cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
step-cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-cousins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of stepcousin.
half aunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half aunts
Senses: glosses: A half sister of one's parent.
glosses: A half sister-in-law to one's parent.
Hyponyms: sense: half sister of one's father
word: paternal half aunt
sense: half sister of one's mother
word: maternal half aunt
in order for
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: glosses: To indicate a possible consequence of an event or action.
Synonyms: word: for to
word: to
Related terms: in order
in order that
in order to
so that
for
half cousin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: half cousins
Senses: glosses: The son or daughter of one's half-uncle or half-aunt. A relative with one common grandparent.
long time
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Etymology: A shortening of It's been a long time (since […] ).
Senses: examples: text: "Hey, Lewis; long time, man." / "Jack." / They shook hands.
ref: 2008, Sadie Jones, The Outcast, page 262:
text: long time no see!
glosses: Used as part of greeting of two people who have not been in contact for a long time.
examples: text: "You’ve been a long time!" "Admittedly, I did stay (for) a long time, but she stayed even longer".
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see long, time.
Derived terms: a long time in coming
a week is a long time in politics
long time no hear
long time no see
you're a long time dead
long time
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Long Time in Thailand or LT is the term used to define how long the lady is willing to spend time with you. This usually means it will be all night and into the next morning, and you can date her or just hang out with her.
ref: 2019 August 26, “What is Long Time in Thailand – Bar Fine Guides”, in Thailand Amigo:
topics: lifestyle
prostitution
sexuality
glosses: A meeting with a sex worker that usually lasts the entire night.
Related terms: topics: sex
sexuality
lifestyle
word: short time
order of knighthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: orders of knighthood
Senses: glosses: An order which (at least mainly) consists of members who receive and/or most have the knighthood, hence constitutes an honorific brotherhood (in modern times often open to both genders, in rare cases a sisterhood) of knights (and/or, as female equivalent, dames). The hierarchical structure, purpose, activities (in many cases rare and mainly ceremonious), titles and insignia vary widely.
Related terms: knighting
military order
ecocentrism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From eco- + -centrism.
The ecocentric ethic was conceived by Aldo Leopold.
Senses: qualifier: political philosophy
glosses: A nature-centred, as opposed to human-centred, value system.
draught animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: draught animals
form: draft animal
Senses: glosses: A strong working animal used to draw a load like a cart, a plough etc., as opposed to a mount.
Hyponyms: draught horse
Related terms: beast of burden
caffa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of caffoy.
caffe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Please use the umbrella stand in caffes.
ref: 1997 (originally 1991), Madelon Sprengnether, Calvin William Truesdale, The house on Via Gombito: writing by American women abroad, New Rivers Press, page 363
text: While they, too, share the camaraderie of life in the caffe and the piazza, […]
ref: 1999, Gloria Nardini, Che Bella Figura!: The Power of Performance in an Italian Ladies’ Club in Chicago, State University of New York Press, page 67:
text: Unfortunately, the common speech of Epirus is somewhat beyond me, but on board ship, in caffes, and wherever it is possible to overhear the talk of the people, […]
ref: After the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) in 2013, Robert Elsie, Bejtullah D. Destani, Rudina Jasini, The Cham Albanians of Greece: A Documentary History, I.B. Tauris & Co., page 284
glosses: Alternative spelling of caffè (“Italian café”).
freeze valves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freeze valve
rescue missions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rescue mission
utility trailers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of utility trailer
mass murderers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mass murderer
douanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of douane
unstitch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unstitches
form: unstitching
form: unstitched
form: unstitched
Etymology: From un- + stitch.
Senses: synonyms: unpick#Verb
glosses: To take out stitches from.
examples: text: When racially charged killings in the 1980s unstitched already flimsy race relations in the city, the Slave Theater grew to be more than just a movie house, it became a symbol and center of black activism.
ref: 2007 November 18, Trymaine Lee, “A Symbol of Activism Is at Center of Court Dispute”, in New York Times:
glosses: To unravel or disunite; to cause to come apart.
Related terms: unpicker
plunderous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more plunderous
form: most plunderous
Etymology: From plunder + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: Piracy is an utterly plunderous business.
glosses: Tending to plunder.
Synonyms: rapacious
fatals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fatal
hôtelier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hôteliers
Senses: examples: text: Some years ago the hôteliers of Mentone came to the conclusion that its reputation as a consumptive resort interfered with its development as compared with those winter stations on the Riviera where invalids were less numerous.
ref: 1906, The Living Age, volume 251:
text: One of the most important things for a hôtelier to realize is that he must personally watch every details—especially details of table service.
ref: 1942, The Third Omnibus of Crime, page 224:
text: The wine-growing peasants, especially in the cantons of Vaud, Neuchâtel and Valais, together with the powerful pressure group of the hôteliers, succeeded in blocking this tax when it was brought forward in the Swiss Parliament in 1951.
ref: 1952 July, The Twentieth Century, volume 152, page 281:
text: “Then there are the hôteliers who tonight are washing their hands with imaginary soap and water in anticipation of the golden harvests to come. It is good for the tourist business to have an American princess on show....
ref: 1957, Robert Standish, The Prince of Storytellers: The Life of E. Phillips Oppenheim, page 25:
text: Having failed to put the regiment in its place, the lodge was acutely embarrassed when the hôtelier who had led the campaign was shortly afterwards faced with prosecution for travelling on an expired railway season ticket that belonged to someone else.
ref: 2002, The Jacobin Legacy in Modern France: Essays in Honour of Vincent Wright, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 113:
text: Only tourists looking for cheap lodgings were frowned upon by the new hôtelier.
ref: 2003 February 28, John Kiser, The Monks of Tibhirine: Faith, Love, and Terror in Algeria, →ISBN:
glosses: Alternative spelling of hotelier.
hôtelière
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hôtelières
Etymology: From French hôtelière.
Senses: examples: text: Then, having chosen to stay at La Châtre, I wrote to the hôtelière asking her to arrange to rent a bicycle for me so that I could go back and forth to Nohant.
ref: 1977–1981, Newsletter, volumes 1–4, Hempstead, N.Y.: Hofstra University, University Center for Cultural & Intercultural Studies, page 7:
text: Our route — and our eating and drinking — was carefully plotted for us by Christiane Giuliani, a leading hôtelière and chef of the region, and by Maryse Piergiovanni of the regional tourist office in Privas, home of the most expensive sweetmeat of all, the marron glacé.
ref: 1987, Decanter, page 46, column 1:
text: The aunt’s relationship with a younger black lover echoes the situation of the ageing hôtelière and Marcel in The Comedians; […]
ref: 1997, Cedric Watts, “[The life of a writer] The later years”, in A Preface to Greene, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2014, →ISBN, part one (The Writer and His Setting), page 75:
text: Whereas the narrator or auteur in Diderot’s novel appears to know at least some of the characters, and even at times to have been present during some of the episodes (as when the hôtelière tells her story), there is nothing to indicate that Graffigny’s éditrice knew any of the characters or the events recounted, until Déterville entrusted her with Zilia’s correspondence.
ref: 2000, Theodore E[dward] D[aniel] Braun, “Audience-Awareness Theory and Eighteenth-Century French Novels”, in Diana Guiragossian Carr, editor, Diderot Studies, volume XXVIII, Librairie Droz S.A., →ISBN, page 69:
text: Etienne and the hôtelière had agreed to use her men because they were all Igbo.
ref: 2019, D[avid] J[ohn] Butler, chapter 11, in Witchy Kingdom: Secrets of the Serpent Throne (Witchy War; 3), Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN:
coordinate_terms: hotelier
glosses: A woman who owns or runs a hotel.
hôteliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hôtelier
madrilènes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of madrilène
parfumerie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parfumeries
Etymology: From French parfumerie.
Senses: examples: text: The region supplied the parfumeries at Grasse with cultivated blossoms.
ref: 1980, William Wiser, “Lies”, in Disappearances, New York, N.Y.: Atheneum, →ISBN, page 30:
text: His sheep had gone further up the mountain for the summer, and he was growing crops of flowers for the parfumeries at Grasse.
ref: 1989, Susan Sallis, By Sun and Candlelight, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 136:
text: We literally “took time to smell the roses” as the scents of the mountainside foliage far exceeded anything we had sampled in the parfumeries of Paris.
ref: 2010, Kathleen Lockwood, “California Dreaming”, in Major League Bride: An Inside Look at Life Outside the Ballpark, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 79:
glosses: Synonym of perfumery (“shop selling perfumes”).
synonyms: word: perfumery
extra: shop selling perfumes
parfumeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parfumerie
poissonnier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpwɑ.sɔn.jeɪ/
Forms: form: poissonniers
Etymology: Borrowed from French poissonnier, from poisson (“fish”).
Senses: glosses: In a large commercial kitchen, a cook tasked with preparing and cooking (and possibly selecting) fish and fish dishes.
SNP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: snip
Forms: form: SNPs
Senses: examples: text: Our results also identified the causative mutation of polydactylous Silkie was not exist in other nonpolydactyly chickens, suggesting that SNP of polydactyly in Silkie has fully penetrated all other indigenous Chinese chicken breeds.
ref: 2016 February 10, “Parallel Evolution of Polydactyly Traits in Chinese and European Chickens”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Acronym of single-nucleotide polymorphism, a single base pair of DNA which is polymorphic with respect to a population.
SNP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: snip
ipa: /ɛs ɛn ˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /snɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: snip
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of sodium nitroprusside, a particular vasodilator (the nitroprusside of sodium).
SNP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /snɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: snip
ipa: /ɛs ɛn ˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
rhymes: -iː
ipa: /snɪp/
rhymes: -ɪp
homophone: snip
ipa: /ɛs ɛn ˈpiː/
rhymes: -iː
Senses: examples: text: These concerns were shared by other SNP women who told the Guardian there was a chronic lack of support from the party, including for those with younger families.
ref: 2025 March 23, Libby Brooks and Severin Carrell, “‘Hostile environment’ drives many of SNP’s female MSPs to step down before 2026 vote”, in The Guardian:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Scottish National Party.
tirage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tirages
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: The drawing of wine from its barrel.
Sila
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A province of Chad.
Borromean Islands
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A group of three small islands and two islets in the Italian part of Lago Maggiore, chiefly consisting out of Isola Bella, Isola Madre and Isola dei Pescatori.
Sabber-day
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabber-days
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of Sabba-day.
ellagitannin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ellagitannins
Etymology: Blend of ellagic + tannin
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of tannins, related to ellagic acid, that have potential as anticancer drugs
Sabeism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sabianism.
photobook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photobooks
Etymology: From photo + book.
Senses: topics: arts
hobbies
lifestyle
photography
glosses: A book of photographs, often by a single photographer.
sabellid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabellids
Senses: glosses: A worm of the genus Sabella or the family Sabellidae.
sabelloid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sabelloid
form: most sabelloid
Etymology: From Sabella + -oid.
Senses: glosses: Of, like, or relating to the genus Sabella or any worm of this genus.
photolyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photolytes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that is decomposed by photolysis
howdunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howdunits
form: howdunnit
Senses: examples: text: After half a century, the whodunit was joined by the howdunit, in which the emphasis swung from the identity of the murderer to the method by which the murder was committed.
ref: 1969, Ellery Queen, In the Queens' Parlor, and Other Leaves from the Editors' Notebook, page 72:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the manner in which it was committed.
Related terms: wheredunit
whodunit
whydunit
permabanned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perma- + banned.
Senses: glosses: Permanently banned from using a web site.
permabanned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From perma- + banned.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of permaban
Related terms: indeffed
milkfat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milkfats
form: milk fat
Etymology: From milk + fat.
Senses: glosses: The lipids in milk.
milkfats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of milkfat
whydunit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: whydunits
form: whydunnit
Senses: examples: text: Connery takes over the interrogation and in the process beats the man to death. This much we know almost from the beginning, so the film is less of a whodunit than a whydunit.
ref: 1985, Laurence Urdang, Walter W. Hunsinger, Nancy LaRoche, Picturesque expressions: a thematic dictionary, page 420:
topics: broadcasting
film
literature
media
publishing
television
glosses: A type of detective story in which the focus is not on the person who committed the crime, but on the motives for committing it.
Related terms: howdunit
wheredunit
whodunit
universal product codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of universal product code
UPC code
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: UPC codes
Senses: glosses: Universal product code.
UPC codes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UPC code
cattle calls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cattle call
poutingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more poutingly
form: most poutingly
Etymology: From pouting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a pouting manner.
unfearful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unfearful
form: most unfearful
Etymology: From un- + fearful.
Senses: glosses: Not fearful.
Derived terms: unfearfully
unfearfully
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unfearfully
form: most unfearfully
Etymology: From un- + fearfully.
Senses: glosses: In an unfearful manner.
curmudgeonlier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of curmudgeonly: more curmudgeonly
curmudgeonliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of curmudgeonly: most curmudgeonly
designy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more designy
form: most designy
Etymology: From design + -y.
Senses: examples: text: If the only drawing you do is flat and designy, you'll have to either work that way, or try another style and risk producing something that isn't as polished as your other work.
ref: 2004, Nat Gertler, Steve Lieber, The complete idiot's guide to creating a graphic novel:
glosses: Characterised by design.
midsyllable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more midsyllable
form: most midsyllable
Etymology: From mid- + syllable.
Senses: glosses: Occurring in the middle of a syllable.
blowsiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blowziness
Etymology: From blowsy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being blowsy.
nonsymmetrical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + symmetrical.
Senses: glosses: Not symmetrical.
psychiatria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: If the study of scientific psychiatria was greatly advanced by this innovation, he introduced another, of no less importance to the practical, forensical problems of psychiatria.
ref: 1869, American journal of psychiatry: Volume 25, page 473:
glosses: Archaic form of psychiatry.
coaptation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaptations
Etymology: From coapt + -ation.
Senses: synonyms: approximation
coordinate_terms: imbrication
glosses: The bringing together of two parts to form an approximated positioning; used especially of a dislocated joint (in reference to reduction), a broken bone (in reference to bonesetting), portions of soft tissue (in reference to wound closure or to anastomosis), or heart valve function (wherein good leaflet coaptation is healthy and poor coaptation causes regurgitation/insufficiency).
Derived terms: coaptation splint
coaptation suture
Related terms: coapt
coaptate
coaptive
911s
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of 911
911s
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of 911
hist-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: examples: histamine
glosses: Alternative form of histo- used before vowels.
congeable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more congeable
form: most congeable
Etymology: From Old French congeable; from congeer + -able.
Senses: examples: text: The only condition is that the Governor General must think the proposed regulation to be desirable "for the more effectual prosecution of the war, or the more effectual defense of the Commonwealth or of the realm." If he do so think, the regulation is congeable, though it does not deal with the raising, maintenance, or use of any naval or military forces, or with the training or equipment of such forces, or with the supply of any naval or military material, or with any matter immediately ancillary to any of these things, or incidental to the execution of any power exercised in respect to them within the meaning of § 51 (XXXIX.) of the Constitution.
ref: 1918, Gavan Duffy and Rich, JJ, British Ruling Cases from Courts of Great Britain, Canada, Ireland, Australia and Other Divisions of the British Empire., volume VII, Rochester, NY: Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, page 658:
glosses: Lawful; done with permission from authority.
coaptation splint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coaptation splints
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A short splint, used with a longer one that covers the entire limb, that prevents the ends of a fractured bone from overriding
saber rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saber rattlings
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sabre-rattling.
saber rattling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of saber rattle
existimation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin existimatio.
Senses: examples: text: Then if a man in such a company, where some disdain and have despite at other men's inventions, and some count their own best, if among such men (I say) a man should bring forth anything, that he hath read done in times past, or that he hath seen done in other places: there the hearers fare as though the whole existimation of their wisdom were in jeopardy to be overthrown, and that ever after they should be counted for very fools, unless they could in other men's inventions pick out matter to reprehend, and find fault at.
ref: 1918, Thomas More, translated by R. Robinson, Utopia:
glosses: Opinion, esteem or judgment.
Synonyms: sense: opinon, esteem
word: esteem
sense: opinon, esteem
word: opinion
sense: opinon, esteem
word: reputation
Derived terms: co-existimation
vaniloquence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin vanus (“vain”) + loquentia (“talk”).
Senses: examples: text: In philosophy, however, it is to be deplored that eloquence too commonly passes for science, being mistaken for logical acquirement; but truth alone is the just eloquence of philosophy, and without it the finest composition is, to the logician, but babbling and vaniloquence.
ref: 1850, George Field, The analogy of logic, and logic of analogy, London: David Bogue, page 140:
text: Thus Pelagatti remained a loner throughout his life; he was frequently taken down to the police station, and subject to political identity crises that would plunge him either into obstinate silence or vaniloquence about the rocket engines and camels of the three wise men.
ref: 2020, Ermanno Cavazzoni, translated by Jamie Richards, Brief Lives of Idiots, Cambridge, MA: Wakefield Press, page 12:
synonyms: vaniloquy
glosses: Idle or vain talk.
incogitancy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incogitancies
Etymology: From Latin incōgitantia (“thoughtlessness”), from incōgitāns, from in- + cogitāns, present active participle of cōgitō (“think”).
Senses: examples: text: 'Tis folly and incogitancy to argue anything, one way or the other, from the designs of a sort of beings with whom we so little communicate.
ref: 1681, Joseph Glanvill, Saducismus Triumphatus:
text: The motion of my blood no longer keeps time with the tumult of the world. It leads me to seek for happiness in the lap and love of my family, in the society of my neighbors & my books, in the wholesome occupations of my farm & my affairs, in an interest or affection in every bud that opens, in every breath that blows around me, in an entire freedom of rest or motion, of thought or incogitancy, owing account to myself alone of my hours & actions.
ref: 1793 June 9, Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison
glosses: A lack of thought or thinking.
Synonyms: oblivion
saber saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saber saws
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sabre saw.
sabre saw
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabre saws
form: saber saw
Senses: glosses: A portable electric jigsaw.
Coordinate terms: word: reciprocating saw
sense: otherwise
word: saw § Hyponyms
sabha
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabhas
Etymology: From Hindi सभा (sabhā).
Senses: glosses: a public meeting, assembly, or organized group
separate peace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: separate peaces
Senses: topics: diplomacy
government
politics
glosses: Peace concluded between enemies that has no impact on the relationships of either with the other's allies or cobelligerents.
separate peaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of separate peace
Sabian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈseɪ.bi.ən/
rhymes: -eɪbiən
Forms: form: Sabians
Etymology: From Arabic الصَّابِئَة (aṣ-ṣābiʔa), of uncertain origin. Possibly related to Hebrew צָבָא (ṣaḇa, “army, host”) or Classical Mandaic ࡑࡁࡀ (ṣba, “baptizer”).
Senses: glosses: A member of a group (mentioned in the Qur'an) that is entitled to Muslim religious toleration, along with Jews and Christians; they are usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites.
Related terms: Mandaean
Elcesaite
sabicu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabicus
Senses: glosses: a West Indian tree Lysiloma sabicu
glosses: the hard dark wood of the sabicu tree, which resembles mahogany in texture
Sabin vaccine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sabin vaccines
Etymology: After Albert Bruce Sabin, an American immunologist.
Senses: glosses: A polio vaccine that is taken by mouth, and contains the three serotypes of polio in a weakened live state.
synereses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syneresis
Sabine River
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the Spanish name Rio de Sabinas, referring to cypress trees growing along its lower reaches.
Senses: glosses: A river that flows through eastern Texas and western Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico.
onomatapoeia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of onomatopoeia.
sabinene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabinenes
Senses: glosses: A liquid bicyclic unsaturated terpene hydrocarbon which is found usually in savin oil. It is the isomer of thujene containing a double bond outside the rings.
long arm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: long arms
Senses: glosses: A pole tool used for handling things too far away to reach.
examples: text: the long arm of the law
glosses: Influence; far-reaching power.
related: word: longarm
synonyms: long gun
glosses: A gun with a long barrel, such as a rifle or shotgun.
glosses: A quilting machine that holds the fabric stationary on long rollers but allows the sewing mechanism to move around the surface of the fabric.
Derived terms: long-arm jurisdiction
long arm of the law
Related terms: armedness
longarmed
secular arm
coria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of corium
wase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /weɪs/
Forms: form: wases
Etymology: From Middle English wase (“torch”), related to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wase (“bundle of straw, torch”), Danish vase (“wisp of straw, bundle”), Swedish vase (“a sheaf”).
Senses: examples: text: a waze of strawe in his hande.
ref: 1565, Thomas Harding, A Confutation of a Booke Intituled An Apologie of the Churche of England:
glosses: A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head.
apophysitis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /əˌpɒfɪˈsaɪtɪs/
Etymology: From apophysis + -itis.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Inflammation of an apophysis, a bony tubercle.
wos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: She wos real good to 'em all, she wos, ma'am.
ref: 1876, Edward Everett Hale, “Phillip Nolan's Friends; or, 'Show Your Passports!'”, in Scribner's Monthly, volume XII, number 1, page 20:
glosses: Eye dialect spelling of was.
examples: text: But there wos John, he had his two han's up,
ref: 1983, William Forbes Marshall, John the Liar:
glosses: was
ELAS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: Roumeli belonged to ELAS, and the commander who first took him into his particular band was proudly and overtly Communist.
ref: 1994, Louis de Bernières, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Minerva, published 1995, page 190:
text: Looting and street fighting between armed gangs loyal to the Rallis government and to ELAS became daily occurrences in the city.
ref: 2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Country, Penguin, published 2020, page 285:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Initialism of Greek People's Liberation Army.
mesh numbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mesh number
pulmonary edema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulmonary edemas
form: pulmonary oedema
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The accumulation of fluid in the tissue of the lungs.
argents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of argent
kiteboarded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of kiteboard
noncontributor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncontributors
Etymology: From non- + contributor.
Senses: glosses: One who is not a contributor.
noncontributors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncontributor
goyish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɔɪ.ɪʃ/
Forms: form: more goyish
form: most goyish
form: goyishe
form: goyisch
form: goyische
Etymology: From goy + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: "Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime Jell-O is goyish. ... Italians are Jewish. Greeks are Goyish..."
ref: 1983 September 1, Judith Appelbaum, “PAPERBACK TALK”, in The New York Times:
glosses: Of or relating to a goy, not Jewish.
Synonyms: non-Jewish
un-Jewish
Derived terms: anti-goyish
retentivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retentivities
Etymology: From retentive + -ity.
Senses: synonyms: retentiveness
glosses: The ability to retain, potential for retention.
topics: sciences
glosses: The capacity to retain magnetism after a magnetizing action.
proferts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of profert
retentor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retentors
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin retentor, from retentare, from retinere (“retain, hold back”), from re- + tenere.
Senses: glosses: A muscle which holds a body part in place, notably in extended or retracted position
clinique
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cliniques
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of clinic.
cliniques
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clinique
directoire
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Directoire.
colin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colins
Etymology: From French colin, properly a diminutive of Colas, contracted from Nicolas (“Nicholas”).
Senses: examples: text: To this belongs the Colin or Quail of New England and Partridge of the South […]
ref: 1859, Samuel Griswold Goodrich, Illustrated natural history of the animal kingdom, volume 2, page 244:
text: Many efforts have been made to improve and increase the variety of our game stock, but whereas the Barbary partridge, the willow grouse, the colin, bob-white, button quail, and even tinamou have been tried and failed […]
ref: 1923, Thomas Alfred Coward, Bird haunts and nature memories, page 206:
glosses: The American quail or bobwhite, or related species.
colins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colin
overflow pool
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overflow pools
Senses: synonyms: infinity-edge pool
glosses: A type of swimming pool or reflecting pool that has at least one edge over which water overflows, creating a dramatic visual effect.
piscines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of piscine
porno-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɔːnəʊ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nəʊ
Forms: form: porn-
Etymology: From πορν- (porn-), the stem of the Ancient Greek πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”). Sense 2 from porno(graphy) and porno(grapher), both ultimately also from πόρνη (pórnē, “prostitute”).
Senses: qualifier: now rarely productive
glosses: Relating to prostitutes or prostitution.
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or constituting pornography.
Derived terms: pornerastic
pornocracy
pornocrat
pornosophical
Habsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈhæps.bɜːɹɡ/
Forms: form: Hapsburg
Etymology: Borrowed from German Habsburg, according to legend from Habichtsburg (“hawk's castle”) (Habicht (“hawk”) + Burg (“castle”)).
Senses: glosses: An Alpine castle in Aargau canton, northern Switzerland.
glosses: A Swabian noble family named after it, which became the ruling (hereditary) dynasty of Austria, at times other countries (mainly in Iberia and the former Burgundian territories) and supplied successive (elected) emperors of the Holy Roman Empire.
Synonyms: sense: dynasty
word: Habsburgers
Derived terms: Habsburger
Habsburgian
Habsburg jaw
Habsburg lip
Habsburg Monarchy
Habsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈhæps.bɜːɹɡ/
Forms: form: Habsburgs
Etymology: Borrowed from German Habsburg, according to legend from Habichtsburg (“hawk's castle”) (Habicht (“hawk”) + Burg (“castle”)).
Senses: examples: text: Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.
ref: 2025 April 8, Sarah Stock, “Five Common Myths About White People — Debunked”, in Rift TV:
glosses: A member of the Habsburg noble family.
Habsburg
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈhæps.bɜːɹɡ/
Etymology: Borrowed from German Habsburg, according to legend from Habichtsburg (“hawk's castle”) (Habicht (“hawk”) + Burg (“castle”)).
Senses: glosses: Relating to the Habsburg family and dynasty.
cherubically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cherubically
form: most cherubically
Etymology: From cherubic + -ally.
Senses: glosses: In a cherubic way.
Synonyms: angelically
heelprint
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heelprints
Etymology: From heel + print.
Senses: glosses: A partial footprint left by a heel.
heelprints
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heelprint
gardening leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Goodchild had accepted an offer to move from UBS to Coutts, and because the two banks are in direct competition he was, as he expected to be, put straight on to "gardening leave".
ref: 2008 August 1, Melissa Viney, “The secret garden”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
text: Until September Mr Orcel was head of the investment bank at Switzerland’s UBS. He had been due to succeed José Antonio Álvarez in April, after “gardening leave”.
ref: 2019 January 19, “Andrea Orcel’s move from UBS to Santander falls through”, in The Economist, →ISSN:
glosses: Garden leave.
antonymously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more antonymously
form: most antonymously
Etymology: From antonymous + -ly.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: In an antonymous way.
garden leave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gardening leave
Etymology: In reference to the time a person can work on their garden during their paid leave.
Senses: examples: text: We think he's going to start working for our competitor, so we've put on him on garden leave so he doesn't take all of our latest ideas.
text: The use of a garden leave clause means that the employee is allowed to stay at home (in the garden!) on full pay but is not allowed to work for anyone else during the life of the notice period.
ref: 2004, Janice Nairns, Employment Law for Business Students, second edition, Pearson Education, →ISBN, page 128:
glosses: A period of paid leave before termination of employment, often including non-compete contract clauses.
untrampled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + trampled.
Senses: examples: text: None the less there is no trace of childish depredations^([sic]) in the grounds or buildings: lawns are green and untrampled, though open and free to everyone; walls are unscrawled; the place is as beautifully kept as a private estate.
ref: 1955, Concrete Quarterly, numbers 24-39, page 47:
glosses: Not trampled.
Aufklärer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Aufklärers
form: Aufklärer
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from German Aufklärer.
Senses: topics: history
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: An enlightener.
A thinker of the Aufklärung or Enlightenment.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: An enlightener.
A thinker of any given Aufklärung or enlightenment.
Flying Fortress
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Boeing B-17, a United States WWII heavy bomber, based upon a reputation for toughness and reliability, as well as its relatively heavy defensive armament at the expense of bombload.
Related terms: superfortress
sabino
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sabinos
Senses: glosses: Any of various trees:
bald cypress (Taxodium distichum).
glosses: Any of various trees:
ahuehuete (Taxodium mucronatum)
glosses: Any of various trees:
rock cedar (Juniperus ashei)
glosses: Any of various trees:
Magnolia splendens
glosses: A pinto horse with a white spotted pattern.
Related terms: overo
tobiano
sable antelope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sable antelopes
Etymology: probably from its sable black coloring
Senses: examples: text: I saw a rhinoceros, buffalo (a large herd), eland, quagga, and sable antelope, the most beautiful of all the bucks, not to mention many smaller varieties of game, and three ostriches which scudded away at our approach like white drift before a gale.
ref: 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
glosses: A large antelope, of species Hippotragus niger, of eastern and southern Africa.
wikipedia: Chobe National Park
Related terms: sable
sableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being sable
Synonyms: blackness
gloominess
gloom
darkness
sably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more sably
form: most sably
Etymology: From sable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a sable manner
Synonyms: blackly
darkly
pigs in a poke
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pig in a poke
dursn't
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: darsen't
form: darsn't
form: durstn't
form: dursen't
Etymology: From durst + not.
Senses: examples: text: Dursn’t jump off a gate, dursn’t tweedle, dursn’t go on a slide, dursn’t stop a girl hittin’ her.
ref: 1913, D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers,, page 126:
text: If he had been a man, he would a been there instead of making his sons do what he dursn’t.
ref: 1930, William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying,, page 153:
glosses: Contraction of durst not.
Synonyms: daredn't
jenny wren
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jenny wrens
Senses: examples: text: There would have been no one to superintend him, except a squirrel perhaps or a jenny wren, at which he might have winked.
ref: 1955, Robin Jenkins, The Cone-Gatherers, Canongate, published 2012, page 75:
glosses: The wren, Troglodytes troglodytes, especially as considered (in nursery-rhymes, etc.) as the wife or sweetheart of robin redbreast.
examples: text: But Rogers had married beneath him, and the sight of the pursy upstart [...] sitting there, in satin and feathers, lording it over his own little Jenny Wren, was more than Mahony could tolerate.
ref: 1917, Henry Handel Richardson, chapter 6, in Australia Felix, page 115:
text: Female Superb Blue Wrens lack the bold pattern and colour of the male. They are often referred to by the common name of "Jenny-wren".
ref: 1975, Malcolm McNaughton, Australian Birdlife Illustrated, page 50:
glosses: a female blue wren, or a male blue wren in non-breeding plumage.
glosses: Synonym of herb Robert.
synonyms: word: herb Robert
aneurysm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈan.jʊɹ.ɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈæn.jəɹ.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: aneurysms
form: aneurism
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνεύρυσμα (aneúrusma, “a widening, a dilation”), from ἀνευρύνω (aneurúnō, “to dilate”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + εὐρύς (eurús, “wide”).
Senses: examples: text: About 120,000 people were helping with the two-week annual harvest and “obviously you’re going to have some accidents”, he said. Every year, “one or two people” died from heart failure or aneurysms, he added.
ref: 2023 September 14, “France investigates deaths of four Champagne workers in heatwave”, in The Guardian, sourced from Agence France-Presse, →ISSN:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal blood-filled swelling of an artery or vein, resulting from a localized weakness in the wall of the vessel.
Derived terms: aneurysmal
aneurysmatic
aneurysmectomy
aneurysmorrhaphy
macroaneurysm
microaneurysm
mycotic aneurysm
pseudoaneurysm
aneurism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈan.jʊɹ.ɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈæn.jəɹ.ɪz.əm/
Forms: form: aneurisms
Senses: examples: text: Give me a swift death, she thought — a hammer blow to the head, the sudden aneurism, the proverbial bus.
ref: 2024, Kate Atkinson, Death at the Sign of the Rook, Doubleday, page 263:
glosses: Alternative spelling of aneurysm.
Derived terms: aneurismal
microaneurism
Arsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arses
Etymology: From Latin Arsis, from Ancient Greek ἄρσις (ársis, “elevation”).
Senses: glosses: Raising of the voice in prosody, accented part of a metrical foot
datagramme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: datagrammes
Etymology: From data + -gramme.
Senses: examples: text: While on the subject of datagramming, I want to thank Allan Dubost of Dibdon Purlieu in Hampshire for sending me a series of datagrammes which will enable Visicalc users to load VC files from a menu. Not only can his datagrammes provide you with a catalog of the files on any VC data disc, but the loading of any file can be done by keying /SL followed by h single letter, even if the full name of the file actually consists of 30 characters. How does Allan do it? All will be revealed in a month or two.
ref: 1983 April, Bill Allen, “Assembly language programming – in easy-to-take doses”, in Windfall: The International Apple Microcomputer Users’ Magazine, volume 2, number 10, Hazel Grove, Greater Manchester: Database Publications, →OCLC, page 42, column 1:
text: The basis of our architecture is the PIM-SSM IPv6 layer where a flow of data is sent from one source to a set of receivers. This set of flows in the networks is called a multicast channel. Of course, based on IP, the channel handles datagrammes, without reliability.
ref: 2001, Michel Diaz, Roberto Canonico, Luis Costa, Serge Fdida, David Hutchison, Laurent Mathy, Andreas Meissner, Stephane Owezarski, Rolland Vida, Lars Wolf, “GCAP: A New Multimedia Multicast Architecture for QoS”, in Protocols for Multimedia Systems: 6th International Conference, PROMS 2001 […] (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2213), Berlin: Springer, →ISBN, →ISSN, Introduction, page 104:
text: The data units of the application protocols are usually transported either in the segments of a TCP connection or in the datagrammes of the UDP protocol. TCP segments and UDP datagrammes are transported in IP packets that in turn are sent in protocol data units of the Layer 2 protocols used on the different communication links between source and destination computer (for example, Ethernet, FDDI, ATM).
ref: 2003, Günter Schäfer, translated by Hedwig Jourdan von Schmoeger, “Firewall-Relevant Internet Services and Protocols”, in Security in Fixed and Wireless Networks: An Introduction to Securing Data Communications, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, part II (Network Security), chapter 13 (Internet Firewalls), page 272:
glosses: Alternative spelling of datagram.
antiphlogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more antiphlogistic
form: most antiphlogistic
Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”) + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Messengers went off for her physician and medical man. They came, consulted, prescribed, vanished. The young companion of Miss Crawley, at the conclusion of their interview, came in to receive their instructions, and administered those antiphlogistic medicines which the eminent men ordered.
ref: 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 14, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: Counteracting inflammation.
glosses: Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.
antiphlogistic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antiphlogistics
Etymology: From anti- + Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”) + -istic.
Senses: examples: text: Inflammatory glossocele must be combated by antiphlogistics.
ref: 1845, Robley Dunglison, Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science, page 338:
topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A plant or remedy that reduces inflammation.
antiphlogistics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of antiphlogistic
speciesist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: speciesists
Etymology: From species + -ist, first use appears c. 1975 in the publications of Richard D. Ryder.
Senses: antonyms: non-speciesist
glosses: A proponent of speciesism.
speciesist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more speciesist
form: most speciesist
Etymology: From species + -ist, first use appears c. 1975 in the publications of Richard D. Ryder.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to speciesism.
speciesists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of speciesist
helioelectric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From helio- + electric.
Senses: glosses: Describing electric power generated by the rays of the sun.
Coordinate terms: heliovoltaic
photoelectric
photovoltaic
powersat
PV
solar electric
solar power
solar voltaic
SPS
SSP
SSPS
voltaic
Derived terms: heliohydroelectric
Related terms: electric
electrical
electricity
helio-
helioelectrical
helioelectricity
cervical vertebrae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cervical vertebra
barrulets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barrulet
crosses crosslet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross crosslet
hypertensively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From hypertensive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a hypertensive way.
crosses flory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cross flory
aguelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aguelike
form: most aguelike
Etymology: From ague + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ague.
Synonyms: feverlike
aldermanlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more aldermanlike
form: most aldermanlike
Etymology: From alderman + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an alderman.
Synonyms: aldermanic
asslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more asslike
form: most asslike
Etymology: From Middle English asse lyke; equivalent to ass + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an ass (the animal).
auntlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more auntlike
form: most auntlike
Etymology: From aunt + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an aunt.
Synonyms: auntish
auntly
bowlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbəʊlaɪk/
Forms: form: more bowlike
form: most bowlike
Etymology: From bow + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a bow (bent frame for firing arrows).
brooklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brooklike
form: most brooklike
Etymology: From brook + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brook.
Synonyms: streamlike
brotherlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more brotherlike
form: most brotherlike
Etymology: From brother + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a brother.
Synonyms: brotherly
fraternal