cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bacchanalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bacchanalizes
form: bacchanalizing
form: bacchanalized
form: bacchanalized
form: bacchanalise
Etymology: From bacchanal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Then we begin our free and easy party. Let us bacchanalize to the limit.
ref: 1927, The Death of Ii Tairo, page 193:
text: I know that a certain man [St. Ambrose of Milan] has narrated the history of the Goths, who have been recently bacchanalizing in our lands, as of Gog and Magog, thus characterizing them by their present activities, and as they are referred to in Ezechiel.
ref: 1952, Francis Xavier Murphy, A Monument to Saint Jerome:
text: We three could bacchanalize a little. But Jennifer mustn't know about it.
ref: 2003, Alexander Akishin, In the Valley of Armageddon:
glosses: To behave as if at a bacchanal; to revel riotously.
examples: text: Imagine if you can the “ battle ” of Salvator Rosa bacchanalized.
ref: 1888, Victor Hugo, Romances - Volume 4, page 64:
text: To love life and to bacchanalize living are two separate instincts.
ref: 1923, Walter Sydney Sichel, The sands of time: recollections and reflections, page 239:
text: Yet Stowe so luxuriates in the swamp's productivity that it is impossible to believe she feels conflicted about nature bacchanalized.
ref: 2017, Michele Currie Navakas, Liquid Landscape:
glosses: To make riotous and wild.
bacchanalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bacchanalize
bacchanalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bacchanalize
bacchanalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bacchanalize
liberal democracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liberal democracies
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A political ideology supporting competitive multiparty elections and majority rule constrained by minority rights.
topics: government
politics
glosses: A society based on this ideology.
bacchanalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bacchanalises
form: bacchanalising
form: bacchanalised
form: bacchanalised
Senses: examples: text: It is perhaps symptomatic that he shows a partiality for the excesses of language and imagination in the plays of Webster, Fletcher, Marlowe, Otway, for the mood of these dramatists is in this more Flemish than English — they did precisely in the field of literature what Jordaens and Rubens bacchanalised on canvas.
ref: 1959, James Anderson Russell, Romance and Realism: Trends in Belgo-Dutch Prose Literature:
glosses: Alternative form of bacchanalize.
bacchanalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bacchanalise
bacchanalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bacchanalise
bacchanalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bacchanalise
liberal democracies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of liberal democracy
unblooped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + blooped.
Senses: examples: text: […] and the track abounds in unblooped splices.
ref: 1951, Film Music, volumes 11-12, page 23:
text: An unblooped splice can cause a large signal spike, which blows out the voice coil.
ref: 1991, Tony Zaza, Mechanics of sound recording, page 372:
topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: Not blooped.
blue buttons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue button
vaudeville blues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of classic female blues.
synonyms: word: classic female blues
blue-water navy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue-water navies
Senses: topics: government
military
nautical
politics
transport
war
glosses: A naval force capable of independent military operations on the open sea with a global reach.
Coordinate terms: brown-water navy
green-water navy
Related terms: deep-water
blue-water navies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue-water navy
Barcelona chair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barcelona chairs
Etymology: From Barcelona, Spain, where the International Exhibition of 1929, at which the chair was first exhibited, was held.
Senses: examples: text: The Barcelona Chair was designed in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.
ref: 2001, Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition:
text: The Barcelona chair commanded the staggering price of $550, however, and that was wholesale.
ref: 2009, Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House, page 48:
text: Marble, travertine, brass and plate glass were deployed to majestic effect, and within the cool, calm interior the Barcelona chairs and accompanying ottomans took on a monumental presence.
ref: 2009, Design Museum Enterprise Limited, Fifty Chairs that Changed the World:
text: Following his move to America in 1938, he did not come up with any new furniture designs; the Barcelona chair remains his most famous work.
ref: 2013, Anne Massey, Chair, page 65:
glosses: A chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.
Barcelona chairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Barcelona chair
unsubtleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsubtle + -ness.
Senses: synonyms: unsubtlety
glosses: The quality of being unsubtle.
subtypable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subtype + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be subtyped.
babydom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bā'bēdəm
ipa: /ˈbeɪbidəm/
Forms: form: babydoms
Etymology: From baby + -dom.
Senses: examples: text: Then again, Mama thought I would be marrying Zeb— best friend since babydom—someday, which showed how much she knew.
ref: 2012, Molly Harper -, Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors:
text: The 1-year mark is a major milestone, the official transition between babydom and toddlerhood.
ref: 2013, Parenting Magazine Editors, Parenting Guide to Your Toddler:
text: There is this time during babydom that the mother herself can lie about like a baby, like a beached whale, having birthed her bloody spawn, and the mother can just hover in those sparkling dust motes of afternoon sun and be cradled and lifted and suspende in the golden light.
ref: 2014, Sandra Tsing Loh, The Madwoman in the Volvo: My Year of Raging Hormones:
glosses: The stage of life when a child is considered a baby.
examples: text: I wish I could read their mothers a lecture, which would ring in their ears until there was a complete reform in babydom.
ref: 1856, The Plough, the Loom, and the Anvil - Volume 8, page 158:
text: Babydom is a world separate from ours, and comparatively few amongst us have power to understand baby language, to sympathise with baby thought, and still less to compose works or use language with sufficient merit to meet the approval of baby censorship.
ref: 1875, The Leisure Hour Monthly Library - Volume 24, page 168:
text: Another idea, that of converting the Tuileries garden into a centennial reproduction of all the babydoms during that period, with specimens of their toys, costumes, pictures, amusements, etc., their mammas and the nurses — that is ranked as "puerile."
ref: 1894, The Week - Volume 12, page 613:
text: When the child spots your Commodore machine sitting on the computer stand, he then decides that it's time to step out into new horizons never reached before in babydom.
ref: 2011, Lenard R. Roach, Run/Stop-Restore, page 27:
glosses: The world or realm of babies.
babydoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of babydom
desemantization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of desemanticization.
synonyms: word: desemanticization
desemanticization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: […] Desemanticization
By this process, a lexical item receives a second, non-lexical function, which may ultimately become its only function. Thus, in addition to its lexical meaning, a word receives […]
Once again, this leads to the desemanticization of lexical meaning, namely that of the action verbs […]
ref: 1984, Bernd Heine, Mechthild Reh, Grammaticalization and Reanalysis in African Languages, Helmut Buske Verlag Gmbh, →ISBN, pages 39 and 40:
text: Desemanticization. The meaning of forms tends to shift from more concrete to more abstract in grammaticalization. This happens through the loss of concrete semantic features that were part of the original form but have been “bleached out” […]
ref: 2003, Karen Emmorey, Perspectives on Classifier Constructions in Sign Languages, Psychology Press, →ISBN:
synonyms: desemantization
coordinate_terms: bleaching
decategorialization
glosses: The loss or removal of all or part of the original semantic content (meaning) of a word or morpheme, sometimes (but not always) as part of grammaticalization.
desemantisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemantization.
desemanticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemanticization.
decategorialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Within grammaticalization theory it is generally accepted that the process is unidirectional; Ns (nouns) can develop into Pops (postpositions), but not vice versa. The concept of decategorialization applies to the extent to which e.g. the Ns cease to survive as Ns, and survive only as Pops during and after the grammaticalization process.
ref: 2006, Kjell Magne Yri (University of Oslo), "Decategorialization of Nouns as Postpositions in Sidaamú ʔafó and Amharic", in Lutz Edzard, Jan Retsö, Current Issues in the Analysis of Semitic Grammar and Lexicon II: Oslo-Göteborg Cooperation 4th-5th November 2005, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, page 116
coordinate_terms: desemanticization
glosses: The loss of morphosyntactic properties that may have been characteristic of a word's initial grammatical class (category), but are not relevant to its current grammatical function; the loss of membership in a certain grammatical class.
decategorialisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decategorialization.
desemantize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desemantizes
form: desemantizing
form: desemantized
form: desemantized
Senses: glosses: To remove semantic content from; to desemanticize.
desemanticize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desemanticizes
form: desemanticizing
form: desemanticized
form: desemanticized
Senses: glosses: To remove semantic content from; (especially) to cause to undergo desemanticization.
examples: text: The purposive meaning desemanticizes and a new marker is drafted in to reinforce the purposive meaning.
ref: 2011, Michael T. Putnam, Studies on German-Language Islands, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 406:
text: […] that of preceding and modifying another word, and in gaining the new grammatical meaning of modification. They desemanticise, in losing the descriptive meaning that head nouns have in descriptive use, […]
ref: 2011, Jim Feist, Premodifiers in English: Their Structure and Significance, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 232:
glosses: To lose semantic content; to undergo desemanticization.
Related terms: desemantize
desemanticizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desemanticize
desemanticizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desemanticize
desemanticized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desemanticize
desemantizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desemantize
desemantizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desemantize
desemantized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desemantize
desemanticise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desemanticises
form: desemanticising
form: desemanticised
form: desemanticised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemanticize.
desemantise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: desemantises
form: desemantising
form: desemantised
form: desemantised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of desemantize.
desemanticises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desemanticise
desemanticising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desemanticise
desemanticised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desemanticise
desemantises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of desemantise
desemantising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of desemantise
desemantised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of desemantise
decategorialize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decategorializes
form: decategorializing
form: decategorialized
form: decategorialized
Senses: examples: text: […] in which the lexeme begins to "decategorialize" (Heine et al. 1991), i.e. to lose the morphosyntactic behaviors characteristic of its original category. For example, in the English relator noun construction on top of NP, top, while clearly a noun […]
ref: 1997, Joan L. Bybee, John Haiman, Sandra A. Thompson, Essays on Language Function and Language Type: Dedicated to T. Givón, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 56:
text: A grammaticalizing item decategorializes (Hopper 1991), losing membership of its source category. As a result of high frequency, it may become independently entrenched (Bybee 2006), receiving a kind of categorial autonomy, […]
ref: 2010, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Graeme Trousdale, Gradience, Gradualness and Grammaticalization, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 75:
glosses: To undergo decategorialization.
decategorializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decategorialize
decategorializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decategorialize
decategorialized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decategorialize
decategorialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decategorialises
form: decategorialising
form: decategorialised
form: decategorialised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of decategorialize.
decategorialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decategorialise
decategorialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decategorialise
decategorialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decategorialise
Frecklington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈfɹɛklɪŋtən/
Senses: glosses: A surname.
delexicalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delexicalizes
form: delexicalizing
form: delexicalized
form: delexicalized
Senses: glosses: To make delexical. (Compare desemanticize.)
delexicalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: delexicalisations
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of delexicalization.
delexicalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: delexicalises
form: delexicalising
form: delexicalised
form: delexicalised
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of delexicalize.
delexicalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of delexicalise
delexicalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of delexicalise
delexicalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of delexicalise
delexicalizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of delexicalization
dog racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The sport of greyhound racing
greyhound racing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: word: greycing
glosses: The sport of racing greyhounds around a track, originally in pursuit of a live hare, now in pursuit of an artificial lure.
pachydictyol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachydictyols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A bicyclic tetraterpenoid alcohol present in brown algae of the genus Dictyota.
paleotree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paleotrees
Etymology: From paleo- + tree.
Senses: glosses: An ancient tree
paleotrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paleotree
pampasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pampas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or characteristic of the pampas.
panbinostat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of panobinostat.
paperchip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paperchips
Senses: glosses: A packing material made from compacted waste newspaper
paperchips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paperchip
papershell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papershells
Etymology: From paper + shell.
Senses: glosses: A pecan cultivar that has a thin shell.
glosses: A crab that has just molted.
paracorporeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + corporeal.
Senses: glosses: Describing any device, implanted in the heart, that transfers oxygenated blood from the left atrium
paramesial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + mesial.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near, or across the median line
Related terms: paramedial
beat your neighbour out of doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor.
synonyms: word: beggar-my-neighbor
beat my neighbour out of doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: card-games
games
glosses: Synonym of beggar-my-neighbor.
synonyms: word: beggar-my-neighbor
shrinkability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From shrink + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The ability to shrink.
postrevival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + revival.
Senses: glosses: After a revival.
prerevival
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + revival.
Senses: glosses: Before a revival.
dog chew
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog chews
Senses: glosses: A bone-shaped chew toy for a dog.
big switch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: big switches
Senses: examples: text: I saw the thin pencil of smoke before I smelt the heated wax. Automatically I hit the big switch. Sitting mute, I watched the faint line of smoke fade into oblivion, and with it went the hopes of this CQ Contest... The Receiver power trannie had packed up.
ref: 1968, CQ; the Radio Amateur's Journal, volume 24, numbers 7-12, page 52:
text: This is the cliché-er who will see you further down the log because he has to pull the big switch and modulate the mattress.
ref: 1986, 73 Amateur Radio, numbers 304-315, page 30:
text: I noted in a recent publication that the "sale of spectrum," the stuff we use every time we throw the big switch, was the subject of renewed efforts by President Reagan to charge "users" for access to the radio spectrum […]
ref: 1989, 73 Amateur Radio, numbers 340-351, page 92:
qualifier: CB radio slang
glosses: The switch controlling one's radio equipment.
big switches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of big switch
dog handler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog handlers
Senses: glosses: A person trained to handle a dog, especially a police dog or a K-9 unit in the military
dog officer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog officers
Senses: glosses: A police officer who is in charge of a police dog
glosses: A police dog who is in charge of a police officer
dog violet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog violets
Senses: examples: text: All but lost in the new growth of grass are dog violets, leaves the vivid purple of a Catholic funeral robe.
ref: 2020, Tim Ecott, The Land of Maybe, Short Books, published 2021, page 86:
glosses: Any of a number of plants with unscented flowers in the genus Viola, now especially Viola riviniana.
Derived terms: American dog violet
common dog violet
early dog violet
heath dog violet
baby legs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A low tripod for a camera.
dolly shot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dolly shots
Senses: topics: broadcasting
cinematography
film
media
television
glosses: A tracking shot.
dope dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dope dogs
Senses: examples: text: Often the hiding places are so obscure, only a dope dog will find the evidence. If your department has a dog, it is well worth using the dog for searches.
ref: 1992, Gary J. Miller, Drugs and the Law: Detection, Recognition & Investigation:
text: It heated and cooled everything on the ship from the admiral's cabin to the kennel for Duke, the dope dog, who was riding along to sniff out any caches of drugs.
ref: 1988, George C. Wilson, Supercarrier: an inside account of life aboard the world's most powerful ship, the USS John F. Kennedy:
glosses: A sniffer dog trained to find drugs.
Dors.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Dorset.
dot-comer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dot-comers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dotcommer.
double-glaze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double-glazes
form: double-glazing
form: double-glazed
form: double-glazed
Senses: glosses: To fit with double glazing
double-hulled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Having a double hull
double tackle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double tackles
Senses: examples: text: The city of London and the liberties thereof, are to find one admiral of nine hundred tons with three hundred and fifty men; another great ship of eight hundred tons, with two hundred sixty men; the four midling ships, of five hundred tons each, and two hundred men each; and one small ship of three hundred tons, with one hundred and fifty men; with double tackle, munition, wages, and victuals.
ref: 1772, Henry Swinden, The History and Antiquities of the Ancient Burgh of Great Yarmouth in the County of Norfolk, page 543:
text: The question between single and double tackle was practically settled for good at the Wolverhampton trials of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1871, when Fowlers obtained all the prizes.
ref: 1918, The Agricultural Gazette and Modern Farming - Volume 87, page 353:
text: When the envelope angle of the conductor passing the tackle for paying-off is more than 30 degrees, but less than 60 degrees, it is required to use double tackle for paying-off and that quantity of tower continuously passed fails to exceed 20.
ref: 2019, Yuan Chen, Engineering Energy Aluminum Conductor Composite Core (ACCC) and Its Application:
glosses: A block and tackle composed of two pulley blocks, each of which has two sheaves (pulleys).
examples: text: It was the key breakthrough – and rich reward for the determined double tackle by Booth, who simply didn't give up.
ref: 2021, Ed Hodge, Make Mine a Double:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
rugby
sports
glosses: A tackle by two players of the same time on an opposition player.
Baire function
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Baire functions
Etymology: Introduced by René-Louis Baire.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A function obtained from a continuous function by transfinite iteration of the operation of forming pointwise limits of sequences of functions.
Related terms: Baire set
property of Baire
Baire functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baire function
Double Gloucester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Double Gloucesters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of double Gloucester.
double grab
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: double grabs
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motorcycling
skateboarding
skiing
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A trick that involves grabbing the board, skis, or motorbike with both hands during a jump
double grab
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: double grabs
form: double grabbing
form: double grabbed
form: double grabbed
Senses: glosses: To perform a double grab
dough boy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dough boys
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of doughboy.
downcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: further downcountry
form: farther downcountry
form: furthest downcountry
form: farthest downcountry
Senses: antonyms: upcountry#Adjective
glosses: In the lowlands, as opposed to the hilly region.
downcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: further downcountry
form: farther downcountry
form: furthest downcountry
form: farthest downcountry
Senses: antonyms: upcountry#Adverb
glosses: In or into the lowlands, as opposed to the hilly region.
downcountry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Blend of downhill + cross-country
Senses: topics: cycling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Being a form of cross-country bicycle designed to perform well on trails, like a mountain bike.
Downpatrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A town in and the county town of County Down, Northern Ireland. Its cathedral is said to contain the buried remains of Saint Patrick.
Saint Patrick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪnt ˈpæt.ɹɪk/
rhymes: -ætɹɪk
homophone: St. Patrick
Etymology: The parish is named after Saint Patrick.
Senses: glosses: A missionary in Ireland during around the fifth century AD. He is the patron saint of Ireland.
glosses: A civil parish in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada.
glosses: A parish in Grenada.
Dolcelatte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dolcelattes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dolcelatte.
donkeywork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of donkey work.
Donner Pass
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada of California
fin.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of finance.
glosses: Abbreviation of finish.
Esth.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Abbreviation of Esther.
etymol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of etymology.
exch.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of exchange.
encl.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of enclosed.
engr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of engineer.
eccles.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ecclesiastical.
ecol.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ecological.
ecol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of ecology.
econ.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of economic.
econ.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of economics.
glosses: Abbreviation of economy.
dwt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of deadweight.
diff.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of difference.
dimin.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of diminutive.
dipl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of diploma.
disc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of discount.
Dist. Atty.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of district attorney.
distr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of distribution.
doc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of document.
glosses: Abbreviation of doctor.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: priv. doc.
dental surgery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental surgeries
Senses: glosses: A surgery where a dentist works.
glosses: Dentistry.
dental surgeon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental surgeons
Senses: glosses: A dental specialist who performs the diagnosis and surgical treatment of diseases, injuries, and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws, and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.
Related terms: word: oral surgeon
word: surgeon-dentist
dental clinic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dental clinics
Senses: glosses: dental surgery
deriv.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of derivation.
dev.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of development.
glosses: Abbreviation of developer.
decd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of deceased.
decresc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of decrescendo.
del.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of deletion.
glosses: Abbreviation of delirium.
Derived terms: del. trem.
ct.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of century.
ct.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of court.
Cumb.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cumbria.
cum div.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cum dividend.
cyl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cylinder.
Dak.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Dakota.
CT scan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CT scans
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A computed tomography scan.
cts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cents.
cts.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ct.
Cpl.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of corporal.
cpd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of compound.
cryst.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of crystal.
Corn.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cornwall.
corr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of correct.
glosses: Abbreviation of corrected.
corr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corrs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of correction.
glosses: Abbreviation of correspondent.
court case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: court cases
Senses: topics: law
glosses: a legal case to be resolved in a court
Comr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Comrs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of commissioner.
conc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of concentration.
glosses: Abbreviation of concession.
cong.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of congregation.
cons.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of constant.
glosses: Abbreviation of consultation.
glosses: Abbreviation of constable.
Derived terms: pol. cons.
contd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of continued.
contr.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of contrast.
contr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: contrs.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of contraction
examples: text: TBR. MERCHANT, CONTR. AND CAB PROPRIETOR
ref: 1908, Building, volume 94, page 761:
topics: business
glosses: Abbreviation of contractor.
contr.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more contr.
form: most contr.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
lexicography
linguistics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of contracted (“made smaller by contraction”).
topics: business
glosses: Abbreviation of contracted (“arranged by contract”).
contrib.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of contribution.
colloq.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of colloquial.
Comdr.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of commander.
class.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of classify.
class.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of classification.
backward design
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Backward design can be applied to medical education by beginning with the national standards or competencies for medical education, defining outcomes and assessment methods, and then defining curricular content.
ref: 2016, Jill Stefaniak, Advancing Medical Education Through Strategic Instructional Design:
topics: education
glosses: A method of designing an educational curriculum by setting goals before choosing instructional methods and forms of assessment.
chq.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cheque.
chronol.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chronological.
chronol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chronology.
c.i.f.c.i.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of cost, insurance, freight, commission and interest.
cir.
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of circa.
cir.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of circle.
glosses: Abbreviation of circumference.
glosses: Abbreviation of circuit.
child minder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: child minders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of childminder.
chap.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaps.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of chaplain.
examples: text: 1853, chap. 91, what amends secs. 7 and 10, laws 1851, chap. 43; chap. 338, except sec. 4; chaps. 387 and 454; chap. 498, sec. 9, all relating to petit jurors; chaps. 511, 529, 554
ref: 1877, Laws of the State of New York Passed at the One Hundredth Session of the Legislature, Albany, N.Y.: Weed, Parsons and Company, page 608:
text: The Vāyu consists of four Pādas—(1) Prakriyā, comprising chaps. 1-6, (2) Anuṣaṅga, chaps. 7-64, (3) Upodghāta, chaps. 65-99, and (4) Upasaṃhāra, chaps. 100 to the end.
ref: 1940, Dacca University Bulletin, page 15:
text: Good works, chap. 4; on the fear of God, chaps. 6, 7, 19; on faith, chaps. 12, 15, 32, 3; on the true invocation of God, chap. 32; on chastity, chaps. 2, 39, 34, 19; on clemency, chap. 50 etc.
ref: 2012, John L. Thompson, Timothy George, Scott M. Manetsch, editors, Reformation Commentary on Scripture: Old Testament 1: Genesis 1-11, InterVarsity Press, page 7:
glosses: Abbreviation of chapter.
Ches.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cheshire.
cath.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of cathedral.
glosses: Abbreviation of cathode.
glosses: Abbreviation of catheter.
caps.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of capsule.
bafflegabs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bafflegab
bafflegabbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bafflegab
bafflegabbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bafflegab
Camb.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cambridge.
glosses: Abbreviation of Cambridgeshire.
glosses: Abbreviation of Cambodia, in some legal citations.
Cambs.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Cambridgeshire.
bro.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bros.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of brother.
BSc.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bachelor of Science.
btry.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of battery.
Brig.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Ogles, an entrepreneur, will defeat state House Speaker Beth Harwell and retired Brig. Gen. Kurt Winstead.
ref: 2022 August 4, Rachel Janfaza, “Andy Ogles will win GOP nomination in redrawn Tennessee 5th District, CNN projects”, in CNN:
glosses: Abbreviation of brigadier.
blk.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blks.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of black.
glosses: Abbreviation of block.
Blvd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of boulevard.
B movie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B movies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of B-movie.
Bib.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bible.
biog.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of biographical.
biog.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of biography.
bd. ft.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of board foot.
Beds.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Bedfordshire.
Austral.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Australia.
auto.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of automatic.
aux.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of auxiliary.
avdp.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of avoirdupois.
bact.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bacteria.
bacteriol.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of bacteriology.
asstd.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of assisted.
atty.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of attorney.
Atty. Gen.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of attorney general.
at. wt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of atomic weight.
antiq.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiqs.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of antique.
glosses: Abbreviation of antiquarian.
glosses: Abbreviation of antiquary.
Ar.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Arabic.
archd.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of archdeacon.
alt.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: For the "prefix", the alt.* hierarchy was one of the largest sections of the online discussion system Usenet. In contrast to the "mainstream" hierarchies, such as comp.* which related specifically to computing, alt.* was the "alternative" hierarchy where opinions were shared on a wide range of miscellaneous subjects.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of alternative.
alt.
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: For the "prefix", the alt.* hierarchy was one of the largest sections of the online discussion system Usenet. In contrast to the "mainstream" hierarchies, such as comp.* which related specifically to computing, alt.* was the "alternative" hierarchy where opinions were shared on a wide range of miscellaneous subjects.
Senses: examples: text: You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser.
ref: 1999, "Weird Al" Yankovic, “It's All About the Pentiums”, in Sean Combs (music), Running with Scissors:
text: I was trying to say...Danny boy left the room during your hat sentence. He's gone back to alt.elitist.impatient-arrogant-farts-with-nsoh
ref: 1999 December 21, Christiana, “Scripts available anywhere?”, in alt.fan.eddie-izzard (Usenet):
text: If you're only interested in a socialist love-in, perhaps you should go to alt.bliss.ninnies?
ref: 2001 October 15, Rev. J. Thaddius, “The War Against Dissent (Simon Haupt)”, in alt.anarchism (Usenet):
glosses: Indicates a newsgroup, as used in fictional or hypothetical newsgroup names.
buggeree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buggerees
Etymology: From bugger + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: The fantasy of auto-sodomy is of great psychological interest, as both an acceptance of passive homosexual rape and a simultaneous defiance of it, since the actor is at once both bugger and buggeree.
ref: 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:
text: But you're referring to the buggerers, Tom. Remember the buggeree?
ref: 2003, Humberto Fontova, The Hellpig Hunt:
text: The irony for Ibrahim and Sharaf is that all the characters, whether buggerers or buggerees, are always already buggered by globalization and that the physical sexual act that they fear has already happened to them at much deeper levels.
ref: 2008, Joseph A. Massad, Desiring Arabs, page 385:
glosses: A person who is sodomized.
anal.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of analogy.
buggerees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buggeree
Alas.
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Alaska.
accel.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of acceleration.
Adjt.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Adjts.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of adjutant.
bracket clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bracket clocks
Senses: glosses: A small pendulum clock mounted on a wall bracket to allow room for its hanging weight.
glosses: A spring-driven clock, without hanging weights, constructed in the same style.
bracket clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bracket clock
BAMBI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of ballistic missile boost intercept.
helibucket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helibuckets
Etymology: From heli- + bucket.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of helicopter bucket.
synonyms: word: helicopter bucket
helibuckets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helibucket
unphonemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + phonemic.
Senses: glosses: Not phonemic.
nonphonemically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a nonphonemic manner; not phonemically.
unphonetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unphonetic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an unphonetic manner; not phonetically.
polypteroid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polypteroids
Senses: examples: text: But this seems an unnatural arrangement; although the polypteroids and acipenserids are similar in that the number of fin rays is greater than the number of their basal skeletal supports and because there is an unmistakable spiral valve in the intestine […]
ref: 2018, Henry B. Bigelow, Soft-rayed Bony Fishes: Orders Acipenseroidei, Lepisostei, and Isospondyli:
glosses: Any fish of the family Polypteridae.
Hyponyms: bichir
reedfish
polypteroids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polypteroid
garisons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of garison
pedunculates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pedunculate
pentachlorobenzene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chlorinated derivative of benzene C₆HCl₅
pentaneural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A mixture of the drugs meprobamate and pentaerithrityl tetranitrate used to manage anxiety disorders
pentosyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pentosyls
Etymology: From pentose + -yl.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A univalent radical derived from a pentose
Derived terms: pentosyltransferase
periarticularly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: peri-articularly
Etymology: From peri- + articularly.
Senses: glosses: In a periarticular manner
pericensal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + censal.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding (the year) of a census
pericentrosome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pericentrosomes
Etymology: From peri- + centrosome.
Senses: glosses: The pericentrosomal area of a chromosome
periprandially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In a periprandial manner
peripregnancy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From peri- + pregnancy.
Senses: glosses: Surrounding (the time of) pregnancy
phacovitrectomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phacovitrectomies
Etymology: From phaco- + vitrectomy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: combined phacoemulsification and vitrectomy
phasome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phasomes
Etymology: From phase + -ome.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The phase-variable genes of an organism
Related terms: phasotype
phasomes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phasome
phlebomegaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phlebo- + -megaly.
Senses: glosses: varicose veins
cartoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cartoners
Etymology: From carton + -er.
Senses: glosses: A machine that packs products into cartons.
cartoners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cartoner
photoincorporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoincorporations
Etymology: From photo- + incorporation.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: photochemical incorporation (of a compound into an organism)
phototheranostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From photo- + theranostic.
Senses: glosses: Describing a theranostic material that is activated by light
phototourism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From photo- + tourism.
Senses: glosses: tourism with the aim of taking photographs
malleter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malleters
Etymology: From mallet + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who uses a mallet.
malleters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malleter
Sebastion
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /səˈbæstʃən/
Etymology: From Latin Sebastianus, from Greek Sebastianos.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Latin.
grammatization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammatizations
Senses: glosses: Synonym of grammaticalization.
synonyms: word: grammaticalization
grammaticalisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammaticalisation
grammatizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grammatization
grammaticisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grammaticisations
Etymology: From grammaticise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of grammaticization.