cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sense amplifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sense amplifiers
Senses: synonyms: senseamp
glosses: An electronic circuit used to refresh the value of a bit stored in a DRAM integrated circuit.
electronic circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electronic circuits
Senses: glosses: An electric circuit having at least one component that manipulates the voltage or current in the circuit
electric circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: electric circuits
form: electrical circuit
Senses: glosses: A path, or an interconnected group of paths (at least one of which is closed), capable of carrying an electric current.
sepiolite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sepiolites
Etymology: From Latin sepia (“cuttlefish”) + -lite, from its resemblance to cuttlebone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: meerschaum
glosses: A hydrated magnesium silicate, clay mineral used for carving into decorative articles and smoking pipes.
series circuit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: series circuits
Senses: glosses: Any electric circuit having all elements joined in a sequence such that the same current flows through them all
Related terms: parallel circuit
somnifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsɑm.nəˈfeɪ.ʃənt/
Etymology: From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + facio (“I make”).
Senses: glosses: Inducing or causing sleep.
somnifacient
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsɑm.nəˈfeɪ.ʃənt/
Forms: form: somnifacients
Etymology: From Latin somnus (“sleep”) + facio (“I make”).
Senses: glosses: Any pharmaceutical product that causes sleep.
serology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: serologies
Etymology: From sero- + -logy.
Senses: glosses: The science that studies the blood serum, and especially the reaction between antigens and antibodies in serum.
glosses: The characteristics of the blood serum in a particular disease or organism.
examples: text: Diagnosis is presumptive by history and physical examination and is confirmed by serologies.
coordinate_terms: chemistry
glosses: A serologic test: a blood test to detect the presence of, and often to measure the amount of, various components of the serum (usually antibodies, antigens, and immune complexes thereof).
Derived terms: immunoserology
microserology
mycoserology
serologic
serologically
serologist
gasbag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæs.bæɡ/
Forms: form: gasbags
Etymology: From gas + bag.
Senses: examples: text: In half an hour a good-sized gas-bag had been formed, and the jerking and straining upon the thongs showed that it was capable of considerable lift.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
text: By this method of construction a considerable amount of support can be imparted to the gasbag, though it does not dispense with the services of the ballonet, as does the entirely rigid type.
ref: 1914, Eric [Henry] Stuart Bruce, Aircraft in War (Daily Telegraph War Books), London: Hodder & Stoughton, →OCLC, page 24:
text: A novel robotic gasbag polishing technique based on flexible polishing principle has been presented by S.M. Ji et al., which can make polishing process more stable and effective because the rubber gasbag provides cushioning action and almost all abrasive particles in the contact area are involved in the process of material removal on mould surface, etc […]
ref: 2009, Shiming Ji et al., “Magnetorheological Flexible Gasbag Polishing Technique”, in Bo Zhao et al., editors, Advances in Grinding and Abrasive Technology XV: Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 15th Conference of Abrasive Technology in China, 15th–17th August, 2009, Zhengzhou, China (Key Engineering Materials; 416), Zurich: Trans Tech Publications, →ISBN, page 584:
glosses: A bag or bladder to hold a reservoir of gas, as in a hot-air balloon.
glosses: A lighter-than-air aircraft; a balloon or dirigible.
examples: text: Not that the Reverend James is absolutely a pretentious gasbag any more than Marchbanks is an inspired prophet. He has a definite, a positive part in the world's work.
ref: 1911, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., Dramatists of To-day: Rostand, Hauptmann, Sudermann, Pinero, Shaw, Phillips, Maeterlinck; being an Informal Discussion of their Significant Work, 6th rev. and enl. edition, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 124:
text: You would think the fate of civilization itself rested on the outcome of my trial, based on some of those gasbags who were only too happy to speculate, postulate and pontificate about my situation.
ref: 2012, J. Butler Cox, Providence of Mercy, Port Richey, Fla.: Mitchell-Morris Publishing, →ISBN:
text: Most, however, do real work, undistracted by meetings and gasbag colleagues.
ref: 2012 October 13, “Out of sight, out of mind: People who work from home are less likely to be promoted”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 20 Mar 2016:
glosses: A person who is overly garrulous or prone to making empty, unsupportable statements; a windbag.
Synonyms: word: blowhard
sense: both senses
word: windbag
Derived terms: gasbaggery
gasbag
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡæs.bæɡ/
Forms: form: gasbags
form: gasbagging
form: gasbagged
form: gasbagged
Etymology: From gas + bag.
Senses: examples: text: "You're a swell at it. I'll allow that. And I'll provide the gas-bagging." / "The gas-bagging?" I inquired. "What exactly do you mean?" / "What do I mean, you dear old sober-sides?" said Lyne. “I mean that I will do all the bow-wowing[…]"
ref: 1910, Pearson's Magazine, volume XXX, number II, London: C. Arthur Pearson, →OCLC, page 71:
text: You all see her flirtin and makin up to people and then they gasbag about it to make themselves important. But that's just her way. Underneath she's one of the most shy people you'd ever meet.
ref: 1984, Robert H. Adleman, Sweetwater Fever, New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 221:
text: I'm pushing the trolley down an aisle in which there are a dozen ladies gasbagging.
ref: 1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 146:
text: Morning, noon, and night they gasbagged about every aspect of the operation.
ref: 2002, Auden Bailey, Drifting at the Bottom of the World, Ferndale, Mo.: Bella Books, →ISBN:
text: […] Kingi spotted them and strode over. 'What are you two gasbagging about? Come on, join the party.' / 'We're not gasbagging, we're strategising,' Josie pointed out.
ref: 2008, Amanda Hampson, Two For The Road, Camberwell, Vic.: Penguin Books, →ISBN:
glosses: To speak foolishly, pompously, or at length; to blather.
gasbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gasbag
gasbags
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gasbag
genocidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒɛnəˈsaɪdəl/
rhymes: -aɪdəl
Forms: form: more genocidal
form: most genocidal
Etymology: From genocide + -al.
Senses: examples: text: transnational genocidal organization
text: An ethnic civil war triggered the genocidal massacre of more than 500000 people in just a few short months. Hundreds of thousands of Rwandans fled...
ref: 1988, Andrew Farmer, The Rich Single Life:
glosses: Causative of or relating to an act or policy of genocide.
Derived terms: antigenocidal
genocidally
understandably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more understandably
form: most understandably
Etymology: From understandable + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Understandably, he was too embarrassed to speak.
text: Embarrassed, he understandably refused to speak.
text: He was understandably embarrassed, and could not speak.
text: Everton were, perhaps understandably, deflated at the setback and it was no surprise when Suarez added Liverpool's second after 82 minutes. Distin and Baines were involved in a mix-up as the Uruguayan advanced into the area, and he was not about to pass up the gift to shoot low past Howard.
ref: 2011 October 1, Phil McNulty, “Everton 0 - 2 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: For reasons that are easy to understand or sympathise with.
examples: text: When presenting in front of the class, take care to speak clearly and understandably.
text: Accordingly, even though readers always and understandably speak of the theories adumbrated by Socrates here as "Plato's theories", one ought not to speak of them so without some compunction--the writing itself, and also Plato the author, present these always in a spirit of open-ended exploration, and sometimes there are contextual clues indicating that Socrates exaggerates or goes what the argument truly justifies, and so on.
ref: 1996, John M. Cooper, “Introduction”, in Plato: Complete Works, Hackett, page xxii:
glosses: In an understandable manner.
severance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɛv.ɹəns/
ipa: /ˈsɛv.ɜː(ɹ)n̩s/
ipa: /ˈsɛv.ɚ.əns/
ipa: /ˈsɛv.ɹəns/
rhymes: -ɛvɹəns
Forms: form: severances
form: severaunce
Etymology: English sever + -ance, from Middle English severaunce, from Anglo-Norman, Old French sevrance, from sevrer.
Senses: glosses: The act of severing or the state of being severed.
glosses: A separation.
glosses: A severance payment.
Synonyms: sense: separation
word: separation
sense: severance payment
word: severance payment
sense: severance payment
word: severance pay
Derived terms: severance tax
on steroids
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Etymology: The literal sense is from anabolic steroid use as illicit drug use for doping, to become bulked up; the figurative sense is an extension.
Senses: examples: text: Panic is anxiety on steroids
text: When a processor is running in real mode, it acts like an "8088 on steroids". What this means is that it has the advantage of speed, but it otherwise accesses memory with the same restrictions of the original 8088: a limit of 1 MB of addressable RAM, and slow memory access that doesn't take advantage of the full 32-bit processing of modern CPUs.
ref: c. 2000, “Processor Modes”, in (help manual):
ref: 2005 September 19, Tariq Malik, “NASA's New Moon Plans: 'Apollo on Steroids'”, in space.com:
text: "This planet is much larger than Jupiter or Saturn, and its ring system is roughly 200 times larger than Saturn's rings are today," Mamajek said at the time.
"You could think of it as kind of a super Saturn."
Or, as others have put it, Saturn on steroids.
ref: 2016 October 14, “Spin To Survive: How 'Saturn On Steroids' Keeps From Self-Destructing”, in NPR:
text: Medellín, the first track from Madonna’s 14th studio album, arrived like La Isla Bonita on steroids
ref: 2019 June 8, Kitty Empire, “Madonna: Madame X review – a splendidly bizarre return to form”, in The Guardian:
coordinate_terms: on wheels
glosses: To a greater degree, exaggerating the characteristics of the previously named object.
raw_tags: after the name of a place or thing
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see on, steroids.
inaugural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɔːɡəɹəl/
ipa: /ɪˈnɔːɡɹəl/
Etymology: From French inaugural, from inaugurer, from Latin augurare (“to take omens”).
Senses: examples: text: The University of Cape Town hosts an inaugural lecture by Professor Ian Scott […] on Wednesday at 8pm.
ref: 2008 August 21, Cape Times, page 21:
text: In 1928 [Martin] Heidegger succeeded [Edmund] Husserl to take a chair at Freiburg and in his inaugural lecture made a pronouncement that earned him a reputation as an archetypal metaphysician with his claim that our awareness of people as a whole depends on our experience of dread in the face of nothingness.
ref: 2014 April 12, Michael Inwood, “Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler [print version: Hitler's philosopher]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, page R11:
glosses: Of inauguration; as in a speech or lecture by the person being inaugurated.
examples: text: 2009 was the inaugural season for New York Yankees' new stadium.
glosses: Marking the beginning of an operation, venture, etc.
Derived terms: inaugural address
inaugurally
postinaugural
preinaugural
inaugural
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪˈnɔːɡəɹəl/
ipa: /ɪˈnɔːɡɹəl/
Forms: form: inaugurals
Etymology: From French inaugural, from inaugurer, from Latin augurare (“to take omens”).
Senses: examples: text: The inaugural of the President will take place in March.
glosses: An inauguration; a formal beginning.
examples: text: In his inaugural, President Obama proclaimed 'an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics'.
ref: 2009 March 13, Teddy Davis, ABC News:
glosses: A formal speech given at the beginning of an office.
extraordinary rendition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: extraordinary renditions
Senses: glosses: The sending of untried criminal suspects to countries outside the USA for interrogation or imprisonment.
Hypernyms: rendition
martyrdom video
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: martyrdom videos
Senses: glosses: A video recording made by a prospective Islamic suicide bomber setting out a rationale for his or her actions.
gladden
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlædn̩/
rhymes: -ædən
Forms: form: gladdens
form: gladdening
form: gladdened
form: gladdened
Etymology: From glad + -en.
Senses: examples: text: A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, / Yet let us think upon the vernal showers / That gladden the green earth, and we shall find / A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
ref: 1798, William Wordsworth, The Nightingale:
text: Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand. Alas! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist:
synonyms: cheer
cheer up
gratify
please
glosses: To cause (something) to become more glad.
synonyms: cheer up
perk up
glosses: To become more glad in one's disposition.
Synonyms: word: beatify
word: begladden
word: blissen
word: bright
word: cheer
word: cheer up
word: content
word: delight
word: elate
word: enbliss
word: exhilarate
word: fain
word: gay
word: gladden
word: gladden someone's heart
word: gratify
word: happify
word: happy
word: hearten
word: jollify
word: laetificate
word: light up
word: make someone's day
word: perk up
word: please
word: raise someone's spirits
word: rejoice
word: turn the frown upside down
word: upcheer
word: warm someone's heart
word: warm the cockles of someone's heart
Hypernyms: word: enliven
Hyponyms: word: overjoy
Coordinate terms: word: incite
Derived terms: begladden
engladden
gladdener
gladden someone's heart
regladden
ungladden
Related terms: word: happiness
joinder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɔɪndə(ɹ)
Forms: form: joinders
Etymology: Substantivisation of the Old French verb joindre (“to join”), from Latin iungō (“join”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The joining of a litigant to a suit.
examples: text: A contract of eternal bond of love, Confirm'd by mutuall ioynder of your hands.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
glosses: The act of joining; a putting together; conjunction.
Derived terms: misjoinder
nonjoinder
video recording
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: video recordings
Senses: glosses: A visual or audiovisual recording on videotape, DVD, etc.
glosses: The process of making such recordings.
Coordinate terms: sense: visual or audiovisual recording
word: sound recording
exodontia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exodontias
Senses: examples: text: The need to preserve alveolar bone is paramount and best achieved by atraumatic exodontias including socket compression.
ref: 2006, David A. Mitchell, An Introduction to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, page 187:
text: Exodontia is a procedure that all dentists are taught to perform in dental school and used by most general clinicians in their practice.
ref: 2012, Harry Dym, Oral Surgery for the General Dentist, An Issue of Dental Clinics:
glosses: The extraction of teeth.
Synonyms: exodontics
exodontics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ex- + odonto- + -ics.
Senses: glosses: the extraction of teeth
Synonyms: exodontia
dudes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: plural of dude
glosses: Any group of people, regardless of gender.
raw_tags: as a collective noun
dudes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /duːdz/
rhymes: -uːdz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of dude
exoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exoenzymes
Etymology: From exo- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme, generated by a cell, that functions outside of that cell.
Related terms: endoenzyme
endoenzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endoenzymes
Etymology: From endo- + enzyme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that functions within the cell in which it was generated.
Related terms: exoenzyme
diphallus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From di- + phallus.
Senses: glosses: A set of two penises.
examples: text: "The 24 year old man from the state of Utter Pradesh admitted himself to a New Delhi hosptal this week with an extremely rare medical condition called penile duplication or diphallus.
ref: 2006 August 21, Cape Times, page 3:
topics: medicine
sciences
urology
glosses: Synonym of diphallia.
synonyms: word: diphallia
exoergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more exoergic
form: most exoergic
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Occurring with the release of energy.
endoergic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Occurring with the absorption of energy; endothermic.
Related terms: exoergic
thundersnow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: thŭn'dər-snō
Forms: form: thundersnows
Etymology: From thunder + snow.
Senses: glosses: A thunderstorm accompanied by snow, rather than rain or hail.
exon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exons
Etymology: Apparently an attempt to express the pronunciation of French exempt.
Senses: glosses: An officer of the King's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard.
exon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛksɑn/
Forms: form: exons
Etymology: Combination of the prefix ex of the term expressed (region) and the term intron.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A region of a transcribed gene present in the final functional RNA molecule.
Coordinate terms: intron
Derived terms: exitron
exome
exonal
exon capture
exonic
exonization
exonized
exonship
exon shuffling
exon trapping
exonull
interexon
intraexon
microexon
miniexon
multiexon
pseudoexon
subexon
exonuclease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exonucleases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes which cleave single nucleotides from the end of a polynucleotide (DNA or RNA) chain.
Derived terms: exonucleasic
riboexonuclease
exopeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exopeptidases
Etymology: From exo- + peptide + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes which catalyze the removal of a single amino acid from the end of a polypeptide chain
Derived terms: metalloexopeptidase
Related terms: endopeptidase
endopeptidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: endopeptidases
Etymology: From endo- + peptide + -ase.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a group of enzymes, such as trypsin, chymotrypsin, pepsin and elastase, which catalyze the splitting of polypeptide chains away from the ends
Derived terms: endopeptidasic
imidoendopeptidase
metalloendopeptidase
oligoendopeptidase
Related terms: exopeptidase
protease
juger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jugers
form: jugerum
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin iūger, variant of iūgerum.
Senses: topics: units-of-measure
glosses: A Roman unit of area, equivalent to 2 acti or 28,800 square feet (about ¼ ha).
Meronyms: alt: ½ juger
word: actus
golf course
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: golf courses
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The land where one plays golf, with tees, fairways, greens and flags in holes.
Related terms: driving range
putting green
driving range
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving ranges
Senses: examples: text: Improve your golf swing by taking your mate to the driving range. If you're good, you can show off and give her some tips. If you stink, play it for laughs.
ref: 2008 January–February, “70 Ways to Improve Every Day of the Week”, in Men's Health, volume 23, number 1, →ISSN, page 135:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An area where golfers practice their swing, and try to hit the ball far, toward no target.
crazy golf
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A variation on golf, played on a smaller scale, where players have to putt the golf ball into a hole, past various obstructions.
Synonyms: sense: smaller variation of golf
word: miniature golf
sense: smaller variation of golf
word: minigolf
golfer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒlfə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: golfers
Etymology: From golf + -er.
Senses: examples: text: It had been 2,836 days since Chris Kirk last won on the PGA Tour. Yet after securing his first victory in over seven years on Sunday, that was not the first milestone the American golfer had on his mind.
ref: 2023 February 27, Jack Bantock, “Chris Kirk battled alcoholism and depression – now he has secured his first PGA Tour victory in seven years”, in CNN:
text: “The player should usually be able to play more quickly than that and is encouraged to do so,” the guidelines state, with golfers that exceed 40 seconds – AKA “bad time” – “informed as soon as practicable” by a tournament official.
ref: 2023 May 4, Jack Bantock, “Tee-k Tock: The ‘appalling’ slow play controversy riling golf’s biggest stars”, in CNN:
glosses: Someone who plays golf.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: One who takes part in code golf or regex golf.
Hyponyms: linkswoman
Derived terms: crazy golfer
golfer’s elbow
golfer’s vasculitis
nongolfer
Erasmus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹæzməs/
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.
Senses: glosses: Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (known as Erasmus or Erasmus of Rotterdam), a Dutch humanist and theologian.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek, rare in English.
glosses: Ellipsis of Erasmus Programme, a student exchange programme established in 1987.
Related terms: Erasmian
Erasmus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɪˈɹæzməs/
Forms: form: Erasmuses
Etymology: From Medieval Latin Erasmus. The EU student exchange programme is named after Erasmus of Rotterdam, and also a backronym for “European [Community] Action Scheme for the Mobility of University Students”.
Senses: glosses: An exchange student taking part in an Erasmus Programme.
glosses: A study period as part of the Erasmus Programme.
cunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cunted
form: most cunted
Etymology: From cunt + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: Cum-loving slut, piss-whore, filthy-cunted little tart
ref: 2008, Ray Gordon, Web of Desire:
glosses: Having a vulva of a specified kind.
glosses: Under the influence of illicit drugs or alcohol; drunk; high.
glosses: Broken.
glosses: Extremely tired or worn out.
Derived terms: munted
testifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of testify
sheep shagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep shaggers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of sheepshagger.
filing fee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filing fees
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A fee assessed against a party initiating a lawsuit, or other legal process, e.g. filing a patent.
filing fees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filing fee
RTS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: RTSs
form: RTSes
form: RTS's
Senses: topics: video-games
glosses: Initialism of real-time strategy.
glosses: Initialism of Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome.
glosses: Initialism of rape trauma syndrome.
RTS
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: RTSs
form: RTSing
form: RTSed
form: RTSed
Senses: qualifier: operations
glosses: Initialism of return to service.
Related terms: english: return to flight
translation: return to flight
word: RTF
RTS
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: qualifier: postal
glosses: Initialism of return to sender, used on a misaddressed envelope to have the post office return the letter to the sender.
gladdens
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of gladden
gladdening
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of gladden
gladdening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gladdenings
Senses: examples: text: After the buoyancy and gladdenings of her joyous welcome had subsided, she requested that he would make a point of coming to her ball — the same to which Miss Cunningham and her aunt were invited.
ref: 1822, John Galt, Sir Andrew Wylie, of that ilk, page 101:
glosses: A becoming glad.
gladdening
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladdening
form: most gladdening
Senses: examples: text: Now, the cheerful sun looks in mockingly; we rejoice not in the face of day; it brings not hope, but memory to our minds; and we only watch the gladdening beams to think that they are shining on the narrow grave.
ref: 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Causing feelings of gladness.
gladdened
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gladdened
form: most gladdened
Derived terms: ungladdened
gladdened
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gladden
Lutherans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Lutheran
passivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pæˈsɪvɪti/
Forms: form: passivities
Etymology: From passive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state of being passive.
glosses: Submissiveness.
glosses: A lack of initiative.
topics: human-sciences
medicine
psychiatry
psychology
sciences
glosses: The belief that one's thoughts or actions are influenced or controlled by an external agent.
Synonyms: passiveness
Derived terms: interpassivity
nonpassivity
Related terms: passion
passionate
passive
patience
patient
jews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: plural of jew
jews
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: Nonstandard spelling of Jews.
jews
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒuːz/
rhymes: -uːz
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of jew
egest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /iːˈd͡ʒɛst/
rhymes: -ɛst
Forms: form: egests
form: egesting
form: egested
form: egested
Etymology: From Latin ēgestus, the perfect passive participle of ēgerō (“I carry, bear, or bring out or away; I discharge”).
Senses: examples: text: As plastics cannot be easily egested, these can accumulate within the stomach, causing impaction and leading ultimately to death.
ref: 2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 22:
glosses: To eliminate undigested food or waste from the body (as feces).
Synonyms: excrete
defecate
Related terms: egesta
egestion
egestive
subpage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: subpages
form: sub-page
Etymology: From sub- + page.
Senses: synonyms: pagelet
glosses: A web page that is subordinate to another.
dumbarse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dumbarses
Etymology: dumb + arse
Senses: glosses: UK, Ireland, and Commonwealth standard form of dumbass.
subpages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of subpage
sub-pages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sub-page; alternative form of subpages
web-page
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: web-pages
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of web page.
patty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæti/
homophone: paddy
homophone: Paddy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æti
Forms: form: patties
Etymology: From earlier meaning "small pie" from pattipan (“something baked in a small pan”), from French pâté (“liver paste, pâté”), from pâte (“pastry, dough, paste, batter”) + -é. Doublet of pastie /pasty (“meat pie”), pate (“cheese portion”), and pâté (“finely-ground paste”) and related to pasta and paste.
Senses: examples: text: The cook fried the hamburger patty, then put it in a bun.
glosses: A flattened portion of ground meat or a vegetarian equivalent, usually round but sometimes square in shape.
glosses: A pastry with various fillings and spices baked inside a flaky shell, often tinted golden yellow with an egg yolk mixture or turmeric.
qualifier: strictly MLE
glosses: A foolish or stupid person.
Derived terms: cow patty
Jamaican patty
patty cake
patty case
patty iron
patty melt
pattypan
patty shell
Peppermint Patty
York Peppermint Pattie
Related terms: meatball
rissole
patty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpæti/
homophone: paddy
homophone: Paddy stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
rhymes: -æti
Senses: examples: a cross patty
glosses: Alternative form of patté.
Related terms: back-patty
Harley Davidson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harley Davidsons
Senses: glosses: A cocktail made from Bailey's, Midori and Jägermeister
henpecked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɛnpɛkt/
Forms: form: more henpecked
form: most henpecked
Etymology: From hen + pecked.
Senses: examples: text: "I noticed that he addressed her as 'My dear,' very genially, without any trace of resentment.... The quickness of the transition made me vaguely ask myself whether he were henpecked,—a shocking conjecture, which I instantly dismissed."
ref: June-July 1884, Henry James, “The Author of Beltraffio”, in The English Illustrated Magazine:
qualifier: particularly of husbands or boyfriends
glosses: Intimidated or overwhelmed by a nagging or overbearing matriarch, wife, or girlfriend.
Synonyms: pussywhipped
under the thumb
uxorious
Derived terms: unhenpecked
Related terms: word: mother hen
word: mother-hen
word: wear the pants
unintentionally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more unintentionally
form: most unintentionally
Etymology: From unintentional + -ly or un- + intentionally.
Senses: examples: text: "Oh, no! Mason will not defy me; nor knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness."
ref: 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter V, in Jane Eyre, 1st edition, volume II, page 132:
text: And, even if you do not unintentionally overstore your markets, over-expansion by your competitors will produce similar effects.
ref: 1990, Challenges for the Convenience Store Industry in the 1990s, page 175:
synonyms: accidentally
unwittingly
inadvertently
unintendedly
unintendingly
antonyms: intentionally
glosses: Without meaning to, in an unintentional manner, not intentionally.
LCMS
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Lutheran Church Missouri Synod.
glosses: Initialism of Little Color Management System (LittleCMS).
LCMS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: LCMSes
Senses: glosses: Initialism of learning content management system.
lightbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lightboxes
Etymology: From light + box. In the Internet sense, originally the name of one specific technique.
Senses: glosses: A box containing a source of light and a white, translucent cover, used to view photographic transparencies.
glosses: A box containing fluorescent tubes or LED technology, used to treat people with seasonal affective disorder (SAD) and circadian rhythm disorders.
glosses: A kind of pop-up that is overlaid across a web page while the rest of the content is dimmed.
qualifier: pinball
glosses: A backbox.
glosses: A device used in phreaking that indicates when a telephone line is in use by means of a light.
Harley-Davidson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The prototype engine was designed by William S. Harley and constructed with the help of Arthur and Walter Davidson.
Senses: glosses: An American manufacturer of motorcycles.
Harley-Davidson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Harley-Davidsons
Etymology: The prototype engine was designed by William S. Harley and constructed with the help of Arthur and Walter Davidson.
Senses: examples: text: Comstock’s dented black Harley-Davidson was parked amid a bevy of bicycles that looked like cowering fawns beside it.
ref: 2022, Jennifer Egan, The Candy House, Corsair, page 164:
glosses: A motorcycle of this brand.
Davidson
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdeɪvɪdsən/
Etymology: From David + -son.
Senses: examples: text: Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry has accepted the role of assistant general manager for the basketball programs at alma mater Davidson College.
ref: 2025 March 11, Matias Grez, “Steph Curry accepts assistant general manager role at alma mater Davidson College”, in CNN:
glosses: An English and Scottish surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A suburb of the Northern Beaches of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
glosses: A town in the Rural Municipality of Arm River No. 252, Saskatchewan, Canada.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Boone Township, Harrison County, Indiana.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A suburban town in Mecklenburg County and Iredell County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A non-functioning township in Iredell County, North Carolina.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A town in Tillman County, Oklahoma.
glosses: A number of places in the United States:
A township in Sullivan County, Pennsylvania.
Derived terms: Davidson County
Davidson's Mains
Harley
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Hurley
Etymology: From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: glosses: A village and civil parish (served by Cressage, Harley and Sheinton Parish Council) in Shropshire, England (OS grid ref SJ5901).
glosses: A settlement in Wentworth parish, Rotherham borough, South Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SK3698).
glosses: A township in Timiskaming District, north-east Ontario, Canada.
glosses: A community in Burford, Brant County, Ontario.
glosses: A habitational surname from Old English from the place names.
glosses: A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Derived terms: Harley Street
Harley
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑɹli/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)li
Forms: form: Harleys
form: Hurley
Etymology: From Old English hær (“rock”) or hara (“hare”) + lēah (“wood, clearing”). Equivalent to hare + -ley (“lea”).
Senses: examples: text: Some dealers also took advantage of heightened demand for Harleys to charge more, a move that may have done long-lasting harm. “Dealers were charging more than the suggested manufacturer price and it made Harley look greedy and jeopardized our brand that we spent a long time building,” Mr. Ziemer said.
ref: 2009 March 22, Susanna Hamner, “Harley, You’re Not Getting Any Younger”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 09 Nov 2020:
glosses: A Harley-Davidson motorcycle.
Harley Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhɑː.li ˌstɹiːt/
Etymology: After Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (1689-1741).
Senses: examples: text: the famous surgeon, Sir Julian Freke, who directed the surgical side of the great new hospital, and was, in addition, known in Harley Street as a distinguished neurologist with a highly individual point of view.
ref: 1923, Dorothy L. Sayers, Whose Body?:
text: A lot of [hymenoplasty] is done on Harley Street and in the surrounding exclusive clinics in London.
ref: 2008, Qanta A. Ahmed, In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom:
glosses: A street in Westminster having many physicians' practices.
glosses: The English medical profession (especially the private sector) as a group.
defecates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defecate
defecating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of defecate
defecated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of defecate
Alban
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).
Senses: examples: Act II, Scene I
Forsooth, a blind man at Saint Alban's shrine
Within this half hour hath receiv'd his sight
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
examples: text: The first Christian martyr in Britain was called Alban.
ref: 1905, Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall, Our Island Story, page 26:
glosses: Saint Alban, a Christian martyr executed in Verulamium (St Albans) in the 3rd or 4th century.
Derived terms: Albanic
Saint-Alban
St Albans
St. Albans
St. Alban's
Alban
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Albānus (“resident of Alba”) (a mountain region and an ancient city of Latium).
Senses: examples: text: But beside this, there existed at Lavinium another tradition, which inverts the order of things by stating that Lavinium was an Alban colony, founded by six hundred Alban families.
ref: 1847, Leonhard Schmitz, A History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Death of Commodus, A.D. 192, Harper & brothers, page 14:
text: Now the Alban dynasti bore the name of Silvii or Wood, and it can hardly be without significance that in the vision of the historic glories of Rome revealed to Aeneas in the underworld, Virgil, an antiquary as well as a poet, should represent all the line of Silvii as crowned with oak.
ref: 1922, Sir James George Frazer, AThe Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Forgotten Books, page 152:
text: Reminded of the Alban king’s descent from Silvius, the son of Aeneas, Vergil’s reader must judge the crime of Mettus and his gruesome punishment with greater horror and revulsion.
ref: 1998, Robert Alan Gurval, Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War, University of Michigan Press, page 223:
glosses: Pertaining to the ancient Latin city of Alba Longa.
examples: text: At some point during the Picto-Gaelic fusion, St Andrew was adopted as patron of the Alban kingdom.
ref: 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 66:
glosses: Pertaining to Alba, or the area now covered by Scotland.
Albin
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Early saints' name, from the Roman cognomen Albīnus, derivative of Latin albus (“white”). In the case of individuals from Germanic nations, partly also from Germanic (cf. Albwin (literally “elf friend”)), of which Alvin is the native English form.
Senses: examples: text: The name Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 - pronounced Albin - was also rejected by authorities in 1996.
ref: 2007 April 4, “Baby named Metallica rocks Sweden”, in BBC, archived from the original on 06 Jun 2017:
glosses: A male given name from Latin.
shittier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of shitty: more shitty
shittiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of shitty: most shitty
shitted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈʃɪt.əd/
rhymes: -ɪtəd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shit
Synonyms: shat
Albano
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Albanos
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian and Spanish Albano.
Senses: glosses: A surname.
exophthalmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ælmɪk
Senses: examples: text: She was given hormone injections and pills and she grew slender. Judging from the exophthalmic bulge, it must've been thyroxine that they put her on.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 147:
glosses: Of, or relating to exophthalmos.
examples: text: What an incredible, head-reeling collocation of cultures: Islamic texts sprawling on the Great Wall, a twelve-legged god looking down in exophthalmic frowning benevolence.
ref: 1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 528:
glosses: Having prominent eyeballs.
Derived terms: exophthalmic goiter
exophthalmic ophthalmoplegia
exophthalmos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exophthalmoses
form: exophthalmia
form: exophthalmus
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An abnormal protrusion of the eyeball from its socket.
Derived terms: exophthalmic
pseudoexophthalmos
exophthalmic goiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exophthalmic goitre
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs
Synonyms: Graves' disease
Graves' disease
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Named after Irish physician Robert James Graves (1796–1853).
Senses: examples: text: We would therefore reserve for it the title of Exophthalmic Goitre, or, what is better, Graves's Disease.
ref: 1862 September 6, British Medical Journal:
text: The latter operation, though still occasionally practised by exceptionally bold surgeons, entails a very high mortality rate,and as soon as its futility as a rational cure of Graves's disease was demonstrated, has practically been discarded.
ref: 1921 February 12, New York Medical Journal, volume 113, page 269:
text: Graves' disease, which is a hyperthyroid condition, runs in my family, and the treatment for it makes you fat, gives you these bulging, ghoulish eyes and creates all kinds of symptoms that I think would make me more depressed than I am without lithium.
ref: 1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, page 4:
text: In iodine sufficient countries, Graves' disease is the predominant cause of hyperthyroidism in young and middle-aged patients.
ref: 2010, Ernst Nyström, Thyroid Disease in Adults, page 155:
topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Hyperthyroidism accompanied by protrusion of the eyeballs.
Synonyms: exophthalmic goiter
Graves-Basedow disease
exorbitance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: exorbitances
form: exorbitancy
Senses: glosses: The state or characteristic of being exorbitant.
examples: text: The lamentable exorbitances of their superstitions.
ref: 1628, Bishop Joseph Hall, Christian Liberty Laid Forth (sermon)
glosses: A large excess.
refutes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of refute
refuting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of refute
refuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of refute
poetic licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poetic license
Senses: glosses: Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by a writer to achieve a desired effect.
Related terms: artistic licence
artistic licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: artistic license
Senses: examples: text: The script takes a little artistic licence with the facts.
text: Serlio criticises the artistic licence taken by both ancient and contemporary architects, here specifically related to the confusion created by the rich decoration of the arch–in his illustrations, he stripped the monument of most of its beautifully […]
ref: 2017, Allison Sherman, Artistic Practices and Cultural Transfer in Early Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Deborah Howard, Routledge, →ISBN:
glosses: Any departure from convention or from factual accuracy taken by an artist to achieve a desired effect.
Related terms: poetic licence
road fund licence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: road fund licences
Senses: glosses: A paper disc displayed on the windscreen of a vehicle to show that road tax has been paid.
spoonbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spoonbill
licenced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of licence
licenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of licensed.
Derived terms: licenced victualler
Related terms: licensed
licenced victualler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: licenced victuallers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of licensed victualler.
head of hair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heads of hair
Senses: glosses: All the hair that covers the scalp of a person (excludes the beard and moustache)
awls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of awl
cancer stick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cancer sticks
Etymology: In reference to the link between smoking and lung cancer.
Senses: examples: text: You're trying to hide it from your husband, but I know he be knowing that your pussy's been tampered with. Did you show him that new trick of how you can make it smoke a cancer stick?
ref: 1999, “Fuck You”, in Devin a/k/a The Dude and Dr. Dre (lyrics), Andre R. Young (music), 2001, performed by Devin a/k/a The Dude, California: Aftermath:
glosses: A cigarette.
Synonyms: coffin nail
Zoilism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From the works of Zoilus (Ancient Greek: Ζωΐλος (Zōḯlos)), a classical Greek writer who was highly critical of Homer; + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: Bring candid Eyes unto the perusal of mens works, and let not Zoilism or Detraction blast well intended labours.
ref: 1716, Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals:
glosses: nagging or carping criticism
Alastair
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæl.ə.stɚ/
ipa: /ˈæl.ə.stə/
enpr: ăl'-ə-stər
Etymology: From Scottish Gaelic Alasdair (“Alexander”). Doublet of Alexander.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Scottish Gaelic.
Alen
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Alens
form: Alan
form: Allan
form: Allen
Senses: glosses: A male given name, variant of Alan.
glosses: A surname.
Aleck
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Alexander, from Ancient Greek, of Scottish usage, variant of Alec.