cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
encroacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: encroachers
Etymology: From encroach + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who encroaches.
Related terms: sense: all often hyponymous
word: backseat driver
sense: all often hyponymous
word: busybody
sense: all often hyponymous
word: buttinski
sense: all often hyponymous
word: buttinsky
sense: all often hyponymous
word: gatecrasher
sense: all often hyponymous
word: interferer
sense: all often hyponymous
word: interloper
sense: all often hyponymous
word: kibitzer
sense: all often hyponymous
word: marplot
sense: all often hyponymous
word: meddler
sense: all often hyponymous
word: nosy parker
sense: all often hyponymous
word: peeping tom
sense: all often hyponymous
word: persona non grata
sense: all often hyponymous
word: trespasser
sense: all often hyponymous
word: yenta
sense: all often hyponymous
word: yente
encroachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of encroacher
encroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encroach
encroached
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of encroach
energizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more energizing
form: most energizing
Senses: examples: text: The combination with a source of alternating currents, and a circuit from the same, of a motor having independent energizing circuits connected with the said circuit, and means for rendering the magnetic effects due to said energizing circuits of different phase, and an armature within the influence of said energizing circuits.
ref: 1903, The Federal Reporter - Volume 118, page 569:
text: Subject matter under subclass 119 in which the motor is provided with two or more energizing windings one or more of which are different structurally, or energized or controlled differently than one or more others of the windings.
ref: 1945, Classification Bulletin of the United States Patent Office, page 47:
text: This system or means of operating the motors is rendered of great practical value by employing an armature wound with energizing coils closed upon themselves, in which currents are induced by the alternating currents passing in the field coils that serve to greatly increase the mutual attractive effect between the armature and the field magnets.
ref: 1983, Nikola Tesla, Complete Patents of Nikola Tesla:
glosses: Supplying electrical energy to (a component or device).
examples: text: And our semiconductor industry, I think, is showing the way as to how roadmaps can be used for very general, very generic and very energizing programs of a very broad nature.
ref: 1997, George Mulholland, John Fassett, Charles Ehrlich, Global Growth of Technology: Is America Prepared?, page 76:
text: Implementing energizing activities will enable them to have some fun and learn at the same time.
ref: 2005, Sheila Eller, John Eller, Energizing Staff Meetings, page 7:
text: We also find touching more textured surfaces more energizing than feeling smoother ones underfoot, for example.
ref: 2012, Sally Augustin, Cindy Coleman, The Designer's Guide to Doing Research, page 67:
glosses: Leading to an increase in vitality and enthusiasm.
Derived terms: energizingly
self-energizing
unenergizing
energizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of energize
energizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of energize
engineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From engine + -less.
Senses: examples: text: He bought the engineless car from the junkyard just to get some parts, and then sold it back to them.
glosses: Without an engine.
enormities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enormity
enriches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enrich
enroute
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of en route.
ensembles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ensemble
entomologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entomologist
envisions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of envision
envisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɪʒnɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of envision
envisioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈvɪʒnɪŋ/
Forms: form: envisionings
Senses: glosses: Something envisioned.
equates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equate
equates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equate
equating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equate
equating
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equatings
Senses: examples: text: But, overall, Donne's poetry represents an epistemic break with the love clichés so overused by an earlier era; and the poet was often moved to use Platonic equatings of love, beauty, and goodness to breathe new life into old Petrarchisms.
ref: 2015, Philip R. Hardie, The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature:
glosses: The act by which things are equated; the evaluation of things as equivalent.
equated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈkweɪtɪd/
rhymes: -eɪtɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of equate
equips
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of equip
equipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of equip
equipping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equippings
Senses: examples: text: He cannot afford to be indifferent to social habits of man, the pattern of life, individual likes and dislikes of the dwellers, household furnishings and equippings.
ref: 1969, Journal of Social Research, volume 12, page 90:
glosses: equipment
equivalences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of equivalence
etches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of etch
etchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etching
Aufgabe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aufgabes
form: Aufgaben
Etymology: Borrowed from German Aufgabe.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A predisposition toward particular mental operations inherent in the nature of a task or conveyed by the instructions for performing it.
examples: text: The notion is thoroughly characteristic of the mystical level, and the Aufgabe of making it articulate was surely set to [Georg Wilhelm Friedrich] Hegel's intellect by mystical feeling.
ref: 1902, William James, “Lectures XVI and XVII: Mysticism”, in The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co. […], →OCLC, footnote 1, page 389:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: A task or assignment (involving such a predisposition).
superfice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsuːpə(ɹ)fɪs/
Forms: form: superfices
Senses: examples: text: Then if it rise not to the former height
Of superfice, conclude that foil is light
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Second Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A superficies.
psychologue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: psychologues
Etymology: From psycho- + -logue, a calque of French psychologue.
Senses: glosses: A psychologist.
panegyrize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: panegyrizes
form: panegyrizing
form: panegyrized
form: panegyrized
Senses: examples: text: Whenever a public question comes to such a crisis that the opportunities for individual intervention are reduced to the smallest possible compass, Mr. Roebuck is sure to step in with a formula, summing up the case with indignant brevity, censuring somebody, or panegyrizing somebody.
ref: 1856 June 14, “Head and Tail”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 2, number 33, London: John W. Parker and Son, page 142:
glosses: To praise, especially in an eloquent speech or in writing.
Derived terms: panegyrization
panegyrizer
unpanegyrized
Related terms: panegyric
representativeness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From representative + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: One should not compromise on the essential standard of representativeness of the corpus as a whole. A corpus is only good if it can be reasonably trusted to represent the way language is used by those people whose usage one is interested in describing.
ref: 2001, Sydney I. Landau, Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 331:
text: Our examination of the representativeness of WEIRD subjects is necessarily restricted to the rather limited database currently available.
ref: 2009 March 5, Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, Ara Norenzayan, “The Weirdest People in the World”, in University of British Columbia, page 4:
text: Drawing on texts recommended in curricula and controlling for two countries with benchmarked curricula improves the external representativeness of the corpus.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 108:
synonyms: representativity
glosses: The state or quality of being representative.
assignees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assignee
ethnographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethnography + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: Among anthropologists old ethnographic descriptions and travelbooks have a bad reputation. With the exception of ethnohistorians, anthropologists make little use of these sources for ethnographic research because of their reputed lack of reliability.
ref: 1991, Jean Kommers, “Between Structure and Context: Sources, Source Criticism, and Alterity Studies”, in Raymond Corbey, Joep Leerssen, editors, Alterity, Identity, Image: Selves and Others in Society and Scholarship, Amsterdam: Rodopi B.V., →ISBN, page 109:
synonyms: ethnographical
glosses: Relating to ethnography.
Derived terms: autoethnographic
cyberethnographic
ethnographically
ethnographic present
metaethnographic
nonethnographic
paleoethnographic
COM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: COMs
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of centre of mass.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of centre of momentum.
qualifier: Anglicanism
glosses: Initialism of commission on ministry.
COM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Component Object Model.
Derived terms: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: COM lite
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: DCOM
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: nano-COM
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
sciences
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
word: XPCOM
astony
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈstɒni/
Forms: form: astonies
form: astonying
form: astonied
form: astonied
form: astonie
Etymology: From Middle English astoneyen, astony, a back-formation from astoneyed, from a- + Old French estoné (“stunned”), the past participle of estoner (“to stun”) + -ed (participial suffix). See also astone, astonish.
Senses: examples: text: thenne Brastias sawe his felawe ferd so with al / he smote the duke with a spere that hors & man fell doune / that sawe kyng Claryaunce and retorned vnto Brastias / and eyther smote other soo that hors & man wente to the erthe / and so they lay long astonyed / & their hors knees brast to the hard bone
ref: [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book I:
text: And it cam to passe, that when Jesus had ended these saynges, the peple were astonnied at his doctryne.
ref: 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew:
text: Verily the violence of a griefe, being extreme, must needs astonie the mind, and hinder the liberty of her actions.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: On th' other ſide, Adam, ſoon as he heard / The fatal Treſpaſs don by Eve, amaz'd, / Aſtonied ſtood and Blank, vvhile horror chill / Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relax'd; […]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [Hh3], verso, lines 888–893:
text: Upright men shall be astonied at this […]
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 17::
text: When some Beloveds, 'neath whose eye / The sweet lids lay lights of my childhood, one by one / Did leave me dark before the natural sun, / And I astonied fell and could not pray […]
ref: 1838, Elizabeth B[arrett] Barrett [i.e., Elizabeth Barrett Browning], “Bereavement”, in The Seraphim, and Other Poems, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To astound; to paralyse, to stun.
psychiatries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈkaɪ.əˌtɹiz/
Senses: glosses: plural of psychiatry
-iatric
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἰᾱτρικός (iātrikós, “medical”), from ἰατρός (iatrós, “doctor”) + -ικός (-ikós, “-ic”).
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a physician.
glosses: Pertaining to a particular branch of medicine.
Derived terms: -iatrician
Related terms: -iatrics
-iatrist
-iatry
-iatrician
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: From -iatric + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A medical practitioner.
Derived terms: geriatrician
pediatrician
ulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ulu
ulus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uluses
Etymology: From Russian улу́с (ulús), from Yakut улуус (uluus).
Senses: glosses: An administrative division of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia, similar to райо́н (rajón, “district”) in Russia proper.
excerpted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of excerpt
excerpted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Consisting of excerpts.
Derived terms: unexcerpted
excerpting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of excerpt
excerpting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excerptings
Senses: examples: text: The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings.
ref: 1999, Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown, Russell Wheatley, Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments:
glosses: The act of taking an excerpt.
exchangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exchanger
excisions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of excision
expectancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of expectancy
experimentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: experimentalists
Etymology: From experimental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who performs experiments.
glosses: A person who values the results of experiments over theory.
glosses: A person who seeks or enjoys new experiences.
experimentalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From experimental + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Relating to experimentation.
experimentalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of experimentalist
explainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explainers
Etymology: From explain + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To be a skilled explainer, one has also to take account of the explainees, and their social and cultural backgrounds, motivations, linguistic ability, and previous knowledge – and plan accordingly before embarking upon the explanation.
ref: 2006, Owen Hargie, The Handbook of Communication Skills, page 200:
glosses: Agent noun of explain; one who explains.
examples: text: Confused by the Olympics? Here's a video explainer.
text: In a series of short explainers, the BBC News Channel’s Outside Source presenter has repeatedly skewered the Boris Johnson administration, while never coming within striking distance of seeming to have an opinion.
ref: 2021 December 13, Alexandra Topping, “Skewering No 10 over Christmas parties has made Ros Atkins a BBC star”, in The Guardian, retrieved 14 Sep 2022:
text: Quick explainers and infographics giving context to what was happening in Palestine were being shared all over Instagram and TikTok.
ref: 2022, Ahed Tamimi, Dena Takruri, They Called Me a Lioness […] , One World, →ISBN, page 256:
topics: journalism
media
glosses: A guide that explains a topic.
Synonyms: sense: one who explains
word: explanator
Derived terms: Irving the Explainer
Morris the Explainer
explainers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explainer
explanator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explanators
Etymology: From Latin explānātor, from explānō (“to flatten out, make plain, explain”).
Senses: synonyms: explainer
glosses: One who explains.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: A variable that predicts or explains the variation in another variable; an explanatory variable.
explanators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of explanator
rain or shine
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: come rain or shine
form: come rain or snow
Senses: examples: text: The game will be held on Saturday rain or shine.
text: He always showed up right on time, rain or shine.
text: This very morning we begin rebuilding the windmill, and we will build all through the winter, rain or shine.
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:
coordinate_terms: come what may
hell or high water
no matter what
glosses: Regardless of the circumstances; (more literally) regardless of the state of the weather.
Related terms: come hell or high water
exploratorium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploratoriums
form: exploratoria
Etymology: From the Exploratorium in San Francisco, which holds a trademark on the term.
Senses: examples: text: Especially appealing to older children and adolescents are science museums or exploratoriums.
ref: 1999, Howard Gardner, Intelligence reframed: multiple intelligences for the 21st century:
text: Other ways to use the visual arts include architecture, visual thinking, graphic organizers, mindmaps, exploratoriums, and galleries.
ref: 2001, Eric Jensen, Arts with the brain in mind:
glosses: A museum or similar institution that encourages visitors to explore the exhibits in a hands-on manner.
exploratoriums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploratorium
exterminations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extermination
extractions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extraction
extravagances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extravagance
eyedrop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eyedrops
form: eye-drop
form: eye drop
Etymology: From eye + drop. Compare West Frisian eachdrip (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”), Dutch oogdrup (“tear”, literally “eyedrop”). Compare also German Augentropfen (“eyedrops”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
hypernyms: drop#Noun
;
medicine#Noun
medication#Noun
drug#Noun
glosses: Medicine to be administered to the eyes in the form of a drop of liquid.
examples: text: My lord, I found the prince in the next room, / Washing with kindly tears his gentle cheeks, / With such a deep demeanour in great sorrow / That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, / Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife / With gentle eye-drops. He is coming hither.
ref: c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]. Epilogue.”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v], line 88:
synonyms: teardrop#Noun
hypernyms: drop#Noun
glosses: A tear.
Related terms: eyecare
eyewash
eye drop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eye drops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of eyedrop.
eye drops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eye drop
eyedrops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eyedrop
facings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of facing
factoids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of factoid
surrogata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of surrogatum
farmlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of farmland
fastly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more fastly
form: most fastly
Etymology: From Middle English fastly, fastliche, festliche, from Old English fæstlīċe (“firmly, constantly”), from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkē, from Proto-West Germanic *fastulīkê (“securely, firmly”); equivalent to fast + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: We tied the rope fastly this time; we didn't want it to get away again.
text: Before them was a door which apparently led into the grand apartments; this was fastly secured, but it yielded to their united strength, and they entered a lofty hall, whose concave top was supported by pillars.
ref: 1843, Thomas Archer, Roderick Dhu, Clan Alpine's Chief, or, the Scottish outlaw:
synonyms: fast
firmly
securely
tightly
glosses: In a secure or firm manner; securely
ferried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ferry
festered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fester
festers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fester
fibroblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fibroblast
fictionalized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fictionalize
fictionalizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fictionalize
fictionalizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fictionalize
Scopie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: In Scopie there are three Bulgarian schools; the two have about 60 scholars each, and the third, the largest of the three, has more than 100 scholars.
ref: 1917, D. Misheff, The Truth About Macedonia, Pochon-Jent & Bühler, page 25:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of Skopje.
fictionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fictionist
fictionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fictionists
Etymology: From fiction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Just as the Muslim world was vibrating to the ‘insult’ visited on the Prophet Muhamed (Peace Be Upon Him) by an Anglo-Pakistani fictionist of genius and renown, the British and American mass audience was thrilling to the reborn version of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.
ref: 1989, Christopher Hitchens, ‘Siding with Rushdie’, London Review of Books, volume 11, number 20:
glosses: One who deals in fiction; a writer of fiction, a novelist.
fidgeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fidgeters
form: fidgetter
Etymology: From fidget + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who fidgets, especially habitually.
Synonyms: fidget
fidgeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fidgeter
firestarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firestarter
firestarter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firestarters
form: fire starter
form: fire-starter
Etymology: From fire + starter.
Senses: glosses: One who starts fires.
glosses: A tool used to start a fire.
Hyponyms: sense: person who starts fires
word: arsonist
sense: person who starts fires
word: firebug
sense: person who starts fires
word: fireraiser
sense: person who starts fires
word: pyromaniac
sense: person who starts fires
word: torch
sense: tool used to start a fire
word: incendiary
fissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fissionings
Senses: examples: text: There is the slow international fissioning of the Anglican communion, where conservative Africans and Asians have been trying for years to throw out the more liberal churches of North America, with the Church of England caught uneasily between factions. It's difficult to see any compromise there except the peace of exhaustion.
ref: 2012 September 20, Andrew Brown, “Archbishop of Canterbury succession race begins in earnest”, in The Guardian (online):
glosses: The act of splitting into two separate parts
fissioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fission
fissioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fission
fjords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fjord
flaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪkɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: All the flaking paint had to be scraped off before repainting; fortunately, it came off easily.
glosses: Breaking or tending to break into flakes.
flaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪkɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flake
flaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfleɪkɪŋ/
Forms: form: flakings
Senses: examples: text: In a cornfield on one side flakings of flint are numerous.
ref: 1916, Allen Jesse Reynolds, Wilson Straley, The Archaeological Bulletin, volumes 7-9, page 3:
glosses: A piece of flaked material.
Derived terms: antiflaking
nonflaking
fleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of flesh
fleshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flesh
fleshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈflɛʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flesh
Related terms: fleshings
flesher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshers
Etymology: From flesh (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who removes the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
synonyms: scraper
glosses: A tool used to remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
flesher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fleshers
Etymology: From flesh (noun) + -er.
Senses: glosses: A butcher.
Related terms: goose-flesher
fleshers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flesher
sarcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Relating to sarcoid (sarcoidosis).
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Resembling sarcoma.
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Fleshy.
sarcoid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sarcoids
Etymology: By surface analysis, sarc- + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: sarcoidosis.
flinches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flinch
flouting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈflæɔɾɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈfläʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flout
flouting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈflaʊtɪŋ/
ipa: [ˈflæɔɾɪŋ]
ipa: [ˈfläʊ̯ɾɪŋ]
Forms: form: floutings
Senses: examples: text: We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.
ref: 2013, Scott Brewer, Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts:
glosses: The act by which something is flouted.
flouts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flaʊts/
rhymes: -aʊts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flout
flaunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flaunt
flaunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of flaunt
flutterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fluttering
backcloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backcloth
flutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flutter
flutters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flutter
ballpoints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballpoint
bandstands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bandstand
bannisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bannister
fluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flux
fluxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flux
bantams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bantam
fluxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of flux
fluxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flux
fomenters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fomenter
bar room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bar rooms
form: barroom
Senses: glosses: A room where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter.
bar rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bar room
footings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈfʊtɪŋz/
Senses: glosses: plural of footing
foresees
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foresee
forgeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forgemen
Etymology: From forge + -man.
Senses: glosses: A person who works at a forge. A blacksmith on a large scale.
forgemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forgeman
freighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freighter
frescoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresco
frescos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fresco
gaggles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: There were no signs and no one quite knew how to navigate the museum, including, as it was Fleet Week, gaggles of boyish sailors all in their summer whites. It looked like a Frank Sinatra movie.
ref: 2014 June 7, Vicki Woods, “Sadness, and a surprise, at the 9/11 Museum: The memorial at Ground Zero is filled with objects that shock the tears out of you”, in The Daily Telegraph, archived from the original on 01 Jul 2014, page 24:
glosses: plural of gaggle
gaggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gaggle
barmaids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barmaid
barracked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of barrack
dissolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissolvers
Etymology: From dissolve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Thou kind dissolver of encroaching care.
ref: 1685, Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle:
glosses: One who, or that which, dissolves or dissipates.
beaus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊz/
ipa: /boʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: bows
Senses: glosses: plural of beau
beaus
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəʊz/
ipa: /boʊz/
rhymes: -əʊz
homophone: bows
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beau
beatifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beatify
bequests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bequest
beseeches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of beseech
beseeched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beseech
betrothals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of betrothal
bewitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bewitch
batmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batman
bipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of biped
blared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blare
blabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blabber
blabbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blabber
blabbered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blabber
blockaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blockade
batiks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batik
batiks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of batik
batterings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of battering
blow-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of blow-dry
blow-dried
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Looking well-groomed, but superficial or vacuous.
blow-dries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of blow-dry
blow-dries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blow-dry
band-aids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of band-aid
band-aids
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of band-aid
what's eating
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: What's eating him? I've never seen him this worked up over anything before.
glosses: What is wrong with...? What is the problem with... (somebody)? Inquired regarding somebody who seems upset, worried, angry, etc.
Related terms: english: make behave uncharacteristically
translation: make behave uncharacteristically
word: get into
affiche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: affiches
Etymology: Borrowed from French affiche.
Senses: glosses: A written or printed notice to be posted, as on a wall; a poster; a placard.
affiche
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: affiches
form: affiching
form: affiched
form: affiched
Etymology: Borrowed from French affiche.
Senses: glosses: To fix, fasten; to fix a poster or placard to a wall.
examples: text: The return of the Duc de Mercœur added, if possible, to the gaiety of Compiegne; and the Duchesse gave a fête in its honour. Everything then was expressed by a fête; saints were worshipped, mistresses flattered, ministers courted, victories celebrated, sentiments affiched—and all by a fête.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 301:
glosses: To parade, to advertise, publicise; to display, show.
keep straight
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: keeps straight
form: keeping straight
form: kept straight
form: kept straight
Senses: examples: text: Their names all sounded the same to me at first, and I had trouble keeping straight who was who.
glosses: To avoid confusing or mixing up something; to keep something clear or organized.
chokeberry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chokeberries
Etymology: From choke + berry, describing the astringency of the fruits, which are inedible when raw.
Senses: glosses: Either of two species in Aronia, formerly and sometimes in Photinia, deciduous shrubs, native to Russia and eastern North America and most commonly found in wet woods and swamps.
glosses: The fruit of such a shrub.
Derived terms: black chokeberry
red chokeberry
purple chokeberry
chokeberries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chokeberry
Bolivians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bolivian
burnishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of burnish
burnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of burnish
burnishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: burnishings
Senses: examples: text: Like those of other saints, Mira Bai's life story lies within a number of retellings, each more detailed than the last, so that her biography now includes burnishings that probably would not pass any historian's test.
ref: 2001, Kenneth L. Woodward, The Book of Miracles:
glosses: A polishing.
backhoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backhoe
backhoes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of backhoe
backrests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of backrest
bacteriologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more bacteriologically
form: most bacteriologically
Etymology: From bacteriological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a bacteriological manner; with respect to bacteriology.
Derived terms: mycobacteriologically
bailor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailors
Etymology: From bail + -or.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who bails property; one who places property in the hands of another (called a bailee) for safekeeping.
bailors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailor
bailee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bailees
Etymology: From bail + -ee.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: One who holds bailed property; one who takes possession of the property of another (called a bailor) in order to keep that property safe for the other.
examples: text: If the bailee fails to appear at trial, he or she forfeits the full bond amount and must still stand trial — if he or she is ever located.
ref: 2002, David Levinson, Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment, volume 1, page 95:
glosses: A person who is granted bail.
bailees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailee
Pacific Islander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pacific Islanders
Senses: glosses: A person who resides in or originates from Samoa, Tonga, Tokelau, Niue, Cook Islands or any other Pacific island.
Synonyms: Islander
Nesian
Pasifika
Derived terms: AANHPI
AAPI
Pacific American
Pacific Islander American
pacifistically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more pacifistically
form: most pacifistically
Etymology: From pacifistic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a pacifistic manner; in the manner of a pacifist.
packageable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more packageable
form: most packageable
Etymology: From package + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be packaged.
Derived terms: unpackageable
Papua New Guinean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Papua New Guineans
Senses: glosses: Citizen of Papua New Guinea or of Papua New Guinean descent.
Papua New Guinean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: pertaining to Papua New Guinea.
Papua New Guineans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Papua New Guinean
paper-knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paper-knives
Senses: examples: text: The same nervous staccato laugh broke from her thin lips, and her fingers began to play with a long tortoise-shell paper-knife.
ref: 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter IV, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.; Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: Alternative form of paperknife.
paper-knives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paper-knife (alternative spelling of paperknives).
pack animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pack animals
Senses: examples: text: The causeways were laid as hard paths for heavily laden pack-animals bringing in wool from outlying hamlets and farms.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications, page 58:
glosses: A domesticated animal used to carry heavy items.
glosses: A wild animal that lives and hunts in packs
Synonyms: sense: animal used for carrying
word: beast of burden
Hyponyms: sense: beasts of burden
word: burro
sense: beasts of burden
word: camel
sense: beasts of burden
word: elephant
sense: beasts of burden
word: goat
sense: beasts of burden
word: horse
sense: beasts of burden
word: llama
sense: beasts of burden
word: mule
sense: beasts of burden
word: ox
sense: beasts of burden
word: reindeer
sense: beasts of burden
word: water buffalo
sense: beasts of burden
word: yak
Related terms: pack train
pack animals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pack animal
Mediterranean Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean Irish
Senses: examples: text: His name is I. J. Saccamanno. He is a Mediterranean "Irish" and I love him like a brother.
ref: 1959, Labor-management Reform Legislation: Hearings Before a Joint Subcommittee of the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Congress, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 742:
text: Since the 1830s, pro-British Ionians . . . took their cue from the colonial officers, who denigrated the Ionians, comparing them to the aboriginal groups like the Hottentots or Irish. Indeed, the British frequently referred to the Ionians as the "Mediterranean Irish."
ref: 2000, Thomas W. Gallant, “Honor, Masculinity, and Ritual Knife Fighting in Nineteenth-Century Greece,”, in American Historical Review, volume 105, number 2, page 377:
glosses: A member of a national group of the Eastern Mediterranean, especially one which was subjected to a period of British rule or occupation, such as the Greek or Italian people.
Mediterranean Irish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My dear deceased mama used to say to me when I was young and cried b/c I was all Italian. . . "You're Mediterranean Irish and that's good enough" on St. Pat's day!
ref: 2007, "Advertisement for 'Kiss Me...I'm Irish' T-shirt, zazzle.com, comment posted by Donamaria, 24 Feb. (retrieved 21 Jan 2008)
text: My name is Tony Licari. . . . An Irish guy once told me I was "Mediterranean Irish." I guess that is slang for those of us with vowels at the end of our surnames.
ref: 2007 March 28, “Licari of Arabia”, in blogspot.com, retrieved 20 Jan 2008:
glosses: Of or pertaining to such people.
Related terms: Mediterranean Irishman
Mediterranean Irishman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mediterranean Irishmen
Senses: examples: text: Bart Blandino . . . refers to himself as a Mediterranean Irishman—an expression which never fails to amuse us.
ref: 1956 December 27, “Visiting Your Newspaper”, in Oswego Valley News:
glosses: A person belonging to an Eastern Mediterranean national group, especially one which was subjected to a period of British rule or occupation, such as the Greeks or Italians.
Related terms: Mediterranean Irish
lidlock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lidlocks
Etymology: From lid + lock.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A specialized speculum used to hold eyelids open, for example during LASEK eye surgery.
angular momentum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: angular momenta
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The vector product that describes the rotary inertia of a system about an axis and is conserved in a closed system. For an isolated rigid body, it is a measure of the extent to which an object will continue to rotate in the absence of an applied torque.
bio.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: biol.
glosses: Abbreviation of biology.
glosses: Abbreviation of biography.
whole ball of wax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The whole ball of wax will be viewed in 5 minutes.
text: In my opinion the whole ball of wax depends on what she'll say.
text: Of course I have to take a little advantage. After all, I'm the guy who puts the thing together—the whole ball of wax.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 380:
glosses: The entire or overall plan, concept or action.
examples: text: We've got pots, pans, the food and cooking utensils—the whole ball of wax.
synonyms: word: all the marbles
word: bag and baggage
word: everytang
word: everything but the galley stove
word: everything but the kitchen sink
word: everything under the sun
word: full monty
word: hook
word: line and sinker
word: kit and caboodle
word: lock
word: stock and barrel
word: the whole bang shoot
word: the whole nine yards
word: the works
word: whole ball of wax
word: whole hog
word: whole enchilada
word: whole kit and caboodle
word: whole package
word: whole shebang
word: whole shitting match
word: whole shooting match
word: whole smash
glosses: Everything of a similar or related nature; everything necessary for a particular purpose.
break someone's heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks someone's heart
form: breaking someone's heart
form: broke someone's heart
form: broken someone's heart
Etymology: From Middle English breke (my) harte.
Senses: examples: text: Don't go breaking my heart / I couldn't if I tried / Honey if I get restless / Baby you're not that kind
ref: 1976, Elton John, “Don't Go Breaking My Heart”, performed by Elton John ft. Kiki Dee:
text: If you break her heart, I'll break your legs.
ref: 2003 February 7, Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, directed by David Dobkin, Shanghai Knights, spoken by Chon Wang (Jackie Chan):
text: "We're just friends," what are you sayin'? / Said "there's another," and looked right in my eyes / My first love broke my heart for the first time
ref: 2010, “Baby”, performed by Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris:
text: Oh no, I was doin' better alone / But when you said "Hello" / I know that was the end of it all / I should've stayed at home / 'Cause now there ain't no letting you go / Am I falling in love / With the one that could break my heart?
ref: 2020, Dua Lipa; Ali Tamposi; Stefan Johnson, Jordan K. Johnson; Andrew Watt; Andrew Farriss; Michael Hutchence, “Break My Heart”, in Future Nostalgia, performed by Dua Lipa:
glosses: To cause a person to feel grief, disappointment, or sadness.
Related terms: word: heartbreak
word: heartbreaker
english: of an agent
translation: of an agent
word: heartbreaking
english: of a patient
translation: of a patient
word: heartbroken
word: broken heart
word: brokenhearted
word: brokenheartedly
word: brokenheartedness
word: bless someone's heart
word: win someone's heart