cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tube foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tube feet
Senses: glosses: A locomotor appendage of an echinoderm consisting of a tube with longitudinal muscles, pressurized by water.
Related terms: ambulacrum
ampulla
radial canal
Purple Hearts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Purple Heart
perseverates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of perseverate
perseverating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛvəɹeɪtɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of perseverate
perseverating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /pəˈsɛvəɹeɪtɪŋ/
Forms: form: more perseverating
form: most perseverating
Senses: examples: text: The uses in many Western languages of words meaning ‘word’ to refer to acts of speech are perseverating traces of primary orality.
ref: 2011, David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?, Penguin, published 2012, page 120:
glosses: Exhibiting perseveration; persisting, continuing.
perseverated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of perseverate
egre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egres
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of eagre.
andouillettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andouillette
nolle prosequis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nolle prosequi
nolle prosequis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nolle prosequi
nolle prosequies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nolle prosequi
nolle prosequing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nolle prosequi
nolle prosequied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nolle prosequi
nol pros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nolle prosequi.
nol pros
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This week, two men were completely exonerated. Four counts of statutory rape involving 14-year-old males were "noll prossed" (exonerated) in the case of Richard Kellaher. The state admitted the dates indicated in those indictments were not correct and that other evidence was "faulty."
ref: 1979 April 28, Tom Reeves, “Revere Sex Cases Resolved”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: Abbreviation of nolle prosequi.
nol. pros.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nolle prosequi.
nol. pros.
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of nolle prosequi.
acoustic jamming
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The deliberate radiation or reradiation of mechanical or electroacoustic signals with the objectives of obliterating or obscuring signals that an enemy is attempting to receive and of disrupting enemy weapons systems.
club foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: club feet
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of clubfoot.
club-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Club-footed.
club-foot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of clubfoot.
vanity license plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanity license plates
Senses: glosses: Synonym of vanity plate.
synonyms: word: vanity plate
vanity plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanity plates
Senses: synonyms: vanity license plate
glosses: A license plate whose identifier is chosen by the registering owner, usually to suggest a word or phrase.
Related terms: vanity domain
vanity license plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity license plate
vanity plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity plate
license plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of license plate
number plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of number plate
braconnière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: braconnières
Senses: examples: text: D, braconnière of plates sliding one over another;
ref: 1889, “belt”, in The Century Dictionary of the English Language: An Encyclopedic Lexicon, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 519:
text: The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides; the lower part of the plastron, covering the abdomen, being further protected by a reinforcement or additional plate called the braconnière, composed of three articulated plaques of steel.
ref: 1904, Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia for the Years 1902-1903, Philadelphia, Pa., page 155:
text: The pieces of the couvre-nuque, the gorget, the rerebrace, and the braconnière and the tassets were held together in this way.
ref: 1905, Richard George Hatton, Figure Composition, page 292:
text: […]gauntlets, visors, breastplates, heaumes, palettes and salades; with cuisses, solerets and shoes à la poulaine; with pauldrons, braconnières, tassets, loin-guards, vamplates, surtouts, and bassinets.
ref: 1907, Albert Kinross, Davenant, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 92:
text: The braconnière and tassets are, however, of somewhat later date (about 1535).
ref: 1914, The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1843-1909:
text: The firm of Coda, for instance, which is carrying on this traditional occupation of Minorca, now makes chatelain vanity bags in place of braconnières, and the clumsy solleret, which was produced with excessive pains and slowness, has vanished before such things as the engine-turned gold cigarette case.
ref: 1921, Dun’s International Review:
text: Braconnière; tuille tassets, with six indicated lames.
ref: 1927, Arms & Armour of Archduke Eugen:
text: Comprising armet with roped comb, flanged slot ocularium, and perforated ventail; colletin bearing Nuremberg mark, backplate, and breastplate with braconnière and tassets;
ref: 1950, Sales, Parke-Bernet Galleries, page 16:
glosses: Alternative form of braconniere.
Sadduceeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sadduceeisms
form: Sadducism
Etymology: From Sadducee + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The practices, beliefs, or characteristics of the Sadducees.
examples: text: That though Philosophical Discourses to justifie the common belief about Witches, are nothing at all to them, or those of their measure; yet they are too seasonable and necessary for our Age, in which Atheism is begun in Sadducism; And those that dare not bluntly say, There is NO GOD, content themselves (for a fair step and Introduction) to deny there are SPIRITS or WITCHES.
ref: 1681, Joseph Glanvill, “Preface”, in Saducismus Triumphatus, page ii:
text: The doctrine, then, which is populary known as “annihilationism,”—which denies the immortality of the soul, and teaches that it perishes at death with the body, is in its main features SADDUCEEISM.
ref: 1860, Israel Perkins Warren, Sadduceeism: A Refutation of the Doctrine of the Final Annihilation of the Wicked, page 4:
glosses: Perceived skepticism regarding the supernatural or divine, especially angels, resurrection and witches; moderate atheism.
Sadduceeisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sadduceeism
mixed nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A mixture of shelled nuts of various types.
examples: text: Multiracial, mulatto, mixed-nuts, halfies: Whatever you want to call us today, we remain the fastest growing demographic in our country.
ref: 2024 August 4, Danzy Senna, “In Kamala Harris’s Blackness, I See My Own”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: bouillabaisse
word: bric-a-brac
word: catch-all
word: clamjamfrey
word: cocktail
word: gallery
word: congeries
word: crazyquilt
word: disjecta membra
word: farrago
word: galimatias
word: gallimaufry
word: grab bag
word: hodgepodge
word: horse and rabbit stew
word: hotchpotch
word: hotchpot
word: job lot
word: jumble
word: macedoine
word: medley
word: melange
word: mingle-mangle
word: miscellanea
word: miscellany
word: mishmash
word: mixed bag
word: mixture
word: motley
word: odds and ends
word: oddments
word: olio
word: olla podrida
word: omnium-gatherum
word: pastiche
word: patchwork quilt
word: potpourri
word: ragbag
word: salmagundi
word: slurry
word: smorgasbord
word: welter
word: Whitman's sampler
glosses: A mishmash.
Sadducism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sadducisms
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sadduceeism.
koku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kokus
form: koku
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 石.
Senses: glosses: A unit of measure in feudal Japan, the amount of rice needed to feed one person for a year.
koku
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koko
Etymology: Borrowed from Malay koku, clipping of kokurikulum (“cocurriculum”).
Senses: qualifier: school slang
glosses: cocurriculum; extracurriculum
Sadducisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sadducism
Sadducize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Sadducizes
form: Sadducizing
form: Sadducized
form: Sadducized
Etymology: From Sadducee + -ize.
Senses: glosses: to make a Sadducee; to conform to Sadduceeism.
sadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sadic
form: most sadic
form: Sadic
Etymology: From the Marquis de Sade + -ic, probably after French sadique.
Senses: examples: text: Nothing but the infernal cruelty of their interview of the morning could have forced him to make a proposal of illicit intercourse to a young lady to whom hitherto he had spoken not even one word of affection. It was an effect of a Sadic kind.
ref: 1925, Ford Madox Ford, No More Parades (Parade's End), Penguin, published 2012, page 349:
glosses: Sadistic.
wikipedia: Marquis de Sade
tell you the truth
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: "What's the point? Your buddies can kick back and relax. I'm going into voluntary retirement." / "Oh?" / "Tell you the truth, I was getting a little tired of Jim Shorter. Tired of that little room on Ninety-fourth Street. You know what I might do? I might leave town."
ref: 1994, Lawrence Block, A Long Line of Dead Men:
glosses: Used to positively assert the frank honesty of an associated statement of set of statements; equivalent to "to you tell the truth".
Synonyms: sense: used to assert frank honesty of statement
word: frankly
sense: used to assert frank honesty of statement
word: honestly
sense: used to assert frank honesty of statement
word: tell the truth
Related terms: tell the truth
gag-a-day
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Providing humor in each day's self-contained strip, without a plot connecting the various days' respective strips.
raw_tags: of a comic strip
gag-a-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gag-a-days
Senses: glosses: A comic strip of this kind.
sad-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sad-irons
form: sad-ironing
form: sad-ironed
form: sad-ironed
Senses: glosses: To use a sadiron.
glosses: To press with a sadiron.
sadiron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sadirons
Etymology: From sad + iron, from sad (“heavy, ponderous”).
Senses: glosses: A flatiron which has a removable handle and is pointed at both ends.
Derived terms: sad-iron
sadirons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sadiron
globe-trotter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: globe-trotters
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of globetrotter.
men of parts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man of parts
microsclerodermins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microsclerodermin
Ewing sarcoma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Ewing sarcomas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ewing's sarcoma.
Ewing sarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ewing sarcoma
timema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timemas
Senses: glosses: Any stick insect in the genus Timema and suborder Timematodea, which are native to western North America (mostly California), and which, having split off early from the ancestral group, are considered to preserve many primitive features.
obo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: obos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ovoo (“Mongolian cairn”).
Derived terms: Bayan Obo
obo
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of OBO: or best offer
baby corn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baby corns
Senses: glosses: Young ears of maize/corn, especially those immature enough to be eaten whole as a vegetable.
lagrimoso
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of lacrimoso.
lineate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lineates
form: lineating
form: lineated
form: lineated
Etymology: First attested in 1558; borrowed from Medieval Latin līneātus, perfect passive participle of līneō (“to draw a line; (classically) to reduce to a straight line, make straight”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līnea (“a line”).
Senses: glosses: To mark with lines.
glosses: To delineate, represent.
lineate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lineate
form: most lineate
form: lineated
Etymology: First attested in 1643; borrowed from Latin delineātus, participial adjective, see Etymology 1 and -ate (adjective-forming suffix) for more.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Marked with lines.
examples: text: a lineate leaf
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Marked longitudinally with depressed parallel lines.
chamber ensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamber ensembles
Senses: glosses: A musical ensemble of modest size, to play chamber music; can be more specifically named after its number (from duo to nonet) and/or type(s) (e.g. wood, brass, strings) of instruments.
Related terms: chamber musician
chamber orchestra
continental shelves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of continental shelf
across from
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: examples: text: The woman sitting across from us was smoking a cigar.
text: The gym is across from the lounge. It is behind the lobby.
ref: 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
glosses: facing, opposite.
mansas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mansa
field grade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: field grades
Senses: examples: text: In various armies, major is the lowest field grade, full colonel the highest field grade.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Each of the commissions which rank a (para)military officer below the (highest) class of general officers, but above other commissioned officers and NCOs.
cocobolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocobolos
Etymology: Mid 19th century; via Spanish from Lokono kakabali.
Senses: glosses: An oily tropical hardwood of genus Dalbergia from Central America.
glosses: An old South American coin.
middlebox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: middleboxes
Etymology: From middle + box.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A device in the Internet that provides transport policy enforcement, such as a firewall.
middleboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of middlebox
softs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soft
minorant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minorants
Etymology: Borrowed from French minorant, present participle of minorer (“to diminish”), from Latin minor. By surface analysis, minor + -ant.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
coordinate_terms: majorant
glosses: A function, all of whose values are not greater than the corresponding values of another function.
multihospital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + hospital.
Senses: examples: text: Until recently, when a multihospital firm bought existing hospitals, it was customary for the firm to record the value of the newly acquired asset […]
ref: 1985, Steven Samuel Sharfstein, Allan Beigel, The New economics and psychiatric care:
text: Now, hospitals are becoming parts of collaborative multihospital systems. For example, hospitals are establishing affiliations, developing shared services […]
ref: 1997, Carolyn L Wiener, Anselm L Strauss, Where medicine fails:
glosses: Involving more than one hospital.
safari jacket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safari jackets
Senses: glosses: A usually khaki-colored jacket, usually with a belt, that has large pockets and was originally designed to be worn on safari.
Synonyms: bush jacket
shacket
Derived terms: safari-jacketed
I should coco
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of I should cocoa.
safari jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safari jacket
PMSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: PMSIs
Senses: topics: business
law
glosses: Initialism of purchase money security interest.
safe-keeping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of safekeeping.
security interest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: security interests
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The right of a lender to seize possession of collateral offered to secure the loan.
security interests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of security interest
safelight
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safelights
Etymology: From safe + light.
Senses: glosses: The lamp in a photographic darkroom, providing illumination only from parts of the visible spectrum to which the photographic material in use is nearly or completely insensitive.
safelights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safelight
constructive force
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: A civilian who impersonates a police officer in order to convince a debtor to turn over physical possession of collateral owed to a creditor has used constructive force to acquire the collateral.
topics: law
glosses: Action on the part of one party which will be treated by a court as equivalent to the use of force in determining whether that party has acted improperly with respect to another.
unelided
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + elided.
Senses: glosses: Not elided.
safener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safeners
Etymology: From safen + -er.
Senses: glosses: A chemical used in a herbicide to minimize injury to the crop as a result of the herbicide application.
safeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safener
safe-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safe-guards
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of safeguard.
safe-guard
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: safe-guards
form: safe-guarding
form: safe-guarded
form: safe-guarded
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of safeguard.
safe-guards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of safe-guard
safe-guarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of safe-guard
safe-guarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of safe-guard
safety lamp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety lamps
Senses: glosses: A miner's lamp designed to avoid explosion by enclosing the flame in fine wire gauze.
safety lamps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety lamp
unguentaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unguentarium
safety match
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety matches
Senses: antonyms: barnburner
lucifer
glosses: A match designed so it can only be ignited on a special friction surface.
safety matches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety match
safety net
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safety nets
Senses: glosses: A large net placed horizontally beneath performing aerialists such as trapeze artists or tightrope walkers, intended to catch a performer who falls and to protect him or her from harm.
examples: text: Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel revealed he was in "angry mode" after the surprise home loss to Arsenal suddenly put pressure on their top-four hopes in the Premier League - although the Champions League final against Manchester City could yet prove the most glittering safety net.
ref: 2021 May 15, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 0-1 Leicester”, in BBC Sport:
text: The TSSA said that access to the furlough scheme should be reinstated for the cross-Channel operator to protect jobs, while the RMT said a financial 'safety net' was needed to prevent Eurostar "tipping over". It follows similar but unheeded calls made at the very start of the pandemic, when international travel fell by more than 95% and Eurostar was forced to scale back its operation to just one service between London and Paris each day.
ref: 2022 January 12, “Network News: Unions urge government to provide financial support for Eurostar”, in RAIL, number 948, page 6:
glosses: Anything, such as a governmental program, that provides security against extreme disadvantage or misfortune.
Derived terms: social safety net
Related terms: catch fence
safety nets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safety net
saffi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saffis
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of saphie.
saphie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saphies
Etymology: From Mandinka safaye.
Senses: examples: text: These saphies were the repositories of fetishes, charms against calamity: a pickled ring finger was considered proof against the bite of the puff adder […]
ref: 1982, TC Boyle, Water Music, Penguin, published 2006, page 12:
glosses: A West African talisman or charm.
saphies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saphie
saffis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saffi
half-shower
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half-showers
Etymology: half + shower
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
juggling
lifestyle
performing-arts
sports
glosses: A pattern which consists of throwing the objects thrown by one hand over the top of the objects thrown by the other hand. Each object is thrown to the opposite hand.
Related terms: cascade
fountain
tennis
columns
shower
half-showers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-shower
malluma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mallung
cascader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cascaders
Etymology: From cascade + -er.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of various species of dragonfly of the genus Zygonyx, family Libellulidae, which commonly inhabit watercourses with waterfalls.
undirectedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more undirectedly
form: most undirectedly
Etymology: From undirected + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an undirected way.
directedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more directedly
form: most directedly
Etymology: From directed + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a directed way.
saffian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saffians
Etymology: From Russian сафья́н (safʹján).
Senses: examples: text: One of the three volumes Cyby had brought was as large as the top of a small table […]; from the arms impressed upon its saffian cover, I supposed it to be the history of some old noble family.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter VI, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: A leather made from goatskins or sheepskins which is tanned with sumac and then brightly dyed.
saffians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saffian
frequentativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From frequentative + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being frequentative.
rabbinica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Rabbinic literature.
direct marketing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.
ref: 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:
topics: business
marketing
glosses: Marketing that reaches potential buyers by communications directly addressed to the consumer or customer.
Hyponyms: direct mail
Derived terms: digital direct marketing
safflor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safflors
Senses: glosses: safflower
safflors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safflor
fibrelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fibrelike
form: most fibrelike
form: fiberlike
Etymology: From fibre + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like fibre; fibrous.
fiberlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fiberlike
form: most fiberlike
form: fibrelike
Etymology: From fiber + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like fiber; fibrous.
fiberizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fiberize
fiberizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fiberize
fiberized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fiberize
Creative Commons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A set of licenses intended to offer the consumer more freedoms than traditional copyright.
Synonyms: CC
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minorants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minorant
cocklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cocklike
form: most cocklike
Etymology: From cock + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a cock (the bird).
liplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liplike
form: most liplike
Etymology: From lip + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lip.
Synonyms: labial
maidenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more maidenlike
form: most maidenlike
Etymology: From maiden + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Whereto serves this mayden-like bashfulnesse[…]but to increase a desire and endeare a longing in us to vanquish, to gourmandize, and at our pleasure to dispose all this squeamish ceremonie, and all these peevish obstacles?
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 15, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: But on half a minute's reflection, the damsel changed totally her attitude and manner, folded her cloak around her arms in modest and maidenlike fashion, and walked of her own accord to the presence of the great man[…].
ref: 1820, Walter Scott, The Abbot:
glosses: Like a maiden; gentle, demure.
Synonyms: maidenly
lock lips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: locks lips
form: locking lips
form: locked lips
form: locked lips
Senses: glosses: To kiss on the lips; to engage in a French kiss.
Related terms: liplock
lip-lock
lip lock
lockmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockmaster
safflorite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safflorites
Senses: glosses: A mineral consisting of a cobalt arsenite which is part of the lollingite group and usually exists in grayish-white masses.
safflorites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safflorite
clutchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From clutch + -less.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Without a clutch (vehicle component), or without the use of the clutch.
Derived terms: clutchless manual transmission
saffroned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saffroned
form: most saffroned
Etymology: From saffron + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Colored or flavored with or like saffron.
saffroned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From saffron + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of saffron
saffrony
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more saffrony
form: most saffrony
Etymology: From saffron + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling saffron, especially in having a yellowish color.
Related terms: saffron
saffroned
missuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missus
Coordinate terms: Mmes.
Mmes
safranophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more safranophile
form: most safranophile
Etymology: From safranine + -o- + -phile.
Senses: glosses: Easily stained with safranine.
raw_tags: of cells
sign languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sign language
safranine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: safranines
form: safranin
Senses: glosses: any of a class of red to blue azine dyes
safranines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of safranine
sagaciate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sagaciates
form: sagaciating
form: sagaciated
form: sagaciated
Etymology: Probably related to sagacity.
Senses: glosses: To get along; thrive.
sagaciates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sagaciate
sagaciated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sagaciate
sagaciating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sagaciate
sagamité
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /səˌɡɑ.məˈteɪ/
Forms: form: sagamités
form: sagamite
Etymology: Borrowed from Canadian French sagamité, from an Algonquian language; compare Cree ᑭᓵᑲᒥᑌᐚᐳᕀ (kisaakamitewaapoy, “hot water”).
Senses: glosses: Hulled Indian corn, or a stew made of this.
sagamités
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagamité
sagamite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagamites
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sagamité.
sagamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagamite
carved in stone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Until you sign it, the terms of the contract aren't yet carved in stone.
glosses: Unchangeable.
Related terms: set in stone
pen in
pencil in
TCB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of trusted computing base.
TCB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of taking care of business.
reclad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reclads
form: recladding
form: recladded
form: recladded
Etymology: From re- + clad.
Senses: glosses: To clad again.
examples: text: I have recently reclad the south-west facing side of my single-storey cottage, having first removed a grapevine planted by the previous owner that had become massive and invasive.
ref: 2015 February 7, Helen Yemm, “Thorny problems: How can I soften a brick wall with plants?”, in The Daily Telegraph (London), page G7:
glosses: To fit with new cladding.
Sabin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * As an English and French surname, from a personal name derived from Latin Sabinus.
* As an Irish surname, from Ó Sabháin (“descendant of Sabhán”), from sabh (“cub”). Also found as Savage.
Senses: examples: Albert Sabin, medical researcher
glosses: A surname.
examples: Sabin Figaro, Final Fantasy character
glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A minor city in Clay County, Minnesota, named after Dwight M. Sabin.
glosses: A place in the United States:
A neighbourhood in north-east Portland, Oregon.
glosses: A place in the United States:
An unincorporated community in the town of Sylvan, Richland County, Wisconsin.
Related terms: Sabey
cross-patch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cross-patches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of crosspatch.
bargemaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bargemasters
form: barge master
Etymology: From barge + master.
Senses: examples: In Tudor days, the royal bargemaster was a notable courtier, responsible for taking the king’s party to many places along the Thames
glosses: The person in charge of transport on a barge or barges.
Related terms: bargee
bargeman
pass down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes down
form: passing down
form: passed down
form: passed down
Senses: examples: In poor families, solid clothes are passed down from elder children to kid siblings, who must wear them out or if they outgrow them pass them down to still younger relatives
glosses: To hand over, pass through or transfer to a lower level, next generation, etc.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see pass, down.
Derived terms: pass it down
inspirator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inspirators
Etymology: From Late Latin, from inspirare (“to inspire”) (from in- + spirare (“to breathe”)) + -tor.
Senses: glosses: An inspirer; one who inspires.
glosses: An inhaler; one who inhales.
glosses: A kind of injector for forcing water by steam.
Derived terms: inspiratrix
Related terms: inspiration
inspiratory
ostro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ostros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian ostro. Doublet of Auster.
Senses: glosses: A southerly Mediterranean wind.
Synonyms: Auster
opime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpaɪm/
ipa: /əʊˈpaɪm/
ipa: /əˈpaɪm/
ipa: /oʊˈpaɪm/
Etymology: From Latin opīmus (“fertile, plump”).
Senses: examples: text: That is to ſay, Thoſe great and opime Preferments and Dignities which thy ambitious and wordly minde ſo longingly hankers after.
ref: 1664, Henry More, “Part the Firſt, Book II, Chapter XV”, in A modeſt Enquiry into the Myſtery of Iniquity, London: J. Fleſher, page 425:
text: For, shou'd you come before the Brume's abated
Th' Opime you'd linquish for the Macerated.
ref: 1737, François Rabelais, “Book V”, in Peter Anthony Motteux, Sir Thomas Urquhart, transl., The Works of Mr. Francois Rabelais […] , volume 2, Navarre Society, published 1921, page 438:
text: See yonder where Marcellus comes, with pride of spoils opime.
ref: 1875, M. P. W. Bolton, transl., Homer's Iliad: Translation of Book I; also Passages from Virgil, London: Chapman and Hall, page 97:
glosses: magnificent, rich, plenteous
despedidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of despedida
assholic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more assholic
form: most assholic
form: arseholic
Etymology: From asshole + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Both snobbish and arrogant—not to mention assholic—he's more evil twin than alter ego, more Bergotte than Buddy Glass.
ref: 2007, Kevin Kopelson, Sedaris, University of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, page 227:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, being, or being like an asshole; used as a term of abuse.
reclads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclad
recladding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclad
recladded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclad
technorati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌtɛknəˈɹɑːti/
Etymology: Blend of technology + literati
Senses: examples: text: ‘The clash is between what you might call the technorati and the literati,’ wrote Bob Thompson in The Washington Post shortly after Updike's speech. ‘The technorati are thrilled at the way computers and the Internet are revolutionizing the world of books. The literati fear that, amid the revolutionary fervor, crucial institutions and core values will be guillotined.’
ref: 2008, Jeff Gomez, quoting Bob Thompson, Print Is Dead: Books in our Digital Age, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN:
text: The Winklevosses say this week’s tumult is just growing pains for a digital currency that they believe will become a sort of gold for the technorati.
ref: 2013 April 11, Nathaniel Popper, Peter Lattman, “Never Mind Facebook; Winklevoss Twins Rule in Digital Money”, in New York Times:
synonyms: digerati
glosses: Those who are skilled at using, or knowledgeable about, technology.
Related terms: Luddites
wild man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wild men
form: wildman
Etymology: From Middle English wilde man, equivalent to wild + man. Cognate with Dutch wildeman (“wildman, savage”).
Senses: examples: text: He had rescued the duchess from the very fangs of the monster, which, he assured the ladies, was neither a wolf, nor a bear, nor yet a wild man of the woods.
ref: 1820, Washington Irving, “The Widow's Ordeal”, in The Crayon Papers:
text: "So said Hair-Face, and they killed him, because, they said, he was a wild man and wanted to go back and live in a tree."
ref: 1914, Jack London, The Strength of the Strong:
glosses: A primitive man who dwells outside of civilized society; a savage person without culture.
examples: text: [H]e was a sinner, unregenerated, a wild man in her estimation, a being of quite another kind than herself.
ref: 1879, Anthony Trollope, chapter 18, in John Caldigate:
text: "David and I are very enthusiastic people, and we want to be able to make lots of noise. . . . David is quite a wild man when he gets excited with music."
ref: 1901, Upton Sinclair, chapter 1, in King Midas:
text: He's a wild man, with all kinds of punches,—a whirlwind,— and he gets his man in the first rounds.
ref: 1905, Jack London, chapter 3, in The Game:
text: In no time, she has persuaded him to unleash his inner wild man, and soon they are washing down pills with booze and bouncing off the walls.
ref: 2014 March 14, Stephen Holden, "Where Performance Enhancers Are Legal" (film review), New York Times (retrieved 4 June 2015)
glosses: A rowdy, dissolute, rash, or violent man.
examples: text: "They're saying I'm a wild man. If I turn the trick, they'll say I'm a genius."
So said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built a textile empire in less than three years.
ref: 1946 May 27, “Textron's Trick”, in Time, retrieved 04 Jun 2015:
text: In popular lore, Feynman often comes off as the wild man of physics, throwing out one crazy idea after another in a frenzied search for truth.
ref: 2011 April 1, George Johnson, "Richard Feynman, the Thinker" (book review), New York Times (retrieved 4 June 2015)
glosses: A man who advocates unorthodox or outrageous opinions or who behaves in an eccentric manner.
Synonyms: sense: primitive person outside of civilization
word: woodwose
sense: violent, dissolute, rash, or rowdy person
word: miscreant
sense: violent, dissolute, rash, or rowdy person
word: rascal
sense: violent, dissolute, rash, or rowdy person
word: roughneck
sense: violent, dissolute, rash, or rowdy person
word: ruffian
sense: person exhibiting unorthodox views or eccentric behavior
word: kook
word: oddball
word: weirdo
word: strange person
wildmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wildman
kits out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of kit out
kitting out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of kit out
kitted out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kit out
killswitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: killswitches
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of kill switch.
killswitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of killswitch
GMDSS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: Initialism of Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (an international set of safety procedures, equipment types, and communication protocols).
bicrural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪˈkɹʊəɹəl/
ipa: /ˌbaɪˈkɹʊɹ.əl/
Etymology: From bi- + crural.
Senses: glosses: having two legs
charmest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ)m.ɛst/
Etymology: charm + -est (“suffix forming archaic second-person singular present tense”)
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of charm
charmest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɑː(ɹ)m.ɛst/
Etymology: charming + -est (“suffix forming the superlative”)
Senses: examples: text: But I have to say that I am NOT the prettiest, smartest and charmest girl you'll meet.
ref: 1993 March 3, Diana M Doan, “FYI Height Really Does Matter”, in soc.culture.vietnamese (Usenet):
text: I guess nobody would deny Brahm's D Major (Oistrakh/Klempere or Heifetz/Reiner or Zukerman/Mehta), or the charmest Bruch's G minor (Heifetz/Sargent or Zukerman/Mehta).
ref: 1996 May 28, "somebody", “Top 10 VC and the others”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet):
text: Meanwhile you follow this rules, Titi will be the charmest friend youl have.
ref: 1997 January 20, David Suarez de Lis, “USS EXCALIBUR: GAMMA encounters...”, in alt.starfleet.rpg (Usenet):
glosses: superlative form of charming: most charming
elumbated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈlʌmbeɪtɪd/
Forms: form: more elumbated
form: most elumbated
Etymology: From Latin ēlumbis, from ex- (“without”) + lumbus (“loin”).
Senses: glosses: weak or lame in the loins
AIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ ˈaɪ ˈɛs/
Forms: form: AISs
form: AISes
form: AIS's
Senses: examples: text: Having spotted an unknown contact on radar, the navigation officer attempted to identify the vessel using the ship's AIS.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Initialism of automatic identification system, as an element of the Global Marine Distress and Safety System GMDSS.
glosses: Initialism of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn (cattle breed).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of androgen insensitivity syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of artificial immune system.
Hyponyms: CAIS
MAIS
PAIS
AIS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈeɪ ˈaɪ ˈɛs/
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Institute of Sport.
topics: emergency-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Abbreviated Injury Scale.
must of
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of must have.
glosses: Misspelling of must've.
Psorokóstaina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Greek Ψωροκώσταινα (Psorokóstaina).
Senses: examples: text: But look how he [Venizelos] found Greece when he started. Do you remember what we used to call her Psorokóstaina - Mangy Betty! And look how he left her, one of the nations of the West with steady frontiers, double the size, friends with Turkey ...
ref: 1958, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Mani, London: John Murray, page 208:
glosses: An affectionate name used by Greeks of their homeland; it has intimations of poverty and affection.
solivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊˈlɪvəɡənt/
ipa: /səˈlɪvəɡənt/
Etymology: From Latin sōlivagāns, from sōlus (“alone”) + vagāns, present participle of vagō (“wander”).
Senses: glosses: wandering alone
solivagant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /soʊˈlɪvəɡənt/
ipa: /səˈlɪvəɡənt/
Forms: form: solivagants
Etymology: From Latin sōlivagāns, from sōlus (“alone”) + vagāns, present participle of vagō (“wander”).
Senses: examples: text: After the deperdition of Indagator, having an appetency still further to pervstigate the frithy occident; being still an agamist, and not wishing to be any longer a pedaneous viator, nor to be solivagant, I brought about the emption of a yaud, partly by numismatic mutuation, and partly by a hypothecation of my fusee and argental horologe.
ref: 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 28:
glosses: one who wanders alone
Related terms: mundivagant
noctivagant
Regency
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The regency of George Augustus Frederick of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, before he became King George IV; that is, the period in United Kingdom history in which he ruled as prince regent (1811–1820).
Related terms: Georgian
Hebes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hebe
studliness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From studly + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being studly.
yokefellow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yokefellows
form: yoke-fellow
form: yoke fellow
Etymology: From yoke + fellow. Compare Ancient Greek σύζυγος.
Senses: examples: text: I’ll see their trial first. Bring in their evidence. / [To Edgar] Thou, robed man of justice, take thy place. / [To the Fool] And thou, his yokefellow of equity, / Bench by his side.
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vi]:
text: “[…] If two people like each other, why shouldn’t they consent to live together?” / “They tire of each other—they tire of each other in a month. A yokefellow is not a companion; he or she is a fellow-sufferer.”
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “The Curates at Tea”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 141:
text: Brain and hand, and means and muscle, are true yokefellows in modern industrialism. Without the inventor, there could be no machinery...
ref: 1922, James Ezra Darby, Jesus, an economic mediator: God's remedy for industrial and international ills:
text: Jesus treats his disciples as yokefellows rather than as camels and donkeys to be loaded down (23:4).
ref: 1999, David E Garland, Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary on the First Gospel:
glosses: A companion; a fellow labourer, a person who works at the same task as another.
examples: text: [H]is industrious yoke-fellow executed every circumstance of the plan she had projected; so that, when he recovered his vision, he was an utter stranger in his own house.
ref: 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: ...till new grounds of quarrel had arisen between the two unequal yokefellows who were at last fully coupled together.
ref: 1882, Edward Augustus Freeman, The Reign of William Rufus and the Accession of Henry the First:
glosses: Someone joined in marriage to another; a spouse.
yokefellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yokefellow
passes down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pass down
passed down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pass down
passing down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pass down
sagapenum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagapenums
form: sagapen
Etymology: From Latin sagapenon, sacopenium.
Senses: glosses: A yellow to brown bitter gum that derives from plants of the genus Ferula.
Related terms: asafetida
galbanum
sagapenums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagapenum
sagapen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sagapens
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sagapenum.
sagapens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sagapen