cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
regular primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of regular prime
irregular prime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: irregular primes
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Any odd prime number that is not a regular prime.
irregular primes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of irregular prime
Paul Bunyan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A mythological giant lumberjack.
fakelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of fake + folklore
Senses: examples: text: Behind all this was the mythy Paul Bunyan, that giant lumberjack from the North Woods who bestrode entire counties in a single step while accompanied by the equally gigantic Babe the Blue Ox. To be sure, as with other heroes of American fakelore — bear-wrestling Davy Crockett, coyote-raised Pecos Bill, river-boating Mike Fink — there lingered about Paul Bunyan an aroma of frontier development and chamber-of-commerce boosterism.
ref: 2009 May 31, Jerry Griswold, “A Family of Epic Proportions”, in New York Times:
glosses: Manufactured folklore presented as if it were genuinely traditional.
head-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd.fɜːst/
ipa: /hɛd.fɝst/
Forms: form: headfirst
form: head first
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headfirst.
head-first
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd.fɜːst/
ipa: /hɛd.fɝst/
Forms: form: headfirst
form: head first
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headfirst.
head first
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɛd.fɜːst/
ipa: /hɛd.fɝst/
Forms: form: more head first
form: most head first
form: head-first
Senses: examples: text: I shot head first off of the bank like a frog, clothes and all on, and struck out for the canoe.
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, page 48:
text: He must be able to spring from the floor to about twice his own height, gradually turning over as he rises, so as to come down again head first.
ref: 1889, Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “L’Amie Inconnue”, in Sylvie and Bruno, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 25:
synonyms: headlong
antonyms: feet first
footling
footling breech
glosses: With the head first or foremost.
TUI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: TUIs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: GUI
glosses: Initialism of text-based user interface or terminal user interface.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of tangible user interface.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of touch user interface.
registered email
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: registered emails
Senses: glosses: The electronic (email) equivalent of postal "registered mail", providing senders with a register enabling the location (delivery status and reading disposition) of their emails to be tracked.
TUIs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TUI
ice-pick lobotomy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ice-pick lobotomies
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
glosses: Transorbital lobotomy.
Pure Data
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A visual programming language for the creation of interactive computer music and multimedia works.
ice-pick lobotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice-pick lobotomy
MIG
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: MIGs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Multi Input Gateway.
examples: text: Drinkers ran for cover as both sides made vicious use of chairs and broken glasses, but it was the MIGs who quickly gained the upper hand.
ref: 2011, Tony Thompson, Outlaws: Inside the Hell's Angel Biker Wars:
glosses: A member of the Luton Town MIGs (Men in Gear), a firm of football hooligans.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Misspelling of MiG (aircraft).
MIG
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: coordinate_terms: TIG
GTAW
glosses: Acronym of metal inert gas (in MIG welding).
MIGs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of MIG
Multi Input Gateway
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: MIG
glosses: An interface that receives input from an OSC device and forwards it to applications via Silverlight, Adobe Flash, etc.
menad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menads
Senses: examples: text: All about the walls hung pen and oil sketches of fantastic sea-monsters; dances of satyrs and menads; […]
ref: 1862 July – 1863 August, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “At the Barber’s Shop”, in Romola. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1863, →OCLC, book I, page 309:
text: We know from the subjects of his [Scopas's] famous statues recorded by ancient writers, such as the raving Menad, that his works were replete with life, movement and passion.
ref: 1914, Charles Waldstein, “The Subject-matter of Art”, in Greek Sculpture and Modern Art: Two Lectures Delivered to the Students of the Royal Academy of London, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: [Cambridge] University Press, →OCLC, page 53:
glosses: Alternative spelling of maenad.
DSI
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /diː ɛs aɪ/
Etymology: Abbreviation.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of diffused surface illumination.
examples: text: Alongside the nature targets, countries reached a historic agreement to develop a financial mechanism for sharing the benefits from drug discoveries, vaccines and food products that come from digital forms of biodiversity, known as digital sequence information or DSI, after rows about biopiracy in the lead-up to Cop15.
ref: 2022 December 19, Patrick Greenfield, Phoebe Weston, “Cop15: historic deal struck to halt biodiversity loss by 2030”, in The Guardian:
topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of digital sequence information.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Initialism of diverterless supersonic inlet
ordas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orda
CCV
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: CCVs
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of clathrin-coated vesicle.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Community Core Vision.
CN Tower
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Originally short for Canadian National, the railway company that built the tower. It was later reinterpreted as Canadian National or Canada's National Tower.
Senses: examples: text: She thought the CN Tower was ugly up close, but unexpectedly lovely when viewed from airplane windows.
ref: 2014, Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven, Picador (2022), page 205:
glosses: A communications and observation tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
CCVs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of CCV
WCA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WCAs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of waste collection authority.
WCA
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of World Cube Association.
repad
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: repads
form: repadding
form: repadded
form: repadded
Etymology: From re- + pad.
Senses: glosses: To pad again; to furnish with new padding.
menstruant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstruants
Senses: glosses: A person who is menstruating.
menstruant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Menstruating.
menstruator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstruators
form: menstruater
Etymology: From menstruate + -or.
Senses: examples: text: Today she would probably be diagnosed with menorrhagia or Von Willbrand disease, a rare blood-clotting disorder, but then, she would have been viewed as a perpetual menstruator, eternally unclean, contaminating, and forbidden to have contact with any man.
ref: 2011, Chris Bobel, Samantha Kwan, Embodied Resistance: Challenging the Norms, Breaking the Rules:
text: The most obvious population of menstruators affected by period poverty is homeless women, who struggle to afford any basic necessity, including shelter. And as we just discussed, period poverty for homeless women can be dangerous and detrimental to their health.
ref: 2018, Nadya Okamoto, Period Power, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 132:
glosses: A person who menstruates.
chance card
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chance cards
Senses: glosses: A card, in any of various games, with instructions to be followed by a player whose token lands on a "chance" space, usually affording them some chance opportunity or inflicting upon them some chance misfortune.
chance cards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chance card
Playmaster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Playmasters
Etymology: From play + master, a trademark of the 1980s.
Senses: glosses: An electronic device that keeps track of tokens, properties and dice rolls, and initiates auctions and mortgages, in the game Monopoly.
Playmasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Playmaster
portatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of portato
sagolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sagolike
form: most sagolike
Etymology: From sago + -like.
Senses: examples: text: It contained many cysts which were filled with sagolike granules that could be expressed under pressure.
ref: 1949, United States Naval Medical Bulletin, volume 49, number 1, page 61:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of sago.
Mexican Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Mexico.
Yucatec Maya Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Yucatán, Mexico.
Nova Scotian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Maritime Sign Language.
synonyms: word: Maritime Sign Language
sansad
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /sənsəd/
Forms: form: sansads
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi संसद (sansad).
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A parliament, an assembly.
Derived terms: gram sansad
Maritime Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An endangered sign language descended from Old British Sign Language used in Atlantic Canada.
Synonyms: MSL
Nova Scotian Sign Language
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Maritime Sign Language terms
Guatemalan Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language of Guatemala.
shit fire and save matches
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: An exclamation of surprise.
skars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skar
skilts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The lad's skilts, through which were thrust his lean dry shanks, gave him a semblance to a peasant of Gascony on stilts.
ref: 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom, page 22:
glosses: A kind of wide, coarse, short trousers worn in the USA around the 18th century.
Synonyms: english: Dorset
translation: Dorset
word: skilty-boots
skriks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of skrik
slinker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: slinkers
Etymology: From slink + -er.
Senses: examples: text: P. G. Wodehouse
He paws! He's a slinker and a prowler and a leerer. He's a pest and a worm!
text: The car was a nine-year-old Wolseley, and I called it "The Hard Black Slinker". It went well but not very fast.
ref: 1946, Roald Dahl, The Mildenhall Treasure:
glosses: One who slinks.
slunken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more slunken
form: most slunken
Etymology: From the past participle of slink. Compare Scots slunken (“lank, emaciated, lean, sunken”), Norwegian slunken (“lean, lank”), Danish slunken (“lean, lank”).
Senses: glosses: Shrivelled; lean, lank.
Related terms: slink
smort
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of smart
piggybacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: piggybackers
Etymology: From piggyback + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The largest piggybacker, Pennsylvania, affords a more typical illustration of the traffic thus far generated by various plans; today Pennsy's T.O.F.C. share is 43 per cent Plan I, 32 per cent Plan II and 24 per cent Plan III.
ref: 1960 November, David Morgan, “"Piggyback"—U.S. success story”, in Trains Illustrated, page 684:
glosses: One that piggybacks.
looner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: looners
Etymology: Shortened form of balloon + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Many looners are terrified of talking about it in case they might be accused of being pederasts. They fear that a psychologist would just label them as "sick."
ref: 1999, Katharine Gates, Deviant Desires: Incredibly Strange Sex:
text: Looners (as they call themselves) can generally be divided into two categories, regardless of whether they prefer their balloon play with a partner or alone: poppers and non-poppers.
ref: 2019, Dennis DiClaudio, The Deviant's Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, page 87:
glosses: One who has a balloon fetish.
looners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looner
piggybackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piggybacker
springes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of springe
stinges
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stinge
stucken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: […]the ſenſe & drift of the Latine Author is principally to be obſerued, and not the phrase nor propriety of the tongue, to bee ſo much ſought to bee expreſſed or ſtucken vnto.
ref: 1612, John Brinſley, chapter X, in Ludus literarius: or, the grammar ſchoole […] , London: Thomas Man, page 157:
text: […]and the Rebels have ſtucken rigidly to their demands, which I dare ſay had been too much, though they had taken Me priſoner, ſo that aſſuredly the breach will light foully upon them.
ref: 1645 March 9, Charles I, “To the Queen”, in Reliquiæ Sacræ Carolinæ, Or The VVorks of that Great Monarch and Glorious Martyr King Charls the I […] , Hague: Samuel Browne, published 1650, page 252:
text: Das hat mir alle mein tage angehangen, that has ſtucken by me as long as I live.
ref: 1745, Chriſtian Ludwig, Teutſch-Englisches Lexicon […] , Leipzig: Johann Friedrich Gleditſch, page 99, column 1:
glosses: past participle of stick
sugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sug
tigs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tig
tydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyde
tygers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tyger
tyste
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tystes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tystie (“black guillemot”).
vikas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vika
vikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vike
vilde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more vilde
form: most vilde
Senses: examples: text: With full intent t' avenge that villany / On that vilde man and all his family
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 35:
glosses: Obsolete form of vile.
male menopause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of andropause.
synonyms: word: andropause
unrecommend
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unrecommends
form: unrecommending
form: unrecommended
form: unrecommended
Etymology: From un- + recommend.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of disrecommend.
synonyms: word: disrecommend
hot saws
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot saw
mineral oils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mineral oil
micro-regions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micro-region
penny farthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of penny farthing
registraries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registrary
clerical collars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clerical collar
to the contrary
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: I heard nothing to the contrary.
glosses: Alternative form of on the contrary.
catchment basins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of catchment basin
Hallmark moment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hallmark moments
Etymology: From a Hallmark Cards advertising campaign.
Senses: examples: text: And then comes that inevitable moment when someone makes a snide remark or brings up a past grudge, and the bottom falls out and things go south fast. In a matter of seconds my Hallmark moment goes right out the window.
ref: 2012, Sarah Francis Martin, Stress Point: Thriving Through Your Twenties in a Decade of Drama, Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson Inc, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A memorable moment or event, one which would make a poignant greeting card.
Related terms: Kodak moment
Hallmark moments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hallmark moment
infra-red
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of infrared.
bindrune
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bindrunes
Senses: examples: text: One way in which runes can be used very powerfully is to combine several into what is known as a sigil or bindrune.
ref: 1998, The Norse Tradition a beginners guide, Pete Jennings, Headway, →ISBN, page 36:
glosses: Alternative form of bind rune.
bewield
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈwiːld/
Forms: form: bewields
form: bewielding
form: bewielded
form: bewielded
Etymology: From Middle English bewelden, equivalent to be- + wield.
Senses: examples: text: No grey goose quills the weapons used ;—a walking cane one feller With puissant arm bewielded, and the other his umbrella.
ref: 1883, Grip, volume 20:
text: But the hands of them that beat him became dry and the hands of the provost also, in such wise that they might not bewield them.
ref: 1900, Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints
text: 6 cubits and a hand's breadth, all which does import that he was a notable Giant, and a 1 great strength to wear such an armor and bewield so heavy a lance.
ref: 2015, Patricia Spencer, Albion 2:
text: She was visibly an acid attack survivor. Ali could be seen wrapping his arms around her in the picture.
I couldn't bewield this anymore. Interminable sentiments skirmishing inside me shouted for a vent.
ref: 2016, Palak Mahajan, A Wayfare:
glosses: To hold in hand; rule; control; manage; handle; wield.
bework
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɪˈwɜːk/
ipa: /bəˈwɜːk/
ipa: /biˈwɜːk/
ipa: /bɪˈwɝk/
ipa: /bəˈwɝk/
ipa: /biˈwɝk/
Forms: form: beworks
form: beworking
form: beworked
form: beworked
form: bewrought
form: bewrought
Etymology: From Middle English bewurchen, from Old English bewyrċean, bewyrċan (“to work, construct, surround with, enclose, cover, work in, insert, adorn”), from Proto-Germanic *bi- + *wirkijaną (“to work”), equivalent to be- + work. Cognate with North Frisian bewerke (“to bework, edit”), Dutch bewerken (“to work, manipulate”), German bewirken (“to bring about, effect”), Danish bevirke (“to cause”). More at be-, work.
Senses: glosses: To work around or about; surround.
glosses: To work, as with thread; embroider.
examples: text: The author, who knows the answer, beworks his brains to give it in a satisfactory and intelligible form to his audience; [...]
ref: 1882, John Devenish Hoppus, Riverside papers:
glosses: To work over; rework; edit.
Related terms: bywork
WMV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
qualifier: video
glosses: Initialism of Windows Media Video.
Related terms: AVI
MPEG
OGG
SFR
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: * Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (shortened to SFRY)
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Socialist Federal Republic.
Related terms: Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Montenegro
Serbia
Slovenia
SFR
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SFRs
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of star formation rate.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Initialism of star-forming region.
glosses: Initialism of single-family residence.
overbooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overbookers
Etymology: From overbook + -er.
Senses: glosses: A company or individual who overbooks.
underbook
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underbooks
form: underbooking
form: underbooked
form: underbooked
Etymology: From under- + book.
Senses: examples: text: The concert hall was underbooked for most of the year and failed to make a profit.
glosses: To fail to book enough of something; not to sell as much of something as is required.
geometricity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From geometric + -ity.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being geometric, or of having been geometricized.
graphinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of graphino
graphino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: graphinos
Etymology: From graphene + -ino.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A massless charged relativistic quasiparticle that arises from the low-energy excitations in a 2D graphene sheet interacting with an electromagnetic field
hyperconifold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperconifolds
Etymology: From hyper- + conifold.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A finite cyclic quotient of a conifold.
hyperconifolds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperconifold
supercomplexes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercomplex
baculus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baculi
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of baculum (“rod-like structure in spores and pollen”).
bacule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækjuːl/
Forms: form: bacules
Etymology: From French bacule, from Old French bacul, from Old French battre + cul, from Latin battuō (“beat”) + cul (“bottom”). Cognate with French bascule.
Senses: examples: text: At the extremity of this Bacule, is tied a cord, which passes thro' the pulley S, and terminates at the extremity of the arm, where it is fastened to a little bowl M;
ref: 1739, Mr. Baddam, Memoirs of the Royal Society, page 110:
text: The following works will be carried out during the year: Extensions to infectious diseases hospital, £5,000; extensions to borough sanatorium, £4,500; school clinic, tuberculosis dispensary, and new offices for medical officer, £ 7,500; ferro-concrete bridge over Orwell, £3,000; steel bacule bridge over Orwell, £ 7,500; and public swimming and slipper baths, £7,000.
ref: 1914, The Surveyor and Municipal Engineer - Volume 45, page 208:
text: A bacule bridge having a stationary pivot, a counterweight having a stationary pivot, the bridge leaf and counterweight being adapted to rotate in opposite directions about their respective pivots, a vertical track located between the two pivots, a roller adapted to travel vertically along the track, and two stiff links,
ref: 1922, Canadian Patent Office Record - Volume 50, Issues 27-52, page 3453:
text: The new bridge is a double leaf trunnion bacule bridge of the “Chicago Type".
ref: 1949, Chicago (Ill.). Bureau of Engineering. Division of Bridges & Viaducts, In Commemoration of the Opening to Traffic of the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial Bridge and North Approach Viaduct at State Street, Saturday, May 28, 1949 at 12:30 P.M., page 9:
text: A bacule bridge spans the river.
ref: 1964, Hans Gade, Hans Gade's European Harbour Pilot, page 354:
glosses: Alternative form of bascule.
Related terms: bascule
bacule
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbækjuːl/
Forms: form: bacules
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin baculum.
Senses: examples: text: Atyug (1971) pointed out that the pollen of S. compacta have prominent bacules. The present electron microscopic study, however reveals that those protuberences are spinules and not bacules.
ref: 1998, Journal of Palynology, volume 34, numbers 1-4, page 5:
topics: biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
palynology
physical-sciences
synonyms: baculum
columella
glosses: A rod-like element on the surface of some pollen.
Related terms: bacular
baculate
baculoid
baculum
conceptum
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conceptum
form: most conceptum
Senses: glosses: Objectum for concepts; describing attraction to concepts or relationships with concepts.
conceptum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conceptums
Senses: glosses: A person who is attracted to an concept and/or in a relationship with a concept.
Related terms: objectum
WDM
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of Windows Driver Model.
WDM
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Initialism of warm dark matter.
topics: engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: Initialism of wavelength-division multiplexing.
askant
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more askant
form: most askant
Etymology: Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.
Senses: examples: text: And I saw askant the armies, / I saw as in noiseless dreams hundreds of battle-flags, / Borne through the smoke of the battles and pierc’d with missiles I saw them, / And carried hither and yon through the smoke, and torn and bloody, / And at last but a few shreds left on the staffs, (and all in silence,) / And the staffs all splinter’d and broken.
ref: 1865, Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, in Sequel to Drum-Taps: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d and other poems:
text: He folded the bill lovingly and tucked it away; but he flipped the coin from his thumb, spinning in the sun, caught it as it fell, and glanced askant at old Pete.
ref: 1917, Eugene Manlove Rhodes, Copper Streak Trail:
glosses: Aslant; to one side, askance.
askant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more askant
form: most askant
Etymology: Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.
Senses: examples: text: While appearing to listen to Adelaide, her eyes wandered over me with speculation askant in them.
ref: 1901, Elizabeth Stoddard, The Morgesons:
text: A small, askant, almost contemptuous smile was on her mouth as she chewed.
ref: 1934, Kay Boyle, My Next Bride, Virago, published 1986, page 53:
glosses: Aslant, sloping.
askant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: askants
form: askanting
form: askanted
form: askanted
Etymology: Alteration of askance, apparently after aslant.
Senses: glosses: Dated form of askance.
exuberate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪɡˈz(j)uːbəˌɹeɪt/
Forms: form: exuberates
form: exuberating
form: exuberated
form: exuberated
Etymology: From Latin exuberatus, past participle of exuberare. See exuberant (“adjective”).
Senses: examples: text: that vast confluence and immensity, that exuberates in God
ref: 1648 August 16 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Robert Boyle, Some Motives and Incentives to the Love of God. […] [Seraphick Love], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], published 1659, →OCLC:
english: Seraphick Love
translation: Seraphick Love
glosses: To abound; to be in great abundance.
examples: text: ‘He might perhaps have become one, if he had had time to ripen, (smiling.) He might have exuberated into an Atheist.’
ref: 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 1140:
glosses: To develop into (something), by an exuberance of growth.
examples: text: It's fun, thrilling, and exuberating.
ref: 2007 November 3, dog-sponso...@pupkins.com, “Train Your Genitals to Answer your Phone”, in alt.recovery.aa (Usenet):
glosses: To delight, to make exuberant
Ecuadorian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of Ecuador.
Quebec Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language of the French Sign Language family used primarily in Quebec.
Afghan Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language of Afghanistan.
Hawaii Pidgin Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Hawaii. The language is named after the Hawaiian Pidgin spoken language and is not itself a pidgin.
Japanese Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Sign language used in Japan. ISO 639-3 code: jsl.
Jhankot Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used in Jhankot, a village in western Nepal.
Kata Kolok
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in parts of northern Bali, Indonesia.
Malaysian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used in Malaysia, ISO 639-3 code: xml.
Armenian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language of Armenia.
Danish Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of Denmark.
Dutch Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of the Netherlands.
Related terms: english: which is distinct from DSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch
translation: which is distinct from DSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch
word: Flemish Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of Estonia.
Finnish Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A variant of sign language commonly used in Finland.
Flemish Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of Flanders.
Related terms: word: Wiktionary’s coverage of Flemish Sign Language terms
english: which is distinct from FSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch
translation: which is distinct from FSL, despite spoken Flemish being a variety of spoken Dutch
word: Dutch Sign Language
German Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used in Germany.
Synonyms: DGS
Greek Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language used by the deaf community of Greece.
Icelandic Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The sign language of Iceland's deaf community.
Slovenian Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Serbia and Slovenia.
Swiss-German Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Swiss German Sign Language
Senses: glosses: The primary sign language of Liechtenstein and German-speaking areas of Switzerland.
Synonyms: German Swiss Sign Language
Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used by some of the bedouins of al-Sayyid.
Israeli Sign Language
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A sign language used in Israel.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Israeli Sign Language terms
blue films
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blue film
rainbow parties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow party
bewhore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈhɔː(ɹ)/
Forms: form: bewhores
form: bewhoring
form: bewhored
form: bewhored
Etymology: From be- + whore.
Senses: examples: text: We move to higher social realms in the next chapter, in which Harrison refuses to bewhore his conscience to a peer by supporting Colonel Trompington for parliament, this being the price for favor towards Booth.
ref: 1975, Eric Rothstein, Systems of order and inquiry in later eighteenth-century fiction:
text: They've asked her the name of him that bewhored her, but she will not speak.
ref: 2004, Ellen Kushner, Thomas the Rhymer:
glosses: To make a whore of; prostitute; treat as a whore.
glosses: To call or pronounce a whore.
bewhisper
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewhispers
form: bewhispering
form: bewhispered
form: bewhispered
Etymology: From be- + whisper.
Senses: glosses: To whisper.
lascivient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ləˈsɪviənt/
Forms: form: more lascivient
form: most lascivient
Etymology: From Latin lasciviens, pr. of lascivire (“to be wanton”), from lascivus. See lascivious.
Senses: examples: text: lascivient cruelty
ref: 1659, Henry More, The Immortality of the Soul, so Farre Forth as It is Demonstrable from the Knowledge of Nature and the Light of Reason, London: […] J[ames] Flesher, for William Morden […], →OCLC:
glosses: lascivious
Derived terms: lascivience
speakings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speaking
bewimple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewimples
form: bewimpling
form: bewimpled
form: bewimpled
Etymology: From Middle English bewimplen, equivalent to be- + wimple. Compare Dutch bewimpelen (“to bewimple”).
Senses: glosses: To cover with a wimple; veil.
bewinter
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewinters
form: bewintering
form: bewintered
form: bewintered
Etymology: From be- + winter.
Senses: examples: text: tears that bewinter all my year
ref: a. 1667, Abraham Cowley, Sleep:
glosses: To make like winter.
bewrayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bewrayers
Etymology: From Middle English bewrayer, biwryare, equivalent to bewray + -er.
Senses: examples: text: a bewrayer of secrets
ref: 1711 November 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “SATURDAY, November 17, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 225; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: A betrayer or divulger.
Related terms: bewray
bewreak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bewreaks
form: bewreaking
form: bewreaked
form: bewreaked
form: bewreke
Etymology: From Middle English bewreken (“to take revenge, avenge”), equivalent to be- + wreak. Compare Old English bewrecan (“to drive away, exile, banish”). Compare awreak.
Senses: examples: text: Gemoted warriours to bewrecke her bedde
ref: 1778, Thomas Chatterton, The Rowley Poems:
glosses: To avenge; revenge.
examples: text: The Londoners seeing that they could get no vantage against the duke, who was without their reach, to bewreak their anger they took his arms, which in most despiteful wise they hanged up in the open places of the city in sign of reproach, as for a traitor; […]
ref: 1841, John Foxe, The History of John Wickliffe, page 21:
glosses: To give vent in action to (incensed feelings).
policeboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: policeboats
Etymology: From police + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat used by police.
boatlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boatlifts
Etymology: From boat + lift.
Senses: glosses: The (often clandestine) transportation of a large number of people or amount of goods by boat, especially an exodus of people.
glosses: Alternative form of boat lift (“mechanism used for raising and lowering boats on a canal vertically from one water level to another”).
boatlift
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: boatlifts
form: boatlifting
form: boatlifted
form: boatlifted
Etymology: From boat + lift.
Senses: glosses: To transport (a large exodus of people, etc.) by boat.
seaboat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: seaboats
Etymology: From sea + boat.
Senses: glosses: A boat designed for use at sea.
boatie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbəʊti/
Forms: form: boaties
Etymology: From boat + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A boater (someone who travels by boat)
examples: text: Furl your sail, my little boatie;
Here's the harbor, still and deep,
Where the dreaming tides, in-streaming,
Up the channel creep.
ref: 1899, Henry Van Dyke, For the Fisherman's Child:
glosses: A boat.
lead single
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lead singles
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The first single released from an album
hyght
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: ‘Ys nat your name Lyonet?’ ‘Sir, so I hyght, and my lady my sister hyght Dame Lyones.’
ref: 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum XIII”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC:
glosses: To be called.
well up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wells up
form: welling up
form: welled up
form: welled up
Senses: examples: text: Oil was welling up out of the borehole.
text: As soon as I heard news of his death, tears started to well up in my eyes.
text: A spring wells up in the centre of the village, and watercress beds lie beside the stream running alongside the main street.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 178:
glosses: To gradually or steadily flow upwards or outwards so as to begin to fill or overflow something.
examples: text: Emotion welled up inside me.
text: A barely audible groan welled up in the Captain's throat as the grinning Freedom Fighter circled around behind the helpless American Soldier. The groan sputtered into a strangled, "No… no… don't.... " as Randall felt the juicy tip of the man's tumescent cock jab against his hair-ringed, virgin asshole.
ref: 1991, Etienne, “In Enemy Hands”, in Drummer, number 151, page 32:
text: “I had to leave my job because I just couldn’t … yeah,” Tina says, welling up.
ref: 2023 December 22, Robyn Vinter, “‘That’s how we’ve got to live’: the black market in England’s shoplifting capital”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: To accumulate within one, to the point of overwhelming one.
raw_tags: of an emotion
well up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well up
form: most well up
Senses: examples: text: How well up are you on algebra?
glosses: Well versed; well acquainted (in or on).
slip down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips down
form: slipping down
form: slipped down
form: slipped down
Senses: examples: text: I don't take vodka straight, but it slips down with a bit of lemonade.
glosses: To be easily imbibed; to be easy to drink.
raw_tags: of a drink
slip in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips in
form: slipping in
form: slipped in
form: slipped in
Senses: glosses: To include (e.g. a certain word or phrase) into a sentence discreetly
glosses: To enter discreetly
examples: text: A minute into the second half, Hazard blasted the second goal right over Gordon's head and into his net. Soon after, Charlie Mulgrew's aimless ball out of defence fell to Dembele, who gave it to Hazard. The attacker slipped in Batshuayi in for the third.
ref: 2018 September 7, Tom English, “Scotland 0-4 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: To play a subtle pass into someone in a goalscoring position.
slip into
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: slips into
form: slipping into
form: slipped into
form: slipped into
Senses: glosses: To put on some clothes rapidly.
rake off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rakes off
form: raking off
form: raked off
form: raked off
Senses: examples: rake leaves off the road.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: rake off.
examples: text: He used his arm to rake the books off the shelf.
glosses: To remove (something from something) in a sweeping motion.
cast up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: casts up
form: casting up
form: cast up
form: cast up
Senses: glosses: To wash something onto the shore.
examples: text: When the Columns N S E W, are compleated, cast up the Figures in the Columns N and S, and also those in the Columns E and W.
ref: 1771, Arthur Burns, Geodaesia Improved:
text: He hated her as she bent forward and pored over his things. He hated her way of patiently casting him up, as if he were an endless psychological account.
ref: 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 11”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: To compute.
glosses: To bring up as a reproach.
examples: text: to cast up earthworks
text: Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 62:10:
glosses: To construct by digging.
examples: text: The doctor cast up my leg.
glosses: To apply a cast to a broken limb.
pass round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: passes round
form: passing round
form: passed round
form: passed round
Senses: glosses: to distribute
brace up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: braces up
form: bracing up
form: braced up
form: braced up
Senses: examples: text: Ed wired the house, dug a basement with pick and shovel, braced it up, bricked it, and installed a furnace and a coal chute […]
ref: 2007, Robert Coram, American Patriot: The Life and Wars of Colonel Bud Day:
topics: business
construction
manufacturing
glosses: To strengthen with bracing material.
glosses: To become more optimistic.
examples: text: The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;[…]. Our table in the dining-room became again the abode of scintillating wit and caustic repartee, Farrar bracing up to his old standard, and the demand for seats in the vicinity rose to an animated competition.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
glosses: To strengthen (oneself), become stronger or more resilient.
hide away
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hides away
form: hiding away
form: hid away
form: hidden away
Senses: examples: text: ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
ref: 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
glosses: To stash or store something in a secret location.
glosses: To hide, to be hidden.
hide out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hides out
form: hiding out
form: hid out
form: hidden out
Senses: glosses: To hide somewhere.
Related terms: hideout
disregardless
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Blend of disregarding + regardless
Senses: examples: text: Whatever a man really is, he is so esteemed and named by Goethe in Faust, quite disregardless of any conventional titles or obloquys he bears.
ref: 1870, William Kyle, An exposition of the symbolic terms of the second part of ..., page 17:
text: Typically, this reduction is based on a polynomial number of non-deterministic steps. Hence the combination algorithm introduces its own NP-complexity, disregardless of the complexity of the algorithms that are available for the components.
ref: 1996, Klaus U. Schulz, Combining Unification and Disunification Algorithms: Tractable and Intractable Instances (unpublished report):
text: I wouldn't call the term "wasichu" racist at all, for example. It doesn't refer to race, but to a behaviour that could be observed disregardless of race.
ref: 1998 March 17, <rojas.ro...@swipnet.se>, “Takes a thief”, in alt.native (Usenet), message-ID <1>:
glosses: Regardless.
Related terms: irregardless
show round
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shows round
form: showing round
form: showed round
form: shown round
Senses: examples: text: If any of you are in Madrid, I'd be happy to show you round.
text: You have to go with a guide into the country house. He's there to show people round.
synonyms: show around
glosses: To show someone the important parts of something (a building, town etc.)
bewreck
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈɹɛk/
Forms: form: bewrecks
form: bewrecking
form: bewrecked
form: bewrecked
form: bewreckt
form: bewreckt
Etymology: From be- + wreck. Compare Old English bewrecan (“to drive or bring to”). More at be-, wreck.
Senses: examples: a. 1610, The Mirror for Magistrates
Yet was I, or I parted thence, bewreckt.
glosses: To wreck completely; ruin; destroy.
T-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-bone
T-bones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of T-bone
T-boning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of T-bone
T-boned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of T-bone
T-bone steaks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of T-bone steak
Cokelore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Coke + lore.
Senses: glosses: Urban legends regarding the drink Coca-Cola.
epicellular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From epi- + cellular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: (of bacteria) Living in close proximity to but not inside the host cell.
glucuronolactone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The lactone of glucuronic acid