cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
casing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Forms: form: casings
Senses: examples: text: Some people like to split the casing of a sausage before cooking so it doesn’t burst.
text: And, by your leave, for all the marvellous rich and sumptuous coat a weareth, he is very like a false jewel in a rich casing.
ref: 1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 8:
text: It was expected that the whole of the "3700" and "3900" classes would be so treated, but it was found that the streamlined casing caused the engines to run hot on express work and they were relegated to goods trains; the casings were removed during the war.
ref: 1955 February, E. J. Tyler and J. Quanjer, “The Steam Locomotive in Holland 1919-1954”, in Railway Magazine, page 129:
glosses: That which encloses or encases.
topics: architecture
glosses: The decorative trim around a door or window.
qualifier: oil industry
glosses: A metal pipe used to line the borehole of a well.
examples: text: The replacement string should have the same casing as the matched text.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The state of letter case across a whole phrase or whole lines of text; the collective state/arrangement of uppercase and lowercase letters.
glosses: A tire.
Derived terms: casing bead
casing hanger
casingless
casing string
sausage casing
shell casing
subcasing
upcasing
casing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsɪŋ/
rhymes: -eɪsɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of case
coffee bean
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coffee beans
Senses: glosses: The seed of a tropical plant of the genus Coffea, that is prepared by drying, roasting and grinding for making the beverage coffee.
codification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌkɑ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkoʊ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
ipa: /ˌkəʊ.dɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/
rhymes: -eɪʃən
Forms: form: codifications
Senses: examples: text: The task force spent months on the codification of their mandate.
glosses: The process of precisely formulating a statement, such as a code of laws.
examples: text: The link between language norms and the codification of a language – in dictionaries, grammars and usage guides – is well accepted.
ref: 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 114:
coordinate_terms: encoding#Noun
glosses: The act or result of arranging something into a code; the act of setting down a body of knowledge in a systematic way.
Derived terms: codificationist
recodification
Related terms: legal code
sausage casing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sausage casings
Senses: glosses: The membrane into which the filling of a sausage is stuffed.
botulism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɒt.jʊl.ɪz.əm/
ipa: /ˈbɑ.t͡ʃəˌlɪz.əm/
Forms: form: botulisms
Etymology: From German Botulismus, from Latin botulus (“sausage”), the first identified source of the disease, + -ism.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Poisoning caused by the toxin from Clostridium botulinum, an anaerobic bacterium that grows in improperly prepared food.
Derived terms: antibotulism
antibotulismic
parabotulism
Related terms: botulin
botulin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: botulins
Etymology: From German Botulin, from Latin botulus (“sausage”).
Senses: glosses: An extremely potent nerve toxin produced by the anaerobic bacteria Clostridium botulinum. Ingesting botulin results in the serious medical condition of botulism.
Derived terms: botulinal
botulinic
Related terms: Botox
postcardware
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From postcard + -ware.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A software product whose author requests as payment a postcard from the user's hometown.
Related terms: adware
baitware
censorware
crippleware
demoware
donationware
freeware
postcard
shareware
spyware
trialware
free software
canning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of can (“to be able to”)
canning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of can (“to seal in a can”)
canning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkænɪŋ/
rhymes: -ænɪŋ
Forms: form: cannings
Senses: examples: text: Although aluminium can replace tin in most dry cannings, it is not satisfactory for the canning of acid fruits […]
ref: 1969, Herbert John Miller, Non-ferrous Metals Industry, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, page 25:
glosses: The process of preserving food by heat processing in a sealed vessel (a jar or can).
examples: text: Canners know when they hear the clink of a bottle going into a garbage bin.[…]
CORNISH: Now, there's also this sense of loss in hearing people in the movie describe what they had been doing before canning became a way of life for them.
ref: 2013 February 20, Audie Cornish, quoting Matthew O'Neill, “In ‘Redemption,’ Collecting Cans To Survive”, in NPR News:
text: “In canning, you go where you want and do what you want,” Gadsden says. “You’re your own boss.”
ref: 2016 April 8, Malia Wollan, quoting Eugene Gadsen, “How to make money collecting bottles and cans”, in New York Times:
text: But the income that many Californians rely on from canning is imperiled by a crisis for recycling centers.
ref: 2016 August 6, Julia Carrie Wong, “Collecting cans to survive”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The practice of collecting aluminum cans or other recyclable objects; making money by collecting and selling such things.
Derived terms: precanning
hunted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Forms: form: more hunted
form: most hunted
Senses: examples: text: While there is no difference between encounter rates in the two unhunted sites, the macaques are significantly less common in the hunted areas […]
ref: 2007, Dustin J. Penn, Iver Mysterud, Evolutionary perspectives on environmental problems:
glosses: Being the subject of a hunt.
examples: text: He looked up with a hunted expression.
glosses: Nervous and agitated, as if pursued.
Derived terms: huntedly
nonhunted
unhunted
hunted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌntɪd/
rhymes: -ʌntɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hunt
deposited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪtɪd/
ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪtɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deposit
hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌnts/
rhymes: -ʌnts
Senses: glosses: plural of hunt
hunts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hʌnts/
rhymes: -ʌnts
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hunt
deposits
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪts/
ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪts/
Senses: glosses: plural of deposit
deposits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɪˈpɑzɪts/
ipa: /dɪˈpɒzɪts/
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deposit
aficionado
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑː.dəʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪʃ.i.əˈnɑː.dəʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪs.jəˈnɑː.dəʊ/
ipa: /æˌfɪʃ.jɒˈnɑː.dəʊ/
ipa: /æ.fiː.θjəʊˈnɑːðəʊ/
ipa: /ə.fiː.θjəˈnɑːðəʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪʃ.(j)əˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪʃ.i.əˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /əˌfi.ʃ(i).əˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪs.jəˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /əˌfɪs.i.əˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /əˌfi.si.əˈnɑ.doʊ/
ipa: /ɑˌfi.θjɔˈnɑ.ðɔ/
note: imitating Latin American Spanish
ipa: /ɑˌfi.sjɔˈnɑ.ðɔ/
Forms: form: aficionados
form: aficionadoes
form: aficionadi
form: afficionado
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish aficionado (“fan, amateur”), past participle of aficionar (“to inspire fondness in someone, to get someone interested in something”). Doublet of affectionate.
Senses: glosses: An amateur bullfighter.
examples: text: To the "closet" taxonomist and aficionado of nomenclatural exercises, such emphasis may seem an intrusion.
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page ix:
text: A journey along the Conwy Valley line is one to savour for aficionados of scenic railways.
ref: 2020 August 26, Andrew Mourant, “Reinforced against future flooding”, in Rail, page 58:
synonyms: word: admirer
word: buff
word: connoisseur
word: enthusiast
word: expert
word: fan
word: follower
word: lover
word: maven
word: admirer
word: aficionado
word: buff
word: connoisseur
word: enthusiast
word: devotee
word: maniac
word: fan
word: fanatic
word: fancier
word: fancy
word: fiend
word: freak
word: geek
word: junkie
word: partisan
word: rooter
word: zealot
coordinate_terms: buff
-phile
glosses: A person who likes, knows about, and appreciates a particular interest or activity (originally bullfighting); a fan or devotee.
Derived terms: nonaficionado
Related terms: aficionada
ensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ̃nˈsɒ̃m.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌɒ̃nˈsɒ̃m.blə/
ipa: /ˌɒnˈsɒm.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɑnˈsɑm.bəl/
Forms: form: ensembles
Etymology: Borrowed from French ensemble.
Senses: glosses: A group of separate things that contribute to a coordinated whole.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A coordinated costume or outfit; a suit.
examples: text: On paper, Continental Drift boasts a jaw-dropping voice cast, including but not limited to Jennifer Lopez, Patrick Stewart, Wanda Sykes, Aziz Ansari, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Alan Tudyk. But in practice, the overstuffed ensemble leaves the cast no room to distinguish themselves, and directors Steve Martino and Michael Thurmeier don’t seem interested in coaxing performances that might render their money stars less identifiable.
ref: 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drifthttps://www.avclub.com/ice-age-continental-drift-1798173449
glosses: A group of musicians, dancers, actors, etc who perform together; e.g. the chorus of a ballet company.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A piece for several instrumentalists or vocalists.
topics: mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: A probability distribution for the state of the system.
qualifier: machine learning
glosses: A supervised learning algorithm combining multiple hypotheses.
Derived terms: canonical ensemble
chamber ensemble
ensemble average
ensemblist
hyperensemble
nonensemble
string ensemble
subensemble
superensemble
tout ensemble
ensemble
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɒ̃nˈsɒ̃m.bl̩/
ipa: /ˌɒ̃nˈsɒ̃m.blə/
ipa: /ˌɒnˈsɒm.bəl/
ipa: /ˌɑnˈsɑm.bəl/
Forms: form: ensembles
form: ensembling
form: ensembled
form: ensembled
Etymology: Borrowed from French ensemble.
Senses: examples: text: Landscape gardening or landscape architecture is the art that seeks the production of the most beautiful landscape effects, ensembling the various objects of interest into a grand whole and harmonious unit.
ref: 1908, Ohio State Board of Agriculture, Annual Report - Volume 62, page 969:
glosses: To put together in a coordinated whole.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: To perform in a musical ensemble.
sequesters
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sequester
sequestering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sequester
cup size
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cup sizes
Senses: examples: The difference, always in inches, between the girth just under the breasts and around the fullest part of the breasts, coded by a letter - less than 1 = AA, 1 = A, 2 = B, 3 = C etc.
glosses: The size of that part of a bra that holds the breasts.
Related terms: AA cup
A cup
B cup
and so on
delusive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more delusive
form: most delusive
Etymology: From delude + -ive.
Senses: glosses: Producing delusions.
glosses: Delusional.
examples: text: The poor thing was finally got off, with several delusive assurances that his absence should be short: that Mr. Edgar and Cathy would visit him, and other promises, equally ill-founded, which I invented and reiterated at intervals throughout the way.
ref: 1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights:
text: [I]t seemed calculated to suggest ideas she had no intention to suggest: ideas delusive and disturbing.
ref: 1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Further Communications on Business”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 71:
text: I opened my eyes, I rubbed them, and found I was not asleep but thoroughly awake. Nevertheless, I felt my head and breast to satisfy myself whether it was I myself who was there or some empty delusive phantom; but touch, feeling, the collected thoughts that passed through my mind, all convinced me that I was the same then and there that I am this moment.
ref: 1885, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, “Of the Wonderful Things the Incomparable Don Quixote Said He Saw in the Profound Cave of Montesinos, the Impossibility and Magnitude of which Cause this Adventure to be Deemed Apocryphal”, in John Ormsby, transl., The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha […] In Four Vols, volume III, London: Smith, Elder & Co. […], →OCLC, part II, page 249:
glosses: Inappropriate to reality; forming part of a delusion.
Derived terms: delusively
delusiveness
undelusive
ferocious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹəʊʃəs/
ipa: /fəˈɹoʊʃəs/
rhymes: -əʊʃəs
Forms: form: more ferocious
form: most ferocious
Etymology: Taken from Latin ferōx (“wild, bold, savage, fierce”) + -ous.
Senses: examples: text: But it seemed to me that there were few faces like his, with the ferocious profile that brought to mind the Latin word rapax or one of Rouault's crazed death-dealing arbitrary kings.
ref: 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:
text: Scotland needed a victory by eight points to have a realistic chance of progressing to the knock-out stages, and for long periods of a ferocious contest looked as if they might pull it off.
ref: 2011 October 1, Tom Fordyce, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 16-12 Scotland”, in BBC Sport:
text: "My memory of him in the office at Peterborough was the ferocious nature of his typing, on a manual machine of course. This was long before the days of desktop publishing, and you could hear him down the corridor absolutely hammering the keyboard."
ref: 2023 January 25, Howard Johnston, “Peter Kelly: August 2 1944-December 28 2022”, in RAIL, number 975, page 47:
glosses: Marked by extreme and violent energy.
glosses: Extreme or intense.
Synonyms: fierce
Derived terms: ferociously
ferociousness
monstrocious
superferocious
unferocious
Related terms: ferity
ferocity
fierce
feral
partie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parties
Senses: examples: text: So that if a man be excōmunicate in any of their Courts for a thing which apperteyneth to the Royal Maiest. that is to say (sayeth that booke) in a matter of the common lawe, the partie excommunicate shall haue a premunire facias, and so was it adjudged.
ref: [1590?], [James Morice], A Briefe Treatise of Oathes Exacted by Ordinaries and Ecclesiasticall Iudges, to Answere Generallie to All Such Articles or Interrogatories, as Pleaseth Them to Propound. And of Their Forced and Constrained Oathes Ex Officio, Wherein Is Proued That the Same Are Vnlawfull., [Middelburg]: [ […] Richard Schilders], page 49:
text: The diuell take the one partie, / And his dam the other, / And theyle be both beſtovved.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, […] [T]he Merrie Wiues of Windsor. […] (First Quarto), London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for Arthur Ihonson, […], published 1602, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: 1598, Lancelot Andrewes, sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles without Cripplegate, London
So there is a resemblance between the partie that here gives licence to come to the tree of life, and the other that forbid to come to it. The one threatned with a sword; the other promiseth to the persons that keep the condition here expressed
text: Then are there 70 judges deputed to ſit upon his cauſe; and if it happen that they aſſoile and quit this partie condemned: then thoſe 30 vvho condemned him, are diſplaced from their ſtate and dignitie, vvith a moſt bitter and greevous rebuke, and for ever after, as diſgraced perſons live in ſhame and infamie.
ref: 1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book VI.] The Iland Taprobane.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. […], 1st tome, London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC, page 131:
text: I likewiſe blame thoſe who being angry, will brave and mutinie when the partie with whome they are offended is not by.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “Of Anger and Choller”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 413:
text: Now Indignation is a fire, ſaith the Prophet, it will vexe the partie whom it malignes, as fire vexeth the rawe fleſh in the roſting or boyling.
ref: 1607, William [Barlow], A Brand, Titio Erepta. […], London: […] Iohn Windet for Mathew Law:
text: The Bashaw notwithstanding drew together a partie of five hundred before his owne Pallace, where he intended to die […].
ref: 1630, John Smith, True Travels, Kupperman, published 1988, page 44:
glosses: Obsolete spelling of party.
vb
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vbs
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of verb.
matin
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪn/
Etymology: From Middle English matyn, from Latin mātūtīnus (“of the morning”).
Senses: glosses: of or relating to matins
matin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmætɪn/
Forms: form: matins
Etymology: From Middle French matin, from Latin mātūtīnum (“the morning”).
Senses: examples: text: The Glow-worme ſhowes the Matine to be neere, / And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire : / Adue, adue, Hamlet : remember me.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v], page 258, column 1, lines 89–91:
glosses: morning
Synonyms: foreday
morn
morning
Related terms: word: matinee
word: matins
word: matitudinal
word: matutinal
word: matutinary
word: matutine
comte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: comtes
Etymology: Borrowed from French comte. Doublet of comes, conte, and count.
Senses: glosses: A French count.
Coordinate terms: comtesse
Related terms: vicomte
femmes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of femme
doit
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: doits
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.
Senses: examples: text: '"You got a lot of gold off Mr. Beauclerc," says Glascock.
'"Not a doit more than I wanted," says he, laughing again. "And who, pray, had a better right—did not I murder him?"
ref: 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
glosses: A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
examples: text: […] when they will not giue a doit to relieue a lame Begger, they will lay out ten to ſee a dead Indian: […]
ref: 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 9:
text: “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.
ref: 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: A small amount; a bit, a jot.
examples: text: Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.
ref: 1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
Derived terms: doitkin
doit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /dɔɪt/
rhymes: -ɔɪt
Forms: form: doits
form: doiting
form: doited
form: doited
Etymology: Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.
Senses: examples: text: I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.
ref: 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:
glosses: To stumble; to blunder.
ging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: gings
Etymology: From Middle English gyng, gynge, genge, from Old English genge (“a troop, privy, company, retinue”), from Old Norse gengi, from Proto-Germanic *gangiją (“pace, walk”). Cognate with Middle Low German gink (“a going, turn, way”), Old Norse gengi (“accompaniment, entourage, help”), Icelandic gengi (“rate”). Related to Old English gengan (“to go”), from Proto-Germanic *gangijaną (“to go”). More at gang.
Senses: examples: text: There is a knot, a ging, a pack, a conspiracy againſt me.
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
text: Proceeding further, I am met vvith a vvhole ging of vvords and phraſes not mine, for he hath maim'd them, and like a ſlye depraver mangl'd them in this his vvicked Limbo, vvorſe then the ghoſt of Deiphobus appear'd to his friend Æneas.
ref: 1642 April, John Milton, An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 178:
glosses: A company; troop; a gang.
ging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: gings
Etymology: Perhaps onomatopoeic.
Senses: examples: text: I put a stone in the ging and let fly.
ref: 1965, Mudrooroo, Wild Cat Falling, HarperCollins, published 2001, page 13:
glosses: A ‘shanghai’, or handheld catapult.
ging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
ipa: /d͡ʒɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
ipa: /ˈɡɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɪŋ
Forms: form: gings
Etymology: From ginger.
Senses: glosses: A redhead, a ginger-haired person
Alfonso
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ælˈfɑnzoʊ/
rhymes: -ɒnsəʊ
Etymology: From Spanish Alfonso and Italian Alfonso. Doublet of Alphonse.
Senses: glosses: A male given name from the Germanic languages.
glosses: A surname.
Derived terms: Alfonsian
Alfonsine
Related terms: word: Alfonzo
word: Alonso
word: Alonzo
word: Alphonse
word: Alphonso
sense: pet forms
word: Al
sense: pet forms
word: Alf
sense: pet forms
word: Alfie
sense: pet forms
word: Alfy
sense: pet forms
word: Fonz
sense: pet forms
word: Fonzie
word: Alfonso Tabora
glop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: glops
form: glopping
form: glopped
form: glopped
Etymology: Variation of glope.
Senses: glosses: To stare in amazement.
glop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: glops
Etymology: 1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.
Senses: examples: text: He inserted the needle, and in about thirty seconds the most disgusting greenish glop started to drop into the bowl.
ref: 2012, Kathryn Lasky, Chasing Orion, page 308:
synonyms: gloop
goop
coordinate_terms: slop
glosses: Any gooey substance.
examples: text: 1967-1969, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
Got out a jack knife & scraped glops of wax off the floor.
text: Kylarai studied me as I picked a glop of mascara from one lash.
ref: 2015, Kristen L. Middleton, W. J. May, Suzy Turner, Darlings of Darkness:
synonyms: glob
glosses: A gooey blob of some substance.
Derived terms: gloppy
hoppy glop
glop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɡlɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
Forms: form: glops
form: glopping
form: glopped
form: glopped
Etymology: 1940-45, of expressive origin. Compare goop, gulp.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonyms: slap, slop
text: He unscrewed the top from the pot, dipped the stick in, and clumsily glopped the white mess onto the handbill Minnie was holding. “You are an untidy paster.”
ref: 2012, Courtney Milan, The Duchess War:
glosses: To apply (a liquid) thickly and messily.
examples: text: […] drinking something. Probably that nasty spinach concoction she glopped down every morning.
ref: 2014, Michelle Mankin, Captivating Bridge:
synonyms: gulp#Verb
glosses: To swallow greedily.
eggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡi/
rhymes: -ɛɡi
Forms: form: eggier
form: eggiest
Etymology: From egg + -y.
Senses: examples: text: eggy bread
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Covered with or dipped in egg.
examples: text: an eggy smell/taste
topics: cooking
food
lifestyle
glosses: Resembling eggs in some way.
examples: text: Skeletal similarities are only part of the story Dr. Shubin wants to tell. He also looks at genetics, because our genes provide a historical record, just as fossils do. For instance, we have yolk-making genes, though they’re no longer active, because some of our ancestors laid eggs. “We carry the genetic signature of our eggy past,” this accessible scientist says.
ref: 2014, Neil Genzlinger, ‘Your Inner Fish’ Traces Human Evolutionary History on PBS:
glosses: Of or relating to an egg or eggs.
Synonyms: sense: resembling eggs
word: egglike
Derived terms: eggily
egginess
eggy bread
Related terms: fried-eggy
eggy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɛɡi/
rhymes: -ɛɡi
Forms: form: eggier
form: eggiest
Senses: glosses: Slightly annoyed.
Peggy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɛɡi/
homophone: PEGI
homophone: peggy
rhymes: -ɛɡi
Forms: form: Peggys
form: Peggies
Etymology: Alteration of Maggie, from Margaret.
Senses: examples: text: "Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, laughing in what he later remebered as his one and only attempt at humor with her. "Peggy Fitzgerald," he had said, in his easily remembered brogue. "Puts me in mind of me mither, an Irish lass from County Galway."
Margaret Bunker Fitzgerald had not been amused. "You'll never get over it, will you?" she had spat at him furiously. "You'll never get over being an Irishman, a black Irish Catholic from a Boston slum. Don't you ever dare to call me Peggy again. My name is Margaret, and don't you forget it!"
ref: 1956, Grace Metalious, Peyton Place, UPNE, published 1999, →ISBN, Book Two, Chapter 9:
text: When Caroline gave birth to another daughter, they named her Margaret Ann, after me and then Oscar's mother. They didn't realize that Peggy was my given name. Now they call her Ann, because I do.
ref: 1996, Elizabeth McCracken, The Giant's House, page 257:
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Margaret, also used as a formal given name.
topics: computing
cryptography
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
coordinate_terms: Victor
glosses: Placeholder name for the party that supplies a proof.
provo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: provos
Senses: examples: text: In this respect, they lag behind Amsterdam's provos, Western Europe's hippies, who once tried to prove a point about communal property: […]
ref: 1967, Joe David Brown, editor, The Hippies, New York: Time, Inc, page 22:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Provo (“member of Dutch counterculture movement”).
cama
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɑːmə/
rhymes: -ɑːmə
homophone: comma (father-bother merger)
homophone: karma (non-rhotic)
Forms: form: camas
Etymology: Blend of camel + llama.
Senses: glosses: A hybrid animal produced by breeding a camel and a llama.
Related terms: cama fox
stick insect
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stick insects
form: stick-insect
Etymology: Compound of stick + insect.
Senses: synonyms: stick bug
walking stick
glosses: Any of various insects of the order Phasmida that mimic sticks or twigs.
Derived terms: Children's stick insect
Lord Howe Island stick insect
zony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈzəʊni/
ipa: /ˈzoʊni/
rhymes: -əʊni
Forms: form: zonies
Etymology: Blend of zebra + pony
Senses: examples: text: > Please tell us how you are doing. What do you have, zony or zorse?
ref: 1997 April 6, vicki blakslee, “Zonis zorses and zebras”, in rec.equestrian (Usenet):
text: the old man with the beard decided to lay his hands upon this poor lonely pony, and descended upon her a bounty, a bounty so exceedingly large, that she was blessed with a zony or a pebra, and this doth maketh lots of dosh for the zony’s owner, so that he too can be bountious ^([sic]) with the hay from the tv rights, and dost ensure the continuing success of the little darling who shall dwell in the house of hay for evermore.
ref: 2001 June 27, Bill Ramsay, “Evolution”, in nz.soc.religion (Usenet):
text: I am a zony. My father is a zebra and my mother is a pony.
ref: 2010, Marie Lestelle Evrard, You Look Sort of Strange, page v:
glosses: The offspring of a male zebra and a female pony.
chuckey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
homophone: Chucky
Forms: form: chuckeys
Etymology: Blend of ch(icken) + (d)uck + (turk)ey.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of turducken.
synonyms: word: turducken
damselfly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdæmzəlflaɪ/
Forms: form: damselflies
Etymology: From damsel + fly, where damsel ultimately from Vulgar Latin *domnicella (whence also French demoiselle, Portuguese donzelinha). Compare Danish vandnymfe, Dutch juffer, Swedish jungfruslända, Welsh mursen. Also compare ladybird, ladybug, nymph.
Senses: glosses: Any of various insects of the suborder Zygoptera that have long slender bodies, and are similar to dragonflies but having wings folded when at rest.
Synonyms: darning needle
devil's darning needle
Derived terms: pond damselfly
macher
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɑxəɹ/
Forms: form: machers
form: makher
Etymology: From Yiddish מאַכער (makher, “influential person”, literally “one who makes”) from מאַכן (makhn, “to make”). Cognate, naturally, to English maker and German Macher.
Senses: examples: text: An ordinary man doesn’t jump the Snake River Canyon / with nothing underneath his ass / but a two-wheeled, fin-stabilised X-1 Skycycle / and a seven-figure guarantee from some macher in LA.
ref: 2005 October 20, August Kleinzahler, “A Valentine’s: Regarding the Impractibility of Our Love”, in London Review of Books, volume 27, number 20, page 6:
text: Finally, Mr. Wall Street macher, there's our own Abe Silverfish, a man who has editing awards from prestige film festivals in Tanganyika and Bali.
ref: 2007, Woody Allen, “Calisthenics, Poison Ivy, Final Cut”, in Mere Anarchy:
text: The meaty and more familiar parts of Anna’s story — passing as a German heiress, ripping off tony hotels, brazenly exploiting narcissistic machers and star-struck working women — are told in flashback as Vivian reports her article.
ref: 2022 February 10, Mike Hale, “‘Inventing Anna’ Review: The SoHo Scammer, Explained at Length”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
synonyms: word: baron
word: big cheese
word: big enchilada
word: big gun
word: big kahuna
word: big man
word: big name
word: big noise
word: big shot
word: bigwig
word: big wheel
word: boss
word: grand poobah
word: head honcho
word: heavy hitter
word: heavyweight
word: high muckamuck
word: high muckety-muck
word: king of all one surveys
word: king of the castle
word: king of the hill
word: kingpin
word: macher
word: mayor
word: muckamuck
word: muckety muck
word: mugwump
word: numero uno
word: poobah
word: rooster
word: somebody
word: top banana
word: top cat
word: top dog
word: top gun
word: very important person
word: VIP
word: wheel
glosses: An important person, often in the negative sense of self-important; a bigwig.
self-important
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more self-important
form: most self-important
Etymology: From self- + important.
Senses: examples: text: Near-synonym: self-entitled
text: The assistant manager was a self-important fellow who strutted about the office barking instructions.
text: But despite its plague of tunnels, the run-in on this route is of unusual interest to the locomotive enthusiast: besides the hordes of self-important saddle-tanks shunting in the extensive yards, there was at one time the chance of seeing those slender little North London engines, with their large outside cylinders and no visible storage place for coal, and also an occasional South Eastern locomotive sporting a lot of polished brass.
ref: 1951 October, R. S. McNaught, “Lines of Approach”, in Railway Magazine, page 704:
synonyms: conceited
haughty
pompous
hoity-toity
antonyms: self-deprecating
coordinate_terms: self-righteous
self-assured
glosses: Having, or behaving as if having, too high of an opinion of one's own importance.
Derived terms: self-importantly
Related terms: self-conscious
expedited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of expedite
expedited
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more expedited
form: most expedited
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: expeditious
glosses: Accelerated.
examples: Near-synonym: expeditious
glosses: Arranged, executed or dispatched quickly or more efficiently.
Derived terms: unexpedited
Related terms: english: not to be confused in modern usage
translation: not to be confused in modern usage
word: expedient
word: expeditionary
over and above
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Senses: glosses: Supplementarily.
glosses: More than is necessary or than expected.
topics: law
glosses: more than is required e.g. by a contract.
over and above
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Senses: glosses: in addition to, supplementary to
eid mubarak
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: From Arabic عِيد مُبَارَك (ʕīd mubārak).
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A customary Muslim greeting on the days of Eid ul-Adha and Eid ul-Fitr at the end of Ramadan.
Lombard Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: A London street, the site of a colony of Lombard Jewish merchants and moneylenders who settled there in the 13th century.
Senses: examples: text: Bankruptcy must inevitably have come of this young pagan in Lombard Street, London
ref: 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, page 312:
text: Lombard Street is thus a perpetual agent between the two great divisions of England
ref: 1873, Walter Bagehot, Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market:
text: ... and it is no wonder that there were active relations between the bourse in Bruges and Lombard Street in London.
ref: 1963, Raymond de Roover, The Rise and Decline of the Medici Bank: 1397-1494, page 317:
glosses: A street, and the money and capital market of London.
glosses: A street in San Francisco, California with eight hairpin bends.
Derived terms: Lombard Street to a China orange
paranormal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more paranormal
form: most paranormal
Etymology: From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + normal; compare supernatural. First use appears c. 1905.
Senses: examples: text: “We who study the paranormal always hope for strong readings with our equipment,” explains Nancy.
ref: 2013, JoAnn Myers, Wicked Intentions:
coordinate_terms: supernatural#Adjective
parapsychological#Adjective
glosses: Of events, experiences, or phenomenona, that cannot be explained by current scientific understanding or natural laws.
Derived terms: nonparanormal
paranormalism
paranormalist
paranormality
paranormally
paranormalness
paranormal romance
purranormal
paranormal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paranormals
Etymology: From para- (“above, beyond; abnormal”) + normal; compare supernatural. First use appears c. 1905.
Senses: examples: text: Our next guest has spent a 40-year career studying the paranormal, and he has some thoughts he wants to share with our audience tonight.
glosses: Paranormal phenomenona collectively: all things paranormal; things with paranormality.
raw_tags: with the
glosses: A person to whom paranormal powers are attributed.
Related terms: word: parapsychology
word: supernatural
misremember
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪsɹɪˈmɛmbɚ/
ipa: /mɪsɹɪˈmɛmbə/
rhymes: -ɛmbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: misremembers
form: misremembering
form: misremembered
form: misremembered
Etymology: From mis- + remember.
Senses: examples: text: . . . that he, who twice upon oath, with time of recollection, could not remember anything of such a business, might well, a third time, misremember somewhat.
ref: 1641 April 21, Lord George Digby, Delivery to the House of Commons on the Bill of Attainder against Stratford:
text: His name, if I do not misremember, was Peter Otsequot.
ref: 1750, Ralph Griffiths, The Monthly Review:
text: I have been assured […] if I misremember not.
ref: 1801, Jonathan Swift, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Oxford, page 33:
text: Did the military screw things up, or did you simply misremember?
ref: 1994, David Morrell, Blood Oath, McMillan, page 17:
glosses: To remember incorrectly.
scatterbrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scatterbrains
Etymology: From scatter + brain.
Senses: examples: text: Vivian is so VERY late! Where has that scatterbrain been all this time?
ref: 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Twilight Town:
glosses: A flighty, disorganized or forgetful person.
Related terms: scatterbrained
djinn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒɪn/
rhymes: -ɪn
homophone: djin
homophone: djinn
homophone: gin
homophone: jinn
Forms: form: djinns
Senses: examples: text: Necromancy meant originally the conjuring up the souls of the dead, and later included the conjuring of all sorts of inhuman spirits such as sylphs, giants, and djinn.
ref: 1941, Rupert Gleadow, Magic and Divination, page 125:
text: I would have liked to know whether he thought this was due to the climate, the diet, or simply malefic djinns.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 96:
glosses: Alternative spelling of jinn.
Seppo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -ɛpəʊ
Forms: form: Seppos
Etymology: From septic tank (rhyming slang for Yank) + -o (colloquialising suffix).
Senses: examples: text: ‘So, Adam, you have the privilege of being my first Seppo.’
‘Your first what?’
‘Seppo. You′ve gotta learn to speak Aussie, man. You′re a Yank, so –’
‘No, not a Yankee. I′m from –’
‘The You Ess Ay. Makes you a Yank. Yank rhymes with septic tank. But we like to shorten names and then add an O at the end - but only if we like you. So Yank is kind of neutral. Septic tank is rude. But Seppo, well, it′s affectionate. Get it?’
‘No.’
ref: 2010, Emily Maguire, Smoke in the Room, page 17:
synonyms: word: septic
word: American
word: Americunt
word: Ameritard
word: Seppo
word: septic
word: United Statesian
word: United Statian
word: Usanian
word: USian
word: US-ian
word: Usonan
word: Usonian
word: US American
word: U.S. American
word: US-American
word: Yank
word: Yankee
glosses: An American.
jinni
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jinnis
form: jinn
Etymology: From Arabic جِنِّيّ (jinniyy)
Senses: examples: text: [W]hen the Jinni narrated to the Jinniyah how the King had caused the wedding contract to be drawn up between the hunchbacked groom and the lovely young lady who was heart-broken for sorrow; and how she was the fairest of created things and even more beautiful than this youth, the Jinniyah cried at him "Thou liest! this youth is handsomer than any one of his day."
ref: 1885, Richard F[rancis] Burton, transl. and editor, “[The Tale of the Three Apples.] Tale of Núr al-Dín Alí & his Son Badr al-Dín Hasan. [Night 22.]”, in A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments, now Entituled The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night […], Shammar edition, volume I, [London]: […] Burton Club […], →OCLC, pages 213–214:
glosses: Alternative form of jinn.
summoner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: summoners
Etymology: From summon + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who summons or evokes, particularly in legal contexts.
glosses: An apparitor; an officer of an ecclesiastical court whose job it was to deliver a summons to an offending member of the diocese.
examples: text: And as they change, they set into bright relief not only outmoded honorifics and hunting horns, but silver summoners and mother-of-pearl opera glasses and all manner of carefully crafted things that have outlived their usefulness.
ref: 2016, Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, →ISBN, page 119:
glosses: A small bell for summoning an employee to provide service.
fractional crystallization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fractional crystallizations
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: the separation of two solutes from the same solution by using either a solvent or a crystallization temperature such that only one solute is supersaturated and crystallizes out
Related terms: zone refining
supersaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From super- + saturated.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: More concentrated than is normally possible.
raw_tags: of a solution
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Having a vapor pressure higher than is normally possible.
raw_tags: of a vapor
supersaturated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From super- + saturated.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of supersaturate
Related terms: supersaturation
crystallize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɹɪstəlaɪz/
Forms: form: crystallizes
form: crystallizing
form: crystallized
form: crystallized
form: crystalize
form: crystallise
form: crystalise
Etymology: From crystal + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: I crystallized the copper sulfate by slowly cooling a saturated solution.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: To make something form into crystals.
examples: text: The copper sulphate crystallized from solution.
glosses: To assume a crystalline form.
examples: text: After some thought, I crystallized my ideas for the paper.
glosses: To give a definite or precise form to (something).
examples: text: My ideas crystallized overnight.
text: The situation did crystallize, if painfully, under the stars, and by morning each knew what he must confess.
ref: 1957, Patrick White, chapter 12, in Voss:
glosses: To take a definite form.
examples: text: We crystallized the fruit by coating in sugar.
glosses: To coat something with crystals, especially with sugar.
Derived terms: cocrystallize
crystallizability
crystallizable
crystallization
crystallisation
crystallizer
decrystallize
nanocrystallize
noncrystallizing
recrystallize
uncrystallize
Related terms: crystalline
zone refining
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: zone melting
zone melting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A technique used to purify a metal, semiconductor or other solid in which a heating system slowly causes a series of molten zones to traverse the solid, leaving purer material behind it.
Synonyms: zone refining
purer
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəɹə(ɹ)/
Senses: glosses: comparative form of pure: more pure
purest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊɹəst/
ipa: /ˈpjɝəst/
ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹəst/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹəst/
Senses: glosses: superlative form of pure: most pure
glosses: having the greatest purity
Related terms: purer
cyanocarbon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cyanocarbons
Etymology: From cyano- + carbon.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: a class of organic compounds formally derived from hydrocarbons by replacing every hydrogen atom with a cyanide radical; e.g. - tetracyanomethane - C(CN)₄
Derived terms: cyanocarbon acid
eulogize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: eulogizes
form: eulogizing
form: eulogized
form: eulogized
form: eulogise
Senses: examples: text: Brill's brother Michael also eulogized David's battle for justice in "defending the rights of men, women and children."
ref: 1979 December 1, Political Analyst David Brill Dies, “Pat M. Kuras”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 19, page 6:
text: Both did say a few words, both informally eulogizing my father, though neither admitted that was what they were doing.
ref: 1993, Octavia Butler, chapter 12, in Parable of the Sower:
text: Where did I go wrong?
Why is Elton John eulogizing me in song?
ref: 2005, J. G. Thirlwell, “Aladdin Reverse”, in Love, performed by Foetus:
coordinate_terms: elegize#Verb
glosses: To praise, celebrate or pay homage to (someone), especially in an eloquent formal eulogy.
Derived terms: eulogization
uneulogized
Related terms: eulogist
eulogistic
eulogizer
blessing in disguise
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blessings in disguise
Senses: synonyms: felix culpa
antonyms: poisoned chalice
monkey's paw
glosses: A seeming misfortune that turns out to be for the best.
Related terms: God works in mysterious ways
necessary evil
silver lining
leva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lev
leva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: levas
Senses: examples: text: […] must be furnished with a supplementary Government revenue tax stamp of 1 leva for each box.
ref: 1941, United States. Department of Commerce, Foreign Commerce Weekly (volume 3, page 536)
text: The planned PSO support for 2000 is 40 million levas, and for 2001, 30 million levas.
ref: 2001, Bulgaria: The Dual Challenge of Transition and Accession, page 155:
glosses: Alternative form of lev (“Bulgarian currency”).
nut case
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nut cases
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nutcase.
North Sea
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the North Sea
Etymology: From Middle English North-see, from Old English norþsǣ (“northern sea, Bristol Channel, Baltic, North Sea”), equivalent to north + sea. Cognate with West Frisian Noardsee (“North Sea”), Dutch Noordzee, German Nordsee, Danish Nordsøen, Swedish Nordsjön, Icelandic Norðursjór.
Senses: examples: text: Ypres was not the actual start of the front; that distinction belongs to Nieuport, a city on the North Sea twentyodd miles down the river Yser from Ypres.
ref: 1986 November 24, Jack Beatty, “Along the Western Front”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2022:
glosses: A marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean between Britain (in the west), Scandinavia (in the east) and Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and France (in the south).
Synonyms: word: German Ocean
word: German Sea
Derived terms: North Sea oil
metra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmiːtrə/
Forms: form: metrae
Etymology: From Ancient Greek μήτρα (mḗtra, “womb”).
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
synonyms: metro-#Etymology_2
;
hystero-
utero-
glosses: The uterus.
Derived terms: hematometra
hydrometra
Related terms: hematometrocolpos
hydrometrocolpos