cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Büchner funnel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Büchner funnels
Etymology: Named after the inventor, the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of laboratory equipment used for filtration; it is a ceramic funnel with a flat base on which the filter paper is laid flat; normally used with a vacuum pump.
Related terms: Büchner flask
Hirsch funnel
consequtive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of consecutive.
vacuum pump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuum pumps
Etymology: From vacuum + pump.
Senses: glosses: A piece of equipment used for extraction of gas or vapour from an enclosed space, leaving the container with a partial vacuum.
cold finger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cold fingers
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A piece of laboratory equipment used for creating a cold spot on a surface.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see cold, finger.
oloroso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: olorosos
Etymology: From Spanish oloroso.
Senses: glosses: A type of sherry, darker and smoother than fino sherry, used as a base for sweetened sherries.
explanandum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: explananda
Etymology: From Latin explanandum.
Senses: examples: text: Yet the most convincing thing was not this sense of familiarity, or the shards of explananda that my theory could account for.
ref: 2024, Scott Alexander Howard, The Other Valley, Atlantic Books (2025), page 245:
glosses: That which is to be explained (cf. explanans).
Related terms: explicandum
nett
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: nett price; nett weight
glosses: Alternative spelling of net (remaining after expenses or deductions).
nett
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: netts
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of net.
intonate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɪntəʊneɪt/
Forms: form: intonates
form: intonating
form: intonated
form: intonated
Etymology: First attested in 1631; borrowed from Latin intonātus, perfect passive participle of intonō (“to thunder forth”), see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: But agaynst all such as contemne the holy scriptures & cast awaye the law of theyr LORDE God, wyllynge neither to enter them selues, nor yet suffryng other, christ intonateth and thonderethe on this manner […]
ref: 1543, Thomas Beccon, A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, London: John Gough, Dedicatory epistle:
text: […] I hold a Prince ought not vvholly to neglect Military Affairs, but verſe himſelf in, and accuſtome himſelf to them, that he may intonate fear into Neighbours, […]
ref: 1663, Edward Waterhous[e], chapter I, in Fortescutus Illustratus; or A Commentary on that Nervous Treatise De Laudibus Legum Angliæ, Written by Sir John Fortescue Knight, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Roycroft for Thomas Dicas […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: 19th century, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, “Ode to Deity” in Poems, New York: E. Bliss and E. White et al., p. 159,
And o’er the sphere the forked lightning flies,
And intonating thunders shake the skies.
glosses: To thunder or to utter in a sonorous or thunderous voice.
sofrito
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sofritos
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish sofrito. Doublet of soffritto.
Senses: examples: text: "Should I do it?" Jimmy asked again, finishing off his beer and using a piece of bread to sop up the sofrito.
ref: 1996, Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow, Ballentine Books, published 2008, page 18:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
coordinate_terms: soffritto
glosses: A sautéed mixture of chopped onions, garlic, and tomato and/or (chili) peppers, and sometimes carrots, celery, and/or herbs, used as the beginning point of a dish, especially in Hispanic or Portuguese cuisine.
granularities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granularity
oker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okers
form: ocker
form: occur
form: ockar
form: okir
form: okkir
Etymology: From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English wōcor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃 (wōkrs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax.
Senses: glosses: Interest on money; usury; increase.
oker
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: okers
form: okering
form: okered
form: okered
form: ocker
form: occur
form: ockar
form: okir
form: okkir
Etymology: From Middle English oker, okur, okir, okyr, ocker, from Old Norse ókr (“usury”), from Proto-Germanic *wōkraz (“progeny, earnings, profit”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weg- (“to add, increase”). Cognate with Scots ocker (“usury”), Icelandic ókur (“usury”), Swedish ocker (“usury”), German Wucher (“usury”), Dutch woeker (“usury”), Old English wōcor (“increase, growth, fruit, usury”), Gothic 𐍅𐍉𐌺𐍂𐍃 (wōkrs, “interest, usury, tax”), Latin augere (“to increase”). More at eke, wax.
Senses: glosses: To increase (in price); add to.
Derived terms: okerer
okering
oker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okers
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Obsolete form of ochre.
oker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: okers
Senses: examples: text: Comparatively speaking, the Greek peasantry are wealthy; — a circumstance which, in most cases, produces contentment in the matrimonial state. I say wealthy, because, even in the interior of the country, a peasant can always gain his drachma per day; out of which he will buy an oker of bread (two pounds and a half,) which will cost him twenty-four leptas; […]
ref: 1837, George Cochrane, Wanderings in Greece, volumes 1-2, page 296:
glosses: Alternative form of oka (“unit of measurement”).
anchorable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anchor + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being anchored.
glosses: That can be used as an anchorage.
Derived terms: unanchorable
immaturities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of immaturity
Florence flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Florence flasks
Etymology: Florence + flask, from a resemblance to wine bottles once used in the area around Florence in Italy
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass flask with a round body used in a laboratory for holding chemical liquids and solutions. Normally with a round bottom for uniform heating, but may have a flattened base to stand on a flat surface without support.
Synonyms: boiling flask
Related terms: Erlenmeyer flask
jordan
round-bottomed flask
volumetric flask
round-bottomed flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round-bottomed flasks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass flask used in a laboratory for holding chemical liquids and solutions, which has a spherical shape for uniform heating, and one or more long cylindrical necks.
Related terms: Florence flask
bivouacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bivouac
bivouacs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of bivouac
volumetric flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volumetric flasks
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A glass flask used in a laboratory for holding chemical liquids and solutions. They are similar in shape to a Florence flask, but with a longer neck and wider flat bottom. The neck is marked so that a particular volume of liquid can be measured with high precision.
Related terms: Florence flask
helmsmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helmsman
deres
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dere
dering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dere
dered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dere
Büchner flask
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Büchner flasks
Etymology: Named after the industrial chemist Ernst Büchner.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A type of glass flask used in a laboratory similar to an Erlenmeyer flask, but with a side spout used for connection to an aspirator.
Synonyms: Kitassato flask
Related terms: vacuum flask
Büchner funnel
I'se
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: 1907, McClure's Magazine, Page 416,
I jes' ‘mence tellin' ‘er all ‘bout ‘ow I'se comin' down de road, an' all ‘bout ole man where's […]
1966, “I'se the B'y”, by Dick Nolan
I'se the b'y that builds the boat
And I'se the b'y that sails her
I'se the b'y that catches the fish
And brings 'em home to Liza
glosses: Contraction of I is, meaning I am (or other senses of be).
examples: text: I'se sabed up quite a heap ; an' John mean to put it inter hosses an' a dray […]
ref: 1887, Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, The Living Age, page 108:
glosses: Contraction meaning I have.
Related terms: we'se
vrat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vrats
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vrata.
fishnets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fishnet
glosses: Pairs or a pair of stockings made of fishnet fabric.
studen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Russian сту́день (stúdenʹ).
Senses: examples: text: But perhaps the most popular Russian entrees are studen and jellied suckling pig, the latter served with horseradish and cream.
ref: 1953, Soviet Woman, number 4, page 62:
text: Mrs. Petrunin had short notice about her guest (her husband simply phoned from the office), but she is most gracious and produces a splendid supper consisting of studen, a kind of jellied meat; small tomatoes from the farm’s hothouse; vinigrette, a salad of canned crab (it looks and tastes like lobster and is from Baikal lake in Siberia), eggs and peas; sardelki, a large thick boiled sausage; mashed potatoes; bananas (imported, probably from Israel), apples, cookies, candy (Little Red Riding Hood brand) and tea.
ref: 1957, Joseph E. Evans, Through Soviet Windows, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, Inc., page 19:
text: Many holiday dishes were served, blintzes, studen, meat, and, of course, the vodka with which the dinner started.
ref: 1970, Sula Benet, transl., “Family Structure and Family Life”, in The Village of Viriatine: An Ethnographic Study of a Russian Village from before the Revolution to the Present, Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, Doubleday & Company, Inc., →LCCN, part I (Russian Village Life Before the Revolution), page 119:
text: Checking out the studen, its calves feet and pork snouts floating languidly in purple gelatin, I gulped and said, “I think I’ll pass. Like I told you before, I already had breakfast.”
ref: 2010, Glen Berkowitz, chapter 7, in Mayhem at the Hampton Classic: A Gabriel Fortuna Hamptons Adventure, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN:
text: Studen is served with horseradish, mustard, pounded garlic, and sour cream.
ref: 2022, Nina Myachikova, Mark Shamtsyan, “[Culinary traditions, food, and eating habits in Russia] Features of cooking of selected Russian dishes”, in Diana Bogueva, Tetiana Golikova, Mark Shamtsyan, Ida Jākobsone, Maris Jakobsons, editors, Nutritional and Health Aspects of Food in Eastern Europe (Elsevier Traditional and Ethnic Food Series), London: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 29:
glosses: Synonym of kholodets.
synonyms: word: kholodets
bijel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bijels
Senses: glosses: A bicontinuous form of emulsion stabilised by solid particles
'tweren't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Etymology: ’twere + -n't
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it were not.
'twasn't
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtwɒ.zn̩t/
Etymology: From ’twas + -n’t.
Senses: glosses: Contraction of it was not.
Bazza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbæzə/
Etymology: From Barry (or any personal name starting Ba-) + -zza.
Senses: examples: text: “Barry, you've been on the Coast too long. Tomorrow morning I'm going to organize a job for you elsewhere. I'd start packing if I were you.”
However, Bazza wasn't put off that easily.
ref: 2007, Jim Potts, Glitter, page 114:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Barry.
examples: text: ‘I′m standing at me own door, Bazza. Nothing illegal in that, is there?’
‘Do you want a lift, Basil?’ I asked him.
ref: 2001, Kerryn Higgs, All That False Instruction, page 181:
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Basil.
Related terms: Baz
écarté
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from French écarté (“discarded”).
Senses: glosses: A card game in which one can discard certain cards from one's hand and replace them with cards from the deck.
spettle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Salivation (salivatio) a continual having of much spettle in the mouth.
ref: 1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, or, A dictionary interpreting all such hard words of whatsoever language now used in our refined English tongue, 2nd edition, London: George Sawbridge:
glosses: Spittle.
Derived terms: spettly
reverso
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reversos
Senses: topics: media
printing
publishing
glosses: Any of the left-hand pages of a book.
Synonyms: verso
ophidians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ophidian
wellwiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: wellwillers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of well-willer.
wellwillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wellwiller
spit up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: spits up
form: spitting up
form: spat up
form: spat up
form: spit up
form: spit up
Senses: examples: text: The baby spat up her breakfast.
text: Don't show the dead bird to him; he'll just spit up.
text: Usually baby doesn't need to be burped if (1) he consistently takes his usual amount of formula, gradually increasing his capacity as the weeks go by and (2) if he hasn't spit up when put down unburped after most feedings.
ref: 1968, Robert Webster Watson, Why Not Have Your Second Baby First?, page 46:
glosses: To regurgitate or vomit.
raw_tags: of children
Related terms: word: spit-up
spit-up
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spit-ups
Senses: examples: text: Dana Lowey Luttway anointed her son Daniel Henri "the king of spit-up" but was inspired by his daily rejections to create her first invention: the ParentSmock, a cotton bib made for parents.
ref: 2000 March 20, Sharon Cotliar, “Mothers of Invention”, in Time:
glosses: Digestive fluids and other stomach contents which are regurgitated or vomited, especially by a child.
Related terms: word: spit up
put down roots
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts down roots
form: putting down roots
form: put down roots
form: put down roots
Senses: examples: text: It might be hard for her to leave London after all these years: she's put down roots there.
text: I haven't put down roots in this town yet, 'cause I've got trouble making friends here.
glosses: To establish oneself in a place; to become settled.
Related terms: hang one's hat
let the grass grow under one's feet
cuvettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuvette
circannual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Formed as Latin circā (“about”) + annual, after circadian.
Senses: examples: text: Light pollution can interfere with the circannual migration of birds.
text: […] because morbidity and mortality from cardiovascular disease also reveal statistically significant circadian and circannual rhythms.
ref: 1956, USAF School of Aerospace Medicine, Report [80-114], [1956], page 11:
text: Circannual rhythms control reproductive function in seasonal breeders.
ref: 2000, Martin Hume Johnson, Barry J. Everitt, Essential Reproduction, page 110:
text: Seasonal variations in locomotor activity are generated by a circannual clock […].
ref: 2001, Joseph S. Takahashi, Fred W. Turek, Robert Y. Moore, Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, page 523:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of biological processes: having or occurring in annual cycles or periods
Derived terms: circannually
genocides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of genocide
genocides
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of genocide
curs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cur
pullies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pully
examples: text: […] the whole would amount to 320000 pounds; half of which would be lightened by the help of one pulley, three quarters by two pullies, and so onward […]
ref: 1648, John Wilkins, Mathematical Magick:
glosses: plural of pulley
herradura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: herraduras
Etymology: From Spanish herradura (“horseshoe”).
Senses: glosses: A curved masonry wall characteristic of the Ancestral Puebloan road network.
dry out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: dries out
form: drying out
form: dried out
form: dried out
Senses: examples: text: Placing socks on the radiator will dry them out more quickly.
synonyms: dessicate
;
dehydrate
hypernyms: dry#Verb
coordinate_terms: dry up
glosses: To cause moisture to be completely removed from; to make dry.
examples: text: Your trousers need to dry out before you put them on.
synonyms: dessicate
;
dehydrate
hypernyms: dry#Verb
coordinate_terms: dry up
glosses: To have excess water evaporate or be otherwise removed; to become dry.
glosses: To (cause to) sober up; to cease to be drunk; to quit using drugs or alcohol.
topics: bowling
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To become less oily, affecting play, after being oiled up.
raw_tags: of a bowling lane
dries out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry out
drying out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dry out
dried out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dry out
dried out
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dried out
form: most dried out
Senses: glosses: Old; worn out; useless.
Related terms: dried up
dries up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dry up
drying up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of dry up
Paphian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪfɪən/
Etymology: From Latin Paphius (from Ancient Greek Πάφος (Páphos, “Paphos”)) + English -an.
Senses: examples: text: Cease admiration, sit to Cupid's feast, / The preparation to Paphian dalliance.
ref: 1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, act III scene 4:
text: I lay, as it were, in the Paphian bower of bliss, in a state of exquisite sensations quite impossible to describe.
ref: 1873, Anonymous (William Potter), The Romance of Lust; or, Early Experiences, volume I, William Lazenby:
text: People passed, but they held me not. Paphian eyes rayed upon me, and left me unscathed.
ref: 1906, O. Henry, Man About Town:
glosses: Pertaining to love or sexual desire, especially when illicit.
examples: text: Then thus incensed, the Paphian queen replies: / "Obey the power from whom thy glories rise: / Should Venus leave thee, every charm must fly, / Fade from thy cheek, and languish in thy eye. / Cease to provoke me, lest I make thee more / The world’s aversion, than their love before; / Now the bright prize for which mankind engage, / Than, the sad victim, of the public rage."
ref: 1715–1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book III”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC:
text: So ſaying, the might of Vulcan loos’d the ſnare, / And they, detain’d by thoſe coercive bands / No longer, from the couch upſtarting, flew, / Mars into Thrace, and to her Paphian home / The Queen of ſmiles, where deep in myrtle groves / Her incenſe-breathing altar ſtands embow’r’d.
ref: 1791, Homer, “[The Odyssey.] Book VIII.”, in W[illiam] Cowper, transl., The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Translated into Blank Verse, […], volume II, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], →OCLC, page 181, lines 441–446:
glosses: Of or relating to Paphos, the mythical birthplace of the goddess of love on the island of Cyprus.
Paphian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪfɪən/
Forms: form: Paphians
Etymology: From Latin Paphius (from Ancient Greek Πάφος (Páphos, “Paphos”)) + English -an.
Senses: examples: text: They reach'd the hotel: forth stream'd from the front door / A tide of well-clad waiters, and around / The mob stood, and as usual several score / Of those pedestrian Paphians who abound / In decent London when the daylight's o'er; / Commodious but immoral, they are found / Useful, like Malthus, in promoting marriage.
ref: 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Eleventh, XXX:
text: A smile I had learned to know elsewhere lurked at one corner of my paphian's mouth.
ref: 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter 9, in The Shadow of the Torturer:
glosses: A prostitute.
examples: text: Then there is the mastus. Apollodorus the Cyrenæan, as Pamphilus says, states that this is a name given to drinking-cups by the Paphians.
ref: 1854, Athenaeus of Naucratis, translated by Charles Duke Yonge, The Deipnosophists; or, Banquet of the Learned, volume II, page 777:
glosses: A resident of Paphos.
dried up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dry up
dried up
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dried up
form: most dried up
Senses: glosses: Dry; having run out of water or liquid.
examples: text: The door was opened by an odd, swarthy, dried-up person of uncertain age, with a dark pilot jacket and brown leather gaiters.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: Of a person, wrinkled from age.
Related terms: word: dried out
word: dried-up-ness
word: shriveled
parorexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + Ancient Greek ὄρεξις (órexis, “appetite”).
Senses: glosses: An abnormal craving to eat objects not normally considered food.
Paphians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Paphian
duka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dukas
Etymology: From Swahili duka, from Arabic دُكَّان (dukkān), from Aramaic דּוּכָּנָא (dukkānā, “dais”), from Akkadian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠takkannu, dakkannu, dukkannu⁠/, “dais, platform, bench; niche, bedroom, private chambers or quarters”), ultimately from Sumerian 𒆠𒍇 (/⁠daggan⁠/, “chamber, doorway or its frame, niche in a wall”).
Senses: examples: text: This series […] was the only interesting reading material you could find on the half-empty shelves of Nairobi dukas that called themselves bookshops but mostly sold school texts and dust-coated magazines.
ref: 2012, Aidan Hartley, “Life at One Remove”, in Literary Review, section 404:
glosses: A shop, store.
farctate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more farctate
form: most farctate
Etymology: Latin farctus + -ate (verb-forming suffix), perfect passive participle of farciō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: Stem stout and farctate.
ref: 1917, South African Journal of Science - Volume 13, page 100:
text: In species such as P. lejolisii, the young tetrasporangia are pigmented and the sporangium remains farctate throughout development, with the eventual septa appearing as thin lines in side view.
ref: 1984, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Botany, page 328:
text: a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp
text: Its surface is possessed of a mild satin glow, an encircling gestalt which seems independent of stock solar light. It is otherwise farctate.
ref: 2021, Donald Wesling, Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn, page 63:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Stuffed; filled solid.
examples: text: A statement farctate with meaning for those who throughout the years have made Brown Hall their home.
ref: 1967, Bric-a-brac, page 148:
text: It is farctate with the sort of statistics that paper-writers love quoting.
ref: 1971, Engineering - Volume 210, page 63:
text: Bailey's blurting, jilted phrases are a riot of rhythmic invention because they forever turn on the contradiction between public rhetoric and private conscience – as farctate with dynamics, unlikely contrasts and neologisms as a soliloquy in a Shakespeare play.
ref: 2013, Ben Watson, Derek Bailey: And the Story of Free Improvisation:
glosses: Full.
examples: text: In the hotel restaurant, we had a seventeen-course banquet that we washed down with vodka, cognac, and beer. We walked out farctate, belching, and flatulent.
ref: 2011, V Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 115:
text: Samuel guzzled some golden liquid from a hip-flask plucked from a pocket of his brocaded dark blue jacket (which clashed outrageously, as every item of his clothing always did, with every other, with his orange cravat, maroon shirt, “M' favourite wesskit,” – taut over his farctate belly – of mustard yellow with pink buttons, red britches held up by another cravat, this one green, for a belt, orange socks – “To match the first cravat, of course!– and silver-buckled shoes so shiny black as to be ugly).
ref: 2020, Alex Burcher, As Ants to the Gods:
text: Picnics are like parachutes: to avoid surprises, you should always pack your own. Bapped offcuts and a thermos of some hotel's dishwater soup are most unwelcome, and unless we are going to enjoy an afternoon's farctate snooze I prefer to travel light with a simple 'piece' in my pocket (buttered oatcake, cheddar, saucisson sec, Kendal Mint Cake): besides, normal lunchtimes often coincide with fish-taking times, so it can prove counterproductive to stop.
ref: 2021, David Profumo, The Lightning Thread:
glosses: Stuffed; full from overeating.
Related terms: farce
locavore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: locavores
form: localvore
Etymology: From loca(l) + -vore. Coined by Jen Maiser, Jessica Prentice, Sage Van Wing, and DeDe Sampson, co-founders of the “Locavores” web site in 2005.
Senses: examples: text: So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a community wood energy program where we would be using, you know, town forests to actually supply town energy needs so that people can actually see the costs and the impacts of where their energy is coming from.
ref: 2007 March 12, U.S. Government Printing Office, quoting James Daley, 2007 Farm Bill Opportunities for Vermont and the Northeast: Hearing before the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session, →ISBN, Statement of James Daley, Campaign Director, Northern Forest Alliance, Stowe, Vermont, page 33:
text: They are a locavore’s (someone who eats food produced within 100 miles of he lives) paradise.
ref: 2007, Brenda Berstler, Home Plate: The Culinary Road Trip of Cooperstown: A Guidebook for the Discerning Visitor, Savor New York, →ISBN, page 243:
text: Become a Locavore
Try to eat foods grown close to your home, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport as well as supporting your neighbors. […]
ref: 2007, Leslie Garrett, The Virtuous Consumer: Your Essential Shopping Guide for a Better, Kinder, Healthier World (and one our kids will thank us for!), New World Library, →ISBN, page 54:
text: Its mottled green skin conceals a creamy yellow pulp that tastes of banana and mango; locavore-minded chefs alchemize it into ice cream, beer, bread and tasting-menu fodder — that is, when it’s not simply eaten raw with a spoon.
ref: 2023 September 29, Molly Fitzpatrick, “He’s the Pawpaw King of Brooklyn. (What’s a Pawpaw?)”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
synonyms: localvore
antonyms: distavore
glosses: One who tries to eat only locally grown foods.
Derived terms: locavorism
locavorous
apparat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑːt
Forms: form: apparats
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.
Senses: examples: text: The second thing to absorb was that, behind all the spontaneity and eroticism and generalized “festival of the oppressed” merrymaking, a grim-faced Communist apparat was making preparations for an end to the revels and a serious seizure of the state.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 184:
glosses: The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.
Related terms: apparatchik
apparatus
preta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɹeɪtə/
Forms: form: pretas
Etymology: From Sanskrit प्रेत (preta).
Senses: glosses: A hungry ghost (a supernatural being in Buddhist folklore, the spirit of a greedy person whose divine retribution is never to be sated)
spare the rod, spoil the child
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of spare the rod and spoil the child.
Berlin Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈlɪn wɔːl/
note: commonly
ipa: /ˈbɜː-/
ipa: /bɝˈlɪn wɔl/
note: commonly
ipa: /ˈbɝ-/
Forms: form: the Berlin Wall
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A wall that parted the city of Berlin until 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic to keep East Germans from escaping to West Berlin.
Related terms: fall of the wall
Berlin Wall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bɜːˈlɪn wɔːl/
note: commonly
ipa: /ˈbɜː-/
ipa: /bɝˈlɪn wɔl/
note: commonly
ipa: /ˈbɝ-/
Forms: form: Berlin Walls
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Any barrier designed to keep people from crossing a border, e.g. the one proposed to keep people from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
topics: board-games
chess
games
glosses: The Berlin Defence
ferrata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹɑːtə/
Forms: form: ferratas
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of via ferrata.
blink of an eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blinks of an eye
Senses: examples: text: Just a blink of an eye later, he was gone.
text: Mother, remember the blink of an eye / When I breathed through your body?
ref: 2002, Iron & Wine, “Upward Over the Mountain”, in The Creek Drank the Cradle:
text: In the blink of an eye it just all slips away
ref: 2020, “Ready For More”, in Open up your head, performed by Sea Girls:
synonyms: word: bat of an eye
word: eyeblink
word: bat of an eye
word: bit
word: blink of an eye
word: crack
word: eyeblink
word: flash
word: glimpse
word: half a mo
word: instant
word: jiff
word: jiffy
word: jot
word: minute
word: mo
word: moment
word: New York minute
word: New York second
word: no time
word: sec
word: second
word: span
word: split-second
word: spurt
word: stound
word: tick
word: trice
word: twink
word: twinkle
word: twinkling
word: while
glosses: A moment (a very short period of time).
Derived terms: in the blink of an eye
mouillé
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French mouillé (“wet, moist”).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: Describing a palatal or palatalized consonant, particularly one historically derived from /l/ or /n/.
Derived terms: mouillation
coalition of the willing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coalitions of the willing
Etymology: Coined in the early 1970s by MIT professor Lincoln P. Bloomfield and colleagues.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: A group of countries whose leaders have been persuaded by another to take up a specific task, usually in the context of an invasion or war.
peace for our time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: peace in our time
Etymology: From a speech by British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain in 1938, in which he stated that "peace for our time" would be the result of the Munich Agreement of 1938, intending to allay growing concerns that Nazi Germany posed a risk of starting another major European war. Invoked sarcastically, due to the outbreak of World War 2 only one year later.
Senses: glosses: Used to imply that the appeasement of an aggressor will not prevent further aggression in the future.
glosses: Used to evoke the idea of false political promises and false expectations.
peace in our time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of peace for our time.
dhole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /doʊl/
ipa: /dəʊl/
note: doll–dole merger
ipa: /dɒl/
rhymes: -əʊl
homophone: dole
homophone: doll (doll–dole merger)
Forms: form: dholes
form: dhole
Etymology: Unknown, possibly from Kannada ತೋಳ (tōḷa, “wolf”).
Senses: examples: text: Mowgli's wanderings had taken him to the edge of the high grassy downs of the Dekkan, and he had seen the fearless dholes sleeping and playing and scratching themselves in the little hollows and tussocks that they use for lairs.
ref: 1895, Rudyard Kipling, Red Dog:
text: This whistling, a means of communication for a pack of dhole regrouping after an unsuccessful hunt, inspired the other common name of this species—the whistling dog.
ref: 2001, “Dhole”, in Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, page 451:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: An Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus.
Synonyms: sense: Cuon alpinus
word: Asian wild dog
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: Indian wild dog
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: whistling dog
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: red wolf
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: red dog
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: mountain wolf
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: kholsun
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: ajag
sense: Cuon alpinus
word: adjag
falk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: falks
form: falc
form: faik
Senses: glosses: The razorbill.
bise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪs/
Forms: form: bises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bice (blue pigment)
bise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /baɪs/
/biːz/
/baɪs/
Etymology: Borrowed from French bise.
Senses: glosses: A cold and dry north wind; in particular in France, Switzerland, etc.
Related terms: brise-bise
Bise
coronilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɔɹəˈnɪlə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: coronillas
Etymology: Fom New Latin coronilla.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Coronilla of plants related to the clover, having their flowers arranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.
glosses: The lyreleaf greeneyes
encephalon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɛnˈsɛfələn/
ipa: /ɛnˈsɛfəlɒn/
other: [ɛnˈsɛfəln̩]
other: [ɛnˈsɛfəlɔn]
note: in US
ipa: /ɪn-/
note: in US
ipa: /-ˈsɛfəlɑn/
note: in US
other: [ɪnˈsɛfəɫn̩]
note: in US
other: [ɪnˈsɛfəɫɑn]
Forms: form: encephalons
form: encephala
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἐγκέφαλος (enképhalos, “within the head”), from ἐν (en, “in”) + κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”).
Senses: examples: Meronyms: prosencephalon, telencephalon, diencephalon; mesencephalon; rhombencephalon, metencephalon, myelencephalon
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: The area of central nervous system that includes all higher nervous centers, enclosed within the skull and continuous with the spinal cord; synonym of brain.
Derived terms: encephalonize
metencephalon
myelencephalon
palaeoencephalon
paleoencephalon
parencephalon
rhombencephalon
thalamencephalon
Related terms: word: anencephaly
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: cephalo-
word: encephalic
word: encephalitis
english: and its derivatives
translation: and its derivatives
word: encephalo-
word: encephalomyelitis
word: encephalomyelopathy
word: encephalopathy
tie-ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tie-in
tie in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: ties in
form: tying in
form: tied in
form: tied in
Senses: examples: text: This paragraph does not tie in with the greater themes of the story.
text: "It works out perfectly for us," said Phoenix during an interview with CBC News that was at times interrupted by the sound of drills and saws. "It ties in nicely for our opening and it's just a good way to create a buzz with a new business."
ref: 2019 March 8, Andrew Lupton, “JUNOS value to London? Try $12 million to start”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 15 Sep 2021:
glosses: To fit in or harmonize (with something).
examples: text: I believe Argentina has a network of about 20 or 25 stations that they can tie in.
ref: 1938, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate Commerce, Construction and Operation of a Radio-Broadcasting Station (page 105)
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: For a local station to begin broadcasting an ongoing network transmission.
tie in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tie ins
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of tie-in.
Related terms: tie into
tie in with
tie ins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tie in
pachanga
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pachangas
Etymology: From Spanish pachanga.
Senses: glosses: A lively style of Cuban music and dance, a mixture of son montuno and merengue.
fasti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin fāstī.
Senses: glosses: The calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac. They were generally engraved on stone, e.g. marble
glosses: Records or registers of important events (outside the dominion of Ancient Rome)
Coordinate terms: nefasti
splendiferousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From splendiferous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being splendiferous.
NIAC
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of National Iranian American Council.
enhanced interrogation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhænst ɪnˌtɛɹəˌɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɪnˈhɑːnst ɪnˌtɛɹ.əˌɡeɪʃən/
ipa: /ɘnˈhaːnst ɘnˌteɹ.ɘˌɡæeʃɘn/
Forms: form: enhanced interrogations
Senses: examples: text: In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^((OMS).1-3(appendix F)) The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.
ref: 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA, volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:
text: If Cheney calls it enhanced interrogation, he argues, this still doesn’t change the meaning of the word torture, which Cheney and the public know perfectly well. But cognitive linguists like Lakoff (1996) remind us that the public can be manipulated into believing that torture is “merely” an enhanced interrogation technique and thus does not protest.
ref: 2014 January 24, Claire Kramsch, “Language and Culture”, in AILA Review, volume 27, number 5, John Benjamins, →DOI, →ISSN, page 35:
text: Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they've broken they become cooperative" (Summers 2011).
ref: 2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
topics: government
politics
glosses: The practice of using techniques normally considered torture that are claimed not to be torture according to a carefully parsed interpretation of legal language.
Derived terms: enhanced interrogation technique
inconnue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inconnues
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of inconnu (fish)
penger
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of peng: more peng
arp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arps
Etymology: Abbreviation of arpeggiator.
Senses: examples: text: "The arp can be applied to instruments by inserting it as a MIDI effect before your synth of choice."
ref: 2014 June 4, Bruce Aisher, “COMPLEX ARPS”, in Attack, archived from the original on 16 Sep 2018:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An arpeggiator.
arp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arps
Etymology: Abbreviation of arpeggio.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: An arpeggio.
arp
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: All through the prayer he made little arp! arp! noises like a baby seal.
ref: 2001, Ruth Bell Graham, Blessings for a mother's day:
text: "ARP, ARP, ARP." George turned and saw the seal waddling down their side of the river.
ref: 2002, Larry Mehelic, Searching for Blue-Eyed Trout:
text: Usually when I speak about arp [address resolution protocol], at least one person in the audience acts like a seal and shouts, "Arp, arp, arp!"
ref: 2003, Chris Wolf, Troubleshooting Microsoft technologies:
glosses: The bark of a seal.
screaming bloody murder
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scream bloody murder
convalidation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: convalidations
Senses: topics: Christianity
glosses: In Roman Catholic canon law, the making of a putative marriage valid following the removal of some impediment.
glosses: A ceremony in which a marriage, such as a civil marriage, is made recognized by the church.
spiker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spikers
Etymology: From spike + -er.
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
volleyball
glosses: One who spikes.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: An engineer employed to drive in the nails that fasten the rails.
topics: railways
transport
glosses: A mechanical device for driving in the nails.
esclavage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: esclavages
Etymology: From French esclavage, for its resemblance to a slave's neck-chains.
Senses: glosses: A type of chain or bead necklace.
Teslascope
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tesla + -scope.
Senses: glosses: A radio transceiver that was allegedly invented by Serbian scientist Nikola Tesla for communicating with extraterrestrial life.
pavillon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavillons
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of pavilion.
leint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: leints
form: leinting
form: leinted
form: leinted
Etymology: 18th century.
Senses: glosses: To urinate in an alcoholic beverage to increase its strength.
Related terms: lant
cadette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cadettes
Etymology: From cadet + -ette.
Senses: glosses: A female cadet.
glosses: A member of the Girl Scouts of the USA of a rank between junior and senior.
gombo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gombos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gumbo (“stew, okra”).
compas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A form of string music from Haiti
synchronizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synchronize
synchronises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synchronise
synchronising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of synchronise
stick in the mud
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɪk.ɪn.ðəˌmʌd/
Forms: form: sticks in the mud
form: stick in the muds
form: stick-in-the-mud
Senses: examples: text: Have a little fun sometimes and don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.
text: "I don't hold back like you do. Even Tedd's dad can tell you're a stick-in-the-mud. That's why he made you the supervisor of this party."
ref: 2005 November 9, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Wednesday, Nov 9, 2005:
glosses: A person unwilling to participate in activities; a curmudgeon or party pooper.
examples: text: There’s a parallel here: the idea of Barbie dolls being in any way noxious seems, in the current climate, to be as hopelessly stick-in-the-mud a stance as the concept of selling out.
ref: 2023 July 19, Caspar Salmon, “Has Barbie killed the indie director? Why credible film-makers are selling out”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
glosses: More generally, one who is slow, old-fashioned, or unprogressive; an old fogey.
Synonyms: sense: person unwilling to participate
word: killjoy
word: party pooper
word: spoilsport
Related terms: stuck in the mud
vermine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of vermin.
ramper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -æmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: rampers
Etymology: From ramp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One of a gang of ruffians who intimidated bookmakers at races, claiming to have placed bets when they had not.
Derived terms: ramper eel
bouffon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bouffons
Etymology: French bouffon
Senses: glosses: A style of performance focused on mockery, associated with French theater.
glosses: A clown or buffoon character.
god-fearing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more god-fearing
form: most god-fearing
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of God-fearing and of godfearing.
opp
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
enpr: äp
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: opp.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of opposite.
opp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒp/
enpr: äp
ipa: /ɑp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: opps
form: opp.
Senses: examples: text: Seeing the opps slumped in the front seats, I went for the duffel bag that was lying on the backseat.
ref: 2016, Bro. Lamont Charles McGee Bey, Free Da King Fate:
text: The opps killed my man Snipes two years ago today.
ref: 2017, Y Blak Moore, Heartless, page 31:
text: Better watch your back if you're my opp
Wipe the floor with them like you're my mop
ref: 2021, Jaykae, “Chop (Henry the 8th)”:
text: Damn, I see you still kick it with them opp bitches
I'm the only reason that your goofy ass got bitches
ref: 2022, Megan Thee Stallion, “Plan B”:
glosses: An opponent; an enemy; the opposition.
examples: text: When I saw her I fled on the spot man, me and her are opps.
glosses: Any person on unfriendly terms.
examples: text: The two regular job opps are in Geography and Battle Planning.
ref: 2011, Thomas Mondry, The Attack, page 29:
glosses: Abbreviation of opportunity.
Derived terms: oppy
fent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fents
Etymology: From Old French fente, from Latin findēre (“to cleave”).
Senses: glosses: A slit or crack.
glosses: A remnant; an odd piece left over.
fent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Clipping of fentanyl.
Senses: glosses: The drug fentanyl.
uppe
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of up.
ilu
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Pronunciation: /ɪluː/
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of I love you.