cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
teetotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetotums
form: tetotum
form: T-totum
form: tee-totem
Etymology: From Latin totum (“all”), marked by a T on one of the four sides.
Senses: examples: text: The town awakes; the great tee-totum is set up for its daily spin and whirl; […]
ref: 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, “Tom-all-alone’s”, in Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC, page 157:
text: "Are you a child or a teetotum?" the Sheep said, as she took up another pair of needles. "You'll make me giddy soon, if you go on turning round like that."
ref: 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Wool and Water”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 104:
text: Ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho! ho/Time's teetotum/If you spin it/Gives it quotum...
ref: 1893, “First You're Born”, W. S. Gilbert (lyrics), Arthur Sullivan (music):
glosses: A toy (spinning top) similar to a dreidel.
teetotum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: teetotums
form: tetotum
form: T-totum
form: tee-totem
Senses: glosses: A working men's club conducted under religious influences, as an alternative to drinking in the saloon.
boiserie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boiseries
Etymology: From French boiserie, from bois (“wood”).
Senses: examples: text: Pot luck turned out to be an exquisite light lunch served at a round table in a room lined with rococo boiseries that had been removed wholesale from some grand Parisian town house and painted pale blue.
ref: 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 3, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN:
text: Around 1960 the town house — 1081 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street — was pulled down to make way for 1080 Fifth Avenue, and the boiseries were removed.
ref: 2008 May 9, Wendy Moonan, “Rococo Eye-Openers at Two Auction Houses”, in New York Times:
glosses: panelling; wood trim
shammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shammies
Etymology: From chamois with an initial sh to represent the sound /ʃ/ in English.
Senses: glosses: Chamois leather.
glosses: A cloth made of this leather.
shammy
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shammies
form: shammying
form: shammied
form: shammied
Etymology: From chamois with an initial sh to represent the sound /ʃ/ in English.
Senses: glosses: To clean with a chamois leather cloth.
shammy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Two smart-looking damsels have risked their lives on the top, and are sipping a glass of 'shammy' to keep up their spirits.
ref: 1892, Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches, page 53:
glosses: Champagne.
Related terms: english: etymologically unrelated
translation: etymologically unrelated
word: shimmy-shammy
chamois leather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamois leathers
Senses: glosses: A soft suede leather, originally from the chamois but now made from sheepskin, used in cleaning and polishing.
let-through
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: let-throughs
Senses: topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A transient voltage spike that is allowed to pass through a power conditioning unit to the load
Related terms: feed-through
living tissue
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: living tissues
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Any tissue of a living organism containing cells that are being replaced when they die.
gradin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gradins
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Any of a series of terraced steps or seats, as in an arena or an altar.
military tactics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The techniques for using weapons or military units in combination for engaging and defeating an enemy in battle.
cubile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cubiles
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin cubīle (“bed”).
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: The lowest course of stones in a building.
bird watchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bird watcher
feel like
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: feels like
form: feeling like
form: felt like
form: felt like
Senses: examples: text: I didn't feel like working yesterday, so I called in sick.
glosses: To have a desire for something, or to do something.
examples: text: “Perhaps it is because I have been excommunicated. It's absurd, but I feel like the Jackdaw of Rheims.” ¶ She winced and bowed her head. Each time that he spoke flippantly of the Church he caused her pain.
ref: 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
glosses: To perceive oneself to resemble (something); to have the sense of being (something).
examples: text: I feel like it will rain all week.
text: She felt like the dog could start biting at any moment.
glosses: To feel that something is likely to happen; to predict.
examples: text: Those guinea feathers blew out in the sun ahead of us and lighted up, then got sucked back into the shade. That old wreck wasn’t going to fly, it wasn’t even going to roll on those flat tires. But I felt like I was flying through a cloud of guinea feathers.
ref: 1987, Charles Hammer, chapter 3, in Wrong-Way Ragsdale, New York, N.Y.: Farrar / Straus / Giroux, →LCCN, page 17:
text: I’m real scared . . . stiff all over . . . I feel like I am dying . . . I can’t move . . . I don’t want to die . . . help me.
ref: 1992, Peter Levine, “The Body as Healer: A Revisioning of Trauma and Anxiety”, in Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, editor, Giving the Body Its Due (The Body in Culture, History, and Religion), Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 91:
text: Kenny is beginning to feel dizzy and sags. She jams a hand under his arm to prop him up. He feels like he’s about to pass out.
ref: 2006, Don Otey, chapter 56, in Terror’s Mask, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 242:
glosses: To feel as though.
examples: text: It felt like rain, but it barely drizzled.
text: It feels like Gerald is the likely suspect.
glosses: To give a perception of something; to appear or to seem.
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Denotes the apparent temperature.
Derived terms: feel like death
feel like oneself
Related terms: would like
xerclod
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xerclods
Etymology: Alteration of "piece X" read upside down. Used by a team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, according to the rec.models.rockets newsgroup FAQ.
Senses: examples: text: There could be some side-to-side movement, because the piece the glider fuselage was cut from is actually a bit narrower than the piece the pod pylon was cut from (and I think the xerclod is a bit narrower than the fuselage, though I've built that part up with tape).
ref: 2000, Scott D. Orr, “Re: Questions about Boost Glider Boosts [Again--Someone answer, please!]”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):
text: Each side of the BT-60 had 2 xerclods (short lengths of 1/8" dowels) to hang the gliders on.
ref: 2000, Rhhickok, “Re: Motor mount burn through”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):
text: Some sort of positive hook is needed, yet it must be designed to separate easily at ejection. Once^([sic]) common method is the "Piece X" or xerclod hook, where a rhombus hook is cut from the fuselage and attached to the pop pod.
ref: 2002, Bob Kaplow, “RMR FAQ part 8.2 Free Flight Boost Gliders [long]”, in rec.models.rockets (Usenet):
glosses: A parallelogram-shaped connector in a model rocket assembly.
wikipedia: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
civilist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪvɪlɪst/
Forms: form: civilists
Etymology: From Medieval Latin civilista, from Latin cīvīlis (“civil (law)”), on the pattern of Medieval Latin canonista (“canonist”), from Latin canōn (“rule”).
Senses: glosses: One who studies or works with the civil law.
topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: One who rejects the moral authority of Christ but who nevertheless adheres to a moral code in line with “civil righteousness” and “good citizenship”.
glosses: A statesman, politician, or student of the political sciences.
Related terms: civilism
parasequential
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more parasequential
form: most parasequential
Etymology: From para- + sequential.
Senses: examples: text: The request stream is parasequential, so we have some latency delay.
glosses: not in the intended order.
booder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: booders
Etymology: The term came into the popular vernacular in the jazz scene in 1920's Harlem.
Senses: qualifier: jazz
glosses: A catch-all phrase for an object, person, or place.
circular sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circular sectors
form: circle sector
Senses: topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
glosses: A portion of a circle enclosed by two radii and an arc.
Related terms: circular segment
circular arc
circle sector
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: circle sectors
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of circular sector.
ribbonwood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ribbonwoods
Etymology: From ribbon + wood
Senses: glosses: Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus
glosses: Any of various plants from Australia and New Zealand in the genera Hoheria, Idiospermum and Plagianthus
especially, North Island lacebark (Hoheria populnea)
glosses: Redshanks, ribbon bush, a plant of species Adenostoma sparsifolium of southern California in the US and northern Baja California in Mexico.
Kamal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Arabic كَمَال (kamāl, “perfection”).
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
Kamal
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Transliteration of Hindi कमल (kamal). Doublet of Kamala.
Senses: glosses: A male given name.
lacebark
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lacebarks
Etymology: From lace + bark.
Senses: glosses: Any of various New Zealand plants in the genus Hoheria.
glosses: The Caribbean tree Lagetta lagetto.
Related terms: lacebark elm
lacebark pine
kamal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kamals
Senses: glosses: A navigation device, known to the Arabs and Chinese of the ancient world, consisting of a wooden card and knotted string.
diamond cutters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diamond cutter
ski lodge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ski lodges
Senses: glosses: A mountain hotel providing accommodation for skiers.
embolia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of embolium
electrophorese
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: electrophoreses
form: electrophoresing
form: electrophoresed
form: electrophoresed
Etymology: Back-formation from electrophoresis.
Senses: examples: text: The approach taken is to electrophorese the RNA sample on an agarose gel under denaturing conditions.
ref: 1995, Kwang-Soo Kim et al., “Analysis of gene expression by blotting techniques”, in Gene Probes 2, →ISBN, page 156:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To carry out electrophoresis on something.
electrophoreses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of electrophoresis
electrophoreses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of electrophorese
bottle cap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bottle caps
form: bottlecap
Senses: synonyms: bottle top
bottletop
hypernyms: cap#Noun
closure#English:_element of packaging such as cap or lid
coordinate_terms: cork
lid
stopper
glosses: Any of several designs of closure used to seal bottles.
glosses: Any of certain mushrooms of genus Psilocybe, such as Psilocybe baeocystis.
Related terms: beer bottle
bottle opener
milk bottle
milk caps
get to know
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: gets to know
form: getting to know
form: got to know
form: got to know
form: gotten to know
Senses: examples: text: I'm not into that one-night thing. I think a person should get to know someone and even be in love with them before you use them and degrade them
ref: 23 October 1976, Steve Martin, Saturday Night Live:
glosses: To become acquainted with (someone or something); to meet someone.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see get, know.
1080
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnˈeɪ.ti/
Forms: form: 1080s
Etymology: From 1080° of rotation angle.
Senses: examples: text: Sadowski-Synnott scored 92.88 on her final run, landing back-to-back 1080s on a challenging course resembling the Great Wall of China.
Asked how she felt about making history as the island nation's first Winter Games gold medallist, she said it made her a "proud Kiwi".
ref: 2022 February 6, Mari Saito, Winni Zhou, “Snowboarding-Proud Kiwi Sadowski-Synnott bags New Zealand's first Winter Games gold”, in Jacqueline Wong, Clare Fallon, editors, Reuters, archived from the original on 30 May 2022:
glosses: An aerial maneuver in which the performer spins through three full revolutions.
Coordinate terms: english: 6 turns
translation: 6 turns
word: 2160
english: 5-1/2 turns
translation: 5-1/2 turns
word: 1980
english: 5 turns
translation: 5 turns
word: 1800
english: 4-1/2 turns
translation: 4-1/2 turns
word: 1620
english: 4 turns
translation: 4 turns
word: 1440
english: 3-1/2 turns
translation: 3-1/2 turns
word: 1260
english: 2-1/2 turns
translation: 2-1/2 turns
word: 900
english: 2 turns
translation: 2 turns
word: 720
english: 1-1/2 turns
translation: 1-1/2 turns
word: 540
english: 1 turn
translation: 1 turn
word: 360
english: 1/2 turn
translation: 1/2 turn
word: 180
1080
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛnˈeɪ.ti/
Etymology: * From its original catalogue number.
Senses: glosses: Sodium fluoroacetate poison.
Synonyms: ten-eighty
encomia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Needless to say the obituaries for Hefner, even if they acknowledge the seaminess, have been full of encomia for his great deeds: Hef the vanquisher of puritanism, Hef the political progressive, Hef the great businessman and all the rest.
ref: 2017 September 30, Ross Douthat, “Speaking Ill of Hugh Hefner”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of encomium (“praise”)
nurturant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/
Forms: form: more nurturant
form: most nurturant
Etymology: From nurture + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: Go to readings, read books like this anthology, read the publications, become nurturant and enriched and educated about what's going on around them, form writing support groups.
ref: 1981 August 1, Maida Tilchen, Joan Larkin, Elly Bulkin, “Getting to Know Who We Are: The Lesbian Poetry Tradition”, in Gay Community News, page 9:
text: In other words, liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.
ref: 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: That provides nourishment; nurturing.
Related terms: nurturance
nurturant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈnəːtʃəɹənt/
Forms: form: nurturants
Etymology: From nurture + -ant.
Senses: examples: text: By removing one or another aspect from an organism's visual environment, one can determine the essential visual nurturants. The latter are then considered the basic visual-environmental determinants of the development of visual perception.
ref: 1975, Austin Herbert Riesen, The developmental neuropsychology of sensory deprivation, page 171:
glosses: That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.
Swiss Army knife
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Swiss Army knives
Etymology: From the prominent (although not exclusive) association of this type of knife with officers of the Swiss Army; see Swiss Army knife § History for details.
Senses: glosses: Any of a class of multi-function pocket knives or multitools, having a blade and various tools, such as screwdrivers and can openers.
glosses: A tool that has many functions, one for every perceivable need.
Synonyms: Swiss Army penknife
abstract harmonic analysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: 1970, Edwin Hewitt, Kenneth A. Ross, Abstract Harmonic Analysis: Volume II: Structure and Analysis for Compact Groups; Analysis on Locally Compact Abelian Groups, Springer, 2nd reprint, 2002, page 547,
WIENER [1] goes well beyond analysis of periodic functions on R or even functions in 𝔏₂(R); this important paper has yet to be interpreted and assimilated into the standard repertory of abstract harmonic analysis.
text: The present book is a text book for a graduate course on abstract harmonic analysis and its applications.
ref: 2014, Anton Deitmar, Siegfried Echterhoff, Principles of Harmonic Analysis, 2nd edition, Springer, page v:
ref: 2015, Gerald B. Folland, A Course in Abstract Harmonic Analysis, 2nd edition, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press):
topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
qualifier: harmonic analysis; representation theory; harmonic analysis; representation theory
glosses: A branch of harmonic analysis dealing with generalised Fourier transforms that act on functions defined on Hausdorff locally compact topological groups.
pop psych
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of popular psychology.
touch oneself
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: touches oneself
form: touching oneself
form: touched oneself
form: touched oneself
Senses: examples: 1990, Divinyls - I Touch Myself
I don't want anybody else; when I think about you I touch myself.
glosses: To masturbate.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see touch, oneself.
Derived terms: because you touch yourself at night
Proto-Indo-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical ancestor language or protolanguage of Indo-Aryan languages, the Iranian languages, the Dardic languages and the Nuristani languages.
Proto-Indo-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Proto-Indo-Iranians
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
sciences
glosses: A person who spoke the Proto-Indo-Iranian language.
Proto-Indo-Iranian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anthropology
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Proto-Indo-Iranian language, or the people who spoke it.
Related terms: Indo-European language family
Proto-Indo-European language
Wiktionary’s coverage of Proto-Indo-Iranian terms
Old Persian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: OPers.
Senses: examples: text: The oldest reliably dated citation is part of the Behistun inscription of Darius the Great (died 486 B.C.), which is given in transliterated Old Persian in the entry for Aryan.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Setting the Record Straight: An In-depth Examination of Hobson-Jobson”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 31, number 4, →DOI, page 492:
glosses: The ancestor language of Middle Persian, and via it of New Persian language. Attested in Old Persian cuneiform, in the period 525 B.C.E. – 300 B.C.E.
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Persian terms
Lucullan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Lucullan
form: most Lucullan
Etymology: After the Roman general Lucullus (circa 117-57 B.C.E.), known for his sumptuous banquets.
Senses: examples: text: A Lucullan feast
text: "He will deign to finish this simple fare and wash it down with nothing more Lucullan than beer."
ref: 1956, Anthony Burgess, Time for a Tiger (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 192:
glosses: Marked by lavishness and richness; sumptuous.
wikipedia: Lucullus
Derived terms: Lucullan marble
tossed and turned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of toss and turn
tosses and turns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of toss and turn
tossing and turning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of toss and turn
wards off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ward off
warding off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of ward off
warding off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lacrosse
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The technical foul called when an offensive player in possession of the ball uses his hands and/or forearm to push a defender away.
warded off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ward off
Kant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from German Kant.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German.
examples: text: So it is natural to speak of a category of all categories, which we call CAT, the objects of which are all the categories, and the arrows of which are all the functors. This raises genuine problems. Is CAT a category in itself? Our answer here is to treat CAT as a regulative idea; that is, an inevitable way of thinking about categories and functors, but not a strictly legitimate entity. (Compare the self, the universe, and God in Kant 1781.) Of course, general category theory applies to CAT, and this category that we do not quite believe in is the single one that we investigate the most.
ref: 1995, Colin McLarty, Elementary Categories, Elementary Toposes, →ISBN, page 5:
glosses: Immanuel Kant, a German philosopher.
Derived terms: Kantian
Kant
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Kyrgyz Кант (Kant).
Senses: glosses: A city in Kyrgyzstan.
Southern Rhodesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British colonizer Cecil Rhodes.
Senses: glosses: A former colony of the United Kingdom; a name used to refer to the area now called Zimbabwe, officially introduced in 1901. A self-governing colony of Britain from 1923, its government began to refer to itself simply as Rhodesia in 1964, when Northern Rhodesia became Zambia. The name Zimbabwe was adopted in 1980.
Derived terms: North-Eastern Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
North-Western Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Northern Rhodesia
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Named after British colonizer Cecil Rhodes.
Senses: glosses: A former protectorate of the United Kingdom, existing from 1911 to 1964, now called Zambia.
Related terms: North-Eastern Rhodesia
North-Western Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Southern Rhodesia
Bechuanaland
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˌbɛt͡ʃuˈɑːnəlænd/
Forms: form: Bechwanaland
Etymology: From Bechuana + -land.
Senses: examples: text: After independence, Rhodesia changed its name to Zimbabwe, Nyasaland to Malawi, and Bechuanaland to Botswana.
ref: 2018 April 20, Bard Wilkinson, “Absolute monarch renames Swaziland ‘eSwatini’”, in CNN:
glosses: A former colony of the United Kingdom in Africa, which gained its independence in 1966 as Botswana.
lychnobite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lychnobites
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λυχνόβιος (lukhnóbios, “living by lamplight”), from λύχνος (lúkhnos, “lamp”) + βίος (bíos, “life”); ending analogical to cenobite.
Senses: examples: text: Before the enfeebled of the dull-eyed lychnobite of the press could succumb to its influence, the cheerful voice of the magician awoke him.
ref: 1887 November 5, Observer Journal (Dunkirk, New York):
text: […] he has listened as a pretended accomplice while sinister lychnobites laid plans over a low back bar-room table for outlaw depredations involving theft and manslaughter.
ref: 1924, John Chipman Farrar, The Literary Spotlight, page 192:
glosses: A person who works or labors at night and sleeps during the day.
Related terms: guanobite
stygobite
troglobite
paranumismatica
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: exonumia
Synonyms: word: exonumia
set free
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: sets free
form: setting free
form: set free
form: set free
Senses: examples: text: "Well, you can tell Nan that she won't marry Peter Mallory with my consent. I'll never set her free to be another man's wife."
ref: 1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 36, in The Moon Out Of Reach:
text: Send it, send it / Just like it came to me / I'm gonna set it free / Send it, send it / You've got to let it go / Open up a window
ref: 1977, Ashford & Simpson, “Send It”, in Send It:
glosses: To release, to free, to give freedom to.
Synonyms: befree
enfranchise
let loose
set loose
turn loose
lesson plan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lesson plans
Senses: examples: text: You've written thousands of lesson plans. You've taught the same subjects over and over. Why doesn't your principal just exempt you from having to write lesson plans? You could teach your lessons with your eyes closed, couldn't you?
ref: 2015, Annette Breaux, Todd Whitaker, Quick Answers for Busy Teachers: Solutions to 60 Common Challenges:
topics: education
glosses: A teacher's document used to plan a lesson.
scape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: scapes
Etymology: From Latin scāpus, from Doric Greek σκᾶπος (skâpos). Doublet of native English shaft.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: A leafless stalk growing directly out of a root, bulb, or subterranean structure.
glosses: The basal segment of an insect's antenna (i.e. the part closest to the body).
glosses: The basal part, more specifically known as the oviscape, of the ovipositor of an insect.
topics: architecture
glosses: The shaft of a column.
topics: architecture
glosses: The apophyge of a shaft.
Derived terms: scape-wheel
scape
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: scapes
form: scaping
form: scaped
form: scaped
Etymology: From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
Senses: examples: text: No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace / As I have seen in one autumnal face. / Young beauties force our love, and that's a rape, / This doth but counsel, yet you cannot scape.
ref: c. 1600, John Donne, Elegy IX: The Autumnal, in Poems (1633)
text: He (to beguile the ſimple) makes no bone / To ſvvear by God (for he beleeues ther's none); / His Svvord's his Title; and vvho ſcapes the ſame, / Shall haue a Piſtol, or a Poyſonie dram: […]
ref: 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, “[Du Bartas His Second Weeke, […]. David. […].] The Decay. The IIII. Book of the IIII. Day of the II. Week.”, in Josuah Sylvester, transl., Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC, page 619:
text: Hee will provide you keyes, and locks, to spie, / And scape spies, to good ends
ref: a. 1631 (date written), J[ohn] Donne, “(please specify the title)”, in Poems, […] with Elegies on the Authors Death, London: […] M[iles] F[lesher] for Iohn Marriot, […], published 1633, →OCLC:
glosses: To escape (someone or something).
scape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: scapes
Etymology: From Middle English scapen (whence also atscapen and ofscapen (“to escape”)), formed by aphesis from escapen, ascapen (“to escape”). Compare also Old French scapper, a variant of Old French eschaper, formed via similar process. Doublet of escape and scarper.
Senses: examples: text: I spake of most disastrous chances, […] Of hairbreadth scapes in the imminent, deadly breach.
ref: c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: Escape.
glosses: A means of escape; evasion.
examples: text: Not pardoning so much as the scapes of error and ignorance.
ref: 1643, J[ohn] M[ilton], The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce: […], London: […] T[homas] P[aine] and M[atthew] S[immons] […], →OCLC:
glosses: A freak; a slip; a fault; an escapade.
examples: text: though I am not bookish, yyet I can read waiting-gentlewoman in the 'scape
ref: c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
glosses: A loose act of vice or lewdness.
Derived terms: scape-animal
scape-bird
scapegoat
scape-wheel
scape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈskeɪp/
rhymes: -eɪp
Forms: form: scapes
Etymology: Probably imitative.
Senses: glosses: The cry of the snipe when flushed.
glosses: The snipe itself.
CRB
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Initialism of corporate records binder.
glosses: Initialism of Criminal Records Bureau.
niver
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈnə.vər/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈnɛ̈.vəɹ/
note: Mid-Ulster
ipa: /ˈnɜ.vəɹ/
Senses: examples: text: “Niver mind,” replies the opposition expressively, “niver mind; you go home, and, ven you're quite sober, mend your stockings.”
ref: 1837, “Boz” [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-day Life, and Every-day People. The Second Series, London: John Macrone, […], →OCLC, chapter SEVEN DIALS, page 149:
text: An’ niver got half his fill.
ref: 1983, William Forbes Marshall, The Lad:
glosses: Alternative form of never.
grindcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From grind + -core.
Senses: glosses: A genre of death metal music or hardcore punk, incorporating aggressive guitar riffs, extremely rapid drumming and loud, undecipherable screaming.
Synonyms: grind
Derived terms: cybergrind
rapcore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From rap + -core.
Senses: glosses: A genre of metal music, incorporating loud guitar riffs mixed with rapping, loud almost-screaming singing and rapid drumming.
lay preacher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay preachers
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services in a religious denomination.
Related terms: word: Lay speaker in the United Methodist Church
word: Lay reader in the Anglican and Episcopal Churches
word: Local preacher in the UK Methodist Church and the Uniting Church in Australia
lay speaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay speakers
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
Related terms: Lay preacher
Lay reader in the Anglican and Episcopal Churches
Local preacher in the UK Methodist Church and the Uniting Church in Australia
lay reader
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lay readers
Senses: examples: text: The Sabbath with us was literally a day of rest. The doctor, who was a licensed lay reader, read the service, and we managed to form a choir, composed of my sister and those of the staff who cared to join it.
ref: 1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 80:
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: A person who is not ordained but is appointed to lead Church services.
Related terms: word: Lay preacher
word: Lay speaker in the United Methodist Church
word: Local preacher in the UK Methodist Church and the Uniting Church in Australia
deadend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deadends
Etymology: From dead + end.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of dead-end.
geotechnical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌd͡ʒioʊˈtɛknɪkəl/
ipa: /ˌdʒiːəʊˈtɛknɪkəl/
Forms: form: more geotechnical
form: most geotechnical
Etymology: From geo- + technical.
Senses: examples: text: Powrie added: "Nuneham was not a structural problem. I am convinced of that. It was a geotechnical problem.
ref: 2023 May 17, Paul Clifton, “Extreme weather at heart of Nuneham viaduct failure”, in RAIL, number 983, page 12:
glosses: Of or relating to the soil and bedrock, especially aspects of foundations and earthworks.
Derived terms: geotechnical engineer
geotechnical engineering
geotechnically
geotechnology
outthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: outthrusts
Etymology: From out- + thrust.
Senses: glosses: Something that extends outwards, especially such an outcrop of rock
outthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: outthrusts
form: outthrusting
form: outthrusted
form: outthrusted
Etymology: From out- + thrust.
Senses: glosses: To extend outwards
bioenergy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioenergies
Etymology: From bio- + energy.
Senses: glosses: Energy produced from a biological resource such as biomass as biofuel.
glosses: A form of spiritual energy or life force.
Hypernyms: energy > renewable energy
bioproduct
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bioproducts
Etymology: From bio- + product.
Senses: glosses: Any commercial product produced using biotechnology.
Related terms: bioproduction
microchemical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: micro-chemical
Etymology: From micro- + chemical.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to microchemistry.
Glenwood
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡlɛn.wʊd/
rhymes: -ɛnwʊd
Etymology: From glen + wood. The town in Newfoundland is named after the Glenwood Lumber Company, which is named in turn after the community in Nova Scotia.
Senses: glosses: A suburb of Sydney, located in New South Wales.
glosses: A village in Illinois.
glosses: A suburb of Durban, South Africa.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Mills County, Iowa; named for Presbyterian minister Glenn Wood.
glosses: A neighborhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
glosses: A neighborhood of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Pope County, Minnesota.
glosses: A city in Arkansas.
glosses: A locality in Queensland.
glosses: A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador.
glosses: A town in Wisconsin.
glosses: A city in Georgia.
glosses: A town in Utah; named for early pioneer Robert Wilson Glenn.
glosses: A village in Alberta; named for early settler Glen Edward Wood.
glosses: A town in Indiana.
glosses: A village in Missouri.
glosses: A town in Alabama.
glosses: A community in Nova Scotia.
Derived terms: Glenwood Springs
scaped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of scape
scaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of scape
honorary trust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: honorary trusts
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A device by which a person establishes a trust for which there is neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary to enforce the trust (such as a trust for the care of pets or maintenance of cemetery plots), for which trustee is bound by honor, but not by law, to carry out the wishes of the trustor.
honorary trusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of honorary trust
trustor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trustors
Etymology: From trust + -or.
Senses: synonyms: donor
grantor
settlor
qualifier: trust law
glosses: A person who creates a trust.
trustors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trustor
espadon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɛspədɒn/
Forms: form: espadons
Etymology: From French espadon. Doublet of spadona.
Senses: examples: text: royal guardsmen with their espadons
ref: 1902, Carlos Augusto Montalto Jesus, Historic Macao:
glosses: A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.
milliammeter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: milliammeters
Etymology: From milli- + ammeter.
Senses: examples: text: Deciding to insert a milliammeter into the high-tension circuit feeding the X-ray tube, he asked Lanham to cut the earth wire he was holding.
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
glosses: An instrument for measuring electrical current in milliamperes.
kysse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: kysses
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of kiss.
messed up
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: messed-up
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mess up
red cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red cells
Senses: topics: biology
cytology
hematology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: A type of cell in the blood of vertebrates that contains haemoglobin and transports oxygen from the lungs to the tissues; a red blood cell.
Synonyms: erythrocyte
reach-around
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reach-arounds
form: reacharound
Etymology: Deverbal from reach around.
Senses: examples: text: I bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not even have the goddamn common courtesy to give him a reach-around. I'll be watching you.
ref: 1987, Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, Gustav Hasford, Full Metal Jacket (motion picture), spoken by Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Ronald Lee Ermey):
text: Tom adored to give pleasure while Gore has always liked to boast that he has never knowingly or intentionally gratified any of his partners. Not even a sighing reach-around by the sound of it.
ref: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic, published 2011, page 153:
text: Congress recently increased federal funding for abstinence-only education from abo-from about 50 to 75 million dollars per year, and at least part of that money gets matched by the states, which means that students are still being exposed to abstinence-centered programs, (uh) but with names like WAIT (uh) which stands for “Why Am I Tempted?,” (uh) GO APE (uh) or “Abstinence Protects Everyone,” and No Screwin’ Around (uh) which I presume stands for (uh) “No One Should Copulate Regularly Except Wedded Individuals. (uh) Now, A Reach-around Occasionally Ultimately Not Disastrous.”
ref: 2015, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Sex Education”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 2, episode 24, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO:
glosses: Manual stimulation of a sexual partner's genitals during anal or vaginal intercourse from behind.
glosses: An ostensibly thoughtful gesture, especially one performed to win favour or mitigate unfair treatment.
topics: ball-games
basketball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A passing style in which the ballhandler performs a crossover step in the direction of the intended pass and then extends his or her arms to throw the pass around the defender.
red worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red worms
Senses: glosses: An earthworm.
pugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pʌɡz/
rhymes: -ʌɡz
Senses: glosses: plural of pug
Ch'orti'
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Chorti
Senses: glosses: A branch of the Maya people native to southeastern Guatemala and western Honduras.
Ch'orti'
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Chorti
Senses: glosses: The Mayan language spoken by these people.
Ch'orti'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Chorti
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to the Ch'orti', their culture or language.
Related terms: Ch'olti'
thimblerig
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/
Forms: form: thimblerigs
form: thimble-rig
Etymology: From thimble + rig.
Senses: examples: text: He’ll muddle away the Begum’s fortune at thimble-rig, be caught picking pockets, and finish on board the hulks.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 45, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
text: ‘Great Barnums?’ says I. ‘You're a ringer for a circus thimblerig man.’
ref: 1908, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Modern Rural Sports”, in The Gentle Grafter, New York, N.Y.: The McClure Company, →OCLC:
synonyms: shell game
glosses: A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
synonyms: thimblerigger
glosses: One operating such a game.
thimblerig
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/
Forms: form: thimblerigs
form: thimblerigging
form: thimblerigged
form: thimblerigged
form: thimble-rig
Etymology: From thimble + rig.
Senses: examples: text: Old Pratt is a different kind of crook—a psalm-singing, pussyfooted old buccaneer, teaching a Bible class on Sundays and thimblerigging in Wall Street on week days.
ref: 1916, Irvin S. Cobb, “Enter the villain”, in Local Color:
glosses: To cheat in the thimblerig game.
examples: text: The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.
ref: 1905, David Graham Phillips, The Plum Tree:
glosses: To cheat (someone) by trickery.
Related terms: three-card monte
Lancelot
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /ˈlæn.sə.lɒt/
/ˈlɑːn.sə.lɒt/
Forms: form: Lancelots
form: Launcelot
Etymology: From Middle English Launcelot, from Old French Lancelot, from Frankish *Lanzo, hypocoristic form of names beginning in *Land-, from Proto-Germanic *landą (“land”), and diminutive Old French endings -el and -ot.
Related to Old English Landbeorht (modern English Lambert).
Senses: qualifier: Arthurian legend
glosses: One of the Knights of the Round Table, a lover of Guinevere.
examples: text: "What's the first name?" - - -
"I have a horrible feeling that it's Lancelot!"
"Good God!" said Archie.
"It couldn't really be that, could it?"
Archie looked grave. He hated to give pain, but he felt he must be honest.
"It might," he said. "People give their children all sorts of rummy names. My second name's Tracy. And I have a pal in England who was christened Cuthbert De la Hay Horace. Fortunately everyone calls him Stinker."
ref: 1921, P.G.Wodehouse, Indiscretions of Archie, page 162:
synonyms: Lance
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
glosses: A ghost town in the Mid North region, South Australia, Australia.
shell game
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shell games
Senses: examples: text: Another common form of short con is the shell game. This scam has the advantage of giving the criminal the ability to rip off many marks all at one location.
ref: 2009, Michael Benson, Cons and Frauds, Infobase, →ISBN, page 21:
glosses: A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess which of three small cups (or shells) a pea-sized object is concealed under, after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery.
glosses: Any confidence scheme, especially one involving the rapid movement of investment funds to a location beyond recovery.
Synonyms: thimblerig
Related terms: three-card monte
shammies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shammy
thimblerigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of thimblerig
hyperferremia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + ferro- + -emia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: The medical condition of having too much iron in the blood.
Synonyms: hyperferricemia
Derived terms: hyperferremic
Related terms: hemochromatosis
hemosiderosis
siderosis
alter-ego
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alter-egos
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of alter ego.
alter-egos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alter-ego
short term
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-term.
short term
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: short terms
Senses: synonyms: short run
glosses: The near future; a comparatively brief time period starting with the present moment (or other time of reference); the time in which immediate needs and goals are relevant.
Synonyms: sense: the near future
word: near term
Derived terms: in the short term
privative a
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: privative as
Senses: topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An alpha privative
privative as
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of privative a
alpha privativum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: alpha privativa
Senses: glosses: The alpha privative, the prefix a-.
glosses: An alpha privative, a word formed with that prefix.
henchwoman
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henchwomen
Etymology: From hench + woman.
Senses: glosses: Female equivalent of henchman.
henchwench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: henchwenches
form: hench-wench
Senses: examples: text: And that henchwench what hopped it dunneth there duft the.
ref: 1939, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake:
text: July 22, 2007, "Cast Shadows", a sweet kiss of Poison
The concept of she being an ecoterrorist who may or may not long for Harley Quinn, the Joker's henchwench, is pure animated bliss.
text: July 11, 2007, "Reading for Pleasure Wednesday: Dickens, and the Old Curiousity Shop", The Paper Chase
Instead, our interesting characters are the horrid little villain, Quilp, his henchwench Sally Brass (a nasty, lying, grasping woman), Dick Swiveller, and a servant character Swiveller calls “the Marchioness.”
glosses: A female henchman; a henchwoman.
hench-wench
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hench-wenches
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of henchwench.
andrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andrologists
Etymology: From andro- + -logist.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Schirren: The members of this round table keep on speaking about urologists and gynecologists but you never mention andrologists.
ref: 1986, Emil Steinberger, G. Frajese, Anna Steinberger, editors, Reproductive Medicine, page 493:
text: It may not be easy to find an andrologist or get an appointment with one. Women can call a gynecologist for routine check-ups, but it is not the same with andrologists.
ref: 2001, Vivien Marx, The Semen Book, Free Association Books, page 29:
text: Male infertility specialists are either andrologists (M.D.s or Ph.D. scientists specializing in male fertility and in assisted reproductive technology) or urologists (doctors who specialize in male and female urinary tract problems but are particularly knowledgeable about penis and testicle "design"). Many urologists are also andrologists.
ref: 2002, M. Sara Rosenthal, The Fertility Sourcebook, McGraw Hill Professional, page 29:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A person who studies andrology.
andrologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andrologist
fetches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈfɛt͡ʃɪz/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fetch
armor-bearer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: armor-bearers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of armorbearer.
armor-bearers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of armor-bearer
Bubba vote
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Bubba votes
Etymology: From Bubba, a slang term for a white male hillbilly or redneck.
Senses: glosses: The rural, white, Southern portion of the US electorate.
unexpelled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + expelled.
Senses: examples: text: […] but we must, on no account, leave the house so long as the afterbirth is unexpelled
ref: 1842, The London Medical Gazette, page 542:
glosses: Not expelled (from somewhere).