cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Indo-Uralic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indo-Uralic
form: most Indo-Uralic
Etymology: From Indo- + Uralic.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps the most widely accepted proposal is of an Indo-Uralic family, encompassing PIE and Proto-Uralic.
ref: 2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Indo-European Association, →ISBN, page 38:
ref: 2008, Adam Hyllested, “Internal reconstruction vs. external comparison: the case of the Indo-Uralic laryngeals”, in Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, Thomas Olander, editors, Internal Reconstruction in Indo-European: Methods, Results, and Problems, Museum Tusculanum Press, published 2009, →ISBN, page 111:
glosses: Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages; especially, of or pertaining to a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.
Indo-Uralic
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indo- + Uralic.
Senses: examples: text: Other proposals, further back in time (and correspondingly less accepted), model PIE as a branch of Indo-Uralic with a Caucasian substratum; […]
ref: 2007, Carlos Quiles, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Indo-European Association, →ISBN, page 39:
glosses: The Indo-Uralic languages: a proposed language family containing both the Indo-European and the Uralic languages.
traditioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: traditioners
Etymology: From tradition + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone who adheres to tradition; a traditionalist.
taxor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taxors
Etymology: From tax + -or.
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of taxer.
LMWD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LMWDs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of low-mass white dwarf.
Related terms: WD
sheet pizza
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheet pizzas
Senses: glosses: A large rectangular pizza, designed to be cut into individual slices.
Indo-Semitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Indo- + Semitic.
Senses: examples: text: Such stretched out forms were to become important for the Indo-Semitic hypothesis, and in 1911 Möller writes […]
ref: 1969, Raimo Anttila, Proto-Indo-European Schwebeablaut, University of California Press, page 18:
text: Western scholars consistent intent to exclude, without any evidence, the Ethiopic language as one of the possible original languages of the book [the Book of Enoch], perhaps, suggests that the Ethiopic language is not part of the Indo-Semitic languages.
ref: 1997, Ayele Bekerie, Ethiopic, an African Writing System: Its History and Principles, The Red Sea Press, →ISBN, page 116:
glosses: Of or relating to both the Indo-European and the Semitic languages, or to a proposed ancestor of both.
examples: text: He proceeds, after mentioning that the Indo-Semitic, or Tuda, have massive heads, large eyes, and receding foreheads: […]
ref: 1870, James Bonwick, Daily Life and Origin of the Tasmanians, S. Low, Son, & Marston, page 244:
glosses: Of or relating to India and Semitic peoples; for example, of or relating to Semitic (or supposedly Semitic) peoples of India.
bildar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bildars
Etymology: From Hindi बेलदार (beldār), from Persian بیلدار (literally “spade wielder”), from بیل (bil, “spade”) + ـدار (-dâr, “haver”).
Senses: glosses: A laborer who excavates or digs, often one employed by the Public Works Department of Upper India.
kyriarchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyriarchy
kanjis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: All is written in shaky kana letters, only with one or two kanjis, i.e. the Chinese letters.
ref: 1959, Kōshō Yamamoto, The Udumbara: Tales from Buddhist Japan, page 6:
text: Because the standard vernacular writing system of Japanese makes no use of spaces between words and because kanas (syllabic Japanese characters) and kanjis (ideographic Chinese characters) are used instead of Roman letters, it is necessary to devise a method of automatically cutting into its components the unsegmented sentences, written in kanas and kanjis.
ref: 2003, Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, Readings in Machine Translation, page 99:
text: As seen from these two examples of relatively simple kanjis, the stroke order and stroke count are arbitrary.
ref: 2006, Yuji Matsumoto, Richard Sproat, Kam-Fai Wong, Computer Processing of Oriental Languages:
glosses: plural of kanji
byter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: biter
Forms: form: byters
Etymology: From byte + -er.
Senses: examples: text: This patch is a one-byter.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A chunk of data having a size of so many bytes.
raw_tags: with a number
finger on the pulse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fingers on the pulse
Senses: examples: text: Despite retiring, he still tries to keep a finger on the pulse of the industry.
glosses: An active interest in the latest developments (of some topic).
BMR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: BMRs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of basal metabolic rate.
glosses: Initialism of biomedical research.
overcomest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: overcome + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of overcome
Related terms: overcamest
wheelwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wheelworks
Etymology: From wheel + work.
Senses: glosses: An assembly of wheels serving a mechanical purpose.
wheelworks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheelwork
criminologies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of criminology
swirlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swirlie
pulp mill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulp mills
Senses: glosses: A factory for making paper pulp from (usually) wood.
pulp mills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pulp mill
froise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: froises
form: fraise
Etymology: From Middle English froise. Compare French froisser (“to bruise”).
Senses: examples: text: Take Apples sliced thin round ways, and lay a layer of the Froise, and another of the Apples, with Currans betwixt the layers
ref: 1670, Hannah Woolley, The gentlewomans companion, Pumpion-Pye:
glosses: A kind of large thick pancake or omelette, often with slices of bacon.
geeminy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒiːməni/
Senses: examples: text: I wish to geeminy she'd stick to one or t'other
ref: 1876, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Penguin Group, page 5:
glosses: Alternative form of jiminy.
orful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I ain't bin werry well lately, and, to crown the hole, I was cort in the Lizzard, I think, as they called it, on that awful Munday nite, and that was pretty nearly a settler for both my old bones and my breth, and might ha' bin quite so, if one of the werry kindest Members of the old Copperashun as I nos on, who had bin a dining with a jolly party on 'em, hadn't kindly directed my notise to about a harf bottle-full of werry fine old Port, with the remarkabel kind words, "That's just about what you wants, Mr. ROBERT, to take you ome safely this most orful nite!"
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, March 28, 1891:
text: "Gorblimey, it's bleedin' orful," said they.
ref: 1919, Jack O'Brien, Into the Jaws of Death:
text: "That's a bally orful way to get even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward hatch.
ref: 1922, Harry Kemp, Tramping on Life:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awful.
orful
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: "It's orful silly of you to stick to that notion!
ref: 1892, Various, Golden Days for Boys and Girls:
text: "He felt orful bad at not bein' invited, and made some poetry about 'em.
ref: 1898, Hezekiah Butterworth, In The Boyhood of Lincoln:
text: "You are a orful naughty girl," he pouted reproachfully.
ref: 1917, Pauline Lester, Marjorie Dean:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of awful.
dewan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dəˈwɑːn/
Forms: form: dewans
form: dewaun
form: diwan
form: duan
Etymology: From Classical Persian دیوَان (dēwān), from Middle Persian dywʾn' (dēwān). Doublet of divan and douane.
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, Rajah Goordass, son of Nuncomar, was appointed dewan to the nabob, whose duties were strictly to be confined to the household, and who was to have nothing to do with the public business or public revenues of Bengal.
ref: 1688, E. Farr, E. H. Nolan, The History of England in Three Volumes, volume 3:
text: On these occasions I often heard him declare that the whole of Europe did not contain ten thousand men, and that as for King George, he was only fit to be a dewan or zamindar under himself.
ref: 1899, Allen Upward, Athelstane Ford:
text: Inviting himself and his dewan and his chamberlain to dinner with the Governor and Councillors in the Fort, he was received with imposing honours, and was feasted in the Council Chamber at a magnificent banquet.
ref: 1921, Glyn Barlow, The Story of Madras:
glosses: A holder of any of various offices in various (usually Islamic) countries, usually some sort of councillor.
Derived terms: dewanship
provand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provands
Etymology: From Old French [Term?], from Latin praebenda (“a payment, pittance”).
Senses: examples: text: I had always a ready fancy and some of the natural vanity of youth, so I could see myself landing off the lugger at the quay of Inneraora town, three inches more of a man than when I left with a firkin of herring and a few bolls of meal for my winter's provand; thicker too at the chest, and with a jacket of London green cloth with brass buttons.
ref: 1898, Neil Munro, John Splendid:
text: He gave no heed to his horse, but left him at his provand in the meadow.
ref: 1911, Marie de France, French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France:
text: Tak a seat at t' top o' bag o' provand, Kester; Betty and Will can hug chairs to t' fire, and lile Joe Moon mun sit on t' end o' t' bed."
ref: 1919, Frederic Moorman, More Tales of the Ridings:
glosses: provender
proresearch
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proresearch
form: most proresearch
Etymology: From pro- + research.
Senses: examples: text: For teachers interested in presenting the proresearch point of view, our organization offers a wide range of educational materials.
ref: 1997 October 24, “Animal Rights”, in Science, volume 278, number 5338, →DOI, pages 557–561:
glosses: Supportive of research.
woodhouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈwʊd.haʊs/
Forms: form: woodhouses
form: wood house
form: wood-house
Etymology: From wood + house.
Senses: examples: text: The ceiling is covered with paintings of scriptural subjects, which still remain, notwithstanding that the building is now desecrated, and used as a woodhouse by the neighboring farmer.
ref: 1820, Dawson Turner, Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. I. (of 2):
text: I felt awfully poor, and a stranger, and this was a beginning for me at any rate, so I went to work with a will and never lost a minute of daylight till I had split up all the wood and filled his woodhouse completely up.
ref: 1894, William Lewis Manly, Death Valley in '49:
text: Now this door, which had been left ajar by Polly when she ran off, opened into a little courtyard where the fowls were shut in at night; the woodhouse and the privy also stood there.
ref: 1922, David Garnett, Lady Into Fox:
glosses: A house or shed for storing (chopped) wood
butt dial
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: butt dials
Senses: glosses: A situation when one's cellphone makes a call from one's back pocket where its buttons are being inadvertently pressed
Synonyms: sense: accidental call
word: pocket dial
butt dial
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: butt dials
form: butt dialing
form: butt dialling
form: butt dialed
form: butt dialed
form: butt dialled
form: butt dialled
Senses: glosses: To accidentally make a call this way.
Synonyms: sense: accidentally call
word: pocket dial
cap'ns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cap'n
cerebral localizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebral localization
cerebral localisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebral localisations
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Alternative spelling of cerebral localization.
cerebral localisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cerebral localisation
Judaica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒuˈdeɪ̯.ɪ.kə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūdaica, neuter plural of iūdaicus (“Jewish”), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehuda, “Judah”). By surface analysis, Juda + -ica. Doublet of giudecca and Judecca.
Senses: examples: text: ‘We were just talking about Josephʼs collection — about the Judaica.’
ref: 2002, Zadie Smith, The Autograph Man, Penguin Books (2003), page 32:
text: You could find crucifixes as well as crystals, Christian mysticism alongside astrological charts, Buddhist self-help and Judaica sharing shelf space with Wiccan texts, Bibles cheek by jowl with copies of “Women Who Run With the Wolves.”
ref: 2025 February 1, Ross Douthat, “Looking for Faith? Here’s a Guide to Choosing a Religion.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: Artifacts, or less commonly, matters pertaining to the Jews, their culture or their religion, particularly ritual objects.
Judaica
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒuˈdeɪ̯.ɪ.kə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūdaica, neuter plural of iūdaicus (“Jewish”), from Hebrew יְהוּדָה (Yehuda, “Judah”). By surface analysis, Juda + -ica. Doublet of giudecca and Judecca.
Senses: synonyms: Jewish
Judaic
glosses: Pertaining to the Jews, their culture or their religion.
Related terms: Judaic
Hebraica
brown-noses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown-nose
brown-noses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of brown-nose
do with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Only used in to do with
glosses: Only used in can do with
glosses: Only used in make do with
cedula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cedulas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish cédula. Doublet of schedule and cedule.
Senses: examples: text: "A certain man," it is said in the Novena of San Vicente (p. 15), "gave his soul to the devil with a certificate (cedula) signed by his own hand, and hearing the Saint preach, implored him to ask that the demon return it.
ref: 1921, T.H. Pardo de Tavera, The Legacy of Ignorantism:
text: His short residence in Barcelona was possibly for the purpose of correcting the irregularity in his passport, for in that town it would be easier to obtain a cedula, and with this his way in the national University would be made smoother.
ref: 1913, Austin Craig, Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot:
text: The other, the one who was left to me, was not a coward like his father, so our persecutor was still fearful that he would wreak vengeance on him, and, under the pretext of his not having his cedula, [124] which he had not carried with him just at that time, had him arrested by the Civil Guard, mistreated him, enraged and harassed him with insults until he was driven to suicide!
ref: 1912, Jose Rizal, The Social Cancer:
text: The justified protests of Columbus found a hearing, and the man who had inflicted a supreme indignity upon him was recalled, Don Nicholas de Ovando being appointed by a royal cedula of September 3, 1501, to succeed him.
ref: 1909, Francis Augustus MacNutt, Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings:
text: --Property tax (7/8 per cent. of assessed value), industrial, cedula (poll tax of 1 peso for each male over 18 years), stamps, court fees, fines, sales of supplies to municipalities, and forestry collection.
ref: 1906, John Foreman, The Philippine Islands:
glosses: A community tax certificate, often used as a form of identification in the Philippines.
glosses: A South American promissory note or mortgage bond on lands.
Related terms: schedule
orthophemistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more orthophemistic
form: most orthophemistic
Etymology: From ortho- + -phemistic in euphemistic, dysphemistic.
Senses: examples: text: For ‘cunt’ to move to the orthophemistic realm, a seismic linguistic and cultural shift would need to take place.
ref: 2013, Emma LE Rees, The Vagina, Bloomsbury, published 2015, page 22:
glosses: Plainly denotative; not euphemistic or dysphemistic.
dets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of det
prevalency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Either from prevalent + -ency or Latin praevalentia.
Senses: examples: text: Now Chriſtian looked for nothing but death, and began to cry out lamentably, even curſing the time in which he met with Mr. Worldly-Wiſeman, ſtill calling himſelf a thouſand fools for hearkening to his counſel: he alſo was greatly aſhamed to think that this Gentlemans arguments, flowing only from the fleſh, ſhould have that prevalency with him, to forſake the right way.
ref: 1684, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress. From This World to That which is to Come: The Second Part. […], London: […] Nathaniel Ponder […], →OCLC; reprinted in The Pilgrim’s Progress as Originally Published by John Bunyan: Being a Fac-simile Reproduction of the First Edition, London: Elliot Stock […], 1875, →OCLC, page 30:
text: To break in upon this Sanctuary of Vanity and Ignorance, will be, I ſuppoſe, ſome Service to humane Understanding: Though ſo few are apt to think, they deceive, or are deceived in the Uſe of Words; or that the Language of the Sect they are of, has any Faults in it, which ought to be examined or corrected, that I hope I ſhall be pardon’d, if I have in the Third Book dwelt long on this Subject; and endeavoured to make it ſo plain, that neither the inverateneſs^([sic – meaning inveterateness]) of the Miſchief, nor the prevalency of the Faſhion, ſhall be any Excuſe for thoſe, who will not take Care about the meaning of their own Words, and will not ſuffer the Significancy of their Expreſſions to be enquired into.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], “The Epistle to the Reader”, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC, book I:
text: I promiscuously fell in a conversation once, with an elderly colored man on the topics of education, and of the great prevalency of ignorance among us: Said he, "I know that our people are very ignorant but my son has a good education: he can write as well as any white man, and I assure you that no one can fool him," etc.
ref: 1848, David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet, Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life:
text: Because of its prevalency many mothers treat it with less respect than they should, with the result that fatal complications occur, or the future health of the child is permanently injured. 3.
ref: 1914, Grant Hague, The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.):
glosses: prevalence
ginn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɪn/
Forms: form: ginns
Senses: examples: text: AZA'ZEL, one of the ginn or jinn, all of whom were made of "smokeless fire," that is, the fire of the Simoom.
ref: 1892, E. Cobham Brewer, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1:
text: There also were the "maids of modest glances," previously indifferent to the wooing "of man or ginn."
ref: 1886, Andrew Lang, In the Wrong Paradise:
text: I accordingly assumed Hassan to be a myth--a first cousin to the ginn.
ref: 1919, Sax Rohmer (1883-1959), The Quest of the Sacred Slipper:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jinn.
ginn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɡɪn/
Senses: examples: text: You ginn it us hot--you did.
ref: 1869, Charles Reade (1814-1884), Dion Boucicault (1820-1890), Foul Play:
text: Well, the doctor axed me to vote for his son, and I just up and told him I would, only my relation was candidating also; but ginn him my hand and promise I would be neuter.
ref: 1912, Lawrence J. Burpee, Humour of the North:
glosses: Nonstandard form of given.
connivent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈnaɪvənt/
Forms: form: more connivent
form: most connivent
Etymology: From Latin connīvēns.
Senses: examples: text: connivent justice
text: his legal justice cannot be so fickle and variable , sometimes like a devouring fire , and by and by connivent in the embers
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: Forbearing to see; intentionally inattentive.
examples: text: the connivent petals of a flower
text: connivent wings of an insect
text: connivent anthers
text: connivent perianth
text: connivent claws
text: connivent stamens
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Arched inward so that the points meet; brought close together or in close contact; converging.
Related terms: connive
Gaanay
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Gunai
incontrollable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more incontrollable
form: most incontrollable
Etymology: From in- + controllable.
Senses: examples: text: Set upon his will as the one law of Nature; storming forward with incontrollable violence: a very whirlwind of a man.
ref: 1728, Thomas Carlyle, History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Volume IV. (of XXI.):
text: They had tasked our improved capacity for bearing annoyances ever since we first set foot in Sicily; but here they are perfectly incontrollable, stinging and buzzing at us without mercy or truce, not to be driven off for a second, nor persuaded to drown themselves on any consideration.
ref: 1844, Various, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLV. July, 1844. Vol. LVI.:
text: Terror claimed him--the terror which he had with difficulty been fending off throughout that nightmare interview with Fo-Hi. Madness threatened him, and he was seized by an almost incontrollable desire to shout execrations--prayers--he knew not what.
ref: 1920, Sax Rohmer, The Golden Scorpion:
glosses: uncontrollable
thunderstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈθʌndəɹˌstɹɪkən/
Etymology: From thunder + stricken.
Senses: glosses: past participle of thunderstrike
thunderstricken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈθʌndəɹˌstɹɪkən/
Forms: form: more thunderstricken
form: most thunderstricken
Etymology: From thunder + stricken.
Senses: examples: text: 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Chapter 2, p. 104,
[…] I sawe straight, Maiesty (sitting in the throne of Beautie) draw foorth such a sworde of iust disdaine, that I remayned as a man thunder-striken; not daring, no not able, to beholde that power.
text: The Doctor was so thunderstricken, that he pocketed the money without uttering a word.
ref: 1831, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Eugene Aram, Complete:
text: If some tremendous apparition from the world of shadows had suddenly presented itself before him, Ralph Nickleby could not have been more thunder-stricken than he was by this surprise.
ref: 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 54, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 540:
text: At the first shock, no token, in heaven or on earth, had excited attention; but at the sudden movement, and at the aspect of destruction, an overwhelming terror seized on the general mind, insomuch, that the instinct of self-preservation was suspended, and men remained thunderstricken and immoveable.
ref: 1851, anonymous author, The Book of Enterprise and Adventure:
text: The aghast and thunderstricken philosophers remained gazing at each other for a moment. "
ref: 1903, Richard Garnett, The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales:
glosses: Thunderstruck.
gosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gost
eastermost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: [139] [Footnote 139: Isola de Tierra, the eastermost of these islands of Juan Fernandez, in lat. 33 deg. 42' S. and long. 79 deg. 5' E. is about 15 English miles from E. to W. by 5-1/2 miles in its greatest breadth from N. to S. Besides this and Isola de Fuera, mentioned in the text, there is still a third, or smallest island, a mile and a half south from the S.W. end of the Isola de Tierra, called Isola de Cabras or Conejos, Goat or Rabbit island, three English miles from N.W. to S.E. and a mile in breadth.
ref: 1591, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume X:
text: Two miles beyond the eastermost town there are black rocks, which continue to the uttermost cape or point of the land for the space of a league, after which the land runs E.N.E. Some negroes came down to these black rocks, whence they waved a white flag for us to land; but as we were near the principal town, we continued our course along shore, and when we had opened the point of land we perceived another head-land about a league farther on, having a rock lying off to sea, which was thought to be the place of which were in search.
ref: 1824, Robert Kerr, A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume VII:
text: Commodore, and ranged a line from the eastermost part of the fortifications to the outer part of the harbour.
ref: 1907, John Biddulph, The Pirates of Malabar, and An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago:
glosses: easternmost
carelessest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, taken as a whole, they form the oiliest, fattest, drollest, noisiest, sleekest, dirtiest, ignorantest, prejudicedest, narrow-mindedest, shirtlessest, clotheslessest, idlest, carelessest, jolliest, absurdest, rascaliest--but still, all that, perhaps--taken all in all--the happiest community on the face of the earth.
ref: 1872, James De Mille, The Dodge Club:
text: Well, I was getting to feel that way myself, though I've always reckoned that looking at the new moon over your left shoulder is one of the carelessest and foolishest things a body can do.
ref: 1884, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Part 2:
text: I am the carelessest Creature in the World, I have certainly the worst Memory of any Man living, are frequent Expressions in the Mouth of a Pretender of this sort.
ref: 1891, Addison and Steele, The Spectator, Volume 2.:
glosses: superlative form of careless: most careless
bigraph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bigraphs
Etymology: From bi- + graph.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: bipartite graph
bigraphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bigraph
hydrosols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydrosol
interchannel
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + channel.
Senses: glosses: Between channels
nonpercolative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + percolative.
Senses: glosses: Not percolative
tetrapartite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tetra- + -partite.
Senses: glosses: Having four parts.
glosses: Relating to four parties.
tristability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From tri- + stability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being tristable
tristable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + stable.
Senses: glosses: Having three stable states
awareness bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awareness bracelet
friendship bracelets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of friendship bracelet
eugenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eugenias
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Eugenia.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of the genus Eugenia of myrtaceous plants.
eutocia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eutocias
Senses: examples: text: The characteristic eutocias of Jewish women rendered operations rare, but in insisting upon scrupulous cleanliness Jewish medicine taught one of the most important lessons in operative obstetrics and general surgery, […]
ref: 1903, Columbus Medical Journal: A Magazine of Medicine and Surgery, page 365:
antonyms: dystocia
glosses: A normal birth process.
cedulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cedula
Swiss Confederation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Swiss Confederation
Senses: glosses: Official name of Switzerland: a country in Western Europe and Central Europe.
off one's tits
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: “Did this bitch just say what I think he said?” “He did.” “Are you off your tits, boy?” “What?” “He is.” “Exactly. We are in far too deep now, baby. The only way forward is to stick to the plan.”
ref: 2022 August 9, Ayo Edebiri & Shana Gohd, “Private School” (17:23 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 4, episode 5, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: Heavily intoxicated; under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Synonyms: drunk
stoned
cisvestism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The wearing of clothing that does not represent one's profession or status
thermodynamic system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermodynamic systems
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A localized physical system consisting of interacting components, called degrees of freedom
thermodynamic state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thermodynamic states
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A set of values (state variables) that together constitute a complete specification of the thermodynamic properties of a system.
probability measure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probability measures
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A mathematical measure on a probability space that can take on values between 0 and 1, with 0 corresponding to the empty set and 1 to the entire space.
volitant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin volitāns.
Senses: examples: text: volitant aquatic birds
text: And to test his idea he made no further effort, merely keeping his balance in the air each time his drop to earth lifted him again into those long and fantastic cruises; but the impetus weakened with every dwindling flight and the volitant boy came gradually to a standstill.
ref: 1950, Mervyn Peake, Gormenghast, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: flying; capable of flight.
volitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: volitates
form: volitating
form: volitated
form: volitated
Etymology: From Latin.
Senses: glosses: To fly.
Americanese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From American + -ese.
Senses: examples: text: Researchers at the University of Cambridge have shattered the myth that Americanese has taken an unshakeable hold on the Anglophone world.
ref: 2010, Paul Bignell, Queen's English still rules: We say tomato... as does most of the world:
glosses: American English
Jaspis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of Jasper + Lapis; the latter’s name is from lapis lazuli.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
glosses: The ship of characters of Jasper and Lapis Lazuli from the Steven Universe series.
forty-leven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: forty-'leven
Etymology: From forty + eleven.
Senses: glosses: Very many; too many to count; quite a lot.
Related terms: fifty-leven
pastoress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pastoresses
form: pastress
Etymology: From pastor + -ess.
Senses: examples: text: The first Mrs. Kirke was, I judge, a sedate pastoress, who looked well after her household and her husband's flock.
ref: 1868, William Conant Church, The Galaxy, Volume 5:
glosses: A female pastor (person who tends to a flock).
glosses: A female pastor (minister or priest of a Christian church).
Synonyms: sense: female pastor who tends to a flock
word: pastrix
sense: female pastor who tends to a flock
word: shepherdess
sense: female minister or priest of a Christian church
word: pastrix
pastoresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pastoress
music school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmjuːzɪkˌskuːl/
Forms: form: music schools
Senses: glosses: A school whose main objective is teaching music.
pūkeko
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpuːkɛkoʊ/
ipa: /ˈpʉːkeko/
ipa: /ˈpʉːkekʌʉ/
Forms: form: pūkeko
form: pūkekos
form: pukeko
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori pūkeko.
Senses: examples: text: I had my place to sit, on the fallen birch log by the creek, where I could watch the pukeko, the ducks and the eels, and look through the? sheltering willows to the paddock […].
ref: 1984, wJanet Frame, An Angel at my Table, Virago, published 2024, page 211:
glosses: A purple swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio).
give an eye-tooth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives an eye-tooth
form: giving an eye-tooth
form: gave an eye-tooth
form: given an eye-tooth
Senses: examples: text: How his frown
Hath scatter'd them like leaves! they fly from him
As nimbly as their bodies had no more weight
Than their petitions. I would give an eye-tooth,
To read but three lines.
ref: c. 1639 published 1655, James Shirley, The Politician, act 1, scene 1, from The dramatic works and poems of James Shirley, page 94
glosses: Alternative form of give one's eye-teeth.
taking the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take the cake
took the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take the cake
taken the cake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take the cake
autons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auton
Wegenerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Wegenerian
form: most Wegenerian
Etymology: From Wegener + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Alfred Wegener or his theory of continental drift.
dry-fire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dry-fires
form: dry-firing
form: dry-fired
form: dry-fired
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dry fire.
ball of fire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: balls of fire
Senses: examples: text: "I wonder how fast this feller is? Ever heard?"
"They seem to think he's a whirlin' ball of fire, but that don't worry you none, does it?"
ref: 1910, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 16, in Going Some: A Romance of Strenuous Affection:
text: Despite Kennedy's glowing tribute, Hernandez was no ball of fire his first year as a pro.
ref: 1981, Jim Brosnan, “Keith Hernandez on the Rocky Road to Cooperstown,”, in Boys' Life, volume 71, number 9, page 36:
text: "[T]ell me what you can about her supervisor," I requested. "Woman in her mid-fifties. No ball of fire. She's been with the company for twenty-two years and demonstrated no desire to climb any further."
ref: 1994, M. Scott Peck, A World Waiting to Be Born: Civility Rediscovered, →ISBN, page 198:
text: He really knows how to make a woman feel good. He's a ball of fire in bed.
ref: 2008, Frank L. Hicks Jr., Invisible Bridges, →ISBN, page 203:
glosses: A person who is especially active, ambitious, hard-working, or high-achieving.
Synonyms: go-getter
doer
Related terms: fireball
great balls of fire
Nurse Ratched
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nurse Ratcheds
Etymology: Coined for the fictional character Nurse Ratched, the head nurse in Ken Kesey's 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (and the 1975 film adaptation, in which she was portrayed by actress Louise Fletcher).
Senses: glosses: A sadistic, controlling woman, especially a nurse, in a position of authority.
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈoubiˌwɑn kəˈnoʊbi/
Forms: form: Obi-Wan Kenobis
Etymology: Coined for the movie character Obi-Wan Kenobi, a Jedi Master in the Star Wars films, introduced in Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope.
Senses: glosses: A trusted mentor
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intra legem
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: - A court's power to interpret and apply the law to achieve the most equitable result.
Related terms: contra legem
praeter legem
Atticus Finch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Atticus Finches
Etymology: Coined for the fictional character Atticus Finch from Harper Lee's 1960 novel To Kill A Mockingbird (and the 1962 film adaptation, in which he was portrayed by actor Gregory Peck).
Senses: glosses: An honest lawyer who defends the underprivileged and persecuted.
prosentence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prosentences
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of pro-sentence.
oxishly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɒksɪʃli/
ipa: /ˈɑksɪʃli/
Forms: form: more oxishly
form: most oxishly
Etymology: From oxish + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The shy young man gazed like a calf, blushed when she looked at him, smiled oxishly when she talked, and forgot to eat his dinner.
ref: 1925, Aldous Huxley, “Wander-birds”, in Along the Road: Notes and Essays of a Tourist, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, part I (Travel in General), page 29:
text: He blinked at us, yawned oxishly, and went out again.
ref: 2009, Adam Roberts, chapter 9, in Yellow Blue Tibia, London: Gollancz, →ISBN, page 114:
text: I saw The Exorcist when I was thirteen, and I’ve never really recovered from Regan’s grinning gray-green face. The oxishly horned devil in Legend mesmerized me.
ref: 2017 July 31, Debi Moore, quoting Benjamin Percy, “Guest Post: Benjamin Percy Faces His Digital Demons for The Dark Net”, in Dread Central, archived from the original on 29 Sep 2017:
glosses: In a manner like that of an ox.
wyrds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wyrd
retriable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: retryable
Etymology: From retry + -able.
Senses: examples: a retriable bank transaction
glosses: Capable of being retried.
conscribes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of conscribe
moonblood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From moon + blood, as the lunar cycle is traditionally linked to menstruation.
Senses: examples: text: When the menopausal woman was seen as holding her moonblood within her for greater power, menopause was not the trauma that modern society makes it today.
ref: 1990, Diane Stein, Casting the circle: a women's book of ritual, page 72:
text: Bring some of your saved moonblood and make blood drawings […]
ref: 1991, Shekhinah Mountainwater, Ariadne's thread: a workbook of goddess magic, page 133:
text: Your smile soothed each cramp when my moonblood was nigh.
You promised relief when enough years passed by.
I bury this symbol in honor of You.
With my thanks for Your gift as I start life anew.
ref: 1998, Dorothy Morrison, Everyday magic: spells and rituals for modern living, page 214:
qualifier: feminist paganism
glosses: Menstrual blood.
Related terms: moontime
conscribe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: conscribes
form: conscribing
form: conscribed
form: conscribed
Etymology: From Latin cōnscrībere. See conscript.
Senses: examples: text: this armie[…]was conscribed and come together to Harflete.
ref: a. 1548 (date written), Edward Hall, Richard Grafton, “(please specify the part of the work)”, in The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illustre Famelies of Lancastre & Yorke, […], London: […] Richardi Graftoni […], published 1548, →OCLC:
glosses: To enroll; to enlist.
Sinitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /saɪˈnɪtɪk/
/sɪˈnɪtɪk/
Forms: form: more Sinitic
form: most Sinitic
Etymology: From Latin Sīna (“China”) + -itic, as in Semitic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Chinese languages
glosses: Of or pertaining to China or the Chinese peoples
Synonyms: sense: Of or related to Chinese languages
word: Sino-Tibetan
sense: Of or related to Chinese languages
word: Sinensian
Related terms: Sinae
Sinaean
Sinaic
Sinensian
Sinese
Sinesian
Sinetic
Chinese
Sinic
intratas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intrata
horseshoe map
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horseshoe maps
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any of a class of chaotic maps of the square into itself, used in the study of dynamical systems.
horseshoe maps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of horseshoe map
shot glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shot glass
people-first language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: The term first appears in 1988, used by advocacy groups in the United States.
Senses: examples: text: People with disabilities and professionals in the human services field are promoting the use of "people first" language, which refers to the person first and the disability second: "Americans with disabilities," for example, rather than "disabled Americans".
ref: 1988. Letter to the editor, BusinessWeek. Issue 3059
coordinate_terms: identity-first language
glosses: Language that refers to people with disabilities by saying people first, for example "people with disabilities", instead of adjectives ("disabled people") and copulas ("he is disabled") that would give primacy to the disability.
separation anxiety
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separation anxieties
Senses: glosses: Synonym of separation anxiety disorder.
synonyms: word: separation anxiety disorder
consecute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: consecutes
form: consecuting
form: consecuted
form: consecuted
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin consequor, consecutus.
Senses: examples: text: For, as ferr as I can lerne, few men hitherto, being here in any auctoritie, hath finally consecuted favors and thankes, but rather the contrarie, with povertie for theire farewell.
ref: 1536, L. Gray, State papers [of] King Henry the Eighth:
text: And that ye be utterly in despair to consecute or attain any thing to the purpose there, to the benefit of the said Cause, with the strange demeanour that hath been used in calling you to make answer, why the supplications presented by the Emperor's Ambassador for advocation of the Cause should not proceed.
ref: 1715, Gilbert Burnet, “Book II. Of Matters, that Happen’d during the Time Comprehended in the Second Book of the History of the Reformation.”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England. The Third Part. […], London: […] J. Churchill […], →OCLC, page 71:
glosses: To follow closely; to endeavour to overtake; to pursue.
Related terms: consecutive
Torontarians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Torontarian
consolatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolationes
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin consolatio. Doublet of consolation.
Senses: glosses: A ceremonial oratory used to comfort mourners at funerals.
consolationes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of consolatio
baldist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baldist
form: most baldist
Etymology: From bald + -ist. Popularized by the television sitcom Seinfeld, in the episode "The Tape".
Senses: examples: text: "I’ve had baldist/homophobic abuse in the street a couple of times and I’ve even been asked on the Tube: ‘Are you BNP, mate?’"
ref: 2018 September 2, Richard Godwin, “How close is a cure for baldness?”, in The Guardian:
text: The statement noted that the announcement "comes after years of 'baldist' press reports that have confused the two famously clean shaven, African-American members of Congress."
ref: 2019 April 4, Richard Hinds, “Lewis posts April Fools' Day announcement that he'll grow beard to stop being confused with Cummings”, in The Hill:
text: Yet this spectator can consider himself unlucky, and not just because the sharp-eared security somehow heard his "baldist" abuse above the cacophonous thumping from the now omnipresent "fan activation" speakers.
ref: 2019 Richard Hinds, "AFL's stance on crowd behaviour and umpire abuse leaves fans confused", ABC News Australia (June 15, 2019)
glosses: Discriminatory against bald or balding people.
baldist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baldists
Etymology: From bald + -ist. Popularized by the television sitcom Seinfeld, in the episode "The Tape".
Senses: examples: text: "Elaine, have you ever gone out with a bald man?" / "No." / "You know what that makes you? A baldist."
ref: 1991 Larry David, Bob Shaw & Don McEnery, "The Tape," Seinfeld, Season 3, Episode 8 (first aired 13 November, 1991), spoken by Jerry Seinfeld (played by Jerry Seinfeld)
text: We must speak only of the Follicley^([sic]) Challenged to avoid being branded a baldist […]
ref: 1993, Theatre record, volume 13, numbers 10-19, page 747:
text: The absence of an anti-baldist organisation also did not concern him; he had a full head of very long thick hair which was normally tied back in a horse's tail.
ref: 2003, David Langford, John Grant, Earthdoom!,, page 128:
glosses: One who discriminates against bald or balding people.
nonisolable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + isolable.
Senses: glosses: Not isolable.
travel document
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travel documents
Senses: glosses: An identity document issued by a government or international treaty organization to facilitate the movement of individuals or small groups of persons across international boundaries, such as a passport.
synonyms: certificate of identity
laissez-passer
glosses: An identity document similar to a passport, but which does not confer proof of citizenship from the issuing country.
consolator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: consolators
Etymology: From Latin cōnsōlātor.
Senses: examples: text: by the fauor and grace of the holy Consolator
ref: 1669, Pedro de Ribadeneyra, Lives of Saints with Other Feasts of the Year:
glosses: One who consoles or comforts.
callet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælət/
Forms: form: callets
Etymology: Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).
Senses: glosses: A trull or prostitute.
glosses: A scold or gossip.
callet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælət/
Forms: form: callets
form: calleting
form: calleted
form: calleted
Etymology: Perhaps from French caillette (“a frivolous gossip”), or Irish caile (“girl”).
Senses: examples: text: hear her in her spleen
Callet like a butter-quean
ref: c. 1630, Richard Brathwait, Drunken Barnaby's Four Journeys:
glosses: To rail or scold.
callet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkælət/
Forms: form: callets
Etymology: From French callet.
Senses: examples: text: You add unmelted chocolate callets (purpose-made chocolate chips) or finely chopped chocolate to already-melted chocolate to bring the temperature down.
ref: 2014, Molly Bakes, “Techniques”, in Chocolate: Easy Recipes from Truffles to Bakes, Square Peg, →ISBN:
text: In the shops and bakery we use chocolate callets (or chips) in our baking. They come in a range of cocoa percentages and have the great advantage of melting evenly, which makes the chocolate less temperamental to work with.
ref: 2017, Yotam Ottolenghi, Helen Goh, with Tara Wigley, “Baker’s tips and notes”, in Sweet, Ebury Press:
text: We call for chocolate chips in our Chocolate Chip Cookies (page 1010), but there's another chocolate product on the market that's sometimes used for the same purpose: chocolate callets, which are formulated for melting.
ref: 2020, Everything Chocolate: A Decadent Collection of Morning Pastries, Nostalgic Sweets, and Showstopping Desserts, America's Test Kitchen, →ISBN:
glosses: A disc-shaped piece of chocolate, the size of a chocolate chip, designed for melting when cooking.