cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
padrões
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of padrão
hepatites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hepatite
alfaias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfaia
lavras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavra
clashy-clashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more clashy-clashy
form: most clashy-clashy
Senses: examples: text: "You could have borrowed one of Dad's ties," I pointed out.
"Dad only has striped ties," Kirk said. "I've only got striped shirts. I'm not about to get all clashy-clashy at some fancy party."
ref: 2008, Lisa Papademetriou, Accidentally Fabulous, Scholastic, →ISBN, page 2:
text: Nor getting everyone’s “colours” done, so that the high streets won’t be so “clashy-clashy,” and constantly distressing to the more aesthetically sensitive.
ref: 2009 August 3, Caitlin Moran, “Forget pushy parents, the less you encourage your children the better”, in The Times, UK:
text: She told me that just because matchy-matchy wasn't in, it did nawt^([sic]) mean clashy-clashy was.
ref: 2010, Lisi Harrison, My Little Phony, Poppy, →ISBN:
qualifier: upholstery
glosses: Featuring discordant colours or patterns.
raw_tags: of clothes
prayas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of praya
multiplepoinding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiplepoindings
Etymology: From multiple + poinding.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Wildgoose, Mr. Peebles's eighth agent, recommended a Multiplepoinding to bring all parties concerned into the field.
ref: 1824, Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
text: The multiplepoinding makes the fund litigious, to the effect of preventing the common debtor, to whom the fund originally belonged, from granting any voluntary conveyances of it while the action is in dependence.
ref: 1826, George Joseph Bell, Commentaries on the laws of Scotland, and on the principles of mercantile jurisprudence, Volume 2, page 299:
text: For tax purposes, and for them alone, the English law of charity is to be regarded as part of the law of Scotland. Lord Jauncey's decision in the action of multiplepoinding proceeded on the general law of Scotland as regards charities, and, as the Glasgow Police Athletic case shows, the decision under the corresponding English common law rules would have been different.
ref: 2007, Gary Watt, Todd and Watt's Cases and Materials on Equity and Trusts, →ISBN, page 223:
topics: law
glosses: A legal action taken when there are several claimants to the same fund or property.
herried
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of herry
herrying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of herry
herries
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of herry
customs officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of customs officer
ODA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Open Data-Center Alliance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Open Design Alliance.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Open Document Architecture.
ODA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Japan's initial contribution to Kabul resembled “checkbook diplomacy plus” with a pledge of ODA plus the dispatch of the Maritime SDF to the Indian Ocean. These steps appeared sufficient.
ref: 2014, Dennis T. Yasutomo, Japan's Civil-Military Diplomacy: The Banks of the Rubicon, Routledge, →ISBN:
topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Initialism of official development assistance.
glosses: Initialism of overseas development assistance.
CXF
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Apache Celtix and XFire project names, which is an open-source, fully featured Web services framework.
ROLAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Relational Online Analytical Processing.
Related terms: OLAP
OLTP
MOLAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Multidimensional Online Analytical Processing.
Related terms: OLAP
OLTP
HOLAP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhoʊlæp/
/eɪt͡ʃ əʊ ɛl eɪ piː/
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Acronym of Hybrid Online Analytical Processing.
Hypernyms: OLAP
Related terms: OLTP
cativo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cativos
Senses: examples: text: Thrusting up into the canopy, competing for sunlight with the algarrobo, grew the cativo tree, whose modern descendants grow to 120 feet.
ref: 1999, George O. Poinar, The Amber Forest: A Reconstruction of a Vanished World, page 15:
glosses: Prioria copaifera, a flowering tree of Central and South America.
trichinopoly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The use of trichinopoly wirework (which was also employed on the 'safety chain' for the Tara brooch) raises the question of the date of the Gaulcross hoard of Pictish silver from Grampian.
ref: 1987, Lloyd Laing, Later Celtic Art:
glosses: A style of Viking metal weaving.
Holden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊldən/
ipa: /ˈhoʊldən/
homophone: holden
rhymes: -əʊldən
Senses: glosses: A surname.
examples: text: ‘Holden!’ Mrs Spencer said. ‘How lovely to see you! Come in, dear! Are you frozen to death?’ I think she was glad to see me. She liked me. At least, I think she did.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC:
text: An acquaintance, Nygyl Bryyn, confirmed to CNN the profile and alias is that of Holden Matthews.
ref: 2019 April 12, Paul P. Murphy and Samira Said, “Louisiana arson suspect expressed disgust with Baptist churches on Facebook”, in CNN:
glosses: A male given name transferred from the surname.
glosses: A village in Alberta, Canada.
glosses: A lake in Lierne, Trøndelag, Norway.
glosses: A lake in Steinkjer, Trøndelag, Norway.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Livingston Parish, Louisiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Penobscot County, Maine.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Goodhue County, Minnesota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A city in Johnson County, Missouri.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unorganized territory in Adams County, North Dakota.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Auglaize County and Hardin County, Ohio.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Millard County, Utah.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Logan County, West Virginia.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated town in Vermont.
glosses: A hamlet in Bolton-by-Bowland parish, Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7749).
Derived terms: holdenite
Holdenville
Holden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊldən/
ipa: /ˈhoʊldən/
homophone: holden
rhymes: -əʊldən
Forms: form: Holdens
Senses: glosses: A brand of car (automobile) originating in Australia.
Tyrell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /taɪˈɹɛl/
rhymes: -ɛl
Forms: form: Tyrells
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
glosses: A surname.
Related terms: Tyrrell
Marlon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Marllon
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
plig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pligs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of plyg.
decuples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decuple
pligs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plig
unchivalrousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unchivalrous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unchivalrous; lack of chivalry.
unchivalrously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unchivalrously
form: most unchivalrously
Etymology: From unchivalrous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an unchivalrous manner; without chivalry.
sociates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sociate
sociates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sociate
sociated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sociate
sociating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sociate
eradicatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eradicative
glomerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glomerate
glomerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glomerate
glomerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glomerate
breaknecks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breakneck
Machiavelian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Machiavelian
form: most Machiavelian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Machiavellian.
devil's luck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: People who were always lucky were once thought to have to have made a pact with the Devil.
Senses: glosses: astounding good luck.
Related terms: lucky devil
luck of the devil
luck of the Irish
wexing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛksɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of wex
anticatalytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticatalytic
form: most anticatalytic
Etymology: From anti- + catalytic.
Senses: glosses: Inhibiting catalysis.
wheelbarrowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of wheelbarrow
rathered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rather
Frieslander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Frieslanders
Etymology: From Friesland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Friesland.
Frieslanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Frieslander
shrubbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shrub
nonshrubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shrubby.
Senses: examples: nonshrubby vegetation
glosses: Not shrubby.
semishrubby
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + shrubby.
Senses: examples: semishrubby vegetation
glosses: Partly shrubby.
illapsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of illapse
illapsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of illapse
flapdragon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flapdragons
Senses: examples: text: From stabbing of armes, Flap-dragons[…]and all such swaggering Humors.
ref: 1600 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Cynthias Reuels, or The Fountayne of Selfe-Loue. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
glosses: A game in which the players take raisins out of burning brandy, and swallow them.
examples: text: Thou art easier swallowed then a flapdragon.
ref: c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Loues Labour’s Lost”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: Any of the raisins in this game.
Synonyms: sense: game
word: snapdragon
flapdragons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flapdragon
labiating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of labiate
emulgents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of emulgent
antagonym
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antagonyms
Senses: glosses: A contronym.
antagonyms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antagonym
Swedenborgians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swedenborgian
orogenous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From orogeny + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: The gradual uplift of mountains is the most common form of orogenous activity.
text: Within the remaining young circumpacific orogenous belt there are mainly two regions of special interest with regard to geothermal conditions left for consideration...
ref: 1970, Proceedings of the United Nations Symposium on the Development and Utilisation of Geothermal Resources, vol. 2, part 2, page 1229:
text: The Fergana intermountain depression falls into the orogenous class structures...
Being part of post-Paleozoic activation region it has gone through a number of orogenous epochs...
ref: 1980, Nils-Axel Morner, editor, Earth Rheology, Isostasy, and Eustasy, John Wiley & Sons, page 428:
text: [O]rogenous uplifts grow continuously...
ref: 1993, L.P. Zonenshain Memorial Conference on Plate Tectonics: Programme and Abstracts, page 27:
text: Orogenous spruce, larch and arolla, mountain pine forests and plantations
Western Palaearcic orogenous spruce forests
ref: 1999, Jean Terschuren, “Action plan for Cypripedium calceolus in Europe”, in Nature and Environment, number 100, page 42:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to mountain-building; orogenic.
Related terms: orogenous zone
gas line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gas lines
form: gasline
Senses: examples: text: The gas line in each apartment should have a ball valve for emergency shutoffs.
coordinate_terms: gas burner
gas jet
glosses: A pipe or hose connecting a gas appliance to the main supply of natural gas for the apartment, office or building.
examples: text: The gas lines sometimes wrapped around the block in 1973.
glosses: A queue out of a service station where people in automobiles wait their turn to make a purchase of gasoline.
examples: text: Call before you dig — there is a gas line buried in the area.
glosses: A pipeline used to transport natural gas.
examples: text: On older models, the gas line feeds the carburetor and has a replaceable fuel filter.
hypernyms: fuel line
glosses: The tubing that carries gasoline in a vehicle from the gas tank to the engine.
Related terms: sense: natural gas hookups or pipelines
word: gasworks
sense: natural gas hookups or pipelines
word: gas works
gas lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪnz
Senses: glosses: plural of gas line
orogenous zone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orogenous zones
Etymology: By analogy to erogenous zone.
Senses: examples: text: Orogenous zones are usually found along plate boundaries.
text: The villagers were astonished to learn that they were living in an orogenous zone.
text: ...an orogenous zone separates a deep subsiding western zone, over 3,000 meters deep, from a more stable eastern zone rising gently to the east.
ref: 1960, M. Palmer, editor, World Petroleum, volume 31, page 65:
text: The El Dorado-Searchlight area is geologically a north-south trending orogenous zone, paralleled on the east by the valley of the Colorado, and by an alluvial valley on the west.
ref: 1968, Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, volumes 11-14, page vi:
text: Structures due to strata compaction have been identified in the orogenous zone of North-Dobrogea (Independenta), in the Moesic Platform and in the Pannonian Depression (Teremia).
ref: 1976, “Geomorphology and Paleogeography”, in Proceedings of the International Geographical Union, page 78:
text: Grand knew the mountains well, he respected their moods, and above all he enjoyed the challenge of what Tumamait — when he still had a sense of humor — once referred to as "one of the earth's most seductive and temperamental orogenous zones."
ref: 2001, Jeff Rovin, Fatalis: a Novel, Macmillan, page 28:
text: The NHLR lies within the Northern Highlands region—a relict orogenous zone that has been glacially eroded to form a highland plateau region spanning from Michigan to Minnesota.
ref: 2008, Gregory S. Babonis, “et al.”, in Using Multi-frequency Synthetic Aperture Radar to Develop Regional-Scale Groundwater Maps, University of Michigan, page 9:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
synonyms: orogenic belt
orogen
glosses: A region characterized by mountain-building.
Related terms: orogeny
orogenous zones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orogenous zone
tenamaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tenamastes
Etymology: From Spanish tenamaste.
Senses: examples: text: Tenamaste stones were used as pot rests or firedogs in a cooking fire.
ref: 1987, Papers of the New World Archaeological Foundation, page 174:
text: Also, at the foot of the tenamastes people bury coins, chiles, grains of corn, and a handful of beans to assure that the domestic food supply will never run out. [...] Contemporary Totonac usually construct a wooden box with legs that is filled with dirt on which the tenamastes are placed. The most sacred place in the main room is the home altar [...]
ref: 2005, Pablo Valderrama Rouy, “The Totonac”, in Native Peoples of the Gulf Coast of Mexico, page 199:
glosses: Any of the three stones traditionally used to elevate a comal above a fire in Mesoamerican cultures.
tenamastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tenamaste
underground mutton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A rabbit, or rabbit meat.
Swedenborgianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Swedenborgian + -ism.
Senses: synonyms: New Church
New Jerusalem Church
glosses: Any of several related Christian denominations that developed as a new religious movement, informed by the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg.
Engganese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Engganese
form: most Engganese
Etymology: From Enggano + -ese.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Enggano Island.
Engganese
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Enggano + -ese.
Senses: glosses: The Malayo-Polynesian language of Enggano Island.
Synonyms: topics: language
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: Enggano
conciliables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conciliable
cativos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cativo
political arithmetic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
ref: 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations:
text: The most basic effect of political arithmetic was namely to establish that a nation's strength depended above all on the number of inhabitants [...].
ref: 2012, Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex, Penguin, published 2013, page 221:
glosses: The demographic statistics of a country or state.
ambimoustrous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ambidextrous and mouse.
Senses: glosses: Capable of operating a computer mouse using either hand.
transverses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transverse
rocket propelled grenade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rocket propelled grenades
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of rocket-propelled grenade.
tretises
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tretis
audiently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more audiently
form: most audiently
Etymology: From Latin audient- + -ly. Compare later audient.
Senses: glosses: Audibly.
dice coal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Rhomboidal coal (commonly called dice coal), in contradistinction to coals which do not break in rhombs.
ref: 1804, James Sowerby, British Mineralogy:
glosses: A kind of coal that easily splits into cubical fragments.
Adi Granth
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Guru Granth Sahib.
synonyms: word: Guru Granth Sahib
whew duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whew ducks
Etymology: From its shrill whistle.
Senses: glosses: A Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope).
Synonyms: Eurasian wigeon
whewer
whew ducks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whew duck
pewed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pjuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pew
tewing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tew
centrisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of centrism
Tripitaka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tripitakas
form: Tripiṭaka
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit त्रिपिटक (tripiṭaka, “Three Baskets”). Compare Pali tipiṭaka (“Three Baskets”).
Senses: topics: Buddhism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Any of several canons of Buddhist scripture.
Related terms: Tripitakan
br'er
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: br'ers
Senses: glosses: Contraction of brother.
Tripitakan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Tripitaka + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Tripitaka.
underivable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + derivable.
Senses: examples: text: [B]eautiful women […] seem, for a long interval, mysteriously exempt from the incantations of decay; for as the outward loveliness touch by touch departs, the interior beauty touch by touch replaces that departing bloom, with charms, which, underivable from earth, possess the ineffaceableness of stars.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: That cannot be derived.
underivable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underivables
Etymology: From un- + derivable.
Senses: glosses: Something that cannot be derived.
autogain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From auto- + gain.
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: automatic amplification of a signal
jargoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jargon
jargoning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jargonings
Senses: examples: text: Wherefore, the language of Maramma was incessantly fluctuating; and had become so full of jargonings, that the birds in the groves were greatly puzzled; not knowing where lay the virtue of sounds, so incoherent.
ref: 1849, Herman Melville, Mardi, and a Voyage Thither:
glosses: Unintelligible speech.
jargoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jargon
assuasives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of assuasive
stunpoll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stunpolls
Etymology: From stun + poll.
Senses: examples: text: The little stunpoll of a fellow couldn't call to mind more than that 'tis Miss Somebody of London.
ref: 1871, Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies:
glosses: bonehead, stupid person
tyroes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyro
salams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salam
Final Testament
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The Qur'an.
provocating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of provocate
SRI
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of System of Rice Intensification.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: Initialism of Swiss Radio International.
SRI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of socially responsible investment.
groundwall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundwalls
Etymology: From Middle English groundwalle, grundwal, from Old English grundweall (“foundation”), equivalent to ground + wall. Cognate with Middle High German gruntwal (“foundation”), Danish grundvold (“foundation”), Swedish grundval (“base, basis, foundation”).
Senses: glosses: A wall as foundation; a foundation.
groundwalls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of groundwall
groundway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundways
Etymology: From Middle English *groundway, from Old English grundwæġ (“earth, world”).
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
shipbuilding
glosses: In shipbuilding, a substantial foundation of wood or stone for the blocks on which a vessel is built.
Flavius
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin Flavius.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
rebox
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reboxes
form: reboxing
form: reboxed
form: reboxed
Etymology: From re- + box.
Senses: glosses: To place in a box again; to pack back into a box.
reboxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rebox
reboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rebox
reboxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rebox
impresting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of imprest
imprested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of imprest
cat-o-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-o-nines
Senses: examples: text: First they whipped him with a cat-o-nine. He never groaned.
ref: 1981, Barbara Fitz Vroman, Sons of thunder, page 371:
text: “Now that's compliance, Kyle. What do you use for discipline, a cattle prod or a cat-o-nine?”
ref: 1996, Glenda Sanders, A Human Touch, page 169:
glosses: Alternative spelling of cat-o'-nine, which is short for cat-o'-nine-tails.
cat-o'-nine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cat-o'-nines
form: cat-o-nine
Senses: examples: text: He'd endured being tortured with a cat-o'-nine; he couldn't bear the disappointment and need in her blue-green eyes.
ref: 2010, Joey W. Hill, Vampire Mistress, →ISBN:
glosses: Ellipsis of cat-o'-nine-tails.
et ux.
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: et ux
form: & ux.
form: & uxor
form: etux
Etymology: From Latin et uxor (“and [the] wife”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: "and wife", or "and his wife"
three quarters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The theater is about three quarters full, but yet, it took us three quarters of an hour to get to our seats.
glosses: Alternative form of three-quarters.
bottom of the hour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottoms of the hour
form: bottoms of the hours
Etymology: Refers to the time when the position of the long hand is pointing toward the number 6, or exactly halfway between the preceding hour and the upcoming one.
Senses: examples: text: At seven o'clock, he said to get in touch with him again at the bottom of the hour, so I called him back at seven thirty.
glosses: The time at (or very close to) half the next hour of time.
Austerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Austerian
form: most Austerian
Etymology: From Auster + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: And disappearing, needless to say, is a quintessential Austerian act.
ref: 2011, Dennis Barone, Beyond the Red Notebook: Essays on Paul Auster, page 184:
text: The prototypical Austerian protagonist is the detached Manhattan male writing alone in a room with only his words as his way of reflecting […]
ref: 2014, Peter Ferry, Masculinity in Contemporary New York Fiction, page 144:
glosses: Of or relating to Paul Auster (born 1947), American author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning.
precariats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precariat
hanging sleeve
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging sleeves
Senses: examples: text: the uncontroul'd, Termagant Spirit, which has been since so conspicuously display'd, was visibly perceiv'd in the little Vixen when but in Hanging-Sleeves, she being even at those callow Years, haughty and impatient of Contradiction.
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section I:
glosses: A loose sleeve that hangs down from the arm, formerly worn particularly by children.
Related terms: maunch
plainwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of plain work.
shunpiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shunpikers
Etymology: Blend of shun + turnpike + -er
Senses: glosses: One who avoids toll roads, or who uses sideroads to avoid toll booths.
McPhail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McPhails
form: Fyall
form: MacPhail
form: McFaul
form: McField
form: McPhaul
Etymology: Anglicization of the Scottish Gaelic Mac Phàil and Irish Mac Phóil, both meaning "son of Paul".
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Mackfall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
MacPhail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
McFall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFalls
Etymology: Variant of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A city in Gentry County, Missouri, United States.
McFaul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McFauls
Etymology: Variant of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Fyall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fyalls
Etymology: Contraction of McPhail.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paulet
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Pauley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Paulin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paullin
Etymology: From a Middle English form of the Latin saint's name Paulīnus.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
green gown
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: green gowns
Senses: examples: text: Oh, a morning to tempt Ioue frõ his Ningle Ganimed, vvhich is but to giue Dary VVenches greene govvnes as they are going a milking; […]
ref: 1604 or 1605 (date written), Thomas Dekker, The Second Part of The Honest Whore, […], London: […] Elizabeth All-de, for Nathaniel Butter, published 1630, →OCLC, Act I, signature A2, recto:
text: Sometimes they lie open and are most tractable and coming, apt, yielding, and willing to embrace, to take a green gown, with that shepherdess in Theocritus, Idyll. 27, to let their coats, etc. […]
ref: 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 3, section 2, member 2, subsection 4:
text: Who first gave our SALLY a Green-Gown is uncertain, but it is reported by many […] that upon being admitted an Honorary Member of Mrs. Wisebourn's Academy, she was, (tho' very indifferently) arrayed in that Colour […]
ref: 1723, Charles Walker, Memoirs of Sally Salisbury, section II:
text: The boy […] flung himself upon Juliet, with all his force; protesting that he would give her a green gown.
ref: 1814, Frances Burney, The Wanderer, section III.4:
glosses: A dress that has been stained green from rolling in the grass; generally with allusion to sexual activity, especially a woman's loss of virginity.
Pawling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Paulin.
In New York State, the name originated as a misprint of Pauling, which was never corrected.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
glosses: A town and village therein, in Dutchess County, New York, United States.
Pawlyn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Paulin.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Powling
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Paulin.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Quayle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Manx form of McPhail (also compare Fayle). Also an English nickname from the quail bird.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Manx.
Quail
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Manx form of McPhail. Also an English nickname from the quail bird.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Quaile
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a Manx form of McPhail. Also an English nickname from the quail bird.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Paulley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Pawlett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Powley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Paull
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
Pawle
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the given name Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
plenipo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plenipos
form: plenipoes
Senses: glosses: A plenipotentiary.
Pawson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔː.sən/
ipa: /ˈpɔ.sən/
ipa: /ˈpɑ.sən/
rhymes: -ɔːsən
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of Paul + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Poulson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Paul + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Accomack County, Virginia, United States.
Poulsom
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A variant of Poulson (“son of Paul”).
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Polson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Polsons
Etymology: From Paul + -son.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Lake County, Montana, United States.
Powles
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Powless
Etymology: From Powell + the genitive (mostly patronymic) suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Pollins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Paulin + the genitive (mostly patronymic) suffix -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
Poll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑl/
ipa: /pɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Etymology: From Polly, by rhyming with Molly, from Mary.
Senses: examples: text: "A gentleman, please Sir," said the blushing Mary, (or Poll as some unrespective and light-minded persons have misnamed her), and the gentleman entered.
ref: 1833 The Pilgrim Brothers [signed Timotheus Scribewell], Romances of Chivalric Ages, H. Cope, page iv
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Mary.
glosses: A common pet name for a parrot.
Poll
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑl/
ipa: /pɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Forms: form: Polls
Etymology: From Polly, by rhyming with Molly, from Mary.
Senses: glosses: A disreputable woman.
Poll
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑl/
ipa: /pɒl/
rhymes: -ɒl
Etymology: From Paul.
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name.
agida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of agita.
agida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agidas
Senses: examples: text: Wedges are used to tense the skin, and the agida is placed on the ground lengthwise for playing.
ref: 1967, Joseph H. Howard, Drums in the Americas:
glosses: A large drum used for ceremonial music in Surinam.
agida
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agidas
Senses: examples: text: The person who beats the ségond remains seated with the instrument held firmly between his legs, striking it either with his left or right hand and a forked stick or a small bow (agida) held in the free hand.
ref: 2016, Alfred Métraux, Voodoo in Haiti:
glosses: A curved drumstick used in Haiti.
agidas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agida
hysteresis loops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hysteresis loop
montaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɒn.təˈɹiː.ə/
ipa: /mɒn.təˈɹi.ə/
rhymes: -iːə
Forms: form: montarias
Senses: glosses: A kind of rudderless boat used on the Amazon.
montarias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of montaria
heortology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From German Heortologie, from Ancient Greek ἑορτή (heortḗ, “festival”) + -ology.
Senses: examples: text: For the same reason, in accordance with the meaning of the term "Heortology," he has concerned himself with those festivals alone which are publicly celebrated, or were so celebrated formerly.
ref: 1901, A Priest of the Diocese of Westminster, “Preface”, in Rev. J. Wilhelm, D.D., Ph.d., editor, Heortology: a history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Limited, translation of Heortologie, oder, das Kirchenjahr und die Heiligenfeste in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung by Karl Adam Heinrich Kellner, published 1908, page vi:
glosses: The study of religious festivals.
Related terms: heortological
heortologist
ceraunomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cerauno- + -mancy; based on earlier ceraunoscopy.
Senses: examples: text: Indeed as DeMille in 1956 filmed the Decalogue, God inscribes each commandment literally with a bolt of lightning. Because the film functions to read the signs of the times, the practice here invokes ceraunomancy (divination by lightning).
ref: 2007, Evan Samuel Heimlich, Divination by the Ten Commandments: Its Rhetorics and their Genealogies, page 187:
text: Whether or not that is true, the equal weight given to public and private contexts in the sources for Etruscan ceraunomancy certainly does provide a corrective to our literary sources and their preoccupation with public divination whence one might be led to believe that traditional divination was exclusively public or communal in nature prior to the first-century..
ref: 2016, Kyle Grothoff, Astrology in Augustan Rome: A Cultural History, page 68:
glosses: Divination by thunder; the use of thunder or lightning to supernaturally gain information.
glosses: The magical or supernatural power of conjuring or controlling thunder or lightning.
Synonyms: brontomancy
ceraunoscopy
heortologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heortologists
Etymology: From heortology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A person who studies heortology.
heortological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heortology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to heortology.
ecoscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecoscape
intermorphs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of intermorph
ham-handedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hamhandedness
Etymology: From ham-handed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: the state or condition of being ham-handed
buffalo berries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffalo berry
ketonizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ketonization
flea flicker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flea flickers
Senses: topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A trick offensive play in which the quarterback laterals the ball to the running back, who then runs a short distance, then laterals the ball back to the quarterback.
stuff the ballot box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: stuffs the ballot box
form: stuffing the ballot box
form: stuffed the ballot box
form: stuffed the ballot box
Senses: examples: text: Two fruitless ballots were taken, when the chairman of the board of tellers, stepping to the platform, said: "I find that attempts have been made to stuff the ballot-box."
ref: 1888 May 24, “Electing the Bishops”, in Baltimore American, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 4:
text: Their simplest and most effective scheme is to create a disturbance during which they can stuff the ballot box as they tried to last night.
ref: 1906 September 28, “Decent Democracy Downs Dorneyism”, in The News-Democrat, Rhode Island, USA, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 3:
text: Republicans were said to have stuffed the ballot box with illegal votes, and the Democrats were accused of a lot of things too.
ref: 1976 November 2, “Town Recalls ‘Decisive’ Vote”, in Daytona Beach Morning Journal, retrieved 05 Apr 2013, page 3B:
text: Several council officials were convicted of stuffing the ballot box in 1996 to guarantee approval of a widely disliked contract.
ref: 2002 February 27, Steven Greenhouse, “Trustee Ends His Oversight Of District 37”, in New York Times, retrieved 05 Apr 2013:
topics: government
politics
glosses: To commit fraud in an election by depositing extra or otherwise illegitimate ballots into the container holding the ballots of voters, in an attempt to secure victory for a particular candidate or outcome.
stuffing the ballot box
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of stuff the ballot box
boys of summer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Baseball is a traditional summer pastime for young men.
Senses: glosses: People who play baseball, particularly in the major leagues.
monolectic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪk
Forms: form: more monolectic
form: most monolectic
Etymology: From mono- + -lectic.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to an insect (especially a bee) which collects pollen from the flowers of a single plant species.
examples: text: A polylectic term is a multi-word term, as opposed to a monolectic term which is a one-word term.
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a term consisting of one word; one-worded, singleworded.
Related terms: topics: grammar
linguistics
human-sciences
sciences
word: periphrastic
silver weddings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver wedding
on the club
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From the term benefit club.
Senses: examples: text: Then he crept up the stone stairs behind the drapery shop at the Co-op., and peeped in the reading-room. Usually one or two men were there, either old, useless fellows, or colliers "on the club".
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 5”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Temporarily away from work, usually due to sickness, supported by sickness benefit.
halonium ions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halonium ion
red letter laws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red letter law
benefit club
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benefit clubs
Senses: glosses: A mutual aid organization, with subscribers entitled to benefit payments in case of an accident or an illness.
Derived terms: on the club
gilliver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gillivers
Senses: examples: text: Mother and son went into the small railed garden, where was a scent of red gillivers.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 6”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A gillyflower.
by a long chalk
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbaɪ‿ə ˌlɒŋ ˈt͡ʃɔːk/
ipa: /ˌbaɪ‿ə ˌlɔŋ ˈt͡ʃɔk/
rhymes: -ɔːk
Forms: form: by long chalks
Etymology: A reference to the practice of writing the scores of games on boards using chalk.
Senses: examples: text: [A]s regards the body of water discharged, the absolute payments made into the sea's exchequer, and the majesty of column riding downwards from the Himalaya, I believe that, since Sir Alexander Burnes's measurements, the Indus ranks foremost by a long chalk.
ref: 1854, Thomas De Quincey, “System of the Heavens as Revealed by Lord Rosse’s Telescopes”, in Miscellanies: Chiefly Narrative (De Quincey’s Works; III), London: James Hogg & Sons, →OCLC, footnote *, page 171:
text: Bowring was a man of few words; he said, "Blaze away, my boy." And I tried to. But it was no use; I had got out of the style; my writing was too literary by a long chalk.
ref: 1891, George Gissing, “The Lonely Man”, in New Grub Street […], volume III, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 82–83:
text: The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.
ref: 1906, Edith Van Dyne [pseudonym: Lyman Frank Baum], “The Other Niece”, in Aunt Jane’s Nieces, Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Britton Co., →OCLC, page 153:
text: "My boy, remember you're taking your life in your hands," said Mrs. Morel. "Nothing is as bad as a marriage that's a hopeless failure. Mine was bad enough, God knows, and ought to teach you something; but it might have been worse by a long chalk."
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “Death in the Family”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC, part I, page 132:
text: He [Mohamed Salah] is, by a long chalk, the world's favourite living Egyptian, and [has] been heralded as a role model in his adopted city of Liverpool.
ref: 2021 October 25, Magdy Samaan, “Mohamed Salah added to school curriculum in Egypt”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 Nov 2021:
synonyms: by chalks
glosses: To a great extent; by far.
Synonyms: by far § Synonyms
phosphine sulfides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphine sulfide
dharmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dharmic
form: most dharmic
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dharmic.
Derived terms: adharmic
dharmically
Dimity
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The given name is apparently from the name of the light cotton fabric, dimity. However, since it is found primarily as an Irish name, it may have originated as a feminine equivalent of Dermot.
Senses: examples: 1990, Miss Read (Dora Jessie Saint), Friends at Thrush Green, 2002, page 98,
'Raffle books,' she announced.
'What for?' enquired Dimity, feeling for her purse and about to do a vicar's wife's familiar duty.
glosses: A female given name of modern usage.
examples: text: The Diaper family lived in Sassafras street—the Dimity family in Pepperidge street; and the fathers of the Diaper girls and the Dimity girls were worth about the same money, and had both made it in the lumber line.
ref: 1843, N. P. Willis, “Meena Dimity: Or Why Mr. Brown Crash Took His Tour”, in George R. Graham, Rufus W. Griswold, editors, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature and Art, volumes 22-23, page 134:
glosses: A surname.