cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
compromize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of compromise.
devize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of devise.
examples: text: Not so, quod I, let baser things devize […]
ref: 1595, Edmund Spenser, Sonnet LXXV:
glosses: Obsolete form of devise.
encyclopædism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of encyclopedism.
bomb out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bombs out
form: bombing out
form: bombed out
form: bombed out
Senses: examples: text: The excitement along TV row this time of year generally is confined to the new season's shows—how many will hit or how many will bomb out?
ref: 1966 Aug. 30, "Survivors Gird for New Season," Los Angeles Times, part IV p. 1 (retrieved 17 July 2011)
text: Jane Fonda may be a hit at the box office, but she is bombing out politically.
ref: 1979 August 2, “Jane Fonda bombs out in the political arena”, in Deseret News, USA, retrieved 17 Jul 2011, page 3A:
text: Brazil started as favourites and as luck would have it, they bombed out in the quarterfinals.
ref: 2009 December 2, Mninawa Ntloko, “Parreira's Loyalty is to Brazil”, in allAfrica.com, retrieved 17 Jul 2011:
glosses: To fail; to produce no or very poor results; to drop out of or be eliminated from a competition.
glosses: To remove or cause (someone) to be removed or ejected from something.
glosses: To destroy completely or kill with explosives.
glosses: To do badly on a test or examination.
Cognos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A Business Intelligence technology, produced by Canadian company Cognos software, which was bought by IBM.
cursor keys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cursor key
computer literacies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computer literacy
ionopauses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionopause
Glacial
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of the Pleistocene period dominated by the presence of glaciers.
diætetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of dietetic.
ITM
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: topics: business
card-games
finance
poker
glosses: Initialism of in the money.
ITM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ITMs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of interactive teller machine.
Hisashi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひさし (Hisashi).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
usuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usual
frog hairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of frog hair
mai tais
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mai tai
fuck faces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fuck face
fat lips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fat lip
Lundberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lundbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Lundberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Lundgren
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lundgrens
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Lundgren.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Berglund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Berglunds
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Berglund, an ornamental surname composed of the elements berg (“mountain”) and lund (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Bergman
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A neighborhood in east Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Derived terms: Bergman cyclization
Sandberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sandbergs
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from German Sandberg, a habitational surname from a village in Bavaria.
* Borrowed from Norwegian and Swedish Sandberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements sand (“sand”) and berg (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Holmberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Holmbergs
Etymology: From Swedish Holmberg.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish
Nyberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Nybergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Nyberg, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ny (“new”) and berg (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Sundberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sundbergs
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Sundberg, from sund (“sound, strait”) + berg (“mountain”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
Eklund
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eklunds
Etymology: Borrowed from Swedish Eklund, an ornamental surname composed of the elements ek (“oak”) and lund (“grove”).
Senses: glosses: A surname from Swedish.
pop-in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: A performance issue in three-dimensional graphics, causing objects or textures to "pop" suddenly into view as they are loaded, rather than smoothly moving into view.
Related terms: draw distance
Hidemitsu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese ひでみつ (Hidemitsu).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Japanese.
nuptiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nuptialities
Etymology: From nuptial + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: The demographer noted each persons' gender, age, and nuptiality.
glosses: The state of being married.
præcedent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precedent.
præcedent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcedents
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precedent.
præcedents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præcedent
shoulder seasons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoulder season
reacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: reach + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reach
preacht
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: preach + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preach
præliminaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præliminary
quadrible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrable.
quadrivial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪvi.əl/
Forms: form: quadrivials
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadriviālis. By surface analysis, quadrivium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Tryuyals, & quatryuyals, ſo ſore now they appayre
That Parrot the Popagay, hath pytye to beholde
How the reſt of good lernyng, is roufled vp & trold
ref: c. 1521, John Skelton, Speke Parott:
text: St. Edmund was bred in this University in the Trivials and Quadrivials till he was Professor of Arts
ref: 1691, [Anthony Wood], Athenæ Oxonienses. An Exact History of All the Writers and Bishops who have had Their Education in the Most Ancient and Famous University of Oxford from the Fifteenth Year of King Henry the Seventh, Dom. 1500, to the End of the Year 1690. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Tho[mas] Bennet […]:
glosses: Any of the four "liberal arts" making up the quadrivium.
quadrivial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kwɒdˈɹɪvi.əl/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin quadriviālis. By surface analysis, quadrivium + -al.
Senses: examples: text: quadrivial streets
ref: 1612, Ben Jonson, Epigrams:
glosses: Having four ways meeting in a point.
examples: text: […] but he took the greatest interest in the Quadrivial Curriculum, that is, mathematical science, on account of its intrinsic charms and the rigour of its demonstration.
ref: 1893, Wilfrid Wallace, Life of St. Edmund of Canterbury: From Original Sources, page 85:
glosses: Relating to the quadrivium.
quadrivials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrivial
quadrivalve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadrivalves
Etymology: From quadri- + valve.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A door, shutter, etc. with four folds.
quadrivalve
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + valve.
Senses: examples: a quadrivalve pericarp
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: dehiscent into four similar parts; four-valved
quadrivalves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadrivalve
quadrivalvular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quadri- + valvular.
Senses: glosses: Having or pertaining to four valves.
Caspian tern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Caspian terns
Senses: glosses: A widely distributed species of tern, Hydroprogne caspia syn. Hydroprogne tschegrava.
Caspian terns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Caspian tern
Weibull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Weibulls
Etymology: Named after Swedish mathematician Waloddi Weibull, who described it in detail in 1951, though it was already known.
Senses: glosses: Any of various probability distributions used to model the amount of time for which something can be used until it ceases to be operable.
Derived terms: weibullite
Weibull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after Swedish mathematician Waloddi Weibull, who described it in detail in 1951, though it was already known.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Weibulls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Weibull
crazy like a fox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "If old Scraggsy's crazy he's crazy like a fox. What's rilin' him is the knowledge that he's stung to the heart an' can't admit it without at the same time admittin' he'd cooked up a deal to double-cross us. He's just a-bustin' with the thoughts that's accumulatin' inside him."
ref: 1911, Peter B. Kyne, chapter 18, in Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates:
text: Paris Painter Georges Mathieu appears to be crazy like a fox . . . [B]y adroitly publicizing himself, Mathieu has recently become the reigning darling of advance-guard art, has no trouble selling (at prices ranging from $600 to $3,400) pictures that take only from a few minutes to a few hours to paint.
ref: 1955 March 7, “Art: The Fox of Paris”, in Time:
text: Murdoch's bid to get his hands on The Journal may seem foolishly pricey, but he's got his reasons.
ref: 2007 May 14, Tom Lowry et al., “Crazy Like A Fox”, in Businessweek, retrieved 18 Jul 2011:
text: “He comes off as crazy, but he's crazy like a fox,” Smith said of Arenas last year. “He knows exactly what he's doing all the time.”
ref: 2010 December 18, Jonathan Abrams, “With Two Trades, the Magic Bets on the Present”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jul 2011:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Behaving in a foolish, frivolous, or uncomprehending manner as a ruse for concealing clever deeds or deeper intentions.
Related terms: dumb like a fox
sly as a fox
crazy as a fox
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crazy like a fox.
cool one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cools one's heels
form: cooling one's heels
form: cooled one's heels
form: cooled one's heels
Senses: examples: text: I cooled my heels in the cloisters till nine, then went in to the music-meeting.
ref: 1711, Jonathan Swift, The Journal to Stella (published 1766), ch. 4, letter 31
text: Remember I say it—he'll cool his heels in a prison, if he's no wiser than of late, before a twel'month.
ref: 1863, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, chapter 27, in The House by the Church Yard:
text: Indeed his annoyance had time to augment a good deal; for he was allowed to cool his heels a full half hour in the ante-room before those gentlemen emerged and he was ushered into the presence.
ref: 1873, Mark Twain, chapter 28, in The Gilded Age:
text: "Though Death has been cooling his heels at my door these three weeks, I have not had time to see him."
ref: 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Aes Triplex”, in Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson:
text: There is the story of the famous Hollywood glamour photographer who cooled his heels around Washington for three months while waiting for one of our leading commanders, and then was granted exactly 15 minutes for the sitting.
ref: 1943 December 24, Herbert L. Bregstein, “The Armored Force and the Camera”, in Popular Photography, volume 13, number 6, page 77:
text: Once in the White House, Currie became an expert at making small talk with visiting dignitaries, members of Congress, Cabinet Secretaries and other Administration officials as they cooled their heels waiting for the ever tardy Clinton.
ref: 2001 June 24, Nancy Gibbs, “The Currie Riddle”, in Time:
glosses: To wait, especially impatiently or restlessly.
Synonyms: bide one's time
kick one's heels
babygram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: babygrams
form: babygramme
Etymology: From baby + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Hereby it should first be established that in young infants the so-called babygram (consisting of one anterior-posterior view and one lateral view) of the skeleton should be considered obsolete and an error of judgement.
ref: 2010, Rob A. C. Bilo, Forensic Aspects of Pediatric Fractures:
text: An antero-posterior total-body radiograph (babygram) is most helpful. However, due to contractures or post mortem stiffening of the body, a postero-anterior babygram may be preferable to antero-posterior babygram.
ref: 2014, Marta C. Cohen, The Pediatric and Perinatal Autopsy Manual with DVD-ROM, page 235:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An X-ray of the entire body of an infant.
desolators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desolator
desorptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desorption
kainites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kainite
oversocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversock
Etymology: From over + socks.
Senses: examples: text: Oversocks, when worn over regular hiking socks, will arm you for assaulting boot-saturating bogs, crossing streams
ref: 1995 September, “Raingear for Feet”, in Backpacker, volume 23, number 144, page 99:
glosses: Socks intended to be worn over another pair of socks.
oversock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oversocks
Senses: glosses: singular of oversocks
paullones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paullone
khamsins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khamsin
kickshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kickshaw
kickshaws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kickshaws
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kickshaw.
Kickapoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kickapoo
kingklips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kingklip
knitwears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knitwear
koodoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koodoo
Kuklux Klan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Ku Klux Klan.
kaamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaama
intransigeance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: intransigeances
Senses: examples: text: The last two incidents are, however, instructive, for they illustrate the intransigeance of the old German Junker and official classes of all grades, and they show the difficulties to be contended against by such Germans as have taken the lessons of the war to heart, and are struggling to make the disappearance of militarism coincide also with the spread of a more urbane and democratic spirit.
ref: 1921 October, Maxwell H. H. Macartney, “An Ex-Enemy in Berlin to-Day”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: Alternative form of intransigence.
phone hacking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The act of intercepting and listening in on telephone calls or voicemail messages without the consent of the parties who are speaking.
non-exchanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-exchangers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonexchanger.
nonexchanger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonexchangers
form: non-exchanger
Etymology: From non- + exchanger.
Senses: glosses: One who does not engage in an exchange.
every Jack has his Jill
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Everybody will eventually find a romantic partner.
give someone a bloody nose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone a bloody nose
form: giving someone a bloody nose
form: gave someone a bloody nose
form: given someone a bloody nose
Senses: glosses: To defeat or frustrate someone, but without doing any permanent damage.
duty cycle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duty cycles
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The ratio between the amount of time in which the clock's signal is high and the clock's period.
examples: text: motors that are not designed for 80% duty cycles because that was never their appropriate use case
qualifier: engineering generally
glosses: The ratio between the percentage of time when a device is doing its work (duty) and the percentage of time when it is not working (e.g., idling, coasting, or turned off).
positive edge-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of positive-edge-triggered.
negative edge-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of negative-edge-triggered.
aræometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aræometers
Senses: examples: text: In the case of nitric acid, however, the employment of the aræometer introduces far greater errors than when it is used for sulphuric acid, hydrochloric acid, and in most other cases, as the concentrated nitric acids as a rule always contain nitrogen tetroxide in solution, the quantity being seldom less than 1 per cent., but more generally several per cent., which makes its strength when taken with the aræometer seem greater than it actually is.
ref: 1905, Georg Lunge, Alfred Isaac Cohn, Techno‐Chemical Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, pages 57–58:
glosses: Archaic form of areometer.
level-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a circuit or component whose output is sensitive to changes of the inputs only so long as the clock input's signal is high.
edge-triggered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From edge + triggered.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing a circuit or component which is either positive-edge-triggered or negative-edge-triggered.
Derived terms: negative-edge-triggered
positive-edge-triggered
aræometry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In treating on aræometry the authors strongly recommend Twaddle’s hydrometer, in preference to those of Baumé and Beck, so much employed upon the Continent, and which are as devoid of any rational foundation as is the English system of weights and measures.
ref: 1876, William Crookes, Chemical News and Journal of Industrial Science, volume XXXIV, page 171:
glosses: Obsolete form of areometry.
dysæmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysæmic
form: most dysæmic
Senses: examples: text: It completes the picture of the various ways in which the self‐poisons produced by a dysæmic mode of living may act upon the organism.
ref: 1901, H. Lahmann, H. Sanders, Natural Hygiene, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., second edition, page 67:
glosses: Obsolete form of dysemic.
dysaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -iːmɪk
Forms: form: more dysaemic
form: most dysaemic
form: dysæmic
form: dysemic
Etymology: From dysaemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dysaemia.
dysaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dys- + æmia, from Ancient Greek: δυσ- (dus-, “bad, unfortunate”) in combination with αἷμα (haîma, “blood”).
Senses: glosses: Unhealthy condition of blood.
Derived terms: dysaemic
anemochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈniːm.əʊˌkɔː/
ipa: /əˈnɛm.əˌkoɹ/
Forms: form: anemochores
Etymology: From anemo- + -chore.
Senses: glosses: An organism that spreads by wind, as a plant with wind-borne seeds.
geodætical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: With respect to the actual survey itself, you are aware that among the objects of my late tour, independent of the great addition to the stock of materials, one of the principal was, by making a circuit of Malwa, to form a skeleton map, founded on astronomical observations combined with the most minute and careful geodætical survey *, with magnetic bearings and perambulator distances.
ref: 1824, John Malcolm, A Memoir of Central India, second edition, volume II, page 315:
glosses: Archaic form of geodetical.
barochore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barochores
Etymology: From baro- + -chore.
Senses: examples: text: Most of these species are myrmecochores, auto- and barochores (short distance dispersors).
ref: 2012, A. Teller, Responses of Forest Ecosystems to Environmental Changes, page 437:
glosses: An organism that spreads by weight, as by the weight of a nut that falls from a tree and is not eaten by animals.
Related terms: barochory
battish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more battish
form: most battish
Etymology: From bat + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: battish wings
text: A buffle headed sub-chanter having been found guilty of absconsion from his butlership scuddled hastily with colubrine steps into the seclusion of his battish eggery.
ref: 1892 May 26, The W.A. Record, Perth, page 4, column 4:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or resembling a bat.
bar-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bary-.
bary-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: bar-
form: baro-
Etymology: From Ancient Greek βαρύς (barús, “heavy”).
Senses: glosses: Weight or pressure.
Derived terms: barycenter
barometric
baryon
baryonyx
batteling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: battelings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of battling.
batteling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more batteling
form: most batteling
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of battling.
batteling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of battel
twissell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twissel.
twissell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twissell
form: most twissell
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of twissel.
solœcistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solœcistic
form: most solœcistic
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of solecistic.
solecistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solecistic
form: most solecistic
form: solœcistic
Etymology: Blend of solecism + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to or involving a solecism.
dig in one's heels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: digs in one's heels
form: digging in one's heels
form: dug in one's heels
form: dug in one's heels
Etymology: From firmly placing one’s heels in the ground, particularly in tug of war (pulling) or when bracing oneself (pushing). Compare drag one's feet (“act slowly, from lack of enthusiasm or to delay”).
Senses: examples: text: What we want are more women of combined business efficiency and integrity to get into public life and dig in their heels against the forces of war, lust, and injustice.
ref: 1938 July 16, Jean Kelvin, “The Tug of War”, in Glasgow Herald, retrieved 18 Jul 2011, page 8:
text: Margaret Thatcher tried to do it again, digging in her heels, lecturing archly on her achievements, illuminating our European partners on the superior virtue of her ways.
ref: 1989 June 28, Flora Lewis, “Foreign Affairs: Maggie on the Beach”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jul 2011:
text: [T]he teachers' unions are still pretty much digging in their heels on the tenure issue.
ref: 2011 January 27, Andrew J. Rotherham, “Fixing Teacher Tenure Without a Pass-Fail Grade”, in Time:
glosses: To act in a determined manner by firmly maintaining one's beliefs, demands, situation, etc. in the face of opposition.
Related terms: dig one's heels in
drag one's feet
plant one's feet
turn on one's heel
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns on one's heel
form: turning on one's heel
form: turned on one's heel
form: turned on one's heel
Senses: examples: text: There he stood, answering shortly and gruffly to all questions proposed to him, . . . and as soon as the ancient priestess had handed him his glass of the salutiferous water, turned on his heel with a brief good-morning.
ref: 1824, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 9, in St. Ronan's Well:
text: "Well, Maude, he was on the platform this morning, and when he saw me, he turned on his heel and hurried out of the station."
ref: 1899, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 14, in A Duet:
text: But Bernice, standing stiff and angry in the starlight, turned on her heel without a response.
ref: 1906, Annie Fellows Johnston, chapter 14, in The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor:
text: In one store she eyed a cotton dress, turned on her heel when she saw the $40 price tag.
ref: 1949 May 9, “Unseasonal Weather”, in Time:
text: When Mr. Bush finished his five-minute statement . . . he abruptly turned on his heel and strode from the room, ignoring all questions.
ref: 2004 March 1, Elisabeth Bumiller, “On Gay Marriage, Bush May Have Said All He’s Going To”, in New York Times, retrieved 18 Jul 2011:
glosses: To suddenly turn away from someone or something in order to depart rapidly, especially as expressive of haughtiness, disapproval, or evasiveness.
Derived terms: heel turn
Related terms: show a clean pair of heels
hogswallop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hog swallop
form: hog's wallop
Etymology: Variant of codswallop, by analogy with swill (“pig food, garbage”).
Senses: examples: text: One law for him, another for us. Hogswallop. Shamus has conned us, Cassidy. Shamus has pulled off the biggest bloody load of hokum …
ref: 1971, John le Carré, The Naïve and Sentimental Lover:
glosses: Nonsense, rubbish.
Tower of Pisa
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Tower of Pisa
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Leaning Tower of Pisa
simple majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: simple majorities
Senses: glosses: Synonym of plurality: The largest share of the item being counted.
synonyms: word: plurality
extra: The largest share of the item being counted
examples: text: Oregon and Colorado were chosen by anti-gay groups to build momentum for a nationwide attack, beceause thhe two states have lenient election laws that allow for state constitutions to be amended by a simple majority of voters
ref: 1991 December 15, Dawn Schmitz, “Putting Gay Rights To A Popular Vote”, in Gay Community News, volume 19, number 22, page 1:
glosses: Synonym of majority: (of a motion) more votes in favor of a proposition than against it.
synonyms: word: majority
extra: (of a motion) more votes in favor of a proposition than against it
Goos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gooses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch and German Goos.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
præsumptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of præsumption
præcipice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: præcipices
Senses: examples: text: Nay, sir, ’tis as I told you :—you may as soon recall an arrow when ’tis flying, or a stone from præcipice, as reclaim him.
ref: 1632–1633, Shackerley Marmion, A Fine Companion, in The Dramatic Works of Shackerley Marmion (William Paterson, H. Sotheran & Co.), page 124
glosses: Obsolete form of precipice.
measuring cup
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measuring cups
Senses: glosses: A kitchen utensil used primarily to measure the volume of liquid or bulk solid cooking ingredients.
Synonyms: measuring jug
antihæmorrhagic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antihæmorrhagic
form: most antihæmorrhagic
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Eckfeldt states that cetraria possesses antihæmorrhagic power and has been recommended in hæmoptysis.
ref: 1906, John Vietch Shoemaker, A Practical Treatise on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, F. A. Davis Company; sixth edition, page 324
glosses: Obsolete form of antihemorrhagic.
Paytakaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Armenian Փայտակարան (Pʻaytakaran).
Senses: glosses: One of the provinces of Greater Armenia. Now in Azerbaijan.
club fender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club fenders
Etymology: Originated in England in the 18th century, as a form of fireside seating in 'club rooms' where cards, billiards and other social games were played.
Senses: glosses: A backless three-sided bench in front of a fireplace.
Lankaran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lenkoran
Etymology: From Persian لنکران (lankarân), from Old Median *Lan(a)karan- (“the land of the Lan”). The Lan is probably a name of a Caspian tribe. See also Old Armenian Փայտակարան (Pʻaytakaran).
Senses: examples: text: In Persia, the Russians continued their operations with so much success that they gained a large portion of the shores of the Caspian Sea, and united them to the Czar's dominion, as far as Lankaran.
ref: 1863, Edward Cust, Annals of the Wars of the Nineteenth Century, volume III:
text: The triumphant Persians also managed to recover the great fortress of Lenkoran, on the Caspian shore.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 99:
glosses: A city (and district) in Azerbaijan.
Lenkoran
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lankaran.
near sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nearsight
Senses: glosses: nearsightedness; myopia
Synonyms: short sight
shortsightedness
far sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: farsight
Senses: glosses: farsightedness
Synonyms: long sight
longsightedness
long sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longsight
Senses: glosses: longsightedness
Synonyms: far sight
farsightedness
longsightedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From longsighted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: farsight; farsightedness; far sight; long sight
speechlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From speech + lore.
Senses: examples: text: I know it may be said that place names are very unsafe ground, as they are mostly taken by wild casts of thought ; but the truth is that they are more or less trustworthy, as they are taken upon wider or narrower grounds of speechlore.
ref: 1865, British Archaeological Association, The archaeological journal: Volume 22:
text: It says they were driven forth by another race; and it is markworthy that it makes the Magyares, or Hungarians as we call them, to be what speechlore has now found them to be, Finns, or of the Finnish race, [...]
ref: 1877, David Masson, Sir George Grove, John Morley, Macmillan's magazine: Volume 35:
text: Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) naturally enabled him to do.
ref: 1910, Benito Pérez Galdós, The grandfather:
text: [...] in Athenaeum called him "an enthusiast," which almost goes without saying, but went on to say that his book is valuable inasmuch as it does "do good, as it teaches many overlooked (I [Barnes] say little known) points of speechlore.
ref: 1984, James W. Parins, William Barnes:
glosses: The science, study, or knowledge of language or speech; linguistics.
examples: text: After the publication of Redecraft, nearly all William Barnes's literary energies were given to "Speechlore," as he called Philology.
ref: 1887, Leader Scott, The life of William Barnes:
glosses: Philology; grammar.
publish or perish
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: topics: academia
scholarly
sciences
glosses: The pressure to frequently publish in academic journals in order to gain tenure or to sustain a career.
wordlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: word-lore
Etymology: From word + lore. Compare Old English wordlār (“verbal teaching or instruction”).
Senses: examples: text: Morris mastered the secrets of English wordlore as much better than Shakespeare as the manifold development of the science of language (speechlore) natually enabled him to do.
ref: 1910, Ruth Sawyer, Poet lore:
text: Alcohol wordlore and folklore: Being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associated with the use […]
ref: 1989, American Psychological Association, Psyc books: Volume 2:
coordinate_terms: lexicography
lexicology
philology
glosses: The science, study, or knowledge of words.
Related terms: wordbook
word lover
songworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more songworthy
form: most songworthy
Etymology: From song + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: That he comes up a shade self-pitying (he still goes barefoot) is reconciled only by the fact that he's made the subject songworthy this late in his career.
ref: 1999, Tim Riley, Hard rain: a Dylan commentary:
glosses: Worthy of song or of being sung.
examples: text: [...] which contains this truly beautiful description of a thoroughly successful life as imagined by a Greek: "That man is happy and songworthy by the skilled, who, victorious by might of hand or vigour of foot, achieves the greatest prizes with daring and with strength; [...]
ref: 1873, John Addington Symonds, Studies of the Greek poets: Volume 1:
glosses: Worthy of being sung about.
jerksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jerksome
form: most jerksome
Etymology: From jerk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: With females jolting up and down, upon no springs — except those of jerksome curiosity — conduct of this character was rude in the extreme.
ref: 1880, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale:
glosses: Indicative of quick, rapid movements; jerky.
jerksome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more jerksome
form: most jerksome
Etymology: From jerk + -some.
Senses: examples: text: That was mighty jerksome of you.
text: From time to time, Ace will, in a jerksome way, monotonize the conversation with witticisms too humorous to mention.
ref: 1977, The New Yorker, volume 53:
text: Okay, now lets say you said something to someone that irked him in some way — or else someone else said something irksome and jerksome to you.
ref: 1998, Karen Salmansohn, Whip your Career into Submission:
glosses: Characteristic of a jerk, or obnoxious person.
DMCAing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of DMCA
DMCAed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of DMCA
stockaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of stockade
stockading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stockade
vestibulitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From vestibule + -itis.
Senses: examples: text: It has been noted after vestibulitis, furuncles, and acute and chronic coryza.
ref: 1909, Progressive Medicine: A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences, volume 1:
text: Vulvar vestibulitis is a chronic clinical syndrome of unknown cause defined (by Friedrich) by the constellation of severe pain on vestibular touch or attempted vaginal entry, tenderness to pressure localized within the vulvar vestibule […]
ref: 1998, John F. Steege, Chronic Pelvic Pain: An Integrated Approach, page 186:
text: There is no doubt that patients with vulvodynia from vestibulitis experience psychosexual dysfunction due to their severe dyspareunia.
ref: 2000, Fred M. Howard, Pelvic Pain: Diagnosis and Management:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of a vestibule, especially localized vulvodynia in the vestibular region (the entry point into the vagina).
Synonyms: vestibulodynia
clitorodynia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From clitoro- + -odynia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Vulvodynia in the vicinity of the clitoris.
perineoplasty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perineoplasties
Etymology: From perineo- + -plasty.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several related surgical procedures used in the correction of conditions of the vagina and/or anus, especially the repair of the perineum.
Synonyms: perineorrhaphy
Derived terms: colpoperineoplasty
vaginoperineoplasty
Related terms: perineoplastic
perineoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perineoplasty
perineoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to perineoplasty.
abdominoperineal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈdɑm.ɪ.noʊˌpɛɹ.əˈni.l̩/
Etymology: From abdomino- + perineal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the abdomen and to the perineum.
Derived terms: abdominoperineal resection
pie-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pie-hole
quantivalent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to quantivalence, or valence.
quarry-faced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point.
raw_tags: of stones
Related terms: pitch-faced
quadrinominal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quadrinomial.
quadriparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadripara
preeclampsias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of preeclampsia
sextipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sextiparas
Senses: glosses: A female that has borne six offspring.
Coordinate terms: unipara
quintipara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintiparas
Senses: glosses: A female that has borne five offspring.
sextiparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sextipara
quintiparas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintipara
querimony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: querimonies
Etymology: From Latin querimonia (“complaint”); related to querulous.
Senses: glosses: A complaint.
Derived terms: querimonious
querimoniousness
querimonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of querimony
querpo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Spanish cuerpo
Senses: examples: text: Boy: my Cloake, and Rapier; it fits not a Gentleman of my ranck, to walke the streets in Querpo.
ref: 1647, Beaumont and Fletcher, Loves Cure:
text: I would fain see him walk in querpo, like a cased rabbet, without his holy furr upon his back, that the world may once behold the inside of a fryar.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish fryar:
glosses: The inner or body garments; underwear.
teach away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: teaches away
form: teaching away
form: taught away
form: taught away
Senses: examples: text: A statement that a particular combination is not a preferred embodiment does not teach away absent clear discouragement of that combination.
ref: 2007, Bainbridge Lipscomb, Anthony William Deller, Lipscomb's Walker on Patents: Volume 9, page 1034:
text: By focusing specifically on the Weissman method, which arguably taught away from the invention, the Federal Circuit court avoided to discuss the more general prior art probing methods the applicants had actually used.
ref: 1998, Philippe Georges Ducor, Patenting the Recombinant Products of Biotechnology, page 49:
text: Disclosed examples and preferred embodiments do not constitute a teaching away from a broader disclosure or nonpreferred embodiments.
ref: 1997, J. Michael Thesz, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, page 163:
topics: law
glosses: In patent law, to describe the solution to a problem in a way that excludes a particular alternative to solving that problem addressed by a later invention.
teaches away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of teach away
teaching away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of teach away
taught away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of teach away
quaternate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: quaternate leaves
glosses: Composed of, or arranged in, sets of four.
therapying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of therapy
therapied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of therapy
join points
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of join point
quinquangular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + angular.
Senses: glosses: Having five angles or corners.
quinquagenarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinquagenarian
quinoyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From quinone + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A radical whose hydride is quinone, analogous to phenyl.
quinovin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chinovin
form: kinovin
Etymology: New Latin quina nova, the tree (formerly Cosmibuena magnifolia) whose bark yields quinovin. See -in.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: An amorphous bitter glucoside derived from cinchona and other barks.
quinovic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinovic acid
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpene carboxylic acid obtained from some varieties of cinchona bark
Related terms: quinovate
quinoproteins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quinoprotein
quiddative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quiddative
form: most quiddative
form: quidditative
Etymology: Related to quiddity.
Senses: examples: text: It is that among other distinctions possible among symbols, an indispensable one is that between indicative and quiddative symbols.
ref: 1968, C. J. Ducasse, Truth, Knowledge and Causation:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Constituting, or containing, the essence of a thing.
quidditative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quidditative
form: most quidditative
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quiddative.
kinovic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of quinovic acid.
quinqueliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + literal.
Senses: glosses: Consisting of five letters.
quinqueliteral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quinqueliterals
Etymology: From quinque- + literal.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: A sequence of five letters.
quinquelocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quinque- + locular.
Senses: glosses: Having five cells or compartments.
quinizarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of hydroquinone + alizarin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A yellow crystalline substance produced artificially and isomeric with alizarin.
Derived terms: leucoquinizarin
questuary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstʃəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstjʊˌɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃʊˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: more questuary
form: most questuary
Etymology: From Latin quaestuārius.
Senses: examples: text: Although lapidaries and questuary enquirers affirm it, yet the writers of minerals, and natural speculators, conceive that stones which bear this name to be a mineral concretion.
ref: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Acquisitive; greedy.
questuary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkwɛstjʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstʃʊəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstʃəɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛstjʊˌɛɹi/
ipa: /ˈkwɛst͡ʃʊˌɛɹi/
Forms: form: questuaries
Etymology: From Latin quaestuārius.
Senses: glosses: One employed to collect profits.
questuaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of questuary
acquisitionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From acquisitional + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In terms of acquisition (especially of language).
lurkest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: lurk + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of lurk
quirkish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quirkish
form: most quirkish
Etymology: From quirk + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky.
quitture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quitter (“pus”).
quirked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quirked
form: most quirked
Etymology: From quirk + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having, or formed with, a quirk.
nonprosecutable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + prosecutable.
Senses: glosses: Not prosecutable.
Synonyms: unprosecutable
softcovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softcover
softback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softbacks
Etymology: From soft + back.
Senses: glosses: A softcover or paperback book.
Related terms: hardback
softbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softback
juicy girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: juicy girls
Etymology: The typical drink the client is expected to purchase for the bargirl is a small glass of juice.
Senses: examples: text: Instead, I had a few clubs that I liked to go to and I usually had a particular juicy girl that I hung with at each of them. I wasn't overly fond of the Korean juicy girls because you could honestly tell that they saw us Americans as a walking wallet with a penis (much like the Ojimas) and I preferred to feel a little more special than that, even if it was only an illusion.
ref: 2016, Xavior Zevon, Crazy Chick Magnet, iUniverse, →ISBN:
qualifier: Korea
glosses: A Korean bargirl.
Related terms: juicy bar
quinquefid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quinquefidus, variant of quinquifidus, from quinque (“five”) + -fidus, from findere (“to split”). Equivalent to quinque- + -fid.
Senses: examples: text: a quinquefid leaf
a quinquefid corolla
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments.
Coordinate terms: bifid
trifid
quadrifid
sexfid
sexifid
octofid
novemfid
decemfid
duodecimfid
centifidous
multifid
multifidous
Italophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Italo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: Italian-speaking
Italophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Italophones
Etymology: From Italo- + -phone.
Senses: glosses: A person who speaks Italian
ringsters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ringster
ringtailed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ring-tailed.
Derived terms: ringtailed cat
ringtailed possum
old sight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oldsight
Senses: glosses: oldsightedness; presbyopia