cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
songful
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more songful
form: most songful
Etymology: From Middle English songful, equivalent to song + -ful.
Senses: glosses: Disposed or able to sing; melodious
examples: text: But all this attention to Mr. Hamelin’s technical command should not be taken to imply any deficiency in more songful or lyrical moments.
ref: 2007 June 17, The New York Times, “While Lyrical Moments Abound, Tension Sometimes Simmers”, in New York Times:
glosses: Tending toward, or having the character of, song
Synonyms: lyrical
melodious
songly
songful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From song + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: ...just as the gondolieri have the useful thought that they will be able to run their kingdom on exemplary egalitarian lines as a compensation for the unrepublican activity of kingship ('For Every One Who Feels Inclined'), as they set off for Barataria to a songful of good advice from their new little wives ('Do Not Forget You've Married Me') who are left waving goodbye to them from the canal bank.
ref: 1989, Kurt Gänzl, Andrew Lamb, Gänzl's book of the musical theatre, page 67:
text: “Trouble” is a songful of words, and Patinkin delivered each and every one of them.
ref: 2003, Steven Suskin, Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002: A Relevant and Irreverent Record:
text: In the Cuna treatment many interpretations — a songful of them — appear to "come from" the shaman and to be imposed on the patient by this clinician.
ref: 2015, Barnaby B. Barratt, Psychoanalysis and the Postmodern Impulse:
glosses: An amount expressed in a song.
break loose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: breaks loose
form: breaking loose
form: broke loose
form: broken loose
Etymology: From Middle English breken los, breken lous, breken lowse, equivalent to break + loose.
Senses: examples: text: They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored wherever they were permitted to explore, paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.
ref: 1909, Archibald Marshall [pseudonym; Arthur Hammond Marshall], “A Court Ball”, in The Squire’s Daughter, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, published 1919, →OCLC, page 9:
text: On the Lincolnshire side of the Humber, the Pier Station at New Holland was put out of action when the ferry boat plying to and from Hull broke loose from its moorings.
ref: 1953 May, “British Railways and the January Floods”, in Railway Magazine, page 301:
glosses: To escape; to free oneself.
Related terms: all hell breaks loose
upfronting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upfront
upfronted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upfront
imposure
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imposures
Senses: examples: text: Conformity was maintained through a patterned series of social controls which, contrary to the usual system of imposure, actually emanated from within the membership.
ref: 1963, W. M. Kephart, "Experimental Family Organization: An Historico-Cultural Report on the Oneida Community," William M. Kephart, Marriage and Family Living, vol. 25, no. 3, p. 265
text: Just as the imposure of a code limits the entropy of system, be it aesthetic, legal or other, so the semantic context of a text limits and controls the interpretation of its coded message.
ref: 1992, Susan Tiefenbrun, “Semiotics and Martin Luther King's ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’”, in Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature, volume 4, number 2, page 257:
text: According to the CORPORATE INCOME IMPOSURE LAW, a tax for numerical games such as toto, lotto or lottery will be imposed only on what’s left after you subtract the winnings from the income.
ref: 2007 November 20, “Who is bothered by the gambling business?”, in New Europe: The European Weekly, retrieved 09 Feb 2009:
glosses: The act of imposing.
Synonyms: imposition
apparating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of apparate
apparated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of apparate
minced oaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minced oath
basters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbeɪstɚz/
ipa: /ˈbeɪstəz/
Senses: glosses: plural of baster
bombsites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bombsite
bomb sites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bomb site
citalopram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /saɪˈtæl.əˌpɹæm/
ipa: /sɪˈtæl.əˌpɹæm/
Etymology: Probably from cy(ano)- + (ph)thal(imide) + -o- + pr(opyl)am(ine).
Senses: topics: medicine
pharmacology
sciences
glosses: A drug that functions as a SSRI and is administered orally in the form of its hydrobromide C₂₀H₂₁FN₂O·HBr to treat depression and anxiety. It is marketed under the trademark Celexa.
Derived terms: citalopram hydrobromide
chromatic scales
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chromatic scale
coverages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The most important and costly of these coverages, health care, is extraordinarily expensive everywhere in the world, and Canada's medicare has no reciprocity in any other country.
ref: 2009 January 31, Milan Korcok, “What to do when you get hurt”, in Toronto Star:
glosses: plural of coverage
pianissimos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: In the Larghetto slow movement Mr. Tetzlaff played the wistful melodic phrases with arching lyricism and radiantly penetrating pianissimos, while in the orchestra Mr. Levine achieved an uncanny balance between timelessness and subdued intensity.
ref: 2007 January 16, Anthony Tommasini, “Serious German Violinist Gets a Rock Star Ovation”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of pianissimo
homophenylalanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + phenylalanine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A homologue of phenylalanine, 2-amino-4-phenylbutyric acid
homophenylalanyl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The univalent radical derived from homophenylalanine
basepath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basepaths
Etymology: From base + path.
Senses: examples: text: Jackson broke up a potential double play in the 1978 World Series when he froze on the basepaths and turned his hip into a throw.
ref: 2007 June 2, Tyler Kepner, “Reconsidering, Torre Admonishes Rodriguez”, in New York Times:
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: The grassless ways around the baseball diamond on which runners advance.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
pesäpallo
sports
glosses: The path between two adjacent bases, such as between the first and the second base.
basepaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basepath
cadaverously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more cadaverously
form: most cadaverously
Etymology: From cadaverous + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It's all on video: me mugging to the camera, the crash of the falling tyre, my initial recoil, then the blood draining from my face as I look down and discover the fingernail gouged out of my flesh just dangling there cadaverously.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 121:
glosses: In a cadaverous manner; like a cadaver.
Jocasta
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /d͡ʒəʊˈkæs.tə/
ipa: /d͡ʒoʊˈkæs.tə/
rhymes: -æstə
Etymology: Ancient Greek Ἰοκάστη (Iokástē)
Senses: topics: human-sciences
mysticism
mythology
philosophy
sciences
glosses: The mother and wife of Oedipus.
examples: text: Jocasta had my blessing when she seduced you, you stuck-up piffler.
ref: 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
glosses: A female given name from Ancient Greek.
homophily
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From homo- + -phily.
Senses: examples: text: In this research we explore whether homophily as an organizing principle affects the performance of immigrant entrepreneurs in Germany.
ref: 2007, Leo Paul Dana, Handbook of Research on Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship: A Co-evolutionary View on Resource Management, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 511:
text: Homophily is the tendency for there to be higher rates of contact between similar people than between dissimilar people. It is the social process reflected in that old bit of folk wisdom: “Birds of a feather flock together.”
ref: 2009, John M Levine, Michael A. Hogg, Encyclopedia of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations, SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 404:
topics: human-sciences
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
antonyms: heterophily
glosses: The tendency of individuals to associate with others of the same kind.
Derived terms: homophilous
homopolymerize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: homopolymerizes
form: homopolymerizing
form: homopolymerized
form: homopolymerized
Etymology: From homopolymer + -ize.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To polymerize so as to form a homopolymer
homozygosity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: homozygosities
Etymology: From homozygous + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: It depends on whether those runs of homozygosity contain recessive disease-causing mutations. All of us have some of these runs in our DNA—usually less than 1 percent of the genome in Western populations, higher in cultures where cousin marriage is common.
ref: 2024 March 18, Sarah Zhang, “DNA Tests Are Uncovering the True Prevalence of Incest”, in The Atlantic:
glosses: The condition of being homozygous.
Related terms: heterozygosity
homozygous
zygosity
Ol Chiki
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Santali ᱚᱞ ᱪᱤᱠᱤ (ôl ciki).
Senses: glosses: Ol Cemet', the Santali alphabet.
howardite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: howardites
Etymology: From Howard + -ite, after Edward Howard, a pioneer of meteoritics.
Senses: examples: text: The recommended criterion is based on the amount of magnesian ortho‐pyroxenite (diogenite) component in the meteorite. Howardites contain more than 10% and polymict eucrites contain less than 10%.
ref: 1983, Jeremy S. Delaney et al., “The Nomenclature of Polymict Basaltic Achondrites”, in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, volume 18, number 2, →DOI:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: An achondritic stony meteorite.
Derived terms: HED
howarditic
Baconian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈkəʊn.ɪən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: more Baconian
form: most Baconian
Etymology: From Bacon + -ian.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English statesman and polymath, or his writings.
glosses: Of or relating to Nathaniel Bacon (Virginia colonist) (1647–1676), who instigated Bacon's Rebellion.
Derived terms: Baconianism
Baconian cipher
Baconian induction
Baconian method
Baconian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bəˈkəʊn.ɪən/
rhymes: -əʊniən
Forms: form: Baconians
Etymology: From Bacon + -ian.
Senses: glosses: One who adheres to the philosophy of Francis Bacon.
examples: text: In this paper I propose to say something about the attempt of the Baconian theorists to "work" Ben Jonson over into a witness against William Shakespeare, not because it is necessary to reslay the slain Baconian, but to illustrate that here as elsewhere, and all along the line, there is "nothing in it."
ref: 1891, Shakespeariana: A Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakespearian Literature, page 195:
text: So looks the Shakespearean who is confronted by a rancid Baconian, or the astronomer who is assailed by a flat-earth fanatic.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: One who believes that Francis Bacon wrote the plays attributed to William Shakespeare.
Synonyms: sense: believer in Bacon as the author of Shakespeare plays
word: Bacon-Shakespearean
hyaluronan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaluronans
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: The polysaccharide hyaluronic acid.
hyaluronidase
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hyaluronidases
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of hyaluronic acid
hydrodynamical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hydro- + dynamical.
Senses: glosses: hydrodynamic
Derived terms: electrohydrodynamical
hydrodynamical helicity
hydrofracturing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydro- + fracturing.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Cryofracturing by water ice.
glosses: Hydraulic fracturing.
hydrographical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: hydrographic
hydropyrolysates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hydropyrolysate
hydropyrolysate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydropyrolysates
Etymology: From hydro- + pyrolysate.
Senses: glosses: The product of hydrous pyrolysis
narratrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: narratrices
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin narrātrīx. By surface analysis, narrate + -trix.
Senses: glosses: A female narrator.
Synonyms: narratress
hydrous pyrolysis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydrous pyrolyses
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: pyrolysis in the presence of water
hydroxystaurosporine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hydroxy + staurosporine.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy derivative of staurosporine; especially 7-hydroxystaurosporine, an antitumor drug that has antineoplastic activity.
staurosporine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: staurosporines
Etymology: staurosporeus + -ine
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: An alkaloid derived from the bacterium Streptomyces staurosporeus that has antifungal and antihypertensive properties
hydroxytestosterone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxytestosterones
Etymology: From hydroxy- + testosterone.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy derivative of testosterone; especially the anabolic steroid 4-hydroxytestosterone
hydroxytryptophan
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hydroxytryptophans
Etymology: From hydroxy- + tryptophan.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A hydroxy derivative of tryptophan; especially 5-hydroxytryptophan which is a precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin
hypercholesterolaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypercholesterolaemias
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of hypercholesterolemia.
hypermethylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypermethylated
form: most hypermethylated
Etymology: From hyper- + methylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: methylated to an abnormally high degree
Derived terms: unhypermethylated
Related terms: hypermethylation
hyperpartisanship
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hyper- + partisanship.
Senses: glosses: A sharply polarized situation in which political parties are in fierce disagreement with each other
Related terms: hyperpartisan
hypersaline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + saline.
Senses: glosses: Having an abnormally high salinity
Synonyms: hyperhaline
supersaline
Derived terms: nonhypersaline
reconoiter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of reconnoiter.
hyperspectral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hyper- + spectral.
Senses: glosses: Describing any technique that employs a large part of the electromagnetic spectrum, especially that includes those parts of the spectrum invisible to the eye.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Describing very high-definition spectral imaging.
Oath of Abjuration
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: An oath asserting the right of the present royal family to the crown of England, and expressly abjuring allegiance to the descendants of Charles Edward Stuart, the Jacobite Pretender.
hypervariable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypervariable
form: most hypervariable
Etymology: From hyper- + variable.
Senses: glosses: Having a high degree of variability.
man crushes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of man crush
hypoacetylated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypoacetylated
form: most hypoacetylated
Etymology: From hypo- + acetylated.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: acetylated to an abnormally small extent
hypomodified
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hypomodified
form: most hypomodified
Etymology: From hypo- + modified.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
genetics
medicine
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: modified to an abnormally small degree
hypomyelination
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypomyelinations
Etymology: From hypo- + myelination.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
antonyms: hypermyelination#Noun
hypernyms: dysmyelination#Noun
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myelination#Noun
coordinate_terms: demyelination#Noun
glosses: An abnormally small amount of myelin in the brain and spinal cord.
hypsodonty
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypsodoncy
Senses: glosses: The presence of hypsodont teeth.
glosses: The degree to which teeth are hypsodont; the degree to which they are not brachydont.
Derived terms: protohypsodonty
Euclid
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈjuːklɪd/
ipa: /ˈjuklɪd/
ipa: /ˈjʉːklɪd/
ipa: /ˈjʉːkləd/
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Εὐκλείδης (Eukleídēs).
Senses: glosses: Euclid of Alexandria, a Greek mathematician, fl. 300 BC.
glosses: A male given name from Ancient Greek of mostly historical use.
glosses: A city in Ohio.
glosses: An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
Derived terms: South Euclid
Related terms: Euclidean
Euclid's algorithm
Euclid's function
hypsodont
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From hypso- + -odont.
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
glosses: Describing teeth that have large crowns (characteristic of herbivores)
Derived terms: euhypsodont
hypsodoncy
hypsodonty
protohypsodont
subhypsodont
hypsodont
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hypsodonts
Etymology: From hypso- + -odont.
Senses: glosses: Any organism whose teeth have large crowns.
icefield
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: icefields
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of ice field.
agnosis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æɡˈnəʊsɪs/
Forms: form: agnoses
Etymology: Derived from Ancient Greek ἀ- (a-, “without, lacking”) + γνῶσις (gnôsis, “knowledge”), literally, “lacking knowledge”.
Senses: examples: text: And finally, we come to the agnosis, the most important of them all, […]
I do not refer to the agnosis or the ignorance of cancer in general.
ref: 1915: The American Journal of Surgery, volume 29, page 379 (Paul B. Hoeber)
text: For instance he cannot tell the time on the clock, since that depends on the relation of the direction of the hands to each other. This inability to differentiate the directions in relation to each other is a possible cause of optical agnosis. There is a direction element in the form of every object.
ref: 1934, the New York Neurological Association, the Philadelphia Neurological Society, and the Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 80, page 648:
text: They point out that unilateral spatial agnosis is not the sole cause of the disability, and that some degree of bilateral cerebral involvement may be an […]
ref: 1963, Samuel Brock, Howard P. Krieger, The Basis of Clinical Neurology: The Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System in Their Application to Clinical Neurology, 4th edition, Williams & Wilkins, page 308:
text: The situation of the person who denies that metaphysical objectivity that is essential to the very idea of truth is not only one of self-contradiction, but of permanent agnosis.
ref: 2005, Paul J. Griffiths, Reinhard Hütter, Reason and the Reasons of Faith, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 331, →ISBN:
glosses: Epistemologically necessary lack of, indifference to, denial or shunning of knowledge; defective knowledge.
Synonyms: agnosticism
Derived terms: acroagnosis
baragnosis
Related terms: agnosia
agnostic
agnotology
ennuis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ennui
ennuis
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of ennui
ice fields
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ice field
buzzworm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: buzzworms
Etymology: From buzz + worm.
Senses: glosses: rattlesnake
Synonyms: word: rattlesnake
word: rattler
presentities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of presentity
buzzworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buzzworm
financialise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: financialises
form: financialising
form: financialised
form: financialised
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of financialize.
financialises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of financialise
financialising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of financialise
financialised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of financialise
lagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laggers
Etymology: From lag + -er.
Senses: examples: text: The economic time series can be segregated into leaders, laggers and coinciders in relation to movements in aggregate economic activity.
ref: 1984, Wisconsin Economic Planning Information, page 75:
glosses: One who or that which lags behind; a laggard.
examples: text: In particular, Turner & Newall doggedly contested any claims from the largest high-risk group outside the scheduled factory areas — the laggers.
ref: 2001, Geoffrey Tweedale, Philip Hansen, Magic Mineral to Killer Dust: Turner & Newall and the Asbestos Hazard:
glosses: One who installs lagging.
topics: video-games
glosses: A player who lags (has a poor or slow network connection).
examples: text: 2015 Kathleen, Kage, and the Company, Laggers.
Laggers, Dear Readers, in case you grew up ignorant of hopscotch, are the markers you use when playing the game.
text: In the 1950s, the game was called hopscotch and the object thrown a lagger /'lagar/. Lagger is apparently related to the verb lag.
ref: 1981, David L. Gold, Three New York Cityisms: Sliding Pond, Potsy, Akey, Jstor:
glosses: A marker used in the game of hopscotch.
glosses: A police informant.
glosses: A sailor.
Related terms: jet-lagger
lagger
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: laggers
Etymology: Blend of legal + nagger
Senses: glosses: A member of support staff responsible for contacting lawyers to check how a case is progressing.
laggers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lagger
breeze-blocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breeze-block
breezeblock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: breezeblocks
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of breeze-block.
breezeblocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of breezeblock
cassocked
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From cassock + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: And so when he entered the room, she ran to meet him with a little cry; and she threw her arms about his neck and sobbed a good deal on that old, cassocked shoulder, and longed to ask him to let her be as a daughter to him.
ref: 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “The Story Ends”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume III, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 304–305:
glosses: Dressed in a cassock.
Derived terms: uncassocked
savageries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of savagery
schoolkid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: schoolkids
Etymology: From school + kid.
Senses: glosses: A schoolchild, a kid who attends school; a schoolboy or schoolgirl.
Synonyms: word: schoolchild
Hyponyms: schoolboy
schoolgirl
schoolkids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of schoolkid
switchovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of switchover
taxmen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of taxman
synthesiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synthesisers
Etymology: From synthesise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of synthesizer.
synthesisers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synthesiser
artificialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of artificiality
blokeish
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more blokeish
form: most blokeish
form: blokish
Etymology: From bloke + -ish.
Senses: examples: text: 2002 December, Cole Moreton, review of Sinead O'Connor, Sean-nós nua, in Third Way, page 31,
The blokeish bar-room ballad ‘Peggy Gordon’ is performed as a tender love song for another woman.
text: He's stuck his hand in his pocket as if he wanted to look more like an ordinary man, or more blokeish.
ref: 2003, Bernard-Henri Lévy, translated by Andrew Brown, Sartre, page 443:
text: Hailed by a host of younger guitar bands such as Ocean Colour Scene and Oasis, Weller dropped the jazzy noodlings of his previous couple of sets in favour of a raw, blokeish sound.
ref: 2003, Peter Buckley, The Rough Guide to Rock, page 1161:
text: After we say goodbye, I walk past [Jeremy] Clarkson's table, steaming with carefree, blokeish energy.
ref: 2025 May 17, Henry Mance, “Lunch with the FT: Trinny Woodall”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
glosses: Characteristic or typical of a bloke.
Synonyms: blokey
laddish
Derived terms: blokeishly
blokeishness
oven gloves
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of oven glove
remaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: remakers
Etymology: From remake + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who remakes.
Synonyms: rebuilder
reformer
remakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of remaker
uneducable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more uneducable
form: most uneducable
Etymology: From un- + educable.
Senses: glosses: Incapable of being educated.
Synonyms: unteachable
anticapitalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticapitalisms
Etymology: From anti- + capitalism.
Senses: topics: government
politics
glosses: Opposition to capitalism.
anticapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: anticapitalists
form: anti-capitalist
form: anticapitalistic
form: anti-capitalistic
Etymology: From anti- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: Most of my rich friends hate anticapitalists.
topics: government
politics
glosses: One who opposes capitalism or subscribes to anticapitalism.
anticapitalist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more anticapitalist
form: most anticapitalist
form: anti-capitalist
form: anticapitalistic
form: anti-capitalistic
Etymology: From anti- + capitalist.
Senses: examples: text: The enthusiasm is not universal. In January, a school board in Missoula County, Mont., decided that screening the video treaded on academic freedom after a parent complained that its message was anticapitalist.
ref: 2009 May 11, Leslie Kaufman, “A Cautionary Video About America’s ‘Stuff’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Against or opposed to capitalism; characterized by or involving such opposition.
Synonyms: word: commie
anticapitalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anticapitalist
Fiji Hindi
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: The Indo-Iranian language spoken by people of Indian descent in Fiji.
Synonyms: Fijian Hindustani
Fijian Hindi
Related terms: Wiktionary’s coverage of Fiji Hindi terms
imidodiphosphate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: imidodiphosphates
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any salt or ester of imidodiphosphoric acid; but especially adenylyl imidodiphosphate, an analog, and inhibitor of ATP
immotile
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more immotile
form: most immotile
Etymology: From im- + motile.
Senses: examples: text: And they currently have forty-two ships searching for an immotile civilization beyond the region of space we Firewalled.
ref: 2007, Peter F. Hamilton, The Dreaming Void:
synonyms: word: static
word: unmovable
word: fixed
word: immobile
word: immotile
word: immovable
word: inanimate
word: inert
word: lifeless
word: sessile
word: static
word: rigid
word: stationary
word: stuck
word: unmovable
word: unmoveable
glosses: Not motile (lacking the ability to move)
Related terms: immotility
immotility
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From im- + motility.
Senses: glosses: a lack of motility; the inability to move
Related terms: immotile
immunocompromized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of immunocompromised.
immunoelectron
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From immuno- + electron.
Senses: glosses: Only used in immunoelectron microscopy.
immunoelectron microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + electron microscopy.
Senses: glosses: The use of electron microscopy to study aspects of the immune system
Related terms: immunoelectronic
jelly beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jelly bean
mustest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English mostest, mustest, from Old English mōstest; equivalent to must + -est.
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple past indicative of must
mountain bikes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mountain bike
five lemma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: the five lemma
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: A particular lemma that claims the existence of a particular isomorphism in a commutative diagram given certain other homomorphisms in the diagram.
line integral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: line integrals
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: An integral whose integrand's domain is a curve.
Derived terms: fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals
line integrals
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of line integral
idjut
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idjuts
Senses: examples: text: I said ‘If you ask your father,’ you idjut. Do I have to wipe your nose for you?
ref: 1949, Robert A. Heinlein, Red Planet (Doctor MacRae speaking)
glosses: Pronunciation spelling of idiot.
idjuts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of idjut
chewing tobaccos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chewing tobacco
immunoglobular
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪmjʊnoʊˈɡlɒbjʊlə(ɹ)/
Forms: form: more immunoglobular
form: most immunoglobular
Senses: glosses: Of, pertaining to, containing or resembling immunoglobin
immunogold
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + gold.
Senses: glosses: A particle of gold that is used to label an antibody or protein in immunogold electron microscopy
immunogold electron microscopy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of electron microscopy in which gold particles are used to label antibodies
immunoimaging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From immuno- + imaging.
Senses: glosses: Any of several techniques used to form images of the components of the immune system
Derived terms: radioimmunoimaging
immunolocalization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunolocalizations
Etymology: From immuno- + localization.
Senses: topics: immunology
medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of immunological techniques to identify the location of molecules or other structures within cells or tissues
Derived terms: coimmunolocalization
Related terms: immunolocation
immunophenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunophenotypes
Etymology: From immuno- + phenotype.
Senses: topics: biology
genetics
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: The immunological and genetic characteristics of an organism.
Related terms: immunophenotyping
immunophenotype
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: immunophenotypes
form: immunophenotyping
form: immunophenotyped
form: immunophenotyped
Etymology: From immuno- + phenotype.
Senses: examples: text: In our laboratory immunophenotyping of acute leukemias is routinely performed from bone marrow mononuclear cell (MNC) preparations. In cases with insufficient marrow material peripheral blasts are immunophenotyped using the whole blood lysis method.
ref: 2013 April 30, Elisa Einwallner, Almira Subasic, Andrea Strasser, Dorothea Augustin, Renate Thalhammer, Irene Steiner, Ilse Schwarzinger, “Lysis matters: Red cell lysis with FACS Lyse affects the flow cytometric enumeration of circulating leukemic blasts”, in Journal of Immunological Methods, volume 390, numbers 1–2, →DOI, page 127:
topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To perform immunophenotyping on an organism.
immunophenotypical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to an immunophenotype.
Derived terms: immunophenotypically
immunophenotypically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From immunophenotypical + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With reference to an immunophenotype.
carices
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of carex
immunopurification
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunopurifications
Etymology: From immuno- + purification.
Senses: examples: text: In this study we describe a process for immunopurification of FVIII/vWF complex directly from plasma.
ref: 1988, Odile Mejan, “Immunopurification of Human Factor VIII/vWF Complex from Plasma”, in Thrombosis and Haemostatis, volume 59, number 3, page 364:
glosses: The use of immunological techniques to purify proteins, antigens etc.
Related terms: immunopurify
immunoprecipitation
skete
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈskiːt/
Forms: form: sketes
Etymology: From ecclesiastical (medieval) Ancient Greek σκήτη (skḗtē), which is either from a place name in Egypt Σκήτις, Coptic Ϣⲓϩⲏⲧ (Šihēt), or via aphesis from ἀσκητής (askētḗs, “ascetic; monk, hermit”).
Senses: glosses: A secluded religious community in Eastern Orthodox Christianity which is a dependency of, and generally less physically substantial than, a monastery, generally consisting of living quarters and a church.
wikipedia: Wadi El Natrun
sket
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: [skɛt]
ipa: [skɛʔ]
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: skets
Etymology: Clipping of skettle.
Senses: examples: text: Don't be too upset if they call you a sket / 'Cause like the news, every day, you get pressed
ref: 2004, Amy Winehouse, Salaam Remi, “Fuck Me Pumps”, in Frank, performed by Amy Winehouse:
text: Love for the G's in the ends / But we don't love no girls in the ends / Last time I fell in love with a sket / But trust me, I will never do that again
ref: 2014, Skepta, Jme, “That's Not Me” (track 10), in Konnichiwa, performed by Skepta featuring Jme:
text: You shagged bare lads, you're a little sket / Have you heard your bars? They're fucking pept
ref: 2016 December 3, Millie B, “Soph Aspin Send”, performed by Millie B:
synonyms: word: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.
word: 304
word: alley cat
word: alleycat
word: amorette
word: amoret
word: amorosa
word: article
word: Athanasian wench
word: blowsabella
word: bop
word: chippy
word: cocotte
word: cockslut
word: cockwhore
word: crumpet
word: cum dumpster
word: cum guzzler
word: cumhole
word: cumslut
word: cumwhore
word: Cyprian
word: demimondaine
word: doxy
word: drab
word: eager beaver
word: Essex girl
word: flirt-gill
word: floogy
word: floosie
word: floosy
word: floozie
word: floozy
word: fornicator
word: fornicatour
word: fornicatress
word: fornicatrix
word: fuckstress
word: Fulham virgin
word: geebag
word: giglot
word: gillian
word: gill
word: good-time girl
word: grim
word: grisette
word: harlot
word: ho bag
word: ho-bag
word: hoe bag
word: hoe-bag
word: hoe
word: hoochie mama
word: hoochie
word: hood rat
word: ho
word: hussy
word: jade
word: jay
word: jillflirt
word: lady of light virtue
word: LBFM
word: light-o'-love
word: light-of-love
word: lightskirt
word: little brown fucking machine
word: loose woman
word: lorette
word: mab
word: manizer
word: minx
word: moll
word: mort wap-apace
word: nymphomaniac
word: painted Jezebel
word: puta
word: puzzel
word: quean
word: Quicumque vult
word: quiff
word: rig
word: scag
word: scrubber
word: skank
word: skettle
word: sket
word: skit
word: slag
word: slapper
word: slattern
word: sloven
word: slutbag
word: slut
word: stale
word: streel
word: strumpet
word: sweet cheeks
word: tartlet
word: tart
word: thotty
word: thot
word: town bicycle
word: town bike
word: tramp
word: treddle
word: trollop
word: trull
word: village bicycle
word: village bike
word: wagon
word: waistcoateer
word: wanton
word: wench
word: whore
glosses: A sexually promiscuous woman.
skeer
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: skeers
form: skeering
form: skeered
form: skeered
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of scare.
skeer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: skeers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of scare.
multiplicative identities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multiplicative identity
sat still
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sit still
sitting still
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sit still
sits still
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of sit still
granduncles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of granduncle
Baalists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Baalist
moineau
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: moineaus
Etymology: French [Term?]
Senses: topics: fortifications
government
military
politics
war
glosses: A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
dodecathlon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Seemingly from Ancient Greek δωδέκαθλος (dōdékathlos, “twelve labors”), referring to the twelve labors of Hercules.
Senses: glosses: A gymnastics competition comprising twelve subcompetitions.
stock cubes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stock cube
drift off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: drifts off
form: drifting off
form: drifted off
form: drifted off
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see drift, off.
examples: text: He went to sleep, lying there under a wing of his plane, and presently Bland himself drifted off into dreams.
ref: 1919, B. M. Bower, chapter 5, in The Thunder Bird:
glosses: To fall asleep slowly.
glosses: To lose concentration.
Synonyms: sense: fall asleep slowly
word: nod off
enneastyle
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɛni.əˌstaɪl/
Etymology: From ennea- + -style.
Senses: topics: architecture
glosses: Having nine columns.
raw_tags: of a Classical temple or other structure
can openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of can opener
tin openers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tin opener
chopping boards
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chopping board
campagnols
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of campagnol
lacs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lac
deagglomerates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of deagglomerate
deagglomerating
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deagglomerate
deagglomerated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deagglomerate
stewardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more stewardly
form: most stewardly
Etymology: From steward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: Befitting a steward.
glosses: Managing; careful; provident.
stewardly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more stewardly
form: most stewardly
Etymology: From steward + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With or as with the care of a steward; prudently; providently.
basilects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basilect
acrolects
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of acrolect
intratribal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˌɪntɹəˈtɹaɪbəl/
Etymology: From intra- + tribal.
Senses: examples: 2014, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, American Indian Tribal Law (Aspen Elective Series), Riverwoods, IL:Wolters Kluwer, →ISBN, p. 118. See also M.L.M. Fletcher, "Toward a Theory of Intertribal and Intratribal Common Law", 43:3 Hous. L. Rev. 701 (2006-2007). [pp. 701-741, esp. 707].
"Intratribal common law is the common law applied by tribal courts in cases arising out of an indigenous legal construct... An indigenous legal construct, in contrast to an Anglo-American legal construct, is a legal construct that originates within the tribal community." [Matthew L.M. Fletcher]
glosses: Within a tribe.
Derived terms: intratribally
pizzicatos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pizzicato
soundstages
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of soundstage
reclose
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -əʊz
Forms: form: recloses
form: reclosing
form: reclosed
form: reclosed
Etymology: From re- + close.
Senses: examples: text: Stents improved the procedure by combating the tendency of many vessels to reclose quickly after angioplasty.
ref: 2007 June 1, Ronald Smothers, “Court Says New Jersey Official Was Wrong to Permit Angioplasties”, in New York Times:
glosses: To close or be closed after having previously been opened
recloses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of reclose
reclosing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of reclose
reclosed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of reclose
tricots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tricot
ppg
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Due to start a five-year $93 million contract extension next season, Bogut had been averaging 11.7 ppg and 10.3 rebounds while playing with back pain in recent games.
ref: 2009 February 6, Grantley Bernard, “Boomers lick their wounds”, in Herald Sun, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2009:
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of PPG.
varroa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /vəˈɹəʊə/
Etymology: From the genus name Varroa.
Senses: examples: text: These bees are resistant to varroa.
text: Swarms were reasonably common place in rural areas when New Zealand had a large feral bee population but few wild bees now survive due to varroa disease.
ref: 2009 January 29, Don Farmer, “Shop forced to shut as bees swarm”, in Wairarapa Times-Age:
topics: agriculture
beekeeping
business
lifestyle
glosses: Infestation with the mite Varroa destructor, or the disease caused by such mites.
Synonyms: sense: condition of infestation of a colony by Varroa mites
word: varroatosis
sense: condition of infestation of a colony by Varroa mites
word: varroosis
Related terms: colony collapse disorder
deformed wing virus
DWV
colorized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of colorize
colorizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of colorize
colorizes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of colorize
flummadiddles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flummadiddle
gigabarrels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gigabarrel
woodhoopoe
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: woodhoopoes
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of wood hoopoe
scimitarbill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: scimitarbills
Etymology: From scimitar + bill.
Senses: glosses: Any bird of three species of genus Rhinopomastus, in the family Phoeniculidae, from sub-Saharan Africa
Derived terms: taxonomic: Rhinopomastus minor
word: Abyssinian scimitarbill
taxonomic: Rhinopomastus aterrimus
word: black scimitarbill
taxonomic: Rhinopomastus cyanomelas
word: common scimitarbill
scimitarbills
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of scimitarbill
woodhoopoes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of woodhoopoe
minivets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of minivet
knocknobblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of knocknobbler
wristwarmers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wristwarmer
berthings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Senators brought television crews into cramped berthings.
ref: 2009 February 9, Owen West, “An About-Face on Gay Troops”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of berthing
overdevelopment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: overdevelopments
Etymology: From over- + development.
Senses: examples: text: […] the threat of lopsided, uncontrolled overdevelopment seems distant to many--local residents and Chicagoans alike--who regard the rediscovery of the area as a welcome return to its heyday in the 1930s and '40s, when even more Chicago families spent their summers here.
ref: 1988 October 7, Hank De Zutter, Pamela Little De Zutter, “Invasion of the FIPs: boom time in southwestern Michigan”, in Chicago Reader:
glosses: Excessive development; the state or quality of being overdeveloped
Related terms: underdevelopment
refinancings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: After months of delay, Senator Christopher Dodd has offered a fuller but less than satisfactory account of the V.I.P. mortgage loans extended to him by a key player in the subprime mortgage crisis. Mr. Dodd, the banking committee chairman who oversees remedies for the continuing financial crisis, denied any ethical wrongdoing or “sweetheart deals” in the $781,000 house refinancings he got through the Countrywide Financial Corporation.
ref: 2009 February 9, “Angelo Who?”, in New York Times:
glosses: plural of refinancing
shent
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɛnt
Senses: examples: text: justly shent for their over-meddling
ref: 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):
glosses: simple past and past participle of shend
Derived terms: unshent