cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
clashy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: clashier
form: clashiest
Etymology: From clash + -y. Sense 1 is from the dialectal use of clash for a heavy rainfall.
Senses: examples: text: ... [not] the dress he kept for extra "clashy and clarty wark," but just his everyday fawn-coloured jeans and corduroys […]
ref: 1866, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Lizzie Larton of Greyrigg: a Novel, page 271:
text: She looked up and said, "It's rayder clashy." He assented to her remark for the rain was pouring down, and the roads were muddy and slippery[…]
ref: 1876, William Dickinson, Cumbriana; Or, Fragments of Cumbrian Life, page 81:
text: ... t' wedder wes clashy an t' rooads clarty.
ref: 1887, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the dialects of Westmorland, page 38:
text: ... it's nobbut a clashy night.
ref: 1892, Mrs. Humphry Ward, The History of David Grieve, page 203:
glosses: Wet, rainy; muddy.
glosses: That clash(es), that do(es) not match or fit stylistically.
Derived terms: clashy-clashy
clashy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈklæʃi/
rhymes: -æʃi
Forms: form: clashies
Etymology: A corruption of a form similar to khalasi, likely Marathi खलाशी (khalāśī).
Senses: glosses: A khalasi.
iliac crest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: iliac crests
Etymology: iliac + crest
Senses: examples: text: I forgot to press down in addition to in and up on her iliac crests during my patient assessment.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The visible impressions made by the ilium marking the top of the pelvis at the threshold of the torso and lower extremities.
Related terms: iliac furrow
fascia lata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fasciae latae
form: fascia latas
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: The deep fascia connective tissue surrounding the muscle of the thigh.
fascia latas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fascia lata
lupinarian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: A fragment in rather poor verse, one of the few he has written, celebrates one dark lupinarian night in which he and two companions precipitate themselves upon two poor harlots.
ref: 1946, Matthew Josephson, Stendhal: or, The Pursuit of Happiness, Doubleday & Company, page 67:
glosses: Alternative spelling of lupanarian.
cerebation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cerebations
Etymology: Presumably a variant of cerebration, from Latin cerebrum, "brain", + -ation.
Senses: examples: text: What he said, when he did speak, (whether accidentally, or through unconscious cerebation, who shall say?) was just what he would have been likely to feel under the circumstance.
ref: 1875, Edward Heneage Dering, Sherborne; or, The House at the Four Ways, Smith, Elder & Co., page 284:
glosses: The act of using the mind; thought.
superpowerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more superpowerless
form: most superpowerless
Etymology: From superpower + -less or super- + powerless.
Senses: examples: text: The idea of a practically unarmed, unshielded, and superpowerless human boy defeating what was probably the mightiest warrior of the day without any external aid is absolutely absurd.
ref: 2008, Shane Berryhill, Chance Fortune and the Outlaws:
text: The 1969 dispenser was of the short-lived superpowerless karate-chopping Wonder Woman written by the legendary Dennis O'Neil.
ref: 2001, William Bernhardt, Silent Justice, page 43:
glosses: In fiction, lacking a superpower; lacking the special attributes of a superhero or supervillain.
examples: text: Though nihilism may not be invincible, superpowers are superpowerless against it.
ref: 2003, Henry Bayman, The Secret of Islam: Love and Law in the Religion of Ethics, page lvi:
text: If Boba Fett serves as a lightning rod for anything more significant than admiration of his arresting costume and four gritty lines of dialogue, perhaps it is as the embodiment of our third-wave, superpowerless anxiety, which long predates the events of September 11, 2001.
ref: 2002, Glenn Kenny, A Galaxy Not So Far Away: Writers and Artists on Twenty-Five Years of Star Wars, page 40:
text: Yet the balance of power (or terror) is so evenly matched that the superpowers are superpowerless to use their awesome might in any situation short of an actual enemy attack.
ref: 1984, George Thomas Kurian, The New Book of World Rankings, page xviii:
glosses: Extremely powerless.
drug lords
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of drug lord
consensus theorem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The following theorem of Boolean algebra: XY+X'Z+YZ=XY+X'Z where YZ, the algebraically redundant term, is called the "consensus term", or its dual form (X+Y)(X'+Z)(Y+Z)=(X+Y)(X'+Z), in which case Y+Z is the consensus term. (Note: X+Y,X'+Z⊢Y+Z is an example of the resolution inference rule (replacing the + with ∨ and the prime with prefix ¬ might make this more evident).)
cerebations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: He spoke in a loud strong voice yet one sensed a yaw at the center of his brain which left his cerebrations as lost as Karloff's lost little voice.
ref: 1966, Norman Mailer, Cannibals and Christians, Dial Press, page 32:
glosses: plural of cerebation
temulence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin tēmētum.
Senses: examples: text: But the postcard was not invented in England until 1870, so Miss Barrett had no way of curbing her temulence to a dram of postcard-size.
ref: 1933, Osbert Burdett, The Brownings, Constable & Co. Ltd., page 44:
glosses: Intoxication, drunkenness, temulency
Related terms: temulent
temulency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin temulentia.
Senses: examples: text: Then, as quickly as was possible given our shared temulency, we staggered into the living room.
ref: 2002, Grant Jarrett, More Towels: In Between the Notes, iUniverse, published 2002, →ISBN, page 65:
text: vilenesses they commit in their wine (meaning when they know not what they do) for the deeds themselves so ignorantly committed they find pardon amongst wise judges, but for their temulency a condemnation
ref: 1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC:
glosses: Intoxication, drunkenness, temulence
Related terms: temulent
Sera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A language spoken in Papua New Guinea.
Sera
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew שָׂרָה (sará, “lady, princess”), which was originally converted from the given name שָׂרָי (saráy, “Sarai”).
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Hebrew, of occasional usage.
gaysians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gaysian
temulentive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Related to or characteristic of drunkenness; intoxicating; intoxicated.
Related terms: temulence
temulency
temulent
sanctiloquent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more sanctiloquent
form: most sanctiloquent
Etymology: From Latin sanctus ("holy) + loquens (present participle of loqui, "to speak").
Senses: glosses: Speaking of holy or sacred things.
glosses: Prone to speaking in a sanctimonious manner; preachy.
Soyer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Soyers
Etymology: Two main origins:
* Borrowed from Turkish Soyer.
* Borrowed from French Soyer.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
piss in someone's cornflakes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pisses in someone's cornflakes
form: pissing in someone's cornflakes
form: pissed in someone's cornflakes
form: pissed in someone's cornflakes
form: pee in someone's cornflakes
form: pee on someone's cornflakes
form: piss on someone's cornflakes
Senses: examples: text: Sorry to piss in your cornflakes, but my mom's got asthma, so take your cigarettes outside.
text: Okay, now I don't want to pee on your cornflakes or nothing, but how exactly are we going to get up there?
ref: 2018 November 17, “Food Hunt”, in Angry Birds on the Run, season 1, episode 2, spoken by Bomb (Baker Terry):
synonyms: word: burst someone's bubble
word: piss in someone's cornflakes
word: piss in someone's Cheerios
word: piss on someone's bonfire
word: piss on someone's chips
word: put a damper on
word: piss on someone's campfire
word: rain on someone's parade
word: shit in someone's cereal
word: shit in someone's Cheerios
word: take the wind out of someone's sails
word: upset the applecart
glosses: To disappoint or irritate someone.
comeling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comelings
Etymology: From Middle English comeling, comlynge, cumeling, cumlyng, from Old English *cymeling, equivalent to come + -ling. Cognate with Old High German chomeling, chumelinc (“a comeling”).
Senses: glosses: A comer; (person) an arrival.
glosses: An incomer.
examples: text: Faust took a deep breath. 'That is what I was going to tell you. Sadly, the comelings caught him.'
ref: 2021, Graham Masterton, The Shadow People:
glosses: A newcomer; stranger.
Synonyms: sense: newcomer
word: come-here
word: newling
word: offcomer
word: newcomer
Derived terms: outcomeling
enserf
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: enserfs
form: enserfing
form: enserfed
form: enserfed
Etymology: From en- + serf.
Senses: examples: text: It certainly did not denounce as sinful the movement to enserf a large section of the population, any more than it had challenged slavery in the ancient world; that was hardly surprising, since very often great monasteries like Cluny were in the forefront of imposing serfdom on their tenants.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 369:
glosses: To make into a serf.
Derived terms: enserfment
lichi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lichis
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish lichi, from Hokkien 荔枝 (lē-chi).
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of lychee.
put out to pasture
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts out to pasture
form: putting out to pasture
form: put out to pasture
form: put out to pasture
Etymology: From the practice of putting draft animals too old to work in a pasture.
Senses: examples: text: They've put John out to pasture and replaced him with someone who's got half his experience.
text: Your institutions were important stepping stones. Now they rot. Continuous revolution goes on and you're not with it with your alcoholic, tawdry, self-indulgent subculture. Put out to pasture your dialectic writers, they deserve a good green one, but the revolution must go on.
ref: 1978 December 23, anonymous author, “More Angry Young Men”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 22, page 2:
text: “But I’m just an old guy they put out to pasture — a simple painter,” added the 43rd president, who said he published the book to “elevate” the discourse around immigration.
ref: 2021 April 20, Glenn Thrush, quoting George W. Bush, “George W. Bush calls the current G.O.P. ‘isolationist, protectionist’ and ‘nativist.’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: put out to grass
glosses: To make someone retire, especially due to advancing age.
examples: text: That version of the program has been put out to pasture.
text: The other problem was that the electrical locomotives vibrated, […] The electrical locomotives were put out to pasture, the carriages were adapted, and Electrical Multiple Unit traction was introduced from 1903.
ref: 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: To discontinue something.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see put out, to, pasture.
lichis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lichi
honey bears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honey bear
life expectancies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life expectancy
drop a bombshell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a bombshell
form: dropping a bombshell
form: dropped a bombshell
form: dropped a bombshell
Senses: examples: text: When the two men got together to discuss contract arrangements, the challenger dropped a bombshell.
"If you lie down you can have the whole purse — $10,000," O'Brien told him.²³
ref: 2000, Dan McCaffery, Tommy Burns: Canada's Unknown World Heavyweight Champion, page 135:
text: John and Rick were knee-deep in pre-production when the client dropped a bombshell: Both of the tax services spots had been killed, but they still needed to air something in the same time frame.
ref: 2002, Lisa Hickey, Design Secrets: Advertising: 50 Real-Life Projects Uncovered, page 64:
text: "Yeah, you are my baby's daddy. Well I have to leave, but we'll be in touch."
Asia dropped a piece of paper on my desk and walked out the door with a huge smile on her face.[…]How could Asia just come in and drop a bombshell and then walk out like there was nothing to it?
ref: 2009, Marion Brown III, The Worst Part of Me, page 116:
glosses: To announce surprising or alarming information suddenly and without warning.
Synonyms: word: drop a bomb
put the moves on
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: puts the moves on
form: putting the moves on
form: put the moves on
form: put the moves on
form: put the make on
Senses: examples: text: Leo tried putting the moves on Dawn at the New Year's party.
glosses: To make an effort to gain someone's romantic or sexual interest; to try to woo or seduce.
Synonyms: sense: to gain someone's romantic interest
word: court
word: make love
word: romance
word: woo
needs-cost
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Middle English needis cost, nedes cost, from needes (genitive of need (“need”)) + cost (“means”); synchronically analyzable as a univerbation of needs + cost.
Senses: synonyms: needs must
glosses: Of necessity or need; necessarily.
stokehole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stokeholes
Etymology: From stoke + hole, after Dutch stookgat.
Senses: examples: text: A few strange dead objects lay about. Old Ives collected them and put them in the stokehole.
ref: 1954, Barbara Comyns, Who Was Changed And Who Was Dead, Dorothy, published 2010, page 10:
glosses: The aperture through which a furnace is fed or tended.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: The place in a steamship in which stokers fed the boilers with coal; a stokehold.
Synonyms: stokehold
palsy-walsy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palsy-walsier
form: palsy-walsiest
form: pally-wally
Etymology: Reduplicated from pals, + -y (adjectival suffix).
Senses: examples: text: She's gotten palsy-walsy with her in-laws lately.
synonyms: chummy
glosses: Very friendly, especially in an excessive or artificial way.
Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sam + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of Sam
Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Sam + -s (plural suffix).
Senses: glosses: plural of Sam
Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Sam + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Samantha, variant of Sam.
glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Samuel, variant of Sam.
Sams
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Variant of Sam with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
scorched-earth policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorched-earth policies
form: scorched earth policy
Etymology: See scorched earth.
Senses: examples: text: The Ethiopian Army waged a scorched-earth policy with saturation bombings and destruction of Eritrea's infrastructure.
ref: 1993 April 24, Donatella Lorch, “Eritreans Voting on Independence From Ethiopia”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2013:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A strategy that involves destroying buildings, crops, and other resources that could be useful to opponents.
examples: text: The scorched-earth policy that voters adopted toward the Tories left them with no seats in Scotland and Wales and greatly reduced numbers through the prosperous swath called Middle England.
ref: 1997 May 3, Warren Hoge, “Blair Takes Charge, Vowing 'Practicable' Policies”, in New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2013:
text: Group member Graeme Bickerdike said: "With its infilling and demolition programme currently paused, NH has adopted a scorched-earth policy of destroying habitats to ensure there are no ecological barriers to projects resuming quickly when government gives the green light.
ref: 2021 November 17, “Network News: National Highways refutes Dorset bridge removal allegations”, in RAIL, number 944, page 26:
glosses: An intentional course of action that is drastic or ruinous.
Related terms: scorched earth
scorched-earth
scorched-earth policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorched-earth policy
scorched earth policies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scorched earth policy
scorched earth policy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scorched earth policies
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scorched-earth policy.
finnocchio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Finnocchio (Florence fennel), p. 367
ref: 1919, Edward Loomis Davenport Seymour [ed.], Farm Knowledge (Doubleday, Page), volume 2, page 360
text: It is pleasing to note an increased interest in Finnocchio or Florence Fennel excellent as a salad and very good cooked or served naturally like celery.
ref: 1923, Gardeners’ Chronicle of America, volume 27, page 4:
text: 1936, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, Herbs and Herb Gardening (Medici Society), page 93⁽¹⁺²⁾
⁽¹⁾ Sweet Fennel (Fœniculum dulce) or Finnocchio, still one of the most popular vegetables in Italy, was apparently introduced into this country in early Stuart times.
⁽²⁾ Our native Fennel thrives in any soil, but Finnocchio needs a rich moist soil, frequent watering in times of drought, and when the bases of the stems swell they have to be partially earthed up, i.e. the tubers half covered.
text: 1943, Jo Pagano, Golden Wedding (Random House), pages 84⁽¹⁾ and 268⁽²⁾
⁽¹⁾ There were bowls of dried olives, swimming in olive oil and flavored with garlic and orange peel; there was celery, and sweetly aromatic finnocchio, and wafer thin Italian ham.
⁽²⁾ This was a big room, and my mother’s pride. It opened directly onto the back yard, where stood the stone oven, old-country style, in which my mother, once a week, baked her bread, and where she had her own little garden of fresh spices and Italian greens — basilica, finnocchio, Italian parsley, leaf-chicory, and so on.
text: Season and sauté a chicken in butter; add a little cream and three quartered finnocchio (already parboiled).
ref: 1945, Iles Brody, The Colony, Greenberg, page 228:
text: Sweet fennel (Foeniculum dulce) or Finnocchio appears to have been introduced into this country in early Stuart times and is a delicious vegetable if cooked in a good stock and served with a cream sauce.
ref: 1947, Norman Mosley Penzer, The Book of the Wine-Label (Home & Van Thal), page 115
glosses: Rare spelling of finocchio.
Martins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname transferred from the given name derived from the given name Martin.
Derived terms: Martins Creek
Martins Heron
Martins
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Martin
Jeffy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jeff + -y.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Jeff or Geoffrey
Jeffo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Jeff + -o.
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Jeff or Geoffrey
Tommo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Tom + -o.
Senses: examples: text: "Visit in two days though," said Tommo. "Hang in there mate, got a joey coming, we'll be sweet then."
ref: 2012, John Hoskison, Inside: One Man's Experience of Prison:
glosses: A nickname for Tom or Thomas.
scorched-earth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: scorched earth
Etymology: See scorched earth.
Senses: examples: text: The scorched-earth ad campaign directed at her opponent didn't win her many votes.
glosses: Characterized by a desire to prevail at any cost.
scorched earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 焦土 (jiāotǔ, “scorched earth; ravages of war”), originally in reference to the strategy adopted by the Chinese government in the Second Sino-Japanese War. First attested in 1937 as an idiom.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Land that has been abandoned, in the face of an advancing enemy, after the destruction of all resources on it.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The strategy of destroying all resources in an area of land in order to deny their use to an advancing enemy.
Derived terms: scorched-earth policy
scorched earth
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more scorched earth
form: most scorched earth
Etymology: Calque from Chinese 焦土 (jiāotǔ, “scorched earth; ravages of war”), originally in reference to the strategy adopted by the Chinese government in the Second Sino-Japanese War. First attested in 1937 as an idiom.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of scorched-earth.
Ads
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Adam.
Ads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ad
Char
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Shortening (of personal names).
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Charlotte
glosses: A nickname for Charlene
glosses: A short river in west Dorset, England; in full, the River Char.
Derived terms: Charmouth
Esti
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Esther.
Synonyms: Estée
Estee
Related terms: Ester
Esther
Ems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From German Ems, from the Roman name, Latin Amisia.
Senses: glosses: A river in northwestern Germany.
Related terms: Bad Ems
Emsian
Emsland
Ems
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From the clipping of Emma or Emily + -s (hypocoristic suffix).
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the female given names Emma or Emily.
Ems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ems.
Jezzer
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Jeremy or Geoff or Jeff
Siâny
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A nickname for Siân
Sian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: An anglicization of Welsh Siân, ultimately from Latin Joanna, from Koine Greek Ἰωάννα (Iōánna), from Hebrew יוֹחָנָה (Yôḥānāh, literally “God is gracious”), the feminized form of יְהוֹחָנָן (Yəhōḥānān) which produced John and its many doublets.
Doublet of Ivana, Jana, Jane, Janice, Janis, Jean, Jeanne, Jen, Joan, Joanna, Joanne, Johanna, Juana, Shavonne, Siobhan, Shane, Shaun, Shauna, and Sheena.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Welsh [in turn from Hebrew].
Sian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From Central Kurdish سیان (syan).
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Siyan.
Sian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
enpr: sēʹänʹ
enpr: shēʹänʹ
ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
Etymology: From the Postal Romanization of Mandarin 西安 (Xī'ān).
Senses: examples: text: As the day drew near it was obvious that it would not bring unmixed joy. Ominous rumors were coming from Sian in the northwest, where Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and his troops were now stationed.
ref: 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 228:
text: Chiang refused to see any Communists in Sian until Mme Chiang arrived, according to X. Chou (En-lai) went to Mme Chiang and begged her to arrange an interview with Chiang. She finally agreed. Chou was very apologetic all the time he talked to Chiang.
ref: 1968, Edgar Snow, Random Notes on Red China 1936-1945, 2nd printing, page 2:
text: After King Wu of Chou had defeated the Shang, the Chou kings continued to rule from ancestral territory, their capital Hao-ching being situated a short distance south-west of modern Sian.
ref: 1974, William Watson, The Chinese Exhibition, Times Newspapers, →ISBN, page 16:
text: On our car journey to the tomb of the First Emperor at Mount Li, some forty kilometres (twenty-five miles) east of Sian, the capital of Shensi province, we passed through Lintong, the administrative centre of an area of intensive agriculture.
ref: 1981, Arthur Cotterell, The First Emperor of China, Holt Rinehart & Winston, page 16:
text: The Chinese are not hijacking people.
So the attempt to take over an airliner flying from Sian to Shanghai and bring it to Taiwan gives indication of the increasing desperation of the mainland people.
ref: 1982 August 1, “Two incidents reveal increasing desperation”, in Free China Weekly, volume XXII, number 30, Taipei, page 1:
text: As everybody rushed up to shake hands with him it occurred to me that April 24, 1970, the day of the shooting, would be remembered by the free Chinese in the same way an earlier generation of Chinese remembered December 24, 1936—the day the Gimo returned safely from Sian after his horrifying experience at the hands of the erstwhile Young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang and other commanders who had been unhappy with the Government's continuing military campaigns against Communist remnants in Northwest China.
ref: 1983, James C. H. Shen, “Signs of Change”, in Robert Myers, editor, The U.S. & Free China: How the U.S. Sold Out Its Ally, Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
glosses: Alternative form of Xi'an.
Related terms: Sianfu
Sian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
enpr: sēʹänʹ
enpr: shēʹänʹ
Senses: glosses: An endangered language spoken in the Belaga, Sarawak District in east Malaysia. It has no written form.
Sian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʃɑːn/
rhymes: -ɑːn
enpr: sēʹänʹ
enpr: shēʹänʹ
Forms: form: Sians
Senses: glosses: A surname.
rememorize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rememorizes
form: rememorizing
form: rememorized
form: rememorized
form: rememorise
Etymology: From re- + memorize.
Senses: glosses: To memorize again.
rememorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rememorize
rememorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rememorize
rememorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rememorize
Samnium
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An ancient region of southern Italy.
Related terms: Samnian
Samnite
Bloomfieldian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Bloomfieldian
form: most Bloomfieldian
Etymology: From Bloomfield + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Leonard Bloomfield (1887–1949), American linguist and pioneer of linguistic structuralism.
Bloomfieldian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bloomfieldians
Etymology: From Bloomfield + -ian.
Senses: glosses: A supporter of Leonard Bloomfield's linguistic theories.
Bloomfieldians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Bloomfieldian
rememorization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rememorizations
Etymology: From re- + memorization.
Senses: glosses: The act of rememorizing.
santolina
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: santolinas
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of the genus Santolina of evergreen shrubs in the sunflower family.
Sapienza
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Sapienzas
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian Sapienza.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Italian.
drop a brick
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drops a brick
form: dropping a brick
form: dropped a brick
form: dropped a brick
Senses: examples: text: It was on one of those Tuesdays that I dropped a brick, the memory of which still haunts me after more than forty years. A very loquacious lady, whom I had never seen before, appeared to be talking through her nose. “Don't you think,” I said to one of my neighbours, by way of starting conversation, “that lady would be well advised to sound her trumpet less often?”
“You bet I do! I've not been able to get used to it these thirty years.”
And as I stared at him, horror-struck:
“Yes. I'm her husband.”
ref: 1978, Ambroise Vollard, translated by Violet M. MacDonald, Recollections of a Picture Dealer, Dover Publications, published 2003, page 28:
text: I remember dropping a brick when I first met her. As she at once started calling me 'Harry' in the way Americans are apt to do, the surname becoming immediately superfluous. I ventured to ask her what her Christian name was.
‘I'm not a Christian, Harry.’
ref: 1998, Harry Brewster, A Cosmopolite's Journey: Episodes from a Life, page 216:
glosses: To commit a faux pas, especially in speech, such as by tactlessly speaking of a subject that should not be mentioned.
glosses: Alternative form of drop a bombshell.
examples: text: The clumsy builder dropped a brick on his toe.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drop, brick.
sampietrini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sampietrino
santonine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of santonin.
beverageware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From beverage + -ware.
Senses: glosses: Drinking utensils collectively.
libellant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: libellants
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of libelant.
libelles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libelle
libellas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of libella
adlect
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: adlects
form: adlecting
form: adlected
form: adlected
Etymology: From adlēct-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin adlegō, an alternative spelling of allegō (“I select, choose, recruit, or elect; I admit (to or into something)”).
Senses: glosses: To choose or elect, especially to promote someone to higher office before they have served in a lower capacity.
Related terms: adlection
predooming
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of predoom
predooms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of predoom
predoomed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of predoom
hypochloraemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochloraemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of hypochloremia.
hypochloremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypochloremias
form: hypochloraemia
Etymology: By surface analysis, hypo- + chlor- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: hyperchloremia
chloremia
hypernyms: chloremia
glosses: An electrolyte disturbance whereby there is an abnormally depleted level of the chloride ion in the blood.
Derived terms: hypochloremic
Related terms: word: hypochloremic
Ersu
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: As for those who speak Ersu, Guiqlong, and Namuyl, they used to be called, pejoratively, "Xifan" (western barbarians).
ref: 1989, Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area, volumes 12-13, page 27:
glosses: A Qiangic (Sino-Tibetan) language cluster, spoken by about 20,000 people in China.
KBOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of KBO
TNOs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of TNO
Hayat
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hayats
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic حَيَاة (ḥayāh). This surname is mostly found in Pakistan.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Arabic.
men-stealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of men-stealer
men-stealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: men-stealers
form: menstealer
Senses: examples: text: In abolishing slavery, you abolish that calling of the men-stealer, and in abolishing that calling you abolish slavery.
ref: 1846, A Debate on Slavery, held in the City of Cincinnati on the first, second, third, and sixth days of October, 1845, page 429:
glosses: A slave-dealer; someone who seizes other persons to hold those persons as slave or sell them into slavery; more loosely: a slaveholder.
Related terms: man-stealer
manstealer
man-stealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: man-stealers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of manstealer.
menstealer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: menstealers
Etymology: From men + stealer.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of men-stealer.
menstealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of menstealer
man-stealers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man-stealer
Terim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname
hemitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hemi- + tone + -ic.
Senses: glosses: relating to half steps
Derived terms: anhemitonic
hemitonic pentatonic scale
anhemitonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From an- + hemitonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the absence of half steps.
Derived terms: anhemitonic pentatonic scale
traffic of influence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of influence peddling.
synonyms: word: influence peddling
indic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: indic oxide
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to indium.
distrail
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: distrails
Etymology: Blend of dissipation + trail.
Senses: glosses: A clear path through a cloud created by a passing aircraft, caused either by evaporation or freezing of water droplets in the wake.
Soyuz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɔɪjuːz/
/ˈsɔːjuːz/
Forms: form: Soyuzes
Etymology: From Russian Сою́з (Sojúz), from сою́з (sojúz, “union”).
Senses: glosses: Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space capsules
glosses: Any of a series of Soviet, later Russian spacecraft.
Any of a series of Soviet/Russian space launch rockets
Coordinate terms: Progress
Proton
Salyut
angon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæŋ.ɡɒn/
Forms: form: angons
Etymology: From Byzantine Greek ἄγγων (ángōn, “prong, hook”); ultimately of Gothic *𐌰𐌲𐌲𐌰 (*agga, “prong, hook”) and that from Proto-Germanic *angô (“hook; barb; angle”).
Senses: glosses: A type of javelin with a barbed tip, used by the Franks and the various Germanic tribes in the Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages.
Kor
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kors
Etymology: * As a Scottish surname, variant of Caw, shortened from McCaw.
* As a German surname, possibly altered from Kohr, from a short form of Konrad, or from Kur, occupational surname from Middle High German kur (“official inspector”) (see modern Kurier (“messenger, courier”)).
* As a Dutch surname, from Gronings dialect kor (“wheelbarrow, hand-truck”).
* As a Polish surname, possibly a variant of several places derived from góra (“mountain”).
* As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 高 (gāo) (see Gao) or 高 (gāo) (see Xu).
Senses: glosses: A surname.
katara
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kə.tɑɹ(.ə)/
Forms: form: kataras
form: katar
form: kitar
form: kuttar
Etymology: Borrowed from Hindustani کَٹَار (kaṭār) / कटार (kaṭār, “dagger, saber”).
Senses: glosses: An Indian push dagger with an H-shaped handle, used predominantly ceremonially, and rarely as a weapon.
push dagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: push daggers
form: punch dagger
Senses: glosses: A short bladed dagger with a handle (often T-shaped) designed to be grasped in the hand with the blade protruding out from between the fingers.
Yörük
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Yörüks
form: Yorouk
form: Yuruk
Senses: glosses: A member of a Turkish ethnic subgroup of Oghuz descent, some of whom are nomadic, primarily inhabiting the mountains of Anatolia, and partly in the Balkan peninsula.
Say
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Say blister beetle
Say syndrome
Say's law
Say's phoebe
Say-Meyer syndrome
Seven
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A river in North Yorkshire, England that flows through Rosedale to join the Rye.
apogamic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From apogamy + -ic.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to apogamy.
bec de corbin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: becs de corbin
Etymology: Borrowed from Old French bec de corbin (literally “crow's beak”).
Senses: topics: engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
synonyms: crowbill
glosses: A poleaxe with a modified hammerhead and a spike mounted on the top of the pole.
Lucerne hammer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Lucerne hammers
Etymology: Named after the town of Lucerne, in Switzerland, where it originated.
Senses: glosses: A type of poleaxe with a modified hammerhead and a sharp angled spike on its opposite side, mounted on a long pike.
holy water sprinkler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhəʊli ˌwɔːtə ˈspɹɪŋklə/
ipa: /-ˈsprɪŋkl̩ə/
ipa: /ˈhoʊli ˌwɔtəɹ ˈspɹɪŋk(ə)ləɹ/
ipa: [-ɾəɹ-]
ipa: /-ˌwɑtəɹ-/
Forms: form: holy water sprinklers
Etymology: PIE word
 *kéh₂ilos
From holy water + sprinkler, probably a variant of holy-water sprinkle.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of holy-water sprinkle.
synonyms: word: holy-water sprinkle
guandao
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡwɑnˌdaʊ/
Forms: form: guandaos
form: guan dao
Etymology: From Mandarin 關刀 /关刀 (guāndāo, “Guan Yu's halberd”).
Senses: glosses: A Chinese polearm with the blade mounted on top of the pole (as opposed to on the side like most European polearms).
brandistock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brandistocks
Etymology: From Italian brandistocco.
Senses: glosses: A short polearm that has three retractable blades concealed in its handle, which are sprung upon a thrusting action forming a three-pronged spear.
spetum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spetums
Etymology: From Italian spedo (“a spit”). Doublet of spit.
Senses: glosses: A medieval long spear with two sharp tapering blades projecting forward at roughly around 45 degrees with the blunt side facing the opponent.
Synonyms: ranseur
guisarme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guisarmes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of gisarme.
pre-primary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + primary.
Senses: examples: pre-primary education
glosses: Taking place before primary school.
bill hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill hooks
Senses: related: word: billhook
coordinate_terms: spindle#English:_spike for papers
glosses: A spiked hook used in offices and shops for hanging bills or other small papers such as receipts.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
ornithology
related: word: billhook
glosses: A sharply pointed spike growing from the tip of the upper mandible of the hatchlings of honeyguides, used to destroy the eggs and kill the chicks of the host species.
glosses: Alternative form of billhook (in its other senses)
bill-hook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bill-hooks
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of billhook.
neeze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neezes
form: neezing
form: neezed
form: neezed
form: neese
Etymology: From Middle English nesen, from Old English *hnēosan (“to sneeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *hneusan, from Proto-Germanic *hneusaną (“to sneeze”), from a merger of Proto-Indo-European *(s)knus- (“to sneeze”) and Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to gasp, pant, breathe”). See sneeze. Compare Dutch niezen, German niesen, Swedish nysa
Senses: glosses: To sneeze.
Derived terms: neesing
neese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: neeses
form: neesing
form: neesed
form: neesed
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of neeze.
Ackinchesacky
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Unami ahkinkèshaki (“stony ground”, or “hook mouth”, or “on low ground”), whence also Hackensack.
Senses: glosses: A Native American tribe from Delaware.
Synonyms: Ackenack
sarmentaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sarment + -aceous.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Bearing sarments (runners)
log cabins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of log cabin
cephalophore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cephalophores
Etymology: From Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ, “head”) + -φορος (-phoros, “bearing”), a derivative of φέρω (phérō, “I bear, I carry”); in the Christian sense, via French céphalophore, coined by Marcel Hébert in 1914.
Senses: examples: text: According to William of Worcester, quite a large number of Cornish saints were cephalophores: besides S. Nectan and S. Willow, he tells us that “there were three brothers under the name of Genesius and each one carried his head.”
ref: 1960, Gilbert Hunter Doble, The Saints of Cornwall, volume 5, page 60:
topics: Catholicism
Christianity
Roman-Catholicism
glosses: Any of a group of saints depicted in art carrying heads in their hands.
glosses: Synonym of cephalopod: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda.
synonyms: word: cephalopod
extra: a mollusk of the class Cephalopoda
premonitor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: premonitors
Etymology: From Latin praemonitor.
Senses: examples: text: Beloved, give me leave to be a premonitor, a forewarner to you in this place, and to tell you that these things must needs provoke God to heavy displeasure .
ref: 1642, Thomas Cheshire, A True Copy of that Sermon which was preached at St Pauls, page 14:
text: and if he is legitimately attended to, sedulously known, and religiously reverenced, in the way he was reverenced by Socrates, with justice and innocence, will be a predicter in things uncertain, a premonitor in things dubious, a defender in things dangerous, and an assistant in want.
ref: 1853, G. W. Bethune, “Life and Opinions of Socrates”, in Edward A. Rice, editor, The Ladies' Diadem: a Token of Friendship, page 80:
text: By power of legal suasion, forbid all emanation Of brewers' fermentation, or poisonous preparation Of spirit distillation, nor any vain libation, Producing stimulation, premonitor of desolation.
ref: 1871, John N. Stearns, The Temperance Speaker, page 89:
text: When asleep, the increase of the respirations was the premonitor of resolution.
ref: 1872 August, Alexander Edward M'Rae, “The Physiological Action of Chloral, illustrated by Experiments”, in “The” Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal, page 146:
text: The purpose of this research is to determine whether unusual animal behavior may serve as a biological premonitor of earthquakes.
ref: 1980, Summaries of Technical Reports, Volume X, page 423:
glosses: One who, or that which, gives premonition; a harbinger
examples: text: And within this erect sport-producing structure is found a columella, which may be regarded as the premonitor of a vascular system.
ref: 1905, Annual Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society- Volume 39, page 32:
glosses: A forerunner; a predecessor.
premonitor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: premonitors
form: premonitoring
form: premonitored
form: premonitored
Etymology: From Latin praemonitor.
Senses: examples: text: 4. premonitor all eating;
ref: 1980, Sheldon D. Rose, A Casebook in Group Therapy: A Behavioral Cognitive Approach, page 145:
text: The premonitoring group recorded food, amount, time, and place of eating prior to eating.
ref: 1984, Michael Merbaum, Michael Rosenbaum, “Self-Control Theory and Technique in the Modification of Smoking, Obesity, and Alcohol Abuse”, in Cyril M. Franks, editor, New Developments in Behavior Therapy, page 82:
text: They are only to premonitor construction activities to be expected.
ref: 1995, George van Leeuwen, “A Hedonic Approach to Output Price Indices for Construction”, in Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Research Conference of the U.S. Department of Commerce, page 745:
glosses: To monitor beforehand.
grizzler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹɪzləɹ/
rhymes: -ɪzlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: grizzlers
Etymology: From grizzle + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who grizzles.
grizzlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grizzler
sardelle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sardelles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of sardel (“sardine”).
interoperator
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From inter- + operator.
Senses: examples: text: The interoperator tariffs for 2.5G data services will be a function of duration, data volume, and QoS.
ref: 2003, John Hoffman, GPRS demystified, page 265:
glosses: Between operators.
Related terms: intraoperator
Cimbrian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbɹiən/
Forms: form: Cimbrians
Etymology: From Cimbri + -an.
Senses: glosses: A member of a Germanic people who live in parts of northeast Italy.
examples: text: The Teutones settled in Germany and Gaul; the Cimbrians invaded Italy, where they were defeated by Marius.
ref: 1861, Joseph Haydn, A Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations, page 211:
text: [W]e find mention of the Cimbrians in the Danish or Cimbrian peninsula[. ...] The Cimbrians and Teutons are described as tall and slightly built men [...]
ref: 1907, Henry Smith Williams, The Historians' History of the World, page 392:
text: I, however, putting these things aside or leaving them out for a short while, have found it better to begin with the migration of the Cimbrians from their home in their peninsula [Jutland].
ref: 2002, Karen Skovgaard-Petersen, Historiography at the Court of Christian IV (1588-1648): Studies in the Latin Histories of Denmark by Johannes Pontanus and Johannes Meursius, The Chronological Narrative of Pontanus's Rerum Danicarum historia, page 171 (translating Pontanus's Latin into English)
glosses: A member of the Cimbri, especially when they are considered to have been a Germanic people and to originate from Jutland (the "Cimbrian peninsula").
Cimbrian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪmbɹiən/
Etymology: From Cimbri + -an.
Senses: glosses: The Bavarian Germanic language of these people, which is a variety of German.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Cimbrian terms
curculio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/
Forms: form: curculios
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Curculio, from Latin curculiō (“weevil”).
Senses: synonyms: acorn weevil
nut weevil
glosses: Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.
Derived terms: plum curculio
uptrain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: uptrains
form: uptraining
form: uptrained
form: uptrained
Etymology: From up- + train.
Senses: glosses: To train up; educate.
Derived terms: uptraining
Quinean
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Quinean
form: most Quinean
form: Quinian
Etymology: From Quine + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Willard Van Orman Quine, an American philosopher.
Stihl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the brand of a manufacturer of chainsaws and other handheld power tools. See Stihl on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Senses: glosses: A type of large industrial saw, usually cordless with a petrol motor and a large circular cutting blade.
Related terms: grinder