cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
slugicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slugicides
Etymology: From slug + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: I have applied slugicides in every variety that the advertisements offer; but the slugs persist.
ref: 1906, Eden Phillpotts, My Garden, page 62:
text: Certain slugicides are excellent preventives against slugs and do not hurt the seedlings;
ref: 1914, Dorothy Lowe, “Sowing seeds. Weeding. Mulching. Cuttings. Runners and Layers. Potting. Syringing. Pruning fruit trees and shrubs.”, in A Book of Simple Gardening, Cambridge: at the University Press, page 16:
text: They all talk, telling of the Dorothies that did so well last year, the delphiniums the slugs ate, and getting advice thrown in with more Dorothies and cans of slugicide—guaranteed free of arsenic—and packets of seed.
ref: 1931 November 13, M. Southern, “Alien”, in The Manchester Guardian, number 26,580, page 16, column 1:
text: No experimental work has been conducted in New Zealand to determine the relative value of this compound as compared with other “slugicides,” but the writer has found it useful in checking an outbreak of slugs found to be infesting field cabbages.
ref: 1937, New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, page 280:
glosses: A substance that kills slugs.
slugicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of slugicide
wormicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wormicides
Etymology: From worm + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: Sal Tone is a medicated salt tonic wormicide and conditioner.
ref: 1913 January 25, “Give Hogs Sal Tone and Watch ’em Grow”, in Missouri Ruralist with Which is Combined the Breeders Special: A Weekly Journal for Missouri Farmers and Breeders, volume XI, number 537 (whole), page 6:
text: Worms get the upper hand when the balance of health is on the ebb. The use of wormicides when the animal has lost its vitality is detrimental to its life.
ref: 1938, Report, Bombay (Province) Dept. of Agriculture, page 247:
text: Sizable quantities of livestock dips and wormicides are used—South Africa is a major producer of merine wool, butter, and cheese.
ref: 1962 September–October, “Chemicals and Allied Products”, in Chemical and Rubber, volume 9, number 9, Washington, D.C.: U. S. Department of Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration, section “Inorganica and Agricultural Chemicals”, subsection “Pesticides in the Republic of South Africa”, page 9, column 2:
text: Tubers are given to sheep as remedy for colic and also as wormicide.
ref: 1997, Journal of Non-timber Forest Products, page 7:
glosses: A substance that kills worms.
wormicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wormicide
misacquisition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: misacquisitions
Etymology: From mis- + acquisition.
Senses: examples: text: Is there any justification (other than the inevitability of some errors) for billion-dollar misacquisitions, such as Exxon's purchase of Reliance Electric or Sohio's purchase of Kennecott?
ref: 1990, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Mergers, Acquisitions, and Leveraged Buyouts, page 105:
text: As learning proceeds, a good teacher is always vigilant for misacquisitions—learning the correct answer but not understanding the underlying concept.
ref: 2014, Allen J. Edwards, editor, The Adolescent as Decision-Maker: Applications to Development and Education, page 42:
glosses: The acquiring of something badly or wrongly.
misacquisitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misacquisition
Pindara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pindaras
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pindari.
Pindarry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pindarries
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Pindari.
Pindaras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindara
Pindarries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Pindarry
pocket piece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pocket pieces
Senses: examples: text: Item, from Sir Lucius O'Trigger—three crovvns—tvvo gold pocket-pieces—and a ſilver ſnuff-box!
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii, page 16:
glosses: Something carried in the pocket for good luck, especially a coin.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A compact summary of national television ratings produced by Nielsen Media Research.
pocket pieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pocket piece
pillow shading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: A shading technique where shadow is added toward the edges of objects in a scene, irrespective of the light source.
Glossbrenners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Glossbrenner
odso
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: oddso
Etymology: Euphemistic form of godso.
Senses: examples: text: Abſ[olute]. Aye, Bob, Miſs Melville's Mr. Faulkland. / Acres. Od'ſo! ſhe and your father can be but juſt arrived before me— […]
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 22:
text: Odso! Thou dost wax great in wisdom day-by-day!
ref: 1841, Robert Eyres Landor, Earl of Brecon:
glosses: Expressing surprise or affirmation.
pomphret
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pomphrets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pomfret.
pomphrets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pomphret
Bowlds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bowldses
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Putnamian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Putnamian
form: most Putnamian
Etymology: From Putnam + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Hilary Putnam (1926–2016), American philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist, and a major figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century.
Sanker
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sankers
Etymology: Possibly a variant of Sanger.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Sankertown
Kroneckerian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Kroneckerian
form: most Kroneckerian
Etymology: From Kronecker + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Leopold Kronecker (1823–1891), German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.
Kroneckerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Kroneckerians
Etymology: From Kronecker + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: Considered just locally, the two approaches are very hard to compare, if not incommensurable, since they differ so much in their respective background assumptions (thus the continuing disagreement between Dedekindians and Kroneckerians).
ref: 2009, Bart Van Kerkhove, New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics, World Scientific, →ISBN, page 166:
text: Among the most virulent and persistant of the twentieth-century Kroneckerians were the French.
ref: 2020 June 16, Joseph Warren Dauben, Georg Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 253:
glosses: An adherent to the ideas of Leopold Kronecker.
Sankers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sanker
Bowldses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bowlds
Boothroyds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Boothroyd
pottah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pottahs
Senses: glosses: A document specifying the conditions on which lands are held; a lease or other document securing rights in land or house property.
pottahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pottah
mochulka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mochulkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muchalka.
mochulkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mochulka
mochalka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mochalkas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of muchalka.
mochalkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mochalka
Rusche
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rusches
Etymology: Borrowed from German Rusche.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Tecumseh step test
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tecumseh step tests
Etymology: It was employed in the Tecumseh Community Health Study in the 1950s and 1960s.
Senses: glosses: An exercise test used to determine a subject's cardiovascular fitness.
Tecumseh step tests
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tecumseh step test
Sanas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sana
Pracrita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Prakrit.
Ruacho
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ruachos
Etymology: Borrowed from Mexican Spanish Ruacho.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Toruno
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Torunos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Toruño. This surname is mostly found in Nicaragua.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Torunos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Toruno
Ruachos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ruacho
punchayet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: punchayets
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of panchayat.
punchayets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of punchayet
Punjaub
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The Colonel quitted home with reluctance (for he was deeply immersed in his History of the Punjaub which still occupies him, and much alarmed about his little daughter, whom he idolizes, and who was just recovering from the chicken-pox) […]
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of Punjab.
Punjaubi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Punjaubis
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of Punjabi.
Punjaubis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Punjaubi
Thorstad
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Thorstads
Etymology: Borrowed from Norwegian Thorstad.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Norwegian.
Thorstads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Thorstad
Tines
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tine
Sidener
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sideners
Etymology: Americanized spelling of German Seidner.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
patchuk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pachak.
patchak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pachak.
Reffett
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Reffetts
Etymology: Americanized spelling of various German surnames, such as Reffert, Refardt, Reifert or Riffert.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Reffetts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Reffett
Sideners
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sidener
Pree
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Prees
Etymology: Borrowed from French Prée.
Senses: glosses: A surname from French.
Preziosis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Preziosi
mangustan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangustans
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mangosteen.
mangustine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mangustines
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of mangosteen.
mangustans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangustan
mangustines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mangustine
dorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dorian
lansats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lansat
Smithfield bargain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Smithfield bargains
Senses: glosses: A bargain in which the buyer of something is taken advantage of; a rip-off.
examples: text: VVhy, is it not provoking; vvhen I thought vve vvere coming to the prettieſt diſtreſs imaginable, to find myſelf made a mere Smithfield bargain of at laſt— […]
ref: 1775 January 17 (first performance), [Richard Brinsley Sheridan], The Rivals, a Comedy. […], London: […] John Wilkie, […], published 1775, →OCLC, Act V, scene i, page 84:
glosses: A marriage made for convenience, especially for financial reasons.
McGlothin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: McGlothins
form: Mcglothin
form: Mc Glothin
form: Macglothin
form: MacGlothin
form: Mac Glothin
form: M'glothin
form: M'Glothin
form: Mglothin
form: MGlothin
form: Glothin
Etymology: Probably a variant of McLaughlin.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
McGlothins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of McGlothin
regurgitatively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From regurgitative + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a regurgitative manner.
black cotton soil
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of regur.
synonyms: word: regur
Bangs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bangses
Etymology: Variant of Banks.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Bangses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bangs
circle runner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle runners
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
handball
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: pivot
glosses: A player who plays along the six-meter line with his/her back facing the opponent's goal, and tries to get in between the defenders to create space so that a teammate can get in. The circle runner can also receive a pass and try to score.
cherute
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cherutes
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of cheroot.
cherutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cherute
circle runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of circle runner
bugicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugicides
Etymology: From bug + -icide.
Senses: examples: text: “Tincture of bugicide,” he thought, would occupy an honored place on the shelves of future druggists, for he was a firm believer in the germ theory.
ref: 1883 January 10, “The Social at the College of Pharmacy—Profs. Cook and Van Derbeck Lecture”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer, volume CVIII, Philadelphia, Pa., page 2, column 4:
text: From the report of the Department of Agriculture, it is readily observed that many of the firms making insecticides and bugicides are marketing their product with faulty labels and have come under the notice of the government.
ref: 1914, Monthly Review of the Dairy and Food Division, pages 6–7:
text: Around each bug will be its enemy, the bugicide. We have figured on two shelves, as you will note, and the grouping should be made in relation to the most salable bugicide in your locality.
ref: 1920, National Drug Clerk: The Journal of the National Association of Drug Clerks, page 332, column 2:
text: There’s another unwritten rule of gardening – never count the money spent on whatever you’re growing. By the time you figure in the cost of fertilizer, fungicides, bugicides, mulch, soil conditioners, equipment and the like, your total cost is outrageous.
ref: 1994 April 16, “Today’s showplace is tomorrow’s arid wasteland”, in The Item, volume 99, number 181, Sumter, S.C., page 3A:
glosses: A substance that kills bugs.
examples: text: It turned out that the Roaches were cockroaches and the girl was found guilty of justifiable “bugicide.”
ref: 1869 December 16, Reading Times, volume XXIV, number 62, Reading, Pa., column 4:
text: After each bugicide, we listen for the buzz of escapees.
ref: 1995 July 16, Jan Worth, “A Night Out”, in The Detroit News and Free Press, Detroit, Mich.:
text: The uniformed bugs will hold out warrants for the arrest of each member of the Canrobert household. The charge: bugicide, 15 counts.
ref: 1999 September 1, Mary Canrobert, “I’m bugged by nightmarish guilt over my young Dr. Doom”, in The Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, N.C., page 1V:
text: Both of us watched in silence as Nosey zoomed to and fro, committing bugicide after bugicide.
ref: 2005, Ann Halam, Siberia:
glosses: The killing of a bug.
bugicides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bugicide
Wormeleys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Wormeley
Corngolds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Corngold
earth almond
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: earth almonds
Senses: glosses: The chufa
Lehmiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lehmillers
Etymology: Probably a variant of Lohmiller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Conacher
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Conachers
Etymology: Of Scottish origin.
Senses: examples: text: "I am glad to know you preserve that old signal box at the top of the incline. Is it not the oldest in Scotland?" an interviewer asks John Conacher, General Manager of the North British Railway, in 1898.
ref: 2021 November 3, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Boxes with functions across the centuries”, in RAIL, number 943, page 54:
glosses: A surname.
perway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: perways
Etymology: Contraction of per(manent) way.
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: Synonym of permanent way.
synonyms: word: permanent way
perways
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of perway
glyphomancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glyph + -mancy.
Senses: glosses: A method of divination which interprets glyphs or symbols.
specialty store
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: specialty stores
Senses: synonyms: specialty shop
glosses: A store specialized on a particular type of items.
specialty stores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of specialty store
knows better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know better
knowing better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know better
known better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of know better
knew better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know better
know any better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: knows any better
form: knowing any better
form: knew any better
form: known any better
Senses: glosses: Synonym of know better.
synonyms: word: know better
knows any better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of know any better
knowing any better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of know any better
knew any better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of know any better
known any better
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of know any better
do someone's bidding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: does someone's bidding
form: doing someone's bidding
form: did someone's bidding
form: done someone's bidding
Senses: examples: text: Once Princess in Love was published, Diana threw both Hewitt and Pasternak under the bus. Besotted to the end, her cashiered toy soldier never revealed whether or not he had done her bidding.
ref: April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair:
glosses: To act on behalf of a person in authority, executing their every command.
Related terms: at someone's bidding
take account of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes account of
form: taking account of
form: took account of
form: taken account of
Senses: glosses: Synonym of take into account.
synonyms: word: take into account
make a mark
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: makes a mark
form: making a mark
form: made a mark
form: made a mark
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of make one's mark.
take one's courage in both hands
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes one's courage in both hands
form: taking one's courage in both hands
form: took one's courage in both hands
form: taken one's courage in both hands
Etymology: Compare French prendre son courage à deux mains.
Senses: examples: text: I know that disobeying your father is hard, but you must take your courage in both hands and follow the path that's right for you.
glosses: To summon up one's courage in readiness for a difficult or dangerous action.
tapdancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tap dancing.
cosinuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cosinus
tap-dancing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tap dancing.
sticky end
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sticky ends
Senses: examples: text: The kidnapper came to a sticky end when he crashed his car into a tree.
text: It was a sticky end to the relationship.
glosses: An unpleasant death, demise or conclusion, especially when deserved or brought about by one's own actions.
to the exclusion of
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: In a manner that neglects or overlooks.
Bushmills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village in north-west County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Irish grid ref C 9440).
Rakoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Rakoffs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Lehmillers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lehmiller
Gremore
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gremores
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Conachers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Conacher
Diringer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Diringers
Etymology: Variant of Deringer.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Rakoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Rakoff
Gremores
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Gremore
Diringers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Diringer
Banbridge
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the River Bann + bridge.
Senses: glosses: A town in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Filans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Filan
Hibbards
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Hibbard
Profs.
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Prof.
Frahill
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Frahills
Etymology: Reduced Anglicized form of Irish Ó Freathail, metathesized form of Ó Fearghail, from which Farrell.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Irish.
Frahills
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Frahill
dejudicialization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From de- + judicialization or dejudicialize + -ation.
Senses: antonyms: judicialization
glosses: The process of dejudicializing.
Shattocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shattock
Chadwicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Chadwick
forescent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌsɛnt/
Forms: form: forescents
form: forescenting
form: forescented
form: forescented
Etymology: From fore- + scent.
Senses: examples: text: birds and wild animals forescent a storm, or an earthquake
ref: 1849, John Griffith Mansford, Anno Mundi 1656, and Anno Domini 1849, London: Nisbet & Co., page 6:
text: […] the white goose,
The saviour of the Roman citadel,
Forescents afar the odour of mankind.
ref: 1916, Lucretius, translated by William Ellery Leonard, Of the Nature of Things, London: J.M. Dent, Book 4, pp. 160-161:
glosses: To detect the scent of (something) before it is present.
examples: 1872, Henry Norman Hudson, Shakespeare: His Life, Art, and Characters, Boston: Ginn & Company, Othello, the Moor of Venice, p. 462,
the sagacity with which Iago feels and forescents his way into Roderigo
1915, Frederick Goodyear, letter to F.W. Leith Ross in Letters and Remains: 1887-1917, London: McBride, Nast, 1920, p. 94,
Possibly we instinctively forescented the war.
synonyms: anticipate
foresee
glosses: To detect or become aware of (something) in advance.
forescent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɔː(ɹ)ˈsɛnt/
ipa: /ˈfɔː(ɹ)ˌsɛnt/
Forms: form: forescents
Etymology: From fore- + scent.
Senses: examples: text: an appalling forescent of his own near approaching discomfiture
ref: 1832, [Isaac Taylor], “chapter 13”, in Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC, page 229:
text: The patriarchs and prophets inhaled the sweet odour of Christ, Who was preordained to be born and to die in the flesh; yet they did not then give forth the same odour, because they could not exhibit in the flesh Him of Whom they had a fore-scent in the spirit.
ref: 1920, anonymous translator, St. Bernard’s Sermons on the Canticle of Canticles, Dublin: Browne & Nolan, Volume 2, Sermon 60, p. 190:
text: An allusion to the garlic breath of the groundlings provides a forescent of the evil smells that pervade the Genoan court.
ref: 1986, Charles R. Forker, chapter 1, in Skull Beneath the Skin: The Achievement of John Webster, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, page 79:
text: She opened the door on the night and felt the sudden damp forescent of autumn brush past her.
ref: 1998, Niall Williams, Four Letters of Love, New York: Warner Books, Part 7, Chapter 4, pp. 237-238:
coordinate_terms: afterscent
glosses: A scent that indicates something in advance.
Lohmiller
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lohmillers
form: Lehmiller
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lohmiller.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
forescents
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forescent
forescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forescent
Shattucks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Shattuck
forescenting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of forescent
forescented
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of forescent
guemal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guemals
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of huemul.
Rennys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Renny
Bemelmans
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Bemelmanses
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch Bemelmans.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Dutch.
Acland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Aclands
form: Ackland
Etymology: Habitational surname from a minor place in Devon, from the Old English personal name Acca + lanu (“lane, street”). This surname, evidenced by its modern morphology, merged with a similar surname which itself instead came from Old English āc (“oak”) + land (“land”).
Senses: glosses: An estate in Landkey parish, Devon, England (OS grid ref SS594325).
glosses: A rural town and locality in Toowoomba Region. Queensland, Australia.
glosses: A surname from Old English.
Maclise
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maclises
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Tidwells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tidwell
Tideswells
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tideswell
Brearses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Brears
Napheyses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Napheys
Tinniswoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tinniswood
look like something the cat brought in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: looks like something the cat brought in
form: looking like something the cat brought in
form: looked like something the cat brought in
form: looked like something the cat brought in
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of look like something the cat dragged in.
Tenniswood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Tenniswoods
form: Tinniswood
Senses: glosses: A surname from Old English.
Tenniswoods
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tenniswood
Sassoon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sassoons
Etymology: Variant of Sasson.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Hebrew.
mispattern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈpætə(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɪsˌpætə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: mispatterns
form: mispatterning
form: mispatterned
form: mispatterned
Etymology: From mis- + pattern.
Senses: examples: text: The grievant testified that the decision whether or not to replace a screen was a matter of judgment and that the screens were replaced by him May 12 but that he did mispattern and misalign them so that they were again changed by him May 13.
ref: 1982, Labor Arbitration Reports - Volume 78, page 228:
text: We also introduced and ectopically expressed the E177A and EH mutant Shh constructs into Drosophila and compared their ability to mispattern the embryonic cuticle with that of wild-type Shh (30) and could detect no significant difference between them (H.E.F. Takahashi and P.A.B., unpublished data) further substantiating dispensability of catalytic activity for Shh-N signalling function in the context of developing Drosophila embryos.
ref: 1999, Hans Neurath, Colloquium on Proteolytic Processing and Physiological Regulation:
text: The micropyle is normally a derivative of animal pole follicle cells. It has been shown that loss of Buc from the oocyte is sufficient to mispattern the follicle cells, suggesting oocyte-derived signals are involved.
ref: 2017, Douglas W Houston, Cell Polarity in Development and Disease, page 11:
glosses: To follow or copy a pattern imperfectly; to deviate from a pattern.
mispattern
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsˈpætə(ɹ)n/
ipa: /ˈmɪsˌpætə(ɹ)n/
Forms: form: mispatterns
Etymology: From mis- + pattern.
Senses: examples: text: Observation was taken several times for all the 256 patterns, but no mispattern was found.
ref: 1960, Denki Tsūshin Kenkyūjo, Review - Volumes 8-9, page 246:
text: So I think if you did get too much water floating around like that because of the fine spray it did create kind of a mispattern in the volume of the shower and it was objectionable to inhale it.
ref: 2001, Design Concepts for Zero-G Whole Body Cleansing on ISS Alpha, page 35:
text: May those of an ancient way of the Cambodian see in their Asiatic wisdom's wind of change that the Kampuchean soul of their inner being will give heed through prayer, and sincere thoughts most importantly will heal those who had witnessed the skulled and skeletoned puddle filths of those zone sectors of the wrong which stemmed from other types of mis-patterns of political history and not that of the communist way which the common American has become far to paranoid and steriotypical of.
ref: 2014, Ted Hodge, Massachusetts Project Word Problems:
glosses: A pattern that has an error or flaw in it.
mispatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispattern
mispatterns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mispattern
mispaved
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mɪsˈpeɪvd/
Forms: form: more mispaved
form: most mispaved
Etymology: From mis- + paved.
Senses: examples: text: He had a hundred things to say about the old Rome and the new; about the hilarious old carnival, and the anemic modern thing which has succeeded it; about many things which were better in the old Rome and some things which are better in the new; about the miry, mispaved old streets of fifty years ago, where one stumbled and fell at night in unbroken blackness, and about the marvellous transformation which has been effected in the modern town by the electric light brought in from Tivoli, where the dynamos were worked by the "headlong Anio" which had been wasting its superb strength since the days of Horace.
ref: 1902, Ashton Rollins Willard, The Land of the Latins, page 186:
text: The streets of Guadix are narrow and mispaved and steep, but in the midst of them is the cathedral, solid and ungraceful structure of the eighteenth century.
ref: 1906, Leonard Williams, Granada: Memories, Adventures, Studies and Impressions, page 179:
text: Cincinnatti a good city, regarded simply as a place of trade; the streets wretchedly mispaved.
ref: 1959, Quaker History - Volumes 48-49, page 52:
glosses: Having broken or uneven pavement.
roughly speaking
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more roughly speaking
form: most roughly speaking
Senses: examples: text: For our prosperity is inherited from our ancestors, and is of an earlier date than the prosperity not only of Philip, but, roughly speaking, of all the kings that have ever reigned in Macedonia.
synonyms: broadly speaking
antonyms: strictly speaking
glosses: Not being totally accurate (used as a phrase to specify).
mispeg
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mispegs
form: mispegging
form: mispegged
form: mispegged
Etymology: From mis- + peg.
Senses: examples: text: This imitation Dahomey trifle mispegged at two hundred francs at its debut, falls to forty, hovers at fifty and ends up in the hands of a souvenir bug.
ref: 1952, John Crowe Ransom, The Kenyon Review - Volume 14, page 143:
text: Those bureaucrats tended to mispeg Belanger as a flaming radical with a penchant for spitting into a headwind .
ref: 1990, Hank Nuwer, Broken Pledges: The Deadly Rite of Hazing, page 40:
text: In addition, the activism by youth of various colors is mispegged under a single ethnic label, Latino.
ref: 2000, Z Magazine - Volume 13, page 61:
glosses: To incorrectly ascribe a value or attribute to.
mispegs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mispeg
mispegging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mispeg
mispegged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mispeg
Lohmillers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lohmiller
AKK
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AKKs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Alaskan Klee Kai.
Bemelmanses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Bemelmans
Aclands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Acland
Proudlock
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Proudlocks
Etymology: Probably a dialectal variant of Proudlove.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Estoff
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Estoffs
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Ackland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acklands
Etymology: Variant of Acland.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Acklands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ackland
Sassoons
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Sassoon
AKKs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of AKK
Acklam
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Acklams
Etymology: From Old English āc (“oak”) + the dative plural of lēah (“clearing”).
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Middlesbrough borough, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref NZ477168).
glosses: A village and civil parish in Ryedale district, North Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE784617).
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English.
Acklams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Acklam
Proudlocks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Proudlock
Estoffs
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Estoff
Backhouses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Backhouse
Dentamaro
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Dentamaros
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Dentamaro.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Dentamaros
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Dentamaro
interworldly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + worldly.
Senses: glosses: Between worlds.
porte-crayons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of porte-crayon
SGBV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of sexual and gender-based violence.
diplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From diplex + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Diplex.
diplexed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From diplex + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of diplex
flyaround
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flyarounds
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: A flight around a planetary object, or spaceship, without landing or docking.
topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The animated passage of the camera around a model, to show it from different angles.
destroke
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: destrokes
form: destroking
form: destroked
form: destroked
Etymology: From de- + stroke.
Senses: topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: To reduce or shorten the stroke of (an engine).
flyarounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flyaround
destrokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of destroke
destroking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of destroke
destroked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of destroke
inequilaterally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: In an inequilateral manner; not equilaterally
turkey trotting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of turkey trot
turkey trotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of turkey trot
dilucular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈluːkjəlɚ/
Forms: form: more dilucular
form: most dilucular
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin diluculum + -ar.
Senses: examples: text: It has been reserved for the last 20 years to recognize that in the XV century, or what may be called the late dilucular period of modern music, England held the undoubted hegemony of musical Europe ...
ref: 1910, C. Maclean, “The Dunstable Inscription in London”, in Sammelbände Der Internationalen Musikgesellschaft, volume 11, number 2, pages 232–249:
text: ...and there is a tale of his grappling with a fierce mastiff which attacked him before daylight in the garden of a house where he was staying—for Barrow was another of the dilucular students.
ref: 1911, Douglas Macleane, Famous Sermons by English Preachers, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd.:
synonyms: auroral
aurorean
eoan
antonyms: crepuscular
glosses: Of or pertaining to dawn.
Related terms: dawnlike
advisorship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: advisorships
Etymology: From advisor + -ship.
Senses: glosses: The state or role of an advisor
boroles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of borole
compèred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of compère
lifeboathouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lifeboathouses
Senses: glosses: A boathouse for lifeboats.
fleetmates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fleetmate
despun
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of despin
ductilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more ductilely
form: most ductilely
Senses: glosses: in a ductile manner
lifeboathouses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lifeboathouse
groundsnake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: groundsnakes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ground snake.
flockt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flock
tumbak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tumbaks
Senses: glosses: A Malay pike or lance.
Tosches
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toscheses
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Tosches.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Ockler
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Ocklers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Öckler.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Galinsky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Galinskys
Etymology: Variant of Galinski.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Polish.
Toia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Toias
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Toia.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
Kepnes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kepneses
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Fishkind
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Fishkinds
Etymology: Variant of Fishkin.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Westsylvania
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Blend of west + Pennsylvania. The name was first used in 1776 in the early days of the American Revolutionary War, when the state was proposed.
Senses: glosses: A proposed state of the United States located in what is now West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania, and small parts of Kentucky, Maryland, and Virginia. It would have been the fourteenth state in the newly formed United States, had it been recognized.
Related terms: Vandalia
West Augusta
West Augusta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: In 1774, the Virginia assembly separated the western portion of Augusta County's territory to form the district.
Senses: glosses: A short-lived region (in place 1774–1776) of the Colony of Virginia that encompassed much of what is now northern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania.
Related terms: Vandalia
Westsylvania
slam poetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slam poetries
Senses: glosses: A modern genre of spoken poetry, performed at informal events called poetry slams before an active audience.
Hillington
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in King's Lynn and West Norfolk district, Norfolk, England (OS grid ref TF718255).
glosses: A suburban area in Glasgow council area, also partly in Renfrewshire council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NS523647).
notname
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: notnames
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Notname.
notnames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of notname
waterdrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waterdromes
Etymology: Blend of water + aerodrome. May be analyzed as water + -drome.
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
glosses: A facility for landing and launching aircraft, where the runway is the surface of a body of water.
Synonyms: marine aerodrome
marine airfield
maritime aerodrome
maritime airfield
water aerodrome
water airfield
hors-texte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: hors texte
Etymology: From French hors-texte.
Senses: examples: text: 10 hors-texte plates
topics: bibliography
computing
engineering
human-sciences
information-science
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Occupying a full page by itself, rather than among the prose (such as a full-page image).
raw_tags: of a plate
Toscheses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Tosches
bitches eating crackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bitch eating crackers
Ocklers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Ockler
Galinskys
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Galinsky
Toias
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Toia
Kepneses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Kepnes
Fishkinds
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Fishkind
Printup
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Printups
Etymology: Unknown.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Paulick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Paulicks
Etymology: Borrowed from German Paulick.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Paulicks
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Paulick
Printups
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Printup
Bobo-Dioulasso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /boʊ.boʊ.dju.las.so/
Senses: glosses: A city in Burkina Faso.
Pano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Panos
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Pinos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Pinoses
Etymology: Borrowed from Catalan Pinós.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Catalan.
DSCOVR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: DSCOVR was originally called Triana, an earth observation mission championed by Al Gore when he was vice president. The spacecraft, derisively called GoreSat, was put into storage for years until it was adapted for use as a solar storm warning system.
ref: 2022 January 26, Kenneth Chang, “SpaceX Rocket Part to Crash Into Moon 7 Years After Launch”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: aerospace
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
space-science
glosses: Abbreviation of Deep Space Climate Observatory.
Synonyms: word: GoreSat
word: Triana
Pinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pinos
Panos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Pano
Panos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A Greek male name, diminutive of Panagiotis or Panayiotis.
Naeger
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Naegers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Näger.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Mulato
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mulatos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish Mulato. This surname is mostly found in Mexico.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Spanish.
Mulatos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Mulato
Naegers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Naeger
uprists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uprist
uPVCs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uPVC
urethrocystoceles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urethrocystocele
uracilations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uracilation
usrs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of usr
urodermals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urodermal
USVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of USV
UTs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UT
Minotti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Minottis
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Minotti.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
US'ers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of US'er
Lurz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Lurzes
Etymology: Borrowed from German Lurz.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
Lurzes
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Lurz
Minottis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Minotti
vaccenates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vaccenate
vachanas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vachana
Valhallas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Valhalla
valleysides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valleyside