cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
engineman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enginemen
Etymology: From engine + -man.
Senses: examples: text: The engineman having only to turn two cocks, so as to connect the steam with the one or the other vessel."
ref: 1879, John Sutherland Sinclair, Earl of Caithness, Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects:
text: It was only when I sat, an hour later, disgustedly reflecting on this incident, that I remembered that there was always some 'hand-working' of the engine during the cage-descents, an engineman reversing the action by a handle at every stroke of the piston, to prevent bumping.
ref: 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud:
text: When a train has to ascend the incline, it first runs down, engine first, from the station about 60 or 70 yards. Then comes behind it the aforesaid truck, or one similar, which, being attached to an endless wire rope, a communication is made by means of the electric telegraph to the engineman at the top of the incline, when the fixed engine begins to work, and the train, partly pulled by the locomotive before, and partly pushed by the truck behind, rapidly ascends, taking somewhere about three minutes to get up.
ref: 1957 September 24, M. D. Greville and G. O. Holt, “Railway Development in Manchester—1”, in Railway Magazine, page 620, from Herapath's Journal:
coordinate_terms: fireman
glosses: A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine.
examples: text: As an aid to this end, and that the railroad companies may derive the highest efficiency from the man employed as a locomotive engineman, a code of questions is given him, and it is expected that the preparation necessary to correctly answer the questions will indicate how well he has progressed.
ref: 1911, anonymous author, The Traveling Engineers' Association:
text: A few keen enginemen, such as Driver Rosewarne of York, could coax good work out of them when engaged in heavy East Coast express service, but to most footplate crews, especially firemen, they were rather heartbreaking and backbreaking machines, and gradually were relegated to secondary or fast goods duties.
ref: 1949 May and June, R. A. H. Weight, “A Short-Lived Pacific Class”, in Railway Magazine, page 196:
text: At one corner of the room three enginemen were lost in serious discussion; in other corners, mécaniciens and chauffeurs were quietly talking, playing draughts, reading or eating.
ref: 1961 March, 'Balmore', “Driving and firing modern French steam locomotives”, in Trains Illustrated, page 147:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
coordinate_terms: fireman
glosses: A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine.
A locomotive engineer; (sometimes) any footplateman.
coordinate_terms: fireman
glosses: A man who operates, manages, and maintains an engine.
A navy sailor who operates, manages, and maintains engines and various other shipboard equipment (such as one with the United States Navy EN occupational rating).
Derived terms: enginemanship
enginemen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of engineman
enolases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of enolase
enrapt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more enrapt
form: most enrapt
Etymology: From en- + rapt.
Senses: examples: text: Come Hector, come, go back, / Thy wife hath dreamt, thy mother hath had viſions, / Caſſandra doth foreſee, and I my ſelfe, / Am like a prophet ſuddenly enrapt, / To tell thee that this day is ominous: / Therefore come back.
ref: c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Famous Historie of Troylus and Cresseid. […] (First Quarto), London: […] G[eorge] Eld for R[ichard] Bonian and H[enry] Walley, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], signatures L, verso – L2, recto:
text: The tune carried among the lanes and dwellings of the village, and naked feet pad-padded quickly up over dust and the grass; the audience distributed itself within and without the head-man's hut, and listened enrapt; and the head-man felt the glow of satisfaction that a London hostess feels when she has hired for money the most popular drawing-room entertainer of the day, and her guests condescend to enjoy, and not merely to exhibit themselves as blases.
ref: 1898, Cutcliffe Hyne, A Master of Fortune:
text: Yet, like some sweet beguiling melody, So sweet we know not we are listening to it, Thou, the mean while, wast blending with my thought,-- Yea, with my life and life's own secret joy,-- Till the dilating soul, enrapt, transfused, Into the mighty vision passing, there, As in her natural form, swelled vast to Heaven!
ref: 1904, Bliss Carman, The World's Best Poetry Volume IV.:
text: She sits enrapt as Shakespeare turns the kaleidoscope of life for her, or stands enthralled by Victor Hugo's picture of the human soul.
ref: 1918, Francis B. Pearson, The Vitalized School:
glosses: fascinated, enraptured
eny
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Senses: examples: text: FREE--and that the schulehouses war a d--d sight thicker than the bugs in Miles Privett's beds! and thet's saying a heap, for ef eny on you kin sleep in his house, excep' he takes to the soft side of the floor, I'm d--d.
ref: 1862, Various, Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1.:
text: Ther stranger pays fur eny bow they make, for any smile they give.
ref: 1893, C. C. Goodwin, The Wedge of Gold:
text: Why, he kin sing eny song and do ent cut-up antik eny of 'em kin.
ref: 1912, Al. G. Field, Watch Yourself Go By:
text: "Does de white folks in youah neighborhood keep eny chickens, Br'er Rastus?"
ref: 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of any.
glosses: Obsolete spelling of any.
epigrammatist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: epigrammatists
Senses: synonyms: epigrammist
glosses: Someone who writes an epigram (any meanings)
epigrammatists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of epigrammatist
essenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more essenced
form: most essenced
Etymology: From essence + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Oh evil was the root, and bitter was the fruit, And crimson was the juice of the vintage that we trod; For we trampled on the throng of the haughty and the strong, Who sate in the high places, and slew the saints of God. It was about the noon of a glorious day of June, That we saw their banners dance, and their cuirasses shine, And the Man of Blood was there, with his long essenced hair, And Astley, and Sir Marmaduke, and Rupert of the Rhine.
ref: 1847, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 3. (of 4):
text: Painted for ſight, and eſſenc'd for the ſmell, / Like frigates fraught with ſpice and cochine'l, / Sail in the Ladies: how each Pyrate eyes / So weak a veſſel, and ſo rich a prize!
ref: 1735, Alexander Pope, “The Fourth Satire of Dr. John Donne”, in The Works of Mr. Alexander Pope, volume II, London: […] J. Wright, for Lawton Gilliver […], →OCLC, pages 79 and 81, lines 226–229:
text: He liked the public to think of him, exquisitely habited, his long essenced hair falling about his eyes, flinging forth a torrent of musky and mellifluous improvisation; as a matter of fact he was a very hard worker, laborious in the arts of composition.
ref: 1920, Edmund William Gosse, Some Diversions of a Man of Letters:
glosses: Having an essence; scented.
Derived terms: unessenced
establishable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more establishable
form: most establishable
Etymology: From establish + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be established.
Derived terms: unestablishable
filigranes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filigrane
apple-corers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple-corer
apple dumplings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple dumpling
apple strudels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of apple strudel
approach shots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of approach shot
araneomorph funnel-web spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of araneomorph funnel-web spider
arch doxies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arch doxy
Arctic loons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arctic loon
arithmetic functions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arithmetic function
armorists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armorist
aromatherapists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aromatherapist
Arrhenius equations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Arrhenius equation
army ants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of army ant
dancing girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancing girls
form: dancing-girl
Senses: examples: text: Ovid, the amatory poet, describes a professional dancing-girl, whose subtle bodily movements are such an excitant as to provoke, in an ascetic such as the ancient Hippolytus, a priapean condition.
ref: 1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 85:
glosses: A female dancer.
wikipedia: Women in dance
Hyponyms: bayadere
kanchani
stripper
strip dancer
go-go girl
nautch girl
srimpi
dancing-girl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dancing-girls
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dancing girl.
arternoons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of arternoon
asbo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: asbos
Senses: glosses: Alternative letter-case form of ASBO.
geologic timescales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of geologic timescale
Razzie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Razzies
Senses: examples: text: A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto’s Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it’s Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none.
ref: 2008 March 25, Ed Gonzalez, “Chapter 27”, in Village Voice, retrieved 16 Nov 2020:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A Golden Raspberry Award, an award given for poor performances in the film world.
sex comedy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sex comedies
Senses: examples: text: Just as the screwball comedy had well-defined elements which the films in the group share, the sex comedy shares conventions of narrative and visual patterning, not only across the originating mid-1950s phase, but observable in later examples, up to the present day.
ref: 2007, Tamar Jeffers McDonald, Romantic Comedy: Boy Meets Girl Meets Genre, Wallflower Press, →ISBN, page 44:
topics: broadcasting
film
media
television
glosses: A genre of comedy film with sexual content or themes.
in one's book
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: Refers to a notional book or list of one's opinions and beliefs. Slang from the mid-1900s.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: in one's view, to one's mind
text: Clara did nothing wrong in my book.
text: Is this "the field?" Not in our book, it isn't.
ref: 1973, QST, volume 57, number 2, page 87:
text: [Jeffcoat:] I'll qualify that in a moment, but in my book I think when it comes to sheer professionalism, there's nothing quite like an American broadcaster.
ref: 1975 February 8, Kevin O'Donohue, Stan Clark, Brian McClenaughan, Frank Jeffcoat, “Four Broadcasters Compare U.S. Radio with Australian Radio - The Knockout Blow”, in Billboard, page A-7:
text: My solution, or rather Stumpf's (for in my book I am but the humble follower of the eminent Munich psychologist), was to take neither of these objectionable alternatives, […].
ref: 1978, William James, Frederick Burkhardt, Fredson Bowers, Ignas K. Skrupskelis, Essays in Philosophy, page 66:
text: That's taking things way too far in my book.
ref: 2007, Ralph A. Gessner, Deep in My Heart, page 105:
text: Around 11pm BB King appears onstage, much of his audience one over the eight, talkative but mellow, ready for what is (in my book at least) the experience of a lifetime.
ref: 2012 October 6, Ed Vulliamy, “BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen”, in The Observer:
glosses: In one's opinion.
examples: text: Today's homework is in your book. Could I borrow it?
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see in, one's, book.
spank you very much
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From spank you, formed by imitation of thank you very much.
Senses: examples: text: He giggled with that obnoxious hyena laugh he has. "Spank you very much. I know you missed me, Cindy."
ref: 2006, M Apostolina, Dark Cindy:
glosses: thank you very much
pretty please with sugar on top
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this. So, pretty please... with sugar on top? Clean the fucking car!
ref: 1994, Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary, Pulp Fiction, spoken by The Wolf (Harvey Keitel):
synonyms: pretty please with a cherry on top
glosses: Exaggerated form of please or pretty please.
scoop up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: scoops up
form: scooping up
form: scooped up
form: scooped up
Etymology: From scoop + up.
Senses: examples: text: Use this to scoop up the ice cream.
text: You need to go in the backseat, scoop up all those little pieces of brain and skull. Get it out of there. -- said by The Wolf
ref: 1994, Pulp Fiction, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: I bent down and with both hands I scooped up as much of this pissshit as I could. The green and brown clump felt like Jello as it dripped down all over my clothes. It was slithering through inbetween^([sic]) my fingers.
ref: 2003, J. Flash, An American Savage:
glosses: to pick up or clear up by scooping
examples: text: We scooped up every one of their albums as soon as they were released.
text: You put suntan lotion in a bottle and call it Joe's Suntan Lotion and people won't buy it. But you put the exact same product in the bottle, change the label to Coppertone and raise the price, and they'll scoop it right up.
ref: 2016 January 2, Gary Provost, Baffled in Boston, Crossroad Press:
glosses: To take enthusiastically.
examples: text: We must've scooped up a cold virus along with those kids.
glosses: To grab or pick up something by accident.
circumforaneous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɜːkəmfəˈɹeɪnɪəs/
Forms: form: more circumforaneous
form: most circumforaneous
Etymology: From Latin circumforāneus (“itinerant”), from circum- (“around”) + forum (“marketplace”) + -aneus (“-aneous”).
Senses: examples: text: Gyrovagues: Monks who were accustomed to wander from place to place. In modern times, perhaps, any of the various circumforaneous proselytizers who go from door to door—Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, et al.
ref: 1992, Peter Bowler, Ron Bell, The superior person's second book of weird and wondrous words, page 38:
text: It is perfect for a thirteen-year-old child of NoVA when in the throes of another fit of aimlessness and maddening, ravenous boredom in which only the entering of a mall, the circumforaneous wandering amid others of your kind, or the buying of a CD (usually more like the stealing of a CD) can cure the disease.
ref: 2008, James Boice, NoVA: a novel, page 83:
glosses: Wandering from place to place or market to market.
examples: text: The reason that this has not been the subject of extended commentary in science studies was that the path along which thermodynamics wrought its magic was unprecedentedly indirect and circumforaneous:[…]
ref: 2002, Philip Mirowski, Machine dreams: economics becomes a cyborg science, page 43:
glosses: Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex.
Related terms: extraforaneous
circumbendibus
circumfusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -uːʒən
Forms: form: circumfusions
Senses: glosses: diffusion, suffusion
Related terms: circumfuse
circumgyration
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumgyrations
Etymology: From circum- + gyration.
Senses: glosses: rotation, revolution
glosses: circling, wheeling (around)
Related terms: circumgyrate
circumgyratory
circumlittoral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumlittoral
form: most circumlittoral
Etymology: From circum- + littoral.
Senses: glosses: Around, or bordering the shore.
glosses: Describing the part of the sea bottom immediately beyond the littoral.
Related terms: circalittoral
circumlocute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumlocutes
form: circumlocuting
form: circumlocuted
form: circumlocuted
Etymology: Back-formation from circumlocution.
Senses: coordinate_terms: beat around the bush
hem and haw
glosses: To use circumlocution.
Related terms: circumscribe
circumvent
circumnutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumnutates
form: circumnutating
form: circumnutated
form: circumnutated
Etymology: From circum- + nutate.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: to bend in a direction that is continuously moving in a horizontal direction
Related terms: circumnutating
circumnutation
circumocular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + ocular.
Senses: glosses: That extends around the eye
talk about
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: talks about
form: talking about
form: talked about
form: talked about
Senses: examples: text: Talk about a loose cannon! Did you hear his TV speech?
text: "I should say yes," agreed George. "And talk about speed!" he added. "Wow! One ball he threw soaked me in the ear. I can feel it yet!" and he rubbed the side of his head reflectively.
ref: 1912, Stratemeyer Syndicate, chapter 1, in Baseball Joe on the School Nine:
text: The queen squeezes her eyes shut as she prepares to be incinerated, but the red dragon only roars—a display of both might and mercy. Fixing the queen with a stare that speaks volumes, Rhaenys wheels Meleys around and shoots off into the sky. Talk about a power move.
ref: 2022 October 16, Jenna Scherer, “An enticing House Of The Dragon crowns Westeros' new ruler”, in AV Club:
text: It seems even Kris Jenner has got the pink memo. The momager followed up Kim's post with her own, sharing a throwback pic of herself in a neon pink '80s swimsuit. […] Talk about like mother, like daughter.
ref: 2023 June 14, Alexandria Dale, “Kim Kardashian relaxes poolside in a bright pink thong bikini”, in Women's Health:
glosses: Used to draw attention to the speaker's characterization of someone or something.
examples: text: - I'm gonna wine you and dine you and give you everything you need.
- Yes! Now that's what I'm talking about!
glosses: Used to draw attention to the speaker's approval or affirmation of someone or something.
synonyms: discuss
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see talk, about.
Derived terms: talk-about-able
talk about the weather
talmbout
circumrenal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + renal.
Senses: glosses: Around the kidney
circumrotation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumrotations
Etymology: From circum- + rotation.
Senses: glosses: rotation or revolution around an axis
Related terms: circumrotate
circumscissile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sˌɜː.kəmˈsɪs.ɪl/
ipa: /ˌsɝ.kəmˈsɪs.ɪl/
Etymology: From circum- + scissile.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing any seed-vessel that splits along a circumference, with the upper part coming off as a lid.
circumscriptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumscriptive
form: most circumscriptive
Senses: glosses: That circumscribes or outlines
Derived terms: circumscriptively
Related terms: circumscription
circumscriptively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more circumscriptively
form: most circumscriptively
Etymology: From circumscriptive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a circumscriptive manner
glosses: With regard to circumscription
circumspatial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + spatial.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to the surrounding space
sowbellies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sowbelly
sowarrees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sowarree
cracka
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crackas
form: crackaz
Etymology: Modification of cracker + -a.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of cracker (impoverished white person)
crackas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cracka
Runyonesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Runyonesque
form: most Runyonesque
Etymology: From Runyon + -esque.
Senses: glosses: Reminiscent of Damon Runyon (1880–1946), American newspaperman and writer, best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era.
Related terms: Runyonese
buzz-bomb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: buzz-bombs
form: buzz-bombing
form: buzz-bombed
form: buzz-bombed
Senses: glosses: To bomb with a buzz bomb (jet-propelled missile or doodlebug).
buzz-bombing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of buzz-bomb
buzz-bombed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of buzz-bomb
rollest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: roll + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of roll
malest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of male: most male
pseudomonacidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudomonacidal
form: most pseudomonacidal
Etymology: From translingual Pseudomonas + -cidal.
Senses: glosses: That kills Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.
pseudomonades
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudomonas
nonpseudomorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + pseudomorphic.
Senses: glosses: Not pseudomorphic.
queermo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: queermos
Etymology: Blend of queer + homo
Senses: glosses: A homosexual.
queermos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of queermo
rejective
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛktɪv
Forms: form: more rejective
form: most rejective
Etymology: From reject + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: He thought by Cora's intent frown at him that she was going to state an objection to unrobing. Instead, she used a rejective wriggle to slither out of her frock, and there stood squirming, putting a shield of arms before her breasts and belly.
ref: 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 197:
text: Rejective or rebellious elements are inevitably involved, but their influence during the actual commission of delinquent acts is relatively small […]
ref: 1974, Scott G McNall, The sociological perspective: introductory readings:
glosses: Tending to reject.
Derived terms: rejective art
ash blondes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ash blonde
Asian elephants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Asian elephant
asiagos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of asiago
enclines
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of encline
caballing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: caballings
form: cabbeling
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
oceanography
glosses: Alternative form of cabbeling.
examples: text: And lastly, the examinant saith, that from the beginning of these conversations with the said Mary Burton, about these plottings and caballings between the Hughsons and the negroes […]
ref: 1810, Daniel Horsmanden, The New York Conspiracy:
text: In all these negotiations, and caballings, and intriguings, the person most concerned, Frances Coke, the beauty and the heiress, was only the ball in the game.
ref: 1909, Thomas Longueville, The Curious Case of Lady Purbeck:
glosses: Secret plotting.
caballing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cabbeling
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cabal
mezquite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mezquites
Senses: glosses: Dated form of mesquite.
call them as one sees them
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls them as one sees them
form: calling them as one sees them
form: called them as one saw them
form: called them as one saw them
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of call it as one sees it.
call it as one sees it
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: calls it as one sees it
form: calling it as one sees it
form: called it as one saw it
form: called it as one saw it
form: call them as one sees them
Senses: glosses: To speak frankly about a given topic, not withholding one's opinions.
Related terms: tell it like it is
eloigns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of eloign
eloigning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of eloign
eloigned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of eloign
makes merry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of make merry
making merry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of make merry
made merry
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of make merry
amylum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈæmɪləm/
Etymology: From Latin amylum, from Ancient Greek ἄμυλον (ámulon), from ἀ- (a-, “privative”) + μύλη (múlē, “mill”).
Senses: glosses: starch
Derived terms: amylum star
paramylum
Related terms: word: amyl
alt: amylo-
word: amyl-
psychogeographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From psycho- + geographical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to psychogeography.
nonphotorealistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + photorealistic.
Senses: glosses: Not photorealistic.
cabal glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cabal glasses
Etymology: From the chemical symbols Ca + B + Al.
Senses: glosses: Any of a range of calcium boroaluminate glasses that have specialist technical uses.
boroaluminate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boroaluminates
Etymology: From boro- + aluminate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
inorganic-chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt that is a mixed borate and aluminate
throw true
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws true
form: throwing true
form: threw true
form: thrown true
Senses: glosses: to inherit a characteristic
Synonyms: throw true-to-type
Big Bertha
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From its German nickname, Dicke Bertha.
Senses: glosses: A heavy, long-range howitzer used by Germany in World War I.
on-side kicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of on-side kick
platform shoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: platform shoes
Senses: synonyms: platform
glosses: A type of footwear with very thick soles and heels designed to make the wearer appear taller.
platform shoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of platform shoe
potato cod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: potato cod
form: potato cods
Senses: glosses: Epinephelus tukula, a large fish found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Synonyms: sense: Epinephelus tukula
word: potato bass
sense: Epinephelus tukula
word: potato grouper
Megiddo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /məˈɡɪdəʊ/
Etymology: From Hebrew מגידו.
Senses: glosses: Mount Megiddo, site of an ancient city in northern Israel's Jezreel valley
Related terms: Armageddon
seamstressing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From seamstress + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The trade practiced by seamstresses.
chlamydias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlamydia
chlamydiae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chlamydia
excess return
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: excess returns
Senses: topics: business
economics
sciences
glosses: The return that exceeds the risk-free return.
nonphotolithographic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + photolithographic.
Senses: glosses: Not photolithographic.
over open sights
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: glosses: A method of aiming an artillery piece with the target in sight (direct fire), as opposed to indirect fire where the target is not visible.
pavonne
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pavonnes
Senses: examples: text: If well directed, some of the old formal dances such as the minuet and the pavonne and others of their character form a good basis on which, at this age, the youth may meet the maiden.
ref: 1912, Mary Master Needham, Folk Festivals, page 205:
glosses: Alternative spelling of pavane.
pavonnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pavonne
Australian dollar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Australian dollars
form: AUD
form: AU$
form: A$
Senses: synonyms: word: Aussie dollar
word: Aussie
word: dollarydoo
word: South Pacific peso
glosses: The official currency of Australia.
coach gun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coach guns
Senses: glosses: A double-barrelled shotgun with very short barrels.
circumundulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumundulates
form: circumundulating
form: circumundulated
form: circumundulated
Etymology: From circum- + undulate.
Senses: glosses: To flow around as waves or undulations
Related terms: circumundulation
circumvascular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + vascular.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: perivascular
circumventor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumventors
Senses: glosses: A person who circumvents
circumvolant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more circumvolant
form: most circumvolant
Senses: glosses: flying around
circumvolute
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: circumvolutes
form: circumvoluting
form: circumvoluted
form: circumvoluted
Senses: glosses: To roll, curl or twist around
Related terms: circumvolution
circumvolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circumvolutions
Etymology: From circum- + volution.
Senses: glosses: The act of revolution, rotation or gyration around an axis.
glosses: Anything winding or sinuous.
Derived terms: circumvolutionary
Related terms: circumvolute
circusiana
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From circus + -iana.
Senses: glosses: All the things related to circuses.
cirrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹeɪt/
Forms: form: more cirrate
form: most cirrate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cirrātus (“having ringlets”), from cirrus (“a curl”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or fringed with cirri.
Derived terms: incirrate
cirrate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹeɪt/
Forms: form: cirrates
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin cirrātus (“having ringlets”), from cirrus (“a curl”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: An octopus of the suborder Cirrina.
cirriferous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹɪfəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪfəɹəs
Forms: form: more cirriferous
form: most cirriferous
Etymology: From cirrus + -i- + -ferous.
Senses: synonyms: cirrigerous
glosses: Bearing cirri.
Related terms: cirral
cirrate
cirrated
cirriform
cirrigerous
cirrigrade
cirriped
cirrose
cirrous
cirrigerous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈɹɪd͡ʒəɹəs/
rhymes: -ɪdʒəɹəs
Forms: form: more cirrigerous
form: most cirrigerous
Etymology: From cirri- + -gerous.
Senses: synonyms: cirriferous
glosses: Bearing cirri.
Related terms: cirral
cirrate
cirrated
cirriferous
cirriform
cirriped
cirrose
cirrous
cirrigrade
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹɪɡɹeɪd/
Etymology: From cirri- + -grade (“means of walking”).
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: moved or moving by means of cirri
Related terms: cirral
cirrate
cirrated
cirrhose
cirriferous
cirriform
cirrigerous
cirriped
cirrous
cirriped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈsɪɹɪpɛd/
Forms: form: cirripeds
form: cirrhopod
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Cirripedia. By surface analysis, cirri- + -ped. Doublet of cirripede.
Senses: examples: text: What train of wives and concubines was ever so ignominiously placed as the extra husbands carried among the scales of the careful female cirriped, lest she lose one or two!
ref: 1898, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Women and Economics – A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution, page 147:
glosses: Any barnacle or similar crustacean of the infraclass Cirripedia
Derived terms: cirripedology
Related terms: cirropodous
cismarine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + marine.
Senses: glosses: On this side of the sea.
Related terms: english: versus foreign/overseas
translation: versus foreign/overseas
word: domestic
303
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 303s
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: The .303 British rifle calibre.
glosses: A rifle chambered in this calibre, normally the SMLE series.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: The TB-303 synthesizer.
303
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: North Central Colorado, including Denver and Boulder, after the 303 area code.
cispontine
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cis- + Latin pōns.
Senses: examples: text: Blood and thunder melodrama was once transpontine : it is now cispontine. It has crossed the Thames, and come over the bridges.
ref: 1882, The Theatre: A Monthly Review and Magazine, page 35:
antonyms: transpontine
glosses: On this side of the bridge (or bridges).
Proto-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From proto- + Iranian.
Senses: glosses: The hypothetical proto-language reconstructed by comparative method, from which all the Iranian languages descended.
Proto-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From proto- + Iranian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Proto-Iranian language or people who spoke it.
Proto-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Proto-Iranians
Etymology: From proto- + Iranian.
Senses: glosses: Speaker of Proto-Iranian language.
Related terms: Proto-Indo-Iranian
Old Iranian
Middle Iranian
New Iranian
coming of age
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comings of age
Senses: glosses: A person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
examples: text: Reasoning of this sort presumes that a significant group in the population has become aware not only of its own existence, but of its rights and power. The riot, I can't help feeling, marks a kind of political coming of age for homosexuals in San Francisco and, vicariously, throughout, the country.
ref: 1979 June 9, Paul Robinson, “Gays in the Streets”, in The New Republic:
glosses: A maturation; a transition from an inchoate state to a developed state.
Related terms: coming-of-age
coming-of-age
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Gameshttp://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/
While Collins does include a love triangle, a coming-of-age story, and other YA-friendly elements in the mix, they serve as a Trojan horse to smuggle readers into a hopeless world where love becomes a stratagem and growing up is a matter of basic survival.
glosses: Of or pertaining to a person's journey from childhood or adolescence to adulthood.
Related terms: coming of age
astronomical years
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of astronomical year
atchievements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atchievement
athames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of athame
atomic batteries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic battery
atomic clocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atomic clock
atleds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atled
ecranisation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ecranisations
Etymology: From French écran (“screen”) + -isation.
Senses: qualifier: cinema criticism
glosses: An adaptation of a book, story, or other form of written or graphic work into a film.
atriotomies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of atriotomy
attaché cases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of attaché case
ecranisations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ecranisation
send shivers down someone's spine
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sends shivers down someone's spine
form: sending shivers down someone's spine
form: sent shivers down someone's spine
form: sent shivers down someone's spine
form: send a shiver down someone's spine
form: send a shiver up someone's spine
form: send shivers up someone's spine
form: send a chill down someone's spine
form: send chills down someone's spine
form: send a chill up someone's spine
form: send chills up someone's spine
Senses: examples: text: Hearing that the killer escaped prison sent shivers down my spine.
glosses: To terrify; to make someone feel extremely nervous.
Related terms: give someone the creeps
auripigments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of auripigment
autem cacklers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autem cackler
authoring programs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of authoring program
yesable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more yesable
form: most yesable
Etymology: From yes + -able.
Senses: examples: text: A yesable proposal is one of your acceptable options stated as a direct question to which "yes" is an easy answer.
ref: 1995, Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning, How to communicate, page 161:
glosses: That can be agreed to.
Avars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Avar (member of Caucasian group)
Avars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Avar (equestrian nomad)
autofecundations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of autofecundation
needer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: needers
Etymology: From the verb need + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The needer is physically and mentally handicapped because of his immediate need for air... The donor takes a big breath and gives his mouthpiece to the needer.
ref: 1975, Jeppesen Sanderson, “Sport diver manual”, in Inc.:
text: The difference between requestor and needer has been incorporated in current business practices.
ref: 2006, Robert L. Popp, John Yen, Emergent information technologies and enabling policies for counter terrorism, P.241:
glosses: A person who requires or needs something.
needer
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: Corruption of neither.
Senses: examples: text: But," added he, observing the other's embarrassment, "dat is needer here nor dere.
ref: 1856, John Turvill Adams, The Lost Hunter:
text: Didn't put them in two boxes lak dey does now, and dey warn't painted needer.
ref: 1936-1938, Work Projects Administration, Slave Narratives= A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves:
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of neither.
needers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of needer
equalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equal + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Equity literally means equalness; and if it be admitted that there were even the vaguest ideas of equity in these primitive eras, it must be admitted that there was some appreciation of the equalness of men's liberties to pursue the objects of life--some appreciation, therefore, of the essential principle of national equilibrium.
ref: 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:
glosses: equality
eugenist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈdʒɛnɪst/
Forms: form: eugenists
Etymology: From eugen(ic) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: And we have enough of this kind of tyranny already ... the world does not want the eugenist to set it straight....
ref: 1916, James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace= Letters and Reminiscences Vol 2 (of 2):
text: A man who would throw a bomb at the Russian Czar or at a murderous pogrom-inciting Russian Governor would be considered an assassin, and if caught would be hanged; and in making up the pedigree of such a family, a narrow-minded eugenist would be apt to say that there was criminality in that family.
ref: 1929, William J. Robinson, Woman:
text: When it reported in 1908, it took a strongly hereditarian view of mental deficiency, which was not surprising given that many of its members were paid-up eugenists.
ref: 1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 293:
glosses: An advocate or supporter of eugenics.
Synonyms: eugenicist
eugenists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eugenist
'r
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: examples: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
One big tuffie stood there actin like Joe Coolie ’r sumthin.
glosses: Alternative form of or, representing an unstressed pronunciation.
eupeptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more eupeptic
form: most eupeptic
Etymology: From eu- + peptic.
Senses: examples: text: As to the self-sufficiency of this world, a successful Professor with a eupeptic body might take such a view, but if one found oneself with cancer of the stomach in a London garret, one might question the doctrine that there was no need to yearn for any state of being save that in which we found ourselves.
ref: 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:
glosses: Having or relating to good digestion.
Derived terms: eupepticism
evener
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I prefer the white pine, because it is less liable to gutter with the rain, and makes an evener roof.
ref: 1853, Samuel Strickland, Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West:
glosses: comparative form of even: more even
evener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eveners
Senses: examples: text: Hers is not simply a plea for the value of tragedy, for that awareness of death which increases incentives for life; it is rather a negative use of death as the great leveler, the evener of scores.
ref: 1966, Wilfred Healey Stone, The Cave and the Mountain: A Study of E. M. Forster, page 254:
glosses: One who, or that which, makes even.
glosses: In vehicles, a swinging crossbar, to the ends of which other crossbars, or whiffletrees, are hung, to equalize the draught when two or three horses are used abreast.
glosses: A raddle (instrument used by weavers).
evenest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: even + -est
Senses: glosses: superlative form of even: most even
evenest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: even + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of even
everlastingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From everlasting + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: August felt the everlastingness of love; as many another man in a supreme crisis has felt it.
ref: 1872, Edward Eggleston, The End Of The World:
text: Once the name I gave to hours Like this was melancholy, when It was not happiness and powers Coming like exiles home again, And weaknesses quitting their bowers, Smiled and enjoyed, far off from men, Moments of everlastingness.
ref: 1918, Edward Thomas, Last Poems:
glosses: the state or quality of being everlasting
everyhow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From every + how.
Senses: glosses: however, by whatever means.
everyway
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: examples: text: A true and genuine record of what English schools of the highest class were more than sixty-five years ago cannot fail to have much to interest the present generation on both sides of the Atlantic; if only because we may now indulge in the self-complacency of being everyway wiser, better, and happier than our recent forebears.
ref: 1886, Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author:
glosses: In every way, however possible.
glosses: In every direction.
exarchate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exarchates
Etymology: From exarch + -ate (forms nouns denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
Senses: examples: text: Exarchate of Africa
text: Astolphus peremptorily refused to listen to the remonstrances of Pepin, who called upon him to evacuate the towns in the exarchate of Ravenna, and to leave the Pope unmolested in the environs of Rome as well as in Rome itself.
ref: 1868, Robert Black, A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times:
glosses: The province or area of an exarch.
exarchates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exarchate
exarchal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From exarch + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to an exarch.
exceptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From except + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The only offspring of a race No misalliance did disgrace; Nurtur'd, school'd, fashion'd by their laws, Not wishing an exceptive clause, Till thee, my only choice, I met; And then, with useless, deep regret, I found in birth, and that alone, Thou wert unworthy of a throne!
ref: 1816, Matilda Betham, The Lay of Marie:
text: In 1813, Unitarians were set free from legal penalties by the repeal, so far as they were concerned, of the exceptive clauses of the Toleration Act, this relief coming twenty years after Charles James Fox had tried to secure it for them.
ref: 1912, W.G. Tarrant, Unitarianism:
glosses: exceptional, having an exception
Derived terms: unexceptive
exceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exceptors
Senses: examples: text: God is no exceptor of persons; a soul is a soul, whether it be the soul of a pontiff, a king or a sage, or the soul of the unborn babe of the last woman of the people.
ref: 1913, John H. Stapleton, Explanation of Catholic Morals:
glosses: Someone who makes exceptions.
glosses: A hired legal representative or advocate in court.
exceptors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of exceptor
excisional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From excision + -al.
Senses: examples: text: At present, no single instrument can replace excisional biopsies for obtaining information.
ref: 2001 May 18, Frank Koenig et al., “Diagnosing Cancer in Vivo”, in Science, volume 292, number 5520, →DOI, pages 1401–1403:
glosses: performed by excision
Derived terms: nonexcisional