cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
kunoichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ku.noʊˈi.t͡ʃi/
Forms: form: kunoichis
form: kunoichi
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese くノ一(いち) (kunoichi).
Senses: glosses: A female ninja.
Synonyms: word: ninjette
Coordinate terms: english: a male ninja
translation: a male ninja
word: shinobi
english: a warrior who practices ninjitsu
translation: a warrior who practices ninjitsu
word: ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjutsu
roman: the martial art of a ninja
alt: the martial art of a ninja
word: ninjitsu
shiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Possibly from Amharic or Tigrinya ሺሮ (širo, “chickpea flour”)
Senses: glosses: A stew of Ethiopia and Eritrea origin whose primary ingredient is powdered chickpeas or broad-bean meal.
shiro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shiros
Etymology: Of Japanese origin, either 城 (shiro, “castle”) or 白 (shiro, “white”) (see quotation below).
Senses: examples: text: Another commonly used Japanese term in matsutake literature is "shiro". As a Japanese noun, it means castle or domain (fruiting place) of a mushroom. As an adjective, it means white. More specifically, a shiro is the dense mat of fungal filaments ("hyphae" or collectively "mycelium") that matsutake species form in the soil.
ref: 1997, David Hosford, David Pilz, Randy Molina, Michael Amaranthus, Ecology and Management of the Commercially Harvested American Matsutake Mushroom, page 2:
text: ‘Shiro’ refers to the dense mat of fungal filaments that Tricholoma Matsutake forms in soil in association with pine roots and soil particles. It is considered that the amount of mycelia in T. matsutake shiros is closely related to the amount of emerged T. matsutake fruiting body.
ref: 2007 September 24, Lu-Min Vaario, “Can we regulate the growth of shiro?”, in Matsutake Workshop, archived from the original on 09 Jun 2022:
glosses: A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi.
livet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: livets
Senses: glosses: A good diet.
rejuvenation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rejuvenations
Etymology: From rejuvenate + -ion, cf. Latin reiuvenatiō.
Senses: examples: text: Utnapishtim hears his wife's plea and tells Gilgamesh where he can find a miraculous plant of invigoration and rejuvenation.
ref: 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 204:
glosses: The process of rendering young again.
examples: text: the rejuvenation of the city center
text: The 1987 book British Piers was written at a time when Britain's seaside resorts were perhaps at their lowest ebb, with a groundswell of support for rejuvenation and conservation just beginning.
ref: 2020 July 29, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Railways that reach out over the waves”, in Rail, page 51:
glosses: The process of producing beneficial changes.
Related terms: rejuvenate
rejuvenating
age-reversal
kokoro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).
Senses: examples: text: Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.
ref: 1992 December 7, Mike, “Re: When Things Go Wrong”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet), message-ID <ALLMUSIC%92120719125825@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>:
topics: anime
broadcasting
comics
film
lifestyle
literature
manga
media
publishing
television
glosses: A heart.
pangram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæn.ɡɹæm/
ipa: /ˈpæŋ.ɡɹæm/
Forms: form: pangrams
Etymology: From pan- + -gram.
Senses: examples: text: Higher in the scale range the Cadmean curiosities of the Pangram, Lipogram, and Anagram. The first of these must contain the entire alphabet, and claims the twenty-first verse of the seventh chapter of the Prophet Ezra as its most noted example.
ref: 1873 March 24, unknown, “Word-Play”, in The Proof-Sheet:
text: Like the search for the perfect palindrome, the pursuit of the perfect pangram has obsessed many people.
ref: 1986, Tony Augarde, The Oxford Guide to Word Games:
text: Write a Python function to determine whether or not a string is a pangram.
ref: 2016, Jeeva Jose, Sojan P. Lal, Introduction to Computing & Problem Solving with Python, page 177:
glosses: A sentence that contains every letter of the alphabet.
examples: text: A pangram (or, as some manage, the triple pangram, with at least three of every letter) restricts the options, directing the setter away from habits and repetition and towards a fresher puzzle.
ref: 2013 November 7, Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee: The Puzzling, Playful World of the Crossword, Penguin UK, →ISBN:
text: I've always wanted to make an anti-pangram pangram puzzle - the NYT would never run something so self-mocking!
ref: 2021 December 31, Hayley Gold, Letters to Margaret, Lone Shark Games, →ISBN, page 62:
ref: 2024 November 2, “No Such Puzzle: Pangram Crosswords”, in National Security Agency:
qualifier: crosswording
glosses: A crossword puzzle in which every letter appears in the completed grid.
Derived terms: pangrammatic
Related terms: acrostic
fox message
lipogram
the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
tabula rasa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹɑːzə/
ipa: /ˈtæbjʊlə ˈɹeɪzə/
Forms: form: tabulae rasae
form: tabulæ rasæ
Etymology: From Latin tabula (“wax-covered writing tablet”) + rāsa, feminine singular of rāsus (“scraped, erased, cleaned (of text)”).
Senses: examples: text: We all admit now that the Child does not come into the world with a mental tabula rasa of entire forgetfulness but on the contrary as the possessor of vast stores of sub-conscious memory, derived from its ancestral inheritances; we all admit that a certain grace and intuitive insight and even prophetic quality, in the child-nature, are due to the harmonization of these racial inheritances in the infant, even before it is born; and that after birth the impact of the outer world serves rather to break up and disintegrate this harmony than to confirm and strengthen it.
ref: 1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 173:
topics: epistemology
human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A mind, as of a newborn, free of any impressions, notions, ideas, etc.; a blank slate.
examples: text: In his quest for rehabilitation, Connally is counting on the newspapers' behaving as they normally do: becoming tabulae rasae every 24 hours.
ref: 1975 October 27, Aaron Latham, “John Connally on the Comeback Road”, in New York, volume 8, number 43, pages 47–48:
glosses: Anything which exists in a pristine state.
apraxia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpɹæksɪə/
Forms: form: apraxias
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπραξία (apraxía, “inaction”), from ἀ- (a-, “without”) + πρᾶξις (prâxis, “activity”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, a- + -praxia.
Senses: topics: medicine
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Total or partial loss of the ability to perform coordinated movements or manipulate objects in the absence of motor or sensory impairment; specifically, a disorder of motor planning.
examples: text: But how does the skeptic live without knowledge or at least belief? It seems that the skeptical challenges, though theoretically unimpeachable, have objectionable practical consequences. Call this the apraxia problem for skepticism.
ref: 2020 June 9, Kelly Arenson, The Routledge Handbook of Hellenistic Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The state of total inaction caused by holding global skepticism.
Derived terms: apraxic
gait apraxia
neurapraxia
Related terms: dyspraxia
praxis
avolition
avolition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌeɪvəˈlɪʃən/
Etymology: From a- + volition.
Senses: glosses: Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.
laziness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lazinesses
Etymology: From lazy + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: “It is thine own laziness, thou false English blood, that doest nothing but drink and sleep,” retorted the page, “and leaves that lither lad to do the work, that he minds as little as thou.”
ref: 1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, page 85:
text: Generalizing harshly and broadly but implying “you know which ones I mean” is an intellectual and rhetorical laziness that is not allowed to pass anywhere else in these communities.
ref: 2016 March 11, Jennifer Coates, “I Am A Transwoman. I Am In The Closet. I Am Not Coming Out.”, in Medium:
glosses: The quality of being lazy
piebald
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɔld/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɑld/
Forms: form: more piebald
form: most piebald
Etymology: From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”).
Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Senses: examples: text: "Well, isn't that just like a girl. All this round you, and you only see a bit of dust. It'll brush off." He patted ineffectually at his piebald shirt.
ref: 1965, Susan Cooper, Over Sea, Under Stone, page 20:
text: Usually, however, the hitcher was standing exactly where she'd first passed him, his arm perhaps just marginally less erect, his clothing (if rain was setting in) just that little bit more piebald.
ref: 2001, Michel Faber, Under the Skin, page 4:
text: The classic example of a piebald dog is the Dalmatian.
ref: 2011, Stanley Coren, Sarah Hodgson, Understanding Your Dog For Dummies:
glosses: Spotted or blotched, especially in black and white.
examples: text: And at the present day, the wanton introduction of scientific terms from the Greek and Latin, and of phrases from the French, threatens to render our tongue still more piebald, heterogeneous and unwieldy.
ref: 1839, Charles Hodge, Henry Boynton Smith, “The Origin and Variations of the English Language”, in The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review, volume XI, page 544:
text: Hence you will make the piebald Church more piebald than ever.
ref: 1864, T. E. Espin, Supply and Training of Ministers, in Church of England, Report of the Proceedings of the Church Congress [1863], page 67
text: Out there on the stage is the largest — and most piebald — rock band in captivity.
ref: 1970, “Time”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), volume 95, page 67:
glosses: Of mixed character, heterogeneous.
Coordinate terms: variegated
Derived terms: piebald dolphin
piebaldism
piebaldness
Related terms: pied
skewbald
piebald
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɔːld/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɔld/
ipa: /ˈpaɪ.bɑld/
Forms: form: piebalds
Etymology: From pie (“magpie”) + bald (“having white patches or blazes”).
Compare typologically Polish srokaty < sroka.
Senses: examples: text: Our neighbour's fancy was for piebald horses, and so strong was it that he wished not to have any one-coloured animals in his herd, despite the fact that he bred horses for sale and that piebalds were not so popular as horses of a more normal colouring.
ref: 1918, William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago, page 91:
glosses: An animal with piebald coloration.
Related terms: ablaq
ski mask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski masks
Senses: glosses: A warm cap shielding the neck and head, often made out of wool and used in skiing, or stereotypically while committing a robbery.
Related terms: balaclava
heya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heya
form: beya
Etymology: From Japanese 部屋.
Senses: topics: government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
sumo
war
wrestling
glosses: the so-called "stable" of rikishi who train under the instruction of a particular shisho; the place where this group lives and trains
Derived terms: heyagashira
heya
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hiya.
scrive
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scrives
form: scriving
form: scrived
form: scrived
Etymology: Related to scribe.
Senses: glosses: To describe; to draw a line with a pointed tool.
gambol
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.bəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
homophone: gamble
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: gambols
form: gamboling
form: gambolling
form: gamboled
form: gamboled
form: gambolled
form: gambolled
Etymology: From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Senses: examples: text: The lawn spread freely onward, as of old, over which, in sweet company, he had once gambolled.
ref: 1835: William Gilmore Simms, The Partisan: A Romance of the Revolution, chapter XI, page 134 (Harper)
text: At our old pastimes in the hall
⁠We gambol’d, making vain pretence
⁠Of gladness, with an awful sense
Of one mute Shadow watching all.
ref: 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXX”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: […] she remains near him to suckle him and teach him to choose the delicious grasses of the meadow, in which he gambols until he is grown.
ref: 1907, Paul Lafargue, The rights of the horse, page 160:
text: And, in very truth, run and leap he did, gambolling wildly down the stretch of lawn outside the long window.
ref: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 139:
text: In the ecstasy of that thought they gambolled round and round, they hurled themselves into great leaps of excitement.
ref: 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
text: [The whales] quite enjoyed themselves gamboling freely among the waves in the sunshine.
ref: 1948, F. H. Lyon, chapter 5, in Kon-Tiki, translation of original by Thor Heyerdahl, →ISBN, page 143:
text: Three girls moved across the billiard-table lawn of a great manor house, circling and swarming about a common center of gravity like gamboling sparrows.
ref: 1995, Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age […] , New York: Bantam Spectra, →ISBN, page 259:
text: They were in the white wood / Gamboling out to picnic
ref: 2012, ミラクルミュージカル, “Murders”, in Hawaii: Part II:
glosses: To move about playfully; to frolic.
glosses: To do a forward roll.
Derived terms: gamboller
gambol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæm.bəl/
rhymes: -æmbəl
homophone: gamble
rhymes: -əʊl
Forms: form: gambols
Etymology: From earlier gambolde, from Middle French gambade (modern gambade).
Senses: examples: text: Heere hung those lipps, that I haue kist I know not how oft. VVhere be your Iibes now? Your Gambals? Your Songs? Your flashes of Merriment that were wont to set the Table on a Rore?
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 278, column 1:
text: When his gambols were over, I looked at the paper, and, to speak the truth, found myself not a little puzzled at what my friend had depicted.
ref: 1843, Edgar Allan Poe, The Gold Bug, page 10:
glosses: An instance of running or skipping about playfully.
examples: text: There was a delicious sensation of mingled security and awe with which I looked down, from my giddy height, on the monsters of the deep at their uncouth gambols.
ref: 1819 June 23, Geoffrey Crayon [pseudonym; Washington Irving], “The Voyage”, in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., number I, New York, N.Y.: […] C[ornelius] S. Van Winkle, […], →OCLC, page 14:
text: The season of salad days has been rightly called a season of folly—rightly, because nature wisely intended salad days for folly, and we are wise to regard them as a time for folly. But are we wise when, halting upon the crutches age finds convenient after the gambols of youth have lost their attractions, we condemn this season of harmless folly to perpetual reprobation?
ref: 1874 October, “Salad Days”, in The American Educational Monthly, page 462:
glosses: An instance of more general frisking or frolicking.
swell organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swell organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A section of a pipe organ in which the pipes are enclosed in a swell box
swell box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swell boxes
Senses: glosses: A box or chamber in an organ that contains the reeds or a set of pipes and has shutters that open or shut usually by means of a pedal in order to regulate the volume of musical tone.
Hypernyms: box
Venetian swell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Venetian swells
Senses: glosses: A swell organ with blinds patterned on Venetian blinds closing the swell box.
voicing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ
Etymology: From voice + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of voice
voicing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɔɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: voicings
Etymology: From voice + -ing.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The final regulation of the pitch and tone of any sound-producing entity, especially of an organ or similar musical instrument.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A particular arrangement of notes to form a chord.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The articulatory process in which the vocal cords vibrate.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: A classification of speech sounds that tend to be associated with vocal cord vibration.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonology
sciences
synonyms: sonorization
antonyms: devoicing
surdization
glosses: A phonological process that turns a voiceless sound into a voiced one.
examples: text: Shrill voicings of seagulls
ref: 1900, Valentine Brown, “The Fisherman's Last Drift”, in Poems:
text: Pete dressed Eddie's high-pitched voicings in the stick-sweet strings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 250:
glosses: A sound made by the voice; vocalization.
Derived terms: devoicing
de-voicing
revoicing
re-voicing
shell voicing
Related terms: devoice
de-voice
revoicer
revoice
re-voice
unvoice
unvoicing
voice
voiced → voicedness
voiceless → voicelessness
voicening
accordatura
chancel organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chancel organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A division of a pipe organ for accompanying a choir.
gallery organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gallery organs
Senses: glosses: a division of a pipe organ placed at the end of the nave in a gallery
chamber organ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber organs
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: a small pipe organ of a type suitable for domestic use as opposed to in a church or concert hall
free reed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free reeds
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
antonyms: double reed
glosses: a reed in a musical wind instrument whose edges do not overlap the edges of the opening over which it is fixed and that is used typically in the accordion, harmonium, concertina.
radarman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radarmen
Etymology: From radar + -man.
Senses: glosses: A radar operator.
topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A person who operates all navigational and communications systems.
bank balance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bank balances
Senses: glosses: The amount by which a current account is in credit or deficit.
income tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪnˌkʌm tæks/
Forms: form: income taxes
Etymology: From income + tax.
Senses: examples: text: The latest Tory budget continued the trend begun in 2000 by making further small cuts in family income taxes.
ref: 2008, David Mutimer, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2002, page 220:
glosses: A tax levied on earned and unearned income, net of allowed deductions.
spruik
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /spɹuːk/
rhymes: -uːk
Forms: form: spruiks
form: spruiking
form: spruiked
form: spruiked
form: sprook
Etymology: Unknown, likely Germanic. Compare Dutch spraak (“speech”), spreek (“speak”), spreuk (“saying”), sprook (“a story, fiction, tale, or false idea”). First recorded in the late 1890s and early 1900s, suggesting a possible derivation from Afrikaans (i.e. brought back by soldiers returning from the Boer War). With the exception of a few early uses of sprook, the word's spelling has been fixed since it first entered the language. The uncommon ⟨ui⟩ digraph provides further evidence for an Afrikaans or Dutch origin.
Senses: examples: text: There was no spruiking or showmanship, no flash shirts or ten-gallon hats.
ref: 1948, Louis Esson, Louis Esson and the Australian Theatre, page 18:
text: Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death [title]
ref: 2008 December 30, “Lennon spruiks laptop 28 years after his death”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:
text: It can be a hard job, constantly on your feet, trying to think of things to say to lure people into the store you are spruiking for.
ref: 2011, Kylie Ofiu, “Work as a spruiker”, in 365 Ways to Make Money, page 120:
ref: 2022 March 27, Sarah Martin, “Scott Morrison spruiks cost of living package as expectations of fuel excise cut grow”, in The Guardian, Guardian Media Group, retrieved 27 Mar 2022:
glosses: To promote a thing or idea to another person, usually informally.
Synonyms: sense: promote something to someone
word: pimp
sense: promote something to someone
word: pitch
sense: promote something to someone
word: tout
sense: promote something to someone
word: hawk
Derived terms: spruiker
appalled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more appalled
form: most appalled
form: appauled
Etymology: From appall + -ed
Senses: examples: text: But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
ref: 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian:
text: West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
ref: 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Reading (1840)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 56:
glosses: Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
Derived terms: unappalled
appalled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From appall + -ed
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of appall
glosses: simple past and past participle of appal
disks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disk
disks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disk
discs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disc
discs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disc
all there
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Is he all there?
text: I don't think he's all there...
text: I think he's not all there...
text: She's pretty on the ball ... she's definitely all there.
text: A suspicion that “he was not all there,” and therefore “one of God’s bairns,” had insured him, during his long orphanage, the food, and clothes, and shelter, necessary for life; but no one had given him love.
ref: 1885, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 1, in Jan Vedder's Wife:
text: His submission is that he is of Mongolian extraction and irresponsible for his actions. Not all there, in fact.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 15]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
text: [S]he smiled at me in a such a silly way, I thought to wonder if she was all there.
ref: 2011, Julie Keith, The Devil Out There, Part 1 (Google preview)
glosses: Mentally competent; not absent-minded or insane.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see all, there.
not cricket
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Unsportsmanlike.
Related terms: dirty pool
uncricketlike
not have a bean
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: To be destitute or penniless.
treecreeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: treecreepers
form: tree-creeper
Etymology: From tree + creeper.
Senses: glosses: Any of various small passerine birds of the genus Certhia which live in woodlands throughout the Northern Hemisphere.
Derived terms: english: Climacteridae
translation: Climacteridae
word: Australasian treecreeper
english: Climacteridae
translation: Climacteridae
word: Australian treecreeper
word: Eurasian treecreeper
word: short-toed treecreeper
Related terms: wallcreeper
woodcreeper
turkey vulture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turkey vultures
Senses: glosses: A common New World vulture, Cathartes aura.
Synonyms: english: some areas of the Caribbean
translation: some areas of the Caribbean
word: carrion crow
english: some areas of the Caribbean
translation: some areas of the Caribbean
word: John crow
alt: buzzard
word: turkey buzzard
haberdashery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haberdasheries
Etymology: From haberdasher + -y (nominalizer).
Senses: glosses: Ribbons, buttons, thread, needles and similar sewing goods sold in a haberdasher's shop.
glosses: A shop selling such goods.
glosses: A shop selling clothing and accessories for men, including hats.
Related terms: hatmaking
millinery
truffle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɹʌf.l̩/
note: Northern England, Dublin
ipa: /ˈtɹʊf.l̩/
rhymes: -ʌfəl
Forms: form: truffles
Etymology: Borrowed from French trufle, a variant of truffe (whence also Danish and Norwegian trøffel, Swedish tryffel, German Trüffel), from Old Occitan trufa, a metathesis of Late Latin tufera (plural), from Latin tūber (“truffle”).
Senses: examples: text: In ancient times, the Romans imported truffles, credited with marked aphrodisiac virtue, from Libya as well as Greece.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 137:
synonyms: earthnut
glosses: Any of various edible fungi, of the genus Tuber, that grow in the soil in southern Europe; the earthnut.
qualifier: by analogy
glosses: Ellipsis of chocolate truffle (“creamy chocolate confection, in the form of a ball, covered with cocoa powder”).
Derived terms: black truffle
Chinese truffle
chocolate truffle
corn truffle
desert truffle
false truffle
magic truffle
pecan truffle
truffle butter
truffled
truffle hog
truffle hunter
truffle hunting
truffle oil
truffle pig
truffler
truffle shuffle
truffling
white truffle
noticeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəʊtɪsəbl̩/
ipa: /ˈnoʊtɪsəbl̩/
Forms: form: more noticeable
form: most noticeable
Etymology: From notice + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The dismissal of a player who left Arsenal for Manchester City before joining Tottenham gave the home players and fans a noticeable lift.
ref: 2012 November 17, “Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: word: observable
word: perceivable
word: conspicuous
word: detectable
word: discernable
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: perceivable
word: perceptible
word: sensable
word: sensible
glosses: Capable of being seen or noticed.
examples: text: Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 6, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
synonyms: word: notable
word: remarkable
word: big
word: central
word: consequential
word: critical
word: crucial
word: epochful
word: essential
word: extraordinary
word: fateful
word: fatefraught
word: fatesome
word: heavy
word: pivotal
word: high on the totem pole
word: historic
word: innegligible
word: key
word: life-or-death
word: meaningful
word: necessary
word: noted
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: paramount
word: pertinent
word: relevant
word: remarkable
word: salient
word: significant
word: unignorable
word: valuable
word: vital
word: weighty
word: distinguished
word: eminent
word: forestanding
word: markworthy
word: mentionable
word: nameable
word: namely
word: nameworthy
word: notable
word: noteworthy
word: extraordinaire
word: noticeable
word: observable
word: outstanding
word: pass-remarkable
word: ponderable
word: prominent
word: remarkable
word: signal
word: sovereign
glosses: Worthy of note; significant.
Derived terms: noticeableness
noticeably
unnoticeable
bell-bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellbottoms
Senses: examples: text: After landing, Brody, wearing bell-bottoms and large green sunglasses, announced to assembled reporters that he would be giving away his $25 million fortune to ordinary people to spread love and “cure the problems of the world.”
ref: 2022 April 27, Jennifer Schuessler, “An Heir, a $25 Million Giveaway and 30,000 Unopened Letters”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: flares
glosses: Pants that are flared from the knee downwards, a characteristic style of the 1970s.
Related terms: bell-bottom
bell-bottomed
bell-bottom trousers
bell-bottomed trousers
scatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: scattier
form: scattiest
Senses: glosses: Scatterbrained; flighty.
qualifier: Liverpool
glosses: Messy; filthy; disgusting.
scatty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: scatties
Etymology: Shortening of Scatophagus, the genus name
Senses: glosses: A fish of species Scatophagus tetracanthus.
scatty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æti
Etymology: From scat + -y; see scat (“brief shower of rain”).
Senses: glosses: Showery; rainy.
nociceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnəʊ.sɪˈsɛp.tɪv/
ipa: /ˌnoʊ.səˈsɛp.tɪv/
rhymes: -ɛptɪv
Forms: form: noci-ceptive
Etymology: Coined by English neurophysiologist Charles Sherrington in 1906, from Latin noceō (“to do harm, to inflict injury”) + receptive.
Senses: topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Relating to the perception or sensation of pain.
Derived terms: antinociceptive
chemonociceptive
hypernociceptive
mechanonociceptive
nociceptively
nociceptive pain
nociceptive reflex
nociplastic
nonnociceptive
pronociceptive
thermonociceptive
Related terms: nociceptor
bell bottoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bell-bottoms.
streetwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more streetwise
form: most streetwise
form: street-wise
Etymology: From street + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Where's the streetwise Hercules / to fight the rising odds?
ref: 1986, Bonnie Tyler, “Holding Out for a Hero”, in Secret Dreams and Forbidden Fire:
glosses: Having the necessary knack, personality and instinct for survival in rough, urban environments.
examples: text: You could tell from the way he spat old Tupac lyrics, loitering in the corner with his homies, flipping that Yankees cap on his head like he couldn't give a damn that he was streetwise enough to melt Will Smith.
glosses: Possessing a style that embodies the life and microculture located within urban settings, typically in the States.
Synonyms: street-smart
Related terms: street smarts
delusional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈluːʒənəl/
Forms: form: more delusional
form: most delusional
Etymology: From delusion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: You're delusional if you think that plan will work.
text: Morgan could not remember the last time he had heard his first name used, and he had not even been aware that Captain Jackson knew it. Regardless, he could not reply; he was sure he must be delusional. He had lost too much blood […]
ref: 2009, Robert M. Cossel, Master of the Strings, page 57:
synonyms: deluded
glosses: Suffering from delusions; having false or faulty beliefs.
examples: text: Delusional jealousy […] A delusional belief that one's partner is being unfaithful. This can occur as part of a wider psychotic illness, secondary to organic brain damage (e.g. following the 'punch drunk syndrome' in boxers), […]
ref: 2009, David M. Semple, Roger Smyth, Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry, page 87:
glosses: Being or relating to a delusion.
Derived terms: antidelusional
delulu
delusional companion syndrome
delusional disorder
delusionality
delusionally
delusional misidentification syndrome
delusional parasitosis
nondelusional
predelusional
undelusional
Related terms: delusionary
delusional
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈluːʒənəl/
Forms: form: delusionals
Etymology: From delusion + -al.
Senses: examples: text: But of course, that excludes the narcissistic delusionals, the deliberate frauds, and the pathological cases of multiple personality. They are all out there in New Age Land, and it's a jungle!
ref: 2005, Laura Knight-Jadczyk, The High Strangeness of Dimensions, Densities, and the Process of Alien Abduction:
glosses: A person suffering from a delusion.
noctograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noctographs
Etymology: From noct- + -o- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A form of stylus that helps a blind person to write.
glosses: A device for recording the progress of a nightwatchman on his beat.
nomadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nəʊˈmæd.ɪk/
ipa: /noʊˈmæd.ɪk/
ipa: /nəʉˈmæd.ɪk/
ipa: /nɐʉˈmæd.ɪk/
rhymes: -ædɪk
Forms: form: more nomadic
form: most nomadic
form: nomadick
Etymology: From Ancient Greek νομαδικός (nomadikós), equivalent to nomad (“a member of a society or class of herdsmen”) + -ic (forming adjectives).
Senses: examples: text: For centuries, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia used colorful textiles called suzanis as seating, prayer mats, bedding and dividers in their yurts – the traditional tents that were their homes.
ref: 2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business:
topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to nomads.
Of or related to itinerant herdsmen.
examples: text: Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.
ref: 2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016, pages 47–48:
text: Neither vehicle has a set home base. Young explains: "They are 'nomadic' nationally employed assets that, rather than having a regular home depot, are generally deployed and maintained following a programme of works across the full network.
ref: 2022 September 7, Tom Allett, “At the cutting edge of NR's track work”, in RAIL, number 965, page 40:
glosses: Of or relating to nomads.
Of or related to any habitually wandering person or animal.
Synonyms: sense: all
word: nomad
sense: of or related to itinerant herdsmen
word: pastoral
sense: habitually wandering
word: wandering
sense: habitually wandering
word: peripatetic
sense: habitually wandering
word: itinerant
sense: habitually wandering
word: itinerate
sense: habitually wandering
word: unsettled
sense: habitually wandering
word: vagabond
sense: habitually wandering
word: roving
sense: habitually wandering
word: drifting
sense: habitually wandering
word: roaming
sense: habitually wandering
word: wayfaring
sense: habitually wandering
word: vagrant
sense: habitually wandering
word: transient
sense: habitually wandering
word: rambling
sense: habitually wandering
word: peregrine
sense: habitually wandering
word: ambulatory
sense: habitually wandering
word: ambulant
sense: habitually wandering
word: erratic
sense: habitually wandering
word: errant
sense: habitually wandering
word: rootless
sense: habitually wandering
word: gypsy
sense: habitually wandering
word: floating
sense: habitually wandering
word: perambulatory
sense: habitually wandering
word: perambulant
sense: habitually wandering
word: discursive
sense: habitually wandering
word: meandering
sense: habitually wandering
word: ambling
sense: habitually wandering
word: footloose
sense: habitually wandering
word: prodigal
Derived terms: nomadically
nomadic furniture
nomadicity
nonnomadic
seminomadic
unnomadic
non-proliferation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: non-proliferations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nonproliferation.
neurone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neurones
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of neuron.
naff all
Language: English
Part of speech: pron
Etymology: Borrowed from Polari naff.
Senses: glosses: Nothing (variant of fuck all).
naiant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle French noiant, present participle of noier (“to swim”), from Latin natare. Doublet of natant.
Senses: topics: government
heraldry
hobbies
lifestyle
monarchy
nobility
politics
synonyms: natant
glosses: Depicted swimming horizontally.
raw_tags: of a fish
Coordinate terms: hauriant
urinant
Derived terms: counternaiant
nariyal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nariyals
Etymology: From Hindi नारियल (nāriyal).
Senses: glosses: coconut
Derived terms: english: coconut sweets
translation: coconut sweets
word: nariyal barfi
english: coconut chutney
translation: coconut chutney
word: nariyal chatni
english: coconut rice
translation: coconut rice
word: nariyal chawal
english: coconut pancake
translation: coconut pancake
word: nariyal paan
nectar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛk.tə/
ipa: /ˈnɛk.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nectars
Etymology: From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).
Senses: examples: text: They pourd in soveraine balme and Nectar good, / Good both for erthly med'cine and for hevenly food.
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The drink of the gods.
glosses: Any delicious drink, now especially a type of sweetened fruit juice.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The sweet liquid secreted by flowers to attract pollinating insects and birds.
Derived terms: amber nectar
Dashe's nectar bat
nectariferous
nectarivore
nectarivorous
nectarize
nectarless
nectarlike
nectarophagous
Thomas's nectar bat
Related terms: nectarine
nectarous
nectary
ambrosia
pollen
nectar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnɛk.tə/
ipa: /ˈnɛk.təɹ/
rhymes: -ɛktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: nectars
form: nectaring
form: nectared
form: nectared
Etymology: From Latin nectar, from Ancient Greek νέκταρ (néktar, “nourishment of the gods”), from Proto-Indo-European *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”) + *-tr̥h₂ (“overcoming”), from *terh₂- (“to overcome, pass through, cross over”).
Senses: examples: text: On the lane below, more orangetips nectared on spring beauties and violets.
ref: 2010, Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year, page 123:
glosses: To feed on nectar.
neoconservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neoconservatives
Etymology: From neo- + conservative.
Senses: examples: text: The neoliberals stand today in somewhat the position neoconservatives occupied a decade ago. Their ambition is to attain the influence in liberal politics that the neoconservatives have attained in conservative politics.
ref: 1984 May 15, Walter Goodman, “AS NEOLIBERALS SEARCH FOR CLOSEST FIT, HART IS OFTEN MENTIONED”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: word: neocon
word: neocoon
word: neotard
word: neocohen
coordinate_terms: paleoconservative
glosses: A supporter of neoconservatism.
neoconservative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neo- + conservative.
Senses: examples: text: There have been suggestions by a number of American neoconservative hawks to denuke Iran with “swift, massive, devastating force that decapitates the regime.
ref: 2014, Jahangir Amuzegar, The Islamic Republic of Iran: Reflections on an Emerging Economy:
text: And the liberal blogosphere has long labeled Clinton part of the neoconservative wing, a conservative intellectual movement that supports an interventionist foreign policy.
ref: 2016 August 31, Tal Kopan, “Will Hillary Clinton’s GOP outreach alienate progressives?”, in CNN:
synonyms: neocon
neocoon
coordinate_terms: paleoconservative
glosses: Of or relating to neoconservatism.
Derived terms: neocon
neoconservatively
Ziocon neocortical
Related terms: New Right
bit of all right
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a bit of all right
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bit of alright.
bit of alright
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: a bit of alright
form: bits of alright
form: bit of all right
Senses: examples: 2017 Bob McCabe: Masterpiece
“Simon's a bit of alright Mum,” she teased, “isn't he?”
Susan couldn't help being amused by Jane's playfulness.
“Yea, he's a bit of alright, alright,” she laughed.
“Wouldn't kick him out of bed on a cold Saturday night?” Jane retorted and the two women laughed together.
glosses: an attractive or sexy person.
examples: 1907 Alexander Macdonald: In The Land of Pearl and Gold
"That's a bit of all right," said the guard, cutting off a piece of the stem and putting it in his mouth. "Try it." I cut another piece and did so, and at once agreed with him.
glosses: a gratifying or pleasing development or object, typically hoped-for or exciting.
biopoesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + -poesis, alternative form of -poiesis.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: abiogenesis
glosses: The formation of life from self-replicating, but not living, molecules.
Related terms: primeval soup
self-replicating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + replicating.
Senses: glosses: Able to generate a copy of itself.
Related terms: DNA
bioassay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: bioassays
Etymology: From bio- + assay.
Senses: glosses: The analysis of the biological activity of a substance, with reference to a standard preparation, using a culture of living cells, or a living creature.
Derived terms: radiobioassay
bioassay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -eɪ
Forms: form: bioassays
form: bioassaying
form: bioassayed
form: bioassayed
Etymology: From bio- + assay.
Senses: glosses: To carry out such an analysis.
bhp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -iː
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of brake horsepower.
Related terms: indicated horsepower
beneficiation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: beneficiations
Senses: examples: text: The beryl is cobbed out by hand, since no method for successful beneficiation has been developed and applied.
ref: 1968, National Research Council (U.S.). Materials Advisory Board. Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials, Trends in Usage of Beryllium and Beryllium Oxide, page 2:
text: Beneficiation of contaminated material makes up a high portion of refractory recycling costs, underscoring the importance of keeping the material clean on tearout.
ref: 2012, J.P. Bennett, K.-S. Kwong, “Industrial Applications for Spent Refractory Materials”, in S. K. Sundaram, Dane R. Spearing, John D. Vienna, editor, Environmental Issues and Waste Management Technologies in the Ceramic and Nuclear Industries VIII, page 5:
glosses: The reduction in size of particles of ore (or similar physical processing) before further processing to recover the metal.
bemused
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈmjuːzd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bemuse
bemused
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈmjuːzd/
Forms: form: more bemused
form: most bemused
Senses: glosses: deeply thoughtful; preoccupied
examples: text: That left Bradly as bemused as ever, for it posed another incomprehensibility: Why had Podson walked here?
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: perplexed and bewildered
Derived terms: bemusedly
unbemused
beatbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt.bɑks/
note: t-glottalization
ipa: /ˈbiːʔ.bɑks/
Forms: form: beatboxes
Etymology: From beat + box.
Senses: examples: text: Self-styled 'black gentleman vampire' who followed his cousin in to hip-hop by rapping in front of a beatbox for his first shows on Long Island, New York.
ref: 1992, Colin Larkin, The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music, Guinness, →ISBN, page 1340:
text: But by 1980 Fenley had collaborated with Mark Freedman on the high-energy, repetitive sound score for Energizer by manipulating a beatbox, the omnipresent instrument of late disco music.
ref: 1994, Sally Banes, Writing Dancing in the Age of Postmodernism, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 322:
text: Hip-hop took the language and made it graffiti—it was music video on a wall with a beatbox blowing its subwoofers next to it.
ref: 2004, Ed Gaskell, Make Your Own Music Video, CMP, →ISBN, page 26:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A type of electronic percussion device.
beatbox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbiːt.bɑks/
note: t-glottalization
ipa: /ˈbiːʔ.bɑks/
Forms: form: beatboxes
form: beatboxing
form: beatboxed
form: beatboxed
Etymology: From beat + box.
Senses: examples: text: Hell, why do so many of us still breakdance? Why do so many of us still beatbox? The two most successful rappers to come out of Chicago, Common Sense and The Brat, had nothing to do with the city-wide hip-hop scene.
ref: 2001, William Upski Wimsatt, Bomb the Suburbs, Soft Skull Press, →ISBN, page 69:
text: Before you knew it, everyone, everywhere, was trying to copy Fresh's technique, and every rapper on the planet seemed intent on proving they could beatbox (with varying, occasionally embarrassing degrees of success).
ref: 2004, Neil Kulkarni, Hip Hop: Bring the Noise: The Stories Behind the Biggest Songs, Thunder's Mouth Press, →ISBN, page 43:
text: Turull, group elder, and Wright, the youngest, play off each other extraordinarily well, be it on cajon or when the latter jumps up to beatbox against Marina’s lyrical sidesteps.
ref: 2005, Derek Beres, Global Beat Fusion: The History of the Future of Music, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To use one’s mouth, lips, tongue, voice, etc. as a percussive instrument to create beats and rhythms for music.
Derived terms: beatboxer
USF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of Nintendo Ultra 64 Sound Format.
glosses: Initialism of United States Frigate.
glosses: Initialism of United States Forces.
glosses: Initialism of University of South Florida.
glosses: Initialism of University of San Francisco.
Derived terms: sense: U.S. Forces
word: USFI
sense: U.S. Forces
word: USFJ
sense: U.S. Forces
word: USFK