cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
biosensor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biosensors
Etymology: From bio- + sensor.
Senses: examples: text: Since the early 1980s, considerable research effort has been devoted to the development of fiber optic (FO) biosensors because of their potential sensitivity, detection speed, and adaptability to a wide variety of assay conditions.
ref: 2005, Cecil Leeburn Wilson et al., chapter 5, in Comprehensive analytical chemistry, →ISBN, page 216:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any device that detects, records or transmits physiological data, especially data concerning the presence of chemical compounds (analytes)
examples: text: Today's biosensor market is dominated by glucose biosensors, mass-produced enzyme-electrodes for the rapid self-diagnosis of blood glucose levels by diabetes sufferers.
ref: 2005, José-Luis Barredo, chapter 2, in Microbial enzymes and biotransformations, →ISBN, page 29:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A device that uses biological material (e.g. microorganisms, oligonucleotides, enzymes, antibodies) to detect other biological molecules or chemicals.
Derived terms: microbiosensor
nanobiosensor
Related terms: biosensoric
lyingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more lyingly
form: most lyingly
Etymology: From lying + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: And now is there a third derivative
From Mr. Colburn's composite, which late
The Arch-Pirate Galignani hath prefixed,
A spurious portrait to a faithless life,
And bearing lyingly the libelled name
Of Lawrence, impudently there insculpt.
ref: 1828, Robert Southey, Epistle to Allan Cunningham:
text: He didn't even save himself by lyingly claiming, as he several times did, that Osama bin Laden was hiding in Bosnia.
ref: 2001 September 24, Christopher Hitchens, “Of Sin, the Left, and Islamic Fascism”, in The Nation:
glosses: In a lying manner; deceptively, mendaciously.
biostrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: biostromes
Etymology: bio- (“life”) + Latin stroma (“coverlet”), from Ancient Greek στρῶμα (strôma, “bed, mattress”).
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A horizontally bedded stratum of fossilized remains of sedentary organisms
biotelemetry
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bio- + telemetry.
Senses: topics: biology
business
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The use of telemetry to monitor, measure and record physiological data of an organism
jelick
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdʒɛlɪk/
ipa: /ˈjɛlɪk/
rhymes: -ɛlɪk
Forms: form: jelicks
form: yelek
Etymology: From Ottoman Turkish یلك (yelek). Doublet of gilet.
Senses: examples: text: She wore two jelicks—one was of pale yellow; / Of azure, pink, and white was her chemise— / 'Neath which her breast heaved like a little billow [...].
ref: 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.70:
glosses: The bodice of women or vest of men worn in the Ottoman Empire.
biotite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbaɪəˌtaɪt/
Forms: form: biotites
Etymology: From Biot + -ite, named by J.F.L. Hausmann in 1847 in honour of the French physicist Jean-Baptiste Biot, who, in 1816, researched the optical properties of mica, discovering many unique properties.
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A dark brown mica; it is a mixed aluminosilicate and fluoride of potassium, magnesium and iron.
wikipedia: Jean-Baptiste Biot
Johann Friedrich Ludwig Hausmann
Derived terms: biopyribole
biotitic
biotitize
hydrobiotite
titanium nitride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: titanium nitrides
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A very hard, golden-coloured ceramic material, TiN; used in refractories, alloys, cermets, and semiconductors
vanadium-51
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The only stable isotope of vanadium, ⁵¹₂₃V, having twenty-three protons and twenty-eight neutrons
labrys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlæ.brɪs/
/ˈleɪ̯.brɪs/
Forms: form: labryes
form: labryses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek λάβρυς (lábrus, “axe”), from Lydian 𐤩𐤠𐤡𐤭𐤧𐤳 (lapryš).
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: A double-headed axe in Minoan mythology.
examples: text: She said more Arts Council staff were expressing support by wearing labyrises ^([sic]) and pink triangles.
ref: 1988 April 2, Elizabeth Pincus, “NY Post gay-baits Arts Council”, in Gay Community News, page 5:
glosses: A symbol of a double-headed axe used to represent lesbian pride.
Synonyms: sense: double-headed axe
word: bipennis
sense: double-headed axe
word: twibill
labryses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of labrys
neon tetras
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neon tetra
bread soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Synonym of sodium bicarbonate.
synonyms: word: sodium bicarbonate
Related terms: soda bread
soda water
bicarb soda
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Sodium bicarbonate.
Synonyms: soda bicarb
ferrovanadium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ferrovanadiums
Etymology: From ferro- + vanadium.
Senses: glosses: An alloy of iron and up to 55% vanadium; used in the manufacture of specialist steel
vanadian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vanadium + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, or containing vanadium.
topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Containing pentavalent vanadium.
Derived terms: vanadian diopside
vanadian emerald
vanadian garnet
vanadian hematite
vanadian magnetite
vanadian muscovite
vanadian silicate
vanadian sphene
vanadian steel
vanadian zoisite
Related terms: vanadoan
vanadatian
vanadylian
vanadiate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadiates
Senses: glosses: vanadate
vanadic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vanadium + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to vanadium, especially to vanadium with an oxidation number of 5.
Derived terms: vanadic acid
pacifies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pacify
packaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having been placed in a package.
Hyponyms: prepackaged
Derived terms: nonpackaged
packaged forces
packaged goods
packaged petroleum product
pre-packaged
pre-packaged bankruptcy
unpackaged
packaged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of package
vanadinite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadinites
Senses: topics: chemistry
geography
geology
mineralogy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A reddish mineral, a mixed chloride and vanadate of lead with the chemical formula Pb₅(VO₄)₃Cl, that is commercial source of vanadium.
vanadious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of vanadous.
vanadous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From vanadium + -ous.
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to or containing vanadium, especially in an oxidation number of 4.
Derived terms: vanadous acid
padded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædɪd/
rhymes: -ædɪd
Forms: form: more padded
form: most padded
Senses: glosses: Having padding.
glosses: Having padding.
Wearing a diaper; diapered.
Synonyms: english: of armour
translation: of armour
word: gamboised
Derived terms: nonpadded
padded bloc
padded cell
padded envelope
padded mailer
paddedness
padded room
underpadded
unpadded
well-padded
padded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpædɪd/
rhymes: -ædɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pad
vanadite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vanadites
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of vanadous acid
paddlers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddler
paddlewheels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paddlewheel
proscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of proscribe
proscribed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more proscribed
form: most proscribed
Senses: glosses: Forbidden or prohibited.
paintballs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paintball
paintballs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of paintball
painstakingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpeɪnˌsteɪkɪŋli/
Forms: form: more painstakingly
form: most painstakingly
Etymology: From painstaking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: I wish he had had a dog, just so we could see how painstakingly he would have divided that dog among the family, in his careful business way.
ref: 1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 314:
glosses: In a painstaking manner; very slowly and carefully.
firms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of firm
topics: architecture
glosses: The principal rafters of a roof, especially a pair of rafters taken together.
firms
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of firm
dinars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dinar
establishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of establish
vanadous acid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The acid H₂VO₃, known only in solution
Related terms: vanadite
palatalised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: palatalized
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of palatalized.
palatalised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: palatalized
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of palatalise
self-regarding
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From self- + regarding.
Senses: examples: text: [...] all adults seemed to her subjects for laughter, so self-regarding, so pretentious.
ref: 2001, Joyce Carol Oates, Middle Age : A Romance, Fourth Estate, page 171:
glosses: considering oneself and one's own interests before others
beetle-browed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more beetle-browed
form: most beetle-browed
Senses: examples: text: Calling this beetle-browed disdainful young person, hair hanging in her face, jaws chewing pecan pie with mechanical precision, honey!
ref: 2001, “Middle Age: A Romance” by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 173)
glosses: Making an unfriendly, sullen, or scowling face.
qualifier: especially American English
glosses: Having thick, large, or projecting eyebrows.
Related terms: beetle brow
tors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tor
palliating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of palliate
pug-nosed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pug-nosed
form: most pug-nosed
Senses: glosses: Having a pug nose; with a short nose which is flattened and whose tip is turned up.
Related terms: pug
pug nose
pampered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pampered
form: most pampered
Senses: glosses: Treated with excessive attention and care; spoiled or overindulged.
Derived terms: pamperedly
pamperedness
unpampered
pampered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pamper
pug nose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pug noses
form: pugnose
Senses: glosses: A short nose which is flattened and whose tip is turned up.
Related terms: pug
pug-nosed
button nose
snub nose
panicky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpænɪki/
rhymes: -ænɪki
rhymes: -ænɪːki
Forms: form: more panicky
form: most panicky
Etymology: From panic + -y.
Senses: examples: text: At six feet the panicky thought rushed into my mind, What if he will not run? Why, then I shall club him, came the answer. In my fear I had forgotten that I was there to get the bull instead of to make him run. And just then he gave a snort and a snarl and rushed at me.
ref: 1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC:
text: Banning the king from Cop27 looks clumsy. News that Sunak could make a U-turn dash to Egypt having learned that Johnson may go looks panicky.
ref: 2022 November 1, Polly Toynbee, “Rishi Sunak’s only been in office for a few days – and the errors are already piling up”, in The Guardian:
glosses: In a state of panic.
Derived terms: panickily
panickiness
unpanicky
panned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /pænd/
rhymes: -ænd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pan
paramedics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramedic
parading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /pəˈɹeɪdɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of parade
parading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /pəˈɹeɪdɪŋ/
Forms: form: paradings
Senses: examples: text: There was no more venomously hated man in the day than Cornbury, who answered protests against monopolies and restricted roads with paradings in women's apparel on the ramparts of the fort he called home.
ref: 1936, Henry Charlton Beck, Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey:
glosses: The act of one who parades.
paramilitaries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paramilitary
paraphrased
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of paraphrase
yan
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæn/
ipa: /jɛn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: Along with ane and yen, a Cumbrian and Northumbrian form of one, from the Old English ān. An example is "yan, twee, tree, fower" for "one, two, three, four".
Senses: glosses: One.
Derived terms: yance
yence
yan
Language: English
Part of speech: num
Pronunciation: ipa: /jæn/
ipa: /jɛn/
rhymes: -æn
rhymes: -ɛn
Etymology: From Brythonic numerals, with influence from Old English ān or modern Northern English yan or Northern English yen.
Senses: head_nr: 1
glosses: One in Cumbrian sheep counting rhyme.
Derived terms: yan-a-bumfit
yan-a-dick
avulsive cutoff
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: avulsive cutoffs
Senses: glosses: The event or process by which an avulsion of a river changes land access and, in some jurisdictions and situations, land ownership.
parenthetically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: /ˈpæɹənˌθɛtɪkli/
Forms: form: more parenthetically
form: most parenthetically
Etymology: From parenthetical + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: «Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I’ll return to the original subject, agreed?»
ref: 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:
glosses: As an aside, incidentally.
glosses: Using parentheses.
Synonyms: word: apropos
word: beside the point
word: btdubs
word: by the by
word: by the way
word: en passant
word: impertinently
word: in passing
word: incidentally
word: irrelevantly
word: parenthetically
Derived terms: interparenthetically
participates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of participate
participator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /pɑɹˈtɪsəˌpeɪtɚ/
ipa: /pɚ-/
Forms: form: participators
Senses: glosses: one who participates, a participant
Derived terms: nonparticipator
participatress
participators
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of participator
ductile iron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ductile irons
Senses: glosses: A form of cast iron with nodular graphite inclusions, having many industrial applications.
Synonyms: nodular iron
partitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Having partitions.
Derived terms: nonpartitioned
semipartitioned
unpartitioned
partitioned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of partition
partitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of partition
partitioning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partitionings
Senses: glosses: The act or result of dividing into partitions; an arrangement of partitions.
Derived terms: autopartitioning
equipartitioning
partitioning cellular automaton
prepartitioning
partitions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of partition
partitions
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of partition
partying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: Early Sunday morning in Glasgow is often a sedate affair, with the city deserted due to the effects of 'liquermortis' after a hard night's partying.
ref: 2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 76:
glosses: present participle and gerund of party
partying
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: partyings
Senses: examples: text: one continuous round of convivial partyings
ref: 1782, Mirror's Image: Advice to the Officers of the British Army, Francis Grose:
glosses: The practice of attending social entertainment gatherings.
Chinese fire drills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Chinese fire drill
propensities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Among the many universal propensities in human nature, the love of sight-seeing is about as universal as any.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVI, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 233:
glosses: plural of propensity
registries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of registry
punctures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of puncture
punctures
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of puncture
forearms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of forearm
vilifier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: vilifiers
Etymology: From vilify + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who vilifies
caved
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /keɪvd/
rhymes: -eɪvd
Senses: glosses: past participle of cave
airsicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of airsickness
sicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sickness
illnesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɪl.nəsɪz/
Senses: glosses: plural of illness
bluejacked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of bluejack
nummi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nummus
dilettant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dilettants
Senses: examples: text: Though few art lovers can be connoisseurs, many are dilettants.
ref: 1854, Frederick William Fairholt, Dictionary of Terms in Art:
glosses: Alternative form of dilettante.
maukas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mauka
avulsive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more avulsive
form: most avulsive
Senses: examples: text: Martin Luther King, by the early sixties one of the most widely recognizable living Americans of African descent, serves in this figure to represent by synecdoche the African-American population in general, and, in particular, those African-Americans engaged in the avulsive, and often fatal, struggle to claim their civil rights.
ref: 1994, Lee Edelman, Homographesis: essays in gay literary and cultural theory, New York & London: Routledge, page 43:
glosses: Of or pertaining to an avulsion.
Derived terms: avulsive cutoff
interest rate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: interest rates
Senses: topics: business
finance
synonyms: cost of money
rate of interest
glosses: The percentage of an amount of money charged for its use per some period of time (often a year).
Derived terms: key interest rate
policy interest rate
seasicknesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of seasickness
casal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkeɪsəl/
Etymology: From case + -al.
Senses: examples: text: a casal ending
text: casal affix
text: casal terminatiion
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Of or relating to a case.
polar ice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Permanent sea ice found in the Arctic and Antarctic
Synonyms: polar-cap ice
Coordinate terms: english: loosely synonymous
translation: loosely synonymous
word: ice cap
Primus stove
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Primus stoves
Senses: glosses: A type of portable stove that uses pressurized kerosene as fuel, used by campers and the like.
glosses: Any portable stove marketed under the Primus trademark that may use also other fuels, particularly butane or propane gas ("camping gas").
homeomorphism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homeomorphisms
form: homoeomorphism
form: homœomorphism
Etymology: From homeo- + -morphism.
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
topology
glosses: a continuous bijection from one topological space to another, with continuous inverse.
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: a similarity in the crystal structure of unrelated compounds
Hypernyms: topics: topology
mathematics
sciences
word: equivalence relation
Derived terms: autohomeomorphism
self-homeomorphism
Related terms: diffeomorphism
business analyst
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: business analysts
Senses: topics: business
synonyms: word: BA
word: systems analyst
qualifier: operations
glosses: A person who analyzes the operations of an organization in order to develop a solution to its problems.
sock hop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sock hops
form: sockhop
form: sock-hop
Etymology: Because dancers were required to remove their shoes to protect the varnished floor of the gymnasium.
Senses: examples: text: But unlike any other nostalgia film, American Graffiti has been able to supply the details and step quickly beyond them—after the opening scenes, they're just assumed pieces of background. The words are there […] and the staging of a sock hop in the gym is virtually flawless, but they are part of a total experience, not the experience itself.
ref: 1973 October, Joseph Kanon, “On the Strip”, in The Atlantic:
text: I had no idea then how boys wooed girls. I guessed it was a matter of joshing and shared nothings and hours of scuffing through autumn leaves and even more hours of clenches during the slow numbers at the sock hop.
ref: 2005 June 13, Edmund White, “My Women”, in New Yorker:
text: “I Knew You Were Trouble,” one of the year’s great pop songs, begins like a sock-hop anthem, with jaunty guitars.
ref: 2012 October 24, Jon Caramanica, “No More Kid Stuff for Taylor Swift”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: In the 1950s, informal sponsored dance at American high schools, typically held on the grounds of the high school itself in the gymnasium or cafeteria.
sell-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sell-offs
form: selloff
Etymology: Deverbal from sell off.
Senses: coordinate_terms: deacquisition#Noun
;
disinvestment
;
divestment
glosses: The large-scale selling of goods or financial assets (e.g., real estate, equipment, stocks, bonds, subsidiaries).
Related terms: selldown
sellout
buyout
buy the dip
profit taking
shutout
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: shutouts
Etymology: Deverbal from shut out.
Senses: examples: text: A shutout is a reverse strike: the union complained and the workers wanted to work, but management was opposed.
glosses: Closing and forbidding entry, as a lockout in which management prevents works from working.
examples: text: The score wasn't just lopsided: it was a shutout.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A game that ends with the losing side being held scoreless.
Synonyms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: zilch
Derived terms: topics: sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: SO
Related terms: topics: soccer
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
english: non-US/non-Canadian
translation: non-US/non-Canadian
word: clean sheet
word: shutdown
word: shutoff
shutouts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shutout
showpiece
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showpieces
Etymology: From show + piece.
Senses: examples: text: Drogba's goal early in the second half - his fourth in this Wembley showpiece - proved decisive as the remarkable turnaround in Chelsea's fortunes under interim manager Roberto di Matteo was rewarded with silverware.
ref: 2012 May 5, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Something that exhibits exceptional quality, something worth being shown.
glosses: Something made specifically to be displayed.
showpieces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showpiece
showplace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showplaces
Etymology: From show + place.
Senses: glosses: A building or estate shown for its beauty or noteworthiness.
glosses: A location kept for display only.
hyperlocalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyperlocal + -ism.
Senses: examples: text: The advantage of this suburban cable television news is what has been called its “hyperlocalism” — the coverage of the small-scale events of suburban life that were once the province of only community newspapers.
ref: 1991, Phyllis C. Kaniss, Making Local News:
glosses: news coverage of very local events, especially to the exclusion of more important world events
sociocracy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌsoʊsiˈɒkɹəsi/
/ˌsoʊʃiˈɒkɹəsi/
Forms: form: sociocracies
Etymology: 1855–1860: socio- + -cracy
Senses: glosses: A form of government in which the needs of everyone in a society are met.
Derived terms: sociocrat
sociocratic
equilibrium price
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: equilibrium prices
Senses: topics: economics
sciences
glosses: The price of a commodity at which the quantity that buyers wish to buy equals the quantity that sellers wish to sell.
organum triplum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: organa tripla
Etymology: Latin "triple organum".
Senses: glosses: a type of organum with three voices, pioneered by medieval composer Pérotin
Related terms: organum quadruplum
squadra
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: squadras
Etymology: Borrowed from Italian squadra.
Doublet of squad and square.
Senses: glosses: A Fascist military cadre
raw_tags: in Italy
sheep's eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sheep's eyes
Etymology: From genitive of sheep + eye.
Senses: examples: text: those of an amorous roguish look derive their title even from the sheep, and we say such a one has a sheep's eye, not so much to denote the innocence as the simple slyness of the cast.
ref: 1864, Joseph Addison, The Spectator, number 250:
text: He had ever a sheep's eye for thee, and, if I remember rightly, thou wast sweet upon him once.
ref: 1875, Anthony Trollope, Never, never, -- Never, never: A Condensed Novel in Three Parts, after the Manner of Bret Harte:
text: No less an eminence than former President Taft himself (who had long cast a sheep's eye on the high court) privately called the nomination “one of the deepest wounds that I have ever had as an American and a lover of the Constitution and a believer in progressive conservatism.”
ref: 2013, A Scott Berg, Wilson, Berkley, published 2014, page 400:
glosses: A secretive, pining look, or humble doting glance.
Synonyms: cow eyes
Related terms: sheepish
sheep's eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sheep's eye
one-size-fits-all
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: synonyms: one-size-fits-most
glosses: Designed to be worn with comfort by people with a wide range of sizes.
raw_tags: of a garment
examples: text: Long before popular music evolved its many genres and subgenres, the industry was driven by a simple one-size-fits-all philosophy uncomplicated by impassioned debates over the origins of trip hop or the difference between deatchore and screamo.
ref: 2012, Christoper Zara, Tortured Artists: From Picasso and Monroe to Warhol and Winehouse, the Twisted Secrets of the World's Most Creative Minds, part 1, chapter 2, 51:
text: What about overcrowding?
[…] DfT admits that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and that individual operators are best placed to implement locally based safety plans.
ref: 2020 May 20, “Social distancing: Questions and answers”, in RAIL, page 9:
text: As with other tourist lines, actual peak demand is from mid-morning to late afternoon - 'off peak' in conventional fares jargon. This can (and does) result in overcrowding at off-peak times and near empty trains at 'peak' hours. National one-size-fits-all simply does not apply on the S&C.
ref: 2021 October 20, Mark Rand, “S&C: a line fit for tourists... and everyone?”, in RAIL, number 942, page 42:
glosses: Suitable for a wide range of tastes, opinions, situations, etc.
Related terms: cookie-cutter
silver bullet
poison ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: poison ivies
Senses: glosses: Any of three ivy-like species of Toxicodendron, known for their ability to cause an itching rash and blistering for most people, through urushiol, an oil that is a skin irritant.
glosses: Any species of Toxicodendron that can cause a rash, including poison oak and poison sumac.
Hyponyms: sense: ivy-like plant producing skin irritant
english: Asian poison ivy
translation: Asian poison ivy
word: Toxicodendron orientale
sense: ivy-like plant producing skin irritant
english: eastern poison ivy
translation: eastern poison ivy
word: Toxicodendron radicans
sense: ivy-like plant producing skin irritant
english: western poison ivy
translation: western poison ivy
word: Toxicodendron rydbergii
Related terms: leaves of three, let it be
poison oak
poison sumac
poison-ivy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From poison + ivy.
Senses: glosses: A woody vine plant in the family Anacardiaceae (Toxicodendron radicans or Rhus toxicodendron), well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant that causes an itching rash for most people.
toxicodendron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toxicodendrons
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: examples: text: Those from the various toxicodendrons are similar or identical to one another, irrespective of species, and are referred to as urushiol or laccol, depending on chemical structure.
ref: 2004, Donald G. Crosby, The Poisoned Weed: Plants Toxic to Skin, page 22:
glosses: Any of the plants in the genus Toxicodendron, including poison ivy, poison oak, etc.
whishes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whish
whishes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whish
whishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whish
whished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: wĭsht
ipa: /wɪʃt/
enpr: hwĭsht
ipa: /ʍɪʃt/
rhymes: -ɪʃt
homophone: wished (wine–whine merger)
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whish
farouche
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /fəˈɹuːʃ/
rhymes: -uːʃ
Forms: form: more farouche
form: most farouche
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from French farouche.
Senses: glosses: Sullen or recalcitrant.
otos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oto
duplicated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of duplicate
to-do
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: to-dos
form: todo
Etymology: From to + do, formed on analogy with ado. Compare affair.
Senses: examples: text: I was embarrassed that they made such a big to-do out of my birthday.
text: Last year, Russell Brand caused another to-do. This time he wasn’t playing nasty jokes on Andrew Sachs, or boasting about the millions of people he’d slept with; he wasn’t calling George Bush a “retard”, or giving a Nazi salute at the GQ awards, or turning up to work dressed as Osama bin Laden […] No, this time he simply made a political statement.
ref: 2014 October 11, Simon Hattenstone, “Russell Brand: ‘I want to address the alienation and despair’”, in The Guardian:
synonyms: word: ado
word: bustle
word: fuss
word: ado
word: argy-bargy
word: bangarang
word: bobbery
word: brouhaha
word: bunfight
word: bustle
word: bust-up
word: chaos
word: clamour
word: clatter
word: commotion
word: disruption
word: disturbance
word: flap
word: foofaraw
word: fracas
word: furor
word: fuss
word: hobbleshaw
word: hoo-ha
word: hoo-hah
word: hubbub
word: hullabaloo
word: hurly-burly
word: kerfuffle
word: mayhem
word: merry hell
word: outcry
word: palaver
word: pandemonium
word: pother
word: quarrel
word: riot
word: rowdydow
word: ruckus
word: rumpus
word: shemozzle
word: shindy
word: splatterdash
word: stir
word: stooshie
word: three-ring circus
word: to-do
word: tomfoolery
word: trouble
word: tumult
word: turmoil
word: unrest
word: uproar
word: upstir
glosses: A fuss made over something.
examples: text: My to-do list has been growing longer every day.
text: I have so many to-dos, I don't know where to start.
glosses: A task that has been noted as one that must be completed, especially on a list.
to-dos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of to-do
needlessly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more needlessly
form: most needlessly
Etymology: From needless + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a needless manner.
examples: text: He was always needlessly anxious about his dog.
text: At present that convenience is still needlessly expensive in Great Britain, and a scandalously stupid business conflict between telephone company and post-office delays, complicates, and makes costly and exasperating all trunk communications; but even under these disadvantages the thing is becoming a factor in the life of ordinary villadom.
ref: 1902, Herbert George Wells, Anticipations:
glosses: To a degree or extent beyond what is needed.
examples: text: He worried needlessly about his dog.
glosses: Without need.
Synonyms: unnecessarily
stuffed animal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stuffed animals
Senses: synonyms: stuffie
plushie
glosses: A soft toy in the form of an animal.
examples: text: Apparently this section had been devoted to natural history, but everything had long since passed out of recognition. A few shrivelled and blackened vestiges of what had once been stuffed animals, desiccated mummies in jars that had once held spirit, a brown dust of departed plants: that was all!
ref: 1895 May 29, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Palace of Green Porcelain”, in The Time Machine: An Invention, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, page 110:
glosses: An animal that has undergone taxidermy.
Hypernyms: sense: soft toy
word: soft toy
Hyponyms: sense: soft toy
word: teddy bear
valuates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of valuate
-meister
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmaɪstə/
ipa: /ˈmaɪstɚ/
Etymology: From meister, from German Meister (“master”, “champion”).
Senses: glosses: An expert on the specified subject.
glosses: A person in charge of a specified thing.
examples: The festival is something of a muso's paradise, with the Bobmeister General (you may know him as Geldof), former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman with his band The Rhythm Kings, Bernard Butler and Bert Jansch and Dublin-based electronic knob-twiddler Autamata all turning out. — "Galway Gets Festive", The Irish Times, July 9, 2004 http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/galway-gets-festive-1.1148459
But 2011 hasn’t started well for the Govemeister. [Reference to Michael Gove, then UK Secretary of State for Education] — engagedlearning.co.uk, January 15, 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20150915001618/http://engagedlearning.co.uk/?p=165
glosses: Attached to a person's name in humorous (or ironic) approbation.
purism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purisms
Etymology: From French purisme. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ism.
Senses: glosses: An insistence on pure or unmixed forms.
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: An insistence on pure or unmixed forms.
The desire to use words and forms derived from what is considered the native element in a given language instead of elements considered borrowed or foreign.
glosses: An insistence on the traditionally correct way of doing things.
glosses: An example of purist language etc.
Derived terms: neo-purism
ultrapurism
Related terms: purist
puristic
purist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjɝ.ɪst/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪst
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪst
Forms: form: more purist
form: most purist
Etymology: Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: He was the first to play for money, a practice which got him ousted from the purist U.S. Lawn Tennis Association.
ref: 1976 December 11, Thom Willenbecher, “Tilden Re-Crucified”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 24, page 14:
synonyms: puristic
glosses: Of or pertaining to purism.
Derived terms: purist Greek
purist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpjʊəɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjɔːɹɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjʊɹ.ɪst/
ipa: /ˈpjɝ.ɪst/
rhymes: -ʊəɹɪst
rhymes: -ɔːɹɪst
rhymes: -ɜːɹɪst
Forms: form: purists
Etymology: Borrowed from French puriste. By surface analysis, pur(e) + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: One of the difficulties that plague conversations about industrial music is that the genre has come to include (to the chagrin and outright denial of some purists) anything from gentle synthesized droning to metal-inspired riffage.
ref: 2013, S. Alexander Reed, Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music, page 38:
glosses: An advocate of purism.
primality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: primalities
Etymology: From primal + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being prime.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: The condition of being a prime number.
Derived terms: biprimality
coprimality
primality certificate
primality test
primality testing
a-hole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈeɪ.həʊl/
ipa: /ˈeɪ.hoʊl/
Forms: form: a-holes
form: ahole
form: A-hole
Senses: examples: text: “Once again, Karen Alpert has done it. This book is equal parts hilarious, heartwarming, and helpful! Karen's parenting style and advice are relatable for anyone trying their best not to raise little a-holes into bigger a-holes.”
ref: 2021, Karen Alpert, Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be A-Holes: Unfiltered Advice on How to Raise Awesome Kids, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 262:
glosses: Minced oath of asshole /arsehole.
brachysyllabic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌbɹæk.i.sɪˈlæb.ɪk/
Forms: form: more brachysyllabic
form: most brachysyllabic
Etymology: From brachy- + syllabic.
Senses: glosses: Having few syllables.
Related terms: monosyllabic
macigno
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: macignos
form: macigni
Etymology: From Italian macigno.
Senses: glosses: A soft sandstone with calcareous cement.
ali-
Language: English
Part of speech: prefix
Pronunciation: enpr: ălĭ
ipa: /ælɪ/
enpr: ălĭ
ipa: /alɪ/
Etymology: Representing the Latin āla (“wing”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
biology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
zoology
glosses: lateral expansion
Derived terms: aliethmoid
blueness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbluːnəs/
Forms: form: bluenesses
Etymology: From blue + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: In an atlas, too, the land is man's, and all coloured to show his claim to it — in vivid contrast to the universal independent blueness of the sea.
ref: 1905, H. G. Wells, Empire of the Ants:
coordinate_terms: bluishness
glosses: The quality or characteristic of being blue in color.
synonyms: word: blues#Noun
word: blueness
word: mirthless
word: blues
word: crestfallenness
word: dejection
word: depression
word: despondency
word: distress
word: dolefulness
word: downheartedness
word: drearihead
word: forlornness
word: grief
word: heartsore
word: ill-being
word: infelicity
word: melancholia
word: melancholy
word: misery
word: mishappiness
word: mourn
word: prosternation
word: regret
word: rue
word: ruth
word: sadness
word: sorrow
word: sorrowfulness
word: tristfulness
word: undelight
word: unhappiness
word: woe
word: woefare
word: wretchedness
glosses: Melancholy.
bloodthirstiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodthirstyness
Etymology: From bloodthirsty + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bloodthirsty.
bloodlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From bloodless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The most striking lesson of the engagement is the extreme bloodiness of modern warfare under some conditions, and its bloodlessness under others.
ref: 1900, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “Battle of Magersfontein”, in The Great Boer War, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, page 162:
text: The feature that struck me most forcibly was the strange hue of their skin, a repulsive, unhealthy pallor, a seeming bloodlessness.
ref: 1933, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 9, in Lost on Venus:
text: Her heart rebelled against the bloodlessness of his precision, but she had begun to watch him with a grudging admiration for a quality so alien to her own temperament.
ref: 1946, Mervyn Peake, “The Grotto”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, →OCLC:
glosses: The characteristic of being bloodless.
Related terms: bloodiness
backwardness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwardnesses
Etymology: From backward + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being backward.
glosses: Reluctance.
bagginess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bagginesses
Etymology: From baggy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being baggy.
balminess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From balmy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being balmy.
blamelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blameless + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Despite these words of caution regarding the famous dictum in Weaver v. Ward, the language still leaves us with the impression that a showing of complete blamelessness could serve to exonerate the hapless gunhandler who inadvertently injured another.
ref: 1970, The Origin and Development of the Negligence Action, page 14:
glosses: The characteristic of being blameless.
Related terms: blameworthiness
blameworthiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From blameworthy + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being blameworthy.
Related terms: blamelessness
blandness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blandnesses
Etymology: From bland + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: These temporary apprehensions, so vague but so awful, derived a wondrous potency from the contrasting serenity of the weather, in which, beneath all its blue blandness, some thought there lurked a devilish charm, as for days and days we voyaged along, through seas so wearily, lonesomely mild, that all space, in repugnance to our vengeful errand, seemed vacating itself of life before our urn-like prow.
ref: 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick:
glosses: The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
Mildness, gentleness.
glosses: The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
Lack of taste or flavor.
synonyms: flavorlessness
examples: text: But generally, these summits have been real snoozers, producing statements of such vague blandness that they make G-20 resolutions read like Harry Potter page-turners.
ref: 2011 April 14, Michael Schuman, “Do the BRICS believe in free markets?”, in Time:
glosses: The state, quality, or characteristic of being bland.
Lack of interest or appeal.
synonyms: dullness
insipidness
blankness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blanknesses
Etymology: From blank + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being blank.
bleakness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bleaknesses
Etymology: From bleak + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.
ref: 1957 August 24, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 575:
text: And there are few better ways to enjoy the rugged bleakness of the fells than from a nice warm train, especially when the weather's constantly changing as the day slips away.
ref: 2022 November 2, Paul Bigland, “New trains, old trains, and splendid scenery”, in RAIL, number 969, page 57:
synonyms: dreich
glosses: The characteristic of being bleak.
bleariness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English blerynes; equivalent to bleary + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bleary.
blissfulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: blissfulnesses
Etymology: From Middle English blisfulnesse, equivalent to blissful + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: Oh! My God! The girl had been captured in the blissfulness of being a bride. Look at her!
ref: 2013, Alexis Wright, The Swan Book, Constable (2016), page 226:
glosses: The characteristic of being blissful.
blitheness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Middle English *blithenesse, from Old English blīþnes, from Proto-West Germanic *blīþinassī, equivalent to blithe + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian blidens (“blitheness, joy”), Old High German blīdnissa (“joy”).
Senses: examples: text: A mood of blitheness rarely experienced even by young men was Dick’s on the following Monday morning. It was the week after the Easter holidays, and he was journeying along with Smart the mare and the light spring-cart, watching the damp slopes of the hill-sides as they streamed in the warmth of the sun, […]
ref: 1872, [Thomas Hardy], “VI: Yalbury Wood and the Keeper's House”, in Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School, volume I, London: Tinsley Brothers, →OCLC, part II, page 192:
synonyms: word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: blitheness
word: blithesomeness
word: cheerfulness
word: cheeriness
word: contentness
word: contentedness
word: delight
word: delightedness
word: elatedness
word: elation
word: exuberance
word: exuberantness
word: felicity
word: gaiety
word: gayness
word: gayfulness
word: gladness
word: gladsomeness
word: glee
word: gleefulness
word: gleesomeness
word: happiness
word: high spirits
word: hilarity
word: jolliness
word: jollity
word: joviality
word: jovialness
word: joy
word: joyfulness
word: joyousness
word: liss
word: merriment
word: merriness
word: mirth
word: mirthfulness
word: pleasedness
glosses: The characteristic of being blithe.
bloodiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bloodinesses
Etymology: From bloody + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The characteristic of being bloody.
Related terms: bloodlessness
jeopardized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jeopardize