cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
tuniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The left-hand figure remains in essence the same except that it is no longer rooted to the spot, but now it clearly accompanies the tuniest of tunes.
ref: 2008, W. Dean Sutcliffe, The Keyboard Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti and Eighteenth-Century Musical Style:
text: The top-billed Ritz Brothers, appearing in what studio publicity termed “the fastest, funniest, tuniest hit that they or anybody else ever made!” perform several specialty routines but aren't especially well integrated into the rest of the film.
ref: 2014, David C. Tucker, Joan Davis: America's Queen of Film, Radio and Television Comedy:
glosses: superlative form of tuny: most tuny
tunier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of tuny: more tuny
Franckian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Franckian
form: most Franckian
Etymology: From Franck + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to César Franck (1822–1890), composer and musician.
tuny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: tunier
form: tuniest
Etymology: From tune + -y.
Senses: examples: text: This is Glass as he wrote in the early 1960s: tame, tonal, tuny music.
ref: 1997, Arthur Cohn, The Literature of Chamber Music: Eggermann to Kyurkchiisky:
glosses: tuneful; melodious
twopennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twopenny
threepennies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of threepenny
turbined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: a twin-turbined engine
glosses: Having a specified kind or number of turbines.
turdine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the thrushes, or the Turdidae.
turdoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of, relating to or resembling the thrushes, or the Turdidae.
turf ski
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: turf skis
Senses: glosses: A kind of short ski on wheels, like a roller skate, that can be used on grass.
turf skis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turf ski
turgors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of turgor
turniping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turnip
turnipping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turnip
turniped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turnip
turnipped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turnip
half-breds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-bred
girdedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of gird
tushkar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tushkars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tushker.
tuskar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tuskars
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tusker (“peat-cutting tool”).
tushkars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tushkar
tuskars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tuskar
IYO
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: Initialism of in your opinion.
Related terms: IMO
Saraguro
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Saraguros
Senses: examples: text: Saraguros strongly identify themselves as an indigenous ethnic group. The genesis of this distinctive ethnic identity is a complex result of historical processes extending to Inca and Spanish colonization of the Andean region.
ref: 2015, David Syring, With the Saraguros: The Blended Life in a Transnational World:
glosses: A member of the Saraguro people of Ecuador.
Saraguro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A canton of Ecuador.
Saraguros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Saraguro
twangler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twanglers
Etymology: From twangle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a twangling sound.
twanglers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twangler
twiny
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈtwaɪni/
Forms: form: more twiny
form: most twiny
Etymology: From twine + -y.
Senses: examples: a plant with a twiny stem
glosses: Tending to twine; twisting around.
examples: text: And so one may re-read 'Epithalamion', observing that to put off bleached linen and woven woolwear and twiny boots is (even if comic) to shuffle off this mortal coil[…]
ref: 1973, Winifred Nowottny -, Hopkins's Language of Prayer & Praise, page 9:
glosses: Made of twine; having the appearance of twine.
qualifier: North Country
glosses: fretful; uneasy
twiscar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twiscars
Senses: examples: text: As for her brother, they being now arrived where the rude and antique instruments of Zetland agriculture lay scattered in the usual confusion of a Scottish barn-yard, his thoughts were at once engrossed in the deficiencies of the one-stilted plough—of the twiscar, with which they dig peats—of the sledges, on which they transport commodities—of all and every thing, in short, in which the usages of the islands differed from that of the main land of Scotland.
ref: 1822, [Walter Scott], chapter XII, in The Pirate. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co., →OCLC, pages 272–273:
glosses: Alternative form of tusker (“peat-cutting tool”).
twiscars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twiscar
tyring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of tyre
tolerative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: tolerate + -ive
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Relating to a grammatical case, similar to the passive, that indicates something is being allowed or tolerated.
self-flagellation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: self-flagellations
Senses: glosses: The practice of whipping oneself as penance for sins.
examples: text: It was [...] followed by feelings of immense guilt and self-flagellation. What did I do wrong? What did I forget?
ref: 2020, Louise Curtis with Sarah Johnson, A Nurseʼs Story: My Life in A&E During the Covid Crisis, Pan Books, page 70:
glosses: Intense feelings of guilt.
Related terms: beat one's breast
beat oneself up
hairshirt
self-flagellations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of self-flagellation
psalmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of psalmograph
pre-charge
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precharge.
pre-charge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pre-charges
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precharge.
pre-charge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-charges
form: pre-charging
form: pre-charged
form: pre-charged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precharge.
pseudo-TLD
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudo-TLDs
Etymology: From pseudo- + TLD.
Senses: glosses: A top-level domain that is not part of the official worldwide Domain Name System but is used in a similar way, for example on an intranet.
pseudo-TLDs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudo-TLD
precharges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precharge
precharges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precharge
pre-charges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pre-charge
pre-charges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pre-charge
pre-charged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pre-charged
form: most pre-charged
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of precharged.
pre-charged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pre-charge
Kalachakra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kalacakra
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit कालचक्र (kālacakra).
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The "wheel of time", an element of Vajrayana Buddhism.
Kalacakra
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Kalachakra.
precharging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precharge
pre-charging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pre-charge
nookiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nooky: most nooky
nookier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nooky: more nooky
northerns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of northern
rethreadings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rethreading
nucleal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a nucleus; nuclear.
nucleide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucleides
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nuclide.
Derived terms: radionucleide
nucleides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucleide
pan-Indianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + Indian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: A movement promoting unity among different American Indian groups in the Americas regardless of tribal or local affiliations.
Synonyms: pan-Amerindianism
Related terms: pan-Indian
pan-Indianist
pan-Indianist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pan-Indianists
Etymology: From pan- + Indian + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of pan-Indianism.
pan-Amerindianism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + Amerindian + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of pan-Indianism.
synonyms: word: pan-Indianism
pan-Indianists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pan-Indianist
unincluding
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Etymology: From un- + including.
Senses: examples: text: Fear of the poorhouse (street or squat or prison) may create quite the entrepreneurial motive too-- not unincluding the criminal; sometimes these two being indistinguishable.
ref: 2004, Alan Goldfein, Europe's Macadam, America's Tar:
glosses: Not including; excluding.
unincluding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From un- + including.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uninclude
landslid
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of landslide
leacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leachers
Etymology: From leach + -er.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
lifestyle
glosses: A substance that leaches from the soil.
glosses: Obsolete form of lecher.
leachers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leacher
lead offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead off
lead-offs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lead-off
leadoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leadoff
laylock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laylocks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of lilac (the plant).
laylocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laylock
dysthymiac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dysthymiacs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dysthymic.
dysthymiac
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dysthymiac
form: most dysthymiac
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of dysthymic.
dysthymiacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dysthymiac
leasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of least
lectorate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lectorates
Senses: glosses: A lectorship.
lectorates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lectorate
legongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of legong
subalar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + alar.
Senses: examples: the subalar muscle
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the wing.
subcounty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + county.
Senses: examples: a subcounty administrative unit
glosses: Below the level of a county.
subcounty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subcounties
Etymology: From sub- + county.
Senses: examples: the subcounties of Uganda
hyponyms: gombolola
glosses: An administrative unit making up part of a county.
subdistricting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of subdistrict
subdistricted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of subdistrict
subeconomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɒnəmi
Forms: form: subeconomies
Etymology: From sub- + economy.
Senses: glosses: An economy that forms part of a larger economy.
subeconomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subeconomy
subgovernment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subgovernments
Etymology: From sub- + government.
Senses: glosses: A government that forms part of a larger government.
subgovernments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subgovernment
subbatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subbatches
Etymology: From sub- + batch.
Senses: glosses: A batch that forms part of a larger batch.
subbatches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subbatch
sublot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublots
Etymology: From sub- + lot.
Senses: glosses: A lot that forms part of a larger lot.
sublots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublot
subminimal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + minimal.
Senses: examples: text: The fact that event predicates that denote subminimal P-events need to obey even stricter contextual restrictions was derived on the basis of scalar inferences, plus the assumption that subminimal events never occur in their own right.
ref: 2011, Claudia Maienborn, Event Arguments: Foundations and Applications, page 328:
hypernyms: nonminimal
coordinate_terms: submaximal
suboptimal
;
inadequate
glosses: Below a minimal value.
subniche
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subniches
Etymology: From sub- + niche.
Senses: glosses: A niche making up part of a larger niche.
subniches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subniche
subpotent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more subpotent
form: most subpotent
Etymology: From sub- + potent.
Senses: examples: a subpotent drug
glosses: Less than potent; not potent enough.
subpotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpotencies
Etymology: From sub- + potency.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being subpotent.
subpotencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpotency
superpotency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + potency.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being superpotent.
subtemperate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + temperate.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the cooler parts of the temperate regions.
subtunic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subtunics
Etymology: From sub- + tunic.
Senses: glosses: An undertunic.
subtunics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subtunic
supertunic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -uːnɪk
Forms: form: supertunics
Etymology: From super- + tunic.
Senses: glosses: A tunic worn over other clothing; a surcoat.
supertunics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supertunic
superfalsity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + falsity.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In supervaluationism, the quality of being superfalse.
superfalsehood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From super- + falsehood.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: In supervaluationism, the quality of being superfalse.
subursine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + ursine.
Senses: examples: a subursine plantigrade
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Not perfectly ursine; only somewhat like a bear.
subventionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: By way of subvention; subsidizing or assisting.
suckless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From suck + -less.
Senses: examples: text: ‘No, I’ll not touch it: but it looks melancholy, does it not, Ellen?’ ‘Yes,’ I observed, ‘about as starved and suckless as you: your cheeks are bloodless […]
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXII, in Wuthering Heights:
text: Tube feeding is not as quick an emergency measure as the dextrose injection nor as long lasting in its energy boost, but is most useful for getting milk into the stomach of a suckless lamb.
ref: 1967, Shepherd, volume 12, page 22:
glosses: That does not suck or suckle.
sufficer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sufficers
Etymology: From suffice + -er.
Senses: glosses: A person who aims to be self-sufficient rather than to accumulate further wealth.
sufficers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sufficer
sunbeaten
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sun + beaten.
Senses: examples: text: One explosion followed another as the gray sunbeaten cabins burned like torches. Cries and curses could be heard from human beings caught in the midst of the fire.
ref: 1961, A. A. Gallen, The Wetback, page 45:
glosses: Heated by exposure to direct sunlight.
sunback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunbacks
Etymology: From sun + back, since it exposes the skin of the upper back to the sunlight.
Senses: glosses: The low-cut back of a woman's dress.
sunbacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunback
suttly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more suttly
form: most suttly
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of subtly.
swaly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: swalier
form: swaliest
Etymology: From swale + -y.
Senses: glosses: Boggy; marshy.
glosses: Shady.
Synonyms: sense: boggy, marshy
word: hoggy
word: quaggy
word: swampy
word: marshy
sense: shady
word: shadowy
sense: shady
word: umbrageous
sense: shady
word: umbratic
swaliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of swaly: most swaly
swalier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swaly: more swaly
swanniest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of swanny: most swanny
swannier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of swanny: more swanny
swies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swy
Swingism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Captain Swing + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Opposition by agricultural labourers to new machinery that could put them out of work.
Swing riots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Swing riot
Curtisland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Curtis + land.
Senses: examples: text: Curtisland was among the least "cool" products of Cool Britannia, but it was always perfect for export; Britain was suddenly a sunny, witty, self-deprecating, charming kind of place, a Doris Day film by the Thames in which it was forever Christmas.
ref: 2009 March 22, Tim Adams, The Observer:
text: Both Avengerland and Curtisland are firmly rooted in an idealized, romanticized version of contemporary Britain.
ref: 2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 74:
glosses: A quasi-mythologised version of England as depicted in the films of Richard Curtis.
swithly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more swithly
form: most swithly
Etymology: From swith + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Quickly, speedily, promptly.
glosses: Strongly; vehemently; very.
Millionaires' Row
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Millionaire's Row
Senses: examples: text: Squatters evicted from mansions on millionaires’ row.
ref: 2009, The Guardian, 29 January, (headline)
text: Saatchi's support could mean the difference between exhibiting in an obscure warehouse and living it up on Millionaire’s Row.
ref: 2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 105:
glosses: A (real or imagined) street consisting of the residences of very rich people.
YBAs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of YBA
swopt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: swop + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of swop
YBA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: YBAs
form: yBa
Senses: examples: text: Clarity of purpose was never a YBA trademark, yet the only serious challenge to Hirst's leadership has come from someone who expresses her incoherence rather more lucidly than Hirst.
ref: 2001, Alistair Hicks, Mary Findlay, Friedhelm Hütte, Art works: British and German contemporary art 1960-2000, page 149:
text: Interestingly, the first work by a YBA (Young British Artist) to enter the collection was purchased from d'Offay […]
ref: 2002, Kent Logan, The Logan Collection, page 15:
text: The YBAs created a new and accessible fusion of pop and conceptualism that had the distinctively British feel of an indie band.
ref: 2011 July 10, Ben Lewis, The Observer:
text: To their critics, the YBAs, with their emphasis on sex, sensationalism and shock tactics, were doing little more than copying the tactics of the ad agencies.
ref: 2015, Dominic Sandbrook, The Great British Dream Factory, Penguin, published 2016, page 110:
text: The gold rush had begun with the YBAs in the 90s and was driven by cash from the former Soviet Union, the dotcom boom, the explosion in PR know-how, and opportunistic collectors such as Charles Saatchi.
ref: 2024 April 17, Charlotte Edwardes, “‘The money is not real – it’s a feckless level of wealth’: the inside story of the biggest art fraud in American history”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: And the biggest thing was I didn’t want to die being some mediocre YBA artist from the 90s. I thought: that’s not me. What have I been doing?
ref: 2024 May 29, Simon Hattenstone, quoting Tracey Emin, “The radical, ravishing rebirth of Tracey Emin: ‘I didn’t want to die as some mediocre YBA’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Initialism of Young British Artist.
swizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: swizzlers
Etymology: From swizzle + -er.
Senses: examples: text: A first-rate Bloody Mary comes with a leafy twig of celery as swizzler, but the Zoe cocktail (blackberry liqueur, sparkling wine, and sherry) is insipid and warm, a ripoff at $7.25.
ref: 1992, New York Magazine, volume 25, number 9, page 53:
glosses: A swizzle stick.
swizzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of swizzler
Afrotropics
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Afrotropic regions.
symmetallism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A currency system based on the value of a fixed proportion of two metals.
Related terms: symmetallic
sympetaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: gamopetaly
gamopetaly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The quality of being gamopetalous.
Synonyms: sympetaly
synanon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synanons
Senses: glosses: A group meeting of the Synanon organization, a drug rehabilitation program that developed into a criminal cult and was disbanded in 1991.
synanons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synanon
splittee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splittees
Etymology: From split + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who left the Synanon organization.
splittees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of splittee
derattled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From de- + rattle + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Of a rattlesnake: having had its rattle removed.
syncarpy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality of being syncarpous
Synonyms: coenocarpy
syndet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndets
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: A synthetic detergent, as opposed to a natural soap.
syndets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndet
synedrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to a synedrion.
synodsman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synodsmen
Senses: glosses: A member of a church synod.
synodsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synodsman
sypher
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: syphers
form: syphering
form: syphered
form: syphered
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: topics: business
carpentry
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To lap the chamfered edges of planks to make a smooth surface, as for a bulkhead.
syphers
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sypher
syphered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sypher
lindies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lindy
lindies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of lindy
lingy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lingy
form: most lingy
Etymology: From ling + -y.
Senses: examples: a lingy moor
glosses: Having ling, or heather, growing on it.
cybercolonial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyber- + colonial.
Senses: glosses: Involving or relating to cybercolonialism.
micromeritics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The science and technology of small particles.
Related terms: micromeritic
micromeritic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to small particles.
Related terms: micromeritics
healing crisis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: healing crises
Senses: topics: alternative-medicine
medicine
sciences
glosses: An acute worsening of health during the process of healing, brought about by the elimination of toxins from the body.
resting face
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: resting faces
Senses: glosses: The human face at rest and not showing any sign of emotion.
fat day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fat days
Senses: glosses: A day on which one feels overly conscious of being overweight.
mummy makeover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mummy makeovers
Senses: glosses: Plastic surgery performed on a post-partum woman in order to counteract the outward signs of pregnancy, as sagging breasts, stomach, etc.
eco-home
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eco-homes
Etymology: From eco- + home.
Senses: glosses: An ecologically friendly home.
prurigoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prurigo
armers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armer
deputied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deputy
deputying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deputy
modern up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moderns up
form: moderning up
form: moderned up
form: moderned up
Senses: glosses: To modernise
D.Phil.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: D.Phils
form: D.Phil.'s
form: D.Phil.s
form: DPhil
Etymology: Contraction of Doctor of Philosophy.
Senses: qualifier: Oxford University; otherwise historical; Oxford University; otherwise historical
glosses: Synonym of Ph.D. (as awarded by Oxford University.)
synonyms: word: Ph.D.
extra: as awarded by Oxford University.
qualifier: Oxford University; otherwise rare; Oxford University; otherwise rare
glosses: A person who holds a Ph.D. or D.Phil. degree.
qualifier: Oxford University slang
glosses: Clipping of D.Phil. student.
Related terms: doctor
doctoral
doctorate
Dené
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Dene.
Derived terms: Dené-Daic
Dené-Caucasian
azoalkene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoalkenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azo derivative of an alkene
azoalkenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azoalkene
azoarene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoarenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azo derivative of an arene
azoarenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of azoarene
azolo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azolos
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any univalent radical derived from an azole
azolopyrimidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azolopyrimidines
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azolo derivative of a pyrimidine
azonaphthalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azonaphthalenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azo derivative of naphthalene
azoxynaphthalene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: azoxynaphthalenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any azoxy derivative of naphthalene
batonnet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: batonnets
Etymology: From French bâtonnet (literally “small stick”).
Senses: glosses: A piece of vegetable cut into the shape of a small stick.
Related terms: baton
baston
batonnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of batonnet
benzoannelated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: annelated with one or more fused benzene rings
benzofulvene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: benzofulvenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any benzo derivative of a fulvene
sport of kings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the sport of kings
Senses: glosses: Hunting.
glosses: Horse racing.
recoverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recovering
re-coverings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of re-covering
oggles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of oggle
oggling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of oggle
oggled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of oggle
upgunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upgun
upgunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upgun
upguns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upgun
up-guns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of up-gun
up-gunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of up-gun
up-gunned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of up-gun
ZB
Language: English
Part of speech: symbol
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of zettabyte.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: ZiB
glosses: Abbreviation of zebibyte.
misgraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misgrace
misgraced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of misgrace
misgracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of misgrace
disgraceless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more disgraceless
form: most disgraceless
Etymology: From disgrace + -less.
Senses: glosses: Free from disgrace.
vegansexual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: vē′gən-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌviː.ɡənˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌvi.ɡənˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: more vegansexual
form: most vegansexual
Etymology: From vegan + -sexual.
Senses: examples: text: He pointed out that had his current partner been strictly vegansexual, their relationship might never have started in the first place, as when they met, he was only vegetarian.
ref: 2017, Nathan Stephens Griffin, Understanding Veganism: Biography and Identity, Springer, →ISBN, page 72:
glosses: Only having sexual relationships with other vegans.
Related terms: vegansexuality
vegansexual
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: vē′gən-sĕk′sho͞o-əl
ipa: /ˌviː.ɡənˈsɛk.ʃuː.əl/
ipa: /ˌvi.ɡənˈsɛk.ʃu.əl/
rhymes: -ɛkʃuəl
rhymes: -ɛkʃuːəl
Forms: form: vegansexuals
Etymology: From vegan + -sexual.
Senses: glosses: A vegan who chooses to have sex or pursue sexual relationships only with other vegans.
vegansexuals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vegansexual
vegansexuality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: One of the matters Annie Potts and Jovian Parry discuss, however, is the rhetoric associated with the backlash against vegansexuality following the media attention to the term, rhetoric that “constructs vegansexuals—and vegans more generally—as (sexual) losers, cowards, deviants, failures and bigots".
ref: 2016, Jennifer Munroe, Ecological Approaches to Early Modern English Texts:
glosses: The practice among some vegans of having sex or pursuing sexual relationships only with other vegans.
Related terms: vegansexual
predevaluation
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + devaluation.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: Before devaluation.
precure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precures
form: precuring
form: precured
form: precured
Etymology: From pre- + cure.
Senses: glosses: To treat (rubber) to enhance its dimensional stability prior to curing.
precure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precures
Etymology: From pre- + cure.
Senses: glosses: The treatment of rubber in this way.
precures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precure
precures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precure
precuring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precure
precured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precure
EMIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of EMI
preembargo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + embargo.
Senses: examples: text: This fact complicates the problem of estimating future oil supplies, especially at prices substantially above preembargo levels.
ref: 1977, Crude Oil Transportation System, Valdez AK to Midland TX, Proposed by SOHIO: Environmental Impact Statement:
glosses: Before an embargo.
preenact
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pɹi.ɛnækt/
Forms: form: preenacts
form: preenacting
form: preenacted
form: preenacted
form: pre-enact
Etymology: From pre- + enact.
Senses: examples: text: But the event at the Last Supper was indeed a sacrifice, precisely because it preenacted the sacrifice on Calvary.
ref: 1994, Robert Sokolowski, Eucharistic Presence: A Study in the Theology of Disclosure, page 28:
glosses: To enact in advance.
preenacts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preenact
preenacting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preenact
preenacted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preenact
preethical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + ethical.
Senses: examples: text: The analytical history starts by attempting to understand relevant psychological capacities of the preethical ancestors, and, on that basis, to portray the initial stages of the ethical project.
ref: 2011, Philip Kitcher, The Ethical Project, page 5:
glosses: Prior to the development of a system of ethics.
prematures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of premature
prerinse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prerinses
form: prerinsing
form: prerinsed
form: prerinsed
Etymology: From pre- + rinse.
Senses: glosses: To rinse in advance.
prerinse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prerinses
Etymology: From pre- + rinse.
Senses: glosses: A rinse in advance.
prerinsed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of prerinse
prerinsing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prerinse
prerinses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prerinse
prerinses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prerinse
presbyterially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From presbyterial + -ly.
Senses: synonyms: presbyterianly
glosses: In a presbyterial manner.
tonoscope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonoscopes
Etymology: From tono- + -scope, coined by Dr. Hans Jenny, who invented the first such device and published research that was based on it.
Senses: examples: text: When the tonoscope was used with patients suffering from speech difficulties, the difference between a pure sound and a skewed sound was clearly evident.
ref: 2010, Naomi Ozaniec, Beat Stress With Meditation: Teach Yourself, →ISBN:
text: Seashore saw the emotions of music as buried in the subsensory rise and fall of the sound wave; only tools such as the tonoscope could capture music's true beauty.
ref: 2014, Brenton J. Malin, Feeling Mediated: A History of Media Technology and Emotion in America, →ISBN:
text: Although a deaf child might not be able to hear the difference between a properly pronounced “oh” and a guttural, poorly articulated “uhh,” using the tonoscope they could see the difference!
ref: 2016, J. Douglas Kenyon, Unseen Forces: A Guide for the Truly Attentive, →ISBN:
glosses: Any of various devices that make sound visible by displaying vibrations.
wikipedia: Hans Jenny (cymatics)
tonoscopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonoscope
pretaste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pretastes
Etymology: From pre- + taste.
Senses: examples: text: […] sodium chloride was discriminated significantly better after a pretaste of distilled water, hot bouillon, hot coffee (1% level), or tomato juice (5% level), than after milk, apple juice, or raw apple.
ref: 2013, Maynard A. Amerine, Rose Marie Pangborn, Edward B. Roessler, Principles of Sensory Evaluation of Food, page 308:
glosses: A taste taken beforehand.
pretaste
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pretastes
form: pretasting
form: pretasted
form: pretasted
Etymology: From pre- + taste.
Senses: glosses: To take a previous or initial taste.
pretastes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pretaste
previsionary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more previsionary
form: most previsionary
Senses: glosses: Relating to prevision or foresight; prophetic.
preage
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: preages
form: preaging
form: preageing
form: preaged
form: preaged
Etymology: From pre- + age.
Senses: glosses: To subject (a material) to extreme conditions to simulate the effects of age.
preaging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preage
preages
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of preage
preaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of preage
preageing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of preage
precaval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Anterior to the vena cava.
precaval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precavals
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A precaval vein.
take one's half out of the middle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's half out of the middle
form: taking one's half out of the middle
form: took one's half out of the middle
form: taken one's half out of the middle
Etymology: From the practice of driving too close to the center of a two-way road, so that the remaining half of the road is split on both sides of you, leaving vehicles that are going the other way with no usable space on which to drive.
Senses: examples: text: In fact, I have heard people say they didn't believe what some pastor said, because they did not live their three score and ten years. So your 66.2 is a bit shy. Satan is still taking his half out of the middle.
ref: 2008 October 14, thea, “Polytheism -> Monotheism -> Atheism”, in Atheism vs Christianity (Usenet):
text: Technically speaking, we all own the sidewalk. But last week, you were taking your half out of the middle, slowly lurching through the Belltown/South Lake Union border zone and staring into your phone.
ref: 2015 September 23, “We Saw You Have Sex on the Beach, Text About Drugs, and Eat Pizza While Cycling”, in The Stranger:
text: The current plan "takes up its half out of the middle and you can have what's left over."
ref: 2016 September 14, Samantha Craggs, “Where should Hamilton's LRT stops be located? Did Metrolinx get it right?”, in CBC News:
glosses: To take the portion of something to which one is entitled, but in such a way that it shortchanges others.
precepit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: precepits
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of precept.
precepits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of precepit
two ha'pennies for a penny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Suggesting that somebody has so little money that they could not even exchange somebody's penny for two halfpennies.
Senses: examples: text: I bet you he hasn't got two ha'pennies for a penny — they never have, these people.
ref: 1962, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs, Theatre Arts, volume 46, page 114:
text: A lot of rowdy-dowdies, poverty stricken — blunt but true, they haven't got two ha'pennies for a penny — dirty, no interest in their children.
ref: 1963, New Society, volume 2, page 10:
text: In that condition he hasn't got a halfpenny to scratch himself with — an irreverent departure from the pious 'not a penny to bless himself'; or two ha'pennies for a penny, nor a brass farthing or a penny to his name.
ref: 1980, Robert Barltrop, Jim Wolveridge, The Muvver Tongue, page 18:
glosses: Any money whatsoever.
raw_tags: in negative constructions
honorary Aryan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honorary Aryans
Senses: glosses: A title accorded to the Japanese and some other people by Nazi Germany. Although of a different race, they were considered by the Nazis to possess qualities similar enough to German Nordic characteristics to warrant the designation.
uralitize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uralitizes
form: uralitizing
form: uralitized
form: uralitized
Senses: glosses: To cause or undergo uralitization.
theodicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: theodicities
Senses: examples: text: It is probably because I have almost entirely ignored Malthus's theodicity — the theological aspects and implications of his political economy — that I find his case so much harder to express.
ref: 2002, John Berdell, International Trade and Economic Growth in Open Economies, →ISBN:
text: Implicitly, this theodicity of progress, coming as reward to the hardworking, entrepreneurial West, presupposed a harmonious vision of the world, again in the fashion of traditional cosmogonies, always organized and hierarchized.
ref: 2003, Daniel Dubuisson, The Western Construction of Religion: Myths, Knowledge, and Ideology, →ISBN:
text: This theodicity analogy also explains why politicians have drawn from these metaphoric models to formulate policy to control populations.
ref: 2012, Wadada Nabudere, Afrikology and Transdisciplinarity: A Restorative Epistemology, →ISBN, page 95:
text: In short, according to Max Weber, there is a nearly universal tendency for religions of the upper strata to develop a theodicity that legitimates the good fortune of the rich and privileged and the ill fortune of the poor, arguing that rich and poor alike merit their status in life.
ref: 2015, Erich Goode, Deviant Behavior, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative form of theodicy.
theodicities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of theodicity
honorary Aryans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honorary Aryan
halloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halla
hallot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halla
hallahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hallah
halogeton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halogetons
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Halogeton.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any plant of the genus Halogeton in the family Amaranthaceae.
halogetons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halogeton
handplay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handplays
Etymology: Combat sense: perhaps from Middle English *handpleie, from Old English handplega (“fighting”), equivalent to hand + play. Compare swordplay.
Senses: glosses: Hand-to-hand combat.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of skat, the playing of one's hand without using the skat.
hariolates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hariolate
hariolating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hariolate
hariolated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hariolate
orderedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of order
abandonedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of abandon
hatchety
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hatchety
form: most hatchety
Etymology: From hatchet + -y.
Senses: examples: text: She'd been looking at him throughout his speech, at the lank height of him, the long-fingered, bony hands, the long head, rather hatchety, the deep-set gray eyes.
ref: 1921, Bertha Runkle, The Island, page 27:
glosses: Resembling a hatchet.
wanderedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of wander
tarrasques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tarrasque
wonderedst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of wonder