cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
allosaurus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: allosauri
form: allosauruses
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἄλλος (állos, “other, different”) + σαῦρος (saûros, “lizard”).
Senses: glosses: A large, carnivorous dinosaur, of genus Allosaurus, that lived in the Jurassic period.
beldames
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of beldame
abdominoplasties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of abdominoplasty
xeriscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: xeriscapings
Etymology: From xeriscape + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: I visited him in mid-September. He had recently moved to a cul-de-sac where every house has stucco walls, a ceramic tile roof, and bland xeriscaping.
ref: 2016 October 31, Andrew Marantz, “Trolls for Trump”, in The New Yorker, retrieved 02 Dec 2017:
glosses: Landscaping in ways that do not require supplemental irrigation.
xeriscaping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From xeriscape + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of xeriscape
Related terms: xerogarden
akharas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of akhara
semantogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/
note: weak vowel merger
ipa: /səˈmæn.tə.ɡɹæm/
Forms: form: semantograms
Etymology: From semanto- + -gram, thus literally "meaning-drawing."
Senses: examples: text: "the majority of Jurchen signs, which included both semantograms and phonograms, were inventions."
ref: 1978, Herbert Franke, Dennis Twitchett, “Introduction”, in The Cambridge History of China, →ISBN, page 32:
text: One could write OJ namyi ‘wave’ with the sinograph for a Chinese morpheme of similar meaning: 波 EMC *pa ‘wave.’ 波 *pa ‘wave’ would then be a semantogram for OJ namyi, serving as a translation of OJ namyi without representing its sound.
ref: 2003, Marc Hideo Miyake, Old Japanese: A Phonetic Reconstruction, →ISBN:
glosses: A symbol used solely for meaning, as when logographic Chinese symbols are used to represent the meaning of native Japanese words.
Synonyms: semantograph
ideograph
Related terms: logogram
phonogram
semantograms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of semantogram
chimichangas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chimichanga
clooties
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clootie
crank angle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crank angles
Senses: qualifier: motors
glosses: The angle of rotation of a crankshaft measured from the position in which the piston is at its highest point known as top dead center (TDC).
Derived terms: crank angle degree
crank angle sensor
brass band
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brass bands
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
hypernyms: band
coordinate_terms: iron band
glosses: A group of musicians who play brass instruments (sometimes accompanied by percussion).
Related terms: woodwind
bull dykes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bull dyke
glowworms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of glowworm
tamponade
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæmpəˈneɪd/
Forms: form: tamponades
Etymology: From tampon + -ade.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: The use of a tampon.
examples: text: If a large fibrohemorrhagic complex had to be removed via a large retinectomy, a silicon oil tamponade is preferable.
ref: 2014 October 1, J. Sebag, editor, Vitreous: in Health and Disease, Springer, page 555:
topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A stoppage in the flow of blood in a vessel, caused either by the insertion of a tampon or by outside constriction.
Derived terms: cardiac tamponade
tamponade
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /tæmpəˈneɪd/
Forms: form: tamponades
form: tamponading
form: tamponaded
form: tamponaded
Etymology: From tampon + -ade.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: To plug or stop with a tampon.
Collins glass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Collins glasses
form: collins glass
Senses: glosses: A particular kind of tumbler, typically holding fourteen fluid ounces and used for Tom Collinses and other long mixed drinks.
apothecaries'
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: ap
Senses: examples: apothecaries' ounce
glosses: In or relating to the apothecaries' system of measures.
apothecaries' system
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ap
Senses: glosses: A particular system of measuring mass and volume.
prentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prentices
Etymology: An old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice: that is, a form which lost the unstressed initial vowel a and reduced the initial double pp to a single p.
Senses: examples: text: Faith, bind him prentice to a lord; by the same rule he'll be a lord when he's out of his time.
ref: 1682, John Lacy, Sir Hercules Buffoon, or The Poetical Squire, act II, scene iv:
glosses: An apprentice.
prentice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: prentices
form: prenticing
form: prenticed
form: prenticed
Etymology: An old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice: that is, a form which lost the unstressed initial vowel a and reduced the initial double pp to a single p.
Senses: glosses: To apprentice.
Synonyms: word: apprentice
word: 'prentice
'prentice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 'prentices
Etymology: From prentice, an old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters.
Senses: examples: text: "You're going to be made a 'prentice of, Oliver."
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 3, in Oliver Twist:
glosses: Abbreviation of apprentice.
'prentice
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: 'prentices
form: 'prenticing
form: 'prenticed
form: 'prenticed
Etymology: From prentice, an old (Middle English) aphetic form of apprentice, with the apostrophe added to indicate the lost letters.
Senses: glosses: Abbreviation of apprentice.
Synonyms: word: apprentice
word: prentice
nonrenewable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + renewable.
Senses: glosses: Not able to be renewed; incapable of renewal.
examples: text: Coal is nonrenewable.
synonyms: finite
antonyms: renewable
glosses: unsustainable; not able to be regrown or renewed; not having an ongoing or continuous source of supply
raw_tags: With respect to a resource
nonrenewable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nonrenewables
Etymology: From non- + renewable.
Senses: antonyms: renewable energy
renewable
glosses: A resource that is not renewable.
-aire
Language: English
Part of speech: suffix
Etymology: By analogy with millionaire, which was, in turn, borrowed from French millionnaire.
Senses: glosses: One whose wealth exceeds a specific number of units in the local currency.
bedded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbɛdɪd/
rhymes: -ɛdɪd
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of bed
jotted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of jot
cajoled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cajole
foreshadowed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of foreshadow
taimen
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: taimens
Etymology: From Russian тайме́нь (tajménʹ, “Hucho taimen”), from Middle Russian таймень (tajmenʹ), from Old Novgorodian таимень (taimenĭ), from Finnish taimen (“Salmo trutta”).
Senses: examples: text: One of his planned angling adventures is a float trip of nearly 100 miles down a wild stretch of the Zhang River in quest of various little-known trout and a salmonoid called the taimen, which can reach well over 100 pounds and live for more than a century.
ref: 1988 May 27, Nelson Bryant, “OUTDOORS; Quest for a 100-Year-Old Fish”, in The New York Times:
glosses: A species of salmon (Hucho taimen), living in Siberia.
Synonyms: Siberian salmon
Siberian taimen
equalism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From equal + -ism.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of egalitarianism.
synonyms: word: egalitarianism
examples: text: Yet in repeated experiments, subjects have cast aside equalism in favor of proportional treatment of defendants.
ref: 2001, Norman J. Finkel, Commonsense Justice, →ISBN, page 335:
glosses: The policy or practice of treating all things equally.
examples: text: Indeed, the ultimate goal of equalism is to regain paradise on Earth. Physical immortality on the polluted planet, where poverty still exists, is meaningless. Eternal life makes sense only if we rebuild paradise.
ref: 2019, Newton Lee, The Transhumanism Handbook, Springer, →ISBN, page 853:
glosses: The idea that emerging technologies will put an end to social stratification.
Related terms: equality
seemliest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of seemly: most seemly
braving
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/
Forms: form: more braving
form: most braving
Senses: examples: text: agree[…] in a most braving manner
ref: 1667 March 25 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “March 15th, 1666–1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume (please specify |volume=I to X), London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893–1899, →OCLC:
glosses: Daring; defiant.
Derived terms: bravingly
braving
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of brave
braving
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbɹeɪvɪŋ/
Forms: form: bravings
Senses: examples: text: With so proud a strain / Of threats and bravings.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: A bravado; a boast.
lunching
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of lunch
lunching
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈlʌnt͡ʃɪŋ/
Forms: form: lunchings
Senses: examples: text: They knew ways to get what they wanted, and always had some in a side place for captains and their friends at lunchings.
ref: 1885, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Francis Walton, New Outlook, volume 32, page 6:
glosses: The act of eating lunch.
lawson
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: lawsons
Senses: glosses: a chemical and dye found in henna (Lawsonia inermis)
discarding
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: discardings
Senses: glosses: The act by which something is discarded; a throwing away.
examples: the usual discardings of country folk
glosses: Discarded material.
discarding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of discard
mopped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ɒpt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of mop
mopped
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɒpt
Senses: examples: text: There was more in the same vein before an anti-climactic conclusion: “This horror is obviously a satire of today’s long-mopped singing groups, but it has failed. It is in a class by itself – if it can be classified.”
ref: 1997, Neil Slaven, Electric Don Quixote: The Definitive Story Of Frank Zappa, London: Omnibus Press, published 2009, →ISBN:
text: So when JD Emmenthaler lit from Dallas with ginger hair, black boots, tan Stetson, and wads of long green money, no one on either side of the village took much notice of him, his blonde-mopped wife Narcissa with her red Corvette she sashayed all over La Mancha in, or his small son Travis, except to note that the latter was a snotty little ass.
ref: 2002, Dorothy Cave, chapter 11, in Song on a Blue Guitar, Santa Fe, N.M.: Sunstone Press, →ISBN, page 93:
text: Tall, dapper, brown-mopped Will was the closest thing I had to a brother.
ref: 2014, Sean Madigan Hoen, Songs Only You Know: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Soho Press, Inc., →ISBN:
glosses: Haired.
piloted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪd/
Forms: form: more piloted
form: most piloted
Derived terms: nonpiloted
unpiloted
piloted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪlətɪd/
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pilot
retracing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of retrace
retracing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: retracings
Senses: glosses: Act of tracing again.
retraces
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of retrace
retraces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of retrace
impelling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛlɪŋ/
Forms: form: more impelling
form: most impelling
Senses: examples: text: The extraordinary spectacle was a good many years ago, in school days, when theology is less impelling than curiosity ... […]
ref: 1908, Correspondent, The Mayfly and the Trout, The Times (UK), June, 9, 1908 reprinted June, 9, 1992
glosses: Causing forward motion or action.
Derived terms: impellingness
impelling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪmˈpɛlɪŋ/
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of impel
hurtling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of hurtle
hurtling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hurtlings
Senses: examples: text: He clasped his hands over the breast of the brave young Irish volunteer, who had come so willingly with him from the same State, who had stood so gallantly by his side in the deadly hurtlings of battle […]
ref: 1873, Richard Miller Devens, The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes of the Rebellion:
text: Thenceforth no flying fires inflamed the gray, / No hurtlings shook the dewdrop from the thorn, / No moan perplexed the mute bird on the spray; […]
ref: c. 1920, Thomas Hardy, And There Was a Great Calm:
glosses: The act of something being hurtled or thrown.
hurtles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of hurtle
hurtled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of hurtle
punctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more punctuated
form: most punctuated
Senses: glosses: Having punctuation
Derived terms: punctuated equilibrium
punctuated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of punctuate
noised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noise
noised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: Now the program calculates the coordinates of the point along the unnoised exit beam vector which has the noised range from the sensor; this is the point the sensor's software believes it has detected.
ref: 1986, Irving R. Abel, Thermal Imaging: 3-4 April 1986, Orlando, Florida, page 94:
text: The first variant consists in alternating noised phases with unnoised descents. More precisely, in order to stay closer to the original function f, we may apply a given number v of elementary transformations with respect to the noised function f_(noised), then a descent with respect to f until a local minimum is reached, then again v noised trials, then a descent with respect to f, and so on.
ref: 2012, Celso C. Ribeiro, Pierre Hansen, Essays and Surveys in Metaheuristics, page 254:
antonyms: unnoised
glosses: Having noise or perturbations that distort data values; noisy.
deluged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of deluge
deluging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of deluge
statutory declarations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of statutory declaration
misreads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of misread
misreads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of misread
pieds-à-terre
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pied-à-terre
trooping
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of troop
trooping
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: troopings
Senses: examples: text: This is then followed by the Olympic movement's own quasi-traditional rituals, such as torches, flag changes and flag troopings, anthems, team parades, opening declarations, the taking of oaths […]
ref: 2005, Alan Tomlinson, Sport and Leisure Cultures:
glosses: The act of marching in a troop.
Derived terms: moss-trooping
trooped
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of troop
Catalunya
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Catalonia: An autonomous community in northeast Spain.
Catalans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Catalan
but for the grace of God
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: An ellipsis for there but for the grace of God go I.
Senses: glosses: Were it not for God's help.
there but for the grace of God go I
Language: English
Part of speech: proverb
Etymology: There are several variants of this phrase, but all make reference to the same concept: an admission of humility that were it not for the work of God's grace (and perhaps also one's upbringing among those also formed in God's grace), any number of trials or tribulations could have befallen a person. The original is most often attributed to St. Francis of Assisi, who may well have been quoting or paraphrasing the words of the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:8–10, which states, "Last of all, as to one born abnormally, he appeared to me. For I am the least of the apostles, not fit to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am..."
It has also been attributed to a mid-16th-century statement by a Protestant, John Bradford: "There but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford", in reference to a group of prisoners being led to execution.
Senses: examples: text: I been turned out of places all over town
My smile is a frown turned upside down
There but for the grace of God go I
ref: 2001, J. G. Thirlwell, “Grace of God”, in Flow, performed by Foetus:
glosses: A recognition that others' misfortune could be one's own, if it weren't for the blessing of the Divine, or for fortune or fate.
wikipedia: John Bradford
Related terms: but for the grace of God
by the Grace of God
good graces
so help me God
bunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/
Forms: form: bunyas
form: bunna bunna
form: bunya bunya
form: bunyah-bunyah
Etymology: From Yagara bunya bunya, Gabi bunyi, Wakawaka bunyi.
Senses: examples: text: The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya, — a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.
ref: 1887, Maturin Murray Ballou, Under the Southern Cross:
text: Her three favourite bunyah-bunyah nut trees were destroyed last year to make way for more grazing land for sheep and other animals whose cloven hooves destroyed the delicate topsoil and laid bare the earth.
ref: 1993, Philip McLaren, Sweet Water…Stolen Land, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008, p. 142
text: Bunya nuts, which come from a conifer in the genus Araucaria, are an example of a plant that fruited so heavily that large stores were set aside.
ref: 2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 150:
glosses: The bunya pine, Araucaria bidwillii, native to Queensland.
bunya
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈbʌnjə/
Forms: form: bunyas
form: bunyah
Senses: glosses: A banyan, a member of a specific Hindu caste.
warmthness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Apparently from warmth and -ness, or, a blend of warmth and warmness.
Senses: glosses: Warmth.
spurring
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spur
spurring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurrings
Senses: examples: text: On arriving at a sand plain, my friend's joy burst forth in sundry useless checks and spurrings of his steed, impatient of which the horse dashed forward, heedless of the cries and struggles of his awkward rider to bring him to a halt!
ref: 1831, The Spirit of the English Magazines, page 169:
glosses: An application of the spurs to a horse.
Related terms: spurrings
gurgled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of gurgle
dislocated
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of dislocate
dislocated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dislocated
form: most dislocated
Senses: examples: text: At this point, other ships in the U.S. formation began to spot the incoming Japanese column. Duncan, one of the racing trio of destroyers, and Boise independently spotted the contacts, and both Boise and Helena now reported their sightings to Scott, a few minutes later. But with San Francisco still not seeing anything, and Scott confirming that the three dislocated destroyers were coming up fast past the column to starboard, he convinced himself that the contacts that were being spotted were actually these three escort ships, and, thus, he discarded the reports.
ref: 2020 December 9, Drachinifel, 14:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - Cape Esperance (IJN 1 : 2 USN), archived from the original on 04 Dec 2022:
glosses: Out of place; in a place other than is usual.
examples: text: Every day the stock market is pushed higher by the Fed, it becomes more dislocated from reality. The homebuilder stocks are more dislocated from fundamental reality now than they were at the peak of the bubble.
ref: 2015 April 13, “New Home Sales: Lumber And Houston Are Crashing”, in Investment Research Dynamics, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020:
glosses: Disconnected.
Derived terms: dislocatedly
dislocatedness
undislocated
lagged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more lagged
form: most lagged
Derived terms: nonlagged
unlagged
lagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of lag
cudgels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cudgel
cudgels
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cudgel
flicked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /flɪkt/
rhymes: -ɪkt
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of flick
croaked
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of croak
oozed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of ooze
gazers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gazer
endearments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of endearment
chron
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹɒn/
rhymes: -ɒn
Forms: form: chrons
Etymology: Apparently from chrono-, perhaps for resonance with eon.
Senses: topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: A period of time between two geomagnetic reversals.
Derived terms: biochron
chronozone
isochron
subchron
superchron
abapical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aˈbapɪkl/
ipa: /æˈbæpɪk(ə)l/
ipa: [æˈbæpɪkɫ̩]
Forms: form: ab'apical
Etymology: From ab- + apical.
Senses: examples: 1946—Cushman, Joseph A. (1946). Upper Cretaceous Framinifera of the Gulf Coastal Region of the United States and Adjacent Areas. Professional Paper 206. Washington, D. C.: U. S. Department of the Interior, Geological Survey. p. 70 – via Google Books.
The deck, which is not far below the aperture, has a narrow indentation on the abapical side and a wider indentation on the adapical side.
1973—Henderson, R A (March 1973). "Clarence and Raukumara Series (Albian—?Santonian) Ammonoidea from New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 3 (1): 86. Retrieved 3 February 2016 – via Google Books.
The two abapical rows of tubercles of available specimens show a complete range of variation from completely separated to almost completely coalesced.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to something at its lowest point; designating the part opposite to the apex.
abatjour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊ.ɚ/
ipa: /ˌɑˌbɑˈʒʊɹ/
Forms: form: abatjours
Etymology: Borrowed from French abat-jour, from abattre (“to throw down”) + jour (“day, daylight”).
Senses: glosses: A skylight or other device whose purpose is to direct light into a room.
acanaceous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: text: But in addition, Johnathan, as the mocked parent, intended to see that the bed was as hard, knotty and acanaceous as the father knew how to make it.
ref: 1921, William Dudley Pelley, The Fog: A Novel, page 276:
glosses: Bearing prickles or thistles; prickly.
boongary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boongaries
Senses: examples: text: The boongary sleeps during the day, nestled in a fork in the branches high among the tree-tops.
ref: 1990, Reader's Digest, Did You Know?: New Insights Into a World That Is Full of Astonishing Stories:
glosses: A tree kangaroo of northern Queensland.
pattering
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of patter
pattering
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: patterings
Senses: examples: text: Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions.
ref: 1962 June, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Modern Railways, page 399:
glosses: Groupings of frequent irregularly repeated sounds of moderate magnitude and lower-than-average pitch.
splintered
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splinter
fusillading
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fusillade
fusilladed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of fusillade
showrooms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showroom
transmuted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of transmute
unoffending
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unoffending
form: most unoffending
Etymology: From un- + offending.
Senses: glosses: Not offending.
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”). More at riddle.
Senses: examples: text: Track work had to be confined largely to the vital aspects of alignment and level, and the finer points of track maintenance, as well as such matters as the riddling and cleaning of ballast, proper care of drainage and formation, cuttings, and embankments, suffered considerable neglect.
ref: 1953 September, “Restoring British Permanent Way to Prewar Standards”, in Railway Magazine, page 584:
glosses: present participle and gerund of riddle (“to speak ambiguously or answer a question”)
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riddlings
Etymology: From Middle English redel, redels, from Old English rǣdels, rǣdelse (“counsel, opinion, imagination, riddle”). More at riddle.
Senses: examples: text: Hence the laughter of ridicule, whether spontaneous or incited by words, and hence too the laughter of wit, which has an intermediate ancestry in such mental tussles or riddlings as may at one time have taken the place of more savage physical strife.
ref: 2015, W. K. Wimsatt, Hateful Contraries: Studies in Literature and Criticism, page 94:
glosses: The posing or solving of a riddle.
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of riddle (“to sieve or fill with holes”)
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: riddlings
Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle.
Senses: examples: text: The good grain is riddled by hand into a heap at a convenient part of the barn, and the riddlings are thrown among the stuff which descends to the floor through the other spout.
ref: 1832, The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, volume 3, page 989:
glosses: Material removed by riddling, or sieving.
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more riddling
form: most riddling
Etymology: From Middle English riddil, ridelle (“sieve”). More at riddle.
Senses: examples: text: O perplex'd diſcompoſition, O ridling diſtemper, O miſerable condition of Man.
ref: 1624, John Donne, “1. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Enfilled with or spread throughout; permeating; pervading.
riddling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English ridlen. More at riddle.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of riddle (“to plait”)
foulest
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: superlative form of foul: most foul
snugs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snug
snugs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of snug
snugging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of snug
defuses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of defuse
commandos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of commando
death squads
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of death squad
looters
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of looter
politology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From polit(ics) + -ology, compare German Politologie.
Senses: synonyms: word: political science
glosses: The branch of social science concerned with theory, description, analysis and prediction of political behavior, political systems and politics broadly-construed.
Related terms: politological
politologist
belt of the crozier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An admonishment or a condemnation from the clergy.
throw in
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: throw ins
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of throw-in.
throw in
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: throws in
form: throwing in
form: threw in
form: thrown in
Senses: glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see throw, in.
examples: text: If you take the large size, we'll throw in a set of tea towels.
glosses: To add something extra free of charge.
examples: text: Throw in Mr Trump's promise of a "great, great wall along our southern border" - with estimates starting at $12bn - and "massive tax relief for the middle class", and the price tag for his speech proposals is on an express elevator to astronomical.
ref: 2017 March 1, Anthony Zurcher, “Trump addresses Congress: A kinder, gentler president”, in BBC News:
text: There's something special about tidal estuaries, due to the abundance of wildlife and the ever-changing scenes as the water ebbs or rises. Throw in some moody skies and filtered sunlight, and the views can resemble a painting by Turner - only you don't have to go to the National Gallery to see this, it's brought to your seat on a train.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 65:
glosses: To include in a calculation.
glosses: To quit, to fold.
glosses: To inject, as a fluid.
Related terms: throw in with
sandbagged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of sandbag
zemstvo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: zĕmsʹtvo
ipa: /ˈzɛmstvəʊ/
Forms: form: zemstvos
form: zemstva
form: zempstwo
form: zemstwo
Etymology: From Russian зе́мство (zémstvo), from земля́ (zemljá, “land, country”).
Senses: examples: text: Two of Alexander III's counter-reforms, in 1890 and 1892, greatly increased the governors' powers over the zemstvos and municipal bodies.
ref: 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 52:
glosses: A Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.
Derived terms: zemstvoist
ethnoscape
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ethnoscapes
Etymology: From ethno- + -scape.
Senses: examples: text: The landscapes of group identity — the ethnoscapes — around the world are no longer familiar anthropological objects, insofar as groups are no longer tightly territorialized, spatially bounded, historically unselfconscious, or culturally homogeneous.
ref: 1991, Arjun Appadurai, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
text: Is an ethnoscape preserved as a tourist attraction still an ethnoscape? In the English case, David Lowenthal suspects it is not: “The heritage landscape is less and less England, more and more 'England-land,' Europe's offshore theme park. […]
ref: 2006, Katrina Z. S. Schwartz, Nature and National Identity After Communism, page 200:
text: The divine command to Isaac in 26:3 to sojourn in a land promised as a future possession accents a flexible relation to the ethnoscape, one that serves ethnic identity.
ref: 2011, Elisabeth Robertson Kennedy, “Seeking a Homeland: Sojourn and Ethnic Identity in the Ancestral Narratives of Genesis”, in Biblical Interpretation Series, volume 106, page 234:
glosses: A transnational distribution of correlated people.
Coordinate terms: technoscape
financescape
mediascape
ideoscape
ethnoscapes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ethnoscape
methylations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌmɛθɪˈleɪʃənz/
Senses: glosses: plural of methylation
boosts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of boost
boosts
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of boost
tonnes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tonne
warblers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of warbler
forebrain
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: forebrains
Etymology: From fore- + brain.
Senses: examples: text: The medial forebrain bundle (MFB), a key structure of reward-seeking circuitry, remains inadequately characterized in humans despite its vast importance for emotional processing and development of addictions and depression.
ref: 2012, Volker A Coenen, Jaak Panksepp, Trevor A Hurwitz, Horst Urbach, Burkhard Mädler, “Human medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and anterior thalamic radiation (ATR): imaging of two major subcortical pathways and the dynamic balance of opposite affects in understanding depression”, in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, →DOI, →PMID:
topics: anatomy
medicine
neuroanatomy
neurology
neuroscience
sciences
antonyms: afterbrain
glosses: The anterior part of the brain, including the cerebrum, thalamus, and hypothalamus.
Meronyms: cerebrum
thalamus
hypothalamus
diencephalon
telencephalon
Derived terms: hemiforebrain
Related terms: afterbrain
hindbrain
midbrain
cryptochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cryptochrome
cess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: cesses
form: cessing
form: cessed
form: cessed
Etymology: For the first meaning below, the writings of Edmund Spenser, published 1633, point to a borrowing from Irish cís (“tax, tribute, cess, rent”), likely from Latin census.
Other senses: Uncertain. Occurs in print at least as early as 1831, when Samuel Lover used the expression as one already long-established. He unambiguously stated the derivation of cess in the malediction bad cess to be an abbreviation of success. The OED speculated that it either was from success or from assessment meaning a military or governmental exaction. The verb is attested in Middle English (cessen).
Senses: examples: text: ...according to the quantity thereof, we may cess the said rent and allowance issuing thereout.
ref: 1596, Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Irelande:
glosses: To levy a cess.
Derived terms: bad cess
cessment
good cess
Related terms: cease
cessation
cess
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: cesses
Etymology: Possibly from an archaic dialect word meaning “bog”. According to the OED, from earlier suspiral (“water pipe, setting tank”).
Senses: examples: text: In April 1923, he was working with a gang of five others in Glasgow on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS). They were told to walk in the cess. But as it wasn't clear, they walked on the sleepers, each carrying a 70lb lifting screw on his shoulder. McGuinness was struck by a train and killed for want of a safe path.
ref: 2022 August 10, Dr Mike Esbester, “New understandings from old incidents”, in RAIL, number 963, page 58:
topics: rail-transport
railways
transport
glosses: The area along either side of a railroad track which is kept at a lower level than the sleeper bottom, in order to provide drainage.
glosses: A bog, in particular a peat bog.
glosses: A piece of peat, or a turf, particularly when dried for use as fuel.
Derived terms: cess path
cess heave
Related terms: cesspool
cesspit
cess
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɛs/
rhymes: -ɛs
Forms: form: cesses
form: cessing
form: cessed
form: cessed
Etymology: From Middle French cesser. See cease.
Senses: examples: text: And therefore, if there be lord, mesne, and tenant, and the tenant doth cess, and the mesne takes a wife and dies, his wife shall not have dower of the tenancy...
ref: 1827, John Perkins, A Profitable Book, Treating of the Laws of England:
topics: law
glosses: To cease; to neglect.
cryptochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cryptochromes
Etymology: From crypto- + -chrome.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several light-sensitive flavoproteins, involved in the circadian rhythms of plants and animals, and possibly also in the sensing of magnetic fields.
protoreceptor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protoreceptors
Etymology: From proto + receptor.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: A nerve ending or similar group of specialist cells that are sensitive to light.
nerve ending
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nerve endings
Senses: glosses: The termination of a nerve, at the distal end of an axon
spurting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of spurt
spurting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spurtings
Senses: examples: text: The seeds are apt to spurt in the formation; and these spurtings are rarely for the better […]
ref: 1846, The British Florist: Or, Lady's Journal of Horticulture:
glosses: The act of something that spurts.
teamed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of team
teamed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Associated with others in a team
Pelasgian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Pelasgians
form: Pelasgi
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE.
Senses: examples: text: It seems evident that the Hellenes much excelled the Pelasgians in the spirit of enterprise and in military accomplishments.
ref: 1830, Henry Malden, History of Rome, Baldwin and Cradock, page 70:
text: In Homer the Pelasgians¹ are of little importance. They are inhabitants of Asia Minor, where they possess a Larissa, and fight in the ranks of the Trojan army. We also hear of Pelasgi among the inhabitants of Crete.
ref: 1895, Evelyn Abbott, A History of Greece, G. P. Putnam's Sons, page 27:
glosses: An inhabitant of pre-Hellenic Greece.
Pelasgian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE.
Senses: examples: text: 1869, Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, New Series, Volume 1, Ethnological Society of London, Trübner and Co. page 324,
Pelasgian, therefore, is regarded by him as convertible with Illyrian, and that with Gueg, subject to modifications of Tosk and relations therewith.
text: […]Malte-Brun described Pelasgian as a primitive version of Greek, and distinguished it from Illyrian, which he regarded as a branch of the Thracian language.
ref: 2002, Noel Malcolm, “Myths of Albanian National Identity”, in Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers, Bernd Jürgen Fischer, editors, Albanian Identities, Indiana University Press, page 76:
glosses: The language spoken by the Pelasgians.
Pelasgian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Pelasgian
form: most Pelasgian
Etymology: From Ancient Greek Πελασγός (Pelasgós) + -ian, presumably based on a Pre-Greek ethnonym. Compare Egyptian pwrꜣsꜣtj, an ethnonym listed as one of the Sea Peoples attacking Egypt around 1190 BCE.
Senses: examples: text: The very solemn and ancient observance of her^([Demeter's]) worship in Attica, which was so eminently a Pelasgian state in the time of Homer, entirely accords with the indications of the Homeric text.
ref: 1858, William Ewart Gladstone, Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Volume II, Oxford University Press, page 214:
text: Croesus learns that of the Spartans and the Athenians, the one ethnos, the Spartans, was Dorian, the other, the Athenians, was Ionian; the one (obviously Athenians) were Pelasgian of old, the other (the Dorians) were Greek (Hellenikon).
ref: 2000, Rosalind Thomas, Herodotus in Context, Paperback edition, Cambridge University Press, page 119:
text: Until recently, the investigation of Pelasgian language and culture was treated as a special field of Indo-European studies because the majority of scholars were convinced that the pre–Greek population of Greece must have been of Indo-European ethnic stock.
ref: 2014, Harald Haarmann, Roots of Ancient Greek Civilization, McFarland & Company, page 17:
synonyms: Pelasgic
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Pelasgians, their culture, etc.
Related terms: Hellene
Hellas
Pelasgia
cesses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cess
cesses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cess
jawns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jawn
manjak
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of manjack (“form of asphalt”).
hyte
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hyte
form: most hyte
Etymology: From archaic Scots [Term?].
Senses: glosses: insane or mad.
Tuskegee
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/
Etymology: From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.
Senses: glosses: A Creek settlement that the modern city of Tuskegee, Alabama is located on.
glosses: A city, the county seat of Macon County, in southwestern Alabama, United States.
glosses: A former town of the Overhill Cherokee people, located along the Little Tennessee River in what is now Monroe County, Tennessee, United States.
examples: text: Responding with some heat to Angell's criticisms—they described comparisons to Tuskegee as "inflammatory and wrong"—the writers explained that cultural differences were at the heart of the problem.
ref: 2001, Paul Farmer, Infections and Inequalities: The Modern Plagues, University of California Press, page 35:
glosses: The notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment, a landmark event in medical research ethics and law.
glosses: Tuskegee National Forest.
glosses: Tuskegee University.
Derived terms: Tuskegeean
Tuskegee Airman
Tuskegee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /tʌsˈkiːɡiː/
Forms: form: Tuskegees
Etymology: From Spanish Tasquiqui, which itself came from Creek Taskeke (“warriors”), the name of a Creek settlement.
Senses: examples: text: You couldn't have a Tuskegee with a community consultation requirement, or even with public notification, because people would say, 'No, this stinks.'
ref: 2004 March, Steve Whitehead, Blood On Tap, Part 2: An Ethical Dilemma in Emergency Research, Emergency Medical Services:
glosses: An unethical experiment on humans.
glosses: One of the Tuskegee Airmen.
pui
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: [ˈpʰu̯i˦˨]
Etymology: From Hokkien 呸 (phùi, “to spit”), itself onomatopoeic.
Senses: glosses: Interjection expressing strong disdain.
flannel cake
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: flannel cakes
Senses: glosses: a thin batter cake fried on both sides.
Synonyms: pancake
griddlecake
flapjack
weather gauge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weather gage
Senses: topics: government
military
naval
navy
politics
war
antonyms: lee gauge
glosses: An advantageous position of one sailing vessel with respect to another, because of the direction of the prevailing wind, that allows it to maneuver for an attack etc.
radiatori
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from Italian radiatori (“radiators”). Doublet of radiator.
Senses: glosses: A type of pasta in the shape of a radiator.
antenati
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: antonyms: postnati
glosses: Those born before a certain event, such as the Union of England and Scotland Act 1603 or the United States Declaration of Independence.
net earnings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: net
glosses: Earnings of a person after deduction of all taxes, social security charges and other obligatory payments; the take-home pay.
hypernyms: net
glosses: Earnings of a company after all expenses, depreciation and taxes have been deducted from the gross income.
Related terms: net profit
net weight
gross pay
take-home pay
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: Their take-home pay was half their gross, but fifteen percent was for retirement.
text: A new book called When Nothing Works shows which groups have enjoyed the biggest rise in take-home pay since the turn of the millennium. From Tony Blair to Boris Johnson, the authors discover one golden rule: the richer you are, the more money you’re given.
ref: 2023 August 17, Aditya Chakrabortty, “Can’t pay and they really do take it away: what happens when the bailiffs come knocking”, in The Guardian:
glosses: The net earnings of a salary or wage earner.
bead breaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bead breakers
Senses: examples: text: Lost in the middle of nowhere, he started to fix it by using his car-jack as a bead breaker, using the weight of the car to "gently" separate the bead from the rim.
topics: automotive
transport
vehicles
glosses: A tool or device used to separate the bead from a tire rim.
cyclizations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cyclization