cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
skippingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more skippingly
form: most skippingly
Etymology: From skipping + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to skip; moving with small hops or jumps.
egophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: egophonies
form: aegophony
form: ægophony
form: œgophony
Etymology: From ego- (“goat”) + -phony.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A bleating sound sometimes observed in patients with various lung conditions.
Derived terms: egophonic
unapplauded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + applauded.
Senses: glosses: Not applauded.
unappraised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + appraised.
Senses: glosses: Not appraised.
unevaluated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + evaluated.
Senses: glosses: Not evaluated.
koilonychia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From koilo- + onych- + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A deformity of the nails characterized by concavity of the outer surface
Synonyms: spoon nail
egophonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: aegophonic
form: ægophonic
Etymology: From egophony + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to egophony.
Latin alphas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Latin alpha
stethoscopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Senses: examples: text: a stethoscopic examination
glosses: using a stethoscope
freebooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).
Senses: examples: text: The Haghar are well known, even in Europe, for their freebooting propensities.
ref: 1853, James Richardson, Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2:
text: Why do you now refuse to protect your own highway into the Interior, […] and thus put an end to the freebooting of the Boers, and of our own people who joined them?
ref: 1900, Josephine Elizabeth Butler, Native Races and the War:
text: In a short time freebooting assumed all of the routine of a regular business.
ref: 1921, Howard Pyle, Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates:
glosses: To pilage or plunder; piracy
examples: text: Your recent issue about the problems of electronic software piracy or "freebooting" — if you will — was excellent and timely. However, I wonder if both sides have failed to understand the social significance of the struggle.
ref: 1982, InfoWorld, volume 4, number 15, page 30:
text: Freebooting of broadcast satellite signals may exist privately, but we have no evidence of illegal signal capture being commercialized any longer.
ref: 1994, United States. Congress. Senate, Country reports on economic policy and trade practices:
text: Many felt that the software companies are really the ones who ought to be called pirates. […] No wonder, the reader said, that customers are tempted to a little freebooting of their own.
ref: 1998, InfoWorld, volume 20, page 79:
text: Oh those freebooters taking our videos! I'm sick of it. Freebooting, you know, it's a serious issue!
ref: 2014, Brady Haran, Hello Internet: Episode #5: Freebooting
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Software piracy, or stealing or unauthorized rehosting of digital content.
freebooting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).
Senses: examples: text: In one respect, as I hinted above, it is only too good, so sure of success, I mean, that you are no longer secure of any respect to your property in our freebooting America.
ref: 1843, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.:
glosses: Engaged in piracy or plunder
freebooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From freebooter (“a type of pirate”).
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of freeboot
grimed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more grimed
form: most grimed
Senses: glosses: grimy; mucky
Derived terms: engrimed
ungrimed
grimed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of grime
legionaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legionary
leddy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leddies
Senses: examples: text: "What's to come o' my leddy?"
ref: 1875, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Vol. XV., No. 85. January, 1875.:
text: "'Well,' she says, calmin' down, 'is there e'er an Oirish leddy in the lot?'
ref: 1906, Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Scraggs:
text: "You are a leddy now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a leddy's room."
ref: 1912, J.M. Barrie, Tommy and Grizel:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of lady.
leddies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leddy
loopholed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of loophole
loopholed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the loopholed walls of the castle
glosses: Having a loophole.
loopholing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of loophole
lenitives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lenitive
loathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: loathlier
form: loathliest
form: lothly
form: laithly
form: laidly
Etymology: From Middle English lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċ (“loathly, hateful, horrible, repulsive, unpleasant”); equivalent to loath + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Her loathly viſage viewing with diſdaine, / Eftſoones I thought her ſuch, as ſhe me told, / And would haue kild her; but with faigned paine, / The falſe witch did my wrathfull hand with-hold; / So left her, where ſhe now is turnd to treen mould.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Volume 1:
text: Pro. Then, as my gueſt, and thine owne acquiſition / Worthily purchas'd, take my daughter : But / If thou do'ſt breake her Virgin-knot, before / All ſanctimonious ceremonies may / With full and holy right, be miniſtred, / No ſweet aſperſion ſhall the heauens let fall / To make this contract grow; but barraine hate, / Sower-ey'd diſdaine, and diſcord ſhall beſtrew / The vnion of your bed, with weedes ſo loathly / That you ſhall hate it both : Therefore take heede, / As Hymens Lamps ſhall light you.
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14:
text: And Merlin answered, 'Overquick art thou / To catch a loathly plume fallen from the wing / Of that foul bird of rapine whose whole prey / Is man's good name: he never wronged his bride.
ref: 1885, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King:
text: This unremitting insistence on his color, this continual shunting him into obscure and filthy ways, gradually gave Peter a loathly sensation.
ref: 1922, T.S. Stribling, Birthright:
glosses: Loathsome; hideous.
Derived terms: loathliness
loathly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: loathlier
form: loathliest
form: lothly
form: laithly
form: laidly
Etymology: From Middle English *lothli, loothly, from Old English lāþlīċe (“hatefully”), from lāþlīċ + -e (adverbial suffix); equivalent to loath + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a loathsome manner; disgustingly.
glosses: Unwillingly; reluctantly.
levities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of levity
lighteth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: light + -eth
Senses: examples: text: A city that is set on an hill, cannot be hid, neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it lighteth all them which are in the house.
ref: 1534, The first New Testament printed in English:
text: Is there not in every one of them, as in you, the Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world?
ref: 1874, Charles Kingsley, All Saints' Day and Other Sermons:
text: Verily thy Lord lighteth the lamp of Love in the heart of whomsoever He chooseth.
ref: 1927, Barbara R. Sims, Japan Will Turn Ablaze!:
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of light
lacqueys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lacquey
bulldozered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Maze prison in Northern Ireland will see hundreds of acres of buildings bulldozered before crucial historical research has been carried out.
ref: 2005 August 12, Angelique Chrisafis, “Archaeologist in plea to save the Maze from bulldozers”, in The Guardian:
glosses: simple past and past participle of bulldozer
Related terms: bulldozed
loaden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loadens
form: loadening
form: loadened
form: loadened
Etymology: From load + -en (“to make like”).
Senses: examples: text: […] so, this Distemper of theirs was a Provocation to the Lord to vomit them up: as a man that hath taken something, that loadens his stomach, is sick, until he vomit; […]
ref: 1678, John Ryther, The best friend standing at the door:
text: […] so the wrong imployment of them, loadens him with more real Misery, than any other Creature: […]
ref: 1725, Hugh Binning, Heart Humiliation:
text: […] "who, just as he loadens all others with his favors, so also loadens you," […]
ref: 1892, Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Commentary on the New Testament:
glosses: To charge or burden with a load; to burden or freight
examples: text: The drover dodged hastily, seeking the protection of the big egg-stove. "Hold on there!" he shouted. "Meb-be it's loadened."
ref: 1903, Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine, volume 33, page 65:
glosses: To load a gun or pistol
loaden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English *loden, lode, variant of laden, y-lade, from Old English hladen, ġehladen (“loaded, laden”), equivalent to load + -en (past participle ending). Doublet of laden.
Senses: examples: text: Eugenius discovered sitting loaden with many Irons, a Lampe burning by him; then enter Clowne with a piece of browne bread and a Carret roote.
ref: 1638, “The Martyr'd Souldier”, in Old English Plays, Vol. I:
text: He did discourse to us of the Dutch fleete being abroad, eighty-five of them still, and are now at the Texell, he believes, in expectation of our Eastland ships coming home with masts and hempe, and our loaden Hambrough ships going to Hambrough.
ref: 1665, Samuel Pepys, Diary of Samuel Pepys, October 1665:
glosses: past participle of load
lettest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: let + -est
Senses: examples: text: Lord Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy promise.
ref: 1534, The first New Testament printed in English:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of let
examples: text: Thou lettest me kiss thee last year, and the year before, and every other year.
ref: 1898, Maurus Jokai, The Nameless Castle:
glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of let
leggin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leggins
Senses: examples: text: Dismounting from his horse, he then takes from his leggin the butcher-knife that he always carries with him, and sticks the animal in the throat.
ref: 1849, Edwin Bryant, What I Saw in California:
text: Look at those leggins!
ref: 1856, John Esten Cooke, The Last of the Foresters:
text: Between the two of us we choked her hold loose, but she brought Jones' leather leggin in her teeth.
ref: 1922, Zane Grey, Tales of lonely trails:
glosses: Dated form of legging.
Derived terms: be-leggined
beleggined
leggined
leggins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leggin
bundt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bŭnt
ipa: /bʌnt/
rhymes: -ʌnt
Forms: form: bundts
Etymology: From German Bundkuchen, from Bund (“tied together”) + Kuchen (“cake”).
Senses: glosses: A baking pan with a hollow, circular, raised area in the middle.
Derived terms: bundt cake
bundts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bundt
Stevie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Steve + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given names Stephen and Steven.
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.
leavest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: leave + -est
Senses: examples: text: XXXVI "Whither, O cruel! leavest thou me alone?"
ref: 1544-1595, Edward Fairfax (1560-1635), , Jerusalem Delivered:
text: But thou, thyself not knowing, leavest all For a poor price to strangers; since thy head Is weak, albeit thy limbs are stout and good.
ref: 1878, Michael Angelo Buonarroti, Tommaso Campanella, Sonnets:
text: Each loved one that thou leavest here, Some other love may wear, Each heart will have some other heart Its loneliness to share.
ref: 1881, Madge Morris, Debris:
text: "My head is bursting, and since from the heights of my supernatural love a thunderbolt thus hurls me down, since, nothing, nothing henceforth, from this moment on, can give me joy, since, cruel woman, when thou couldst throw me a rope, thou leavest me, in dismay, to drink the bitter current--let death come, black hiding-place, bottomless abyss! let me plunge down head first!"
ref: 1901, Charles Alfred Downer, Frédéric Mistral:
glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of leave
leadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leading
knowne
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: […] So now in heaven a signe it doth appeare, The Harpe well knowne beside the Northern Beare.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, “The Teares of the Muses”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: But yt he should not but have had either shipping ready before this time, or at least certaine means, and course, and ye same knowne to us for it, or have taken other order otherwise, cannot in my conscience be excused.
ref: 1621, Azel Ames, The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete:
text: Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.
ref: 1664 April 4 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “March 25th, 1664 (Lady day)”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume IV, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1894, →OCLC, page 85:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of known.
ketched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtʃt
Senses: examples: text: As the afoursaid boy started to run off, a well dressed lookin' man ketched him by the cote coller.
ref: 1870, Various, Punchinello, Vol. 2, No. 29, October 15, 1870:
text: He throwed his head back as he run, and ketched me right between his horns, like a nut in a nutcracker.
ref: 1915, Dorothy Canfield, Hillsboro People:
glosses: simple past and past participle of ketch
ketching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ketch
knockings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knocking
keerful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more keerful
form: most keerful
Senses: examples: text: Presently she said impressively: "You got to go mighty keerful now, I tell you!"
ref: 1894, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson:
text: "I've raised Mandy," continued Mr. Bobo, ignoring this interruption, "very keerful."
ref: 1913, Horace Annesley Vachell, Bunch Grass:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of careful.
sippets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sippet
march fly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: march flies
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of March fly.
music theory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: musical theory
theory of music
glosses: The field of study dealing with how music works, typically examining the language and notation of music, the patterns and structures in composers' techniques, and so on.
districtual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From district + -ual.
Senses: glosses: Of, belonging to, or pertaining to a district.
flitch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: flitches
Etymology: From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.
Senses: examples: text: The following morning before Nicholas awoke, Mulvey walked all the way to the village of Letterfrack, returning with a basket of cabbages and a flitch of bacon, two loaves of fresh bread and a plump broiling chicken.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 95:
text: The programme was loosely derived from a folk tradition, the Great Dunmow Flitch, in which the most happily married couple in the village were rewarded with a gift of a flitch of beef.
ref: 2004, Dominic Strinati, Stephen Wagg, Come on Down?: Popular Media Culture in Post-War Britain, Routledge, →ISBN, page 186:
glosses: The flank or side of an animal, now almost exclusively a pig when cured and salted; a side of bacon.
examples: text: The Measure of a shell or Flitch of Timber.
If a piece be taken out of the middle of a round piece of Timber from end to end; there will be left two pieces, which they call Shells or Flitches.
ref: 1706, Henry Coggeshall, The Art of Practical Measuring … The Third Edition, Corrected, page 39:
text: An edge chipper chips waney edges of a flitch of timber having parallel top and bottom sides, the flitch passing through feed roll pairs extends outward as a cantilever as it moves towards revolving chipper ...
ref: 1972, United States. Patent Office, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office: Patents, page 130:
glosses: A piece or strip cut off of something else, generally a piece of wood (timber).
Derived terms: Dunmow flitch
flitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪtʃ/
rhymes: -ɪtʃ
Forms: form: flitches
form: flitching
form: flitched
form: flitched
Etymology: From Middle English flicche, from Old English fliċċe (“side of an animal, flitch”), from Proto-Germanic *flikkiją (“side, flitch”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁ḱ- (“to tear, peel off”). Cognate with Low German flikke, French flèche, Icelandic flikki (“flitch”), Middle Low German vlicke.
Senses: examples: to flitch logs
to flitch bacon
glosses: To cut into, or off in, flitches or strips.
side of bacon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sides of bacon
Senses: synonyms: flitch
glosses: A salted and cured longitudinal half of a pig with the legs and shoulders removed.
demarc extension
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demarc extensions
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
glosses: The transmission path originating from the interface of the access provider's side of a telecommunications circuit Demarcation Point within a premise and ending at the termination point prior to the interface of the edge Customer Premises Equipment. This may include in-segment equipment, media converters and patch cords as required to complete the circuit's transmission path to the edge CPE.
shariat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of shari'a.
vazir
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vazirs
Etymology: Transliteration of Persian وزیر (vazir), from Arabic وَزِير (wazīr). Doublet of vizier.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of vizier.
in concert
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: High tides and severe gales are by no means uncommon on the East Coast of England, and in the Thames Estuary, but on the night of January 31, the two acted in concert to such an extent that the sea rose several feet higher than was predicted, with the gale whipping up wave action.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
glosses: Acting together.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, concert.
Related terms: common cause
hyle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hile
form: hyla
form: ylem
Etymology: One of several English variants (in casu Modern English, in the 17th and 18th century) for the Medieval Latin hyle, a transliteration of Aristotle’s concept of matter, in Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “wood(s), material(s), matter, subject”) or πρώτη ὕλη (prṓtē húlē, “fundamental, undifferentiated matter”)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: matter
glosses: The first matter of the cosmos, from which the four elements arose, according to the doctrines of Empedocles and Aristotle.
Derived terms: hyletics
hyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyls
Etymology: From Greek ύλη (ýli, “matter”), from Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, “matter”).
Senses: examples: text: A mass of one hyl gets accelerated at a rate of one meter per square second by a force of one kilogram-force (namely, 9.80665 N).
ref: 2000 October 9, Gérard P. Michon, “What is a slug, in the [engineering] weight measurement system?”, in Numericana.com:
synonyms: TME#Etymology 2
glosses: A unit of mass that is accelerated at a rate of 1 meter per second squared (1 m/s²) by a force of 1 kilogram-force, equivalent to 9.80665 kilograms.
removability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: removabilities
Etymology: From remove + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state of being removable.
rescindable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: rĭ-sĭndʹ-ə-bəl
ipa: /rɪˈsɪnd.ə.bəl/
rhymes: -ɪndəbəl
Etymology: From rescind + -able.
Senses: antonyms: irrescindable
unrescindable
glosses: Able to be rescinded.
rescinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescinders
Etymology: From rescind + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who rescinds.
rescinders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescinder
rescindment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rescindments
Etymology: From rescind + -ment.
Senses: glosses: The act of rescinding.
Synonyms: rescission
rescindments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescindment
social classes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of social class
hyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyl
meet with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: meets with
form: meeting with
form: met with
form: met with
Senses: examples: text: ‘They want to meet with you at the Annexe as soon as possible. I'm to ring back by yesterday.’
‘They want what?’
‘To meet you. But they use the preposition.’
‘Do they? Do they really? Good Lord. I suppose it's the German influence. Or is it old English? Meet with. Well I must say.’ And he lumbered off to the bathroom to shave.
ref: 1977, John Le Carré, The Honourable Schoolboy, Folio Society, published 2010, page 239:
glosses: To have a meeting with (someone).
examples: text: The proposal met with stiff opposition.
text: I will follow your La’ſhip through the World; but your La’ſhip had almoſt as good be alone; for I ſhall not be able to defend you, if any Robbers, or other Villains, ſhould meet with you.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, “A Strange Resolution of Sophia, and a More Strange Stratagem of Mrs. Honour”, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume III, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book VII, page 52:
text: No ſnakes of any kind are to be met with throughout the whole iſland.
ref: 1758 [1752], “LXXII. Concerning Snakes.”, in The Natural History of Iceland […] , London, translation of Tilforladelige efterretninger om Island by Niels Horrebow, page 91:
text: Dorothy told the Witch all her story; how the cyclone had brought her to the Land of Oz, how she had found her companions, and of the wonderful adventures they had met with.
ref: 1900 May 17, L[yman] Frank Baum, “The Good Witch Grants Dorothy’s Wish”, in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Ill.; New York, N.Y.: Geo[rge] M[elvin] Hill Co., →OCLC, page 254:
text: This is not unsatisfactory, but the change at Ballybrophy (a dismal station at the best of times) is not one that meets with the approval of the citizens of Clonmel.
ref: 1957 May 24, Walter McGrath, “The Thurles-Clonmel Line, C.I.E.”, in Railway Magazine, page 320:
text: The growing crisis of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, which demands intelligence and compassion, meets instead with ancient superstition.
ref: 1986 December 21, F. Jay Deacon, “Emotionally-Laden Prejudice”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 23, page 4:
glosses: To encounter; to experience.
examples: text: They met the proposal with stiff opposition.
text: The proposal was met with stiff opposition.
text: The proposal met with stiff opposition.
synonyms: greet
glosses: To answer (something) with; to respond to (something) with.
examples: text: His face met with a punch harder than a punch should be.
glosses: To strike (something).
examples: text: The baseboard met with the chimney stones very crudely.
glosses: To contact or touch (something).
squirting cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squirting cucumbers
Etymology: So named because when the fruit is fully ripe it squirts a stream of mucilaginous liquid containing its seeds.
Senses: synonyms: exploding cucumber
noli me tangere
touch-me-not
wild cucumber
glosses: The plant Ecballium elaterium, a member of the cucumber family (Cucurbitaceae)
exploding cucumber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exploding cucumbers
Senses: glosses: Synonym of squirting cucumber.
synonyms: word: squirting cucumber
squirting cucumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squirting cucumber
exploding cucumbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exploding cucumber
night birds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night bird
night glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night glass
night-glasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night-glass
Peleg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛ.lɛɡ/
rhymes: -ɛlɛɡ
Forms: form: Pelegs
Etymology: Borrowed from Hebrew פֶּלֶג (péleḡ).
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the two sons of Eber.
night hawks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night hawk
dinner ladies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner lady
dinner parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner party
dinner times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinner time
silver bullets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of silver bullet
muffin tops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muffin top
perfect games
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perfect game
clam chowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clam chowder
Manhattan clam chowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Manhattan clam chowder
shark fins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shark fin
tiger beetles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger beetle
tiger cubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger cub
tiger economies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger economy
tiger kidnaps
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tiger kidnap
tiger kidnaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger kidnap
tiger kidnapping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tiger kidnap
tiger kidnapped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tiger kidnap
tiger moths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger moth
tiger prawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tiger prawn
lexical categories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lexical category
slud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A rapid soil creep, especially referring to downslope soil movement in periglacial areas.
Synonyms: sense: rapid soil creep
word: sludging
sense: rapid soil creep
word: soil flow
sense: rapid soil creep
word: soil fluction
sense: rapid soil creep
word: solifluction
Related terms: sluds
sucktastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sʌkˈtæstɪk/
Forms: form: more sucktastic
form: most sucktastic
Etymology: From suck + -tastic.
Senses: examples: text: I'm pregnant. That's sucktastic!
glosses: Bad; terrible.
Related terms: sucky
it can't be helped
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: it cannot be helped
Senses: glosses: It is inevitable. There is no alternative.
Synonyms: sense: it is inevitable
word: there's no getting around it
lipstick lesbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lipstick lesbian
se-tenants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of se-tenant
glam lesbian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glam lesbians
Senses: examples: text: "No Day Like Sunday" is becoming a chic weekly institution among the snooty and glam lesbian set.
ref: 1996, Library Journal:
text: Nevertheless, there have been some notable exceptions, from the lesbian mom in Ellen to the glam lesbian couple in If These Walls Could Talk.
ref: 2003, Suzanna Danuta Walters, All the Rage: The Story of Gay Visibility in America, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 221:
glosses: A lesbian with a very feminine appearance.
Synonyms: lipstick lesbian
Related terms: butch
glam lesbians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glam lesbian
dars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dar
dars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: durus
form: duroos
Etymology: From Arabic دَرْس (dars), often via Urdu.
Senses: examples: text: After fajr a small dars of approximately 10 minutes will take place.
glosses: A lesson on a topic in the Qurʾān or Sunna.
Related terms: english: a lesson on a topic in the Tanakh
translation: a lesson on a topic in the Tanakh
word: shiur
hikmat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hikmats
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Alternative form of hikmah.
jins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jin
wedsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wedsites
Etymology: Blend of wedding + website
Senses: glosses: A website dedicated to sharing information about a particular wedding.
Hypernyms: website
Katmandu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kathmandu.
wedsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wedsite
how do you pronounce this word
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhaʊ də juː pɹəˈnaʊns ðɪs ˈwɜːd/
ipa: /ˈhaʊ duː ˈjuː pɹəˈnaʊns ðɪs ˈwɝd/
Senses: glosses: Please say this word out loud so that I can learn how it is pronounced.
Synonyms: how is this word pronounced?
isiGqumo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A cant (argot) jargon used by Bantu African mine workers in small townships in South Africa, in same-sex circumstances.
shure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "You see, sir, quite hand in glove with Dashing Jerry; met in the same inn last night--preconcerted, you may be quite shure."
ref: 1845, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Night and Morning, Complete:
text: "Oh, Mr. Munro, shure here's a card for yees," handing me a lady's card.
ref: 1873, Various, Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873:
text: […
ref: 1905 April–October, Upton Sinclair, chapter VIII, in The Jungle, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 26 February 1906, →OCLC:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of sure.
flanken
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Yiddish פֿלאַנקען (flanken).
Senses: examples: text: Carol's funny story about her son's first efforts at cooking flanken meets with silence from Frances, who confesses ignorance of both the dish and its preparation.
ref: 1991 January 4, Mary Shen Barnidge, “Solomons' Choice”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But for aficionados of the real thing, the high-quality, old-school kosher renditions of brisket or flanken or center-cut tongue like silk, the Second Avenue Deli was it.
ref: 2007 October 21, Alex Witchel, “A Counter History”, in New York Times:
glosses: A certain cut of beef used in Ashkenazic Jewish cuisine, made by cutting short ribs across the bone
Coordinate terms: English-cut
shakes one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shake one's head
shaking one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shake one's head
shook one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of shake one's head
shaken one's head
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of shake one's head
obv.
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏbv
ipa: /ɒbv/
rhymes: -ɒbv
Forms: form: more obv.
form: most obv.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of obvious.
obv.
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏbv
ipa: /ɒbv/
rhymes: -ɒbv
Forms: form: more obv.
form: most obv.
Senses: examples: text: J. is dating P. at NYU and modeling on the side. They're planning to meet us in Paris for spring break so J. can go to some look-sees (and eat some escargot, obv.).
ref: 2007, Melissa de la Cruz, Crazy Hot, page 270:
glosses: Abbreviation of obviously.
obv.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏbv
ipa: /ɒbv/
rhymes: -ɒbv
Forms: form: obv.
Senses: examples: text: The discovery of the above obv. coupled with the rev. type of ‘four standards’ and a comparison with the obv. of no. 99 necessitates a few comments with regard to the date of these two miliarensia, both marked CONS (only the v. Echt specimen of no. 99 has been available for comparison).
ref: 1984, C[arol] H[umphrey] V[ivian] Sutherland, R[obert] A[ndrew] G[lendinning] Carson, editors, The Roman Imperial Coinage, volume VII, Spink and Son Ltd, →ISBN, page 718:
coordinate_terms: rev.
glosses: Abbreviation of obverse.
cr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: accounting
business
finance
glosses: Abbreviation of creditor or credit.
cr
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: glosses: crore
fj
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fjs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of foot job.
fr
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: is this guy fr?
related: word: FR
glosses: Initialism of for real.
qualifier: proofreading
glosses: Initialism of flush right.
fr
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: all i want is to pass all my finals fr
text: my grandma just baked me cookies!!! she's fr the best
related: word: FR
word: frr
word: frfr
glosses: Initialism of for real.
fr
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frs
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FR (“friend request”).
fr
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: frs
form: fring
form: fred
form: fred
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of FR (“friend request”).
gn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: related: word: GN
glosses: Abbreviation of good night.
bm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bm
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Builder's Old Measurement.
petticoated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From petticoat + -ed.
Senses: glosses: wearing a petticoat
Synonyms: be-petticoated
Derived terms: unpetticoated
ragia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ragias
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rajah.
engs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eng
electroacoustics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + acoustics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The science of the interaction and interconversion of electric and acoustic phenomena.
electrobiology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + biology.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The study of the production and use of electricity by biological organisms.
examples: text: This is one of the feats of Al-Simiyá = white magic; fascinating the eyes. In Europe it has lately taken the name of "Electro-biology".
ref: 1885, Richard F. Burton, chapter XXXI, in The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, volume I, The Burton Club, page 332 footnote:
text: “To create life, to use science itself, chemical galvanism, electrobiology, etcetera, etcetera. To reanimate dead tissue, now, whomever unlocks that mystery, is not a man, but a god.” “Like Frankenstein.” “Who?” “Like Dr. Victor Frankenstein.” “Never heard of him.” “Right.”
ref: 2024 October 21, Paul Simms, “The Return of Jerry” (4:09 from the start), in What We Do in the Shadows, season 6, episode 1, spoken by Laszlo Cravensworth (Matt Berry):
glosses: A theory of animal magnetism according to which the actions, feelings, etc. of a person are controlled by the will of the operator.
skeers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skeer
skeers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skeer
electrokinetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + kinetics.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the electrodynamics of electrical circuits
kadi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kadis
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish قاضی (kadı), from Arabic قَاضِي (⁧qāḍī⁩), and from Arabic directly.
Senses: examples: text: Each has an imaum, but the kadi is their head, of which dignity he seems not a little proud.
ref: 1836, Robert Huish, Lander's Travels:
text: "You shall go to Mecca when you grow up, and become a Hadji, and when you come back the high kadi shall take you in the mosque and make a kateeb of you," said I. "Now put your forehead to the ground and thank the good Allah that the kuching had eaten dog before he got you."
ref: 1898, Rounsevelle Wildman, Tales of the Malayan Coast:
text: To this the Jew agreed, and the two went together to the great hall, in which the kadi was administering justice.
ref: 1907, Various, The Olive Fairy Book:
glosses: Alternative spelling of qadi, Islamic judge, particularly (historical) in Ottoman contexts where they initially oversaw local administration as well as Islamic law.
Related terms: kadiluk
ottomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ottomies
Etymology: From anatomy.
Senses: glosses: A skeleton.
special creation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: We do not know how the Creator created, [or] what processes He used, for He used processes which are not now operating anywhere in the natural universe. This is why we refer to creation as special creation. We cannot discover by scientific investigation anything about the creative processes used by the Creator.
ref: 1995, Duane Gish, Evolution: The Fossils Say No, page 42:
glosses: In creationism, a theological doctrine which asserts that the origin of the universe and all life in it suddenly sprang into being by unconditional fiat or divine decree.
glosses: In Roman Catholicism, the origin of the human soul.
sailormen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sailorman
stilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: stillier
form: stilliest
Senses: examples: text: The stilly murmur of the distant Sea
Tells us of silence.
ref: 1795, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Eolian Harp, lines 11–12:
text: The dead--in holy, stilly peace, the sacred dead repose, Afar from earth's turmoil and grief, and all of sick'ning woes; From racking pain, and withering pride, and avarice's care, Secure they rest in solitude, unaw'd by sin or snare.
ref: 1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:
text: Long was the darkness, Lonely and stilly.
ref: 1879, Anthony Trollope, Thackeray:
text: Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs […].
ref: 1902, Jack London, A Daughter of the Snows:
text: […] Marjorie used Central to call as many of her neighbors that were also on the exchange as she could, telling them of the disaster which had fallen like a lightning-stroke out of a clear sky, knowing that each call would produce overlapping ripples, like pebbles tossed rapidly into a stilly pond.
ref: 1996, Stephen King, chapter 4, in The Green Mile, Pocket Books edition:
glosses: silent; calm
stilly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stilly
form: most stilly
Etymology: From still + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: She passed away very stilly and painlessly.
ref: 1868, George A. Lawrence, Guy Livingstone;:
text: The river, too, was colored, and every tree was like a torch burning stilly in the quiet of the evening.
ref: 1902, Mary Johnston, Audrey:
text: When she arrived at the white boat which floated so stilly on the morning glitter of the water, only just stirred by a breeze from the south, she stepped at once on board.
ref: 1921, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:
glosses: While still and calm.
seceder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seceders
Etymology: From secede + -er.
Senses: examples: text: But an express law included all these seceders in the general proscription; alledging, with a candour not usual, that those who assumed rank were, in fact, more criminal than such as were guilty of being born to it.
ref: 1797, An English Lady, A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795,, 2nd edition:
text: If we now recognize this doctrine by allowing the seceders to go in peace, it is difficult to see what we can do if others choose to go or to extort terms upon which they will promise to remain.
ref: 1861, Abraham Lincoln, “Message to Congress in Special Session”, in The Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Volume 5, 1858-1862:
text: When Clive saw Rosalie Faithorn saunter in with James Allys he stared, but that young seceder from his own set greeted him without embarrassment and lighted a cigarette.
ref: 1915, Robert W. Chambers, Athalie:
glosses: One who secedes, such as from a country or organization
seceders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seceder
ride the wave
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rides the wave
form: riding the wave
form: rode the wave
form: ridden the wave
Senses: glosses: To take advantage of a profitable period.
Related terms: catch a wave
go with the flow
dipyridamole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dipyridamoles
Senses: glosses: A drug that inhibits thrombus formation when given chronically and causes vasodilation when given at high doses over a short time.
subshrubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subshrub
literalnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of literalness
flitches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flitch
flitches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of flitch
gang rapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gang rape
pistareen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pistareens
form: pisterine
Etymology: Probably a corruption of the Spanish peseta + -een.
Senses: examples: text: [T]hose poor souls never had more than nine pence per day, and seldom more than six pence, from their masters or owners, though they earned them three or four pisterines […].
ref: 1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 5, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I:
glosses: A Spanish silver coin worth two reales, used as common currency in the Americas in the 18th century.
pistareens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pistareen
flibberty-gibbet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flibberty-gibbets
Senses: examples: text: For a student of such a serious subject as literature that lad is the most incorrigible flibberty-gibbet.
ref: 1933, Barnaby Ross, Drury Lane's Last Case, republished, March 1946, as by Ellery Queen, Little, Brown, page 63
glosses: Alternative spelling of flibbertigibbet.
nonparticipation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonparticipations
form: non-participation
Etymology: From non- + participation.
Senses: examples: text: Voluntary nonparticipation in the work force is a growing problem in some developed countries.
text: The possibility of large-scale nonparticipation by the country’s Pashtuns is casting a cloud over the Afghan presidential election, which, American and other Western officials here believe, needs to be seen as legitimate by ordinary Afghans for the next government to exercise real authority over the next five years.
ref: 2009 August 17, Dexter Filkins, “Taliban Threats May Sway Vote in Afghanistan”, in New York Times:
antonyms: participation#Noun
involvement#Noun
glosses: The fact of not participating in some activity or event.
Related terms: nonparticipant
nonparticipating
nonparticipative
nonparticipatory
hydrologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hydrological + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With regard to hydrology.
linocut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlʌɪnəʊkʌt/
ipa: /ˈlaɪnoʊˌkət/
Forms: form: linocuts
Etymology: From lino (“linoleum”) + cut.
Senses: examples: text: Still, this book's offbeat settings and strong, simple illustrations, in acrylic paint with pencil and rough-hewn linocut outlines, should help preschoolers — and parents — realize that when you bring some creativity to pet ownership, even a fish can be fun.
ref: 2009 June 14, Ann Hodgman, “A kid’s best friends: goldfish”, in The New York Times:
topics: art
arts
media
printing
publishing
hypernyms: relief printing
glosses: A type of woodcut in which a block of linoleum is used for the relief surface; the design cut into the block.
now a days
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nowadays.
advance fee scams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advance fee scam
Gilaki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Caspian language spoken in the Gilan province of Iran.
Gilaki
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gilakis
Senses: glosses: A member of the people native to the Gilan province.
Gilaki
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the people of Gilan or their language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Gilaki terms
megamarket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megamarkets
Etymology: From mega- + market.
Senses: examples: So much petroleum is traded world wide that it forms a megamarket.
glosses: A market that is very large.
examples: text: It has a clever predictive-entry system that seems to know about every single item in the modern American megamarket.
ref: 2009 July 9, Farhad Manjoo, “IPhone Apps to Organize Your Life”, in New York Times:
glosses: A very large grocery store, a supermarket.
megamarkets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megamarket
postsurgical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + surgical.
Senses: examples: text: During postsurgical care it is important to keep the wound clean.
glosses: Relating to the period following surgery.
Derived terms: postsurgically
dear sirs
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dear Sir (for multiple addressees)
aye-ayes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ayeayes
Senses: glosses: plural of aye-aye.