cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bombastical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bombastical
form: most bombastical
Etymology: From bombast + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they were out of proportion, overthrown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them self-deceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly; whenever they are at variance with their professions, and violate the unwritten but perceptible laws binding them in consideration one to another; whenever they offend sound reason, fair justice; are false in humility or mined with conceit, individually or in the bulk--the Spirit overhead will look humanly malign and cast an oblique light on them, followed by volleys of silvery laughter.
ref: 1750, Richard Burton, Masters of the English Novel:
text: My translator shall here have the full benefit of his own bombastical nonsense.
ref: 1829, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two:
text: To heap up that incessant iteration about thieves, murderers, housebreakers, assassins, bandits, bravoes with their hands dripping with blood and their maw gorged with property, desperate paramours, bombastical players, the refuse and rejected offal of strolling theatres, bloody buffoons, bloody felons--all this was as unjust to hundreds of disinterested, honest, and patriotic men who were then earnestly striving to restore a true order and solid citizenship in France, as the foul-mouthed scurrility of an Irish Orangeman is unjust to millions of devout Catholics.
ref: 1907, John Morley, Burke:
glosses: bombastic
bottomy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bottomy
form: most bottomy
Etymology: From bottom + -y.
Senses: examples: text: Describing Wilson's rich, bottomy contralto in musical terms doesn't quite work.
ref: 1990 November 9, Neil Tesser, “Cassandra Wilson”, in Chicago Reader:
text: But though there's definitely power in the bottomy drumming of Angela Horton--whose setup includes a timpani--on their eponymously titled debut (on Blue Mountain's Black Dog label), the Satyrs usually choose not to, favoring eerie southern-gothic balladry with a Floydian psychedelic tinge and the occasional Middle Eastern twinge.
ref: 2000 October 20, Monica Kendrick, “Spot Check”, in Chicago Reader:
text: Burrell is at his fiery best, attacking bottomy chords with sledgehammer power--there's not a ragtime riff in sight.
ref: 2003 November 21, Peter Margasak, “Full-Blown Trio”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: having a deep pitch
bpm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bpm
Senses: examples: text: If you’re very physically active, you might have a resting heart rate under 60 beats per minute. Competitive athletes can have resting heart rates as low as 40 bpm or so.
ref: 2024 March 15, “Heart Rate”, in Cleveland Health:
topics: cardiology
entertainment
lifestyle
medicine
music
sciences
glosses: Initialism of beat per minute.
braveries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bravery
breastful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breastfuls
form: breastsful
Etymology: From breast + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: Enough for Him whom cherubim Worship night and day, A breastful of milk And a mangerful of hay; Enough for Him whom angels Fall down before, The ox and ass and camel Which adore.
ref: 1900, Harrison S. Morris, In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV):
text: And again he inhaled a prodigious breastful of the mountain air. "
ref: 1910, Algernon Blackwood, The Human Chord:
text: I had expected him to be a middle-aged man with a breastful of medals, with whom I would have to be formal; but Dunn was actually two months younger than myself.
ref: 1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter XII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 136:
text: There were conjurers and singers and highland dancers wearing breastsful of medals, funny stories and recitations by blushing boys, and finally the choir again.
ref: 1947, J. F. Hendry, Fernie Brae: A Scottish Childhood, Polygon Books, published 1987, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: The amount that a breast will carry or hold.
breastfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breastful
brothelry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɹɒθəlɹi/
ipa: /ˈbɹɔθəlɹi/
Etymology: From brothel + -ry.
Senses: examples: text: Peter did not thus teach at Rome: Paul did not so live at Rome: they did not practise brothelry, which these do openly: they made not a yearly revenue and profit of harlots: they suffered no common adulterers and wicked murderers to go unpunished.
ref: 1888, John Jewel, The Apology of the Church of England:
glosses: Prostitution, especially in brothels.
ziarats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ziarat
ytt
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of yet.
yf
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of if.
yf
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: Row 3. P1, yb, sl1 purlwise, yf, pbf, p1.
ref: 1997, Jo Sharp, Knitted sweater style: inspirations in color, page 62:
topics: business
knitting
manufacturing
textiles
glosses: Initialism of yarn forward.
100th
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of hundredth.
Related terms: hundred
accoucheuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accoucheuse
Z bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z boson
Z-bosons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Z-boson
vermillions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vermillion
twenty-sevenths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of twenty-seventh
basset hounds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basset hound
Black Muslims
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Black Muslim
field goals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of field goal
barologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barologist
golden opportunities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of golden opportunity
body shops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of body shop
pictura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picturae
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin pictūra (“a painting”). Doublet of picture.
Senses: examples: text: It is customary to distinguish three components in an emblem: the pictura or symbolic image or picture, accompanied by the preceding inscriptio or motto and the subsequent subscriptio, usually an explication in verse of the idea expressed in combination of the inscriptio and the pictura.
ref: 2004, Steven Paul Scher, Walter Bernhart, Werner Wolf, Essays on Literature and Music (1967-2004), →ISBN, pages 57–58:
text: Clearly, the relationship between pictura and motto became more literal in this emblem.
ref: 2010, Simon McKeown, The International Emblem: From Incunabula to the Internet, →ISBN, page 183:
text: A poem may contain things which are significant in spite of the fact that the events it describes are a mere pictura of something which never happened.
ref: 2014, Durant Waite Robertson, Essays in Medieval Culture, →ISBN, page 64:
glosses: The picture or image component of something, such as an emblem or poem, that contains a combination of imagery and text or symbols.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: The pattern of coloration.
Oi've
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪv/
rhymes: -ɔɪv
Senses: qualifier: south west England
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of I've.
Related terms: Oi
Oi'll
Oi'll
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɔɪl/
rhymes: -ɔɪl
homophone: oil
Senses: qualifier: south west England
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of I'll.
Related terms: Oi
Oi've
praesidium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praesidia
form: praesidiums
Etymology: From Latin praesidium. Doublet of presidio and presidium.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of presidium.
overproof
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)əʊvəˈpɹuːf/
enpr: ō'vər-pro͞of′
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈpɹuf/
rhymes: -uːf
Etymology: From over- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: Leeward Island Rums are but seldom brought to this country at a higher rate of strength, than eight or ten per cent. overproof.
ref: 1827, “One of the Old School” [pseudonym], chapter I, in Wine and Spirit Adulterators Unmasked, […], London: Printed for the author, by J. Robins and Co. […], →OCLC, page 30:
text: In overproof spirit, the per centage overproof always represents the quantity of water it will take to reduce it to proof. By adding its per centage overproof to 100, we obtain a number, which, multiplied by any number of gallons, and divided by 100, will give the exact number of proof gallons which is contained in the given quantity of spirit of that strength.
ref: 1851, Arnold James Cooley, “ALCOHOL”, in The Book of Useful Knowledge: A Cyclopædia of Six Thousand Practical Receipts, and Collateral Information, including Medicine, Pharmacy, and Domestic Economy. […], New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, […], →OCLC, page 35, column 1:
text: Now the rum, as has been said, was criminally overproof, and they had had no intoxicants for a long time. And so a couple of stiff drinks produced a beautiful and generous expansion of soul. The mean cabin became larger, the fire warmer and more cheerful, and life generally of a more roseate hue. They began to feel the prodigal Thanksgiving spirit, and to regret their limited opportunities for satisfying it.
ref: 1922 November 25, A[rthur] M[urray] Chisholm, “A Thousand a Plate”, in Western Story Magazine, volume XXX, number 4, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith Corporation, →OCLC, chapter II, page 93, column 2:
text: The Zombie, created by Don the Beachcomber, first appeared in 1934 as a hangover cure. […] The rule of no more than two per person was in place from the moment of its conception, due to the sheer amount of booze in the drink, not to mention the overproof rum float on top, and this still remains in place in many venues to this day.
ref: 2015, Emma Stokes, “Overproof”, in The Periodic Table of Cocktails, London: Ebury Press, Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 139:
synonyms: above proof
antonyms: underproof
glosses: Possessing a higher proportion of alcohol than proof spirit.
Synonyms: word: OP
overproof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)əʊvəˈpɹuːf/
enpr: ō'vər-pro͞of′
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈpɹuf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: overproofs
Etymology: From over- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: [E]ach degree of the hydrometer, when at or near proof, is about a quart in a hundred gallons stronger or weaker, as the hydrometer vibrates under or over the silver speck or sight on the index or upper stem; at the intermediate or strong overproofs, is about a pint in ditto; and at the low underproofs is about three pints in ditto.
ref: 1806, Peter Jonas, “Method of Ascertaining the Strength of Spiritous Liquors by Clarke’s Hydrometer”, in The Genuine Art of Gauging Made Easy and Familiar; Exhibiting All the Principal Methods Actually Practised by the Officers of His Majesty’s Revenue of Excise and Customs: …, London: Printed [by C[harles] Whittingham] for Dring and Fage, […], →OCLC, page 367:
text: Bustle, Jack, bustle. Show us the best—the very best—the over-proof that you keep for your own drinking, Jack!
ref: 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 54.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 249:
text: At a Committee of the City of London Chess Club, held on the 18th of January, it was decided to set on foot three even tourneys. In these contests the competitors in each of the tourneys play upon even terms, and they all play together. Tournament No. 1 will be of the Pawn and move strength, and there will be included in the same the strongest members of the Pawn and two moves class. Tournament No. 2 will consist of the averae players of the last-named class, and to them will be added the overproofs of the Knight strength.
ref: [1875 February, “The Month”, in W. N. Potter, editor, The City of London Chess Magazine, volume II, London: Longmans, Green, & Co., published 1876, →OCLC, pages 5–6:
glosses: A spirit possessing a higher proportion of alcohol than proof spirit.
overproof
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /(ˌ)əʊvəˈpɹuːf/
enpr: ō'vər-pro͞of′
ipa: /ˌoʊvɚˈpɹuf/
rhymes: -uːf
Forms: form: overproofs
form: overproofing
form: overproofed
form: overproofed
form: overprove
Etymology: From over- + proof.
Senses: examples: text: The product may have an open or irregular grain because of the following: a. Underproofing or Overproofing the Dough. b. Too Little Fermentation. c. Baking in an Oven That is Too Cool.
ref: 1962 August 8, “Yeast Doughs”, in Pastry Baking (Department of the Army Technical Manual; TM 10-411; Department of the Air Force Manual; AFM 146-11), Washington, D.C.: Departments of the Army and the Air Force; U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part 2 (Production of Pastry Items), section IV (Faults, Causes, and Corrections), paragraph 173, page 134, column 2:
text: [I]f the loaf is overproofed, it will not rise or brown in the oven and will taste of alcohol. Usually, even the act of moving the overproofed loaf into the oven will cause it to collapse and flatten. If this happens, punch down the loaf, reshape it, and proof again. Although the flavor will be slightly compromised, the loaf will be saved. Note: You can only save it once, and this works best if the dough is overproofed by no more than 30 to 45 minutes. If the dough has been forgotten for hours, it's hopeless.
ref: 2008, Cindy Mushet, “Yeast Breads and Rolls”, in The Art and Soul of Baking, Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, →ISBN, page 70:
text: Learn when dough is ready to be shaped. When the first rise is complete, dough should feel airy and have a lightness to it. […] With time, you will learn when the dough's lightness is good and be able to catch it before it overproofs.
ref: 2014, Tabitha Alterman, “Yeast and Wild Yeast (Sourdough) Breads: Fun with Fermentation”, in Whole Grain Baking Made Easy: Craft Delicious, Healthful Breads, Pastries, Desserts, and More: Including a Comprehensive Guide to Grinding Grains, Minneapolis, Minn.: Voyageur Press, Quarto Publishing Group USA, →ISBN, page 99, column 1:
topics: baking
cooking
food
lifestyle
antonyms: underproof
glosses: To proof (allow dough containing yeast to rise) excessively.
iron fists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of iron fist
pet hate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pet hates
Senses: synonyms: pet peeve
glosses: Something that is personally annoying; a personal dislike.
Related terms: pet name
colletin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colletins
Senses: glosses: A series of plates protecting the neck and shoulder as part of a suit of armor.
colletins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colletin
trade-winds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trade-wind
prame
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prames
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of pram (flat-bottomed boat)
prames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prame
prao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: praos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of proa.
praos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prao
colibacilli
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colibacillus
oliphaunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oliphaunts
form: olifant
form: oliphant
form: olyfaunte
form: olyphant
Etymology: From Middle English oliphaunt, olifaunt, from Old French olifant, from Latin elephantus; see elephant for more information.
Senses: examples: text: The gander, the gose, and the hudge oliphaunt, / Went with the pecok ageyne the fesaunt;
ref: 1523, John Skelton, “A ryght delectable treatyse upon a goodly garlande or chapelet of laurell”, in Poetical Works of John Skelton, published 1853, page 365:
text: His mugge so Taste and wide, I wel opine,
 An oliphaunt he might have swallow'd[.]
ref: 1876, William Curry, Jun. & Co, The Dublin university magazine: Volume 88:
text: ‘Were there any oliphaunts?’ asked Sam, forgetting his fear in his eagerness for news of strange places.
ref: 1954, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Two Towers, Random House, published 1982, →ISBN, page 283:
glosses: elephant
Crick
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: -ɪk
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish in Daventry district, Northamptonshire, England (OS grid ref SP5872).
glosses: A small village in Caerwent community, Monmouthshire, Wales (OS grid ref ST4890).
examples: Francis Crick was the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA.
glosses: A habitational surname derived from the placename.
abbey-lubbers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abbey-lubber
abessive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abessive case
abessives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abessive
ablative cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ablative case
absolutive cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of absolutive case
abstract ideas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstract idea
abstrusions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abstrusion
accipients
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accipient
acclimatements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acclimatement
accomptants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accomptant
accordments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accordment
accountable disbursing officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accountable disbursing officer
accustomances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of accustomance
acescents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acescent
achs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ach
achars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achar
achievances
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of achievance
acnodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acnode
acquiries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acquiry
acrogens
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrogen
across variables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of across variable
active fronts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of active front
action men
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of action man
virializes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of virialize
virializing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of virialize
virializing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more virializing
form: most virializing
Senses: glosses: That virializes
wrongful death statutes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wrongful death statute
femes covert
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feme covert
femes sole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of feme sole
colocasia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin colocasia.
Senses: examples: text: He says: "The manner of operating is to plant a colocasia root in a place constantly exposed to the sun, where one can water it abundantly and continuously and protect it from wind."
ref: 1913, Paul Popenoe, Date Growing in the Old World and the New, page 303:
text: Dioscorides (2.128) gives a good description of the sacred lotus, which he calls the Egyptian bean (Αἰγύπτιος κύαμος). He calls its root colocasia (κολοκασἰα). Columella (RR 8.15.4), speaking of the colocasia, which he, too, calls the Egyptian bean, says that "the middle part of the pond should be made of earth, so that it may be sown with the colocasia and other green stuff which lives in or near water and provides shade for the haunts of the waterfowl.
ref: 2002, Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski, The Natural History of Pompeii:
text: AFM surface height map and 2D profile showing the dynamic shrinking of a colocasia leaf.
ref: 2006, Bharat Bhushan, editor, Applied Scanning Probe Methods III: Characterization:
glosses: Taro; eddo.
Adam Tilers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He was his first filthy self of the meeting at Dover that time and seemed much at his ease with whip-jacks, adam-tilers and clapperdogeons.
ref: 1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford, page 175:
text: “Then Sue lifted his passkey as he turned to go back to the office.”
“Lifted?” I said. “So now you've got the lingo down? Next you'll be telling me about marks, nippers, and Adam Tilers.” The Adam Tiler bit brought a puzzled look from even Sue.
“Oh, oh, I was the misdirection,” Narlene blurted. “I sort of let my pareo slip off of my shoulder at just the right time.”
ref: 2007, Ronnie Blackwell, Spite, page 154:
glosses: plural of Adam Tiler
adats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adat
adder's-tongues
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adder's-tongue
addices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of addice
adhesive tapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adhesive tape
adessives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adessive
adipose fins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of adipose fin
Adrianopolitans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Adrianopolitan
ericius
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin ēricius.
Senses: topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: hedgehog
advancementes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advancemente
Aegis class cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aegis class cruiser
Aegis cruisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Aegis cruiser
advection fogs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of advection fog
colure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: colures
Etymology: From Latin colurus, ultimately from Ancient Greek κόλουρος (kólouros, “truncated, dock-tailed”).
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Either of two great circles (meridians) that intersect at the poles and either the equinoxes or solstices.
Coordinate terms: equinoctial colure
solstitial colure
colures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of colure
after-claps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of after-clap
affricatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affricative
affine transformations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affine transformation
affine groups
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of affine group
nanocable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanocables
Etymology: From nano- + cable.
Senses: glosses: A nanoscale cable (typically constructed from a carbon nanotube coated with titanium dioxide)
aggravatives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggravative
nanocables
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanocable
persilaaromatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Describing any class of aromatic compounds composed of a ring of silicon (rather than carbon) atoms
fluid drachm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fluid drachms
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δραχμή (drakhmḗ, “a weight and coin”).
Senses: glosses: A British unit of volume equal to 60 minims or 3.55 ml.
Related terms: drachm
fluidrachm
fluidram
scarifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskæɹɪfaɪə(ɹ)/
/ˈskɑːɹɪfaɪə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: scarifiers
Etymology: From scarify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who scarifies.
glosses: The instrument used for scarifying (as for example during plastering).
examples: text: Near-synonyms: cultivator, scuffler, grubber, horse hoe (not always precisely differentiated; dialectal usage has varied)
text: You have your scarifiers to make the ground clean.
ref: 1829, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Sir Thomas More: or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: John Murray, […], →OCLC:
glosses: An implement for working and loosening the soil; often, one with teeth or shanks that does not bring up a fresh surface.
Related terms: scarification
senteur
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French senteur.
Senses: examples: text: Much seeking there is after his guts, for the pleasant senteurs and odors wherewith they be stuffed ful.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XXVIII.]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: scent
iht
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Forms: form: IHT
Senses: examples: "God, this is so hard!" / "That's what she said! iht! :D"
glosses: Initialism of I had to.
scita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skēʹtă
ipa: /ˈskiːta/
Etymology: From Latin scīta (“things which are known”), the nominative neuter plural of scītus (“known; ascertained”), the perfect passive participle of sciō (“to know”).
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: scienda
glosses: The sum of all the political, economic, technological, scientific, military, geographical, and psychological knowledge of the masses and of their representatives.
raw_tags: in the social and political philosophy of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Pergamum
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜːɡəməm/
ipa: /ˈpɝːɡəməm/
Forms: form: Pergamon
form: Pergamus
form: Pergamos
form: Pergam.
Etymology: From Latin Pergamum, from Ancient Greek Πέργαμον (Pérgamon).
Senses: glosses: An ancient Greek city, in western Anatolia, near modern Bergama.
payday loan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: payday loans
Etymology: So called because it might help borrowers until their next payday.
Senses: hypernyms: usury
;
credit
loan
coordinate_terms: credit card
glosses: A small, short-term unsecured loan of money at an extremely high interest rate.
Related terms: loan shark
payday loans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of payday loan
partial false friend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɑɹ.ʃəl fɔls fɹɛnd/
ipa: /ˈpɑː.ʃəl fɔːls fɹɛnd/
Forms: form: partial false friends
Etymology: From partial + false friend.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: false friend
glosses: A word in a language bearing a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language, and at least one meaning in common, but not all.
malvertising
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Blend of malicious + advertising
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Internet advertising whose real intention is to deliver malware to the viewer's computer.
Related terms: malvertisement
replacable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of replaceable.
Related terms: placable
charleyhorse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: charleyhorses
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of charley horse.
yeah, no
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Forms: form: yeah no
Senses: glosses: Used sarcastically to answer "no" to a question where the negative answer should have been obvious.
examples: text: "Look at those clouds; it might rain." "Yeah, no, the weatherman says it won't rain until at least next week."
glosses: A softened negative response to a question or statement that seems plausible but is not factual.
examples: text: "I hope you weren't expecting us to finish it this week." "Yeah, no, that's fine — I figured it might not be that quick."
glosses: An agreement that the answer is negative.
glosses: An agreement; the “yeah” functions as affirmation, while the “no” could be replaced by the phrase “don’t worry.”
Related terms: no
no way
yeah right
approximability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: approximabilities
Senses: glosses: The condition of being approximable
bandhead
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bandheads
form: band head
Etymology: From band + head.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A location on a spectrum where many lines become very close together and appear as a band
circumgalactic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumgalactic
form: most circumgalactic
Etymology: From circum- + galactic.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Surrounding a galaxy
Derived terms: circumgalactic medium
quarteron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quarterons
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of quadroon.
glosses: A quarter; especially, a quarter of a pound, or a quarter of a hundred.
quarterons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of quarteron
scite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: sīt
ipa: /saɪt/
rhymes: -aɪt
homophone: cite
homophone: sight
Forms: form: scites
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of site.
balsamines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of balsamine
basaltes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basalte
displayer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: displayers
Etymology: From display + -er.
Senses: examples: text: I am a chomper of teeth and a displayer of feelings.
ref: 1993, Esther D Rothblum, Kathleen A Brehony, Boston marriages: romantic but asexual relationships among contemporary lesbians:
glosses: One who, or that which, displays.
basophiles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basophile
rainbow runners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rainbow runner
scienda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: skĭĕnʹdă
ipa: /skɪˈɛnda/
Etymology: From Latin scienda (“things which ought to be known”), the nominative neuter plural of sciendus (“which ought to be known”), the gerundive of sciō (“to know”).
Senses: examples: Coordinate term: scita
glosses: The sum of all the political, economic, technological, scientific, military, geographical, and psychological knowledge that a governing body must possess to allow it to reach logically, rationally, and morally sound conclusions.
raw_tags: in the social and political philosophy of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
counterstreaming
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From counter- + streaming.
Senses: glosses: That streams in the opposite direction
Related terms: counterstream
cryptotomography
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From crypto- + tomography.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A form of tomography that uses a series of randomly-oriented diffraction patterns to reconstruct a three-dimensional image
directivities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of directivity
globulars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of globular
permatemp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɜː.məˌtɛmp/
ipa: /ˈpɜɹ.məˌtɛmp/
Forms: form: permatemps
Etymology: Blend of permanent + temp
Senses: glosses: An employee who is officially a temp (temporary worker) but who works full time alongside permanent workers, without the stability and benefits (insurance, holiday pay, etc.) afforded to them.
markedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: markednesses
Etymology: From marked + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Using the word "comedienne" instead of "comedian" can be seen as an example of markedness.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
Derived terms: markedness constraint
shut in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shuts in
form: shutting in
form: shut in
form: shut in
Senses: examples: text: We need to shut the dog in so he doesn’t escape.
text: Well might the Sun in Darkneſs hide, / And ſhut his Glories in, / When God the mighty Maker dy’d / For Man the Creature’s Sin.
ref: 1707, Isaac Watts, “Godly Sorrow ariſing from the Sufferings of Chriſt”, in Hymns and Spiritual Songs, London: J. Humfreys, page 86:
glosses: To confine.
glosses: To completely surround or enclose.
examples: text: Then there are the golden hues of twilight shadowed in the lake, and the light veil of mist drawing across the foliage of the valley as the evening shuts in upon it.
ref: 1846, George Barrell Cheever, Wanderings of a Pilgrim in the Shadow of Mont Blanc, page 6:
glosses: To settle down, or fall; to arrive; (said of evening, etc.)
Derived terms: word: shut-in
Related terms: shut away
send away
side order
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: side orders
Senses: synonyms: side dish
glosses: A small dish served as an accompaniment to a main course or entrée.
examples: text: Instead, it brought a large helping of disbelief with a jumbo-sized side order of jealousy.
ref: 2018, Greg James, Chris Smith, Kid Normal and the Rogue Heroes: Kid Normal 2:
glosses: An accompaniment.
permatemps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of permatemp
muscle shirts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of muscle shirt
ab origine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ɪ.ni/
ipa: /æb əˈɹɪd͡ʒ.ə.ni/
Etymology: From Latin ab (“from”) + origine, ablative singular of origo (“earliest beginning, lineage, origin”).
Senses: glosses: From the origin; from the beginning.
Related terms: aborigine
aborigines
lawnchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawnchairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lawn chair.
lawnchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lawnchair
lightmap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightmaps
Etymology: From light + map.
Senses: topics: computer-graphics
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A precomputed data structure that stores the brightnesses of surfaces in a video game, etc.
Related terms: lightmapped
lightmapping
lightmaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lightmap
precompute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: precomputes
form: precomputing
form: precomputed
form: precomputed
Etymology: From pre- + compute.
Senses: glosses: To compute in advance; to precalculate.
precomputes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of precompute
precomputing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of precompute
precomputed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of precompute
precalced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Shortening.
Senses: glosses: precalculated
unrepudiated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + repudiated.
Senses: glosses: Not repudiated.
exuvium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exuvia
form: exuviums
Etymology: Perhaps from Latin exuvium, or perhaps an independent back-formation from exuvia, under the impression that exuvia is the plural of a Latin second-declension neuter noun exuvium, whereas exuvia is in reality the regularised first-declension singular of Latin exuviae.
Senses: examples: text: 1654 Simeon Ashe
Loe here th' exuvium of that heavenly soul,
Who living did by's words and works controule
The power of Sin and Satan ; and whose breath
Redeem'd poor souls from darkness, and from death,
And by bis pious Doctrine did convince
The sly Temptations of that ayery Prince.
text: 1671 Basil Valentinus, monke of the order of St Bennet: The last will and testament
Things inclining to ashes, and soot, and excrements of metals, and the exuviums or mulls of bodies Melters suppose may be taken and gotten off safely in a roasting or calcining fire, they make a great fire of wood under them, roast or calcine the metal...
...
Of ‘’Ignis candens’’, or of the glowing fire
This fire is purposely ordered upon metalline bodies, it consumeth them, being their matter is naturally inclined thereunto: This fire is of great concernment, making their bodies very malleable, their exuvium’s stay on the Float, and is the best quality they have, that they put off in that glowing the thing which will be gone, and the good thereof remains.
text: 1679 Sir Thomas Browne in a letter to his son Edward
I have sent you by Mrs. Alice Peirce, a skinne of the palme of a woemans hand, cast of at the end of a fever, or in the declination thereof; I called it exuvium palmæ muliebris, the Latin word being exuvia in the plurall, butt I named it exuvium, or exuvia in the singular number.
text: This gentleman, we learn, kept a crayfish alive in a vase for two years, and found that during each year its exuvium was shed but once.
ref: 1860 John Harper "Glimpses of Ocean Life
text: 1939 Paul Random Henson et al.: US Dept. of Agriculture. Technical Bulletin 715 Alfalfa Experiments at Stoneville, Miss.
Meconium and exuvium contained within host skin, which remains nearly intact within host puparium except when destroyed by unusual circumstances
text: 2012 David Rosen, P. DeBach: Species of Aphytis of the World
The cephalic exuvium, including the antennal cases, and the thoracic exuvium, including the leg and wing cases, are rather strongly sclerotized and are usually recognizable after emergence ...
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Synonym of exuviae.
synonyms: word: exuviae
exxy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exxy
form: most exxy
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of exy.
epicuticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epicuticles
Etymology: From epi- + cuticle.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The outermost portion of the cuticle of an arthropod or plant.
epicuticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epicuticle
procuticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: procuticles
Etymology: From pro- + cuticle.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The major portion of the exoskeleton of an insect or arthropod
Related terms: procuticular
procuticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of procuticle
lie with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: lies with
form: lying with
form: lay with
form: lain with
Senses: examples: text: That task lies with you.
glosses: To be the responsibility or duty of (someone).
examples: text: Howbeit hee would not hearken vnto her voice, but being stronger then shee, forced her, and lay with her.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Samuel 13:14:
text: While this band was not especially powerful, Shiagur was a female warlord – and one of the few remaining fertile females, at that. She had, through viciousness and cunning, parlayed her unique value into a position of power. Krogan males competed for the right to join her band and lie with her.
ref: 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Canrum:
glosses: To have sex with someone.
Synonyms: word: know
word: lie by
word: sleep with
word: copulate with
Related terms: if you lie with dogs you will get fleas
apolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀπόλυσις (apólusis, “discharge; literally, absolution”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The separation of the cuticula from the epidermis in arthropods and related groups.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A prayer of dismissal at the end of an Eastern Orthodox service
Related terms: apolytic
lockkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lockkeepers
form: lock keeper
form: lock-keeper
Etymology: From lock + keeper.
Senses: synonyms: lock operator
lock tender
glosses: The person assigned to look after a canal or river lock, operating it and organizing its maintenance.
Related terms: lock down
lockhouse
lock through
lock up
lockkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lockkeeper
fuji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: fujis
Etymology: Named after Mount Fuji, the tallest mountain in Japan.
Senses: glosses: A plain spun silk fabric.
glosses: A Nigerian musical genre.
fuji
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /fuːd͡ʒi/
Forms: form: fujis
Etymology: Short for Fujisaki, Aomori, Japan, where originally cultivated.
Senses: glosses: A large cultivar of eating apple.
nonancillary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + ancillary.
Senses: glosses: Not ancillary.
noneschatological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + eschatological.
Senses: glosses: Not eschatological.
exclaimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exclaimers
Etymology: From exclaim + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who exclaims.
exclaimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exclaimer
go to bed with
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: goes to bed with
form: going to bed with
form: went to bed with
form: gone to bed with
Senses: examples: text: After the party, she's hoping to go to bed with Sonya.
glosses: To have sex with someone.
Synonyms: lie with
sleep with
copulate with
moonsail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moonsails
Etymology: From moon + sail.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A moonraker (sail).
narghileh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narghilehs
Senses: examples: text: Leaning back, cross-legged, against the cushions, with the inseparable pipe in one’s hand, the view of the court, the water-basin, the flowers and lemon trees, the servants and dragomen going back and forth, or smoking their narghilehs in the shade—all framed in the beautiful arched entrance, is so perfectly Oriental, so true a tableau from the times of good old Haroun Al-Raschid, that one is surprised to find how many hours have slipped away while he has been silently enjoying it.
ref: 1855, Bayard Taylor, “Pictures of Damascus”, in The Lands of the Saracen; or, Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], page 123:
text: So many visits all at once entailed an amount of sweetmeats, sherbet, coffee, and narghilehs, which threatened entirely and for ever to ruin our digestion.
ref: 1872, E[dward] H[enry] Palmer, “Notes of a Tour in the Lebanon”, in Palestine Exploration Fund. Patron—The Queen. Quarterly Statement for 1872., London: […] [A]t the Society’s Office, […], and by Messrs. Bentley & Son, […]:
text: The smoking-room proper, with its mise en scène of Turkish divans, narghilehs, brass coffee-trays, and other Oriental properties, is no longer considered a necessity in the modern house; […]
ref: 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “The Library, Smoking-room, and “Den””, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 151:
glosses: Alternative form of narghile.
narghilehs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of narghileh
halfwave
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: halfwaves
form: half-wave
Etymology: From half + wave.
Senses: topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: half (especially the positive half) of a sine wave
inspiralling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of inspiral
ionizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ionization
nondipolar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + dipolar.
Senses: glosses: Not dipolar
pansharpening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pan- + sharpening.
Senses: glosses: The process of merging panchromatic and multispectral images to increase colour resolution
photodisk
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photodisks
form: photodisc
Etymology: From photo- + disk.
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: The circular area of an astronomical object that emits light
polydispersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: polydispersions
Etymology: From poly- + dispersion.
Senses: glosses: The process of making or becoming polydisperse
radiopulsars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radiopulsar
radiopulsar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: radiopulsars
Etymology: From radio- + pulsar.
Senses: glosses: A pulsar that emits only radio waves
repumping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From repump + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of repump
repumping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: repumpings
Etymology: From repump + -ing.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The use of a laser to raise an electron (in an atom or ion etc) back to a previous high state.
semianalytical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + analytical.
Senses: glosses: Partially analytical
unconsistency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unconsistencies
Etymology: From un- + consistency.
Senses: glosses: inconsistency
utricular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: more utricular
form: most utricular
Senses: examples: text: […] pericarp drupaceous, or baccate, 1—4 nuts (pyrena), which are sometimes enclosed in an utricular membrane […]
ref: 1848, Samuel Frederick Gray, Gray's Supplement to the Pharmacopoeia:
glosses: Of, pertaining to, or having utricles
tremblements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tremblement
agogo bells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agogo bell
a-holes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of a-hole
asyndetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsɪnˈdɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From asyndeton + -ic. Equivalent to a- + syndetic.
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or characterized by asyndeton, lacking conjunctions or purposefully omitting conjunctions.
Derived terms: asyndetically
asyndetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæsɪnˈdɛtɪk/
rhymes: -ɛtɪk
Etymology: From asyndesis + -etic, after the model of adjective formation in Greek.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Of, related to, or characterized by asyndesis: demonstrating an inability or diminished capacity to order thought or speech.
Derived terms: asyndetically
air parcels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of air parcel
akees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akee
alcaydes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alcayde
alfalfa weevils
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alfalfa weevil
alley oops
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alley oop