cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
diarrhœa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diarrhœas
form: diarrhœæ
Etymology: From Middle French diarrie (French diarrhée), from Late Latin diarrhoea, from Ancient Greek διάρροια (diárrhoia, “through-flowing”), from διά (diá, “through”) + ῥέω (rhéō, “flow”). Spelling later altered to resemble the word's Latin and Greek roots.
Senses: examples: text: Stool. Crawling and constriction in rectum. Stool large and hard (Bry); whitish, watery, sour. Prolapse ani, and burning, stinging hæmorrhoids. Diarrhœa of undigested, food, fetid, with ravenous appetite. Children’s diarrhœa. Constipation; stool at first hard, then pasty, then liquid.
ref: 2005, Edward Shalts, The American Institute of Homeopathy Handbook for Parents, page 326:
glosses: Dated spelling of diarrhoea.
Derived terms: diarrhœal
anhedonias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anhedonia
hedonically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more hedonically
form: most hedonically
Etymology: From hedonic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a hedonic manner.
kalamdan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kalamdans
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of qalamdan.
kalamdans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kalamdan
hedonisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hedonism
antihedonism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From anti- + hedonism.
Senses: glosses: A belief system in opposition to hedonism.
Laurinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lorinda
Etymology: From Laura + -inda.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Latin.
maidlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maidlike
form: most maidlike
Etymology: From maid + -like.
Senses: glosses: maidenly
examples: text: Somehow his maidlike service to her collapsed what she was building up, psychologically.
ref: 1978, Marc Edmund Jones, Man, magic, and fantasy: the domestication of imagination:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a maid (female domestic servant).
unflushed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + flushed.
Senses: examples: text: Racing to answer the ringing telephone, he left the toilet unflushed and did not wash his hands.
glosses: Not flushed.
unretracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + retracted.
Senses: glosses: Not retracted.
nonfortified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + fortified.
Senses: glosses: Not fortified.
scarfless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scarveless
Etymology: From scarf + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a scarf.
scarless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)ləs
Etymology: From scar + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without scars.
diagnosee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagnosees
Etymology: From diagnose + -ee.
Senses: glosses: One who is diagnosed.
diagnoser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diagnosers
Etymology: From diagnose + -er.
Senses: glosses: That which diagnoses, especially an artificial intelligence software component.
Derived terms: self-diagnoser
diagnosers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagnoser
diagnosees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diagnosee
nondiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + diagnostic.
Senses: glosses: Not diagnostic
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Unsatisfactory for diagnosis, not characteristic of a particular disease
Related terms: nondiagnosis
autodiagnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + diagnosis.
Senses: glosses: Diagnosis of a condition by the patient; self-diagnosis.
noncontainerized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: non-containerised
Etymology: From non- + containerized.
Senses: glosses: Not containerized.
Phœbë
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: She made her début on the Dublin stage, in 1777, in the part of Phœbë, in “As You Like It.”
ref: 1866, William Leist Readwin Cates, editor, The Biographical Treasury: A Dictionary of Universal Biography, page 525:
glosses: Nonstandard spelling of Phoebe.
straight quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: straight quotes
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A vertical quotation mark, ", as distinguished from a curly quote.
Related terms: smart quotes
printer's apostrophe
curly quote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: curly quotes
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
synonyms: smart quotes
glosses: A shaped opening or closing quotation mark, as distinguished from a straight quote. In English: “ ”. In some other languages: ” ”, „ ” or „ “.
waker-uppers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waker-upper
waker
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more waker
form: most waker
Etymology: From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er.
Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
Senses: glosses: Watchful; vigilant; alert.
waker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakers
Etymology: From Middle English wakere, equivalent to wake + -er. Compare West Frisian wekker (“alarm clock”, literally “waker”), Dutch wekker, German Wecker.
Senses: examples: an early waker
glosses: One who wakens or arouses from sleep.
glosses: One who wakes somebody or something.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: In the Rust programming language, a handle that "wakes up" a task by notifying its executor that it is ready to be run.
Related terms: waker-upper
wakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waker
Tampa Bay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A large natural harbor and shallow estuary along the Gulf of Mexico on the west central coast of Florida, United States.
glosses: The metropolitan area surrounding the body of water, including the cities of Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Clearwater.
spider hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spider holes
Senses: examples: text: The ragged fugitive dragged from a spider hole near Tikrit in December 2003 was physically diminished - Saddam lost weight on the run - and the subsequent incarceration and near invisibility whittled his relevance.
ref: 2005 October 18, Rory Carroll, “Trial of the Century? Not for Iraqis”, in The Guardian:
text: The grenade launcher was passed to Davis, who fired a beehive round into the spider hole.
ref: 2006, Keith Nolan, House to House: Playing the Enemy's Game in Saigon, page 323:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small, usually camouflaged hole dug in the ground where someone can hide.
Synonyms: slit trench
bureau de changes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bureau de change
bureaus de change
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bureau de change
subjunctives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subjunctive
I'm fine
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Conventional response to "how are you?", indicating that one is well.
sootless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From soot + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without soot.
pinch a loaf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pinches a loaf
form: pinching a loaf
form: pinched a loaf
form: pinched a loaf
Etymology: From a supposed resemblance of feces to a loaf of bread, pinched by the contracting anal sphincter.
Senses: synonyms: word: pinch one off
word: drop a load
word: boo-boo
word: cack
word: choke a darkie
word: crap
word: defecate
word: do one's ease
word: ease oneself
word: do a number two
word: do one's easement
word: drite
word: drop a bomb
word: drop a chalupa
word: drop a deuce
word: drop anchor
word: drop the kids off at the pool
word: dung
raw_tags: of animals
word: exrementize
word: feceate
word: have a shit
word: move one's bowels
word: pinch a loaf
word: pinch one off
word: poo
word: pooh
word: poop
word: sharn
word: shart
word: shiss
word: shit
word: shite
word: stool
word: take a dump
word: take a shit
word: take a crap
word: take the Browns to the Super Bowl
word: uncoil
word: void one's bowels
glosses: To defecate.
seminarist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seminarists
Etymology: From seminary + -ist.
Senses: topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
synonyms: seminarian
glosses: A student training to be a priest at a Roman Catholic seminary.
glosses: A member of a seminar.
oecumenical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ecumenical.
Derived terms: unoecumenical
Oranje
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Dutch Oranje.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: the Netherlands national football team
bayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayans
form: baian
form: bajan
Etymology: From Russian бая́н (baján); named after the 11th-century bard Boyan.
Senses: glosses: A type of chromatic button accordion developed in Russia in the early 20th century.
Derived terms: bayanist
Related terms: garmon
bayan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bayans
Etymology: From Arabic بَيَان (bayān).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A lecture.
opprest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oppress
outroar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outroars
form: outroaring
form: outroared
form: outroared
Etymology: From out- + roar.
Senses: glosses: To roar louder than.
outroar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outroars
Etymology: From out- + roar.
Senses: glosses: An uproar.
bouldered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of boulder
outdare
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outdares
form: outdaring
form: outdared
form: outdared
Etymology: From out- + dare.
Senses: glosses: To dare beyond; to be more bold or daring than.
outfrown
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfrowns
form: outfrowning
form: outfrowned
form: outfrowned
Etymology: From out- + frown.
Senses: examples: text: 2001, March 18, "Political Sex", alt.slack
Buster can stare down a statue, outfrown Eeyore, and still keep his hat on! Can your "Bob" match the unflappability of My "Buster"?
text: All day, therefore, the Blues and the Buffs have been locked in contretemps, with Brown and Cameron striving to outfrown each other in statesmanship
ref: 2010 May 7, Anthony Lane, “Mr. Clegg and Mr. Pickwick”, in New Yorker:
glosses: To exceed in frowning.
outjest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outjests
form: outjesting
form: outjested
form: outjested
Etymology: From out- + jest.
Senses: glosses: To jest better than
outscold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outscolds
form: outscolding
form: outscolded
form: outscolded
Etymology: From out- + scold.
Senses: examples: text: There end thy brave, and turn thy face in peace;
We grant thou canst outscold us: fare thee well;
We hold our time too precious to be spent
With such a brabbler.
ref: c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
text: Not such his evening, who with shining face
Sweats in the crowded theatre, and squeezed
And bored with elbow-points through both his sides,
Out scolds the ranting actor on the stage.
ref: 1785, William Cowper, “Book IV. The Winter Evening.”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], →OCLC, page 139:
text: 1812, Mary Russell Mitford, letter addressed to William Elford dated 12 July, 1812, in A. G. K. L’Estrange (ed.), The Life of Mary Russell Mitford, Told by Herself in Letters to Her Friends, New York: Harper, 1870, Volume I, p. 162,
And as to singers, I am certain that one of them goes as high as Catalani: I never heard any thing to equal it except a friend of mine who went into hysterics because she was outscolded by her husband. She, I think, did scream louder.
text: 1897, James Monroe, “The Early Abolitionists” in Oberlin Thursday Lectures: Addresses and Essays, Oberlin, Ohio: Edward J. Goodrich, pp. 22-23,
This jocose tirade had the intended effect. The lady felt herself outscolded and declined the contest.
glosses: To scold more than.
outclimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outclimbs
form: outclimbing
form: outclimbed
form: outclimbed
Etymology: From out- + climb.
Senses: examples: text: “Sometimes your enemy will have a plane that can outturn yours and outclimb you, but you can suck him right into a trap and your wingman can take him out,” Tommy explained.
ref: 2018, Ron Fish, The Tupi Field:
glosses: To climb better or farther than.
outfence
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outfences
form: outfencing
form: outfenced
form: outfenced
Etymology: From out- + fence.
Senses: glosses: To fence better than (in the sport of fencing).
outglow
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outglows
form: outglowing
form: outglowed
form: outglowed
Etymology: From out- + glow.
Senses: glosses: To glow brighter than
parament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɹəmənt/
Forms: form: paraments
Etymology: From Anglo-Norman parement, Middle French parement, from Medieval Latin parāmentum, from parō (“adorn”) + -mentum.
Senses: glosses: A type of elaborate robe especially as worn by someone in power or a religious official.
glosses: A liturgical hanging on and around the altar, as well as the cloth hanging from the pulpit and lectern.
glosses: A hanging or ornament of a room of state.
air kiss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: air kisses
Senses: glosses: A social gesture in which the lips are pursed as if kissing, but without actual contact.
Synonyms: flying kiss
Coordinate terms: mwah-mwah
blow a kiss
unravaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unravaged
form: most unravaged
Etymology: From un- + ravaged.
Senses: glosses: Not having been ravaged.
chaprassi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chaprassis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of chaprasi.
chaprassis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chaprassi
chappos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chappo
durbari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durbaris
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of darbari.
durbaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of durbari
darbari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darbaris
form: durbari
Senses: glosses: One who attends a darbar.
darbaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of darbari
lotah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lotahs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lota (“Indian water-pot”).
lotahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lotah
weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Biblical, Matthew 13:42, although the exact wording is not present in any translation.
Senses: examples: text: There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in the camp of the outsiders now.
ref: 1883, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “The Pilots’ Monopoly”, in Life on the Mississippi, Boston, Mass.: James R[ipley] Osgood and Company, →OCLC, page 187:
text: There was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth in South Melbourne last Saturday night. For weeks past there had been only one topic of conversation—football.
ref: 1910, The Old Man, Melbourne: Punch, published 1910, page 6:
text: And there was weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth among the crowd of reporters invited to the Stellan Holm Gallery, then promptly expelled from it, on Sunday night.
ref: 2005, Corey Kilgannon, “You Probably Say That to All Naughty Columnists”, in New York Times:
glosses: consternation; worry.
wikipedia: David Crystal
Related terms: beat one's breast
crores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crore
chummery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chummeries
Etymology: From chum + -ery.
Senses: examples: 1966, Paul Scott, "The Jewel in the Crown" in The Raj Quartet, 1966-1975.
Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the uncovenanted provincial civil service - used to live when not on tour in their own allotted areas of the district.
glosses: The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
examples: text: Dicky could not afford living in the chummery, modest as it was. He had to explain this before he moved to a single room next the office where he worked all day.
ref: 1887, Rudyard Kipling, “In the Pride of His Youth”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, published 1888:
text: His first six months in Burma he had spent in Rangoon, where he was supposed to be learning the office side of his business. He had lived in a "chummery" with four other youths who devoted their entire energies to debauchery.
ref: 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 5, in Burmese Days, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, →OCLC:
text: 1994, Business World, Vol. 14, Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd., p. 159, https://books.google.ca/books?id=K6daAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chummeries%22&dq=%22chummeries%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uLzritHNAhXBMGMKHZStD4EQ6AEIHjAA
Chummeries are extremely conducive to the great yuppie pursuit of networking.
text: 2007, Henry Jayasēna, The Play is the Thing, Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, p. 27, https://books.google.ca/books?id=tKkLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22chummeries%22&dq=%22chummeries%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uLzritHNAhXBMGMKHZStD4EQ6AEIMzAF
Many of us being bachelors, lived in rented out dilapidated old houses which were called "chummeries". The men from Jaffna, whether married or not, also lived in their own chummeries—mostly around Wellawatte, Dehiwala and Ratmalana.
text: Where single men lived together in a household, known as a chummery, the head servant or khansamah took charge over the food preparation.
ref: 2011, Cecilia Leong-Salobir, chapter 1, in Food Culture in Colonial Asia: A Taste of Empire, Routledge, page 36:
text: At his arrival in Rangoon, Braund is greeted by five chums from his London office days. […] His accommodations are in a sixth floor chummery, or company bachelor housing, which he shares with five other assistants. This is a dump, and junior assistants with more time in Rangoon board in a somewhat more regal chummery known as "The Gin Palace."
ref: 2012, Michael B. Miller, Europe and the Maritime World: A Twentieth-Century History, Cambridge University Press, Part One, Chapter 3, p. 115:
glosses: The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
chummeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chummery
Oorya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Oriya.
Oorya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ooryas
Senses: glosses: Dated form of Oriya.
Ooryas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oorya
Oriyas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Oriya
Hadhramauti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hadhramautis
form: Hadramauti
Senses: glosses: An inhabitant of Hadhramaut, a historical region of the south Arabian Peninsula.
Hadhramautis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hadhramauti
Hadramauti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hadramautis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Hadhramauti.
Hadramautis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hadramauti
hadnae
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hadna.
charrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charret
loathlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of loathly: more loathly
loathliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of loathly: most loathly
loathliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From loathly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being loathly; hideousness.
preimpressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more preimpressionist
form: most preimpressionist
Etymology: From pre- + impressionist.
Senses: glosses: Before the rise of impressionism in art.
nonimpressionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + impressionist.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to the impressionist movement in art.
autoindexing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + indexing.
Senses: glosses: automatic indexing
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The programmed retrieval of words from a document for use in building an index
carbonmonoxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Modified by reaction with carbon monoxide
panucho
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: panuchos
Etymology: From Spanish panucho.
Senses: glosses: A fried tortilla filled with black beans and topped with turkey or chicken, lettuce, avocado, and pickled onions.
panuchos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of panucho
frataxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frataxins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of protein found in mitochondria.
glycerinated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Modified by reaction or treatment with glycerine
Derived terms: nonglycerinated
grammotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Grammostola + toxin.
Senses: glosses: An oligopeptide toxin obtained from the venom of the tarantula Grammostola spatulata
interresidue
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: inter-residue
Etymology: From inter- + residue.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Between the residues (sections of amino acids) of a protein.
gameland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamelands
Etymology: From game + land.
Senses: examples: text: state gamelands
glosses: An expanse or area on which game can be hunted, or is plentiful.
examples: text: To Keith and everyone at the Coriolis Group who took part in this project, and to everyone out there in gameland, I extend my heartfelt appreciation...
ref: 1995, Lary L. Myers, Keith Weiskamp, Amazing 3-D games adventure set:
text: The PlayStation 2 still sells (and likely will for years, given its $130 price tag), but the buzz in gameland has moved on to “next-generation” machines like Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s own more than $500 PlayStation 3, which is packed with so much silicon that it makes its predecessor look like an alarm clock.
ref: 2007 March 16, Seth Schiesel, “A Game With New Tricks for an Old System”, in New York Times:
text: By setting guidelines, you can send your kids off to gameland with some moral and emotional equipment, which can help them put their activities into perspective — this is a game, not life.
ref: 2007, Kathy Ivens, Home Networking for Dummies:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: The world or sphere of video games.
Related terms: gamekeeper
game warden
master of game
woodland
iodoacetate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iodoacetates
Etymology: From iodo- + acetate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of iodoacetic acid
Derived terms: monoiodoacetate
overpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overpaint
overpainting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overpaintings
Senses: glosses: Something painted over the top of something else.
iodoacetic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iodo- + acetic acid.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The iodinated derivative of acetic acid CH₂I-COOH that is used in organic synthesis, and in protein sequencing
overpainted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of overpaint
overparameterizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overparameterize
overparameterizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overparameterize
overparameterization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overparameterizations
Etymology: From over- + parameterization.
Senses: glosses: The act or result of overparameterizing.
overparameterizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overparameterization
metalloactivation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From metallo- + activation.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Activation of the metal-containing part of an enzyme.
congratz
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From congrats + -z.
Senses: glosses: congratulations
myofibrillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: From myofibril + -ar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to myofibrils.
Derived terms: extramyofibrillar
intermyofibrillar
intramyofibrillar
premyofibrillar
neuroparalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuro- + paralytic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to neuroparalysis
neuroparalysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroparalyses
Etymology: From neuro- + paralysis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: paralysis because of damage to a nerve
prolylpeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prolylpeptides
Etymology: From prolyl + peptide.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A region of a polypeptide or protein containing proline residues
down the road
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: They decided to save money by using the cheapest components available, but down the road they ran into problems with reliability.
text: Sometimes I go to the bars and see these kids and think about the meaninglessness and the emptiness that they'll be feeling five or six years down the road when they're tired of partying.
ref: 1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, Nancy Toder, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author—All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 8:
text: Ten years down the road: car giant foresees the non-polluting, accident-proof saloon [title]
ref: 2006 March 31, David Gow, “Ten years down the road: car giant foresees the non-polluting, accident-proof saloon”, in The Guardian:
text: Although the precision medicine initiative will probably yield its greatest benefits years down the road, there should be some notable near-term successes.
ref: 2015 February 26, Francis S. Collins, Harold Varmus, “A New Initiative on Precision Medicine”, in The New England Journal of Medicine, volume 372, number 9, →DOI, page 795:
synonyms: down the line
down the track
later on
glosses: Further along, in terms of time or progress.
examples: text: Those dudes framed a full side wall a foot too high and it was clearly marked on the layout. They got sent down the road — and deserved it.
ref: 1977, Mother Jones Magazine, volume 2, number 4, page 65:
text: […] not only did he observe Doran and Angle drinking beer during the lunch, but also he said right then to both, "Look don't do it in front of me. I just got up here. It's company policy, you know. Any other time you're going to be sent down the road."
ref: 1989, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 517:
glosses: Dismissed; fired from one's employment.
examples: text: There's a shop down the road that sells a few basic necessities.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see down, road.
Derived terms: down the road, not across the street
Related terms: kick the can down the road
silverwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: silverworks
Etymology: From silver + -work.
Senses: glosses: Work, usually ornamental, done in silver.
Related terms: silverware
silverworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silverwork
anisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anisols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of anisole.
anisoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisole
anisols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anisol
strawn
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strôn
ipa: /stɹɔːn/
rhymes: -ɔːn
Etymology: As strawen; compare papern, silvern.
Senses: examples: text: In some countries they use strawn Hives.
ref: 1609: Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie; or, A Treatise Concerning Bees, page 34 (1634 revision)
glosses: Alternative spelling of strawen.
stupalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stupalike
form: most stupalike
Etymology: From stupa + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stupa.
thioanisole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioanisoles
Etymology: From thio- + anisole.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The aromatic thioether methyl phenyl sulfide; it is used in organic synthesis; and derivative of this compound
Synonyms: thioanisol
thioanisol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thioanisols
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of thioanisole.
supermanager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supermanagers
Etymology: From super- + manager.
Senses: glosses: A highly skilled and dedicated manager.
examples: text: In all the English-speaking countries, the primary reason for increased income inequality in recent decades is the rise of the supermanager in both the financial and nonfinancial sectors.
ref: 2017 [2014], Arthur Goldhammer, transl., Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Harvard University Press, translation of Le Capital au XXIe siècle by Thomas Piketty, →ISBN, page 398:
glosses: A highly paid corporate executive.
unaccessible
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unaccessible
form: most unaccessible
Etymology: From Middle English unaccessible, equivalent to un- + accessible.
Senses: glosses: Not accessible
Synonyms: inaccessible
supermanagers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supermanager
tossable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tossable
form: most tossable
Etymology: From toss + -able.
Senses: examples: text: For Toss It, I use a ball that looks like a globe, but any soft tossable item will work.
ref: 2001, Instructor, volume 111:
glosses: Suitable for being tossed or thrown.
examples: text: CDs seem so tiny to me, so dispensable and exchangeable, so tossable and tradable, like a baseball card or something.
ref: 2004, William C. Banfield, Black notes: essays of a musician writing in a post-album age:
glosses: Suitable for throwing away; disposable.
examples: text: But both those cars are nippy, fun, willing, cinched-down, pretty tossable little cars.
ref: 2013, Wall Street Journal, "Nissan Versa Note Isn't Worth the Cost at Any Price" (October 4, 2013)
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Nimble, maneuverable, responding quickly to steering input.
varyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more varyingly
form: most varyingly
Etymology: From varying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The shells we found on the beach were varyingly white, pink, and pale yellow.
glosses: In a manner that varies.
strawen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: strôʹən
ipa: /ˈstɹɔːən/
Etymology: From Middle English strawen (“made of straw”). Equivalent to straw + -en.
Senses: glosses: Made of straw.
strawne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of strawen.
strowen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of strawen.
vetoproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vetoproof
form: most vetoproof
Etymology: From veto + -proof.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Having a strong enough majority to override any presidential veto.
microtonally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more microtonally
form: most microtonally
Etymology: From microtonal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: This is possible because the pitches of the notes are allowed to vary microtonally. For instance, the C note in the second chord is played at 528 Hz […]
ref: 2005, William A. Sethares, Tuning, timbre, spectrum, scale:
glosses: In a microtonal manner.
underinflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From under- + inflation.
Senses: glosses: Inadequate inflation (of vehicle tyres, etc.).
overinflation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overinflations
Etymology: From over- + inflation.
Senses: glosses: Excessive inflation (of vehicle tyres).
unreticent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unreticent
form: most unreticent
Etymology: From un- + reticent.
Senses: glosses: Not reticent; talkative.
Related terms: unreticence
nonretouched
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + retouched.
Senses: glosses: Not retouched.
plowzone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowzones
Etymology: From plow + zone.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ploughzone.
ploughzone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ploughzones
form: plowzone
Etymology: From plough + zone.
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: The upper region of soil that has undergone ploughing.
vent stack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vent stacks
Senses: glosses: A vertical pipe that provides ventilation to a building's drainage system
cinematheque
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛk
Forms: form: cinematheques
Etymology: French cinémathèque
Senses: glosses: A film archive with small cinemas, screening classic and art-house films.
cinematheques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinematheque
dutybound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dutybound
form: most dutybound
form: duty-bound
form: dutibound
Etymology: From duty + bound.
Senses: examples: text: The captain was dutybound to see all passengers off the sinking ship before he left it himself.
glosses: Compelled by duty.
dutyfree
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of duty-free.
euphemist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: euphemists
Senses: examples: text: He was a man of dark moods and self-destructive impulses, subject to what euphemists call "nervous illness." He was never at any safe distance from despair.
ref: 2002, Hal Crowther, Cathedrals of Kudzu: A Personal Landscape of the South:
glosses: One who uses euphemisms.
euphemists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of euphemist
grandioseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grandiose + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being grandiose.
Synonyms: grandiosity
grandiosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandiosity
groovester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groovesters
Etymology: From groove + -ster.
Senses: glosses: An aficionado of groovy music.
groovesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groovester
kvelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kvell
kvelled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kvell
kvells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kvell
kvell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kvɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: kvells
form: kvelling
form: kvelled
form: kvelled
Etymology: From Yiddish קוועלן (kveln), from Middle High German quellen, from Old High German quellan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwellan. Cognate with German quellen and English quell (“source, spring”).
Senses: examples: text: ‘Magnificent residence,’ she pretended to kvell, ‘maybe I'm in the wrong business?’
ref: 2013, Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge, Vintage, published 2014, page 4:
glosses: To feel delighted and proud; to boast; to gloat.
leopardwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From leopard + wood, from its spotted bark.
Senses: synonyms: leopard tree
glosses: Either of two trees of the genus Flindersia of New South Wales and Queensland, having a distinctive spotted trunk, Flindersia maculosa and Flindersia collina.
malapropic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more malapropic
form: most malapropic
Etymology: From malapropism + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to malapropisms.
Synonyms: catachrestic
catachrestical
malapropian
malapropistic
duty-bound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more duty-bound
form: most duty-bound
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dutybound.
moshav
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /moʊˈʃɑːv/
Forms: form: moshavs
form: moshavim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew מוֹשָׁב (mosháv, “village”, literally “settlement”).
Senses: glosses: An Israeli town or settlement, especially a type of cooperative agricultural community of individual farms pioneered by the Labour Zionists during the second aliyah.
Related terms: moshavnik
moshav ovdim
moshav shitufi
moshavs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moshav
moshavim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moshav
overproductive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overproductive
form: most overproductive
Etymology: From over- + productive.
Senses: glosses: Excessively productive; producing more than desired or necessary.
Related terms: overproducer
overproduction
paduak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of padauk.
padouk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of padauk.
moshavnik
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moshavniks
Etymology: From Hebrew מושבניק.
Senses: examples: text: If I had been working where I was before I wouldn't worry so much because they knew I am a good nurse and I think some of my bosses and maybe some of my moshavniks suspected that I am lesbian; but now I am starting out on a new job with people in a new area.
ref: 1979 August 18, Helen Weinstock, “Holy Land”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 5, page 10:
glosses: A member of a moshav.
moshavniks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moshavnik
struggle-buggy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: struggle-buggies
Senses: examples: text: My struggle-buggy was getting to look like a rinky-dink old tin can on wheels, so when I got back to Chicago that Fall I traded it in for a Willys Knight brougham sedan.
ref: 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tea Don’t Do You that Way”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 2 (1923–1928: Chicago, Chicago), page 87:
glosses: An old or beat-up motor vehicle.
pinless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pin + -less.
Senses: examples: a pinless grenade
glosses: Lacking a pin.
sky pilots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sky pilot
unenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unenergetic
form: most unenergetic
Etymology: From un- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Not energetic; without energy.
Derived terms: unenergetically
ragtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragtops
Etymology: From rag + top.
Senses: examples: text: driving a ragtop
text: put the ragtop down
text: Johnny imagines all manner of chrome gadgetry that he could kipe and give to his father to jazz up his ’fifty-six Ford Vicky ragtop.
ref: 1987 [1984], James Ellroy, chapter 22, in Because the Night, New York: Avon, →ISBN, page 189:
text: Oh me, oh my oh
Would you look at Miss Ohio
She's runnin around with the ragtop down
Says I wanna do right but not right now
I know all about it
So you don't have to shout it
I'm gonna straighten it out somehow
Yeah I wanna do right but not right now
ref: 2017 [2003], Gillian Welch, “Look at Miss Ohio”, in Soul Journey, performed by Gillian Welch, David Rawlings, Amanda Shires, Jason Isbell:
synonyms: top#Noun
glosses: A convertible (automobile); its convertible top.
ragtops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ragtop
redenominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: redenominates
form: redenominating
form: redenominated
form: redenominated
Etymology: From re- + denominate.
Senses: examples: text: Romania has redenominated its currency.
text: The kwacha had been redenominated last year, from multiples of a thousand to multiples of one.
ref: 2019, Namwali Serpell, The Old Drift, Hogarth, page 471:
glosses: To denominate again or anew.
redenominates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of redenominate
redenominating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of redenominate
redenominated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of redenominate
retouchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retouching
screwcapped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From screw + capped.
Senses: glosses: Fitted with a screw cap.
watercooler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: watercoolers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of water cooler.
watercooler
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more watercooler
form: most watercooler
Senses: examples: text: It’s all junk food for the mind, but it sure enlivens the next day’s watercooler discussions.
ref: 1994 February 21, Bob Curtright, “‘Secrets’ one of guilty pleasures”, in The Wichita Eagle, Wichita, Kan.: The Wichita Eagle and Beacon Publishing Co., page 9A, column 1:
text: In my opinion, this is no more annoying than many office interruptions — watercooler gossip, phones ringing in the next cubicle, someone next door with an active cold, etc.
ref: 2021 August 3, Sensitive in South Dakota [pseudonym], “Dear Abby”, in Times Record News, volume 115, number 82, page 4B:
text: While commentators frothed at the mouth, the slap made Pinkett Smith’s alopecia diagnosis and hair loss a watercooler topic (she had first mentioned them on Red Table Talk in 2018 and later on Instagram).
ref: 2023 February 11, Tshepo Mokoena, “‘Sometimes it is racism’: Jada Pinkett Smith on prejudice, typecasting and the fallout from that slap”, in Saturday (The Guardian), number 72, page 3, column 2:
glosses: Alternative form of water cooler.
watercoolers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of watercooler
waterkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterkeepers
Etymology: From water + keeper.
Senses: glosses: A person responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of a body of water.
Hyponyms: riverkeeper
waterkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waterkeeper
bellperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellpersons
form: bellpeople
Etymology: From bell + person.
Senses: examples: text: If so, the front desk agent should introduce the bellperson to the guest, hand the bellperson the guest's room key, and ask him or her to show the guest to the room.
ref: 1998, Michael L. Kasavana and Richard M. Brooks, Front Office Procedures, Educational Institute, American Hotel & Motel Association, page 203
glosses: A bellhop.
Related terms: bellboy
bell captain
bellgirl
bellman
herdboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdboys
Etymology: From herd + boy.
Senses: glosses: A boy who herds animals.
Synonyms: herdsboy
herdsboy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdsboys
Etymology: From herd + -s- + boy.
Senses: glosses: A boy who herds animals.
Synonyms: herdboy
herdsboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdsboy
herdboys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdboy
meteorologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From meteorological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The rest of the weekend was glorious, meteorologically and musically.
ref: 2009 July 7, James R. Oestreich, “Stravinsky and Brahms: The Odd Couple at Tanglewood”, in New York Times:
glosses: In meteorological terms; in the context of weather.
bleepable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bleepable
form: most bleepable
Etymology: From bleep + -able.
Senses: examples: text: ...competing with Alanis Morissette for the most bleepable alt-rock single ("Closer") of the decade.
ref: 1998 May, SPIN, volume 14, number 5:
text: ...Mora unleashed the famous "Mora meltdown," in which he blasted his team, his coaches and himself in largely bleepable terms. A day later he resigned.
ref: 2001 September, Indianapolis Monthly, volume 25, number 1:
text: The first bleepable moment occurs at 00;00;06;07 (6 seconds and 7 frames in). Press the spacebar to pause here.
ref: 2009, Jon Canfield, Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide:
glosses: Suitable for bleeping (censoring by replacement with a tone), i.e. foul-mouthed.
blueswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blueswomen
Etymology: From blues + woman.
Senses: glosses: a female blues musician
blueswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blueswoman
pseudofeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudofeminist
form: most pseudofeminist
form: pseudo-feminist
Etymology: From pseudo- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: The ads deployed pseudofeminist rhetoric with implicit references to Title IX and sexual assault, casting trans students as patriarchal threats to women’s hard-won rights: “The end of girls’ sports? Her dreams of a scholarship shattered, your 14-year-old daughter just lost her position on an all-girl team to a male … and now she may have to shower with him. Are you willing to let that happen?”
ref: 2019, Mia Fischer, chapter 5, in Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →LCCN, page 176:
glosses: Seemingly feminist; feminist perhaps in form, but certainly not in essence.
pseudofeminist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudofeminists
form: pseudo-feminist
Etymology: From pseudo- + feminist.
Senses: examples: text: These pseudofeminists consistently preach feminism with one hand while practicing traditional sexism with the other.
ref: 2007, J. Serano, Whipping girl: A transsexual woman on sexism and the scapegoating of femininity.:
glosses: One who is apparently, but not actually, a feminist.
Synonyms: fauxminist