cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
oriental cockroach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oriental cockroaches
Etymology: From the taxonomic name.
Senses: glosses: A large, mostly flightless species of cockroach (Blatta orientalis), found in association with humans worldwide.
Synonyms: water bug
black beetle
oriental cockroaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oriental cockroach
wood gum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: xylan
finjans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of finjan
zircon light
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: zircon lights
Senses: glosses: A light produced by incandescent zirconia.
zircon lights
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zircon light
Zolaistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zolaistic
form: most Zolaistic
Etymology: From Zola + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zolaesque.
synonyms: word: Zolaesque
Zolaism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zolaisms
Etymology: From Zola + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The literary theories and practices of the French writer Émile Zola (1840–1902).
Related terms: Zolaesque
Zolaist
Zolaistic
Zolaize
Zolian
toe biter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toe biters
form: toe-biter
Etymology: Referring to the powerful bite containing proteolytic enzymes.
Senses: synonyms: electric light bug
giant water bug
glosses: A large aquatic true bug with pincer-like front legs, Lethocerus americanus
glosses: Any other insect in the family Belastomatidae
toe biters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toe biter
zoologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: zoologizes
form: zoologizing
form: zoologized
form: zoologized
form: zoologise
Etymology: From zoology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: There it erects tents capable of holding about one hundred and fifty people, and there the members and their friends gather for a fortnight to climb mountains, botanize, zoologize, or merely enjoy life.
ref: 1931, Marie Beuzeville Byles, By Cargo Boat & Mountain: The Unconventional Experiences of a Woman on Tramp Round the World, page 141:
text: She is later joined by CK, who delights in the opportunity to zoologize on the sea-shore.
ref: 1995, Charles Kingsley, Brian Alderson, The Water-babies, →ISBN, page xxxiv:
text: Broaden your horizons beyond the field that you were trained in so that you resist the ever-present temptation to over-engineer, over-botanize, or over-zoologize the wetlands that you create and restore.
ref: 2011, William J. Mitsch, James G. Gosselink, Wetlands, →ISBN:
glosses: To study zoology, especially by collecting animals to be studied.
examples: text: The only compensation he could get seems to have been to botanize and zoologize, as it were, on his visitors.
ref: 1866, John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard, The Eclectic Magazine - Volume 4, page 188:
text: Somehow, wherever Sue was, Ned always seemed in the same vicinity, discussing fiddler crabs or something equally slimy, and they seem likely to zoologize through life together.
ref: 1887, The Current - Issues 159-184, page 419:
glosses: To discuss zoology.
zoologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of zoologize
zoologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of zoologize
zoologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of zoologize
redif
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redifs
Etymology: From Turkish redif.
Senses: glosses: A reserve force in the Turkish army, or a soldier of the reserve.
redifs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redif
Zapas
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian запа́с (zapás, “stock, reserve”).
Senses: glosses: A Russian army organization.
Zöllner illusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zöllner illusions
form: Zoellner illusion
Etymology: Discovered by German astrophysicist Johann Karl Friedrich Zöllner.
Senses: glosses: An optical illusion in which parallel lines are made to appear convergent or divergent by means of oblique intersections.
Synonyms: Zöllner's lines
Zöllner's lines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zöllner illusion.
synonyms: word: Zöllner illusion
electric light bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric light bugs
Senses: glosses: A North American aquatic true bug, Lethocerus americanus, which attracts attention when attracted to lights due to its large size.
Synonyms: toe biter
Related terms: electric light
electric light bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electric light bug
Zunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zunian
form: most Zunian
Etymology: From Zuni + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zuni.
synonyms: word: Zuni
Zunian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zunians
Etymology: From Zuni + -an.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Zuni.
synonyms: word: Zuni
Zunians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zunian
squircular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more squircular
form: most squircular
Etymology: Blend of square + circular.
Senses: glosses: Of the shape of a squircle, intermediate between a square and a circle.
examples: text: At the NCI, the applicator shapes most often used are circular or "squircular." The squircle applicator has one square and one round end, and it is beveled so that the circular end is longer.
ref: 1985, Hospital Practice, volume 20, page 131:
glosses: Combining circular and square shapes.
Related terms: squircle
sqround
macana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macanas
Etymology: From Taíno *makana.
Senses: glosses: A wooden sword-like weapon of various native cultures of Central America and South America.
Related terms: macahuitl
zebrula
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzɛb.ɹuːl.ə/
ipa: /ˈziː.bɹuː.lə/
ipa: /ˈzi.bɹu.lə/
Forms: form: zebrulas
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of zebrule.
zebrulas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zebrula
Zolaist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zolaists
Etymology: From Zola + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who writes in the style of the French writer Émile Zola (1840–1902).
Related terms: Zolaesque
Zolaism
Zolaistic
Zolaize
Zolian
Zolaists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zolaist
Zolaize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪz
Forms: form: Zolaizes
form: Zolaizing
form: Zolaized
form: Zolaized
Etymology: From Zola + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To write in, or adapt to, the style of the French writer Émile Zola (1840–1902).
Related terms: Zolaesque
Zolaism
Zolaist
Zolaistic
Zolian
Zolaized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Zolaize
Zolaizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of Zolaize
Zolaizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Zolaize
warphan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: warphans
Etymology: Blend of war orphan.
Senses: examples: text: In addition, the following organizations act as the Association's agencies in caring for warphans.
ref: 1937, China Handbook, page 733:
text: 2½ cents per meal will support a warphan and also provide educational and vocational training.
ref: 1940, Federal Council Bulletin, volumes 23-25:
text: A WARPHAN COMES OF AGE
ref: 1944, China Magazine, volumes 12-13, page 26:
text: Adopt a warphan for a month!
ref: 2005, K. Scott Wong, Americans First: Chinese Americans and the Second World War, page 94:
glosses: An orphan whose parents died due to war, especially in 20th-century China.
warphans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warphan
observation car
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: observation cars
Senses: topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route, sometimes with glass sides or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.
observation cars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of observation car
office wire
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: office wires
Senses: glosses: copper wire with a strong but light insulation, used in wiring houses, etc.
offprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of offprint
offprinting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offprint
offtaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of offtake
baking board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baking boards
Senses: examples: text: The general we had then—it seemed as if she did all the cooking on the cookery-book instead of on the baking-board, there were traces of so many bygone meals upon its pages.
ref: 1904, Edith Nesbit, The New Treasure Seekers, Chapter 2:
glosses: A board on which the dough is kneaded before being baked into bread.
Related terms: baking
worktable
om mani padme hun
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of om mani padme hum.
baking boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of baking board
oncosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oncost
Ibsenism
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ibsen + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Thus reasoned Mrs. Failing, in the facile vein of Ibsenism. She imagined herself to be a cold-eyed Scandinavian heroine.
ref: 1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, XIII [Uniform ed., p. 143]
glosses: The dramatic practice or purpose characteristic of the writings of Henrik Ibsen, whose best-known plays deal with conventional hypocrisies, the story in each play thus developing a definite moral problem.
leaf-footed bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leaf-footed bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Coreidae, many of which have flat, leaf-shaped structures on their hind legs.
leaf-footed bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leaf-footed bug
travoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travoys
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of travois.
travoys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of travoy
travoise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: travoises
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of travois.
isosporous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From iso- + sporous.
Senses: examples: text: Ferns are isosporous.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
synonyms: isosporic
glosses: Producing only one kind of spore.
Related terms: isospore
isospory
isospore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isospores
Etymology: From iso- + spore.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.
isospores
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isospore
Classical English
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The English language as spoken in its classical form, typically referring to Old English; but also sometimes used in reference to Middle English or Early Modern English.
isodrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isodromes
Etymology: From iso- + -drome.
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
glosses: A method of moving a fleet from one formation to another, the direction usually being changed eight points, by means of paths of equal length for each ship.
isodromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of isodrome
India steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: wootz
squash bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squash bugs
Senses: glosses: An insect in any of several species of true bugs in the family Coreidae which feed on plants in the family Cucurbitaceae
glosses: An insect in any of several species of true bugs in the family Coreidae which feed on plants in the family Cucurbitaceae
Anasa tristis
glosses: Any insect in the family Coreidae, whether they feed on plants in the family Cucurbitaceae or not.
squash bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of squash bug
Idism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ido + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Among the adherents of Idism are groups in Berlin, New York, London, Birmingham, Graz, Chartres, Verdun, Reims, […]
ref: 1909, Frank Moore Colby, Allen Leon Churchill, The New International Year Book, page 365:
text: It is said that many of the early Catholic Esperantists, in particular, were frightened by this prospect—and it is, indeed, true that the Catholic element in early Idism is striking.
ref: 1969, Eco-logos, volumes 15-16, page 124:
glosses: Support for the Ido language.
Indo-Chinese
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Indo-Chinese
form: most Indo-Chinese
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Indochinese.
Yahwe
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Yahweh.
Y current
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Y currents
Senses: glosses: The electric current through one branch of the star arrangement of a three-phase circuit.
Yom Teruah
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Yom Trua
Etymology: From Hebrew יום תרועה \ יוֹם תְּרוּעָה (yom truá, “day [of] shouting / blasting”).
Senses: glosses: Rosh Hashanah (the first day of Tishrei / Tishri, the first month of the civil year and seventh month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar)
Synonyms: Day of Trumpets
Feast of Trumpets
Jewish New Year
Feast of Trumpets
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Feast of Trumpets
Senses: glosses: Rosh Hashanah
knotted wrack
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: knotted wracks
Senses: glosses: A species of brown algae, Ascophyllum nodosum; a common seaweed of the northern Atlantic Ocean.
Synonyms: rockweed
Norwegian kelp
knotted kelp
egg wrack
Yiddisher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yiddishers
Etymology: From Yiddish + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who speaks Yiddish.
glosses: A member of a street gang based in Whitechapel, London, England, who opposed the growing fascist movement in the 1930s.
Yiddishers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Yiddisher
missign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: missigns
form: missigning
form: missigned
form: missigned
Etymology: From mis- + sign.
Senses: glosses: To sign improperly or incorrectly.
missigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of missign
missigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of missign
missigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of missign
missigning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: missignings
Senses: examples: text: An apparently simple instance of assigning two letters to one gathering is that cited by Fredson Bowers in the course of his discussion of missignings and misprinted signatures and the various ways of accommodating them […]
ref: 1983, Bulletin, volumes 7-8, page 208:
glosses: An incorrect signing.
missignings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of missigning
misnumberings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misnumbering
Saussurian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Saussurian
form: most Saussurian
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Saussurean.
go big or go home
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes big or goes home
form: going big or going home
form: went big or went home
form: gone big or gone home
Senses: examples: text: She had the motivation, but I reminded her that this was a go big or go home situation.
glosses: One must either try to go all the way or not try at all; a high-risk, high-reward strategy.
Related terms: go for broke
double or quits
go all the way
go hard or go home
logographically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From logographic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a logographic manner.
year's purchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: years' purchase
Senses: glosses: The amount yielded by the annual income of property; used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in computing the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
yelting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yeltings
Etymology: Uncertain.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the mangrove snapper or gray snapper, Lutjanus griseus.
Yuman
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to a language family spoken by Native Americans in the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
yucca borer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yucca borers
Senses: glosses: Either of two Californian boring weevils (Rhinostomus frontalis and Scyphophorus yuccae).
glosses: A large moth-like butterfly (skipper), Megathymus yuccae of the family Hesperiidae, whose larva bores in yucca roots.
yucca borers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yucca borer
yawled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yawl
yawling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yawl
York Rite
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the York Rite
Etymology: Named after the city of York in England, where the first meetings of Masons in England are said to have taken place.
Senses: topics: Freemasonry
freemasonry
lifestyle
glosses: A rite of Freemasonry consisting of a series of progressive degrees that can be conferred by various Masonic organizations or bodies.
quadruplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quadruplanes
Etymology: From quadru- + plane.
Senses: glosses: An airplane with four superposed main supporting surfaces (four wings one above the other)
Related terms: biplane
monoplane
triplane
quadruplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quadruplane
quintroon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quintroons
form: quinteron
form: quinteroon
form: quintoon
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish quinterón (“offspring of a quadroon and a white person”).
Senses: glosses: The offspring of an octoroon (1/8 black) and a white person: 1/16 black.
examples: text: Some authors, who have treated on the West Indies, do not count so far; but the writer of this, has seen more than one family of Quintroons by Mustiphini mothers in a state of slavery; which of course, would not have been the case, had they been those persons called white by law.
ref: 1828, Marly, Or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica, page 183:
text: "A samboe," says he, "is the nearest remove from black, being the child of a mulatto father and a negro woman, or vice versa; a mulatto is the offspring of a white man by a negress; a quadroon is the offspring of a white man and a mulatto mother; the child of a quadroon by a white man is a mustee; the child of a white man by a mustee woman is a mustiphini; the child of a mustiphini by a white father is a quintroon; and the child of a quintroon by a white woman is free by law." Among all these names, hard to pronounce and harder to remember, the samboe or mongrel, as it is oftener called, the mulatto and the mustee, are the only distinctions between the black and white that really pass current, though more have been defined;
ref: 1833 Frederic William Naylor Bayley Four Years' Residence in the West Indies p. 493
glosses: The offspring of a mustiphini (1/16 black) and a white person: 1/32 black.
Coordinate terms: sense: person of mixed race
word: list in mulatto
Related terms: mestizo
metis
mongrel
negress
negro
quintroons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quintroon
quattrocentist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quattrocentists
form: quatrocentist
Etymology: From quattrocento + -ist.
Senses: topics: art
arts
glosses: An artist of the 1400s, the fifteenth-century Renaissance Italian period
Related terms: quattrocentism
quattrocentists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quattrocentist
quasi corporation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quasi corporations
Senses: glosses: An entity that exercises some of the functions of a corporation, but has not been granted separate legal personality by statute; especially, a public corporation with limited authority and powers, such as a county or school district.
quasi corporations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quasi corporation
quasimunicipal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From quasi- + municipal.
Senses: glosses: Having some, but not all, of the functions and powers of a municipal entity.
queen olive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queen olives
Etymology: Calque of Spanish aceituna de la reina.
Senses: glosses: A superior kind of olive grown in Spain. It is large and oblong, with a small but long pit and a delicate flavour, and is cured when green.
glosses: Any olive of similar character.
queen olives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queen olive
uitlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of uitlander
ouloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ouloid
form: most ouloid
Senses: examples: text: The ouloid cicatrix is met with in lupus […]
ref: 1870, Sir William James Erasmus Wilson, Lectures on ekzema and ekzematous affections, page 76:
glosses: Archaic form of uloid.
ekzematous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ekzematous
form: most ekzematous
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of eczematous.
ekzema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of eczema.
unassented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + assented.
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: nonassented
glosses: Not assented.
upsetting thermometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upsetting thermometers
Senses: glosses: A thermometer used by turning it upside-down. The column of mercury is broken and, as it remains until the instrument is reset, the reading may be made at leisure.
prædominant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more prædominant
form: most prædominant
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of predominant.
ultragaseous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ultra- + gaseous.
Senses: glosses: Having the properties exhibited by gases under very low pressures (one millionth of an atmosphere or less).
keddahs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of keddah
cheloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cheloids
Senses: glosses: Dated form of keloid.
cheloids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cheloid
cheloidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Dated form of keloidal.
kilerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kilergs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of kiloerg.
kilergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kilerg
kiloerg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kiloergs
form: kilerg
Etymology: From kilo- + erg.
Senses: glosses: A unit of work equal to one thousand ergs.
kiloergs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kiloerg
kinetograph
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinetographs
Etymology: From kineto- + -graph.
Senses: glosses: A camera for making chronophotographs.
glosses: A machine for projecting chronophotographs upon a screen for the purpose of producing the effect of an animated picture, sometimes with an accompanying soundtrack.
Related terms: kinetogram
kissing bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kissing bug
kola nuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of kola nut
lace bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lace bugs
Senses: synonyms: tingid
glosses: Any insect in the family Tingidae, named for the lace-like appearance of the wings and pronotum.
lace bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lace bug
koftgari
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: koftgaree
Etymology: From Hindi [Term?] (“gold-beating”), from Persian [Term?], from کوفتن (kuftan, “to beat”) + ـگر (-gar) + ـی (-i).
Senses: glosses: Ornamental work produced by inlaying steel with gold; a variety of damascening common in Indian art.
Related terms: koftgar
koftwork
false damascene
vacuometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vacuometers
Senses: glosses: An instrument for the comparison of barometers.
glosses: An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
Derived terms: manovacuometer
vacuometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vacuometer
vanadium bronze
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A yellow pigment consisting of a compound of vanadium.
vanity box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanity boxes
Senses: glosses: A small box, usually jewelled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.
Hypernyms: box
vanity boxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vanity box
variety shows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variety show
varisse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: varisses
Etymology: Compare varix and French varice.
Senses: glosses: An imperfection on the inside of the hind leg in horses, different from a curb, but at the same height, and often growing to an unsightly size.
varisses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of varisse
vase clock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vase clocks
Senses: glosses: A clock whose decorative case has the general form of a vase, especially one in which there is no ordinary dial, but in which part of a vase revolves while a single stationary indicator serves as a hand.
vase clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vase clock
varioles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of variole
vegetism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: vegetal, vegete, or vegetarian state or characteristic
vein quartz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vein quartzes
Senses: glosses: Quartz occurring as gangue in a vein.
veiled plate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: veiled plates
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A fogged plate; that is, a photographic plate that has been unintentionally exposed to radiation (such as light), resulting in undesired image degradation.
veiled plates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of veiled plate
tableclothy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tableclothy
form: most tableclothy
Etymology: From tablecloth + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Always an ambitious dresser, this morning she'd got herself up in her favourite grass-green poncho, which was a Paisley-printed wool tableclothy affair, edged with short, matted black fringes.
ref: 2004, Erica Munro, Guilty Feet, page 31:
text: Rabbit meal number two was in the guidebooks' favourite restaurant, a serious, tableclothy sort of place, obviously proud of its three forks.
ref: 2004, William Black, Al Dente: The Adventures of a Gastronome in Italy, page 253:
glosses: Resembling or typified by tablecloths.
vested school
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vested schools
Senses: glosses: A national school built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.
glosses: A school that is privately owned, or belonging to a religious organisation, which is recognized by and receives funding from the government.
vested schools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vested school
vignetter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vignetters
Etymology: From vignette + -er.
Senses: glosses: A device used by photographers for printing vignettes, consisting of a screen of paper or glass with a central aperture whose edges become opaque by gradual degrees.
glosses: A maker of vignettes.
vignetters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vignetter
viperoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more viperoid
form: most viperoid
Etymology: From viper + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or pertaining to the vipers.
Visayans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Visayan
volcanic neck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanic necks
Senses: glosses: A column of igneous rock formed by congelation of lava in the conduit of a volcano and later exposed by the removal of surrounding rocks.
volcanic wind
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volcanic winds
Senses: glosses: A wind associated with a volcanic eruption, caused by the eruption or its convection currents over hot lava.
volost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: volosts
form: volosti
Etymology: Borrowed from Russian во́лость (vólostʹ) and Ukrainian во́лость (vólostʹ), from Old East Slavic волость (volostĭ).
Senses: examples: text: Next to the village stands the volost, or union of several villages, and this also is governed on the republican plan by elders elected from among the peasants themselves. Then comes the district composed of a number of volosti; […]
ref: 1882 June 1, “The Czar’s Surrender. Melikoff [i.e., Mikhail Loris-Melikov]’s Remarkable Programme of Political Change for Russia.”, in The Sun, volume XLIX, number 274, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 1:
text: The office-holders and agencies which ran the new units – the elder, the clerk, the executive board, the assembly, the court – were elected by the peasants whom they served, but it is only with considerable reservation that volosti can be said to have increased the representative character of the imperial polity.
ref: 1992, David Saunders, “Local government”, in Russia in the Age of Reaction and Reform 1801–1881 (Longman History of Russia), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, chapter 9 (In the Wake of Emancipation), page 256:
text: “They will slaughter each other—Armenians against Azeris, Turks against Armenians, mountain peoples against Turks, Afghans against Tajiks, Tajiks against Uzbeks and so on,” said Mr. Zhirinovsky, whose party looks set to take about a fifth of the seats in Russia’s new parliament following Sunday’s elections. “And then they—or rather, those who are still alive—will come rushing to ask Russia to accept them as volosti (rural districts) or provinces,” he said.
ref: 1993 December 16, Reuter, “‘We must provoke wars’: [Vladimir] Zhirinovsky”, in The Hamilton Spectator, Hamilton, Ont., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A3, column 5:
text: In 1923 Soviet Ukraine’s 102 povity were replaced by 53 larger okruhy (sing. okruha), and its 1,989 volosti by 706 raions.
ref: 2007, John D. Pihach, “Locating the Ancestral Home” (chapter 7, pages 83–123), in Ukrainian Genealogy: A Beginner’s Guide (paperback), Edmonton · Toronto: Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, →ISBN, Administrative Divisions (pages 88–96), Soviet Ukraine (pages 95–96), page 95:
glosses: A traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.
volosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of volost
vargueno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vɑː(ɹ)ˈɡeɪnjəʊ/
Forms: form: varguenos
form: bargueño
form: vargueño
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish vargueño or bargueño, from Bargas, the name of the village where it originates.
Senses: glosses: A decorative cabinet of a kind originating near Toledo in Spain, having a rectangular body supported on legs or an ornamental framework, and a front that opens downwards on hinges to serve as a writing desk.
varguenos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vargueno
rhinophonia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rhino- + -phonia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: nasalized voice
jackerooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jackeroo
jackerooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of jackeroo
jumbie bead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jumbie beads
Etymology: Of jumbie + bead. The initial portion is apparently from Kongo zumbi (“fetish, spirit”) or Kimbundu nzumbi (“god”). Compare zombie.
Senses: examples: text: “Dat too much. You pick de jumbie bead by de wayside, and run piece o’ string through dem, an’ you chargin’ me four dallaz? You got to be crims-crams. You crims-crams?” I asked.
ref: 2007, Sislyn Peters, Undocumented Citizen, page 179:
text: In the Eastern Caribbean, Abrus seeds (Jumbie beads, John Crow beads in Jamaica) are made into necklaces and bracelets to serve as protection against Jumbies and malevolent forces.
ref: 2012, Robert Wyndham Nicholls, The Jumbies’ Playing Ground, page 12:
synonyms: jumble-bead
jumbie bean
rosary pea
glosses: A jequirity bean, the seed of the jequirity plant (Abrus precatorius) used in beadwork or making percussion instruments.
ambush bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ambush bugs
Etymology: After their habit of lying in wait, camouflaged, for their prey.
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the subfamily Phymatinae of the family Reduviidae.
ambush bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ambush bug
Rasputinian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Rasputinian
form: most Rasputinian
Etymology: From Rasputin + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Rasputin (1869–1916), Russian mystic perceived as having influenced the latter days of the Russian Nicholas II and family.
jump spark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɑː(ɹ)k
Forms: form: jump sparks
Senses: glosses: A spark produced by the jumping of electricity across a permanent gap.
junction box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: junction boxes
Senses: topics: business
electrical
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A box through which the main conductors of a system of electric distribution pass, and where connection is made with branch circuits or to extend circuits.
Related terms: wire nut
thread-legged bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thread-legged bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the subfamily Emesinae of the family Reduviidae, which are predatory true bugs with long, thin, threadlike legs.
thread-legged bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thread-legged bug
echopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: echopathies
Etymology: From echo- + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.
echopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of echopathy
electropoion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From electro- + Ancient Greek -ποιός (-poiós, “producing”).
Senses: glosses: An exciting and depolarizing acid solution used in certain cells or batteries.
ensiled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ensile
ensiling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ensile
ergal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergals
Etymology: Coined by Rudolf Clausius in 1870 (On a Mechanical Theorem Applicable to Heat), derived from Ancient Greek ἔργον (érgon).
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: potential energy; negative value of the force function
ergals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergal
ergmeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ergmeters
Etymology: From erg + -meter.
Senses: glosses: An instrument for measuring energy in ergs.
ergmeters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ergmeter
wheel bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wheel bug
established suit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: established suits
Senses: topics: bridge
games
glosses: A plain suit in which a player (or side) could, except for trumping, take tricks with all of his or her remaining cards.
established suits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of established suit
etamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of etamine
eugenesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈjuˌd͡ʒɛn.ə.sɪs/
Etymology: From eu- + genesis.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specifically between hybrids of the first generation.
bee assassin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bee assassins
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the genus Apiomerus, known for frequenting flowers to feed on the insects there.
eutexia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The principle or process of forming from given components the eutectic alloy, or alloy of maximum fusibility.
bee assassins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bee assassin
Evergreen State
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Evergreen State
Etymology: From its abundance of evergreen trees.
Senses: glosses: Official nickname for Washington: a state of the United States.
Exmoors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Exmoor
feather-legged bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: feather-legged bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the subfamily Holoptilinae of the family Reduviidae, many of which have legs covered with feathery hairs.
feather-legged bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feather-legged bug
conenose bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: conenose bugs
Senses: glosses: A kissing bug
conenose bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of conenose bug
brown marmorated stink bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brown marmorated stink bugs
Senses: glosses: An insect native to east Asia, Halyomorpha halys, which was accidentally introduced to the eastern United States and has become an invasive and serious agricultural and nuisance pest there.
Synonyms: BMSB
brown marmorated stink bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brown marmorated stink bug
Haikwan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Chinese maritime customs
Derived terms: Haikwan tael
Haikwan taels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Haikwan tael
Haikwan tael
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Haikwan taels
Senses: glosses: A Chinese weight (one tenth of a catty) equivalent to 1⅓ oz. or 37.801 grams.
hamfatters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hamfatter
red books
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of red book
pirate bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pirate bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Anthocoridae, known as effective predators of other insects, and used in biological control.
Synonyms: minute pirate bug
flower bug
pirate bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pirate bug
flower bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flower bugs
Senses: glosses: A pirate bug
hard steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hard steels
Senses: glosses: Steel hardened by the addition of other elements, such as manganese, phosphorus, or (usually) carbon.
flower bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flower bug
haulabout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haulabouts
Etymology: From haul + about.
Senses: glosses: A barge-like vessel with steel hull, large hatchways, and coal transporters, for coaling war vessels from its own hold or from other colliers.
haulabouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haulabout
minute pirate bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minute pirate bugs
Senses: glosses: A pirate bug
Hawkeyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hawkeye
minute pirate bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minute pirate bug
hecklings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heckling
glitchiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From glitchy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: quality of being prone to glitches
glitchily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more glitchily
form: most glitchily
Etymology: From glitchy + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a glitchy manner.
high steel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: high steels
Senses: glosses: Steel containing a high percentage of carbon.
damsel bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: damsel bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Nabidae
damsel bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of damsel bug
hoboism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hobo + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Hoboism cannot be cured or prevented by makeshifts or by local measures and efforts, although community interest naturally is vital in dealing with a problem that comes home to every community.
ref: 1923, Benjamin C. Marsh, “For the Community to Do”, in The World tomorrow, volume 6:
text: The reasons why Kerouac himself gave up his hoboism seem wide-ranging: a commitment to care for his mother once his work became commercially successful; the increasing difficulties of such journeys; […]
ref: 2012, Sharin N. Elkholy, The Philosophy of the Beats, page 43:
glosses: The lifestyle or practices of hobos; vagrancy.
Allism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allism
Etymology: From all + -ism, coined by David Lewis in his 1989 paper "Noneism or Allism?".
Senses: examples: text: Allism is the position of those who think that all these entities actually exist, and moreover, everything we can speak meaningfully about in some sense exists.
ref: 2011, Angelica Nuzzo, Hegel and the Analytic Tradition, →ISBN:
text: Allism is noneism with a twist. Fore whereas the noneist holds that some objects have no kind of being at all, the allist holds that every object has being.
ref: 2012 June 1, Richard Woodward, “Towards Being”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:
text: But the rewritten noneist theory just is Allism [the view that everything over which the noneist quantifies exists] and our new quantifiers are defined in exactly the same way as Quine's!
ref: 2012 July 25, Graham Priest, “Lost in Translation: a Reply to Woodward”, in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: A belief in the existence of all possible entities including past and future things or unactualised possibilities.
Allism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allism
Etymology: From all + -ism, coined by Peter van Inwagen in 2009.
Senses: examples: text: Let us call it Allism – since it is essentially the thesis that natural selection does it all.
ref: 2009, Louis Caruana, Darwin and Catholicism, →ISBN, page 12:
text: Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists.
ref: 2009, Melville Y. Stewart, Science and Religion in Dialogue, →ISBN, page 823:
text: 2013, A. Rosenberg, Theism and Allism in The Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen Ed. John Christopher Adorno Keller
topics: creationism
lifestyle
religion
glosses: The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.
noneism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From none + -ism, coined by Richard Routley.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: The theory that some things do not exist, and it is possible to quantify over non-existent things using the particular or existential quantifier.
wikipedia: Richard Routley
Related terms: Allism
noneist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noneists
Etymology: From none + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A proponent of noneism.
noneists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noneist
relevance logic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: relevance logics
Senses: glosses: A kind of non-classical logic requiring the antecedent and consequent of implications to be relevantly related, and aiming to capture aspects of implication that are ignored by the "material implication" operator in classical truth-functional logic.
beef on the hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: live cattle
steak on the hoof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Live cattle.
riffle bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riffle bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Veliidae of aquatic true bugs related to the water striders.
Synonyms: sense: insect in Veliidae
word: smaller water strider
sense: insect in Veliidae
word: broad-shouldered water strider
hopperdozer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hopperdozers
Etymology: From hopper, as in grasshopper, doze or dose (because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with poison), + -er.
Senses: glosses: An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow box containing kerosene or coated with a sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.
Related terms: aphidozer
hopperette
riffle bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of riffle bug
hopperdozers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hopperdozer
Hotchkiss gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Hotchkiss guns
Etymology: After Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, American inventor.
Senses: glosses: A built-up, rifled, rapid-fire gun of oil-tempered steel, having a rectangular breechblock which moves horizontally or vertically in a mortise cut completely through the jacket.
Hotchkiss guns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Hotchkiss gun
allism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Allism.
allism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From allo- + -ism, coined by Andrew Main (Zefram) in 2003, in contradistinction to autism, where 'auto-' refers to a self-integrated neurology and 'allo-' refers to an other-integrated neurology.
Senses: glosses: A neurological condition characterised by the lack of autistic symptoms.
Derived terms: allist
allistic
Related terms: catch-allism
know-it-allism
velvet water bug
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: velvet water bugs
Senses: glosses: Any insect in the family Hebridae, which lives in vegetation in and around water
velvet water bugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of velvet water bug
hyetological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyetology + -ical.
Senses: glosses: Relating to hyetology.