cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
homophile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: homophil
Etymology: From homo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: heterophile#Adjective
heterophil#Adjective
glosses: Reacting only with homologous antigens.
raw_tags: of an antibody
examples: text: It seems that many homophile Bostonians don't patronize Provincetown for various reasons. Wake-up you homophile brothers and sisters. You have a great resort in your own backyard.
ref: 1978 August 19, R. Kirk, “Pro P'town”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 5, page 4:
glosses: Homosexual, gay or lesbian, having a sexual or romantic preference for persons of one's own gender; used to emphasize love over sex.
examples: text: In so many of his opinions, he seemed a throwback to the respectable "homophile conservatism" of the 1950s. Odd for one so young.
ref: 1979 December 22, Mitzel, “The Brill Files: Part II: Facts, Opinions, & Gossip”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 6:
glosses: Of or pertaining to the “homophile movement”, a gay activist movement emphasizing love over sex.
homophile
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homophiles
form: homophil
Etymology: From homo- + -phile.
Senses: topics: biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
antonyms: heterophile#Noun
heterophil#Noun
glosses: An antibody that reacts only with homologous antigens.
examples: text: ‘You see that dashing young homophile stood over there? The one with the highly commendable bone structure?’
ref: 2023, H. Gareth Gavin, Never Was, Cipher Press, page 323:
glosses: A homosexual, a gay man or lesbian, one who has a sexual or romantic preference for persons of the same gender; used to emphasize love over sex.
Related terms: homophilia
homophilic
full-figured
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: I can honestly say that my attitude to my body became markedly better when I accepted that I was fat. . . . Often more offensive terms are used. Full-figured, big-boned, voluptuous, curvaceous, and my least favourite: "real woman".
ref: 2008 June 3, Kira Cochrane, “Don't call me curvy. Or big-boned. Or 'real'”, in The Guardian, UK, retrieved 24 Jun 2008:
qualifier: especially a woman
glosses: Fat; plump.
raw_tags: of a person
Synonyms: buxom
corpulent
heavyset
portly
pudgy
stout
well-covered
well-endowed
voluptuous
well-covered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more well-covered
form: most well-covered
form: well covered
Senses: examples: text: He kept shaking Mr Gibson's hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.
ref: 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 33, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:
text: How are you to bid a starving man to wait when you put him down at a well-covered board?
ref: 1865 May 15 – 1866 January 1, Anthony Trollope, “Taking Possession”, in The Belton Estate. […], volume III, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published December 1865 (indicated as 1866), →OCLC, page 239:
glosses: Amply equipped or provisioned, especially with respect to a place where food is served.
examples: text: That simple dancing of well-covered matrons, laying aside for an hour the cares of house and dairy, remembering but not affecting youth, not jealous but proud of the young maidens by their side […] it would be a pleasant variety to see all that sometimes.
ref: 1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter 26, in Adam Bede […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: "She wasn't much of a skeleton as I remember her," murmured Euphemia, "extremely well-covered."
ref: 1921, John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga, part 2, ch. 11:
text: The sculptor Botero—influenced perhaps by Maillol’s love of well covered women—created in 1981 an overweight, stumpy couple.
ref: 2003 March 20, Thomas Stuttaford, “Eat less and walk more to keep diabetes at bay”, in Times Online, UK, retrieved 24 Jun 2008:
glosses: Fat, corpulent, full-figured.
raw_tags: of a person
Derived terms: well-coveredness
well covered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of well-covered.
lungfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lungfish
lynx spiders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lynx spider
hookkeeper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hookkeepers
Etymology: From hook + keeper.
Senses: examples: text: I've used it in my thread work, such as a group of three single- thread inlays in guide wraps and/or hookkeeper wraps.
ref: 1988, Dale P. Clemens., Advanced Custom Rod Building, page 108:
text: Alignment is a matter of choice, but most rod-builders place the hookkeeper in line with the guides.
ref: 1999, C. Boyd Pfeiffer., The Complete Book of Tackle-Making, page 462:
text: The hookkeeper is located just above the handle and is standard equipment on most rods.
ref: 2002, Cathy Beck., Cathy Beck's Fly-Fishing Handbook, page 7:
glosses: A wire ring that holds a fly-fishing fishhook in place while rigged.
hookkeepers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hookkeeper
stringybarks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stringybark
myopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: myopathies
Etymology: From myo- + -pathy.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Any of several diseases of muscle that are not caused by nerve disorders
Derived terms: capture myopathy
cardiomyopathy
Native American myopathy
nemaline myopathy
neuromyopathy
Related terms: myopathic
sharding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shard
sharding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shardings
Senses: examples: text: A storage volume with many different potential shardings is analyzed more rapidly by the reuse of calculations made on neighboring vertices in the directed graph.
ref: 2006, A Merchant, M Kallahalla, R Swaminathan, Sharding method and apparatus using directed graphs, US Patent 7,043,621:
text: 2007, T Brants, AC Popat, P Xu, FJ Och, J Dean, "Large Language Models in Machine Translation", in Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Empirical Methods in
A sharding function determines which shard (chunk of data in the MapReduce framework) the pair is sent to.
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A decomposition of a database into multiple smaller units that can handle requests individually.
examples: text: A universe always shedding, a rain of sheddings and shardings.
ref: 1991, Lorraine Anderson, Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry about Nature, page 196:
glosses: A breaking into shards.
life cycles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of life cycle
chamo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chamo
form: chamos
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jamo.
bicurious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more bicurious
form: most bicurious
Senses: examples: text: Skirt Club caters to bisexual or bicurious women. No men are allowed, but women with all levels of experience in same-sex sexuality, from bicurious to fully lesbian, are welcomed.
ref: 2016 October 7, Juliet Bennett Rylah, “Skirt Club Is a Sex Club for the Casually Bisexual Modern Woman”, in VICE:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bi-curious.
metrologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: metrologists
Etymology: From metrology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies or practices metrology.
chalan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chalans
form: chalan
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of challan.
chalan
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: chalans
form: chalaning
form: chalanning
form: chalaned
form: chalaned
form: chalanned
form: chalanned
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of challan.
rubbishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rubbish
rubbishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rubbish
rubbishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rubbish
rubbishing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rubbishing
form: most rubbishing
Senses: examples: text: The man was a fool to invest his money in such a rubbishing concern. They must have all been mad who did!
ref: 1877, D. M. F. Walker, Loyal and True, page 178:
glosses: trashy; paltry
rubbished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rubbish
dung heap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dung heaps
form: dungheap
form: dung-heap
Etymology: From earlier dungheap, from Middle English donghēp (“dungheap”), equivalent to dung + heap. Compare dunghill.
Senses: glosses: A mound of animal droppings for agricultural use.
Synonyms: dungstead
dunghill
LIS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of library and information science.
commutate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: commutates
form: commutating
form: commutated
form: commutated
Etymology: Back-formation from commutation (in the late 19th century), as is commutator (noun) too.
Senses: examples: text: Continuously rated machines shall be required to commutate successfully momentary loads of 150% of the Amperes corresponding to the continuous rating keeping the rheostat set for rated load excitation.
ref: 2013, Freidrich Nettel, Comparison of Principal Points of Standards for Electrical Machinea & Transformers: German, British, & American Standards compared, →ISBN, page 19:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To reverse the direction of (a current).
examples: text: In line commutation, advantage of the a.c. supply going through zero value at every half-cycle is taken to commutate the thyristor.
ref: 2009, S.K. Bhattacharya, Fundamentals Of Power Electronics, 1E, →ISBN, page 72:
topics: business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To convert from being or using an alternating current into being or using a direct current.
examples: text: The match of two finite line segments in 2 dimensions requires 2 translations, 1 rotation, 1 scale transformation; the order is here important, and these operators cannot commutate.
ref: 2012, J. Kittler, V.W. Fu, L.F Pau, Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications, →ISBN, page 194:
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: To commute; to be invariant under a reversal of the positions of operands.
examples: text: Ah, commutation. I knew there was something else. This is where you can commutate your weekly payments into a lump sum and be rid of the “system”.
ref: 2012, Stewart, Workers Compensation: Rorting the System Or System Rorted?, →ISBN:
topics: business
finance
glosses: To commute; to change one kind of payment into another, especially to convert from several installments to a single lumpsum payment.
examples: text: Specifically, the seminary was challenged by industrial millers who petitioned to build steam-powered mills and by large Montreal property holders who demanded that the crown commutate their lands.
ref: 1986, Brian J. Young, In Its Corporate Capacity: The Seminary of Montreal as a Business Institution 1816-1876., →ISBN, page 52:
topics: law
glosses: To remove or reduce the legal obligations or restrictions on
examples: text: Writers change the URIs as they compose because writers commutate and manipulate language to create a variety of rhetorical experiences that can be read at once, as overlapping, or as separate.
ref: 2007, Jeff Rice, The Rhetoric of Cool: Composition Studies and New Media, →ISBN, page 123:
glosses: To transform, especially into a reversed or opposite form.
Derived terms: anticommutating
Related terms: topics: electrical
electricity
electrical-engineering
electromagnetism
energy
business
physics
physical-sciences
natural-sciences
engineering
word: commutator
modell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: modells
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of model.
modell
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: modells
form: modelling
form: modelled
form: modelled
Senses: glosses: Obsolete form of model.
darkmans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɑːkmənz/
Etymology: From dark + -mans.
Senses: examples: text: I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]
ref: c. 1607–1610 (date written), Thomas Middleton; Thomas Dekker, The Roaring Girle. Or Moll Cut-purse. […], London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Thomas Archer, […], published 1611, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page number):
text: Men were men then, and fought each other in the open field, and there was nae milling in the darkmans.
ref: 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
text: Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don't tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans.
ref: 1828, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
text: White thy fambles, red thy gan / And thy quarrons dainty is. / Couch a hogshead with me then. / In the darkmans clip and kiss.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 3]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
antonyms: lightmans
qualifier: thieves' cant
glosses: The night.
Derived terms: bene darkmans
extensivenesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of extensiveness
soilure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɔɪljʊə/
ipa: /ˈsɔɪljə/
Forms: form: soilures
Etymology: From Old French soilleure, from soillier (“to soil”).
Senses: examples: text: He merits well to haue her, that doth seeke her,
Not making any scruple of her soylure […].
ref: c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
text: Much more powerful than moral enthusiasm is the disinclination of the immaculate flesh to risk the soilure of the streets.
ref: 1913, Rebecca West, “Lynch Law”, in Jane Marcus, editor, The Young Rebecca, Virago, published 1982, page 207:
text: Passion here is a soilure of the wits,
We're told, and Love a cross for them to bear ...
ref: 1925, Edwin Arlington Robinson, “New England:”, in Dionysus in Doubt:
text: […] the fire which was to have lasted to the end of them, before which in the days before he was able to buy the stove he would enter after his four-mile walk from the mill and find her, the shape of her narrow back and haunches squatting, one narrow spread hand shielding her face from the blaze over which the other hand held the skillet, had already fallen to a dry, light soilure of dead ashes when the sun rose yesterday […]
ref: 1942, William Faulkner, “Pantaloons in Black”, in Go Down, Moses:
glosses: Making or becoming dirty; soiling, staining.
maison de tolérance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maisons de tolérance
Etymology: From French maison de tolérance.
Senses: examples: text: We see abroad in the regulations of the maison de tolerance how a contempt for an immoral person, given its head and encouraged, may become a hellish cruelty threatening even the innocent.
ref: 1913, Rebecca West, “Lynch Law”, in Jane Marcus, editor, The Young Rebecca, Virago, published 1982, page 209:
text: Lord Galen has been frequenting the maisons de tolérance of the city, and in one of them he ran into Cade, who has suddenly started to take an interest in the low life.
ref: 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1065:
glosses: A licensed brothel.
fallacy fallacy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌfæləsi ˈfæləsi/
Forms: form: fallacy fallacies
Etymology: From the fact that assuming a conclusion is false because of a fallacy in the reasoning is itself a fallacy.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
synonyms: argument from fallacy
argument to logic
argumentum ad logicam
bad reasons fallacy
fallacist's fallacy
glosses: The formal fallacy of inferring that if an argument contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
negative proof
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: negative proofs
Senses: glosses: A fallacious judgment that, because a premise cannot be proven true, that premise must be false.
Related terms: black swan fallacy
affirming the consequent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form:
If P, then Q.
Q.
Therefore, P.
If P, then Q.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form:
If P, then Q.
Q.
Therefore, P.
Q.
topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form:
If P, then Q.
Q.
Therefore, P.
Therefore, P.
Hypernyms: formal fallacy
retrospective determinism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retrospective determinisms
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A fallacy consisting in reasoning that because something happened, it was therefore bound to happen.
matzo ball
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: matzo balls
form: matza ball
form: matzah ball
form: matzoh ball
form: matzoball
Senses: examples: text: Food was prepared with a far defter hand; I had matzo ball soup and boiled beef with horseradish, which sounds terrible but was excellent; Eliza ordered cholent, a thick bean stew, topped with a slice of meat loaf — our Jewish-mom-like server basically forced her.
ref: 2014 January 30, Seth Kugel, “Wintertime Bargains in Budapest”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A ball of unleavened dough, often served in soup in Jewish culture.
vindicating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vindicate
SHJ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the SHJ
Senses: glosses: Initialism of Shan Hai Jing.
versified
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of versify
versifying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of versify
versifying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: versifyings
Senses: examples: 1812-1821, Edward Bulwer Lytton, a letter
He persuaded my mother to publish a little volume of these versifyings.
glosses: A composition in verse.
versifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of versify
verbalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: verbalises
form: verbalising
form: verbalised
form: verbalised
Etymology: Partly from Middle French verbaliser and partly from verbal + -ise.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of verbalize.
verbalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of verbalise
verbalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of verbalise
verbalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of verbalise
vitalise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: vitalises
form: vitalising
form: vitalised
form: vitalised
form: vitalize
Etymology: From vital + -ise.
Senses: synonyms: enliven
inspirit
invigorate
quicken
vitalise
vivify
glosses: To give life to something; to animate.
synonyms: word: enliven
word: rouse
word: animate
word: arouse
word: awaken
word: beghast
word: leaven
word: bright
word: brighten
word: cheer
word: energize
word: enliven
word: enthuse
word: exalt
word: excite
word: fire up
word: ginger
word: ginger up
word: inflame
word: invigorate
word: inspire
word: inspirit
word: jazz
word: kindle
word: liven
word: liven up
word: perk up
word: quicken
word: spice
word: spice up
word: stimulate
word: vitalise
word: animate
word: awaken
word: electrify
word: enflame
word: enkindle
word: enthrill
word: exagitate
word: excite
word: exhilarate
word: exsuscitate
word: fillip
word: fire
word: fire the blood
word: galvanize
word: gin up
word: ignite
word: inflame
word: intoxicate
word: kindle
word: quicken
word: rouse
word: send
word: set fire to
word: set on fire
word: sharpen
word: stir the blood
word: suscitate
word: thrill
word: vitalise
word: wake
word: warm the blood
word: whet
word: wind up
word: work up
word: yerk
glosses: To make more vigorous; to invigorate or stimulate.
vitalises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of vitalise
vitalising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of vitalise
vitalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of vitalise
off the beaten path
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: Jean had thought that the prowler might be some tramp who had wandered far off the beaten path of migratory humans.
ref: 1915, B. M. Bower, chapter 10, in Jean of the Lazy A:
text: Only a small group of websites, well off the beaten path of most surfers, contain the malicious code.
ref: 2005 December 30, “Microsoft Confirms Windows Flaw”, in Time:
glosses: In a secluded location; in or to a place which is not frequently visited or not widely known.
Synonyms: off the beaten track
galeri
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galero
marginal benefits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of marginal benefit
great circle routes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of great circle route
truthless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more truthless
form: most truthless
Etymology: From truth + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking truth, untruthful.
Related terms: trothless
truth
truthful
truthlessness
truthlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From truthless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being truthless, untruthfulness.
undefeatableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌʌndəˈfiːtəbəlnəs/
/ˌʌndɪˈfiːtəbəlnəs/
Etymology: From undefeatable + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: His life and the lives of all his fellow officers had been devoted to the service of Airways since childhood, its might and its undefeatableness had been...
ref: 1933, Michael Arlen., Man's Morality: A Story, page 19:
text: It is a standing temptation, to confuse the undefeatableness of total love with the vicious vindictiveness of man's projected malice — to confuse negative...
ref: 1954, Bruno de Jésus-Marie., Love and Violence, page 249:
text: October 29, When you attain a sense of undefeatableness, you will always be high-spirited and confident.
ref: 1990, Norman Vincent Peale., Have a Great Day, page 117:
glosses: The quality of being undefeatable.
head for the hills
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: heads for the hills
form: heading for the hills
form: headed for the hills
form: headed for the hills
Senses: examples: text: Modern campers look for comfort first when they head for the hills.
ref: 2006 July 13, Jeremy Caplan, “Comfy Camping”, in Time:
glosses: To travel to a higher elevation, especially to a rural region on vacation.
examples: text: Goldman Sachs warned that we are ‘only at the start of a steep downturn’ and advised investors to head for the hills.
ref: 2008 June 19, “Builders bashed after housing subsidence”, in managementtoday.com, UK, retrieved 25 Jun 2008:
glosses: To go to a safe place; to seek refuge; to flee.
sea lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sea lampreys
Senses: glosses: A parasitic lamprey found in Europe and North America, Petromyzon marinus.
Synonyms: sense: Petromyzon marinus
word: eel sucker
sense: Petromyzon marinus
word: green lamprey
sense: Petromyzon marinus
word: lamper
sense: Petromyzon marinus
word: shad lamprey
sense: Petromyzon marinus
word: spotted lamprey
sea lampreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sea lamprey
European river lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: European river lampreys
Senses: glosses: Any of species Lampetra fluviatilis of lampreys, of Europe.
Synonyms: river lamprey
lampern
river lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: river lampreys
Senses: glosses: European river lamprey (Lampetra fluviatilis).
European river lampreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of European river lamprey
break room
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: break rooms
Senses: glosses: A room in a public building or worksite set aside for coffee breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc.
Synonyms: word: comfort room
english: in some contexts
translation: in some contexts
word: lunchroom
word: tearoom
word: pantry
brook lamprey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brook lampreys
Senses: glosses: A small European lamprey, Lampetra planeri.
Synonyms: European brook lamprey
western brook lamprey
police officers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of police officer
break rooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of break room
brook lampreys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of brook lamprey
wing mirror
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wing mirrors
form: wing-mirror
Senses: examples: text: I could see the dog running behind me in my wing mirror, but couldn't do anything about it.
synonyms: side-view mirror
side mirror
coordinate_terms: rear-view mirror
glosses: Either of a pair of mirrors on the sides of a car or other vehicle that enable the driver to see to the side and behind.
wing mirrors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wing mirror
Amerikkkan
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: A respelling of American to incorporate the letters KKK.
Senses: examples: text: People are rising up to free themselves from amerikkkan corporate exploitation.
ref: 1971, Revolutionary actions ... U.S.A. ... in retrospect: what to do now, page 58:
text: Contemporary Yankees don't kolonize^([sic]) with guns and crucifixes only, they now kolonize with the “sale” of Amerikkkan produkts^([sic]) which range from T.V. dinners to nuclear armaments.
ref: 1973, Chicano studies, page 31:
text: Hasn’t this been the history of Amerikkkan racist rhetoric and action?
ref: 2007, Sadiki Bakari, Butt Naked Raw & Uncensored, page 18:
text: "To Blacks over the years, that flag flew over an AmeriKKKan government that made the crime of slavery legal.
"That same flag flew over the signing of the US Constitution that scribes with indelible ink that Blacks are three-fifths of a human being.
ref: 2005, Okeyo A. Jumal, Spiritual Shackles, page 301:
glosses: American; generally used in depicting the United States or Americans as fascist or racist.
Amerikkkan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Amerikkkans
Etymology: A respelling of American to incorporate the letters KKK.
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:Amerikkkan.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An American; generally used in depicting an American person as fascist or racist.
Related terms: Amerikkka
Amerikkkans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Amerikkkan
neologizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of neologize
neologizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of neologize
neologized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of neologize
badgerers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of badgerer
tasters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taster
numberlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From numberless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being without number, uncountability.
ampullaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more ampullaceous
form: most ampullaceous
Etymology: From ampulla + -aceous.
Senses: glosses: Shaped like a swollen bottle.
backlift
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backlifts
Etymology: From back + lift.
Senses: topics: ball-games
cricket
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The lifting of the bat in preparation for hitting the ball.
muts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mut
chicken tractor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chicken tractors
Etymology: So called because it serves some functions of a tractor, such as weeding and fertilizing.
Senses: coordinate_terms: chicken coop
glosses: A movable enclosure in which chickens can scratch the ground for food.
resourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From resource + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The provision of resources.
resourcing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From resource + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of resource
tear off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛəɹ ɒf/
ipa: /teɹ ɑf/
Forms: form: tears off
form: tearing off
form: tore off
form: torn off
Senses: examples: text: Do not tear off the price tag if you want to return that shirt.
glosses: To rip away from; to pull a piece from forcibly.
glosses: To become detached by tearing or ripping.
examples: text: The fugitive tore off down the alley.
glosses: To leave or depart rapidly.
Synonyms: sense: to rip away from
word: detach
word: remove
word: rip off
word: disconnect
sense: to leave or depart rapidly
word: flee
word: flee
tear off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tɛəɹ ɒf/
ipa: /teɹ ɑf/
Forms: form: tear offs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tear-off.
-d
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Senses: examples: bone → boned, pirouette → pirouetted, learn → learnd
glosses: Alternative form of -ed now only standard with words which end in -e, but historically permissable in all the same places as -ed.
examples: damn → damnd (→ damnded), drown → drownd (→ drownded)
glosses: An empty suffix, perhaps derived from the past-tense suffix above, added in some dialects to the present tense forms of some words which then add an additional -ed in the past tense.
examples: 2d grade; 23d century
glosses: Marks ordinals written in digits when the final term of the spelled number is "second" or "third"
Synonyms: sense: marking ordinals ending with "second"
word: -nd
sense: marking ordinals ending with "third"
word: -rd
Muscovy duck
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Muscovy ducks
Etymology: Perhaps from Muscovy Company, a trading company + duck; see more on Wikipedia.
Senses: examples: text: Over the water swept the great harpy eagle--also a fisher like his white-headed cousin of the North; and now and then flocks of muscovy ducks made the air resound with their strong broad wings.
ref: 1847, Mayne Reid, Popular Adventure Tales:
text: The pond was another favourite place to visit. Moorhens strutted from the neighbouring bushes, and a bevy of Muscovy ducks, a study in black, white and red, waddled from the farmyard hard by to enjoy a refreshing splash.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217:
text: Other species not protected include "exotic and feral species such as mute swans, graylag geese, muscovy ducks, European starlings, house (English) sparrows, and rock doves (pigeons)."
ref: 2001 August 31, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: A large duck (Cairina moschata) which is native to Mexico, Central and South America.
wikipedia: Muscovy Company
Synonyms: Barbary duck
Muscovy
Related terms: taxonomic: Biziura lobata
word: musk duck
autolyze
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: autolyzes
form: autolyzing
form: autolyzed
form: autolyzed
form: autolyse
Etymology: From auto- + lyze.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: To destroy itself: to be destroyed by its own enzymes.
raw_tags: said of a cell
Related terms: autolysis
any old
Language: English
Part of speech: det
Forms: form: any ol'
form: any ole
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see any, old.
examples: text: You don't need special tools for this; any old hard surface will do.
text: This wasn't just any old fan, but the president of his local fan club.
text: I don't do the things that you do
I don't go the places that you go
I don't say the bad things that you say
But I love you any way, Dara
I love you any ole way, Dara
I love you any way, Dara
ref: 1966, Otis Redding (with Steve Cropper), The Soul Album, "Any Ole Way" lyrics
glosses: Any, absolutely any, any typical, a run-of-the-mill.
Related terms: some old
accentus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Ambiguity arising when the meaning of a sentence is changed by placing an unusual prosodic stress, or when, in a written passage, it is left unclear which word the emphasis was supposed to fall on.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
coordinate_terms: concentus
glosses: A style of church music that emphasizes spoken word.
obelizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of obelize
obelizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of obelize
obelized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏʹbĭlīzd
enpr: ŏʹb.līzd
ipa: /ˈɒbɪlaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɒbəlaɪzd/
enpr: ŏʹbəlīzd'
ipa: /ˈɑbəlaɪzd/
Etymology: From obelize + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of obelize
obelized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: enpr: ŏʹbĭlīzd
enpr: ŏʹb.līzd
ipa: /ˈɒbɪlaɪzd/
ipa: /ˈɒbəlaɪzd/
enpr: ŏʹbəlīzd'
ipa: /ˈɑbəlaɪzd/
Forms: form: obelised
Etymology: From obelize + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: While R and S each seem to constitute a long syllable, both lines in which they occur are to some extent corrupt, especially the R line, both being obelized in Keli’s standard edition of Velius Longus.
ref: ante''' 1971, Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (1973, University of California Press; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), part VI: “Conclusions”, § 1: ‘The Ancient Evidence’, page 51
glosses: Marked with an obelus or obelisk; condemned as spurious or corrupt.
raw_tags: of a word or passage of text
obitual
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to obits.
Websters
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: plural of Webster
obluctation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɒbləkˈteɪʃən/
ipa: /ɑbləkˈteɪʃən/
Forms: form: obluctations
Etymology: From Latin ob + luctor (“to struggle”).
Senses: glosses: opposition; resistance
obluctations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of obluctation
fiancees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fiancee
fan clubs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of fan club
string bands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of string band
aromat
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: aromats
Senses: topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: An aromatic.
helotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helotisms
Etymology: From helot + -ism.
Senses: glosses: The permanent oppression of a nominally free group of people
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A form of mutualism in which one species is forced to perform tasks for another, for their mutual benefit
Related terms: dulosis
dulosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δοῦλος (doûlos, “servant, slave, thrall”) + -osis.
Senses: topics: biology
entomology
natural-sciences
glosses: The process by which parasitic ants steal pupae from the nests of other ants and raise them in their own nest, so that they become a contributing part of the colony.
Related terms: dulotic
helotism
dulotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dulotic
form: most dulotic
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to dulosis.
ditcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditchers
Etymology: From ditch (verb) + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who digs ditches.
examples: a ditcher of perfectly good ideas
glosses: One who ditches, or abandons.
ditcher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ditchers
Etymology: From ditch (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Should a ditcher in any circumstances return to the green it must be placed on the bank.
ref: 1920, George Thomas Burrows, Bowls: How to Excel at the Game, page 89:
glosses: In the game of bowls, a bowl that rolls off the green into the outer ditch.
Related terms: last-ditcher
ditchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ditcher
maimer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maimers
Etymology: From maim + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of maim; one who maims; mutilator.
maimers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maimer
adjectival noun
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: adjectival nouns
Senses: examples: Near-synonyms: attributive noun, noun adjunct (broadly synonymous)
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
hypernyms: noun
;
adjective
<
word
<
term
coordinate_terms: nominalized adjective
glosses: A noun used as an adjective.
glosses: A specific part of speech, categorized in Japanese as 形容動詞 (keiyō dōshi). Some of these words can be used as regular nouns, and all can be used as adjectives when followed by the postfix な (na), in contrast to Japanese common adjectives, 形容詞 (keiyōshi).
raw_tags: in Japanese grammar
examples: text: Adjectival nouns are simply identical in form to adjectives of a particular gender and decline accordingly.
ref: 2005, James D. Naughton, Czech: An Essential Grammar, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 45:
glosses: Nouns that have the form of adjectives (often originally adjectives used as nouns).
raw_tags: in Czech and Slovak grammar
glosses: A nominalized adjective.
raw_tags: in English metalanguage
demoralizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demoralizers
Etymology: From demoralize + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of demoralize: one who demoralizes.
demoralizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demoralizer
demonizer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demonizers
Etymology: From demonize + -er.
Senses: examples: text: My book is not to villainize the villainizers, hate the haters, or to demonize the demonizers.
ref: 2005, Seldon B. Graham Jr., Why Your Gasoline Prices Are High, page X:
glosses: One who demonizes.
demonizers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of demonizer
GOQ
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of Grandee of the National Order of Quebec.
GOQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: GOQs
Senses: glosses: Initialism of general occupational qualification.
BOQ
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: B.O.Q.
form: B. O. Q.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Initialism of bachelors' officers' quarters.
red valerian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: red valerians
Senses: glosses: A garden plant, of species Centranthus ruber, native to the Mediterranean region.
Synonyms: devil's beard
fox's brush
Jupiter's beard
kiss-me-quick
spur valerian
somnambulance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: somnambulism
proof by example
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: proofs by example
Senses: topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A logical fallacy consisting of providing one or more examples as a proof of a more general statement.
reapposition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: reappositions
Etymology: From re- + apposition.
Senses: glosses: A second or subsequent apposition
tetradeca-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Forms: form: tetradec-
Etymology: From tetra- + deca-.
Senses: glosses: fourteen
wikipedia: number prefix
Synonyms: tetrakaideka-
Wendell
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel-, "a Wend".
Senses: glosses: A surname originating as a patronymic.
glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.
Related terms: Wanda
Vendela
Venla
Wendelin
Crispus
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Latin Crispus, a Roman gens name from crispus (“curly”).
Senses: examples: And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house; and many of the Corinthians hearing believed, and were baptized.
glosses: A male given name from Latin of mostly historical use.
Related terms: Crispin
Jaydon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A male given name originating as a coinage, of modern usage, variant of Jadon or Jayden.
Charmian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Diminutive form of Ancient Greek χάρμα (khárma, “joy”). According to Plutarch, the name of a servant and advisor of Cleopatra.
Senses: examples: text: Help me away, dear Charmian, I shall fall:
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
text: Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel. Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.
ref: 1979, Mary McMullen, But Nellie Was So Nice, Doubleday, page 23:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
regasification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: regassification
Etymology: From re- + gasification.
Senses: glosses: The process of converting liquefied natural gas (LNG) at −162 °C (−260 °F) temperature back to natural gas at atmospheric temperature. It consists in the evaporation of liquified natural gas after transport (by ship) to a distribution terminal
Derived terms: regasification plant
Related terms: regasify
Evita
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Evitas
Etymology: From Spanish Evita, a pet form of Eva.
Senses: glosses: A female given name from Spanish.
Evette
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A female given name from the Germanic languages, a spelling variant of Yvette, confused with Eve.
Mateo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /məˈteɪoʊ/
Etymology: From Spanish Mateo, from Latin Matthaeus, from Ancient Greek Ματθαῖος (Matthaîos), from Hebrew מַתִּתְיָהוּ (mattiṯyāhū). Doublet of Matthew.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from Spanish.
hill climb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hill climbs
Senses: glosses: A sporting event, during which vehicles are driven or ridden up a steep incline. The goal is to reach the highest level on the slope.
hill climb
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: hill climbs
form: hill climbing
form: hill climbed
form: hill climbed
Senses: examples: Hill climbing requires considerable skill.
glosses: To attempt to ascend a steep slope using a motor vehicle or bicycle.
Related terms: hill climbing
tommy cooker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tommy cookers
Etymology: From tommy (“soldier”) + cooker.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A portable stove issued to British soldiers during World War I and II.
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: The M4 Sherman tank, due to its likelihood to "brew up" and explode after being hit by German tank fire in World War II. Little to no contemporary evidence of this definition exists.
dog in the manger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dogs in the manger
form: dogs in mangers
Etymology: From a Greek fable about a dog preventing other animals from eating the hay in a manger, even though as a carnivore it could not eat the hay itself. Although the story was ascribed to Aesop's Fables in the 15th century, no ancient source does so. The phrase first appears in the writings of Diogenianus.
Senses: examples: text: No adjective is strong enough for characterizing this wicked dog-in-the-manger policy. From various sources I hear tales of such wanton destruction of nations' property in all parts of India.
ref: 1930, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, “Notes on the Way to Dandi”, in Non-Violent Resistance, page 246:
glosses: Someone who denies to others something that they cannot use.
wikipedia: Aesop's Fables
Derived terms: dog-in-the-mangerism
osteoarticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From osteo- + articular.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to bones and their articulation
thresholding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From threshold + -ing.
Senses: qualifier: image processing
glosses: The process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those pixels to white whose value is above a given threshold, and setting the other pixels to black.
SLUF
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: SLUFs
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: (dated) Short Little Ugly Fucker, nickname for the Vought A-7 Corsair II jet fighter-bomber
Sturmvogel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sturmvogels
Senses: topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
war
glosses: the ground-attack version of the WWII Messerschmitt Me-262 jet-fighter
Messerschmitt
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: After aircraft designer and manufacturer Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978).
Senses: glosses: A surname from German
Messerschmitt
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Messerschmitts
Etymology: After aircraft designer and manufacturer Willy Messerschmitt (1898–1978).
Senses: glosses: Any of several particular types of airplane used by the German air force in the Second World War.
Beatriz
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese and Spanish Beatriz.
Senses: examples: text: Dr. Beatriz Arias, a senior research scientist at the Center for Applied Linguistics, said Arizona’s law is discriminating against people based on the language they speak – and what language people speak is often an indicator of their race.
ref: 2018 June 15, Harmeet Kaur, “FYI: English isn’t the official language of the United States”, in CNN:
glosses: A female given name from Portuguese or Spanish, equivalent to English Beatrice or Beatrix.