cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
ouchies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊt͡ʃiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of ouchie
oopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːpsi/
ipa: /ˈʊpsi/
Forms: form: oopsie
Etymology: From oops + -y (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: examples: text: "Oopsy..." She grabbed the wheel and made a quick recovery. "Sorry."
ref: 1992, Armistead Maupin, Maybe the Moon:
text: Then she heard the baying. "What's that?" "I fear it's a werewolf pack on the hunt." That she understood. "Oopsy!" She flapped her arms harder...
ref: 2001, Piers Anthony, The Dastard:
text: The woman then looked directly at the angler and sweetly said, "Oopsy." She then bent over and deposited his jigs into her tackle bag.
ref: 2007, Jeff Rowland, The Reel Adventures of a Marion County Angler:
glosses: Synonym of oops.
synonyms: word: oops
oopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːpsi/
ipa: /ˈʊpsi/
Forms: form: oopsies
form: oopsie
Etymology: From oops + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I have made an oopsy.
qualifier: very colloquial
glosses: A mistake; particularly when babies soil their pants.
oopsy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈuːpsi/
ipa: /ˈʊpsi/
Forms: form: oopsies
form: oopsying
form: oopsied
form: oopsied
form: oopsie
Etymology: From oops + -y (diminutive suffix). The verb is from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: I think your baby might have oopsied.
qualifier: very colloquial
glosses: To make a mistake, particularly (of a baby) to soil its pants.
Related terms: boo-boo
oopsy-daisy
oopsie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: From oops + -ie (suffix forming colloquialisms).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oopsy.
oopsie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oopsies
Etymology: From oops + -ie (diminutive suffix). The verb is from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oopsy.
oopsie
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: oopsies
form: oopsieing
form: oopsied
form: oopsied
Etymology: From oops + -ie (diminutive suffix). The verb is from the noun.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of oopsy.
automatisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From automatise + -ation.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of automatization.
reloadable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From reload + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be reloaded.
aerobiological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From aero- + biological.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of aerobiologic.
synonyms: word: aerobiologic
Derived terms: aerobiologically
aerobiologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From aerobiological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an aerobiological way.
thanatologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thanatologically
form: most thanatologically
Etymology: From thanatological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a thanatological way.
thanatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thanatological
form: most thanatological
Etymology: From thanatology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to thanatology.
Romulans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Romulan
eyehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈaɪˌhoʊl/
Forms: form: eyeholes
Etymology: From eye + hole.
Senses: examples: Holonym: eyepiece
hypernyms: hole#Noun
opening#Noun
glosses: The hole to which the viewer places his or her eye in a device such as a telescope.
examples: text: Eyeholes in a paper bag
Greatest lay I ever had
ref: 1997, Placebo, “Nancy Boy”:
hypernyms: hole#Noun
pit#Noun
cavity#Noun
opening#Noun
glosses: The hole in a mask, helmet, or costume corresponding to the position of the eye, allowing the eye to look through it.
examples: Meronyms: eye socket (bony orbit), orbital cavity, cranial orbit, orbit
synonyms: eye socket
eye-socket
eyesocket
eye-pit
hypernyms: hole#Noun
pit#Noun
cavity#Noun
opening#Noun
glosses: The hole in the face where the eye resides.
Related terms: eyebolt
eyelet
peephole
knothole
eyeholes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyehole
scabrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more scabrously
form: most scabrously
Etymology: From scabrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a scabrous way.
workpersons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of workperson
conspiringly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more conspiringly
form: most conspiringly
Etymology: From conspiring + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a conspiring way; as part of a conspiracy.
reddener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reddeners
Etymology: From redden + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Henna, a vegetable extract, was one of the earliest known dyes and is still used as a reddener for hair; nitrate of silver and gum water, walnut juice, iron rust, vinegar - all sorts of recipes have been tried over the years...
ref: 1968, Janey Ironside, A Fashion Alphabet, page 191:
text: Reddener of eagles' footsoles: "arnar il-rjóðr" = "rjóðr arnar ilja," who provides bleeding corpses for eagles to stand on and tear, warrior, Magnus the Good.
ref: 1895, William Morris, The Saga Library, page 492:
glosses: Someone or something which reddens.
reddeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reddener
dauw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /daʊ/
Forms: form: dauws
Etymology: Possibly from Afrikaans [Term?].
Senses: glosses: Burchell's zebra (Equus quagga burchellii).
Synonyms: peechi
peetsi
go Winchester
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes Winchester
form: going Winchester
form: went Winchester
form: gone Winchester
Senses: examples: text: We go Winchester before we go target." Winchester was thirty-thirty, the UHF frequency we used in flight school when we were both flying solo
ref: 1990, G. C. Hendricks, The second war, page 52:
text: He had come from another controller, so he only had two Mavericks and [his wingman] had four Mk-82s, so they went Winchester pretty quick.
ref: 2007, Steve Call, Danger close: tactical air controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq, page 149:
text: Nobody had gone Winchester before - Charlotte and Tony had just made British Apache history. Billy sent our ammo requirements to Kev Blundell in Bastion
ref: 2009, Ed Macy, Apache: Inside the Cockpit of the World's Most Deadly Fighting Machine, page 321:
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: To run out of ammunition, requiring a return to base.
glucosidases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glucosidase
epimerase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epimerases
Etymology: From epimer + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the stereochemical inversion of the configuration about an asymmetric carbon atom in a substrate having more than one center of asymmetry.
overpronation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From over- + pronation.
Senses: glosses: the act of pronating too much
articled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of article
articled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: bound under the articles of an apprenticeship
Derived terms: articled clerk
unarticled
clubbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clubbable
form: most clubbable
Etymology: From club + -able.
Senses: examples: text: Would not Jack Johnson be cut nowadays by even the rowdiest of Stock Exchange young men, and be voted a cad by every clubbable man above the class of ’ARRY? For in this quality of “clubbable,” and the value now put upon it, lies the whole secret of change in our fast men, mashers, and men about town.
ref: 1886, Punch, volume 91, page 249:
text: Those who have never opened Hawkins’ Life know Johnson was a ‘clubbable’ man and that Hawkins was an ‘unclubbable’ man: such is the influence of Boswell's Life– and its editors.
ref: 2012, J. Clark, H. Erskine-Hill, The Interpretation of Samuel Johnson, Springer, →ISBN:
text: It's usually only men who are described as ‘clubbable’, and before I knew what that actually meant I agreed with it.
ref: 2017, Jenny Landreth, Swell: A Waterbiography, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 84:
text: In Burns's time, there were some well-known ‘clubbable men’: Smellie, Erskine and Parker were all boon companions.
ref: 2019, Clark McGinn, The Burns Supper: A Comprehensive History, Luath Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 1480:
antonyms: unclubbable
glosses: Sociable.
Derived terms: clubbableness
cringingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cringingly
form: most cringingly
Etymology: From cringing + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a cringing manner; while cringing.
examples: text: Instead, the campaign had run a couple of the most cringingly bad political commercials ever made, including one spot on the issue of abortion starring Wellstone's teenage daughter, Marcia.
ref: 2004, Bill Hillsman, Run the Other Way: Fixing the Two-Party System, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: So as to make one cringe.
Synonyms: sense: so as to make one cringe
word: cringeworthily
sense: so as to make one cringe
word: cringily
Digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Diggers
Etymology: * Derived from Australian Colonial goldfields terminology. The term represents the mateship of common interests and activities where most of the population were gold miners, and almost everybody was a mate, a "digger", with a common cause against the troopers, the traps, the mining license inspectors.
Senses: glosses: A soldier from Australia or New Zealand.
glosses: One of a group of Protestant English agrarian communists, begun by Gerrard Winstanley as "True Levellers" in 1649.
synonyms: Shoshokie
Shoshoko
glosses: One of a degraded tribe of California Native Americans who dug up roots for food.
Digger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪɡɚ/
ipa: /ˈdɪɡə/
rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: Diggers
Etymology: From Digg + -er.
Senses: examples: text: THANKS TO DIGG, the Web’s most frequented news-ranking site, we now know: Geeks like gaming gossip, incendiary technology policy stories, and NASA photos. Diggers vote early and often, and can get breaking news to the front page surprisingly quickly.
ref: 2006, PC World, page 115:
text: Redditors are similar to Diggers (twentysomething geeks), albeit the former are slightly more educated and gender neutral.
ref: 2009 November, Dan Zarrella, “Social News and Bookmarking”, in The Social Media Marketing Book, O’Reilly Media, published 2011, section “Reddit”, page 121:
text: As Justin Halpern told me, “I think what both [Rob Corddry and actress Kristen Bell] did, especially Rob, was that they got Shit My Dad Says seen by people that aggressively share stuff online. Diggers, Redditors, etc.[…]”
ref: 2012 September, B. J. Mendelson, “And Now You Know … the Rest of the Story”, in Social Media Is Bullshit, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, part I, page 53:
glosses: A user of the American news aggregator Digg.
disclosable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disclosable
form: most disclosable
Etymology: From disclose + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be disclosed
topics: law
glosses: That must be disclosed
Derived terms: undisclosable
disincentivise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disincentivises
form: disincentivising
form: disincentivised
form: disincentivised
Etymology: From disincentive + -ise or dis- + incentivise.
Senses: examples: text: Alexander Ehmann, chairman of the council's transport and air quality services committee, said: "SWR's proposals are extremely short-sighted, increased usage of public transport is an essential part of our fight against climate change and by reducing local rail services SWR will further disincentivise residents to use public transport. […]"
ref: 2021 September 8, Paul Clifton, “News Special: Opposition mounts to SWR's planned timetable reductions”, in RAIL, number 939, pages 25–26:
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of disincentivize.
disincentivize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: disincentivizes
form: disincentivizing
form: disincentivized
form: disincentivized
form: disincentivise
Etymology: From disincentive + -ize or dis- + incentivize.
Senses: examples: text: In the case of Ms. Peltola, her two Republican opponents, Ms. Palin and Nick Begich, went at each other hammer and tong, somehow missing the fact that they were disincentivizing their supporters from ranking either of them as their second choice.
ref: 2023 January 5, Francine Kiefer, “‘We’re all on the same team’: Inside the Alaska model for US politics”, in The Christian Science Monitor:
synonyms: deincentivize
antonyms: incentivize
glosses: To discourage or demotivate by means of a disincentive.
mochas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mocha
moptops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of moptop
moptop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moptops
form: mop-top
Etymology: From mop + top.
Senses: examples: text: While young women loved the Beatles' hair, British adults found it “unsightly, unsafe, unruly, and unclean.” Factories suspended young apprentices who dared to show up in a moptop.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, “Introduction”, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A style of haircut popularized by the Beatles.
Synonyms: mushroom cut
bowl cut
Vladikavkaz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Russian Владикавка́з (Vladikavkáz).
Senses: glosses: The capital city of North Ossetia-Alania, Russia.
Synonyms: alt: official name 1931–1944 and from 1954 to 1990
word: Ordzhonikidze
word: Dzaudzhikau (1944–54)
Related terms: Ossetia
kandake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kandakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candace (a Nubian queen).
kandakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kandake
kentake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kentakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of candace (a Nubian queen).
kentakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kentake
kinglets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kinglet
tranquilisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tranquiliser
unpromisingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unpromisingly
form: most unpromisingly
Etymology: From unpromising + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The town looked unpromisingly bleak, but our hotel proved to be modern and cosy.
glosses: In an unpromising manner.
beachcombed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obtained by beachcombing
beachcombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beachcomb
firesale
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firesales
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fire sale.
incaution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈkɔːʃən/
Forms: form: incautions
Etymology: From in- + caution.
Senses: examples: text: Lest through incaution failing, thou mayst be / A joy to others, a reproach to me.
ref: 1720, Alexander Pope, translating Homer, The Iliad, Book 23, Adamant 2000, p. 473
text: Little did the members of the expedition, little did the cheering spectators on that exciting day divine the strange neglects, the strange incautions, and the consequent disasters and deaths […]
ref: 1865, William Howitt, The History of Discovery in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand:
text: It always felt as though Hain's career, which began so powerfully with his youthful campaigning against apartheid, was going to come unstuck, but through political incaution, not financial incompetence.
ref: 2008 January 24, “The Maverick Insider”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A lack of caution.
Related terms: incautious
infandous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infandous
form: most infandous
Etymology: From Latin infandus.
Senses: glosses: Extremely odious
organicism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organicisms
Etymology: From organic + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The theory that disease is a result of structural alteration of organs.
examples: text: Its asymmetrical design, half curved, half rectangular, reflects the marquise's divided nature: female organicism joined to male geometry, a psychic hermaphroditism.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
glosses: The concept that everything is organic, or forms part of an organic whole.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The treatment of society or the universe as if it were an organism.
glosses: The theory that the total organization of an organism is more important than the functioning of its individual organs.
postbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postbags
form: post bag
Etymology: From post + bag.
Senses: synonyms: mailbag
hypernyms: bag
sack
poke
coordinate_terms: post box
letterbox
mailbox
;
postal box
post office box
glosses: A bag used for carrying post (mail).
Related terms: postal carrier
postman
postwoman
slaughterperson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slaughterpersons
form: slaughterpeople
Etymology: From slaughter + person.
Senses: glosses: A slaughterman or slaughterwoman; a slaughterhouse worker of any gender.
Synonyms: slaughterhouse worker
thermospheric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From thermosphere + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the thermosphere
trancesters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trancester
trancester
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trancesters
Etymology: From trance + -ster.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A musician who composes trance music.
unbiddable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbiddable
form: most unbiddable
Etymology: From un- + biddable.
Senses: examples: text: No … not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart, and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play.
ref: 1998, Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, Shakespeare in Love, New York: Hyperion, page 21:
glosses: Not biddable
unblur
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unblurs
form: unblurring
form: unblurred
form: unblurred
Etymology: From un- + blur.
Senses: examples: text: The police unblurred the suspect's photograph when the injunction against revealing his identity was lifted.
text: It's actually doing a reasonable job of unblurring the artificially blurred image with only a few defects. The Motion Blur option is using a deconvolution algorithm to reverse the effects of the convolution […]
ref: 2009, Bruce Fraser, Jeff Schewe, Real World Image Sharpening with Adobe Photoshop, Camera Raw, and Lightroom:
glosses: To remove blurring from (an image).
usurous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more usurous
form: most usurous
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of usurious.
unbovvered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbovvered
form: most unbovvered
Etymology: From un- + bovvered.
Senses: examples: text: But he does seem quite chilled, unbovvered and happy on his own and having one horse rather than two is much easier.
ref: 2006, suer, “Mum's first riding lesson ... aged 67”, in uk.rec.equestrian (Usenet):
glosses: Not bovvered
clear off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: clears off
form: clearing off
form: cleared off
form: cleared off
Senses: glosses: To leave abruptly.
examples: text: “I clear off at ten,” she said. “The dishes are supposed to be back on the shelves. […]
ref: 1959, Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House:
glosses: To clear the table.
examples: text: I hope you clear off your bill before you leave.
glosses: To pay off debts.
kilopond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɪləˌpɒnd/
ipa: /ˈkɪləˌpɑnd/
Forms: form: kiloponds
Etymology: From kilo- + Latin pondus (“weight”).
Senses: glosses: A gravitational metric unit of force equal to the magnitude of the force exerted by a mass of one kilogram in the standard gravity (i.e. at the surface of the earth).
Synonyms: kp
kilogram-force
kgf
yt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ti/
Etymology: From the pronunciation of y (/waɪ/) + t (/t/ or /tiː/).
Senses: examples: text: People of color aspire to be light skinned and yt people aspire to be tan. It is only aesthetically pleasing for yt people to be brown.
ref: 2017 Spring, Tess Griffin, When life gives you lemons, bleach your skin, in Growl (Hofstra English Society & Campus Feminist Collective), issue 1
qualifier: African-American Vernacular or Internet slang
glosses: Alternative spelling of white (“Caucasian”).
yt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ti/
Etymology: From the pronunciation of y (/waɪ/) + t (/t/ or /tiː/).
Senses: examples: text: My handle is the ytcracker / The progenitor of all the nerd rap that you're hearing today.
ref: 2005, “Meganerd”, in Nerdrap Entertainment System (mp3), performed by YTCracker:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular or Internet slang
glosses: Alternative spelling of whitey (“Caucasian person”).
Related terms: wypipo
yt
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Pronunciation: ipa: /waɪt/
ipa: /ˈwaɪ.ti/
Forms: form: yͭ
form: yt.
Etymology: Abbreviation of þat (“that”), the letter y takes the place of the old letter thorn (þ), as in ye for þe (“the”).
Senses: examples: text: The King appear'd to be much hurt at this, told me he did not credit what he told him, as he knew yt. you & I had never had any dispute together, & yt. William & you had had some misunderstanding in Germany[…]
ref: 1791, George IV, “Carlton House, 24 July 1791”, in A. Aspinall, editor, The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770–1812, volumes II: 1789–1794, London: Cassell, published 1964, page 177:
glosses: Abbreviation of that.
kiloponds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilopond
kilopound
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilopounds
Etymology: From kilo- + pound.
Senses: topics: architecture
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A non-SI unit of force equal to 1000 pounds-force.
Synonyms: kip
kilopounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilopound
jujubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jujube
imperishableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From imperishable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic or property of being imperishable.
interweaved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of interweave
lang syne
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Our selves have died lang syne, and we
Go ever upward […]
ref: c. 1910, Ezra Pound, Prometheus, lines 3–4:
glosses: long ago
Synonyms: of old
way back
long ago
Isfahan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Esfahan
form: Ispahan
Etymology: Ultimately derived from Classical Persian اِصْفَهَان (isfahān), from Old Persian *spādānah (“army, adj.”) or *spādānām (“of the armies”), from 𐎿𐎱𐎠𐎭 (spādaʰ, “army”), from Proto-Iranian *cwáHdah (“army”), q.v.
Senses: glosses: A city in Iran, the seat of Isfahan County's Central District and the capital of Isfahan Province, the third largest city of Iran; the former capital of Iran, from 1598–1736.
glosses: A county of Iran, around the city.
glosses: A province of Iran.
Derived terms: Isfahani
necromancing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of necromance
necromanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of necromance
impropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: impropriates
form: impropriating
form: impropriated
form: impropriated
Etymology: From Medieval Latin impropriātus, past participle of impropriāre (“to take as one's own, appropriate”), from Latin in- + proprius (“one's own”).
Senses: examples: text: And for the Pardon of the rest, that had stood against the King; the King, upon a second advice, thought it not fit it should pass by Parliament, the better (being matter of Grace) to impropriate the Thanks to himself […]
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
glosses: To appropriate for private use.
glosses: In ecclesiastical law, to place (ecclesiastical property) under control or management of a layperson.
Derived terms: disimpropriate
impropriation
impropriator
unimpropriate
unimpropriated
impropriate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Medieval Latin impropriātus, past participle of impropriāre (“to take as one's own, appropriate”), from Latin in- + proprius (“one's own”).
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Ellen Gulſton, Relict of Theodore Gulſton, Doctor of Phyſick, a very Learned Man, being poſſeſſed of the Impropriate Parſonage of Bardvvell in Suffolk, did firſt procure from the King leave to annex the ſame to the Vicarage, and to make it Preſentative; and having formerly the Donation of the Vicarage, ſhe gave them both thus annexed freely to St. John’s College in Oxon: Expreſſing many Godly Reaſons in a pious Letter of her Grant, to advance the Glory of God to her Povver, &c.
ref: 1704, Henry Spelman, “An Account of the Worth of This Treatise, Taken Out of the Epistle to Sir Henry Spelman’s History of Tythes”, in De Non Temerandis Ecclesiis, Churches Not to Be Violated. A Tract of the Rights and Respects Due unto Churches. […], 6th edition, London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […]; republished in Two Tracts […], London: […] Awnsham and John Churchill, […], 1704, →OCLC:
glosses: Of ecclesiastical property: placed under the control or management of a layperson.
impropriates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impropriate
impropriating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impropriate
impropriated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of impropriate
impliedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From implied + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an implied manner; by implication.
stamp pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stamp pad
saccharolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsækəɹəˈlɪtɪk/
Etymology: From saccharo- + -lytic.
Senses: qualifier: mold
glosses: Relating to saccharolysis
raw_tags: of a bacterium
inkpad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inkpads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ink-pad.
inkpads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inkpad
ink pad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ink pads
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ink-pad.
ink pads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ink pad
valourously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more valourously
form: most valourously
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of valorously.
procyclicalities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procyclicality
unsupporting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + supporting.
Senses: examples: text: The calculated shearing stress on the adjoining and unsupporting strata...
ref: 1935, Bulletin of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists:
glosses: That serves no supporting purpose in a structure.
examples: text: The table is deliberately confined to three of the factors, namely lack of intellectual ability, unsupporting home background, and personal factors.
ref: 1965, Reginald R Dale, Stephen Griffith, Down Stream: Failure in the Grammar School:
glosses: Unsupportive.
quarkonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more quarkonic
form: most quarkonic
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of quarks.
leptonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒnɪk
Etymology: From lepton + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or composed of leptons.
Derived terms: antileptonic
bileptonic
dileptonic
leptonically
multileptonic
nonleptonic
semileptonic
petrogeologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: petrogeologists
Etymology: From petro- + geologist.
Senses: glosses: A person involved in petrogeology.
petrogeological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petro- + geological.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to petrogeology.
petrogeologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of petrogeologist
Hadas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hada
baptismally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From baptismal + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a baptismal way; through baptism.
tertiarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From tertiary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a tertiary way.
quaternarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quaternary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quaternary way.
quinarily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From quinary + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a quinary way.
petrogeology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From petro- + geology.
Senses: glosses: Petroleum geology.
hackier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of hacky: more hacky
hackiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of hacky: most hacky
octangle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏkʹtăng-gl
ipa: /ˈɑk.tæŋ.ɡ(ə)l/
Forms: form: octangles
Etymology: From oct- + angle.
Senses: examples: text: The angles of any two of the tetrahedra ABCD, A′B′C′D′, and OO′O″O‴ form the angles of a complete syngrammatic octangle whose syngrammatic points are the angles of the other tetrahedron […]
ref: 1853 May, Thomas Weddle, “On certain geometrical relations between a surface of the second degree and a tetrahedron whose edges touch the surface”, in The Cambridge and Dublin Mathematical Journal, volume 8, page 130:
glosses: A geometric figure with eight corners, an octagon.
octangles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of octangle
IMDG
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
shipping
transport
glosses: Initialism of International Maritime Dangerous Goods (code): a code designed to standardize safety of dangerous goods being transported by sea.
IMDG
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: In majorem Dei gloriam: to the greater glory of God.
orangy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: orangier
form: orangiest
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of orangey.
oxidisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidisations
form: oxidization
Senses: glosses: oxidation
Derived terms: deoxidisation
overwhelmingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overwhelming + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The overwhelmingness of the situation caused clinical depression. There was no way to cope with either of them.
text: But some of the sense of overwhelmingness that comes with modern parenting seems like it could be mitigated, not just through a once-a-year benefit or tax credit, but also through small consistent signals of support: the family discount on groceries, the convenient in-home child care option, the open play space, the flexible work space.
ref: 2024 May 4, Ross Douthat, “The Birth Dearth and the Smartphone Age”, in The New York Times:
glosses: The property of being overwhelming.
oxhides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxhide
oxtongue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxtongues
Etymology: From Middle English oxtonge; equivalent to ox + tongue. In the sense of Anchusa a calque of Ancient Greek βούγλωσσον (boúglōsson).
Senses: glosses: Beef tongue (a foodstuff).
glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Picris, especially Picris echioides (bristly oxtongue).
glosses: A flowering plant of the genus Anchusa, especially Anchusa officinalis (true alkanet).
Derived terms: oxtongue spear
oxtongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oxtongue
gemologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From gemological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: From a gemological perspective.
premisory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more premisory
form: most premisory
Senses: glosses: introductory
Related terms: premise
microturbulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: microturbulences
Etymology: From micro- + turbulence.
Senses: glosses: Turbulence on a small scale.
macroturbulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macroturbulences
Etymology: From macro- + turbulence.
Senses: glosses: Turbulence on a large scale.
macroturbulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From macro- + turbulent.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to macroturbulence.
microturbulent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From micro- + turbulent.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to microturbulence.
supertyping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of supertype
supertyped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supertype
superclassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of superclass
superclassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of superclass
subclassable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From subclass + -able.
Senses: qualifier: object-oriented programming
glosses: That can be subclassed; from which one can derive or inherit.
ensorcells
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ensorcell
ensorcelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ensorcelling
form: most ensorcelling
Senses: examples: text: [Tom] Stoppard had a romantic-looking bookcase full of first editions of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens. He complained that his book collection was regularly raided by “American burglars.” It was ensorcelling.
ref: 2025 August 2, Maureen Dowd, “Attention, Men: Books Are Sexy!”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 02 Aug 2025:
glosses: Fascinating, captivating.
ensorcelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensorcell
glosses: present participle and gerund of ensorcel
agrochemicals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agrochemical
Red Nose Day
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Red-Nose Day
Etymology: From the red plastic false noses sold on this day to raise money.
Senses: glosses: A day, usually every other year, on which the Comic Relief organisation encourages the public to engage in fundraising for charity.
onion grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: onion grasses
Senses: glosses: Species of Melica, especially Melica bulbosa.
examples: text: Peter Latz […] described the technique of women harvesting the tubers of onion grass […].
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 54:
glosses: Any of several species of non-native grasses of the genus Romulea, including Romulea rosea.
glosses: Wild or feral chives, garlic, or other species with grass-like leaves in the genus Allium, particularly Allium vineale, a wild herb native to Europe and western Asia, naturalised elsewhere; a common lawn weed.
Synonyms: sense: Allium vineale
word: crow garlic
sense: Allium vineale
word: field garlic
sense: Allium vineale
word: wild onion
sense: Allium vineale
word: wild scallion
sense: Allium vineale
word: wild garlic
dword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dwords
Etymology: From double word.
Senses: examples: text: Using a double loop, each dword of the first factor is multiplied by each dword of the second factor […]
ref: 1991, William B Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family:
text: A bridge may combine posted memory writes to successive dwords into a single burst memory write transaction using linear addressing.
ref: 1999, Don Anderson, Tom Shanley, PCI system architecture:
text: The subtraction of each dword is independent of the other; there is no borrow from dword to dword.
ref: 2003, Randall Hyde, The Art of Assembly Language:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A numerical value of twice the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 32 bits.
Coordinate terms: qword
dwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dword
quadword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadwords
Etymology: From quad- + word.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: qword
glosses: A numerical value of four times the magnitude of a word, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
Related terms: doubleword
octoword
quadwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadword
qword
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kjuː wɜːd/
Forms: form: qwords
Senses: examples: text: On line 7, "X" and "Y" are defined to be qwords. Therefore, each is eight bytes long — the size of a double in C.
ref: 1991, William B. Giles, Assembly language programming for the Intel 80XXX family:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A quadword: four words, typically used in the same contexts as the fossilized 16-bit sense of "word" and thus 64 bits.
Coordinate terms: word
dword
xmmword
ymmword
qwords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of qword
nonregister
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + register.
Senses: examples: text: Typically, the second operand may be obtained from a nonregister memory location.
ref: 1985, Hugo T Jackson, A M Fischer, Learning assembly language: a guide for BASIC programmers:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not a register.
examples: text: Functions need to access two kinds of nonregister variables: formal parameters and local auto variables. Both types are allocated on the stack.
ref: 1986, Dr. Dobb's journal of software tools for the professional programmer:
text: In RISC processors, instructions excluding the load and store use registers only; any nonregister value is treated as a constant.
ref: 2005, Sivarama P Dandamudi, Guide to RISC Processors: For Programmers and Engineers:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Not stored in a register.
Related terms: register variable
speciosities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speciosity
a good beginning makes a good ending
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Start off on a good note to reap the benefits at the end.
Related terms: well begun is half done
follow someone off a cliff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: follows someone off a cliff
form: following someone off a cliff
form: followed someone off a cliff
form: followed someone off a cliff
Senses: examples: text: You can’t just follow someone off a cliff, especially when they lead you into bad decisions.
text: He had a habit of blindly following the leader, almost like he would follow them off a cliff.
text: Don’t be the kind of person who would follow someone off a cliff, always think for yourself.
glosses: To follow (a leader or a de facto leader) without question or thought, leading to potentially disastrous consequences.
Related terms: if someone told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it
lemminglike
genlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Short for generator lock.
Senses: topics: broadcasting
media
television
glosses: A technique whereby the video output of one source, or a specific reference signal, is used to synchronize other sources.
genlock
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: genlocks
form: genlocking
form: genlocked
form: genlocked
Etymology: Short for generator lock.
Senses: glosses: To synchronize in this manner.
genlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genlock
genlocking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of genlock
genlocked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of genlock
clayier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of clayey: more clayey
clayiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of clayey: most clayey
panasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more panasian
form: most panasian
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of Pan-Asian.
mandelstein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandelsteins
Senses: examples: text: They consist of a kernel of coarse-grained rock resembling gabbro, with a comparatively thin rind of mandelstein.
ref: 1897, The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, page 109:
glosses: Synonym of amygdaloid (rock)
synonyms: word: amygdaloid
extra: rock
mandement
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑːndmənt/
ipa: /ˈmændmənt/
Forms: form: mandements
form: mandment
form: mandament
Etymology: From Middle English maundement, from Old French mandement. Doublet of mandamento.
Senses: glosses: A commandment or directive.
Related terms: mandement van spolie
mandibulary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /manˈdɪb.jʊ.lə.ɹi/
ipa: /mænˈdɪb.jəˌlɛɹ.i/
rhymes: -ɪbjʊləɹi
rhymes: -ɪbjʊlɛəɹi
Etymology: From Late Latin mandibula (“a jaw”) + -ary.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Synonym of mandibular.
synonyms: word: mandibular
mandilion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɑnˈdɪlɪən/
ipa: /mænˈdɪli.ən/
ipa: /-jən/
homophone: mandylion
rhymes: -ɪljən
Forms: form: mandilions
Etymology: See mandylion.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mandylion.
mandir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mandirs
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi मंदिर (mandir).
Senses: examples: text: On the contrary, in the afternoon, he said, “It was good that I went to the mandir. Even physically, I feel well.”
ref: 1960, The Visva-Bharati quarterly: Volumes 26-27, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, page 58:
text: The word mandir derives from the Sanskrit mandira, meaning a dwelling place. A mandir is a home to God as represented by the deity singled out for honour within the building's inner sanctum.
ref: 2003 September 30, Jerome Monahan, Places of worship, week 4: a mandir:
text: "The stories and carvings include diverse portions of India's geography and Hindu belief systems. This would include Mahabharata and Ramayana as well as the Puranas and regional histories. In fact, this mandir will be uniquely identified by its intricate mandovar facade which will share many traditional tales from across India as well as unique designs from the Gulf," he said.
ref: 2020 November 10, 25,000 Cubic Feet Of Stone Carved In India For Abu Dhabi's First Hindu Temple:
glosses: A Hindu temple.
Related terms: english: Dravidian-style Hindu temple
translation: Dravidian-style Hindu temple
word: kovil
murti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: murtis
Etymology: From Sanskrit मूर्ति (mūrti).
Senses: glosses: A sacred image of a deity.
Derived terms: Trimurti
pujari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /puːˈdʒɑːɹi/
Forms: form: pujaris
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindi पुजारी (pujārī).
Senses: examples: text: The pujari at the Kalika Mata temple lightly tolls the bell and then in a voice that is as clear and crystalline as the sky this morning sings the Surya Stotra.
ref: 1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 48:
text: The pujari saw the headman's anger and said to Hiranbai, 'God bless you, child, for your good work for all these God's creatures.'
ref: 2000, Bhagwan Gidwani, Return of the Aryans:
glosses: Someone who performs a puja, especially a priest in a Hindu temple.
Synonyms: archaka
Related terms: puja
khanda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khandas
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਖੰਡਾ (khaṇḍā), from Sanskrit खड्ग (khaḍga).
Senses: glosses: A double-edged sword from India, used ceremonially in Sikhism.
glosses: A religious symbol of Sikhism, ⟨☬⟩, having the shape of three swords: a khanda, a chakram and two kirpans.
Nishan Sahib
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Nishan Sahibs
Etymology: Borrowed from Punjabi ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ ਸਾਹਿਬ (niśān sāhib, literally “respected ensign”), from ਨਿਸ਼ਾਨ (niśān, “sign, mark”) + ਸਾਹਿਬ (sāhib, “owner, master; term of respect”).
Senses: glosses: A Sikh holy flag, colored orange and white, with a symbol of the khanda.
chaur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /t͡ʃɔːɹ/
rhymes: -ɔːr
Forms: form: chaurs
Senses: glosses: A kind of ceremonial fan used by Sikhs, made from yak hair, which is waved over the Guru Granth Sahib.
granthis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granthi
one-child policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: one-child policies
Senses: examples: text: At the same time, it glides over the personal traumas that the one-child policy must cause among innumerable Chinese. Certainly it is awesome to think of a nation that brings its powers of persuasion against a woman's right to conceive.
ref: 1984 February 14, John Corry, “Birth Curb in China”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: A policy of population control in China, whereby a married couple is allowed only one child.
Related terms: family planning
yad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yads
form: yadim
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew יד (yád, “hand”)
Senses: glosses: A pointer used in the ritual of Torah-reading.
yad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the Tifinagh alphabet.
Senses: glosses: The letter ⴷ in the Tifinagh alphabet.
Related terms: english: possibly related to the above Judaism term?
translation: possibly related to the above Judaism term?
word: tefillah shel yad
yads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yad
yadim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yad
Mallén
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A city in Zaragoza, Spain.
tapetails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tapetail
tapetail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tapetails
Etymology: From tape + tail.
Senses: glosses: The larval stage of the whalefishes
tasselseed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tasselseeds
form: tassel seed
form: tassel-seed
Etymology: From tassel + seed.
Senses: glosses: A mutation of maize characterized by irregular branching in its inflorescences, tassels, and ears, in addition to feminization of the tassel
telangiectatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɛlˌænd͡ʒiɛkˈtætɪk/
Forms: form: more telangiectatic
form: most telangiectatic
Etymology: From telangiectasis + -ic, in parallel with stasis → static and other morphologically similar terms, such as angiectasis → angiectatic and metastasis → metastatic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to telangiectasia (telangiectasis).
Synonyms: telangiectasial
teleostean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teleosteans
Etymology: Teleostei + -an
Senses: glosses: Any of very many ray-finned fish of the infraclass Teleostei.
teleosteans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of teleostean