cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
forleses
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of forlese
inspirations
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of inspiration
inspirer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -aɪəɹə(ɹ)
Forms: form: inspirers
Etymology: From inspire + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Iamus, the legendary ancestor of this priestly house, was a son of Apollo, the god of divination, and inspirer of the great oracle at Delphi.
ref: 1879, F. D. Morice, Pindar, chapter 8, page 123:
glosses: Someone who inspires.
hot spots
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of hot spot
Abhaz
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abkhaz.
Abhaz
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Abhaz
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of Abkhaz.
bad breath
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: bad breaths
Senses: topics: dentistry
medicine
sciences
synonyms: word: halitosis
word: ;
word: bromopnea
word: fetor oris
word: ozostomia
word: stomatodysodia
word: ;
word: dragonbreath
antonyms: good breath
glosses: Breath that produces an unpleasant or foul-smelling odor when exhaled.
Related terms: english: and its synonyms
translation: and its synonyms
word: arsebreath
word: breath check
word: breath mint
resupplies
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of resupply
anesthesias
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of anesthesia
dirigist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪɹɪˈʒɪst/
Forms: form: more dirigist
form: most dirigist
Senses: examples: text: Concern with the visible short run effects thus progressively leads to a dirigist organization of the whole society.
ref: 1976, Friedrich Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty:
glosses: Alternative form of dirigiste.
dirigist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌdɪɹɪˈʒɪst/
Forms: form: dirigistes
Senses: examples: text: But we have not, at least by 1997, observed any postrevolutionary reduction in the zeal of the dirigistes, who seem, genuinely, to consider themselves both epistemologically and morally superior to their fellow citizens.
ref: 1998, James M. Buchanan, Politics by Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy, page 208:
glosses: Alternative form of dirigiste.
nanoampere
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: nanoamperes
form: nano-amp
form: nanoamp
form: nano ampere
Etymology: From nano- + ampere.
Senses: topics: metrology
glosses: An SI unit of electrical current equal to 10⁻⁹ amperes. Symbol: nA
Synonyms: nA
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nanoamperes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of nanoampere
disapproves
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of disapprove
standard rulers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of standard ruler
copywrote
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of copywrite
copywriting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of copywrite
copywrites
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of copywrite
subletting
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of sublet
subletting
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: sublettings
Senses: examples: text: […] there are sublettings, overcrowdings of lands, clearances, and emigrations going on; and want of employment, with consequent destitution and wretchedness is the complaint of the majority of the inhabitants.
ref: 1846, Thomas Campbell Foster, Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland, page 270:
topics: business
law
property
real-estate
synonyms: word: sublease
word: underlease
word: subtenancy
word: undertenancy
word: underletting
word: sublet
word: underlet
word: sublease
glosses: Synonym of sublease.
upbreeds
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbreed
upbreeding
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbreed
upbred
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbreed
upbears
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of upbear
upbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: upbearings
Etymology: From Middle English upberinge, upberynge, equivalent to upbear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: A bearing up; support
examples: text: One who is conscious of the strong upbearings and full onflowings of these mighty Scripture tides longs to see a keel that can reach and feel and indicate their presence and their strength.
ref: 1893, Waldo Selden Pratt, Arthur Lincoln Gillett, The Hartford Seminary Record, volume 3, page 149:
glosses: A surge or movement upward
upbearing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From Middle English upberynge, upberande, equivalent to upbear + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of upbear
upbore
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of upbear
misalign
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: misaligns
form: misaligning
form: misaligned
form: misaligned
Etymology: From mis- + align.
Senses: synonyms: dealign
glosses: To align incorrectly
Derived terms: misaligner
local color
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: local colour
Senses: examples: text: We would like to have it illustrated by Mr. Tortoni, some of whose work you may have seen, and would be glad to know whether he may call upon you in order to acquaint himself with the local colour of your neighbourhood.
ref: 1917, Christopher Morley, chapter 1, in Parnassus on Wheels, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 8:
glosses: Aspects of a location that distinguish it from neighboring communities; the collective customs, mannerisms, fashions, artwork, accents or traditions of an area.
Related terms: color
locality
localization
localized
repecharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of repechage.
repercharge
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: Misspelling of repechage.
nonallelic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From non- + allelic.
Senses: glosses: not functioning as alleles
overmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈmætʃ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌmætʃ/
Forms: form: overmatches
form: overmatching
form: overmatched
form: overmatched
Etymology: From Middle English overmacchen, equivalent to over- + match.
Senses: examples: text: The regular expression overmatched, capturing the entire paragraph instead of the specific sentence.
glosses: To match more than intended.
examples: text: And wel his merits ſhew him to be made
His Fortunes maiſter, and the king of men.
That could perſwade at ſuch a ſodaine pinch,
With reaſons of his valour and his life,
A thouſand ſworne and ouer-matching foes:
ref: c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene i:
text: At Lemster, for her Wooll whose Staple doth excell,
And seemes to over-match the golden Phrygian Fell.
ref: 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 7 p. 104:
glosses: To be more than equal to or a match for, to surpass; hence, to conquer, vanquish.
examples: text: If a yeoman have one sole daughter, he must overmatch her, above her birth and calling, to a gentleman forsooth, because of her great portion […]
ref: 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
glosses: To marry (someone) to a superior.
Derived terms: overmatched
overmatch
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌəʊvə(ɹ)ˈmætʃ/
ipa: /ˈəʊvə(ɹ)ˌmætʃ/
Forms: form: overmatches
Etymology: From Middle English overmacchen, equivalent to over- + match.
Senses: examples: text: […] we can increase the velocity of that force, so as to make it an overmatch for its antagonist.
ref: 1748, David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Oxford ed., ¶13, published 2007:
glosses: A match in which one opponent is greatly superior to the other.
examples: text: For Memnon […] fought hand to hand with his overmatch, and met his boyish and most dolorous death beneath the walls of Troy.
ref: 1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities:
glosses: An opponent who is more than a match for another; one who cannot be defeated.
creep out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: creeps out
form: creeping out
form: creeped out
form: creeped out
form: crept out
form: crept out
Etymology: From creep + out (adverb). The past tense creeped out (instead of crept out) was possibly influenced by freaked out.
Senses: examples: text: That janitor who's always talking about blood creeps me out.
glosses: To make (someone) uncomfortable or afraid; to give (someone) the creeps.
Related terms: creeper
creepy
retrench
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
ipa: /ɹəˈtɹɛnt͡ʃ/
rhymes: -ɛntʃ
Forms: form: retrenches
form: retrenching
form: retrenched
form: retrenched
Etymology: From re- + trench.
Senses: examples: text: The [fishing] technique was to clear the channel downstream from the lagoon for about twenty to forty yards, but not all the way to the salt water. A small "bridge" was left at the lower end of the lagoon. When holding pits had been dug near the end of the re-trenched channel and everyone was ready, the "bridge" was dug out and the outrush of water brought hundreds of fish along with it.
ref: 2013, Jake Jacobson, “Getting White Fish for Winter Dog Food”, in Alaska Hunting: Earthworms to Elephants, Anchorage, Ak.: Publication Consultants, →ISBN:
glosses: To dig or redig a trench where one already exists.
genogram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: genograms
Etymology: From geno- + -gram.
Senses: topics: medicine
sciences
glosses: A pictorial representation of a patient's family tree together with details of the medical history of each person
tegmentums
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tegmentum
downslopes
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of downslope
orderlies
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of orderly
emery cloth
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emery cloths
Senses: coordinate_terms: emery paper[Appendix:Glossary#loosely|loosely]] synonymous>
;
emery board
glosses: An abrasive material, like sandpaper, made by gluing grains of emery to a cloth surface.
overruns
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of overrun
overruns
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of overrun
overrunning
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of overrun
emery board
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emery boards
Senses: examples: text: He was known for throwing the “emery ball,” a baseball that had been scuffed with a piece of emery board hidden in the heel of his glove.
ref: 2009, Chris Epting, The Early Polo Grounds, page 1948:
coordinate_terms: emery cloth
emery paper
;
whetstone
glosses: An abrasive strip made by gluing grains of emery onto a rigid material, often used as a nail file.
emery paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: emery papers
Senses: examples: text: Small tools are spread on the tatami: a razor knife, a sprue cutter, curls of emery paper.
ref: 1999, William Gibson, All Tomorrow's Parties (Bridge trilogy; book 3), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, →ISBN, page 2:
coordinate_terms: emery cloth[Appendix:Glossary#loosely|loosely]] synonymous>
;
emery board
glosses: An abrasive material, like sandpaper, made by gluing grains of emery to a paper surface.
abrasive paper
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abrasive papers
Senses: synonyms: sandpaper
glosses: An abrasive material made by gluing grains of a coarse abrasive to a cloth or paper surface.
back fires
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of back fire
launchers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of launcher
loincloths
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of loincloth
tunica albuginea
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: tunicae albugineae
Etymology: From Late Latin tunica albūginea (“white membrane”).
Senses: examples: text: The testis has a rich superficial plexus beneath the tunica albuginea.
ref: 1918, Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body, page 687:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Layer of connective tissue covering the testis.
examples: text: If the tunica albuginea of an ovary be divided with a scalpel, the stroma may then be readily torn asunder by pulling the edges of the incision apart ...
ref: 1867, Charles Delucena Meigs, Obstetrics: The Science and the Art, page 120:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Layer of connective tissue covering the ovaries.
examples: text: Scarring of the tunica albuginea results in a portion of the tunica that cannot stretch and expand as the cavernosal sinusoids.
ref: 2002, Carol B Benson, “Erectile Dysfunction”, in Imaging of the Scrotum & Penis, →ISBN, page 274:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Tough fibrous layer of connective tissue that surrounds the corpora cavernosa of the penis.
adluminal
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: /ædˈlumɪnəl/
Etymology: From ad- + luminal.
Senses: examples: text: Spermatozoa move to the epididymis by the flow of fluid into the lumen of the seminiferous tubules from the adluminal spaces.
ref: 2004, William O. Reece, Functional Anatomy and Physiology of Domestic Animals, →ISBN, page 380:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: Near or toward the lumen of a seminiferous tubule.
lose heart
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses heart
form: losing heart
form: lost heart
form: lost heart
Senses: examples: text: There's nothing so humbling as being a dunce in a foreign tongue, and if it weren't for her compassion, we'd have lost heart after two weeks.
ref: 2008, Sue Grafton, J is for Judgment, page 159:
glosses: To despair; to experience reduced morale.
Related terms: heartless
lose one's way
unhearty
lose one's lunch
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: loses one's lunch
form: losing one's lunch
form: lost one's lunch
form: lost one's lunch
Senses: examples: text: Exactly one minute later, the first of the passengers lost their lunch over the side.
ref: 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 235:
synonyms: launch one's lunch
launch lunch
glosses: To vomit, throw up.
mentors
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of mentor
mentors
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mentor
dromaeosaurid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: dromaeosaurids
form: dromæosaurid
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A bird-like theropod dinosaur of the family Dromaeosauridae.
piece together
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: pieces together
form: piecing together
form: pieced together
form: pieced together
Senses: examples: text: The community pieced together a quilt using a square stitched in each household.
text: It took years for the archeologist to piece together the fragments of the shattered vase.
text: Perhaps the best news to come out of the nominations was the brightened box-office prospects for such films as Benh Zeitlin's Beasts of the Southern Wild, a dazzling piece of magic realism pieced together from just $1.8m, some rusty bathtubs and whatever Louisiana bric-a-brac its youthful collective of film-makers could lay their hands on.
ref: 2013 January 11, Tom Shone, “Oscar nominations pull a surprise by showing some taste – but will it last?”, in The Guardian:
glosses: To physically assemble (or reassemble) from fragments or pieces.
examples: text: The detective painstakingly collected clues to piece together what happened that tragic night.
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: To reconstruct an event or goal from incomplete or flawed elements.
inrushing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From in- + rushing.
Senses: examples: text: Inrushing winds fanned a firestorm.
glosses: Moving towards or into.
inrushing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inrushings
Etymology: From in- + rushing.
Senses: glosses: A rushing inward.
lagerstätte
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈlɑːɡəʃtɛtə/
Forms: form: lagerstätten
Etymology: From German Lagerstätte (“storage place”).
Senses: examples: text: A fossil lagerstätte bearing the "Guanling fauna" of Yin Gongzheng et al. (2000, p. 23) occurs 7 to 10 m above the base of the Wayao Formation...
ref: 2006, Paul Enos, Triassic Evolution of the Yangtze Platform in Guizhou Province, People's Republic of China, →ISBN, page 84:
text: The Cretaceous Lebanese Lagerstätten have been especially generous with coleoid fossils.
ref: 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 121:
topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: A sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossil richness or completeness.
microphones
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of microphone
microphones
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of microphone
minks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /mɪŋks/
homophone: minx
rhymes: -ɪŋks
Senses: glosses: plural of mink
mitigates
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of mitigate
protofeather
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: protofeathers
Etymology: From proto- + feather.
Senses: topics: biology
history
human-sciences
natural-sciences
paleontology
sciences
glosses: The hypothetical precursors of bird feathers, believed to have been grown by certain dinosaurs.
protofeathers
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of protofeather
oxidiser
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: oxidisers
Etymology: From oxidise + -er.
Senses: glosses: Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of oxidizer.
overcrowdedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From overcrowded + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being overcrowded.
think-tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of think-tank
think-tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of think-tank
radargram
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈɹeɪdɑɹɡɹæm/
Forms: form: radargrams
Etymology: From radar + -gram.
Senses: topics: astronomy
geography
geology
natural-sciences
planetology
glosses: A radar image of mineral deposits or a planetary surface.
glosses: Synonym of radar chart.
synonyms: word: radar chart
Derived terms: radargrammetry
Related terms: photogram
sonogram
radargrams
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of radargram
think tanks
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of think tank
katabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæt.əˈbæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: catabatic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταιβατός (kataibatós, “down-going, descending”), from κατα- (kata-, “down”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Senses: examples: text: At the field camp, paper-thin tents shudder beneath katabatic blasts of freezing wind, stoves sputter a stingy flame, and a few trudging specks haul shovels through a cold world where extra food and equipment cannot be bought at any price.
ref: 2005, Nicholas Johnson, chapter 3, in Big Dead Place, →ISBN:
text: Penguin colonies that number in millions; nights that run into days, and days that run into nights; katabatic winds that scream down the ice sheets at a terrifying 180 miles per hour, and then remain equally terrifyingly still.
ref: 2006 February 24, Tishani Doshi, “Meanwhile: The long view from Antarctica”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
topics: climatology
meteorology
natural-sciences
glosses: Downslope on a mountainside.
raw_tags: of airflow
Derived terms: katabatically
katabatic wind
katabatic
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kæt.əˈbæt.ɪk/
rhymes: -ætɪk
Forms: form: katabatics
form: catabatic
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek καταιβατός (kataibatós, “down-going, descending”), from κατα- (kata-, “down”) + βαίνω (baínō, “to go”).
Senses: glosses: Ellipsis of katabatic wind.
yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of yellow
glosses: A kind of jaundice found in horses, cattle, and sheep, causing yellowness of the eyes.
synonyms: little peach
glosses: A disease of plants, especially peach trees, in which the leaves turn a yellowish colour.
yellows
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: This paper yellows with age and gets brittle.
glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of yellow
infamita
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: infamitas
Etymology: From Italian infamità.
Senses: examples: text: I don’t want any [drugs] near schools, I don’t want any of it sold to children. That is an infamita.
ref: 1968, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, page 386:
text: And why, if he had betrayed his own, did he not turn to his enemies for protection, as all traitors do? I imagined he must have committed one of those unforgivable Sicilian crimes, an infamità so serious that everybody must condemn him, his family, his allies as well as his enemies; one of those mysterious violations of the unwritten code to punish which rivalries, feuds, and gang wars were temporarily suspended; […]
ref: 1977, Luigi Giorgio Barzini, O America, When You and I Were Young, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 244:
text: Don Croce sells information to the government and to me that is an infamita.
ref: 1984, Mario Puzo, The Sicilian, Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 236:
text: Philip teaches the children the Sicilian concept of omerta or silence and warns them not to commit infamita, or the telling of family secrets.
ref: 2002, Jane Kathleen Curry, John Guare: A Research and Production Sourcebook, Greenwood Publishing, →ISBN, pages 34–5:
glosses: A most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general.
marker bed
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: marker beds
Senses: glosses: Synonym of marker horizon.
synonyms: word: marker horizon
interbedded
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪntɚˈbɛdəd/
Etymology: From inter- + bedded.
Senses: examples: text: They are regarded as distal turbidites and are interbedded with bioclastic limestones and massive breccioid limestones containing blocks of coral colonies and intraclasts that are regarded as proximal turbidites.
ref: 2007, Bernhard Hubmann, Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003:
topics: geography
geology
natural-sciences
glosses: Occurring between beds of rock.
far-field
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: topics: communications
electrical-engineering
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
telecommunications
antonyms: near-field
glosses: Of or pertaining to the far field.
on duty
Language: English
Part of speech: prep_phrase
Forms: form: on-duty
Senses: examples: text: I'm supposed to go on duty at 0800 hours.
text: He was seen drinking on duty.
text: She will be on duty from noon to six.
antonyms: off duty
glosses: Actively engaged in an assigned task, duty or occupation.
Related terms: on call
fire breathing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: Alternative spelling of fire-breathing.
filches
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: third-person singular simple present indicative of filch
filches
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of filch.
etiologist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: etiologists
form: aetiologist
form: ætiologist
Etymology: From etiology + -ist.
Senses: glosses: A practitioner of etiology.
atterrate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: /əˈtɛɹeɪt/
Forms: form: atterrates
form: atterrating
form: atterrated
form: atterrated
Etymology: From Italian atterrare. Compare Late Latin atterrare (“to cast to earth”).
Senses: examples: text: The rain doth[…]atterrate or add part of the sea to the firm land
ref: 1738, John Ray, Travels Through the Low Countries:
glosses: To fill up with alluvial earth.
Related terms: atterration
tramezzini
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: plural of tramezzino
plug out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: plugs out
form: plugging out
form: plugged out
form: plugged out
Senses: glosses: To unplug; to remove (an electrical device) from its socket.
Biafran
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more Biafran
form: most Biafran
Etymology: From Biafra + -an. The "skinny" sense is in reference to the images of extremely skinny Biafran refugees from the Nigerian Civil War that appeared plentifully in English-language media in the 1960s and 1970s.
Senses: glosses: Of, from or relating to Biafra.
examples: text: "He looked Biafran, he looked HIV-positive," Suzanne said, "Contrary to what the doctors were worried about, I believe those kids were keeping him alive."
ref: 2006, Stephen P. Kiernan, Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System:
text: She was truly skinny now and in this defenseless. She had surpassed fashionable and veered into unhealth. She looked Biafran; her eyes seemed to bulge out of her head.
ref: 2007, Wendy Rawlings, The Agnostics, page 111:
text: You want food? You look Biafran.
ref: 2010, 1:42:08 from the start, in Animal Kingdom:
glosses: Extremely skinny.
Biafran
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Biafrans
Etymology: From Biafra + -an. The "skinny" sense is in reference to the images of extremely skinny Biafran refugees from the Nigerian Civil War that appeared plentifully in English-language media in the 1960s and 1970s.
Senses: glosses: A native or inhabitant of Biafra.
analphabet
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ænˈælfəbɛt/
ipa: /ˌæˈnælfəbɛt/
Forms: form: more analphabet
form: most analphabet
Etymology: From Late Latin analphabetus (“unable to read and write; illiterate”), from Ancient Greek ἀναλφάβητος (analphábētos, “illiterate”), from ἀν- (an-, “un-”) + ἀλφάβητος (alphábētos, “alphabet”); analysable as an- + alphabet. The English word was probably influenced by cognate words in other languages such as French analphabète (adjective), German Analphabetus, Analphabet (nouns), analphabeten (adjective), Italian analfabeta (adjective, noun), analfabeto (adjective, noun), Portuguese analfabeto (adjective, noun), Spanish analfabeto (adjective, noun).
The adjective was derived from the noun.
Senses: examples: text: […] Vincentius Pinelli’s Books, which after his death, being ſhipped by his Heirs for Naples, and taken by the Turks, were many of them thrown overboard by thoſe Analphabet Rogues, who looked for other merchandiſe than Books. Yet many of them were recovered again for Money, […]
ref: 1686, Richard Lassels, “The Description and Voyage of Italy”, in The Voyage of Italy: Or, A Compleat Journey through Italy. In Two Parts. […], London: Printed for R. C. J. R. and A. C. and are to be sold by Charles Shortgrave […], →OCLC, part I, page 81:
text: And of the Mohammedan population nearly all the women are analphabet.
ref: 1908, John P[rice] Jones, “Islam in India”, in India: Its Life and Thought, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, section III (What is the Character of the Mohammedan Population in India?), page 329:
text: All these love tales are in verse, transmitted up to this day, through countless generations of oral tradition by an analphabete people with an inborn, unerring sense of art.
ref: 1965, Commonweal, volume 82, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 325, column 1:
text: The illustrious bookstore has nothing for helping analphabets. The sales assistant looks like a pontificating doctor, and informs Édith that there is a difference between analphabet and illiterate: […] The two encyclopedias Édith and Gilles have at home do not make any distinction between illiterate and analphabet.
ref: 2013, Laurence Cossé, chapter 2, in Alison Anderson, transl., Bitter Almonds, New York, N.Y.: Europa Editions, →ISBN:
text: To present myself, I gave the contractor my business card. He gave it twenty seconds of concentrated attention and then passed it to his secretary. The contractor joked that his secretary would give it the high level of attention it deserved. He was analphabet. I could have confused the package with the product and rapidly concluded that I had nothing to expect for our business from an analphabet contractor and gently blow up the meeting. I didn't.
ref: 2016 April 7, Thami J. Khalil, Faith, Growth and Success, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
synonyms: word: illiterate
glosses: Ignorant of the letters of the alphabet; partly or wholly illiterate.
antifeedant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Etymology: From anti- + feedant.
Senses: topics: biology
ecology
natural-sciences
glosses: That inhibits normal feeding behaviour.
antifeedant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: antifeedants
Etymology: From anti- + feedant.
Senses: topics: biochemistry
biology
chemistry
microbiology
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: Any substance that inhibits normal feeding behaviour.
immunotoxin
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotoxins
Etymology: From immuno- + toxin.
Senses: glosses: Any compound that is toxic to the immune system
Related terms: immunotoxic
immunotoxicity
immunotoxicity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunotoxicities
Etymology: From immuno- + toxicity.
Senses: glosses: The toxic effect of an immunotoxin on the immune system
chitupa
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: chitupas
Etymology: From Lozi situpa.
Senses: glosses: An identification certificate required of black citizens of the former Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
uniformization
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: uniformizations
Etymology: From uniform + -ization.
Senses: examples: text: […] who in vivid contrast to Kabin pursued a deliberate policy of Russification and uniformization with the rest of the Soviet Union.
ref: 2004, Toivo Miljan, Historical Dictionary of Estonia, →ISBN, page 294:
glosses: The act of uniformizing.
uniformizing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of uniformize
copybook
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: copybooks
Etymology: From copy + book.
Senses: examples: text: She whipped up the cards on the floor, extinguished an unglobed candle, and ruffled open the pages of Claude's copybook.
ref: 2001, Allen Kurzweil, A Case of Curiosities:
glosses: A student's exercise book containing samples of good handwriting to be copied.
glosses: A notebook containing blank, often lined, pages for writing answers.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: A series of instructions or data definitions copied into multiple programs from a shared library; boilerplate.
Derived terms: blot one's copybook
cumulable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more cumulable
form: most cumulable
Senses: glosses: Able to be accumulated into a single grouping
Related terms: cumulability
cumulability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Senses: glosses: The ability to be accumulated into a single grouping
Related terms: cumulable
danewort
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: daneworts
Etymology: From Dane + wort, since it was traditionally believed to grow on battlegrounds of the Danes.
Senses: glosses: A European dwarf version of the elder, Sambucus ebulus, that has a bad smell
Synonyms: dwarf elder
elderwort
echoey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more echoey
form: echoier
form: most echoey
form: echoiest
Etymology: From echo + -ey.
Senses: examples: text: That nostalgic luxury is particularly obvious in the former station buffet, which still functioned as a restaurant when I was last there several years ago. Empty and echoey, it was doing brisk trade in Orient Express vintage posters, several of which now adorn my garden office walls.
ref: 2025 October 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life's little luxuries”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 84:
glosses: That echoes; having an echoing quality.
raw_tags: of a sound
guayabera
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: guayaberas
Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish guayabera.
Senses: examples: text: So he was quite peremptory when a slight, soft-spoken man in a guayabera, trousers, and sandals began chatting with him and did not seem likely to stop.
ref: 2013, Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo, Simon & Schuster, page 85:
glosses: A light, open-necked, short-sleeved shirt worn by men in Latin America and the West Indies.
help out
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Forms: form: helps out
form: helping out
form: helped out
form: helped out
Etymology: Compare German aushelfen.
Senses: examples: text: When we moved house, the children helped out by packing their toys.
text: Could you help me out? I'm trying to find the railway station.
glosses: To provide assistance.
immunomodulation
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: immunomodulations
Etymology: From immuno- + modulation.
Senses: glosses: Any of several adjustments in the level of an immune response, via either endogenous regulation or immunotherapy
Derived terms: neuroimmunomodulation
Related terms: immunopotentiation
immunosuppression
inherence
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɪnˈhɪəɹəns/
Forms: form: inherences
Etymology: Compare French inhérence.
Senses: examples: text: the gay man , in his greatest bravery , is only pleased because I am pleased with the sight ; so borrowing his little and imaginary complacency from the delight that I have , not from any inherence of his own possession
ref: 1651, Jer[emy] Taylor, “[XXVIII Sermons Preached at Golden Grove; Being for the Summer Half-year, […].] ”, in ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1654, →OCLC:
text: Yes, to savour to the full the sheer inherence of things, so pure and gentle is it; if you get still enough you can hear the grass growing.
ref: 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1260:
glosses: The state of being inherent or permanently present in something; indwelling.
Related terms: inherency
inherent
inherency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: inherencies
Senses: glosses: The condition of being inherent
Related terms: inherence
inherent
long-legged
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more long-legged
form: most long-legged
Senses: synonyms: word: split up
raw_tags: of a person
glosses: Having long legs.
examples: text: The pilots were flying planes that were not only light and highly maneuverable; they were extremely long-legged, able to cover a greater distance than their American counterparts.
glosses: Of an aircraft or ship: having large operational range.
Derived terms: taxonomic: Macrophyllum macrophyllum
word: long-legged bat
taxonomic: Buteo rufinus
word: long-legged buzzard
word: long-leggedness
taxonomic: Cheiracanthium spp.
word: long-legged sac spider
alt: Cincloramphus rufus
word: long-legged warbler
Related terms: legs all the way to one's neck
loosey-goosey
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more loosey-goosey
form: loosier-goosier
form: loosey-goosier
form: most loosey-goosey
form: loosiest-goosiest
form: loosey-goosiest
form: loosey goosey
form: loosy-goosy
Senses: examples: text: They said that he couldn't hit International League pitching because he was too loosey-goosey at the plate.
ref: 1946 July 8, “By Jim Coleman”, in The Globe and Mail:
text: “All these other guys are scared to death,” the pinch-hitter kept telling himself as he walked towards the plate, “I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey, I’m loosey-goosey.”
ref: 1955, Trent Frayne, “Why Big-League Goalies CRACK Up”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 09 Apr 2022:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: relaxed
examples: text: "Everything seemed to be real loosey-goosey," Mr. Williams said. "[…]I had lunch with him three times, and each time he said, 'Oh, I forgot to bring the papers.'"
ref: 1991, Richard Perez-Pena, “Investment Manager Faces Charges of Securities Fraud”, in The New York Times:
text: I find the description wonderfully familiar, less the droogish quality, than the loosey-goosey opportunism.
ref: 2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change:
glosses: laid back; disorganized; scattered
on-scene
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Senses: glosses: At the site of an incident
rang off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past of ring off
Related terms: rung off
rung off
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: past participle of ring off
Related terms: rang off
solanine
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: solanines
Etymology: From translingual Solanum + -ine.
Senses: examples: text: 1989, R. P. Sharma, D. K. Salunkhe, Chapter 8: Solanum Glycoalkaloids, Peter R. Cheeke (editor), Toxicants of Plant Origin: Alkaloids, Volume 1: Alkaloids, page 214,
Apparently the high activity of α-solanine injected into the bloodstream may be due to cholinesterase inhibition, while the lesser effects of orally administered α-solanine could reflect its poor adsorption from the gastrointestinal tract.
text: The most potent inhibitors are found in potatoes, and of these the most active component is the glycoalkaloid solanine.
The toxicity of solanine has been the subject of extensive study.
ref: 1996, M. M. T. Janssen, H. M. C. Put, M. J. R. Nut, “Chapter Two: Natural Toxins”, in John De Vries, editor, Food Safety and Toxicity, page 14:
text: Evidently, during the ripening process, the solanines are metabolised to neutral saponins without the occurrence of glycoside hydrolysis.
ref: 2005, Dietrich Frohne, Hans Jürgen Pfänder, Poisonous Plants: A Handbook for Doctors, Pharmacists, Toxicologists, Biologists and Veterinarians, page 380:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: A poisonous glycoalkaloid found in many species of the nightshade family Solanaceae, including potato and tomato.
Related terms: solanidine
glycoalkaloid
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: glycoalkaloids
Etymology: From glyco- + alkaloid.
Senses: examples: text: “The potato’s skin is teeming with glycoalkaloids,” she continued, “toxins so indestructible, they can easily survive both cooking and frying.”
ref: 2022, Bonnie Garmus, Lessons in Chemistry, Penguin (2023), page 316:
topics: chemistry
natural-sciences
organic-chemistry
physical-sciences
glosses: Any of a class of alkaloid glycosides, most of which are poisonous.
syncategorematic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more syncategorematic
form: most syncategorematic
form: syncategorematical
Etymology: From syn- + categorematic.
Senses: examples: text: In a logical theory, tautologies could be regarded as being syncategorematic and contingencies as being categorematic.
text: In sum, it is not clear how the distinction between categorematic and syncategorematic terms, so natural in the framework of a term logic, can be extended to a post-Fregean function/argument conception of propositional structure.
ref: 2009, John MacFarlane, “Logical Constants”, in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, retrieved 07 May 2012:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
glosses: Needing other terms in order to make a meaningful constituent of language.
raw_tags: of a term
Derived terms: syncategorematically
syncategorematicity
Related terms: syncategoreme
logical constant
trilithon
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: /ˈtɹaɪ.lɪ.θɔn/
Forms: form: trilithons
form: trilitha
Etymology: From Ancient Greek τρίλιθος (trílithos, “of three stones”). Compare the Baalbek trilithon.
Senses: examples: text: […]thus the two opposite trilithons which are nearest to the north-west or grand entrance, were 19 feet in height, the two next opposite trilithons correspond in the height of 20 feet 3 inches, and the trilithon at the back of the stone of astronomic observation, or as erringly called the Altar-stone, raised its ascent to the astonishing height of 25 feet.
ref: 1846, Edward Duke, The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts, page 158:
text: The two trilithons forming the wall on each side of the cella therefore pass on the mutual neighbourhood to each other, despite the fact that they are set a slight distance apart. But owing to the oblique placing of the pair of trilithons nearest the head-end the spread is greatly reduced on that side; the head-trilithon stands at the exact spot where it ceases.
ref: 1983, Hans van der Laan, Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat, page 193:
text: Within the sarsen circle are the five impressive trilithons, forming a horseshoe-shaped ring of huge stones.
ref: 2007, Brad Olsen, Sacred Places Europe: 108 Destinations, Consortium of Collective Consciousness, page 45:
text: […]whereas the four-square gallows would have been more likely to suggest to his contemporary Blake, who normally used symbolism for its own sake, a resemblance to one of the four-square trilitha at Stonehenge.
ref: 2009, John Beer, Romanticism, Revolution and Language: The Fate of the Word from Samuel Johnson to George Eliot, Cambridge University Press, page 84:
glosses: A structure consisting of two stone pillars supporting a horizontal stone.
wikipedia: Stonehenge
Synonyms: sense: two stone pillars supporting a third stone
word: trilith
Meronyms: posts
lintel
Related terms: cromlech
menhir
terra preta
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Portuguese terra preta, from terra (“soil”) + preta (“black”).
Senses: examples: text: 2004, The Review of Archæology, Volumes 25-27, Review of Archæology, page 35,
The two earliest phases are preceramic and the sites are not terra preta. The earliest terra preta is associated with the Massangana Phase, which begins ca 3600 cal BC.
text: Terra Preta soils of central Amazonia exhibit approximately three times more soil organic matter, nitrogen and phosphorus and 70 times more charcoal compared to adjacent infertile soils.
ref: 2007, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, volume 362, numbers 1477-1480, Royal Society, page 187:
text: 2008, Science, Volume 321, Issues 5892-5897, American Association for the Advancement of Science, page 1152,
Terra preta is believed to have been an essential part of a distinctive agricultural system. According to the terra preta team, Indians slowly cleared off the forest to create farm plots and planted annual crops such as manioc […] .
glosses: A very dark, man-made, nutritionally dense soil found in the Amazon basin.
Synonyms: Amazonian dark earth
ADE
Indian black earth
Derived terms: synthetic terra preta
STP
Related terms: black earth
chernozem
dark earth
theosophical
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌθiː.əˈsɒ.fɪ.kəl/
ipa: /ˌθi.əˈsɑ.fɪ.kəl/
Etymology: From theosophy + -ical.
Senses: examples: text: The religious ideas of late Renaissance alchemists were based on the Paracelsian theosophical system, which was a half-pagan, half-Christian belief system, both a mystical path and a theurgic practice.
ref: 2000, Urszula Szulakowska, The alchemy of light : geometry and optics in late Renaissance alchemical illustration, Leiden [u.a.]: Brill, →ISBN, page 11:
glosses: Of or pertaining to theosophy.
yazoo
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: yazoos
Etymology: Named after the Yazoo River, a tributary of the Mississippi with this characteristic.
Senses: glosses: A tributary that runs parallel to a river (especially when separated by a natural levee).
Related terms: Yazoo land scandal
misotheism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: Borrowed from Ancient Greek μισόθεος (misótheos, “hating the gods”), from μίσος (mísos, “hatred”) + θεός (theós, “god”). The Greek compound is found in Aeschylus (Agamemnon 1090; compare dystheism). The English word appears as a nonce-coinage, used by T. De Quincey in 1846.
Senses: glosses: Hatred of God or gods.
Related terms: maltheism
puling
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Etymology: From pule + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of pule
puling
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pulings
Etymology: From pule + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: Leave this faint puling and lament as I do.
ref: c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Let the songs be loud and cheerful, and not chirpings or pulings.
ref: 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Masques and Triumphs”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
text: ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton—isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter XX, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC:
text: What glamour of infatuation was it which made that nonsense beautiful? One wonders that such puling and trash could ever have made one happy. And yet there were dates when you kissed those silly letters with rapture—lived upon six absurd lines for a week, and until the reactionary period came, when you were restless and miserable until you got a fresh supply of folly.
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter XII, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: A whining or whimpering.
Synonyms: mewling
puled
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of pule
Holy Alliance
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: the Holy Alliance
Senses: synonyms: Grand Alliance
glosses: A coalition of Russia, Austria and Prussia formed in 1815, ostensibly to regulate all national and international relations in accordance with the principles of Christian charity.
Gunner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Gunners
form: Gooner
Etymology: From gunner, in reference to the weapons held in an arsenal.
Senses: examples: text: The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot.
ref: 2011 January 8, Chris Bevan, “Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds”, in BBC:
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: someone connected with Arsenal Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
Gunner
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Forms: form: Gooner
Etymology: From gunner, in reference to the weapons held in an arsenal.
Senses: glosses: A surname.