cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
visarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of visard
visards
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of visard
candroy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candroys
Senses: topics: business
manufacturing
glosses: A machine for spreading or winding out cotton cloths to prepare them for printing.
candroys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candroy
eugh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: you (stressed, Received Pronunciation)
Forms: form: eughs
Etymology: See yew.
Senses: examples: text: you must take such Things, as are Greene all Winter; Holly; Ivy; Bayes; Juniper; Cipresse Trees; Eugh; […]
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Gardens”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: almost join'd the Horns of the tough Eugh
ref: 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of yew.
Derived terms: eughen
eugh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /juː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: you (stressed, Received Pronunciation)
ipa: [əx]
ipa: [ʌx]
ipa: [ɜː]
ipa: /juː/
rhymes: -uː
homophone: you (stressed, Received Pronunciation)
Senses: examples: text: "Eugh," he said, "this cake is dry."
ref: 2006, Morag Prunty, Recipes for a Perfect Marriage, page 272:
glosses: Alternative form of ugh.
eughs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of eugh
discordous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more discordous
form: most discordous
Etymology: From discord + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Full of discord.
fathership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fatherships
Etymology: From Middle English fadership, equivalent to father + -ship.
Senses: synonyms: fatherhood
paternity
glosses: The state of being a father
examples: text: Your fathership
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A title of respect addressed to a priest.
fatherships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fathership
ovaliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ovaliform
form: most ovaliform
Etymology: From oval + -iform.
Senses: glosses: oviform; egg-shaped
infrugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more infrugal
form: most infrugal
Etymology: From in- + frugal.
Senses: examples: text: Now, I say, why Time should be so burthensome to such as these, or what should betray them to such infrugal Expences of it, I can give no account without making severe Reflexions on their Discretion.
ref: a. 1693, John Goodman, Winter-Evening Conference […] :
glosses: Not frugal; wasteful.
inoculability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: the inoculability of leprosy
glosses: The quality of being inoculable.
Tuscarora
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Tuscaroras
form: Tuscarora
Senses: glosses: A member of a Native American people with members in New York, Canada, and North Carolina.
Tuscarora
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Their Iroquoian language.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Frederick County, Maryland.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Elko County, Nevada.
glosses: A town in Steuben County, New York.
glosses: A census-designated place in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Tuscaroras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Tuscarora
prosternations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of prosternation
bascophones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bascophone
sublimatories
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sublimatory
sublimatory
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsʌblɪˈmeɪtəɹi/
Forms: form: sublimatories
Etymology: From Middle English sublymatories pl, from Medieval Latin sublīmātōrium, from Latin sublīmātus (see sublime) + -ōrium.
Senses: examples: text: Take the black feces, that remain in the bottome, stampe them, and put them in a sublimatory of good earth, of an inch thick, and no more, for six houres, first a little fire, then reinforce it for twelve others, till the sublimatory be red[…]
ref: 1649, Blaise de Vigenère, translated by Edward Stephens, A Discourse of Fire and Salt, page 155:
text: How Sulphur is sublimed. Take the best and clearest yellow Sulphur[…]then put [the sulphur and other substances] into your Sublimatory, and put on its head; add to it fire of the first degree, until all its moisture be vapoured away; then close the pipe above, and proceed with the fire by degrees, until all the Sulphur be sublimed very subtle.
ref: 1667, John French, chapter 7, in The Art of Distillation, page 218:
text: This is why ordinary mercury can be "precipitated", that is, made to congeal and fall to the bottom of a sublimatory by fire alone.
ref: 2003, William R. Newman, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution, page 149:
glosses: A vessel or device used for sublimation.
sublimatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌsʌblɪˈmeɪtəɹi/
Etymology: From Middle French sublimatoire, from Medieval Latin sublīmātōrius.
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen (to explain my meaning by a groſs Example) the Corpuſcles of Sulphur and Mercury do, by a ſtrict Coalition, aſſociate themſelves into the Body vve call Vermilion, though theſe vvill riſe together in Sublimatory Veſſels, vvithout being divorc'd by the fire, and vvill act, in many caſes, as one Phyſical Body: yet tis knovvn enough among Chymiſts, That if You exquiſitely mix vvith it a due proportion of Salt of Tartar, the parts of the Alkaly vvill aſſociate themſelves more ſtrictly vvith thoſe of the Sulphur, then theſe vvere before aſſociated vvith thoſe of the Mercury, vvhereby You ſhall obtain out of the Cinnabar, vvhich ſeem'd intenſely red, a real Mercury, that vvill look like fluid Silver.
ref: 1666, Robert Boyle, “The II. Section, Containing the Experiments. [Experiment VII.]”, in The Origine of Formes and Qualities, (According to the Corpuscular Philosophy,) Illustrated by Considerations and Experiments, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Hen[ry] Hall printer to the University, for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, pages 359–360:
glosses: Used for sublimation.
recarbonize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: recarbonizes
form: recarbonizing
form: recarbonized
form: recarbonized
Etymology: From re- + carbonize.
Senses: examples: text: to recarbonize iron in converting it to high-carbon steel
synonyms: recarburize[iron]] or steel>
coordinate_terms: carbonize
decarbonize
glosses: To carbonize again; to restore carbon to.
Related terms: word: carburization
word: recarbonate
word: recarbonization
word: recarburization
recarbonized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of recarbonize
recarbonizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of recarbonize
recarbonizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of recarbonize
laborforce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laborforces
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of labor force.
laborforces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laborforce
debrand
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /diːˈbɹænd/
Forms: form: debrands
form: debranding
form: debranded
form: debranded
Etymology: From de- + brand.
Senses: glosses: To remove a brand from.
debranding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of debrand
debranded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Three debranded former Great Western Railway Class 143 Pacers pass Exeter St Davids for the final time on December 17, running as the 1225 Exeter-Landore empty stock move.
ref: 2021 January 13, “Fleet News: Great Western finale for preservation-bound Pacers”, in Rail, page 22, photo caption:
glosses: simple past and past participle of debrand
heliotypic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From heliotypy + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to, or obtained by, heliotypy.
floccular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
examples: text: The polymer solution is sprayed in the form of a mist into the precipitant, thereby producing a fine floccular precipitate, the large surface area of which favors the outward diffusion of unpolymerized monomer and other compounds present.
ref: 2001, Dietrich Braun, Harald Cherdron, Helmut Ritter, Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments, 3rd edition, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 64:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Having flocs, or floccules.
Derived terms: extrafloccular
intrafloccular
parafloccular
Related terms: floscular
flocculation
epiglottic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɛp.ɪˈɡlɒt.ɪk/
ipa: /ˌɛp.əˈɡlɑt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ɒtɪk
Etymology: From epiglottis + -ic.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
synonyms: epiglottal
glosses: Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.
Derived terms: aryepiglottic
extraepiglottic
glossoepiglottic
hyoepiglottic
paraepiglottic
pharyngoepiglottic
subepiglottic
thyroepiglottic
Cherokees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Cherokee
clitella
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛlə
Senses: glosses: plural of clitellum
electre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin electrum. See electrum.
Senses: glosses: electrum, amber (alloy of gold and silver)
glosses: liquidambar
liquidambar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: liquidambars
Etymology: Borrowed from translingual Liquidambar.
Senses: glosses: A resinous gum that exudes from the bark of the tree Liquidambar styraciflua.
examples: text: Liquidambar maintains a European foothold in a small area of southwestern Turkey.
ref: 2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 135:
synonyms: sweet gum
glosses: The tree itself, or any other species of the genus Liquidambar, also called sweetgum.
labell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of label.
labell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of label.
signall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: signalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of signal.
signall
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: signalls
form: signalling
form: signalled
form: signalled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of signal.
cruelltie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruellties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cruelty.
cruellty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cruellties
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cruelty.
minerall
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more minerall
form: most minerall
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mineral.
minerall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mineralls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of mineral.
crystall
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crystalls
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of crystal.
Adriane
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Adrianes
Senses: glosses: A female given name.
resums
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resum
remembrynge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of remembering.
entryng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of entering.
rendryng
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of rendering.
endaunger
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: endaungers
form: endaungering
form: endaungered
form: endaungered
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of endanger.
cylindrick
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cylindrick
form: most cylindrick
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of cylindric.
enclusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: enclusions
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of inclusion.
cholics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cholic
altar girls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of altar girl
like there is no tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: like there's no tomorrow
Senses: qualifier: simile
glosses: Alternative form of as if there were no tomorrow.
as if there were no tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: as if there is no tomorrow
form: as if there's no tomorrow
form: as if there was no tomorrow
form: like there is no tomorrow
form: like there's no tomorrow
form: like there was no tomorrow
form: like there were no tomorrow
Senses: examples: text: Starting with the Pranksters, who were the first to take LSD out of the war labs and hospitals, hippies were mixing drugs as if there were no tomorrow.
ref: 1999, Carol Brightman, Sweet Chaos: The Grateful Dead's American Adventure, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: To an excessive degree, oftentimes with little to no regard to future consequences; desperately; recklessly or wantonly; frantically; very quickly or very much.
Synonyms: like it's going out of style
like one's life depended on it
Alamanni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Alemanni.
Alamanni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Alemanni.
Alanis
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A feminine form of Alan best known for the Canadian singer Alanis Morissette whose father was named Alan.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Celtic languages.
wikipedia: Alanis Morissette
animatics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of animatic
palative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpælətɪv/
Forms: form: more palative
form: most palative
Etymology: From palate + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: palative delights
ref: c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC:
glosses: Pleasing to the taste; palatable.
glosses: palatal
uropoetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: uropoietic
Senses: examples: text: uropoetic organs
text: uropoetic system
topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: diuretic
glosses: Producing or stimulating the production of urine.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to a system of organs that eliminate nitrogenous waste matter from the blood of certain invertebrates.
gondolet
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ɡɒndəˈlɛt/
Forms: form: gondolets
Etymology: From Italian gondoletta, diminutive of gondola.
Senses: examples: text: Then, come to me when daylight sets;
Sweet! then come to me,
When smoothly go our gondolets
O'er the moonlight sea
ref: Thomas Moore, "Oh come to me when the dayligt sets", in National Airs (184)
glosses: A small gondola.
gondolets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gondolet
undercrested
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of undercrest
undercrests
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of undercrest
philologize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: philologizes
form: philologizing
form: philologized
form: philologized
form: philologise
Etymology: From philology + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: Nor is it here that I design to enlarge , as those who have philologized on this occasion de Sycophantis
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: To do the work of a philologist, to study words and their origins.
philologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of philologize
philologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of philologize
philologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of philologize
tendence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tendences
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of tendency.
wex
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: wexes
form: wexing
form: wexed
form: wexed
Senses: examples: text: The sun but seem'd the lab'rer of their year;
Each wexing moon supply'd her wat'ry store.
ref: 1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis:
glosses: Obsolete form of wax.
scribable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From scribe + -able.
Senses: examples: text: scribable surface
text: scribable film
glosses: Capable of being written, or written on.
thlipsis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈθlɪp.sɪs/
Etymology: From New Latin thlipsis, from Ancient Greek θλῖψις (thlîpsis, “pressure”).
Senses: examples: text: Thus we sometimes see, in ardent fevers, the whole body suffused with redness, while the roughness and dryness of the skin, tongue, fauces, and internal parts of the mouth shew, that the smaller vessels are impervious, being compressed by a true thlipsis, the larger vessels being over distended with red blood.
ref: 1773, Colin Hossack, An abridgement of Baron Van Swieten's commentaries upon the Aphorisms of the celebrated Dr. Herman Boerhaave:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.
examples: text: This thlipsis is something possessed in common by monks who find their monastic life most difficult, and by those laypeople who would perhaps be monks if they were able.
ref: 2003, Robin Amis, A Different Christianity, page 268:
text: Then in verse 29 Jesus says immediately after this thlipsis there will be signs in the heavens, and Jesus returns with His angels to gather his saints.
ref: 2005, Elmer Wiebe, Who Is the Adventist Jesus?, page 254:
topics: Christianity
glosses: A time of hardship.
reperception
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reperceptions
Etymology: From re- + perception.
Senses: examples: 26 October, 1818, John Keats, , letter to Fanny Keats
No external praise can give me such a glow as my own solitary reperception and ratification of what is fine.
glosses: The act of perceiving again
glosses: a new perception.
reperceptions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of reperception
toluyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toluyls
Etymology: From toluic + -yl.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of the three hypothetical radicals corresponding to the three toluic acids.
toluyls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toluyl
alveoliform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more alveoliform
form: most alveoliform
Etymology: From Latin alveolus (“cavity”) + -iform.
Senses: examples: text: alveoliform depressions
text: alveoliform animal
glosses: Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.
indictor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: indictors
Etymology: From indict + -or.
Senses: examples: text: As because in them, if they be followed in course of indictment, there passeth a double jury, the indictors and the triers.
ref: 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
topics: law
synonyms: indicter
glosses: Someone who indicts.
indictors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of indictor
presphenoidal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pre- + sphenoidal.
Senses: examples: text: presphenoidal part
text: presphenoidal region
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone.
inharmonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inharmony
inharmony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɑːməni/
ipa: /ɪnˈhɑɹməni/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)məni
Forms: form: inharmonies
Etymology: From in- + harmony.
Senses: examples: text: Here in the night stretches a wide and blasted field studded with half-extinct fires burning redly with I know not what presage of evil. . . . To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?
ref: 1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I:
text: Tom Slater made a congratulatory speech—in reality, a mournful adjuration to avoid the pitfalls of matrimonial inharmony.
ref: 1912, Rex Ellingwood Beach, chapter 22, in The Iron Trail: An Alaskan Romance:
glosses: Lack of harmony.
Synonyms: disharmony
semioval
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + oval.
Senses: glosses: Half oval.
semioval
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: semiovals
Etymology: From semi- + oval.
Senses: glosses: A two-dimensional figure that has one straight edge and a rounded edge, similar to a semicircle but elongated in height or width.
urceole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: urceoles
Etymology: From Latin urceolus.
Senses: examples: text: He was next divested of the alb or surplice, and also of the maniple (otherwise called the fanon or fannel), a kind of scarf worn on the left wrist, to denote his degradation from the order of sub-deaconship; after that he surrendered, as acolyte, the candlestick, taper, and small pitcher called urceole; as exorcist, the book of exorcisms; as reader, the lectionary or book of daily lessons; and, as sexton, the surplice of that office and the key of the church-door.
ref: 1848, George Lillie Craik, The Pictorial History of England, page 135:
glosses: A vessel for water or washing the hands in Roman Catholicism.
examples: text: Stamineal urceole 10-15-toothed, with 5-10 of the teeth obtuse and sterile, and the 5 remaining ones alternate and monantherous.
ref: 1837, James Macfadyen, The Flora of Jamaica, page 101:
text: The common Lady's Mantle is now considered to include 10 species based chiefly on the distribution of hairiness, the shape of the leaf and the fruit or urceole.
ref: 1961, Roger William Butcher, A New Illustrated British Flora, page 686:
text: The numerous structures lying on the floor of the ovarian cavity have been interpreted in the past as carpels (Stapf, 1894; Baehni, 1937, 1938) or as female flowers (Hutchinson, 1926) while the urceole has been regarded as an overdeveloped "disc" or receptacle (Stapf, l.e.), a receptacle resembling a thick corolla (Hutchinson, l.e) and corolla (Baehni, l.c).
ref: 1968, The Journal of Biological Sciences - Volume 11, Issues 1-2, page 3:
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A disc in the center of a flower, often resembling a thickening of the corolla, which holds the carpels.
urceoles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of urceole
get a charge out of
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a charge out of
form: getting a charge out of
form: got a charge out of
form: got a charge out of
form: gotten a charge out of
Etymology: An allusion to feeling the shock of an electric charge.
Senses: examples: text: Anyway, I used to get a charge out of the writing on the walls in the John.
ref: 1969, Juliette Lemercier, Justine Lemercier, The Turkish Bath, →ISBN, page 108:
text: Even landlubbers who find yacht racing about as exciting as watching grass grow might get a charge out of the litigious storm swirling around the America's Cup.
ref: 1989 October 2, “Yachting: Courting the America's Cup”, in Time:
text: There are gamblers who get a charge out of playing the odds and thrive off risk.
ref: 2009 January 2, Alina Tugend, “Coping Skills and Horrible Imaginings”, in New York Times, retrieved 27 Nov 2011:
glosses: To derive excitement, entertainment, or pleasure from.
Synonyms: get off on
get a kick out of
chylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈkaɪləs/
Forms: form: more chylous
form: most chylous
Etymology: Compare French chyleux.
Senses: examples: text: chylous ascites
topics: medicine
physiology
sciences
glosses: Consisting of, or similar to, chyle.
Derived terms: chylous ascites
get a charge from
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets a charge from
form: getting a charge from
form: got a charge from
form: got a charge from
form: gotten a charge from
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of get a charge out of.
rubidic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: rubidic chloride
text: rubidic nitrate
text: rubidic sulphate
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
synonyms: rubidian
glosses: Relating to, or containing, rubidium.
doctors make the worst patients
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Senses: glosses: It is difficult to advise people on subjects that they are experts on.
embodier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɪə(ɹ)
Forms: form: embodiers
Etymology: From embody + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who embodies.
embodiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embodier
totalness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtəʊtəlnəs/
Etymology: From total + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.
Synonyms: entirety
totality
evidentness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From evident + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being evident; evidence.
drudgingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more drudgingly
form: most drudgingly
Etymology: From drudging + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: […] It is not ſo decorous in reſpect of God, that he ſhould αὐτουργεῖν ἅπαντα [autourgeîn hápanta], ſet his ovvn hand as it vvere to every vvork, and immediately do all the meaneſt and triflingſt things himſelf drudgingly, vvithout making uſe of any inferior or ſubordinate Miniſters.
ref: 1691, John Ray, “The Cartesian Hypothesis Considered and Censured”, in The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. […], London: […] Samuel Smith, […], →OCLC, page 39:
glosses: In a drudging manner; laboriously.
gentilish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more gentilish
form: most gentilish
Etymology: From gentile + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: filing the tongue of Scripture to a Gentilish Idiom
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC:
text: Gentilish Prophet
ref: 1665, Francis Roberts, Clavis bibliorum; the Key of the Bible:
text: Gentilish elements
ref: 1894, Alexander Brown, The Great Day of the Lord:
glosses: heathenish; pagan
matronlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more matronlike
form: most matronlike
Etymology: From matron + -like.
Senses: glosses: Like a matron; matronly.
Derived terms: unmatronlike
extraprofessional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more extraprofessional
form: most extraprofessional
Etymology: From extra- + professional.
Senses: glosses: Foreign to a profession; not within the ordinary limits of professional duty or business.
use a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌjuːz‿ə ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmə tə ˌkɹæk‿ə ˈnʌt/
ipa: /ˌjuz‿ə ˈslɛd͡ʒhæmɚ tə ˌkɹæk‿ə ˈnʌt/
rhymes: -ʌt
Forms: form: uses a sledgehammer to crack a nut
form: using a sledgehammer to crack a nut
form: used a sledgehammer to crack a nut
form: used a sledgehammer to crack a nut
Etymology: The analogy dates back to at least the middle of the 19th century: see, for example, this quotation from Levi Carroll Judson’s work Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution (1851): “He at once became the nucleus around which a band of patriots gathered and formed a nut too hard to be cracked by the sledgehammer of monarchy.”
Senses: examples: text: This last mentioned consideration involves the concept in Community law (derived principally from German law) called "proportionality". In plain English it means "You must not use a steam hammer to crack a nut, if a nutcracker would do."
ref: [1983 January 20, Lord Diplock [i.e., Kenneth Diplock, Baron Diplock]; Lord of Appeal in Ordinary; House of Lords, “Regina, respondent, and Goldstein, appellant [[1983] 1 W.L.R. 151]”, in The Weekly Law Reports, volume 1, London: Incorporated Council of Law Reporting for England and Wales, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 155:
text: Today, Mr [Anthony] Worthington, an engineer, said: 'Sending three officers over simply to give a warning about kids playing football in the street is like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.[…]'
ref: 2010 September 21, “‘A sledgehammer to crack a nut’: Three police officers and a patrol car rush to … children playing football in the street”, in Daily Mail, London: DMG Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Mar 2023:
text: In our view the Public Order Bill is an attempt by the Government to use a sledgehammer to crack a nut. At a time when we should be focusing on rebuilding trust in the police, this Bill risks stoking further mistrust and undermining their vital role in protecting the public.
ref: 2022 December 17, Martin Evans, quoting Mike Barton et al., “Law to curb Just Stop Oil protests ‘a sledgehammer to crack a nut’, say ex-police chiefs”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2023:
synonyms: word: use a sledgehammer to kill a gnat
antonyms: shoot an elephant with a BB gun
kill an elephant with a BB gun
glosses: To use disproportionate or significantly excessive force to carry out an action; to do something overzealously.
wikipedia: Philip Livingston
Related terms: break a butterfly upon the wheel
bring a knife to a gunfight
overkill
when your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail
blue flag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blue flags
Senses: glosses: An award given to European beaches, based on cleanliness and water quality.
Coordinate terms: sense: colours of flags
word: beige flag
sense: colours of flags
word: black flag
sense: colours of flags
word: chequered flag
sense: colours of flags
word: green flag
sense: colours of flags
word: orange flag
sense: colours of flags
word: pink flag
sense: colours of flags
word: red flag
sense: colours of flags
word: white flag
sense: colours of flags
word: yellow flag
frog view
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frog views
Senses: examples: text: In 3 of his cases, abnormal findings were equivocal or absent in the anteroposterior view but clearly demonstrable in the frog view.
ref: 1963, RSNA Index to Imaging Literature - Volume 81, page 361:
text: How can we reconcile such an apparently simple picture as that presented to us by Theron's work with the complicated, somewhat illogical grouping that is revealed to us by the anterolateral and frog views of the hip.
ref: 1983, David M. Gruebel Lee, David M. Hirsh, Disorders of the Hip, page 150:
text: We routinely use a lateral frog view for followup hip evaluation but occasionally obtain a cross-table lateral view to evaluate acetabular component version.
ref: 2014, Giles R Scuderi, Techniques in Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty E-Book: Expert Consult, →ISBN:
topics: medicine
radiology
sciences
glosses: A lateral view of the hips with the legs positioned like a frog on a lily pad to prevent them from obscuring each other.
examples: text: In many ways this is like the bird (outside the system) and frog (inside the system) views used [8, 9] by Tegmark. In effect one has here a hierarchy of bird and frog views.
ref: 2009, Kazem Mahdavi, Deborah Koslover, Advances in Quantum Computation, →ISBN:
text: On Math, Matter and Mind Max Tegmark refers to the many-worlds situation of component 'observers' as moving from a 'birds eye' view to a 'frog view', the frog being inside the process of the wavefunction (figure 3).
ref: 2012, Graham Smetham, Quantum Buddhist Wonders of the Universe, →ISBN, page 96:
text: We perceive the bird and frog views simultaneously, although what hybrid monstrosity we become in the process is not clear.
ref: 2016, Garfield Benjamin, The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax, →ISBN, page 168:
glosses: Alternative form of frog's-eye view.
hot carl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hot carls
form: hot karl
form: hot-carl
form: hot Carl
form: hot Karl
Etymology: Possibly misapplied from hot carl "a cheap red wine enema, usually involving Carlo Rossi Merlot".
Senses: examples: text: In 2004 a white rapper called Hot Karl is noted; also tee-shirts with the image of a pile of steaming faeces and the slogan 'hot carl'.
ref: 2007, Tom Dalzell, Terry Victor, Sex Slang, page 88:
glosses: A sexual act of defecating on the face of a sexual partner, usually covered in plastic wrap.
Synonyms: coprophilia
scatophilia
Related terms: cold carl
warm carl
hot carls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot carl
sliding doors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sliding door
mud volcanos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mud volcano
bender tent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bender tents
Senses: synonyms: bender
glosses: A simple shelter, made using flexible branches or withies.
Crone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crones
Senses: examples: text: […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.
ref: 2002, A.J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 90:
text: The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.
ref: 2004, Aurora Greenbough, Cathy Jewell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spells and Spellcraft, page 9:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Mother and Maiden, representing an old woman.
Derived terms: cronehood
Maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Maidens
form: Mayden
Senses: examples: text: […] different stages of life as represented by our Lady as Maiden, Mother, and Crone, as well as our Lord as Master, Father, and Sage.
ref: 2002, A.J. Drew, Wicca for Couples: Making Magick Together, page 90:
text: The Lady is often thought of as having three aspects: Maiden, Mother, and Crone.
ref: 2004, Aurora Greenbough, Cathy Jewell, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Spells and Spellcraft, page 9:
topics: Wicca
lifestyle
religion
glosses: One of the triune goddesses of the Lady in Wicca alongside the Crone and Mother representing a girl or a young woman
Maiden
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Mayden
Senses: glosses: A surname.
glosses: Iron Maiden, a heavy metal band from England.
Albanos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Albano
Alemanni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”).
Senses: examples: text: The hasty army of volunteers gradually coalesced into a great and permanent nation, and, as it was composed from so many different tribes, assumed the name of Alemanni, or Allmen ; to denote at once their various lineage, and their common bravery.
ref: 1846, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, page 271:
text: The Alemanni were originally composed of fragments of several Germanic peoples, and they remained a loosely knit confederation of tribes in the Suebi group (see Suebi).
ref: 2011 September 15, “Alemanni”, in Encyclopædia Britannica:
glosses: A group of Germanic peoples living between the Rhine, Main, and Danube Rivers from the third to the sixth century.
examples: text: On the basis of their location along the Rhine River during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, I have concluded that my ancestors were Alemanni and Franks, though lacking in ethnic purity.
ref: 2011 October 1, Richard J. Gehman, “Reflections on our Germanic Mennonite Heritage”, in Bible Fellowship Church Online History Center, archived from the original on 16 Dec 2020:
glosses: Those individuals descended from one of the Alemanni tribes.
Alemanni
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin Alemannī (“the confederation of German tribes related to Suebi who lived near the upper reaches of Danube”).
Senses: examples: text: This time, however, his troops faced the full brunt of an Alemanni force that attacked them on the way.
ref: 2007, Michael Curtis Ford, Gods and Legions: A Novel of the Roman Empire, page 109:
glosses: Of or related to the Alemanni peoples.
glosses: Of or related to the Alemannic language or dialects.
Related terms: Alemannic
Suebi
Swabian
Swabish
Alfredos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Alfredo
mancae
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of manca
frufru
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: frufrus
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frou-frou.
frufru
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more frufru
form: most frufru
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of frou-frou.
growth rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of growth ring
meromorphically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meromorphically
form: most meromorphically
Etymology: From meromorphic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The Riemann Zeta function #92;zeta(s) […] can indeed be continued meromorphically to the whole complex s-plane with a simple pole at s#61;1 (with residue 1).
ref: 2000 January 24, Choi, Junesang, Srivastava, Hari Mohan, “Evaluation of higher-order derivatives of the Gamma function”, in Publikacija Elektrotehnickog fakulteta - serija matematika, volume 11, page 10 of 9-18:
glosses: In a meromorphic manner; by using meromorphic functions
questionnaired
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of questionnaire
questionnairing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of questionnaire
sulfosuccinate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sulfosuccinates
Etymology: From sulfo- + succinate.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A sulfonate derivative of succinate (salt or ester of sulfosuccinc acid)
Derived terms: dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate
superglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: superglasses
Etymology: From super- + glass.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A phase of matter in which superfluidity and an amorphous (glassy) structure are present at the same time
superglasses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of superglass
zeromodes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of zeromode
belimb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: belimbs
form: belimbing
form: belimbed
form: belimbed
form: belim
Etymology: From Middle English belimien (“to dismember”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + limb.
Senses: glosses: To cut off a limb or limbs; dismember; mutilate; disfigure.
saltatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of saltato
vincture
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈvɪŋk.t͡ʃɚ/
rhymes: -ɪŋktʃə(ɹ)
Forms: form: vinctures
Etymology: From Latin vinctura, from vincire, vinctum (“to bind”).
Senses: examples: text: […] no gentler vinctures fettered her to her second home, except the sweet tie of her motherhood. All the dreams, all the betrayed hopes of her past flew to the cradle[…]
ref: 1895, Aroda Reym, A Life Contrast, page 172:
text: […] this treaty is a mere vincture to those who have adhered to the Hague; then what object has the article following […]
ref: 1902, Organization of the Conference: Projects, Reports, Motions, Debates and Resolutions, page 307:
text: […] the pledge of a moral padlock or the knotted string of a legal contract […] the vincture of marriage, while somewhere in the background a pale verger lent his tongue to the murmured responses. No joyful voices praised the Lord. A bended knee, a clasp of hands, a ring, a few words made luminous with love[…]
ref: 1956, Reginald Spencer Ellery, The Cow Jumped Over the Moon: Private Papers of a Psychiatrist:
glosses: A binding.
beliking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of belike
beliked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English beliked, past participle of beliken (“to simulate, feign”), equivalent to be- + like.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belike
beliked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beliked
form: most beliked
Etymology: From belike, equivalent to belike + -ed.
Senses: glosses: Beloved; liked.
beliked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From belike, equivalent to belike + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of belike
belikes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of belike
belikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of belike
Limnos
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Lemnos.
restiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹɛstɪnəs/
Etymology: From resty + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The Snake by restinesse and lying still all Winter, hath a certaine membrane[…]
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “(please specify |book=I to XXXVII)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], (please specify |tome=1 or 2), London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:
glosses: The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.
mesobranchial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + branchial.
Senses: examples: text: mesobranchial region
text: mesobranchial ridge
text: mesobranchial area
text: mesobranchial tubercle
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
hortensial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hortensial
form: most hortensial
Etymology: From Latin hortensius, hortensis, from hortus (“garden”). Akin to English yard (“an enclosure”).
Senses: examples: text: such as are sative and hortensial subalternate to the other
ref: 1664, J[ohn] E[velyn], Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:
glosses: Fit for a garden.
infertilely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more infertilely
form: most infertilely
Etymology: From infertile + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: live unfertilely
glosses: In an infertile manner.
anemogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anemograms
Etymology: From anemo- + -gram.
Senses: glosses: A record made by an anemograph.
anemograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anemogram
glochidiate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more glochidiate
form: most glochidiate
Etymology: From Ancient Greek γλωχίς (glōkhís, “point, barb”) + -iate, alternative form of + -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: glochidiate bristles
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Having barbs
glaucescent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsənt
Forms: form: more glaucescent
form: most glaucescent
Etymology: See glaucous and -escent.
Senses: glosses: Having a somewhat glaucous appearance
Derived terms: glaucescence
dyingness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From dying + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Tenderness becomes me best, a sort of dyingness; you see that picture, Foible, — a swimmingness in the eyes; yes, I'll look so.
ref: 1700, [William] Congreve, The Way of the World, a Comedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
glosses: The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor.
epispermic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From episperm + -ic.
Senses: examples: text: epispermic embryo
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Pertaining or belonging to the episperm (seedcoat).
barkbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more barkbound
form: most barkbound
Etymology: From bark + bound.
Senses: examples: text: barkbound tree
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Prevented from growing, by having the bark too firm or close.
bridgeboard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bridgeboards
Etymology: From bridge + board.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: A notched board to which the treads and risers of the steps of wooden stairs are fastened.
glosses: A board or plank used as a bridge.
Synonyms: sense: part of staircase
word: notchboard
bridgeboards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bridgeboard
blackener
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blackeners
Etymology: From blacken + -er.
Senses: glosses: Someone or something that blackens.
blackeners
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of blackener
endiademed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of endiadem
endiademed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Opposite is the emblem of the Gospel, a maiden, brightly looking heavenwards, her head endiademed, the budding lily in her hand.
ref: 1837, Sir Francis Palgrave, Truths and fictions of the Middle Ages: The merchant and the friar, page 247:
glosses: Wearing a diadem.
siphonostomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From siphono- + -stomatous.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having the front edge of the aperture of the shell lengthened in the shape of a channel for the protection of the siphon; said of certain gastropods.
siphonostomatous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Siphonostomata + -ous
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Pertaining to the Siphonostomata.
ombrometer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ombrometers
Etymology: From ombro- + -meter.
Senses: glosses: A rain gauge
Derived terms: ombrometric
ombrometry
ombrometers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ombrometer
bracketless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bracket + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without brackets (in various senses).
bractless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From bract + -less.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Without bracts.
epigastrial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: epigastrial pain
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: rare spelling of epigastric
rhinencephalic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: rhinencephalic neurons
text: rhinencephalic structure
text: rhinencephalic activity
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the rhinencephalon.
nucament
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nucaments
Etymology: From Latin nucamenta (“fir cones”), from nux, nucis (“a nut”).
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A catkin or amentum.
Derived terms: nucamentaceous
nucaments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nucament
valvasor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: valvasors
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vavasour.
valvasors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of valvasor