cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
down to the short strokes
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Possibly an allusion to painting, in which a painter typically finishes a work with short, careful, finishing strokes of the paint brush, or to golf, in which a player concludes each hole by making short strokes with a putter. In swimming competition, as a swimmer nearly reaches a wall to turn or to finish, the competitor might take a shorter stroke to start the turn smoothly, or to finish faster.
Senses: examples: text: "You should never count Lyndon out," Nixon said. "When it comes down to the short strokes, there's no one who can handle them better than Lyndon Johnson.
ref: 1960 July 14, Arthur Edson, “Lyndon's Knack Gets Test”, in Milwaukee Sentinal, retrieved 29 May 2009, page 7:
text: When the budget negotiations get down to the short strokes in October, should I cave or take the "train wreck"?
ref: 1995 June 26, William Safire, “Essay: Reading Bill's Mind”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2009:
text: Anyone who wants to vote on delegates who will then decide whether to ratify the deal must have a membership by the end of this week. "It's getting down to the short strokes," MacKay said.
ref: 2003 November 13, “Angry Tories protest outside Harper-MacKay meeting”, in CTV.ca/Canadian Press, retrieved 29 May 2009:
glosses: To the final steps or decisive phase of an undertaking, especially one which has been lengthy or laborious.
Synonyms: down to the wire
hyporeflexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hypo- + reflex + -ia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Diminished function of one or more reflexes.
Hypernyms: dysreflexia
Coordinate terms: hyperreflexia
Bassorah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Basra
hyposulfurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hyposulphurous
Etymology: From hypo- + sulfurous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to hyposulfurous acid or its derivatives.
Related terms: hyposulfite
hypostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypo- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having a roof supported on a row of columns.
hypostyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypostyles
Etymology: From hypo- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A building or chamber whose roof is supported on a row of columns.
vivaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vivace
counterattraction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹakʃən/
Forms: form: counterattractions
Etymology: From counter- + attraction.
Senses: examples: 1956, January 31ˢᵗ: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, № 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief — call it what you will — than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
glosses: Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
Related terms: counterattract
counterattracting
counterattractive
understages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of understage
counterattractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterattraction
counterattract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹakt/
Forms: form: counterattracts
form: counterattracting
form: counterattracted
form: counterattracted
Etymology: From counter- + attract.
Senses: examples: text: The provision of nurses for them is a major problem in itself, relieved to a large extent in county districts by part-time workers, but remaining only partially solved by such methods in the cities, where more congenial occupations counterattract them.
ref: 1948, Glasgow Medical Journal, volume 147, page 111:
text: ante''' 1979–2002: American Institute of Physics, Current Physics Index, volume 27: part 1, page 6,393 ⁽¹⁹⁷⁹⁾ or 4,917 ⁽²⁰⁰²⁾
Flexible polymers also counterattract.
text: If the cell has amongst its armament such a latent potential matching the novel compound we are presenting, and if that compound can counterattract the repressor away from the DNA, synthesis of the enzyme can then proceed, the newly formed enzyme starts degrading the compound, and acclimation by enzyme induction is accomplished.
ref: 1986, Robert Donald Swisher, Surfactant biodegradation, Marcel Dekker, →ISBN, page 162, →ISBN:
glosses: To attract at the expense of someone or something else.
Derived terms: word: counterattracting
Related terms: counterattraction
counterattractive
counterattracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹakts/
Senses: examples: text: Hence, the oxygen vacancy loses some of its “negative charge” and takes on a “positive character” that counterattracts the leakage of negative charge.
ref: 1967: the Chemical Society of Great Britain and the University of Nottingham, The alkali metals: an International Symposium held at Nottingham on 19 ᵗʰ–22 ⁿᵈ July 1966; organised jointly by the University of Nottingham and the Chemical Society, № 22, page 434 (self-published by the Chemical Society)
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of counterattract
counterattracting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/
Etymology: counterattract + -ing
Senses: examples: text: There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
ref: 1969, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, The Christian Science Publishing Society, page 970:
text: His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting, responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.
ref: 1992, Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, University of Delaware Press, →ISBN, page 112, →ISBN:
glosses: Serving to counterattract.
counterattracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪŋ/
Etymology: counterattract + -ing
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of counterattract
sinuosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sinuosity
counterattracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪd/
Senses: examples: text: A solid is an enormous group of molecules held together in a regular pattern by their mutual attractions. Water molecules also attract the molecules of the solid and so tend to break up the pattern and bring the molecules into solution. Molecules in solution are then counterattracted by those in the solid.
ref: 1941, John C Hogg, Charles L Bickel, Elementary General Chemistry, page 110:
glosses: simple past and past participle of counterattract
unaidedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From unaided + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unaided way.
Zersetzung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: German Zersetzung (literally “decomposition”)
Senses: glosses: A form of psychological warfare used by the Stasi.
counterattractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkaʊntəɹəˈtɹaktɪv/
Etymology: From counter- + attractive.
Senses: examples: text: In the struggle against the influence of such revelations, the counterattractive force of appeals to consider British interests was weakening.
ref: 1876–1939: David Harris, Britain and the Bulgarian Horrors of 1876, page 126 (2007 reprint; Kessinger Publishing, LLC; →ISBN, 9781432501501)
text: He saw the relations among prices of land, corn, flour, and bread as dependent on “growth of the power of association” which makes “circulation” more rapid “as the attractive and counterattractive forces increase in their intensity.”
ref: 1966, William Robert Catton, From animistic to naturalistic sociology, McGraw-Hill, page 285:
text: Brian Harrison rechnet in Drink and the Victorians die MH zurecht zu den “counterattractive influences which fostered sobriety during the 19th Century”¹⁰⁰ und betont wie schon die MH-Manager, daß die MH keine rein männliche Domäne war wie das Pub, sondern Familienunterhaltung bot und damit eine wichtige Forderung der Temperenzler erfüllte.
ref: 1984, Ulrich Schneider, Die Londoner Music Hall und ihre Songs, 1850–1920, volume 24, M. Niemeyer, →ISBN, page 75, →ISBN:
text: As John Rule has observed, in this context Methodism must be considered a counterattractive, as well as a counteractive, force, for it provided its own alternative, “improving,” “respectable” recreations, which were assimilated into the calendars of local society.⁵⁵
ref: 2002, Mark A. Noll, editor, God and Mammon: Protestants, money, and the market, 1790–1860, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109, →ISBN:
glosses: Acting as a counterattraction; counterattracting.
Related terms: counterattract
counterattracting
counterattraction
good enough for jazz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Traditionally used among musicians when an instrument was imperfectly tuned.
Senses: glosses: Good enough.
Synonyms: good to go
good enough for government work
neuroethologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroethologists
Etymology: From neuroethology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who is involved in neuroethology.
neuroethologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroethologist
overbrand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: overbrands
form: overbranding
form: overbranded
form: overbranded
Etymology: From over- + brand.
Senses: examples: text: "They had overbranded and had too many branding levels with three different divisions and all of their products using the ITT prefix," says Hayes Roth...
ref: 2006, Ronald J Alsop, The 18 Immutable Laws of Corporate Reputation:
text: If the product name is mentioned more than once in a sound bite and in the narration, you've more than likely overbranded it. Don't overburden your expert.
ref: 2007, Neil Henry, American carnival: journalism under siege in an age of new media:
text: The good news is that overbranding and the absence of a coherent brand strategy are an obvious problem, if not a crisis. Anyone can count brands...
ref: 2008, David A Aaker, Spanning Silos: The New CMO Imperative:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: To use too many brands (proprietary names in marketing).
overbranding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overbrand
overbranded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overbrand
co-grandmother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-grandmothers
Etymology: * co- + grandmother
Senses: examples: text: Talk to enough grandparents and one thing becomes clear: Because she's closer to the mother of the children, the maternal grandmother generally has a slight advantage. Or, as Audrey Berson […] put it: "She's my daughter, so I have the edge." Even so, Berson's co-grandmother works in the same town as the grandkids, and she sometimes meets the bus after school. "It bothers me," Berson said. "I wish it were me."
ref: 2009 May 19, Beth Teitell, “Horns Come Out When Grandparents Envy Each Other”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2009, page B7:
text: A Canadian grandmother's essay about essentially crashing her daughter-in-law's birth […] Rhona Bennett writes of […] hopping a train to Montreal, and (in cahoots with her co-grandmother) bum-rushing the hospital […] The two bubbies called the hospital […] and naturally were rebuffed, so off they went, in search of information, affirmation, and a grandbaby.
ref: 2008 December 2, Kate Tuttle, “A Grandmother's Right? Or Totally Obnoxious?”, in Strollerderby:
glosses: the mother of one's son- or daughter-in-law, as common grandmother of their children; the relationship between women who have grandchildren in common; maternal grandmother vis-à-vis paternal grandmother.
Synonyms: english: relative to the children rather than the grandchildren
translation: relative to the children rather than the grandchildren
word: co-mother-in-law
Coordinate terms: co-grandfather
co-grandparents
Related terms: co-in-law
co-aunt
pelages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pelage
yeesh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: eesh
form: yiish
Etymology: Perhaps yuck or yech, etc. influenced by sheesh.
Senses: examples: text: You ask..yeesh do we have to teach you EVERYTHING??
ref: 1999 Feb 3, 3:00 am, Jenn, The Theory of being loved, alt.romance
text: >How can there be a "best" crime against humanity?
Ones that get rid of the most undesirable ethnic groups. Yeesh do I have to draw a picture?
ref: 2005 Sep 29, 12:29 am, Rev. Bleech_, Rate crimes against humanity from best to worst, alt.music.pink-floyd
text: Yeesh, pour salt on the wound, why don't you?
ref: 2009, Jennifer Crusie, Anne Stuart, Lani Diane Rich, Dogs and Goddesses, page 383:
text: “I just wondered if you'd—” “Shut up, Shawna. I didn't say anything. Yeesh!”
ref: 2009, Jeannine Garsee, Say the Word, page 296:
glosses: Expressing exasperation or impatience.
examples: text: "I guess that explains why they don't fly very well." Gina shuddered. "And I almost made it crash! Yeesh!" "Yeesh is right," agreed Jay.
ref: 2003, Jeanette Cottrell, There's No Such Thing!:
text: "Yeesh," Ratchet muttered again, caressing his singed whiskers. "I think I'll let you look for the books from now on, Kendra."
ref: 2005, Lee Edward Födi, Kendra Kandlestar and the Box of Whispers:
glosses: Expressing relief; phew, whew.
examples: text: And so, if your mother says, "Yeesh!" every time somebody mentions broiled liver...
ref: 2005, Eugene B Bergmann, Excelsior, you fathead!: the art and enigma of Jean Shepherd:
text: Yeesh. So strong was his cologne she could practically taste it.
ref: 2008, Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2:
text: She did, however, spot Gordon Burns over by the bar. Yeesh. He gave her the creeps.
ref: 2008, Suzanne Brockmann, Force of Nature:
glosses: Expressing disgust; yuck, yech.
metriopatheia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metriopatheiai
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μετριοπάθεια (metriopátheia, “moderation of passions”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Moderation of the passions.
Related terms: apatheia
waspless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wasp + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without wasps.
apatheia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀπάθεια (apátheia). Doublet of apathy.
Senses: examples: text: But, one might ask, how can the temporal event of God in our midst be the same as God's event to himself in his eternity if so absolute a distinction is drawn between the enarrable contents of history and the "eternal dynamism" of God's immutability, apatheia, and perfect fullness?
ref: 2004, David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth, page 159:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A state of mind in Stoic philosophy in which one is free from emotional disturbance; the freedom from all passions.
Related terms: apathy
metriopatheia
equanimity
moaning Minnie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moaning Minnies
Etymology: Possibly from the French name Minié (for a soft lead bullet) or the German Minenwerfer, a type of trench mortar (WW I allusions), or simply because of the alliteration of the name with the participial adjective; see Martin, Gary (24 November 2022), “Moaning Minnie”, in Phrases.org.UK, retrieved 29 Nov 2022.
Senses: examples: text: Don't you think that's the way to persuade more companies to come to this region and get more jobs—because I want them—for the people who are unemployed? Not always standing there as moaning minnies. Now stop it!
ref: 1985, Margaret Thatcher, remarks to Tyne Tees TV (11 September 1985) http://www.margaretthatcher.org/speeches/displaydocument.asp?docid=106127
glosses: A person who moans; a peevish complainer.
glosses: An air raid siren.
synonyms: screaming meemie
glosses: A noisy rocket artillery piece (after 1944, the German Nebelwerfer).
co-grandfather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-grandfathers
Etymology: * co- + grandfather
Senses: examples: text: The milkman was Edward Kenelm Digby, 52, eleventh Baron Digby, World War I colonel in the Coldstream Guards, World War II inspector of infantry-training establishments, co-grandfather (with Winston Churchill) of Randolph Churchill's small son, Winston Churchill II.
ref: 1946 September 9, “The Milkman”, in Time, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2011:
glosses: the father of one's son- or daughter-in-law, as common grandfather of their children; the relationship between men who have grandchildren in common; maternal grandfather vis-à-vis paternal grandfather.
Synonyms: english: relative to the children rather than the grandchildren
translation: relative to the children rather than the grandchildren
word: co-father-in-law
Coordinate terms: co-grandmother
co-grandparents
Related terms: co-in-law
co-uncle
bounceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bounce + -less.
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: That does not require debouncing.
examples: text: a bounceless sports bra
topics: business
clothing
fashion
lifestyle
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Designed to reduce bouncing.
Derived terms: bouncelessness
bugproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bugproof
form: most bugproof
Etymology: From bug + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to insects.
Synonyms: insectproof
bugproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bugproofs
form: bugproofing
form: bugproofed
form: bugproofed
Etymology: From bug + -proof.
Senses: glosses: To make resistant to insects.
insectproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more insectproof
form: most insectproof
Etymology: From insect + -proof.
Senses: glosses: Resistant to insects.
Synonyms: bugproof
Hyponyms: antproof
beeproof
flyproof
unredressable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ʌnɹɪˈdɹɛsəbəl/
Forms: form: more unredressable
form: most unredressable
Etymology: From un- + redress + -able.
Senses: antonyms: redressable
glosses: Not redressable, that cannot be redressed.
co-grandparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Most grandparents aren't engaged in a duel with their co-grandparents, but the desire to be the most beloved, most generous grandparent often simmers beneath the surface. […] “It can get to the point where they can't speak to the co-grandparents, or the parents can't have events where they're both there,” she said.
ref: 2009 May 19, Beth Teitell, “Horns Come Out When Grandparents Envy Each Other”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 03 Jun 2009, page B7:
glosses: plural of co-grandparent
falaj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falajes
Senses: glosses: A qanat.
Related terms: aflaj
falajes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of falaj
hudibrastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hudibrastic
form: most hudibrastic
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hudibrastic.
maskable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mask + -able.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: That can be masked (disabled).
raw_tags: of an interrupt
Derived terms: nonmaskable
unmaskable
nonmaskable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + maskable.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not maskable.
sawteeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sawtooth
Tempos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tempo
wynns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wynn
wyns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyn
tridacna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tridacnas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: glosses: Any member of the genus Tridacna of large saltwater clams with heavy fluted shells.
tridacnas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tridacna
Tals
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tal
toyman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toymen
Etymology: From toy + -man.
Senses: examples: text: In 1874, Henry Cremer, the Regent Street toyman, advertised eggs which contained a 'Dolly and a Dolly's Trousseau', others might have minute glasses or tea-sets carefully packed inside.
ref: 1971, Gwen White, Antique Toys And Their Background, page 166:
glosses: A male seller of toys.
toywoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toywomen
Etymology: From toy + woman.
Senses: glosses: A female seller of toys.
toywomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toywoman
toymen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toyman
wotteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: He that hathe not this fayth, is but an vnpꝛofytable babler of fayth and woꝛkes / and wotteth nother what he bableth noꝛ what he meaneth, oꝛ whereunto his woꝛdes ꝑtayne.
ref: 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wycked Mammõ […], [London]: [s.n.], published [1537?], →OCLC, folio vii, verso:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of wot, wott, and wotte
titipounamu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori.
Senses: glosses: The rifleman (bird), Acanthisitta chloris.
wrenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more wrenlike
form: most wrenlike
Etymology: From wren + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a wren.
rescuable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From rescue + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be rescued or recovered.
unmown
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + mown.
Senses: glosses: Not mown; unmowed.
henlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more henlike
form: most henlike
form: hen-like
Etymology: From hen + -like.
Senses: synonyms: hennish
henny
hypernyms: chickenlike
coordinate_terms: roosterlike
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a hen.
henlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more henlike
form: most henlike
form: hen-like
Etymology: From hen + -like.
Senses: examples: text: He was not going to squat henlike on his place as the cockies around him did.
ref: 1901, Miles Franklin, “An Introduction to ’Possum Gully”, in My Brilliant Career, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, page 10:
text: But then there was the rain. And with it memories of Vanikarri and the iron huts of the wards and the black-cloaked sisters running henlike through the puddles and giggling.
ref: 1956, Robert C[onroy] Goldston, The Eighth Day, New York, N.Y.; Toronto, Ont.: Rinehart & Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 198:
text: This brought other States running henlike to the winner.
ref: 1968, Time Capsule 1932: A History of the Year Condensed from the Pages of Time, New York, N.Y.: Time-Life Books, →LCCN, page 53:
glosses: In the manner of a hen.
partisanly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more partisanly
form: most partisanly
Etymology: From partisan + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a partisan way.
toyseller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toysellers
Etymology: From toy + seller.
Senses: glosses: One who sells toys.
toysellers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toyseller
postdeadline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + deadline.
Senses: glosses: After a deadline.
postliberation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + liberation.
Senses: glosses: After liberation.
multimember
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + member.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Having more than one member (political representative).
raw_tags: of a district
toymaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From toy + making.
Senses: glosses: The work of a toymaker: the manufacture of toys.
Arab strap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Arab straps
Senses: glosses: A device, usually made of leather with a metal ring, that is fastened around the penis and testicles to sustain erection.
co-affine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-affines
Etymology: From co- + affine.
Senses: glosses: A co-in-law: A relationship by marriage with a separation by three degrees (two people), compared to prototypical affines, where the separation is two and one.
imbrex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imbrices
Etymology: From Latin imbrex.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A roof tile common in Ancient Greek and Roman architecture, used in an overlapping formation with the tegula.
imbrices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of imbrex
hypothecs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hypothec
hatsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hatful
hunh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: examples: text: "So I guess it was as messy as Dan said, hunh?"
ref: 2011, Ellyn E. Hugus, Symphonic Storm: Book 1: Peace Keepers, page 31:
glosses: Alternative spelling of huh.
interruptible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: interruptable
Etymology: From interrupt + -ible.
Senses: antonyms: uninterruptible
glosses: Able to be interrupted.
interruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: interruptible
Etymology: From interrupt + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be interrupted.
Derived terms: uninterruptable
inukshuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inukshuk
uninterruptable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + interruptable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of uninterruptible.
Tees
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Old English *Tēs(e), but uncertain beyond that. Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *tes (“heat”), which would be in reference to the “boiling” surging water of so much of the upper river, especially at places like Cauldron Snout.
Senses: glosses: A hamlet in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A river in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, north east England. The river flows through the city of Middlesbrough.
Derived terms: Billingham-on-Tees
Croft-on-Tees
Dalton-on-Tees
Norton-on-Tees
Preston-on-Tees
Stockton-on-Tees
Teesdale
Teesport
Teesside
Tees Valley
Thornaby-on-Tees
Tees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtiːz/
rhymes: -iːz
Etymology: From Old English *Tēs(e), but uncertain beyond that. Possibly from Proto-Brythonic *tes (“heat”), which would be in reference to the “boiling” surging water of so much of the upper river, especially at places like Cauldron Snout.
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of tees.
lancewood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lancewoods
Etymology: From lance + wood.
Senses: glosses: A tough, elastic and heavy wood obtained from the West Indies and Guiana, formerly much used for carriage shafts (Oxandra lanceolata).
glosses: New Zealand trees in the genus Pseudopanax.
examples: text: Besides these two trees, which are the most general form of vegetation met with, may be found the briglow, bugwood, lapunya, lancewood, cork, box, and bloodwood, the last so named from its light red sap, which oozes in a thick stream
ref: 1904, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 20, page 578:
text: Bo sat on the sprung branch of a toppled lancewood.
ref: 2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40:
glosses: Any of various Australian trees having hard timber, especially Acacia shirleyi of Queensland and the Northern Territory; also a woodland made of such trees.
kolkhozes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kolkhoz
isorhythmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + rhythmic.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Pertaining to or using isorhythm.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
prosody
sciences
glosses: In ancient prosody, equal in the number of times for thesis and arsis, as a dactyl and anapest.
Coordinate terms: homorhythmic
heterorhythmic
Derived terms: isorhythmically
isorhythmically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From isorhythmic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In an isorhythmic way.
isorhythm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isorhythms
Etymology: Borrowed from German Isorhythmik, coined in 1904 by composer Friedrich Ludwig (1895-1970) (iso- + rhythm).
Senses: examples: text: In his motets Machaut strove for all-over patterns of rhythmic unity through isorhythms, a system codifying a few set patterns of time value, the number of repetitions of a pattern within a composition depending upon the desired length […]
ref: 1953, Herbert Weinstock, Music as an art, page 31:
text: Even when such preconceived structural arrangements are not used, as in the Gloria of the Machaut Mass, the idea of isorhythm is present in the suggestion of recurring and balancing strophic plans.
ref: 1955, Oscar Lee Rigsby, The Sacred Music of Elzéar Genet: Historical and analytical study:
text: Meaning simply "same rhythm," isorhythm refers to the practice of using the same rhythmic pattern, called in fourteenth-century treatises a talea ("cutting"), over and over in one or more part as the structural base for a motet or mass movement.
ref: 2006, Kyle Gann, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern, used in some medieval motets and in more recent works.
Derived terms: isorhythmic
isorhythmically
isorhythms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isorhythm
heroicly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more heroicly
form: most heroicly
form: heroickly
Etymology: From heroic + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a heroic way; heroically.
kufis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kufi
unwhiskered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + whiskered.
Senses: examples: text: […] he was fifty or thereabouts, a little inclined to corpulence, a prepossessing face, unwhiskered, and of an agreeable color—a rather full face, humanely intelligent in expression.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
text: The four bearers, all unwhiskered eunuchs, stood in front of the chairs, their hands tucked into their sleeves, looks of disdain on their faces.
ref: 2013, Mo Yan, chapter 2, in Howard Goldblatt, transl., Sandalwood Death, University of Oklahoma Press:
glosses: Without whiskers.
Synonyms: whiskerless
whiskerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From whisker + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without whiskers.
Synonyms: unwhiskered
snappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snappable
form: most snappable
Etymology: From snap + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Does anyone know what the connectors for the snappable header pins are called?
ref: 2006 January 5, “Connectors for snappable header pins?”, in forums.bit-tech.net:
glosses: Capable of being snapped.
heroicness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From heroic + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being heroic; heroism.
limbmeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: limb-meal
form: limb meal
Etymology: From Middle English lymmele, limmel, from Old English limmǣlum (“limbmeal, limb by limb”); equivalent to limb + -meal.
Senses: examples: text: O, that I had her here, to tear her limb-meal!
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
text: […] they deal with Christ as a Kennel of Hounds do with an Hare, pluck him to pieces, wound and tear him, what in them lies, limb meal, neither his Blood, nor his Wounds, nor his Head, nor his Heart, nor any other part shall escape, and they even dare Vengeance it self […]
ref: 1677, Edward Bury, England’s Bane, or, The Deadly Danger of Drunkenness, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 16:
text: 1890, John Payne (translator), The Novels of Matteo Bandello Bishop of Agen, London: The Villon Society, Volume 5, Part 3, Story 24, pp. 323-324,
Such was the end of that vile and wicked woman, worthy of a more cruel death and to be torn of dogs limbmeal.
glosses: Into pieces; limb from limb.
unsnappable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsnappable
form: most unsnappable
Etymology: From un- + snappable.
Senses: examples: text: She was heaving now, her left side seizing up as if an unsnappable thread were being pulled through it to convulse it.
ref: 2003, Kerri Sakamoto, One hundred million hearts, page 109:
text: She went to the kitchen and found a knife – she imagined that it would need cutting down; she imagined its fibrous stem would be tough and unsnappable.
ref: 2011, Chris Mansell, Schadenvale Road, page 162:
glosses: Not snappable; that cannot be snapped; inseverable.
writability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌɹaɪtəˈbɪlɪti/
Forms: form: writeability
Etymology: From write + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being writable.
writeability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of writability.
tastable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tastable
form: most tastable
form: tasteable
Etymology: From Middle English tastable, taastable, equivalent to taste + -able. Compare Old French tastable.
Senses: glosses: That can be tasted; that can be detected by one's sense of taste.
tasteable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From taste + -able.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tastable.
smellable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From smell + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of, or suitable for, being smelled.
Synonyms: scentable
snailshell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snailshells
form: snail shell
form: snail-shell
Etymology: From snail + shell.
Senses: synonyms: cochlea
glosses: The shell of a snail.
snailshells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snailshell
meandrian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meandrian
form: most meandrian
Senses: glosses: winding, having many turns.
Related terms: meander
koromiko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koromikos
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori koromiko.
Senses: glosses: A shrub, Hebe stricta, endemic to New Zealand.
koromikos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of koromiko
nippily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɪpəli/
rhymes: -ɪpəli
Forms: form: more nippily
form: most nippily
Etymology: From nippy + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: With one class of boat, and continual practice under similar conditions, it is surprising to see how the boats are handled, how nippily the live ballast finds its place when gybing, how rapidly the canvas is taken in or set —a very important function, for the winds in the bay are treacherous and uncertain, the most favourable being hard north-easters.
ref: 1899, Robert Taylor Pritchett, Pen and Pencil Sketches of Shipping and Craft All Round the World:
text: I nippily learned that they could tidy away twice the amount of liquor we manly-men could without getting drunk.
ref: 2014, Richard L. Cañas, SHIFT - The End of the War on Drugs, The Beginning of the War on Terrorism:
glosses: In a nippy way; quickly.
kaphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaph
kafs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kaf
mucluc
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: muclucs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mukluk.
muclucs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mucluc
meandrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meandrous
form: most meandrous
Etymology: From meander + -ous.
Senses: qualifier: river
glosses: winding, windy, having many bends.
raw_tags: of a path
Synonyms: meandry
disenchanter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disenchanters
Etymology: From disenchant + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who disenchants.
topics: fantasy
glosses: A magical beast that can drain magical energy.
Derived terms: disenchantress
disenchanters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disenchanter
lobsterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lobsterlike
form: most lobsterlike
Etymology: From lobster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lobster.
Synonyms: lobsterish
oysterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oysterlike
form: most oysterlike
Etymology: From oyster + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an oyster.
Synonyms: oysterish
disenchantingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more disenchantingly
form: most disenchantingly
Etymology: From disenchanting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a disenchanting manner
anisakiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Etymology: From Anisakis + -iasis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The disease caused by infection with Anisakis worms (usually through eating raw fish), characterised by violent abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting.
meaned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: U₃tells the percentage of the sample with the lower mean that was exceeded by 50% of the scores in the higher-meaned group.
ref: 1998, Harris M. Cooper, Synthesizing research: a guide for literature reviews - Page 129:
glosses: Having a specific type of (mathematical) mean.
raw_tags: in combinations
meaned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mean
meaness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of meanness.
co-parent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-parents
Etymology: * co- + parent
Senses: examples: text: teacher's roles need to be as co-parents
ref: 2006, Richard S. Kitchen, Sylvia Celedon-pattichis, Julie Depree, Jonathan Brinkerhoff, Mathematics education at highly effective schools that serve the poor, page 144:
glosses: Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as
glosses: Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:
A godparent.
examples: text: I used to challenge my parents on every album / Now I'm embarrassed to tell 'em I ended up as a co-parent
ref: 2018, “March 14”, in Scorpion, performed by Drake:
glosses: Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:
A divorced or separated parent who shares custody with the other parent.
glosses: Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:
A parent in a same-sex couple.
glosses: Someone who shares in the parenting of a child or children, such as:
A parent in a platonic friendship with the other parent.
Related terms: english: parents who are related through their married children
translation: parents who are related through their married children
word: co-parent-in-law
word: co-mother
word: co-father
word: godparent
co-parent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: co-parents
form: co-parenting
form: co-parented
form: co-parented
Etymology: * co- + parent
Senses: examples: text: Children who have been co-parented may understand their parents' world and decisions more fully.
If you are co-parenting […] you will find here some of your own thoughts, feelings, and experiences, and hearing others' journeys will reassure you that you are not alone;[…]
ref: 2017, Karen L. Kristjanson, Co-Parenting from the Inside Out: Voices of Moms and Dads, Toronto: Dundurn, →ISBN, page 17:
glosses: To act as a co-parent; to share custody of a child or children; to share in the responsibility of parenting a child or children.
meanish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mean + -ish.
Senses: glosses: Somewhat mean.
maatjes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maatje
tear up the pea patch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tears up the pea patch
form: tearing up the pea patch
form: tore up the pea patch
form: torn up the pea patch
Senses: examples: text: Television tore up the entire pea patch. Radio was so big, so dominant, so powerful in 1939 that television seemed mostly talk and conjecture.
ref: 1970, Red Barber, The broadcasters, page 52:
text: In the words of one who knows him well, "on a matter of principle, John McCone is quite capable of tearing up the pea patch."
ref: 1964, Stewart Alsop with Thomas Wardell Braden, Sub rosa: the OSS and American espionage, page 244:
glosses: To put on a notable performance, especially in sports; to go on a rampage.
co-mother
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: co-mothers
form: commother
Etymology: * com- + mother, as calque of Latin commater, French commère.
Senses: examples: text: It is considered incestuous for a co-mother and co-father to have sex relations
ref: 1967, Charles Wagley, Joao José Rescála, Amazon town, page 151:
synonyms: cummer
gossip
commère
coordinate_terms: co-father
glosses: The relationship of a godmother to the other god-parents, and the legal parents, of a child.
examples: text: the two of them went to their mother's forest hut and tried to find a way to avenge their mother's death and kill their co-mother.
ref: 2001, Thomas Slone, One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Tales form 1972–1985, page 321:
synonyms: sister-wife
glosses: In polygamy, a wife of one's father who is not one's mother; that is, co-wife of one's mother.
examples: text: Notwithstanding the voluminous “co-wife” literature that Western anthropologists have used to define African marriage, “co-mother” is the preferred idiom in many African cultures for expressing the relationship amongst women married into the same family.
ref: 2003, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmi, African women and feminism: reflecting on the politics of sisterhood, page 13:
synonyms: sister-wife
glosses: In polygamy, the relationship between one co-wife and another, in respect to their children.
examples: text: The dilemmas engendered by the absence of a biological tie between a child and co-mother illuminate the centrality of familial rights and obligations in American kinship.
ref: 2004, Robert Parkin, Linda Stone, Kinship and family: an anthropological reader, page 384:
synonyms: stepmother
coordinate_terms: co-father
glosses: In a lesbian couple, the nonbirth mother (partner of the birth mother) of a child, especially one who takes an equal role in mothering the child.
Coordinate terms: co-father
co-parent
Related terms: co-aunt
co-grandmother
co-maternity
co-mother-in-law
co-sister
co-wife
bioweaponry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + weaponry.
Senses: glosses: Bioweapons collectively.
meanless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more meanless
form: most meanless
Etymology: From mean + -less.
Senses: examples: text: The window here, and there the door annoys, Then frequent repetitions tire the ear Of meanless speeches, dull and insincere.
ref: 1815, Charlotte Nooth, A dish of tea!:
text: Harp continued to find receivers open and the Eagles added several meanless touchdowns in the last half of the game.
ref: 2007 October 23, Marvin Hogan, “Eagles soar past Leopards”, in Gainesville Daily Register:
glosses: Meaningless, lacking meaning.
examples: text: Another unfailing “mean” to characterize such meanless distributions is the logarithmic mean […]
ref: 1994, M.R. Schroeder, “How to generate Thermal Photons - On the Computer”, in Gérard G. Emch et al., editors, On Klauder’s Path: A Field Trip, World Scientific Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 199:
text: In particular: i) the average is used to get a meanless dataset, as specified in sect. 20; […]
ref: 2004, La Rivista del Nuovo cimento, Società italiana di fisica, page 35:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Having no (mathematical) mean, or having a mean of zero.
Derived terms: meanlessness
cohousing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From co- + housing.
Senses: examples: text: There are close to 200 of these cohousing communities across the country – according to The Cohousing Association – designed to facilitate community through shared resources and common spaces. Members admit there are many tradeoffs to living in such close proximity to their neighbors including navigating a shared chore list and mutual financial arrangement. But many also say that they've found a way to conquer the loneliness and isolation that plagues so many Americans — especially today's parents.
ref: 2024 December 6, Katia Riddle, “How to be not lonely? 'Cohousing' is an answer for some people”, in Shots, NPR, retrieved 07 Dec 2024:
glosses: Housing in which the residents' private space is supplemented by communal facilities such as a shared kitchen and/or dining room.
squawlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squawlike
form: most squawlike
Etymology: From squaw + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a squaw.
measurage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: measurages
Etymology: From measure + -age.
Senses: topics: economics
law
sciences
glosses: A toll or duty based on the volume of a material; or, the right to collect such a toll or duty.
tear up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
ipa: /ˈtɛəɹ ˈʌp/
Forms: form: tears up
form: tearing up
form: tore up
form: torn up
Etymology: See: tear (“to rip, shred”).
Senses: examples: text: The student tore up his test after he found out his mark of 20%.
glosses: To tear into pieces.
examples: text: I finally persuaded the landlord to tear up the lease and move to a month-by-month rental.
glosses: To cancel or annul, or to cause the cancellation or annulment of (e.g. an agreement or contract).
examples: text: The lacrosse practice really tore up the field.
text: You talk about the same thing but from different points of view. He is saying, "Didn't hurt the car much." You're saying "He's tearing up the car and we're having to make payments on it."
ref: 1994, Virginia Satir, James Stachowiak, Harvey A. Taschman, Helping Families to Change, →ISBN, page 243:
text: We were making a joke about him not tearing it up; because the first person that puts a dent in it is going to get in trouble.
ref: 2012, Scotty Rae Hettinger, 5/22: Stories of Survival, Stories of Faith, →ISBN, page 231:
glosses: To damage.
examples: text: In his first year, his hitting tore up the league's opposing pitchers.
text: Taking advantage of her haughty obliviousness—Faris is every bit Margaret Dumont to Baron Cohen’s Groucho—Aladeen conspires to seize power back and tear up the new constitution before it’s too late.
ref: 2012 May 15, Scott Tobias, “Film: Reviews: The Dictator”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To succeed dramatically in (an area of endeavor) or against.
examples: text: We tore up the weeds from the allotment.
text: There was another incline on this section, but it has not been in use for very many years, and some of the rails are torn up, and the rest very overgrown.
ref: 1941 October, “Notes and News: The Lee Moor Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 470:
glosses: To wrench out of the ground.
examples: text: Chad tore up Stacy after that party.
glosses: To have intense penetrative sex with.
examples: text: Jason tore up Todd after finding out that he was having sex with his sister.
glosses: To brutally assault.
Derived terms: tear up the dance floor
tear up the pea patch
Related terms: tear it up