cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
Oceano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: examples: text: They spent most of that first summer in a campground in California, near the town of Oceano, central coast.
ref: 2020, Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel, Picador (2021), page 245:
glosses: A census-designated place in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States.
proximo
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From Latin proximō (“on the next”).
Senses: examples: on the 3rd proximo
glosses: Of next month.
Synonyms: word: prox.
Coordinate terms: english: of last month
translation: of last month
word: ultimo
english: of this month
translation: of this month
word: instant
proxime
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /pɹɑksɪm/
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin proximus. See proximate; compare proximo.
Senses: examples: text: proxime causes
glosses: Next; following; immediately preceding or following.
Related terms: proxime accessit
prud'homme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpruːdɒm/
ipa: /pɹuˈdʌm/
rhymes: -uːdɒm
rhymes: -ʌm
Forms: form: prud'hommes
form: prudhomme
Etymology: Borrowed from French prud'homme. Compare prude.
Senses: glosses: An honorable, upstanding man.
glosses: A male member of an employment tribunal or labor court in certain French-speaking countries, formed of employers and employees.
prud'hommes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prud'homme
pactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paction
pactions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paction
Salvatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Salvatorian
form: most Salvatorian
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Society of the Divine Savior (Societas Divini Salvatoris in Latin), a Roman Catholic religious order.
Salvatorian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Salvatorians
Senses: glosses: A member of the Society of the Divine Savior.
Salvatorians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Salvatorian
piratic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more piratic
form: most piratic
Etymology: From Latin pīrāticus, from Ancient Greek πειρᾱτικός (peirātikós); equivalent to pirate + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of piratical.
Derived terms: biopiratic
Torquemadan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /tɔɹkəˈmɑːdən/
Forms: form: more Torquemadan
form: most Torquemadan
Etymology: From Torquemada + -an.
Senses: examples: text: For the crime of asserting their rights, for daring to question the status quo, they find themselves subjected to days of almost Torquemadan torture.
ref: 2004, Keith Perry, The Kingfish in fiction: Huey P. Long and the modern American novel, page 50:
glosses: Of or pertaining to Tomás de Torquemada (1420–1498), prominent leader of the Spanish Inquisition.
bawbees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bawbee
bodle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bodles
form: boddle
Senses: glosses: A former Scottish copper coin of less value than a bawbee, worth about one-sixth of an English penny.
bodles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bodle
boddle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boddles
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bodle.
boddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boddle
deditio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin dēditiō.
Senses: examples: text: A deditio implied a clear duty for the victorious party to treat his former enemy leniently, and the conditions for surrender were often arranged in advance.
ref: 2002, Sverre Bagge, Kings, Politics, and the Right Order of the World in German Historiography c. 950–1150, page 164:
text: The ritual of deditio was ostentatiously emotional, with tears of contrition both signalling submission and calculated to encourage a formal pardon from a king who risked losing face by failing to show clemency.
ref: 2016, Peter H. Wilson, The Holy Roman Empire, Penguin, published 2017, page 617:
glosses: In medieval Europe, an act of ritualized submission and request for mercy, performed before a monarch or other feudal lord.
brain freezes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brain freeze
Augie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Augustus + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Augustus, from Latin.
augites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of augite
recloak
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recloaks
form: recloaking
form: recloaked
form: recloaked
Etymology: From re- + cloak.
Senses: examples: text: That is why it is necessary to analyze the story by Chretien de Troyes, before examining the numerous aspects that have recloaked the legend.
ref: 1999, Jean Markale, The Grail: The Celtic Origins of the Sacred Icon, page 5:
text: Dierlam thus simultaneously recloaks herself as Helen Melon and reminds us that the figure before us does not exist solely as a character or performance.
ref: 2001, Jana Evans Braziel, Kathleen LeBesco, Bodies out of bounds: fatness and transgression, page 270:
glosses: To cloak again or anew.
recloaks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recloak
recloaking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recloak
recloaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recloak
disproofs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of disproof
goalhangers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of goalhanger
snowshed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snowsheds
Senses: examples: text: Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
glosses: Alternative form of snow shed.
snowsheds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snowshed
machairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of machair
ingénu
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ingénus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ingenu.
picnic egg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: picnic eggs
Etymology: Suitable to be taken on a picnic.
Senses: examples: text: […] Scotch eggs, picnic eggs and chicken and meat croquettes.
ref: 1984, Food Processing, volume 53, page 21:
glosses: A small Scotch egg made with chopped egg rather than a whole one.
picnic eggs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of picnic egg
ingénus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ingénu
lightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: līʹtə-bəl
ipa: /ˈlaɪtəbəl/
rhymes: -aɪtəbəl
Etymology: From light (“to illuminate, shine, ignite”, verb) + -able (“capable of”, suffix forming adjectives).
Senses: synonyms: illuminable
glosses: Capable of being illuminated or made light or bright; able to affix with a light.
synonyms: ignitable
glosses: Capable of catching fire or being ignited.
Derived terms: word: unlightable
Related terms: word: relightable
rosalgar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: I can make the most subtle sauces yield up their secrets--whether it be white arsenic, rosalgar, mercury sublimate, or cantharides.
ref: 1926, Hope Mirrlees, chapter 26, in Lud-in-the-Mist:
glosses: realgar
SFAICT
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: Buffy's "stirring speech", which SFAICT boils down to "We can't fight this thing, we can't beat it, so we're going to fight it and beat it." […] ¶ SFAICT, Giles doesn't interact physically with anything or anybody in the course of this episode.
ref: 2003 March 20, David Chapman, “Repost of discussion thread for 7X10 (S7 Spoilers)”, in uk.media.tv.buffy-v-slayer (Usenet):
synonyms: word: AFAIAA
english: all either synonymous or nearly so
translation: all either synonymous or nearly so
word: AFAIAC
word: AFAIC
word: AFAICMO
word: AFAICT
word: AFAIK
word: AFAIR
word: SFAIAA
word: SFAIK
word: TMK
word: to my knowledge
word: to the best of my knowledge
word: TTBOMK
glosses: Abbreviation of so far as I can tell.
scrilla
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskɹɪl.ə/
rhymes: -ɪlə
Forms: form: skrilla
Etymology: Bay Area slang amongst many other terms for money of variously obscure allusions. Likely a blend, the constituents of which can be seen in the same area’s scratch (“money”) + bills, the -a being from its frequency in other words for money including moola, mazuma, and mozzarella. Also possibly from the Italian-American slang usage of scarola, meaning “endive” or “lettuce” in Italian but also “money” or “dollar bill” in Italian-American slang. In a similar way, possibly derives from Spanish escarola.
Senses: examples: text: back up bro, cuz crooks is in the house man,
a player for life with major game, going insane,
Paul Lane in the dark room studio spittin tight flows, late fact,
overbound tracks tryna get paid fact,
straight out of the haze, that cold world’s records and player faze,
I took the criminal road out of young age so I can get paid,
cuz I am all about my scrilla, on the forilla,
the Bay Area’s getting scarier cuz northern chems are killa.
ref: 1993, Darkroom Familia, “Northern Killa Cali” (2:16–2:39 from the start), in From the Barrio with Love, Remastered edition, published 1999:
text: Bitch isn't in debt, she's just got a good scam for getting strangers to send her some scrilla.
ref: 2002 September 9, Rai, “Re: OT: N'Sync AstroNOT!!!”, in alt.music.pearl-jam (Usenet):
text: "Who cares? I get to be the hot chick in the video. Do you know how much scrilla video hos are raking in these days? […]
ref: 2007, Abiola Abrams, Dare, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 193:
text: But I gotta dip, I gotta get at the cake / Lotta scrilla to make
ref: 2012, Azealia Banks, “Liquorice”, in 1991:
text: This guy thinks he's big 'cause he's got a bit of scrilla
ref: 2016 April 2, “Afghan Business (Afghan Dan Send)”, performed by Dylan Brewer and Little T (Josh Tate):
text: Fuck the police, they locked him up and took his scrilla
ref: 2016 June 10, BlocBoy JB, “No Chorus, Pt. 5”, in Who Am I:
qualifier: Bay Area; African-American Vernacular and Chicano; Bay Area; African-American Vernacular and Chicano
glosses: Money
wikipedia: Bay Area
heres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of here
badgemaking
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From badge + making.
Senses: glosses: The manufacture of badges.
occipitotemporal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛmpəɹəl
Etymology: From occipito- + temporal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the occiput and temporal lobe.
plowland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: plowlands
Etymology: Equivalent to plow + land.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ploughland.
Hypernyms: land
plowlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plowland
ploward
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The plover (wading bird).
fileserver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fileservers
form: file server
Etymology: From file + server.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A server used to share files with other computers.
Hypernyms: server
fileservers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fileserver
phalluslike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more phalluslike
form: most phalluslike
Etymology: From phallus + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a phallus.
semenlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more semenlike
form: most semenlike
Etymology: From semen + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of semen.
lobelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lobelike
form: most lobelike
Etymology: From lobe + -like.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a lobe.
seshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sesh
seshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sesh
mazurek
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mazureks
Etymology: From Polish mazurek.
Senses: glosses: A kind of Polish cake baked at Easter, typically made from pastry with a layer of butter sponge cake on top, sometimes affixed with marmalade, and topped with nut-based icing and candied fruits.
potestates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of potestate
potestate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊtəsteɪt/
Forms: form: potestates
Etymology: From Middle English potestat, from Old French potestat, from Latin potestās, potestātem.
Senses: examples: text: For our vvreſtling is not againſt fleſh and bloud : but againſt Princes and Poteſtats, againſt the * rectors of the vvorld of this darkenes, againft the ſpirituals of wickednes in the celeſtials [translating caelestibus].
ref: 1582, The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ: […] (Douay–Rheims Bible), Rheims: Iohn Fogny, →OCLC, Epheſians 6:12, page 524:
glosses: A chief ruler; a potentate.
softmodem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: softmodems
Etymology: From software + modem.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A modem with minimal hardware capabilities, designed to use a host computer's resources to perform most of the tasks performed by dedicated hardware in a traditional modem.
Hyponyms: Linmodem
Winmodem
scriptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scriptors
Etymology: From Latin scrīptor, to avoid the etymological link between author and authority.
Senses: examples: text: Although this literary exercise has been used to question the validity of Drew's book, the little biographies he offered acquire a worthy literary dimension if read using Foucault's critique to the Barthesian scriptor.
ref: 2021, Vicent Cucarella Ramon, Benjamin Drew: The Refugee. Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada, page 44:
topics: literature
media
publishing
glosses: A writer, regarded as producing a work but not as providing its explanation (which is instead determined by the reader), according to the theories of Roland Barthes.
softmodems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of softmodem
venatio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: venationes
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin venatio. Doublet of venison and venation.
Senses: glosses: The hunting and slaying of wild animals as a form of entertainment in Ancient Roman amphitheaters.
venationes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of venatio
recontextualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: recontextualizations
Etymology: From re- + contextualization.
Senses: examples: text: Mazzucchelli particularly has it in for Willy Ilium, a snooty, priapic little choreographer whose work consists of postmodern appropriation and recontextualization.
ref: 2009 July 26, Douglas Wolk, “Shades of Meaning”, in New York Times:
glosses: The process or result of recontextualizing.
decontextualization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːkənˌtɛkstʃəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/
Forms: form: decontextualizations
Senses: glosses: The process or result of decontextualizing.
recontextualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of recontextualization
decontextualizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of decontextualization
Winmodem
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Winmodems
Etymology: Blend of Windows + modem; from a trademark of U.S. Robotics.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: Linmodem
glosses: A softmodem designed to work with the Microsoft Windows operating system.
wikipedia: U.S. Robotics
Winmodems
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Winmodem
Cabinda
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An exclave and province of Angola, claimed by some factions as a republic.
Derived terms: Cabindan
Cabindan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Cabindan
form: most Cabindan
Etymology: From Cabinda + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Cabinda.
Cabindan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Cabindans
Etymology: From Cabinda + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Cabinda.
Cabindans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cabindan
God's green earth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: No way on God's green earth is that going to happen.
text: [A] MEC model that will do nothing on God's green earth but take two steps forward, say 'Pleased to meet you, sir,' shake hands, then take two steps back...
ref: 1958, Isaac Asimov, Lenny:
text: Few places on God's green earth are as imbued with primordial magic as those bordering the phantasmagoric waters of Fundy.
ref: 1999, Dwain Campbell, Tales from the Frozen Ocean, page 8:
text: And with regard to the Toad Island bridge, junior, there's not a damn thing you or anyone else on God's green earth can do to stop it.
ref: 2001, Carl Hiaasen, Sick puppy:
glosses: The world.
Derived terms: on God's green earth
Related terms: green earth
jump drive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jump drives
Etymology: (USB flash drive): A trademark name of flash drives owned by Lexar.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
synonyms: word: data stick
word: disk on key
word: flash drive /flashdrive
word: jump drive /jumpdrive
word: key drive
word: memory drive
word: memory stick
word: pen drive /pendrive
word: thumb drive
word: USB
word: USB drive
word: USB key
word: USB stick
glosses: A USB flash drive.
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
synonyms: hyperdrive
glosses: A means of travelling faster than light by jumping from one point to another in space.
Coordinate terms: sense: FTL drive
word: hyperdrive
sense: FTL drive
word: warp drive
jump drives
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump drive
hyperjump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyperjumps
Etymology: From hyper- + jump.
Senses: topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: A jump that transports some physical object immediately from one place to another, as by a hyperdrive or jump drive.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A form of Turing jump in hyperarithmetic.
hyperjumps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hyperjump
multiviewer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: multiviewers
Etymology: From multi- + viewer.
Senses: glosses: A combination of software and hardware permitting multiple displays to be shown together on a single display.
multiviewers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiviewer
subprocedure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subprocedures
Etymology: From sub- + procedure.
Senses: examples: text: It would consist of a schedule of the common types of legal services (divided into subtypes or subprocedures) with a unit rather than dollar amount specified for each. Each unit might be the rough equivalent of one hour of an attorney's time […]
ref: 1973, The Oregon State Bar Bulletin, volume 34, page 7:
glosses: A procedure forming part of a larger procedure.
topics: computer
computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
science
sciences
synonyms: subroutine
glosses: A procedure that can be called by higher-level procedures as part of their operation.
subprocedures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subprocedure
subposets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subposet
polysystemicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polysystemic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being polysystemic.
tracker mortgage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracker mortgages
Senses: topics: business
finance
glosses: A variable-rate mortgage where the amount of interest paid on the loan is linked to the Bank of England's base rate by a fixed differential.
Synonyms: tracker
tracker mortgages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracker mortgage
Antonine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (86-161) or his reign or of the emperors in his dynasty
Derived terms: Nerva-Antonine
fatelike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more fatelike
form: most fatelike
Etymology: From fate + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of fate.
clawfoot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: clawfeet
Etymology: From claw + foot.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A condition of the human foot in which the sole of the foot is distinctly hollow when bearing weight, i.e. it has a fixed plantar flexion.
glosses: A foot of this kind.
glosses: A decorative foot on a bathtub etc. resembling a claw.
Related terms: clawfooted
clawfeet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clawfoot
clawfooted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: claw-footed
Etymology: From claw + footed.
Senses: glosses: Having decorative feet that resemble claws.
raw_tags: of bathtubs etc.
Related terms: clawfoot
nonplantar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + plantar.
Senses: glosses: Not plantar.
nonplankton
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + plankton.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to plankton.
plantwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From plant + -wise.
Senses: examples: text: According to him, the top hat should be thought of as the pot from which Man grew from the head upwards, bifurcating plantwise at the hips.
ref: 2004, Stéphane Mallarmé, Philip Nicholas Furbank, Alex M. Cain, Mallarmé on fashion:
glosses: In the manner of a plant (non-animal organism).
examples: text: Another example would be a similar report, plantwise, listing departments rather than individuals.
ref: 1963, Charles W. Brennan, Wage administration: plans, practices, and principles:
glosses: In terms of plants (industrial sites).
aggriever
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aggrievers
Etymology: From aggrieve + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who aggrieves.
aggrievers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aggriever
altazimuths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altazimuth
altepetls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altepetl
unthreshed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + threshed.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes the creature is believed to be killed by the last stroke of the sickle or scythe. But oftener it is thought to live so long as there is corn still unthreshed, and to be caught in the last sheaf threshed.
ref: 1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 7, page 271:
glosses: Not threshed.
unthrashed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + thrashed.
Senses: glosses: Not thrashed (threshed).
nonboycotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + boycotted.
Senses: glosses: Not boycotted.
unboycotted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + boycotted.
Senses: glosses: Not boycotted.
unembargoed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + embargoed.
Senses: glosses: Not embargoed.
unembraced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + embraced.
Senses: glosses: Not embraced.
embodiable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From embody + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be embodied.
oleaginously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oleaginously
form: most oleaginously
Etymology: From oleaginous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an oleaginous manner.
solderless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From solder + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without the use of solder.
plumberies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of plumbery
disrelishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of disrelish
disrelishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disrelish
disrelished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of disrelish
planned economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: planned economies
Senses: topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
synonyms: command economy
coordinate_terms: market economy
mixed economy
glosses: An economic system in which government directly manages supply and demand for goods and services by controlling production, prices, and distribution in accordance with a long-term design and schedule of objectives.
command economy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: command economies
Etymology: Calque of German Befehlswirtschaft (“command economy”).
Senses: examples: text: Some scholars continue to blame the USSR's command economy for its 1991 collapse.
text: Following some National Socialist economists, we may distinguish three types of economies existing within Germany: a competitive economy, a monopolistic economy, and a command economy […]
ref: 1942, Franz Neumann, Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, New York: Harper and Row, page 291:
text: Willy Neuling saw three fundamental types of economic order, namely individualism, monopolism, and command economy (Befehlswirtschaft), and believed that a quite new type of economic theory, indispensable for analyzing the “command economy,” was in the offing […]
ref: 1943, Albert T. Lauterbach, Economics in Uniform: Military Economy and Social Structure, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, page 82:
text: Khrushchev is turning the top-heavy administrative machinery of a gigantic command economy upside down. He is breaking overnight the customary links, thus clogging the well-worn channels of command; he is driving all the most competent higher administrators into frantic opposition […]
ref: 1957 September 24, Richard Löwenthal, “Party Vs. State”, in Problems of Communism, volume 6, number 5, page 1:
text: An expansion of tourism [sc. in Yugoslavia] is one purpose of the measure. It is also part of another move by Yugoslavia away from the Soviet-style “command” economy. When Marshall Tito broke with Stalin, his country's economy was organized on the Russian pattern […]
ref: 1965 July 29, “Yugoslavia Tries Incentives”, in The Times, number 56386, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11:
text: Until now, the highly centralised command economy has worked better in East Germany than in other Comecon countries, especially the Soviet Union. But now it is being called on to propel East Germany into the micro-electronics age and to close the 30 per cent gap in labour productivity compared with West germany.
ref: 1984 January 31, Leslie Colitt, “How a wage tax is really a price subsidy – Leslie Colitt in Berlin reports on an important change in the East German economy”, in Financial Times, European News, page 3:
text: Yet it is hard to hand out enormous sums without turning poor countries into miniature command economies. Development projects mostly attempt to build entire industries, such as dairy farming or fisheries, from scratch.
ref: 2025 March 6, “Aiding and abetting”, in The Economist (Finance & economics section), London: The Economist Group, →ISSN, →OCLC:
topics: economics
government
politics
sciences
synonyms: centrally planned economy
directive planned economy
glosses: A planned economy in which the government (or some other central authority) is solely responsible for resource allocation, distribution and the setting of prices, with little to no market influence.
glosses: A planned economy.
Ios
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An island of the Cyclades, Greece.
haptenization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From haptenize + -ation.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The reaction of an antigenic compound (a hapten) with a carrier protein in order to stimulate an immune response.
supplicat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplicats
Etymology: Latin, he supplicates.
Senses: qualifier: universities
glosses: A petition, especially onewritten, with a certificate that the conditions have been complied with.
supplicavit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supplicavits
Etymology: From Latin supplicāvit.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A writ issued by the King's Bench or Chancery for taking the surety of the peace against a person.
tenuate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tenuates
form: tenuating
form: tenuated
form: tenuated
Etymology: From Latin tenuatus, past participle of tenuare (“to make thin”).
Senses: glosses: To make thin; to attenuate.
vindices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vindex
sweat gland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sweat glands
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: sudoriferous gland
sudoriparous gland
glosses: An exocrine gland found under the skin in mammals for regulating body temperature.
all's
Language: English
Part of speech: contraction
Senses: examples: text: Everything will be fine when all's said and done.
glosses: Contraction of all is.
glosses: Contraction of all has.
examples: text: All's I know is that there are still many expressions missing.
text: [Turtle, playing flute and prancing:] All's I can say, if you want spring to hustle along you gotta encourage it.
 [Albert:] An' all's I can say is how can you be so fey?
ref: 1960 January 10, Walt Kelly, Pogo, Sunday, comic strip, →ISBN, page 268:
glosses: Contraction of all as (“all that”).
digamy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈdɪ.ɡə.mi/
Forms: form: digamies
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin digamia (“twice married”), from Ancient Greek διγαμία (digamía, “bigamy”), δίγαμος (dígamos), from δίς (dís, “twice”) + γάμος (gámos, “marriage”). By surface analysis, di- + -gamy.
Senses: glosses: A second marriage (as after the death or divorce of a spouse)
Synonyms: digamism
deuterogamy
Derived terms: digamist
digamous
Related terms: di-
-gamy
bigamy
sweat glands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sweat gland
lignicide
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lignicides
Etymology: From ligno- + -cide.
Senses: glosses: A woodcutter.
magophony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μαγοφόνια (magophónia), from μάγος (mágos) and φόνος (phónos, “slaughter”).
Senses: glosses: The slaughter of magi or priests.
machine politician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: machine politicians
Senses: examples: text: It wasn't that these ward bosses were universally bad men, but the qualities that made for a successful machine politician or boss were the opposite of those that made for an honest public servant.
ref: 2021, Mark Lawrence Schrad, Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 413:
glosses: A politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends.
Related terms: political machine
UAEs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of UAE
exquires
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of exquire
exquire
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: exquires
form: exquiring
form: exquired
form: exquired
Etymology: From Latin exquīrere. See exquisite.
Senses: examples: text: That cloſe and moſt inennerable Pander
That paſſeth all our ſtudies to exquire
ref: 1603, George Chapman, Bussy D'Ambois:
glosses: To search into or out.
chronotopic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpɪk
Etymology: From chrono- + -topic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to a specific time and place
Related terms: chronotope
chronotopically
chronotopicity
chronotopographic
devouress
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: devouresses
Etymology: Shortened from devoureress, from the Old French devoureresse, feminine form of devoreor.
Senses: examples: text: She was a devouress of men, exhausting one and then moving on to the next.
text: The devotee of the East cited the so-called Tourfan Madonna as being in his opinion an evolution of the Goddess Marichi, who after being a cruel devouress of children gradually evolved into their solicitous guardian, becoming the spiritual comrade of Kuvera, god of fortune and wealth.
ref: 1930, Nicholas Roerich, “The Great Mother”, in Shambhala, New York, N.Y.: Frederick A[bbott] Stokes Company, →OCLC, pages 280–281:
text: In the New Kingdom, this new aspect of death as enemy was condensed into the "Devouress", the monster that sat beside the scale at the Judgement of the Dead, ready to swallow the heart of any deceased person if it was laden with guilt when examined and thus found to be too heavy.
ref: 2005, Jan Assmann, Death and salvation in ancient Egypt, Cornell University Press, page 149:
glosses: A female devourer.
devouresses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of devouress
Gehenna
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɡəˈhɛ.nə/
Etymology: Borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin gehenna, from Ancient Greek γέεννα (géenna), from Hebrew גֵּיהִנּוֹם (ge'henom, “hell”, literally “valley of Hinnom”), named after the Valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem, which was constantly filled with the waste of the city, which was then burnt. Heinous deeds are also associated with this valley, as during the time when Jerusalem was ruled by non-Jews (referred to in scriptures simply as 'pagans') child sacrifice was practiced there.
Senses: examples: text: Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of Gehenna?
ref: Matthew 23:33
glosses: In rabbinical literature and Christian and Islamic scripture, the place where the souls of the wicked go after death, where they suffer eternal damnation or annihilation.
glosses: Hell.
examples: text: School was Gehenna for the restless student.
glosses: A place of suffering and misery.
examples: text: The people obeyed his commandment, and succeeding ages followed the example, and Gehenna became the general sink of the city, and the receptacle of all its pollutions.
ref: 1833, Selumiel, or a visit to Jerusalem, etc, page 185:
text: By the fifth century C.E., however, confusion about the tradition led to transference of the reputed site of Gehenna to the Kidron Valley, on the eastern side of Jerusalem.
ref: 1991, Bible Review:
glosses: The valley of Hinnom outside Jerusalem.
Synonyms: word: Gehenom
word: Gehennom
word: Gehinom
word: Gehinnom
english: Islamic
translation: Islamic
word: Jahannam
impendent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more impendent
form: most impendent
Etymology: From Latin impendēns.
Senses: examples: text: Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall.
ref: 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 2, line 177:
glosses: impending; threatening
Synonyms: imminent
in the offing
proximate
impending
succedes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of succede
succumbent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /səˈkʌmbənt/
Forms: form: more succumbent
form: most succumbent
Etymology: From Latin succumbens, present participle.
Senses: examples: text: Reason succumbent to Faith
ref: 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. B.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:
glosses: submissive; yielding
halfpipes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of halfpipe
postea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈpɒstiə/
Forms: form: posteas
Etymology: From Latin posteā (“after those things”).
Senses: examples: text: 1821, Arnold v Mundy, N.J. Lexis 2.
[…]and upon coming in of the Postea there was a rule to shew cause why that nonsuit should not be set aside and a new trial granted.
topics: law
glosses: The return of the judge before whom a cause was tried, after a verdict, of what was done in the cause, which is endorsed on the nisi prius record.
train-wreck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: train‐wreck
form: train-wrecks
Senses: examples: text: Harmon, the fireman lodger, passing through the kitchen on his way out to work, had paused to tell Saxon about the previous day's train-wreck in the Alviso marshes, and of how the engineer, imprisoned under the overturned engine and unhurt, being drowned by the rising tide, had begged to be shot.
ref: 1913, Jack London, chapter 14, in Valley of the Moon:
glosses: Dated form of train wreck.
developmentalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From developmental + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Most fundamentally, Sachs argues, developmentalism advocates the wrong values. Under developmentalism, the economy dominates society rather than the more rational opposite.
ref: 2006, Mark Mattern, Putting Ideas to Work, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 325:
text: Nevertheless, the strong political reasons which supported developmentalism had vanished before the World Bank made its diagnosis.
ref: 2007, Costas Lapavitsas, Beyond Market-Driven Development, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: By invoking developmentalism as more than a statist project for economic growth and one that is also led by an imperative to generate well-being among citizens, I focus on the discursive and other practices through which developmentalism is experienced as a condition, a mode of being and a lived experience.
ref: 2014, Sumi Madhok, Rethinking Agency: Developmentalism, Gender and Rights, Routledge, →ISBN:
text: When President Dwight Eisenhower took office in the United States in 1953, he took a decisive stand against developmentalism, which he regarded as a threat to the commercial interests of America's multinational companies.
ref: 2017, Jason Hickel, “The Age of the Coup”, in The Divide […] , London: William Heinemann, →ISBN:
glosses: An economic theory which states that the best way for Third World countries to develop is through fostering a strong and varied internal market and imposing high tariffs on imported goods.
Related terms: developmentalist
neo-developmentalism
barfolicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barfolicious
form: most barfolicious
Senses: examples: text: Using just one font to display each record, if you printed 1500 records, FMP7 would dump 1500 copies of the font into the PostScript/PDF output. Barfolicious!
ref: 2005 March 8, Greg Pratt, “Re: FMP7 bug: writing PDFs on Mac Quartz”, in comp.databases.filemaker (Usenet):
text: Oh, barfolicious! Accusing a gay person of heterophobia is like accusing a Jew of Naziphobia.
ref: 2008 January 20, "Chief Thracian" (username), "Re: Under Attack", in alt.religion.shamanism and other newsgroups, Usenet
glosses: Alternative spelling of barfalicious.
victualage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From victual + -age.
Senses: examples: text: I could not proceed to the schoolroom without passing some of their doors, and running the risk of being surprised with my cargo of victualage.
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XVII:
glosses: Food.
barfalicious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barfalicious
form: most barfalicious
Etymology: From barf + -licious.
Senses: examples: ref: 1992 October 2, crispen, “Barfalicious Tunes and Artists”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet):
text: alt.support.diabetes is always fertile ground for finding truly self-indulgent, navel-gazing posts (and I fear every day that this is some ugly side effect of diabetes) but this post* was especially barfalicious: ¶ […]
ref: 2000 October 17, REP, “More Stupidity”, in alt.support.childfree (Usenet):
text: JoAnne "cutesy child names only vaguely barfalicious" Schmitz
ref: 2008 June 11, JoAnne Schmitz, “Re: How far will you go to help poor Bartle butle?”, in alt.folklore.urban (Usenet):
glosses: Disgusting, (metaphorically) vomit-inducing.
suppurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suppurative
form: most suppurative
Etymology: From the Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Of a disease or medical condition, causing suppuration: producing, or causing the production of, pus.
Derived terms: word: chronic suppurative otitis media
word: suppuratively
suppurative
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suppuratives
Etymology: From the Modern Latin suppūrātīvus, from suppūrō.
Senses: glosses: A medicine that causes suppuration.
Related terms: suppurant
suppuration
open sets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of open set
quominus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin quōminus.
Senses: examples: text: a quominus clause
topics: law
glosses: A writ and legal fiction that (until the late 19th century) allowed the Court of Exchequer to obtain a jurisdiction over cases normally brought in the Court of Common Pleas, based on having the plaintiff in a debt case claim that he was a debtor to the king, and that the defendant's debt prevented him paying the king.
brown butter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: A preparation of unsalted butter in which the butterfat and milk solids are allowed to separate and brown over a heat, used in French pastry or as a sauce.
Synonyms: beurre noisette
nut-brown butter
obes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obe
absit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absits
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin absit (“let (him or her) be absent”), the third-person singular present active subjunctive of absum (“be absent”).
Senses: examples: text: In the evening, after some difficulty, he persuaded his tutor to give him an absit to sleep at Huntingdon that night, and drove over there after dinner in a fly with Egerton, Castleton, and Grey.
ref: 1868, George Charles L. Tottenham, Charlie Villars at Cambridge, page 198:
text: Another associated matter was the subject of a discussion, on one occasion only, on the effect of an absit on a student's residence if he used it to be away from Cambridge from Saturday to Monday 'as is allowed at at least one College'.
ref: 1983, W. W. Grave, Fitzwilliam College Cambridge, 1869-1969, page 53:
text: An exeat was needed to be away for the night and, in theory at least, an absit for the greater part of the day.
ref: 1992, Eric Lionel Mascall, Saraband: The Memoirs of E.L. Mascall, →ISBN, page 56:
text: The following week he wrot her. 'It is a most shameful thing that he should keep me on like this...I am awfully cross because now I am not able to come home for an absit [overnight leave] on Thursday which I very much wanted to do.'
ref: 2015, William Manchester, The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, →ISBN:
glosses: Formal permission to be away from a college for the greater part of the day or more.
absit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absits
Etymology: Borrowed from Amharic አብሲት (ʾäbsit, “proofing dough”).
Senses: examples: text: A portion of the fermented paste may be mixed with three parts of water and boiled, resulting in an absit.
ref: 1987, Larry R. Beuchat, Food and Beverage Mycology, →ISBN, page 296:
text: The cooking gelatinizes the starch and makes the absit viscous.
ref: 2011, Elke Arendt, Fabio Dal Bello, Gluten-Free Cereal Products and Beverages, →ISBN, page 135:
text: An absit is not made, and the baking is carried out on an open hotplate.
ref: 2012, S P Cauvain, Breadmaking: Improving Quality, →ISBN, page 764:
glosses: A portion of fermenting dough diluted to a paste with water and then cooked.
ades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: aides
AIDS
aids
Senses: glosses: plural of ade
deest
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desunt
Etymology: From Latin dēsum (“I am missing”).
Senses: glosses: Placed after a catalogue abbreviation to indicate that this particular work does not appear in it.
desunt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deest
desis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desi
Hank Marvin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Cockney rhyming slang to rhyme with starving. Hank Marvin (born 1941) is an English musician.
Senses: glosses: Starving; very hungry.
wikipedia: Hank Marvin
heteropteran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heteropterans
Etymology: From translingual Heteroptera + -an.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any of very many insects of the suborder Heteroptera
hospitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hospital + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: wasting away of infants in long-term institutional care, caused by lack of contact with caregivers
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A spoiled or degenerate condition of the body, due to long confinement in a hospital, or the morbid condition of the atmosphere of a hospital.
brothel creeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brothel creepers
Senses: examples: text: And yet, with the national celebration of teds in the 1970s, drape coats and brothel creepers entered into the canon of permanent English style.
ref: 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 9, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:
glosses: A type of soft shoe with a crepe sole.
courbettes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of courbette
brothel creepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brothel creeper
huntaway
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: huntaways
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Huntaway.
juvenilize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: juvenilizes
form: juvenilizing
form: juvenilized
form: juvenilized
Etymology: From juvenile + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To maintain in a juvenile state.
leptotene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leptotenes
Etymology: From French leptotène, corresponding to lepto- (“thin”) + -tene (“ribbon”).
Coined by Hans von De Winiwarter in 1900 and in English by Edmund B. Wilson in 1912.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The first part of the prophase of meiosis, characterized by threadlike chromosomes
Synonyms: leptonema
Derived terms: leptotenic
preleptotene
mesogastrium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mesogastria
form: mesogastriums
Etymology: From meso- (“middle”) and Latin gaster (“belly”).
Senses: examples: text: The mesogastriums were extracted en bloc from the stomach, straightened and measured for their length and width.
ref: 2015 November 14, “Detection and Characterization of Metastatic Cancer Cells in the Mesogastrium of Gastric Cancer Patients”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: mesogaster
glosses: The part of the embryonic mesentery that includes the stomach
micropterous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more micropterous
form: most micropterous
form: micropteran
Etymology: From micro- + -pterous.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: Having small, sometimes merely vestigial, wings.
micrurgy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From micro- + -urgy.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: The manipulation of individual cells, using very small instruments and a microscope
Derived terms: micrurgist
Related terms: micrurgical