cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
waxless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From wax + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without wax.
osmeriform
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of the order Osmeriformes of ray-finned fish, characterised by having the maxilla in the gape of the mouth, radii absent from the scales, and loss of the basisphenoid and orbitosphenoid bones.
noodlefish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noodlefishes
form: noodlefish
Etymology: From noodle + fish.
Senses: glosses: Any of the family Salangidae of osmeriform fish, related to the smelts, with translucent bodies and no scales.
Synonyms: icefish
noodlefishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noodlefish
spookfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spookfishes
form: spookfish
Etymology: From spook + fish.
Senses: glosses: A fish, the barreleye.
glosses: Any of several species of chimaera
Derived terms: brownsnout spookfish
spookfishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spookfish
barreleye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barreleyes
Etymology: From barrel + eye.
Senses: glosses: A small, deep-sea osmeriform fish of the family Opisthoproctidae, with barrel-shaped, tubular eyes which are generally directed upwards to detect the silhouettes of available prey.
Synonyms: spookfish
barreleyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barreleye
irrebuttable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more irrebuttable
form: most irrebuttable
Etymology: From ir- + rebuttable.
Senses: glosses: Not rebuttable.
tremblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trembler
unsordid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unsordid
form: most unsordid
Etymology: From un- + sordid.
Senses: glosses: Not sordid.
Derived terms: unsordidly
oaklike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oaklike
form: most oaklike
Etymology: From oak + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an oak or its wood.
rootlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more rootlike
form: most rootlike
Etymology: From root + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a root or roots (of a plant), or some aspect of them.
oatlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oatlike
form: most oatlike
Etymology: From oat + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling an oat or oats.
unrestituted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + restituted.
Senses: glosses: Not restituted.
woodside
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodsides
Etymology: From wood + -side.
Senses: examples: text: The action was commenced by emulous skirmishers, who crawled from the woodsides, and annoyed each other from coverts of ridge, stump, and stone heap.
ref: 1866, George Alfred Townsend, Campaigns of a non-combatant:
text: I wandered down the woodside way, / Where branching doors ope with the breeze, / And saw a little child at play / Among the strong and lovely trees.
ref: 1907, Ethelwyn Wetherald, The Last Robin: Lyrics and Sonnets:
text: In the long light evenings scores of rabbits grazed along the woodsides...
ref: 2008, M D Haviland, Lives of the Fur Folk:
glosses: The side of a wood; the land that borders a wood.
Derived terms: Woodside Park
woodsides
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodside
circumlenticular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From circum- + lenticular.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Around the lens of the eye.
cookieless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cookie + -less.
Senses: examples: text: I looked down at the cookieless platter Kathy was thrusting my way, and then I moved, because her finger was pointing...
ref: 2000, Beth Kephart, Into the tangle of friendship:
glosses: Without cookies (the food).
examples: text: Cookieless sessions enable you to take advantage of session state without relying on browser cookies.
ref: 2004, Stephen Walther, ASP.NET unleashed:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: Without the use of HTTP cookies.
Zebul
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Hebrew זְבֻל (z'vúl).
Senses: examples: Then said Zebul unto him, Where is now thy mouth, wherewith thou saidst, Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him? is not this the people that thou hast despised? go out, I pray now, and fight with them.
glosses: An officer of Abimelech. (biblical character)
glosses: A male given name from Hebrew.
repinings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of repining
dictatorship of the majority
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dictatorships of the majority
Senses: examples: text: As to the reproach that Socialists desire either the dictatorship of the proletariat over the higher classes—or the dictatorship of the majority over the minority, Herr Liebknecht successfully disposes of these accusations.
ref: 1897, American Fabian, volumes 3-4, page 14:
text: Both the Jacobins and Lenin believed in a temporary dictatorship of the majority over counterrevolutionary minorities.
ref: 1985, Alex Callinicos, “Repressive toleration revisited”, in Aspects of Toleration, J. Horton and S. Mendus eds., →ISBN, page 64:
text: The ease with which the will of the greater number may be translated into the dictatorship of the majority has not yet become the subject of public debate.
ref: 2005, John Coakley, Michael Gallagher, Politics in the Republic of Ireland, →ISBN, page 67:
glosses: Synonym of tyranny of the majority.
synonyms: word: tyranny of the majority
mawky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: [mɔːki]
rhymes: -ɔːki
Forms: form: mawkier
form: mawkiest
Etymology: From mawk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: What deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking lobes of hydrophobia could have devised a keeping place for souls so poor as this flesh. This mawky wormbent tabernacle.
ref: 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 130:
glosses: Maggoty, full of maggots.
Related terms: mawk
stalky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɔːki
Forms: form: stalkier
form: stalkiest
Etymology: From stalk + -y.
Senses: examples: text: I peeped between the stalky parts of the Lindsays’ lilacs.
ref: 1942, Emily Carr, “From Carr Street to James’ Bay”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC:
text: An adorably gangly salesman with stalky black hair and a cough (“I’m giving up smoking, and it’s all coming up”) set up a dressing room for me, and I tried on a black tux shirt with a subtly embroidered bib ($185), a soft ivory-colored jersey ($135) and an olive-green button-front shirt ($165).
ref: 2008 May 8, Mike Albo, “Backstage All-Access Passwear”, in New York Times:
glosses: Long and thin, like a stalk of a plant.
glosses: Of a plant, having stalks.
examples: text: a stalky ex-boyfriend
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a stalker; seeming to hunt or covertly follow a person.
Derived terms: stalkily
stalkiness
homocystinuria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homocystinurias
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An inherited metabolic disorder characterised by the presence of homocysteine in the urine
Related terms: homocystinuric
Mavors
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Old Latin Māvors.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Mars, the god of war.
homolateral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ætəɹəl
Etymology: From homo- + lateral.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: ipsilateral
Derived terms: homolaterally
mawlid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawlids
form: mulid
Etymology: From Arabic مَوْلِد (mawlid).
Senses: examples: text: the fair (or mulid) as it had developed over the years was half secular and half religious in inspiration.
ref: 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 101:
topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A holiday celebrating the birthday of a holy man or prophet, especially Muhammad.
Derived terms: Mawlid
mawlids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawlid
mawmenny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈmɔːməni/
Etymology: Borrowed from Middle English mawmene, from Anglo-Norman maumenee, an alteration of Arabic مأمونية (maʔmūniyya) after malmener, maumener (“to mistreat”).
Senses: examples: text: […]a remark certainly borne out by Wynnere's list, which includes: wild geese, bitterns, snipe, larks, linnets (sprinkled with sugar!), woodcock, woodpecker, teal, and titmice, the meal to be rounded off with rabbits, pasties, pies, mawmenny and custard pies!
ref: 2000, “"Of Fish and Flesh and Tender Breede Of Win both White and Reede": Eating and Drinking in Middle English Narrative Texts”, in Patricia Shaw, Obra Reunida de Patricia Shaw, Oviedo: Universidad de Oviedo, page 78:
text: What is "different" here is the absence of the more elaborate aristocratic favorites of earlier times. such as Mawmenny.
ref: 2002, Constance B. Hieatt, “Medieval Britain”, in Melitta Weiss Adamson, editor, Regional Cuisines of Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, page 38:
text: There was no fixed order for the different sweet potages, however: one finds mawmenny at least once at every course, and the other types are also placed randomly.
ref: 2003, Gilly Lehmann, “The Late Medieval Menu in England - A Reappraisal”, in Food and History: Revue de l'Institut Européen d'Histoire de l'Alimentation, volume 1, Brepols, →DOI, Medieval Britain:
glosses: A dish eaten in later medieval England, made with spice and almost always with boneless meat from poultry (usually teased or mashed; most recipes name capon as an option), usually containing wine and either sugar or honey.
osteochondroma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: osteochondromas
form: osteochondromata
Etymology: From osteo- + chondroma.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A benign tumor consisting of bone or cartilage
Related terms: osteochondromatous
mawther
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mawthers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mauther (girl, daughter).
mawthers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mawther
maw-worm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maw-worms
Senses: glosses: Any of several parasitic worms which infest the mammalian stomach and intestines, especially a nematode.
Derived terms: Mawworm
Related terms: maw
maxillar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /mækˈsɪl.ə(ɹ)/
rhymes: -ɪlə(ɹ)
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin māxillāris (“of or belonging to the jaw”), from māxilla (“the jawbone, jaw”) + -āris (“-ar, -ary”, adjectival suffix); equivalent to maxilla + -ar.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of maxillary.
Derived terms: ectomaxillar
retromaxillar
maxillas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxilla
maxilliped
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maxillipeds
form: maxillipede
Etymology: From maxilla + -i- + -ped.
Senses: glosses: One of the appendages on the heads of centipedes and some crustaceans behind the maxillae, used for feeding. The maxillipeds, known as forcipules, give centipedes their scientific name, Chilopoda (lip-foot).
Derived terms: maxillipedal
maxillipedary
Related terms: mouth-footed
maxillipeds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maxilliped
maxillipedary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /mæksɪlɪˈpɛdəɹi/
Senses: glosses: Of, or pertaining to, the maxilliped.
modelesque
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more modelesque
form: most modelesque
Etymology: From model + -esque.
Senses: examples: text: Wearing her sister's fancy dress and makeup, Judy felt modelesque.
glosses: Looking like a fashion or glamor model.
maxillo-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the maxilla (jaw).
Derived terms: maxilloalveolar
maxilloethmoidectomy
maxillopharyngeal
maxillotomy
maximum-security
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having a high level of security, designed to house the most dangerous of prisoners.
raw_tags: of a prison
Related terms: maximum security
Maxy
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Maxie
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male name Max.
glosses: A diminutive of the female name Maxine.
May apple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May apples
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of mayapple.
mayapple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayapples
form: May apple
Etymology: From May + apple. The fruit is notably neither related to apples (though "apple" itself has an archaic sense of generically referring to fruit), nor ripens during the month of May; only the flower blooms then around then in certain areas.
Senses: examples: text: Etoposide came from the fruit of the poisonous mayapple.
ref: 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 206:
glosses: A fruit-bearing flowering plant with poisonous roots, native to eastern North America, taxonomic name Podophyllum peltatum.
glosses: The fruit of the plant Podophyllum peltatum.
Synonyms: hog apple
raccoon-berry
Derived terms: mayapple rust
mayapples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayapple
May blossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May blossoms
form: mayblossom
Senses: glosses: A species of flower-bearing hawthorn with edible berries, Crataegus monogyna.
Synonyms: common hawthorn
hawthorn
may
mayblossom
maythorn
quickthorn
mayblossom
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmeɪˌblɒsəm/
ipa: /ˈmeɪˌblɑsəm/
Forms: form: mayblossoms
form: May blossom
Etymology: From may + blossom.
Senses: glosses: The flower of the hawthorn, Crataegus, especially the common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna.
Synonyms: common hawthorn
hawthorn
may
May blossom
maythorn
quickthorn
maythorn
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maythorns
Etymology: From May + thorn. Compare Dutch meidoorn.
Senses: glosses: mayblossom
mayblossoms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mayblossom
point the bone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: points the bone
form: pointing the bone
form: pointed the bone
form: pointed the bone
Senses: examples: text: It was proved on the trial that amongst the northern tribes a blackfellow who was known to have pointed the bone at another would be pursued for 500 miles, in order that revenge might be taken upon him for the crime.
ref: 1879, George Taplin, The Native Tribes of South Australia, page xxx:
text: Among the Arunta the two men, if they wish to punish a man who has stolen a woman, point the bone in the following manner. One man crouches down, huddling himself together with his forehead touching the ground in front of his knees, while the other man takes up the magic implement and standing between the knees of the first man throws the thing with all his force in the direction in which his enemy lives.
ref: 1930, Géza Róheim, Animism, Magic and the Divine King, Kessinger Publishing, published 2003, page 76:
text: They were preparing to point the bone at him.
The act of pointing the bone was, of course, merely a theatrical show, having a psychological effect[…].
ref: 1962, Arthur Upfield, The Bone is Pointed, published 1976, page 138:
text: If he pointed the bone at anyone, that man soon died. If an enemy of Taipan came up to him, he would point the bone at him.
ref: 2000, Gregory McNamee, editor, Taipan the Snake and the Blue-Tongued Lizard: Mungkjan Folktales: The Serpent′s Tale: Snakes in Folklore and Literature, page 40:
glosses: To place a curse on another person by pointing a bone at that person; to curse by performing a magic ritual.
raw_tags: in Aboriginal culture
glosses: To blame someone.
Related terms: bone pointing
boning
May Queen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: May Queens
form: queen of the May
Senses: examples: text: [H]e saw—he saw clearly—the image of the lovely May Queen in her glimmering dress of shining white with the little gilt crown on her long brown hair.
ref: 1915, Amelia E. Barr, chapter 12, in The Measure of a Man:
text: At Ickwell Green, in Bedfordshire, there is a permanent maypole. There, the May Queen is accompanied by moggies (raggedly dressed women) carrying besoms - birch-twig brooms.
ref: 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 263:
glosses: A girl chosen to walk at the front of the May Day procession and to preside over the celebrations.
Mayanists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Mayanist
maybird
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maybirds
Senses: glosses: The bobolink.
maybirds
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of maybird
mayhappen
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: -æpən
Senses: examples: text: […] they hastened up, and presently stood before that cavern's mouth with doubt and joy mingled in their minds; for now, mayhappen, they had reached the gate of the Glittering Plain, or mayhappen the gate of death.
ref: 1891, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain:
glosses: maybe, perhaps.
Synonyms: mayhap
unmatches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of unmatch
unmatching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of unmatch
unmatching
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Not matching; unmatched.
unmast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unmasts
form: unmasting
form: unmasted
form: unmasted
Etymology: From un- + mast.
Senses: topics: nautical
transport
glosses: To remove the mast.
unloop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unloops
form: unlooping
form: unlooped
form: unlooped
Etymology: From un- + loop.
Senses: glosses: To remove a loop from; to unfasten from a loop.
Derived terms: unlooper
rosh yeshiva
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roshei yeshiva
form: rosh yeshivas
form: rosh yeshivah
Senses: glosses: The dean of a yeshiva.
yeshivot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: eshibot
Senses: glosses: plural of yeshiva
gemach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gemachs
form: gemachim
Etymology: From Hebrew גמ״ח.
Senses: glosses: A free-loan fund for Orthodox Jews.
gemachim
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gemach
lob wedge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lob wedges
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A golf club (an iron) which provides maximum loft.
driving iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: driving irons
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An iron golf club which can be used as a driver.
mid-iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mid-irons
form: midiron
Etymology: From mid- + iron.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An iron golf club with more lift than a driver.
lofter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lofters
Etymology: From loft + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Miss Thorn began digging up the turf with her lofter: it was a painful moment for me. ¶ “You might at least have tried me, Mrs. Cooke,” I said.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An obsolete golf club, the predecessor of the niblick.
Synonyms: lofting iron
lofters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lofter
baffy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: baffies
Etymology: From baff + -y.
Senses: topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: An obsolete wooden golf club with high loft.
topics: golf
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The 4-wood or 5-wood
move one's body
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: moves one's body
form: moving one's body
form: moved one's body
form: moved one's body
Senses: glosses: To dance.
finning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From fin + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Humane Society International is targeting Chinese restaurants and diners in major cities across North America this week with its campaign against shark finning.
ref: 2009 January 29, Camille Bains, “Save sharks, skip soup, Year of Ox diners urged”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: The act of removing a live shark's fin, and releasing the shark back into the sea.
finning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From fin + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fin
pancytopenia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌpænsaɪtəˈpiːnɪə/
Forms: form: pancytopenias
Etymology: From pan- + cytopenia.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A reduction in the numbers of red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets in the blood
Related terms: pancytopenic
papilledema
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: papilledemas
Etymology: From papillo- + edema.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A swelling of the optic disc caused by intracranial pressure.
Derived terms: pseudopapilledema
paraneoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From para- + neoplastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: associated with, but only indirectly related to, a tumor, as for example the endocrine or immunologic effects rather than the mass effect.
Derived terms: nonparaneoplastic
paraneoplastically
Related terms: paraneoplasia
papilledemas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of papilledema
layback
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laybacks
Etymology: From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).
Senses: examples: text: Mirai Nagasu, like Zhang a promising 14-year-old, showed equally astonishing flexibility on a layback spin Wednesday, leaning so far that the back of her head nearly touched her backside.
ref: 2008 January 24, Pat Borzi, “Figure Skating's Next Ones Are Closing in on Their Moment”, in New York Times:
qualifier: figure skating
glosses: A spin in which the head and shoulders are dropped backwards and the back arched downwards toward the ice; also called a layback spin.
examples: text: A layback, on the other hand, forces you to pull with your arms. A layback can protrude so far from the main rock face, that your legs will be dangling uselessly in the air, while your arms support all of your body weight. The tricky thing about the layback is that not only do you need the upper-body strength to hold yourself up and climb hand over hand, but you also need the flexibility and balance to clear the edge of the overhang.
ref: 2006 July 2, Antonio Graceffo, “A Day of Rocks and Sea: Kayaking and Climbing in Taiwan”, in asiantribune.com:
topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A maneuver to scale a vertical crack, by pulling with the arms and jamming the legs underneath, and shuffling up one limb at a time.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
surfing
glosses: A surf maneuver where the upright surfer leans back against the wave.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skateboarding
snowboarding
sports
glosses: A trick where the boarder leans back while on the lip of the ramp, or down a rail.
topics: audio
communications
editing
electrical-engineering
engineering
journalism
literature
media
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
publishing
writing
glosses: The process of recording the final sound onto the master track.
examples: text: Only a fine interception from Mickael Silvestre denied the marauding Czech international an early chance from Tomasz Radzinski's layback and, as United struggled to find any momentum, their hosts threatened to overwhelm them.
ref: 2000 October 25, Daniel Taylor, “Radzinski double floors United”, in the Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: A short backwards pass to a teammate in an attacking position.
glosses: A wedge-shaped kerbstone that allows a vehicle to enter a driveway without a bump
layback
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: laybacks
form: laybacking
form: laybacked
form: laybacked
Etymology: From lay + back (presumably from confusion between lay and lie).
Senses: topics: climbing
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To climb using layback maneuvers.
laybacks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of layback
shopowner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shopowners
form: shop owner
Etymology: From shop + owner.
Senses: examples: text: Abid Ali Majeed, 75, a shopowner, complained that the killers should never have been allowed so close to a populated area.
ref: 2007 July 24, Richard A. Oppel, “Car Bombs Kill 12 People in One of Baghdad’s Safer Neighborhoods”, in New York Times:
glosses: Someone who owns a shop.
Synonyms: storeowner
dummy bids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dummy bid
alternative hypotheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of alternative hypothesis
chicharrones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chicharron
null hypotheses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of null hypothesis
sinkerballing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From sinkerball + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: The Mets, a day after scoring 9 runs on 12 hits, managed four singles against Aaron Cook, the Rockies’ sinkerballing right-hander, who pitched a complete game.
ref: 2008 May 26, Ben Shpigel, “Mets Lose Again; Wilpon Is Up Next”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The pitching of sinkerballs (sinkers)
gambist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gambists
Etymology: From gamba + -ist.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Someone who plays the viola da gamba
gambists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gambist
punnable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pun + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be made into a pun.
on someone's hands
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Senses: examples: text: When I started yelling, the other kids started yelling, so Madame Rosa had seven kids on her hands, all bellowing for their mothers […]
ref: 1986, Romain Gary, Ralph Manheim, The life before us:
antonyms: off someone's hands
glosses: Being someone's liability or responsibility; with which someone is lumbered.
examples: text: I've got a lot of time on my hands.
text: It is most curious to see that you have so much time on your hands that you are able to simply wander about this house bothering others […]
ref: 1990, Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day:
synonyms: at someone's disposal
glosses: Available to be used by someone; in someone's possession.
Related terms: blood on someone's hands
have blood on one's hands
in someone's hands
on hand
nattes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From French nattes.
Senses: glosses: Surface decoration or diaper resembling plaited or interlaced work.
applicational
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more applicational
form: most applicational
Etymology: From application + -al.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an application.
automorphic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Describing a mineral, in an igneous rock, that is bounded by its own crystal face; euhedral, idiomorphic.
examples: 5 is an automorphic number because 5² = 25, which ends in 5; similarly 625² = 390625, ends in 625.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Describing a number whose square ends in the number itself; circular.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to automorphy or an automorphism.
examples: 1895 Hiram M. Stanley: Studies in the Evolutionary Psychology of Feeling. MacMillan
This automorphic interpretation is, however, extremely common, especially in lower psychism. The child and the savage judge inevitably and naturally that they are giving you the greatest pleasure when they share their dainties with you.
glosses: Marked by automorphism, the ascription to others of one's own characteristics.
Derived terms: automorphically
automorphic number
panautomorphic
serranos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of serrano
stockjobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈstɒkdʒɒbɪŋ/
Forms: form: stockjobbings
Etymology: From stockjobber.
Senses: examples: text: poor Kendall had a hard time of it to stop them at last, as Amos will to stop the mouths of the people about his stockjobbing.
ref: 1834, David Crockett, A Narrative of the Life of, Nebraska, published 1987, page 20:
topics: business
finance
trading
glosses: Making markets in equity securities; dealing in stocks and shares.
Related terms: stockjobber
undamned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Middle English undampned; equivalent to un- + damned.
Senses: glosses: Not damned.
calcioandyrobertsite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From calcio- + andyrobertsite.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A form of andyrobertsite in which calcium is substituted for cadmium.
pare down
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pares down
form: paring down
form: pared down
form: pared down
Senses: examples: text: As companies keep paring down their delivery times – from two days to a day to two hours to an hour – longer stretches of the last mile will have to run through urban territory.
ref: 2019 November 21, Samanth Subramanian, “How our home delivery habit reshaped the world”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To reduce by paring or a similar gradual process.
highbush
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From high + bush.
Senses: glosses: Being, or coming from, a bush of high stature (used in names of certain fruits, such as highbush blueberry and highbush cranberry).
thanatophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more thanatophobic
form: most thanatophobic
Etymology: From thanato- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to, or afflicted with, thanatophobia.
bass bombs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bass bomb
booksy
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more booksy
form: most booksy
Etymology: From books + -y.
Senses: examples: text: "I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy."
ref: 1948, Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine:
text: "Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us...
ref: 1955, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians:
glosses: Pertaining to books.
examples: text: And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.
ref: 1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country:
glosses: Inclined to read books; literate.
arcking
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of arc
arcked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of arc
aurochses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of aurochs
anthemwise
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From anthem + -wise.
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: Alternately.
chalazion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /kəˈleɪzi.ən/
Forms: form: chalazions
form: chalazia
Etymology: From Late Latin chalazion, from Ancient Greek χαλάζιον (khalázion), diminutive of χάλαζα (khálaza, “hail”).
Senses: topics: medicine
ophthalmology
sciences
glosses: A cyst in the eyelid, caused by inflammation of a blocked meibomian gland.
Related terms: chalaza
chalazia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chalazion
overloudly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more overloudly
form: most overloudly
Etymology: From overloud + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an overloud way.
oversoftly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more oversoftly
form: most oversoftly
Etymology: From oversoft + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an oversoft way.
burgerless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From burger + -less.
Senses: examples: text: But if you investigate what else goes into a burgerless fast-food meal, you might not want to eat it. Just take a look at the nutrition information booklets...
ref: 1990 March, Vegetarian Times, number 151:
text: Fast-food outlets haven't been able to grow dinner traffic, and experiments with burgerless menus, table service, and other pricier options haven't succeeded in the tough economic climate of the early nineties.
ref: 1995, Dick Schaaf, Keeping the edge: giving customers the service they demand:
text: Two halves of a burger bun, hard and stale and burgerless, crusty and forgotten.
ref: 2003, Kevin Brooks, Martyn Pig:
text: Cade pushed the burgerless basket toward her and reached for the second burger. "Mind if I order another one?" he asked.
ref: 2003, Ed Howdershelt, An Encounter in Atlanta:
glosses: Without a burger or burgers.
oversoft
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oversoft
form: most oversoft
Etymology: From over- + soft.
Senses: examples: text: We could barely hear her oversoft voice.
glosses: Too soft; too quiet.
Derived terms: oversoftly
overloud
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more overloud
form: most overloud
Etymology: From over- + loud.
Senses: examples: text: The overloud music annoyed the patrons who wanted to talk.
glosses: Too loud.
Derived terms: overloudly
overloudness
nouvelle cuisine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nouvelle cuisines
form: nouvelles cuisines
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French nouvelle cuisine (“new cuisine”).
Senses: examples: text: In case you wonder, no, there is no trace whatsoever of nouvelle cuisine influencing this establishment. It is as impervious to passing fashions as are the strictly protected eighteenth-century buildings which make up most of the Lange Voorhout.
ref: 1988, Alan Davidson, “A Dutch Treat”, in A Kipper With My Tea: Selected Food Essays, London: Macmillan, →ISBN, part one (A Personal Miscellany), page 19:
hypernyms: haute cuisine
glosses: A French approach to cookery, contrasted with "cuisine classique" (classical cuisine), that is typified by its lighter, more delicate dishes and emphasis on presentation.
bacteraemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bacteraemia
viraemias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of viraemia
longleaf pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: longleaf pines
Senses: glosses: An important pine species of the southeastern US, Pinus palustris.
Hypernyms: sense: Pinus palustris
word: southern yellow pine
sense: Pinus palustris
word: SYP
longleaf pines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of longleaf pine
American sweetgum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: American sweetgums
Senses: glosses: A deciduous tree native to warm temperate areas of eastern North America, Liquidambar styraciflua.
Synonyms: sense: Liquidambar styraciflua
word: redgum
family home evening
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: family home evenings
Senses: examples: text: Well-planned family home evenings can be a source of long-lasting joy and influence.
ref: 1970 April 27, Joseph F. Smith et al, Family Home Evening
text: Scriptures, Family Home Evening, and family prayer will strengthen families.
ref: 2009 April 5, Barbara Thompson, “Sister Barbara Thompson, Second Counselor, Relief Society”, in Deseret News, archived from the original on 10 Apr 2009:
glosses: An evening, usually Monday, set apart once a week for family activity such as lessons, games, and prayer.
Synonyms: family night
FHE
southern yellow pine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: southern yellow pines
Senses: glosses: A classification of lumber, widely used in construction in much of the US, from any of several species of genus Pinus grown in the southeastern United States.
glosses: Pinus palustris, longleaf pine.
Synonyms: sense: US lumber from Pinus
word: SYP
Hyponyms: longleaf pine
Pinus palustris
shortleaf pine
Pinus echinata
loblolly pine
Pinus taeda
slash pine
Pinus elliottii
pond pine
Pinus serotina
redgum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: redgums
Etymology: From red + gum.
Senses: glosses: The American sweetgum, Liquidambar styraciflua.
ymts
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Senses: examples: text: ymts there might be legal repercussions […] ?
ref: 2008 August 19, ppint. at pplay, “Re: Resolved: Splitting the Editor Hugo was a mistake”, in rec.arts.sf.written (Usenet):
glosses: Initialism of you mean to say.
figos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of figo
counterattacker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterattackers
Etymology: From counterattack + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who carries out a counterattack.
counterattackers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterattacker
counteragent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counteragents
Etymology: From counter- + agent.
Senses: glosses: An agent having the opposite effect; an antidote.
glosses: A spy working for the opposing side.
counteragents
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counteragent
counterassault
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterassaults
Etymology: From counter- + assault.
Senses: glosses: An assault made in return for another; a counterattack.
counterassaults
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterassault
counterbidder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbidders
Etymology: From counterbid + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who counterbids.
counterbidders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterbidder
counterblast
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterblasts
Etymology: From counter- + blast.
Senses: examples: text: This four-coach train, which included a restaurant car and typewriting facilities, ran between Broad Street [London], Coventry, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, and was put on in February, 1910, as a counterblast to the improved service to Birmingham which the G.W.R. was to introduce with the opening of the shortened route via Bicester.
ref: 1950 August, “Main-Line Trains at Broad Street”, in Railway Magazine, page 505:
glosses: A work that strongly refutes or criticises another.
counterblasts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterblast
counterbluff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbluffs
Etymology: From counter- + bluff.
Senses: glosses: A bluff made in response to an opponent's bluff; a counterploy.
counterbluffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterbluff
counterbuff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterbuffs
Etymology: From counter- + buff.
Senses: glosses: A buff (strike) in return; a counterblow.
counterbuff
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: counterbuffs
form: counterbuffing
form: counterbuffed
form: counterbuffed
Etymology: From counter- + buff.
Senses: examples: text: The giddy Ship betwixt the VVinds and Tides / Forc'd back, and forvvards in a Circle rides, / Stun'd with the diff'rent Blows; then ſhoots amain / Till counterbuff'd ſhe ſtops, and ſleeps again.
ref: 1700, [John] Dryden, “Cymon and Iphigenia, from Boccace”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 553:
glosses: To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
counterbuffs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterbuff
counterthrust
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterthrusts
Etymology: From counter- + thrust.
Senses: glosses: A thrust made against another; a counterblow.
counterthrusts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterthrust
counterfeitly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From counterfeit + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a counterfeit way; falsely.
counterclaimant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterclaimants
Etymology: From counter- + claimant.
Senses: glosses: One who makes a counterclaim.
counterclaimants
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterclaimant
countercyclically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From countercyclical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a countercyclical way.
textura
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: media
publishing
typography
glosses: A calligraphic form of black letter.
undersampled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From under- + sampled.
Senses: examples: text: Field sampling is driven by the model predictions to cover both predicted refugia and unstable (recently colonized) areas, particularly emphasizing previously undersampled areas.
ref: 2009 February 6, Ana Carolina Carnaval et al., “Stability Predicts Genetic Diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest Hotspot”, in Science, volume 323, number 5915, →DOI, pages 785–789:
glosses: Not adequately sampled or surveyed.
countereffort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterefforts
Etymology: From counter- + effort.
Senses: glosses: An effort made in opposition to another.
counterefforts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countereffort
counterplea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counterpleas
Etymology: From counter- + plea.
Senses: topics: law
glosses: A plea made in opposition to another.
Related terms: counterplead
counterpleas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterplea
counterplot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.plɒt/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚ.plɑt/
Forms: form: counterplots
Etymology: From counter- + plot.
Senses: glosses: A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.
Hypernyms: plot
counterplot
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tə.plɒt/
ipa: /ˈkaʊn.tɚ.plɑt/
Forms: form: counterplots
form: counterplotting
form: counterplotted
form: counterplotted
Etymology: From counter- + plot.
Senses: examples: text: Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted.
ref: 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
text: […]for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting him.
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VI, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V:
glosses: To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
Derived terms: counterplotter
counterplots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of counterplot
antidepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more antidepressive
form: most antidepressive
Etymology: From anti- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: Counteracting depression.
antidepressive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: antidepressives
Etymology: From anti- + depressive.
Senses: glosses: An antidepressant.
countermemo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: countermemos
Etymology: From counter- + memo.
Senses: glosses: A memo in reply to, and opposing, another memo.
countermemos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermemo
countermovements
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermovement
KIBS
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: business
glosses: Initialism of knowledge-intensive business services.
glosses: Initialism of Kentucky industrialized building system.
unit cell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unit cells
Senses: examples: text: The first task for a crystallographer is to establish the shape of the unit cell.
ref: 1998, Georgina Ferry, Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life:
topics: chemistry
crystallography
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The smallest repeating structure (parallelepiped) of atoms within a crystal, from which the structure of the complete crystal can be inferred.
Related terms: conventional cell
primitive cell
unit cells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of unit cell
braconids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of braconid
calcaria
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of calcar
in one's pocket
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: in the pocket
Senses: glosses: Subject to one's demands because of bribery.
Related terms: in one's back pocket
incongruousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: incongruousnesses
Etymology: From incongruous + -ness.
Senses: glosses: Incongruity.
incongruousnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of incongruousness
kyBP
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Initialism of kiloyears before present; thousands of years before present.
Related terms: kya
uneating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + eating.
Senses: examples: text: Beatrice went down beiow and lived there, unsleeping and uneating, like Agnes herself, but possessed by a kind of despair, and guilty horror...
ref: 1866, Margaret Oliphant Oliphant, Agnes:
text: Mattie came downstairs, hung uneating over her cakes, her throat too thick with worry about Gardiner Bent to swallow.
ref: 1966, Robie Macauley, Gallery of modern fiction:
glosses: Not eating; that does not eat.
unwhipt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + whipt.
Senses: glosses: Archaic spelling of unwhipped.