cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
nondrunken
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + drunken.
Senses: examples: text: What had been an orderly, nondrunken set of blocks became gradually disorderly, openly police-defying.
ref: 1997, Elizabeth Stevenson, Babbitts and bohemians: from the Great War to the Great Depression:
glosses: Not drunken; sober.
nonmultivariate
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + multivariate.
Senses: glosses: Not multivariate.
nonblurry
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + blurry.
Senses: glosses: Not blurry.
nonempathetic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + empathetic.
Senses: glosses: Not empathetic.
nonemphasized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + emphasized.
Senses: glosses: Not emphasized.
noncapsizable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + capsizable.
Senses: glosses: Not capsizable.
capsizings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of capsizing
nonglycogen
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + glycogen.
Senses: glosses: Not of or pertaining to glycogen.
castleless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From castle + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without a castle.
elsewheres
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of elsewhere
snaplock
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: snaplocks
Etymology: From snap + lock.
Senses: glosses: A mechanism for firing a gun that ignites the propellant by means of sparks produced when a spring-powered cock strikes a flint down on to a piece of hardened steel.
Related terms: snaphaunce
snaplocks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of snaplock
supercomputation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: supercomputations
Etymology: From super- + computation.
Senses: glosses: Complex and advanced computation of the kind performed by supercomputers.
supercomputations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of supercomputation
mailable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From mail + -able.
Senses: glosses: That can be (physically and/or legally) sent by mail.
examples: text: Polk used to have the largest targeted direct mail list available, with over 165 million mailable names
ref: 2007, Jay Neuman, The Complete Internet Marketer, page 294:
glosses: Able to be contacted through electronic mail.
Derived terms: unmailable
Related terms: e-mailable
mailability
pernicketiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From pernickety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being pernickety.
persnicketiness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From persnickety + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being persnickety.
umpolung
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: umpolungs
Etymology: German Umpolung
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: The chemical modification of a functional group with the aim of the reversal of polarity of that group.
umpolungs
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of umpolung
Oświęcim
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Synonym of Auschwitz.
synonyms: word: Auschwitz
parareligion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: parareligions
Etymology: From para- + religion.
Senses: glosses: A secular belief system having certain aspects of religion.
Related terms: parareligious
parareligions
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of parareligion
nonacidity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From non- + acidity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Absence of acidity.
zerolike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more zerolike
form: most zerolike
Etymology: From zero + -like.
Senses: examples: text: The electron is a zero-dimensional object, and its very zerolike nature ensures that scientists don't even know the electron's mass or charge.
ref: 2000, Charles Seife, Zero: the biography of a dangerous idea, Volume 3:
text: ...the blinding snow and zerolike atmosphere told us we were at grips with a mountain blizzard.
ref: 1956, Leon Vincent Almirall, From college to cow country:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of zero.
splinterlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more splinterlike
form: most splinterlike
Etymology: From splinter + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a splinter.
unsplintered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + splintered.
Senses: glosses: Not splintered.
splishing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of splish
splishing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: splishings
Senses: glosses: A splish, the sounds of a splosh.
splished
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of splish
shrimpless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From shrimp + -less.
Senses: glosses: Without shrimp.
pandigital
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From pan- + digital.
Senses: examples: text: 1749208365 is a pandigital number in base ten.
topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Containing at least one of every digit in a specified base.
raw_tags: of a number
zeroless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From zero + -less.
Senses: glosses: Lacking the digit zero (e.g. of a series or long number).
Boltzmannian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Boltzmannian
form: most Boltzmannian
Etymology: From Boltzmann + -ian.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to Ludwig Eduard Boltzmann (1844–1906), Austrian physicist who made pioneering contributions to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics.
diple
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: diples
form: diplae
form: dvojnice
form: dvojanke
Etymology: From Ancient Greek διπλῆ (diplê), from διπλοῦς (diploûs).
Senses: glosses: A mark > once used in margins to draw attention to an important passage in a text.
examples: text: That is why players prefer to play the diple with bellows, because the bellows makes it possible for them to play continuously.
ref: 2014, Jasmina Talam, Folk Musical Instruments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, page 190:
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
glosses: A traditional woodwind instrument used in Serbian, Croatian and Montenegrin music.
diples
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diple
diplegic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /daɪˈpliːdʒɪk/
Forms: form: diplegics
Etymology: From diplegia + -ic.
Senses: glosses: One who suffers from diplegia.
diplegics
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of diplegic
badtempered
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more badtempered
form: most badtempered
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of bad-tempered.
lipophobicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipophobic + -ity.
Senses: topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: the state or condition of being lipophobic.
Derived terms: hydrolipophobicity
oleophobicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From oleophobic + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being oleophobic.
Derived terms: superoleophobicity
elbowful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From elbow + -ful.
Senses: glosses: As much as can be held in the crook of one's elbow.
unanglicized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + anglicized.
Senses: glosses: Not anglicized.
umbrellalike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more umbrellalike
form: most umbrellalike
Etymology: From umbrella + -like.
Senses: glosses: Resembling or characteristic of an umbrella.
catkinlike
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more catkinlike
form: most catkinlike
Etymology: From catkin + -like.
Senses: examples: text: Such are, for example, the catkinlike inflorescences of Betulaceae, which are so similar to aments of Salix.
ref: 2009, Armen Takhtajan, Flowering plants, page xvii:
glosses: Resembling or characteristic of a catkin.
flattenings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of flattening
profitlessness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From profitless + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being profitless.
profitest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: profit + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of profit
galcon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: galcons
Etymology: Blend of galaxy + construct
Senses: topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: A hydrodynamic model of galaxy formation.
thapsigargins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of thapsigargin
galcons
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of galcon
hexapole
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hexapoles
Etymology: From hexa- + pole.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: Anything having six poles or electrodes
Related terms: dipole
quadrupole
octupole
decapole
hexadecapole
multipole
micropillar
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: micropillars
Etymology: From micro- + pillar.
Senses: glosses: A microscopic pillar
multishell
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + shell.
Senses: glosses: Having multiple shells
nonlogarithmic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + logarithmic.
Senses: glosses: Not logarithmic
nonmasing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + masing.
Senses: glosses: That does not act as a maser
masing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of mase
masing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: That acts as a maser
Derived terms: nonmasing
split horizon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From split + horizon.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A method of preventing routing loops in distance-vector routing protocols by prohibiting a router from advertising a route back onto the interface from which it was learned.
IGRP
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, a distance vector interior routing protocol (IGP) invented by Cisco
guyrope
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guyropes
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of guy rope.
guyropes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of guyrope
6in4
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From 6 + in + 4.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: An Internet transition mechanism for migrating from Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) to IPv6.
tunnel broker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunnel brokers
Etymology: From tunnel + broker.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A service that provides a network tunnel.
tunnel brokers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tunnel broker
natting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From NAT + -ing.
Senses: topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: The activity of using NAT.
pops one's clogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of pop one's clogs
popping one's clogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pop one's clogs
popped one's clogs
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pop one's clogs
firing pin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: firing pins
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: the part of the firing mechanism which strikes the cartridge's primer to ignite the gunpowder.
here we go again
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Senses: synonyms: here we go
glosses: An expression of frustration upon seeing or hearing something bad repeated.
Coordinate terms: sigh
facepalm
saddle ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: saddle rings
Senses: topics: engineering
firearms
government
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
tools
war
weaponry
glosses: A small metal ring on the side of a firearm, allowing it to be hung on a saddle hook or attached to a lanyard.
hook and eye
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: hooks and eyes
Senses: hypernyms: closure
fastener
coordinate_terms: word: button#Noun
english: temporary fastenings
translation: temporary fastenings
word: clasp#Noun
word: hasp#Noun
word: latch#Noun
word: zipper#Noun
glosses: A matched hook and an eye (loop into which the hook can fit), used for fastening.
Related terms: eye bolt
eye hook
hook-and-loop
hook-and-loop fastener
screw eye
self-belief
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From self- + belief.
Senses: examples: text: Arsenal have been piecing their season back together after a poor start and the manner of this win will provide added reserves of confidence and self-belief.
ref: 2011 October 29, Phil McNulty, “Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Trust in one's positive characteristics; self-confidence; self-worth.
jobs for the boys
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: The problem with jobs on the board is that it is reminiscent of another phrase: jobs for the boys.
ref: 2010 January 27, Daloni Carlisle, The Guardian:
glosses: Jobs unfairly given to someone's friends, supporters, or relations.
Related terms: old boy network
cronyism
come to an end
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: comes to an end
form: coming to an end
form: came to an end
form: come to an end
Senses: examples: text: The protests in Brazil are unfolding just as its long and heralded economic boom may be coming to an end.
ref: 2013 June 18, Simon Romero, “Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders”, in New York Times, retrieved 21 Jun 2013:
glosses: To stop; to cease; to no longer continue.
marouflage
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: French
Senses: glosses: A technique for affixing a painted canvas to a wall to be used as a mural, using an adhesive that hardens as it dries, such as plaster or cement.
glosses: A similar technique for weatherproofing buildings by attaching fabric to the wall.
noncamouflaged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + camouflaged.
Senses: glosses: Not camouflaged.
fermentability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: fermentabilities
Etymology: From ferment + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being fermentable
meanspiritedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From meanspirited + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state or condition of being meanspirited.
noseful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosefuls
Etymology: From nose + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: At last he did what I wanted: I stood so close I could snuff up nosefuls of his musty smell, and he snipped the curls from my head one by one.
ref: 2002, Kate Grenville, Joan makes history:
glosses: As much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff.
nosefuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of noseful
kickingly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more kickingly
form: most kickingly
Etymology: From kicking + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: It came in between my legs as I propelled kickingly my body backwards looking at them.
ref: 2007, Dwight S. Huggins, A Spacefarer's Journal: A Human's Dream Encounters with Extra-Humans:
glosses: With kicking motions.
glosses: Energetically, vigorously.
photoaligned
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more photoaligned
form: most photoaligned
Etymology: From photo- + aligned.
Senses: glosses: aligned by means of photoalignment
multitargeted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + targeted.
Senses: examples: multitargeted antifolates
a multitargeted compiler
glosses: Having more than one site, platform, etc. as its target.
photoalignment
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: photoalignments
Etymology: From photo- + alignment.
Senses: topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The light-induced alignment of certain liquid crystals
noncreated
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + created.
Senses: examples: text: But in case it was noncreated, that is, not produced and shared immediately by divine power but through the freedom of man himself...
ref: 1982, Amos Leslie Willson, German romantic criticism:
glosses: Not created.
oleophobic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more oleophobic
form: most oleophobic
Etymology: From oleo- + -phobic.
Senses: glosses: Tending to repel oil.
Derived terms: oleophobicity
superoleophobic
Related terms: hydrophobic
photoalignments
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoalignment
spatiality
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: spatialities
form: spaciality
Etymology: From spatial + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The condition of being spatial
glosses: The effect of spatial position on a system
photoannulations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of photoannulation
triaxialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of triaxiality
undensitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + densitized.
Senses: glosses: Not densitized
lipophobia
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From lipo- + -phobia.
Senses: examples: text: The new generation avoided fixed itineraries, stayed in cheap hotels or hostels, and (unaffected by the lipophobia of later generations) lived on bread, cheese, and paté.
ref: 1998, Harvey A Levenstein, Seductive journey: American tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age:
text: The most audacious example of chicken meat being used to position a company comes with Kentucky Fried Chicken's rebirth as KFC in 1993; the primary purpose of which was to lose its image as the 'fried food king'. Once again, both the 1980s lipophobia movement and the broad consumer movement can claim the credit.
ref: 2002, Jane Dixon, The Changing Chicken: Chooks, Cooks and Culinary Culture:
text: They can be as prone to lipophobia (the irrational fear of fat) as the population as a whole.
ref: 2012, Ellyn Satter, How to Get Your Kid to Eat: But Not Too Much, page 135:
glosses: A fear of dietary fat.
Related terms: lipophobicity
densitized
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of densitize
densitized
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more densitized
form: most densitized
Senses: topics: mathematics
sciences
glosses: Made more dense.
Derived terms: undensitized
spatialities
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spatiality
meanspiritedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more meanspiritedly
form: most meanspiritedly
Etymology: From meanspirited + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In a meanspirited manner.
freakery
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: freakeries
Etymology: From freak + -ery.
Senses: glosses: That which is freakish or grotesque.
Related terms: control freakery
neat-freakery
freakeries
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of freakery
unsilenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + silenced.
Senses: examples: an unsilenced weapon
unsilenced voices of protest
glosses: Not silenced.
nonsilenced
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + silenced.
Senses: glosses: Not silenced.
clarences
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of clarence
perchless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From perch + -less.
Senses: examples: text: Going perchless also helps keep starlings away. Adding a few perches, however, will draw chickadees and other birds […]
ref: 2004, Fern Marshall Bradley, Projects for the birder's garden:
glosses: Without a perch.
multitargeting
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From multi- + targeting.
Senses: glosses: Targeting more than one site, platform, etc.
multitapers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of multitaper
coachmaker
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachmakers
Etymology: From coach + maker.
Senses: glosses: Synonym of coachbuilder.
synonyms: word: coachbuilder
coachmakers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachmaker
coachful
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: coachfuls
Etymology: From coach + -ful.
Senses: examples: text: A coachful of schoolchildren arrived.
glosses: As much as a coach will hold.
Synonyms: coachload
coachfuls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of coachful
nonlysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + lysed.
Senses: glosses: Not lysed.
unlysed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From un- + lysed.
Senses: glosses: Not lysed.
jegging
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈd͡ʒɛɡɪŋ/
Forms: form: jeggings
Senses: glosses: singular of jeggings; a denim legging
time-off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time off.
nosethirl
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nosethirls
form: nosethril
Etymology: From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril.
Senses: examples: text: proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: A nostril.
nosethirls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nosethirl
isogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From isogon + -ic.
Senses: examples: an isogonic line
topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
synonyms: isogonal
qualifier: navigation
glosses: Describing imaginary lines connecting points on the Earth's surface of identical magnetic declination.
topics: geometry
mathematics
sciences
synonyms: isogonal
glosses: Having equal angles.
topics: biology
natural-sciences
zoology
glosses: Exhibiting, or relating to, isogonism.
Related terms: agonic line
isogonic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: isogonics
Etymology: From isogon + -ic.
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: An isogonic line; a curve connecting points on the Earth's surface whose magnetic declination is identical.
halfendeal
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).
Senses: glosses: A half.
halfendeal
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Forms: form: more halfendeal
form: most halfendeal
Etymology: From Old English healfan dǣl, accusative form of healfa dǣl (“half part”).
Senses: examples: text: now the humid night was farforth spent, / And heauenly lampes were halfendeale ybrent [...].
ref: 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
glosses: Half.
pranny
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈpɹani/
Forms: form: prannies
Etymology: Uncertain; perhaps compare prat, fanny, prannet.
Senses: examples: text: And stop staring at my daughter, man! She's got nothing but bubs and a pranny like any other gal!
ref: 1985, Paul Quarrington, The life of Hope:
glosses: The female genitals.
glosses: A fool; an idiot.
spongocoels
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongocoel
spongins
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of spongin
prannies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of pranny
days off
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of day off
roundtop
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: roundtops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of round-top.
round top
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: round tops
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of round-top.
agonic line
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: agonic lines
Senses: topics: cartography
geography
natural-sciences
qualifier: navigation
glosses: A line on a chart or map joining points of zero magnetic declination.
Synonyms: word: line of no variation
Related terms: isogonal
isogon
grass snakes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of grass snake
time killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time killers
form: time-killer
form: timekiller
Senses: glosses: An activity which unproductively consumes a large amount of time; a distraction.
Related terms: kill time
time to kill
time-killer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: time-killers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time killer.
timekiller
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: timekillers
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of time killer.
time killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time killer
time-killers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of time-killer (alternative spelling of time killers).
timekillers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of timekiller (alternative spelling of time killers).
time to kill
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: examples: text: You are young and life is long / And there is time to kill today
ref: 1973 March 1, Roger Waters, “Time”, in The Dark Side of the Moon, performed by Pink Floyd:
glosses: A period during which one has no responsibilities to fulfill, often while waiting for some event or outcome, and therefore must find some activity to partake in to prevent boredom.
Related terms: kill time
time killer
Delo
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Delos
Etymology: Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Delo.
Senses: glosses: A surname from Serbo-Croatian.
degressive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: -ɛsɪv
Forms: form: more degressive
form: most degressive
Senses: glosses: Tending to decrease.
glosses: Decreasing in steps.
Derived terms: degressively
paremiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: paremiologists
form: paroemiologist
Etymology: From paremiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: One who studies proverbs.
Related terms: paremiological
paremiologically
takes a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of take a hint
taking a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of take a hint
took a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of take a hint
taken a hint
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of take a hint
temporary teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of temporary tooth
primary teeth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of primary tooth
night owls
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: night-owls
Senses: glosses: plural of night owl
morning people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of morning person
night people
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of night person
unclubable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more unclubable
form: most unclubable
Etymology: From un- + clubable.
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of unclubbable.
solar noon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solar noons
Senses: glosses: The local time when the sun is closest to its zenith
cantrix
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: cantrices
Etymology: From Latin cantrīx.
Senses: synonyms: word: chanteuse
word: chantress
word: singeress
word: songstress
glosses: A female singer.
Related terms: cantor
cantorate
chant
tonsor
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tonsors
Etymology: From Latin tōnsor (“barber, hairdresser”), from the supine root of tondēre (“to shave, to shear”) + -or (“-or: forming agent nouns”).
Senses: examples: text: “So, tonsor,” says Jones, “I find you have more trades than one; how came you not to inform me of this last night?”
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
text: He was speedily shown the way to such an emporium of intelligence, and soon found he was likely to hear all he desired to know, and much more, while his head was subjected to the art of a nimble tonsor.
ref: 1822, Sir Walter Scott, chapter 27, in The Fortunes of Nigel:
glosses: Synonym of barber.
synonyms: word: barber
Related terms: tonsorial
tonsure
ratest
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: rate + -est
Senses: glosses: second-person singular simple present indicative of rate
hooks and eyes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hook and eye
O-ring
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: O-rings
Etymology: From O + ring.
Senses: examples: text: The O-rings of the Solid Rocket Boosters were not designed to erode.
ref: 1986 June 6, Richard Feynman, “Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle”, in Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident, Report to the President:
glosses: A circular gasket, usually made of rubber.
topics: fashion
lifestyle
glosses: A small metal ring used to connect two straps.
O-rings
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of O-ring
Kevorkian
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: /kɛˈvɔɹkiːɛn/
Etymology: A variant of Gevorgyan, from Armenian Գևորգյան (Geworgyan).
Senses: examples: text: Jack Kevorkian, euthanasia activist, famously said "dying is not a crime".
glosses: A surname from Armenian.
Derived terms: Kevorkianesque
miriti
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: miritis
Senses: examples: text: Studies of women and babies accounted for several more pages, and then there was an unbroken series of animal drawings with such explanations as "Manatee upon Sandbank," "Turtles and Their Eggs," "Black Ajouti under a Miriti Palm" - the matter disclosing some sort of pig-like animal; and finally came a double page of studies of long-snouted and very unpleasant saurians.
ref: 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
glosses: The moriche palm.
demi-sec
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-sec.
Senses: glosses: Medium dry (of wines).
demi-sec
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: demi-secs
Etymology: Borrowed from French demi-sec.
Senses: glosses: A medium-dry wine.
step dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step dances
form: stepdance
form: step-dance
Etymology: From step + dance.
Senses: examples: text: He then gave us a step-dance, so as not to dwell too long on one subject.
ref: 1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LXVIII. Notes and Correspondence.”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume VI, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 269:
text: Orth'ris began rowlin' his eyes an' crackin' his fingers an' dancin' a step-dance for to impress the Headman.
ref: 1887 April 11, Rudyard Kipling, “The Taking of Lungtungpen”, in Plain Tales from the Hills, Calcutta: Thacker, Spink and Co.; London: W. Thacker & Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 103:
glosses: A dance emphasizing the dancer's steps.
glosses: A postcopulatory behaviour of whistling ducks, genus Dendrocygna.
step dance
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: step dances
form: step dancing
form: step danced
form: step danced
Etymology: From step + dance.
Senses: examples: text: […] place, where we boxed, played skittles, step-danced — a place in which I could say to all these dear street-corner, out-of-work people, "Come in and spend […]
ref: 1903, Charles Edward Osborne, The life of Father Dolling, E. Arnold, page 254:
glosses: To perform a step dance.
Derived terms: step-dancer
step dancer
stepdancer
step-dancing
step dancing
stepdancing
women's liberation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Women's Liberation
Etymology: 1966, women + liberation.
Senses: examples: text: Fourier was the most ardent and voluminous advocate of women's liberation and of sexual freedom among the early socialists.
ref: 1966, New Left Review, November–December, p 12
glosses: The freedom of women from sexism; equal rights for women.
glosses: The struggle or campaigns to achieve this goal.
Synonyms: feminism
fem lib
women's lib
women's movement
Derived terms: women's libber
women's liberationist
table board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: table boards
form: table-board
form: tableboard
Etymology: 1483, table + board.
Senses: glosses: The provision of daily meals; board (separate from rooming).
glosses: A tabletop; a table.
glosses: A backgammon board.
Derived terms: table boarder
anacruses
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anacrusis
weiner dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: weiner dogs
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of wiener dog.
wiener dog
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: wiener dogs
form: weiner dog
Senses: glosses: Synonym of dachshund (a dog breed)
synonyms: word: dachshund
extra: a dog breed
Synonyms: badger dog
sausage dog
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: The street address of the White House in Washington, D.C., the official residence of the President of the United States.
Senses: glosses: The residence and offices of the President and certain members of his staff.
glosses: The current President and the closest members of his administration.
Related terms: 10 Downing Street
24 Sussex Drive
will o' the wisps
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of will o' the wisp
fets
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of fet
fetting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of fet
solonic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more solonic
form: most solonic
form: Solonic
Etymology: From solon + -ic.
Senses: examples: Near-synonym: Solomonic
topics: government
politics
glosses: Wise.
topics: government
politics
glosses: Legislative.
evene
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /ɪˈviːn/
Forms: form: evenes
form: evening
form: evened
form: evened
Etymology: From Latin ēveniō (“happen, fall out, come out”), from ē (“out of, from”) (short form of ex) + veniō (“come”).
Senses: examples: 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two).
What would evene, if an eagle that is carried by the course of the wind, should let a stone fall from its talons.
glosses: To occur; to happen; to come to pass.
Synonyms: come to pass
occur
transpire
Related terms: event
like as
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Etymology: See like.
Senses: examples: text: Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his season.
ref: 1611, Bible, Job 5.26:
glosses: Just as; in the same way as; even as.
like as if
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like as.
like as and
Language: English
Part of speech: conj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of like as.
stepdance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: stepdances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of step dance.
Derived terms: Irish stepdance
step-dance
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: step-dances
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of step dance.
innyard
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: innyards
form: inn yard
form: inn-yard
Etymology: From inn + yard.
Senses: examples: text: 1791, Ann Ward Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Dublin: P. Wogan et al., Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 8,
[He] had scarcely left the room, when Adeline observed a party of horsemen enter the inn-yard, and she had no doubt these were the persons from whom they fled.
text: I immediately opened the door and stepped out into the inn-yard, crowded with conducteurs, grooms, and ostlers, who, I thought, looked rather surprised at seeing me emerge from the diligence.
ref: 1839, Charles Lever, chapter 26, in The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Dublin: W. Curry, page 199:
text: I shall never forget the last glimpse which I had of the inn-yard and its crowd of picturesque figures, all crossing themselves, as they stood round the wide archway, with its background of rich foliage of oleander and orange trees in green tubs clustered in the centre of the yard.
ref: 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 1, in Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:
text: His heart beat at the sight of her, as though he were a young man and this his first assignation outside a cinema, in a Lyons Corner House . . . or in an inn yard in a country town where dances were held.
ref: 1943, Graham Greene, chapter 7, in The Ministry of Fear, Vintage, published 2004:
glosses: The yard of an inn.
24 Sussex Street
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Etymology: From 24 + Sussex Street.
Senses: glosses: Former name of 24 Sussex Drive.
Derived terms: 24 Sussex
Sussex
Sussex Street
Maan
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Ma'an, Jordan and Syria.
glosses: A village in Gujranwala district, Punjab province, Pakistan.
hang times
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hang time
whigging
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of whig
highschools
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of highschool
whigged
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of whig
cooks the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of cook the books
cooking the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of cook the books
cooked the books
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of cook the books
Hanford
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Hanfords
form: Handford
Etymology: From Welsh hen ("old") and ford ("a way"): the old way (Source: William Arthur 1857).
Senses: glosses: A Welsh surname (the most common in England and the United States).
glosses: A city, the county seat of Kings County, in central California, United States.
glosses: An unincorporated community in Cerro Gordo County, Iowa.
glosses: A former small agricultural community located in Benton County, Washington, which was depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site.
glosses: A village and civil parish in Dorset, England, previously in North Dorset district (OS grid ref ST8411).
glosses: A suburb in south-west Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ8742).
Derived terms: Hanfordite
paremiologists
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of paremiologist
configurationism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From configuration + -ism.
Senses: topics: human-sciences
psychology
sciences
glosses: Any theory of psychology based on configurational properties, but especially Gestalt psychology
configurative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From configure + -ative.
Senses: glosses: Of or pertaining to configuration
confinable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confinable
form: most confinable
Etymology: From confine + -able.
Senses: glosses: Able to be confined
Derived terms: inconfinable
unconfinable
confineless
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confineless
form: most confineless
Etymology: From confine + -less.
Senses: examples: text: It is myself I mean: in whom I know
All the particulars of vice so grafted
That, when they shall be open’d, black Macbeth
Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state
Esteem him as a lamb, being compared
With my confineless harms.
ref: c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
text: A passage, left for air, led to a cliff
That beetled high above a sandy beach
Washed by confineless billows, which, methought,
Cried scornfully, “Slave, slave!”
ref: 1838, William Ball, Freemen and Slaves, London: Saunders & Otley, Act I, Scene 3, p. 15:
text: If Nathan’s words inform our praise
and all the prayers we frame,
our worship then will leap and blaze
with God’s confineless flame.
ref: 1994, Thomas H. Troeger, “Before the Temple’s Great Stone Sill”, in Borrowed Light: Hymn Texts, Prayers and Poems, Oxford University Press, page 138:
glosses: Boundless.
confiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confiners
Etymology: From confine (verb) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] as he attended him through the streets, the common people, and even women, uttered loud exclamations of abuse against him, calling him the murderer of syeds, and confiner of Chaund Sultana.
ref: 1794, Jonathan Scott, transl., Ferishta’s History of Dekkan from the First Mahummedan Conquests, volume I, Shrewsbury, page 311:
text: […] I hope to gain a friend in you, and that will surely repay, a thousand times, the exertions I have at length happily made to terminate your captivity, which has, I know, been continued, rather from the obstinacy and idleness of your confiners, than any remaining malice against your country, or suspicions of yourself.
ref: 1816, Barbara Hofland, chapter 2, in The Affectionate Brothers, volume 2, London: A.K. Newman, pages 40–41:
text: The narrow adhesive strips […] are then applied spirally about the leg, as confiners.
ref: 1876, C. Henri Leonard, chapter 11, in A Manual of Bandaging Adapted for Self-Instruction, Detroit: Daily Post, page 122:
text: 2016, “Last Chance for Animals’ Investigation Leads to Animal Cruelty Charges for Marineland Canada,” Press Release dated 4 December, 2016,
The undercover investigation exposed inadequate treatment, housing, and care of marine mammals at Marineland, the world’s largest confiner of beluga whales.
glosses: One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
confiner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confiners
Etymology: From confine (noun) + -er.
Senses: examples: text: 1599, Samuel Daniel, The Civil Wars of England, Book 1, Stanza 18, in Poeticall Essayes, London: Simon Waterson, p. 4,
So did the worldes proud Mistres Rome at first
Striue with a hard beginning, warr’d with need;
Forcing her strong Confiners to the worst,
And in her bloud her greatnes first did breed:
text: […] though Gladnesse, and Griefe, be opposites in Nature; yet they are such Neighbours and Confiners in Arte, that the least touch of a Pensill, will translate a Crying, into a Laughing Face […]
ref: 1624, Henry Wotton, editor, The Elements of Architecture, collected by Henry Wotton Knight, from the Best Authors and Examples, London, Part 2, p. 88:
text: For being Confiners on the Aetolians, and vsing the same manner of arming, it was thought it would bee a matter of great vtility in the Warre, to haue them in their Armie; for that they knew their manner of fight, and were acquainted with the Country.
ref: 1629, Thomas Hobbes, transl., Eight Bookes of the Peloponnesian Warre written by Thucydides the Sonne of Olorus, London: Henry Seile, Book 3, p. 197:
text: […] he would soon endeavour to have Ports upon that Sea, as not wanting Materials for Shipping. And […] may be a terrour unto the confiners on that Sea, and to Nations which now conceive themselves safe from such an Enemy.
ref: 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, London: Charles Mearn, Tract 12, page 187:
text: 1697, Thomas d’Urfey, The Intrigues of Versailles, London: F. Saunders et al., Act IV, Scene 2, p. ,
[…] darkness is naturally a confiner of fancy; and my Muse has taught me just as people do Starlings: I sing always best when I’ve least light […]
glosses: A person who lives on the confines, boundary or edge; a neighbour.
examples: text: The senate hath stirr’d up the confiners
And gentlemen of Italy, most willing spirits,
That promise noble service […]
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 IV, scene ii]:
glosses: A person who lives within the confines; an inhabitant.
examples: 1819, Joseph John Gurney, Notes on a Visit Made to Some of the Prisons in Scotland and the North of England in Company with Elizabeth Fry, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, p. 64,
Lancaster Castle […] contains two classes of prisoners; first, the untried, and those sentenced to death or transportation; and secondly, confiners,—persons sent hither for terms of imprisonment and labour.
glosses: A prisoner incarcerated for a set term.
confinity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: contiguity, adjacency
confirmative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confirmative
form: most confirmative
Etymology: From confirm + -ative.
Senses: glosses: That serves to confirm
Derived terms: confirmatively
disconfirmative
nonconfirmative
unconfirmative
confirmee
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confirmees
Etymology: From confirm + -ee.
Senses: glosses: A person who is confirmed via religious rite.
glosses: One to whom anything is confirmed.
confitent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: confitents
Etymology: Latin confitens, p.pr.
Senses: glosses: A person who confesses; a confessor or penitent
confixative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more confixative
form: most confixative
Senses: topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Characterized by the fixing together of elements.
uniformiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniformisers
Senses: qualifier: commutative algebra
glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of uniformizer (“a uniformizing parameter”).
conflagrative
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conflagrative
form: most conflagrative
Senses: glosses: That produces conflagration
conflagratory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more conflagratory
form: most conflagratory
Etymology: From conflagrate + -ory.
Senses: glosses: That tends to produce conflagration; inflammatory
confirmees
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of confirmee
dissimulator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dissimulators
Etymology: From Latin dissimulātor, from dissimulāre (“to conceal, to pretend, to neglect”) + -tor (“-er: forming agent nouns”), from dissimilis (“unlike”) + -āre (“forming verbs”). Equivalent to dissimulate + -or.
Senses: glosses: One who dissimulates.
Derived terms: dissimulatress
pyramidalize
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pyramidalizes
form: pyramidalizing
form: pyramidalized
form: pyramidalized
Etymology: From pyramidal + -ize.
Senses: glosses: To make pyramidal
Related terms: pyramidalization
smoking jackets
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of smoking jacket
nieces-in-law
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of niece-in-law
allied health
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: hypernyms: word: health care
alt: healthcare
coordinate_terms: dentistry
medicine
nursing
veterinary medicine
glosses: The range of health care services outside the scope of the medicine, dentistry and nursing professions, e.g. music therapy, physiotherapy, optometry, etc.
viers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of vier