cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
intrenched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of intrench
wanderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wanderer
invalids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of invalid
fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fissure
fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fissure
egrecious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: At the Governor’s I commented upon this egrecious folly and ignorance and the ex Premier Mr. Cowper, being present remarked that he supposed the writer was […]
ref: 1954, Ellen Kean, Charles John Kean, Emigrant in Motley: The Journey of Charles and Ellen Kean in Quest of a, Rockliffpage 182
text: […] exemplary or compensatory damages may be awarded in situations involving violations which are particularly deliberate, egrecious or inexcusable.
ref: 1960, West's California reporter, volume 220, University of California, page 170:
text: If you want to understand what is wrong with the alphabets, look no further than that egrecious oversight.
ref: 2006, J. E. Grant, The Ropes Held Him Up -- Boxing Essays and Articles, →ISBN, page 198:
glosses: Misspelling of egregious.
vapours
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vapour
vapours
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vapour
market basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: market baskets
Etymology: Metaphor, in reference to baskets used for shopping.
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: A list of items used specifically to track the progress of inflation in an economy or specific market.
Synonyms: commodity bundle
political system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: political systems
Senses: glosses: A complete set of institutions, political organizations, interest groups (such as political parties, trade unions, lobby groups), the relationships between those institutions and the political norms and rules that govern their functions (constitution, election law).
glosses: A system composed of the members of a social organization (group) who are in power.
calaveras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calavera
waka gashira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: waka gashira
form: waka-gashira
form: wakagashira
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 若頭 (wakagashira, literally “junior head”).
Senses: examples: text: I'm Umi, Oniji's waka gashira, and his eldest daughter. I will be leading the assault on the Cartel.
ref: 2017, Ren Warom, Virology, Titan Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A yakuza member ranking beneath the oyabun and responsible for seeing that his orders are carried out correctly.
Related terms: yakuza
oyabun
shatei
shatei gashira
kyodai
oyabun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oyabuns
form: oyabun
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 親分 (literally “foster parent”).
Senses: glosses: The absolute leader of a yakuza clan. He has an advisor called a saiko-komon.
Related terms: yakuza
waka gashira
shatei
shatei gashira
kyodai
godfather
wakashu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wakashu
Etymology: Borrowed from Japanese 若衆 (“young person”).
Senses: glosses: A Japanese boy after early childhood but before his coming-of-age ceremony.
glosses: A role in kabuki traditionally played by a boy of this age category.
glosses: A soldier of the oyabun in the yakuza hierarchy.
Related terms: yakuza
oyabun
waka gashira
shatei
shatei gashira
kyodai
shatei
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatei
Etymology: From the Japanese yakuza hierarchy.
Senses: glosses: The younger brothers. They are children or wakashu of the oyabun his brothers. They are under the control of the kyodai (the brothers), but in the end it is still the word of the oyabun that is final. The shatei have their own sub-divisions in the yakuza clan.
Related terms: kyodai
oyabun
shatei gashira
waka gashira
wakashu
yakuza
kyodai
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kyodai
Etymology: From the Japanese 兄弟 (kyōdai きょうだい), from Middle Chinese 兄弟 (xüæng-dèj "brothers"), from Old Chinese 兄弟 (*m̥rang-lˁəjʔ), from 兄 ("elder brother") + 弟 ("younger brother").
Senses: glosses: A high-ranking member of the yakuza, accountable to the shatei gashira.
Related terms: oyabun
shatei gashira
waka gashira
wakashu
saiko-komon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saiko-komon
Etymology: From the Japanese yakuza hierarchy. Borrowed from Japanese 最古顧問, literally “senior advisor”.
Senses: glosses: The chief advisor of the oyabun in the yakuza.
Related terms: yakuza
oyabun
waka gashira
wakashu
shatei gashira
kyodai
shatei gashira
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shatei gashira
Etymology: From the Japanese Yakuza hierarchy.
Senses: glosses: The leader of the kyodai (the brothers). He sees to it that the kyodai do their duties well for the yakuza clan.
Related terms: yakuza
oyabun
waka gashira
wakashu
kyodai
relishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of relish
relishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more relishing
form: most relishing
Senses: examples: text: [T]he pleasure I enjoyed in the little I had read, was changed into disgust, when I reflected on the small prospect I had of finding the greater part of this relishing story […].
ref: 1755, Miguel de Cervantes, translated by Tobias Smollett, Don Quixote, Volume 1, II.1:
glosses: Appetizing, delightful.
glosses: That relishes something; showing relish or enjoyment.
hotspots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hotspot
mortgage lender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mortgage lenders
Senses: glosses: Any financial institution that obtains its profit by lending mortgages for the purchase of property
glosses: Any former mutual building society that is now a bank
Synonyms: mortgage provider
run times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of run time
reuptake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reuptakes
Etymology: From re- + uptake.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent uptake.
examples: text: The class of antidepressants most commonly associated with sexual dysfunction is selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, which treat depression by ultimately increasing levels of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain.
ref: 2024 March 21, Kristen Rogers, “If antidepressants are killing your sex life, here’s what you can do”, in CNN:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Specifically, the reabsorption of a neurotransmitter by a neuron after the transmission of a neural impulse across a synapse.
Derived terms: reuptaker
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor
serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor
reuptake
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: reuptakes
form: reuptaking
form: reuptook
form: reuptaken
Etymology: From re- + uptake.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To take up again; to reabsorb.
autistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autistic
anticipates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of anticipate
stimulatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪm.jʊ.lə.t(ə)ɹi/
ipa: /ˈstɪm.jə.ləˌtɔɹi/
Forms: form: more stimulatory
form: most stimulatory
Etymology: From stimulate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: stimulative; serving to stimulate
Derived terms: allostimulatory
angiostimulatory
autostimulatory
biostimulatory
cardiostimulatory
ciliostimulatory
costimulatory
counterstimulatory
hyperstimulatory
hypostimulatory
immunostimulatory
lymphostimulatory
myostimulatory
neurostimulatory
nonstimulatory
phagostimulatory
poststimulatory
prestimulatory
psychostimulatory
self-stimulatory
substimulatory
unstimulatory
toileting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toiletings
Senses: examples: text: Treatments for encopresis have involved two types of approaches. The first type of intervention has used positive reinforcement or punishment to alter the frequency of accidents or appropriate toiletings.
ref: 1982, Lynn Parker, William Whitehead, “Treatment of Urinary and Fecal Incontinence in Children”, in Daniel C. Russo, James W. Varni, editors, Behavioral Pediatrics: Research and Practice, New York, N.Y.; London: Plenum Press, →DOI, →ISBN, page 166:
glosses: The use of the toilet for urination and defecation.
toileting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: hypernyms: relieving oneself
glosses: present participle and gerund of toilet
noncompliance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəns
Forms: form: noncompliances
form: non-compliance
Etymology: From non- + compliance.
Senses: glosses: A failure to comply.
enterocolitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enterocolitides
Etymology: From entero- + colitis.
Senses: examples: text: Idiopathic IBD also must be differentiated from infectious, ischemic, and radiation enterocolitides.
ref: 1996 July, Richard M. Gore, Emil J. Balthazar, Gary G. Ghahremani, Frank H. Miller, “CT Features of Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn’s Disease”, in American Journal of Roentgenology, volume 167, number 1, →DOI, page 11:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of the mucous membranes of the small intestine and of the colon.
macroorchidism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From macro- + orchid + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The condition of having abnormally large testes
Related terms: microorchidism
neurotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɪpɪkəl
Forms: form: more neurotypical
form: most neurotypical
Etymology: From neuro- + typical.
Senses: examples: text: Nancy, a high school student, saw herself as being helpful when she told Maureen, a neurotypical peer, that the horizontal lines on her shirt made her look fat.
ref: 2001, Brenda Smith Myles, Diane Adreon, Jennifer Stella, Asperger Syndrome and Adolescence, page 17:
text: If our definition of empathy were to require we take the human cognitive norm (overwhelmingly influenced by neurotypical cognition) as the absolute standard by which to measure empathy, then indeed we would have to conclude autistics do not instinctively possess a good sense of empathy.
ref: 2006, Alan Griswold, Autistic Symphony:
synonyms: NT
antonyms: neuroatypical
neurodivergent
aneurotypical
neurodiverse
glosses: Having a typical way of processing sensory, linguistic, and social information.
Derived terms: neurotypically
neurotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌnjʊə.ɹəʊˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌnʊ.ɹoʊˈtɪ.pɪ.kəl/
rhymes: -ɪpɪkəl
Forms: form: neurotypicals
Etymology: From neuro- + typical.
Senses: examples: text: Well, let's face it, neurotypicals don't have the same focus you or I have. They always get distracted, by marriage, kids, competitive cooking shows.
ref: 2013 February 21, “Conventions of Space and Time”, in Community, season 4, episode 3 (Television), spoken by Toby (Matt Lucas):
glosses: One who is neurotypical.
chelating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having the ability to undergo chelation
Derived terms: chelating agent
chelating resin
nonchelating
polychelating
secretin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: secretins
Etymology: From secrete + -in?
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A peptide hormone, secreted by the duodenum, that serves to regulate its acidity
comorbid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From co- + morbid.
Senses: examples: text: Research shows that depression is often comorbid with other psychiatric and physical illnesses
ref: 2000, Healthy People 2000:
text: They found that PTSD (50,3% men, 36.5% women), alcohol dependence (60.5% men, 8.1% women) and comorbid alcohol dependence and PTSD (69.6% men, 11.7% women) were common.
ref: 2005, Mental Health Atlas 2005:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: That occurs at the same time as another.
raw_tags: of a disease or symptom
Derived terms: noncomorbid
Related terms: comorbidly
comorbidity
adrenocorticotrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: adrenocorticotropic hormone
adrenocorticotropic hormone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adrenocorticotropic hormones
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: word: ACTH
glosses: A peptide hormone, secreted by the pituitary gland, that stimulates the secretion of other hormones
Synonyms: corticotropin
corticotrophin
corticotrophin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: corticotrophins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of corticotropin.
AEB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: AEBs
Senses: examples: text: Advanced vehicle technologies, including automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control, were available as standard equipment for this truck-tractor; however, the carrier opted not to purchase these systems. We found that the collision may have been avoided or its severity lessened had these systems been installed on the truck-tractor. Because commercial vehicle customers can elect not to purchase collision avoidance systems, even those that are considered standard equipment, federal requirements are necessary to increase widespread deployment of this technology.
ref: 2024, NTSB, Highway Investigation Report, HIR-24-05:
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of automatic emergency brake or autonomous emergency brake, a device in a car that brakes/slows a car, if the system believes a crash is imminent.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: Initialism of automatic emergency braking or autonomous emergency braking, a technology/methodology used in cars to prevent crashes by activating the brakes.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Abbreviation of airborne engineer battalion, a battalion of combat engineers trained to parachute into their deployment zone.
AEB
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Alternative form of aeb; Initialism of as evidenced by.
Related terms: english: as manifested by
translation: as manifested by
word: AMB
FAB
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: F.A.B.
form: F. A. B.
form: F-A-B
form: F.-A.-B.
Etymology: Coined by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson for the TV series Thunderbirds (1965-1966), from fab,
clipping of fabulous.
Senses: examples: text: "Okay, FAB. Over and out."
ref: 1986, Márcio Souza, The order of the day: an unidentified flying opus:
text: It was great to report back to Mike and Jason on this knowing they were eager to hear that everything was operational. F.A.B. Virgil!
ref: 2011, Norman Beech, The Atlantic Job - A Dad and a Lad, FilamentPublishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 69:
text: “Understood. F.A.B., sir.” Their pilot hung the microphone back on its hook.
ref: 2013, Andrez Bergen, Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:
topics: broadcasting
communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
radio
telecommunications
glosses: Used to acknowledge that a message has been received and understood.
Synonyms: roger
acknowledged
five-by-five
Coordinate terms: over and out
FAB
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FABs
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of frontal assessment battery.
glosses: Abbreviation of French–American–British classification.
glosses: Abbreviation of fast atom bombardment.
FAB
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of French–American–British.
FAB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Freeport Area of Bataan.
Derived terms: FAB classification
FAB classification system
CNSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Yutu 2 spotted a cube-shaped object on the horizon to the north and roughly 260 feet (80 meters) away in November during the mission's 36th lunar day, according to a Yutu 2 diary published by Our Space, a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
ref: 2021 December 6, Andrew Jones, “China's Yutu 2 rover spots cube-shaped 'mystery hut' on far side of the moon”, in Space.com:
glosses: Initialism of China National Space Administration.
glosses: Initialism of China National School of Administration.
SUPARCO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission, the national space agency of Pakistan.
RKA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Roskosmos (agency).
Senses: qualifier: space flight
glosses: Initialism of Russian Federal Space Agency.
Synonyms: FKA
ISRO
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪs.ɹəʊ/
Senses: glosses: Acronym of Indian Space Research Organisation, the national space agency of India.
LAPAN
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Indonesian Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional.
Senses: glosses: The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, an Indonesian space program.
NSAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Space Agency of Ukraine.
NKAU
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A romanization of НКАУ (NKAU).
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of National Space Agency of Ukraine.
MNSA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Malaysian National Space Agency.
ASC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ASCs
Senses: examples: text: Ravers listen to technomusic at home, and some have commented that certain tracks of music can elicit ASC similar to the ones experienced at raves.
ref: 2005, Michael J. Gilmour, Call Me the Seeker, page 244:
glosses: Initialism of altered state of consciousness.
examples: text: The ambulatory surgery center (ASC) differs from the general hospital (GH) in several respects. […] The ASC has many advantages over the GH facility, some of which are financial and others related to patient flow and satisfaction. Clearly, a facility that has a limited purpose and scope can eliminate many services and costs that are necessary in the GH.
ref: 2000, Michael Lavan, “Facilities for Ambulatory Surgery. Part A: The Freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center”, in H. Randolph Bailey, Michael J. Snyder, editors, Ambulatory Anorectal Surgery, Springer, →ISBN, page 1:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Initialism of ambulatory surgery center.
qualifier: mental health
glosses: Initialism of autism spectrum condition.
topics: diving
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
underwater-diving
synonyms: TTS
glosses: Abbreviation of ascent time.
ASC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Australian Sports Commission.
glosses: Initialism of Advertising Standards Canada.
glosses: Initialism of Association of Speakers Clubs.
glosses: Initialism of Avon and Somerset Constabulary.
glosses: Initialism of Apayao State College.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Abbreviation of ASCII.
great black-backed gull
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: great black-backed gulls
Senses: glosses: A large European and American gull, Larus marinus.
Synonyms: english: mistakenly, according to some
translation: mistakenly, according to some
word: greater black-backed gull
word: grisard
Related terms: lesser black-backed gull
Larus marinus
hashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hash
hashes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hash
hashing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hashings
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The computation of a hash value.
glosses: A social, non-competitive sport in which participants of a hash run use clues to follow a hash trail.
Derived terms: cuckoo hashing
hopscotch hashing
Robin Hood hashing
Zobrist hashing
hashing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hash
hashed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hash
Derived terms: unhashed
optimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of optimize
optimizing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: We're using an optimizing compiler.
glosses: Carrying out optimization.
prearranges
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-arranges
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of prearrange
prearranging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pre-arranging
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of prearrange
Related terms: pre-arrange
heads off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of head off
headed off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of head off
outwits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of outwit
outwitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of outwit
back seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back seat
skims
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of skim
⠵
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: z
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter z.
⠵
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: as
dispersants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dispersant
saponifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of saponify
saponifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saponify
bypasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bypass
bypasses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bypass
bypassing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of bypass
bypassed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bypass
pigeon holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeon hole
pigeon-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon-holes
Senses: examples: text: [D]ovvne vvith him in his Maieſties name, dovvne, dovvne vvith him, and carry him avvay, to the pigeon-holes.
ref: 1614 November 10 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), Beniamin Iohnson [i.e., Ben Jonson], Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedie, […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IIII, scene iv, page 61:
text: Abbé [Emmanuel Joseph] Sieyès has vvhole neſts of pigeon-holes full of conſtitutions ready made, ticketed, ſorted, and numbered; ſuited to every ſeaſon and every fancy; […]
ref: 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, […], London: […] J. Owen, […], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 63:
text: Blank ink and red ink, pounce, wafers, wax, pens, seals, imbibing-paper, rulers, files, were all there; pegs for hats, shelves and hooks, pigeon-holes full of samples of sugar, of rice, tobacco, coffee, and the like: all the dull paraphernalia of a trader's elaboratory.
ref: 1862, George Augustus Sala, “The Ship-chandler. A Story of a Seaport One Hundred Years Ago. Chapter III. Evil upon Evil.”, in The Ship Chandler and Other Tales, London: Ward and Lock, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: The general size of a store in Tangier is about that of an ordinary shower-bath in a civilized land. […] You can rent a whole block of these pigeon-holes for fifty dollars a month.
ref: 1869, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims’ Progress; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company. […], →OCLC, page 80:
text: The loft was lighted by a semicircular hole, though which the pigeons crept to their lodgings in the same high quarters of the premises; […] 'Dear Clym, I wonder how your face looks now?' she said, gazing abstractedly at the pigeon-hole, which admitted the sunlight so directly upon her brown hair and transparent tissues that it almost seemed to shine through her.
ref: 1878 January–December, Thomas Hardy, “The People at Blooms-End Make Ready”, in The Return of the Native […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], published 1878, →OCLC, book II (The Arrival), pages 246–248:
text: This has been fitted with blocks of pigeon-holes, 1029 in number, for the reception of the alphabetically arranged slips.
ref: 1879, J[ames] A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray, Address to the Philological Society, page 8; quoted in “Pigeon-hole, sb.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 846, column 3:
text: [H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 39:
glosses: Alternative form of pigeonhole.
pigeon-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pigeon-holes
form: pigeon-holing
form: pigeon-holed
form: pigeon-holed
Senses: examples: text: I had proposed to pigeon-hole the walls of the drawing-room for the reception of the dictionary material.
ref: 1879, J[ames] A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray, Address to the Philological Society; quoted in “Pigeon-hole, v.”, in James A[ugustus] H[enry] Murray [et al.], editors, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, 1884–1928, →OCLC, page 847, column 1:
text: He prided himself on his largeness when he granted that there were three kinds of women […] Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. He refused to classify her at all. He did not dare.
ref: 1902 October, Jack London, chapter VII, in A Daughter of the Snows, Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC, page 74:
text: [S]everal laws and regulations were enacted for the prevention of cholera, typhoid fever, dysentery, and diphtheria. These laws were not carried into effect: they were pigeon-holed.
ref: 1910, Angus Hamilton, Herbert H[enry] Austin, Masatake Terauchi, “Sanitation and Water Works”, in Korea: Its History, Its People, and Its Commerce (Oriental Series; XIII), Boston, Mass.; Tokyo: J. B. Millet Company, →OCLC, page 294:
text: "Putting the prophet Hosea to one side for the moment and temporarily pigeon-holing the children of Adullam," interrupted Myrtle, "what are we going to do about this?"
ref: 1937 July, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Anslem Gets His Chance”, in Eggs, Beans and Crumpets, London: Herbert Jenkins […], published 26 April 1940, →OCLC, page 154:
text: The Select Committee's recommendation that those which the railways are required to provide on grounds of national interest or social needs should be subsidised by the state has obviously been pigeon-holed.
ref: 1961 February, “Talking of Trains: The White Paper”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 65:
glosses: Alternative form of pigeonhole.
pigeon-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: [Godfrey] Speed[well]. […] [H]ave you ſuch gold to give? / [Innocent] Lamb[skin]. Yes, yes, has vvon it betting at the bovvling Alleys, / Or at the Pigeon-holes in the Garden Alleyes.
ref: c. 1610–1614 (date written), William Rowley; [possibly also Thomas Heywood, George Wilkins], A New Wonder, a Woman never Vext. A Pleasant Conceited Comedy: […], London: […] G[eorge] P[urslowe] for Francis Constable, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act IV, page 52:
glosses: Alternative form of pigeonholes (“outdoor game played in the 17th and early 18th centuries in which each player bowls a ball towards targets”).
pigeon-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pigeon-hole
pigeon-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pigeon-hole
pigeon-holing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pigeon-hole
pigeon-holing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pigeon-holings
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pigeonholing.
pigeon-holed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pigeon-hole
⠃
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: b
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter b.
⠃
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 2.
raw_tags: in the context of a number sign ⠼
⠃
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: but
⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: c
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter c.
⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 3.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠉
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: can
Related terms: ⠸⠉ cannot
nitpickiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of nitpicky: most nitpicky
nitpickier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of nitpicky: more nitpicky
mystifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mystify
demystified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of demystify
demystifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of demystify
demystifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of demystify
unexampled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + exampled.
Senses: examples: text: Shortly after this Mrs. Wix looked so ill that it was to be feared her ladyship had treated her to some unexampled passage.
ref: 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:
text: At the height of Napoleon's unexampled conquests […]
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 7, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Lacking prior examples; unprecedented.
unstained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + stained.
Senses: examples: text: The unstained hardwood floor was pale, but the finish soaked in and made the room seem dark.
text: The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:
glosses: Not dyed or discolored; not marred by any stains, marks, or spotting.
examples: text: She arrived at the chapel for her marriage with unstained honor.
glosses: Pure, pristine, clean, immaculate, unadulterated.
FIBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈfibə]
Etymology: Borrowed from French FIBA.
Senses: examples: text: “The NBA and FIBA are uniquely positioned to build on the rich tradition of European basketball. We look forward to collaborating with FIBA to explore the creation of a new league for fans across the continent,” Silver added.
ref: 2025 March 27, Matias Grez, “NBA and FIBA in talks with European soccer teams over new basketball league”, in CNN:
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The International Basketball Federation.
denatured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From denature + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Having been deprived of its nature, having had its nature changed.
glosses: Of alcohol: made undrinkable by adding a toxin or unpalatable substance, but still useful as a fuel or solvent. Traditionally achieved by the addition of methanol (wood alcohol) to ethanol (grain alcohol).
Synonyms: sense: alcohol
word: denat.
Derived terms: denatured alcohol
nondenatured
predenatured
semidenatured
undenatured
denatured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From denature + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of denature
dirtied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dirty
Derived terms: undirtied
WNBA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: The latest edition of the WNBA season had all the hallmarks for booming success, with all the pieces falling into place almost serendipitously.
ref: 2024 October 24, Thomas Schlachter, “The 2024 WNBA season: A historic year for women’s basketball, both on and off the court”, in CNN:
glosses: Initialism of Women's National Basketball Association.
Related terms: FIBA
NBA
liquefiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more liquefiable
form: most liquefiable
Etymology: From liquefy + -able.
Senses: examples: text: These were the liquefiable assets at hand: a drawerful of family jewelry, a 401(k), an IRA, and a one-bedroom condo purchased with inheritance money after her parents' passing.
ref: 2022, Ling Ma, “Tomorrow”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
glosses: Able to be liquefied.
Derived terms: unliquefiable
dirtying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dirty
dirtying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dirtyings
Senses: examples: text: Once understood, not as the venereal-disease jokes they pretend to be, but as food-dirtyings and fecal dirtyings in the attempt to defile the image of the hidden mother, these jokes do not really seem very frightening, or even disgusting, […]
ref: 1982, Gershon Legman, No Laughing Matter: An Analysis of Sexual Humor:
glosses: A soiling or making dirty.
dirties
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dirty
overwritten
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of overwrite
overwrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of overwrite
aua
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aua
Etymology: Borrowed from Maori aua.
Senses: examples: text: When the eyes of those who fish for eels are closed, the eyes of those who fish for the aua are open.
ref: 1855, Richard Taylor, Te Ika a Maui: Or, New Zealand and Its Inhabitants, page 133:
text: The Picton Herring, a dried fish commonly known throughout the colony, is the Aua preserved by smoking.
ref: 1872, Frederick Wollaston Hutton, Sir James Hector, Fishes of New Zealand: Catalogue with Diagnoses of the Species:
glosses: Aldrichetta forsteri, a mullet of the family Mugilidae.
overwriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overwrite
overwrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overwrite
dirtier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dirty: more dirty
porcelain god
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːsəlɪn ˈɡɒd/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹsəlɪn ˈɡɑd/
ipa: /ˈpɔɹslɪn ˈɡɑd/
rhymes: -ɒd
Forms: form: porcelain gods
Etymology: See worship the porcelain god.
Senses: synonyms: porcelain goddess
glosses: A commode; a toilet bowl.
Related terms: worship the porcelain god
muddied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more muddied
form: most muddied
Senses: examples: text: Poor acting and a muddied plot are the least of this contentious Netflix drama's problems.
ref: 2017 July 14, Alex Flood, ‘To The Bone’ – Film Review:
glosses: Having been made unclear, obfuscated.
Derived terms: unmuddied
Related terms: word: clear as mud
word: muddled
word: muddle
muddied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of muddy
underpins
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of underpin
underpinning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underpin
underpinning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: underpinnings
Senses: examples: text: This house's underpinning is not up to standard.
text: Released were two singles that went nowhere fast; the third, "Early Morning Love" (#68, 1974), was a teasing male fantasy with a folkie feel and countrified pedal-steel guitar underpinnings.
ref: 1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 319:
glosses: A support or foundation, especially as a structure of masonry that supports a wall.
examples: text: I would like to know more about the underpinning of this political theory.
text: Other eras have had their epicureans or hedonists, of course, who lived and sometimes died for the ideal of simplicity or pleasure in an epic kind of way. But today’s gazillion-strong influencer community has zero intellectual underpinning to it, which is why it’s so often the unwitting butt of its own joke.
ref: 2025 April 3, Marina Hyde, “It’s With Love, Meghan – not just a TV show but a landmark piece of art. And not in a good way”, in The Guardian:
glosses: A basis for something.
examples: text: Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you're run off your course again. This is a rich man's summer ‘cottage’ and if you don't look out there's likely to be some nice, lively dog taking an interest in your underpinning.”
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: The lower body or legs.
Related terms: underlying
underpinned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of underpin
dullish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dullish
form: most dullish
Etymology: From Middle English dullissh, equivalent to dull + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: Harry said "No.” Voted her dullish, and “cold like all blond women, with a touch, perhaps, of anæmia of the brain.”
ref: 1918 August, Katherine Mansfield [pseudonym; Kathleen Mansfield Murry], “Bliss”, in Bliss and Other Stories, London: Constable & Company, published 1920, →OCLC, page 121:
glosses: Somewhat dull; dull to a degree.
Derived terms: dullishly
denatures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of denature
denaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of denature
denaturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: denaturings
Senses: glosses: The process by which something is denatured.
unwariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unwarinesses
Etymology: From unwary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being unwary.
untrod
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trod.
Senses: examples: text: The explorer set out to walk untrod paths in the virgin forest, to be the first human to see what was over the horizon.
glosses: Not previously walked; not previously explored or investigated.
untutored
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + tutored.
Senses: examples: text: To my untutored eye all the trees looked alike.
text: The eye wandered from object to object, and rested upon none; neither the “Grotesques” of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egypt.
ref: 1834 January, [Edgar Allan Poe], “The Visionary”, in The Lady’s Book, page 41, column 2:
text: "Instead of being a rollicking bull-necked quarterstaff player with an eye for a wench and a good but untutored voice for roaring a roundelay, he's nothing but a weasel-faced herring-gutted wowser deliberately stuck in a cell to mislead travellers."
ref: 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 42:
glosses: untrained, not taught or educated in a field of knowledge
unrivaled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: unrivalled
Etymology: From un- + rivaled.
Senses: examples: text: Helen’s unrivaled beauty is said to have launched a thousand ships.
text: [T]his museum of the state of flux [Newmarket, Suffolk] has a climate unrivalled for the production of the British temperament. Not without a due proportion of that essential formative of character, east wind, it has at once the hottest sun, the coldest blizzards, the wettest rain, of any place of its size in 'the three kingdoms.'
ref: 1907, John Galsworthy, “The Happy Hunting-ground”, in The Country House, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, part I, page 33:
text: As the airboat skimmed across the shallow water, scattering blue dragonflies and launching a heron into the air, Keith Price squinted into the sun and relished the isolation of Florida’s unrivaled river of grass.
ref: 2016 June 11, Lizette Alvarez, “In a Corner of the Everglades, a Way of Life Ebbs”, in The New York Times:
synonyms: peerless
glosses: Beyond compare, far surpassing any other, unparalleled, without rival.
unsoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + soiled.
Senses: glosses: Uncontaminated, undirtied, pure, clean, immaculate.
unsoiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unsoil
undirtied
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + dirtied.
Senses: glosses: Not dirtied, clean.
Related terms: undirty
inflows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inflow
Umbararo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An ethnic group from Nigeria, Libya, Chad and Sudan
Synonyms: Toubou
⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: d
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter d.
⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 4.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠙
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: do
⠑
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: e
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter e.
⠑
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 5.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠑
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: every
⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter f.
⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 6.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: glosses: -self
Coordinate terms: ⠧⠎ -selves
⠋
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: from
⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: g
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter g.
⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 7.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠛
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: go
encroaching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: She could hardly see anything in the encroaching darkness.
glosses: That encroaches.
Derived terms: encroachingly
unencroaching
encroaching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of encroach
unlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: examples: an unlisted number
glosses: Not included in a list.
Not listed in the telephone directory.
glosses: Not included in a list.
Not traded on the stock exchange; not being a listed company.
glosses: Not included in a list.
Not officially protected from demolition or alteration.
raw_tags: of a building
unlisted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪstɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unlist
clubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌbd/
rhymes: -ʌbd
Etymology: From Middle English clubbyd; equivalent to club + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of club
clubbed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /klʌbd/
rhymes: -ʌbd
Forms: form: more clubbed
form: most clubbed
Etymology: From Middle English clubbyd; equivalent to club + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Her legges that ye myght se;
But they were sturdy and stubbed,
Myghty pestels and clubbed,
As fayre and as whyte
As the fote of a kyte
ref: a. 1529, John Skelton, The Tunning of Elinour Rumming:
synonyms: clavate
claviform
glosses: Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club.
yoked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /joʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
homophone: yolked
Etymology: From yoke + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The yoked oxen stood ready.
coordinate_terms: harnessed
in harness
qualifier: literal
glosses: Wearing a yoke.
examples: text: yoked workers
glosses: Subjugated.
examples: text: By the end of his fourth year of weight-lifting, Lee was yoked.
text: “Your validation feels so good. Tell me more.” “I can end this with praise. Uh, J-Jack, you're a-a fine commander. You're in phenomenal shape.” “Yes, fine commander. Yes, so yoked.”
ref: 2021 August 12, Mike McMahan, “Strange Energies” (19:50 from the start), in Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 2, episode 1, spoken by Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell):
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Having large and well-defined muscles particularly at the neck and the trapezii (forming thus the “yoke“).
examples: text: They got yoked four years ago.
glosses: Married.
Related terms: yoke
yoked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /joʊkt/
rhymes: -əʊkt
homophone: yolked
Etymology: From yoke + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yoke
coolies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coolie
cooly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coolies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of coolie.
cooly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of coolly.
hooting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːtɪŋ/
Senses: examples: text: Fritz Lang in Hollywood has remade the French "La Bête Humaine" story, setting the drama, a little coldly, among the great hooting diesels of the Middle West routes, […].
ref: 1958 February 24, David Gunston, “Railways on the Screen”, in Railway Magazine, page 90:
glosses: present participle and gerund of hoot
hooting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhuːtɪŋ/
Forms: form: hootings
Senses: examples: text: One small species, which is known to them by its melancholy nocturnal hootings (for as it never appears in the day few even of the hunters have ever seen it) is particularly ominous.
ref: 1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea:
text: Popanilla is found "not guilty, and kicked out of court, amidst the hootings of the mob, without a stain upon his reputation."
ref: 1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,:
text: The hootings of this unhappy gentleman may generally be heard in the still evenings, when the rooks are all at rest; and I have often listened to them of a moonlight night with a kind of mysterious gratification.
ref: 1877, Washington Irving, Bracebridge Hall:
glosses: The sound of a hoot, or the occasion of producing this sound.
⠓
Language: English
Part of speech: character
Forms: form: h
Senses: glosses: Renders the print letter h.
⠓
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Senses: glosses: The digit 8.
raw_tags: in the context of the number sign ⠼
⠓
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: glosses: have