cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
bioneer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: bioneers
form: bioneering
form: bioneered
form: bioneered
Etymology: Blend of biological + pioneer or biological + engineer, possibly coined by Kenny Ausubel.
Senses: examples: text: The only thing you can truly say, and I think this is a very safe statement, is if you can't figure out how to bioneer, bioneer with a b, you're not going anywhere.
ref: 2006, John Logan, NASA physician, at the Space Frontier Foundation's "New Space Return to the Moon Conference" (2006): Panel SFF1484 at 1:15:25
glosses: To pioneer biologically.
examples: text: Lost beneath her abundant flesh was a vestigial skeleton which floated disconnected and unmoving in a gelatinous sea. Her bioneered organs were swollen to immense proportions and hundreds of liters of blood pumped through her extensive circulatory system.
ref: 1975, Thomas F. Monteleone, edited by Roger Elwood, Dystopian visions, page 3:
text: Devon scowled. "This is clever bioneering. A muttie that dies before it lives."
ref: 2002, Trent Jamieson, Garry Nurrish, Redsine, 7, →ISBN, page 11:
text: […] an open space that would not have been possible a millennium earlier, before the development of sophisticated bioneering.
ref: 2002, L. E. Modesitt, Jr., The Octagonal Raven, →ISBN, page 90:
text: The cows were bioneered
so urbs could have fresh milk, laced
with graces — vitamins and serums conveyed in compact, pet-like packages. Even their shit is boutiqued. It falls in uniform pellets and smells like Zen.
ref: 2007, Peter Jay Shippy, How to build the ghost in your attic: a book-length poem, page 21:
topics: literature
media
publishing
science-fiction
glosses: To engineer biologically.
broadwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: broadwings
Etymology: From broad + wing.
Senses: glosses: In falconry, a bird of prey of the eagle or buzzard type, having long wings and long flight feathers.
higher consciousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: higher consciousnesses
Etymology: In 19th century philosophy, used by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (died 1831, höheres Bewußtsein), Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (died 1856, высшее сознание; literally, "highest consciousness").
The New Age sense appears in ca. 1970 in the publications of Sri Aurobindo and others
(The psychology of the unfoldment of higher consciousness (title), Swami Omkarananda, Divine Light Zentrum, 1970).
Senses: examples: text: But that the self-consciousness may be the modification of a higher form of being, perhaps of a higher consciousness, and this again of a yet higher, and so on in an infinite regressus
ref: 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 12, in Biographia Literaria:
qualifier: cognitive theory
glosses: a supposed mode of cognition beyond human self-awareness
glosses: the notion of historical progress in the evolution of the human mind
glosses: a concept of mystical transcendence of human consciousness, especially in Hinduism-inspired New Age philosophy, Yoga and psychedelic drugs subculture
sweat of one's brow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈswɛt əv wɒnz ˈbɹaʊ/
ipa: /ˈswɛt əv wʌnz ˈbɹaʊ/
rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology: A reference to Genesis 3:17 and 19 in the Bible (King James Version; spelling modernized): “And unto Adam he [God] said, because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, … In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground: …”, meaning that due to disobedience to God, humans would henceforth have to exert labour for their food, causing their brows or foreheads to perspire.
Senses: examples: text: So anyhow Terry brought the three pints Joe was standing and begob the sight nearly left my eyes when I saw him land out a quid. O, as true as I'm telling you. A goodlooking sovereign. / ― And there's more where that came from, says he. / ― Were you robbing the poorbox, Joe? say I? / ― Sweat of my brow, says Joe. 'Twas the prudent member gave me the wheeze.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 285:
text: Making matters worse, these courts developed a new theory to justify the protection of factual compilations. Known alternatively as "sweat of the brow" or "industrious collection," the underlying notion was that copyright was a reward for the hard work that went into compiling facts.
ref: 1991 March 27, Sandra Day O'Connor writing for the Supreme Court of the United States in Feist Publications, Inc., v. Rural Telephone Service Co.
synonyms: word: sweat of one's brows
word: sweat of one's face
glosses: The effort extended in (often manual) labour, and the value created thereby.
wikipedia: Adam
New International Version
Related terms: sweat of the brow
smithwork
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From smith + work.
Senses: examples: text: Thereon embossed in excellent smithwork was seen the image of a queen of regal port, scion of the house of Brunswick, Victoria […]
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The work done by a smith (blacksmith); metal forgery.
plain as a pikestaff
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: The word "pikestaff" in this expression is a corruption of packstaff (“the staff used to carry a bundle over the shoulder”).
Senses: examples: text: ―Don't you know he's dead? says Joe. / ―Paddy Dignam dead! says Alf. / ―Ay, says Joe. / ―Sure I'm after seeing him not five minutes ago, says Alf, as plain as a pikestaff. / ―Who's dead? says Bob Doran. / ―You saw his ghost then, says Joe, God between us and harm.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
qualifier: simile
glosses: Synonym of plain as day.
synonyms: word: plain as day
pintglass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pintglasses
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
--The memory of the dead, says the citizen taking up his pintglass and glaring at Bloom.
glosses: Alternative form of pint glass.
deathbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deathbells
Senses: examples: text: From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], pages 293–294:
glosses: Alternative form of death bell.
death bell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: death bells
Senses: glosses: passing bell
assumptio
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Latin assumptio. Doublet of assumption.
Senses: glosses: The introduction of a proposition into a speech, especially an extraneous one.
sheepdip
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheepdips
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
So Joe starts telling the citizen about the foot and mouth disease and the cattle traders and taking action in the matter and the citizen sending them all to the rightabout and Bloom coming out with his sheepdip for the scab and a hoose drench for coughing calves and the guaranteed remedy for timber tongue.
glosses: Alternative form of sheep-dip.
shaobing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌʃaʊˈbɪŋ/
ipa: /ˌʃaʊˈbɪŋ/
Forms: form: shaobing
Etymology: From Mandarin 燒餅／烧饼 (shāobǐng).
Senses: glosses: A baked, layered flatbread, sometimes with sesame on top, in northern Chinese cuisine.
byssi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of byssus
edaphologic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -logic.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to edaphology
Synonyms: edaphological
edaphological
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἔδαφος (édaphos, “ground”) + -logical.
Senses: glosses: of or pertaining to edaphology
Synonyms: edaphologic
choros
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: It later softened to suggest a 1940s tea room orchestra in a Cuban-inspired movement and a lilting choros band in the closing Brazilian pastiche.
ref: 2007 December 14, Allan Kozinn, “Leaping Borders, Stylistic and Global”, in New York Times:
glosses: Alternative form of choro.
fightable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈfaɪtəbəl/
rhymes: -aɪtəbəl
Forms: form: more fightable
form: most fightable
Etymology: From fight + -able.
Senses: examples: text: If the Pinkerton press were all, it would be fightable.
ref: 1920, Rose Macaulay, Potterism:
glosses: Able to be fought.
examples: text: The challenge by Congress was to field an affordable, fightable tank on a compressed schedule within a specified design-to-unit-cost threshold.
ref: 1980, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services, Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: Capable in combat.
Derived terms: unfightable
Related terms: fightability
coagitate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: coagitates
form: coagitating
form: coagitated
form: coagitated
Senses: glosses: To move or stir together.
coagitator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coagitators
Etymology: co- + agitator
Senses: glosses: A joint agitator; one who agitates along with another.
unicameralism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unicameral + -ism.
Senses: topics: government
glosses: The principle and practice of having a legislative body consisting of a single chamber.
Coordinate terms: bicameralism
tricameralism
Related terms: unicameral
charpies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of charpie
baselike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more baselike
form: most baselike
Etymology: From base + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Many medicines taste bitter because they contain alkaloid (baselike) compounds. Quinine, caffeine, and the antihistamines are familiar examples.
ref: 1993, John William Hill, Dorothy M. Feigl, Stuart J. Baum, Chemistry and life:
text: The baselike concealer goes on matte, so it helps shadow stay put.
ref: 2008, Ask CosmoGIRL! About Beauty, page 84:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a base (in various senses).
shoads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoad
laughathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of laughathon
sheepdips
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheepdip
deathbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of deathbell
postathon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: postathons
Etymology: From post + -athon.
Senses: examples: ref: 1999, Eldio, “Another Postathon In Progress...”, in soc.penpals (Usenet):
text: My first few days are always postathons because I'm catching up to all the old posts. If I was working at the capacity I was at before, I'd be up to about 150 by now, you know.
ref: 2001, SmUK, “SmUK”, in alt.tv.red-dwarf (Usenet):
text: As if your hair-splitting, shifting-sands postathons are the lonely voice of reason in an uncomprehending universe.
ref: 2004, Hawkster, “Memorial day 2004”, in alt.radio.talk.dr-laura (Usenet):
glosses: A period in which many messages are posted (as to an Internet newsgroup or forum).
postathons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postathon
postbags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of postbag
pelmatogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pelmatograms
Senses: examples: text: In modern times, the only use I've heard for making a pelmatogram is for newborn babies, as a form of identification.
glosses: An imprint of the sole or plantar surface of a foot, such as may be made by pressing an inked foot onto paper or a greased foot in plaster of Paris.
Related terms: pelma
cognominate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: cognominates
form: cognominating
form: cognominated
form: cognominated
Senses: glosses: To name.
ringcraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From ring + -craft.
Senses: examples: text: Episode 12, The Cyclops
Handicapped as he was by lack of poundage, Dublin's pet lamb made up for it by superlative skill in ringcraft.
text: They said that Hatton lacked authority in his jab and his ringcraft but they never cast a shadow over his fighting heart.
ref: 2007, The Independent, James Lawton: Hatton is open about his failings as the door...:
text: 2010, Gareth A Davies, The Telegraph online version (blog); December 14 2010 Amir Khan v Marcos Maidana: Fight of the year ?
Khan moved to 24-1 with this victory – Maidana to 29-2 – and showed the edge in speed and ringcraft. But Maidana, a wall of stone with a granite chin, barely took a backward step.
topics: boxing
government
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Tactical skill and positioning in the boxing ring.
examples: 2008, John O'Groat Journal november 5 2008, Going for gold at Caithness Canine Clubhttp://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/5660/Going_for_gold_at_Caithness_Canine_Club.html
The club gives what support it can when asked by local organisations, hosting dog events and fundraising events. Classes are held in obedience and agility on a weekly basis and ringcraft classes are held intermittently.
qualifier: dog training
glosses: The skills necessary to compete in a dog show.
jigtime
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: Episode 12, The Cyclops
The Englishman, whose right eye was nearly closed, took his corner where he was liberally drenched with water and when the bell went came on gamey and brimful of pluck, confident of knocking out the fistic Eblanite in jigtime.
glosses: A short period of time.
raw_tags: used in the phrase "in jigtime"
downface
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: downfaces
form: downfacing
form: downfaced
form: downfaced
Etymology: From down + face.
Senses: examples: text: He will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can't out-argue them he bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, “Mina Murray’s Journal”, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC, chapter VI, page 71:
text: Didn't I tell you? As true as I'm drinking this porter if he was at his last gasp he'd try to downface you that dying was living.
ref: 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 12: The Cyclops]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 316:
text: Mr Kenmis, this lady at a very great risk to herself has had the courage to downface me in my office and show me that an injustice has been done.
ref: 1960, Denis Johnston, The moon in the yellow river. The dreaming dust., page 87:
text: The fact is that Gladstone exaggerated or minimised the role of fenianism depending on what line of opposing argument he was endeavouring to downface at any particular time.
ref: 1998, R. V. Comerford, The Fenians in Context: Irish Politics and Society, 1848-82, page 152:
glosses: To persist in an assertion in the face of opposition.
examples: text: Shucks, I didn't want fer them furriners to downface me and, sartin sure, didn't want my kinspeople to be shamed afore them.
ref: 1958, June E. Reed, Jest Olga, page 13:
text: For a student to downface and humiliate the Premier in a televised debate, to speak to him as a rather high-handed superior might a junior, as Wuerkaixi did to Li Peng on May 19, was very brave, but also unwise and flatly contradictory to Chinese culture.
ref: 1989, Colin Mackerras, Kevin B. Bucknall, Russell B. Trood, The Beijing tragedy: implications for China and Australia, page 32:
text: My feelings had taken over, elation at having been able to downface the silly woman, but anger at her naked, arrogant anti-Semitism.
ref: 2001, David Marcus, Oughtobiography: leaves from the diary of a hyphenated Jew, page 77:
glosses: To disparage; to cause to lose face.
downface
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: downfaces
Etymology: From down + face.
Senses: examples: text: However, good breeding of dogs with "fill" below the eyes and "downface" together with development of the prick ear, slowly restored the breed to favor.
ref: 1976, John T. Marvin, The book of all terriers, page 120:
text: In my opinion, the prevalence of the downface (or bucket head, as described by Australian breeder- judge Anne Sorraghan) in the breed is a tremendous threat to correct Airedale type.
ref: 2003, AKC Gazette - Volume 120, page 78:
text: Nevertheless, since the downface is so desirable, some little extra credit should be given when it appears to perfection, because it is also one of the harder points to obtain in breeding, and the dog with it should go over the dog that has not got it, even if the second dog is better in body; yet the line of demarcation has to be carefully drawn, for if undue weight be attached to the downface there is the danger that it will be the insertion of the thin end of the wedge, and bodies will become somewhat neglected.
ref: 2013, T. W. Hogarth, The Bull-Terrier:
topics: dogs
lifestyle
pets
glosses: A profile characterized by a downward sloping muzzle.
examples: text: Windows in the downface of the hexagon provide light and a view along with privacy and shade in the east-facing building.
ref: 2003, Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont, North Carolina:
glosses: The face that is oriented downward.
downface
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more downface
form: most downface
Etymology: From down + face.
Senses: examples: text: The salient advantages of the downface method show that the pioneer features in block machines have been cleared away and that the device is able to mold cement into natural aspects and on structural and durable lines
ref: 1904, Cement and Engineering News - Volumes 16-19, page 171:
text: The only downface double pressure block ma- chine made, is the DeArmon-McKinney Double Pressure Machine
ref: 1909, The Cement Era - Volume 7, page 334:
text: The stripper mold box may be removed from the base and the downface block attachment can be added in a short time, it is stated.
ref: 1931, Harvey Whipple, Concrete - Volumes 38-39, page 49:
glosses: Having or on a downward oriented face.
downface
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more downface
form: most downface
Etymology: From down + face.
Senses: examples: text: Also Mr. Warren was working downface. After making his last bar secure he shifted the overhanging coal, keeping himself and others safe.
ref: 1952, Coal; the NCB Magazine - Volume 6, page 30:
text: Sampling stations have been designated intake, maingate, 100 feet downface, and tailgate (fig. 4).
ref: 1974, Bureau of Mines Report of Investigations:
text: Ground water seepage along face and base of cliff below houses built along top with surface runoff scars visible downface of cliff.
ref: 1984, San Diego Coastal State Park System General Plan:
glosses: Further down the face.
examples: text: ABRAHAM (turning ISAAC over facedown): Therefore downface thou shall be laid, Then when I strike thou shall not see.
ref: 1988, Robert Cohen, Eight Plays For Theatre, page 67:
glosses: Facing downwards.
ching chong
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɑŋ/
enpr: chǐngʹ chŏng
Forms: form: ching-chong
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, originally representing characteristic syllables of Chinese, such as Mandarin's qing and chong, Cantonese's cing¹ and cong¹, Hokkien's chheng and chhong, etc., as heard by English-speakers, and reinforced by perceptions of other Asian languages, especially with existing surnames of Chinese origin, such as Ching/Cheng and Chong/Chung.
Senses: examples: text: He came up with three or four kids behind him, chanting 'Ching chong! Ching chong! Don't even know how to talk! Don't even know how to fight!'
ref: 2008, Alice Pung, Growing Up Asian in Australia, page 91:
text: For example, comedian and talk-show host Adam Corolla and NBA superstar Shaquille O'Neal have each previously made ching chong comments in reference to Asians and Asian Americans.
ref: 2009, Kent A. Ono, Vincent N. Pham, Asian Americans and the media, page 104:
text: Growing up in Nebraska, I was “ching-chong’d” in school and asked why my eyes were so small. Later on, popular kids would compel me to do their homework with overtures of friendship, only to ignore me at recess.
ref: 2016 October 21, Crystal Chen, “I ‘Went Back to China’ — and Felt More American than Ever”, in Foreign Policy, archived from the original on 22 Oct 2016:
glosses: Mimicking Chinese, Korean, Thai or other East or Southeast Asian speech.
Related terms: english: mimicking Middle Eastern speech
translation: mimicking Middle Eastern speech
word: durka durka
english: mimicking African and Australian Aboriginal speech
translation: mimicking African and Australian Aboriginal speech
word: ooga booga
word: zhing-zhong
ching chong
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɒŋ/
ipa: /ˈtʃɪŋ ˌtʃɑŋ/
enpr: chǐngʹ chŏng
Forms: form: ching chongs
form: ching-chong
Etymology: Onomatopoeic, originally representing characteristic syllables of Chinese, such as Mandarin's qing and chong, Cantonese's cing¹ and cong¹, Hokkien's chheng and chhong, etc., as heard by English-speakers, and reinforced by perceptions of other Asian languages, especially with existing surnames of Chinese origin, such as Ching/Cheng and Chong/Chung.
Senses: examples: text: “Hey there, Ching Chong, bring the pistol.” In a moment Lee poked the gun butt-first through the door.
ref: 1952, John Steinbeck, East of Eden, New York: Viking Press, →OCLC, page 205:
glosses: A Chinese or other Asian person.
Battenberger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Battenbergers
Etymology: Borrowed from German Battenberger. Equivalent to Battenberg + -er.
Senses: glosses: A resident of inhabitant or Battenberg.
headful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: headfuls
form: headsful
Etymology: From head + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: The headful of stories you gather over a lifetime lets you refold the time and space of your history into meaningful, tellable patterns.
ref: 1994, National Storytelling Association (U.S.), Sheila Dailey, Tales as tools: the power of story in the classroom (page 15)
glosses: An amount of information, emotion, etc. present in the mind.
headful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From head + -ful.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: That fills the head of a phage
headfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headful
headsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of headful
heartful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: heartfuls
form: heartsful
Etymology: From heart + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: How many heartfuls of sorrow shall balance a bushel of wheat?
ref: 1961, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, The souls of black folk: essays and sketches:
glosses: An amount of emotion considered to be present in the heart.
heartful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more heartful
form: most heartful
Etymology: From Middle English hartfull, herte full; equivalent to heart + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: They ſhall mourne foꝛ the with hertfull ſoꝛow, […]
ref: 1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Ezechiel xxvij:[31], folio lxvi, verso, column 2:
text: Bentley is a heartful bee. His heart is filled with love.
ref: 2020, Frank J. Sileo, Bee Heartful: Spread Loving-Kindness:
text: […] a heartful approach, we open ourselves to the transformative power of love, compassion, and genuine connection. In a heartful way, we begin our meditation practice by creating a serene and sacred space, free from distractions.
ref: 2023, Jitender Kumar, Inspirewise Life, page 11:
synonyms: compassionate
cordial
hearty#Adjective
sincere
wholehearted
antonyms: heartless
uncordial
uncompassionate
;
soulless
thoughtless
mindless
unmindful
glosses: Sincere and compassionate.
Derived terms: heartfully
heartfulness
Battenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Battenbergs
Etymology: From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.
Senses: glosses: A surname from German, anglicized in 1917 as Mountbatten.
examples: text: Incidentally, Anthony and I once visited the town of Battenberg, on a sort of pilgrimage. It's a pretty little spot in the Waldeck-Frankenberg state of Hesse, although no one is much interested in talking about cake there.
ref: 2017, Damien Trench, Miles Jupp, Egg and Soldiers: A Childhood Memoir, Hachette, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: Battenberg
alt: Eder
glosses: A small town in Waldeck-Frankenberg district, Hesse, Germany.
synonyms: word: Battenberg
alt: Pfalz
glosses: A town in Bad Dürkheim district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Derived terms: Battenberg cake
Battenberger
Battenberg lace
Mountbatten
Battenberg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Battenbergs
form: battenberg
Etymology: From German Battenberg. The surname derives from the town in Hesse.
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of Battenberg cake.
heartsful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartful
heartfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of heartful
Williamites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Williamite
Battenbergers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Battenberger
voicemailbox
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: voicemailboxes
Etymology: Blend of voicemail + mailbox
Senses: examples: text: In addition to organizing a traditional paper mess, you should also avoid clutter in your email accounts and voicemailboxes.
ref: 2004, Richard Worth, Organization Skills, page 98:
text: To communicate with friends, Kim and I used a Palm Beach answering service at first, and then a voicemailbox.
ref: 2005, Larry J. Kolb, Overworld: The Life and Times of a Reluctant Spy:
glosses: An electronic mailbox that stores voicemail messages.
voicemailboxes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of voicemailbox
conquassate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /kɒŋˈkwæseɪt/
/kɒŋˈkwɒseɪt/
Forms: form: conquassates
form: conquassating
form: conquassated
form: conquassated
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin conquassātus, perfect passive participle of conquassō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).
Senses: examples: text: vomits do violently conquassate the Lungs, and tear the Ulcer wider
ref: 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:
glosses: To shake; to agitate.
Related terms: conquassation
gloom-and-doomer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gloom-and-doomers
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of doom-and-gloomer.
gloom-and-doomers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gloom-and-doomer
Zyrians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Zyrian
filmize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: filmizes
form: filmizing
form: filmized
form: filmized
form: filmise
Etymology: From film + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To adapt (a work) into a film.
glosses: To reprocess (a video recording) so that it appears to have been shot on film.
filmizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of filmize
filmizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of filmize
filmized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of filmize
filmization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: filmizations
Etymology: From film + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: […] an epic filmization of early American history.
ref: 1992, Derek Elley, Variety movie guide, page 79:
glosses: A film adaptation of a work.
Related terms: filmize
picturization
filmizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filmization
interracially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more interracially
form: most interracially
Etymology: From interracial + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Marrying interracially was not always socially acceptable.
glosses: Between races.
interraciality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From interracial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being interracial.
cribrate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cribrate
form: most cribrate
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin crībrātus, participial adjective from crībrō (“to sift”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).
Senses: glosses: Cribriform.
Derived terms: cribrately
intersocially
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From intersocial + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Between societies.
unbridgable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unbridgable
form: most unbridgable
Etymology: From un- + bridgable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unbridgeable.
curatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of curato
redyeings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of redyeing
rewax
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: rewaxes
form: rewaxing
form: rewaxed
form: rewaxed
Etymology: From re- + wax.
Senses: glosses: To wax again.
rewaxes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of rewax
rewaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of rewax
rewaxing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rewaxings
Senses: examples: text: In the traditional workshops of Surakarta, where the best quality batik tulis textiles are still created, low-paid women and girls use melted wax to meticulously hand-draw patterns before subsequent dyeings and rewaxings, […]
ref: 2013, Lyn Parker, Pam Nilan, Adolescents in Contemporary Indonesia, page 52:
glosses: The act of waxing something again.
rewaxed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of rewax
anti-Soviet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anti-Soviet
form: most anti-Soviet
form: antisoviet
Etymology: From anti- + soviet.
Senses: topics: geopolitics
government
politics
glosses: Opposing the Soviet Union.
Midlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midlanders
Etymology: From Midlands + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.
ref: 2011 December 10, Marc Higginson, “Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: A native or inhabitant of the English Midlands.
Midlander
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Midlanders
Etymology: From Midland + -er.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of the city of Midland, Texas, USA.
Midlanders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Midlander
unAmericanized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unAmericanized
form: most unAmericanized
Etymology: From un- + Americanized.
Senses: glosses: Not Americanized.
unamiableness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unamiable + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unamiable.
Synonyms: unamiability
unamiability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- + amiability.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being unamiable.
Synonyms: unamiableness
Kip
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Kips
Etymology: Clipping of Kipling.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Kipling.
branlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more branlike
form: most branlike
Etymology: From bran + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of bran.
Synonyms: furfuraceous
pityroid
uncemented
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + cemented.
Senses: examples: text: The floor was uncemented, and heaps of dust rose in the air anytime a customer walked in.
ref: 2006, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, “Mallam Sile”, in The Prophet of Zongo Street, Harper Collins, pages 149–50:
glosses: That has not been cemented.
examples: 1777, Thomas Paine, "V. To Gen. Sir William Howe" in The American Crisis, The Writings of Thomas Paine, edited by Moncure D. Conway, New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1906, http://www.bartleby.com/184/119.html
Before the present era she was a mere chaos of uncemented colonies, individually exposed to the ravages of the Indians and the invasion of any power that Britain should be at war with.
glosses: Not unified, disunited.
phisick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: phisicks
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of physic.
phisicks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of phisick
deputer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deputers
Etymology: From depute + -er.
Senses: examples: text: [...] such of them as are rich, and of noble lineage; and that the Mob, the real sovereign of France, denounces, robs, and murders, without reason or measure, either the deputers or the deputies, either the innocent or the guilty.
ref: 1793, A Letter to the Rt. Hon. Lord Grenville, […] , page 56:
text: Offenders to be suspended, the deputers from office and benefice, and the persons deputed from their office [...].
ref: 1846, Edward Henry Landon, A Manual of Council of the Holy Catholic Church, page 326:
text: “Here's their signatures.” Lea. “What is this? The maximum allowed a deputy is five deputed votes, and only then when the deputers cannot come themselves, for whatsoever reason.”
ref: 2018, C. P. Boyko, The Children's War, Biblioasis, →ISBN:
glosses: One who deputes (deputizes, appoints someone as a deputy).
deputator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: deputators
Senses: examples: text: All such deputations shall cease and determine at the end of four years , and at any time shall be revocable at the pleasure of the deputator
ref: 1669, John Locke, The Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina:
glosses: One who deputes, or makes a deputation.
enzone
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊn
Forms: form: enzones
form: enzoning
form: enzoned
form: enzoned
Etymology: From en- + zone.
Senses: glosses: To girdle or encircle.
enzoning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of enzone
enzones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of enzone
enzoned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of enzone
Ambers
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Ambrose, from Ancient Greek.
unguilty
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ʌnˈɡɪl.ti/
rhymes: -ɪlti
Forms: form: more unguilty
form: most unguilty
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English ungilti, ungulti, from Old English ungyltiġ; equivalent to un- + guilty.
Senses: examples: text: XLVI "Tell me what will you do? why would you stain Your noble hands in our unguilty blood?
ref: 1544-1595, Edward Fairfax (1560-1635), Jerusalem Delivered:
text: And further I imagined and sayd, Alasse what Judge is he that is so gentle or benigne, that will thinke that I am unguilty of the slaughter and murther of these three men.
ref: 1566, William Adlington, The Golden Asse:
synonyms: guiltless
innocent
glosses: Not guilty.
dehydrase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: dēhīʹdrāz
enpr: dēhīʹdrās
ipa: /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪz/
ipa: /diːˈhaɪdɹeɪs/
Forms: form: dehydrases
Etymology: Formed as de- + hydr- + -ase, by analogy with the German Dehydrase.
Senses: examples: text: It is shown by means of a typical dehydrase, Schardinger’s milk enzyme, that oxidase, reductase and mutase are 1 and the same enzyme.
ref: 1914, Chemical Abstracts, volume 8, page 3,051:
text: Citric acid dehydrase is present in the liver and in vegetable material acting on citric acid.
ref: 1939, Sir Thomas Edward Thorpe, A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry [4th ed.], volume 3, page 553, column 2
text: Freudenberg also postulates a second process whereby catechins in the presence of dehydrases undergo condensation by dehydrogenation.
ref: 1959, N. Campbell [contrib.] and Ernest Harry Rodd [ed.], Chemistry of Carbon Compounds, volume 4B, chapter 8, page 942
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dehydrogenase
examples: text: The usual English term ‘dehydrase’ for an enzyme dehydrating a substrate was changed to dehydratase, because Dehydrase in German…means a dehydrogenating enzyme rather than an enzyme splitting off water.
ref: 1953, Advances in Enzymology, volume 14, page 243:
text: The enzymic dehydration of tartaric acid to oxaloacetic acid, first established…for the d-isomer, occurs also with the meso- and l-isomers, and the attack on all three tartaric acids by bacteria of the genus Pseudomonas appears to occur principally by means of stereospecific dehydrases.
ref: 1957, Journal of General Microbiology, volume 16, page 480:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: dehydratase
dehydrases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dehydrase
agarita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agaritas
form: agarito
Etymology: From American Spanish agarita, algarita et al., variants of agrito (“barberry”), probably from agrio (“sour”).
Senses: examples: text: A cow would find no joy in scampering up craggy hills to nibble nothing more than an agarita bush.
ref: 2007 June 17, Paula Disbrowe, “The Year of the Goat”, in New York Times:
text: An agarito was cutting into me.
ref: 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster, published 2014, page 28:
glosses: A rounded evergreen barberry, Mahonia trifoliolata, native to the United States and Mexico, or its berry.
agaritas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of agarita
ballerinos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ballerino
Audie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: Possibly from a French surname.
Senses: examples: text: The Haney Lees, the Snow Warrens, and the Jake Bowens always referred to him by his middle name. He had asked the Haney Lees to call him "Leon", as he thought that "Audie sounded like a girl's name".
ref: 1975 Harold B. Simpson, Audie Murphy, American Soldier, Hill Jr. College Press, page 22
glosses: A male given name.
Audie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Audrey.
Senses: examples: text: I am joined in congratulating the Murillo's by their own children, Lynn "Nay" Valbuena, Audrey "Audie" Martinez, and George "Boy" Murillo, - - -
ref: 2002 (U.S.) Congressional Record, V.148, Pt.3, March 11, 2002 to April 10, 2002, page 3877
glosses: A diminutive of the female given name Audrey.
blingier
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: comparative form of blingy: more blingy
blingiest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of blingy: most blingy
prime ministership
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prime ministerships
form: primeministership
Etymology: From prime minister + -ship.
Senses: examples: text: This turning point in the evolution of the prime ministership came with the death of Anne in 1714 and the accession of George I.
glosses: The office of a premier or prime minister.
Synonyms: premiership
flirters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flirter
leatherbound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leather-bound
Etymology: From leather + bound.
Senses: examples: text: Then I got to the beasts — the foumart, the cur fox, the baboon, the Chillingham bull — and suddenly, gazing at a handsome illustration of a lion, I remembered, as a child, pulling down an impossibly heavy old leatherbound book of fables, full of magical drawings of wolves and crows and bears, intense in their detail while managing to leave much to the imagination.
ref: 2007 June 17, Dominique Browning, “Into the Wood”, in New York Times:
glosses: Bound in leather.
Related terms: english: bound in animal hide
translation: bound in animal hide
word: hidebound
dispensator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dispensators
Etymology: From Latin dispēnsātor.
Senses: examples: text: dispensators of this her royal favour towards her people
ref: c. 1598, Francis Bacon, An Account of […] Compositions for Alienations:
coordinate_terms: dispensatrix
glosses: A distributor; a person who dispenses.
micropurchase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropurchases
Etymology: From micro- + purchase.
Senses: examples: text: These changes have helped to drive the use of payment cards for even so-called micropurchases, which are those less than $5.
ref: 2007 June 17, Elizabeth Olson, “Who Needs Pocket Change When You’ve Got Plastic?”, in New York Times:
glosses: A purchase for a very small amount of money.
micropurchases
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of micropurchase
noncouple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: noncouples
Etymology: From non- + couple.
Senses: examples: text: Strictly for entertainment value, any of these couples, or even noncouples, should be preferable to George and Laura and Barney.
ref: 2007 June 17, James Traub, “First-Family Values”, in New York Times:
glosses: A person or people other than a romantic couple.
noncouples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noncouple
noncoupled
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + coupled.
Senses: glosses: Not coupled.
nonmarriage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonmarriages
Etymology: From non- + marriage.
Senses: glosses: Failure to marry.
glosses: A relationship that is not a marriage.
nonmarriages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nonmarriage
nonshoe
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + shoe.
Senses: examples: text: Griffin decided to do what other large shoe companies had been doing for years, that is, to diversify into nonshoe areas.
ref: 1998, International directory of company histories, Volume 20, page 88:
text: He says that “only a nonshoe guy” like Mr. Klein, who was watching the customization trend not just in computers but also across things like cars (Toyota’s Scion) and television (via TiVo), would have thought to do it.
ref: 2007 June 17, Michael Fitzgerald, “The Shoe Changes, but the Fit Doesn’t. He Can Explain.”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not of or pertaining to shoes.
pergolalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pergolalike
form: most pergolalike
Etymology: From pergola + -like.
Senses: examples: text: There are solar panels built into the roof, and below the roof on the south-facing side of the house is a pergolalike ledge that is covered with a thin film that helps improve the solar panels’ output on cloudy days.
ref: 2007 June 17, Valerie Cotsalas, “The Green Home of Their Dreams”, in New York Times:
glosses: Resembling a pergola.
Chuckie
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Chuck + -ie.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Chuck.
Chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Forms: form: Chuckie
Etymology: From Chuck + -y.
Senses: glosses: A diminutive of the male given name Chuck, related to Charles.
Chucky
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈt͡ʃʌki/
rhymes: -ʌki
Etymology: From the name of the main villain in the films.
Senses: examples: text: The first time I watched Chucky, I had nightmares for weeks.
glosses: Child's Play (the 1988 film)
examples: text: I have seen the first three Chucky movies.
glosses: Child's Play (the film series)
pornophilia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From porno- + -philia.
Senses: examples: text: He frequently preaches the virtues of honesty and truthfulness, yet there is now little doubt that he lied repeatedly during his confirmation hearings — not only about his pornophilia and bawdy humor but, more important, about his legal views and familiarity with cases like Roe v. Wade
ref: 2007 June 17, Orlando Patterson, “Thomas Agonistes”, in New York Times:
text: Brouk posited that pornophilia could thus be a weapon for the oppressed, and claimed that "those who succumb to pornophilia are of a more revolutionary bent than those mired in the prejudices of the moribund bourgeoisie."
ref: 2008, Karla Tonine Huebner, Eroticism, identity, and cultural context, page 216:
glosses: A love of pornography.
possest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of possess
possesst
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: possess + -t
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of possess
reporterly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more reporterly
form: most reporterly
Etymology: From reporter + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Reading Mr. Shenker’s articles was like panning for gold: just beneath their calm, reporterly surface were glimmering nuggets that produced small, sweet shocks whenever they came to light.
ref: 2007 June 17, Margalit Fox, “Israel Shenker, 82, a Reporter With the Instincts of a Scholar, Dies”, in New York Times:
glosses: Characteristic of a reporter.
semicommercial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From semi- + commercial.
Senses: examples: text: A Havemeyer Street apartment was near popular bars, but it was in a walk-up; An apartment on South First Street was still being renovated; A Maujer Street apartment was spacious, though also on a semicommercial block; Chris Roan, left, and Justin Fluck settle into their Brooklyn flat after a long search.
ref: 2007 June 17, Joyce Cohen, “Roommates Who Almost Weren’t”, in New York Times:
glosses: Partly commercial; having some aspects that are commercial and some that are not.
storybookish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more storybookish
form: most storybookish
Etymology: From storybook + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: The illustrations, by Michael Foreman, are a little pallid and storybookish, with at least one — a depiction of Grendel’s mother as a grass-skirted fashion disaster with scaly green breasts — that is apt to elicit snickers rather than shudders.
ref: 2007 June 17, Charles Mcgrath, “Children’s Books”, in New York Times:
glosses: Reminiscent of a storybook.
answerably
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more answerably
form: most answerably
Etymology: From answerable + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In suitable proportion; proportionately.
examples: text: Many of the ships, as they could see by the clear moonshine, had weighed anchor, and, profiting by the calm sky, proceeded for more distant parts; answerably to this, the rude alehouses along the beach (although in defiance of the curfew law, they still shone with fire and candle) were no longer thronged with customers, and no longer echoed to the chorus of sea-songs.
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Black Arrow:
glosses: In a corresponding manner; correspondingly.
underheard
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more underheard
form: most underheard
Etymology: From under- + heard.
Senses: examples: text: One was that waitresses, among the underheard icons of America, would have many important things to say about their work.
ref: 2007 June 17, Alison Owings, “Here to Take Your Order (and Biting Their Tongues)”, in New York Times:
glosses: Having an insufficiently large listening audience; neglected or overlooked as a speaker or musician.
uncollaborative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uncollaborative
form: most uncollaborative
Etymology: From un- + collaborative.
Senses: examples: text: Reagan thought Kemp was particularly uncollaborative and unhelpful.
ref: 2007 June 17, Kevin Phillips, “Reagan on Reagan”, in New York Times:
glosses: Not collaborative.