cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
even-handed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more even-handed
form: most even-handed
Senses: examples: text: As a former shadow transport secretary, Greenwood says she felt especially self-conscious of the need to appear even-handed if she was to gain the trust of the four Conservative members in particular who sat on her 11-person committee.
ref: 2020 June 3, Lilian Greenwood talks to Paul Stephen, “Rail's 'underlying challenges' remain”, in Rail, page 33:
glosses: Alternative spelling of evenhanded.
Derived terms: even-handedly
even-handedness
carman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carmen
form: car man
Etymology: From car + -man.
Senses: examples: text: Nine main depots and a number of sub-depots are involved and the carmen, after leaving their depots, were entirely under a controller's instructions.
ref: 1944 November and December, T. F. Cameron, “Motor and Cartage Working”, in Railway Magazine, page 337:
text: In this book, journalist and researcher Christer Holmgren explains why the murders were never cleared up and names the East End carman Charles Lechmere as the culprit behind both series of murders.
ref: 2021, Christer Holmgren, Cutting Point: Solving the Jack the Ripper and the Thames Torso Murders:
text: The witnesses for the day; two Inspector plods, the peeler who’d been patrolling Baker’s Row when informed of the murder; Charles Cross, the carman who’d done the telling after discovering Nichols dead; William Nichols, the slag’s grieving husband, and others.
ref: 2022, Doug Lamoreux, Saucy Jacky: The Whitechapel Murders as told by Jack the Ripper:
glosses: A person who transported goods, usually with a horse and cart.
horse and cart
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: horses and carts
Senses: examples: text: "Our railways were developed to their fullest extent at a time when the horse and cart was the only means of feeding to and distributing from them. ... In order to provide for a large measure of rail participation in countrywide collection and delivery of small consignments—a task they were never particularly well suited to do, and which they did only because the horse and cart were worse—the railways sacrificed their main advantages.
ref: 1962 December, “Dr. Beeching previews the plan for British Railways”, in Modern Railways, page 377:
text: But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.
ref: 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
text: In these years, all long-distance freight went by rail, with local cartage by the railway's horses and carts.
ref: 2021 December 1, Nigel Harris, “St Pancras and King's Cross: 1947”, in RAIL, number 945, page 42:
glosses: A cart, pulled by a horse and driven by a driver, used for transporting goods.
lithophane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithophanes
Etymology: From litho- + -phane.
Senses: glosses: A style of European porcelain in which the figures are seen by transmitted light
Related terms: lithophany
electroneutrality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + neutrality.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: electrical neutrality, especially as applied to the principle that pure ionic substances are electrically neutral
electrophilicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electrophilicities
Etymology: From electrophilic + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The condition of being electrophilic.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The degree to which something is electrophilic.
electrosmosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of electro-osmosis.
electroviscous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more electroviscous
form: most electroviscous
Etymology: From electro- + viscous.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the effects of electric charge on viscosity
enantioconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantioconvergences
Etymology: From enantio- + convergence.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: stereoconvergence
Related terms: enantioconvergent
stereoconvergence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stereoconvergences
Etymology: From stereo- + convergence.
Senses: glosses: In a chemical reaction, The predominant formation of the same stereoisomer (or enantiomer) of a reaction product when two different stereoisomers of the reactant are used in the same reaction.
Related terms: stereoconvergent
enantiomerism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiomerisms
Etymology: From enantiomer + -ism.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The isomerism of enantiomers.
Provel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Brand name.
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A white processed cheese popular in and around Saint Louis, Missouri.
enantiomerization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enantiomerizations
Etymology: From enantiomer + -ization.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The interconversion of enantiomers; racemization
enantiomorphous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enantiomorph + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to enantiomorphs or enantiomorphism; enantiomorphic
Derived terms: enantiomorphously
enantiopure
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From enantio- + pure.
Senses: glosses: Enantiomerically pure (containing a single enantiomer).
outstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From out- + state.
Senses: examples: text: In Minnesota, an anticipated reduction of world trade by 15% to 33% threatens not just individual companies, but communities, especially in the outstate area, he said.
ref: 2020 August 10, Jim Spencer, “Minnesota exports drop 17% because of the coronavirus”, in Minneapolis Star Tribune:
glosses: Of the part of a state of the United States that is away from major metropolitan areas.
outstate
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From out- + state.
Senses: examples: text: I go outstate to spend time in nature.
glosses: To a part of a state of the United States away from major metropolitan areas.
Derived terms: outstater
enantiotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the relationship between two groups attached to the same atom which, if replaced, would generate compounds that are enantiomers
Related terms: enantiotope
endergonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more endergonic
form: most endergonic
Etymology: From end- + -ergonic.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a reaction that absorbs (heat) energy from its environment
Hyponyms: english: if the energy is released as heat
translation: if the energy is released as heat
word: endothermic
Derived terms: endergonicity
energization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: energizations
Etymology: From energize + -ation.
Senses: glosses: The act (or state) of being energized.
Derived terms: de-energization
preenergization
reenergization
entatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entatic
form: most entatic
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing the state of an atom or group, bound to a protein (especially to an enzyme), that has its geometric or electronic condition adapted for function
put it there
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: put it there !
Senses: glosses: An invitation for the addressee to slap the speaker's palm in greeting or celebration.
Synonyms: give me five
slap me five
give someone five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gives someone five
form: giving someone five
form: gave someone five
form: given someone five
Senses: glosses: To slap someone's hand in greeting or celebration.
Synonyms: slap someone five
Related terms: put it there
slap someone five
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slaps someone five
form: slapping someone five
form: slapped someone five
form: slapped someone five
Etymology: Referring to the five fingers.
Senses: glosses: To slap someone's hand in greeting or celebration.
Synonyms: give someone five
Related terms: put it there
aven
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avens
Etymology: Borrowed from French aven.
Senses: glosses: A vertical shaft leading upward from a cave passage, sometimes connecting with passages above.
glosses: A pothole.
Related terms: domepit
Camunian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Camunians
Senses: glosses: Camun.
Camunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Camun.
Vasil
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Vasils
Senses: glosses: A transliteration of the Belarusian male given name Васі́ль (Vasílʹ).
glosses: A transliteration of the Bulgarian or Macedonian male given name Васил (Vasil).
off white
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more off white
form: most off white
Senses: examples: text: The walls, which were much farther off white than normal,... .
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative spelling of off-white.
off white
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of off-white.
toe hold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe holds
Senses: examples: text: I waited for him to take it up, to unravel once again his tale of plotting statesmen and deluded public, his great joke, his private toe hold on the world.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 11, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative spelling of toehold.
ciggies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ciggy
glosses: plural of ciggie
pseudohermaphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudohermaphrodites
form: pseudo-hermaphrodite
Etymology: From pseudo- + hermaphrodite.
Senses: synonyms: androgynoid
gynandroid
glosses: An individual that has the external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A flower that has become functionally unisexual by the suppression of either stamens or pistils.
Related terms: pseudohermaphroditic
pseudohermaphroditism
pseudohermaphrodite
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: pseudo-hermaphrodite
Etymology: From pseudo- + hermaphrodite.
Senses: examples: text: In the case described by Recasens himself of a pseudohermaphrodite woman there was a formation of testicular appearance on the labia majora; but its histological examination demonstrated that this was not a gonad, but a glandular mass of a nature which defied diagnosis.
ref: 1932, Gregorio Marañón, translated by Warre Bradley Wells, The Evolution of Sex and Intersexual Conditions, page 106:
text: The chief psychologic and psychiatric problems encountered in the adrenogenital syndrome are those associated with the sex orientation of untreated and undiagnosed pseudohermaphrodite women (33).
ref: 1966, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, Endocrines and the Central Nervous System, page 431:
text: However, prostate cancer does not appear to occur in a cohort of pseudohermaphrodite men in whom 5-alpha reductase is absent.
ref: 1996, Roger S. Kirby, Timothy J. Christmas, Michael K. Brawer, Prostate Cancer, Mosby, →ISBN, page 27:
text: They form one group of the pseudohermaphrodite men mentioned above: their prostate glands remain in the pre-pubertal state, and never become cancerous.
ref: 2010, Tom Smith, Coping Successfully with Prostate Cancer, 2nd edition, Sheldon Press, →ISBN:
glosses: Having external genitalia of one sex, but the internal sex organs of the other.
Synonyms: pseudohermaphroditic
Related terms: intersex
pseudohermaphrodites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudohermaphrodite
Vlach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [vlɑːk]
ipa: [vlæk]
rhymes: -ɑːk
rhymes: -æk
Forms: form: Vlachs
form: Vlach
form: Vlax
form: Wallach
Etymology: From Proto-Slavic *volxъ (“speaker of a Romance language”), from Proto-Germanic *walhaz (“non-Germanic foreigner, Celt; later Roman”). Presumably introduced into Slavic around the 7th century, but first recorded only in the 11th century in Byzantine Greek. In English used as a synonym of "Wallachian" from the 19th century. The word is etymologically distantly related to Wales/Welsh, Walloon, and Gaul. Doublet of Gaul.
Senses: glosses: A Wallachian.
glosses: A Romanian.
glosses: Any member of an Eastern Romance speaking group, including Romanians, Aromanians, Megleno-Romanians, and Istro-Romanians.
glosses: Any member of a Polish ethnographic group (subgroup of Silesians) living around the towns of Cieszyn and Skoczów
Related terms: word: Morlach
word: Vlachic
word: Wales
word: Welsh
word: Wallachia
word: Wallachian
word: Walloon
enthalpimetric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enthalpimetric
form: most enthalpimetric
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing any of several forms of calorimetric analysis in which the enthalpy change during a reaction is measured
enthalpimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthalpimetries
Etymology: From enthalpy + -metry.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Any of several forms of calorimetric analysis in which the enthalpy change during a reaction is measured.
enthalpogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enthalpograms
Etymology: From enthalpy + -o- + -gram.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A graph of enthalpy or temperature versus time during a reaction; especially one used in enthalpimetry.
entitic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more entitic
form: most entitic
Etymology: From entity + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to entities, especially to the number of entities in a particular situation.
epicadmium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From epi- + cadmium.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Used attributively to describe kinetic energies above that at which cadmium has a large neutron cross section
episulfonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: episulfoniums
Etymology: From epi- + sulfonium.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation derived by protonation or other addition to the sulfur atom of a thiirane.
epithermal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more epithermal
form: most epithermal
Etymology: From epi- + thermal.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing deposits of minerals formed from warm water at shallow depth
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing neutrons of kinetic energy greater than that of thermal motion
deerstalker hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪə(ɹ)stɔːkə hæt/
ipa: /diɚstɔkɚ hæt/
Forms: form: deerstalker hats
form: deerslayer hat
form: deerslayer cap
form: deerstalker
form: deerstalker cap
Senses: examples: text: Two famous fictional characters who wore deerstalker hats were Sherlock Holmes and Holden Caulfield in J. D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
synonyms: fore-and-after
hunting cap
glosses: A type of men's headwear, made of cloth with a plaid pattern, having two projecting brims (one at the front and one at the back) and earflaps which can be folded up and tied at the top.
deerslayer hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerslayer hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deerstalker hat.
deerslayer cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerslayer caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deerstalker hat.
illuminatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more illuminatory
form: most illuminatory
Etymology: From illuminate + -ory.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of a non-learning authority remains apparently untouched by all the self-critical and self-analytical awareness which is evidenced. This, of course, does not deny the illuminatory potential of structuralist models of society in general, but this one does not work here.
ref: 1991, Harry Smart, Criticism and Public Rationality: Professional Rigidity and the Search for Caring Government:
glosses: Increasing informative qualities; explanatory.
forbode
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forbodes
form: forbod
Etymology: From Middle English forbode, forbod, from Old English forbod (“a forbidding, prohibition”), from Proto-Germanic *frabudą (“prohibition”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, fully perceive”), equivalent to for- + bode. Cognate with Dutch verbod, German Verbot, Danish forbud, Swedish förbud. More at forbid.
Senses: examples: text: God's/The Lord's forbode
text: So Moses himself explaineth it in the words here folowing, and in v. 13. 22. 27. commandements ]or, charges: meaning prohibitions, or forbodes. For God commandeth both to eschew evil, and to doe good.
ref: 1621, Henry Ainsworth, Annotations Upon the First Book of Moses, Called Genesis, source: Leviticus, Ch. IIII:
text: Thus Cloudesle cleft the apple in two,
That many a man might see;
"Over God's forbode," said the king,
"That thou shoot at me!"
ref: 1894, Reginald Brimley Johnson, Popular British Ballads, Ancient and Modern, page 142:
text: FIRST SHEPHERD. God's forbode thou spare't and thou drink every deal.⁷
⁷ God's forbode ... deal God forbid (literally "God's forbidding") that you refrain from drinking even if you drink it all.
ref: 2012, The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Drama, The Towneley Plays: The First Shepherds' Play (translated from Middle English into English), page 153
glosses: A forbidding, a prohibition; a command forbidding a thing.
forbode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English [Term?], from Old English forbēad/forbudon, past tense forms of forbēodan (“to forbid”). More at forbid.
Senses: glosses: obsolete simple past of forbid.
forbode
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forbodes
form: forboding
form: forboded
form: forboded
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of forebode.
forbodes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: forebodes
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forbode
deerstalker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerstalkers
Etymology: From deer + stalker.
Senses: examples: text: Between 1997 and 2006, ownership of Glenfeshie passed between three Danish businessmen – and with it a self-destructive business model. Only by maintaining very high numbers of livestock could the flow of fee-paying deerstalkers armed with rifles be ensured, but because of the rising cost of gamekeepers and estate upkeep, Glenfeshie’s sporting operations were still making a loss.
ref: 2020 February 25, Christopher de Bellaigue, “The end of farming?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: One who takes part in deer stalking.
examples: text: “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
ref: 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
text: This is another area in which it's hard to tell the dude from the twitcher, as ratting caps and deerstalkers, flying helmets and even toppers are considered acceptably eccentric.
ref: 1980, Bill Oddie, Bill Oddie's Little Black Bird Book, page 61:
glosses: Alternative form of deerstalker hat.
Derived terms: deerstalker cap
deerstalkered
deerstalker hat
deerstalker cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deerstalker caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of deerstalker hat.
balloonneer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of ballooner.
Redner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Redners
Senses: examples: text: 'But the letter from the former president was something unexpected. "Dáithí hit a big redner, jaw on the floor... he knew this was big... he couldn't believe it... he was even getting a bit emotional about it all."'
ref: 2025 May 31, Rebekah Wilson, 'Dáithí's letter from Bill Clinton stopped me in my tracks':
glosses: Blush.
vivipary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: viviparity
Senses: glosses: Reproduction via embryos that develop from the outset without interruption (as opposed to germinating from a seed).
raw_tags: in plants
glosses: Live birth (as opposed to hatching from an egg).
raw_tags: in animals
Related terms: pseudovivipary
viviparous
viviparously
twist someone's arm
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: twists someone's arm
form: twisting someone's arm
form: twisted someone's arm
form: twisted someone's arm
Senses: examples: text: I twist his arm, a snap signaling when it breaks. His screams reverberate in the tiny apartment.
ref: 2013, Justina Ireland, Vengeance Bound, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 295:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: To apply torsion along the length of the arm of (a person).
examples: text: They had to twist his arm, but they got him to join the project.
text: Either to sully his reputation or to twist his arm into further cooperation, the authorities slapped a second, unrelated charge onto his sheet: He was accused of defrauding his clients' trust funds of a few hundred dollars.
ref: 2009, Mark Gevisser, A Legacy of Liberation, St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, page 152:
glosses: To coerce, force, or cajole.
turbopump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turbopumps
Etymology: From turbo- + pump.
Senses: glosses: A device consisting of a pump and a turbine mounted on the same shaft.
hangoverish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hangoverish
form: most hangoverish
Etymology: From hangover + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: There is no eartly reason why I should dally with her in the margin of this sinister memoir, but let me say (hi, Rita—wherever you are, drunk or hangoverish, Rita, hi!) that she was the most soothing […]
ref: 1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, →ISBN, page 259:
text: Today Thursday, I've been feeling hangoverish, with nothing better to do than to go walking round London in the drizzling rain, and to sit at Heathrow bringing this journal up to date.
ref: 2005, Alexander Thynn, A Degree of Instability - The Oxford Years, →ISBN, page 383:
glosses: Hungover, or somewhat hung over.
raw_tags: of a person
examples: text: That night when the ice melted in the cooler and the booze got warm, I ditched plans on getting “mizzed,” miserably drunk. It had been a hangoverish but exciting afternoon to begin with, and there wasn't anything left of the weekend.
ref: 1996, Ray A. Young Bear, Remnants of the First Earth, →ISBN, page 153:
glosses: Of or pertaining to a hangover.
fumarase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fumarases
Etymology: From fumarate + -ase.
Senses: glosses: An enzyme that in the Krebs cycle acts as a catalyst for the reaction of water and fumarate to form L-malate.
luthiery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From luthier + -y; see -ery.
Senses: glosses: The construction and repair of stringed instruments.
Synonyms: word: lutherie
pathovar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pathovars
Senses: glosses: A strain of bacteria, or set of strains, with similar characteristics.
Derived terms: interpathovar
intrapathovar
buzz-word
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzz-words
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of buzzword.
senryū
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: senryū
form: senryu
Etymology: From Japanese 川柳 (senryū).
Senses: topics: communications
journalism
literature
media
poetry
publishing
writing
glosses: A haiku-like poem of up to 17 syllables that is usually humorous or satirical.
Davy Crockett hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davy Crockett hats
form: Davey Crockett cap
form: Davey Crockett hat
form: Davy Crockett cap
Etymology: Named after American frontiersman Davy Crockett (1786–1836), often depicted wearing such a hat.
Senses: examples: text: Back at the farm, David bundled up in his new outdoor outfit, added a Davy Crockett hat (with tail) and a .410 shotgun, joined his genial grandfather in the fields for a brief try at rabbit hunting.
ref: 1959 January 5, “Crowded Holidays”, in Time:
coordinate_terms: Polly Crockett hat
glosses: A hat made of a real or simulated pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, particularly popular among children in North America during the 1950s and 1960s.
Synonyms: coonskin cap
Davey Crockett cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davey Crockett caps
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Davy Crockett hat.
synonyms: word: Davy Crockett hat
Davey Crockett hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davey Crockett hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Davy Crockett hat.
Davy Crockett cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Davy Crockett caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Davy Crockett hat.
long lost
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: My long-lost brother showed up, borrowed money and vanished again.
glosses: Alternative spelling of long-lost.
coonskin cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coonskin caps
form: coonskin hat
form: coon-skin cap
form: coon-skin hat
Senses: examples: text: Look out kid
It's somethin' you did
God knows when
But you're doin' it again
You better duck down the alley way
Lookin' for a new frien'
The man in the coon-skin cap
In the big pen
Wants eleven dollar bills
You only got ten.
ref: 1965, Bob Dylan, Subterranean Homesick Blues:
glosses: Headwear made from the pelt of a raccoon with the tail hanging in back, often associated with the iconic imagery of such American frontiersmen as Davy Crockett.
Synonyms: Davy Crockett hat
coonskin hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coonskin hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coonskin cap.
termination dust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The miners hurriedly prepared for winter as the termination dust settled on the slopes above them.
glosses: In Alaska, a light, high-altitude snowfall that indicates the end of summer.
turn a phrase
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: turns a phrase
form: turning a phrase
form: turned a phrase
form: turned a phrase
Senses: examples: text: Gerard coloured all over at the compliment; but not knowing how to turn a phrase equal to the occasion, asked her if he should resume her picture.
ref: 1861, Charles Reade, chapter 61, in The Cloister and the Hearth:
text: "Ah, how gracefully these wild northern men can turn a phrase!" whispered Chrysophrasia.
ref: 1887, Francis Marion Crawford, chapter 8, in Paul Patoff:
text: Everyone who was anyone at Long Barton spoke in careful and correct English, but no one ever troubled to turn a phrase.
ref: 1906, Edith Nesbit, chapter 3, in The Incomplete Amorist:
text: Nobody, however, can take issue with Purdy's ability to turn a phrase. He has that rare Joycean knack for illuminating an entire universe with one simple detail.
ref: 2004, Elisabeth Egan, "A world of talking cats and lost, lonely boys" (review of Moe's Villa and Other Stories by James Purdy), San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Dec. (retrieved 4 June 2008)
glosses: To create a particular linguistic expression which is strikingly clear, appropriate, and memorable.
Related terms: turn of phrase
huapango
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huapangos
Senses: glosses: A fast, rhythmic Mexican dance for couples.
huemul
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /weɪˈmuːl/
Forms: form: huemuls
Etymology: From Spanish huemul, from Mapudungun.
Senses: examples: text: Another icon inhabiting these mountains is the huemul, or Andean deer, which shares the Chilean coat of arms with the condor.
ref: 2000, Michael Bright, Wild South America, BBC Worldwide, published 2000, page 52:
synonyms: gemul
guemal
glosses: A yellowish-brown deer of the genus Hippocamelus, of South America; the two species are endangered.
synonyms: south Andean deer
southern huemul
southern guemal
south Andean huemul
Chilean huemul
glosses: Hippocamelus bisulcus, the more southern of the two species
lithotripter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lithotripters
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: A device used in lithotripsy
housewifization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From housewife + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: What the experts call flexibilization of labour, some of us have called the housewifization of labour.
ref: 1986, Maria Mies, Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale, Zed Books Ltd., page 16:
glosses: The process by which the division of labor has relegated women to the role of housewife.
corpus delicti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corpora delicti
Etymology: From New Latin corpus dēlictī (literally “body of the crime”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The evidence that a crime has occurred.
Related terms: habeas corpus
wind instruments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wind instrument
euatmotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing the isothermal, reversible interaction of two solid phases to produce a vapour phase when heated
eupeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eupeptides
Etymology: From eu- + peptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A normal peptide, rather than an isopeptide.
isopeptide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isopeptides
Etymology: From iso- + peptide.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A compound of two or more amino acids (a peptide) in which an amide link involves an amino group not in the alpha- position
Derived terms: isopeptidase
Related terms: eupeptide
bolt rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bolt ropes
form: boltrope
form: bolt-rope
Senses: examples: text: Bolt rope, a rope sewed to the edges of a sail to strengthen them and prevent their splitting.
ref: 1858, P.L. Simmonds, A Dictionary of Trade Products, Commercial, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms, London; New York: G. Rutledge & Co., page 44:
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: Rope sewn around the edges of a sail to prevent tearing or fraying.
buoy rope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buoy ropes
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The rope that secures a buoy to an anchor on the seabed
heel over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heels over
form: heeling over
form: heeled over
form: heeled over
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: to tilt to one side
raw_tags: of a vessel
grippie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grippies
Etymology: From grip + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Rubber grippies, partially visible on the right of the case above and below the hinge, keep it from sliding out of your hand.
ref: 2004, Jeff Ishaq, Treo Fan Book: Your Brain on Silicon:
text: I crocheted chenille socks and put little grippies on the bottom.
ref: 2008, Molly G. Shane, Rumored Legacy, page 62:
text: To tear a panel out of the main application window and create a floating panel, simply click upon the grippies (the textured area of the panel tab) next to an anchored panel's name.
ref: 2012, Joseph Labrecque, Adobe Edge Quickstart Guide:
glosses: A grip; something used to take hold, or to reduce friction.
Related terms: grippy
double or quits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A bet of the same value as the initial one, resulting in either a doubling of a loss, or it being cancelled.
Synonyms: double or nothing
anthologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈθɒl.ə.dʒaɪz.ə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: anthologizers
form: anthologiser
Etymology: From anthologize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of anthologize; one who creates an anthology.
Synonyms: anthologist
anthologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anthologizer
apologizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apologizers
form: apologiser
Etymology: From apologize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: He is a pathological apologizer.
glosses: Agent noun of apologize: one who apologizes.
Synonyms: apologist
Related terms: apology
apologize
apologizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apologizer
prober
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: probers
Etymology: From probe + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of probe; one who probes.
probers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prober
existance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The WWW server at www.python.org is now operational in beta mode. Although not everything is working yet, we are confident enough to announce its existance.
ref: 1995 June 4, Python.org, archived from the original on 01 May 1997:
text: The athiest^([sic]) is destined to Hell fire in the Hereafter. This is because the athiest refuses the most basic belief which is the existance and oneness of Allaah.
ref: 2003, Muhammad Saed Abdul-Rahman, quoting Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid, Islam: Questions and Answers - Schools of Thought, Religions and Sects, volume 8, MSA Publication Limited, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: Misspelling of existence.
bankroller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bankrollers
Etymology: From bankroll + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The usual partisanship for bankrollers of radio segs is shown on TV stations.
ref: 1951 December 15, Billboard, page 6:
glosses: One who bankrolls; usually an individual who has enough seed capital to launch a venture; one who can fund a project; angel investor.
bankrollers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bankroller
trade mark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trade marks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of trademark.
trade mark
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Jimmy Page lacked the floppy hat and beard, but the guitar still maintained his trade mark industrial resonance.
ref: 1998 November 6, Magnus Mills, “When dinosaurs rocked the earth”, in The Independent, London: Independent News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022:
text: Barcelona were celebrating winning the league title, with fireworks, spotlights, open-topped buses, and a million people in the street; with Ronaldinho wearing a comedy oversized rubber hand fashioned into his trade mark thumb-and-little-finger wiggle (he may also have been wearing a comedy mask; it's hard to tell); […]
ref: 2005 May 17, Sid Lowe, “There once was an ugly duckling”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2014:
text: [Jason] Spezza couldn’t suppress his trade mark giggle while talking about Phillips, the quintessential stay-at-home defenceman who scored a goal about every 17 games in his career.
ref: 2020 February 18, Chris Stevenson, “Senators retire No. 4: ‘What made Chris [Phillips] was not just the player, but the person he was’”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Sep 2025:
glosses: Alternative spelling of trademark.
bellyacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bellyachers
Etymology: From bellyache + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who bellyaches; a complainer.
bellyachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bellyacher
trade marks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade mark
bewilderer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewilderers
Etymology: From bewilder + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of bewilder; one who bewilders.
bewilderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewilderer
bewilderments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bewilderment
blacklister
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blacklisters
Etymology: From blacklist + -er (agent noun).
Senses: glosses: One who blacklists.
blacklisters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blacklister
pleasurefully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈplɛʒəfəli/
Forms: form: more pleasurefully
form: most pleasurefully
Etymology: From pleasureful + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Callum's strip poker fantasy contains a hopeful element as well that somehow he will find a way to interact pleasurefully with women.
ref: 2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin, published 2008, page 227:
glosses: In a pleasureful way; in a way which brings pleasure.
pleasurer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pleasurers
Etymology: From pleasure + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something who pleasures.
examples: text: Let us turn now, to another portion of the London population, whose recreations present about as strong a contrast as can well be conceived — we mean the Sunday pleasurers […]
ref: 1836, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by “Boz,” Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC:
glosses: A pleasure-seeker.
Derived terms: self-pleasurer
pleasurers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pleasurer
business before pleasure
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Discharging one's obligations must take precedence over devoting time to pursuits meant solely for one's own gratification.
Related terms: age before beauty
mix business with pleasure
pearls before swine
figural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɪɡ(j)ʊɹəl/
ipa: /ˈfɪɡjəɹəl/
Forms: form: more figural
form: most figural
Etymology: From Old French figural, from late Latin figūrālis, from figūra (“figure”).
Senses: examples: text: The counterparts, in the Christian era, to the figural anticipation of Christ in the Old Testament were the deliverer monarchs and leaders of later times […]
ref: 2007, John Burrow, A History of Histories, Penguin, published 2009, page 185:
glosses: Representing by means of a figure; emblematic.
glosses: Figurative, not literal.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of numbers, describing a geometrical figure.
glosses: Pertaining to a figure, shape.
examples: text: Some of the Umayyads found themselves charmed by the cultures which they had conquered, so that archaeologists in Palestine and Syria have revealed an astonishing flourishing of Christian-style figural art under their rule.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, pages 262–3:
glosses: Pertaining to (human) figures.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Figurate.
Derived terms: figurally
adaptationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From adaptation + -ism.
Senses: qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The view that many traits of organisms are evolved adaptations.
examples: text: Until one is clear about just what one means by adaptationism, what evidence one needs to accuse someone of being an "adaptationist" will remain vague; this rather diminishes the force of the accusation.
ref: 2006, Massimo Pigliucci, Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Making Sense of Evolution: The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology, University of Chicago Press:
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: A set of methods for distinguishing traits resulting from adaptation from those arising through other processes.
qualifier: evolutionary theory
glosses: The belief that all traits are adaptations brought about by natural selection, when some are only functionless by-products (also called "spandrels").
Related terms: adaptationist
fermenter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fermenters
Etymology: From ferment + -er.
Senses: glosses: Any organism, such as a yeast, that causes fermentation.
examples: text: Where this has proved impossible, we've outsourced the process using barrels, jars, comost heaps and industrial fermenters.
ref: 2020, Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life, page 205:
glosses: A fermentor; a vessel in which fermentation takes place.
Derived terms: biofermenter
heterofermenter
homofermenter
microfermenter
multifermenter
non-fermenter
fermentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛntə(ɹ)
Forms: form: fermentors
Etymology: From ferment + -or.
Senses: glosses: The vessel in which fermentation takes place
Derived terms: biofermentor
microfermentor
ferredoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferredoxins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of iron and sulfur-containing proteins, found in green plants, that function in electron transport and in photosynthesis.
Derived terms: polyferredoxin
phenotypic plasticity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The ability of an organism with a given genotype to change its phenotype in response to changes in the environment, including changes that occur during the adult life of the organism.
flavylium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flavyliums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The cation 2-phenylchromenylium that is the basis of the anthocyanins
coon-skin cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coon-skin caps
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coonskin cap.
coon-skin hat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coon-skin hats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of coonskin cap.
floccule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: floccules
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin flocculus, from floccus.
Senses: glosses: A small, loosely aggregated mass of material suspended in, or precipitated from a solution; a floc.
Related terms: flocculus
fluorimetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluorimetries
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: fluorescence spectroscopy
Derived terms: immunofluorimetry
microfluorimetry
glycaric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aldaric
Derived terms: glycaric acid
glyconic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: aldaric
Derived terms: aglyconic
glyconic acid
glycuronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: uronic
Derived terms: glycuronate
glycuronic acid
Related terms: glucuronic
uronic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From glucuronic, from glucose and Ancient Greek οὖρον (oûron, “urine”).
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the uronic acids or their derivatives
Derived terms: alduronic
iduronic
gradientless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gradientless
form: most gradientless
Etymology: From gradient + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking a gradient (in height, temperature etc.).
Derived terms: gradientlessness
graphitizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graphitizable
form: most graphitizable
Etymology: From graphitize + -able.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Able to be converted to graphite.
raw_tags: of carbon
Derived terms: nongraphitizable
graphitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more graphitized
form: most graphitized
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Converted to graphite
raw_tags: of carbon
Derived terms: ungraphitized
graphitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of graphitize
halirenium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halireniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any reactive intermediate in the form of a three-membered unsaturated cyclic cation containing a positively charged halogen atom
halochromism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any change in colour resulting from a chemical reaction, especially from a change in pH
Related terms: halochromic
halonium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haloniums
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any cation of the form R₂X⁺, in which X is a positively-charged halogen
Derived terms: halonium ion
'zackly
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: zackly
form: 'zactly
Etymology: Eye-dialect spelling of exactly.
Senses: glosses: Exactly.
drop a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a hint
form: dropping a hint
form: dropped a hint
form: dropped a hint
Senses: glosses: To reveal a clue or hint about something.
college try
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: college tries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of old college try.
Chece
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
kaffer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kaffers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kaffir.
look upon
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks upon
form: looking upon
form: looked upon
form: looked upon
Senses: examples: text: Some people look upon lexicography as their life's work.
text: I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
synonyms: word: account
word: count
word: esteem
word: see
word: consider
word: deem
word: hold
word: dub
word: find
word: interpret
word: judge
word: look upon
word: regard as
word: think of
word: view as
glosses: To consider or regard something in a specific manner.
examples: text: Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
glosses: To gaze at something; to look on.
Related terms: look down upon
water hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: water holes
Senses: examples: text: The same was true of the water hole, where unauthorized games of hockey were played during the winter.
ref: 1959, John Knowles, chapter 12, in A Separate Peace:
glosses: Alternative spelling of waterhole.
f--ing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: "You collect every f--ing fact there is in the world!"
ref: 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, Bantam Books, published 1975, →ISBN, page 169:
glosses: Censored spelling of fucking.
Related terms: effing