cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
infosheet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infosheets
Etymology: From info + sheet.
Senses: examples: text: The infosheets were intended to answer common questions asked by people in these situations, questions gathered from the people themselves.
ref: 1992, Samuel D. Neill, Dilemmas in the Study of Information, page 6:
text: Let's consider the options here: you can try clicking the "backward" button to get to the infosheet. But no. Recall that the "backward" and "forward" navigation buttons were removed from this browser.
ref: 2004, Asaf Degani, Taming HAL: Designing Interfaces Beyond 2001, page 143:
glosses: A sheet of information; a short informative document.
infosheets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of infosheet
pitch and toss
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: heads or tails
glosses: A game played by tossing a coin and calling heads or tails.
glosses: A game in which coins are thrown at a mark, the person who throws nearest having the right of tossing all the coins, and keeping those which come down head uppermost.
examples: text: to play pitch and toss with the property of the country
ref: 1866, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 19, in Felix Holt, the Radical […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
glosses: Careless treatment of something, or trusting to luck about it.
photonovels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photonovel
photocomic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photocomics
Etymology: From photo + comic.
Senses: glosses: A photonovel.
photocomics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photocomic
John Dories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of John Dory
crevalle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crevalles
Etymology: Probably of same origin as cavally.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the cavally or jurel.
glosses: A fish, the pompano (Trachinotus carolinus).
Derived terms: crevalle jack
jack crevalle
crevalles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crevalle
lavies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavy
flehmen
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
homophone: flamen
Forms: form: flehmens
form: flehmening
form: flehmened
form: flehmened
form: flehm
form: flehman
form: Flehmen
form: Flehman
Etymology: From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Senses: examples: text: One can observe mucus dripping from the nostrils of stallions after they flehmen.
ref: 1994, Lee Boyd, Katherine Albro Houpt, Przewalski's Horse: The History and Biology of an Endangered Species, page 246:
glosses: Alternative form of flehm.
flehmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfleɪmən/
rhymes: -eɪmən
homophone: flamen
Forms: form: flehmens
form: flehm
form: flehman
form: Flehmen
form: Flehman
Etymology: From German flehmen, from Upper Saxon German flemmen (“to look spiteful”).
Senses: examples: text: During the preliminary phase of courtship between captive animals, Matthew Gaughwin observed flehmen on a number of occasions when the male sniffed intensely at areas of ground where the female had previously urinated and once when the male had sniffed the female's cloacal region.
ref: 2009, Barbara Triggs, Wombats, page 65:
text: Ladewig and Hart showed that when a male goat displayed flehmen after investigating female urine containing a tracer material, the urine was found throughout the vomeronasal organ.
ref: 2006, Ernst Knobil, Jimmy D. Neill, Knobil and Neill's Physiology of Reproduction, page 2043:
text: Behaviors recorded included sniffing, flehmen, blowing, avoidance, and penile erections.
ref: 2003, IUCN Asian Elephant Specialist Group, The Living Elephants : Evolutionary Ecology, Behaviour, and Conservation, page 99:
glosses: Flaring of the lip in mammals, associated with intensive smelling; flehming.
raw_tags: in the compound "flehmen response"
Derived terms: flehmen response
off-screen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The first line of dialogue is from an off-screen Field Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), asking the team to stay in sight and “make NASA proud”.
ref: 2016 August 31, “GENIUS CHARACTER REVEALS: Mark Watney”, in Industrial Scripts:
glosses: Alternative form of offscreen.
flehmening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flehmen
flehmened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flehmen
flehmens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flehmen
off-stage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offstage.
off-stage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offstage.
off-stage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: off-stages
form: off-staging
form: off-staged
form: off-staged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of offstage.
on-stage
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onstage.
on-stage
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -eɪdʒ
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of onstage.
meltages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of meltage
chughole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chugholes
Senses: qualifier: South Midland US
glosses: A pothole.
chugholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chughole
Edis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Muninn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Norse Muninn (“memory, mind”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: One of a pair of ravens, the other being Huginn, who fly throughout the entire world and report any unusual events back to Odin. They are essentially Odin's messengers.
Jael
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the name of a minor biblical character, Hebrew יעל.
Senses: examples: Blessed above women shall Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite be, blessed shall she be above women in the tent. He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
glosses: A female given name from Hebrew.
Related terms: Yael
bohrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohrates
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: bohriate
bohriate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bohriates
Etymology: From bohrium + -ate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any oxyanion of bohrium; any salt containing such an ion
eka-caesium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eka- + caesium.
Senses: glosses: Francium.
japonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A proposed name for the chemical element nihonium
arriere-ban
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arriere-bans
form: arrière-ban
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: glosses: A proclamation, as of the French kings, calling not only their immediate feudatories, but the vassals of these feudatories, to take the field for war.
glosses: The body of vassals called or liable to be called to arms, as in ancient France.
arriere-bans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arriere-ban
radioluminescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Etymology: From radio- + luminescent.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Exhibiting radioluminescence
outragers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of outrager
rikenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Riken, name of a research institute in Japan, + -ium.
Senses: glosses: A proposed name for the element nihonium
wikipedia: Riken
sequanium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Sequana (“the river Seine”) + -ium. Horia Hulubei, who thought he had discovered element 93, worked near the river at that time.
Senses: glosses: An early name for the element neptunium, based on a discredited claim of discovery.
cinter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cinters
Etymology: French cintre. Doublet of centrum.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Alternative form of center.
cinters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cinter
untaggable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + taggable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being tagged.
spawnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From spawn + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being spawned.
canzon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: canzons
Etymology: From Italian canzone, from Latin cantiō, cantiōnem. Doublet of cantion, canzone, and chanson.
Senses: examples: text: Truſt me Swayne (quoth Rosader) but my Canzon was written in no ſuch humour: […]
ref: 1590, T[homas] L[odge], Rosalynde. Euphues Golden Legacie: […], London: […] Thomas Orwin for T. G. and John Busbie:
text: Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward ſhew of diſcontent: […]
ref: 1597, Thomas Middleton, The Wisdome of Solomon Paraphrased, London: […] Valentine Sems, […]:
text: And that French Muſes eagle eye and wing / Hath ſoar’d to heav’n, and there hath learn’d the art / To frame Angelick ſtrains, and canzons ſing / Too high and deep for every ſhallow heart.
ref: 1633, P[hineas] F[letcher], The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man Together with Piscatorie Eclogs and Other Poeticall Miscellanies, [Cambridge]: […] [T]he Printers to the Universitie of Cambridge, page 4:
text: NIcholas Breton, a writer of Paſtoral Sonnets, Canzons, and Madrigals, in which kind of writing he keeps company with ſeveral other contemporary Emulators of Spencer and Sir Philip Sidney, in a publiſh’d Collection of ſeveral Odes of the chief Sonneters of that Age.
ref: 1687, William Winstanley, The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets, or The Honour of Parnassus in a Brief Essay of the Works and Writings of Above Two Hundred of Them, from the Time of K. William the Conqueror, to the Reign of His Present Majesty King James II., London: […] H. Clark, for Samuel Manship […], page 99:
glosses: A song.
algolagniac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /alɡə(ʊ)ˈlaɡnɪak/
Forms: form: algolagniacs
Etymology: From algolagnia + -ac.
Senses: examples: text: She had the soft, pure, angelic sort of beauty that spoke to every fiber of his algolagniac’s heart.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 264:
glosses: Someone who indulges in algolagnia; a sadomasochist.
algolagniacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of algolagniac
Frayne
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪn/
Etymology: Variant spelling of Frain.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Frain
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɹeɪn/
Etymology: From Old French fraisne.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old French.
Rishabha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The founder of Jainism.
Baha'ullah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Uncommon form of Baháʼu'lláh.
Raël
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The founder of Raëlism
blackholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of blackhole
blackholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blackhole
re-evaluations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-evaluation
impassions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impassion
impassioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impassion
Directioner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Directioners
Etymology: From Direction + -er.
Senses: examples: text: With their entire 2012 Australian tour selling out in three minutes, Directioners who missed out can see the British boys live when the Aussie leg of their 2013 World Tour kicks off in Brisbane on September 11, 2013.
ref: 2012 April 18, “One Direction announces Aussie tour in September 2013”, in The Australian:
text: Justin has now revived the hopes of Beliebers and Directioners by revealing he would love to work with the band, as they ‘make great music’.
ref: 2012 April 22, “Justin Bieber keen to record track with One Direction”, in Metro, UK:
text: Frenzied Directioners across the British Isles are set to go into overdrive as tickets for One Direction's eagerly anticipated UK and Ireland arena tour dates go on sale this morning at 9am.
ref: 2013, Roland Ellison & James Robertson, "One Direction tour tickets: Fans tipped to crash ticket websites as Where We Are Tour 2014 tickets go on sale today, Daily Mirror, 25 May 2013
synonyms: One Directioner
glosses: A fan of the British-Irish pop group One Direction.
great go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great gos
form: great goes
form: great-go
Senses: examples: text: Though for Great Go and for Small, I teach Paley, cram and all.
ref: 1844, Puck, page 13:
text: Yes, Mr. Lowe has been plucked for his Great Go.
ref: 1871 April 28, Morning Advertiser:
qualifier: university slang
glosses: The final examination for a degree.
Derived terms: greats
Related terms: little go
little go
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: little gos
form: little goes
form: little-go
Senses: qualifier: university slang
glosses: The preliminary examination for a degree.
Synonyms: word: responsions
english: Oxford University
translation: Oxford University
word: smalls
Related terms: great go
hotchpots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotchpot
nonglobally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From non- + globally.
Senses: examples: text: Select a nonglobally routed prefix, such as the Test-Net (rfc:3330) 192.0.2.0/24, to use as the next hop of any attacked prefix to be blackholed.
ref: 2005, Victor Oppleman, Oliver Friedrichs, Brett Watson, Extreme exploits: advanced defenses against hardcore hacks, page 186:
glosses: In a way that is not global.
pluggability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From plug + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being pluggable.
carolines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of caroline
old song
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: old songs
Senses: examples: text: I do not intend to be thus put off with an old song.
ref: 1688, Henry More, The Divine Dialogues:
glosses: A trifle; nothing of value.
song sparrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: song sparrows
Etymology: From song + sparrow.
Senses: synonyms: silver-tongue
silver tongue
glosses: Melospiza melodia, a medium-sized American sparrow.
song sparrows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of song sparrow
scummers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scummer
radiolitids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiolitid
chickenheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chickenhead
despiseworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more despiseworthy
form: most despiseworthy
Etymology: From despise + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: "[...] And he tried to make us jealous of each other just for fun, which I think was horrid and mean and terrifically despiseworthy," said Clarissa vehemently.
ref: 1947, Angela Mackail Thirkell, Peace breaks out:
glosses: Worthy of being despised; despicable.
faultworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more faultworthy
form: most faultworthy
Etymology: From fault + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: It is not meant by this passage to be insinuated, that the people of God can do nothing faultworthy, or that they do not commit actions which afford reason for bringing a charge against them, and are in their own nature deserving of condemnation.
ref: 1829, John Wilson, A dissertation on the origin, nature, functions, and order of the Priesthood of Christ:
glosses: Worthy of fault or blame; blameworthy; fallible.
stareworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stareworthy
form: most stareworthy
Etymology: From stare + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: To me there is nothing very stareworthy in the licentiousness of a few empresses, queens, &c., of whom we have all heard so much.
ref: 1885, William Maginn, Robert William M. Johnson, Miscellanies, prose and verse, ed. by R.W. Montagu:
text: Oh, God. Stop! I shift my gaze to his chest, which turns out to be no less stareworthy.
ref: 2010, Lisa Desrochers, Personal Demons:
text: Sometimes we are stareworthy!
ref: 2011, Kristen Welch, Don't Make Me Come Up There!: Quiet Moments for Busy Moms:
text: “That boy has such a stareworthy, needstobegrabbedinhandfuls ass,” Holly said, gazing a little dreamily at Jude's backside.
ref: 2012, Nicole Williams, Clash:
glosses: Worthy of being stared at; admirable.
suckworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suckworthy
form: most suckworthy
Etymology: From suck + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: […] (somewhere there exists a cell of memo-generators catering exclusively to the suckworthy memo needs of public broadcasters).
ref: 2005, The Bulletin, numbers 6477-6485, page 74:
text: It's suckworthy for foreigners, though, since the Poison is a lot less common outside South Africa. We're all hoping the recent World Cup provided opportunities for some covert exports and that soon, we can all score.
ref: 2011, Holden Blunts, The Quotable Stoner:
glosses: Worthless or inferior; sucky.
fuckworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fuckworthy
form: most fuckworthy
Etymology: From fuck + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: “'Cuz she sounds totally fuckworthy. Her mom, too.”
ref: 2007, Eliot Schrefer, Glamorous Disasters:
text: “That guy,” she resumed, “makes millions persuading women they'll be more fuckworthy after he's sliced off some bit of them or added something. But EVERYBODY'S fuckworthy! We'd all fuck anybody in an emergency. . . ”
ref: 2013, Lucy Ellmann, Mimi:
synonyms: sexworthy
glosses: Worthy to fuck or be fucked; fuckable.
Related terms: fuckworthiness
stageworthy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stageworthier
form: more stageworthy
form: stageworthiest
form: most stageworthy
Etymology: From stage + -worthy.
Senses: examples: text: In spite of his parsonical black, and that other well-known clerical disguise, a bad case of Pulpit's Disease, the "king of tears" cuts a more dashing figure than the Rake, and the role is by a long shot the stageworthiest in the opera.
ref: 1969, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft, Retrospectives and conclusions:
text: By this we mean each song first must be stageworthy and then must add to the picture of yourself which you are trying to paint for your audience.
ref: 1982, John Davidson, Cort Casady, The Singing Entertainer:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
theater
glosses: Worthy, fit, or deserving of stage presentation; stageable.
anilinctus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rare form of anilingus.
CHNOPS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ʃnɑps/
Etymology: From translingual C + translingual H + translingual N + translingual O + translingual P + translingual S.
From the translingual CHNOPS.
Senses: glosses: CHNOPS; Acronym of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur.
Related terms: CHON
schnapps
schnaps
CHON
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /t͡ʃɑn/
Etymology: From translingual C + translingual H + translingual O + translingual N. From translingual CHON.
Senses: glosses: Acronym of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen.
Related terms: word: CHNOPS
english: fulminic acid
translation: fulminic acid
word: HCNO
english: cyanic acid
translation: cyanic acid
word: HOCN
english: isocyanic acid
translation: isocyanic acid
word: HNCO
english: cyanuric acid
translation: cyanuric acid
alt: CNOH
word: 3
word: chown
word: Sean
word: Shaun
word: Shawn
word: shone
word: shown
NiFe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From translingual Ni (nickel) + Fe (iron).
Senses: glosses: Rechargeable battery with nickel and iron electrodes.
NiFe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Coined by Eduard Suess in 1909, in Das Antlitz der Erde, as translingual Ni (nickel) + Fe (iron).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of nife.
KREEP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the symbol for potassium (K) + the initialism of rare earth element (REE) + the symbol for phosphorus (P).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: potassium-phosphorus-rare earth elements crustal material of the Moon
Related terms: NiFe
SiAl
sima
SiAl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of sial.
REE
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: REEs
Senses: examples: text: REE-bearing minerals in these occurrences are allanite, betafite, brannerite, davidite, euxenite, fergusonite, florencite, monazite, polycrase, samarskite, synchysite, thorite, xenotime and yttrocrasite.
ref: 2014, Broder J. Merkel, Alireza Arab, Uranium - Past and Future Challenges: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Uranium Mining and Hydrogeology, page 27:
text: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) definition of the REE group includes lanthanides (Ln), yttrium (Y) and scandium (Sc).
ref: 2024, Martin Ondrejka, Peter Bačík, Juraj Majzlan, Pavel Uher, Štefan Ferenc, Tomáš Mikuš, Martin Števko, Mária Čaplovičová, Stanislava Milovská, Alexandra Molnárová, Christiane Rößler, Christian Matthes, “Xenotime-(Gd), a new Gd-dominant mineral of the xenotime group from the Zimná Voda REE–U–Au quartz vein, Prakovce, Western Carpathians, Slovakia”, in Mineralogical Magazine, volume 88, number 5:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of rare earth element.
Derived terms: HREE
KREEP
LREE
MREE
REEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of REE
turn-out
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turn-outs
Etymology: Deverbal from turn out.
Senses: examples: text: My turn-out was unexceptionable; men copied my running-shoes; my jacket and trowsers were an admiration; my bat perfection; I was the very picture of a cricketer, but, alas! very little more than a picture.
ref: 1860 August 24, “The Demon Bowler”, in The Brant Expositor, volume VIII, number 45, Brantford, Canada West, →ISSN, →OCLC, front page, column 3:
glosses: Alternative form of turnout.
turn-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turn-out
Hartle-Hawking state
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hartle-Hawking states
Etymology: Named after James Hartle and Stephen Hawking.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hypothetical state of the universe prior to the Planck epoch, in which time did not exist, only space.
wikipedia: James Hartle
Stephen Hawking
induceth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: induce + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of induce
cleareth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: clear + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of clear
lentisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lentisks
Etymology: From Latin lentiscus. Doublet of lentiscus.
Senses: glosses: A tree, the lentiscus, Pistacia lentiscus.
lentisks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lentisk
perturbation theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mathematical technique for finding an approximate solution to a problem that cannot be solved exactly, by starting from the exact solution of a related problem; used in modelling physical interactions between particles, etc.
tearstains
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tearstain
kala azar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kala-azar.
jambolanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jambolana
jalapate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jalapates
Etymology: From jalapic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A salt or ester of jalapic acid.
jalapates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jalapate
kyoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kyoodle
kyoodles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kyoodle
aerotitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From aer- + otitis.
Senses: glosses: An otitis caused by a change in atmospheric pressure resulting in accumulation of liquid in, and subsequent inflammation of, the middle ear.
Synonyms: barotitis
pocketa-queep
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Imitative, from a James Thurber short story.
Senses: examples: text: He sprang to the machine, which was now going pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.
ref: 1939 March 18, James Thurber, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, in The New Yorker:
text: TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! TA-POCKETA-POCKETA-QUEEP! went the Odor Extractors.
ref: 2007, Dan Greenburg, Secrets of Dripping Fang, Book 7: Please Don't Eat the Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 93:
text: At the instant Mr. Smitty saw the woman, smoke ballooned out from the dual tailpipes of his hurtling car, and the engine's sound changed to an unsettling pocketa-pocketa-queep-pocketa-queep.
ref: 2010, David Booth, Every Pointed Star, iUniverse, page 53:
text: It is like the old joke about the man who is called in to repair a gigantic but malfunctioning piece of machinery that is emitting a Thurberian pocketa-queep instead of its normal pocketa-pocketa.
ref: 2012, Lewis A. Coser, editor, The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, Transaction Publishers, page 340:
glosses: A sound from a machine, usually when in need of a tune-up.
Related terms: queep
waybreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of waybread
polyabuse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poly- + abuse.
Senses: examples: text: The lowest rate of polyabuse is among cannabis clients (43%), while crack-cocaine abusers report the highest (69%).
ref: 2011, Pedro Ruiz, M.D.; Eric C. Strain, Lowinson and Ruiz's Substance Abuse, page 28:
glosses: drug abuse of more than one kind of drug
polyabuser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polyabusers
Etymology: From poly- + abuser.
Senses: glosses: One who engages in polyabuse.
polyabusers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of polyabuser
polymorphing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of polymorph
polymorphed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of polymorph
polyself
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of polymorph + self
Senses: topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: The transformation of one's own character into another type of creature.
polyself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: polyselfs
form: polyselfing
form: polyselfed
form: polyselfed
Etymology: Blend of polymorph + self
Senses: topics: roguelikes
video-games
glosses: To transform one's own character into another type of creature.
nonauthoritative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + authoritative.
Senses: glosses: Not authoritative.
Bombay potatoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An Indian dish of boiled cubed potatoes in a spicy sauce.
ladron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ladrons
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ladrone.
lettor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lettors
Etymology: From let + -or.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of letter (“one who lets a property”).
levan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levans
Senses: glosses: A homopolysaccharide composed of D-fructofuranosyl.
Derived terms: levanase
levansucrase
forced-birther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forced-birthers
Etymology: From forced birth + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] that we are English, for there is something peculiarly English about modern abortion, and that is why we can bravely claim to be, as the forced-birthers snarl, the abortion capital of the world, no less.
ref: 1997, The American Spectator, volume 30, page 88:
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who desires that abortion be illegal, and thus that pregnant women be required to carry to term and give birth in all or most cases; a pro-lifer.
Synonyms: word: antiabortionist
word: antichoicer
word: fetus fetishist
word: pro-lifer
word: right-to-lifer
right-to-lifers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of right-to-lifer
forced-birthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forced-birther
fetus fetishists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fetus fetishist
VTA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: VTAs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ventral tegmental area.
competetive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of competitive.
competetively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of competitively.
DRN
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: DRNs
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Initialism of dorsal raphe nucleus.
queeped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of queep
barred spiral galaxy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barred spiral galaxies
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: A spiral galaxy with a central bar-shaped structure composed of stars.
Hypernyms: spiral galaxy
barred spiral galaxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barred spiral galaxy
crib notes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crib note
danzón
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: danzon
Etymology: Borrowed from Cuban Spanish danzón.
Senses: examples: text: He draws from modernism and its malcontents: Morton Feldman, Olivier Messaien, Thelonious Monk. He pulls heavily from Cuban folk traditions: Changüi, Abakuá, danzón.
ref: 2022 November 30, Giovanni Russonello, “Best Jazz Albums of 2022”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: She leads the Ballet Theater orchestra throughout the run and lends vivid delicacy to the cinematic music, which incorporates traditional instruments and forms like danzón.
ref: 2023 June 23, Gia Kourlas, “Review: In ‘Like Water for Chocolate,’ Plot Overtakes Ballet”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A Latin-American musical genre originating from Cuba, evolved from contradanza.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A dance style associated with danzón music.
Related terms: danzonete
pitpans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pitpan
Cilicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cilician
prehealth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pre- + health.
Senses: glosses: Any course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for study in healthcare.
paraclinical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + clinical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to techniques or findings that are not purely clinical, but may be related, such as those of pathology or radiology.
Related terms: paramedic
paramedical
queeping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of queep
queeps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of queep
conveniencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conveniency
alpaco
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpacos
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of alpaca.
pacoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paco
alpacos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alpaco
community chests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of community chest
slur over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slurs over
form: slurring over
form: slurred over
form: slurred over
Senses: examples: text: The bad points of the work are slurred over and the good ones brought out into the best light, all this through a feeling akin to that which makes it unpleasant to speak ill of one to one's face.
ref: 1846, E.A. Poe, The literati of New York, no. 1:
text: He took up several sheets of paper covered with writing, and began to read rapidly, slurring over the uninteresting legal terms and laying particular stress on some sentences.
ref: 1900, Leo Tolstoy, “Fanárin, the Advocate—The Petition”, in Louise Maude, transl., Resurrection: A Novel, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, book I, page 177:
text: Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “The Early Married Life of the Morels”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 6:
text: After his college days comes an episode which his biographers seem inclined to slur over, perhaps from a false sense of the dignity of biography, and that is the two years, from 25 April, 1841, to May, 1843, which Thoreau spent under Emerson’s roof.
ref: 1918, Archibald McKellar MacMechan, The Cambridge History of American Literature, book 2 chapter 10:
glosses: To deal with something hurriedly; to treat in a perfunctory manner.
Synonyms: gloss over
skate over
Kurrichane thrush
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kurrichane thrushes
Etymology: From a corrupted form of Kaditshwene (“a town in the North West province of South Africa”).
Senses: examples: text: Wild begonias and ferns along the road, stumps choked with purple and white convolvuli, a kurrichane thrush massaging the shadows with long liquid glides and quick curt mordents.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 336:
glosses: Any of species Turdus libonyanus of thrushes, native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Kurrichane thrushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kurrichane thrush
Caton
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Catons
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A placename
A town in Steuben County, New York, United States.
glosses: A placename
An unincorporated community (Caton's Chapel) in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States.
glosses: A placename
A hamlet in Teignbridge district, Devon, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SX7871).
glosses: A placename
A village in Caton-with-Littledale parish, Lancaster district, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom (OS grid ref SD5364).
hyetologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /haɪəˈtɒlədʒɪst/
rhymes: -ɒlədʒɪst
Forms: form: hyetologists
Etymology: From hyetology + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: At sundown, when the moon is a bloody eye on the horizon, [...] the local hyetologist chants his rain song in a piercing clamorous falsetto.
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 343:
glosses: Someone who studies rain.
hyeto-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌɪətə(ʊ)/
Etymology: Combining form of Ancient Greek ὑετός (huetós, “rain”).
Senses: glosses: rain, rainfall.
rood-tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rood-trees
form: Rood tree
form: Rood-tree
form: rood tree
Etymology: From Middle English rodetre.
Senses: examples: text: Cryst who dyed for vs on the Rood tree, Sav the sowl of my Husbond, owr chyldren, and mee.
ref: 1631, John Weever, Antient fvnerall monvments within the vnited monarchie of Great Britaine, Ireland, and the islands adiacent,: with the dissolued monasteries therein contained: their founders, and what eminent persons haue beene in the same interred. As also the death and bvriall of certaine of the bloud royall; the nobilitie and gentrie of these kingdomes entombed in forraine nations ..., London: Thomas Harper, page 569:
glosses: The cross on which Jesus was crucified
glosses: A representation of the cross on which Jesus was crucified.
Hypernyms: tree
antipluvial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /antiˈpluːvɪəl/
Forms: form: more antipluvial
form: most antipluvial
Etymology: From anti- + pluvial.
Senses: examples: text: The best [umbrella] is a legend, a symbol, a mere mythical lance of anti-pluvial perfection.
ref: 1926, David Thompson Watson McCord, Oddly Enough, page 109:
text: Johnson has taken measures to insure against an untimely deluge: that is, he has concocted a potent antipluvial fetish [...].
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 344:
glosses: Combatting or protecting one from the rain.
otorhinolaryngologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From otorhinolaryngological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Only 234 (30.1%) were examined otorhinolaryngologically.
ref: 1983, Haven Grace, Professional Seminar Consultants, Advance study, Italian-American clinical study program, page 132:
text: Although the volume of prescriptions for otorhinolaryngologically related diseases is high, and probably far too high in children, the actual range of drugs used is small.
ref: 1991, Donald Barltrop, Martin J. Brueton, Paediatric therapeutics: principles and practice, page 303:
glosses: In terms of, or by means of, otorhinolaryngology.
multipleness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From multiple + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: […] articulating a fundamentally post-structuralist insight about the multipleness of the world […]
ref: 2004, Hugh Gusterson, People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex, page 60:
glosses: The quality or state of being multiple.
Synonyms: manyness
multiplicity
unloyally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unloyally
form: most unloyally
Etymology: From unloyal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: the child of my said kinsman, that had before so unloyally offended me
ref: 1759, William Robertson, History of Scotland:
glosses: In an unloyal manner.
unloyalty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + loyalty.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unloyal; disloyalty.
hantaviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to hantaviruses.
bearshit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪt
Etymology: From bear + shit.
Senses: examples: text: Last week I saw a red-legged frog the size of a small dinner plate, and this week the biggest pile of bearshit I've ever seen, dark blue and signaling a diet of berries[…]
ref: 2011, Derrick Jensen, Endgame, Volume 2: Resistance:
glosses: The excrement of a bear.
barghaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barghaists
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of barghest.
barghaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barghaist
Mary Bell orders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mary Bell order
Twistian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Twistian
form: most Twistian
Etymology: From Twist + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: It's the kind of Oliver Twistian advice given frequently to blacks deemed middle class: be grateful for the gruel because children are starving in the inner cities.
ref: 1995, Patricia J. Williams, The Rooster's Egg, page 89:
text: Worst of all, it was the parents of children who learned easily who supported this behavior. They should have known that treating children in a Twistian manner was bound to have negative effects.
ref: 2000, David Day, My First Life, page lx:
text: Thus, the Twistian workhouse is a symptom, not a cause, and Dickens's interest in it is subordinate to a full-scale social critique.
ref: 2003, Lauren M. E. Goodlad, Victorian Literature and the Victorian State, page 61:
glosses: Of or relating to Oliver Twist (from the 1838 novel by Charles Dickens), a mistreated orphan who scandalizes the workhouse by daring to ask for more food.
multiparticipant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + participant.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or involving, multiple participants.
Damietta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdæmiːˈɛtə/
ipa: /ˌdæmiːˈjɛtə/
ipa: /ˌdæmɪˈɛtə/
Forms: form: Dalmietta
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Damietta, from the medieval pronunciation /dɑmˈjɑdi/ of Coptic ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ (Tamiati) with influence from Latin -etta (“-ette: forming diminutives”), the former sometimes hypothesized to be from Egyptian dmjt (“town, harbor”), from Egyptian d-mi-i-N21:Z1 (dmj, “mooring, port; town”) + t (-t, feminine ending).
Senses: glosses: A town in the Nile delta in Egypt.
Deianira
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdiːəˈnaɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˌdeɪ.əˈnaɪəɹə/
ipa: /ˌdi.əˈnaɪɹə/
enpr: dē'ə-nīʹrə
rhymes: -aɪɹə
Etymology: From Latin Dēianīra, from Ancient Greek Δῃάνειρα (Dēiáneira, literally “hostile to her husband”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The third wife of Heracles.
Deidamia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌdeɪdəˈmaɪə/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Δηϊδάμεια (Dēïdámeia).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: the daughter of King Lycomedes of Scyros
jinseng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: They carry to Japan rhubarb, jinseng, silks, catgut, sweet-smelling woods, leather, cloths, and sugar, and take back pearls, gold, copper, sword-blades, paper, and japanned ware.
ref: 1851, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Australian Geography, page 139:
glosses: Dated form of ginseng.
Diomede
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈdaɪəmiːd/
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Diomedes.
Related terms: Diomede Islands
Enea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Eneas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Enea.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
downfault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downfaults
Etymology: From down- + fault.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A graben (area sunken relative to surrounding land).
downfault
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downfaults
form: downfaulting
form: downfaulted
form: downfaulted
Etymology: From down- + fault.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: To form a fault that is sunken relative to the surrounding land.
downfaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downfault
downfaults
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of downfault
downfaulting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of downfault
downfaulted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of downfault
prerun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: preruns
Etymology: From pre- + run.
Senses: examples: text: several preruns of an application to collect the execution times
ref: 2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy Efficient Distributed Computing Systems, page 66:
text: The digital print is also used for test runs and preruns.
ref: 2012, Kaj Johansson, Peter Lundberg, Robert Ryberg, A Guide to Graphic Print Production, page 295:
glosses: The act of running something in advance.
prerun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preruns
form: prerunning
form: preran
form: prerun
Etymology: From pre- + run.
Senses: glosses: To run in advance.
preruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prerun
preruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prerun
prerunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prerun
preran
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of prerun
khutor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈxuːtɔː(ɹ)/
/ˈkuːtɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: khutors
form: khutora
form: khutir
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian ху́тор (xútor).
Senses: glosses: A single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe.
khutors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khutor
anticlass
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticlass
form: most anticlass
Etymology: From anti- + class.
Senses: examples: text: He called for an anticlass posture in intrahuman affairs[…]
ref: 2003, Frederic L. Bender, The culture of extinction: toward a philosophy of deep ecology:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
sociology
glosses: Opposed to a class system in society.
neohumanism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neohumanisms
Etymology: From neo- + humanism.
Senses: glosses: A holistic philosophical theory given by Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar that redefines humanity and humanism, and in which universalism plays a central role.
Related terms: neohumanist
neohumanistic
New Humanism
neohumanisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neohumanism
neohumanistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more neohumanistic
form: most neohumanistic
Etymology: From neo- + humanistic.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or relating to neohumanism.
millerandage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: examples: text: Millerandage is most commonly caused by cold or bad weather during the flowering stage of the vines. It impairs the quality of wine made from the grapes.
glosses: A viticultural problem in which grape bunches contain berries that differ greatly in size and maturity.
Synonyms: shot berries
fanleaf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fan + leaf.
Senses: glosses: Any member of Psathyrotes, a genus of North American desert plants, brittlestems.
glosses: Any member of Fioria, a genus of the family Malvaceae.
glosses: The Grapevine fanleaf virus.
brittlestem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From brittle + stem.
Senses: synonyms: turtleback
fanleaf
glosses: A plant of the genus Psathyrotes of annual and perennial forbs and low subshrubs native to dry areas of southwestern North America.
glosses: A fungus of the genus Psathyrella.
Derived terms: chestnut brittlestem
clustered brittlestem
common stump brittlestem
conical brittlestem
dune brittlestem
medusa brittlestem
pale brittlestem
petticoat brittlestem
red edge brittlestem
rootlet brittlestem
solitary brittlestem
spotted brittlestem
spring brittlestem
yellowfoot brittlestem
daminozide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A chemical sprayed on fruit to regulate their growth, make the harvest easier, and keep apples from falling off the trees before they are ripe.
Bacharachian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bacharachian
form: most Bacharachian
Etymology: From Bacharach + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Burt F. Bacharach (1928–2023), American pianist, composer and music producer.
lift-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lift-offs
Etymology: Deverbal from lift off.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of liftoff.