff”, in FT Weekend, page 12:
glosses: The process of diminishing interdependence and integration between the economies of nations.
deracination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deracinations
Senses: examples: text: "Has it been worth it?" "Has what been worth it?" "Your marrying a Malay widow, your giving up the European way of life, your complete deracination."
ref: 1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 312:
glosses: The act of deracinating; uprooting.
eyewatering
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eyewatering
form: most eyewatering
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eye-watering.
farepayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farepayers
form: fare payer
Etymology: From fare + payer.
Senses: glosses: A person who pays a fare (to travel)
Related terms: fare-paying
farepayers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farepayer
flourishings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flourishing
helideck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helidecks
Etymology: From heli- + deck.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A platform (on a vessel or offshore structure) allowing helicopters to land and take off.
inserter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inserters
Etymology: From insert + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who, or device that inserts.
glosses: A machine that inserts components into envelopes for mass mailing.