cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
like a charm
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: The sales pitch worked like a charm.
text: The Chevy drove like a charm, even with a couple inches of snow on the roads.
ref: 2004, Joseph Rocco Cervasio, Bad News on the Doorstep: Inspired by a True Story, page 121:
glosses: Very effectively.
Synonyms: a treat
like a dream
like magic
like a champ
bestill
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪl
Forms: form: bestills
form: bestilling
form: bestilled
form: bestilled
Etymology: From Middle English bistillen, bystillen (“to silence”), equivalent to be- + still. Perhaps and alteration of earlier Middle English istillen, ȝestillen (“to make still, calm”), from Old English ġestillan (“to calm, quieten, pacify, stop”).
Senses: glosses: To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.
bestain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestains
form: bestaining
form: bestained
form: bestained
Etymology: Back-formation from bestained, equivalent to be- + stain.
Senses: glosses: To mark with stains; discolour; spot.
coætaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: And thus it is through the whole ſyſtem of the Body ; every member doth mutually ſuſtain and ſupply one another ; and all are coætaneous, becauſe none of them can ſubſiſt alone.
ref: 1699, Richard Bentley, The Folly and unreaſonableneſs of Atheism, Richard Bentley, fourth edition, page #111:
glosses: Archaic form of coetaneous.
Hendra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * In Queensland, the virus was named after the suburb of Hendra in Brisbane, Australia, where some of the first cases were reported. The name may have originated in Cornwall.
Senses: glosses: Hendra virus, a disease fatal to livestock and humans, caused by viruses of genus Henipavirus.
glosses: A suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A number of places in Cornwall, England, including
glosses: A number of places in Cornwall, England, including:
A settlement in St Dennis parish, Cornwall (OS grid ref SW9557).
Synonyms: henipavirus
Jackett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Jack.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Bees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bee
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of bees.
Related terms: St Bees
æmulous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more æmulous
form: most æmulous
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of emulous.
potato mashers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potato masher
Hrazdan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Հրազդան (Hrazdan).
Senses: glosses: A town in Armenia in Kotayk.
glosses: A river in Armenia.
Aras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æˈɹæs/
Etymology: From Turkish Aras, from Persian ارس (aras), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *Raxsā- (“swift-flowing”). Compare Sanskrit रङ्घते (raṅghate, “to hasten, run”).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Araks.
Aras
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /æˈɹæs/
Senses: glosses: plural of Ara
Aragvi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Georgian არაგვი (aragvi).
Senses: glosses: A river in Georgia.
versed sines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of versed sine
setup fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: setup fees
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: An initial fee that is charged by an organization to set up an account (or similar financial instrument).
Iwao
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese いわお (Iwao).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
company seals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of company seal
holding companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holding company
company fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of company front
fire companies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fire company
Pasargadae
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Pasargadae, from Ancient Greek Πασαργάδαι (Pasargádai), ultimately from Old Persian *Pāθragadā.
Senses: glosses: An ancient city of Persia, a capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
intervarietal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + varietal.
Senses: glosses: Occurring between two or more different varieties.
Related terms: varietal
variety
rooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of roop
sordor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sordors
Etymology: Possibly from an unattested Latin *sordor, or by back-formation of a noun from sordidus (“dirty, vile”).
Senses: glosses: sordidness
Related terms: sordid
sordidness
jumboize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: jumboizes
form: jumboizing
form: jumboized
form: jumboized
form: jumboise
Etymology: From jumbo + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: The replacement and enlargement of the entire cargo section, commonly called "jumboizing," of one of the smaller American-flag tankers, now under bareboat charter to the Company, was completed in September.
ref: 1945, Atlantic Refining Company, Annual Report, The Company
text: This year the Great Lakes fleet will have four so-called "jumboized" ocean tanks with mid-body sections built in Europe and towed across the Atlantic Ocean and joined to salvaged bow and stern sections.
ref: 1953, Minnesota. Legislature. Commission on Taxation of Iron Ore, Report Submitted to the Minnesota Legislature:
text: Named for the river, the Canisteo was commissioned in 1945 and "jumboized" (increased in size and capacity) in 1967.
ref: 2009, Kirk W. House, Around Hornell, Arcadia Publishing, page 114:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To lengthen (a ship) by replacing an existing section with a longer section or inserting an additional section.
Derived terms: jumboization
Related terms: jumboisation
jumboizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jumboize
jumboizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jumboize
jumboized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jumboize
cystorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cysto- + -rrhœa.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes cases of chronic catarrh of the bladder, or cystorrhœa, the result of the senile enlargement of the prostate, are met with, in which the mucous secretion from the inflamed bladder becomes temporarily suspended by an attack of bronchitis, and as soon as the expectoration, which may have been very abundant, has subsided, the mucous discharge from the bladder returns. In chronic catarrh or cystorrhœa of the bladder, the lining membrane becomes in time extensively inflamed, the muscular coat becoming greatly thickened and its cavity contracted, as you will see well‐marked in the specimen I shall now hand round, which was taken from the patient lately in No. 6 ward.
ref: 1870, James Stannus Hughes, On Diseases of the Prostate Gland, Frannin and Co. and Longmans, Green and Co.; page 38
glosses: Obsolete form of cystorrhea.
karela
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: karelas
Etymology: From Hindi करेला (karelā), from Sanskrit कारवेल्ल (kāravella).
Senses: examples: text: The roofs shall fade before it,
The house-beams shall fall,
And the Karela, the bitter Karela,
Shall cover it all!
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book:
text: Cut karelas into thin slices. Wash and rub two table spoons salt all over the karelas and its scrapings.
ref: 1998, Sanjeev Kapoor, Khazana of Indian Recipes:
text: Though unpleasantly bitter, karela tops the list of diabetes-friendly foods.
ref: 2006, Tarla Dalal, Diabetic Snacks, page 22:
glosses: Momordica charantia, the bitter melon or bitter gourd.
karelas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of karela
bestarring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bestar
bestarred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bestar
facework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: faceworks
Etymology: From face + work.
Senses: glosses: The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building.
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: The communicative strategies involved in upholding face or social prestige.
topics: business
mining
glosses: Work done at the face, such as the coalface.
Synonyms: sense: material of outside or front side
word: facing
Related terms: faceworker
fabulosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fabulosity
fadedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From faded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being faded.
feculae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fecula
fadistas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fadista
faintheartedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more faintheartedly
form: most faintheartedly
Etymology: From fainthearted + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a fainthearted manner.
falsificators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falsificator
famishments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of famishment
faquirs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of faquir
leucorrhœæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leucorrhœa
leucorrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leucorrhœæ
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of leucorrhoea.
soft power
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: soft powers
Etymology: Coined by American political scientist Joseph Nye in the late 1980s and popularized in the 1990 book “Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power”.
Senses: examples: text: Soft power is a country's cultural and ideological appeal. It is the ability to get desired outcomes through attraction instead of force.
ref: 1999 March 8, Joseph S. Nye Jr., “The Challenge of Soft Power”, in Time:
text: The bank often provides the hard currency for Chinese soft power aspirations: In Africa, China ExIm has handed out more than $7 billion in loans in recent years.
ref: 2007 May 23, Jim Yardley, “Blocked by U.S., China finds it own way to space”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2019, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
text: India will set up cultural centres in five more countries to showcase its soft power and acquire a global footprint for its rich diversity, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said here Saturday.
ref: 2011 January 8, “More Indian cultural centres to showcase soft power: PM”, in Indiaweb123.com, archived from the original on 17 Aug 2018, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
text: His bid to popularize Mr. Liu’s novels was a rare attempt to export Chinese popular culture — something that has eluded China as its government yearns to wield the same soft power the United States commands with its movies, music and sports stars.
ref: 2024 April 1, David Pierson, “The Bizarre Chinese Murder Plot Behind Netflix’s ‘3 Body Problem’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 06 Apr 2024:
text: But for all its contemporary soft power — the “Emily in Paris” tie-in, the medals displayed in Louis Vuitton trunks — these Paris Olympics will also be a throwback.
ref: 2024 July 25, Jason Farago, “Why the Olympics’ Parade of Nations Is the World’s Costume Party”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 27 Jul 2024:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Political influence that is extended by means of diplomacy, media, international assistance, cultural exchanges, etc., rather than by such "hard" means as military intervention or punitive economic measures.
glosses: A state having this kind of power.
Related terms: hard power
smart power
sharp power
feasteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: feast + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of feast
feastest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: feast + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of feast
fetichist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetichists
Etymology: From fetich + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of fetishist.
fetichists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetichist
fetichism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fetichisms
Etymology: From fetich + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Chapter 1: What is Fetichism?
ref: 1960, Dr. Edw. Podolsky, Carlson Wade, Erotic Symbolism:
glosses: Archaic form of fetishism.
fetishisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetishism
fetichisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetichism
feticidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: foeticidal
Etymology: From feticide + -al or fetus + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: Killing a fetus.
Related terms: feticide
incouragements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incouragement
Feejeean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Feejeean
form: most Feejeean
Etymology: From Feejee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Fijian.
Feejeean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Feejeeans
Etymology: From Feejee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Fijian.
Feejeean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Feejee + -an.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of Fijian.
Feejeeans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Feejeean
Kermadec petrel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kermadec petrels
Senses: glosses: Pterodroma neglecta, a petrel of the Kermadec Islands.
filamentoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filamentoid
form: most filamentoid
Etymology: From filament + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Like a filament.
filamentlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more filamentlike
form: most filamentlike
Etymology: From filament + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a filament.
filamentations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filamentation
leucorrhœic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: In addition to irrigation of the vagina of leucorrhœic women with antiseptic solutions before and during delivery (Haussmann), the lids of the newborn should be carefully washed immediately after birth, if possible before the bandage is applied.
ref: 1889, Hermann Schmidt-Rimpler, Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopy, William Wood & Company, part 3, Chapter III., page 367:
glosses: Obsolete form of leucorrhoeic.
firedrakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firedrake
sæptal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary , a large percentage of them are traumatic ; in other words, they are induced by the habit of picking the nose for the purpose of dislodging a mass of inspissated secretion, which is apt to accumulate at the apex of a sæptal spur or over an area of atrophied mucous membrane.
ref: 1896, Charles H. Knight, The Hot Springs Medical Journal, Volume V., №. 10, page #339:
glosses: Archaic form of septal.
firefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firefishes
form: firefish
Etymology: From fire + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of fish in the genus Nemateleotris
glosses: Any of various fish of the genera Pterois and Parapterois.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Parapterois heterurus
word: blackfoot firefish
taxonomic: Pterois antennata
word: broadbarred firefish
taxonomic: Pterois miles
word: devil firefish
taxonomic: Nemateleotris decora
word: elegant firefish
taxonomic: Nemateleotris decora
word: purple firefish
taxonomic: Pterois radiata
word: radial firefish
firefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firefish
firefountains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firefountain
fireforming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fireform
fireformed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fireform
firestops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firestop
intergenetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + genetic.
Senses: examples: interspecific and intergenetic hybridization
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining to multiple genera.
examples: text: My own intuition is that beneficial genetic mutations do not emerge merely as random errors in genetic copying but emerge inevitably when the optimum intergenetic and thermodynamic conditions
ref: 2010, Christina Anne Knight, The Short Range Anti-Gravitational Force and The Hierarchically Stratified Space-Time Geometry in 12 Dimensions, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 12:
text: The characteristic diversity of the hypertrophic CMP phenotype is attributable to the intergenetic heterogeneity (with a variety of mutations encoding protein components of the cardiac sarcomere)
ref: 2012, Ziad Issa, John M. Miller, Douglas P. Zipes, Clinical Arrhythmology and Electrophysiology: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease: Expert Consult: Online and Print, Elsevier Health Sciences, →ISBN, page 618:
text: In addition, H3S10ph associates to the 26S and 18S rDNA transcriptional units but is excluded from the non-transcribed intergenetic space (Granot et al. 2009).
ref: 2014, Raúl Alvarez-Venegas, Clelia De la Peña, Juan Armando Casas-Mollano, Epigenetics in Plants of Agronomic Importance: Fundamentals and Applications: Transcriptional Regulation and Chromatin Remodelling in Plants, Springer, →ISBN, page 57:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to multiple genes.
examples: text: Intra- and intergenetic language contact led to intermediate stages of simplification of the system (Luwo, Thuri) without necessarily involving fundamental typological changes.
ref: 2003, Studies in African Linguistics:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to multiple languages with different roots.
Related terms: intergeneric
intergenerationally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪʃənəli
Etymology: From intergenerational + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between generations.
intertemporally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intertemporal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an intertemporal manner.
firestone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firestones
Etymology: From Middle English firestone, firstan, fyrestane, fyyr stone, from Old English fȳrstān, equivalent to fire + stone.
Senses: glosses: Iron pyrite, formerly used for striking fire.
glosses: A flint.
examples: text: On the descent the line is often in cuttings; some are high, such as at Scarcroft, where a cut through firestone and fireclay was necessary, and near Bardsey, where the line threads a deep tree-lined gorge.
ref: 1961 February, D. Bertram, “The lines to Wetherby and their traffic”, in Trains Illustrated, page 101:
glosses: A stone which will bear the heat of a furnace without injury; especially applied to the sandstone at the top of the upper greensand in the south of England, used for lining kilns and furnaces.
firestones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firestone
tortricid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tortricids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any moth of the family Tortricidae
tortricids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tortricid
fishful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪʃfəl/
rhymes: -ɪʃfəl
Forms: form: more fishful
form: most fishful
Etymology: From fish + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Thus mean in state, and calm in sprite,
My fishful pond is my delight.
ref: 1609, Richard Carew, The Survey of Cornwall, London: […] S[imon] S[tafford] for Iohn Iaggard, […], →OCLC:
text: The earth brought forth its fruit; fishful its river-mouths; milkful the kine; heavy-headed the woods.
ref: 1856, John O'Donovan, Annala Rioghachta Eireann, page 97:
synonyms: fish-filled
glosses: Abounding in fish.
fishwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fishwomen
Etymology: From fish + -woman.
Senses: examples: text: Watt was not a woman's man, but the fishwoman pleased him greatly.
ref: 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
glosses: A woman who sells fish.
Synonyms: alt: fishmongress
word: fishmongeress
word: fishwife
word: piscatrix
Coordinate terms: fishman
fishmonger
fishwomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishwoman
flagpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flagperson
Flatheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Flathead
proanthocyanins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of proanthocyanin
fleeceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fleece + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fleece.
fleshmonger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshmongers
Etymology: From Middle English fleshmongere, from Old English flǣsċmangere; equivalent to flesh + monger.
Senses: examples: text: Carnarius. A boucher: also a fleshmonger.
ref: 1578, Thomas Cooper, Thesaurus linguæ Romanæ & Britannicæ […], London: [Henry Denham]:
glosses: One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
glosses: A butcher.
fleshmongers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleshmonger
basanites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basanite
flippantness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flippant + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being flippant.
florikins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florikin
florilegia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of florilegium
flowerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flowerer
fluework
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From flue + work.
Senses: glosses: A system of organ stops in which the sound is caused by wind passing through a flue or fissure and striking an edge above; distinguished from reedwork.
flummeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flummery
flutterboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutterboard
flycatching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fly + catching.
Senses: glosses: Catching insects while in flight.
raw_tags: of birds
bestowable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bestowable
form: most bestowable
Etymology: From bestow + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being bestowed.
SecDef
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɛkˈdɛf/
Forms: form: SecDefs
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of Secretary of Defense, civilian head of the US Department of Defense.
bestowage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bestow + -age.
Senses: glosses: Stowage.
hyperfocus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + focus.
Senses: examples: text: Such are the three branches of the first power or focal passions, whereof unityism is the trunk or hyperfocus.
ref: 1851, Charles Fourier, Hugh Doherty, John Reynell Morell, The Passions of the Human Soul, Hippolyte Bailliere, page 308:
text: Such are the three branches of the first power or focal passions, whereof unityism is the trunk or hyperfocus.
ref: 1907, The American Amateur Photographer and Camera & Dark Room, American Photographic Public Company, page 308:
text: Officials (and their wives) schemed to get to major capitals; and felt banished if they were in a secondary or tertiary post. The hyperfocus upon the dominant spots was crystallized and confirmed by the selection of news, articles and editorials in the daily and periodical press, by books published, and by courses given in universities, colleges and schools.
ref: 1959, The American Behavioral Scientist 1959-07: Volume 3, Issue 1, Sage Publications Incorporated, page 56:
text: "Many of us with ADD do not consider ourselves to be disabled, but rather misunderstood,'1 writes one longtime sufferer. "We tend to be highly creative and intelligent and would never admit to being impaired." Adds a reader named Julia: "We may have difficulty concentrating in the short run, but we're also capable of 'hyperfocus,' which makes us able to concentrate for hours on end and hence finish a task that take someone else far longer." Moreover; writes an emergency medical technician in Texas, "in my job, having ADD is actually an advantage. There's no one better at moving quickly from one crisis to another."
ref: 2002, Fortune, Time, page 206:
text: Nicklaus’s reserve and Woods’s hyperfocus invite admiration, not the love Palmer inspired.
ref: 2009 June 18, Larry Dorman, “Seven Years Later, Mickelson Remains a Man of the People”, in New York Times:
glosses: An intense form of mental concentration or visualization that focuses the consciousness on a narrow subject.
Related terms: hyperfocal
hyperfocus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hyperfocuses
form: hyperfocusses
form: hyperfocusing
form: hyperfocussing
form: hyperfocused
form: hyperfocused
form: hyperfocussed
form: hyperfocussed
Etymology: From hyper- + focus.
Senses: glosses: To focus intensely.
fœticide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fœticides
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of foeticide.
foldless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fold + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without folds.
Freepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Freeper
Xboxer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xboxers
Etymology: From Xbox + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Xboxers can stop whining about being left out of the most amoral and hyper-violent game of all time.
ref: 2003 November, Popular Science, volume 263, number 5, page 26:
glosses: An owner of a Xbox video game console.
Xboxers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xboxer
foolfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foolfish
footbeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of footbed
forbroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of forbreak
foremilks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of foremilk
forsakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forsaker
forsakest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: forsake + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of forsake
inputter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inputters
Etymology: From input + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The cards had to be punched using an enormous machine — about the size of a small dinner table — and these machines were operated by a team of data inputters.
ref: 2009, Paul M. Meara, Connected words, page 2:
glosses: One who, or that which, inputs.
inputters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inputter
fosterlings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fosterling
fountainless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaʊntɪnləs/
Etymology: From fountain + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without fountains.
overcanvassed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overcanvassed
form: most overcanvassed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of over-canvassed.
algological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: phycological
glosses: Of or pertaining to algology (the study of algae).
Derived terms: algologically
algologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈɡɒlədʒɪst/
Forms: form: algologists
Etymology: From algology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies algology.
algologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algologist
algometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algometer
freers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freer
Freemasonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Freemasonic
form: most Freemasonic
Etymology: From Freemason + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Freemasonry.
fringeless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From fringe + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a fringe.
fringelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fringelike
form: most fringelike
Etymology: From fringe + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fringe.
frockless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frock + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a frock.
frizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frizzlers
Etymology: From frizzle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, frizzles.
frizzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frizzler
frogfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frogfish
bestraughted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bestraughted
form: most bestraughted
Etymology: Irregular, from bestraught + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Distracted.
frostless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From frost + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without frost.
Derived terms: frostlessness
frothless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From froth + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without froth.
bestraddle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestraddles
form: bestraddling
form: bestraddled
form: bestraddled
Etymology: From be- + straddle.
Senses: glosses: To bestride.
Related terms: straddle
fruitages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruitage
fruiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fruiters
Etymology: From fruit + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Hypholoma mushrooms are very prolific fruiters.
ref: 2015, Tradd Cotter, Organic Mushroom Farming and Mycoremediation:
glosses: Any organism that fruits.
glosses: A ship for transporting fruit.
examples: text: Because of increasing awareness during the 1930s, the police department added plainclothes officers to its parks and squares unit to keep the "fruiters" in check. They began surveillance of the known places where gay men might go to meet each other […]
ref: 2006, William Lipsky, Gay and Lesbian San Francisco, page 48:
text: They already had some gay friends, though I can't say I liked them very much. My Dad just took it in stride. It'd didn't make any difference between us. My Mom, after about fifteen minutes of silence, said, 'Oh, good, a fruiter—a funny boy. My sister has one.
ref: 2009, Donald H. Clark, Loving Someone Gay, page 179:
text: 'Maybe he's a fruiter,' remarked Tracey in her infuriating accent.
'Now that would be a turn-up for the books, wouldn't it Mike? I have to say I've never warmed to the homosexual community. I'm not what you'd call a bender-befriender. Still, live and let live, I say.'
ref: 2021, Nick Kent, The Unstable Boys:
synonyms: fruit
glosses: A homosexual man.
bestreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bestreaks
form: bestreaking
form: bestreaked
form: bestreaked
Etymology: From be- + streak.
Senses: glosses: To mark or cover with streaks.
fruiters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fruiter
gorsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gorsy
form: gorsier
form: most gorsy
form: gorsiest
Etymology: From gorse + -y.
Senses: glosses: Covered in gorse.
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of gorse.
Synonyms: furzy
cannulæ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cannula (alternative form of cannulae)
fykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fyke
yeared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)d
Etymology: From year + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of a specified number of years.
examples: text: Ironically, too, the wine was a yeared Bollinger of almost carnal subtlety and while Sutcliffe's stomach quailed his palate hungered for the treat.
ref: 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 701:
glosses: That has lasted many years; old.
yulan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yulans
Etymology: From Chinese Mandarin 玉蘭／玉兰 (yùlán) (lit. "jade orchid").
Senses: glosses: Magnolia denudata, a species of magnolia with large white blossoms that open before the leaves.
yulans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yulan
ywent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of go
yeara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Toxicodendron diversilobum, western poison oak.
yenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jenite.
jenite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yenite
Etymology: From Jena + -ite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The mineral ilvaite.
yestern
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Senses: examples: text: Argos, I fear, will pay us soon again
Her yestern debt[…]
ref: 1868, John Conington, transl., The Iliad of Homer:
text: For men born of yesterday are yestern
ref: 1970, Trumbull Stickney, Dramatic Verses, Ardent Media, →ISBN, page 35:
glosses: Of or pertaining to yesterday.
yestern
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Senses: examples: text: "F. Newman's book I saw yestern at our ouse," Arnold writes to Clough. "He seems to have written himself down an hass.
ref: 1949, Lionel Trilling, Matthew Arnold, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Yesterday.
yestern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yesterns
Etymology: Perhaps from yester + -en. Compare also Old English ġiestran (“yesterday”).
Senses: examples: text: Yestern was the day of hail, […]
ref: 1839, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, “Knight Toggenburg”, in Montagu Montagu, editor, The Song of the Bell, and other Poems, Digitized edition, published 2006, page 85:
text: Yestern, who was there could compete with me in strength?
ref: 1840, Amelia Lane, The Fortress: An Historical Tale of the Fifteenth Century, Digitized edition, published 2012, page 305:
text: For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom.
ref: 1977, Bill Reed, Dogod, Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, page 76:
text: Jestern, was Joyce's yestern.
ref: 2011, Glenn P. Wolfe, Mneme's Place: Book One (fiction), iUniverse, →ISBN, page 22:
glosses: Yesterday.
misbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsbiːt/
ipa: /mɪsˈbiːt/
Forms: form: misbeats
Etymology: From mis- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: Leigh's heart gave a little misbeat as she watched the exchange.
ref: 2001, Gayle G. Roper, Spring Rain:
text: Was it that same phial of precious ichor, still inside me, that spilled in the cinema that afternoon, and that I carry in me yet, and that yet will overflow at the slightest movement, the slightest misbeat of my heart?
ref: 2007, John Banville, Eclipse: A Novel:
text: How could so much warmth and unassuming gentleness be subtracted from the world by the simple misbeat of an organ?
ref: 2011, Susan Donovan, Celeste Bradley, A Courtesan's Guide to Getting Your Man:
glosses: A false, wrong, or incorrect beat; a beat in the wrong time or rhythm.
misbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɪsbiːt/
ipa: /mɪsˈbiːt/
Forms: form: misbeats
form: misbeating
form: misbeat
form: misbeaten
form: misbeat
Etymology: From mis- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: The assistant's role is not a minor one: When they become shaman, after they start in, his assistants have to know just what song to sing and how to beat the drum. If they misbeat the drum, the shaman just become normal again.
ref: 1996, David Levinson, Religion: a cross-cultural encyclopedia:
text: “I fear he will not be with us beyond the winter. He has already had two problems with his heart, which grows continually weaker.” “How weak?” “Twice it has misbeat. The third time may prove fatal.”
ref: 2000, Peter Tremayne, Hemlock at Vespers: fifteen Sister Fidelma mysteries:
glosses: To beat out of rhythm; beat incorrectly.
afterbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: afterbeats
Etymology: From after- + beat.
Senses: examples: text: He does so by giving the first structural tone an afterbeat comparable to that which follows the second structural tone.
ref: 1989, Leonard B. Meyer, Style and music: theory, history, and ideology:
text: The most distinctive rhythmic feature of ska is a strong afterbeat: a strong, crisp chunk on the latter part of each beat.
ref: 2007, Michael Campbell, James Brody, ROCK AND ROLL: AN INTRODUCTION:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A secondary, weaker half of a musical beat.
Related terms: downbeat
onbeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onbeats
Etymology: From on- + beat.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The first and third beats in a bar of four-four time.
forebeat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebeats
Etymology: From fore- + beat.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The primary, stronger half of a musical beat.
visit a spell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: visits a spell
form: visiting a spell
form: visited a spell
form: visited a spell
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of set a spell.
offstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more offstanding
form: most offstanding
Etymology: From off- + standing. Compare Dutch afstand (“distance”), German Abstand (“distance”), Swedish avstånd (“distance”).
Senses: examples: text: In the offstanding hill near Little Malvern the rock is porphyritic, being composed of small, light-coloured crystals of felspar set in an amorphous greenish [...]
ref: 1865, The Quarterly journal of the Geological Society of London: Volume 21, Geological Society of London:
text: Forcing teeth farther apart was formerly regarded as a necessary preliminary step to moving offstanding ones into the arch, [...]
ref: 1897, John Nutting Farrar, A treatise on the irregularities of the teeth and their correction:
text: A nut-lock including a plate perforated to receive a bolt, having an offstanding nut-engaging flange and a neck [...]
ref: 1904, United States. Patent Office, Official gazette of the United States Patent Office: Volume 108, Part 1:
text: A conveying device, as claimed in claim 1, further including a coaxial spiral body carried by and offstanding from the core.
ref: 1969, Canada. Patent Office, Canadian Patent Office record: Volume 97:
glosses: Standing off; standing or situated at a distance; distant; far removed; remote.
offstanding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From offstand.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offstand
turn someone's crank
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns someone's crank
form: turning someone's crank
form: turned someone's crank
form: turned someone's crank
Senses: examples: text: McGwire had said that international competition did not "turn my crank," but the players on the dais today seemed positively excited about the trip.
ref: 2000 March 26, George Vecsey, “Baseball: Mets and Cubs Are Grateful McGwire Said No to Tokyo”, in New York Times, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
text: But it was journalism that turned his crank. He loved knowing the secrets and the gossip; he loved trafficking in information.
ref: 2003 May 25, “The Times Bomb”, in Newsweek, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
text: [A]bsolutely nothing beats pursuing the path that truly fascinates your brain, engages your energy, and touches your soul. Whatever you do, do what turns your crank.
ref: 2007 September 4, Jack Welch, Suzy Welch, “From Hero To Zero”, in Businessweek, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
text: Yet if you ask guys which Hollywood stars most turn their crank, you'd be surprised who their answers might be, and why.
ref: 2011 May 19, John Ortved, “Guys Confess Their Celebrity Crushes: Cannes Edition”, in www.glamour.com, retrieved 16 Jul 2011:
glosses: To arouse a person's interest or passion; to excite someone.
Synonyms: float someone's boat
batful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batful
form: most batful
form: batfull
Etymology: From Middle English batful, badfull, perhaps from Old English *batfull, equivalent to bat (“to improve"; as in "battle, batten”) + -ful. Compare also Old Norse bati (“improvement, profit, usefulness”).
Senses: examples: text: The batfull pastures fenc’t, and most with quickset mound, / The sundry sorts of soyle, diversitie of ground; […]
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, “Song 3”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC, page 47:
synonyms: word: batten
word: battle
glosses: Rich; fertile, as in reference to land or soil.
bacteriophytochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteriophytochrome
lightens up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lighten up
lightening up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lighten up
lightened up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lighten up
ramraidings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ramraiding
ramraided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ramraid
ram-raid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ram-raids
form: ram-raiding
form: ram-raided
form: ram-raided
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramraid.
ram-raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ram-raids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramraid.
ram-raids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ram-raid
ram-raids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ram-raid
ram-raiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ram-raid
ram-raided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ram-raid
ram raid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ram raids
form: ram raiding
form: ram raided
form: ram raided
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramraid.
ram raid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ram raids
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ramraid.
ram raids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ram raid
ram raids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ram raid
ram raiding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ram raid
ram raided
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ram raid
root rots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of root rot
CD-RWs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CD-RW
sparapet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sparapets
Etymology: From Armenian սպարապետ (sparapet). Doublet of spahbed.
Senses: glosses: the hereditary title of the military commander-in-chief in ancient Armenia
blunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /blʌŋk/
Forms: form: blunks
form: blunking
form: blunked
form: blunked
Etymology: Apparently a corruption of blenk and/or blink.
Senses: glosses: To blench, blink; turn aside.
glosses: To spoil, mismanage.
blunk
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /blʌŋk/
Etymology: Ablaut of blink.
Senses: examples: 2001, Turanga Leela, Futurama episode "The Cyber House Rules"
I did it! I blunk!
2021, Rebecca Curtis , The New Yorker, vol. 97 no. 20, "Satellites"
Tony blunk.
glosses: simple past of blink
sheep-like
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sheep + -like.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheeplike.
cookt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cook
capitularies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capitulary
shapt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shape
galactopyranosyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galactopyranosyl
explaint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of explain
lov'd
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of love
disconnexions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disconnexion
picturization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɪktʃəɹʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: form: picturizations
Etymology: From picturize + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: In the picturization of The Clansman Mr. Griffith has set such a pace it will take a long time before one will come along that can top it in point of production, acting, photography and direction.
ref: 1915, Variety, Review, archived from the original on 05 Oct 2011:
text: In Dr. Monica, a picturization of a Polish play which reached the Strand screen last night, the handsome Kay Francis is cast as a renowned obstetrician.
ref: 1934, Mordaunt Hall, The New York Times, Movie review:
text: A meager talent for sketching and crayon work led me to attempt crude picturizations involving the outlandish denizens of my nighted thoughts.
ref: 1935, Robert Bloch, The Shambler from the Stars:
text: [As capitalized onscreen:] SELZNICK INTERNATIONAL / presents its picturization of / DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S / celebrated novel / REBECCA
ref: 1940, Selznick International Pictures, opening creditshttps://www.silversirens.co.uk/pictures/rebecca-1940-opening-credits-2.jpg to Hitchock's film Rebecca (as shown in the original 1940 version; unseen since the 1950s rerelease until the 2001 remaster in theaters and on Criterion DVD)
glosses: The representation of something as a picture, or the adaptation of something into a picture, especially a motion picture.
examples: text: Toward the end of the film Nazu rushes into her bedroom, clamps on headphones and listens to the technopoppy "I Wanna Be Free." The picturization shows her moving convulsively, desperately to the funky beat, turning ever more agitated, until we wonder what she wants to be free from: free from her domestic vise, or free from life?
ref: 2005, Richard Corliss, Time, Profile of A.R. Rahman:
glosses: The setting or coordination of soundtrack music of a motion picture to events or choreography onscreen
Related terms: filmization
Mesa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Maricopa County, Arizona.
glosses: A census-designated place in Inyo County, California.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Colorado.
glosses: A city in Washington.
glosses: A town in Mozambique.
Related terms: First Mesa
Third Mesa
jet fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jet fighter
buzz bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzz bomb
hot-air balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot-air balloon
hot air balloons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot air balloon
Messa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Messas
Etymology: Borrowed from Southern Italian and Spanish Messa.
Senses: glosses: A surname.