cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
second language
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: second languages
Senses: examples: text: My second languages are Italian and German.
text: Vocabulary is a vital component of educational success in both first and second language contexts.
ref: 2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Advancing disciplinary literacy through English for academic purposes: Discipline-specific wordlists, collocations and word families for eight secondary subjects”, in Journal of English for Academic Purposes, volume 35, →DOI, page 105:
text: Malay is the lingua franca of several Southeast Asia countries and has been simplified by its use as a second language by non-native speakers.
For example, the Malay plural is formed by repeating a word twice – buku means book and buku-buku means books.
ref: 2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN:
glosses: A language that is spoken by someone but is not their mother tongue.
Derived terms: second-language acquisition
Related terms: first language
foreign language
second languages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of second language
nonrounded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + rounded.
Senses: glosses: Not rounded.
tzuica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tsuica.
sealability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seal + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The property of being sealable.
Related terms: resealability
disunionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: disunionists
Etymology: From disunion + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of disunionism.
disunionists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disunionist
kings of the hill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of king of the hill
apposer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: apposers
Etymology: From appose + -er.
Senses: glosses: An asker; someone who poses questions.
glosses: In the English Exchequer of Pleas, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.
good-time girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good-time girls
form: goodtime girl
form: good time girl
Senses: examples: text: "I'm a good-time girl. Clothes, music, lights, dancing and liquor-what else is there when a girl is young?"
ref: 1936 May 25, “Miscellany: Bouncer”, in Time:
text: Virginia is a wild, promiscuous, good-time girl, but she's self-sufficient.
ref: 1991 December 8, Maureen Dowd, “Bugsy in Love, on Stage and Off”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Jun 2011:
text: The incident is the latest in the singer's path from virginal role model to raunchy good-time girl.
ref: 2004 January 5, David Teather, “Pop star thinks again after Las Vegas wedding”, in Guardian, UK, retrieved 03 Jun 2011:
synonyms: party girl
hypernyms: good-timer
coordinate_terms: good-time Charlie
glosses: A young woman who engages regularly in partying and romantic or sexual liaisons.
examples: text: Just recently I found a story about a woman who was murdered in Niniltna back in 1915, a woman they called 'the Angel', one of the good-time girls who came up with the stampeders to mine the gold miners in the Yukon, and who came down to mine the copper miners along the Kanuyaq afterword.
ref: 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 104:
text: We hadn't been out of the bar very long when a small, young Korean boy came up to us and wanted to know if we wanted good-time girls.
ref: 2006, James R. Clark, American Soldier at 13 Yrs Old WWII, →ISBN, page 190:
text: In The Loved One (1965) Lyn is lost amongst the myriad of starlets playing funeral parlor hostesses, cosmetologists, and scantily clad good-time girls.
ref: 2013, Tom Lisanti, Glamour Girls of Sixties Hollywood: Seventy-Five Profiles, →ISBN, page 76:
synonyms: party girl
coordinate_terms: john#Noun
glosses: A female prostitute.
goodtime girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: goodtime girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time girl.
good time girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: good time girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of good-time girl.
rust off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rusts off
form: rusting off
form: rusted off
form: rusted off
Senses: glosses: to come apart, from the process of rusting.
unstaple
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstaples
form: unstapling
form: unstapled
form: unstapled
Etymology: From un- + staple.
Senses: glosses: to remove staples from.
ethnomusicological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From ethno- + musicological.
Senses: glosses: Relating to or pertaining to ethnomusicology.
desertic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more desertic
form: most desertic
Etymology: From desert + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a desert or deserts.
Derived terms: hyperdesertic
semidesertic
Hepburn
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old English hēa, definite form of hēah (“high”) + byrġen (“tumulus”).
The romanization system is named after its inventor, James Curtis Hepburn.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: A system of romanization of Japanese, short for "Hepburn romanization".
glosses: A place name:
A hamlet in Chillingham parish, northern Northumberland, England (OS grid ref NU0624).
glosses: A place name:
A town north of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A place name:
A local government area in central Victoria, Australia; in full, the Shire of Hepburn.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Center Township, Posey County, Indiana.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Page County, Iowa.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Dudley Township, Hardin County, Ohio.
glosses: A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Hepburnesque
Hepburnian
underturn
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underturns
form: underturning
form: underturned
form: underturned
Etymology: From Middle English underturnen, equivalent to under- + turn.
Senses: glosses: To turn upside down; subvert; upset.
underween
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: underweens
form: underweening
form: underweened
form: underweened
Etymology: From under- + ween.
Senses: examples: text: ...in this Commandment is forbidden too high a conceit or esteem of ourselves, and so also is too mean a conceit, in underweening the good things that be in ourselves,
ref: 1837, Edward Fisher, Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity: In Two Parts, page 290:
text: You'd better underween.
ref: 1977, Cornell University, Epoch: Volumes 27-28:
text: Really? I thought Dubya was underweened.
ref: 2006 April 25, Sanity, “A prayer for freedom from religion”, in alt.gathering.rainbow (Usenet):
text: Harrison has little to offer, but comparatively underweens.
ref: 2012 January 12, tony cooper, “"Apothegmbusters4" - Nod = Wink to Blind Man”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):
glosses: To undervalue.
Derived terms: underweening
underweening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From underween + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,
ref: 1637, A Short Treatise Contayning all the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion, page 211:
text: But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it.
ref: 1909, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio medici and other writings:
glosses: Undervaluation.
underweening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underweening
form: most underweening
Etymology: From underween + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: It is quite possible Challis may think you have an overweening estimate of foreigners and that a particular foreigner may think that your estimate of him is underweening as compared with his own.
ref: 1995, James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, Maxwell on heat and statistical mechanics:
text: But when this same, very likable but nebbishy comedian pretends to be that supremely ambitious youth, Phaethon, the tragic ride in the chariot of the Sun-God is reduced from overweening to underweening.
ref: 1971, New York: Volume 4
text: Is it possible to be underweening? Too unassuming in one's opinions?
ref: 2008, Chet Raymo, When God is gone everything is holy:
text: In fact, if anything, it is an underweening bureaucracy.
ref: 2010, Rena Steinzor, Sidney Shapiro, The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public, →ISBN:
text: This newspaper must not become a platform for the overweening to smother the opinions of the underweening.
ref: 2011, Ellen B. Holzman, Edmund X. DeJesus, Lunch Reads Volume 3: Two Mystery Short Stories, →ISBN:
text: 'That underweening manner', Shrapnel commented, conveyed 'the reverse of modesty'.
ref: 2013, John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography, →ISBN, page 502:
glosses: Extremely modest.
underweening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From underween + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of underween
Related terms: underween
hand plant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hand plants
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of handplant.
handplant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: handplants
Etymology: From hand + plant.
Senses: topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
sports
glosses: A one-handed handstand performed (most often by a skater) after skating up to the top of a halfpipe.
glosses: A handflower (Chiranthodendron pentadactylon).
handplant
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: handplants
form: handplanting
form: handplanted
form: handplanted
Etymology: From hand + plant.
Senses: topics: agriculture
business
horticulture
lifestyle
glosses: To plant a seed with one's hands, as opposed to a machine or tool.
clear-outs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clear-out
hang back
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs back
form: hanging back
form: hung back
form: hung back
Senses: examples: text: From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
ref: 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 36, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 182:
text: Ayala’s mix-up with Dean Whitehead left Cameron Jerome advancing from the flank, probably expecting at least one opponent would come across to block off the shot. It never happened. The next defender, Ben Gibson, hung back, mistakenly thinking Jerome would look for a team-mate, and the goalkeeper, Dimitrios Konstantopoulos, also seemed to be caught in two minds.
ref: 2015 May 25, Daniel Taylor, “Norwich reach Premier League after early blitz sees off Middlesbrough”, in The Guardian (London):
glosses: To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.
Hypernyms: tarry
hanging basket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hanging baskets
Senses: glosses: A container filled with decorative plants, suspended on a structure.
hang over
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs over
form: hanging over
form: hung over
form: hung over
Senses: examples: text: A shadow of doubt hung over my academic future.
text: Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.
ref: 1941 August, C. Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 358:
text: There was, though, on that April day, a cloud hanging over what should have been an entirely optimistic story. London was deep in the first lockdown and the stations were all but empty.
ref: 2021 January 13, Christian Wolmar, “Read all about London's Cathedrals of Steam”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 63:
glosses: To be threatening, to be imminent.
examples: text: Peter, Lord Hendy of Richmond Hill, of Imber, dressed all in black as usual, sits at the head of the table. A crumpled and well-used orange vest hangs over the back of his chair.
ref: 2025 February 19, Paul Clifton, “I am absolutely committed to reforming the railway”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 39:
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hang, over.
hang together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hangs together
form: hanging together
form: hung together
form: hung together
Senses: glosses: To be connected.
glosses: To correspond or fit well.
glosses: To be in a romantic relationship.
raw_tags: of two people
glosses: To be united in defiance.
raw_tags: of people
examples: text: […]we are all of a piece; we hang together.
ref: 1681, John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: Or, the Double Discovery. […], London: […] Richard Tonson and Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act IV, page 45:
glosses: To remain united; to stand by one another.
examples: text: The story does not hang together.
qualifier: plan or scheme
glosses: To be self-consistent and make sense; to seem plausible.
raw_tags: of a story
Synonyms: sense: be in a romantic relationship
word: step out
word: date
stick together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sticks together
form: sticking together
form: stuck together
form: stuck together
Senses: examples: text: It can be tricky to get the edges stuck together neatly. Alternatively, you can pinch them upward like a ruffled pie crust edge. When all the edges are stuck together, poke the straw into the little hole in the top where the points meet, and blow so the box inflates.
ref: 2002, Georgia Sargeant, Celie Fago, Livia McRee, Polymer Clay, →ISBN, page 33:
glosses: To physically combine or join together by adhesion.
examples: text: Her’s Parſon Ball an honeſt Prieſt, and telles vs that in charitie,
VVe may ſticke together in ſuch quarrels honeſtly.
ref: 1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], Act I:
text: The lines had realised that they had better stop fighting each other, and stick together in the face of the onslaught from the motor buses that were making horse buses obsolete.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 158:
text: They need to stick together so they don’t get eaten, but different animals might want to head in different directions at any one time.
ref: 2015 June 18, Ed Yong, “Baboon-Trackers Herald New Age of Animal Behaviour Research”, in National Geographic:
text: You and I till the end, don't need to pretend / Again and again, we'll stick together / Everything is alright, with you by my side / We won't say goodbye, we'll stick together
ref: 2016, “Stick Together”, in Forgetting This, performed by Elijah N:
glosses: To remain united, to stay together in association or alliance.
Synonyms: sense: combine by adhesion
word: cleave
word: cling
word: adhere
sense: unite
word: fuse
word: join
word: merge
word: wed
word: coalesce
hangtag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hangtags
Etymology: From hang + tag.
Senses: glosses: A small information tag attached to clothing.
haphtarah
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: haphtarahs
form: haphtarot
form: haphtaroth
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Haftarah.
harbor master
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: harbor masters
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of harbormaster.
head girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head girls
Senses: glosses: A girl chosen to lead a school's sixth form, whose duties may include representing the school and organising the prefects.
Related terms: head boy
headshaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headshakings
Etymology: From head + shaking.
Senses: glosses: the act of shaking one's head, in disagreement or disapproval
glosses: disagreement or disapproval
head teacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head teachers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of headteacher.
VVD
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch VVD (“Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie”).
Senses: examples: text: While it is highly unlikely that the Freedom Party will have any role in the coalition, due to the animosity between one-time VVD party colleagues Rutte and Wilders, Krouwel predicted that Wilders’ policies “will be dominant” as they dominated the election campaign.
ref: 2017 March 21, Elizabeth Roberts, “Dutch election: Rutte’s victory is official”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: People's Party for Freedom and Democracy
PVV
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Dutch PVV (“Partij Voor de Vrijheid”).
Senses: examples: text: Polls suggest that, were elections to be held today, the PVV would lose seats but remain the largest party, just ahead of the center-right People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy.
ref: 2025 June 3, Mick Krever, “Dutch government collapses as Wilders’ far-right party leaves coalition”, in CNN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Party for Freedom
head trip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: head trips
form: head-trip
Senses: examples: text: Not that Martin is a sun-bleached hippie philosopher, but his book is a head-trip as well as a hugely entertaining travel adventure along the eccentric orbits of cosmological research.
ref: 2009 July 10, Martin Fletcher, "Beware Invisible Cows, By Andy Martin" (book review), The Independent (UK) (retrieved 23 Aug 2014)
glosses: An experience or set of experiences which is intellectually challenging or stimulating.
examples: text: Part picture book, part head trip. "Magic Eye" presents 22 color images called "single-image random-dot stereograms." When looked at in a certain way, they spring mind-bending surprises on the viewer.
ref: 1994 March 6, William Grimes, “Thing: Sleight Of Eye”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2014:
text: An essay on man's destiny, the film was for some of its late-60s viewers a light show, a head trip, needing no earthbound explanations.
ref: 2007, Richard Corliss, “DVD and Conquer: 2001: A Space Odyssey”, in Time, retrieved 23 Aug 2014:
glosses: A disorienting, exciting experience, especially one consisting mainly of striking sensory impressions.
examples: text: "I think the pressure of being center stage has a lot to do with it. . . . He's got the talent. He's just got to shake off this head trip."
ref: 2000 June 17, James C. McKinley, “Baseball: Amateurs Say Easy Throws Can Be the Hardest”, in New York Times, retrieved 23 Aug 2014:
glosses: A state of mind in which one is distracted, disturbed, or unnerved, whether self-induced or resulting from ill-treatment by others.
glosses: An ego trip.
Synonyms: sense: disorienting, exciting experience
word: mindbender
sense: disorienting, exciting experience
word: mindblower
sense: distracted or unnerved state of mind
word: self-doubt
LPF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LPFs
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
signal-processing
glosses: Initialism of low-pass filter.
disunionism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From disunion + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The political position that the Union (the federal government of the United States) should be dissolved.
Related terms: disunion
disunionist
disuniform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From dis- + uniform.
Senses: examples: a disuniform surface
glosses: Not uniform.
Derived terms: disuniformly
disuniformly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From disuniform + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a disuniform manner.
nanoplanktons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoplankton
nannoplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nannoplanktons
form: nannoplankton
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanoplankton.
nannoplanktons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nannoplankton
nannofossils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nannofossil
unmodelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unmodeled.
nannycam
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nannycams
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nanny cam.
nannycams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nannycam
cardgame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cardgames
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of card game.
cardgames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cardgame
Leidenfrost effect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Leidenfrost effects
Etymology: After Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost.
Senses: glosses: The phenomenon whereby a liquid, in near contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces an insulating vapour layer which keeps the liquid from boiling rapidly.
wikipedia: Johann Gottlob Leidenfrost
earwear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ear + -wear.
Senses: examples: text: 1983, Intermed Communications, Inc, Aiding ambulatory patients
After you locate these areas, stress to your patient the importance of wearing protective equipment. Make sure he knows how to apply the earwear correctly.
text: We all had on tuxedos and the women were in their dresses and serious patrician shoes and splendid earwear.
ref: 1989, Barry Hannah, Boomerang, page 148:
glosses: Clothing or accessories worn on the ears.
gamecard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gamecards
Etymology: From game + card.
Senses: glosses: A card used as part of a game, such as a bingo or keno card or a scratch card.
gamecards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gamecard
bar billiards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A game resembling billiards, sometimes found in public houses, with pegs and holes in the surface of the table instead of side and corner pockets.
Synonyms: word: bumper pool
carcinosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: carcinoses
Etymology: From carcino- + -osis.
Senses: glosses: carcinomatosis
carcinoses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: carcino- + -oses
Senses: glosses: plural of carcinosis
fluometuron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A particular phenylurea herbicide.
noncarcinomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + carcinomatous.
Senses: glosses: Not carcinomatous.
carcinosarcomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcinosarcoma
carcinosarcomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carcinosarcoma
cuculid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cuculids
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any of the family Cuculidae of near-passerine birds, the cuckoos.
cuculids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cuculid
nonliver
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + liver.
Senses: examples: nonliver disease
glosses: Not of or pertaining to the liver.
nonvivid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + vivid.
Senses: glosses: Not vivid.
nonechoing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + echoing.
Senses: glosses: Not echoing.
ethylbenzoylecgonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The compound cocaethylene.
ethylbenzenes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethylbenzene
ethylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethylation
methylecgonidine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From methyl + ecgonidine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A chemical intermediate derived from ecgonine or cocaine; a pyrolysis product formed when crack cocaine is smoked.
Synonyms: anhydromethylecgonine
methylenations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of methylenation
cocaethylene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From coca + ethylene.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The ethyl ester of benzoylecgonine, structurally similar to cocaine, formed in vivo when cocaine and ethyl alcohol have been ingested simultaneously.
Synonyms: ethylbenzoylecgonine
pay table
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pay tables
Etymology: From pay + table.
Senses: topics: gambling
games
glosses: A table of values determining the payouts for various outcomes at the game.
paytables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paytable
subthread
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subthreads
Etymology: From sub- + thread.
Senses: examples: text: The program spawns a new subthread for each request made by the user.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A thread of execution that is subordinate to another thread.
glosses: A thread of messages on a forum etc. that is hierarchically beneath another thread or message.
Related terms: submessage
subthreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subthread
cytofluorograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cytofluorogram
cytodiagnostic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cyto- + diagnostic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to cytodiagnosis or cytodiagnostics.
Ubaid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: archaeology
history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A prehistoric period of Mesopotamia, circa 6500 to 3800 BCE.
unadvanced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English un-avanced, unavanced; equivalent to un- + advanced.
Senses: examples: text: At this time £25000 of the money required by Sadleir remained unadvanced by the bank.
ref: 1864, The Bankers' magazine: Volume 24, page 250:
glosses: Not advanced.
unadulteratedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unadulteratedly
form: most unadulteratedly
Etymology: From unadulterated + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Without adulteration.
Synonyms: undilutedly
acetyldigitoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: acetyldigitoxins
Etymology: From acetyl + digitoxin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A class of cardiac glycoside, an acetyl derivative of digitoxin.
cymarine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cardiac glycoside obtained from plants of the genus Strophanthus.
medigoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cardiac glycoside closely related to digoxin.
Synonyms: metildigoxin
digitoxigenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: digitoxigenins
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A cardenolide, the aglycone of digitoxin, usually obtained by hydrolysis.
Derived terms: glucodigitoxigenin
hederagenin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Hedera, the genus of ivy; originally named hederic acid by the German professor L. Posselt, who was the first to extract the substance from ivy seeds and published his findings in 1849.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A triterpenoid originally extracted from Hedera helix, the common ivy.
tritheistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + theistic.
Senses: glosses: Having, or pertaining to, a belief in three gods.
Related terms: tritheist
tritheism
tritheist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tritheists
Etymology: From tri- + theist.
Senses: glosses: A believer in three gods.
Related terms: tritheistic
tritheism
tritheists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tritheist
falernum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /fəˈlɜː(ɹ)nəm/
Senses: examples: text: This base is tweaked, in many cases, with a hint of Pernod or falernum syrup, adding flavors that linger just barely at the threshold of perception.
ref: 2011 October 3, Wayne Curtis, “From Tiki to Tacky—and Back”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: A sweet spiced syrup used in Caribbean and tropical drinks.
swamplike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more swamplike
form: most swamplike
Etymology: From swamp + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Part of the answer came quickly: football players lost so much fluid in sweat in swamplike Florida that they had none left to form urine.
ref: 2007 November 28, Douglas Martin, “J. Robert Cade, the Inventor of Gatorade, Dies at 80”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a swamp.
unrocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + rocked.
Senses: examples: text: In a bipartisan ode to the unrocked boat, the committee sat passively through corruption scandals in the last Congress that put two lawmakers behind bars.
ref: 2007 November 28, “House Cleaning”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not having been rocked.
archimperialist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: archimperialists
Etymology: From arch- + imperialist.
Senses: examples: text: If the archimperialist Rudyard Kipling, the young Mohandas K. Gandhi, tribal leaders and Afrikaner supremacists could agree on anything about the war's consequences, it was, in Mr. Meredith's view, this: The machinations behind the making of South Africa would create patriotic fervors even worse than the ones they supplanted.
ref: 2007 November 29, Janet Maslin, “A Scramble for Power and Treasure in South Africa”, in New York Times:
glosses: A strong supporter of imperialism.
archimperialists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of archimperialist
klondike
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: klondikes
Senses: examples: text: The most exclusive luxury brands are seeking their share of the klondike.
ref: 2007 November 29, Natasha Singer, “Not Down and Out in Moscow”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of Klondike (“source of wealth”).
klondike
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: klondikes
form: klondiking
form: klondiked
form: klondiked
Senses: glosses: To export fresh fish (usually herring or mackerel) rather than pickled ones.
Related terms: klondiker
klondikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of klondike
klondikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of klondike
refigure
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɪɡə(ɹ)
Forms: form: refigures
form: refiguring
form: refigured
form: refigured
Etymology: From re- + figure.
Senses: examples: text: The hookworm campaign […] was far more effective in creating and legitimating powerful new social boundaries. Through the rhetoric of the hookworm campaign, poor white trash were partially refigured as pure white Americans, a group that deserved higher status and greater prestige than that accorded to southern blacks.
ref: 2006, Matt Wray, Not Quite White, page 96:
text: "I'm taking a step back to refigure out my own career, as is Sweet Talk," Ms. Gallo said.
ref: 2007 November 29, Marci Alboher, “Like Marriage, Business Takes Work”, in New York Times:
glosses: To figure again or anew.
examples: text: Ten times thyself were happier than thou art,
If ten of thine ten times refigur'd thee ...
ref: 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 6”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
glosses: To duplicate.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: To restore the parabolic figure of, as of a parabolic mirror.
refiguring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refigure
refigured
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refigure
skilift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skilifts
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of ski lift.
milage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of mileage.
ass to mouth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Acts are classified as 'ass to mouth', or 'ATM' in porn industry language, when 'a man removes his penis from a woman's anus and, without cleaning it, places it in her mouth, or the mouth of another woman
ref: 2010, Karen Boyle, Everyday Pornography:
text: “Anything I want,” you whispered into my ear. “Yes, yes,” I said. “You're going to do ass to mouth next,” you said. “And don't you dare flinch. I have a dirty cock covered in your shit and you're going to suck and lick it clean.
ref: 2010, Valerie Gray, the Education Of a Slut:
text: The list of unsafe (and for many people, distasteful) practices common in porn is lengthy and ever changing. Besides the incredibly trendy ass-to-mouth fetish, there's bottle-fucking, bile-drooling, throat-gagging to the point of vomiting, eye and nasal ejaculation, anal-to-vaginal penetration, anal penetration without lubricant, multiple male "cream pies"...
ref: 2005, Russ Kick, Everything you know about sex is wrong: the Disinformation guide to the extremes of human sexuality (and everything in between):
topics: lifestyle
media
pornography
sexuality
synonyms: ATM
A2M
glosses: A sexual act in which the penis or another object is removed from someone's anus and promptly put into another's mouth.
Related terms: orofecal
transmissibility
pæderastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pæderastic
form: most pæderastic
Etymology: From pæderast + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: In tribes where pæderastic ceremonies were part of the religious exercises, there would be no popular aversion to pæderasty. Indeed, Schopenhauer views pæderastic performances by old men as an illustration of the beneficence of nature in preventing the propagation of the defective beings.
ref: 1891, J. G. Kiernan, Physician and Surgeon, John William Keating, Volume XIII, № VI, page 273:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pederastic.
millage tax
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: millage taxes
Senses: glosses: property tax, especially where the tax rate for property is determined in mills.
twistily
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more twistily
form: most twistily
Etymology: From twisty + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a twisty manner; characterised by many twists, bends or turns.
tripulant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripulants
Etymology: From Spanish tripulante.
Senses: glosses: A passenger or stowaway; especially, a Jewish emigrant during the Spanish Inquisition.
torch songs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torch song
torch singers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of torch singer
hæmophiliac
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hæmophiliacs
Etymology: From hæmo- + -philiac.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hemophiliac.
hæmophiliacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hæmophiliac
twistical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more twistical
form: most twistical
Etymology: From twist + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: […] I will meet Mr. Paine again at Point-no-Point, very properly so named because, as he observes, “it continually recedes at a distance a-head; and when you have got as far as you can go there is no point at all.” So it is with Mr. Paine’s twistical reflections on religion and government:
ref: 1791, Isaac Hunt, Rights of Englishman, London: J. Bew, page 28:
text: 1871, John William De Forest, Overland, New York: Sheldon, Chapter 15, p. 79,
He had queer twistical ways of reasoning which often proved the contrary of what he seemed to want to prove;
text: […] then he showed the white of his teeth in a twistical smile.
ref: 1965, Sid Fleischman, The Ghost in the Noonday Sun, Boston: Little, Brown, Chapter , p. 11:
text: ‘There’s many still believes a priest could make a toad of you. All it would take was a twistical squint off his eyes. […]’
ref: 2001, Jamie O’Neill, At Swim, Two Boys, London: Scribner, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 136:
glosses: Crooked; tortuous.
examples: text: c. 1797 John Leland, remark made while preaching, cited in Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society, Berkshire Book, 1892, Volume 1, p. 283,
Godward he is an excellent man, manward he is rather twistical.
text: 1836, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker, Halifax, NS: J. Howe, p. 111,
[…] well, he was a deep, sly, twistical lookin chap, as you een amost ever seed.
text: […] if you can fix Melinda Smoot for behaving so twistical to her, I’ll thank you forever.
ref: 1936, Helen Albee Monsell, chapter 15, in The Secret of the Chestnut Tree, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, pages 156-157:
glosses: Perverse; unfair; dishonest.
weepe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: weepes
form: weeping
form: weeped
form: weeped
form: wepte
form: wepte
form: wept
form: wept
Senses: examples: text: But all the rest, as borne of salvage brood, And having beene with acorns alwaies fed, 590 Can no whit savour this celestiall food, But with base thoughts are into blindnesse led, And kept from looking on the lightsome day: For whome I waile and weepe all that I may.
ref: 1591, Edmund Spenser, The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5:
text: Then fall they to cry, to weepe, and to torment themselues, as little children that haue lost their play-game, which notwithstanding is nothing worth.
ref: 1592, Philippe de Mornay, A Discourse of Life and Death:
text: Would thy Melancholy have a cure? thou shalt laugh at Democritus himselfe, and but reading one piece of this Comick variety, finde thy exalted fancie in Elizium; And when thou art sick of this cure, (for the excesse of delight may too much dilate thy soule,) thou shalt meete almost in every leafe a soft purling passion or spring of sorrow so powerfully wrought high by the teares of innocence, and wronged Lovers, it shall persuade thy eyes to weepe into the streame, and yet smile when they contribute to their owne ruines.
ref: 1679, Beaumont and Fletcher, The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher in Ten Volumes:
text: The Springe neglectes his course to keepe, The Ayre continual stormes do weepe, The pretty Birdes disdaine to singe, The Maides to smile, the woods to springe, The Mountaines droppe, the valleys morne Till Jack and Tom do safe returne.
ref: 1851, Various, Notes and Queries, Number 63, January 11, 1851:
text: 'A good play,' he condescends to say, 'I find it, and the actors most good in it; and pretty to hear Knipp sing in the play very properly "All night I weepe," and sung it admirably.
ref: 1890, Grace Wharton, Philip Wharton, The Wits and Beaux of Society:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of weep.
welthe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: And an enuyous man hath no vertue in hymself/ for he corrumpeth hymself for as moche as he hateth allway the welthe and vertues of other/ and thus ought they to kepe them that they take none euyll suspec[=o]n For a man naturally whan his affection hath suspecion in ony man that he weneth that he doth/ hit semeth to hym verily that it is doon.
ref: 1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse:
text: Whan Charyte ys chosen with stats to stonde, Stedfast and styll, with oute distaunce, Then wreth may be exilid out of thys londe, And God oure gide to have governaunce; Wysdom and welthe with all plesaunce, May ryghtfulle reigne, and prosperite, For love hath underleyde wrethfull vengeaunce; Reioyse Enlond the lords acordid bee.
ref: c. 1500, anonymous author, A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483:
text: He wrote and ordeyned lawes moste egal and iust He edityed vnto the Grekes a comon welthe stable, quyet and commendable.
ref: 1874, Alexander Barclay, The Ship of Fools, Volume 1:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wealth.
thirde
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of third.
werkeman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of workman.
rewle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewles
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rule.
rewle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewles
form: rewling
form: rewled
form: rewled
Senses: examples: text: For as moche as the Noble persone canne not rewle ne gouerne with oute y'e seruyce and werke of the peple/ than hit behoueth to deuyse the oeuurages and the offices of the werkemen/ Than I shall begynne fyrst at the fyrst pawne/ that is in the playe of the chesse/
ref: 1474, Caxton, Game and Playe of the Chesse:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of rule.
pawne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pawnes
Senses: examples: text: As therefore the morning devv, is a pavvne of the evenings fatneſſe, ſo, O Lord, let this daies comfort be the earneſt of to morrowes, […]
ref: 1624, John Donne, “19. Prayer”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 508:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of pawn.
chesse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of chess.
wyll
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of will.
rooke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of rook.
kinge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kinges
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of king.
shappe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of shape.
smyth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smyths
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of smith.
wishe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wishes
form: wishing
form: wished
form: wished
Senses: examples: text: Next all good men ought to wishe and desire that those which put their hande to (this is to say trauaile for) the reformation of maners, should do it with such good argumentes, that there shoulde remayne, or be left, but euen a very litle to be corrected and amended.
ref: 1581, anonymous author, A Treatise Of Daunses:
text: CHARLES. Prince of Navarre my honourable brother, Prince Condy, and my good Lord Admirall, wishe this union and religious league, Knit in these hands, thus joyn'd in nuptiall rites, May not desolve, till death desolve our lives, And that the native sparkes of princely love, That kindled first this motion in our hearts, May still be feweld in our progenye.
ref: 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Massacre at Paris:
text: It also appears, by a letter from the Duke of Norfolk to Cecil, that the English borderers were unskilful in fire-arms, or, as he says, "our countrymen be not so commyng with shots as I woolde wishe."
ref: 1806, Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3):
text: In the third recess on the left hand is "T.C. I leve in hope, and I gave q credit to mi frinde, in time did stande me most in hande, so wolde I never doe againe, excepte I hade him suer in bande, and to al men wishe I so, unles ye sussteine the leike lose as I do.
ref: 1831, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 17,:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wish.
wishe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wishes
Senses: examples: text: The Bischope, to declair the zeall that he had to revenge the death of him that was his predecessour, (and yit for his wishe he wold nott haif had him leaving agane,) still blew the coallis.
ref: 1895, John Knox, The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6):
glosses: Obsolete spelling of wish.
widder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪdə(ɹ)
Forms: form: widders
Senses: examples: text: At the sewing- society the matter was fully discussed. Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes! he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,--not he!"
ref: 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858:
text: And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news:-- "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage."
ref: 1884, William O. Stoddard, Dab Kinzer:
text: She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not. "
ref: 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition:
text: I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder: she's too darn good-lookin'."
ref: 1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights:
text: There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome,
Sydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell;
Joe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome,
Only son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well.
ref: 1958, Robert W. Service, Ballads of a Bohemian:
glosses: Alternative spelling of widow.
venomed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more venomed
form: most venomed
Etymology: From venom + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Indifferent usually to luxury, he here exhausts his ingenuity to obtain it; shrinking usually from the touch of a nigger as from the venomed tooth of a serpent, he here is seen resigning his nose to the digital custody of that sable operator, and placing his throat at his mercy, or revelling in titillary ecstasy from his manipulations with the hog's bristles;--all this he enjoys in a semi-recumbent position, obtained from an easy chair and a high stool, wherein he lies with a steadiness which courts prolongation--life-like, yet immoveable--suggesting the idea of an Egyptian corpse newly embalmed.
ref: 1857, Henry A. Murray, Lands of the Slave and the Free:
text: But now the Moormen, stalking o'er the strand / to guard the wat'ery stores the strangers need; / this, targe on arm and assegai in hand, / that, with his bended bow, and venom'd reed[.]
ref: 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 33:
text: Circe's venomed flagon embruted less than doth the Lamia's wine, Than Comus' cup more perilous to sup-- As snakes are worse than swine.
ref: 1891, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 4, 1891:
text: As it was, fought on front and flank, with the thunders of the Church, and the ribaldry of malicious tongues to scatter their venomed darts abroad, Parnell was a doomed man.
ref: 1921, Daniel Desmond Sheehan, Ireland Since Parnell:
glosses: Containing venom; laced with or steeped in venom.
venomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From venom + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of venom
triweekly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From tri- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: Occurring three times per week.
glosses: Occurring once every three weeks.
examples: text: And then it appeared to be forgotten, or, at least, men seldom spoke of it, and presently it came to be accepted as the popular belief that the robbery had been committed by a gang of desperate tramps, this theory being confirmed by a certain exploit subsequently in the San Juan country, an exploit wherein three desperate tramps assaulted the triweekly road-hack, and, making off with their booty, were ultimately taken and strung up to a convenient tree.
ref: 1911, Eugene Field, Second Book of Tales:
text: This string of daily papers in Aurora, Joliet, Elgin, and Waukegan, the triweekly Naperville Sun, and 13 Sun suburban weeklies, has been winning major press-photography awards hand over fist in recent years.
ref: 2001 June 29, Michael Miner, “We Are Teachers, Hear Us Roar/Remembering Those Who Dodged”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Published three times a week.
triweekly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: triweeklies
Etymology: From tri- + weekly.
Senses: glosses: A publication published three times a week.
tumble-dry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -aɪ
Forms: form: tumble-dries
form: tumble-drying
form: tumble-dried
form: tumble-dried
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tumble dry.