cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
synfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synflood
synfloods
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of synflood
syntrophism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + -trophism.
Senses: examples: text: Even when biochemical and genetic information is not available, mutants with similar nutritional requirements can often be distinguished by syntrophism (mutual feeding).
ref: 1950, Methods in Medical Research - Volume 3, page 17:
text: Syntrophism was demonstrated first in an ethanol oxidizing co-culture, as described in the introduction.
ref: 2005, Peter Duerre, Handbook on Clostridia, page 776:
text: The conversion of arginine to putrescine by Enterococcus faecalis and E. coli is an example of syntrophism.
ref: 2013, S. Srivastava, Understanding Bacteria, page 307:
glosses: syntrophy
syntrophically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From syntrophic + -ally.
Senses: examples: text: The organism only grows syntrophically on propionate with hydrogenotrophic methanogens.
ref: 2011, Paul Vos, George Garrity, Dorothy Jones, Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology: Volume 3:
glosses: By means of syntrophy.
syngraft
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syngrafts
Etymology: From syn- + graft.
Senses: glosses: isograft
syngrafts
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syngraft
learned borrowing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: learned borrowings
form: learnèd borrowing
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
synonyms: learned loanword
learned loan
hypernyms: borrowing
loanword
glosses: A word or other linguistic form borrowed from one language into another on purpose instead of through normal language contact, especially one from a classical language.
Related terms: book word
learnedism
tatsama
semi-learned borrowing
English learned borrowings
Learned borrowings by language
Szondian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Szondian
form: most Szondian
Etymology: From Szondi + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Léopold Szondi (1893–1986), Hungarian psychiatrist and inventor of the Szondi test.
synephrine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The alkaloid 4-[1-hydroxy-2-(methylamino)ethyl]phenol, whose m-substituted analog, neosynephrine, is used in pharmaceuticals.
Derived terms: neosynephrine
synostotic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to synostosis.
synzyme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synzymes
Etymology: Blend of synthetic + enzyme
Senses: glosses: A synthetic enzyme.
synzymes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synzyme
syringobulbia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From international scientific vocabulary, reflecting New Latin combining forms: syringo- + bulb + -ia.
Senses: glosses: A medical condition in which syrinxes, or fluid-filled cavities, affect the medulla oblongata (i.e., the lower portion of the brain stem).
wikipedia: classical compound
international scientific vocabulary
Related terms: syringohydromyelia
syringomyelia
hydromyelia
andropodium
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: andropodia
Etymology: From andro- + -podium (“part resembling a foot”).
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A modified anal fin of certain types of livebearing fish that can be used for reproduction
Derived terms: andropodial
Related terms: gonopodium
gay panic defenses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gay panic defense
andropodia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of andropodium
satinashes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of satinash
symphysial
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of symphyseal.
symphylans
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of symphylan
pseudocentipede
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pseudocentipedes
Etymology: From pseudo- + centipede.
Senses: glosses: A symphylan.
pseudocentipedes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pseudocentipede
syphilid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syphilids
Senses: glosses: Any of the cutaneous and mucous membrane lesions characteristic of secondary and tertiary syphilis.
syphilids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syphilid
synemin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: An intermediate filament that localizes at the Z-disk and has been shown to bind to α-dystrobrevin, α-actinin, and desmin to act as a mechanical linker in transmitting force laterally throughout the tissue, especially between the contractile myofibrils and extracellular matrix.
Synonyms: desmuslin
desmuslin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: synemin
desminopathy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: desminopathies
Etymology: From desmin + -pathy.
Senses: glosses: Any of a group of diseases marked by abnormal accumulation of desmin.
desminopathies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of desminopathy
syncoilin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A muscle-specific intermediate filament that is a binding partner of desmin.
id reaction
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: id reactions
Etymology: From the suffix -id, as in candidid, leukemid, etc.
Senses: glosses: An eczematous dermatitis accompanying a variety of infectious disorders, often in response to an inflammatory tinea of the feet.
id reactions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of id reaction
syndesmophyte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: syndesmophytes
Etymology: From syndesmo- + -phyte.
Senses: glosses: A bony growth originating inside a ligament.
syndesmophytes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of syndesmophyte
synpolydactyly
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The joint presentation of syndactyly and polydactyly.
candidid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candidids
Senses: glosses: A skin condition, an id reaction similar to dermatophytids.
candidids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candidid
leukemid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: leukemids
Senses: glosses: A non-specific skin lesion that occurs with leukemia but is not related to leukemic cell infiltration.
Related terms: leukemoid
leukemids
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of leukemid
leukemoid
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: leukaemoid
Etymology: From leukemia + -oid.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Resembling leukemia, but triggered by stress, infection, etc. rather than actual malignancy.
Derived terms: leukemoid reaction
syndesis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /sɪnˈdiːsɪs/
rhymes: -iːsɪs
Forms: form: syndeses
Etymology: Initially in cytology from German Syndesis, coined by Valentin Häcker in 1904 from Ancient Greek σύνδεσις (súndesis, “binding, joining”), from συνδεῖν (sundeîn, “to join, to bind”) + -σῐς (-sĭs, “-sis: forming nouns”), from σῠν- (sŭn-, “together”) + δεῖν (deîn, “to bind, to tie”). Equivalent to syn- + -desis.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
surgery
qualifier: orthopedics
glosses: Synonym of arthrodesis, the artificial fusion of a joint between two or more bones.
synonyms: word: arthrodesis
extra: the artificial fusion of a joint between two or more bones
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
antonyms: asyndesis
glosses: Synonym of syndeton, the use of conjunctions or syndetic constructions.
synonyms: word: syndeton
extra: the use of conjunctions or syndetic constructions
topics: biology
cytology
medicine
natural-sciences
sciences
glosses: Synonym of synapsis, the pairing of chromosomes during cellular reproduction.
synonyms: word: synapsis
extra: the pairing of chromosomes during cellular reproduction
Derived terms: syndetic
syndetically
Related terms: tenodesis
synalgia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From syn- + -algia.
Senses: glosses: referred pain
Sylvian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈsɪlviən/
Etymology: From Sylvius + -an.
Senses: glosses: Of or relating to Franciscus Sylvius (1614–1672; born Franz de le Boë), Dutch physician and scientist.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or relating to the asteroid (511) Davida.
Derived terms: Sylvian angle
Sylvian aqueduct
Sylvian artery
Sylvian cistern
Sylvian fissure
Sylvian fossa
Sylvian point
Sylvian valley
Sylvian vein
Sylvian ventricle
sylvian fissures
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of sylvian fissure
suprasellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From supra- + sellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Above the sella turcica.
subsellar
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From sub- + sellar.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Below the sella turcica.
synovioma
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: synoviomas
form: synoviomata
Etymology: From synovial + -oma.
Senses: glosses: A tumor of the synovial tissue.
synoviomas
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synovioma
synoviomata
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of synovioma
spireme
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈspaɪɹiːm/
Forms: form: spiremes
Etymology: From Ancient Greek σπείραμα (speírama, “convolution”), ultimately from σπεῖρα (speîra). Probably influenced by -eme.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the tangled mass of strands of chromatin seen in the early stages of mitosis, originally believed to be a single continuous strand (or two in a diploid cell, etc.)
cognovit note
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognovit notes
Senses: glosses: A promissory note possessing a cognovit clause.
cognovit clause
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cognovit clauses
Senses: glosses: A provision of a contract in which a debtor concedes to jurisdiction in certain courts, waives notice agreements, and in case of a default or breach grants an adverse judgment.
unhalal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + halal.
Senses: topics: Islam
lifestyle
religion
glosses: Not halal; haram.
Synonyms: nonhalal
purple milkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: purple milkweeds
Senses: glosses: Asclepias purpurascens, native to the central and midwestern United States.
glosses: Asclepias cordifolia, native to the west coast of the United States, the heartleaf milkweed.
halaling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of halal
halaled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of halal
halals
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of halal
heartleaf milkweed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Asclepias cordifolia, native to the mountains of the west coast states of the United States.
Synonyms: sense: Asclepias cordifolia
word: purple milkweed
unacquisitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From unacquisitive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being acquisitive.
nonacquisitiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + acquisitiveness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of not being acquisitive.
cowness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cow + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being a cow.
cowedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From cowed + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being cowed.
marinobufotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Bufo marinus + toxin.
Senses: glosses: A toxin secreted by the toad Bufo marinus, now Rhinella marina.
nasojugal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From naso- + jugal.
Senses: topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Relating to the nose and jugal bone.
nesslerise
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: nesslerises
form: nesslerising
form: nesslerised
form: nesslerised
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of nesslerize.
nesslerises
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of nesslerise
nesslerising
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nesslerise
nesslerised
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nesslerise
nitroprussic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Relating to nitroprussic acid.
malalignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: malalignments
Etymology: From mal- + alignment.
Senses: glosses: Bad or wrong alignment; misalignment.
malalignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of malalignment
maldigestion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: maldigestions
Etymology: From mal- + digestion.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: Bad or wrong digestion.
numericlatural
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From numericlature + -al.
Senses: glosses: Relating to numericlature.
numericlature
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: A system of nomenclature based on numbers.
Related terms: numericlatural
thousand-yard stare
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: thousand-yard stares
form: thousand yard stare
Etymology: Such terms are usually said to have originated in the usage of soldiers and the physicians who treated them for combat wounds and combat stress. A search of a large corpus finds thousand-yard stare attested during World War II (citations from 1943 to 1945), naming a symptom of social isolation in far-flung posts or of combat stress; the absence of attestations of *-yard stare and *-year stare from before 1943 suggests that perhaps this symptom (from any mentally traumatic cause) was not called by these names until the 1940s. In contrast, the thematically related term shell shock was in use during World War I.
Senses: topics: government
military
politics
war
synonyms: thousand-mile stare
hundred-yard stare
glosses: A blank, unfocused glance given by a traumatized person, especially a soldier who has seen combat.
Related terms: dead-eyed
post-traumatic stress disorder
PTSD
the elephant
shell shock
neuroplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From neuroplegia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
pathology
sciences
glosses: Exhibiting or relating to neuroplegia
neuroplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: neuroplegics
Etymology: From neuroplegia + -ic.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A drug that counters neuroplegia
neuroplegics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of neuroplegic
normovolaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normovolemia.
normovolaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normovolemic.
normovolemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + volume + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The condition of having a normal volume of blood circulating in the body.
Synonyms: euvolemia
Derived terms: normovolemic
normovolemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normovolemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Exhibiting or relating to normovolemia.
quindenary
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Latin quindēnārius (“containing fifteen”). Equivalent to quindene + -ary.
Senses: examples: text: […] it and M. Hermite's form ; the latter is intrinsically a quinary group of triadic products, but such representation in the case of M. Joubert's form is purely conventional and confusing, it really being a single indecomposable quindenary product.
ref: 1878, James Joseph Sylvester, On an Applicaton of the New Atomic Theory, etc, appendix 1, Remarks on Differentiants expressed in terms of the differences of the roots of their parent quantics, originally published in the American Journal of Mathematics, republished in The Collected Mathematical Papers of James Joseph Sylvester (2008, page 170
text: […] or 44 in the quindenary scale.
ref: 1945, The American Mathematical Monthly:
text: Each number had two names: a vowel and a consonant, from which the Reader can already see that they did not use the decimal but the quindenary numerical system.
ref: 1975, Sándor Szathmári, Kazohinia, page 52:
glosses: Containing fifteen things, or to the base of fifteen.
loanblend
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: loanblends
form: loan blend
form: loan-blend
Etymology: From loan + blend.
Senses: synonyms: partial calque
semi-calque
glosses: A compound word or expression consisting of both native and foreign elements; a partial calque.
normoglycaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normoglycemic.
normotriglyceridaemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normotriglyceridemic.
normotriglyceridaemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of normotriglyceridemia.
normotriglyceridemic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From normotriglyceridemia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Having a normal quantity of triglycerides in the blood.
normotriglyceridemia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From normo- + triglyceride + -emia.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being normotriglyceridemic.
African mahogany
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: African mahoganies
Senses: glosses: An African tree with wood resembling mahogany, as from:
Genus Khaya of the family Meliaceae
glosses: An African tree with wood resembling mahogany, as from:
Genus Afzelia of the family Fabaceae (legumes), especially Afzelia africana.
Related terms: Indian mahogany
nephrotomic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From nephrotome + -ic.
Senses: glosses: Relating to the nephrotome.
Neptunicentric
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From Neptune + -centric.
Senses: examples: text: The elements are calculated for direct motion; accordingly it will be noticed that the actual Neptunicentric motion of the satellite is retrograde — a circumstance which, except in the case of the Uranian satellites, is without parallel in the solar system as regards either planets or satellites; though there are many retrograe comets.
ref: 1889, George Frederick Chambers, A Handbook of Descriptive and Practical Astronomy:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Appearing as if seen from the centre of the planet Neptune; relating or referring to Neptune as a centre.
chersoneses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chersonese
chersonesus
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chersonesuses
form: chersonesi
Etymology: See chersonese.
Senses: topics: geography
natural-sciences
glosses: Alternative form of chersonese.
Derived terms: word: Chersonesus Taurica
word: Chersonesus Scythia
alt: Gallipoli
word: Chersonesus Thracica
english: Malay
translation: Malay
word: Chersonesus Aurea
alt: Jutland
word: Chersonesus Cimbrica
chersonesuses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chersonesus
chersonesi
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of chersonesus
unmercy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unmercies
Etymology: From Middle English onmerci, unmerci, unmercy; equivalent to un- (“lack or absence of”) + mercy.
Senses: examples: text: There is justice and injustice, mercy and unmercy, love and unlove, self and unself, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, the well-being of others and the ill-being of others, the honor of God and the dishonor of God.
ref: 1870, Octavius Perinchief, Sermons Preached in Memorial Church, Baltimore:
glosses: The lack or absence of mercy; mercilessness.
Related terms: unmerciful
18-yard line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: 18-yard lines
Senses: examples: text: Van Gaal used his third substitute, James Wilson, well before the hour, and Welbeck, allowed to drift across the MK 18-yard line, drove a right-foot shot only just wide, but Robinson’s side were always alert to the possibility of a break.
ref: 2014 August 26, Richard Rae, “Manchester United humbled by MK Dons after Will Grigg hits double”, in The Guardian:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: The line on the pitch, 18 yards from the goal line, marking the outside of the penalty box
Related terms: 18-yard box
transfer windows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of transfer window
micromilligram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micromilligrams
form: micromilligramme
Etymology: From micro- + milligram.
Senses: glosses: A nonstandard unit of mass equal to one nanogram. Symbol: ŋmg.
unjoy
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: unjoys
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + joy.
Senses: examples: text: I wipe away the tears of unjoy before they stain the hideous, stiff bedspread.
ref: 2013, Anna Banks, Of Triton:
text: Joy is possible only if we can get through the periods of unjoy. And all rely on another virtue: hope. Hope is what makes patience humanly possible.
ref: 1993, Harry John Huebner, David Schroeder, Church as parable: whatever happened to ethics?:
glosses: The lack or absence of joy; joylessness; sorrow; grief.
unpity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + pity.
Senses: examples: text: Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]
ref: 1965, Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom, and other Writings:
glosses: The lack or absence of pity; pitilessness; ruthlessness.
unpride
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + pride.
Senses: examples: text: They take pride in their unpride. It reflects their lack of status. Bottom of the android world, bottom of the bottom of the human world, and they know it, and they don't like it, and the squalor is like a badge of nonstatus for them.
ref: 1970, Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass:
text: This will teach you unpride, unegotism, unselfishness.
ref: 2007, John C. Wright, The Phoenix Exultant:
glosses: The lack or absence of pride; pridelessness; modesty; humility.
pridelessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From prideless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The condition or state of being prideless; unpride.
unegotism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From un- (“lack or absence of”) + egotism.
Senses: glosses: The lack or absence of egotism.
Crown land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Crown lands
form: crown land
Senses: examples: text: Aboriginal groups could apply to jointly manage all Crown land under the most radical overhaul of native title settlement proposed in Victoria.
ref: 2009 January 6, Jewel Topsfield, “Native title reform bid”, in The Age, Australia, retrieved 26 Aug 2014:
text: The Crown Estate confirmed today they would allow shooters taking part in one of two pilot culls to access Crown land in west Somerset. . . . The Crown Estate manages the Queen’s property portfolio but revenues go to the Treasury.
ref: 2013 September 21, Charlie Cooper, “Crown Estate permits badger cull on its land”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 26 Aug 2014:
text: LINZ administers three million hectares of Crown land or eight percent of New Zealand's land area.
ref: 2014, “LINZ's Crown Property Role”, in Land Information New Zealand, Government of New Zealand, retrieved 26 Aug 2014:
text: The Province of Alberta recognizes its obligation under the Natural Resources Transfer Agreement (Constitution Act 1930) to transfer provincial Crown land back to the federal government to allow the settlement of aboriginal land claims.
ref: 2014 July 10, Lorne Beloud, “Opinion: In wake of decision, who owns Canada?”, in Ottawa Citizen, Canada, retrieved 26 Aug 2014:
glosses: In Britain and some Commonwealth countries, land that is owned by the state, nominally titled to the reigning King or Queen of England, and whose use and disposition is controlled by a government within that Commonwealth country or by an official representative of the monarch.
Hypernyms: land
Related terms: Crown Estate
crown land
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: crown lands
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Crown land.
glosses: Alternative form of crownland.
daisy wheel
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daisy wheels
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of daisywheel.
hairlore
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From hair + lore.
Senses: examples: text: "Smoot documents his ... ah ... problem, one might safely say, with a three-volume history of hairlore, in which it is shown that abundant hair has always symbolized vitality, virility, the will to triumph, and its lack, poverty and impotence.
ref: 1979, Robert Coover, Hair O' The Chine: a documentary film script; [ill. by Robin McDonald]., Bruccoli-Clark Layman:
text: 1988, Remar Sutton, Body worry, Penguin (Non-Classics) →ISBN
Barbers are the priests of hair lore, so you may listen to what they've learned from any confessionals, but don't automatically take their word as correct.
text: 1992, Norma J. Roberts, Columbus Museum of Art, Elijah Pierce, woodcarver, University of Washington Press →ISBN
More than a mere ornamental surface, hair and hair preparation are elements of an essential body of emic material referred to as African American hairlore, and it can be a near metaphysical index to one's very soul, being, psychology, […]
text: Baldness also has a further symbolic connection with one's restoration to grace. Giles Constable's magisterial study of beard- and hair-lore in the Middle Ages demonstrates that the shaving of one's hair could signify 'a separation from […]
ref: 2002, Timothy S. Jones, David A. Sprunger, Marvels, Monsters, and Miracles: Studies in the Medieval and Early Modern Imaginations, Western Michigan Univ Medieval:
text: […] as much to my strong belief in the diaspora as a heuristic construct for interpreting much of African American expressive invention as it does to my larger, shared fascination for the powerful dynamic of hair-lore in African diaspora everyday life.
ref: 2010, Robert Baron, Nick Spitzer, Public Folklore, Univ. Press of Mississippi, →ISBN, page 112:
glosses: Knowledge about hair; hair folklore.
nematodiasis
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəsɪs
Etymology: From nematode + -iasis.
Senses: glosses: infection with nematodes
cornlands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of cornland
gainsayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: But Emily's excuse could not be gainsayed—she had that morning received news of the death of Lady Alicia Delawarr.
ref: 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter IV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 67:
glosses: simple past and past participle of gainsay
prison-industrial complex
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: prison–industrial complex
form: prison-industrial complexes
Etymology: By analogy to military-industrial complex. First use appears c. 1960. See cite below.
Senses: examples: text: In Philadelphia, on the other hand, during a day of action against the prison-industrial complex, I saw a lot of cop cars being beaten up,
ref: 1960, New Left Review Limited (publisher), New Left Review, page 83:
text: […]if we pursue the privatisation of prisons, a large industry will develop. Over the past two or three years many hon. Members have been lobbied by the private prison groups. They are already organised and are paying political consultants and lobbying companies. Some of them have paid Conservative Members—not Labour Members [to lobby for private prisons.¶The prison industrial complex already existed and Conservative Members were taking the King's shilling years ago in respect of that professional lobby.
ref: 1992 July 6, Barry Sheerman, “Prisons”, in parliamentary debates (Commons), volume 211, column 125:
text: […]that while a person is incarcerated he can't commit a crime or they can't be continued wife abusers or whatever, is exactly the logic that is fueling the prison industrial complex that is going on for many decades, but has now become explosive.
ref: 1995 January, John Conyers Jr., “Taking Back Our Streets Act of 1995: Hearing Before The Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary”, in hearings (House of Representatives), Washington D.C.: United States Government Publishing Office, →ISBN, page 575:
synonyms: PIC
glosses: The socioeconomic combination of prisons and the private businesses that supply them with goods and services.
Related terms: military-industrial complex
uncarefulness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From uncareful + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being uncareful.
setted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of set (meaning to divide students into different ability groups)
whooed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whoo
whoos
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of whoo
whoos
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of whoo
whooing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whoo
shoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: -ʊʃ
Senses: examples: text: Plain enough," said the man who had been studying his foot on the chair. "Some one pulled the plug."
"And away she goes--shoosh!" said the big man dramatically.
"Kennedy & Balch buying right and left. Open at a hundred and twenty-five to-morrow, sure!" said the quiet one quietly.
Placed an order yesterday for four hundred shares and got 'em," said another, not so quietly. "And to-day they're bidding Federal Express up to the ceiling."
ref: 2005 May 2 [1913], Harry Leon Wilson, “Chapter XI”, in Bunker Bean, Garden City, New York: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE, via Gutenberg:
text: There came suddenly out of the surrounding din of battle four quick car-filling rushes of sound--sh-sh-sh-shoosh--ba-ba-ba-bang!
ref: 2008 April 15 [1916], Boyd Cable, “"The Cost"”, in Between The Lines, Toronto: Mcclelland, Goodchild, & Stewart, via Gutenberg:
text: Suddenly Manakin twisted his torso, flung up his arms, and went, 'Shoosh!' It was so fine an imitation of a gunshot that everyone jumped.
ref: 1995, Felix Roziner, translated by Michael Henry Heim, A Certain Finkelmeyer, Northwestern University Press, →ISBN, page 89:
glosses: A whooshing noise.
examples: text: Many women hear the shoosh—shoosh of the unborn heart at the first prenatal exam and see the face of their moving, growing unborn child in an ultrasound image early in the second trimester.
ref: 1988, Camille S. Williams, “Abortion and Equality Under the Law”, in Neil L. York, editor, Toward A More Perfect Union: Six Essays on the Constitution, State University of New York Press, →ISBN, page 151:
glosses: A rhythmic whispering noise.
examples: text: Shoosh! Shoosh! Ouch! The tragic deaths of Sonny Bono and Michael Kennedy remind us that sliding down the side of a mountain, like any recreational activity, must be approached with safety in mind.
ref: 2002, John C. Myre, Live Safely in a Dangerous World, Safety Times, →ISBN, page 182:
glosses: The sound of skis scraping on snow.
shoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: shooshes
Senses: glosses: A whooshing noise.
examples: text: As I drove through the vacant lot, the only sounds were the crunch of gravel beneath my tires and the yawp of blue jays overhead and the shoosh of wind through the pines.
ref: 2012 [1990], Scott Russell Sanders, “"After the Flood"”, in Earth Works: Selected Essays, Indiana University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
text: I'm a small sea captain, tasting the day's weather—battering rams at the seawall, a spray of grapeshot on my mother's brave geraniums, or the lulling shoosh-shoosh of a full mirrory pool
ref: 2008 [1962], Sylvia Plath, “Ocean 1212-W”, in Johnny Panic and the bible of dreams : short stories, prose, and diary excerpts, New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, →ISBN, page 20:
glosses: A rhythmic whispering noise.
examples: text: The only sound a skier brings to the woods is the occasional creak of a rucksack strap and the faint “shoosh” of skis gliding over the crisp snow.
ref: 1970, Pat Snook, “Ski Touring”, in National Wildlife, volume 8, numbers Dec 1969–Jan 1970, page 23:
text: He visually picked his way through the alpine, hearing the shoosh of his skis in the otherwise silent world.
ref: 2018, Dani Collins, On the Edge, Tule, →ISBN, page 34:
glosses: The sound of skis scraping on snow.
shoosh
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: -ʊʃ
Forms: form: shooshes
form: shooshing
form: shooshed
form: shooshed
Senses: examples: text: The makings were neatly laid out on a side-table, and to pour into a glass an inch or so of the raw spirit and shoosh some soda-water on top of it was with me the work of a moment.
ref: 1934, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 11, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
text: She shooshed from the glades and stopped in front of me.
ref: 1990, Leath Tonino, “Seven Lengths of Vermont”, in The Animal One Thousand Miles Long: Seven Lengths of Vermont and Other Adventures, Trinity University Press, →ISBN, page 167:
glosses: To make or cause to make a shoosh; to move with a shoosh.
examples: text: "Sh!"
"I won't shoosh!["]
ref: 1916, George Barr McCutcheon, From the Housetops, Chicago; New York: M. A. Donohue, page 110:
text: She raised two fingers to Boogaloo's lips, lightly touched them, shooshed him quiet.
ref: 2012, Fred Arroyo, “A Case of Consolation”, in Western Avenue and Other Fictions (Camino del Sol), Tucson: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 8:
text: Actually, what she'd be telling him now was to get Ed home. Because he was really crying.
'Shoosh Ed, shoosh little Eddie-boy.'
ref: 2021, Breton Dukes, “What Sort of Man”, in What Sort of Man and other stories, Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press, →ISBN:
glosses: To shush, to hush, to be quiet; to tell someone to be quiet.
examples: text: The lift capacity, ever growing to meet demand, already enables 10,000 skiers to be whisked to the "top of the world " every hour, so enthusiasts spend a lot more time shooshing than standing around.
ref: 1974 October 24, Skiing, volume 27, number 2, page 8:
text: One crisp day in 1950, Head stood in the bowl of Tuckerman's Ravine in New Hampshire and watched instructor Clif Taylor come skimming over the lip of the headwall, do a fishtail on the fall line and sweep into a long, graceful curve, shooshing to a stop in front of the beaming inventor.
ref: 1980 September 29, Ray Kennedy, “Howard Head says 'I'm giving up the Thing World'”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 53, number 14, pages 68–69:
text: Teaching aside, a lot of the time it's my job to translate — ski lingo, that is. Like when people ask me what it is to 'shoosh'. And I'll explain it's carving turns down gentle slopes.
ref: 1989 September 24, “Talk about fun! Canada: The world next door [advertisement]”, in Skiing, volume 42, number 1, page 279:
glosses: To ski, especially in a gentle downhill curve.
Related terms: shush
whoosh
zhoosh
shooshed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shoosh
shooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of shoosh
shooshes
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shoosh
shooshing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shoosh
gunhand
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gunhands
Etymology: From gun + hand.
Senses: glosses: A person hired to carry or handle a gun, often to protect property or people.
glosses: The hand that someone uses to fire a gun.
gunhands
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gunhand
lambrequins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambrequin
whoopie
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of whoopee.
easy-oar
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: easy-oars
form: easy-oaring
form: easy-oared
form: easy-oared
Senses: examples: text: I blast off the first few strokes with all the anger and frustration I feel towards Rachel. It works against me. I catch a crab and totally lose it. The boat swings sideways and we have to easy oar or risk slamming into the bank.
ref: 2014, Pip Harry, Head of the River, page 82:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
synonyms: easy
glosses: To stop rowing.
easies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of easy
easies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of easy
easying
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of easy
easied
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of easy
slumberously
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more slumberously
form: most slumberously
Etymology: From slumberous + -ly.
Senses: glosses: in a slumberous manner
primally
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more primally
form: most primally
Etymology: From primal + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: As we stepped out into the awesome half-daylight of this monstrous cylinder-bottom—fifty million years old, and without doubt the most primally ancient structure ever to meet our eyes—we saw that the ramp-traversed sides stretched dizzily up to a height of fully sixty feet.
ref: 1931, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness Chapter 9:
text: The discrepancy is striking and cannot be explained by size, as the smallest are the most massive, and if all were primally of like constitution, should be the least compressed.
ref: 1909, Percival Lowell, The Evolution of Worlds:
glosses: In a primal manner.
buffler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bufflers
Senses: glosses: Pronunciation spelling of buffalo.
bufflers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of buffler
churchmouse
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchmice
form: church mouse
Etymology: From church + mouse; from the simile poor as a church mouse.
Senses: glosses: A mouse living in a church; used in similes to suggest a very poor person.
churchmice
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchmouse
inlayed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: The innermore walls were sod inlayed with roots from trees, plants and weeds.
ref: 2006, Paul Vela, Sealed with a Kiss, page 97:
glosses: simple past and past participle of inlay
tapdance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: tapdances
form: tapdancing
form: tapdanced
form: tapdanced
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tap-dance.
tapdanced
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of tapdance
tapdances
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of tapdance
unshined
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + shined.
Senses: examples: text: At Michelle Kwan's first United States Nationals ice skating championship tournament, her coach, Frank Carroll, was shocked at the condition of her unshined skating boots.
ref: 2006, David Bruce, The Funniest People in Sports and Neighborhoods:
glosses: Not shined
shortcircuit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: shortcircuits
form: shortcircuiting
form: shortcircuited
form: shortcircuited
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of short-circuit.
askaris
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of askari
jackpine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: jackpines
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of jack pine.
jackpines
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of jackpine
bathchair
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bathchairs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Bath chair.
bathchairs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of bathchair
seldome
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more seldome
form: most seldome
Senses: glosses: Obsolete spelling of seldom.
mailcoach
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: mailcoaches
Etymology: From mail + coach.
Senses: glosses: A horse-drawn coach used to deliver mail.
mailcoaches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mailcoach
unscared
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + scared.
Senses: glosses: Not scared
unscared
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of unscare
pimpling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pimple
lambie
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: rhymes: -æmi
Forms: form: lambies
form: lamby
Etymology: From lamb + -ie.
Senses: examples: text: Your lambies aren't lambies anymore, but they're pining for you just the same, and I'll drop them off on my way back if you want.
ref: 2008, Karen J. Hasley, Waiting for Hope, page 226:
text: The part I don't like about sheep and wool festivals? The part where the little lambies aren't considered part of the fiber-bearing aspect but as part of the snack-food aspect. Lambies on a stick or ground up into sausage are not nearly as much fun to imagine as gamboling lambies waiting happily to be shorn.
ref: 2011, Mary Beth Temple, The Secret Language of Knitters, page 113:
text: They are misguided by misinformation, and talking the Undisputed Truth is a physical means of weaning these little lambies from their childish and sheep like behaviour.
ref: 2014, Lee Maddaford, True Enlightenment, page 29:
glosses: A lamb.
lambies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of lambie
glosses: plural of lamby
toothpowder
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: toothpowders
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of tooth powder.
toothpowders
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of toothpowder
elfland
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Elfland.
grandpap
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: grandpaps
Senses: glosses: grandfather
grandpaps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grandpap
entr'actes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of entr'acte
dustrag
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dustrags
Etymology: From dust + rag.
Senses: glosses: A dustcloth
dustrags
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of dustrag
shortcircuits
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of shortcircuit
shortcircuiting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of shortcircuit
shortcircuited
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of shortcircuit
gawper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: gawpers
Etymology: From gawp + -er.
Senses: glosses: One who gawps
gawpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of gawper
hillocky
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more hillocky
form: most hillocky
Etymology: From hillock + -y.
Senses: glosses: Resembling a hillock.
glosses: Having hillocks.
snaggly
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more snaggly
form: most snaggly
Etymology: From snaggle + -y.
Senses: glosses: covered in snaggles, knotty
structural anthropology
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From structural + anthropology, in later sense after French anthropologie structurale.
Senses: glosses: The study of human bodies; anatomy.
glosses: The study of social structures in human communities; the study of human society according to the theories of structuralism, especially associated with French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss.
churchbell
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: churchbells
Senses: examples: text: […] his furcoat swings and rocks around his body like a churchbell.
ref: 1984, Péter Esterházy, “The Transporters”, in Ferenc Takács, transl., The Hungarian P.E.N., page 42:
glosses: Alternative form of church bell.
churchbells
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of churchbell
basrelief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: basreliefs
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of bas-relief.
basreliefs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of basrelief
humper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈhʌmpə/
ipa: /ˈhʌmpɚ/
rhymes: -ʌmpə(ɹ)
Forms: form: humpers
Etymology: From hump + -er.
Senses: glosses: Agent noun of hump: one who humps.
Derived terms: ammo humper
cousin humper
motherhumper
sister humper
humpers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of humper
humpa humpa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: How much attention can you sacrifice to the cock-prance of Led Zeppelin or cheesy humpa-humpa metaphors of AC/DC or the heaping pile of dead or brutalized women that amasses in Big Black's discography?
ref: 2004, Mickey Hart, Paul Bresnick, Da Capo Best Music Writing 2004: The Year's Finest Writing:
glosses: sexual intercourse
showerbath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: showerbaths
Etymology: From shower + bath.
Senses: glosses: A bathtub equipped with a shower over it.
showerbaths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of showerbath
hosiers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hosier
nooned
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of noon
godite
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɒdʌɪt/
Forms: form: godites
form: Godite
Etymology: From god + -ite.
Senses: examples: text: The godite, in persisting that the god idea proves a god, overlooks this difficulty, that, inasmuch as every man has a different idea of a god to his neighbour, arising out of the varieties of organisations, every individual must be an Atheist to every other individual, although in reality they are all Theists, or believers in a god.
ref: 1842, William Chilton, The Oracle of Reason, volume I, page 221:
text: As the Godites are evidently anxious to prevent the circulation of this interesting discussion, a liberal allowance will be made to Booksellers.
ref: 1857 Sep, The Investigator:
text: The question would resolve itself into an inquiry whether, given a revolution, the godites or the godless are the more violent — a point not easily settled from a comparison of histories.
ref: 1888, Annie Besant, Our Corner, page 210:
glosses: A believer in God; a theist.
godites
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of godite
nobbed
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of nob
nobbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of nob
Related terms: nobbings
candleglow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: candleglows
Etymology: From candle + glow.
Senses: glosses: glow from candlelight
candleglows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of candleglow
off-roaded
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of off-road
off-roads
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of off-road
roading
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From road + -ing.
Senses: glosses: The construction of roads.
glosses: The act of running races in teams.
Related terms: off-roading
offroading