cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
suzani
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suzanis
Etymology: Borrowed from Persian سوزنی (suzani, “of or pertaining to needle”).
Senses: examples: text: She wore a coat made of old cloth from Uzbekistan called a suzani, which was faded black with embroidered red circles and yellow and white zigzags.
ref: 2007 March 18, Winter Miller, “Personal Sound Effects”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 May 2022:
text: A variety of traditional suzani embroidery fabrics hanging at a bazaar. […] For centuries, the nomadic tribes of Central Asia used colorful textiles called suzanis as seating, prayer mats, bedding and dividers in their yurts – the traditional tents that were their homes.
ref: 2024 December 19, Amy Gunia, “Young Uzbeks are finding new markets for traditional handicrafts online”, in CNN Business:
glosses: An embroidered tapestry from several central Asian countries.
traif
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Recently my wife caught me using the pot for my traif soup.
ref: 2007 March 18, Randy Cohen, “Tuition Trick”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
trafe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
treife
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
treyfe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of treyf.
meshuggah
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mə-ˈshu̇-gə/
Forms: form: more meshuggah
form: most meshuggah
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of meshugge.
archduchesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archduchess
WDC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Washington, District of Columbia.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
motor-racing
racing
sports
glosses: Initialism of World Driving/Drivers' Championship.
Coordinate terms: sense: World Driving/Drivers Championship
word: F1
sense: World Driving/Drivers Championship
word: F1GP
sense: World Driving/Drivers Championship
word: FIA
sense: World Driving/Drivers Championship
word: GP
Related terms: sense: Washington DC
word: DC
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: F1WDC
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: F1WDCGP
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: FIAWDC
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: GPWDC
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: WDCGP
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: WEC
sense: World Driving/Driver Championship
word: WRC
WDC
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: WDCs
Senses: topics: government
law-enforcement
glosses: Initialism of woman detective constable, a former police rank.
Related terms: sense: Woman Detective Constable
word: DC
sense: Woman Detective Constable
word: WPC
stealth fighter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stealth fighters
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: A fighter aircraft with a smaller-than-usual radar signature because of its unique body shape, outer coating, and thermal dissipation.
Related terms: stealth bomber
stealth fighters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stealth fighter
airheaded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more airheaded
form: most airheaded
form: air-headed
Etymology: From air + headed; compare empty-headed.
Senses: glosses: silly, foolish
glosses: unintelligent
Derived terms: airheadedness
Related terms: airhead
amoebiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Forms: form: amoebiases
form: amebiasis
form: amœbiasis
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: amoeb- + -iasis.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Disease associated with the presence of amoebas.
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various such diseases; most especially
topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of various such diseases; most especially:
An infectious disease caused by the parasitic protozoan Entamoeba histolytica; amoebic dysentery.
Synonyms: alt: amebosis
word: amoebosis
Related terms: alt: entamebiasis
word: entamoebiasis
grumbly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: grumblier
form: grumbliest
Etymology: From grumble + -y.
Senses: glosses: Given to grumbling
highstreet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: highstreets
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of high street.
lamivudine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ləˈmɪv.jəˌdin/
Etymology: From [Term?] + -vudine (“zidovudine derivative”).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A nucleoside analog reverse-transcriptase inhibitor, 2′,3′-dideoxy-3′-thiacytidine (C₈H₁₁N₃O₃S) that is taken orally in the treatment of HIV and chronic hepatitis B.
mudbrick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmʌd.bɹɪk/
Forms: form: mudbricks
Etymology: From mud + brick.
Senses: glosses: Adobe brick; unfired brick made from mud or clay mixed with straw.
narcotise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: narcotises
form: narcotising
form: narcotised
form: narcotised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of narcotize.
Related terms: narcotisation
patchworking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The making of patchworks.
patchworking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patchwork
apay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈpeɪ/
rhymes: -eɪ
Forms: form: apays
form: apaying
form: apayed
form: apayed
form: apaid
form: apaid
form: appay
Etymology: From Middle English apaien, from Old French apaiier (“to appease”). See Latin pax (“peace”).
Senses: examples: text: It was a strange conceit, with our owne affliction to goe about to please and appay divine goodnesse.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
glosses: To satisfy, please.
glosses: To repay.
unimplemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unimplemented
form: most unimplemented
Etymology: From un- + implemented.
Senses: examples: text: I have been in places where I felt many straights were willing to accept my sexuality as long as it remained conceptual and theoretical, unimplemented and unseen. But I have never seen a mixed environment where gay male eroticism and straight female eroticism could be enacted simultaneously, and as the same thing.
ref: 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11:
glosses: Not implemented; not put into operation/service
uninvested
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uninvested
form: most uninvested
Etymology: From un- + invested.
Senses: glosses: Not invested
phosphoimager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphoimagers
Etymology: From phospho- + imager.
Senses: glosses: A device used to read a photostimulable phosphor (PSP) plate.
Related terms: phosphoimage
phosphoimagery
photostimulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photostimulable
form: most photostimulable
Etymology: From photo- + stimulable.
Senses: glosses: Able to be photostimulated
phosphoimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + imaging.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of photostimulated luminescence to make a form of X-ray image
phosphoinositides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phosphoinositide
phospholinked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phospho- + linked.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: linked together via a phosphate group
Related terms: phosphorylated
phosphonopentanoic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing a compound in which a terminal hydrogen atom of pentanoic acid (or more frequently 2-amino-pentanoic acid) is replaced by a phosphonic acid
phosphonovaleric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: phosphonopentanoic
phosphopantetheine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phospho- + pantetheine.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of coenzyme A essential to the function of carrier proteins
carrier protein
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrier proteins
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any protein whose function is to transport small molecules (or other proteins) through biological membranes
phosphorimager
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorimagers
Etymology: From phosphor + imager.
Senses: glosses: phosphoimager
phosphorimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From phosphor + imaging.
Senses: glosses: phosphoimaging
phosphorolytic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From phosphor + -o- + -lytic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphorolysis
phosphorothioate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphorothioates
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A derivative of phosphate in which an oxygen atom is replaced with sulfur; especially such a variant of nucleic acid
Derived terms: fomivirsen
organophosphorothioate
phosphosulphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphosulphates
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of phosphosulfate.
phosphotransferase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phosphotransferases
Etymology: From phospho- + transferase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of a phosphate group (phosphorylation)
Hyponyms: L-xylulokinase
Derived terms: acetylglucosaminephosphotransferase
beken
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /bɪˈkɛn/
/bəˈkɛn/
Forms: form: bekens
form: bekenning
form: bekenned
form: bekenned
form: bekent
form: bekent
Etymology: From Middle English bekennen, bikennen, equivalent to be- + ken (“to perceive”). Cognate with Dutch bekennen (“to acknowledge, confess”), German bekennen (“to admit, confess”), Swedish bekänna (“to profess, confess”).
Senses: glosses: To make known; reveal.
glosses: To deliver.
examples: text: Now I bikenne þe criste quod she · and his clene moder.
ref: c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section II:
glosses: To commit or commend to the care of.
glosses: To commit.
glosses: To admit as possessor.
glosses: To acquaint; instruct.
phosphotungstic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfɒsfəʊˈtʌŋstɪk/
ipa: /ˌfɑsfoʊˈtʌŋstɪk/
Etymology: From phospho- + tungstic.
Senses: examples: text: An attempt has been made to select the most accurate analytical methods and by their application to a series of normal and pathological cases to throw light on[…]the value of the phosphotungstic and tryptophan tests for diagnosis of cancer.
ref: 1904, G. H. A. Clowes, E. W. Jeffcott, “On the Secretion of the Stomach in Cancer as Compared with the Normal”, in Twenty-Fourth Annual Report of the State Department of Health of New York, Albany: Oliver A. Quayle, pages 401–2:
text: Serum albumin was dissolved in distilled water containing quantities of albumin varying from 0.5 to 7 gm. per liter. Duplicate sets of tubes were then treated with the Esbach and phosphotungstic reagents, and after twenty-four hours the results were compared with gravimetric findings.
ref: 1910, Albert Mattice, “The Quantitative Estimation of Albumin in the Urine”, in Archives of Internal Medicine, volume V, page 318:
text: The cortex from various regions, stained with Haematoxylin and eosin, phosphotungstic haematoxylin, and Cresyl-violet.
ref: 1913, Elmer Ernest Southard, Oscar J. Raeder, Anne E. Taft, “Clinical, Anatomical, and Brief Histological Description of Ten Cases of Feeble-Mindedness”, in Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, volume XIV, number IV, Cambridge: Cosmos P, page 175:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to phosphotungstic acid or its derivatives.
phosphotungstic acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A heteropoly acid formally derived from phosphoric acid and tungstic acid; it is used as an analytical reagent
wikipedia: phosphotungstic acid
heteropoly acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropoly acids
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a family of mixed oxyacids of metals (such as tungsten) and nonmetals (such as phosphorus)
wikipedia: heteropoly acid
scherm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scherms
Etymology: From Dutch scherm. Doublet of screen.
Senses: examples: text: [W]e went to work to build a "scherm" near one of the pools and about a hundred yards to the right of it. This is done by cutting a quantity of thorn bushes and piling them in the shape of a circular hedge. Then the space enclosed is smoothed, and dry tambouki grass, if obtainable, is made into a bed in the centre, and a fire or fires lighted.
ref: 1885, H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon's Mines, Cassel and Company, published 1907, page 53:
glosses: A temporary shelter made from branches.
withsay
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: withsays
form: withsaying
form: withsaid
form: withsaid
Etymology: From Middle English withseien, from Old English wiþseċġan (“to speak against; to denounce, renounce, or deny”), corresponding to with- + say. Cognate with Old Saxon witharseggian (“to object”), Low German wedderseggen (“to renounce”), German widersagen (“to renounce”), Dutch wederzeggen and weerzeggen.
Senses: examples: text: Sythe I have sayd it, I wyll never withsay it.
ref: 1530, John Palsgrave, Lesclarcissement, 783/2:
glosses: To speak against someone or something.
To contradict or deny.
examples: text: Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship. With will will we withstand, withsay.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To speak against someone or something.
To gainsay, to oppose in speech (and by extension writing).
examples: text: I wyll not withsaye thy desyre.
ref: c. 1530, St. German's Dyaloge Doctoure & Student, VI f xiii:
glosses: To speak against someone or something.
To forbid, to refuse to allow, give, or permit.
examples: text: This is in noe wise to bee withsaid, for it is the King's honour.
ref: c. 1670, ordinance in Collection of Ordinances of the Royal Household - 1327–1694 (1790), 372
text: I sent to them also martyrs, confessors, and doctors, and they accorded not to them, ne to their doctrine, but because it appertaineth not to me to withsay thy request, I shall give to them my preachers, by whom they may be enlumined and made clean, or else I shall come against them myself if they will not amend them.
ref: 1900 (original version 1260), Jacobus (de Voragine), William Caxton, Frederick Startridge Ellis, The Golden Legend, Or, Lives of the Saints - Volume 4
text: He was mild to good men of God and stark beyond all bounds to those who withsaid his will.
ref: 2000, James Farl Powers, Morte D'Urban:
glosses: To speak against someone or something.
To decline, to refuse to do or accept.
Synonyms: gainsay
withspeak
Derived terms: withsayer
withsaying
Related terms: withsaw
with-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Etymology: From Middle English with-, from Old English wiþ- (“against, away”, prefix), from Proto-West Germanic *wiþi-, from Proto-Germanic *wiþi- (“counter-, anti-, gain-, with-”), related to Old English wiþ (“with, by, near, against, beside, at, through, for, in return, opposite, towards, to”, preposition). Cognate with Old Frisian with-, Old Saxon with-, Danish ved-, Swedish vid-, Faroese við-, Icelandic við-. Related also to English wither-, and Dutch weder- (“back”), German wider- (“against”), German wieder- (“again”). More at with.
Senses: examples: withfight, withstand, withset, withsay, withspeak
glosses: Prefix meaning "against", "in opposition to".
examples: withbuy, withcall, withdraw, withdrive, withgive, withhold, withturn
glosses: Prefix meaning "back", "back around", "in reverse", "in return".
examples: withbear, withgive, withgo, withhang, withsave, withseek
glosses: Prefix meaning "off", "out", "away", "from".
examples: withgang, withjoin, withtake
glosses: Prefix meaning "with", "along with", "together (with)".
carrot cruncher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carrot crunchers
form: carrot-cruncher
Senses: examples: text: [H]e called Bill a turnip-headed old carrot-cruncher, and other insulting names.
ref: 1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 130:
text: Symun Devush, the carrot-cruncher, the hick from the sticks, who, when he'd arrived at the gaol, had no more conception of the city he found himself in than a worm does of the apple ...
ref: 2006, Will Self, The Book of Dave:
text: 'Me having an up to date style even though I've turned into a carrot cruncher. A country bumpkin.' Nathan giggled. 'Country bumpkin? I don't think so.'
ref: 2008, Sally Worboyes, Handbags And Gladrags:
text: At least I come from a part of the world that has got a football team; you're a friggn'^([sic]) carrot cruncher and you support the bloody scally's^([sic]).
ref: 2010, Cameron Addicott, The Interceptor:
glosses: Someone from a rural background; a bumpkin.
glosses: Such a police officer
Portuguese men-of-war
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Portuguese man-of-war
hambone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hambones
form: ham-bone
Etymology: From ham + bone.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps I was afraid of being laughed at if the mysterious item turned out to be a hambone, a distinct possibility.
ref: 2009 February 22, J. David Goodman, “The Night of the Foot”, in New York Times:
glosses: The bone at the center of a ham
examples: text: HAMBONE — An unconvincing blackface dialectician.
ref: 1946, Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms, Hastings House, page 38:
text: Ferrell is the ubiquitous hambone, an affably oblivious man-child prone to shirtless prancing onscreen.
ref: 2009 February 15, Rob Salem, “When comedy geniuses unite”, in Toronto Star:
topics: acting
broadcasting
entertainment
film
lifestyle
media
television
theater
glosses: A ham; an eager or inferior performer
topics: dance
dancing
entertainment
hobbies
lifestyle
music
sports
glosses: A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Four consecutive strikes.
Synonyms: sense: type of dance
word: Juba dance
sense: inferior performer
word: ham
sense: inferior performer
word: hamfatter
sense: inferior performer
word: overactor
sense: inferior performer
word: tear-cat
hambone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hambones
form: hamboning
form: hamboned
form: hamboned
form: ham-bone
Etymology: From ham + bone.
Senses: examples: text: “Walking, walking, walking -- Hambone break!”
ref: 2010 July 26, Pendleton Ward & Tom Herpich, “Freak City” (0:33 from the start), in Adventure Time, season 1, episode 20, spoken by Finn the Human (Jeremy Shada):
text: “♪ Hambone, hambone! ♪ Hambone. Okay, hambone break's over. Back to the bedroom!” (motor whirring) “♪ Hambone, hambone! ♪ Hambone ♪”
ref: 2010 July 29, Lewis Morton, “The Late Philip J. Fry” (1:02 from the start), in Futurama, season 6, episode 7, spoken by Bender (John DiMaggio):
glosses: To dance the hambone.
hambones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hambone
jihadism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɪˈhæd.ɪz.əm/
/d͡ʒɪˈhɑːd.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: jihadisms
Etymology: Late 1970s, from jihad + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The twin institutions of mahdist jihadism and radical puritanical sufism
ref: 1983, Research in social anthropology, 1975-1980:
text: Liberals rightly recoil from the constant pressure on Muslims to explain themselves and denounce jihadism or even islamism.
ref: 2009 February 4, Jonathan Freedland, “As British Jews come under attack, the liberal left must not remain silent”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The ideological movement within modern Islamism that advocates armed jihad and hostility against non-believers.
Derived terms: counterjihadism
Salafi jihadism
Related terms: jihadist
kerflooey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /kə(ɹ)ˈfluː.i/
Forms: form: kerflewie
form: kerflewy
form: kaflewy
Senses: examples: text: Until our economy went kerflooey, it was a whimsical reverie about the life that you could swap for the one that you were leading.
ref: 2009 February 8, David Segal, “What’s Your New Plan B?”, in New York Times:
glosses: kaput
keyless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From key + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Today’s keyless models use a fob — the small remote control device that most modern cars use to lock and unlock doors — but it performs the additional duty of sending a signal to the ignition.
ref: 2007 April 14, Micheline Maynard, “Car Keys Could Go the Way of Tail Fins”, in New York Times:
glosses: Lacking or not requiring a key.
Derived terms: keylessness
remote keyless entry
sandbelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sandbelts
Etymology: From sand + belt.
Senses: examples: text: 1874 December 28, Frank Oates, C. G. Oates (editor), Matabeleland and the Victoria Falls: The Letters and Journals of Frank Oates, page 189,
The others missed the water, and I rejoined them in the long sandbelt, which extended beyond where we halted.
text: The western side of the region is the Kgalagadi desert, an expanse of undulating sandbelts and limestone outcrops, with a cover of grass and thorn scrub.
ref: 1974, Anthony Sillery, Botswana: A Short Political History, page 5:
text: It will be observed from the map that the sandbelt occupies the western side of southern Africa which has been relatively tectonically inert, unaffected by the rift valley system, uplifted and locally warped but in general remaining flat and undissected.
ref: 1992, John Stanley Beard, The Proteas of Tropical Africa, page 18:
glosses: A dunal ridge.
examples: text: It^([Yarram Golf Club]) is a true sandbelt golf course, where the fairways offer beautiful lies — good enough to tempt you with a driver.
ref: 2009, Paul Daley, Golf Architecture: A Worldwide Perspective, volume 5, page 29:
text: Pitt said Golf Australia hoped to return the Open to one of the traditional sandbelt courses in 2010, the last of a minimum three-year deal to play the event in Melbourne.
ref: 2009 February 10, Mark Hayes, “School out as 12-year-old takes on Karrie Webb”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 11 Feb 2009:
text: Located in the district of Rye, on the Mornington Peninsula, the property (named Markdel in tribute to Freedman′s oldest brother Mark and mother Del) was a little over an hour′s drive out of Melbourne and lay in the famous golf course sandbelt region of Victoria.[…]While perfect for golf, the sandbelt was also exceptional for the training of racehorses,[…].
ref: 2011, John Hunt, Princess: The Miss Andretti Story, page 226:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An area developed from sand dunes; the region in Victoria is a well-known example.
sandbelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sandbelt
baritonal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baritonal
form: most baritonal
Etymology: From baritone + -al.
Senses: examples: text: Brian Stucki, a tenor, […] brought an appealingly baritonal sound to Purcell’s Aeneas.
ref: 2009 February 20, Allan Kozinn, “The Lamentations of Dido (Don’t Forget Her Fate)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Pertaining to or having the character of a baritone
Derived terms: baritonally
lowrise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lowrises
Senses: examples: text: Around here, that means a transition from the lowrise, two-to-five-storey apartment building to condos that reach almost 10 floors above grade.
ref: 2009 February 21, Christopher Hume, “Condo Critic: Pedestrians take a back seat to cars here”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: Alternative form of low-rise.
lowrise
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of low-rise.
caucasian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: The man, aged in his 30s, is described as caucasian with olive skin, medium build, about 175cm tall and has short dark hair.
ref: 2009 February 4, Anne Wright, “Police appeal for witnesses to serial car thief”, in Herald Sun:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.
caucasian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caucasians
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Caucasian.
salsero
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: salseros
Etymology: From Spanish salsero.
Senses: examples: text: This afternoon of Puerto Rican musical pride at Celebrate Brooklyn has a strong lineup, with Tito Rojas, a leading salsero since the 1980s[…].
ref: 2007 July 27, The New York Times, “Pop and Rock Listings”, in New York Times:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A salsa performer.
topics: dance
dancing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A salsa dancer.
salseros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of salsero
pocketable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pocketable
form: most pocketable
Etymology: From pocket + -able.
Senses: examples: text: While some people will probably always carry around a laptop, devices like the Tilt are breaking down the wall between luggable and pocketable.
ref: 2007 October 11, John Biggs, “With a Keyboard and a Pop-Up Screen, Is This a Computer or a Cellphone?”, in New York Times:
synonyms: pocket-sized
glosses: Able to be put in one's pocket.
chemomechanical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From chemo- + mechanical.
Senses: glosses: mechanochemical
Derived terms: biochemomechanical
microchemomechanical
larky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: larkier
form: larkiest
Etymology: From lark + -y.
Senses: examples: text: You fancy yourself a larky buck, but there's alchemy between Jocasta and I you cannot begin to fathom. She'll fall out of love with you the moment you threaten us.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
text: This is Mr Wilson being larky, by the way.
ref: 2009 February 8, “Quotes of the week ...”, in The Observer:
text: The 1987 film Personal Services, directed by Terry Jones and starring Julie Walters as “Christine Painter”, concentrated on the larky nature of her career.
ref: 2015 November 16, Duncan Campbell, “Cynthia Payne obituary”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: Playful.
Derived terms: larkily
larkiness
functionalisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: functionalisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of functionalization.
Derived terms: biofunctionalisation
neofunctionalisation
subfunctionalisation
nebulisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nebulisations
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nebulization.
majoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹiən/
Forms: form: more majoritarian
form: most majoritarian
Etymology: From majority + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: Early in June came the delegation of the German Majority Socialists, which included—besides [Philipp] Scheidemann, the Majoritarian leader—that Hermann Müller who, on the eve of the declaration of war, had invited the French Socialists to vote against war credits.
ref: “majoritarian, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
text: He [Paul Cambon] knows how to use to the best advantage of everybody concerned a secretary of Embassy, an officer, a bishop, or a “Majoritarian” Socialist.
ref: 1918 September 22, André Géraud, “Paul Cambon. 20 Years Ambassador in London. His Work for France. The Evolution of the Entente.”, in The Observer, 127th year, number 6,644, London, page 3, column 3:
text: A better peace and one no more likely to be broken by another war than the one that the Conference is supposed to be trying to arrange could have been got long ago, if it had suited the Allied statesmen to permit the mediation of the Pope, or, later, to work for peace with the Majoritarian Government of Russia.
ref: 1919 May 18, “Pope and Peace. Why The War Lasted So Long. His Holiness and a Secret Treaty. The Efforts of the Russian Majoritarians, and Why They Were Frustrated. Archbishop Mannix on the Secret Treaty, and Colonel Raymond Robins on the Majoritarians.”, in Truth, number 1,003, Brisbane, Qld., page 10, column 1:
text: No. He proposes to employ majoritarian bullying to overturn the legal and constitutional balance of power for the vapid purpose of upholding “popular values,” whatever and whose ever those are.
ref: 2007 July 26, Cathal J[oseph] Nolan, “Shaping the Court for Political Ends (8 Letters)”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, published 30 July 2007, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 05 Jun 2015:
glosses: Supporting the dominance of the majority over the minority.
Derived terms: antimajoritarian
majoritarian democracy
majoritarianism
nonmajoritarian
majoritarian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tɛə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɒɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹi.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɑ.ɹɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tɛɹ.i.ən/
ipa: /məˈd͡ʒɔɹ.ɪ.tə.ɹiən/
Forms: form: majoritarians
Etymology: From majority + -arian.
Senses: examples: text: It is difficult to use terms which are accurate without being too definite, but to borrow the terminology of the French Socialists one may say that now on the National Executive of the Labour party majoritarians and minoritarians are about equally balanced, and in the Labour party Conference the minoritarians seem to be getting the majority.
ref: 1918 June 30, “[Our London Correspondence. (By Private Wire.)] Dissentient Trade Unionists.”, in The Manchester Guardian, 22,432, published 1 June 1918, page 4, column 3:
text: The French majoritarians and the British laborites, who, together dominated the conference, demanded peace with the German majoritarians.
ref: 1919 February 25, Frederick Moore, quoting Frank Bohn, “[Eisner, a Great Loss: Frank Bohn, American Democratic Socialist, Pays High Tribute to the Bavarian Leader.] Knew How to Proceed”, in New York Tribune, volume LXXVIII, number 26,399, New York, N.Y.: New York Tribune Inc., page 10, column 6:
text: THE EFFORTS OF THE RUSSIAN MAJORITARIANS, AND WHY THEY WERE FRUSTRATED. Archbishop Mannix on the Secret Treaty, and Colonel Raymond Robins on the Majoritarians.
ref: 1919 May 18, “Pope and Peace. Why The War Lasted So Long. His Holiness and a Secret Treaty. The Efforts of the Russian Majoritarians, and Why They Were Frustrated. Archbishop Mannix on the Secret Treaty, and Colonel Raymond Robins on the Majoritarians.”, in Truth, number 1,003, Brisbane, Qld., page 10, columns 1–2:
glosses: One who supports the dominance of the majority over the minority.
glosses: One who is in majority.
nebulise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nebulises
form: nebulising
form: nebulised
form: nebulised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of nebulize.
Derived terms: nebuliser
stairgate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stairgates
form: stair gate
Etymology: From stair + gate.
Senses: examples: text: Perhaps she has to buy a new stairgate, fireguard, or fit in a lamp. This may be a big dip in her purse, but in this financial comparison it is trivial.
ref: 1979, Brian Jackson, Sonia Jackson, Childminder: A Study in Action Research:
text: There should be a stairgate and the door to the garden should be secured so that children cannot get out unsupervised[…]
ref: 1991, “The Children Act: Guidance and Regulations”, in Health, Department:
text: At this point you realise that you're also on edge because the kids don't know this house, and the eldest might be sleepwalking and there are no stairgates[…]
ref: 2004, Richard Hallows, Full Time Father, page 46:
synonyms: baby gate
glosses: A gate fitted across a domestic staircase to prevent young children from climbing the stairs, or falling down them.
stairgates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stairgate
bugger factor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bugger factors
Senses: glosses: Sod's law or Murphy's law: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong."
sestamibi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A derivative of radioactive technetium used in nuclear imaging
nebulises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nebulise
nebulising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nebulise
nebulised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nebulise
spectrometrists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spectrometrist
spectrometrist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spectrometrists
Etymology: From spectrometry + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: Fortunately to gamma-ray spectrometrists, this effect is relatively small in most radionuclides that are encountered in a laboratory for environmental radioactivity.
ref: 2017, Mikael Hult, Guillaume Lutter, JRC technical reports:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: An expert in spectrometry, or in the use of spectrometers
symptomless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From symptom + -less.
Senses: examples: text: symptomless patients
text: symptomless infection
text: Between these stages are symptomless periods of inactivity called latent periods.
ref: 1981 February 14, Robert Taylor, “Stages Of Syphilis”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 29, page 17:
glosses: Synonym of asymptomatic.
synonyms: word: asymptomatic
techy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
homophone: techie
Forms: form: techier
form: techiest
form: tech-y
Etymology: From tech + -y. Compare techie.
Senses: examples: text: Are there any techy types around? My computer has stopped working.
text: Understanding its significance requires reading four of the techiest paragraphs you'll read all day, but it's worth the slog.
ref: 2005 August 12, David Pogue, “A Camera That Has It All? Well, Almost”, in The New York Times:
text: I still regret uploading all my CDs at the behest of my husband, who is far techier than I am.
ref: 2019 April 24, Pamela Paul, “Sliding Backward on Tech? There Are Benefits”, in The New York Times:
text: We promise it will be easy — no web-lingo, techy software or long hours spent staring into the internet void.
ref: 2019 December 9, Thorin Klosowski, “Protect Your Digital Self in a Few Minutes a Day”, in The New York Times:
text: For the tech-y friend that's impossible to buy for, pick up this cute and compact Amazon Echo Spot—it's a customizable smart clock that lets you set alarms, play music, preview the weather, control other smart home devices, and so much more.
ref: 2024 October 9, Hannah Oh, Samantha Jones, “Amazon Has So Many Last-Minute Gifts Under $50 on Sale for October Prime Day”, in Cosmopolitan:
glosses: Technical, of or related to technology.
techy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
homophone: techie
ipa: /ˈtɛtʃi/
rhymes: -ɛtʃi
ipa: /ˈtɛki/
rhymes: -ɛki
homophone: techie
Etymology: Variant of tetchy, of uncertain etymology.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tetchy.
tricarbonyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tricarbonyls
Etymology: From tri- + carbonyl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any metal compound in which the metal is attached to three carbonyl groups
Derived terms: methylcyclopentadienyl manganese tricarbonyl
ultratraditional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultratraditional
form: most ultratraditional
Etymology: From ultra- + traditional.
Senses: examples: text: Born in 1947, self-taught, and from ultratraditional Japanese background, Satoh writes shimmering, ecstatically minimalist music full of tremolos and delicate melodies.
ref: 1988 July 29, Kyle Gann, “Music Notes: a pianist who gets her body into it”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Extremely traditional
ultramicroporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ultramicroporous
form: most ultramicroporous
form: ultra-microporous
Etymology: From ultra- + microporous.
Senses: glosses: Having pores of a size considerably less than a nanometre
Related terms: ultramicropore
microporous
nonperformer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonperformers
Etymology: From non- + performer.
Senses: examples: text: Mr. Ertegun […] was inducted in 1987 as a nonperformer.
ref: 2007 January 9, “Arts, Briefly”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who is not a performer
pinscher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɪnʃə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: pinschers
Etymology: From German Pinscher.
Senses: glosses: Any of several breeds of dog.
Hyponyms: Dobermann
German Pinscher
Miniature Pinscher
Affenpinscher
Austrian Pinscher
Related terms: molossoid
schnauzer
pinschers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pinscher
shallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shallow
shallowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shallowings
Senses: examples: text: The main 200-feet basin is about 8 miles long; it includes three areas of over 300 feet, which, however, are only separated by very slight shallowings.
ref: 1907, Scottish Geographical Magazine, volume 23, page 349:
text: And this shallowing, reinforced by the creation of mid-ocean ridges as the supercontinents split up, forced the world’s oceans to overflow, changing the outlines of the continents and all but sinking some of the European islands.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 28:
glosses: The act of becoming shallower.
shallowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shallow
phonewise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From phone + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: Cannot get onto them phonewise or through their children.
ref: 2009 February 12, “Victoria bushfire missing - search on our message board”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2009:
glosses: In terms or by means of the telephone
pedimented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pediment + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Set on a high base, with rich marble trim, it has leaded-glass windows on either side of the door, and a sophisticated arch above the central second-floor window. Mr. Palliser gave the Brush house a complex massing, with a rounded extension on the left and pedimented gables.
ref: 2007 September 23, Christopher Gray, “Kissing Cousins at 100: Only One Shows Its Age”, in New York Times:
topics: architecture
glosses: Furnished with a pediment
peatland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peatlands
Etymology: From peat + land.
Senses: examples: text: Scientists have shown that palm oil is linked to such large-scale rainforest and peatland destruction that it can be hundreds of times worse for the climate than burning fossil fuels.
ref: 2009 January 8, “Letters: Laying the foundations for a greener future”, in The Guardian:
glosses: Land with peat soil, such as an active or former bog.
Related terms: bogland
nonperformers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonperformer
recertification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recertifications
Etymology: From re- + certification.
Senses: glosses: The act or process of recertifying.
recertifications
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recertification
sashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -æʃt
Etymology: From sash + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing sashed windows in town, he got them into his own house.
ref: 1868, Thomas Richmond, The local records of Stockton and the neighbourhood:
text: A skylight of moderate dimension was overhead and at each end of the oblong space were two sashed port-hole windows easily convertible back into embrasures for short carronades.
ref: 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 18, in Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co.:
glosses: Fitted with a sash (window opener).
examples: text: […] Certainly / there was impressive swagger in that / ready, high-elbowed stance; belted / and sashed in threaded dragon teeth / they waited in self-imposed restraint— / fine ornament on power unassailable— / for their cue
ref: 1971, Chinua Achebe, “Public Execution in Pictures”, in Collected Poems, New York: Anchor, published 2004, page 53:
text: […] and even middle-class matrons serving in the Sanitary Commission adopted an 'army costume' of loose trousers covered by a sashed kilt and kirtle.
ref: 2000, Laurence Senelick, The Changing Room: Sex, Drag and Theatre:
glosses: Having a sash (cloth decoration).
Synonyms: besashed
cameraless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From camera + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Cameraless animation involves drawing each frame directly onto film.
glosses: Without the use of a camera.
examples: text: It's getting hard to find cameraless mobile phones.
glosses: Not equipped with a camera.
Derived terms: cameralessness
natural family planning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Timing sexual intercourse to avoid the time of ovulation (if pregnancy is not wanted) or to fall within that time (if pregnancy is desired).
Synonyms: rhythm method
time trials
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time trial
tin-foil hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin-foil hat
tinfoil hats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tinfoil hat
star rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of star ring
pyramidal neurons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidal neuron
pyramidal tracts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pyramidal tract
biquadratically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From biquadratic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a biquadratic way.
quartz clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quartz clock
half-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of half-pipe
quarter-pipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarter-pipe
quarterpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarterpipe
herdswoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herdswomen
Etymology: From herd + -s- + woman.
Senses: glosses: A woman who tends livestock, especially cows and sheep.
Hyponyms: shepherdess
Related terms: herdsman
herdsgirl
herdswomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of herdswoman
splotched
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splotch
splotching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splotch
splotching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splotchings
Senses: examples: text: […] yellow velvety silty clay with a few brown and gray spots and splotchings.
ref: 1931, Soil Survey:
glosses: A splotch mark.
spacewomen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spacewoman
spacewear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From space + -wear.
Senses: glosses: Clothes to be worn in space.
dopier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdəʊpiəɹ/
rhymes: -əʊpiə(ɹ)
Senses: glosses: comparative form of dopey: more dopey
glosses: comparative form of dopy: more dopy
dopiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of dopy: most dopy
dopily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more dopily
form: most dopily
Etymology: From dopy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a dopy way.
unpatentable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + patentable.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: Not patentable; that cannot be patented.
Synonyms: nonpatentable
featherbrained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more featherbrained
form: most featherbrained
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
twitting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of twit
twitting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: twittings
Senses: examples: text: With unfeigned courtesy we welcomed back this illustrious body; but they were subjected to the most unmerciful twittings for the fleetness of foot they had exhibited when Richmond was so alarmingly threatened.
ref: 1867, Sallie A. Brock, Richmond during the war: four years of personal observation:
glosses: The act of one who twits or teases.
twitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of twit
feather-brained
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more feather-brained
form: most feather-brained
form: featherbrained
Senses: glosses: Foolish, scatterbrained.
girly girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of girly girl
shipwreckee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shipwreckees
Etymology: From shipwreck + -ee.
Senses: examples: text: Evidently his real charge was not to help Perez in his linguistic difficulties but to spy on him. But the malign shipwreckee was at the same time a spy...
ref: 1955, Gregorio Marañón, Charles David Ley, Antonio Pérez, "Spanish Traitor":
text: There is a chapter devoted to each shipwreckee, including their own photographs, drawings, cartoons, extracts from journals and other writings.
ref: 2001, David Spedding, Shipwrecked International:
glosses: One who is shipwrecked.
Synonyms: castaway
maroon
shipwreckees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shipwreckee
photoplethysmograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoplethysmographs
Etymology: From photo- + plethysmograph.
Senses: glosses: A plethysmograph that uses illumination of the skin in order to measures changes in light absorption
Synonyms: PPG
Related terms: photoplethysmogram
photoplethysmographs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoplethysmograph