cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
East Punjab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former province and later a state in India from 1947 to 1966, reorganized to form the new states of Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.
Related terms: Punjab
West Punjab
West Punjab
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former province of Pakistan from 1947 to 1955, combined with the state of Bahawalpur to form the new Punjab Province.
Related terms: Punjab
East Punjab
houseparent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houseparents
Etymology: From house + parent.
Senses: glosses: A housemother or housefather.
house of ill fame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: houses of ill fame
Senses: examples: text: Thirty men were arrested July 26 and charged with "open and gross lewdness" in an early-morning vice squad raid on the Quagmire bar basement. Police also arrested the bar's manager, Barcaly Churchill, and owner, Lloyd Swanson, charging them with a number of counts, including the keeping of a house of ill fame and the dissemination of obscene matter.
ref: 1981 August 8, Larry Goldsmith, “Boston Police Arrest 30 Men in Bar Raid”, in Gay Community News, page 1:
glosses: A brothel
Kingdom of Sikkim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Kingdom of Sikkim
Senses: glosses: The official name of Sikkim.
snowgrass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowgrasses
form: snow grass
Etymology: From snow + grass.
Senses: glosses: tough clumps of mountain grass that are covered in snow part of the year
examples: text: But there are few dry twigs or leaves to be found, and so he gathers a clump of snow grass and with his cigarette lighter he singes this grass, holding it close to him so that he can absorb its scent.
ref: 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 30
glosses: Any of various grasses of high-country areas of southeastern Australia (including Tasmania), especially perennials of the genus Poa.
Imogene
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Imogen.
Christ on a crutch
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Jesus Christ on a crutch
form: Jesus H. Christ on a crutch
Senses: examples: text: Crane: Rahim! Jesus don't move! I'll get help!
Rahim: Haha! I was just fucking with you!
Crane: Son of a bitch!
Rahim: What? You can't take a joke? Come on! Get your ass down here!
Crane: Christ on a crutch.
ref: 2015, Techland, Dying Light, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:
glosses: Jesus Christ; expressing annoyance, disgust, etc.
Synonyms: Christ on a stick
Christ on a pole
Christ on a stick
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: Jesus Christ on a stick
form: Jesus H. Christ on a stick
Senses: glosses: Expressing amazement or disgust.
Synonyms: Christ on a bike
Christ on a crutch
Christ on a pole
Derived terms: Jesus H. Christ on a popsicle stick
Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick
O.M.G.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: Initialism of "oh my God".
Its first known attestation is in a letter from John Fisher to Winston Churchill, dated 1917, as "O.M.G.".
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OMG.
O. M. G.
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of OMG.
free period
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: free periods
Senses: glosses: A school period in which a student has free time, i.e., is not enrolled in a class.
computationalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: computationalists
Etymology: From computational + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who subscribes to the theory of computationalism.
computationalistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more computationalistic
form: most computationalistic
Etymology: From computational + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to computationalism.
computationalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of computationalist
computationalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From computational + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The view that the human mind and/or brain is an information-processing system and that thinking is a form of computing.
nongubernatorial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + gubernatorial.
Senses: glosses: Not gubernatorial.
svitkas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of svitka
Zaporizhian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Zaporizhian
form: most Zaporizhian
Etymology: From Zaporizhia + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to the city or oblast of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Zaporizhian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Zaporizhians
Etymology: From Zaporizhia + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city or oblast of Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
Zaporizhians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zaporizhian
Mondeo Man
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Mondeo Men
Etymology: After the Ford Mondeo, a family car, popularised by a phrase used by Tony Blair at the Labour Party conference in 1996, though the vehicle Blair mentioned was actually a Ford Sierra.
Senses: glosses: A stereotypical male identified as the sort of voter the Labour Party needed to attract to win the 1997 election.
wikipedia: Ford Mondeo
Tony Blair
needlefelt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needlefelts
Etymology: From needle + felt.
Senses: glosses: A durable kind of carpet, produced by intermingling and felting individual synthetic fibres using barbed and forked needles.
needlefelts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needlefelt
flatwoven
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From flat + woven.
Senses: glosses: flatweave
flatweave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flatweaves
Etymology: From flat + weave.
Senses: glosses: A kind of carpet created by interlocking warp (vertical) and weft (horizontal) threads.
Related terms: flatwoven
flatweaves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flatweave
unimprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not imprinted.
unimprinted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unimprint
postinstitutional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From post- + institutional.
Senses: examples: postinstitutional adjustment
glosses: After time spent in an institution.
yern
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
homophone: yearn
Forms: form: yearn
Etymology: From Middle English yern (“willing, eager”), from Old English ġeorn (“eager”), from Proto-West Germanic *gern, from Proto-Germanic *gernaz.
Cognate with Danish gerne (“gladly”), Dutch gaarne (“with pleasure, gladly”), German gern (“willingly, gladly”), Icelandic gjarn (“willing, keen, eager”), Icelandic gjarna (“willingly, readily, gladdly”), Swedish gärna (“willingly, gladly”). See also yearnful and yearnfully.
Senses: examples: text: I am not afraid of death, and when my time comes I'll go yern.
text: Who was so hardie and so stern? Tel me now, I pray you yern
ref: 1865, Frederick James Furnivall, A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides:
text: All the people cried yernː God Master, now defend thy bairn.
ref: c. 1515, unknown, The Buke of the Sevyne Sagis:
text: The black swarm ower the fields walks yerne
ref: 1513, Gavin Douglas, The Eneados:
glosses: eagerly, heartily, gladly, willingly, earnestly.
yern
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /jəːn/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)n
homophone: yearn
Forms: form: yerns
form: yerning
form: yerned
form: yerned
form: yearn
Etymology: From Middle English yern (“willing, eager”), from Old English ġeorn (“eager”), from Proto-West Germanic *gern, from Proto-Germanic *gernaz.
Cognate with Danish gerne (“gladly”), Dutch gaarne (“with pleasure, gladly”), German gern (“willingly, gladly”), Icelandic gjarn (“willing, keen, eager”), Icelandic gjarna (“willingly, readily, gladdly”), Swedish gärna (“willingly, gladly”). See also yearnful and yearnfully.
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of yearn.
yerned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of yern
yerning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of yern
yerns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yern
Dove prism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Dove prisms
Etymology: Named for its inventor, Heinrich Wilhelm Dove.
Senses: glosses: A kind of reflective prism used to invert the orientation of an image.
Dove prisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Dove prism
Theodism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Old English þēod (“nation, people, tribe, race”) + -ism
Senses: glosses: A form of Germanic neopaganism developed in the United States, based on Anglo-Saxon practices in England before conversion to Christianity.
Related terms: Asatru
the Norse variant
Woden
the Anglo-Saxon name for Odin
Wodenism
the worship of Odin
surgeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: surge + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of surge
asperseth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: asperse + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of asperse
anticonservative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticonservative
form: most anticonservative
Etymology: From anti- + conservative.
Senses: examples: text: Thus, approximately one-third of the respondents with anticonservative views thought conservatives had too much power in national religious agencies, government, and the media[…]
ref: 1989, Robert Wuthnow, The Struggle for America's Soul, page 85:
glosses: Opposing conservative attitudes or politics.
Derived terms: anticonservativeness
anticonservative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticonservatives
Etymology: From anti- + conservative.
Senses: glosses: One who opposes conservative attitudes or politics.
renounceable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From renounce + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being renounced.
find the lady
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Lady refers to the winning card, which is generally a queen.
Senses: glosses: Three-card monte (a card gambling game).
3 card monte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3 card montes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-card monte.
3-card monte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 3-card montes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of three-card monte.
tampereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: tamper + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tamper
distempereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: distemper + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of distemper
hampereth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: hamper + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hamper
hamperless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hamper + -less.
Senses: examples: text: September 1868, Oscar Wilde:, letter to his mother
[…] ye delight of two boys at ye hamper and the sorrow of ye hamperless boy.
text: For those, including us, who had come to the sale hamperless, relief was at hand in a refreshments marquee that had been put up near the thatched cottages.
ref: 1980, The New Yorker (volume 56, part 4, page 26)
glosses: Without a hamper (basket of food, etc.).
marqueelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more marqueelike
form: most marqueelike
Etymology: From marquee + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a marquee.
mardle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mardles
Senses: qualifier: Suffolk and Norfolk dialects
glosses: A chat or gossip.
mardle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mardles
form: mardling
form: mardled
form: mardled
Senses: qualifier: Suffolk and Norfolk dialects
glosses: To chat or gossip.
gymnophobe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gymnophobes
Etymology: From gymno- + -phobe.
Senses: glosses: One who has an aversion to nudity.
hnn
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /hn̩/
Senses: glosses: Indicating thinking or pondering.
Synonyms: hmm
Larina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name; its shortened form is Rina.
Rina
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːnə/
rhymes: -iːnə
Etymology: Short form of names ending in -rina, such as Katrina, Marina and Larina. Also borrowed from other European languages, such as Italian, in the 20th century.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
smout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: smouts
Senses: glosses: A printer who does short-term work in various offices.
smout
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: smouts
form: smouting
form: smouted
form: smouted
Senses: glosses: To do occasional work.
mozied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mozy
mozying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mozy
poachable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more poachable
form: most poachable
Etymology: From poach + -able.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being poached, or stolen.
examples: text: Fall may be the season of poachable fruit — apples in cider with vanilla, pears in pear juice with ginger […]
ref: 1993, The New York Times Magazine, page 54:
glosses: Suitable for being cooked by poaching.
minerval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: minervals
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin Minervālis.
Senses: examples: text: Thoſe teachers that be of the wiſer ſort, cal for their ſchoolage and minervals of their ſcholars, not all after one maner, but diverſly: a number of them, according as the preſent occaſion requireth, who promiſe not to make them wiſe men, and that within a yeere; […]
ref: 1603, Plutarch, “The Contradictions of Stociek philoſophers”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1068:
glosses: A gift given in gratitude by a student to a teacher; financial compensation paid to a teacher for their services.
despotry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From despot + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: As you would live / And die for despotry—
ref: 1839, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu:
glosses: despotism
gladding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of glad
glads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of glad
glads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glad
gladded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of glad
fire damper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fire dampers
form: firedamper
Senses: glosses: A passive fire protection product used in heating, ventilation, and air conditioning ducts.
glosses: A damper which closes off an air duct automatically in the event of fire so as to restrict the passage of fire and smoke.
examples: text: Jack is a former fire damper who was injured in an explosion.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A mine worker who detects and clears a mineshaft of firedamp by intentionally burning or blowing it up.
Chittagong Hill Tracts
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An area and former district of Bangladesh, split into three districts in 1984.
cocone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cocones
Etymology: From co- + cone.
Senses: topics: category-theory
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An object V together with an arrow going from each object of a diagram to V such that for any arrow A in the diagram, the pair of arrows to V which form a triangle with A also commute with it.
Hyponyms: colimit
Funningur
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Faroese Funningur.
Senses: glosses: A village in the Faroe Islands.
A Coruña
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑ kəˈɹunjə/
rhymes: -uːnjə
Etymology: From Galician A Coruña, of uncertain origin.
Senses: synonyms: word: La Coruña
english: Spanish form
translation: Spanish form
word: Corunna
word: The Groyne
glosses: The capital city of the province of A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
glosses: A province of Galicia, Spain.
darsana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: darsanas
form: darśana
form: darshan
form: darshana
Etymology: Borrowed from Sanskrit दर्शन (dárśana).
Senses: examples: text: In presenting its ‘view’ of the truth, each darśana is as it were describing what it is that its practitioners will ‘see’.
ref: 2000, Sue Hamilton, Indian Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, OUP, published 2001, page 12:
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A philosophy, worldview.
flexitimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flexitimers
Etymology: From flexitime + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The three young flexitimers tended to stroll into the office around midday, and then worked Saturdays, often Sundays too. The weekend as a distinct category of the week was irrelevant to them, anachronistic[…]
ref: 2012, Tim Pears, Blenheim Orchard, page 59:
glosses: One who works on a flexitime arrangement.
flexitimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flexitimer
behindness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From behind + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being behind.
aheadness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ahead + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The central oddity of the past future stems from this fact, when considered in the light of the principle of sense: how can it make sense for the speaker to commit himself to aheadness as calculated from a past vantage point?
ref: 2010, Peter Harder, Functional Semantics, page 359:
glosses: The quality of being ahead.
thievingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more thievingly
form: most thievingly
Etymology: From thieving + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Living compassionately, not taking more than your share or dirtying the earth more than you must, means that you are living more truthfully, more honestly, less thievingly[…]
ref: 2000, Daniel C. Maguire, Sacred Energies, page 61:
glosses: Like a thief; by or with stealing.
nasal polyp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nasal polyps
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A growth in the nose commonly connected with allergic rhinitis, but not directly caused by it, arising mainly from the mucous membranes and paranasal sinuses.
Wilson chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Wilson chambers
Etymology: After Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869–1959), Scottish physicist credited with its invention.
Senses: glosses: cloud chamber
Wilson chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Wilson chamber
cloud chamber
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cloud chambers
Senses: glosses: A particle detector used for detecting ionizing radiation. In its most basic form, it is a sealed environment containing a supersaturated vapor of water or alcohol, in which a mist can be seen where a charged particle interacts with the mixture and it ionizes it.
Synonyms: Wilson chamber
Related terms: bubble chamber
cloud chambers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cloud chamber
gustfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡʌstfəlnəs/
Etymology: From gustful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Then his food doth taste savourily, then his divertisements and recreations have a lively gustfulness.
ref: a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Industry in General”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
text: It was not any gustfulness in those herbs which they eat, which caused them to gather them, or the force of long-established habit, but the extremity of want.
ref: 1774, Thomas Harmer, Observations on Various Passages of Scripture:
glosses: Appealing taste; tastiness.
retrieveth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: retrieve + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrieve
footeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: foot + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of foot
sortitive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to sortition.
brokes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of broke
broked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of broke
poststructurally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more poststructurally
form: most poststructurally
Etymology: From poststructural + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a poststructural manner.
Barthesian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Barthesian
form: most Barthesian
Etymology: Calque of French barthésien or Barthes + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Roland Barthes (1915–1980), French literary theorist, philosopher, linguist, critic, and semiotician who influenced the development of schools of theory including structuralism, semiotics, social theory, anthropology and poststructuralism.
Barthesian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Barthesians
Etymology: Calque of French barthésien or Barthes + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: At their most de-humanizing, the Barthesians see authors as repeating something that has been done before, so that they are rather characterless.
ref: 2000, Roger D. Sell, Literature as Communication, page 93:
glosses: A proponent of the theories of Roland Barthes.
pragmatick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pragmatick
form: most pragmatick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of pragmatic.
decontract
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: decontracts
form: decontracting
form: decontracted
form: decontracted
Etymology: From de- + contract.
Senses: examples: text: to cause muscle tissue to decontract
text: to decontract the whole body
synonyms: uncontract
glosses: To expand from a contracted state.
Related terms: decontraction
decontracts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of decontract
decontracting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of decontract
decontracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of decontract
contractionless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From contraction + -less.
Senses: examples: a contractionless logic
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Without contractions.
Gentzenian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Gentzenian
form: most Gentzenian
Etymology: From Gentzen + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Gerhard Gentzen (1909–1945), German mathematician and logician.
Related terms: Gentzenize
Gentzenization
Gentzenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gentzenizations
Etymology: From Gentzen + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: Proof Theory (theory of axiomatizability, Gentzenization)
ref: 1968, Nicholas Rescher, Topics in Philosophical Logic:
text: We shall recall that at the heart of the Gentzenization of the absolutely strict systems was the rule → L […]
ref: 1973, J. Jay Zeman, Modal Logic: The Lewis Modal Systems, Clarendon Press, page 198:
text: When I first arrived in 1963, the hunt was on to find a Gentzenization of relevance logic, and not only his graduate seminars but mine too got caught up in the search.
ref: 2012, M. Dunn, Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap, page 231:
glosses: Conversion of a logic into a Gentzenian form.
Gentzenizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Gentzenization
recompression
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recompressions
Etymology: From re- + compression.
Senses: examples: text: Marle agreed not to record Anna’s symptoms or recompression in the diving log if she promised to go directly to the hospital and have her vital signs checked.
ref: 2017, Jennifer Egan, Manhattan Beach, Corsair, page 379:
glosses: The act of recompressing; compression again.
recompressions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recompression
compressedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more compressedly
form: most compressedly
Etymology: From compressed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Stamens polyadelphous, in three sets, upright, a little higher than the tube of the corolla, the lower portion of the filaments of each set compressedly tubular for more than half the length[…]
ref: 1817, The Botanical Register, volume 3, page 196:
glosses: In a compressed manner.
unorderedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unordered + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unordered (not sorted).
unsortedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unsorted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unsorted.
unchartedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncharted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncharted.
farty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfɑː(ɹ)ti/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ti
Forms: form: fartier
form: fartiest
Etymology: From fart + -y.
Senses: examples: text: He slaps me playfully on the knee just as Heels opens the flat's door letting in a farty smell of boiling vegetables from the rest of the building.
ref: 2005, Craig Sherborne, Hoi Polloi, page 66:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a fart; flatulent.
examples: text: Avoid farty foods if you are working in a confined space.
synonyms: gassy
glosses: Causing flatulence.
glosses: Having flatulence.
examples: text: If the bloody basic bill wasn't bad enough, he discovered all the ironing services she had charged to the room, and she had just wasted another fifteen quid on coffee and farty little chocolate truffles[…]
ref: 2008, Milly Johnson, The Birds and the Bees:
glosses: Small and insignificant; petty.
Derived terms: arty-farty
fartily
fartiness
fartiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of farty: most farty
fartier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of farty: more farty
antireward
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + reward.
Senses: topics: medicine
neuroscience
sciences
glosses: Relating to processes in the brain that cause aversive states, leading a drug abuser to take more drugs to escape these states rather than to gain pleasure.
antitreatment
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antitreatment
form: most antitreatment
Etymology: From anti- + treatment.
Senses: examples: text: The problem of antitreatment attitudes has also been identified by others. Wilhelm and Lin (Chapter 15) showed that much undertreated depression comes about because of the antitreatment attitudes of those who suffer from it.
ref: 2000, Gavin Andrews, Scott Henderson, Unmet Need in Psychiatry: Problems, Resources, Responses, page 94:
glosses: Opposing treatment (of a psychiatric condition, etc.).
bimbashi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bimbashis
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of binbashi.
bimbashis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bimbashi
PVX
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Potato virus X.
potexviral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to potexviruses.
potato virus X
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A plant pathogenic virus of the family Alphaflexiviridae and order Tymovirales, found mainly in potatoes.
Synonyms: PVX
Potato virus X
Related terms: potexviral
potexvirus
nichification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nichifications
form: nicheification
Etymology: From niche + -ification.
Senses: glosses: specialization in order to target particular niches
Commodian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Commodian
form: most Commodian
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Commodus (Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus; 161 AD–192 AD), Ancient Roman Emperor.
haarder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)də(ɹ)
Forms: form: haarders
Etymology: Borrowed from Afrikaans harder.
Senses: glosses: Planiliza haematocheilus, the redlip mullet, a mugilid fish.
glosses: Chelon richardsonii, the South African mullet.
haarders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of haarder
mullethead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mulletheads
Etymology: Mid-19th century United States; mullet + head
Senses: examples: text: I bought a very nice Saab because some mullethead used half a tube or more of blue silicone seal to glue on a transmission cover.
ref: 2010, Mark Zimmerman, How to Restore Your Motorcycle, page 72:
glosses: fool, idiot
mulletheads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mullethead
Kaingangs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Kaingang
Xokleng
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Xoklengs
form: Xokleng
Senses: glosses: Any member of a Native American tribe of Brazil, whose territory is located mainly in the state of Santa Catarina.
Xokleng
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Ge language.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Xokleng terms
Xoklengs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Xokleng
Teamster
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtim.stɚ/
Forms: form: Teamsters
Senses: glosses: A member of the Teamsters labour union, usually a truck driver.
electrostimulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrostimulates
form: electrostimulating
form: electrostimulated
form: electrostimulated
Etymology: From electro- + stimulate.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To stimulate with electricity.
Related terms: electrostimulation
electrostimulating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of electrostimulate
electrostimulates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrostimulate
electrostimulated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of electrostimulate
huwasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huwasi
form: huwasis
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Hittite 𒄷𒉿𒅆 (ḫu-wa-ši).
Senses: qualifier: Hittite mythology
glosses: A sacred stone treated as a deity.
wikipedia: + stone
Synonyms: huwasi-stone
Martinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Martin + -ism, referring to Martinez de Pasqually.
Senses: glosses: A form of mystical and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his state of material privation from his divine source, and the process of his return, influenced by Freemasonry.
wikipedia: Martinez de Pasqually
Related terms: Martinist
Martinistic
Martinezism
Willermozism
Martinistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Martinistic
form: most Martinistic
Etymology: From Martin + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Martinism.
Martinist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Martinists
Senses: glosses: A follower of Martinism.
glosses: A supporter of Martin Marprelate.
Martinist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Martinist
form: most Martinist
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to Martinism.
glosses: Pertaining to Martin Marprelate.
Martinists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Martinist
beta-read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: beta-reads
form: beta-reading
form: beta-read
form: beta-read
Etymology: Compare earlier beta-test (“to test software before its public release”).
Senses: examples: text: This sounds like an AP English class, but in fact, the online community of fan fiction writers are willing to beta-read and be mentors, giving constructive feedback.
ref: 2010, Erin A. Pyne, The Ultimate Guide to the Harry Potter Fandom, page 128:
topics: lifestyle
glosses: To proofread a text, especially fan fiction.
beta-read
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: Compare earlier beta-test (“to test software before its public release”).
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of beta-read
psychoenergetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more psychoenergetic
form: most psychoenergetic
Etymology: From psycho- + energetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychoenergetics.
subschool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subschools
Etymology: From sub- + school.
Senses: glosses: A school making up part of a larger school.
subschools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subschool
psychoenergetics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From psycho- + energetics, coined by František Kahuda.
Senses: glosses: A subschool of psychotronics, dealing with the purported links between the human psyche and mystical forms of energy.
wikipedia: František Kahuda
Related terms: psychoenergetic
psychosynthetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + synthetic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to psychosynthesis.
choirless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From choir + -less.
Senses: examples: text: There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
ref: 2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192:
glosses: Without a choir.
infringeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: infringe + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of infringe
impingeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: impinge + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of impinge
journeyeth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: journey + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of journey
voyageth
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: voyage + -eth
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of voyage
chevied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of chevy
chevying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of chevy
deurbanize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: deurbanizes
form: deurbanizing
form: deurbanized
form: deurbanized
Etymology: From de- + urbanize.
Senses: glosses: To make (a region) less urban.
Related terms: deurbanization
deurbanizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deurbanize
deurbanizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deurbanize
deurbanized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deurbanize
Servians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Servian
unpreparable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unpreparable
form: most unpreparable
Etymology: From un- + preparable.
Senses: glosses: Not preparable.
unprepareds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unprepared
Lombardian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lombardian
form: most Lombardian
Etymology: From Lombard + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Peter Lombard (1096?–1164), scholastic theologian and bishop and author of The Four Books of Sentences, which became the standard textbook of theology.
catch cold
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: catches cold
form: catching cold
form: caught cold
form: caught cold
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of catch a cold.
sattvic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sattvic
form: most sattvic
Etymology: From sattva + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating or conforming to sattva (one of the gunas in Hindu philosophy).
rajasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rajasic
form: most rajasic
Etymology: From rajas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating or conforming to rajas (one of the gunas in Hindu philosophy).
tamasic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more tamasic
form: most tamasic
Etymology: From tamas + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating or conforming to tamas (one of the gunas in Hindu philosophy).
sattva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sanskrit सत्त्व (sattvá).
Senses: coordinate_terms: rajas
tamas
glosses: One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are pure, divine, and spiritual.
Derived terms: sattvic
tamas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Sanskrit तमस् (támas, “darkness”).
Senses: coordinate_terms: sattva
rajas
glosses: One of the three gunas in Hindu philosophy, representing things that are inert, resistant, or dark and destructive.
Derived terms: tamasic
sausage gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A traditional Southern breakfast dish, usually served with biscuits, made from pork sausage fat, milk, and seasonings.
Related terms: sawmill gravy
sawmill gravy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: synonyms: country gravy
milk gravy
white gravy
glosses: A traditional Southern gravy, usually served with biscuits, made from milk or cream with meat drippings and flour.
Related terms: sausage gravy
unemaciated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unemaciated
form: most unemaciated
Etymology: From un- + emaciated.
Senses: glosses: Not emaciated.
clashies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clashy
khalasi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: khalasis
form: classy
form: clashee
form: clashy
Etymology: From Hindi ख़लासी (xalāsī), from Classical Persian خلاصی (xalāsī).
Senses: glosses: An Indian worker at a port or dockyard, traditionally employed in pulling vessels out of the water for maintenance and repair and returning them to the water afterwards.
khalasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of khalasi
antiageist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiageist
form: most antiageist
Etymology: From anti- + ageist.
Senses: glosses: Opposed to ageism.
Abazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abazins
Etymology: From Russian абази́н (abazín).
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Abaza.
synonyms: word: Abaza
Abazins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Abazin
high-tempo
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But as the half progressed, Liverpool's pressure and high-tempo passing game increased United's frustration and it threatened to boil over on the stroke of half-time when Van Persie, who had already been booked, was involved in angry verbal exchanges with several Liverpool players, particularly Gerrard.
ref: 2013 September 1, Phil McNulty, BBC Sport:
glosses: fast, quick
West Indies Federation
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A former country in the Caribbean. Also called West Indies.
nasal polyps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nasal polyp
mongrelisms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mongrelism
Tacey
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈteɪ.si/
Etymology: From Latin tacere (“to be silent”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
I was born in ...
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: I was born in ... (year).
glosses: I was born in ... (place name).
sage on the stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sages on the stage
form: sages on stages
form: sage on a stage
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Johnson said the teacher for the gifted and talented will be more of a "guide on the side" rather than a "sage on the stage."
ref: 1981 August 6, “‘Gifted Students’ Classes Offered”, in Harlan Daily Enterprise, USA, retrieved 01 Sep 2013, page 5:
text: Case Western has always been an advocate of what Williams calls the "sage on the stage versus the guide on the side" learning method.
ref: 2006 August 25, Nina Vizcarrondo, “Sci-Fi Today, Sci-Fact Tomorrow”, in Time, retrieved 01 Sep 2013:
text: But the limitations of the method as usually employed — . . . its fostering of passivity on the part of those students not involved in the dialogue, and its privileging of the professor as the sage on the stage — are serious impediments.
ref: 2011 December 15, Robert D. Dinerstein, “Limitations to the Method”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Sep 2013:
topics: education
glosses: An educator, especially at the postsecondary level, who imparts knowledge by lecturing to an audience; the method of imparting knowledge used by such an educator.
Related terms: guide on the side
sage on a stage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sages on a stage
form: sages on stages
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sage on the stage.
taco fest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taco fests
Etymology: From a likening of the appearance of a hard taco shell to a woman's vulva, by analogy to sausage fest.
Senses: examples: text: i definitely want to try FiGi one night, but their parties start @ 2am, and its^([sic]) such a taco fest bc they only let girls in and you have to be like HOT bc the guys are fucking gorgeous.
ref: 2002 October 16, tiff bebe [username], “Re: Hey, Drinkers! (OT)”, in alt.fan.hanson (Usenet):
text: Yeah! This ain't no damn taco fest! ALL ARE WELCOME, goddamn it.
ref: 2009 July 7, Rev. Anna Dynamite [username], “Re: The few, the proud--the ANNA-BAPTISTS!”, in alt.slack (Usenet):
text: Upon arrival, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn’t the female equivalent of a sausage fest, which would be, what, a taco fest?
ref: 2011, Amanda Richardson, "Single White Female: Modern Dating in Victoria", Nexus (Camosun College, Victoria, British Columbia), Volume 21, Issue 11, 9 February 2011, page 8
glosses: A party or gathering at which the vast majority of the people are female.
Synonyms: bird bash
bird party
cat convention
clambake
clamboree
chick bash
chick party
fish market
kitty convention
taco fiesta
taco party
girl's club
Coordinate terms: brodeo
brodown
dickfest
sausage fest
sausage party
counter-offensive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-offensives
form: counteroffensive
Etymology: From counter- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: An attack made in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
Synonyms: counter-attack
counter-offensive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more counter-offensive
form: most counter-offensive
form: counteroffensive
Etymology: From counter- + offensive.
Senses: glosses: Being or relating to an attack in response to a previous offensive, and intended to stop it.
Derived terms: counteroffensively
minervals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minerval
alloparents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alloparent
cryptocyanin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptocyanins
Etymology: From crypto- + cyanin.
Senses: examples: text: Cryptocyanin, a copper-free hexameric protein in crab (Cancer magister) hemolymph, has been characterized and the amino acid sequence has been deduced from its cDNA.
ref: 1999 March 2, Nora B. Terwilliger, “Cryptocyanin, a crustacean molting protein: Evolutionary link with arthropod hemocyanins and insect hexamerins”, in PNAS, volume 95, number 5:
text: We have studied expression patterns of members of the hemocyanin gene family, hemocyanin, cryptocyanin, and phenoloxidase, in Cancer magister to better understand the molecular basis of the complex regulation and physiological transformations that occur during molting.
ref: 2013, Metalloproteins—Advances in Research and Application: 2013 Edition:
text: Cryptocyanin is also synthesized in the hepatopancreas R cells.
ref: 2015, Ernest S. Chang, Physiology:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hexameric protein associated with moulting in crustaceans
examples: text: One which has recently been tried, known as cryptocyanin, makes plates so sensitive to the extreme red (at the very end of the visible spectrum, near Fraunhofer's A line) that photographs of a landscape may be obtained, with this red light, almost instantaneously.
ref: 1922, Scientific American, volume 127, page 418:
text: "Koha" was a cipher name of ex-army for cryptocyanin O. A., which was synthesized by Dr. T. Ogata for sensitizing the photoplate to infrared rays.
ref: 1952 May 24, Nobukatsu Shimada, “On the influence of "koha", a photosensitizing dye, against anemia caused by irradiation”, in Keio Journal of Medicine, volume 1, number 2:
text: We used transverse pumping in conjunction with theoretical calculations to show that the degree of polarization of the induced emission from cryptocyanin and phthalocyanin can vary from 1 to 0 in accordance with the excitation conditions.
ref: 1972 April 24, A. A. Kovalev, “Polarization of the induced emission from dyes”, in Journal of Applied Spectroscopy, volume 16, number 4, page 483:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Synonym of cryptocyanine.
synonyms: word: cryptocyanine
duroquinol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duroquinols
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A 1-4,dihydroxy phenol derived from durene
Synonyms: durohydroquinone
Related terms: duroquinone
duroquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: duroquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A 1,4-quinone derived from durene
Related terms: duroquinol
edematized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more edematized
form: most edematized
Senses: glosses: Afflicted with edema; edematous
Related terms: edematization
gDNA
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gDNAs
form: gdna
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Initialism of genomic DNA (DNA in chromosomes).
hypoinsulinemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoinsulinemic
form: most hypoinsulinemic
Etymology: From hypoinsulinemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having hypoinsulinemia