cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
sangar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsaŋə/
Forms: form: sangars
form: sangah
form: sanger
form: sungah
form: sungar
form: sungha
Etymology: From Pashto سنګر (sangar) or from Persian سنگر (sangar).
Senses: examples: text: At the summits of these the enemy sharpshooters waited for them in sangars, or rock-built entrenchments, each of which had to be taken before the advance could safely continue.
ref: 1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 422:
text: A sangar is a breastwork in the form of stonewalls built without bounding material. If stones are unavailable at or near the picket site sandbags are brought in to build the sangar.
ref: 2002, Stephen Hughes, The Iraqi Threat and Saddam Hussein′s Weapons of Mass Destruction, page 140:
text: As the sun finally set, the rebels rushed the sangars, but were cut to pieces by the deadly accurate SAS fire.
ref: 2003, Mike Ryan, Secret Operations of the SAS, page 81:
text: The game′s up, thought Piet as the Burghers returned fire and moved forward to attack the sangar.
ref: 2007, David Humphry, Siege, page 205:
topics: government
military
politics
war
glosses: A stone breastwork; a fortified niche or look-out post.
wikipedia: sangar
sangars
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sangar
counter-mine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: counter-mines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of countermine.
countermines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of countermine
budtender
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈbʌdˌtɛndə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈbʌdˌtɛndɚ/
Forms: form: budtenders
form: bud tender
Etymology: Blend of bud + bartender.
Senses: examples: text: "You can call me the bud tender," the white-coated Arrow said as he offered patients their choice of 13 different kinds of marijuana, in addition to such goodies as chocolate-flavored cannabis bars.
ref: 2004 Jul 2, Henry K. Lee, 'Medical pot users say they won't stop - Legal impact: Consensus is enforcement won't increase', San Francisco Chronicle (p. B5)
text: The so-called budtenders who work behind large glass display cases provide assistance in selecting the best strain. All of them are medical marijuana users, and they typically are medicated while working.
ref: 2005 June 15, Dean E. Murphy, “California Reins In Clinics Using Marijuana for Medical Purposes”, in The New York Times:
text: As a registered medical marijuana patient – for a chronic stomach condition – he has to show ID every time he goes into a dispensary, and fears he'd get special treatment if the "budtenders" knew they were serving the influential critic.
ref: 2013 May 17, Jenny Kleeman, “Cannabis: Colorado's budding industry”, in The Guardian:
text: Oak Peak is a “budtender” at the Giving Tree of Denver, a marijuana dispensary that sells such edibles as Karma Kandy.
ref: 2014 October 31, Lynd Bui, Dana Hedgpeth, “Marijuana-infused candy found in Prince George’s County”, in The Washington Post:
synonyms: potender
glosses: A recreational or medical cannabis dispensary worker who sells marijuana and is knowledgeable about various cannabis products.
Related terms: budtending
baileys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bailey
unraveler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unravelers
form: unraveller
Etymology: From unravel + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who, or that which, unravels.
jump seats
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jump seat
Silicon Beach
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Any of several coastal towns or cities that host hi-tech industries; examples include Los Angeles and Brighton.
dog-whistle politics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dog whistle politics
Senses: glosses: The communication, of often contentious political ideas in coded language, such that only a small group of voters understands them as they are meant to be understood.
QWERTY phenomenon
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of qwerty syndrome.
synonyms: word: qwerty syndrome
Related terms: lock-in
caapi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The bundle of the caapi would presumably have quite lost its virtue from the same cause, and I do not know that it was ever analyzed chemically;
ref: 1967, Harvard University - Botanical Museum, Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University - Volume 22, page 126:
text: No more interesting or complex narcotic drink can be found than ayahuasca, caapi, or yajé, prepared basically from the bark of the liana Banisteriopsis caapi.
ref: 1977, Walter H. Lewis, Memory P. F. Elvin-Lewis, Medical Botany - Plants Affecting Human Health, page 701:
text: A number of studies have confused ayahuasca, caapi, and yagé as substances other than Banisteriopsis caapi.
ref: 1985, Richard Alan Miller, The Magical and Ritual Use of Aphrodisiacs, page 91:
text: Describing some of the effects of caapi, which he took with the natives of an Amazon village, McGovern wrote: “Curiously enough, certain of the Indians fell into a particularly deep state of trance, in which they possessed what appeared to be telepathic powers.
ref: 2000, Robert Masters, Jean Houston, The Varieties of Psychedelic Experience - The Classic Guide to the Effects of LSD on the Human Psyche:
glosses: A hallucinogen, obtained from the South American vine, Banisteriopsis caapi, used medicinally by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon.
cacogeusia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: An experience of a bad taste not due to ingested material
cacomelia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cacomelias
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: A congenital deformity of a limb
cacoplastic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cacoplastic
form: most cacoplastic
Etymology: From caco- + plastic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to, or causing, abnormal growth or formation.
Sulpician
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sulpicians
form: Sulpitian
Etymology: From Sulpice + -ian.
So called after the parish of St. Sulpice in Paris, of which the founder, Jean Jacques Olier, was pastor in 1643.
Senses: glosses: One of an order of priests established in France in 1642 to educate men for the ministry, and later introduced into Canada and the United States.
Sulpicians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sulpician
bully tree
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bully trees
form: bolletrie
form: bullet tree
form: bulletrie
form: bullytree
Senses: glosses: Any of several West Indian trees of the family Sapotaceae of tropical trees that yield a milky sap.
Sideroxylon spp.
glosses: Any of several West Indian trees of the family Sapotaceae of tropical trees that yield a milky sap.
Manilkara bidentata
synonyms: ausubo
balata
bulletwood
massaranduba
cow-tree
glosses: Any of several West Indian trees of the family Sapotaceae of tropical trees that yield a milky sap.
Manilkara spectabilis,
glosses: Any of several West Indian trees of the family Sapotaceae of tropical trees that yield a milky sap.
Pouteria multiflora (broad-leaved lucuma)
Hypernyms: tree
Hyponyms: bastard bully tree
bully trees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bully tree
gutta-perchas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gutta-percha
Sulpitian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Sulpitians
Etymology: From Sulpitius + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Sulpician.
Sulpitians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Sulpitian
idioplasm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: idioplasms
Etymology: From idio- + -plasm.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of idioplasma.
trigrammic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Archaic form of trigrammatic.
Ignatius beans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Ignatius bean
vauqueline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: strychnine
tracheate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Having tracheae.
Synonyms: tracheated
tracheate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tracheates
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Any arthropod with tracheae; one of the Tracheata.
tracheate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tracheates
form: tracheating
form: tracheated
form: tracheated
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: To form tracheae
tracheates
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tracheate
subalternating
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + alternating.
Senses: glosses: subalternate; successive
pediluvies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pediluvy
pediluvy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pediluvies
Senses: glosses: The bathing of the feet.
glosses: A bath for the feet.
seminose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Latin semen seed + glucose.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: A carbohydrate of the glucose group found in the thickened endosperm of certain seeds, and extracted as yellow syrup; D-mannose.
tripodian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tripodians
Senses: topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: Ancient Greece
glosses: An ancient stringed instrument, apparently resembling the Delphic tripod in form, and very difficult to play.
tripodians
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tripodian
statarianly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more statarianly
form: most statarianly
Etymology: From statarian + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Your skirmishing parties, call them cohorts or cow-hearts, shall never drive my statarianly disciplined battallion from its ground.
ref: 1768, Abraham Tucker, The Light of Nature Pursued:
glosses: fixedly; steadily
cyclamin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A white amorphous substance, originally regarded as a glucoside but now known to be a triterpenoid glycoside, extracted from the corm of Cyclamen purpurascens.
instyle
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: instyles
form: instyling
form: instyled
form: instyled
Etymology: From in- + style?
Senses: examples: text: The Christians of the West, for the recovery of the Holy Land (so by them instiled).
ref: 1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:
glosses: To style.
instyled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of instyle
instyles
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of instyle
instyling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of instyle
doob grass
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: doub grass
Etymology: From Hindi दूब (dūb), from Sanskrit दूर्वा (dūrvā). The first element is a doublet of durva.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Bermuda grass.
synonyms: word: Bermuda grass
Liparian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈpɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /lɪˈpɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈpeɪ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: more Liparian
form: most Liparian
Etymology: From Lipari + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Lipari, the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, Italy.
Liparian
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /lɪˈpɛəɹi.ən/
ipa: /lɪˈpɛɹi.ən/
ipa: /-ˈpeɪ-/
rhymes: -ɛəɹiən
Forms: form: Liparians
Etymology: From Lipari + -an.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Lipari.
heteroptics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hetero- + optics.
Senses: examples: text: But this irregularity in vision , together with such enormities , as tipping the wink , the circumspective roll , the sidepeep through a thin hood or fan , must be put in the class of Heteroptics.
ref: 1711 December 28 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “MONDAY, December 17, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 250; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
glosses: hallucination; the vision of something that is not real.
connivencies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of connivency
connivency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: connivencies
Senses: glosses: connivance
fulham
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fulhams
Etymology: So called because loaded dice were supposed to have been chiefly made at Fulham, originally in Middlesex, England.
Senses: examples: text: “Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!”
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: Alternative form of fullam (“loaded die”).
examples: text: As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With fulhams of poetic fiction
ref: c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part II, canto 1:
glosses: Alternative form of fullam (“sham”).
diploetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: diploic
hemicranies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hemicrany
hemicrany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hemicranies
Senses: glosses: Dated form of hemicrania.
mayfish
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mayfish
form: mayfishes
Etymology: From May + fish.
Senses: glosses: A striped killifish (Fundulus majalis).
sasheries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sashery
sashery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sasheries
Etymology: From sash + -ery.
Senses: examples: text: distinguished only by their sasheries and insignia
ref: 1864, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XVII, page 594:
glosses: A collection of, or decoration of sashes.
Areopagist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Areopagists
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Areopagite.
synonyms: word: Areopagite
Areopagists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of Areopagist
crop-ear
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crop-ears
Senses: glosses: A person or animal whose ears are cropped.
crop-ears
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of crop-ear
ceduous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.dju.əs/
Forms: form: more ceduous
form: most ceduous
Etymology: From Latin caeduus, from caedō (“to cut down”).
Senses: examples: text: Theſe [trees] we ſhall divide into the Greater and more Ceduous, Fruticant and Shrubby; Feras and wild; or more Civiliz'd and domeſtique; [...]
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, “. Introduction.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 2:
glosses: Of a tree: fit to be felled.
Otomanguean
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Oto-Manguean
Senses: glosses: A large language family comprising several families of Native American languages.
Derived terms: Otomangueanist
lavalier
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˌlæv.əˈlɪɹ/
/ˌlɑv-/
Forms: form: lavaliers
Etymology: Borrowed from French lavallière, named after French noblewoman Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710).
Senses: topics: jewelry
lifestyle
related: word: lavaliere
glosses: An item of jewellery consisting of a pendant, sometimes with one stone, suspended from a necklace.
synonyms: lapel mic
glosses: A lavalier microphone.
Derived terms: lavalier microphone
lavaliers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lavalier
chairoplane
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈtʃɛːɹə(ʊ)pleɪn/
ipa: /ˈtʃɛɹəpleɪn/
ipa: /-ɹoʊ-/
enpr: châr''ə-plān
enpr: châr''ō-plān
Forms: form: chairoplanes
Etymology: Blend of chair + aeroplane.
Senses: synonyms: chair swing ride
swinger
swing ride
waver swinger
wave swinger
yo-yo
glosses: A fairground ride, a variation on the carousel in which the chairs are suspended from the rotating top of the carousel.
chairoplanes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chairoplane
arpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: arpines
Senses: examples: text: Why , mistress , ' tis your only way,
Before the judge's face: if he be master
To enjoin me first that I reveal to you
Of poor ten arpines of land forty hours longer
ref: 1623, John Webster, The Devil's Law Case:
glosses: Obsolete form of arpent.
barred owl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: barred owls
Senses: examples: text: Two barred owls, lugubrious and beautiful, call across a great distance.
ref: 2018, Richard Powers, The Overstory, Vintage (2019), page 546:
glosses: A large American owl (Strix varia) with dark brown transverse bars on the breast.
Synonyms: eight-hooter
hoot owl
rain owl
wood owl
Related terms: striped owl
barred owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of barred owl
unharbor
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: unharbors
form: unharboring
form: unharbored
form: unharbored
Etymology: From un- + harbor.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of unharbour.
unharbored
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unharbor
Hocktide
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hock-tide
form: Hock tide
Etymology: Derived from an unknown first element + tide.
Senses: glosses: A medieval English festival celebrated on the second Monday and Tuesday after Easter Sunday. The festivities involved men and women tying each other up and demanding a kiss or other payment for release.
Synonyms: Hockday
Hockday
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Hocktide.
synonyms: word: Hocktide
concertative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more concertative
form: most concertative
Etymology: The "quarrelsome" sense is from Latin concertativus.
The concertation sense is a back-formation from concertation, replacing the -ation suffix with -ative.
Senses: examples: text: […] the development of the 'concertative state', the institutionalized consultation between large interest groups, government and administration.
ref: 1983, Alexander Kouzmin, Public Sector Administration: New Perspectives, page 59:
text: It [sc. the NEDC system] was clearly one of several concertative arrangements set up by the British state to provide channels of access for labor and management to industrial policy making.
ref: 1986, Jeffrey A. Hart, “British Industrial Policy”, in Claude E. Barfield, William A. Schambra, editors, The Politics of Industrial Policy: A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, page 131:
text: The Swedish political system has long been regarded as exemplary of what political scientists have called a “consensus model” of democracy […] During the postwar period, political institutions have supposedly been characterized by “a low intensity of conflict, together with a highly effective machinery for conflict resolution. The predominant style of policy-making is seen as concertative and deliberative, and the level of inter-elite agreement is high” (Elder at al. 1988: 182; cf. 465–7).
ref: 1988, Henrik Enroth, quoting Neil Elder at al., “Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden Democrats”, in Giuseppe Sciortino, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, editors, Populism in the Civil Sphere, published 2020, page 208:
topics: government
politics
glosses: Related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
furbaby
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: furbabies
form: fur baby
Etymology: From fur + baby.
Senses: examples: text: Mrs. Jackson still kept doggie biscuits in her pockets, even though her furbaby had died two months ago.
ref: 2007, Barbara Karmazin, Night Moves, Loose Id, published 2007, →ISBN:
text: As I took the satiny-furred cat into my arms, his purring ratcheted up a couple of notches. Brian stood looking at the two of us, grinning, then said of the malnourished creature, “I guess we have a furbaby!”
ref: 2012, Marion Arnott, “Another One in from the Cold”, in Marie O'Regan, editor, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories by Women, Constable & Robinson, →ISBN:
text: He looked down at the puppy fast asleep in his arms. Maybe this furbaby would slow down the ticking of her biological clock, too.
ref: 2015, Kallypso Masters, Nobody's Dream, →ISBN:
glosses: A furry pet considered a child by a human.
Synonyms: furkid
take a knee
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: takes a knee
form: taking a knee
form: took a knee
form: taken a knee
form: take the knee
Senses: examples: text: Levon Berry, a 288-pound tackle for S. Pete, decided to take a knee and adjust the adhesive tape that's wrapped around his street shoes.
ref: 1972 November 6, Tim Wood, “Tale of the tape and dig those shoes”, in The Tampa Times, page 31:
text: "Take a knee, take a knee," he said as each group came to him. Brennan knelt to Bonow's right. He plucked a few blades of grass and sucked them, tasting dirt and fertilizer and lime.
ref: 1987, Joseph Monninger, Second Season, page 142:
glosses: To come to rest, usually briefly, with one of one's knees on the ground.
examples: text: The N.F.L. estimates that number could rise to 30 percent, but special-teams coaches say at least 40 percent of kickoffs will end with the returner taking a knee in the end zone.
ref: 2011 August 6, Judy Battista, “Take a Knee or Take a Risk”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Of any player with the ball, to kneel and place the ball on the ground, thereby ending the play and indicating they do not intend to advance with the ball.
examples: text: Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Wednesday night that officers "took a knee" after the April riots following the death of Freddie Gray, allowing crime to spike because they felt a lack of support from commanders.
ref: 2015 September 2, “Anthony Batts says police 'took a knee' after Baltimore riots”, in Baltimore Sun:
text: Likewise, when black players take a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence against African-Americans, they are making a gesture of pain and distress. They are putting America in a more honest context — our “Star-Spangled Banner” dimly seen through the mists of deep injury.
ref: 2017 September 25, Lee Siegel, “Why Kaepernick Takes the Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: Adam Gemili has vowed to take a knee in support of Black Lives Matter if he wins an Olympic medal in Tokyo – and warned the IOC that “all hell will break loose” if it tries to ban athletes from protesting on the podium.
ref: 2021 May 20, Sean Ingle, “Adam Gemili ‘would take a knee’ in Tokyo and warns IOC over protest ban”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To cease performing customary activities or duties and kneel on one knee, sometimes as a form of protest.
examples: text: During the play he took a knee to the helmet.
glosses: Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, knee.
Related terms: word: bend the knee
word: kneel
word: genuflect
topics: American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: genuflect offense
topics: American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: quarterback kneel
topics: American-football
football
ball-games
games
sports
hobbies
lifestyle
word: victory formation
social loafing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: qualifier: social psychology
glosses: The tendency for members of a group to put in less effort together than they might put in individually.
jongs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jong
volitary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more volitary
form: most volitary
Senses: examples: text: a vain thought […] is such a fleeting and volitary thing […]
ref: 1809, Ezekial Hopkins, Works, volume III:
text: Many of these petrifactions had been the ossified parts of birds, that are at present (as far as is known) extinct in these islands, whose probable tameness, or want of volitary powers, caused them to be early extirpated by a people, driven by both hunger and superstition (either reason is quite sufficient in its way) to rid themselves of their presence.
ref: 1838, Joel Samuel Polack, New Zealand, volume I, page 346:
glosses: Pertaining to flight.
roller hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: So of course his sons played roller hockey, Mike and Sean both, they’d been playing since they could walk, and had practically grown up at that rink and on skates, that was what you called them, not Rollerblades, the rolling footwear was a means to an end, to play hockey was what mattered.
ref: 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, pages 132-133:
glosses: a form of hockey played on roller skates and a roller rink.
spare wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spare wheels
Senses: synonyms: spare tyre
glosses: An extra wheel held in reserve in a motor vehicle, to be used in an emergency.
quad hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A form of roller hockey played on four-wheeled roller skates.
inline hockey
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: a form of hockey played on inline skates and a roller rink.
quad skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: quad skates
Senses: glosses: A roller skate with four wheels, two either side of the foot.
Coordinate terms: in-line skate
mesocyclonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From meso- + cyclonic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to a mesocyclone.
munchings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of munching
giglot
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪɡlət/
Forms: form: giglots
form: giglet
Senses: glosses: A strumpet; a wanton girl.
Synonyms: fizgig
gig
giglot
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈɡɪɡlət/
Forms: form: more giglot
form: most giglot
form: giglet
Senses: examples: text: (O giglet Fortune) to master Cæſars Sword,
ref: 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 380:
glosses: giddy; inconstant; wanton
giglots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of giglot
tauridor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tauridors
Senses: examples: text: […] at least I should have made a very sorry tauridor […]
ref: 1819, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XVII, in Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:
glosses: Archaic form of toreador.
tauridors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tauridor
diverticle
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diverticles
Etymology: From Latin diverticulum, deverticulum (“a bypath”), from divertere (“to turn away”).
Senses: examples: text: the descrying of the several passages from them unto particular conclusions, and the Diverticles and blind By-paths which Sophifſry and Deceit are wont to tread
ref: 1659, John Hales, “Abuses of hard Places of Scripture”, in Golden Remains of the Ever Memorable Mr. John Hales:
glosses: A turning; a byway.
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A diverticulum.
diverticles
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diverticle
flavopurpurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,6-trihydroxyanthraquinone
anthragallol
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,3-trihydroxyanthraquinone
oxyanthrarufin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,5-trihydroxyanthraquinone
oxychrysazin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oxy- + chrysazin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,8-trihydroxyanthraquinone
isopurpurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From iso- + purpurin.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,7-trihydroxyanthraquinone
anthrapurpurin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,7-trihydroxyanthraquinone, a purple dye used in histology for the detection of calcium
trihydroxyanthraquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: trihydroxyanthraquinones
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of several isomeric organic compounds with formula C₁₄H₈O₅, formally derived from anthraquinone by replacing three hydrogen atoms by hydroxyl groups, and including several historically important dyes.
trihydroxyanthraquinones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of trihydroxyanthraquinone
quinalizarin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 1,2,5,8-tetrahydroxyanthraquinone
lawsone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Lawsonia, (Lawsonia inermis).
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: 2-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone, the colouring principle of henna.
spinochromes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spinochrome
spinochrome
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spinochromes
Etymology: From spine- + -o- + -chrome, because it comes from the spines of sea urchins.
Senses: glosses: Any of a series of chemical compounds:
spinochrome A (2-acetyl-3,5,6,8-tetrahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione)
glosses: Any of a series of chemical compounds:
spinochrome B (2,3,5,7-tetrahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione)
glosses: Any of a series of chemical compounds:
spinochrome C (2-acetyl-3,5,6,7,8-pentahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione)
glosses: Any of a series of chemical compounds:
spinochrome D (2,3,5,6,8-Pentahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione)
glosses: Any of a series of chemical compounds:
spinochrome E (hexahydroxy-1,4-naphthalenedione)
rink skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rink skates
Senses: glosses: A roller skate intended for indoor use.
octahydroxyanthraquinone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: An organic compound with formula C₁₄H₈O₁₂, formally derived from anthraquinone by replacement of eight hydrogen atoms by hydroxyl groups.
parlour skate
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parlour skates
Senses: glosses: A roller skate, particularly one intended for indoor use.
isoceraunic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of isokeraunic.
ideative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to ideation.
ridgel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: ridgels
form: ridgil
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: A ridgeling.
ridgels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of ridgel
rockrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rockroses
form: rock rose
form: rock-rose
Etymology: From rock + rose.
Senses: examples: text: Sometimes I lost track of them and had to hunt round in a circle, thrusting through sharp-scented bushes, scratching myself on various plants which were still new to me: resinaceous rock-roses [translating cistes], juniper, ilex, yellow and white asphodel.
ref: 1962, Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Peter Green, The Prime of Life, Cleveland, OH: The World Publishing Company, translation of La Force de l'âge, →OCLC, page 77:
glosses: Any of various plants in the family Cistaceae.
glosses: Texas swampmallow (Pavonia lasiopetala, Malvaceae).
glosses: flameflowers (Phemeranthus spp., Montiaceae).
glosses: moss-rose purslane (Portulaca grandiflora, Portulacaceae).
Derived terms: taxonomic: Helianthemum alpestre
word: Alpine rockrose
taxonomic: Crocanthemum carolinianum
word: Carolina rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum nummularium
word: common rockrose
taxonomic: Cistus creticus
word: Cretan rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum spp.
word: dwarf rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum aegyptiacum
word: Egyptian rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum oelandicum
word: hoary rockrose
taxonomic: Fumana arabica
word: Mediterranean rockrose
taxonomic: Pyropteron affinis
word: rockrose clearwing
taxonomic: Cistus spp.
word: shrubby rockrose
taxonomic: Fumana laevis
word: smooth needle-rockrose
taxonomic: Boronia serrulata
word: Sydney rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum syriacum
word: Syrian rockrose
taxonomic: Fumana thymifolia
word: thyme-leaved rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum apenninum
word: white rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum salicifolium
word: willow-leaved rockrose
taxonomic: Helianthemum marifolium
word: yellow rockrose
rockroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rockrose
cotised
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of cottised.
elaoptene
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: elaoptenes
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of elaeoptene.
supradecompound
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more supradecompound
form: most supradecompound
Etymology: From supra- + decompound.
Senses: examples: text: supradecompound leaves
topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
synonyms: superdecompound
glosses: Very decompound; divided many times.
anatreptic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ἀνατρέπω (anatrépō, “overturn, upset, refute”).
Senses: examples: text: The Agonistic dialogues , supposed to resemble the combat , were either Endeictic, as exhibiting a specimen of skill , or Anatreptic, presenting the spectacle of a perfect defeat .
ref: 1791, William Enfield, Johann Jakob Brucker, The History of Philosophy:
glosses: rebutting; overthrowing; defeating; applied to Plato's refutative dialogues.
Derived terms: anatreptically
bryonies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bryony
brionies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of briony
briony
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: brionies
Senses: examples: text: On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […]
ref: 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Brook; an Idyl”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: Alternative spelling of bryony.
spoonwort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From spoon + wort.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: scurvy-grass (Cochlearia)
helianthemum
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: helianthemums
Etymology: From the genus name.
Senses: topics: biology
botany
natural-sciences
glosses: Any member of species of the genus Helianthemum of rockroses.
helianthemums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of helianthemum
sunrose
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sunroses
Etymology: From sun + rose.
Senses: glosses: rockrose
sunroses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sunrose
satanophany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: satanophanies
Etymology: From Satan + -phany.
Senses: examples: text: In both intervenes a supernatural element; in original sin satanophany, and in redemption theandria. But even here there is analogy with reason, for satanophany and theandria represent the two extreme links of creation.
ref: 1861, Orestes Brownson, “Philosophy of Revelation”, in Brownson's Quarterly Review:
glosses: An incarnation of Satan; a being possessed by a demon, or the state of being thus possessed.
suilline
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more suilline
form: most suilline
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.
Senses: topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Of or relating to the suborder Suina of (especially) pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
suilline
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: suillines
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin suīllīnus.
Senses: examples: text: The temporal fossa has a capacity in its proportions and form more resembling that of carnivores than that of the ordinary suillines.
ref: 1869, Joseph Leidy, “Elotherium Mortoni”, in The Extinct Mammalian Fauna of Dakota and Nebraska. Including an Account of Some Allied Forms from Other Localities, Together with a Synopsis of the Mammalian Remains of North America, […] (Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia; volume VII, second series), Philadelphia, Pa.: […] [F]or the Academy, by J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., page 176:
text: The Oregon Pliocene has afforded the Suillines, Platygonus Condoni Mh., and Dicotyles Hesperius Mh., besides Rhinoceros Oregonensis Mh.
ref: 1874, James D[wight] Dana, Manual of Geology: Treating of the Principles of the Science with Special Reference to American Geological History, […], 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Co., […], published 1875, page 511:
text: The genus Platygonus is represented by several species, one of which was very abundant in the Post-Tertiary of North America, and is apparently the last example of a side branch, before the American Suillines culminate in existing Peccaries.
ref: 1877 August 30, O[thniel] C[harles] Marsh, Introduction and Succession of Vertebrate Life in America. An Address Delivered before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Nashville, Tenn., […], →OCLC, page 37:
glosses: Any artiodactyl of the suborder Suina of pigs, peccaries, and hippopotami.
suids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of suid
matutinary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Matutinal.
monoicous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of monoecious.
Egyptize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: Egyptizes
form: Egyptizing
form: Egyptized
form: Egyptized
Etymology: From Egypt + -ize.
Senses: examples: text: […] the prevailing tendency to idolize after the manner of Egypt, where the portraying of such objects was so usual, and, at the same time, so peculiar to that country among the nations of antiquity, that it might with the utmost propriety be given as the characteristic mark of an Egyptizing spirit in religion.
ref: 1855, Patrick Fairbairn, Ezekiel and the Book of His Prophecy: An Exposition:
glosses: To give an Egyptian character or appearance to.
Egyptized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of Egyptize
Egyptizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of Egyptize
tridactylous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: examples: the tridactylous kingfisher
topics: biology
natural-sciences
glosses: tridactyl
submittingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more submittingly
form: most submittingly
Etymology: From submitting + -ly.
Senses: glosses: So as to submit; in a submissive manner.
waypost
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wayposts
Etymology: From way + post.
Senses: examples: text: Every few hundred yards on alternate sides of the route, a wooden waypost about a yard high was set into the ground.
ref: 1991, Norman Rush, Mating:
glosses: A sign or other marker that indicates the way along a road or trail.
examples: text: As society evolves, education must change to keep apace with it, so may this text serve as a waypost, not a goal.
ref: 1922, Jane Wright McKee, Purposeful handwork:
text: The war makes many oblique appearances in a work which, despite its saturation with traditional images, is regarded as a waypost of artistic modernism because of its fashionable anthropological references, jazz-like rhythms and random snatches of the pulsing city's polyphonic argot.
ref: 2008, Michael Burleigh, Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, from the Great War to the War on Terror, page 13:
glosses: Something that guides or marks the way along a figurative journey; a temporary stopping point.
home wreckers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of home wrecker
holy grails
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of holy grail
megaderm
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: megaderms
Etymology: From mega- + -derm.
Senses: glosses: Any of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma; the false vampire bat.
megaderms
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of megaderm
scrouge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /skɹaʊd͡ʒ/
Forms: form: scrouges
form: scrouging
form: scrouged
form: scrouged
form: scrooge
form: scrowdge
form: scrudge
Etymology: Uncertain. Possibly related to shrug.
Senses: examples: text: Well, pretty soon the whole town was there, squirming and scrouging and pushing and shoving to get at the window and have a look[…]
ref: 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
text: I look for veiled eyes or bodies scrouged into a seat in an alien world.
ref: 1983, Judson R. Landis, Sociology: concepts and characteristics:
text: We stayed up till eleven, sitting on the stairs, on the floor, and scrouged into the day room, surrounded by stacks of GI clothes.
ref: 2001, Aileen Kilgore Henderson, Stateside Soldier: Life in the Women's Army Corps, 1944-1945, page 12:
glosses: To crowd; to squeeze.
rhusma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: rhusmas
Etymology: See rusma.
Senses: glosses: A mixture of caustic lime and orpiment, or tersulphide of arsenic, used in the depilation of hides.
rhusmas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of rhusma
parepididymis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From para- + epididymis.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: paradidymis
apteral
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ˈæptəɹəl/
Senses: examples: text: The female is apteral, but provided with a noisy apparatus for attracting the male's attention.
ref: 1922, Remy de Gourmont, translated by Ezra Pound, The Natural Philosophy of Love:
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: apterous, wingless
examples: text: There may, however, be entablature without columns, —where the latter are suppressed, as on the flanks of an apteral temple; or omitted entirely, as in astylar building
ref: 1852, William Henry Leeds, Rudimentary architecture for the use of beginners and students. The orders, and their æsthetic principles,:
topics: architecture
glosses: Without lateral columns; applied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle.
wou-wou
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wou-wous
form: wow-wow
Etymology: Imitative of its cry.
Senses: glosses: A gibbon, the agile gibbon, or silvery gibbon.
wou-wous
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of wou-wou
18-yard box
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 18-yard boxes
Senses: examples: text: Falcao, who scored the only goal in last season's Europa League final as Porto beat Braga, received the ball halfway between the six- and 18-yard boxes.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: penalty box
Related terms: 18-yard line
stepover
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepovers
Etymology: From step + over.
Senses: examples: text: Fernando Amorebieta seemed to have checked him, but a stepover created a fraction of room that became significant as the defender slipped, giving Falcao just enough space to curl a superb finish into the top corner.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Alternative form of step over.
glosses: A type of espalier where the tree or bush is made to grow horizontally above the ground, like a fence-rail.
high crimes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of high crime
pseudospace
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudospaces
Etymology: From pseudo- + space.
Senses: examples: text: According to the technical description, it "produces an exponential condition of space, so that a finite distance in normal, linear space may become infinite in pseudospace."
ref: 1951, Arthur C. Clarke, Superiority:
text: How does the novel realize spatiality? Other art forms such as painting or cinema fill out a sort of pseudospace: the work can imitate, more or less accurately, the space of the world[…]
ref: 1974, Edward Marcotte, “The Spirit of the Novel”, in Partisan Review, volume 41, page 267:
text: A closed surface without boundary curves could consist of one or more roomraums, or even just a pseudospace (eg, Klein's bottle).
ref: 1981, Guy Ankerl, Géza Ankerl, Experimental sociology of architecture:
text: Throughout US malls, similar pseudospaces involving the commodification of space have been built […] Rio Hondo is lacking in pseudospaces — there are no carousels, fountains, or special decorations to be found.
ref: 2010, Melissa Aronczyk, Devon Powers, Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture, page 103:
glosses: That which appears to be space or a space, or has only some aspects of space.
pseudospaces
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudospace
stepovers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of stepover
mateships
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mateship
mis-hit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: mis-hits
form: mis-hitting
form: mis-hit
form: mis-hit
Senses: examples: text: Gradually, though, they began to find their rhythm and – predictably – it was their two young wingers who looked like offering a way back into the game. First Markel Susaeta played a cross into Fernando Llorent but the striker mis-hit his volley just wide of the near post, then Iker Muniain, buzzing in from the left, forced Thibaut Courtois into an uncomfortable sprawling save low to his left with a 20-yard drive.
ref: 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao”, in the Guardian:
glosses: Alternative form of mishit.
stepparenthood
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From stepparent + -hood.
Senses: glosses: The state or relationship of being a stepparent.